Learning outside the classroom: activism
Witnessing the recent March For Our Lives gatherings across the nation in the news, I wondered why there was not one in Oswego. There was a march in downtown Syracuse, but nothing from campus. It made me think about the…
Student silence no more
In a world where it seems school shootings and other acts of violence are becoming more common, students are saying no more and taking a stand. In mid-February, there was a school shooting that killed 17 students in Parkland, Florida….
Paying top dollar for user data
Facebook is in the news so regularly the past few years that even the recent Cambridge Analytica scandal leaves users rolling their eyes. “We agreed to give them access when we clicked ‘Agree to terms of service,’” many will cry….
One issue, two perspectives:
College years are a busy and defining period of our lives. We learn more about ourselves in the four-year span than our whole lives before. The one thing that is seemingly the trickiest to figure out during this crucial period…
One issue, two perspectives:
Many students have rites of passage they anticipate completing while in college. Some of these include joining a fraternity or sorority, getting drunk with friends, getting into a relationship or having a hookup. Hookups are defined as a sexual relation…
Are we officially too sensitive?
The times are changing now compared to even 10 years ago. Many things we once saw as harmless changed with them. As those who have been considered the minority- women or African Americans and the like- gain confidence and their…
Will ‘Thoroughbreds’ be sleeper hit of 2018?
Rating: 4.5/5 stars “Thoroughbreds” is directed and written by Corey Finley and stars Olivia Cooke (“Me, Earl and the Dying Girl”) and Anya Taylor-Joy (“Split”) as Amanda and Lily, two polar opposite girls who develop a very strong, very strange…
Alicia Vikander’s star power not enough to save this reboot
Rating: 1.5/5 stars Making video game movies does not seem to be a job of which filmmakers pride themselves. From “Super Mario Bros.” to “Assassin’s Creed,” they are rarely, if ever, a winner in the eyes of the movie-going public….
‘Gringo’ has ingredients for good film, none of which work
Rating: 2.5/5 stars “Gringo” is directed by Nash Edgerton (“The Square”) and stars David Oyelowo (“The Cloverfield Paradox”) as Harold Soyinka, a down on his luck corporate employee who is facing a possible job termination due to a company merger,…
Second season of ‘Jessica Jones’ major bounce back
Rating: 4.5/5 stars Marvel has teamed up with Netflix to create television shows with characters that are not featured in the movies. Serious and casual Marvel fans alike have fallen in love with “The Defenders,” Jessica Jones, Daredevil, Luke Cage…
