Binghamton Review

05/03/2023

Editor-in-Chief Madeline Perez reflects on her time at Binghamton Review...

By Madeline Perez When I was a freshman, waltzing around UFest, I found myself interested in lots of booths. Among these were the Fine Arts Society (a drawing club that I can only assume died when COVID struck and now no one can remember and I am the last remaining link to their history), the tennis...

05/03/2023

Managing Editor Dillon O'Toole bids farewell to the Binghamton Review...

By Dillon O’Toole It hasn’t fully hit me yet but my time here at Binghamton is almost at an end. The realization that I am only a few weeks away from graduation has been a slow burn and I can only imagine how I will feel come the week of graduation. But looking back, it really hasn’t felt like...

05/03/2023

S.G. Panini discusses how to slack off without getting fired...

By S.G. Panini Sometimes you have a lot on your plate: worrying about classes, your stagnant relationship life, what to eat for lunch. Other times it’s just pure laziness. On rare occasions you’re amped and willing, but just can’t for some reason; some days are slower than others. The bottom l...

05/03/2023

Arthur O'Sullivan's sequel to "Magic Words" discusses shibboleths and their use in modern American politics...

By Arthur O’Sullivan Oh, great! I write a massive text-wall about stupid terms in politics and then I use a word like “Shibboleth.” For clarification, this word was used in the Old Testament as a test of identification: if you pronounced it right, you were spared; if wrong, you were killed as ...

05/03/2023

Emily Portalatin discusses her love for musicals and how they make learning fun and exciting...

By Emily Portalatin Sorry, everyone. I don’t have time to write this article, I have rehearsal… is what I would say if I were a theatre kid! Got ya!!!!!!!! Okay, I am a musical fan, but we’ve all heard harsh rumors about the stereotypical “theatre kid”: a fan who publicly breaks into song,...

05/03/2023

El Lento dissects the recent UFO situations within American airspace...

By El Lento This article will diverge from what one likely expects from Binghamton Review. Despite the facetious title, what follows is not satirical and is instead a serious attempt at analysis of the incidents in February wherein multiple unidentified objects (I will attempt to avoid the nomenclat...

05/03/2023

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05/03/2023

Daniel Guido explores the impact of Artificial Intelligence on the music industry...

By Daniel Guido AI continues to amaze the internet and the world with its capacity for extraordinary feats. It has now proven itself capable of creating music on par with that of accomplished singers and songwriters. The impacts this will have on the music industry will prove to be of great importan...

05/03/2023

Madeline Perez explores the extremely cruel implications of Toy Story 4...

By Madeline Perez I have never hidden my disdain for the fourth Toy Story movie. Across previous articles and social interactions—even the passing thought of TS4 sends me into a rabid hysteria, wide-eyed and foaming, in which I tear apart the nearest small child or bunny rabbit. It’s comforting ...

05/03/2023

The last issue of the semester is out, baby! Check it out in the link below...

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04/19/2023

Madeline Perez ranks the best and the worst fictional bears...

By Madeline Perez We live in an age of infinite possibilities. Often, those possibilities involve the creation of a fictional world, and in this world, a bear. It can prove impossible to create rankings of a genre so wide and encompassing (the fictional bear genre), but in my resolve to lasso the mo...

04/19/2023

Logan Blakeslee reflects on mistakes made in his electoral campaigns, both by him and the Student Association...

By Logan Blakeslee Running for a position on the S.A. E-Board can sometimes feel like Don Quixote charging at a windmill. Without the necessary social capital, it’s a task that is very easy to miscomprehend, and failure is nothing short of spectacular. I begin this article with the concession that...

04/19/2023

Arthur O'Sullivan discusses a pernicious trend in political discussions...

By Arthur O’Sullivan Gee golly, thinking sure is hard! There’s just too much to deal with: finding the right words, balancing reason and critique, entertaining the possibility that I could be wrong…  my room-temperature IQ just can’t handle it! (I can’t even think about what I had for bre...

04/19/2023

Dillon O'Toole discusses the Jungian concept of the "Persona," making no reference to any video game series whatsoever...

By Dillon O’Toole Hey everyone, it sure has been a while since I last wrote something (at least if you ignore the advice column). In that time, many ideas have come and gone, but, in the end, I was unable to transfer any of them into concrete ideas. That is, until today.   Unlike a lot of the pe...

04/19/2023

Midas Leung reflects on the story of his mother and her new life in America...

By Midas Leung Recently in my Asian American class, I was tasked with doing an interview with my mother which showed me how much I already understood my mother. However, she did clarify a couple of misconceptions regarding her stories. One of my ancestors, for instance, was the child of a pr******te...

04/19/2023

Dillon O'Toole discusses how and why toxic people ruin the internet...

By Dillon O’Toole Isn’t the modern world fantastic?  All of the technology available today has brought everyone the ability to be closer to so many more people.  Now, even if you have a niche hobby or interest, you can always find like minded others, whereas in the past you may have been lucky...

04/19/2023

Trump🤝Binghamton Review: Being indicted for illicit allocation of funds to Stormy Daniels.

I'm lying we're not that cool. But it's no lie to say that WE HAVE A NEW ISSUE OUT! TODAY! Have a look in the link below!

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03/29/2023

Baddieline learns you some real neuroscience, so put on your glasses, poindexter...

By Baddieline So–I was going about my day, browsing the interwebs, when I stumbled upon this really scientific article published by a website that also hosts quizzes like ‘Which Guy From the Office Would Find You Attractive Based on Your Favorite Fruit?’ (Michael Scott!! XD). The article said ...

03/29/2023

Arthur O'Sullivan pounds his stream of consciousness into a pulp and smears it into an article...

By Arthur O’Sullivan (To the tune of Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah) I heard there was a secret room Where Mangle was, in FNAF Two But you don’t really care for Foxies, do you? It goes like this, the vent, the hiss, Without the mask, he’s really pi**ed. It’s Mangle, and he bites in ’87. ’8...

03/29/2023

Binghamton Review reaches its lowest point...

By Our Staff Pro: The porcelain throne is no throne, but in fact an electric chair, and we are all its victims. What Big Toilet has been espousing since the beginning of modern plumbing has been a disaster for the human race. Why, you ask? We have been convinced that the at-least 330 million toilets...

03/29/2023

Naoto Shercock, P.I., discusses the darkest day in Binghamton Review history...

By Naoto Shercock, P.I. There’s a storm brewing underneath the university campus. There, nearly 45 square miles of catacombs sprawl, are now forgotten to the dust and snow. Some say it was built there in the late 60s right around when the summer of love became the winter of revolution. When the gr...

03/29/2023

Daniel Guido reports on the irenic miracle in 2023 American politics...

By Daniel Guido Something extraordinary has happened: As Winter finally subsides and the dawn of Spring is upon us, so dawns the beginning of a new age in America. It appears as though peace has finally been brought to the American political arena.  The big players in the American political scene, ...

03/29/2023

Sorry everyone, no Binghamton Review this week ☹️🙁. APRIL FOOLS!

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03/08/2023

Logan Blakeslee sits down with Arthur O'Sullivan for an interview about his second presidential run...

By Arthur O’Sullivan If you thought election season was over, think again! In November, we voted for a bunch of politicians in far away places. This coming Sunday, we’ll be voting for our Student Association members. Unlike high school, this student government has the opportunity to influence ca...

03/08/2023

Logan Blakeslee discusses his new SA presidential campaign to "Abolish Parking Services."

By Logan Blakeslee Binghamton University Parking Services sits somewhere at the intersection of greed and incompetence. Besides Sodexo, there is no presence on campus that is more universally reviled than Parking Services, and for good reason. Its policies have become more draconian over time and ar...

03/08/2023

Madeline Perez discusses social challenges resulting from the lack of "third places" in America...

By Madeline Perez “Making your way in the world today takes everything you got,” or so says the hit theme from the ‘80s sitcom “Cheers.” This statement rings true for many, and probably goes double for you starving, broke college students. But I’m here to ask: Does it? Does making your w...

03/08/2023

Shayne O'Loughlin stretches his linguistic legs on the question of relativism versus universalism...

By Shayne O’Loughlin Within translation theory there exists sources of constant debate among scholars in just how we ought to translate works between languages. Among these debates are those between “linguistic universalism” and “linguistic relativism,” and their respective 20th century pr...