We use a telescoping method suggested by Ono [5] to compute p(n) (mod l) as a weighted sum over l-affine partitions of size n. When l=2, 3, 5, 7, and 11, these sums are neatly described using binary quadratic forms. Moreover, one immediately obtains classical proofs of the Ramanujan congruences (mod 5), 7, and 11.1998 Academic Press