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Taking the blame away from Greek life
In the past weeks following the death of Andrew Coffey, a 20-year-old man pledging Pi Kappa Phi fraternity at Florida State University, fraternities and Greek life as a whole have once again...
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Emotional-support animals should be allowed on campuses
An emotional-support animal is comfort. At the end of my 12-hour days, coming home to my cat, Zip, is not only calming, but vital to my well-being and high-level functioning. He isn’t...
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BU should switch to renewable energy
UPDATE: The claim that Binghamton University maintains its use of coal burning in its power plant is factually incorrect, according to Karen Fennie, Physical Facilities communications specialist. Fennie said that the University...
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Recognizing the downsides of the JUUL craze
“Is that a USB? A flash drive?” “Nah bro, it’s just a JUUL.” The JUUL by PAX Labs has taken college campuses by storm. I’m sure we have all seen people walking...
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FAFSA should expand to include 'independent' students
There are two simple reasons that most of us decided to attend Binghamton University — it’s a good school and it’s cheap. But even with its comparatively low cost of attendance, $24,000...
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Recognizing the drawbacks of "armchair activism"
By the end of this month, Ajit Pai, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), will most likely be rolling back FCC’s 2015 net neutrality ruling, which classified the internet as open...
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BU should consider cutting ties with Reynolds Group Holdings
Catch me running out of College-in-the-Woods Dining Hall halfway through my insane Tuesday schedule with a takeaway box crushed under my arm. As busy students, we revel in the opportunity to take...
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Emotional-support animals don't belong on campuses
Science has long supported the benefits of pets on human emotional and cognitive health. For veterans readjusting to life after serving, elderly patients in nursing homes and hospitals or children with autism...
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Denouncing anti-Israel sentiments in academia
Seventy-nine years ago today in Nazi Germany, 91 Jews were murdered, more than 1,000 synagogues burned and over 7,000 Jewish businesses destroyed. This day became known as Kristallnacht — the night of...
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Bridging the gap between generations
“They’re slackers, cynics, whiners, drifters, malcontents.” I bet millennials popped into your head while reading that sentence. However, those were also words used in the early 1990s to describe the Americans born...