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Microaggressions against Black Francophones indicative of linguistic and ethnic bias
While growing up in the United States, I realized that many Americans had, at best, a surface-level understanding of many ethnic groups, such as those of the Creole diaspora. Many people attempt...
Guest Columns
BU graduate workers need a living wage
Binghamton University runs on the labor of its graduate workers. They deserve to be paid enough to live comfortably — they are asking to be paid enough to live. The University has,...
Guest Columns
Practical ways to maintain sobriety during the holidays
The holiday season can be stressful and lonely while also being filled with joy and happiness — everyone manages these emotions differently. Most individuals are overindulging in food and drink, and there...
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BU graduate teaching assistants must be protected
In an academic environment where hate speech and ideals of white supremacy are becoming commonplace, Binghamton University is failing in its duty to protect not just its most vulnerable students from irrevocable...
Sex Issue 2022
Rice Purity and College Inexperience
The Rice Purity Test is a popular online test that determines, in essence, how “pure” or “unpure” one is based on their experiences. The test, which is a checklist-style page with a...
Sex Issue 2022
My sugar daddies and what they taught me
When I was 17, something in me flipped. In the midst of a turbulent senior year after an otherwise standard, uneventful and rather boring adolescence, I found myself more isolated than ever....
Columns
Zionism is not a colonial movement
Last spring, Binghamton University student organizers of a “Free Palestine” rally recommended researching multiple organizations such as Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), an organization that often spreads misconceptions about Zionism: the movement...
Basketball
Alumni column: Reflecting on the state of Binghamton's men's basketball program
For college basketball fans, 2021 has been the year of the Cinderella story. Underdogs Oral Roberts, Oregon State, Loyola-Chicago and even Binghamton’s neighbor to the north, Syracuse, have caused chaos in the...
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Alumni column: Don’t spurn the joy of now for future career worries
“What do you want to be when you’re older?” That’s always the question asked when we’re kids on the playground, then teenagers in high school halls and finally young adults in lectures...
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Jewish populations are more diverse than many believe
The Farhud was a violent pogrom and massacre waged against the Jews of Iraq in 1941, in which about 180 Jews were murdered and many more injured. Raging during the Jewish holiday...