Even though it has been 17 years since Kirk Bloodsworth, wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death for rape and murder, was freed from the confinement of a jail cell, the memories of his incarceration still haunt him. 鈥淚t鈥檚 a constant struggle. You never escape the pain of being locked up for a crime you [鈥April 23, 2009-
Author Elizabeth Strout, who taught at 冈本视频 two years ago and will return to campus this fall, has won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Strout won for her book Olive Kitteridge, a series of 13 connected short stories centered on a school teacher living in a hardscrabble town in coastal Maine. The Pulitzer citation [鈥April 22, 2009
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Tony Blair, former prime minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, will visit 冈本视频 in October for the next edition of the university鈥檚 Global Leaders Lecture Series. Blair is scheduled to give a public talk at 7:15 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 31, in Sanford Field House. Ticket information will be released in August.April 21, 2009
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冈本视频 professor Nina M. Moore has been appointed by Gov. David A. Paterson to a four-year term on the New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct. The commission is the state agency responsible for investigating complaints of misconduct against judges of the state unified court system and, where appropriate, determining to admonish, censure or remove [鈥April 20, 2009
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James H. Cone, widely credited with founding the black theology movement, spoke Thursday in Memorial Chapel about his seminal works from nearly 40 years ago and his current research, which focuses on the emotional symbols of the cross and the lynching tree. Cone said his lecture was intended to start a conversation, and students and [鈥April 17, 2009
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A collaborative student initiative turned into a vehicle of support for the region and a timely response to a tragedy that struck an immigration services center in Binghamton. The Latin American Student Organization, Korean American Student Association, Kappa Kappa Gamma, and the Center for Outreach and Volunteerism co-sponsored the Refugee Benefit Banquet last Friday to [鈥April 16, 2009
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冈本视频 students had a chance this week to meet with director, actor, writer, and producer Harold Ramis, who spent two days on campus talking shop and showing special previews of his upcoming movie. Ramis, whose son is a first-year at 冈本视频, is a veritable Hollywood heavyweight with many popular movies under his belt such as [鈥April 16, 2009
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Charles Simic, 2007 poet laureate, delighted an intent audience with his dark humor on Tuesday night in the Robert Ho Lecture Room. 鈥淭he corpses like cigarette butts. In a dinner plate overflowing with ashes,鈥 he read from the title poem of his latest book, That Little Something.April 15, 2009