Matt Allwood announced his plans to resign as Student Association vice president for finance at Monday’s Assembly meeting. He made the announcement at the same time he informed the Assembly about his decision to withdraw from school because of a medical condition. “I have already begun the paperwork for my medical withdrawal, and it is...
The Binghamton University Student Association is making the move to connect popular technology and schoolwork by putting class lectures up on iTunes U. The information on iTunes U, found through the iTunes store, is completely free and as of now only available to BU students, according to Daniel Rabinowitz, SA vice president for academic affairs....
The Student Association executive board candidates presented their platforms at sweeps Wednesday night to the residential communities. Karen Galan, elections committee chair (full disclosure: Karen Galan is a photographer for Pipe Dream), organized sweeps differently this year in hopes of making them more efficient. The event was held in Lecture Hall, rather than having candidates...
Candidates for next year’s Student Association Executive Board positions will present their platforms before the student body starting at 9 p.m. Wednesday. Sweeps, as the speeches are more commonly known, will take place throughout Lecture Hall. The event was moved into Lecture Hall this year in response to past problems related to candidates’ ability to...
Students at Binghamton University will gather in the East Gym Thursday to celebrate the 19th annual Purim Carnival. The carnival, which is scheduled to be held from 8 to 11 p.m., honors the Jewish holiday of Purim, which commemorates the salvation of the Jewish people in ancient Persia from genocide. The holiday, which falls on...
It was a snowy Wednesday morning when senior Tufan Gebecelioglu received his eviction letter from his suite in Hinman College’s Lehman Hall. Andrea Cronkrite, resident director of Lehman Hall, knocked on his door at 9 a.m. to inform Gebecelioglu that he needed to evacuate and move out of the building by 5 p.m. that same...
Many students and adults are familiar with the old Aesop fable of the tortoise and the hare. Dr. Shana Clark, author and psychiatrist, applies this fable to everyday life in her new book, “My Money’s on the Turtle.” The fable describes a slow tortoise who believes he can pull through and beat a hare to...
The Binghamton University Council is in the process of appointing a search committee to participate in the hiring of President Lois DeFleur’s successor. The Council, which is charged with running the presidential search, is made up of 10 members: nine governor-appointed members and one student-elected student representative. Matt Allwood, vice president for finance of the...
Binghamton University’s Student Association is one of the only student governments in the country that is not a subsidiary of its university. The SA is an independent, non-profit organization in control of a $2 million budget. Check out the information below to get reacquainted with the Association’s members, before their positions go up for election...
The end of every semester is filled with stress, library overflow and professors urging students to complete online SOOT surveys, but as of right now, that’s the last time most students see the surveys. But this is something Daniel Rabinowitz, vice president for academic affairs of the Student Association, is looking to change. As of...
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