The world of sports has experienced many controversies this year including racism and corruption in soccer, the idea of paying college athletes and a cheating scandal that made people question how professional athletes are punished...

Being thrown into a pool of brand new people can be a dreadful experience. Here's how to make the best of it.

Your roommate is having some "private time" with one of their "friends" and you're locked out of the room. What do you do?

Riot control techniques have been around for about a thousand years to deal with uncontrollable civilian protests...

“Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty.” -Henry David Thoreau

The rights to organize, assemble and protest are some of the most fundamental cornerstones of a democracy...

Violent protest has been an effective way for the powerless and disenfranchised in society to bring necessary attention to their struggles...

Although violence may be a cathartic release in the face of injustice, nonviolent demonstration remains the most effective form of protest.

Socialism has increasingly become a hot button political issue, but what exactly does today's socialist stand for?

Activist groups Flower City Pickers and Food Not Bombs work to preserve the right of food for Rochestarians.

Fifty-one years ago, Rochester was home to high, unbalanced unemployment rates and blatant housing discrimination. Has it improved since then?

With one of the largest deaf populations of any college in the country, RIT offers a litany of services to NTID students.

Meet the people introducing freshmen to RIT.

A guide to appliances that students don't know to bring or don't consider bringing to campus. 

 Everything international students need to do and know before orientation week.

A guide to establishing a great relationship with your roommate, and how you can best fill out your roommate agreement form.

RIT's new FoodShare program has used social media as a means for students to find free food on campus. It also has plans to open the RIT FoodShare Center, a food pantry, after spring break.

It is in our nature to tell stories and inform others of our life events. Storytelling, whether factual or fictional, is an intrinsic human characteristic. However, the way we communicate with others has changed drastically over time. Storytelling originated with visual stories, such as cave drawings, and then shifted to oral traditions, in which stories were passed down from generation to generation by word of mouth. There was then a shift to words formed into narratives, including written, printed and typed stories...

Many news outlets and people over the age of 40 alike have discussed and lamented the presence of “hookup cultures” on college campuses. Although the desire to sleep with others in a casual, immediate manner isn’t necessarily something to discourage, some aspects of this culture — such as alcohol and placing a large amount of trust in an attractive stranger — can complicate a person's ability to attain and give consent.

Defining Consent

Legal definitions of consent can be vague or even nonexistent...

The art of storytelling is ever changing. In the fields of science, journalism and fiction, the narrative meets the medium in new and surprising ways.

Stacey Davis is an amazing woman who tutors all of the physics and astronomy courses for NTID students.

“You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.” - Mark Twain

For anybody who has watched the television show "Friends," the episode where Ross and Chandler cannot figure out who told a joke first hardly seems like a real-life scenario. As it turns out, not being able to recall a memory correctly is common for many people.  

“Probably all of us have false memories from one time or another,” said Nicholas DiFonzo, a Psychology professor at RIT. “Most of the time we don’t even realize these memories are false, because there isn’t always someone to validate the truth...

Can video games tell stories as well as your favorite movies and books?

There is not a doubt in anybody's mind that this past winter was cold as fuck. RIT's Facilities Management Services (FMS) had all but given up on clearing our Siberian hell-scape from the sludgy snow. Though spring has officially arrived, there's no guarantee we're in the clear yet. Most people from the Rochester region have collectively agreed that we cannot and will not put up with another winter of our discontent next year.   

This past weekend, about 700 Rochesterians gathered outside of City Hall to show support for Rochester's Mayor Personable Warren's plan to cede control and location of our fair city to the Sunshine State of Florida...

"Why would anyone willingly put this in their mouth?" I ask myself as I smelled the foul-looking mushrooms sitting in my hand. The drugs look daunting, and I'm concerned about how I will react to taking shrooms for the first time. I read up on the drugs beforehand, and I have a sober friend with me to ensure that I was safe and taken to the hospital if I had a bad reaction. I look fearfully at my friend during my long pause of consideration.

"Just pinch your nose and don't chew them too much," he saidys with a straight face, as if this was groundbreaking advice. "The more you chew, the worse they taste and the harder they are to actually swallow...

 In the aftermath of the brutally cold winter of 2015, which included the coldest February on record that Rochester has ever experienced, there has recently been much discussion over ways to survive the freezing weather. One of the possible solutions that has resulted in equal amounts of derision and enthusiasm is a petition filed to secede Rochester from New York to Florida...

The following responses were leaked from an undisclosed source. They were written in response to petitions on the website PawPrints, but were apparently never published. The veracity of the following has yet to be confirmed.

We should have more butter pecan ice cream. I like butter pecan ice cream.

I would love to have a life in which ice cream flavors are the central cause of my angst, but being born with a functioning frontal lobe kind of complicates that. But let’s say we fix your problem and give you all of the ice cream your little heart desires...

The universe is an incessantly cruel place, devoid of answers and offering only cold, relentless silence as a retort to our most daunting questions. What is the meaning of life? Is there a God? What is the secret to happiness?

Who the fuck is the black guy in Hot Tub Time Machine 2 and what kind of monster were these pills designed for?

I took two of these little, round, off-white tablets wrapped in a cellophane cigarette-pack wrapper I got from a rather unscrupulous female friend that pulled them out from between her breasts about half an hour ago. She described them as having been purchased from a man with a severe case of bipolar disorder, or maybe schizophrenia...

Hello to my loyal followers! Cunt Blacula here with another rave review of an amazing product. I know we have all heard of the exclusive dating app Tinder, but I am here to tell you I have found something better. Are you just as tired of having to wade through profiles upon profiles of unassuming alpha males posing in mirror selfies just to get to the sexy fishermen? Well, I was! So, I went on a search to find an app for my refined taste. On my quest, I found what my heart truly desired: Fisher. It is a beautiful app full of profiles of desirable men waiting to satiate your appetite for seafood and hot, hot sailboat sex...

Life is a fucking nightmare.

Let's be perfectly honest with each other about this for once. Aside from two to five minuscule things like love and friendship (which are already pretty overrated), life is just a relentless maelstrom of rejection and disappointment. When you sit down and really try to fabricate reasons to continue dragging out your pathetic existence, nine times out of 10 all you're left with is a gaping chasm where any semblance of a promising future used to be and an even larger sense of existential dread...

“If I could dance to, on or at anyone instead of talking to them, I would,” said Dan C. Fiend, soon to be the first-ever Interpretive Dance student at RIT, before refusing to answer any of my following questions without exaggerated body movements.

Fiend is very excited to start the year in one of RIT’s newest and most innovative majors not yet offered anywhere else in the country...