On Friday Oct. 28 Rochester Police arrested 32 people at the Occupy Rochester protest in Washington Square Park during the movement's first attempted overnight protest in the city. Among the 32 who were all arrested on the grounds of trespassing on public property after hours was junior Jonathan Foster, a student photojournalist on assignment for the Rochester Institute of Technology's student publication, Reporter Magazine.

The effects of the recession are disheartening, to say the least. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the unemployment rate of young adults between ages 20 and 24 has increased from 9.1 percent  to 14 percent in just 10 years, and the outlook for the next few years, as we are constantly told, is desolate.

Following the law does not absolve a person of ethical responsibilities to society. Specifically, reporting a crime is not enough if there is an absence of action and consequence. There is an expected level of integrity from everybody, but more notably, the people whom the general public holds in high regard.

Greece's ongoing debt crisis appears to be coming to a thrilling and possibly catastrophic conclusion this week, as Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou has decided to put the latest bailout to a national referendum.

By hosting major concerts two years in a row, we fear that the Student Association has set a precedent for years to come. Last year's executive board dug us into a $109,000 deficit largely created by dipping into reserves for last year's concert.

The Greek community at Geneseo encompasses 13 percent of the student body. That's a large figure, and so it's inevitable to see Greek letters around campus – people wearing phi this, chi that, sigma something or other. The Greek community is its own entity inside the college system and although somewhat independent it's important to remember that its members are first and foremost Geneseo students.

Occupy Wall Street is a leaderless resistance movement expressing frustrations at the gross inequities of wealth distribution in the United States, though if you ask the individuals involved in the movement, the scope of grievances extends to environmental and energy policy, labor laws, trade laws and tax policy. 

On Tuesday Sept. 27, the Berkeley College Republicans held a bake sale featuring a race-adjusted pricing ladder that, among other things, charged white males $2 for a cupcake that cost a Native-American female nothing at all. 

On Wednesday Sept. 21, the weekly Student Association business meeting saw one of the most intense discussions at an SA meeting in recent years.

The Republican presidential debate on Sept. 7 exposed an unsettling side of our society – our trivialization and abstraction of death.

The Lamron staff strongly supports the passage of the NY SUNY 2020 bill, though we must encourage students to remember that this is not the end of the story of SUNY funding, but a chapter in a continuously developing narrative.

Geneseo, an institution that prides itself on a strong liberal arts curriculum, promises to produce students who, regardless of major, are excellent writers.

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The federal government proved once again that when it comes to avoiding disaster at the very last minute, there's nobody better than Uncle Sam.

The Stylus, the State University of New York at Brockport's student newspaper, is currently at odds with its funding body, the Brockport Student Government. The controversy, which has gained attention as a dispute over free speech, can be seen alternatively as an immature and severely mishandled disagreement.

A bill has been brought before the New York State Senate and Assembly that, if passed, would grant certain illegal immigrants benefits like health insurance and tuition assistance if several conditions, including state residency prior to age 16 and the receipt of a high school diploma equivalent, are met.

Quality education is a project. It requires a tremendous amount of effort from all those involved – students, administrators, staff and professors – in order to ensure that true learning is taking place. Unfortunately, there are some parties in the equation that do not consistently demonstrate an effort conducive to quality and deep learning; disturbingly, this includes professors and students, the most directly involved agents in the education project.

Republican state senator George Maziarz of Buffalo introduced a bill on Monday that would require anyone applying for welfare benefits in New York to submit to a drug test. Failure to pass the test would preclude residents from receiving financial assistance from the state.

The Undergraduate Student Association Elections Committee, a standing body of the Student Association, rises to the fore of discussion during times of election scandal. This year's election season proves no exception to the seeming rule; committee chair Bernard Goehle stepped down from his position on Feb. 16.

Former Rep. Chris Lee, R-N.Y., resigned from his position on Feb. 9, hours after New York news blog Gawker published the contents of a personal e-mail he had sent to a female Craigslist user. The e-mail included a posed, shirtless photograph of Lee, who is married and has one son.