Archive for the ‘Web Exculsive’ Category

Easy ways to access free perks from rewards programs By John Vogan In a struggling economy with rising food and gas prices, not to mention the increasing cost of college tuition and living expenses­—the cost to attend Ithaca College is estimated to be $48,132 next year—what student wouldn’t want free perks and benefits? While many [...]

Timmy Complains about ‘Basic Human Rights’ Being Taken Away From Him By Dylan Clark Last Monday night, 6th grade Ithaca resident Timmy Williams flipped the channel to MTV to watch his favorite program, Jackass.  But instead of seeing Ryan Dunn shoving a toy car up his ass, he saw something he deemed to be far [...]

By Catherine Fisher Reed Hastings, chief executive of Netflix, leaves his office early Friday afternoon and heads home with a spring in his step. His website has given people across America the luxury of getting movies dropped off right in their mail box, single handedly causing the collapse of local video stores across the country. [...]

rule-breaking women scorned by men having to wait in longer lines By Abby Sophir Lauren Anderson waits patiently in line for the bathroom. She counts to 50 in her head in an attempt to distract herself from the growing sensation in her abdomen. She counts the women and girls in front of her in line: [...]

Sam McCann Ian Murphy provided us with one of the best examples of access to power earlier this year with his prank call of Wisconsin governor Scott Walker.  The stunt showed exactly who has a direct line to our elected officials: the rich and powerful.  Now Murphy himself is running for Congress as a Green [...]

A soldier’s struggle to transition out of the military and resist the urge to fight By Adam Polaski Two years ago, in October 2008, Matt Thompson felt that something was missing from his life. That’s why he drove to the offices of the Army National Guard, enlisted, and requested to be placed with the first [...]

50 years after Eisenhower coined the term “military-industrial complex,” Buzzsaw magazine, Ithaca College’s alternative magazine, dives into the topic with a special issue and a week of events to explore the many facets of militarization. We aim to bring the discussion about war, the military and its presence in our daily lives beyond the pages [...]

Late Thursday evening, Bert L. Ood of the vampiric community was discovered dead, again, by his roommates. In his undead state of living, Ood was not only color blind, particularly to shades of red, but also had a fatal food allergy to red dye number 4. Lying next to his finally decomposing body was an [...]

By Jenni Zellner In today’s society, Internet usage has become an overwhelming epidemic. If it weren’t enough that people find it necessary to post every thought onto a forum for undying praise, new online applications allow you to reveal your precise location to all of cyber-space so as to prove that you’re much too cool [...]

By Matt Tracy
Homophobia runs rampant in the world of sports, but most of it goes unnoticed. Gay men are often forced to keep their lives a secret because they are too afraid that their teammates would think of them as feminine, inferior and otherwise secluded from the rest of the team.