Galaxy

A prose piece by Emily Nowels

There is a common trope in the music industry in which a young pop starlet decides that she’s all grown up, and that it’s time for the rest of the world to know it too. As a result, she starts writing raunchy songs and dressing provocatively with the hopes of aging her fan base and proving that damnit, she’s not a little girl anymore. To apply this concept to literature, the pop star is J.K. Rowling, and her means of asserting her place amongst the grown-ups is her newest novel, The Casual Vacancy.

I was giving a tour of the Park School to prospective students on one particularly crowded Monday in October when I found myself paused in front of the case displaying five of Rod Serling’s Emmy Awards.

While there is a widespread feeling of gratitude that the administration responded to the backlash, the sudden and short-lived [media] policy has stirred lingering questions regarding how such a broad policy could be instituted with such little explanation or discussion as to why.

A short story by Robert S. Hummel

Is there a science behind our horoscopes?

After months of speculation, it is apparent that aliens are succeeding in their sinister plot to conquer America, The Greatest Nation on Earth. A spokesman for the Alien Defense Agency (ADA) claims several million aliens from the planet Theanus have successfully beguiled immigration officials and are now wreaking havoc all over the country.

What to eat and how to prepare dinner in space

In the spring of 2011, the Ithaca community rejoiced at the living wage victory for Ithaca College’s Sodexo-employed dining services workers. Beginning in 2010, a workers rights group on campus, Labor Initiative Promoting Solidarity, had partnered with campus workers, the Tompkins County Worker’s Center and various community activists and public officials to pressure both Sodexo and the Ithaca College administration, to pay their workers a living wage. After tirelessly meeting, marching, advocating and making their voices heard, they had won the battle.

This election season, I became very involved in following the campaign of Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein. Haven’t heard of her? That’s not surprising. The mainstream media in the U.S. provides American citizens with little to no coverage of third-party happenings. During the election cycle, third party candidates were barely mentioned by any major news outlets. When you pair a lack of media coverage with exclusive presidential debates organized solely for the two major candidates, third-party candidates are rendered virtually invisible. Because the American people are not exposed to a wide variety of voices, we think there are only two choices.