On my walks with my dog, Chompsky, I often see smiles upon people’s faces as we stroll through campus. I can’t recall a time where I haven’t been stopped and asked by a person if he can be petted. I certainly am not bothered, nor is…

Imagine this: you’re in fourth grade and it’s finally the weekend. No more worrying about the one-page math assignment on addition (with decimals!), who will dominate the monkey bars at recess, or listening about Suzie’s sticker…

Last Friday, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi announced that Democrats would be starting impeachment proceedings against President Trump. The announcement came after an anonymous whistleblower exposed that the President had put pressure…

Welcome back to another edition of the good ol’ Boot ‘N’ Paddle. How was your day? Did you eat at Dana or the Pub this morning? Or, if you’re too hungover, you might’ve skipped it, making this whole line of questioning irrelevant. That’s…

While it only lasted 40 to 50 minutes, last Thursday’s power outage shocked campus. Between 10 and 11 in the morning, amidst heavy rain, sections of downtown Canton and Potsdam found themselves in the dark, along with students in…

Grey clouds overlook Canton Park as lunch hour traffic goes by. A sprinkling of rain fell earlier that morning, scaring many of the villagers indoors for their mid-day meals. There are only a handful of locals outside brave enough to stare…

Let’s talk about an evening at Java. The band is going crazy inside, it’s crowded, it’s sweaty, it’s loud, it’s wild; one might say it’s wet and hot. The bathroom is crowded too, so you go pee behind the venue with your friends on the…

It’s officially the first week of October, and if you’re currently planning out your Halloween costume, let this be a word of advice: don’t dress up as a Native American, don’t change the color of your skin for “accuracy,” and whatever you…