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Lunar New Year not made official BU holiday
Many Asian students will be traveling home this weekend to celebrate the Lunar New Year, which this year falls on Sunday, Feb. 18. Lunar New Year is an important holiday in the...
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Myths and Legends of BU revealed
Legends. Folktales. Ghost stories. Sounds a lot more like a scary movie than something you’d hear about boring old Binghamton University. But believe it or not, BU has plenty of creepy, ghostly...
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SUNY Smackdown: Bearcats vs. Buffalo
The weather outside is frightful, but with their team carrying a four-match winning streak into the last weekend of the season, Binghamton wrestling fans certainly have reason to be delighted. Not only...
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Kudos to Amaechi, but he’s no Jackie Robinson
All it takes is one. Sixty years ago this April, Jackie Robinson broke baseball’s color barrier, ushering in a new era of professional sports. But now, all these years later, stereotypes still...
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MLB offseason update
Carlos Delgado, 2006. Carlos Beltran, 2005. Pedro Martinez, 2004. Johnny Damon, 2006. Randy Johnson, 2005. Alex Rodriguez, 2004. It seems like every offseason, both the Mets and Yankees acquire a superstar via...
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UP Residents respond to parking shortage at University-owned Plaza
When Rachel Tarlow, a senior at Binghamton University and a resident of the Vestal Parkway’s University Plaza apartments, returned to UP after winter break, she was more than a little surprised by...
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Boston submits to BU headlock
It is likely that it will not go down in history with the same notoriety as the original 1770 episode, or the less violent 1978 version spurred on by Bucky Dent, but...
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‘Cats shine, sputter at swimming champs
Head coach Sean Clark’s words after the America East Championship said it all. ‘We outdid ourselves again,’ he said after the Binghamton men’s and women’s swimming teams returned from the conference tournament...
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Women dominant again in duals
The Binghamton women’s tennis team continued its winning streak Saturday at home, simultaneously handing Colgate its first loss and improving to 4-0 in dual matches ‘ good enough for the Bearcats’ best...
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The death of a writer’s icon
Molly Ivins passed away this past Wednesday, and with her, it seems, we’ve begun to lose part of a grander tradition. In opinion writing, particularly for campus newspapers or journals, there is...