While some of us enjoyed what may be the last bout of warm weather of the season, hundreds of our suited, sweaty and ambitious classmates made their way to the Old University Union to learn about the job opportunities that this school affords them in spades.

And as they swarmed around booths glinting with promises of dental packages and high starting salaries, science research across campus was gaining publicity and grant money to fund more research, in turn producing more publicity for Binghamton University.

But while the suits and the lab coats were busy basking in the advantageous glow of the Premier Public University in the Northeast, the rest of campus might have, like us, been wondering: where’s the trickle-down?

We know science and technology research is pivotal to the progress of society. And at a paper supported solely by advertising, we can certainly appreciate the delicate dance of business.

But what we cannot accept is the constant and consistent tendency of this University to celebrate and support only those subjects that return the most capital to campus.

If the trend continues at this rate, the humanities are sure to disappear from campus entirely.

While liberal arts majors are busy studying what it means to be human, the University seems to be intent only on dehumanizing it’s curriculum; the rhetoric department, ironically, has one of the shortest course listings.

This month Syracuse University celebrated the opening of Newhouse III, an academic building entirely devoted to the study of journalism. At BU, history and English majors are forced to attend classes in science buildings. The humanities, both literally and figuratively, have no home on this campus.

The problem, however, does not lie with the departments themselves.

Full and adjunct professors teach here because they at least are as passionate about the subject they teach as the students who enroll in their courses.

And though their classes fill up quickly, the professors who teach the half a dozen journalism classes offered here don’t have to. They have ‘day’ jobs across the street at the Press and Sun-Bulletin, and come here to share their enthusiasm with students who have been abandoned by a University that has falsely listed journalism as an available major in their recruitment brochures.

And though Harpur College is the largest and oldest of BU’s several colleges, the humanities seem to be getting downsized.

This is more than just a concern for our majors and our interests. This is a concern for our money, of which we pay as much as students who come here eyeing a future at Ernst and Young or Price Waterhouse Cooper.

Every dollar of our tuition is an investment which the University should be returning on the same level as any other major on campus. While students in the School of Education and the College of Community and Public Affairs take classes in the brand new Downtown Center, and while the Innovative Technologies Complex continues to grow, cinema majors still have to pay to use cameras and the theater department is struggling to keep courses afloat under a shortage of faculty.

So while a flotilla of ties and pantsuits make their way to job fairs, we’d like to know when our time is going to come and when the humanities will be given a home.