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Editorial: Kick alums while they’re down?
Binghamton University is always looking for money from its alumni, and is extremely well set-up to receive the help it so desperately says it needs. Take, for example, the very first item...
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Procrastinating deadly to grad school hopefuls
As the spring semester gets underway, freshmen are still adjusting to the not yet brutal winter at Binghamton University. Sophomores are beginning to realize they have to declare a major within a...
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Homeless alum claim brush-off from BU after fire
Although local businesses and the Red Cross have been working diligently to find homes and give aid to all of the 140 victims of last week’s fire at the Riviera Ridge apartment...
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Super Bowl Super Spunktacular
Super Bowl time is a special time of year. For me it ranks right up there, just behind Christmas, Halloween, Thanksgiving, my birthday, all 52 new comic Wednesdays, Mother’s Day, Valentine’s Day,...
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UMBC clobbers Bearcats by 26
This wasn’t part of the plan. The Binghamton University women’s basketball team suffered its worst loss of the season at UMBC Wednesday, losing to the Retrievers 63-37. UMBC rode a 32-3 run,...
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Nachos: y tu, Ben Roethlisberger?
You’ve got to have nachos on Super Bowl Sunday, and who knows more about football than women? Well, men, but that’s not important. Women make good food, and so I went on...
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Playback Theater: not just fun and games
HDEV 463 is not your garden-variety Human Development course. For one thing, the course has an enrollment cap of 12 students. For another, those 12 students are graded on how well they...
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Why you should be in front of your TV on Sunday
Jeremy Stevens and Joey Porter taking shots at each other can’t possibly be this exciting. For a Super Bowl being billed as XL, the pregame hype has proven to be more XS...
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Super Bowl XL position-by-position breakdown
Quarterback If Ben Roethlisberger throws one more lob up for grabs, look for him to be yanked for Tommy Maddox. OK, so Big Ben doesn’t have the arm of Peyton Manning yet,...
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Column: controversial decision leads to easy hoop for Albany
What transpired in the final six minutes of BU’s shocking 52-51 loss to Albany left head coach Al Walker stunned. “I don’t know what happened,” Walker said. “If I could figure it...