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Ask Al

Pipe Dream is bringing back a popular feature from last year titled “Ask Al,” in which I will ask men’s basketball coach Al Walker various questions about the upcoming basketball season. If...


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Freshman orientation, or BU-style indoctrination?

Dear Orientation: you failed me. Miserably. As an 18-year-old high school graduate, I naively assumed that you would tell me all I needed to know about the Binghamton University experience. After all,...


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Damn the man, save the summer!

Let’s start with a conversation I overheard a few weeks ago. Or better yet, let’s discuss a conversation I’ve been overhearing for the past three years. I was sitting at a bar...


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Release Looks Back, Part 1

This is it: the final Release of the year, and the last one with your ugly, balding editor. It’s been a fun run, but like all things, it must end sometime. As...


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Struggle to stay onboard

One day, you finish in the top-15 in hits, home runs and stolen bases in the same league that Manny Ramirez once played in. Three months later, you’re a freshman at Binghamton...


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Offbeat News

Manbearpig exists, we’re super cereal Jim Martell, 65, of Idaho, was hunting in Canada, when he became the first person in recorded history ever to encounter an animal known as the “polargrizz”...


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Editorial: Spring ‘06 news roundup

It’s been a pretty eventful semester here at the Ivy of the SUNYs. A look at our front-page headlines is proof enough: in our first issue of the semester, a philosophy, politics...


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Sports editor steps aside

After 118 articles, 520 edited stories, 22 Banters and one swimsuit issue — it’s all over. For those of you that don’t know, today is my final day as Pipe Dream’s sports...


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From walk-on to team captain, Hasani Hampden has come a long way

His name and face may not be the most prominent on campus, but his accomplishments at BU are second to none. It would be pretty tough to find a Division I walk-on...


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Top 10 moments of 2005-06

It’s pretty tough to take all of the great memories over the course of a year and come up with the top 10 moments. It’s even tougher to then rank those moments...