Buzzsaw Haircut is an independent periodical published by group of Ithaca College students. We publish an average of four to six issues each year. Our funding comes from sponsoring concerts, selling advertisements for our print edition, a donation from the Park School of Communication and from support from the Ithaca College Student Government Association. Our adviser is John Hochheimer, or Doc Hoch, associate professor of the television-radio department of the Park School of Communication.

In early 1999 a group of like-minded friends, Abby Bertumen, Kelly Burdick, Bryan Chambala, Sam Costello, Thom Denick, Cole Louison, and James Sigman, decided to publish a paper which expressed alternative ideas, viewpoints and cultures of college students nationally. The paper was aptly named Buzzsaw Haircut, a name taken from a Mojo Nixon song. Buzzsaw Haircut's goal is to publish orignal creative journalism, commentary and satire, which works to deconstruct society, pop culture, politics, college life and dominant Western beliefs.

Spring 2002 saw the second coming of Buzzsaw Haircut, with editors Jen Chamberlain, Matt Hourihan, Dan Greenman and Owen Perry. In the spring of 2003, Buzzsaw claimed the prize for "Best Sense of Humor" in the Campus Alternative Journalism Project's student publication contest.

In the fall of 2003, the magazine was passed on yet again, and today what you see is the third coming of Buzzsaw, under editors Matt Corley, Kiley Edgley, Emily Gallagher, Jeremy Levine, Zachary Loeb, Dave Moore, Kate Sheppard and Adam Trabka.

Buzzsaw Haircut likes to think it has a distinct style, which is "strictly Buzzsaw." If you read through the many articles archived and displayed on this site, hopefully you'll get the idea of what being "Buzzsaw" is, and why we are doing it. But as the editors have changed over time, Buzzsaw has, too. This magazine is an ever-evolving entity, a process rather than a product, you could say.

If you want to know more about Buzzsaw, please e-mail us at buzzsaw@ithaca.edu. We are always in search of story ideas, writers, photographers, graphic designers, lay out staff, advertisers, copy editors, malcontents and ne're-do-wells.