Staff Editorials
Editorial: Dissecting BU's budget crisis
Contract negotiations between SUNY and United University Professions (UUP) have left Binghamton University in a budgetary crisis. A new, six-year contract was signed over the summer by New York state and UUP,...
Columns
When done conscientiously, social media activism can be effective
The world is on fire. Images of destruction fill your phone screen. What do you, the observer, do? As a young 20-something-year-old, you may say, “That’s awful!” As a student, you might...
Columns
We must continue to oppose the Keystone XL pipeline
Ever since 2008, when a gas and oil corporation called TransCanada first proposed the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, a battle has been waging among environmentalists, indigenous peoples, government officials and...
Guest Columns
The recent missile strikes in Israel are reprehensible
Last Sunday, I woke up afraid. Not fearing for my own life, but rather for the lives of my friends and family living in southern Israel. I feared for my brother, who...
Columns
Should the US create a G-3 alliance with Russia and China?
The G-8, or Group of Eight, a meeting of eight leaders from the most prominent nations, wasn’t strategically valuable for Russia, as it didn’t incentivize or highlight a special status for Russia....
Columns
Sexual assault occurs whether or not alcohol is involved
Approximately one in five college women and one in 16 college men will be a victim of sexual assault. About 37 percent of female rape victims in the United States were first...
Columns
Students should be wary of how much coffee they consume
I started drinking coffee in my senior year of high school. When it’s past midnight and you still need to read 20 pages of your Advanced Placement biology textbook and don’t quite...
Staff Editorials
Editorial: Limiting the libraries
Due to budget cuts, Binghamton University Libraries have been forced to cancel subscriptions to many academic titles and journals. BU is in the midst of a budgetary crisis, in part because of...
Columns
Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro and President Trump are scarily similar
In September, Brazil had a severe corruption probe exposing its nationalized oil company Petrobras; it was seemingly the largest graft investigation in Latin America’s political history. The operation allowed Petrobras to funnel...
Columns
Buying used goods can help combat climate change
The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change left us with a bleak forecast of our near future, projecting a 1.5 to 2 degree Celsius increase in global temperature from preindustrial levels, unless...