Blogs by The Ithacan

So… I guess this is what passes for Iraqi diplomacy? The President has the reflexes of a cat. Well, at least that reporter didn’t chuck a shoe at Saddam. He’d find himself “relocated” by now.

Yesterday, New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo reached a $675,000 settlement with the College Board. The national association, most known for  for writing and administering the SATs as well as providing college and university profiles, was targeted by Cuomo for giving discounts to institutions that put the non profit on their preferred lender lists, the [...]

It’s not every day you see a Division-III men’s basketball highlight as the No. 1 play on Sportscenter’s Top Ten Plays. But when SUNY-Geneseo senior guard Scott Morton made a wild game winning shot with .4 seconds left on the clock to defeat SUNY-Oswego on Tuesday, the play launched him into the mainstream with the [...]

Well, it comes time that I bid you adieu. It’s been a great semester and I hope that I was able to show you some of the things I thought were cool in LA and across the country. Thanks for reading and I leave you with an article I read on the train home from [...]

I had the mixed pleasure of seeing Bedtime Stories, Adam Sandler’s first foray into family comedies, this past weekend. I say “mixed pleasure” because, while the movie itself made me want to drink from the no-no bottles under my kitchen sink, it did have one very special redeeming factor. And it’s name is Bugsy. For those [...]

Obviously when you’re talking about consumerism and overconsuming, there are certain things that you can eliminate from your spending habits and some things that you really can’t. For example, when I decided not to buy clothes for a year, even if it seems drastic, it was a pretty logical decision for me since I just [...]