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?

Ah, Career Fair. A day of opportunity, of wonder, of wardrobe malfunctions. A day of opportunities lost, of frantically modifying your resume at one in the morning, of really long lines for companies you've never heard of. Once upon a time, companies had to go through all the effort of taking your resume, pretending to read it — maybe even interviewing you — before ultimately shredding your resume and forgetting all about you. But no longer! 

It seems that every time companies visit RIT, the campus works harder to make them feel welcome. "It's the most organized career fair we come to," said National Security Agency (NSA) recruiter Jane [REDACTED]...

BREAKING NEWS — We are all undoubtedly familiar with RIT's distinguished President Wrestler. And I'm sure each and every one of you with a middle-aged soccer moms is familiar with the smooth, soulful rhythms of William Tiger, jazz banjoist. The local legend's hypnotic chords and mellow demeanor have dominated the haunts of elderly and elder-to-be alike for years now.

Just in case you've been living under a rock for the past eight years, go familiarize yourself with Tiger's work. Go on, I can wait.

Back? Good. Well, get your socks on, 'cause I'm about to blow them right off...

Do you go to RIT? Aren't hands weird? Do you think God could be Santa Claus? What is the Easter Bunny? Why do we have all these questions? What is this article even about?

Picture this:

You look up, and it’s you. Exiting the library, walking down the Quarter Mile, you watch them as they slide by unnoticed.

You have met your doppelgänger.

While before you lived your life in peaceful ignorance, there is no going back. Now that you have noticed them, they will turn up seemingly wherever you go. Slowly, your doppelgänger becomes aware of you as well.

Then it is a matter of avoiding eye contact while brushing past each other in the hallways. It is a tangible awkwardness, as if the universe is realizing its mistake. Two humans, exactly alike in looks, is a statistical improbability...

Aside from being the ultimate time-waster and making me question why I go to this God-damned school, Yik Yak is quite possibly the closest thing we have to an Animal Planet documentary:

And here we see the wild Top Hat Guy in his usual hunting ground. The scared college students chatter, or "yak," to alert others to his presence.

In the chemistry classroom, we can observe Chemkid trying to impress the females of his species. Although there is only one other documented member of his species, known as “Chemgirl,” it seems that Chemkid mistakes a classroom full of college students as members of his own species...

Everything we simply adore about our alma mater.

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...