By Sam Bondy This past Friday October 3rd, the Labor Department reported September nonfarm payrolls grew by 248,000. This was compared with median projections of 215,000 (Bloomberg). Thus, the United States unemployment rate ticked down .2% to 5.9% for September (it was around 10% at the height of the most recent recession). Despite this report, economists remain vigilant of other indicators of employment market health. This includes statistics such as the labor force participation rate,…
Give Us Those Rocks, China
By Ross Marchand With climate change looming out to the horizon and up to the atmosphere, clean energy is likely to proliferate. Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS), generous subsidies, feed-in tariffs, and other mandates are the government’s way of catapulting wind, solar, and electric vehicle technologies to majority market shares. But are taking everything into account in our promotion of fossil fuel alternatives? We’re all too familiar with how fossil fuels are extracted and refined.…
An Ancient Disease Lies Behind the Anti-Israel Protests
Editors Note: This article was written in August. Where are the massive Free Kurdistan rallies? As the barbaric Islamist terror group ISIS overruns Iraq, the Kurdish population there, in addition to religious minorities, is being threatened. There have been numerous documented cases of ISIS thugs beheading children. Sometimes these heads are placed on pikes in the town square for all to see. This is so horrifying that it almost doesn’t sound real, and yet anyone…
Ebola Within Our Borders
By Daniel Irmihaev Ebola, the deadly virus that has killed thousands in various West African countries this year, has made its way into the United States. The first American diagnosed with the virus within our borders, confirmed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Texas Department of State Health Services on September 30, is a man by the name of Thomas Eric Duncan. Mr. Duncan, who flew in from Liberia on…
Editorial
Dear Readers, Many of you are probably picking up an issue of the Binghamton Review, and you’re probably wondering what we’re all about. The average attention span of someone my age is about as robust as the job market for Gender Studies majors, so I’ll probably lose a bunch of you before you’re even done with this paragraph. Such is life! Most college publications, including the ones on this campus, have liberal to leftist political…
What You Missed
What You Missed We’re at war again, although the professional obfuscators and spinners in the Obama administration prefer to call it “kinetic military action.” We’re bombing ISIS, an organization that seeks to establish a caliphate and basically murder everyone who isn’t Muslim (although, nevertheless, Obama insists that they are “not Islamic.”). I hope it goes better than our most recent wars have gone. ISIS is a terrible organization, and it would be in almost everyone’s…
ABC’s
Assholes- Whether it’s the people pushing you from all directions in the bus line, your RA, or a Sodexo manager, you’re sure to encounter them during your time here. BU – Boston University Chipotle – If you thought it was good before, wait until you try it after months of nothing but Sodexo! Dickinson Community– They’re not suites; they’re “flats.” They’re not hallways, or common rooms; they’re “vestibules.” Someone had a little too much fun…
John Carney’s 1997 Editorial
Editor’s Note: This is a reprint of a brilliant editorial written by former Editor-in-Chief John Carney in May 1997. Steal away and stay away : Education in a closing world once called free Coming out is all the rage. Postmodernism, a fancy word for life at the close of the century, might even be defined as the cult of coming out, whether in the philosophy of Nietzsche, in the endless babble of talk television or in…
They Need to Look at Issues Rationally
By Dan Milyavsky This year’s political roundtable featuring the College Republicans, Democrats and Libertarians was a rather calm affair. Voices were kept at reasonable volumes and passions were kept in check. As is the norm in political debates, nobody convinced anybody of anything, but things were rather respectful. The same cannot be said for last year’s roundtable. Then, a particularly thin-skinned member of the College Democrats made the entire atmosphere more caustic and belligerent. You…
Flashback to an Old Pipedream Interview
Q. What are the Binghamton Review’s principles? A. See page three, you fucking moron. Q. What are the most significant things the Review has accomplished, both specifically and conceptually, in its history and during your service? A. Freeing the slaves, landing on the moon and ending communism. Oh, and destroying NYPIRG. Q. What attracts you to the Review? A. The Review’s support for traditional gender roles. Q. What are some important things that distinguish the…
Press Watch
Quotes are in italics Feminism can prevent suicide Pipe Dream “Suicide among young males is an ever-growing epidemic, but there is a viable solution. Feminism can theoretically decrease the suicide rates of teenage males. “Suicides among young males are four times more common than among young females and they are occurring among ever younger males, some in their early teens.” What is the cause for these drastically different suicide rates? In 2010, Newsweek Magazine attempted…
CPAC Reflections
The Binghamton Review team attended the Conservative Political Action Conference this year, an annual event which draws thousands of Republicans, conservative, and libertarians to a conference to…do whatever people do at conferences, I suppose. Here are our takes on the experience: Daniel Milyavsky This was my second year in a row attending CPAC. I had a great start to my conference, as I had the privilege to meet Rand Paul in his U.S. Senate…
What You Missed
Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day. Never forget, never again. It is unconscionable that something as horrifying and so clearly immoral as the Holocaust as permitted to happen at all, let alone within the past century. Who knows about what countless scientific advances and other contributions to the well-being of humans all around the world could have taken place if 6 million Jews had not perished in Europe. I am extremely lucky to have been born…
What is a Hackathon
By Anonymous Imagine for a moment a room full of eager college students, who have not bathed, slept or even seen sunlight for the past 36 hours. No, this isn’t the cram session you usually do with your friends, 2 days before a test worth 40% of your grade, this is a Hackathon. Put frankly a Hackathon is a collection of ambitious Computer Scientists and Engineers who come together at a specified location (usually a…
The Search For Flight MH370 Continues…
By Aditi Roy Several weeks have passed since Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 disappeared on March 8, 2014 on what should have been its journey from Kuala Lumpour, Malaysia to Beijing, China. Instead, recent evidence suggests that Flight 370 most likely ended up in the depths of the Indian Ocean. What we cannot seem to fathom is how in today’s day and age could a commercial airline carrying 239 people just vanish? And why hasn’t it…