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The point has been missed
Yesterday, between 60,000 and 100,000 people across the nation (according to Facebook) took part in a demonstration supporting the act of freeing six black teenagers from Jena, La., known as the Jena...
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Embrace a simpler tradition: leave your e-mail in your room
Consider yourself lucky, you get to sit in class for approximately four hours per day. Sound contradictory? It’s not. Some of us are even luckier. Our parents willingly pay the thousands of...
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DeFleur signs climate control pact
A climate commitment signed by Binghamton University President Lois B. DeFleur last Friday will set a series of ongoing goals for campus, according to a BU administrator. DeFleur signed the American College...
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Golfers place 10th in Hartford
The Binghamton University golf team finished in 10th place out of 13 teams last weekend at the Hartford Hawks Invitational in Bolton, Mass. Several rounds in the 80s hindered the Bearcats’ chances...
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A dangerous numbers game
Perhaps with the much touted Patriot Act’s impact on education, the emphasis on math and the sciences in curriculum has created a need for a new sort of word problem. Allow me...
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College: simply an exercise in futility, or the threshold to bigger and better things?
And so, you went off to college. You trudged to and fro from lecture halls to classrooms. You sat in uncomfortable and close-knit seats and endured long hours of arduous lessons. You...
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Questionable decisions in a region riddled with perpetual conflict
After sidestepping accusations regarding who carried out air strikes in northern Syria on Sept. 6, senior American government officials quoted in The New York Times strongly stuggest Israel was behind the strike....
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Come be part of a school history
Most of the student body at Binghamton was not here to witness the opening of the Events Center, yet whenever basketball season comes around year after year, we can’t wait to head...
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Facebook adds new feature, links profiles to popular search engines
The social-networking Web site Facebook.com has launched a new public search feature which allows people who are not logged into the Web site to perform a search of Facebook users. Within weeks...
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Pats' penalty is too lenient
The media has finally had its prayers answered and now has some dirt on New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick. Everyone has been talking about Belichick and linking his name to...