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Recognizing the downsides of the JUUL craze
“Is that a USB? A flash drive?” “Nah bro, it’s just a JUUL.” The JUUL by PAX Labs has taken college campuses by storm. I’m sure we have all seen people walking...
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FAFSA should expand to include 'independent' students
There are two simple reasons that most of us decided to attend Binghamton University — it’s a good school and it’s cheap. But even with its comparatively low cost of attendance, $24,000...
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Recognizing the drawbacks of "armchair activism"
By the end of this month, Ajit Pai, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), will most likely be rolling back FCC’s 2015 net neutrality ruling, which classified the internet as open...
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BU should consider cutting ties with Reynolds Group Holdings
Catch me running out of College-in-the-Woods Dining Hall halfway through my insane Tuesday schedule with a takeaway box crushed under my arm. As busy students, we revel in the opportunity to take...
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Emotional-support animals don't belong on campuses
Science has long supported the benefits of pets on human emotional and cognitive health. For veterans readjusting to life after serving, elderly patients in nursing homes and hospitals or children with autism...
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Denouncing anti-Israel sentiments in academia
Seventy-nine years ago today in Nazi Germany, 91 Jews were murdered, more than 1,000 synagogues burned and over 7,000 Jewish businesses destroyed. This day became known as Kristallnacht — the night of...
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Bridging the gap between generations
“They’re slackers, cynics, whiners, drifters, malcontents.” I bet millennials popped into your head while reading that sentence. However, those were also words used in the early 1990s to describe the Americans born...
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Acknowledging our wasteful mindset
We tend to view trash as burdensome and inconvenient, opting to get rid of it as easily and quickly as possible. We throw it into a plastic bag and leave it at...
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Making #MeToo count in the real world
Following the mile-long list of allegations of sexual assault against Harvey Weinstein, the social media campaign #MeToo went viral two weeks ago. I’m sure that it is one that you have seen,...
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Recognizing our impact on the community
Every weekend — and weekday, if you’re into that — Binghamton University students swarm Downtown Binghamton. We go to bars, we spend money on a midnight slice of pizza, but most of...