Picture an average high school classroom. Students gather around desks and tables in cliques and clusters, often grouped by gender, race, extracurricular interests, or even fashion sense. They pride themselves on being inclusive and celebrating diversity, but they also — consciously or not — gravitate toward those who mirror them. It’s human nature — a psychological phenomenon known as affinity bias, or the “similar-to-me effect,” which is a tendency for people to prefer those who ...
Editorials
It was a historic day. An end of an era. “A momentous event,” as Kathryn Szoka, one of the owners of Canio’s Books, put it...
Letters
Our Fair ShareI am a former member of Congress from the 1st District of New York who had the privilege of serving three terms and was on the House of Representatives Appropriations Committee. Many know me as a local graduate of Westhampton Beach High School and some as an employee of Gloria’s and the local pharmacy in Westhampton Beach. We cannot fool around. We need John Avlon to make sure Brookhaven Lab gets its fair share, that we have clean water and...
He's RattledI was disappointed to read Bill Manger’s letter in The Southampton Press attacking a resident, specifically for defending village employees and their right to organize under New York State’s Taylor Law [“False and Malicious,” Letters, October 3]. Manger’s decision to publicly attack a private citizen is not only unbecoming but shows how rattled he is by this resident’s accurate observations. His letter, titled “False and Malicious,” is, ironically, just that, for several reasons. First, he denies there have been “multiple”...
Barring major upsets in its final two matches on Tuesday and Wednesday, the Westhampton Beach ....
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