Buzz Blog

Guys are often underestimated when it comes to sex, degraded to the point that girls think we’re just going through the motions. Granted, some guys do, but other guys seek to please. There’s a lot of pressure to perform, and maybe that’s what got to me.

The Ithaca College General Assembly, a function of the Occupy Ithaca College movement, held their first meeting on Tuesday to discuss how students on campus could stand in solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street protesters in New York City.

On Saturday, October 15, the Global Day of action, about 300 people showed up to “Occupy Binghamton,” a protest that is part of a grassroots movement organized by a large group of people, including Binghamton University, Broome Community College, and the union AFO-CIO.

this is a call to arms. this an arm to call you. why, your cherub arms raised high. oh, those fake footsteps I’ve felt. you,…

Inaction is a form of action. You are either there with this movement or you are not there with this movement. The time is now to let yourself hope. We may well lose the battle, but if we win, you do not want to have to ask yourself, “Where was I when they needed me?”

On Thursday, Ithaca College joined an Occupy Wall Street movement with over 92 other colleges. Close to 200 students, as well as some faculty members, participated in a walkout and rally, one of the most well-attended student protests in the college’s history.

I can still take pleasure in one of the few events I’ve made a point of attending every year since I first came here: The Apple Harvest Festival, an annual autumn celebration of everything that is quintessentially Ithacan.

Ithaca College’s Theatre Department kicked off their fall season strong with Plumfield, Iraq, a sobering play showing the horrors of the Iraq War overseas and at home.

We hear fairytales of formal dates our parents went on while they were courting – but now a simple text of “?” and your current location at 2am will now suffice. But what happens if you don’t get a potential lover’s phone number?

In that elegant hollywood manner
The lipstick stained cigarette
Held gently between her fingertips
Burns slowly on this sober October night