EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION

Founded 1946 as Triple Cities College, joined SUNY as Harpur College in 1950.

Location:
Binghamton, NY

Founding Date:
1946

Team:
Bearcats

Enrollment:
10,400

Official Website:
http://www.binghamton.edu/

STUDENTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
William Baldwin	Actor	21-Feb-1963		A Baldwin Brother
Andrew Bergman	Screenwriter	20-Feb-1945		Striptease
Ron Brownstein	Columnist	6-Apr-1958		The Los Angeles Times
Susan Clark-Johnson	Publisher	c. 1947		President, Newspaper Divison, Gannett
Stephanie Courtney	Actor	8-Feb-1970		Tom Goes to the Mayor
Jeffrey M. Cunningham	Business	c. 1952		Publisher of Forbes, 1993-98
Norman Finkelstein	Scholar	8-Dec-1953		The Holocaust Industry
Doug Harbrecht	Journalist	c. 1951		Business Week
Andy Kindler	Comic	16-Oct-1956		Bob's Burgers
Tony Kornheiser	Journalist	13-Jul-1948		Pardon the Interruption
Carol Leifer	Comic	27-Jul-1956		Comic inspired Seinfeld's Elaine
Arnold J. Levine	Biologist	1939		Cancer researcher
Bobbie Ann Mason	Novelist	1-May-1940		In Country
Camille Paglia	Author	2-Apr-1947		Self-described "dissident feminist"
Stewart J. Paperin	Business	c. 1946		EVP of Soros Foundations
Lee Ranaldo	Guitarist	3-Feb-1956		Sonic Youth
Paul Reiser	Actor	30-Mar-1957		Mad About You
Michael Schaller	Historian	2-Jun-1947		The American Occupation of Japan
Tom Schatz	Activist	c. 1952		Citizens Against Government Waste
Madeleine Smithberg	Comic	c. 1959		Daily Show co-creator
Deborah Tannen	Linguist	7-Jun-1951		You Just Don't Understand

TEACHERS AND PROFESSORS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Herbert P. Bix	Historian	1938		Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
Edgar Bowers	Poet	2-Mar-1924	4-Feb-2000	For Louis Pasteur
Immanuel Wallerstein	Sociologist	28-Sep-1930		The Modern World System
Larry Woiwode	Novelist	30-Oct-1941		What I'm Going to Do, I Think

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