Three years and eight months ago I found myself walking around the town of Geneseo with a candidate for the state Senate for an hour and a half, compiling tons of notes and learning a lot about navigating political language. Thus was my first experience of reporting news for The Lamron. It’s been a hell of a journey since then, and it’s hard to believe it all comes to an end this week.
Read MoreInvasion of Privacy: Editor-in-Chief elect Maddy Smith takes on challenges, employs Knights’ Life knowledge
Sophomore Maddy Smith was cranking out published writing at an early age. Back in third grade, Smith had her picture and a story published in American Girl magazine.
Read MoreGoldberg: HUMN courses must relinquish committment to “western tradition”
After over 30 years, it’s time to change Geneseo’s Western Humanities general education requirement to better reflect our globalized society and diverse student body.
Read MoreCollege Senate suggests changes to Code of Conduct to address sexual assault on campus
On Tuesday April 3, the College Senate passed four motions by the Senate Student Affairs Committee recommending new funding lines and changes to the Student Code of Conduct.
Read MoreGoldberg: Martin injustice shows necessity for change in racial discourse
On Feb. 26 in Sanford, Fla., 28-year-old George Zimmerman shot and killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. So far, Zimmerman has not been arrested or charged with murder because he claimed he killed Martin in self-defense. The basic narrative of the killing, however, completely destroys any semblance of validity of such a claim.
Read MoreGoldberg: Occupy movement success requires diverse, far-reaching participation
The United States is in the midst of one of the most intense political and social soul-searching moments in recent history.
Read MoreInvasion of Privacy: Professor Carlo Filice steps back to observe, ponder the purpose of life
While most philosophers do work hard trying to solve old and difficult problems, few are brave enough to try to tackle the question of the purpose of life. But philosophy department chair Carlo Filice doesn’t shy away from such an intimidating task. Indeed, he just published a book on the topic after teaching seminars on “The Meaning of Life.” And no, the answer isn’t “42.”
Read MoreMcCoy explores vodoun vévé symbols in post-Katrina New Orleans
On Wednesday Jan. 25, English professor Beth McCoy gave the fifth lecture in Sigma Tau Delta's "Celebrating Literature" lecture series: "The Writing on the Wall: Reading FEMA Signs in Post-Katrina New Orleans."
Read MoreGoldberg: Small goverment conservatism, negative liberty thoroughly invested in white privilege
Between former Sen. Rick Santorum’s comments about not wanting to make black people’s lives better by giving them other people’s money, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich’s food stamps comments and Rep. Ron Paul’s refusal to affirm that a business should not be allowed to refuse service to people because of their skin color, America’s historical commitment to white supremacy has been bubbling to the surface of the Republican Party presidential campaigns in the past few weeks.
Read MoreJudas Priest delivers age-defying performance on Epitaph Tour
Nobody wants to see a couple of 60-something-year-old guys running around on stage in skin-tight leather playing songs that had their heyday in the 1970s and 1980s, right?
Read MoreGeneseo mourns loss of Distinguished Teaching Professor Bill Edgar
Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus William Edgar, 78, died Thursday Nov. 10 while in a care center in Rochester, N.Y. Edgar was a United States Army veteran of the Korean conflict and served as chair of the Geneseo philosophy department from 1978 until his retirement in 2005.
Read MoreGoldberg: Coulter’s statement illuminates misguided discourse about race
"Our blacks are so much better than their blacks." You can thank conservative pundit Ann Coulter for that sound bite.
Read MoreGoldberg: Police violence at Occupy Oakland unacceptable
On Tuesday Oct. 25 at Occupy Oakland, police officers shot tear gas and flash grenades into crowds of unarmed though agitated protesters, seriously injuring United States Marine and Iraq veteran Scott Olsen. It is not an innovative or controversial claim that this column makes: The violent actions of the Oakland Police Department were completely unacceptable.
Read MoreA note from the editor-in-chief: The pronoun problem
Since I began writing for The Lamron, I've been irked with one of the requirements of Associated Press Style (the journalism version of MLA or APA): the rule that when selecting a third-person singular pronoun for a non-specified personified noun, newspapers are supposed to select the masculine pronoun, "he."
Troops need to come home, regardless of political agendas
On Friday Oct. 21, President Barack Obama announced that all United States troops would be pulled out of Iraq by Dec. 31, 2011. From the point of view of a conflict-weary, economically-stricken nation, this announcement indicates a much-needed substantive action our government can take to help us now, but negotiations and planning need to continue so that Iraqi safety over the long run is maintained as a goal.
Read MoreSA increases concert budget
On Wednesday Oct. 19, the Student Association Executive Board voted 4-2-1 to allocate an additional $51,045 from its own Budget Increases account to Activities Commission's Concerts account in order to execute a larger-scale concert in the spring semester. The reading passed after a reading earlier in the evening to allocate $20,000 from Reserves to Budget Increases also went through.
Read MoreGoldberg: Outdated curriculum readjusted
The English department is going to be shaking things up regarding major and minor requirements in the near future. Students will autonomously generate their own curricula through a continuous process of organic self-reflection instead of following an already mapped-out curriculum of requirements such as a course in British literature before 1700, two courses in American literature and a 300-level Shakespeare course.
Read MoreClass of 2012: Senior Jesse Goldberg looks forward with acquired skills, work ethic
As a senior, I am prone to stick my fingers in my ears and chant, “I can’t hear you,” whenever someone brings up how close I am to graduating.
Read MoreSA proposal voted down after heated discussion
Student Association President Nick Spengler's proposal to allocate $5,000 for Student Government Meetings was unanimously voted down Wednesday Sept. 21.
Read MoreGoldberg: Balancing the deficit by ending tax breaks for the rich
This past Monday, President Barack Obama declared that he would veto any bill that came to his desk that made changes to entitlement spending but didn't demand more tax revenue from the wealthiest Americans.
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