Columns
Young adults should become familiar with drinking prior to college
Prospective college students should learn how to drink responsibly prior to college, no matter what the law says. Sound ridiculous? Well not as ridiculous as pretending underage drinking doesn’t happen just because...
Columns
We must fight back against the U.S.' capitalism-fueled biopower
The United States’ narratives are weapons aimed at those who are the most marginalized by capitalist institutions. The state seeks perpetual control through puppeteering — to tether itself to the stories of...
Staff Editorials
Deepfakes pose a real threat
Over the past few years, there has been a massive increase in deepfake pornography, a new form of sexual harassment where the perpetrator is anonymous. Deepfakes are problematic in general, as they...
Columns
'30 Rock' offers accurate satire on pop culture
For a good amount of time, the animated comedy television series “The Simpsons” was known as the prognosticator-in-chief in the wide world of TV shows. A quick Google search of “Simpsons predictions”...
Columns
Werewolf characters are queer coded
Since the dawn of the term “monstrosity,” queerness has been interwoven with the concept of disruptive, hybrid identities — identities par for the course in paranormal stories. There is a tight connection...
Sex Issue 2023
Diverse male contraception should be accessible
With the overturning of the Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade, attention has been turned toward improving contraceptives and their accessibility in the United States. No longer having abortion protected under the...
Columns
George Santos should be expelled
“It’s hard to understand the quantity and depth of the lies my new congressman has told” is a sentence that I never thought would be said, even euphemistically. I am from Syosset,...
Guest Columns
BU graduate workers need a living wage
Binghamton University runs on the labor of its graduate workers. They deserve to be paid enough to live comfortably — they are asking to be paid enough to live. The University has,...
Columns
Universities need to do more to address seasonal depression
I woke up on my not-so-cushioned slab of bedrock this morning, in my shoebox-sized dorm room, and peeled my eyes open to peer out the window and see gray. Not just any...
Columns
Democrats should not engage in Republicans' culture war
The 2022 midterm elections have proved that people hate reactions to “wokeism” more than they hate woke culture itself. The Republicans had a key path to midterm dominance — talk about the...