Category: OPINION
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Journalism is Only Dead if You Let it Go
As a journalism student, I’ve asked myself that dreaded, unfortunate question. Is journalism dead? By Nadine Cafaro If you search “journalism” and “dying,” almost the entire first page fills up with news articles about the significance of the news and media. Publications like The New Yorker, The Washington Post and The Guardian have covered it;…
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The Grand Opening of a New Space for SMP! An Integral Part of the “Diversity” on Campus, But Why Did It Take So Long?
By Valerie Pereyra New Paltz, N.Y.– At the beginning of the 2019 school year, New Paltz made history by having the highest percentage of students of color it’s ever had for its incoming freshman class at 48 percent, a 5 percent increase from last year’s first-year enrollment rate, according to the New Paltz Institutional Research.…
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Mornings at the Main Street Bistro
Photos by Avery Seyler-Wetzel Edited by Matt Apuzzo and Avery Seyler-Wetzel
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Why Should a Man Care about Planned Parenthood?
Article written by Jozen Cummings Originally published by GQ Packaged by Katelyn Cordero Photos taken by Katelyn Cordero The organization is under attack when it’s needed the most. Fifteen years ago as a college sophomore, I walked into the Planned Parenthood clinic on 16th St. in Washington, D.C. with my girlfriend at the time so…
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More Students are Plugging in Despite School’s Energy Saving Efforts
By Alex Acaro An energy reduction competition at SUNY New Paltz has produced mixed results, according to data from the Office of Campus Sustainability. During three-week energy conservation between residence halls, students are in some cases not making an effort at all or are using more energy than in the beginning of the competition. …
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‘pity this busy monster, manunkind’
In Howard Good’s Being Digital class, students were asked to visually interpret E.E. Cummings poem ‘pity this busy monster, manunkind’. This video uses subtle images to represent the “progress” of modern technology and how it is increasingly disrupting lives through consumerism and entertainment. Filmed and edited by Liz Gaschler and Holly Lipka.
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Addicted to the Screen
By: Mae Bonnaci Erika Perilla Molina sits in the SUNY New Paltz library as she tries to study for an international politics exam and write two papers that are due by the end of the week. She’s been sitting at the same table for at least three hours, but thankfully it’s the table with the…
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Five Ways to Cope With Heartbreak as a College Student
Going through a breakup in college is almost never easy. You have to read three chapters of that novel for English, study for your math test and still get out of bed for that 8 a.m. class. While the day drags and your thoughts are seemingly consumed by everything about your past relationship, here are…
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Being Digital: Robots Replacing Humans
Students from Professor Howard Good’s Being Digital class created one minute visual interpretations of a technological ideology. For the fall 2015 semester, the students had a choice of many multimedia options, such as stop-frame animation, traditional animation or simply a video. In a dystopian technologically-infused world, we will see no problem with replacing our organic-based…
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Being Digital: The Age of iPhone Addicts
By Holly Lipka and Liz Gaschler “A desire is never simply the desire for a certain thing. A desire to be fully filled in, met so that I desire no longer. It’s always also a desire for desire itself. A desire to continue to desire.” Slavoj Zizek — ‘The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology’ BeingDig_Fall15 from…
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My Test: Jillian Nadiak’s 3 Days Without K-pop
In “No K-pop for Three Days”, Jillian Nadiak does exactly as the title explains and ditches the music that is the driving force behind her life. Her video has been featured on Youtube Nation and is currently being optioned for a documentary on one of Korea’s top entertainment companies, YG Entertainment. In the K-pop world,…
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Media Ethics: Military Video Games
Madelinerose Kossmann, Tyler Brown, Dane Lewis evaluate the potential effects military based video games have on those who play them, and whether or not they were intended by the producers. Bryce Kristall and Sarah Painter evaluate a sexually influenced free-world video game. Click here. Katherine Bunster and Ella Graffin look at Disney princesses. Click here.
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Media Ethics: Second Life
Bryce Kristall and Sarah Painter explore the world of Second Life, a reality based video game that allows it’s users to live out their fantasies. Katherine Bunster and Ella Graffin look at Disney princesses. Click here. Madelinerose Kossmann, Tyler Brown, Dane Lewis examine military video games. Click here.
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Being Digital: All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
Watched Over from Annie March on Vimeo. Being Digital students Patrick Angehr, Annie March and Russell Hartman analyze the impact of technology in modern society through Richard Brautigan’s poem “All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace.” For more Being Digital videos: Kate Bunster and Francesca Caccavale explore the implications of technology in medicine. Kelly…
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Being Digital: Pity This Busy Monster, Manunkind
Being Digital Project – Kelly Seiz from SUNY New Paltz on Vimeo. Being Digital student, Kelly Seiz, uses charcoal drawings to interpret E.E. Cummings’ poem “Pity This Busy Monster, Manunkind. For other Being Digital videos: Kate Bunster and Francesca Caccavale explore the implications of technology in medicine. Kevin Ha’s humorous take on the smartphone war. Being Digital…
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Media Ethics: Ethics of #Gamergate
Howard Good’s Fall 2014 Media Ethics class was asked to create films interpreting this quote by Theodor W. Adorno: “Triviality is evil – triviality, that is, in the form of consciousness and mind that adapts itself to the world as it is, that obeys the principle of inertia. And this principle of inertia truly is what…
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Media Ethics: Murrow and Trivial Media
Howard Good’s Fall 2014 Media Ethics class were asked to create films interpreting this quote by Theodor W. Adorno: “Triviality is evil – triviality, that is, in the form of consciousness and mind that adapts itself to the world as it is, that obeys the principle of inertia. And this principle of inertia truly is what…
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Media Ethics: Triviality is Evil
Howard Good’s Fall 2014 Media Ethics class were asked to create films interpreting this quote by Theodor W. Adorno: “Triviality is evil – triviality, that is, in the form of consciousness and mind that adapts itself to the world as it is, that obeys the principle of inertia. And this principle of inertia truly is what…