Guest Columns

Cutting UCC services benefit student body overall

After reading about how the “University Counseling Center (UCC) is cutting long-term counseling,” I nervously waited for my next therapy appointment. I was scared that I wasn’t going to get my needs...


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Administration statement to student safety editorial

Pipe Dream has recently published editorials and articles about off-campus incidents involving assaults on Binghamton University students. The editorials questioned why the University did not provide alerts or notifications to the student...


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Why I believe Trump's candidacy is a good thing

I’m glad Donald Trump is running for president. I think the Trump campaign is valuable to America, and I think you’ll agree with me. Before I’m branded with a scarlet “T” and...


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Support boycott of Israeli academic institutions

On Friday, November 20, the American Anthropological Association (AAA) witnessed an historic victory at their annual business meeting, in which a landslide vote of 1040-136 supported a resolution that calls for the...


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Six degrees of separation

Have you ever heard of Six Degrees of Separation? Supposedly it would only take, at most, six steps to connect any two people in the world, from New York to London, London...


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What the United States owes the Syrian refugees

When photos of Alan Kurdi, a three-year-old Syrian boy who was found dead on a Turkish shore, surfaced, the world was heartbroken and outraged. What could an innocent child have done to...


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Letter from Provost Nieman

Students and faculty challenge one another, creating a rich intellectual environment that helps everyone grow personally and intellectually. In the past year, students at Missouri, Yale, Binghamton and many other universities have...


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Response: Violence should not be the method of peace in the Middle East

In his piece, Toivo Asheeke asks Binghamton to embrace the boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign against Israel, a vibrant democracy in a sea of oppressive and dictatorial regimes, in response to recent...


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Give Palestine economic support

As seems customary every year, there is rebellion in occupied Palestine. Since 2000, the year of the Second Intifada, the Palestinian masses divorced from any serious direction from their political parties have...


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Without the culling of deer, Binghamton's nature preserve will not survive

I remember the first time I toured Binghamton University’s campus. During the tour, the guide mentioned the Nature Preserve: I immediately perked up. It reminded me of a similar preserve called Teatown...