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Applications, or legal extortion

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Get your checkbooks ready. Today, we’re paying for rejection. Anybody who has applied to college knows how expensive the process can be. Not only do application fees run up to $100, but...

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Budgeting for the future

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Staff Editorial: Pipe Dream on today's (and possibly tomorrow's) SA budget-crafting. ...

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A positive Upstate of mind

By Jordan Rabinowitz -

My tour guide friend always likes to remind me that Binghamton is the cloudiest city in the United States east of the Rockies. Business Insider just listed us as the fifth most...

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My Bom-Chicka-Blind-Date

By Elena Herrera -

Spring has sprung, providing a glimmer of hope. Relationships are springing up as well. At least seven of my friends, within the past month, have gone “Facebook official” and I am more...

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Good questions lead to great answers

By Jillian Kermani -

Let’s be honest, everyone prefers talking about themselves rather than listening to others. There are really only a few people who actually enjoy listening to other people. At least that’s how I...

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Cheating is in the eye of the beholder

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Thanks to the advent of Facebook, defining our relationship statuses has become a hell of a lot easier. Your relationship isn’t bona fide unless it’s “Facebook Official,” and for the first time...

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PODS stations, where humanity reveals its lowest form

By Alyssa Mercante -

If Binghamton University is ever looking to hire a PODS Computer Patrolwoman, I’d like to offer my services. There is a surplus of rude idiots who have some undying love for hogging...

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Facebook was right to delete the Intifada page

By Michael Snow -

During the unrest that has rocked the Middle East for the past several months, social networking websites haven taken center stage as venues for a thorny moral dilemma between free speech and...

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Positivity in a negative news cycle

By Jason Stack -

When you take a look at a local or national newspaper or flip on the news — CNN, Fox News, MSNBC or the news channel of your choice — do you realize...

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An upcoming appointment

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Pipe Dream continues to break down a sputtering presidential search process.  ...