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Swimming and diving opens 2010 season with strong performances at WNY Invite

Binghamton University men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams took to the water for the first time in the 2010-11 season this past weekend at the WNY Invitational. Among the competition in...


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Calderon had pled guilty to six felonies

Phil Calderon, the 37-year-old man who has been accused of posing as a student at Binghamton University, is also a convicted felon. California court documents show that Calderon, who had been an...


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Bar plaques are a toast to BU beer aficionados

This isn’t your (frat) brother’s bar. No, the Ale House is not your stereotypical, co-ed-filled hangout. Taps of all shapes, sizes and colors ‘ a white-tipped animal tail for Sly Fox, a...


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Cats prepare for Vermont in Homecoming game

The homecoming match is one of the most anticipated matches for the Binghamton University men’s soccer team every season, and this year is no different. The stakes will be higher this year...


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How punk rock set the Event Center's stage

Forty years before the rapper Drake told a raucous Binghamton University crowd last week that he’d ‘better find your lovin,’ Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead wished a campus concert here ‘goodnight,...


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Graphic depiction

Pulitzer Prize-winning illustrator Art Spiegelman came to Binghamton in the late 1960s as a Harpur College undergrad and worked for this newspaper. Though he didn’t complete his studies, he was invited back...


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The bad boys of winter

If you polled a group of current students on what comes to mind when they think of Binghamton ice hockey, chances are, the Binghamton Senators would rack up quite a few votes....


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Resistance is futile

You drink a whiskey drink. You drink a vodka drink. You drink a lager drink. You drink a cider drink. You sing the songs that remind you of the good times. You...


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Binghamton's first olympians

Since Binghamton moved to Division I in 2001, many athletes have achieved personal success. Pole vaulter Rory Quiller won a national championship, soccer goalie Stefan Gonet was featured in Sports Illustrated and...


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A bit of the 'shore' comes to BU

All tanned up and ready to go, Nicole ‘Snooki’ Polizzi stopped by Binghamton University Thursday where she spoke to students, gave a lesson on fist-pumping and judged an ab competition. Release got...