By Matthew Rosen Abortion has been a hot topic for the past couple weeks thanks to Governor Cuomo’s new abortion bill titled the Reproductive Health Act. The bill is a gross violation of legislative vagueness, and even more importantly, it is a detriment to human life. Governor Cuomo’s new bill is the most radical abortion bill currently in effect as it aims to solidify the “right” of women to have late term abortions. In order…
The Clouded Future of NY Vaping
By Tommy Gagliano What is it about banning things that gives Andrew Cuomo so much satisfaction? Is it sucking the joy out of people that he likes? Or is he just a megalomaniac that bans things simply because he can? Either way, it is clear that telling New Yorkers that they can’t do things is Governor Cuomo’s favorite pastime. He made headlines in April, when he introduced a bill that would completely ban plastic bags…
MAGA – Muslim And Going Armed
By Faisal Garand “You’re only good dead.” “I hate you.” “I can’t wait for you to be placed in a camp.” “Someday we’ll get you.” “I’ll kill you first.” These are things my fellow Americans say to me. But why? Did I strangle a baby? Did I sell secrets to North Korea? Did I burn 2,000 puppies alive in a shipping container? No, nothing like that. My great sin? Being a Muslim. These are just…
Can the FDA Pass the JUUL?
By Kayla Jimenez The first time I saw someone using a JUUL was almost two years ago. I was sitting in a group study room at Bartle when a friend of mine pulled out this strange flash drive looking thing and starting vaping. Suddenly, I started seeing people across campus JUULing left and right: in the Marketplace, in line at Dunkin, on the blue buses, in class… by the end of 2017, I didn’t even…
Why I Left Feminism
By Sarah Waters “Feminism literally means equality!” We’ve all heard this trademark howl from today’s third-wave feminists. It’s their trump card (oh, sorry, their Hillary card), the place to which they retreat during any debate regarding the subject. If we were to simply look at the dictionary definition of the term, then technically they’d be correct. But if we are to face reality (something which many feminists are incapable of doing), we find that, in…
The Forgotten Minority on Campus
By Matthew Rosen A couple weeks ago, I attended an event on campus where a panel talked about free speech at Binghamton University. The main talking point of the event was about the struggle of protecting freedom of speech while also creating a safe and comfortable environment for students. After the event, they had a question and answer session where students clearly took the side of Team Comfortable. They wondered, “Why we can’t defund the…
The New Culture Club Band
By Jason Caci The United States has an economy that relies mostly on imported goods. Unlike the United States, countries such as Germany, Japan, and China produce high quality material. Of course, one will point out that the United States still has the highest GDP in the world. However, China will lead the world in GDP in approximately twenty-five years. Not only will it lead the world in GDP, but it will accelerate at such…
Real Fake News
by Thomas Casey The boogeyman of phony news reporting is haunting America. This pervasive, nationwide, deeply ingrained existential threat began, according to Democrats, on Wednesday, November 9th, 2016. Liberals everywhere are crying foul that some made up news stories toppled their otherwise unblemished presidential candidate. Of course, nobody’s got any specific headlines or direct ties to voting outcomes, but that doesn’t matter because any published proof disproving the theory would just be fake news anyway.…
Deer Diplomacy
By Billy Schneider Many of you may remember that the Binghamton Review published an article last semester regarding the precarious situation facing the deer in our nature preserve. At the time many readers were completely un-aware of this problem, and the issue preceded a surge of student interest in helping to protect the preserve. Perhaps blinded by complex ecology, god complexes, good intentions, or classic peer pressure, numerous students agreed en masse that systematic killing…
Disarm the Police: A Plea for Common Sense Gun Reform
By Sean Glendon It seems that every day a new headline hits the news – a police officer has killed a civilian, who, more often than not, was a minority. As I scrolled through my Facebook feed I was inspired by everybody making very long-winded posts to do something, so I’m writing this article which will surely bring significant change and reform. My first proposed solution to this epidemic was that police should be required…
B.S Doesn’t Go Far Enough
By Joseph GunderStalin We know about unequal opportunity. We know that inflation isn’t high enough. We know about the failure of the rich man to give half of his assets to the poor man standing next to him to equalize their footing. We know that the sameness of the population rests on the method of taking away from those evil capitalists of the top one tenth of the one tenth of the one tenth of…
M.D., D.O., Don’t Care
By Dan Kersten As I enter my junior year of undergraduate studies, it is time for me to start preparing myself for the long and painful experience of applying to medical schools. I have already registered for an MCAT review course and am fully prepared to not sleep for the next fifteen to thirty years. In tandem, I am now faced with a difficult decision: what type of medical school should I attend: a college…