A cell phone rings. Heads turn. The perpetrator surely knows he is being gawked at by dozens of disapproving faces, but can’t acknowledge them. The shame is too much and the show goes on. The cantor keeps singing, the rabbi keeps preaching and lucky for this congregant, it’s Yom Kippur. God can forgive them for...
In high school, I used to poke fun at our Homecoming. Everyone gathered to watch a bunch of Jews from Long Island suit up to play some semblance of football, against a team of some other Jews from Long Island, and this was supposed to be fun. It was a real non-starter. To boot, I...
Binghamton is home for all of us. We all knock it, but in deciding to attend Binghamton University we each signed our lease on this city and made it our own. It is our responsibility to have a broad understanding of what exactly happened to our city in wake of last week’s flood. If you...
Once upon a time, Binghamon University was a beautiful place. That time has long since passed us by. We’re told that wherever we are on campus, there’s a blue emergency light somewhere in our 360 degrees of vision. They forgot to tell us that in the same 360 degrees of vision, we could find some...
Doesn’t it seem like every summer in recent history has been marked by some catastrophic, world-coming-to-an-end type of event, or events? 2009 was the summer of celebrity deaths. 2010 was the summer of oil spills. 2011 was the summer of debt-ceiling crises and double-dip recessions, and so on and so forth. When I last left...
Are you afraid? Afraid of new circumstances, a new cast of characters, new living situations, a brand new lifestyle? Does it scare you? Don’t answer my question, I know it’s a big, fat yes. What I’m here to tell you, for better or for worse, is that you shouldn’t be afraid. At least, not yet....
Binghamton is in a state of disarray. At the close of my third year, it’s been hard to pinpoint a time since August 2008 when we were in worse shape than we are now. I guess the basketball scandal wasn’t anything to write home about, but people knew who we were, campus spirit was at...
I hit rock bottom. It started out in a Subway restaurant, as these stories go. I was hungry for a sandwich and it was just about dinnertime. I ordered the usual and waited patiently as the sandwich artist crafted it to my exact specifications. Before I go on, you need to understand that my bank...
My tour guide friend always likes to remind me that Binghamton is the cloudiest city in the United States east of the Rockies. Business Insider just listed us as the fifth most depressing city in the country. We aren’t doing too hot. Binghamton is a city without much charm, but we get by. But after...
Congratulations everyone, we’re winning! We’ve had a front row seat to the outrageous meltdown of the life and times of Charlie Sheen, and we should be incredibly grateful. Charlie Sheen is a pretty good actor. After all these years, none of his roles gave any indication that the man himself has tiger blood and Adonis...
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