Jake Milender April 13, 2013
By JAKE MILENDER GUEST COLUMNIST For some inexplicable reason my Spotify decided to crash this past Sunday morning while I was getting dressed for Easter brunch. I’d just finished washing off my Ticker-musk when “Bitch Don’t Kill My Vibe” cut out mid-chorus. Painfully ironic as it was, the situation only continued to get worse, as [...]
Jake Milender March 1, 2013
Films are oftentimes the forbearers of political sentiments. An idea that may not be widely understood by the general public can be given a voice through the success of a movie, both by entertaining and informing. Sunday night’s Academy Awards featured a number of films with an outright connection to politics, most notably Argo and [...]
Jake Milender February 8, 2013
Let me preface this article by admitting my love for conspiracy theories. While I don’t actually take too many of them seriously, there is something about the untold perspective of an event that I find alluring. So when the lights went out for over a half hour during the 3rd quarter of the Super Bowl [...]
Jake Milender October 21, 2012
What is the most important part of an election? Provocative candidates and well-funded campaigns are certainly key aspects, but I would argue that the most substantial factor ensuring a successful political race is a well-informed electorate. Debates are perhaps the most intimate forum for the public to acquire political information, with candidates personally stating claim [...]
Jake Milender September 11, 2012
Perhaps the most fearful and revelatory night of my unending summer was born out of a dream. It was 5:17 a.m. on a Wednesday morning in June, when I felt my brain mercilessly ripped from a deep sleep. The sun was already up, but that’s usually the case in the heart of a Scandinavian summer. [...]
Jake Milender April 9, 2012
By JAKE MILENDER It feels like every week the words “liberal” and “conservative” become more polarizing. With the recent Supreme Court review of the “Obamacare” bill, tensions between parties have turned into an ideological battle of wits. Loyal conservatives have stood by their platform of individual freedom, which they see as seriously constricted by the [...]
Jake Milender March 24, 2012
By JAKE MILENDER Just when you feel like you’ve lost the will to wake up and go to class, time seems to magically switch gears for a few days, allowing us to all gratefully exhale and embrace our favorite week of the year: spring break. Some of us travel to warmer climates, searching for the [...]
Jake Milender February 14, 2012
When I’m not taking classes at St. Lawrence and living in Canton, I work at my local movie theatre. The particular cinema I work at is one of the smaller franchises in an enormous corporate enterprise, that accounts for over five hundred theatres, in nearly every state of the U.S. Naturally my pay is lousy. [...]
Jake Milender October 18, 2011
For the last four weeks, demonstrators have been gathering in New York City to participate in a rapidly expanding movement known as “Occupy Wall Street.” Inspired largely by the revolutionary fervor of this year’s “Arab Spring,” these demonstrators have converged on lower Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park to express their frustration with the current economic climate. Despite [...]
