Nathan Tailleur explores the different signifiers that restrain and define our morality, and somehow relates it all to paninis and parachutes. Read to find out how.

The children in one Cayuga Heights family can no longer spend their days stealing chests of gold or shooting cannonballs into British ships, now that a large wooden pirate ship was stolen from their backyard. Police are on the lookout for the swashbuckling outlaws who stole it, in what the homeowner says must have been a carefully planned operation.

The first of three men charged in a fake robbery of Jason’s Grocery and Deli on College Ave. in July was sentenced on Friday. Freeville resident Nathan Skillman, 19, who pleaded guilty to third-degree grand larceny, was sentenced in Tompkins County Court to six months in jail, five years probation and restitution, the Ithaca Journal reported. Two other men charged in the incident will appear in court today.

A peculiar rumor has been floating around the Cornell campus for last few years, the origin and duration of which nobody is exactly sure. It’s one of those unwritten anecdotes bandied about from dorm rooms to lecture halls, never confirmed yet often taken at face value as fact.