Building a community by building houses

By Emily Miles
Amid a national depression, skyrocketing rates of foreclosure and record-breaking debt, Americans are struggling to buy and maintain homes. In the city of Ithaca, however, one organization strives to change that. 
Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Services functions under the motto of “Building neighborhoods, community, ownership,” and lists one main goal: [...]

Whalen is the best place to go to the bathroom

By Kacey Deamer
Since moving to campus in August, I have noticed poor quality toilet paper; it is thin, rough and rips too easily. Toilet paper isn’t exactly something I focus on, but it was a big change from the plush two-ply I was accustomed to [...]

By Des Parrote
Mxxy name is Desiree Louise Parrote and I’m a highly attractive 21-year-old college student. I’m always busy running around to numerous activities, and I enjoy lonely nighttime walks along poorly lit paths.
So why isn’t anyone stalking me?
Lately, a bunch of my friends have been followed around by sketchy little troll-like men with greasy [...]

By Liz Kloczkowski
Dozens of Rahway, NJ residents are still reeling in light of the news that a local female resident underwent a controversial breast reduction surgery on Thursday.
The woman, a consistently unaware victim of discreet admiration, opted to get the surgery in order to eliminate alleged chronic neck, back, and shoulder pain due to her [...]

By Noah Burd
No, seriously, you’ve gotta see this movie,” Thomas Welsh, 34, said to a homeless man in a park this weekend. “The characters live in real life, only it’s not real life. It’s a computer simulation of real life. But here’s the thing: who’s to say we’re not all just living in a computer [...]

By Chris Giblin
The wenty two-year old Ithaca resident and IC student Jeff Connelly has drawn up elaborate drinking game rules for far too many movies, several friends said upon leaving his Prospect Street apartment in collective disgust early Friday night.
Connelly disillusioned several of his friends Friday when he unveiled his new rules for a Schindler’s [...]

By Colleen Cunha
Tonight, when you lie in bed and reflect on your day, try and figure out how many times you lied. You told your friend you ate dinner already, told your professor that you did the reading assignment, and you told your mother that you stayed in on Friday night. Now imagine a world [...]

By Julie Hepp
It is a truth universally known that a specific fandom of all backgrounds will dress up at some point as their favorite characters­–mostly from science fiction or anime shows, movies or video games. When you think of these people who dare to call themselves fanboys or fangirls, you imagine people who pretty much [...]

By Mara Hileman
While reality TV has never been known for its ability to be deep and soul-searching, Oxygen’s new series, Addicted To Beauty, really takes the cake—or Botox, if you will. The series follows the staff of Changes Spa and Plastic Surgery in La Jolla, Calif.
What is supposed to be a reality TV show is [...]

By Bryan Cipolla
It’s a familiar story: childhood friends grow up together in a small town and begin creating music. Trumansburg, New York’s Kites In Space kept their childhood friendship alive and didn’t fight their shifting musical tastes as their early high school influences fell to the background. The result was their extremely strong and diversified [...]