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Food service at BU needs major reform

There is no doubt that Binghamton University harbors some of the state’s finest students, faculty and visitors. The problem lies in the process of feeding them. The Food Court located in the...


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Think twice before you send those risqué texts

Sex and cell phones. These are two elements of a majority of lives of young adults. But should the sensitive and developing concept of sex be combined with texting, one of the...


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Small victories

The student body made their voices heard and when it came to the Code of Student Conduct, administration listened. ...


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Israeli-Palestinian conflict proves unilateral compromise isn't compromise at all

Eager to clear my already cluttered desk and feign organizational competence, I submitted to my residential adviser my roommate agreement form that had been sitting on my desk for the last two...


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Stomaching the flood was no easy task

Last Wednesday was the start of unrelenting rain. By mid-afternoon, a hurrah rang up across campus. All classes were cancelled as of 3 p.m. At first, I was naive to the severity...


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Channeling flood relief through the radio waves

About a week ago, I learned what it really means to be a benefit to the community, no thanks in part to the rain. The torrential downpour last Wednesday was the worst...


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Don't let his adversaries fool you, Obama is a moderate

President Barack Obama’s job speech before a joint session of Congress this past week seemed to augur the return of Washington’s role in helping lift America out of the frightening possibility of...


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Drug testing students would prove too costly

In Tuesday’s edition of Pipe Dream, Shelby Wilson argued in her debut column that students receiving financial aid should be drug tested. This argument is lacking in several important areas, namely the...


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Digging out stories from the floodwater

Binghamton is home for all of us. We all knock it, but in deciding to attend Binghamton University we each signed our lease on this city and made it our own. It...


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Celebrating the single life with a PlayStation 3

For the past month or so it would seem that my world has been falling apart. Earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes and floods seem to be trying to tell me that God hates New...