Video games and movies are popular forms of media entertainment, but the same can't always be said when the two are combined. Critics and casual audiences have a history of disliking video game movies. Either they missed key reasons why fans loved the games or tried shoving too many plot elements from a video game (which benefits from the long run time) into a two-hour film.

As a music enjoyer, nothing is more difficult for me than adequately ranking albums and songs my favorite artists have released. So, I have decided to take on the impossible task of ranking the five albums released by my favorite band, Waterparks. 

When the winter season approaches Geneseo, it is met with both joy and melancholy as students and faculty members alike fight cold winds, black ice on elevated hills, and mounds of snow on their way to campus. 

I have noticed a growing trend on social media platforms such as Instagram and TikTok, where people like to flex about not liking certain female pop artists currently in the music industry. Specifically artists such as Taylor Swift, Olivia Rodrigo, Sabrina Carpenter, and Charli XCX. You are not being cool and different for posting hate on these girls; you are just being mean.

Comparisons, jealousy, arbitrary expectations, toxicity— the internet does a truly wonderful job of promoting each one. When applied to romantic relationships, this can have a less-than-welcoming effect on your interactions with and perception of your partner. It can make its way into your relationship if you let it— so how can we prevent that when we enter a relationship? What should we look out for?

Dearest Victor E. Knight,

I miss you most when I listen to Drake, which led me to wonder… is Loverboy truly dead?

Ever since I was a kid, I have been invested in the music industry, becoming Elvis’s most enthusiastic fan by the time I was nine-years-old. It’s no secret that music is critical in human development as we use music to soundtrack the experiences of our lives. Music streaming is at an all-time high; Spotify reported “640 million monthly active users.” Music impacts millions of people every day. As much as I loved music, I did not fully understand the impact musicians can have on their listeners until I was introduced to Harry Styles.

Since election day, there has been much anxiety regarding Trump signing another executive order that may directly affect the future of myself and my peers at Geneseo. The last four months have been incredibly tiresome. Every morning, I open my phone to see more political nonsense that immediately puts me in a sour mood. Being in a sour mood so early in the morning does not help with the weight of my coursework and classes. I can only juggle so many issues before they eventually fall to the ground. With that being said, here is my advice for how to better care for yourself in these trying times.

As I am sure many others did, I began to imagine my future in detail from a very young age. This included my career, my partner’s career, and the number and names of my future children. Since the day this careful planning began, my mother has always stressed one message: don’t have an only child. 

Curating the most optimal array of songs to fit the attitudes of the time is not a new phenomenon. Since people have been able to choose listening habits, music devotees have worked to create the perfect array of pop ballads, crowd-pleasers, and slow jams. Burning CDs and winding mixtapes (not sure if that is the right verb to use— I apologize to the music curators who came before me), however, have become a tradition of the past, now helpful for letting us know that a character in a movie is cooler than everybody else (or a hipster, but I might argue that they are kind of the same thing). Playlist curation is now the avenue through which this happens. 

Despite best efforts to convince you otherwise, true democracy does not exist on college campuses. Even with seemingly democratic institutions on campus, such as the concept and practice of shared governance, the existence of the Student Association and College Senate, etc., the administration does not have a culture or respect for an honest, representative democracy. The Student Association can only suggest, not implement, policies that directly govern students' rights and responsibilities. 

When Kim Kardashian lost a noticeable amount of weight, people online immediately jumped to proclaim that skinny was ‘in’ again. The expectations of women’s bodies shifted— now we were no longer expected to have that excellent hip-to-waist ratio (that many seemed to turn to surgical procedures to obtain). Instead, we had to lose that weight and change our shapes to fit an ever-changing body standard. 

As it is Valentine’s season, I have been partaking in an inordinate amount of television, movies, music, and literature focused on the topic of love. From Taylor Swift’s quintessential slow jam “cowboy like me” to Olivia Gatwood’s unflinching poem  “Aileen Wuornos Takes a Lover Home,” there is so much stellar media on the topic that it can be hard to know what is the best or which piece should take up our time during this season. 

Dear Geneseo, 

I lost my virginity to a Geneseo man. Am I cooked?

Last February, The Lamron discussed why Black History Month was February, the shortest month of the year. This year, I wanted to change the topic and focus on less well-known historical Black figures.

Discourse about the safety of students in and out of Greek life who attend fraternity-hosted parties is rising. Concerns about a breach of respect and safety (hazing) for those who choose to pledge sororities and fraternities on campus are also increasing. To try and see if these concerns were substantiated, I asked 19 Greek and Greek-adjacent organizations on campus, picked from the registered fraternities and sororities list— not including professional and service organizations, inactive organizations, or those that are on a conduct suspension— if they would be willing to talk with me about these serious allegations against specific organizations. 

I have a hyphenated last name. For much of my life, I have taken pride in this; my mother, unyielding, refused to give up her name when she married and asserted that her husband and children should have the hyphenated name, too. I always admired this as a feminist stance against a patriarchy-reinforcing expectation. I, however, have also always found one issue unresolved: my mother’s last name was her father’s last name, which was his father’s last name— and so on. For generations upon generations, women have been expected to take their husband’s name in marriage— a signal of change in ‘ownership’ from being her father’s property to her husband’s. This results in a particular problem for the modern feminist. I have long maintained that I will keep my last name if I am to get married; however, I must also acknowledge that I am holding a combination of names passed down along a male line. 

Every two years in the Spring semester, SUNY Geneseo holds its Referendum, which seeks to elect students into the various positions of the Student Association (SA) and allows students to vote regarding the school’s Student Activity Fees. 

The Olympic Games are the greatest sporting event; they’re a celebration of athletic ability and skill on a global scale. The Olympics include any sport you can imagine, like basketball, fencing, gymnastics, weightlifting, track and field, and much more. In fact, over the years, new sports have been added that you may not have even considered. For example, skateboarding debuted in the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Sports such as flag football and squash are set to appear in the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles. With this in mind, I want to propose an “unconventional” sport into the mix for the next Olympics— the Japanese battle top game—Beyblade.

Every week, millions of people purchase tickets to their nearest stadiums, and families gather around their televisions to watch some of their favorite wrestlers perform in the ring. Whether these families choose to watch World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), All Elite Wrestling (AEW), Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA Impact), or other popular wrestling companies, all of these athletes have one thing in common: they put their bodies on the line just for the sake of it. Sometimes, it comes at the cost of their physical well-being and, in the worst cases, their life.