Pipe Dream Fall 2013 Issue 9

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Shoplifters shamed in Dining halls

Greek Life unites for Chen Candlelight vigil commemorates victims of hazing and racism

Scare tactic goes against protocol, says chief of police Brendan Zarkower and Madeline Gottlieb Contributing Writers Which is worse: facing legal action or public humiliation?

Students caught stealing from Sodexo dining halls by the Binghamton University Police Department were forced to make this decision.

In the first few weeks of the semester, there have been several cases of students being caught stealing food from the dining halls.

Once discovered, these students are faced with an ultimatum: either publicly announce their crime, or be arrested.

Hayley Dicken, a senior majoring in human development, witnessed a dining hall confession.

“I was sitting in the dining hall, and we saw a student walk out with a tray of food,” Dicken said. “He was standing on the side, and then we saw the UPD come in. They walked halfway up the stairs. And the UPD officer was basically like, ‘Your friend here just stole a tray of food.

This is why your dining hall prices

go up so much. What do you think about what he did?’ And everyone was silent. Then the officer said, ‘Are you ever going to steal food again?’ And the kid just shook his head and just held his head low, and ran out. He was humiliated.”

Timothy Faughnan, chief of Binghamton’s New York State University Police, said that using shaming as a punishment is not the appropriate way for University police officers to react to thievery.

“Allegations that a Binghamton University Police Officer has publicly embarrassed students have been brought to my attention.

We are taking these allegations very seriously and have taken swift and decisive action to investigate the matter. We anticipate our investigation will be complete in two weeks,” Faughnan wrote in an email. “We expect the highest level of professionalism from our officers and these allegations run counter to our community policing philosophy. We do not condone or tolerate inappropriate behavior

Jeremy Bernstein News Intern Several Binghamton University sororities and fraternities held a candlelight vigil at the Pegasus statue Thursday evening in memory of Private Danny Chen, an Asian-American soldier who was found dead in his Afghanistan watch tower on Oct. 3, 2011. Chen’s death, which is thought to be a suicide due to the racist hazing he received from his platoon, has since become the topic of much controversy.

“It is unclear whether he committed suicide or was killed, and that is still up for debate,” said William Costa, a member of the predominantly Asian fraternity Pi Delta Psi and a sophomore majoring in engineering.

“But regardless of the result, the whole point is that there was vicious hazing against an Asian-American individual who did nothing wrong, and we are trying to raise awareness that things like this still happen.”

Jeremy Poserio, a member of Pi Kendall Loh/Photo Editor

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Aaron Yau, a senior majoring in cinema, pays his respects to Private Danny Chen, an AsianAmerican soldier who was found dead in Afghanistan. The event was held by several Binghamton University fraternities and sororities.

Diverse food options take to the streets See page 2

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Provost warns against selling notes, cheating Nieman explains issues with intellectual property, dishonesty Jessie Heller and Carla Sinclair Pipe Dream News

Kendall Loh/Photo Editor

James Monreale, 22, and Paul Muzzio, 23, have recently started serving wraps and gyros out of their Halal food cart. The pair are mainly stationed on the corner of Court Street and Hawley Street.

In an environment of high academic achievement — and competition — some students view buying an extra set of class notes to be a harmless way to get ahead.

Donald Nieman, executive vice president for academic affairs and provost, however, a different opinion.

On Sept. 20, Nieman released a memo warning students that there could be negative consequences for buying and selling notes.

Nieman first wrote the policy in spring of 2010, when he learned about the website Notehall.

“Students can share notes,” he said.

“It’s just the idea of them taking them and putting them up for sale that doesn’t seem right.”

Sites like Notehall allow students to

upload and share, usually for profit, class materials such as notes and study guides. It’s meant to provide a wide forum for student discussion about courses and professors.

After hearing about the site, Nieman decided to investigate further, and found that the site was popular among students.

“It was started by students on the West Coast as a little entrepreneurial business, but it became successful and attracted the interest of the corporate world,” Nieman explained. “They’re ‘closed now’ while being adapted to a new business model. There’s a couple other places that do the same thing now.”

Notehall was founded in 2008 and appeared on the ABC show “Shark Tank,” which features entrepreneurs and possible investors, in 2009.

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Education minor provides students chance to test waters Recently added twelve-credit program created in response to growing student demand program coordinator for the education minor, the minor was created last semester by Binghamton University’s In response to an increased Graduate School of Education level of undergraduate demand, a and is aimed toward those who new education program will give are interested in pursuing a students the tools and insight career in the field. they need to make the next step.

“The minor was created According to David Archer, to fill a need expressed by

James Scott

Contributing Writer

students. A number of students are wondering if a career in education is something they should pursue,” Archer wrote in an email. “The minor provides them the opportunity to explore various parts of the education profession. The education minor also provides students who have a general interest in the role of

education in our society to gain more information.”

Tami Mann, senior staff assistant for the education minor, observed that many students wanted to take EDUC 406 and were looking for more courses in education. There was a large request for the minor among students.

Although many pursue education with the hopes of becoming a teacher, the minor is meant to give an understanding of other career fields in education such as career counseling, school district building and building administration and education law.

“This minor is not exclusive

to just the teacher; it is about all the education professions,” Mann said. “We have noticed that there are many students who are very interested and definitely want to learn more about teaching and becoming a teacher but then, just more holistically, all education

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Food trucks diversify options in Binghamton City creates survey to gague interest in pilot program Eurih Lee News Intern

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Paul Muzzio, 23, prepares a chicken gyro for a hungry customer Monday afternoon out of his mobile food truck, Sauced.

As the demand for food on-thego grows Downtown, Binghamton is contemplating a one-year pilot program for mobile vendors.

Kyle Seeley, executive assistant to Mayor Matthew Ryan, said several city departments have recently been contacted by individuals looking to operate food trucks in Binghamton, and the City itself has sent out a survey to gauge interest in the possibility of more food trucks.

Currently, food trucks and food cart vendors are allowed on public property, but they are required to move at least 500 feet every 10 minutes.

“Really only ice cream trucks can operate like this,” Seeley said. “It is not feasible for a food truck selling hot food to move every 10 minutes.”

As of now, there are six food cart vendors located throughout the city of Binghamton, and several more are scheduled to open in the near future.

Chaz Hill, a cashier for the new Café 93.3 located on the corner of Washington Street and Court Street, said that he thinks the influx of food cart vendors in Binghamton is good for the economy and community.

“Binghamton’s a growing community,” Hill said. “[Food trucks] are things that are needed in Binghamton because the campus is expanding — SUNY as well as

BCC — and you got to cater to their tastes. Not everybody wants a falafel.”

Café 93.3 is an extension of the radio station WJOB 93.3FM and features southern-style barbecue.

“We’re trying to extend into the community,” Hill said. “For a while, there’s been something missing in this town — for the minorities — so we’re just trying to fill that.”

Recently, in an interview with the Press & Sun-Bulletin, David Whalen, the owner of Binghamton Hots located on Washington Street, expressed his concerns of the negative effects that the food trucks may have on businesses like his own.

“There are people who have invested a lot of private money, restored old buildings and given a facelift to Downtown,” Whalen said. “And to saturate the market Downtown any further would actually take away from the progress we’ve made.”

Chad Solfaro, an investor for a forthcoming food truck called Mad Man Sammies, disagrees with Whalen and said the Downtown region can benefit from more food trucks.

“I think that [food trucks are] what a lot of up-and-coming areas want to see,” Solfaro said.

“Especially with good university areas, the kids want to feel like they’re in a small-town Manhattan.”

Tobias Marmon, the owner of Mad Man Sammies, also said the increase

of food trucks in Binghamton will positively affect the region.

“It’ll create a really cool, urban vibe that we don’t really have at Binghamton at the moment,” Marmon said.

Hill shares Solfaro’s and Marmon’s sentiments and believes that food carts are necessary to promote diversity.

“Everybody should open up to cater for the diversity that’s coming into Binghamton,” Hill said. “If anyone’s got a problem with that, then they should look back and reassess their situation because there’s enough room for everybody out here.”

Hill hopes that the new food carts and trucks will create a more welcoming environment Downtown for students who are not from the Binghamton area.

“Every year, you get more and more students from different parts of the world here and they want something that reminds them of home sometimes,” Hill said.

David Pfuhler, a junior majoring in environmental studies, hopes to see more food carts and trucks in Binghamton because they remind him of his home in Staten Island.

“Food trucks are good for Binghamton because they promote more people to be outside and get together over one thing that everyone loves: food,” Pfuhler said.

Community Showcase recruits students to volunteer Center for Civic Engagement event encourages campus to have a heart, lend a hand Sarah Novak Contributing Writer

Binghamton University groups and local organizations rallied students Thursday to give a little bit back to the community.

The Center for Civic Engagement looked to get students involved in the community at the fourth annual community showcase, held in the Mandela Room. The CCE invited outside volunteers and student organizations to inform students about volunteer opportunities in youth engagement, community issues forums and helping the community improve its information technology access.

Allison Alden, director of the CCE, said she hoped that the showcase raised awareness about the CCE and helped students establish themselves in the community.

“It’s a great opportunity for freshmen to get informed about what’s going on in the community,” said Amber Decker, a freshman majoring in human development. “I wasn’t aware of how much I can actually do.”

Some of the participating organizations included Girl Scouts of NYPENN Pathways, Volunteers of America, Habitat for Humanity and Student Alliance for Local Living Economies.

“I’ve seen many student organizations and outside volunteers walking around between tables and making partners with each other in order to increase their alliances,” Alden said. “Many past organizations returned this year, and it shows how

Tycho McManus/Contributing Photographer Students meander through the Center for Civic Engagement showcase Thursday afternoon in the Mandela Room. The showcase aimed to encourage student involvement in the local community.

effective the showcase is in attracting more students.”

One of the participating associations, Safe Place for Women, crocheted strips of recycled plastic bags to create big spongy blankets for the homeless. The material is insulating, and it takes about 1,000 bags to create one blanket.

“We’ve had a great experience working with Binghamton

students. The environmental twist attracts students, and who wouldn’t want to help someone else out?” said Diane Olivet, a member of Safe Place for Women.

Another student-run organization on campus, the Student Alliance for Local Living Economies, focuses on creating a strong economic relationship between Binghamton University

students and the local community. Maura Weingarten, a senior majoring in English, is one of the founders of the group and wanted to bridge the gap between campus and Downtown by teaching people about living in the Downtown area.

“People who come here are looking to help out, and I think it’s great,” Weingarten said.

“We’ve only been chartered

since last semester, and I think we’re making great progress.”

The Community Hunger Outreach Warehouse (CHOW) and Broome Bounty Food Recovery Program work together to distribute meals to the homeless throughout the county. They encourage students to fundraise: $1 leads to four distributed meals.

Michael Leahey, director of the CHOW program, hopes to gain

1,200 students to participate in the 31st Annual CHOW Hunger Walk on Oct. 20.

“The showcase was a huge success, and I hope that when the New Union finishes renovation, we can have even more student traffic at future showcases,” Alden said.

She hopes to collaborate with co-sponsors to hold an even bigger event with more people in the future.

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Local News Former parks director allegedly stole $108,000 John C. Whalen, former director of the Binghamton Parks and Recreation Department, allegedly embezzled over $100,000 for personal use, according to the Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin. Whalen allegedly stole funds initially collected for youth sponsorships and uniforms for softball and basketball teams. The stolen money was used to pay for Whalen’s mortgage, loans to his sons and to finance his car lease. He resigned from his post in 2012 and in April was charged with second-degree grand larceny by the Broome County District Attorney’s Office.

State News Police: NY bus aide broke student’s arm Police say a suburban New York bus aide fractured a developmentally disabled 5-year-old boy’s arm. Richard Mason did not comment to reporters after being released without bail Thursday following his arraignment in Suffolk County Court on Long Island. He is being represented by the Legal Aid Society, which does not comment on pending cases. Suffolk County police say the Acme Bus Corp. aide attempted to discipline the boy during a bus ride on Monday afternoon in Commack. Police say Mason grabbed the boy’s arm and twisted it behind his back. The child was later determined to have a fractured arm. Mason was charged with assault and acting in a manner to injure a child.

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Students meet as part of “Sex in a Frame” to discuss how the media portrays the gays in the black community. The discussion, hosted by SHADES and BU State of Mind, also touched on why, in general, lesbians are tolerated or dismissed and gay men are ostracized in society.

Mini-sub to search NY lake for ‘93 drowning victim A 15-foot-long, two-person submarine will be used to search an Adirondack lake for the remains of a New York City man who disappeared while swimming 20 years ago. The Glens Falls Post-Star reports that the yellow submarine’s coowners plan to search Lake George this weekend as part of an effort organized by American Response for the Missing, a downstate group that aids in the search for missing persons.

The sub will be used to search for the remains of Edison Arias, a 23-year-old Queens resident believed to have drowned in June 1993 while swimming in about 80 feet of water off the lake’s western shore in Bolton. His body was never found.

The search will also include divers assisted by the Warren County Sheriff’s Office and Lake George Park Commission.

National News UNC-Charlotte fraternity under investigation A fraternity at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte has been suspended as college officials and law enforcement investigate a pledge’s hospitalization. Authorities say an 18-year-old pledge of Pi Kappa Alpha was taken to a hospital Sept. 7 after failing to wake up during the fraternity’s campout in Uwharrie National Forest. The student’s blood alcohol level was 0.42, or more than five times the legal limit. The student has recovered and is back in school.

College officials said in a statement that the fraternity is on interim suspension while the college investigates possible conduct violations. That means the fraternity can’t hold any activities. The Montgomery County Sheriff’s office is separately investigating potential criminal charges.

ULM’s Kappa Sigma fraternity under investigation The Kappa Sigma fraternity at the University of Louisiana at Monroe has been suspended amid an investigation for hazing. The alleged hazing reportedly occurred at an Aug. 30 bid day party. The News Star reports that pledges allegedly were made to drink excessive amounts of alcohol at the party, resulting in alcohol poisoning in at least one pledge. University officials became aware of the allegations after receiving an anonymous letter detailing the alleged misconduct. As a precautionary measure, the National Headquarters of the Kappa Sigma Fraternity chose to temporarily suspend the organization’s event activities until the completion of the investigation. The national chapter is supposed to release its findings soon. Ben Stokes, president of the ULM chapter of Kappa Sigma, said the university has not allowed him or others associated with the fraternity the chance to read the allegations in the anonymous letter. But, he said, as he understands it, the allegations are that at least one pledge, Logan Cain, became sick with alcohol poisoning at the party and was taken to a hospital. Stokes said neither of those things occurred and no rules were broken. Cain also denied the allegations on Twitter. Kappa Sigma’s National Executive Director Mic Wilson said the investigation was ongoing and that he could not comment on the details. A finding may not come for another two weeks.

Seattle principal breaks up hazing incident A Seattle high school principal is asking for help from parents to curb what a school district official says has become a tradition of student hazing. In his message to parents, Garfield High School Principal Ted Howard said he and a school resource police officer broke up a gathering of about 100 students last Friday at a park. Howard says some students were being paddled, were wearing diapers, had eggs thrown at them and had shoe polish all over their bodies.

Police spokeswoman Renee Witt told The Seattle Times that a police report would not be released Tuesday. In the past, she says, upperclassmen have intimidated other students into not cooperating when reports have been publicized. The school’s website says hazing will result in suspension and will be considered a criminal offense. The Times says it’s not clear how many students were subject to the hazing.

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Police Watch 12-Year-Olds Wreaking Havoc MONDAY, SEPT. 30, 2:16 p.m. — An 18-year-old female found her car vandalized after she left it in Parking Lot S3 overnight, said Investigator Patrick Reilly of Binghamton’s New York State University Police. An unknown suspect allegedly drew loops and a penis as well as the word “pussy” on the windows and the side of the car. Some of these were difficult to clean off of the car. The substance used to vandalize the car is unknown. There are no known suspects or witnesses to this event.

Should’ve Stolen Orbit For That Dirty Mouth TUESDAY, OCT. 1, 3:05 p.m. — Officers met with the manager of Appalachian Dining Hall because of an altercation that occurred over the weekend, Reilly said. A 20-year-old male suspect allegedly attempted to steal chicken fingers and a cookie from the dining hall when a 33-year-old female server came over to a cashier and told her to charge the student for the food. The suspect first denied stealing the food, but finally admitted he didn’t have a meal plan. The server told the suspect to either use a credit card or find someone else to pay for him. The suspect had a friend pay and went on to call the server a “fucking bitch” afterward, then tried to steal a soda. When the server spotted him doing this, she escorted him out while he told her to “stay on [her] fat ass.”

The victim wants judicial action taken on the suspect. The case is still under investigation.

Best Buds TUESDAY, OCT. 1, 11:48 p.m. — Officers on bike patrol spotted a group of five male and female students gathering in the woods behind Oneida Hall, Reilly said. The officers reportedly spotted the group form a circle in the wooded area and shine a light on what appeared to be a marijuana dish. Officers approached the group, and they dropped the dish. Officers asked for ID from all of the suspects. They tested the bowl as well as a metal grinder found on the ground and found marijuana in both. The suspects were all College-in-the-Woods residents, and because they all cooperated, the case was referred to the Office of Student Conduct and they were released.

Get The Message WEDNESDAY, OCT. 2, 9:04 p.m. — A 19-year-old female student was harassed by a 20-year-old over social media, Reilly said. The suspect allegedly sent multiple messages to the victim over a social media website asking her to hang out with him on campus. They used to be friends but they drifted apart over the summer, and the victim did not wish to have any more contact with him.

The victim contacted University Police and asked them to tell the suspect to stop harassing her.

They told him, and he understood the severity of the situation. He agreed to stop all contact with her immediately.

—Aaron Berkowitz Contributing Writer

Correction A headline in the Oct. 1 issue of Pipe Dream incorrectly stated the events that occurred at a talk given by professor Gary Truce. Truce gave a spoonbending demonstration that entailed members of the audience attempting to bend metal spoons with their hands. The headline of the article incorrectly stated that Truce used telekinesis to bend a spoon with his mind.

In other words “Did you see the Giants game on Sunday? They lost 31-7. Do you know what the Giants didn’t say after that game? ‘If you don’t give us 25 more points by midnight on Monday, we will shut down the fucking NFL.” — Jon Stewart on the government shutdown deadlines :destabilizing

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Greek Life to bust a move for charity Event aims to raise $30,000 for Children's Miracle Network, Janet Weis Children's Hospital Joseph Hawthorne News Intern In an effort to bond together while raising money for charity, Binghamton University Greek life has challenged students to dance the night away during the University’s first-ever dance marathon.

“We’re going to constantly be having music and games going, but the point is to just stay on your feet and try not to sit,” said Rachel Engelberg, an event organizer from Delta Phi Epsilon sorority and a senior majoring in bioengineering.

The event, a fundraiser for the Janet Weis Children’s

Hospital and Children’s Miracle Network, will run from 5 p.m. to 3 a.m. Saturday. According to Matthew Blum, an organizer from Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity and a junior majoring in biology, the event is an effort to bring Greek organizations together.

“There is a lack of strong Greek culture,” Blum said.

“There haven’t really been unifying events in the past.

We want to do something with Greek life that goes beyond State Street.”

Lester Coghill, director of Greek life at BU, said that the event was beginning to generate positive feedback from

the students.

“Many fraternities and sororities have their own events that support separate causes, but we were looking for one event where everyone could claim part ownership,” Coghill wrote in an email. “This is a fairly new idea for our fraternity and sorority community, but they are starting to warm up to the idea, and while this dance marathon will be a success, I am sure the future dance marathons will be even better.”

Engelberg, though, said the event should be focused on the children for whom students are fundraising.

“We want to keep standing

said. “There’s going to be five kids coming through from the Children’s Miracle Network, so that’s going to be a highlight.”

Carly Rubenfeld, a nonGreek Life organizer and a senior majoring in psychology, explained that the marathon would include giveaways, games and hourly music themes to entertain participants.

“We’re going to have different song themes, some ’90s, some — Rachel Engelberg ’80s, some ’60s music. But BU senior each hour we’re going to teach everyone a minute of a dance because what we’re really doing routine. At the end of the event is standing up for these kids. we will be able to put together What we’re doing for them is a 10-minute awesome dance really important,” Engelberg routine,” Rubenfeld said. “We’ll

“We want to keep standing because what we're really doing is standing up for these kids”

Prodigy fills Watters Theater with music

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Tyler Constance/Staff Photographer 12-year-old pianist, singer and composer Ethan Bortnick plays in the Watters Theater Thursday night. The young musician performed a variety of songs, from popular hits to classical pieces.

12-year-old plays Pauline and Philip M. Piaker memorial Matthew Bruinooge Contributing Writer

A 12-year-old piano prodigy took Watters Theater stage Thursday night in an event honoring the memories of Pauline and Philip Piaker.

The concert, organized

by Rabbi Levi Slonim, was the 18th annual memorial celebrating the lives of the philanthropic Piakers. Ethan Bortnick performed a variety of songs, from popular hits to classical pieces. Between songs, Bortnick would stand and address the audience, introducing his songs and insight into his development as a performer.

Bortnick has headlined concerts since he was 3 years old. He is also known for his philanthropy — his concerts have helped raise over $30,000,000 for different charities.

“He was really humble,” said Ben Berger, a sophomore majoring in computer science.

Bortnick played several pieces dedicated to the Piakers, whose love of the arts inspired

their children to have Bortnick perform at the memorial.

“Music held a special place in my mother’s heart,” Matthew Piaker said.

Even organizer Rivkah Slonim said Bortnick was chosen because of his unique skill.

“The Piakers were extraordinary people.

We [wanted to] find someone with extraordinary talent,” said event organizer Rivkah Slonim.

Pieces played by Bortnick included “Here Comes the Sun”

by The Beatles and “Your Song”

by Elton John.

The audience was given the opportunity to play a game with the young musician designed to highlight his finely tuned ear.

Bortnick called a young woman up and asked her to play for him a ringtone from her cell phone. Taking that brief melody as a template, he improvised over the progression with variations that frequently returned to the theme. He named this piece “Gari’s Song,” after the volunteer.

Bortnick also performed several of his own compositions.

His song “Anything is Possible” was inspired by his brother’s

recovery from heart surgery.

Bortnick played along with a backtrack featuring prerecorded singers echoing the refrain.

Other original songs included “We’re All Family,” accompanied by a slideshow of various photos of Bortnick posing with celebrities, and “Blow a Kiss to the Moon,” dedicated to families whose loved ones are serving in the military over seas.

“My parents attended as many plays, concerts, musicals, as they could,” said Alan Piaker, son of the memorialized couple. “I recall attending performances here at Binghamton University as well as Broadway.”

Philip Piaker was a distinguished service professor of accounting at Binghamton University. He was described by his family as a devoted father and husband.

“He cared deeply about his wife and children – first and foremost – about his career, his work at this University and specifically the accounts department,” Rivkah Slonim said.

“My parents attended as many plays, concerts, musicals as they could. I recall attending performances here at Binghamton University as well as Broadway” — Alan Piaker Pauline and Philip's son

also have free food, prizes and games — a lot like the way ‘Relay For Life’ is done.”

According to the dance marathon’s website, only 20 out of the 51 operating Greek chapters had officially signed up as of Wednesday.

The 211 registered participants had raised $4,328 toward the $30,000 goal.

“We anticipated more people would be interested, but now we’re starting to see more people sign up,” Blum said.

“It’s still pretty simple to raise money, and you can pay at the door.”

Delta Psi and senior doublemajoring in biochemistry and neuroscience, stood in front of the Pegasus statue and next to a picture of Chen as he opened the vigil.

“After joining the military, Chen went and served in an all-white platoon in Afghanistan,” Poserio said.

“His platoon mates hazed him nonstop, day and night.

They hazed him because he ate dogs. They hazed him because he had slanted eyes.

They hazed him because he was yellow. They hazed him because he was Asian.”

Representatives from each of the fraternities and sororities in attendance followed Poserio with brief speeches.

“We need to change,” said a member of the fraternity Lambda Phi Epsilon. “We not only honor one of our peers, but today we make history.

Today we make a change to no longer be ignored or stepped over. We need to start taking a stand to make things right.”

Most speakers took the opportunity to discuss discrimination against AsianAmericans at large, though none of the speakers spoke specifically about racism at Binghamton University.

“For far too long we have been known as the silent minority,” said a representative of Phi Delta Psi. “But today we stand up for our rights and make it known not just within our campus but within our universe that we are going to represent ourselves the way we should.”

Speeches were followed by a candle-lighting ceremony and moments of silence for those who have been affected by racism. Trayvon Martin was among those commemorated.

“He could have been me

or anyone else in this crowd, just because of the color of our skin,” Poserio said.

Chris Song, a junior majoring in linguistics, who is a member of the Korean-American Christian Fellowship, said the event was moving.

“I guess the last two years that I have been at Binghamton I have been in a bubble surrounded by the Asian-American community, and I haven’t been affected by racism that much. But hearing what happened to Danny Chen reopened my eyes to the fact that racism is still prevalent in the U.S.,” Song said.

“The whole point is that there was vicious hazing against an Asian American individual who did nothing wrong” — William Costa BU sophomore

According to Brian Hum, a sophomore majoring in economics and a member of Alpha Kappa Psi, the event achieved another unexpected goal.

“It helped bring the Asian community together,” Hum said. “Normally at Binghamton that doesn’t happen. We all joined our frats to promote Asian awareness, and this event heightened that awareness.”

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Unusual punishment draws ire UPD continued from Page 1 from our officers and work within the University’s rules and the laws of the state to ensure inappropriate behavior does not occur on our campus.”

Investigator Patrick Reilly agreed that this is not the kind of thing for which the University police would like to be recognized.

“Officers shouldn’t be giving punishment if they’re also taking action on it. It’s not something that we support, as far as the University police go,” Reilly said.

However, Dicken was not the only student witness to a chastisement like this. Later in the day, Gilad Eisenberg, a sophomore majoring in biology, observed a similar occurrence.

“Well, my friends and I were just eating lunch when all of the sudden an officer was standing on the steps of the CIW Dining Hall,” Eisenberg said. “He apologized for interrupting our lunch, and then proceeded to explain how the kid had attempted to steal a water bottle from the dining hall. The student spoke, introduced himself and admitted that he had gotten caught stealing a water bottle.

The student looked pretty beaten down. Everyone was either trying to ignore it or felt bad for the kid.”

Many Sodexo employees have witnessed theft during their shifts, both at resident dining halls and locations like the Hinman College Café. The most frequently reported location of this public shaming has been in College-in-the-Woods, both at the C-Store and the dining hall.

“I’ve seen it happen at least one or two times per shift,” said Joshua Toussaint, a Sodexo employee.

“The cops will say you can either get arrested, or announce to the

whole area that you got caught stealing.”

Unlike some of the students who felt the shame brought on by the officers, Sam Sherman was more bothered than embarrassed.

Sherman, an undeclared sophomore, had been stopped by a cop after passing a register in Hinman Dining Hall without paying for his wings. When stopped, Sherman offered to pay but was instead given two options by the officer: tell the entire dining hall what he had done, or head down to the station.

“Honestly, I didn’t really care I just thought it was very petty and annoying,” Sherman wrote in an email. “A cop should have better things to do than bust kids stealing from dining halls on a state school campus. Its pathetic.”

Another student, however, was more contrite when he was caught stealing.

“I honestly don’t think I was the victim,” said a junior from CIW who wished to remain anonymous. “I committed a crime and could have went to jail but the officer gave me an alternative and I took it. I was at fault.”

The true policy for determining punishment for stealing food is unclear. According to University police, it is up to Sodexo which action they would like to take against the perpetrators.

“If a student’s caught stealing, the management of Sodexo has options just like any other victim on campus,” Reilly said. “They can have no action desired, a report generated, or most likely if the person is a student, it goes to University Judicial. They’ve also got criminal prosecution, or mediation. We ask the victim [Sodexo] what they would like done.”

According to University police, the seemingly increased police presence in the dining halls is not a result of a policy change, despite what some students may think.

“Officers do frequent the dining halls to have meals, since it’s easier for them to eat there than going Downtown,” Reilly said. “It’s part of a community outreach program. Officers sit with the student population, and we hope that it’s a way that the students will feel comfortable coming to the officers to ask them questions.”

But Matthew Rossie, assistant chief of police, said students stealing from the dining halls is a common issue on campus.

“There is a shoplifting problem.

And that’s why the Sodexo managers like it when the police officers come into the dining hall,” Rossie said.

There is a separate charge in students’ meal plans allotted to cover costs of stolen food from Sodexo.

A recent report by the Residence Dining Advisory Committee stated that 3 percent of the cost paid at the register and 1 percent of the overall charge for food purchased at dining hall locations cover theft.

Some students are less than pleased with the current process of reproaching pupils for their illegal actions.

“I was shocked to hear that UPD officers would choose such a humiliating form of punishment,” said Melissa Gross, a freshman majoring in mechanical engineering. “I know not all officers are like this, but the few who are should stop because this isn’t a sufficient way to handle the problem.”

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NOTES continued from Page 1 After the show, Chegg, a textbook rental site, got wind of the startup and made a generous offer. According to Nieman, this totaled $3.5 million. Chegg now encompasses Notehall and other sites providing resources for students.

Nieman states that the error in using sites like Notehall is twopronged: students are cheating their professors and themselves.

“There was lots of concern from faculty about intellectual property,” Nieman said.

In the memo, Nieman explains where this concern comes from, writing, “…violations of copyright may be involved, especially where classroom materials are reproduced or copyrighted materials are extensive quoted.”

This issue has arisen in schools across the country. California State University, Sacramento gave

graduate student Ryan Stevens a cease and desist letter after he founded Note Utopia, a similar website.

Marissa Armengau, a senior double-majoring in psychology and sociology, considered selling her notes through Notehall a few years ago, but decided against it. “[It was] After the fact one of my friends told me that notehall was looked down upon by the university and could be considered academically dishonest,” Armengau wrote in an email. “I didn’t know that at the time.”

Nieman says discussing notes can certainly be beneficial and does not want that to stop, but the profit and mass distribution should.

Mike Grinberg, a junior majoring in politics, philosophy and law, said he thinks it should be the professor’s responsibility to explicitly state his or her qualms with redistribution of lecture notes.

“As long as the professor doesn’t

express prejudice against it, than it should really be up to the students’ discretion,” Grinberg said.

Regardless of rules that are put into place to prevent these transactions, Grinberg said it would be difficult to enforce.

“There’s mutual benefits for both parties,” Grinberg said. “You just can’t restrict a free market like that.”

Faculty’s concern for the students themselves stems from a worry that simply buying notes will hinder them in the long run, as it encourages skipping class and avoiding effort.

“A student who manages to get good grades, by hook or by crook, is going to get found out sometime, whether it’s law school, grad school or on the job,” Nieman said.

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BU offers education minor MINOR continued from Page 1 professions.”

With only 16 required credits, the minor allows for a student to keep their focus on the necessary prerequisites in the subject they wish to pursue.

“Anyone who was interested in being a teacher would have a strong focus on the liberal arts and sciences, and they would take the appropriate coursework aligned for the type of teacher that they want to be,” Mann said. “This might range from needing to volunteer in the community to working with special needs kids; the prerequisites change according to the different type of teacher you wish to be.”

Rebecca Rosen, who is in the process of applying to graduate school to pursue a degree in education, said that she wouldn’t have taken advantage of the minor had it been available earlier, but instead would have minored in something she could apply in the classroom.

“Most initial teacher certification programs assume no background in education studies, so it’s definitely not something that’s expected or required,” Rosen, a senior double-majoring in English and history, wrote in an email.

“It brings you no closer to certification.”

However, Rosen added that she still thought the minor would be a helpful addition to campus curriculum.

“I do think it’s beneficial for students who are deciding whether education is right for

them,” Rosen wrote.

Fulfillment of the education minor does not mean one becomes a certified teacher; graduate school is still necessary for that title.

“The minor does not make students certified teachers. We do not want students to think that after graduating with the minor that they may go out and become a teacher. It is nothing like that,” Mann said.

“The minor provides a way for students to learn more about the education professions overall, to best know how to take their next steps.”

Carly Rubenfeld, a senior majoring in psychology, recently applied to join the more-than-80 students already enrolled in the minor.

“I want to enroll in the education minor to have a better understanding of the field, to become better informed about the career paths available to me,” Rubenfeld said. “I am currently in EDUC 406, Teaching, Learning and Schooling, and have already taken two psychology classes for my major that count towards the minor, so I figured, why not?”

Anybody from any major may apply. There is no minimum GPA for enrollment, but there is an application process to make sure the candidate is in good academic standing.

At this time there is no plan to create an education major, for this process would involve recruiting more faculty and building new facilities.

BU’s Graduate School of Education does have offerings,

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however, including education, educational theory and practice, educational studies and educational leadership.

Some students, like Rosen, don’t feel impaired by the fact that BU doesn’t have an education major.

“I feel prepared for grad school mostly through my outside teaching experience rather than the classroom,” Rosen wrote. “There are plenty of organizations here that would be great preparation: The Johnson City Mentor Program, the Boys and Girls Club, SUNY Kids, etc. I don’t think the lack of an undergraduate education department will be a real hindrance to anyone looking to go into education.”

Angela Franz, an intern in the Student Advisory group for the education minor and a senior majoring in mathematics, is looking forward to what the minor means for students.

“The minor is very exciting because it is the first opportunity undergrad students at Binghamton will have at receiving any sort of degree from the Graduate School of Education,” Franz said. “The minor was created last semester and already has about 90 students from all of the different schools. We sent out a survey to all Binghamton students … our main feedback was that the minor is not well-known, and we need to spread the word about this program. By gaining more members for the program, we will be able to show the need for more undergraduate education courses and programs at Binghamton.”

Annual event addresses funding issues Souvik Chatterjee Contributing Writer

One of the largest student groups on campus joined with the Student Association Thursday in an attempt to increase transparency in the SA. The annual “Meet the SA” event, hosted by the the Black Student Union (BSU), introduced students to the SA E-Board and provided an opportunity to ask questions.

Some of the issues raised during the night included increased funding for student groups, complications in current fundraisers and an offcampus quarrel that resulted in racial slurs and police intervention.

Some members of the BSU asked why they didn’t receive funding, and were confused and irritated about the red tape they said is obstructing their right to raise funds for their group.

Jibri Easter, a senior majoring in psychology, posed a question on the matter.

“Why does Hillel, a student group that is 12 years old, which is younger than everyone in this room, have the most funding, while BSU has less?”

Easter said.

Ravi Prakriya, the vice president for finance, responded that in order to get more funding a group has to have a very noticeable presence on campus in order to get a lot

of funding.

“Hillel made a beach with tons of sand, and a ton is 2,000 pounds,” Prakriya responded.

Prakriya compared Hillel with a fledgling student group called the Rocketry Club and stated that if they had group meetings with pizza and discussed physics, that was totally acceptable, but if they launched rockets and made it a spectacle for other students, then they would earn more funding.

The entire SA Executive Board attended the event, and the audience consisted mostly of BSU members.

Derrick Conyers, vice president for academic affairs, said he felt the event was important in increasing transparency between the SA and student groups.

“I really enjoyed answering questions and explaining a little of what we do on a day-today basis,” Conyers said. “This year, we want to open up more lines of communication and show those who are interested what we as the SA are capable of providing.”

President Eric Larson said that in addition to social opportunities in student groups, there are also thousands of leadership positions that offer personal gain.

One BSU member wanted to know why groups can’t fundraise through raffle ticket sales, expressing frustration with what some said they find

to be a slow SA bureaucracy.

According to Prakriya, one of his main jobs was to keep funding for student groups going for future years and to answer to an auditor at the end of each year. According to Prakriya, it was unacceptable for somebody to have $1,500 in his or her pocket from raffle tickets because it could lead to an accounting disaster for the SA committee at the end of the year.

“I am responsible for the collective entity,” Prakriya said. “There are special rules we need to follow in order to make that happen.”

Another BU student asked about a poignant topic involving a Broome County Community College student being thrown out of Dillinger’s Celtic Pub on State Street.

Attendees said that following a bouncer calling him an inappropriate racial slur, the BCC student was arrested and charged with a misdemeanor.

Toivo Asheeke, a graduate student studying sociology, said, “We want to raise awareness to this injustice.”

The E-Board sympathized with the student but when the student asked about contacting the campus fall concert performer J. Cole about the situation, the SA committee quickly dismantled the idea, citing legal and contractual boundaries and saying that it would jeopardize future famous performers coming to BU.

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But they’re more than a viral YouTube phenomenon; their lead singer is actually a Binghamton University graduate.

They turned Ke$ha country, mixed Irish pub style with Daft Punk and gave Nickelback a touch of Motown. Postmodern

Jukebox owes their rise to fame to their refreshingly original pop covers and to the vocal talents of the lead singer, Robyn Adele Anderson, who graduated in 2011. ”Postmodern Jukebox actually originated as a musical concept created by our bandleader/pianist Scott Bradlee,” Anderson wrote in an email. “He came up with the term some years ago when he first started covering songs in different genres. I loved the idea but didn’t get involved until February of this year when Scott first asked me to be in a video

(our vintage ‘Thrift Shop’ cover) and we’ve continued to make videos together ever since.”

In their most-viewed video, Postmodern Jukebox transports viewers back to the 1950s with their take on Miley Cyrus’ infamous party anthem, “We Can’t Stop.” The band classes it up, trading in twerking for some old-style boogieing. The video garnered over five million hits on YouTube, and even catapulted the band onto “Good Morning America,” where they performed their doo-wop cover live. It might even be better than the original.

“The creative process of these videos is actually pretty simple,” Anderson wrote. “First Scott and I pick a song that we think would be popular (either a song everyone loves or everyone hates.) Scott then creates a musical arrangement, while I create or alter the melody (especially if it’s a rap song).

Then we all get together in Scott’s apartment, run it a few times, and then film it!”

Though Robyn Adele is crooning and doo-wopping now, her Binghamton years weren’t consumed with voice training.

She was actually involved in

many different organizations on campus.

“I was on the Student Ambassador E-Board, was a study abroad peer adviser, choreographed for Children’s Dance Theater and danced with IFD [International Flag Dancers],” Anderson wrote. “I have so many awesome memories (and a few inappropriate ones) that it’s hard to pick one, but I definitely loved every second at Bing!”

For students passionate about a career in music, Anderson is living proof that you don’t need to major in voice to chase your

dreams of stardom.

“To anyone planning on pursuing a career in singing/ stage performing, all I can say is that you don’t need a degree in those things to be famous on YouTube,” Anderson wrote.

So keep your eye on the Billboard Top 40, because the next No. 1 song will probably be the band’s next viral hit.

And while Postmodern Jukebox is only the latest Binghamtonaffiliated group to make it big, who knows? The next YouTube star could be you.

Fans kickstart student band's debut album and future goals DreamReel's campaign for their first album hit the mark in just 4 days, using all that BU has to offer to make it happen senior majoring in electrical engineering. “I’m incredibly proud of the musicians in this group.”

In February 2011, student DreamReel’s Kickstarter for band DreamReel played their their self-titled album began on first show on campus. Now, a Sept. 26 and hit its $600 goal just Kickstarter for their first album four days afterward, following a has raised over $1,000, and the performance by Shapiro at the band members are reeling.

WHRW World Radio Concert “It’s just unreal that this is that prompted three posts on actually happening and we’re Binghamton Crushes. making this,” said Mike Shapiro, The band formed in January DreamReel frontman and a 2011 and had their first show Jacob Shamsian | Assistant Release Editor

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a month later, at Late Nite’s Spring 2011 Battle of the Bands.

Since then, they’ve performed Downtown and on campus, even opening for Kishi Bashi last semester. Shapiro, also the band’s guitarist and lyricist, met the other members in 2010 through Explorchestra, a campus group that plays music composed by students and “in every genre and instrumentation.” Two of the group’s members, Ayelet Kirchenbaum (violin and backing

vocals) and Alex Berg (percussion and eggshaker), graduated last spring while Manar Alherech (bass and backing vocals), who joined the band in March 2011, is still a Binghamton University student.

DreamReel’s style is folk rock with story-like lyrics, comparable to The Mountain Goats and Iron & Wine. They already have a few singles, “The Feint” being the most popular.

The band tries to get as many gigs as possible, even if every band member is not able to attend every show.

“Sometimes we wouldn’t have the whole band,” said Alherech, a senior double-majoring in Arabic and chemistry. “Sometimes we wouldn’t have a violinist, or a drummer.”

By the end of last fall, the band had 10 songs written for an album. With a spring graduation date looming for half the band, DreamReel knew that if they wanted to record an album, it would have to be soon. Fortunately, WHRW, where Shapiro is a DJ, has a recording studio.

“I’ve been writing songs since high school, and I’ve always wanted to record my songs on

something more than my laptop,” Shapiro said. “I wanted to do something more professional, and I saw that we had the tools at

DreamReel knew that if they wanted to record an album, it would have to be soon. the radio station to do that.”

The band recorded most of the album last winter break, but couldn’t find time to finish it during the spring semester.

The band members stayed after graduation during the summer to record the rest. Since then, they’ve mixed and mastered the album with LogicPro. Another student band, Basic Printer, also raised money for an album through Kickstarter over the summer and used WHRW for recording.

On Kickstarter, people pledge money in exchange for perks. If the funds aren’t raised by a certain amount of time,

the project becomes canceled and pledgers don’t have to pay anything. The band planned to front the money for the album themselves if they were unable to convince enough people to buy albums, posters, T-shirts and pictures of Kirchenbaum’s cat.

“We originally planned to raise the money in 14 [days],” Shapiro said. “We were having conversations like, ‘You know, if we don’t make the goal, we’ll each donate $100 each.’”

To make physical copies of the album, DreamReel used an online service called Disc Makers. Based on demand from family and friends who wanted to listen to their music, they estimated they needed around 100 copies, the cost of which was around $600 — their Kickstarter goal.

Although the goal has been reached, people can still donate money in exchange for perks before the Kickstarter project closes on Oct. 12. DreamReel will be playing a concert that night at 9 p.m. in the Undergrounds to promote the new album, which they will be selling in hard-copy form thanks to their devoted fans.

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The Nature Preserve snack you never knew existed Dorothy Farrell | Contributing Writer If you think you need a meal plan to eat on campus, then you forget that there’s a fresh market in our very own backyard. The Nature Preserve is a luscious area for finding wholesome foods. A bit of curiosity and a dash of faith allow foragers to experience the land behind the Brain in a novel way. Foraging amateurs can rejoice; the autumn olive bush is an excellent introduction to nature’s noshes.

These bountiful bushes are a land manager’s nightmare but a forager’s delight. Each year, the bushes gush an endless number of berries into the Nature Preserve. The plump, tart berries can be found throughout the preserve and are currently at their peak ripeness, earning them excellent candidacy for recipes or snacks.

Autumn olive is a species native to Asia. In the 1800s, the plant was taken to the U.S. for erosion control, soil improvement, aesthetic appeal and food. The bush’s resilience in poor soils, however, allowed

it to filtrate through North American ecosystems. In the Nature Preserve, dozens of autumn olive bushes can be found along the edges of trails where there is lots of sunlight.

The bright red autumn berries are distinguished by their gold-flecked markings.

They are roughly pea-sized and grow in copious clusters all up the branches. The bush’s thumb-sized leaves can best be distinguished by their green tops, silver undersides and smooth edges. Only eat what you can positively identify, otherwise you’ll be running out of the preserve straight to your dorm bathroom. You’ve been warned.

You can put a pail beneath berry branches to collect them more easily and in large amounts. The riper the berries, the easier it is to part them from their stems. On campus, there are many bushes that are still brimming with fruit.

It only takes a few moments to gather gallons of berries.

Don’t be tempted to eat all of your harvest, though — the berries are a unique asset to fall cuisine. The berries and seeds can be separated by simmering every four cups of

berries with half a cup of water.

Then use a sieve to separate seeds and pulp. Autumn berry pulp can be used diversely for autumnal recipes.

1. Jam The tart berries can be sweetened with honey, maple syrup, brown sugar or agave nectar. Add a bit of sweetener with Sure-Jell, a jellifying product. Mix this concoction with the berry pulp and more sweetener. Place over low heat until thick. After cooling, the berry brew jam is ready to be canned. A few tasty addins include cinnamon, mint leaves, orange rind or a kick of cayenne pepper.

2. Pie The berry pulp can be used as a filler on its own, or you could combine it with other mild, sweet berries. A little flour can be added to thicken the pulp. Pie crusts made from walnuts or pecans are an excellent autumnal complement. Place the puree in the crust and bake. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit for 50 minutes.

3. Fruit Leather If the berries are too tart for your taste, feel free to add a sweetener. Lay the puree

on a pan separated by a sheet of parchment paper. Bake for 10-12 hours at 150 degrees Fahrenheit. Cool and enjoy!

There are about 200 fullgrown autumn olive bushes in the preserve and hundreds of smaller ones. There are some bushes along the Marsh trail, but those are mostly picked through. For some bountiful bushes, look along the Field trail. There are also a few hefty bushes on the backside of Newing College.

Dylan Horvath, the steward of the Nature Preserve, has allowed the ones along the Marsh trail to grow in a bit because both beavers and people are taking a liking to them.

As long as Friends of the Nature Preserve, a student volunteer group, continues to manage the growth of autumn olives and creatures continue to eat the berries, the bush’s invasiveness will stay in check.

You can change your landscape, you can change your diet, but you cannot change the palatability of the autumn olive berry. The silver lining to this ecological tragedy is that the berries are too delicious to go to waste.

A close environment at undergrounds open mic Kathryn Shafsky | Staff Writer Thursday night, the Undergrounds became a hub for poets and musicians alike to express themselves, thanks to the open mic night hosted

by Diverse Cultural Xcellence, also know as DCX. The crowd was treated to a variety of performers, including slam poets, acoustic sets and even a few rappers.

Trey Bonaparte, the first brave performer of the night, dazzled the crowd with his impressive slam poetry.

Bonaparte has been performing for only about two years, but started writing poetry in his ninth grade writing class.

“In ninth grade, I was really shy and didn’t express myself much,” said Bonaparte, an undeclared freshman. “When I had new experiences, I wanted to write them down and create a story to share with people.”

Bonaparte says he loves the idea of connecting with people through so few words, as it presents him with the opportunity and challenge of showing people who he really is.

This was Bonaparte’s first open mic at Binghamton University, and he enjoyed that people felt free to express themselves in a noncompetitive environment.

Thursday’s open mic marked the third year that DCX, a group aimed toward self-

expression and unity, hosted the event. Diverse Cultural Xcellence was charted in 2005, and since then they have been trying to encourage students to get in touch with the great diversity that Binghamton has to offer.

“Our club is about diversity, and we like to try to find ways to get everyone together, regardless of gender, sexual orientation or race, to talk about what they’re feeling,” said Denee Jenkins, a junior majoring in geography and the president of DCX. Jenkins says that the open mic is intended to give everyone an opportunity to perform and express themselves without

concerns of being judged. Her favorite part of the night was the spoken word performances, which she felt everyone could really connect with. “[Open mics] are a great way for people to get involved and for people with similar interests to get connected,” said Dan Roman, a junior majoring in psychology and president of the Slam Poetry Club.

Each performer was greeted with roaring applause from the crowd, many of whom said they would be too afraid to ever perform themselves.

“I could never do an open mic,” said Alex Grzebyk, a sophomore majoring in

political science. “I really commend the performers for being so brave and open with the audience.”

The audience wasn’t just treated to the many inspiring poems that some of BU’s finest poets had to offer, but also to some great musical talent.

Whether you were onstage or off, the open mic offered a great environment and was surely not the last performance opportunity open to students in the Undergrounds this semester. If you have the urge to try an open mic, stay tuned for the next one.

“When I had new experiences, I wanted to write them down and create a story to share with people.”

— Trey Bontaparte Undeclared freshman

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Dress like a man: the Release Fall menswear guide The 7 effortless ways to class up your wardrobe and impress your friends without overdoing it Rich Kersting | Staff Writer Guys, dressing well in college is important. As tempting as it may be, rolling out of bed and into Lecture Hall wearing pajamas isn’t the best way to impress your peers. This lazy-boy sweatpants culture, while ridiculously comfortable, sacrifices a lot in terms of dressing like a man.

With these few quick and easyto-follow steps, you will step up your style and attire and start dressing like the man that you are.

1. Wear real pants to class. Lecture Hall 1 is not one big pajama party, especially not at 8:30 a.m. Trade in those loose and baggy sweatpants for something a little more … denim. Jeans are great, especially in the fall. The darker they are, the nicer they are, though the light wash is making a comeback. You don’t even need to go for broke with pants either. Even the most fashion-backward gentleman is capable of finding a good jeans sale. These days, you have more options than just blue jeans. Try out gray, beige, dark blue, light blue! And as degrees start to fall with the leaves, it’s never a bad time to start acquiring some comfortable, warm and stylish corduroys. Nobody is asking you to wear a three-piece suit to class, but please put on some real pants!

2. Invest in nicer shirts.

Now that we have pants out of the way, let’s move on to tops.

If polos aren’t really your thing,

fall is a great time to break out those button-down flannels.

Borrow your neighbor’s iron, or buy “wrinkle-free,” and get ready for some compliments. A blue oxford shirt can also class up a wardrobe. Everybody likes a flannel, especially in the fall.

Prone to perspiration? Put on a shirt underneath. It’s getting cold anyway. You might start to welcome the layers.

3. One belt goes a long way. Pants, check. Shirts, check. What else? Belts. It’s almost a proven fact that when someone tucks their shirt in and puts a belt on, they are prone to a compliment. Even if it is just a flannel tucked in with a woven belt, people take notice. And even if you wear it under your shirt and your pants fit you fine, the belt is the accessory that keeps your whole outfit one cohesive, impressive unit. Plus, how hard is it to throw on a belt in the morning?

Not hard.

4.

Kick aside your sneakers and pick up some real shoes. Good outfits start on good foundations: shoes.

Casual sneakers are nice, but don’t you think they’re more geared toward running at the gym? Get some nice casual shoes to wear for walking around campus. Vans, boat shoes, Converse: You know the type.

Best of all, the smart shopper can peg some of these beauties for under 50 bucks. However, if your tastes are more refined, a nice pair of loafers, while a bit more expensive, will make your outfit look exponentially more

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Logan Abrams, a freshman majoring in finance, enjoys the weather and a plaid button-down shirt outside of Glenn G. Bartle Library.

classy. Just remember, black shoes go with black belts and brown shoes go with brown belts, capiche?

5. Fall means sweaters.

As the temperature starts to drop, you are going to want to start wearing sweaters. Hoodies have their place. They are comfortable, warm and great for the fall. However, if you are looking for an alternative sweater experience, give the cardigan the old scout’s try.

Find one that fits right: snug but fitting. And remember to leave that bottom button open.

6. Fit is key. An important factor to take into consideration with any article of clothing is fit. If the shoe fits, wear it. If it doesn’t, don’t. It is really quite simple. A fitting, plain white T-shirt and jeans are going to beat a baggy, ill-fitting buttondown shirt any day. Fit is king, and it’s key to any outfit looking nice. Keep things snug, but not

tight. If your outfit doesn’t fit right, you’ll just wind up looking sloppy.

7. The scarf, if you are manly enough. Lastly, and this is for the bolder, more selfconfident men, is the scarf. The scarf is the perfect finisher for many outfits, and they have the added bonus of keeping your neck warm. Rock it loose, tie it up, loop it, whatever your preference. They’ll make you look cool while keeping you

warm and cozy.

Well there it is — a couple quick words of wisdom to turn your life around. If you start dressing like you take yourself seriously, the world will respond likewise. Each of these things will add, maybe, five more minutes to your morning routine. But they are five minutes worth spending.

Young sartorialists, you are welcome.

The no-BS guide to studying abroad Because Binghamton University is known largely for its affordability, its academics and its lack of athletic spirit, many students dismiss the idea of spending time in a foreign country. Most of the time, however, it’s simply because they don’t know enough about it and assume it’s too challenging to make it happen. In the hopes of shedding some light on one of the greatest opportunities you have in college, here’s some info that might help you decide.

Study Abroad: Why you should go 1. Personal growth: Living on your own in a strange country, handling your own money and making your own travel arrangements force you to act like an adult.

Independence and selfreliance come with studying abroad. When you return, tasks like managing $6 for State Street will be even easier.

2. Value to employers: Going abroad actually looks good on a resume. Hiring employers take note of a student who is cultured, mature, confident and openminded from experiences in a different country.

3. New people: When living in a foreign country, you and the other students on the program are pretty much guaranteed to get to know each other really well,

and you’ll probably become friends from bonding over jet lag and weird currencies.

You’ll also make friends from foreign countries, which is pretty awesome.

You can brag to your Bing friends back home, because to us, New Jersey is a foreign country.

4. See the world: Study abroad programs are known for pushing students to do additional travel. If you’re in Europe, for example, you can go to a different country every weekend, because airfare in Europe is cheaper than the prostitutes.

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Different courses: When abroad, you have the chance to take classes never offered at Binghamton or classes you never thought about taking. Also, Brit Lit in London is a lot cooler than Brit Lit in Student Wing.

Five Fantastic Binghamton Study Abroad Programs 1. Engaging Africa: Ethnography Study in Ghana — This six-credit program takes place during winter session for three weeks in Ghana. Students are offered the chance to study aspects of Ghanaian culture both in and out of the classroom. Fieldwork takes place at hospitals, schools, shrines, palaces, musical events, sacred sites and business environments in order to develop a cultural research project that addresses a topic relevant to the student’s field of study. The program is suitable for all majors.

2. Tropical Forest Workshop in Costa Rica — This workshop is unlike any other study abroad program. Over the summer, students have the opportunity to intern in Costa Rica. The internship will focus on tropical forest ecology, restoration ecology, conservation and techniques for monitoring biodiversity.

The program lasts for four weeks in July and consists of one course in addition to field research.

3. Semester-in-London Program — Although designed by the English department, this program is open to all majors. With no classes on Fridays and other classes meeting once a week, it was obviously designed with us in mind. Students will go to the theater regularly, and the classes all have a British focus. Overnight trips to Stonehenge, Bath, Scotland, Normandy and Paris are to be expected.

4. Al Akhawayn University Exchange Program — For either fall or spring semester, or the academic year, students will live on campus at Al Akhawayn University in Morocco, fully integrated with the Moroccan students. The courses include Arabic, North African and Islamic cultures and the university’s professional, science and arts classes.

So there you have it, the ultimate study abroad guide. Before you go, make sure your credits are transferable, and brace yourself for some culture shock. But otherwise, going abroad may be one of the coolest college opportunities you’ll get. So enough reading Release, go sign up now!

5. Murdoch University in Perth, Australia — Australia is known to be one of the best places to go abroad. While Sydney is the most famous city in the country, the city of Perth has a whole lot to offer. Western Australia has millions of acres of national parks and reserves, including beaches, gorges and ancient forests. Perth itself is Australia’s sunniest city, as well as being one of the cleanest, safest, least expensive and most beautiful cities on the continent. What’s not to love?

This program is offered either semester or for the academic year and is open to all majors.

Most Popular Study Abroad Cities 1. London, England 2. Paris, France 3. Barcelona, Spain 4. Sydney, Australia 5. Florence, Italy Rebecca Porath | Staff Writer

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Brace yourself for AHS season 3

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6 reasons this season will satisfy your horror craving Rebecca Porath | Staff Writer Ryan Murphy’s horrifying vision, “American Horror Story,” returns Oct. 9 for season 3: “American Horror Story: Coven.”

While the second season was disappointing to many fans last year, the show promises to be bigger and scarier than ever. The plot revolves around a group of witches in New Orleans who are nearly extinct and in grave danger. Set in both the 1830s and modern day, the acclaimed miniseries will feature witchcraft, voodoo, slavery, romance and general scariness. In case you’re still not convinced, here are eight reasons you should be excited about “American Horror Story: Coven.”

1. This cast is amazing Adam Levine was a great addition to last year’s season, but “AHS: Coven” is stacked.

With Kathy Bates, Jessica Lange, Angela Bassett, Gabourey Sidibe, Emma Roberts, Taissa Farmiga, Sarah Paulson, Lily Rabe, Evan Peters and countless other stars, “Coven” is exploding with talent. Brace yourselves.

2. The return of a love story Tate and Violet were a huge reason why the first season was so incredible. The love story provided another layer to the narrative that was deeply missed in the second season.

Better yet, Evan Peters and Taissa Farmiga, who portrayed Tate and Violet, will again be involved in a “Romeo and

Juliet”-like love story. This time, she’s a witch and he’s a frat boy. Don’t drink the Polyjuice punch.

3. You don’t have to catch up on the previous seasons Even though you should — because the show is amazing — there is no need to watch the previous two seasons if you don’t have the time. The seasons are not connected at all. Ah, the beauty of anthologies.

4. No more asylum or Bloody Face Personally, I was done with the asylum after about episode three. The gloominess, the overplaying of the religion versus science argument, the unnecessarily creepy background actors and the general weirdness of the place will all be gone and replaced with a contemporary, beautiful New Orleans.

5. The return of humor Executive producer Tim Minear said that this season would have a lighter and funnier tone. After a season of one disturbing image after another, audiences really need to lighten up. Thank you Ryan Murphy, we needed this.

6. Social themes While season 1 was pretty much the story of a haunted house and season 2 tried to input some social causes, season 3 seems like it has more backbone. Producers say that this season deals with the themes of oppression of minorities, minority rivalry, assimilation and feminism.

Sign us up.

Splicing together porn and pretending to be Jane Fonda Visiting filmmaker gets experimental

Ilana Lipowicz | Contributing Writer Scott Stark is not excited by questions of meaning. On Wednesday, Stark, the first guest of the Harpur College cinema department’s “Visiting Film and Video Artists/Speaker Series,” humbly introduced himself to the students and professors in attendance. He had a serious expression, which every so often divulged a gleam of the sense of humor we see in some of his films. With his elbows always at his sides, he spoke with a quiet eloquence about the nature of his work.

Stark has made more than 65 films since his career began in the ’80s. While his films can be construed as possessing some social or political statement, his interest lies mostly in the power of film to explore and challenge perspective, as well as to transport the mind to different states.

In accord with the cinema department’s experimental lean, Stark’s films seem to have in common a conception in the question “what if?”

From the earlier films he showed, it is clear that this question has brought out his creativity in the face of even the most mundane tasks. The first two films showcased were made at his earlier jobs — one in the accounting sector, one in a hotel. The first, called “Corporate Accounting,” Stark made at work by running canceled checks through a

machine which took images of them on 16 mm film. The checks fly vertically down the frame and blend together into two columns which wave side to side. The result is hypnotic, an effect that he excels at creating.

This first film also introduces us to his interest in the found image. In “I’ll Walk With God,” Stark manipulates and strings together images out of an airplane safety booklet. He has also found his material in more provocative sources. Eyes were wide open during his film “NOEMA,” for which pornography served as his source. The film is comprised of short repeating bits of footage taken from porn, most of which depict the liminal spaces of sex and porn: the changing of positions, a painting in the background.

This film raised many questions for the audience, who seemed to be digging for a meaning. Stark explained that he was not trying to send a message, but to draw attention to the pieces of pornography that a person watching it would not see or look for.

After seeing this, we would not be shocked by his more recent film “Speechless,” in which an extreme close-up of a clitoris is superimposed with shots of grass and other elements of nature, with interesting geometric patterns and colors. Well, maybe a little shocked. Together the superimposed images vibrate,

pulse, and rotate, blending into each other and creating again his token hypnotic effect.

Stark seems to have a special enthusiasm for the most socially charged of his pieces, “More Than Meets the Eye: Remaking Jane Fonda,” in which he himself does Jane Fonda’s workout video in a variety of areas — a parking lot, his balcony and in front of a baseball field, to name a few. As he jumps and flails to Fonda’s enthusiastic instructions, quotes from her biography scroll across the screen on the topic of her transformation from an innocent to a sexualized icon and the public’s response to it, as well as her feelings on the war in Vietnam. This film reveals his taste for social debates as well as his sense of humor. As he jumps and waves his arms to the video, he hops a little to the right to make room for two people to walk by as he keeps his eyes on the screen. This is an example of the unplanned element he welcomes in his films.

“I like to go into an environment and not be in control of it and see what happens,” Stark said.

The series will continue through November.

The second speaker, Jem Cohen, will show and discuss his film “Museum Hours” at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 5 in Lecture Hall 6.

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Desserted

Nic Cage

Fun Page Archives

Jeremy Kaplowitz

Literal Grandpa

The Night After Halloween

Rebecca Li

Mike Oberon Manzi

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Want a Job? Join the Club A s college years pass us by, the impending doom that is the job market approaches.

As students with generic B.A.s from Harpur College, there’s reason to be dismayed, especially when we’re up against graduates from specialty programs in more prestigious universities. But not having trade-specific schools may not actually hold us back, but instead make us unique and even set us apart. Being thrown into the liberal arts pool makes us more individual, more club-driven and a more responsible student body. Job market, get at us.

Regardless of your college or major, nothing is guaranteed. That being said, students in Harpur with anxiety about the future should fear not. Or at least fear less. You’re doing more to prepare yourself than you think. While at other schools, students learn from advisors and from professors with industry experience, at Binghamton University we learn from our clubs, from our peers and from ourselves.

Take Robyn Adele, whose rise to YouTube fame is profiled in Release this issue. She’s found success as a singer but didn’t major in voice at BU. She was a political science and Arabic major. In fact, she tells students that your major doesn’t dictate your career: “To anyone planning on pursuing a career in singing/ stage performing, all I can say is that you don’t need a

degree in those things to be famous on YouTube!

Training is helpful, but a degree is not necessary.”

Or flip to the news section and read about senior Rebecca Rosen, who is applying for graduate school to pursue a degree in education. Despite the fact that BU doesn’t have an education major, Rosen said she feels prepared for her advanced studies, citing extracurriculars like the Johnson City Mentor Program and SUNY Kids as giving her sufficient experience with children to make up for a lack of formal educational training.

And, of course, many of our editors and writers pursuing a journalism career compensate for the University’s lack of a program by working for Pipe Dream. We’ve all gained invaluable skills covering campus news without even the aid of a faculty advisor, experience that has helped many current members and alumni secure internships and, ultimately, jobs in the industry.

Every semester, Frank Roessner, one of BU’s rhetoric professors, tells the story of a Northwestern University journalism grad who quit the Press & SunBulletin one of her first days on the job because she didn’t know how to write a story on deadline. She

graduated from one of the country’s elite journalism programs, but she didn’t have the necessary experience to survive outside the classroom.

Here, we have a few journalism classes and nothing else. But because of Pipe Dream, we have have newsroom experience before entering a professional newsroom, which is more valuable than four years at a communications school. For many students, there is only learning about the hands-on work that we’re actually doing now.

Our Student Association groups are student-run, allowing students to learn how to handle millions of dollars in budgets and lead peers. Our students dictate the campus landscape and what our college experience is like. We plan the concerts and run the biggest campus events, and in doing so we are responsible for our own actions.

That being said, our clubs make up for the fact that we can bullshit our way through our classes. But that’s just another thing that makes our school so unique. If you’re in Harpur and worried about your prospects post-graduation, getting more involved now may be your answer. It certainly isn’t switching into our communications program.

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Government shutdown: Our generation is to blame We have the tools to learn but remain politically ignorant and apathetic As the government shutdown trudges on, it is hard for me to imagine how our politicians allowed us to get to this point once again. I wonder how people can continue reelecting politicians that are too stubborn to compromise no matter what the cost. But, in all fairness, how could I expect anything else? The American public does not know any better — in a way, we created our current state of political affairs because we, as a generation, are too uninterested to change it.

David Forrest Contributing Columnist

I don’t think I’m adding anything new to the conversation when I say that the American public is largely uninterested in politics. Many view politics as a “rich man’s game” or something that they cannot understand. Though they most likely would not admit it, many people

would rather watch “American Idol” than watch the president speak.

But it hasn’t always been this way.

President John F. Kennedy’s 1961 inaugural address is known for its famous quote, “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.”

With his unmistakable accent, President Kennedy called an entire generation of Americans to action. And he got his wish; the 1960s certainly were a decade of action. Sweeping cultural changes like the Civil Rights Movement, social welfare and the Vietnam War protests define our memories of the decade.

It is difficult to find a modern day equivalent to the draft dodgers of the 1960s.

But it’s not like people are completely satisfied with the state of American affairs.

On the contrary, people couldn’t be less satisfied. No Congress has ever been more unpopular than our 113th Congress. The American people are tired of Congress routinely bringing us to the brink of fiscal disaster. In addition, many disapprove of President Barack Obama’s policies. But we do our best to carry on with our lives and disregard the three-ring circus that calls

itself the United States Congress. accountable for their mistakes, so how can We face challenges just as important a government of the people, by the people as those that rallied so many Americans to and for the people function without the interest of the people?

Judging by our current state of affairs, not very well. Luckily, we have the tools needed to change. Technological advancements have made it easier than ever before to obtain information. While the Internet and 24-hour news stations are not ideal sources for political news, they are excellent resources for those attempting to learn about today’s politics.

An informed public is the first step in returning passion to politics. Once we are passionate about politics and action in the 1960s, yet we, as a nation, do truly understand how the institutions of nothing. So where’s the anger? Where are government work, we can hold politicians the protests? What is holding us back? who do not act in our best interests The answer boils down to one word: accountable through the less popular information. The American public as a midterm elections. We have the power to whole is grossly uninformed about how put an end to the brinkmanship politics we our government works. This lack of have been forced to endure as of late — it’s information is hindering the operation just that many of us don’t know it yet. of our democracy. Our Founding Fathers created a government that is dependent — David Forrest is a senior majoring on an informed and politically active in English. population to hold its representatives

Where's the anger?

Where are the protests? What is holding us back?

The answer boils down to one word: information

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Obamacare is due for a checkup

Hook-up culture's threats

Constitutional merit can't be taken for granted

Why our generation can't handle committment

The United States Supreme Court holds an intrinsic institutional mandate to be both cold and calculating.

Why does an unanswered text message elicit so much angst? Why are we attracted to people we don’t even like? And why do we shrug off people who show an incessant interest in us? Because we do not want commitment, we want a scandal. We do not want to settle down, we want a chase and a casual hook-up.

Jake Ethé Contributing Columnist

Landmark cases like Dred Scott v. Sandford and Plessy v.

Ferguson — both contributors toward the maintenance of African-American servitude and segregation — seem to us now to be reflections of a court intent on bypassing political, economic and social ‘rightness’ in favor of strict adherence to constitutional legality.

In essence, the court traded the pressing question of what made moral and practical sense for the more tangible and answerable question of what was constitutionally justifiable.

In both of the aforementioned cases, the law overrode our current notions of morality and social responsibility.

The 2010 Affordable Care Act, often termed “ObamaCare,” which was upheld by the Supreme Court in 2012, is a case of the converse.

In other words, whereas past Supreme Court cases have stuck to the precedent of upholding or ruling in favor of laws that may be politically, morally or economically ‘wrong,’ but constitutionally and legally ‘right,’ the Affordable Care Act presents a case where the law is politically, economically and socially ‘right,’ but constitutionally questionable.

Whether or not the act is truly constitutionally ‘right’ needs to be reexamined.

The 5-4 split in the court’s voting already indicates the presence of a gray area, so questioning the finding’s legitimacy is justifiable.

A central piece of the Affordable Care Act is its individual mandate, a provision that compels citizens to purchase health insurance.

The general purpose of this mandate is to ensure that young, healthy Americans (who often defer the purchase of health insurance until later years) enter the insurance pool.

More entrants into the pool means lower premiums, which makes it easier for those who cannot afford health insurance to purchase it.

To add brevity to a lengthy legal dispute: In its majority decision, the Supreme Court explicitly rejected the notion that the individual mandate was constitutionally justifiable under the right of Congress to regulate interstate commerce.

Compelling people to commerce, they claimed, is not the same as regulating it. Rather, the mandate was upheld under the right of Congress to tax.

The case brief reads as follows: “CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS concluded in Part III–B that the individual mandate must be construed as imposing a tax on those who do not have health insurance, if such a construction is reasonable.”

Later on in the opinion, this construction is deemed reasonable and justifiable, despite the Obama administration’s earlier insistence that the law was not a tax.

Here’s where things get tricky.

The individual mandate is,

legally, a tax levied on those who do not purchase health insurance. It is a tax on the lack of action. It is a tax on inaction — the first of its kind.

The Supreme Court decided that this was constitutional — but is it?

My instinct is to say yes.

I believe that, barring the Congressional sabotage that seems ever more probable in light of the ongoing budget crisis, the Affordable Care Act has the potential to improve the health care system in a sensible manner.

See what I did there? I let my instinctual perception of the law as being politically, economically and socially ‘right’ cloud my judgment of whether or not it ought to be considered constitutionally justifiable.

So, is it truly constitutionally justifiable?

I don’t know. I’ve been mulling over this question in my head for over a year now. I don’t think it is. I think it sets a dangerous precedent to justify taxation of inaction.

Questions like “If a law passed trying to tax me for my lack of red hair, would that be constitutionally justifiable?” sound juvenile. But in this case, they aren’t useless questions.

Let’s take a step back, ignore the noise from Congress about the law’s implementation for a moment and put ourselves in the seat of a Supreme Court justice.

Is a law like this — a tax on inaction — no matter how politically, economically or socially sensible it may appear, actually justifiable under the United States Constitution?

— Jake Ethé is a freshman majoring in political science.

Letter to the Editor Dear editor: I have seldom been more embarrassed for our school than when I read the recent article in the Pipe Dream about the promotion of parapsychology ideas on campus. I would very much like to know how one can go about verifying “spirit” communication, let alone testing it empirically. If these spirits that are discussed in the recent pipe dream article are material, then presumably they should be measurable. Also presumably, since they are a part of the physical universe, they would take up mass, space, etc and therefore would be measurable. Yet more than a century of experimentation in parapsychology and two thousand years of its promotion by various segments of Western Christianity have failed to provide substantive proof of spirits operating in the physical universe. One could, of course, posit that these spirits are non-physical beings who interact with the physical universe. But how do non-physical beings produce physical reactions in a natural environment? How can a non-physical spirit - which is presumably what Gary Truce is promoting, since otherwise we should have had definitive proof of spirits and ghosts centuries ago - produce a physical reaction?

Indeed, I would love to know how this nonphysical mind, which clearly does not have a brain - or else it would be physical - can even think, let alone write “Hi Gary” as Dr. Truce indicates. Truce’s ideas here not only seem to violate common sense, but Occam’s razor.

How can a non-material, brainless being (not speaking biologically here, but in terms of being composed or not composed of elements in the physical universe) not only have a mind, but a mind that can affect the physical universe without itself being physical?

Perhaps Dr. True is promoting a version of

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Strong A.I. for ghosts, but somehow I don’t think that’s the case.

Many students see such lectures as harmless fun. I do not. The promotion of the idea of non-physical beings affecting the physical universe has had profoundly negative effects on people that grew up in my former culture, evangelicalism. I have had to stay up all night listening to young women threatening to kill themselves because the demons they had been taught about had caused them to be cursed by God for the “sins” of anorexia and bulimia. I have seen the idea of demons and evil spirits being used in the Third World to promote the murder of so-called “witch children”; hundreds, perhaps thousands of children died because of the promotion of these beliefs, which had their roots in evangelical demonological systems of the 80’s to which both secular and Christian critics contributed. And I have seen the idea of “strategic level spiritual warfare” (SLSW) become the dominant discourse of Charismatic Christianity. This doctrine promotes the idea that literally entire people groups are “demonized” because of their indigenous religious practices. Great suffering has been caused by this doctrine, including the promotion of death penalty legislation for LGBT people in Uganda, based directly on SLSW ideology; ideology imported directly from the United States.

So next time students here want to play Ghostbusters, or a teacher wants to promote hauntings, just remember that ghost-hunting comes at a cost. And it may be a lot higher than a lot of people anticipate.

Sincerely, Dr. John Weaver English Department

Julianne Cuba Columnist

After spending almost four years in college with a superfluous amount of nights spent Downtown, I have had time to observe the way sex on a college campus works, and it is simply inexplicable.

This fad is a recent trend that I believe will sadly make marriage, settling down and remaining loyal a very difficult process for our generation.

To what do we owe this phenomenon? I would firmly say the media.

New shows on television, such as “Betrayal,” “Mistresses” and “Scandal,” revolve around extramarital affairs and even portray them in a positive light.

While watching these shows, we get caught up in the enthrallment of them and begin to view affairs as acts that are fun and exciting, rather than sinful.

In the 1950s, a married couple in bed together was still considered scandalous for television. In 1947, the television show “Mary Kay and

Johnny” was the first to feature a couple — husband Johnny and wife Mary Kay — in bed together.

We now regularly see explicit sex performed by people who are supposed to be in committed relationships with other people.

American television has certainly come a long way in the bedroom.

In July 2012, Cosmopolitan magazine featured an article about what to do if you cheat on your husband or significant other. The advice given to women who had cheated was to keep it a secret and continue with the relationship as if nothing had happened.

I highly doubt our grandmothers would have passed that advice onto our mothers.

These shows and articles greatly influence the way we view our relationships, and the degree to which we hold them as sacred, in my opinion, is greatly decreasing.

The television we choose to watch and the magazines we choose to read begin to infiltrate our college campuses. Instead of avidly looking for a relationship or a spouse to love and grow old with, we settle for a casual, meaningless hook-up.

We don’t want a steady relationship because we have been told that a scandal is more fun.

In July 2013, The New York Times published an article, “Sex on Campus — She Can Play That Game, Too,” about the hookup culture at the University of Pennsylvania. The findings are applicable to most colleges in the United States. One student that was interviewed for the article told the Times that her group of friends was no longer searching for steady boyfriends, but for people they

could routinely hook up with. The anonymous student described her ideal man as a “guy that we don’t actually really like his personality, but we think is really attractive and hot and good in bed.”

The hook-up culture on our campus makes us blind to the reality of marriage As fun and carefree as this mentality seems now, how will it affect us when it comes time to actually settle down?

The majority of us will not know how to compromise, how to make time for someone other than ourselves, how to genuinely care for another person’s pleasure and happiness or how to learn to appreciate someone else in his or her entirety. Those who have only experienced the casual hookup don’t know how to make a relationship work. Our generation just gives up and moves onto the next one when things get tough — but that is not how relationships succeed.

The hook-up culture on our college campus makes us blind to the reality of marriage and, instead, lets us fall in love with the chase and the scandal.

— Julianne Cuba is a senior double-majoring in history and Chinese.

It is time to cut the bullshit Amid the crap, critical perspectives are needed Bullshit is everywhere.

Students are especially exposed to the art of bullshit; it has become all but natural. Bullshitting is rampant and an honest problem that impacts virtually every aspect of education.

Justin Santabarbara Contributing Columnist

Bullshit fills our daily lives.

Think back to the last time you were at the grocery store: Do you really think the cashier cares if you have a nice day? How about that last time you told someone to have a nice day; did you truly care?

Bullshit has become commonplace, and it comes at a heavy price. For the most part, we’ve lost a sense of meaning for things.

Its domain knows no bounds, as bullshit has also taken form in the classroom. Many professors only foster bullshit incubators when they designate page or word limits on papers or require a meaningless explanation. If a student is left with nothing to say, the remainder of the paper will be filled with empty information, which would once again be bullshit.

Classrooms are not the only place where bullshit festers.

Bullshit is often cultivated from being rewarded for simple tasks or for fulfilling an expectation. By rewarding middle and high school students for completing general tasks, they are not adequately prepared for the thanklessness of real life. An expectation for bullshit is therefore instilled when one anticipates being rewarded for completing an easy task.

Deception is also a crucial consideration in the art of bullshitting. Advertising is a prime example. Rarely do advertisements discuss the actual worth of a particular product. Rather, the majority of advertisements focus on things like sex appeal or popularity.

Fooling people into purchasing a product for these reasons is bullshit.

as well as education. It damages the foundations of our youth and our susceptibility to deception.

Bullshit makes society vulnerable to dishonesty.

Bullshit should be inconsequential, but sadly it saturates our world. Calling bullshit is difficult and timeconsuming, but it must be learned.

Consumers must learn when they are being puffed or deceived, just as voters should learn when their representatives are doing the same.

All bullshit is alike: worthless.

The question then remains: What can be done to stop the bullshit from flowing further downhill?

It begins with education. We must teach young students to be critical consumers, not only of products and advertising, but also of the world around them. General statements can no longer be taken at face value. We must decipher conversations in order to separate the bullshit from the real.

For those that are past the stages of bullshitology, true meaning and clarity will only come through the persistence to be critical of our surroundings and our society.

Unfortunately, nothing can be Bullshit has become implicit, taken at face value. The bullshit ingrained into our collective must be shoveled. subconscious. We need to know when to call bullshit, on ourselves — Justin Santabarbara is a and on others. Bullshit is a freshman majoring in philosophy, detriment to daily understanding politics and law.

What can be done to stop the bullshit from flowing further downhill?

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Volleyball seeking first AE win BU to face Providence, Hartford over weekend Brandon Fine Contributing Writer The Binghamton volleyball team, mired in a four-match skid, will look to get back on its feet tonight when it heads to Rhode Island to clash with Providence.

The contest will mark each team’s second America East tilt of the season.

In its first conference matchup last Sunday, the Bearcats (212, 0-1 AE) fell in straight sets to give Albany, who had started 0-12, its first win of the season.

Bouncing back against the Friars (8-9, 1-0 AE) won’t be an easy task, as second-place Providence is coming off of a dominant, straightset victory against Hartford.

The Friars bested the Hawks in sets of 25-17, 25-20 and 25-21, with star freshman outside hitter Kayla Fitzgerald finishing with a team-high 11 kills. Junior outside hitter Mackenzie Ziegler leads the Friars overall with 149 kills so far this season, nine of which she logged against Hartford. Junior outside hitter Colleen McCollom, likewise, tallied nine, and finishes off the Friar trifecta with 130 kills

on the season.

Led by senior middle hitter Grace Vickers, Binghamton hopes to make a statement to the rest of the league by beating a wellrounded Providence team. Even so, Binghamton head coach Glenn Kiriyama is more concerned with his team’s performance than the Friars’.

“We’re focusing on our side of the court,” Kiriyama said. “We just want to play better than what we have. We know we can have better results if we just play a little better all around.”

Vickers, freshman outside hitter Allison Hovie and sophomore middle hitter Megan Burgess have proved the most lethal hitters on BU’s court, posting kill counts of 131, 123 and 102, respectively. Hovie has most recently emerged as a force to be reckoned with, posting consistently high numbers over the past three weeks.

Kiriyama cited hitting efficiency and serving as two major areas of concern for his team, but also acknowledged the impact that junior setter Amanda Dettmann needs to have in order

for Binghamton to leave Alumni Hall with a victory.

“We’re looking for her to have a nice match,” Kiriyama said. “If she can run our offense efficiently, I think we’ll be fairly successful.”

BU has had a lot of difficulty on the road this year, but Kiriyama believes that his players are starting to understand what it takes to win away from home.

“The road has been tough for us … but they’re starting to realize, especially the new girls, that these games are pretty intense,” he said.

Although they may not be the favorite coming into this matchup, Binghamton was able to secure a hard-fought, five-set victory last year at Providence.

But the Bearcats will meet an entirely new opponent than they did last season, when the Friars completed their 2012 campaign with a record of 1-30, including a winless conference season.

Binghamton and Providence are scheduled to square off at 6 p.m. Friday at Alumni Hall in Providence, R.I. The Bearcats are set to conclude their weekend at 1 p.m. Sunday at Hartford Volleyball Gym.

'Cuse beats BU in double OT Orange net game-winner in 105th minute Travis McKeever Contributing Writer The Binghamton men’s soccer team put itself in an early hole Tuesday night at SU Soccer Stadium and, despite an equalizing goal in the second, eventually fell 2-1 in double overtime after Syracuse displayed some late-game heroics.

BU (2-6-2) junior midfielder Ben Nicholson kept the game alive in the second half by netting a rebound goal that sent the teams into double overtime, but Syracuse (7-3) netted the game-winner five minutes into the second overtime period when a rebound in the box fell at freshman midfielder Alex Halis’s feet. The win gave SU its 10th consecutive non-conference win.

Syracuse first scored in the 27th minute of the match.

Sophomore midfielder Stefanos Stamoulacatos buried his second goal of the season on a loose ball to the right of the net in order to give the Orange a 1-0 advantage over the Bearcats.

The first 45 minutes of action ended with each team attempting just two shots apiece in a sound defensive effort on both sides, despite SU’s one-goal lead.

In the second half, sophomore goalkeeper Stefano Frantellizzi had his work cut out for him as he faced a barrage of shots on net from Syracuse’s attack. Frantellizzi made a total of seven saves and allowed no goals in the second half.

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“[Stefano’s] been a warrior for us,” BU head coach Paul Marco said. “I mean… I’m thoroughly impressed with the ability that he has to carry through and push through some adversity.”

The Bearcat offense was virtually non-existent until Nicholson tied the game in the 78th minute. The goal was his first of the season.

“It was a great goal, I thought that the build up prior to the play was good,” Marco said. “The goalkeeper made a great save and then was smashed into the goal.”

The Bearcats finished regulation with a total of four shots to SU’s 12.

BU headed into the first overtime period with momentum on its side, but couldn’t take advantage as both teams went scoreless in the first 10-minute period.

Five minutes into the second overtime period, Frantellizzi blocked a shot that he had trouble controlling in his own box. With Frantellizzi unable to grip the ball, Halis touched in a shot off the rebound to end the game.

“The ball was struck from such a great distance you know… it was a little wet and could have been a difficult ball for Stef to handle,” Marco said. “I thought we could have done a little bit better with the ball that went to [Halis] and should have done a better job tracking him in the box.”

Halis’s game-winning shot was his third of the season.

Frantellizzi saved a total of nine shots throughout the contest, matching his career-high against George Mason on Sept.

8. Binghamton was outshot 17-6 throughout all play.

“We’ve created a culture where we don’t really look at the result as good or bad, we just move on to the next game,” Marco said.

Binghamton is scheduled to open its America East slate Saturday at Vermont. The Catamounts (6-1-3) come off a 1-1 tie against undefeated Dartmouth on Tuesday, with both goals netted in the second half. The last time the teams met, Vermont took a 1-0 double-overtime victory at the Bearcats Sports Complex, but the teams’ all-time record stands at 5-5-3.

The match will be played at Vermont’s Virtue Field, where the team has been unbeaten this season (4-0-1) Play is set to begin at 1 p.m. in Burlington, V.T.

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Practice Men's basketball update

By Ari Kramer | Sports Editor

Redshirt junior guard Rob Mansell, who missed all of 2012-13 while recovering from tears of his left ACL, MCL and meniscus, said he’s ready to return to game action.

“It feels great,” Binghamton’s leading scorer of 2011-12 said. “It’s not even an issue. Feels just like my right.”

Mansell plans to team up with sophomore guard Jordan Reed to provide the Bearcats a scoring punch they lacked last season.

* * * BU head coach Tommy Dempsey said he has primarily pitted Reed and Mansell against each other in practice because their competitive natures push them to higher levels.

Dempsey said he plans to start playing them on the same side of the ball, and he is not concerned about their ability to excel alongside each other.

“Rob finishes a little bit more at the mid-range while Jordan finishes more at the rim,” he said.

* * * Academically ineligible for the last 13 games of 2012-13, senior guard Rayner Moquete has been cleared to play this semester. Moquete, who averaged 8.1 points per game last year, said he’s healthy and excited to suit up.

“Just knowing that I will be able to help the team reach our goal feels great,” he said.

* * * Junior forward Jabrille Williams has not practiced in the official preseason after undergoing surgery two weeks ago to repair a sports hernia. Dempsey said he expects Williams to return to action in about one month.

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AE UPDATE America East alters men's basketball tourney format

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Junior midfielder Ben Nicholson netted BU’s only goal off a rebound in the team’s 2-1 loss to Syracuse Tuesday.

The America East announced Thursday afternoon that its men’s basketball tournament format will change for the 2015 and 2016 seasons, with the high seed in each individual matchup playing host.

The bracket will be re-seeded after the quarterfinals so the highest remaining seeds will match up with the lowest remaining seeds in the semifinals.

The change had been in the making since June, when, according to the conference’s press release, the league’s athletic directors and presidents endorsed the America East coaches’ unanimous proposal for the switch.

Under the current system, a predetermined site holds the quarterfinals and semifinals while the highest remaining seed hosts the championship. The announcement of the format change comes just seven months after top-seeded Stony Brook fell to fourth-seeded Albany in the semis at the Great Danes’ SEFCU Arena.

“I think it’s important that if you’ve

played well all year that you have every chance to get [to the NCAA tournament],” Binghamton University head coach Tommy Dempsey said. “If you’re the one seed and you have three home playoff games and somebody comes into your building and beats you, they deserve it.” “[If] you play your biggest game of the season in a true road game with the pressure of being the one seed, that’s a tough spot to be in.”

Dempsey, whose Rider teams experienced two different formats of the MAAC tournament, said that justice was not the only driving factor behind the switch.

“Now you have four home teams, all the venues are sold out,” Dempsey said. “It’s a great experience for the student athletes.

I’ve seen [the MAAC tournament] when it was at Siena. I’ve seen it when it was at Springfield, which was neutral. Neither worked in my opinion.”

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Welcome to the fourth week of Pipe Dream NFL Picks! Every week, Pipe Dream sports editors and one guest will attempt to correctly predict the outcome of four upcoming games of their choice, selecting one prediction as a LOCK. Getting the LOCK correct earns you three points, while getting it wrong costs you one. The other three games are worth one point each, and there is no penalty for wrong guesses on these. Ties give you a half-point. After the third week, Erik stays hot on top with eight points, and Ari boosts himself up to a firstplace tie with eight. Ashley follows in third with seven, while the guest keeps the rear with five. If you would like to submit picks, email sports@bupipedream. com.

Pipe Dream Picks Erik 8-4 8 Ari 5-7 8 Ashley 6-6 6 Guest 5-7 5 SPORTS EDITOR

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LOCK: ATLANTA (-10) over NY Jets Because the Browns played Thursday night, I can’t take their opponent as my lock.

LOCK: New Orleans (pk) over CHICAGO You’d think the Windy City’s team could handle a little Brees. But you’d be sorely mistaken.

ST. LOUIS (-11.5) over Jacksonville When signing Tim Tebow is your fanbase’s best solution, you know you belong in the Arena Football League.

ATLANTA (-10) over NY Jets The Jets still might be the best team in New York (New Jersey?), but that’s not saying much.

Carolina (-2) over ARIZONA The Cam can.

New England (+1.5) over CINCINNATI Did the oddsmakers forget that the Pats just beat the Falcons on the road? And that Cincy just lost to Cleveland?

New Orleans (pk) over CHICAGO What Ari said.

NY GIANTS (-2) over Philadelphia Because the Giants can’t possibly start 0-5. Eli’s not that bad, right? Come on, G-Men, this pick is almost getting old.

LOCK: Denver (-7.5) over DALLAS The Broncos are actually the best team since the merger 43 years ago. I think they may have infused Peyton with adamantium in 2011 — he’s as OP as Wolverine.

LOCK: Denver (-7.5) over DALLAS Denver’s clearly the best team in the NFL right now. Also, Peyton is on my fantasy team so I’ve been rooting for him every week.

Seattle (-3) over INDIANAPOLIS Seahawks are still pulling themselves together, but even so, they’ve shown that they can travel well and have a solid defense. Indy doesn’t have what it takes to snap that streak.

New Orleans (pk) over CHICAGO Even with Sean Payton back, the Saints look better then ever and their offense really seems to be clicking. Plus, Jimmy Graham is the man and is also on my fantasy team.

Detroit (+7) over GREEN BAY Packers are boasting the next-worst average defense so far. On top of that, Suh and Fairley are just going to aggravate Rodgers into spoiling whatever lead the Packers might have in the fourth (for the third time).

ST. LOUIS (-11.5) over Jacksonville Jacksonville is actually horrible.

Houston (+6.5) over SAN FRANCISCO Matt Schaub’s not actually torched, although his fans would like him to be. Colin Kaepernick has had a pretty lackluster three weeks, and I think that before that fatal pick-six in the fourth quarter, Schaub proved himself the better QB.

GREEN BAY (-7) over Detroit Packers really need to get back on track and get a win this week. Aaron Rodgers told me he’s about to have a record breaking performance.

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UMBC nets goal in 106th minute to defeat Bearcats Despite holding 15-7 shot advantage, BU can't find back of net for fourth time in 2013 Erik Bacharach Assistant Sports Editor For the second consecutive game to open its conference season, the Binghamton women’s soccer team held its opponents scoreless through 90 minutes of regulation. While the Bearcats forced a tie in their last match, Thursday night saw a lastminute goal in the second suddendeath overtime period that gave UMBC a 1-0 victory at the Bearcats Sports Complex.

In the 106th minute, sophomore back Alexa Quaranta was positioned perfectly to take possession of a shot

by UMBC that ricocheted toward her. She then maneuvered past the defense and snuck the ball just inside the right post for her third goal of the season.

“I thought it was a really tough battle,” BU head coach Sarah McClellan said. “I thought our team really worked hard in the second half and it started to pay off with our passes … you hate to say the word ‘unlucky’ but that’s sometimes soccer. We need to just use this to gain mental toughness and put away our chances earlier in the game and not let opponents stay in the game.”

After an even first half in which each team took three shots and recorded two saves, the Bearcats (54-2, 0-1-1 America East) were the aggressors in the second half. BU fired eight shots in the stanza, while UMBC (6-4-2, 1-1-0 AE) managed only two.

“Our team worked really well,” junior back Connie Gormley said.

“We kept fighting until the last minute, until they happened to score

… It’s sad that we lost but at least our work rate was there the whole time.”

The Bearcats outshot the Retrievers 15-7 in the match, but UMBC matched Binghamton’s five shots on goal.

In the net, senior keeper Carrie Martin grabbed two saves in a scoreless first half, while junior Gaby Gold recorded two of her own through the second half and overtime periods before allowing the game-ending goal.

Before the Bearcats surrendered Quaranta’s goal, they had held the opposition scoreless for over 300 minutes.

“I think our defense is playing really strong,” McClellan said. “The goalkeepers are doing a great job and … I feel good about our back line.

We’re limiting teams, and we’re just coming up a little bit short on the other end.”

Binghamton entered the match fresh off a 0-0 tie with New Hampshire that opened the team’s conference season.

“Every conference game is like a must-win and every team goes in that way, and that’s why we saw such a close game [on Thursday night],” McClellan said. “Every

single game is an opportunity to position yourself and get yourself sitting well come playoff time. We’re early in conference, and we’ve got a lot of games left that we’ve got to take care of.”

The Bearcats are next set to travel to Albany for an Oct. 10 showdown with the Great Danes. McClellan said the week-long break may be just what her team needs after a frustrating loss.

“We have a bye this weekend, and that’s going to help us recover and get technically sharp and ready to play next Thursday,” she said.

Kickoff against the Great Danes is scheduled for 7 p.m. at Bob Ford Field in Albany, N.Y.

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Sophomore forward Samantha Crane attempted two shots during BU’s 1-0 double-overtime loss against UMBC at the Bearcats Sports Complex Tuesday night.

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Retrievers score in 106th minute to beat Binghamton

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