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Hall Monitor
“What are you listening to right now?”
An Interview With Ms. Valletta
Stephanie Valletta, The Coordinator of Scholar Wellness does so much for our school and is also that person that will always be down to chat.…
Student Representatives to the Board of Education Update
The year is now halfway over, and the IHS student representatives to the Board of Education (BoE) are involved in several discussions and initiatives across…
Honest Reviews: Different People on Valentine’s Day
Valentine’s Day might just be the most contentious holiday out there—love it or hate it, the holiday is impossible to ignore; vibrant pink and red…
2024 Grammy Nominations Released
Nominations for the sixty-sixth Grammy Awards were released in early November. Across all categories, there was a broad range of nominees, from breakthrough artists to…
Accelerando Music Program: An Exclusive Interview That Hits All the Right Notes
The following is an exclusive interview with Rani Sethupathy, a freshman musician, and now program director of her music education initiative, “Accelerando.” Accelerando’s rollout has…
Controversial Takes: Unveiling the Battle of Our Favorite Furry Friends
Recently, a rivalry was sparked between two members of the 2022-2023 editorial board: Frances Klemm ’23, Editor-in-Chief, and Alice Burke ’23, Opinion Editor, on whose…
glass
Content warning: Blood, implications of self-harm. shards of glass sparkle like twinkling stars as they ricochet off your body. they embed in your flesh and…
A Week in Morocco With IHS
In a world full of needless bureaucracy, safety precautions, and insurance, my trip to Morocco felt like standing atop a high mountain from where I…
Netflix Announced New Series with IHS Teacher
Netflix just announced a new history-inspired series relating to the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars, which will be released on August 39. Local French…
Untitled
The wind can map every part of my being. It erodes away my attachments, carves with its small teeth hollow caverns into my bones until…
Taking an Exam Through an Existentialist Lens
Content warning: suicide I am sitting on my chair in a room full of individuals. On my table lies a prompt regarding the philosophy exam…
March Horoscopes 2023
The Signs as Competitors in a Televised Baking Contest Pisces (Feb 19 – Mar 20): In the penultimate round, you have a vision for the…
The Coolness Spectrum
Cool 🙂 No School on St. Pats Popcorn Shamrock Shakes Cheap Californian Rice Mustard Lost Stuff Emails Vending Machines Rejecting Cards The Monarchy Wet Socks…
The BoE Meetings of 12/13 and 1/10
The Board of Education met on December 13, 2022, andJanuary 10, 2023. The December 13 meeting discussed retireehealth insurance, a presentation on Learning Forward ICSD,…
Reimagining Public Safety in Ithaca: An Overview
Against the backdrop of heightened public awareness ofpolice brutality, racism, and calls across the United Statesfor police and criminal justice reform, Ithaca’s CommonCouncil voted unanimously…
The Newport News’ Shooting and Gun Violence in the U.S.
Content Warning: Excessive violence and murder Mayor Phillip D. Jones of Newport News would havenever believed a six-year-old boy would shoot histeacher. On January 6…
Controversial Takes: The Labeling of IHS Multi-stalled Bathrooms
Construction projects in the G building bathrooms have been ongoing since the beginning of the year. It was previously decidedupon by the district that the…
Check Your Source: The Origin of … Ripped Jeans
Growing up, my grandmother was always against rippedjeans, so much so that to this day, I can’t stand the textureand avoid buying pre-ripped jeans as…
The Kindness of Strangers
I checked the weather forecast at around eight in the morning onDecember 23 for updates on the blizzard that would be hittingwestern New York sometime…
From the Archives: Excerpts from The Tattler Issues of Yesteryear
I’ve been a long-time enjoyer of history, so working in the archives lets me see anew the storied halls of IHS straight from the students…
Tourism’s Problematic History By Caedmon Sethupathy It is difficult to set a start date for tourism in large part because it is such an ambiguous…
Local Artist Feature: Nicholas Carbonaro
Nicholas Carbonaro, an IHS Library Clerk, is a local visualartist specializing in theatrical arts, mixed media fine art,and cosmetology. I recently had the opportunity to…
How Qatar Distracted You: The Problem with Sportswashing
The year was 2010. In a large meeting room, some of theworld’s most important faces in soccer gathered for theannouncement of the 2018 and 2022…
Argentina and the World Cup: A Recap
On December 18, 2022, the world cup concluded onQatar’s National Day. Qatar is a Gulf country on theArabian peninsula. Many people have considered this finalmatch…
Cassiopeia
I used to look up at the stars with you,And in them, see your eyes.I memorized the constellations that you likedbut now I can’t recall…