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Super Bowl? What Super Bowl?
While many students spent Super Bowl Sunday in front of big-screen televisions, guzzling beer and pizza in true American style, some decided to refrain from watching the biggest sporting event of the...
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Trying to fill Simms shoes
Historically, great blunders in judgment have been committed by New Yorkers. We are a stubborn, strong-headed people. We are also extraordinarily intelligent people. We either ignore our mistakes or intellectualize our way...
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Around the horn with tasty libations
I love it when breweries release sampler packs. Perhaps you’ve seen the Saranac sampler in Wal-Mart. That one comes in both a six-pack and twelve-pack, and both are good introductions to that...
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Strategic plan in focus: how will BU’s plans affect academics?
Last month, Binghamton University’s latest Strategic Plan, entitled “Excellence in a Climate of Change,” was presented with an emphasis on ensuring that the institution would adapt to changing trends in higher education....
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Rejected BU Merchandise - Cheer Team Douche
Allah be praised, sometimes I just don’t understand what goes on in the minds of the people responsible for our merchandise. Little monkeys with Velcro hands get the big thumbs up, but...
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Bearcats lost second straight down the stretch
On “Pardon the Interruption” yesterday, Tony Kornheiser predicted Binghamton would beat UMBC by six or seven points. He had no idea the Bearcats would shoot 1-for-14 from beyond the arc in the...
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All in the family
“Going down, going down at the bunny ranch!” This is the start to the wonderful 9 minute long porn clip entitled “Potter Twins Strap-on.” Yes, this set of half-decent looking twins are...
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CD Review - Ministry of Sound The Annual 2006
People go downtown for numerous reasons: the beer, the booze, the potential hookups, and the always-entertaining cab rides. You know why I go downtown? Because every weekend at The Rat, I can...
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Editorial: Kick alums while they’re down?
Binghamton University is always looking for money from its alumni, and is extremely well set-up to receive the help it so desperately says it needs. Take, for example, the very first item...
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Procrastinating deadly to grad school hopefuls
As the spring semester gets underway, freshmen are still adjusting to the not yet brutal winter at Binghamton University. Sophomores are beginning to realize they have to declare a major within a...