Columns
Does the right adequately react to anti-Semitic acts?
Following the massacre of Jews in a Pittsburgh synagogue, it has been heartening to see the empathy and genuine solidarity on display across many faiths and backgrounds. It gives me hope that...
Columns
Florida's Amendment 4 is a step in the right direction
While everyone was encouraged to vote on Nov. 6 in the past few weeks, not everyone’s ballot looked the same. Candidates and open positions varied from state to state, and depending on...
Columns
Catcalling can evoke conflicting emotions
When I got harassed on the street for the first time, one of my first thoughts was, “Finally.” I breathed a sigh of relief. At long last, I was considered attractive enough...
Staff Editorials
Editorial: Smells like team spirit
Though basketball is the most popular sport at Binghamton University, the student turnout at games is abysmal. Attendance in the men’s first game of the season has declined steadily in the last...
Columns
The United States should not ignore human rights violations
There is an Orwellian state in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region in China. It is filled with a network of more than 7,300 police monitoring stations that appear every 500 meters in...
Columns
Maybe the environment is not as doomed as we think
I’ve recently been reading a book about climate change by Geoff Dembicki called, “Are We Screwed? How a New Generation is Fighting to Survive Climate Change,” because, truthfully, I’ve been feeling pretty...
Columns
Politically correct language is polite language
What does it mean to propose a ‘PC,’ or politically correct, culture? Is it a way to silence people, to rid them of their opinions or to infantilize a population for wanting...
Guest Columns
Anti-Semitic acts are unacceptable
Tuesday morning, I woke up to an extremely disturbing Facebook post. It was not something I hadn’t seen before. In fact, it was something that pops up in my news feed somewhat...
Columns
Letter to the Editor: Tobacco-free campus policy
As the Director of SA Advocates, I would like to clear up misinformation presented in the article printed on 11/1 regarding JUULing and other e-cigarette policies on campus. The use of JUULs...
Columns
There are many faces of anti-Semitism
On April 4, 2017, in Paris, Kobili Traore broke into the apartment of Lucette Attal-Halimi, known by her Hebrew name, Sarah Halimi, a 65-year-old Jewish woman. Yelling in Arabic, he beat her...