Columns
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...
Columns
Phones are not the problem, passive learning is
To older generations and teachers, phones are the greatest evil — hypnotizing younger generations and turning them into mindless zombies. A notification is enough to snap teens into a trance, locking them...
Opinions
Farm to campus is the overdue change our dining halls need
You are exhausted, a bit frazzled and most of all, hungry after finishing up a full day on campus. As you walk into the Chenango Champlain Collegiate Center, your eyes are immediately...
Opinions
The divide between constitutionalism and democracy is a false dilemma
Among right-wing circles in the United States, an idea often circulates that challenges the very purpose of our government — namely, that the United States is not a “democracy” that owes its...
Opinions
Cutting education funding harms everyone
What’s in an education? Nowadays, it seems the answer changes on a whim. With the federal government’s recent decision to split degrees into “professional” and “nonprofessional” classifications, it’s not difficult to see...
Staff Editorials
Editorial: Appreciating Binghamton this Thanksgiving
Grace Scullin, Editor-in-Chief To celebrate this Thanksgiving, I want to appreciate all that Downtown Binghamton has to offer. This is my first and last year living off campus, and I’m very happy...
Opinions
Hypercriticizing women's choices is counterproductive
Last month, Vogue published an article titled “Is Having a Boyfriend Embarrassing Now?” that made one thing abundantly clear — no matter what a woman does, she will be criticized and dubbed...
Opinions
Boredom is good for the soul
The ability to perform a skill that artificial intelligence and machines can’t replicate is deeply human because these skills exercise creativity and patience — qualities often lost in the technologically progressive, capitalistic...
Opinions
Finding balance in our emotional vocabulary
Therapy speak has become our generation’s dialect, even if most of us have never spoken to an actual therapist. We laugh, we exaggerate, we repeat these words without thinking. But somewhere in...
Opinions
It’s time to give Tisquantum his name and story back
In a previous column, I wrote about the forgotten history of Columbus Day’s foundation and how it exemplifies the immigrant struggle. Now, as Thanksgiving approaches, I’ve been thinking more and more about...