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Controversial motion disrupts SA meeting

By Aaron Axelson
After a controversial motion was passed at Monday night’s Student Assembly meeting, allowing a re-vote for next year’s Assembly chair, a group of representatives left the meeting, breaking quorum and causing a disruption in the re-election. Quorum was restored later in the meeting and incumbent Josh Berk was elected chair,…

SA trains despite conflict

By Melissa Bykofsky
Avoiding this year’s squabbles is the main concern of the newly elected Student Association executive board members as they train for office. “Every office is different, but the one constant is that the best way to learn is to work with the current E-board member and begin doing their work…

Collegetown a possibility in Binghamton

By Evan Drellich
The city of Binghamton’s Commission on Housing and Home Ownership recommended turning parts of Binghamton’s West Side into a “college town” and limiting unrelated tenants to just three per home in the R-1 zone last week. The Commission, which has been scrutinized closely by the student community since it began…
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Dennis thrives as Bearcats sweep UMBC

By Justin Mathew
When both the offense and the pitching are playing to their potential, Binghamton University’s baseball team is tough to stop. Maryland-Baltimore County found this out the hard way over the weekend as the Bearcats won both games of a rain-shortened weekend series. The teams were scheduled to play four games…

Gifft, Quiller take gold in pole vault

By Andrew Satriano
Competing in the biggest event of the year, the Binghamton University men’s track and field team finished third out of nine teams at the America East championships this past weekend while the women finished in the middle of the pack at fifth place. The two-day event began on Saturday, and…
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Editorial: An SA for no one

By The Editorial Board
Our student government has become paralyzed in a cesspool of petty in-fighting and entirely forgotten its purpose: to represent its constituents, the students. The last two Student Assembly meetings have seen members walk out because of elections, preventing the meetings from functioning as they should. Police had to intervene at…
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Rasa Von Werder: from bodybuilder to stripper and

By Ashley Morgan
In the ever-dizzying world of Downtown Binghamton, there are a couple of constants we all expect to experience. There will always be at least one bar that lets you in through the back, you will always consider peeing outside and you’ll run into a fixture that we all have heard…
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