You should read this book. Well, you should read ¼ of this book. Pick any 50 pages – the author repeats himself enough that any section of the book will tell you what the rest of the book says as well. Is that a flaw? Sort of. Obviously intended for light reading at the local Starbucks or to be browsed through piecemeal, Healthcare, Guaranteed manages to take the incredibly complicated issue of universal healthcare and make it readable, accessible, and understandable for the average reader. This is no easy feat, and should be lauded, though one of the ways the author ensures the reader “gets it” is by repeating every point he makes at least half a dozen times throughout his book, which should perhaps be read more as a treatise than anything else.

Tonight’s Binghamton Senators Hockey game, played against the Syracuse Crunch, was a spectacular affair with a solid first half and an epic finish. The first period played out as a skirmish with no goals on either side but a number of strong plays. During this, the Senators took almost twice as many shots as the Crunch and, despite a strong showing of finesse and passing by their opponents, maintained an aggressive style which allowed them to control the pace of the game.

The second period is when things really heated up, with Ilya Zubov scoring with a well-placed wrist shot over goalie Dan LaCosta’s left shoulder. The shot was perfectly timed as the players congregated around the net and superbly aimed, with assists going to defensemen Tomas Kudelka and Derek Smith.

Barely more than 5 minutes later, Zubov made an assist to Zack Smith in scoring the second goal of the game, putting the Senators in the lead 2-0. At this point the Senators maintained their lead aggressively, checking their opponents every few minutes and continuing to take shots, about twice as many as the Crunch.

Despite the relocation of the Hillel- Jewish Student Union office, students were not worried they would be unable to find Hillel on the Binghamton University campus. To the students who seek Jewish life on campus, Hillel provides a sense of tradition. Perhaps their assurance lies in the fact that when they walk into the office they will be greeted by Sandy MacDuffee, office manager, at her desk smiling and welcoming them inside.

Once inside, you can imagine yourself amongst the infamous candy drawer, costumed rubber ducklings and traditional maps of Binghamton covered in photographs of current and graduated students in their Shabbas best.

With the installment of three new staff members over the past two years, MacDuffee was there to ease students into the transition. She is almost always the first person in the office every morning to ensure everything is ready for the day.

The Hobbes DigiWiFi, model WL-F601, is a pocket-sized WiFi detector. It is a rather simple looking device, with simple controls. It is roughly 2.75 inches by 2.5 inches, which makes it perfect for attempting to detect wireless networks while on the go. It does have a few draw backs though, which glaze over the initial luster of the device.

Functionality

The DigiWiFi has a very simple control scheme, in 3 buttons. The first button, labeled “ON”, serves as the On/Off button for the device. Hold it down for 3 or so seconds, and the device turns on and starts scanning for networks in the area; hold it down another 3 seconds and the device powers down. It also controls the LCD backlight. It is an alright design, but I seem to turn the backlight on quite a bit while trying to turn the device off. The middle button, labeled “NEXT” is used to scroll between the different wireless networks that the device detects. The manual has this button labeled as “Details”, which is misleading at first. The third button, labeled “SCAN”, activates the scanning for wireless networks.

I find myself at odds with you, my beloved Binghamton. Oh you, the keeper of my future. I entrust unto you the seemingly endless responsibility of safeguarding my life in the interim period during which I attend your classes, gain your knowledge, and seek to better myself for the real world.

Yet it has come to pass that I find that very future in question. Over the last year, oh Binghamton, you have endangered the very well-being of hundreds of your past and current students. Piles of papers have been found, containing very personal information, in wastepaper baskets it seems across campus. The trust I have put in you to safeguard that information is ever more shaky.

"Too Short." Those two words are rapidly becoming the catchphrase of the WHRW News Book Review team. The book it currently applies to is Counterknowledge, a small hardcover rant against conspiracy theories, quack medicine, bogus science, fake history, and the Oxford comma. The book is very enjoyable, and a refreshing dose of rationalism in a world where conspiracy theories and fraudulent medicine gain increasing currency and wider audiences through the internet. However, it is unfortunately too short, and therefore doesn't quite live up to some of its promises.

The book starts off rather promisingly, beginning by demonstrating several problems that the author finds in a popular conspiracy theory video, and moving on to an overview of modern dubious thinking and pop science, lumping the whole antifactual bunch into the titular term of "counterknowledge." After briefly touching on a few more, similar theories and hoaxes, the author launches into the body of the book.

On Monday October 13th a WHRW News team found a pile of documents lying at the top of a Binghamton University dumpster. The documents were private files from the German Department in the 1970s, containing names and social security numbers of fifty-six different people in ninety-one separate documents totaling over a hundred and twenty pages. The documents were also found on top of a pile of shredded documents, indicating that, while the German Department had shredders on hand, they had not decided to use them.

Due to string of hacking attacks on the WHRW News website we have removed a number of articles from the website that have been played on air until we switch to a newer, more secure, website. Thus, our archive of stories predating this post is incomplete. We will be restoring all lost stories as soon as possible and renovating the News website to a new and more secure and interactive site in the next couple weeks.

Thank you for your patience,

Robert Glass
News Director

On Monday the 13th of October, WHRW News made a startling discovery. Heading by a dumpster on the campus of Binghamton University a news team inadvertently stumbled upon a pile of official Binghamton university documents containing personal information. All of the files contained Social Security numbers and full names, for fifty-six different people. The ninety-one documents (totaling almost a hundred and fifty pages) were office files from the German Department in the mid-seventies detailing classes, grades, assistant stipends and other personal information including birthdays and addresses. To add ironic insult to injury, the pile of documents and folders containing this information was piled on top of bags of shredded documents, making it clear that the building in question had a shredder at its disposal but had not decided to use it for these critical documents.

In 2005 Marjorie Williams, an essayist and political profiler for the Washington Post and Vanity Fair, died after a long struggle with liver cancer. After her death Timothy Noah, her widower, published an anthology of her best profiles and essays, "The Women at the Washington Zoo," which went on to become a best seller. As a follow-up, of sorts, to that comes "Reputation" which compiles her profiles of the movers and shakers in national politics in Washington D.C. In the early and mid-ninties.

More than that, though, Reputation is a biography of 1990s Washington. The biographical pieces run the gamut from the faces of public office (like George H.W. Bush and James Baker) to the backroom wheelers and dealers (like Lee Atwater, Terry McAuliffe and Jim Carville) to the press personalities that fed them all (like her very insightful piece on Larry King.) The pieces are informative not only in the characters they detail, but in showing how the Clinton-era political system actually worked and operated.