How patriarchy leads to animosity among women
By Connie Honeycutt
If I learned anything throughout my awkward middle school years and troubling high school days, it is one thing: Girls are catty, annoying bitches.
This, I truly believed, for the simple fact that we shared the same genitalia. They were women, and so of course that was enough [...]

Instead of a contract, IC dining workers have broken promises
By Alyssa Figueroa
At the start of their employment, Ithaca College dining service workers are required to sign something that means nothing. After receiving and reading their “Sodexo Employee Handbook Addendum,” the workers sign the last page, which states that the handbook “is not a contract of [...]

The story of a coffee shop’s struggle to unionize
By Briana Kerensky
In a world where Starbucks has wrapped its grande double mocha latte-coated tentacles around society,  Ithaca Coffee Company has somehow managed to continue being two things that beverage giant is not: local and fair trade. All of the coffees offered at their two locations are advertised [...]

By Scott Gloden
In Woody Allen’s film Sleeper, the characters, in their futuristic setting, encounter a windowless swinging door not unlike those fit into contemporary X-ray rooms called the “orgasmatron.” The purpose? Instantaneous pleasure, a longstanding element of the quixotic existence so many authors write of (i.e. Huxley’s soma). If this idea seems so promising to [...]

By Keith Hadad
Right in the center of the Commons lies Brotchen (pronounced BRERT-khen), a unique little cafe that offers German and Austrian award-winning soups, salads, sandwiches, coffee and various desserts. Brotchen’s unique cuisine fits in amongst the collection of other ethnic restaurants that Ithaca is blessed to have.
Once you step inside, you are confronted by [...]

By Ian Starker
Hayder Assad is an Arabic lecturer at Ithaca College. He lived in Iraq all his life until Oct. 30, 2007. He was an Arabic translator for the U.S. Army during the invasion and worked on the 2005 Iraqi elections by organizing them and trying to bring more Iraqis to the polls and to [...]

IC is still difficult for people with physical disabilities
By Cassandra Leveille
If Ryan Ritchey wants to use the library, he has to plan ahead. The sophomore English major often has to take a circuitous route because he uses crutches and cannot easily use stairs. To access the first floor of the library, he needs a key [...]

By Chris Zivalich
Let’s face it: You go to dance clubs to get laid.
Okay, okay. I’ll reconsider such a direct assumption. Maybe you yourself go for different reasons—reasons you quantify at a “higher” value of morality. 
After all, a night at the club usually promises hours on end of digitized pop music, hundreds of burned calories and [...]

 
 
By Keith Hadad
Thai food is one of my favorite things in the culinary universe, with its delightful mix of spicy, milky, sweet and sometimes sour ingredients. So to find a restaurant that is billed as the best Thai place in all of Ithaca and also delivers was a dream come true. Yet, after eating at [...]

How the company that supplies IC’s food treats its workers.
By Alyssa Figueroa
It is a multinational corporation raking in billions of dollars but paying workers an annual salary below the living wage. It once had a handbook for managers on how to fight unions in the workplace. It also made an appearance in the well-known documentary [...]