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Low sales force price cut for 50 Cent
By Matt Chayes
Only 20 percent of tickets have been sold for rapper 50 Cent's concert, set to take place Sunday in Binghamton University's West Gym, even though the price of tickets was cut by $10 earlier this week.
• Sunday's concert, canceled on Monday, given green light on Tuesday by officials

Elections board bars constitutional query
By Nicole Flatow
Authors of a petition to "provide equality and fairness within the Student Association" will have to wait until next semester to vote on changes to the S.A. constitution.

Colors of the rainbow stand out against abuse and closed views
By Alice Hunt
Students may have noticed an unusual sight Thursday afternoon around the Campus Square: a rainbow of T-shirts hanging from clotheslines in a national campaign against violence.

POLICE WATCH

Fighting AIDS $1.00 at a time
Washington Square Press (NYU)

Contest searches to find ugliest
The Stanford Daily (Stanford U.)

File-sharing students warned
Daily Collegian (Pennsylvania State U.)

Adam Petela/ Photo Editor
Students decorated T-shirts Thursday as a part of the Clothesline Project, which raises awareness about abuse.

Softball splits doubleheader vs. Drexel
By Brian Wachsman
It took 60 batters and 48 outs before a run crossed the plate. But the Binghamton University softball team will tell you that it was worth the wait when the tally came in the form of freshman Nicole Vitello.

BU golf coming closer to NCAA tournament berth
By Arthur Sherman
A long trip back from Providence, R.I., is not exactly an ideal trip for anyone who attends Binghamton University. For head coach John Affleck and his men's golf team, things could not get any better.

EDITORIAL
The worst sort of politics

OP/ED
Secrecy of Bush admin undermines our democratic values
By Daniel Schwartz

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
• Open Letter to Lois DeFleur
• End affirmative action now
• Berkeley even more extreme than Binghamton