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Is virginity a taboo?

Imagine you’re a virgin. You’re in a scene riddled with promiscuity and references to detached hook-ups. The lights are low, there’s sex in the air, but you’re not interested. From religious constraints,...


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Big volleyball showdown tonight vs. UMBC

The Bearcats volleyball team plans to make like Michael Vick and put down the UMBC Retrievers tomorrow at the West Gym in their sixth conference match of the season. They are gearing...


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Evan's NFL picks: Week 7

Lock: Indianapolis (-3 1/2) over JACKSONVILLE: I took a year hiatus from the Ravens and rolled with the Jags in Madden ’07. Byron Leftwich’s 98-power arm allowed me to go deep to...


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Bearcats ranked No. 27

The NCAA released its first RPI rankings of the 2007 men’s college soccer season on Monday. Binghamton is ranked No. 27 in the computer formula, which uses team record and strength of...


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Resisting convention and the clock

Everything in our young lives is based on an abstraction: time. We American college students especially rush through our lives at top speed ‘ whether it’s rushing to finish an assignment on...


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Stony Brook allows first goal in a month vs. Bearcats women's soccer

Heading into a game with one of the top teams in your conference is never easy. However, the Binghamton University women’s soccer team proved that it was up to that task yesterday...


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Resurgence of shootings shadowing the classroom

It was not the ringing of a class bell, but rather that of a .38 caliber revolver that echoed down the halls of a Cleveland high school last Wednesday. Thus continued the...


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Bearcat Hooligans' bring UK to BU

Walking across campus after Matt Narode scored his first goal Tuesday night felt more like walking to Chelsea’s Stanford Bridge in West London rather than BU’s Bearcats Sports Complex. ‘Ole, Ole, Ole,...


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Mark's NFL picks: Week 7

Lock: Baltimore (-3) over BUFFALO: Whether it’s J.P. Losman or Trent Edwards expect Ray Lewis to kill whoever is under center for the Bills. And if he doesn’t kill them, at least...


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Dropping the hammer

Staggering through the murky swamp of collegiate obstacles and mysteries is stressful enough, but mix in a poorly-drafted lease, debt collectors and accusations that your resident assistant can smell the marijuana in...