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...