By Luke Kusic At this point in the election season, everyone knows the self-described socialist who has made his career screaming angrily at Wall Street, the banks, and even capitalism in general. The left wing, social justice warrior, college liberal loves him for being a “radical” and a “socialist” when in all actuality his plans are not much different from the status quo. The clearest example of his non-radical plans can be seen in his…
Shit BuzzFeed Says – Act III: A Contemplation
By Howard Hecht Trigger Warning: This Article was Indeed Written by a Heterosexual, White Male Those reading this serial may have realized I’ve contradicted myself. Though I once stated people who enjoy BuzzFeed aren’t “degenerates,” I recently went as far as to call them: “infantile adults.” That was rather “savage” of me, as BuzzFeed would say. It was never my intention to judge those with interests that differ from mine, and instead, only to expose…
A Frightening French Future
By Max Newman On November 13, 2015, the city of Paris as well as the nation of France was changed forever. Barbaric and well coordinated terrorist attacks hit the French capital, as ISIS jihadists rampaged through a soccer stadium, a lively nightlife district and the Bataclan concert hall. The latest terrorist attacks to hit France were not just shocking, but took an even darker turn than the two attacks that took place just eleven months…
My Awkward Sodexual Encounters
A Trip Through the Woods By Patrick McAuliffe Here we go, making our way around the Brain, sampling the local cuisine. I’ve grown to enjoy this because it gets me out there, seeing the sights of campus. Granted, I dread the many trips up to Mountainview next month. In the winter, too! The things I do for you, Binghamton Review. This month, I frequented College-in-the-Woods’ dining hall. It was rather convenient because it was close…
POLL DANCING
By Joseph R. Gunderson It’s no secret that nearly everyone seeking election for public office relies on polls. In the 2012 presidential election, Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney and US Representative Paul Ryan of Wisconsin secured the Republican Party nomination, but failed to defeat incumbent President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, winning only 206 electoral votes to Obama’s 359. In an interview following the election, Governor Romney admitted that his campaign strategy on election…
Debunking New-Age Western Feminism: An Introduction
By Lauren Cash The Tumblr-spawn’s whines have made the “feminist” movement louder. They have, regrettably, grabbed far too much of my attention. The main discourse on third-wave feminism revolves around three main points: the misunderstood wage gap, the so-called glass ceiling, and the patriarchy (read: boogeyman). Feminist.org describes the “glass ceiling” as “a barrier that is so subtle that it is transparent, yet so strong that it prevents women from moving up the corporate hierarchy.…
Fences and Refugees
By David Iksak Over the past summer, the growth and spread of ISIS led to the displacement of countless Syrians forced to flee their homeland. The surrounding countries in the Middle East refused to help take these refugees in, leading to waves of Syrians overwhelming Europe, a region in which almost all nations allow the fluid movement of people across their borders. But many of these nations realized that taking in and relocating all these…
GSEU Rallies and Marches to Demand Fair Wages
By Patrick McAuliffe On a chilly Friday night, students, alumni and community members assembled at the Peacemaker’s Stage in downtown Binghamton to protest the unequal distribution of stipends for graduate student teaching assistants (TA’s) and graduate assistants (GA’s) for the upcoming 2016-17 academic year. More than fifty people participated, following a rally sponsored by the Graduate Students Employees Union and the Graduate Student Organization. A large portion of demonstrators were adults from the community. The…
Encouraging the Arts in the Binghamton Area: A Musician’s Dream is Nearing Fruition
By Patrick McAuliffe Last month, I gave a shout-out in my dining hall review series to a swell C4 cashier named CJ Wachter. I was later paying for my food and struck up a conversation with him about the article. He told me that his motivation for being a “lunch lady” is much more than simply seeing all of our beaming faces every day. For four years, he has been working to get a musical…
Buy None Get One Free*
By Thomas Casey Free college is a misnomer. Unless, of course, someone has unjustly slapped bars around Binghamton University, “Free college! Free it now! It did nothing wrong!” But, college did do something wrong. College imposed $1.2 trillion of debt on its graduates. College inflicted examination anxiety and unceasing stress. College made 19-year-olds memorize the periodic table while subsisting on inedible dinners. “Jail college! Lock it away!” That’s an offbeat rallying cry. Strangely, predominant student…
WHAT THE CCE EVENT GOT WRONG
By Alex Carros Before stating my opinion proper, I think it’s important to preface by saying that the first part of the Center for Civic Engagement’s event was fairly good. It was respectful, polite, and allowed for respectful disagreement; this is more than what can be said for Yale or the University of Missouri. The message, that men are suffering from rigid societal expectations, seems balanced and fair, and I think we can all agree…
Million Student March Hits Home
By Raymond Page Last Thursday, Binghamton University students’ gathered in protest to participate in what is being referred to as The Million Student March. In a display of national camaraderie, students from over 100 college and university campuses across the nation marched in solidarity; declaring in one audible voice, their collective demands for livable working wages, free public education and loan forgiveness. Jonathan Taubes, a member of the Executive Board for Binghamton College Progressives says…
Gambling For Millennials
By Sean Glendon If you haven’t heard of FanDuel and DraftKings, you’re lying. The number of commercials they air is ridiculous, and recently they’ve been making headlines for all the wrong reasons. While there were early forms, the creation of FanDuel in 2009 was the true beginning of the the trend known as daily fantasy sports. DraftKings was later founded in 2012, and the two combine to control 95% of the daily fantasy sports market.…
What Bernie Supporters Don’t Want to Hear
By Samson Audino The first of the Democratic Presidential Primary Debates took place and according to college students nationwide and Huffington Post, Bernie Sanders came out victorious (or at least you would definitely think so if you were me, watching at a viewing party in a university lecture hall). He illustrated to the whole country exactly how he stands apart from Hillary Clinton and her corporate ties, and his supporters raved throughout the internet. Regardless…
Shit BuzzFeed Says – Act II: A Zuckerbergian Tragedy
By Howard Hecht Try as I may to escape the clutches of BuzzFeed’s tyrannical grasp on first world media, I, unfortunately, cannot. As – to put it in terms BuzzFeed would understand – “a 90s kid xD,” I am within an age range of people who are likely to possess a Facebook account, and on occasion I do in fact scroll through my newsfeed. I have gone out of my way to block as many…