Students hold annual rally with local organizations to end domestic violence and enfranchise victims
By Ethan Knox (Photo credit: Rose Coschignano/Pipe Dream Photographer) After the rain began to fall and a crowd of college students marched through the torrent on the streets of downtown Binghamton, the seventh annual Take Back the Night event began with a sensitive enthusiasm. Although drenched, demonstrators joined together to form a safe, public space…
Writing Off the Page: Jaimee Wriston-Colbert, author
By Ethan Knox (Photo credit: Jaimee Wriston-Colbert) “The town I live in, Jody’s home town, is on the Susquehanna, cited as one of America’s most endangered rivers—we’re talking raw sewage, animal carcasses, fertilizer run-off, industrial chemicals, human sludge…” Sentences like these infuse the fictionalized Southern Tier within the linked “rural-noir” stories of Wild Things, Jaimee Wriston…
Listen to the Crows: Anne Clark, biologist
By Ethan Knox Working among her assortment of animal bones, shelves of science books, diagrams, and papers, Anne Clark’s looks to an unlikely place to learn about humans: communities of crows. “The interesting thing about crows is that they mirror a lot of primates, including ourselves, in having long life histories,” Clark said. “Age, sex,…
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