Student Blogs

This blog is onto another topic that gets very little attention in the media and that’s the rural dependency upon cars as their method of transportation. In rural communities where there is little public transportation and long distances to travel in order to shop, work, visit friends, etc. the population needs to depend upon cars as the main method of transportation. This is significant for 2 reasons, one that the medium income is lower in rural areas and two that there are greater distances that need to be traveled in order to live.

I’ve found statistics that highlight that rural medium income is 78% of what urban incomes are, where rural medium income is around $41,000 their urban counterparts earn $55,000. This is an issue since approximately 18% of vehicle owning household income is...

My name is Jordan Pescrillo and I am currently a Global Studies major completing my final year at St. Lawrence University. My blog, "The NGO Monitor" is a research journal (so bear with me if I go a little off topic sometimes...) for my year-long honors project. I will attempt to critique grassroots humanitarian approaches of non-government organizations (NGO) particularly in East Africa and South Asia. My experiences studying abroad in Kenya, interning at Soft Power Education in Uganda, and working on...

My name is Bond Longley and I am a senior at St. Lawrence University in upstate New York. For my blog I will be analyzing social media in political, social and cultural movements, especially in relation to current events such as the Occupy Wall Street movement. I have been researching this topic for my senior project since last spring in my Global Studies research methods course where I discovered the topic of social media as digitally fueled activism. At this point, countries such as Egypt, Iran and Syria were facing serious political and social issues so it seemed appropriate to analyze the social network that is accredited for stimulating these revolutions.

So what is social media? In a basic...

Unstated truths in news media do not magically reveal themselves to the masses. With my stance established, I would like to expend some energy calling out USA Today for their front-page coverage of natural disasters and FEMA resources.

In USA Today science doesn’t take backseat to politics and economics, in fact it’s not even in the car. USA Today frames increased frequency of extreme weather events as a political scandal. It seems they took Bill McKibben’s sarcasm as literal advice: “It is vitally important not to make connections.”

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