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Big time sports come to Vestal

Last September when the Syracuse women’s soccer team traveled down I-81 to take on Binghamton, 135 fans watched the Bearcats come from behind to work their high-profile opponent to a 1-1 tie....


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East Campus plans finalized, students demand more input

Binghamton University has decided to finalize the ‘neighborhood style’ room designs ‘ rather than the current corridor style ‘ for the renovation of Newing College and Dickinson Community residential halls, despite student...


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Award winning author to speak on campus tonight

In an effort to honor the life of a former Binghamton University professor and noted author, best-selling novelist John Irving will give a reading tonight in the Anderson Center Concert Hall. Irving...


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My brother and me

If Yusuf Yusuf, Binghamton’s lone goal-scorer this weekend, seems familiar to BU soccer fans, that’s because he plays like graduated midfielder Ibrahim Yusuf ‘ his brother. ‘They’re both left-footed, athletic and offensive-minded,’...


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DeFleur signs climate control pact

A climate commitment signed by Binghamton University President Lois B. DeFleur last Friday will set a series of ongoing goals for campus, according to a BU administrator. DeFleur signed the American College...


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Golfers place 10th in Hartford

The Binghamton University golf team finished in 10th place out of 13 teams last weekend at the Hartford Hawks Invitational in Bolton, Mass. Several rounds in the 80s hindered the Bearcats’ chances...


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A dangerous numbers game

Perhaps with the much touted Patriot Act’s impact on education, the emphasis on math and the sciences in curriculum has created a need for a new sort of word problem. Allow me...


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College: simply an exercise in futility, or the threshold to bigger and better things?

And so, you went off to college. You trudged to and fro from lecture halls to classrooms. You sat in uncomfortable and close-knit seats and endured long hours of arduous lessons. You...


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Questionable decisions in a region riddled with perpetual conflict

After sidestepping accusations regarding who carried out air strikes in northern Syria on Sept. 6, senior American government officials quoted in The New York Times strongly stuggest Israel was behind the strike....


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Come be part of a school history

Most of the student body at Binghamton was not here to witness the opening of the Events Center, yet whenever basketball season comes around year after year, we can’t wait to head...