Voices
Voices: Students anonymously share stories about their experiences in wake of the recent executive order
I felt goose bumps rise on my skin when I became informed about the news regarding President Trump’s travel ban. Getting the U.S. visa has never been easy for Iranian citizens. Since...
Guest Columns
President Trump’s “Travel Ban” executive order affects us here at Binghamton University
On Friday, Jan. 27, President Donald Trump made good, at least partially, on a campaign promise to ban Muslims from entering the United States by issuing an executive order that suspended travel...
Advice Column
Pipe Dream Advice: campus dates, know your roomates
Dear Kristen, I really like this girl, one of my close friends, and I want to ask her out soon. The only problem is I don’t have a car, I live on...
Guest Columns
Response to 'How BU policy encourages unregulated Greek life'
Sarah Saad wrote a column, titled “How BU policy encourages unregulated Greek life,” in which she argued that the policies restricting first-semester freshmen and Binghamton Advantage Program (BAP) students from joining Greek...
Staff Editorials
Editorial: embracing and bracing
Less than two weeks into the new presidential administration, we are already feeling its divisive impact on our nation and campus. Binghamton University is composed of students and faculty from all over...
Guest Columns
No, I'm not protesting
Being a victim of political games is not new to me. In my homeland, Iran, I was interrogated three times — five to seven hours long each — on charges of treason...
Guest Columns
Moral bankruptcy of Trump’s Muslim ban
It is hard to think of a more morally bankrupt, intellectually dishonest and politically mendacious policy than President Donald Trump’s executive order “Protecting the nation from foreign terrorist entry into the United...
Columns
The unmentioned drawbacks of Turnitin
Many college students have had instructors who required them to submit their essays through a system called Turnitin. It has become such a norm that it is rare to find a student...
Guest Columns
Guest columnist: Democrats need a vision
Welcome to the new world. Whether you are an apologist for Marxism, or a centrist believer in individual freedoms and responsible government, you’re in the opposition now. To varying degrees, communities around...
Columns
Elevating evaluation
During the final day of classes last semester, I remember walking out of the classrooms of the Student Wing and Lecture Hall feeling disgruntled. While I had made it through another semester...