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Student mugged downtown
Two Binghamton University students were robbed at gunpoint last Thursday evening on their way back home from Downtown Binghamton. The female, a sophomore, and the male, a junior, were walking along Main...
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Men’s soccer hosts Lehigh Wednesday
The Binghamton men’s soccer team is surely hoping that the phrase “home, sweet home,” rings true. The Bearcats’ (1-4-2) season high six-game road trip concluded this weekend in Florida, and it was...
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MLB needs to rethink playoff structure, part two
On any given day, any Major League Baseball team can beat another. Exactly one week ago, the Yankees were shut out 5-0 by the lowly Kansas City Royals, a team with less...
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Diamond named Baseball America top prospect
Junior pitcher Scott Diamond, Binghamton’s ace southpaw, was ranked by Baseball America as the seventh-best prospect in the Coastal Plain League, a summer league for top collegiate baseball players. Diamond, whose 0.50...
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Welcome! A letter from the Release editor
Welcome to Release, Pipe Dream’s weekly arts/entertainment/lifestyle section. For those of you loyal readers who have perused the pages of Release in the past, you’ve probably noticed the section’s lack of a...
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BU students pitch in to help ease flood’s toll
This month, with the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina in the public’s consciousness, some student groups at Binghamton University have another — more local — natural disaster on their minds: the record-breaking...
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A sitdown with the Binghamton Police Chief
… with Binghamton Police Chief Steven R. Tronovitch In this segment, we get in a few words with the movers and shakers of the University community. From real-estate moguls to the cops...
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Facebook Group of the Week
Facebook Has Gotten Too Creepy (graphic here) We at Release, as well, were deeply disturbed by Facebook’s latest addition, the “news feed.” It’s scary when your stalking addiction becomes public. Just ask...
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Editorial: a new beginning
Around the time you hit the age of 15 (or maybe 18 if you were one of those late bloomers), the police cease to be those friendly beacons of justice and protection...
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Split yields two new BU schools
Binghamton University’s Academic Building B just got a little more crowded. The institution formerly known as the School of Education and Human Development, the building’s occupant, officially split in two at the...