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Local food movements generate ethical food and build community As a city that claims to have more restaurants per capita than New York City, Ithaca…

“Birdie, it’s time to come home,” Brooke Hansen, associate professor and chair of the anthropology department, said to Huron Clan, Cayuga Nation Mother Birdie Hill in 2005.

Ithaca’s large LGBTQ community does have a downside, and it’s not a problem that people traditionally associate with minority groups: there are so many resources but no centralized way to access them.

The question remains: who is really running this massive, confusing circus that is our mid-sized liberal-arts college? Is it Rochon? Is it the Board of Trustees? Or is it the students and teaching staff? Do we have a ringleader who is managing the show behind the curtains?

The air smelled like burning plastic when Alexa Dragoumis stepped out of a bar in Boston on April 15. She was less than a mile away from the finish line, hoping to see her friend’s family finish running the 2013 Boston Marathon.

Sustainability is the goal of today. Achieving it, means addressing it in all parts of our lives: our everyday behaviors, how much materials we demand, how many things we have and how we make those things from.

Under the big top lions are tamed and gravity is defied. The circus holds the wonders of the world, big and small. From elephants to…

From a very young age, people in the United States are subject to the pressures of an unattainable goal: perfection. Athletes are challenged more than most to improve their bodies and their physical performances.

In the modern age media permeates every aspect of people’s daily lives: delivering instructions on what to wear, how to think, what is important and what is not — and everything in between. As is often the case, however, in the mad dash of progress toward a centralized, business-driven and essentially corporatized media network, some things have gotten lost in the shuffle. This seems to include journalistic integrity and legitimate investigational reporting.

I went to the circus every year with my family until I was 12. I don’t remember it being a particularly enjoyable experience, but I also don’t remember it being a torturous, avoid-at-all-costs family bonding extravaganza. Up until last week, I was pretty neutral on the circus.