Riley Lavrovsky
rlavrovsky@binghamton.edu
6 Articles
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Rating every chocolate chip cookie on campus
By no means am I a professional baker or cookie rater, but I have baked dozens upon dozens of cookies over my 20 years of life, so — not to toot my...
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Is football worth your life?
Since watching the 2015 film “Concussion” in my 11th-grade psychology class, I have been fascinated with chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, a degenerative brain disease common among football players caused by repeated...
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Will Generation Beta finally put the iPad down?
As Generation Alpha ends and Generation Beta begins, one must consider what the upcoming generation’s childhood will look like. The way Gen Alpha children have grown up is staggeringly different from generations...
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Offering advice to those who don't give it to us
With spring schedule registration just around the corner, it’s the perfect time to address Binghamton University’s subpar academic advising. I only have experience with Harpur Academic Advising, but considering around two-thirds of...
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Having 'girly' interests should be celebrated, not criticized
From childhood, it is instilled in young girls’ brains to be embarrassed by their “girly” interests. In turn, girls with masculine interests rarely face as much ridicule as boys with feminine interests....
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Antivax misinformation preys upon vulnerable parents
An increasingly concerning trend has emerged over the last five years: the number of kindergartners exempt from vaccines has risen from 2.2 to 3.6 percent. The reason behind this increase is not...