Doris Turkel

Opinions Editor

dturkel1@binghamton.edu

17 Articles


Senior Columns

Finding community

Here it is — my senior column, four months late. When I first moved to Binghamton to start school at Binghamton University, I was constantly homesick. I missed the excitement of the...


Restaurant Week 2023

Restaurant Week Fall 2023: Parlor City Vegan

This past Thursday, I sat down to try Parlor City Vegan’s restaurant week lunch menu with two photographers and friends from Pipe Dream. Parlor City Vegan is located at 81 Clinton St.,...


Columns

Students should be constructive community members

College can feel like an insular world, detached from the surrounding community. In Broome County, there exists a stark divide between students and locals, which manifests in speech by the common use...


Restaurant Week Spring 2023

Restaurant Week Spring 2023: Happy Pappi Arepas Bar

My photographer Harry and I sat down this past Friday to try the dinner Restaurant Week menu at Happy Pappi’s, a Venezuelan arepas bar and restaurant on 252 Chenango St. that just...


Music

An Amy Winehouse retrospective on her 39th birthday

Last Wednesday was Amy Winehouse’s birthday — she would be 39 years old, and one can only imagine the music we’ve missed out on in the last 11 years. Winehouse was only...


Music Issue 2022

Music Issue: BUG

In August of 2020, BUG met under a tent at the Mountainview College tennis courts for their first band practice. As an incoming freshman during the hight of the COVID-19 pandemic, Jared...


Columns

The U.S. carceral system is overly punitive

The United States has the most punitive criminal legal system in the world, containing 25 percent of the world’s prison population. Prisons and jails in the United States are overcrowded, unsanitary and...


Columns

NYC school admission policies perpetuate segregation

The beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic forced former Mayor Bill de Blasio and other government officials to reconsider New York City’s public school admissions policies. In the spring of 2020, public schools...


Art

Punk exhibition hosts panel

On Thursday, Nov. 4, among a plethora of photos and memorabilia, a panel of friends gathered together in Binghamton University’s Art Museum to talk punk. The panelists ranged in age and experience,...


Off-Campus Events

Roberson Museum debuts "Hostile Terrain 94" and "Legacies of Forced Migration"

 Black and white portraits fill one wall. The bright faces of Mayan families, elders and children stare out. Directly across from their line of vision is a map of the Sonoran Desert...