By Thomas Casey Binghamton University, in what can only be the early onset of a midlife crisis, bought a castle in Broome County. From February 1864 to 1993, the castle served as the New York State Inebriate Asylum and the Binghamton Asylum for the Chronic Insane. Administrators everywhere are bracing for the inevitable onslaught of jokes like “Isn’t that BU campus crazy enough!” and “Well, now SUNY has two inebriate asylums near Binghamton, New…
Let’s Take a Breather
By Sean Glendon In the recent past, I’ve focused my writing within this publication to more light-hearted topics than I had when I initially began writing. My writing shifted from that of standard, serious academia to more sarcasm and humor. This topic is one that needs to be discussed and in a way that requires sincerity, and seriousness. In our September/October 2013 issue, I wrote an article entitled “Stop Sensationalizing Shooters” in the wake of…
A Living Wage is No Wage
By Luke Kusick Since the inception of the federal minimum wage back in 1938, earlier if you account for the attempt in 1933 to establish a minimum wage of .25 cents an hour, which was struck down by the Supreme Court as unconstitutional, the argument that has been made by politicians, the public and people who frankly never took a basic economics course is for a higher minimum wage in order for it to be…
From the Editor
Dear Readers, Congratulations to the Class of 2015. Take your state-subsidized degrees and go make us proud. Wear Binghamton University as a badge of honor, and don’t do anything to tarnish our growing reputation. Please. Binghamton Review will be losing our former Editor-in-Chief Daniel Milyavsky to the real world, which you can read about in his “Farewell Binghamton” article. Dan will be dearly missed, especially when it comes to Press Watch. Verbally abusing other publications…
Press Watch
EDM festivals fraught with white privilege In Pipe Dream, by Chelsea Desruisseaux This article is so laughably moronic that it reads like an Onion piece, which makes it difficult to Press Watch. I’ve never backed down from a challenge though, unless it required lots of hard work and dedication, so I’ll proceed. “My experience at this past summer’s Electric Forest Festival proved to me that so many white people just don’t get it…I faced covert…
The Enemies List
CONDEMNED Students for Change – I think our last issue made it clear what our opinion of SfC is, so I’ll save the space. Let’s be glad that attention shifted away from them and they realized that acting up like a bunch of babies wouldn’t make everybody cave and give them what they want. Hillary Clinton – We have plenty of time between now and November 2016 to attack Hill. For now, just take another…
Students for Change: Rebuttal
By Daniel Milyavsky My apologies for that very lame headline, but it happens. As most of you know, I wrote an op-ed for Pipe Dream against SfC and all the awful, stifling, and illiberal things they stand for. Despite not being published either in the print edition or on the home page, the article got a ton of attention and I was complimented on it by students of all political ideologies. The one thing that everyone…
What You Missed
Angie’s List cancelled a $40 million expansion in Indiana after the passage of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act which protected business’ right not to serve people on religious grounds. Texas Senator Ted Cruz became the first 2016 Presidential Candidate to announce his campaign. We pray that better candidates surface soon. The hearts of all teenage girls around the world were simultaneously broken as Zayn Malik left One Direction. A german plane carrying 150 passengers was…
Editorial
Hello Readers, I’m super excited about this issue, and you should be too. This double issue that features our normal Binghamton Review content, but is also introducing Binghamton Preview – an issue that we’ve written in the future! This Preview takes place in April 2017, and is something that I would love to see become an annual April Fool’s tradition here at The Review. Writing for The Preview was a very different experience, and…
Presswatch
Editorial: Change for Students Pipe Dream Students for Change is making demands that deserve to be heard. Hiring more minorities as faculty, accepting more minority students, making bathrooms inclusive and requiring cultural competency courses for students are all valid suggestions and should be seriously considered by anyone who wishes to cultivate a diverse, progressive campus environment. Do these demands REALLY deserve to be heard, or are they just a disgraceful example of a…
Students for the Status Quo
By Jordan Raitses I am sure that this is obvious, but we at the Binghamton Review don’t like Students for Change very much. They are a hateful and divisive group that claims to support minority rights, but they do not. They support their own agenda which comprises white-bashing and unfairly attacking and harassing certain administrators to an unacceptable extent. President Harvey Stenger recently attended a Students for Change event and, after approximately two hours of…
SFC Is Wrong About Minority Quotas
By Αλεξ Καρρας As many of you probably know, the issue of race and discrimination has made waves across this country and the university. In the aftermath of the Eric Garden and Michael Brown incidents, various civil rights’ advocates have pushed their ideologies unto the public with the hopes for changing things as they see fit. Among these groups is Binghamton’s own “Students for Change”, or SfC for short; you may know these people for…
Buffalo Soldier
By Stephen Ilardi I’d hope by now that everyone is aware of the truth behind weed in the U.S. Not only is it illegal, but it’s also classified as a Schedule I drug within the Controlled Substances Act (alongside heroin, LSD, and mescaline). This essentially means that the government perceives marijuana as having no accepted medicinal value for any type of treatment for any disease or illness… which is complete bullshit. While there are some…
America! Fuck Yeah?
By Robert Kozma The education system of the United States consistently ranks in the lower portion of education systems present in the modern developed world when compared to countries on a similar platform to the United States. Places like China, Japan, Scandinavia, Western Europe, Australia and Canada continuously boast well-rounded educational platforms that produce students who excel on the international scale in a multitude of categories. The United States, a world power and financial giant…
Rand Paul’s Flip Flop
By Luke Kusick Not even a month ago, amidst cheers for “President Paul” Rand Paul stated during his speech at CPAC “at home, conservatives understand that the government is the problem, not the solution. But as conservatives, we should not succumb to the notion that a government inept at home will somehow become successful abroad. That a government that can’t even deliver the mail will somehow be able to create nations abroad.” Even in the…