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Benefits of BU football do not out weigh costs
I’m an admissions tour guide. On every tour, a parent inevitably asks me, “What’s the worst part about Binghamton University?” “We don’t have a football team,” is my typical answer. That, however,...
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Ten years later: 800 BU students protested in 1996
This year marks the 10th anniversary of an Oct. 15 riot at a Student Association meeting and an ensuing protest that drew 800 students to the Couper Administration Building. The week following...
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Stop ignorance, study theology
I’m not a religious person. Frankly, the idea of organized religion as it currently exists inspires defensiveness in me like nothing else can. The pessimist that lives in my head views the...
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First Quarter
Who needs football? The Bearcats celebrated homecoming weekend in a way that would make Billy Baldwin proud. All three teams that played on campus this weekend (men’s soccer, women’s soccer and volleyball)...
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Police watch
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 11, 11 a.m. — Police responded to a call at lot M4 after the owner of a Craftsman brand self-propelled lawn mower reported that it was stolen from the back...
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Bearcats upset Maine, move into third place
Kerry O’Shaughnessy could not have picked a better time to score her first goal of the season. With the Binghamton women’s soccer team locked in a scoreless tie against Maine late in...
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Just a few good life lessons
Last week, I learned a compilation of lessons. I finally saw the infamous “Rachael Ray Show.” The horrors that ensued, with references to canines as “pooches,” along with that accent (that accent...
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Symposium explores the dynamic between science and mystery
The science and philosophy communities joined together this weekend to explore the impact scientific discoveries have on the various mysteries of life. The Science and Enduring Mystery symposium was composed of a...
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Funeral for BU Counselor, alum today
Kristen Faust, a social worker at Binghamton University’s Counseling Center, died unexpectedly on Monday, Oct. 9. Faust, 27, was a former BU student, earning a bachelor’s in psychology in 2000 and an...
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Bearcats win crucial road victory
Before Wednesday’s match with University of Maryland, Baltimore County, men’s soccer head coach Paul Marco called upon his offense to step up in order to counter the conference’s second-highest-scoring team: “We need...