Gender

Issue PDF Maegan Gindi

RIT's Plan for Women by Andrew Rees Just by counting heads on the Quarter Mile, it’s easy to see the gender breakdown at RIT. It has become a fact of life: Men outnumber women on campus by about seven to... Androgyny: The Best of Both Worlds? by Jen Loomis From the minute we’re born until the day we die, gender is everywhere. Birth certificates, baby clothes colors, first names, grade school playtime, bathrooms,... A Guy's How-To: Getting Girls by Michael Barbato The following will outline the basics that every guy should know when attracting the female sex. I will cover how to approach a girl, the persona to be used, and how to...

Leisure

Male Locker Room Codes

Locker rooms aren’t the cleanest place on Earth, but at least they’re bearable — and this is coming from someone whose worst fears are dirty bathrooms and...

Female Locker Room Codes

It is fair to say that one shower a day may keep your teammates away. Even if you shower in the morning, showering after a practice or work out is recommended. You may...

Don't Send a Man to Quaff a Woman's Drink

1 oz. Cointreau 3 oz. Cranberry Juice 1 oz. Lemon Juice 1 1/2 oz. Vodka Made popular through the TV show and movie Sex and the City, the Cosmopolitan is the drink of...

Are You Man Enough?

2 1/2 oz. Gin 1 1/2 tsp. Dry Vermouth 1 Olive There is nothing teeny tiny about the Martini. This drink is straight alcohol with just enough vermouth to impart some...

Platonic Blowjobs

It was a Hump Day Hyjynx that caught my attention. Cruising the erotic services listings of Rochester’s Craigslist, I found her: smokin420chick4u, otherwise known as...

At Your Womanly Leisure

In the United States, the average life expectancy for women is just over 80; for men, it is just over 75. One explanation for this could be that the relative iron...

At Your Manly Leisure

The title of “man’s best friend” (given to dogs) originated from a speech by a lawyer named George Graham Vest during a Supreme Court case in 1870 over the murder...

Strip Club or Restaurant?

For all those times you have driven by that one sketchy building with the blacked-out windows, pondering about what lies behind the doors of this curiously-titled...

Features

Cheating Your Period

If there’s one topic that triggers uncomfortable responses, especially from the male population, it’s the menstrual cycle. Hormones. Tampons. PMS. Pick any topic...

Innate Differences Between Sexes?

Today, it is widely accepted idea that men and women are equals in their intellectual capacities. Any thoughts otherwise are suspect, highly criticized, and are almost...

Prostitution

Sitting on the curb at an intersection downtown, the woman I called “Candy Lips” started talking. She wore a nondescript grey t-shirt and black shorts. Although she...

Sports

Loving Sports Like a Girl

With a Bachelor’s degree in Business and Marketing from the University of Brockport, Margo Clements has been at RIT with the Ritter Ice Rink since August 2007. Her...

Views

Weirdest Thing in Your Purse on the Street

Crystal Mercer lovin’ cup Employee Eileen Antonino Interior Design First Year Jocelyn Cheng Biomedical Photography Third Year Cynthia...

Beard on the Street

Igor Babushkin Mechanical Engineering Third Year Ted Connors Professional Tech Communications Fourth Year Bryan Hutchinson Accounting First...

Editorial

Editor's Note: Confronting Gender

In our beautifully shifting, kaleidoscopic society, there are few things that stay still for long. Cultural values come and go like the leaves on the trees, but there...