Pipe Dream (newspaper)

The Summer 2010 front page of Pipe Dream
Type	Newspaper bi-weekly, Tues. & Fri.
Format	Broadsheet
Owner(s)	Pipe Dream Student Group
Founded	1946
Headquarters	Vestal, New York, U.S.
Circulation	7,000 on and off campus
Website	bupipedream.com

Pipe Dream is the twice-weekly student newspaper of Binghamton University (State University of New York at Binghamton) in Vestal, N.Y. Printed as a tabloid until Spring 2012, Pipe Dream now prints as a broadsheet paper with full color front and back pages.

Pipe Dream is one of the few student newspapers in the country that is and always has been entirely student-run, without the supervision or assistance of an advisor. Though there is no journalism school at Binghamton University, Pipe Dream was named in 2010 as one of the nation's top college newspapers by the Princeton Review.

Pipe Dream was first published in the form of "The Colonial News" on November 22, 1946, the same year as the founding of Triple Cities Colleges, the forebear of Binghamton University. The Colonial News' first editors wrote:

The paper's name was changed to Pipe Dream in 1970 in protest of the Vietnam War.

The newspaper is distributed at Binghamton University's main campus in Vestal, N.Y., and at several spots in the Downtown Binghamton area, including the newly built University Downtown Center. All copies are distributed openly and are free to the public.

Pipe Dream regularly prints the following sections:

Pipe Dream also publishes special issues for finals week, summer orientation, the annual Spring Fling celebration, and the NCAA America East Men's Basketball Tournament, among others.

Pipe Dream relaunched its website www.bupipedream.com in the spring of 2012 with improved content and layout.

Alumni editors and correspondents of Pipe Dream have worked for and are currently working for some of the nation's top media outlets, including the four major New York papers: The New York Times, New York Post, New York Daily News and Newsday.

Tony Kornheiser, '70, now a famous ESPN personality, was once The Colonial News' sports editor.
Chris Giarrusso, '97, illustrator of Marvel Comics' Mini Marvels series is a former Fun Page Editor.