A peculiar thought sprang into my head yesterday, just as I was puffing up the hill from the Village to the academic buildings on the way to our news meeting. "You know," I thought to myself, "it's pretty easy to be a journalist." Now, before I quickly disregarded that quip […]

Everyone has heard of Barbie. She is an American fashion toy that was created by American businesswoman Ruth Handler in the late 1950s. And although she is half a century old, she has still managed to stay relevant in a market swarming with look-alikes and the more technologically advanced. Barbie […]

Happy Birthday, Internet! That’s right, the World Wide Web has turned 25, a major milestone in tech history. It may seem like the Internet has been around much longer than a quarter century, but in fact, I don’t think I can truly remember the world without the Web. So, in […]

We may not have crashed Twitter, but we did generate a lot of buzz by re-doing the now infamous Oscars "selfie." What do you think of our attempt to recreate the epic shot that Ellen DeGeneres orchestrated at the Academy Awards with our staff?  (It definitely took some time away […]

I spent $40 this weekend. I wish I could tell you I used that money on a new pair of shoes, or on dinner with friends, or even on a few books I have been saving since forever on my Amazon wish list. But instead, I spent my hard-earned wages […]

We may not have crashed Twitter, but we did generate a lot of buzz by re-doing the now infamous Oscars "selfie." What do you think of our attempt to recreate the epic shot that Ellen DeGeneres orchestrated at the Academy Awards with our staff?  (It definitely took some time away […]

In mid-February, Facebook changed their gender options, adding over 50 different gender options to identify with. Since the start of the popular social media site a little over a decade ago, the options for gender were limited on the sex of the person being either male or female. While most […]

Ramapo College’s chapter of the Sigma Tau Delta Literature Honors Society attended the 2014 Sigma Tau Delta International Convention in Savannah, Georgia from Wednesday, Feb. 26 to Sunday, March 2. As a member, I was lucky enough to be accepted to speak on Jane Austen and how we view her […]

I recently finished the novel “Fahrenheit 451,” a novel written by Ray Bradbury.  The scariest part about reading the novel is that although it was published in 1953, many aspects of the novel’s dystopian society have leaked into our present society. In the book, the “firemen” are in charge of […]

I came across an interestingly applicable quote the other day doing some class reading. "Computers are moving off the desk, into laps, and then from there, to be simply embedded in our environment." This insight came from a technology scholar, but his words certainly transcend to other fields of study. […]