Pipe Dream is celebrating its 60th year as Binghamton University’s independent student newspaper. It started as the Colonial News in the fall of 1946 and has been going strong twice a week ever since. So we’re taking a look back into the paper’s archives, at the people and events that have made the news over BU’s past 60 years.

Tuesday, Nov. 21, 1967

“Three-day fast for peace raises $400 in two days”

More than 100 Binghamton University (then known as Harpur College) students raised $400 by participating in a three-day fast “in witness to the immorality of the Vietnam war.”

Ninety students participating in the event, put on by the Fast For Peace Committee, asked the Dining Services Board to donate an amount equivalent to that of the nine meals skipped during the fast to the cause.

The event commenced with a march into Binghamton Saturday morning, where protesters joined with Broome Tech students and area residents at the courthouse to distribute pamphlets and collect donations.

Saturday and Sunday evening the war documentaries “Time of the Locusts” and “Eyewitness: Vietnam” were screened in the Student Center lounge. The showings were followed by sleep-ins in the Champlain Hall lounge.

Sunday morning participants were bussed into town to ask for donations at local churches, where the pastor at the First Presbyterian church commended the students for their position. Students also handed out pamphlets that night in front of the Harpur theater before the New York Woodwind Quintet performed.

They also met Monday night at 7 p.m. to break fast in the Student Center lounge.

All money raised was donated to the American Friends Service Committee and was used to purchase medical supplies for the International Red Cross to distribute to civilians in both North and South Vietnam.