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Academic steroids? Finals on Adderall
With the pressure of finals week, college students throughout the nation have turned to prescribed stimulants to aid their studies and, at Binghamton University, the pressure is no different. Abuse of the...
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Curing the winter break blues
Finals week is here and our repertoire of crunch time activities has commenced: complain, caffeinate, then finally figure out how to cope. (Supposedly) we all can’t wait to be done with testing,...
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Skip the research paper: free-styling for a grade
While most Bearcats have been wading through a seemingly endless bog of final papers and exams, one course was assigned a hip-hop showcase as a final project — complete with choreography, free-styling...
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Fine living with Matt McFadden
Some years back, following a rather tumultuous fall semester of our sophomore years here at Binghamton — one that included a fascist resident assistant, a misplaced keg of beer and a Benedict...
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The best caffeine boost for your buck
Caffeine and college students go together like beans and rice. While most of us are staying awake for the next week straight, participating in the ritual combination of studying and procrastinating, caffeine...
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Pork: in N.Y., it’s what’s for dinner
We knew politicians were shady, but come on guys. You see, in Albany, there’s something called pork — euphemistically referred to as “member items” — that lets politicians funnel your money to...
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Brand New, Dashboard ticket sales continue
As the University Programming Board faces a slew of budgetary concerns as a result of accrued debt from previous years, the pressure is on for Thursday’s concert featuring emo bands Dashboard Confessional...
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Ho,ho, drunk
It’s getting to be holiday season — you can tell because, as of this weekend, when you left your dorm room, any sensitive parts of your body started wondering when the abuse...
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Binghamton to face LeBron’s boys on Wednesday night
Coach Al Walker’s shift to shirt and tie didn’t work Saturday afternoon, but neither did Binghamton’s defense in the final minutes of the second half. Up eight points with 12 minutes to...
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‘Tis the season to stop being a louse
The holiday season is quickly approaching, which we all (I assume) anticipate eagerly. Many of us will be headed home to spend our vacations stuffing our faces, lazing around the house and...