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At no cost, SUNY offers textbooks, classes East Gym SUNY Affordable Learning Solution aims to cut down size of college bill Alana Epstein

Contributing Writer In addition to tuition and room and board, college students normally spend hundreds of dollars every semester on books for class.

SUNY is expanding online resources to offer cheaper options to all its schools.

This past month, the Open SUNY Affordable Learning Solutions website became available to all faculty, staff and students. The initiative provides cheaper alternatives to traditional textbooks and links to free courses online, including one released by Binghamton University mathematics professor Joseph Brennan in 2011.

There are currently seven free Open SUNY textbooks in publication, and 15 more being written. SUNY Chancellor Nancy Zimpher said in a statement that the site would alleviate the need for students to spend large sums of money.

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prepares large-scale upgrades Students to vote on new cardio machines until end of semester

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Sabrina Kahn, a freshman majoring in English, buys a textbook at the bookstore. SUNY unveiled the Open SUNY Affordable Learning Solutions website this month, which suggests less-expensive alternatives to textbooks and provides links to free online classes.

Gym-goers now have a temporary chance to jog, bike and climb stairs, in order to comment on which piece of equipment they want to see permanently in the East Gym FitSpace.

In a trial that began on Nov. 3 and will continue until finals week, the East Gym will have three new cardio machines for students to test every two weeks. Users can then fill out a comment card to argue for which machine Campus Recreation should buy for next semester. Gym staff will consider replacement part

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Clubs unite to fight measles, mumps BU takes on Cornell film fest Six shorts picked as finalists in competition

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Binghamton University students are headed to Cornell this weekend, not to go cliff jumping, but to represent BU in the Centrally Isolated Film Festival.

Six short films made by BU students were accepted into the upcoming weekend’s film festival in Ithaca on Nov. 21 and 22. Four of these films were written, directed and produced by members of the Binghamton Film Initiative’s (BFI) production team.

Jared Biunno, the president of BFI and a senior majoring in cinema, said that this was the

first film festival the club is taking part of as a team, and he’s feeling optimistic.

“When this film festival was going on last year we were just barely coming together, formulating a team, seeing if we could make a film,” Biunno said.

“As time went on we got better, more unified, the chemistry was great. We were able to just bang out films.”

The panelists chosen to select the winners of the contest include two Cornell University professors, two local Ithaca filmmakers and film editor Michael Miller, who has edited movies for Woody Allen, Michael Bay and the Coen Brothers.

They will pick two films — the best film and the runner-up — to win monetary prizes, which according to Biunno, will be amount to “a couple hundred dollars.”

BFI entered a three-minute comedy titled “Heavenly Blue” and an 11-minute romance titled “Spare Change.” BFI also collaborated with 2012 alumnus Ethan Scarduzio on two 10-minute long films, one of which Scarduzio describes as “an odd little film” called “Dead Meat.”

“I started working on [Dead Meat] in Boston, Massachusetts in the spring of 2013, but the area and the film crew felt miscast,” said Scarduzio, who graduated with

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Red Cross banquet raises $1,000 for vaccines Emilie Leroy

Pipe Dream News On Friday evening, students gathered in the Old University Union to raise money to help fight life-threatening diseases.

Over 90 attendees were present at the second annual Vaccinate a Village Banquet, hosted by the American Red Cross Club (ARCC) and Kappa Sigma fraternity, to raise money for the Measles & Rubella Initiative, a global partnership that aims to eradicate measles and rubella in developing countries, especially in parts of Africa and Asia, where most measles-related deaths occur.

The measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine only costs one dollar to manufacture, according to the Initiative’s website, but in 2013, the World Health Organization recorded 145,700 deaths due to measles alone. Despite the MMR vaccine, measles is still one of the leading causes of death for children

under five.

The banquet, which raised $1,000 through ticket sales and donations, featured half a dozen groups performing for the audience, ranging from singing and dancing to martial arts. A cappella groups like the Pegs and Crosbys sang, encouraging attendees to sing along with them. Members of Quimbamba performed salsa and bachata routines, members of Uyai Nnua performed traditional African dances and the Tae Kwon Do Club demonstrated moves.

Lillian Chu, the secretary for ARCC and a sophomore majoring in integrative neuroscience, said some groups, like Quimbamba and Tae Kwon Do, were chosen to demonstrate the scope of those affected by the diseases. “[They represented] international cultures that are affected by measles and other performers were picked based on availability and eagerness towards helping charity,” Chu said.

Kelvin Gutierrez, the vice president of the ARCC, the campus involvement chair for Kappa Sigma and a junior majoring in economics, said that the ARCC wanted to diversify the fundraisers and charities in which they usually participate.

“We took this initiative on to try to add something more to what we do,” Gutierrez said.

“A lot of time on campus we get the misconception that the American Red Cross Club is here just to do blood drives and we want to show people that we do more, we go above and beyond what we’re expected to do.”

Members of the club set up tables and spoke before the first performance about measles and rubella statistics, symptoms and information about the Initiative.

Sammy Wu, the blood service coordinator for the ARCC and a junior majoring in integrative neuroscience, said that he hoped guests would leave the banquet

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City puts locals on speed-dial Mobile system Nixle to keep residents updated updated about public security in their area. The Binghamton Police Department (BPD) signed on with Binghamton’s City Hall and the alert system last week.

Police Department are getting tech Nixle offers free notification savvy when it comes to improving services to local police departments the public safety of city residents and government agencies and of students living Downtown. nationwide. This allows law Last Monday, Mayor Rich David enforcement to send emergency announced the implementation updates, weather hazards, school of the alert system Nixle, which delays, automobile accidents and sends text and email notifications crime to residents, students and to residents so they can stay educators within a set area.

Chloe Rehfield Staff Writer

Binghamton residents can register to receive Nixle notifications for a 10-mile radius by texting their zip code to 888-777, or registering on the Nixle website.

Off-Campus Assistant Dean Milton Chester said that students who live off campus should consider using the system.

“Students live in Binghamton, and things that happen in

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A screenshot from the alert system Nixle, which provides users with public safety text messages. The Binghamton Police Department started using the system last week in an effort to promote the safety of students living off campus.

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For holidays, dorms BU alum comes clean about truth of dentistry rally to collect gifts Private practitioner Richard Goodman shares secrets of industry ResLife recruits students to donate presents for local families Carla Sinclair

Assistant News Editor Residential Life is hoping to spread holiday joy beyond the walls of Binghamton University this winter by bringing Hand to Heart to dorm communities for its 18th consecutive year.

Students can sign up and receive a bag, which is designated for a certain age and gender for participants to shop for, to ensure no children are left out. Poverty is especially prevalent in Broome County where, according to ResLife, 65.2 percent of families are on public assistance.

ResLife began the program in 1996, when a residential director was inspired by another school, and wanted a way for the University to help support local children and families. Donations collected in the residential halls are donated to the Wyoming Conference Children’s Home and Salvation Army, to be distributed to families in need by Residential Life and the National Residence Hall Honor Society.

Residential assistants (RA) like Mountainview College’s Christopher Szabo, a senior majoring in psychology, are in charge of recruiting students from their dorm communities to donate gifts. He said the combination of good deeds and close proximity to BU made Hand to Heart as popular as it is.

“Many other charities provide the donor with the person you’re donating to, but on top of that, the

child you’re assigned to is from the area,” Szabo said. “Students seem to have a good grasp on the level of impoverishment in this area, and the desire to help those children is stronger because of it.”

Dickinson Community RA Benjamin Seitz, a sophomore double-majoring in psychology and evolutionary studies, said the turnout in the “neighborhoods,” or RA jurisdictions, in Johnson Hall had a positive response.

“The turnout varied from neighborhood to neighborhood,” Seitz said. “But it looked like every RA had anywhere from two to 10 residents signed up which is pretty good given we have 15 RA’s in our building.”

Students like Meg Sexton, a sophomore majoring in philosophy, politics and law, said this was her second year doing Hand to Heart, and she plans on doing it again.

“Even when I move off campus next year, I’m definitely going to donate what I can,” Sexton said.

“It’s a great way to make sure people who don’t have as much have a merry Christmas.”

Seitz said the program was a good way for BU students to engage the area around the University, and give back to the place they call home for nine months out of the year.

“I think it’s really nice to see kids interact with the local community in this manner,” Seitz said. “It’s good for us students to give back to the community.”

Gabriella Weick Staff Writer

Library North was full of smiles, both from students and across the screen as ‘78 alumnus Dr. Richard Goodman showed off his handiwork to Binghamton University’s prospective dentists.

Hosted by Harpur Edge and Pre-Health Professions Advising, “So You Want to be a Dentist?” was held on Friday afternoon.

Goodman discussed his time at BU, experiences in dental school and the realities of owning a private dental practice.

After studying mathematics at BU, Goodman attended New York University College of Dentistry and then completed his residency at Staten Island University Hospital. He opened his own dental practice on Staten Island 28 years ago.

Goodman began his presentation with a promise to be honest, and encouraged listeners to interrupt him with questions or concerns.

“I’m gonna give you the truth,” Goodman said. “I’m not gonna sugarcoat it, I’m not gonna make up stories. That’s not what I’m here for. I’m here for reality, I’ve been doing this for 33 years.”

Justin Sedaghat, a junior majoring in integrative neuroscience, said that he appreciated Goodman’s honesty in describing all aspects of dentistry.

“He gave you all the intricacies of dentistry and what the lifestyle is like, because being a dentist is more than an occupation,” Sedaghat said. “I think he was definitely really motivating.”

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According to Goodman, hands-on experience can be more valuable than formal education.

“If you want to be a dentist, the best thing to do is somehow get into an office,” Goodman said.

“If anybody here wants to come to my office for a week, come by.

Find a local decent dentist and go see what it’s about.”

Students like Mark Bagatais, a junior majoring in biology, said they were motivated by Goodman’s encouragement that success comes from determination and passion, not just grades and educational background.

“I like seeing dentists like him,” Bagatais said. “I like to believe that he is right when he says when it’s not necessarily how smart you are, it’s the work you put in.”

Goodman also said that in

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order to be successful, one must have a passion for communication and an ability to build strong relationships.

“If you don’t have people skills, don’t be a dentist,” Goodman said. “If you don’t know how to be friendly to people, don’t be a dentist. It’s not about the teeth, it’s about the people if you want to be successful.”

When it comes to building a

reputation as a dentist, Goodman stressed that when promoting the business, it is important to advertise, build connections and be readily available to the patients.

“Any time anyone would call — midnight, one in the morning, two in the morning — I saw [them], because people make your practice,” Goodman said.

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Binghamton University Class of ‘78 alumnus Dr. Richard Goodman speaks about his experiences as a dentist and his practice on Staten Island. The talk, “So You Want to be a Dentist?,” held on Friday afternoon and was hosted by Harpur Edge and Pre-Health Professions Advising.

“Twenty-three percent of college students nationally take classes without purchasing the required textbooks because they are too expensive,” Zimpher said. “We never want that to be the case at SUNY, and with the introduction of Affordable Learning Solutions, it doesn’t have to be.”

According to the Binghamton University Financial Aid Services, students spend an average of $500 each year on textbooks and other school materials in addition to tuition. This cost is expected to increase in the coming years.

Open SUNY textbooks, the online textbook resource, was created

by SUNY Geneseo, Brockport, the College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Fredonia, Upstate Medical University and the University at Buffalo libraries.

Before the program was adopted

state-wide, it was tested in the spring 2014 semester with two online textbooks and, according to the SUNY website, 185 students from the first six schools saved a total of $15,464.

But the new initiative has also raised some concerns. According to Heather Sheffer, the manager of BU’s bookstore, there are benefits to using print textbooks, and online resources frequently do not receive the same level of scrutiny from editors.

“Some of the platforms are very good, but on others the platforms are very hard to use,” Sheffer said.

“A lot of students are still struggling with the digital learning process, and many still like to have the book to write in and highlight.”

Sheffer said that the bookstore staff is fully aware of how expensive textbooks have gotten, and added that she hopes the affordable learning solution will help.

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“The more we can do to lower the costs for students, the better,” Sheffer said. “We hope professors will publish more on the website.”

According to Emma Ryan, a sophomore majoring in integrative neuroscience, the database will positively impact students across campus.

“From a student’s point of view, considering how much [we] spend on textbooks, it seems like a great idea,” Ryan said. “It will have a positive impact on students for sure.”

Sandra Khalil, a senior doublemajoring in Arabic and political science, said that this initiative should alleviate stress for students.

“This initiative is a step in the right direction for students struggling to take care of extra school expenses,” Khalil said. “A resource like this may eliminate one of the many stresses of being prepared for class.”

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Hunter shoots at dead deer on cart, hits other man Authorities say a man who had shot a deer in the Hudson Valley woods was hauling it away on a cart when he was wounded by a second hunter firing at the dead animal. Police in Dutchess County told the Poughkeepsie Journal that a hunter had shot a deer Saturday morning and was using a cart to bring it out of a wooded area 60 miles north of New York City. Officers say another hunter saw the deer moving, thought it was alive and fired, hitting the first hunter in the hand and buttocks. The injured hunter was treated at a hospital for non life-threatening injuries. Police say both men are from nearby towns. The incident is being investigated by the state Department of Environmental Conservation police.

Three sentenced for international car theft scheme Three men have been sentenced for their roles in an international car theft ring in which expensive vehicles stolen in New York were directed to New Jersey and shipped to Abu Dhabi. A judge sentenced 33-year-old Ian Aguilar of Denville, New Jersey, to three years in prison after he pleaded guilty to receiving stolen property and a weapons charge. Under terms of a plea agreement, 32-year-old Adam Hassan of Guttenberg, New Jersey, will serve three years in prison and 28-year-old Tomas Bladimir Castillo-Abreu was given probation. Prosecutors say Hassan would tell Aguilar what cars he needed, and Aguilar would then tell Castillo-Abreu, who would steal the vehicles.

Prosecutors say Aguilar would assist Castillo-Abreu in moving the cars from New York to New Jersey before they were shipped to Abu Dhabi.

NATIONAL NEWS Surgeon with Ebola dies at Omaha hospital A surgeon who contracted Ebola while working in Sierra Leone died Monday at the Nebraska Medical Center’s biocontainment unit in Omaha. Dr. Martin Salia was reported to be in critical condition Sunday. According to the hospital, Salia was more ill than the first Ebola patients successfully treated in the United States. Ebola has killed more than 5,000 people in West Africa, mostly in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leona. Salia has been working as a general surgeon at United Methodist Kissy Hospital in the Sierra Leone capital of Freetown. It’s not clear whether he was involved in the care of Ebola patients. Kissy is not an Ebola treatment unit, but Salia worked in at least three other facilities, United Methodist News said, citing health ministry sources.

Charles Manson gets marriage license Mass murderer Charles Manson has gotten a license to marry a 26-year-old woman who visits him in prison. The Kings County marriage license, viewed Monday by The Associated Press, was issued Nov. 7 for the 80-year-old Manson and Afton Elaine Burton, who left her Midwestern home nine years ago and moved to Corcoran, California — the site of the prison — to be near Manson. She maintains several websites advocating Manson’s innocence. The license does not specify a wedding date and indicates the couple has 90 days to get married or they will have to reapply. Burton, who goes by the name “Star,” told the AP that she and Manson will be married next month. Burton gave an interview a year ago to Rolling Stone magazine in which she said she and Manson planned to marry. But Manson, who became notorious in 1969 as the leader of a roving “family” of young killers, was less certain about tying the knot.

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Members on the E-Board of the Chinese Student and Scholar Association (CSSA) perform a traditional Chinese dance on the stage as part of “International Night — Binghamton’s Got Talent,” in the Mandela Room. They were part of a group of contestants who performed in the third-annual show that included a talent portion, performances and a fashion show, hosted by International Connection on Friday, Nov. 14.

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That’s Why You Always Leave A Note THURSDAY, NOV. 13, 1:05 p.m. — An 18-year-old male reportedly had his backpack stolen from the Appalachian Dining Hall, said Investigator Patrick Reilly of Binghamton’s New York State University Police. The victim said that he was eating in the dining hall earlier in the day and accidentally left without his backpack.

He realized the bag was missing a short time later and came back to the dining hall, but could not find his bag.

None of the workers at the dining hall saw the bag. The case is still under investigation.

What A Creep THURSDAY, NOV. 13, 3:26 p.m. — Officers were contacted by a 21-year-old female who said she was being harassed, Reilly said. The suspect said that a 21-year-old male that she had a relationship with in the past was harassing her over social media. He was sending lewd messages to her over Facebook and Reddit. The suspect was told to stop contacting the victim by the officers. The victim did not wish to press charges; she only wanted the actions documented by the officers.

Go Back To Elementary School SUNDAY, NOV. 16, 4:28 a.m. — Officers on patrol near Digman Hall noticed profanity sprayed on the walls near the entrance to the hall, Reilly said.

Officers were able to find a witness who said they saw the suspect spray paint the area near the card reader on the wall and put the spray paint can into his pants pocket. Officers were able to eventually identify the suspect, an 18-year-old male, and contacted him. The suspect admitted to spray painting the wall as well as other areas that he could not remember. The suspect gave the spray paint to the officers for evidence. Later on, maintenance workers found multiple words spray painted onto random areas in the College-in-the-Woods parking lot. The suspect was given an appearance ticket returnable to Vestal Town Court for making graffiti and possession of a graffiti instrument.of a property damage accident.

This Kid Needs A Hobby SATURDAY, NOV. 15, 1:15 a.m. — Officers on patrol near Digman Hall in Dickinson Community noticed that someone in the hall was shining a laser pointer at pedestrians and cars, Reilly said. The officers could not find exactly which room the laser was coming from. The next day, the suspect was shining the laser again. The officers concluded which room it was coming from this time and went there. The suspect, a 19-yearold male, admitted to shining the laser. The officers confiscated the laser. The officers told him that what he was doing was potentially dangerous for the pedestrians and drivers at whom he was pointing the laser. The suspect admitted that what he was doing was wrong. The suspect was given an appearance ticket returnable to Vestal Town Court for disorderly conduct.

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SHOT continued from Page 1 knowing more about measles and how deadly the disease can be. “There’s been a lot of controversy with the Ebola outbreak, but this is actually more contagious,� Wu said. “It can be spread through the air, like sneezing and coughing, as opposed to Ebola, which is through direct contact with bodily fluid.�

According to the Measles & Rubella Initiative, if a person is not immune to the disease, there is a 90 percent chance that they will catch it if they come in contact with an infected person.

Gregory Rovenger, a junior double-majoring in physics and philosophy, said that he was happy to attend the event and help provide the vaccines to children. “Every child has the right to be vaccinated to protect them from diseases,� Rovenger said. “If we can prevent them, why should anyone else have these problems?�

costs and service agreements, but will ultimately rely on student feedback and votes to make the decision.

Until Monday, two of the machines were updated versions of stationary bikes and treadmills that the gym already has. The third machine was a StairMaster, which the FitSpace previously did not have.

The Cybex 770T Treadmill has added handlebars and a touchscreen, with almost all of the buttons on the digital screen. The Schwinn Spin Indoor Cycling Bike has a forearm rest and allows users to shift the seat and handlebars forward and back, which the existing bikes do not. However, there is no digital screen like on older models.

The StepMill 3 model by StairMaster allows users to walk as if they were going up and down stairs with a six-inch-high step.

As of Friday night, 71 people had voted, 60 of them choosing the StairMaster as their favorite piece, while only seven preferred the Schwinn Spin Bike and four wanted the new 770T Cybex Treadmill. The three machines will be replaced with new options later this week. “If there’s an opportunity to

switch something out so that we can get greater usage, [we’ll take it],� said Cindy Cowden, associate director of Facilities and Internal Operations. “You don’t want a dead piece sitting on the floor taking up real estate that could be used.�

Each type of equipment at the gym has its own warranty for service and repairs, but the FitSpace is on a three-year plan with manufacturers and after next semester the cost of maintenance will be the gym’s responsibility.

Therefore, during the summer, older machines will be returned to the manufacturers for savings on the new models, which will have new warranties with them. “I can say without a doubt that all the treadmills that we currently have will get traded out just because they get so many miles on them,� Cowden said. “We want to keep them in that three-year replacement cycle.�

Gym administrators have not determined exactly how many machines they will purchase or how much they will cost, but according to Cowden there will also be some non-cardio equipment upgrades in FitSpace during the winter break.

Though Cowden said the numbers were subject to change, the costs are estimated to be between three and five hundred thousand dollars.

According to Alexa Francisco,

FitSpace manager, having more variety of equipment keeps workouts interesting. “You get sick of the same old things,� Francisco said. “You want a change, you want new variety, try something new, get a new workout and have fun. You’re overall happier and healthier.�

Taesung Kim, a personal trainer and a junior majoring in integrative neuroscience, said that he assumes the StepMill is the most popular of the three because it is something the gym does not currently have. “I’ve yet to see someone not on the stair master, let’s put it that way,� Kim said. “From a personal trainer’s point of view, it’s good to have alternatives because not everyone is the same, some prefer certain workouts and I think not only is it fun but it’s a good cardiovascular and muscle toning workout.�

Other students agreed that the new machine was a good change.

Xinyuan Wang, a junior majoring in computer science, tried the StepMill for the first time and said that she felt like she was climbing outside. “It was like I was climbing a mountain, and I liked that,� Wang said. “It’s different, but I think it will be a good choice for them to buy.�

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by seniors Michael Chernak and Aleksandr Rikhterman, both majoring in cinema. Rikhterman’s a degree in cinema. “So I sent an “Pura Vida: Solo-Travel� focuses email to Jared [Biunno] at BFI, and on interviewees’ trips abroad, and I’ve been working with those guys Chernak’s “Watch Me Fall Apart� ever since. I can’t think of a better developed from an idea created in a group of filmmakers.�

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Along with the four films created “‘Watch Me Fall Apart’ is a

by BFI, BU will also be represented voyeuristic look inside of a young

man’s acceptance of his inner demons in a surreal world of sex, blood and pop music,� Chernak said.

Biunno said he is looking forward to entering larger competition instead of just the film premiere screening events BFI hosts on campus and in the community.

“We’ve managed to get people to notice film making in Binghamton,� Biunno said. “For the first time in the last couple months I’ve seen people with like minds want to make films together and have fun and with all that happening. It’s an added bonus that an institution as prestigious as Cornell is recognizing us.�

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With over 7,000 college students living off campus, Deputy Mayor Jared Kraham said it is important to have alerts regarding public safety delivered immediately and directly to the city’s residents, and added that he hopes Nixle will raise student awareness about local issues and will increase their overall safety.

“Universities are staying on cutting-edge when it comes to

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“We wanted to keep that positive trend in the city of Binghamton and allow a stronger relationship between city hall and college residents.”

Investigator Carl Smith of BPD agreed, saying Nixle was a good way for the police department to stay in contact with the community.

“We’re trying to use this as another way to reach the community to keep them advised,” Smith said. “It’s another tool to try to get the word out in case of an emergency.”

Kraham said that by providing real-time information to the city’s residents, Nixle would be able to strengthen the relationship

between BPD and the Binghamton community.

“It’s important for every government, no matter what level, to be transparent and open with its constituents,” Kraham said. “It lets them know they have a direct line of communication with the police department and city hall without any gatekeepers.”

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Assistant News Editorr The ombudsman search continues as the second of three candidates presented to campus on Friday.

Bathabile Mthombeni graduated from Princeton University with a bachelor’s degree in sociology, and received her J.D. from Columbia Law School. In addition to founding her own mediation practice, Untangled Resolutions, she has held many positions such as the associate university ombudsman officer for Columbia University and is currently a mediator on New York City’s Civilian Complaint Review Board.

“I went into this line of work because I am passionate about working with people and problem solving,” Mthombeni said. “I’m not the one that solves the problem, but I provide information and

resources so that a people can help themselves.”

She also focused on how her individual skills can cater to the University’s needs as a large institution.

“Being that Binghamton is such a dynamic and multifaceted institution, it is required that I am versatile, creative and open to collaboration,” Mthombeni said.

According to Mthombeni, the role of ombudsman allows people to gain an objective and informed view of how the University is operating and how it affects students and faculty.

“I am uniquely placed to perceive patterns that could be troubling, or are positive,” Mthombeni said. “It is just as important to recognize good qualities as it is to recognize bad ones.”

In addition to gaining insight, Mthombeni said that the most important part of her job is to aid

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“Because the ombudsman’s office is confidential and impartial, coming here doesn’t put anyone on notice or go on the record. People can discuss things with me without a fear of reprisal.”

Her presentation focused around the ombudsman’s view for “The University Roadmap to Premier.”

Mthombeni said that to her, this meant focusing on how to help the University grow and evolve to reach its goals.

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The Bing brain behind TV hits

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ome people get to college with an exact plan for where they’d like to be after graduation. Others seize opportunities as they come by, until they land their dream job.

Binghamton University alumnus Gary Levine followed the second path, and is now responsible for bringing “Dexter,” “Shameless,” “Weeds” and other shows to primetime television.

Levine’s journey to the big leagues of the entertainment industry wasn’t always in the cards.

At Binghamton, he graduated in 1974 with a major in theater and a minor in music. He shone here as a multifaceted actor, aspiring operatic singer and, in his free time, a director of fellow alum, actor Paul Reiser (’77) in his first theater piece — at HPC (previously the Hinman Little Theater). He also served as president of Harpur Chorale, and played on the basketball team as a freshman, to boot.

Levine’s packed schedule eventually forced him to choose between the arts and athletics, and he opted for the former.

When graduation approached, Levine planned to take some time off and explore Europe. But the School of Management offered an opportunity he couldn’t turn down.

“Senior year, the School of Management put up signs [about] a new program the next fall — an MBA in Arts Management,” Levine said. “Here suddenly was this thing that actually struck a chord, because I not only performed, but I did run a few of those student arts organizations.”

Offered a scholarship to the program, Levine spent a bit more time in Binghamton until he received an MBA in Arts Administration, graduating in 1976 as part of the program’s first class.

“It absolutely opened my eyes to this entire field,” Levine said. “And even led to a job [at] an offBroadway theater in New York that was desperate enough to call SUNY Binghamton to get fresh meat.”

Levine described his time at the Roundabout Theatre Company pre-Broadway, “when it was under siege in Chelsea,” as having been his “first experience on the firing line.” He spent a decade in the nonprofit world, eventually moving to the Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre, and spent five years as managing director at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, where he still holds a board position.

According to Levine, nonprofit theater is a great place to start where “you are given all kinds of responsibility right out of the gate because of the desperation of the nonprofit organizations.”

Levine said that he was passionate about his work there, but his career ambitions lay outside of the nonprofit theater world.

Through an entertainment industry contact, Levine was given an opportunity to work on a show in Los Angeles, which was a launching pad for

him to eventually become a creative executive in television.

“That was about 29 years ago,” Levine said. “It’s been a good ride.”

We can thank Levine for the last seventeen years of great TV. At Showtime, Levine has served as the executive vice president of original programming since 2001, a role similar to his former positions as the head of drama at ABC, and as vice president of creative affairs for television shows at Warner Bros.

“The process [at ABC and Showtime] is somewhat the same, where I was always the one guiding the projects,” Levine said. “At ABC it was much more complicated because there’s just a lot more cooks in the kitchen … The process at Showtime is much, much more intimate, much more streamlined and much purer — which basically is that there’s a few of us that work on it and if we love it, we make it. And if we make it and we still love it, we order a series.”

However, because Showtime is a premium subscription network, Levine can get away with riskier shows.

“The needs of ABC are very different than the needs of Showtime [which] can do much more complicated, sophisticated and risky material, which is why I’ve been here for thirteen years,” Levine said. Showtime’s litany of recent series definitely fits that bill, with shows like “Nurse Jackie,” “House of Lies” and “Ray Donovan.”

While he isn’t singlehandedly responsible for the inception and manifestation of every series at those networks, Levine is a key player.

“The ideas don’t begin with us,” Levine said.

“We’re the ones who hear them, we choose between them, we then cultivate them, we develop them and work with the writers and the filmmakers to make them as good and as interesting and as complicated and high-quality as we can.”

On weekdays, he works at Showtime, but on weekends, Levine pours his creative energies into his job as a cantor at a local synagogue. When asked what he think would have happened if he hadn’t stayed in Binghamton, Levine said that life’s twists and turns had a funny way of getting him to the right place.

“When I went to Harpur, all I did was spread my wings,” Levine said. “What were my interests, what were my talents that I wanted to hone, what parts of life did I want to experience now that I was out of my parents’ house and on my own for the first time, and I did all of that and, as I said, I had a great time there — met my wife there, and found my voice there in more ways than one—my singing voice,

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“Dexter” (1), “Californication” (2) and “Ray Donavan” (3) are three of Showtime’s most successful shows — all of which were created with the help of Binghamton University alumnus Gary Levine.

and probably my own true voice. So, it couldn’t have been a better experience.”

And his favorite Showtime series? Levine can’t pick just one.

“It’s like all my children, and I love ‘em all,” Levine said. “I love the variety and the range. I love the bawdiness of ‘Californication.’ I love the

riskiness of ‘Dexter.’ I love the danger of ‘Nurse Jackie.’ Love the thriller aspect of ‘Homeland.’

Love the intense character drama of ‘The Affair,’ which we just started. It’s all over the place, but I’m very lucky that I get to work on such exciting shows with such talented people.”

Afternoon delight: Binghamton's best lunch specials The food at Currys of India, Fuji San and Grande's Bella Cuisine are cheap and plentiful Evy Pitt-Stoller | Staff Writer Are you tired of Sodexo but still trying to do lunch on a college student’s budget? Luckily, some of Binghamton’s restaurants offer better-than-dininghall quality at comparable-to-dininghall prices. Check out these three lunchtime specials Binghamton has to offer that will keep your stomachs full and your wallets a-singin’.

Currys of India 45 Court St. Located in the heart of Downtown Binghamton, Currys of India offers some pretty unbeatable prices. If you love Indian food and would like to devote an afternoon to eating, come any day from Tuesday through Friday between

11:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. to take part in their $6.50 all-you-can-eat buffet. Yup. $6.50. Pile your plate high with naan, chickpea masala, rice pudding and more. Offering a wide selection of both meaty and vegetarian options, Currys of India is comparable to University Plaza’s Moghul Fine Indian Cuisine in terms of quality, and absolutely incomparable in terms of price. You’ll spend less here than you will in the Marketplace. When you’re done, head across the street to Jabberwock and buy me a thousand incense sticks with all the money I just saved you.

day, lunch is offered from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.. and there are several ways you can get a lot of bangin’ spicy tuna for your buck in those four hours.

For $10.95, you can get any two rolls plus a soup or a salad. For as cheap as $8.95, you can get a Hibachi lunch, which includes a main filling of your choice (tofu, veggies, shrimp, chicken, salmon, scallops, steak or filet mignon — price varies up to $13.95 depending on what you choose), salad, soup, steamed vegetables and the famous Fuji San fried rice. Think that’s good?

Not even close until you hear about the combination lunch boxes. Choose Fuji San: Japanese Restaurant a base order (shrimp, vegetable or 4105 Vestal Parkway East chicken tempura, salmon or chicken Even if you don’t like Japanese food, teriyaki, beef negamaki, six pieces of Fuji San makes it pretty irresistible sashimi or four pieces of sushi), and with their delicious prices. Open every enjoy the side orders, including a miso

soup, a house salad, white rice, gyoza or a California roll. Ranging from $10.50 to $11.95, these combination lunch boxes make me a combination of joyous and ecstatic. And the best thing about Fuji San? They deliver pretty much anywhere, so whether you’re on campus or off, you can have your lunch special at your door in less than an hour. But not for less than $15, so harass a friend until he or she understands the gravity of the situation.

Grande’s Bella Cucina 1171 Vestal Ave. or 1250 Upper Front St. They should just change the name of this place to “Come Try Our Lunch Specials.” Grande’s is a pretty wellknown Italian restaurant among the student population, but not everyone

knows about the unbelievable deals they offer around noon. You can come in any day of the week between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. and get any two specialty slices and a fountain drink for just $4.97. A $5 bill is all you need, and if you come in between Monday and Friday from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., you can participate in a lunch buffet that, at just $8.95, is almost suspiciously cheap. Not only can you get all-you-can-eat pizza, salad bar and fruit, but there are also daily specials of dozens of different types of Italian dishes that Grande’s offers in its buffet.

My class schedule keeps me occupied on Tuesdays and Thursdays, so I’ll see you guys there on Monday. And Wednesday. And Friday.

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Giancarlo Esposito will be Breaking Bing 'Breaking Bad' star to talk about race in Hollywood Jacob Shamsian | Release Editor Giancarlo Esposito — who played the two-faced drug kingpin Gustavo Fring in AMC’s Emmy Award-winning “Breaking Bad” — will speak about his acting career on campus on Friday.

Esposito could not be reached for comment, but if he could, he might have said that he was doing the show because “a man provides. And he does it even when he’s not appreciated, or respected, or even loved.

He simply bears up and he does it. Because he’s a man.”

Amanda Wolfe, the Insights Chair for the Student Association Programming Board, said that Esposito had a lot to offer as a speaker because of his experience as a successful African American actor in the entertainment industry. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, he acted in four films directed by Spike Lee (he played Buggin’ Out in “Do the Right Thing” and Thomas Hayer in “Malcolm X”). A report this year by the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA found that minorities are underrepresented by a factor of about 7 to 1 in lead roles in broadcast comedies and dramas.

“He’ll cover things that really matter,

like overcoming racial stereotypes and boundaries in the world of entertainment, and things he had to do to get into this world, and get the jobs,” Wolfe, a senior majoring in English, said. “Because it’s predominately a white kind of atmosphere in the entertainment world.”

Esposito was nominated for an Emmy for outstanding supporting actor in a drama series in 2012 for his work in “Breaking Bad,” losing out to co-star Aaron Paul. On stage, he’ll share stories from working on the set of “Breaking Bad” and on other shows, Wolfe said.

After Esposito’s talk, he’ll accept audience questions predetermined by a Twitter question-and-answer to be held by the Programming Board at noon on Wednesday.

“We’ll pick the best tweets, and the people who get picked will be able to actually ask him the question in person,” Wolfe said.

The event will begin at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 21 in The Anderson Center’s Chamber Hall. Tickets cost $8.50. There were 25 meet and greet tickets available for $15 each, but they sold out in four minutes.

Doors open at 6 p.m.

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Anderson Center curtain, lifted

Going behind the scenes to find out how they're made Jonathan Ortiz | Contributing Writer

On a campus with mundane building names like “Lecture Hall” and “Science [15],” the Anderson Center for Performing Arts is one of the few structures of campus with a proper noun in its name. Flaunting three magnificent theaters, the building is Binghamton University’s premiere location to get lost in. And getting lost is not hard when each theater is ambitiously constructed with top-notch acoustic technology, lights and eye-grabbing designs meant to arrest the audience’s attention and ensnare them in the world of the performance. This Friday, Harpur Edge offered 15 students a behind-thescenes tour, and Release is here to give you the scoop.

Constructed by the Hutchins, Evans, and Lefferts architectural firm in 1985, the Anderson Center’s three theaters are distinctly designed to accommodate performances of various types. The Chamber Hall and Watters Theatre are on the smaller scale, accommodating 408 and 558 guests respectively, and have stages that drop down to hold a pit of 40 or so musicians. The Chamber Hall’s walls wear reversible acoustic sound boards like armor; flipped to the hard side and they reverberate the low frequencies of a lecture or a play, when flipped to the softer side they provide cushion for acoustically

louder performances. The building itself is named after Floyd E. Anderson, a prominent Binghamton and New York state politician in the early and mid-1900s.

When larger-than-life performances come to town, a larger-than-life theater is needed. Boasting 1,170 seats, an 80man pit and a retractable wall that reveals an additional 1,500 outdoor seats, The Osterhout Concert Theater undoubtedly fits the bill. Sound seamlessly flows from wall to wall of this venue, due to the use of acoustic clouds that hang from the ceiling and reduce reverberations. The National Acrobats of the People’s Republic of China exhibited courage on the Osterhout stage this past Monday, and the Binghamton University Symphony Orchestra will fill the theater with Dvorak’s Ninth Symphony and more on Dec. 6.

Most may argue the best seats in the house are located in the first two rows of the theater, however Casey Korchynsky, the Anderson Center’s house operations director, says otherwise.

“In all of these theaters, the sound is projected towards the back of the room,” Korchynsky said during the tour. “The best seats in the house are about halfway back or a little further.”

On the tour, Korchynsky displayed the Anderson Center’s dressing rooms, costume shop, set shop and green room.

Interestingly enough, the green room, a backstage lounge for performers, is not

green at all but instead features a photo collage of the stars that Gary Pedro, the Anderson Center’s executive director, has worked with. The room’s moniker is thought to derive from these rooms being painted green historically as a tranquil space for performers to relax in.

Most of the theater’s magic is made off stage, evident in the glamorous assortment of hued fabrics covering the costume shop.

Similarly, the set shop bustled with energy as workers prepared vivid backdrops and familiar set pieces for shows like “Little Shop of Horrors” and “Les Miserables.”

“Right before a show, both the set shop and costume shop will be overflowing with workers preparing to bring perfection to the performance,” Korchynsky said.

To make the performances as breathtaking as they are, the Anderson Center relies on ARTSCORPS, its team of volunteers who work for access to free shows, with optional credit for classes.

Whether selling tickets in the box office, ushering as an usher in the theater or working behind the scenes in either of the shops, ARTSCORPS volunteers help to provide a comfortable and enjoyable atmosphere for the Anderson Center’s guests.

“The ARTSCORPS is the first act to every show here,” Korchynsky said. “If the guests are not pleased, the show cannot go on.”

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Brevity is the soul of Whittier Emily Mancini | Staff Writer

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rofessor Whittier isn’t afraid to act her age. She likes to tell her classes, “I’m in my seventies, and I’ve earned every single one of those years. I’ve seen everything.”

And when it comes to our school, she really has. Whittier began teaching at Binghamton University in the fall of 1969, which makes this her 45th year here. She’s seen the University change drastically from a small liberal arts college to the multifaceted, ever-expanding public university it is today.

“I started teaching at Harpur College, and then it was SUNY Center at Binghamton, then SUNY at Binghamton, and now it’s Binghamton University. So it’s sort of like a much married university,” she joked from her office, a cozy study with a well-stocked bookshelf and a miniature portrait of Shakespeare.

“When I started teaching, the general atmosphere was of people who were liberal arts-based in their endeavors and sensibilities, even. Now it’s much more varied, and it will become even more so in the future.”

Professor Whittier’s lectures are certainly diamonds in the rough of academia. She’s known across campus for her free-form style of teaching English that makes Shakespeare feel not just applicable, but important in daily life. It’s impossible to deconstruct her lectures into a bulleted PowerPoint that you can regurgitate into a bluebook on exam day. Her lectures are unique, engaging and interwoven with intelligent insights into Shakespeare’s works, as well as amusing narratives from her own life.

Professor Whittier describes her teaching process as thinking about Shakespeare’s plays creatively.

“I wasn’t suckered in by new historicism,” Whittier said. “I’m not interested in cultural context, and how it implies race, gender and capitalism, I don’t think that’s a good way to understand any artifact.

I think my teaching, my whole life has gone towards the sense of ‘How was this made? What is this thing?’

I’m always looking for the thing that Emily Dickinson said about the top of your head coming off when you read the great poems. I’m interested in the power in a poem.”

And while she seems so comfortable teaching, professor Whittier is far from complacent in the realm of academia. Rather, she’s wary of how the focus has changed over the years, shifting from creative to material-based productivity.

“I call myself a victim of academia, or a recovering academic, as in ‘AA: Academics Anonymous,’” Whittier said. “There’s been a radical culture change in academe. From a faculty standpoint, the focus has shifted on material productivity, so that in my department if you don’t have a book published or under contract by the time you come up for tenure, you won’t get tenure. I think that that’s a kind of commodification of intellect. I’m all in favor of intellect, but I suppose my quarrel is really with certain types of scholarship all together. I would say the University as a corporate entity wants the labor and the material product of it, the same way as if you were making a chair.”

Whittier’s own education began at Middlebury College. She left, got married, and finished her degree four years later at the University of Buffalo. She went on to attend graduate school at Cornell University,

getting her doctorate in 1969. It was there that her “arranged marriage” with Shakespeare began.

“When I went to graduate school at Cornell I wanted to work with 17th-century prose, and I was very attracted to sermons in particular,” Whittier recalled. “But as it happened, the person who was the head of that department was someone I couldn’t have worked with, someone who believed that you couldn’t write about something if others had written about it in the mainstream. I wanted to write about Donne’s sermons, but a book had recently been written about them, and he refused to let me write about something that was in the mainstream. He gave me only two topics: the case of conscience, and the poetry of failed pleasure, and by that he meant a subgenre of poetry about sexuality, what was usually literally like orgasm counting. I was in despair because I didn’t really want to write on either of these topics.”

A former professor suggested she write about Shakespeare. Her answer was simple: OK. “So yeah, it was somewhat like an arranged marriage,” Whittier added.

Looking back on it, however, she isn’t so sure she would’ve made the same choice had she known what she was getting into.

“I wonder now whether if I had given it more thought if I would’ve said yes because, while I like Shakespeare, and I’m awfully glad that I’ve spent this long with it, if I had thought about it a little longer and seen all the bookshelves full of stuff written about Shakespeare, would I have said yes? I don’t know.”

Despite the unexpected pairing, Whittier is happy about where she gave her attention. Next semester, she will be teaching a 300-level class entitled “Shakespeare’s Histories.”

“What I love about Shakespeare is that there is always something new to discover in the text,” Whittier said. “Since my graduate work, I have been lucky that I found so many other things that I love, and that I love to teach, and I’m happy.”

She’s known across campus for her freeform style of teaching English that makes Shakespeare feel not just applicable, but important in daily life.

A tour guide leads a tour offered by Harpur Edge on Friday showcasing the unique acoustic and lighting technology featured in the Anderson Center.

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ast summer, New York’s Office for People with Developmental Disabilities (OPWDD) announced plans for the gradual closure of the Broome Developmental Center (BDC), expected to be fully implemented by March 2016.

The BDC houses and treats patients who have been dually diagnosed as both mentally ill and developmentally disabled. Proponents of closure — a plan to consolidate New York’s 24 state psychiatric hospitals into 15 locations — argue that the integration of patients into community settings will significantly reduce costs for the state and end the unwarranted segregation of dually diagnosed individuals.

According to local law enforcement, the hastened discharge of BDC patients threatens the safety of community members and patients alike. Local service providers report that they lack the space or personnel to treat these discharged patients. While the closure of the BDC may be inevitable, New York state must fund its mandate and provide Broome County with the resources to properly integrate these patients.

Some BDC patients discharged into communities are failing to adjust, resulting in disastrous consequences.

According to the Broome County Department of Social Services, at least three individuals failed to transition properly, with one patient incarcerated, one admitted to a psychiatric unit and one admitted to a hospital after suffering sexual and physical assault.

This is unacceptable.

The developmentally disabled are more vulnerable to physical and sexual assaults, and it’s happening here. These problems are only likely to increase as more patients are discharged without necessary protections.

Despite claims by proponents of the closure, local service providers are illequipped to treat these discharged patients. The state estimates that there is enough space for smaller facilities to

care for the discharged patients, but these group homes lack the personnel and resources to treat more of these patients because dually diagnosed individuals require such a high level of care. Proponents also claim that patients can be moved to other facilities throughout the state. Forcing patients to move outside of Broome County and away from their loved ones can hardly be called “community integration.”

According to the Press & Sun-Bulletin, children in Binghamton would have to receive treatment in Utica, which is around two hours away.

The BDC employs 650 workers. The OPWDD stated that BDC’s closure will not result in any layoffs and that every BDC worker is guaranteed a state job.

OPWDD does not specify where these state jobs are located. It is likely that many of these employment opportunities

will force former BDC workers to relocate. In its current state of economic decline, Broome County cannot afford to lose 650 jobs or the tax revenue these workers provide.

The state must postpone the closure of the facility until it can demonstrate that local — not state-wide — providers are equipped to treat dually diagnosed individuals. The process for release into the community must be restructured to account for developing patient crises and communication with local service providers and community members. The state should work to allow BDC workers to maintain jobs in Broome County. Yes, this will cost money, but it is necessary to ensure the safety and fair treatment of community members, dually diagnosed individuals and the workers who care for them.

Views expressed in the opinion pages represent the opinions of the columnists.

The only piece which represents the views of the Pipe Dream Editorial Board is the Staff Editorial, above. The Editorial Board is composed of the Editor-in-Chief, News Editor, Opinion Editor, Sports Editor, and Release Editor.

Environmental Columnist

Simple explanations blur understanding of corrupt food industry Food justice depends on people's willingness to adopt comprehensive reforms Dorothy Farrell

Envrionmental Columnist

When I was young, I asked my mom a lot of questions. “Are hamburgers made out of ham?”

I asked. “No, they are made out of beef.” For all of the time I had been eating hamburgers, I’d been completely misinformed.

I imagined that whoever was in charge of creating words for new things was not very well informed either.

“Why are some people vegetarians?” I asked. My mom was responsible for feeding three children, and she was not about to give any of them cause to revolt

against the current menu. Giving her animal-loving daughter the slightest idea that people could advocate for different diets would make her job as the family chef more difficult. “I don’t know,” she said.

Answers don’t always make sense, and some questions are easier to avoid. These are just a few simple truths I gathered, but more importantly, I did not stop asking questions.

As I grew up, I discovered that most hamburgers come from a place called a concentrated animal feeding operation (CAFO).

Many of those animals do not enjoy simple luxuries in life, like sunshine or freedom to walk.

I learned that cows are meant to eat grass, and that the only

outbreaks of E. coli are cultured in cows that are fed corn. I learned that the corn industry receives millions of dollars in subsidies from the federal government, and monoculture operations that cultivate corn are responsible for massively reducing biodiversity.

I learned that everyone needs a job. Some people immigrate to America to find jobs because they don’t have jobs in their country. If everyone has a job, we have a big economy, and that’s important.

Western New York’s economy is driven in part by dairy farms, and dairy farms are run by workers from Mexico and other Latin American countries. Another western New York job sector growing in economic importance is immigration deportation.

Located in Batavia, New York, the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement operates a Detention and Removal office.

The easiest way to fill quotas is by targeting migrant workers. This economic model aligns with a typical cat-chases-mouse reaction.

There’s more. I learned that people like it when food prices are low. This might mean that workers are underpaid, but we don’t know who they are so we don’t care. I learned that taxpayers can afford to finance immigrant deportation, but they cannot afford food that doesn’t sell somebody else short.

Food justice is the idea that every single, living unit, from the grass that feeds the cows, to the bees that pollinate the crops, to the animals that create products,

we’ve allowed simple answers to blur our vision of what is truly happening to our food industry.

The effect has been astounding.

I still have more questions.

Will this system remain indefinitely? No, and that’s because there are physically not enough resources to exploit. The population is growing, and this system is not very efficient. Will the system change in time that the world’s growing population can subsist on dwindling resources? That depends on the certainty of the people that we are deserving of changes that to the workers that handle our benefit everyone. food, should be treated humanely.

The environment needs to be — Dorothy Farrell is a senior preserved, and the people need majoring in environmental to be respected. For some reason, studies

The environment needs to be preserved and the people need to be respected

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OPINION

Dignified death is a human right Put a stop to Terminally ill patients should be permitted to die on their own terms Stephanie Izquieta Contributing Columnist

For most of us, talking about death isn’t easy, and mentioning it can be a conversational taboo.

For something that surrounds us so completely, we seldom talk about death with our loved ones, yet death is a large part of the human experience, and its role in the age of modern medicine merits debate.

All too often we use technology and drugs in lifeor-death decisions on terminal patients who have no hope of surviving. Medical professionals exhaust all of their resources in an attempt to save the lives of these patients. The efforts taken for these terminally ill patients give us the peace of mind that when our time comes, “everything will be done” to save us. This mentality prevents us from asking or answering the crucial question,

“What is a good death?”

A “good death” may sound like an oxymoron, but according to the Center for Disease Control, 70 percent of people say they would prefer to die at home, but only 25 percent actually do. In fact, according to a national survey, more than 90 percent of people think it’s important to talk about their loved ones’ and their own wishes for end-of-life care, yet less than

In an age of increased longevity, death can be prolonged to the point that it does more harm than good

30 percent have discussed what they or their family wants when it comes to end-of-life care.

Perhaps that’s why Brittany Maynard, a 29-year-old with terminal brain cancer and six months to live, sparked such remarkably personal debates when she decided that death with dignity was her best option.

All at once, it seemed, we were confronting the question together: Given a choice, how would we wish to die?

Brittany Maynard became a volunteer advocate for the nation’s leading endof-life choice organization, Compassion & Choices. After discovering her fatal condition, she intensively searched for treatment, but all studies led to the same conclusion: No treatment would save her life, and the recommended treatment would take away from what little time she had left. So Maynard and her family moved to Oregon, one of five states that have Death with Dignity laws.

In an op-ed for CNN, Maynard

wrote the following: “I’ve had the medication for weeks. I am not suicidal. If I were, I would have consumed that medication long ago. I do not want to die.

But I am dying. And I want to die on my own terms.”

The right of a competent, terminally ill person to avoid excruciating pain from an incurable illness by embracing a timely and dignified death is implicit in liberty. Forcing someone to live who does not wish to do so should be considered a crime. We all die, but in an age of increased longevity and medical advances, death can be prolonged to the point that it does more harm than good. We don’t choose to be born, but we can choose how and when to die. For anyone to impede such a decision is wrong.

— Stephanie Izquieta is a senior majoring in Polics , Philsophy, and Law

Pursue greatness for personal fulfillment Achieving success for success' sake is a nonsensical goal Melanie Sharif

Contributing Columnist

Several months ago, I had the pleasure of attending a motivational speech given by successful Disney animator Saul Blinkoff. As a middleclass male from Long Island, Blinkoff was well qualified to speak to ambitious Binghamton University students about the achievement of greatness. The speech was well orated, but sent me along a less-thanmotivational thought process that revealed some dangers of lusting after “greatness.”

Blinkoff described his journey to personal and vocational success. He spoke of an immensely fulfilling clarity he achieved that allowed him to know why he worked hard in life and what his purpose was as a man, a husband and a father.

His icebreaker was most memorable: “People want greatness. Do you aspire to be mediocre?” Obviously, people said no — they wanted to be

the best.

The hour-long treatise left me reeling. I found myself feeling that I should desire greatness, but I didn’t have any clearer idea of how to achieve it than I did before the speech. Blinkoff’s words didn’t emphasize the joy he received from creating art — they emphasized the clean satisfaction he had for having dotted all the i’s and crossed all the t’s that life had dictated him to. This preciseness allowed him to feel “great.” I hadn’t identified the i’s and t’s within my own life and wasn’t even close to completing them. I feared that even if I attempted to do so, I would never feel as fulfilled as Blinkoff proclaimed to be.

I have passions and curiosities that I intend to pursue in life. As for my beall and end-all career, I’m still largely “fundecided.” Because of this, instead of excitement toward success within a specific career, the speech offered me a paralyzing, nonsensical volition to pursue greatness for the naked sake of being amazing.

It’s not inherently harmful

to want to be the best doctor happily and more excitedly or lawyer or business-savvy forward. individual that you can be. The problem is desiring recognition while failing to consider the pleasure that comes with creating and doing things for their own sake.

The compulsion to be great and the anxiety that comes along with it are fabricated. In actuality, you are not required to be great. If you were to accept this and eradicate the conditioned fear of failure to achieve success, you might never find a compulsion to be great. You might never move beyond having influence over a small group of people, and that’s OK. We use greatness to incite competition, which is fine, but being great for the sake of being great is a narcissistic and empty motivation that will leave us trapped in a cycle of negative thoughts.

In an effort to see students succeed, Saul Blinkoff caused me to desire greatness before I stopped to realize what —Melanie Sharif is an greatness actually makes undeclared sophomore fulfilling; the genuine pursuit of pastimes that move us

The problem is desiring recognition while failing to consider the pleasure that comes with creating and doing things

Ditch the meal plan and experiment with cooking

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"Skinny Shaming" Meghan Trainor's "All About That Bass" promotes a hurtful message Anita Raychawdhuri Columnist

Unless you’ve lived under a rock for the past few months, you have definitely heard Meghan Trainor’s upbeat hit, “All About That Bass.”

On the first few listens, the song seems to promote a body positive message, with Trainor crooning, “every inch of you is perfect from the bottom to the top.” Unfortunately, Trainor delivers this message in an exclusionary way by mocking thin women. We’ve been told that fat-shaming is wrong and we need to respect women of all body types.

Trainor fails to recognize that cruelty toward thin women is just another form of body-shaming with equally destructive consequences.

I find it difficult to join the bandwagon championing Trainor as a pioneer in positive body image when her song has lines like, “go ahead and tell them skinny bitches that.” If Trainor’s mother told her, “don’t worry about your size,” then why is she saying that “boys like a little more booty to hold at night?” This is a step in the wrong direction. Not worrying about your size means acceptance of all sizes, big and small, not skinny-shaming in favor of a new body ideal.

Trainor is responding to a culture with specific ideals of attractiveness. It’s hard for her song not to resonate with many young women who’ve been bombarded with images of skinny women and consistently told that only stick-thin people are beautiful. Trainor’s target is misplaced. The problem is not skinny girls, but our obsession with our bodies and our perfectionist attitudes toward attractiveness.

Songs like “All About That Bass” are hardly liberating. Instead of tearing down the idea that our value comes from outward appearances, she creates a new ideal against which we can compare ourselves. Trainor is trying to “bring booty back” to replace “thinness” as the standard of attractiveness. How does that message affect thin girls? It’s

hurtful to be told that your body is offensive, regardless of your dress size.

There is no legitimacy to a song about body positivity if it only inverts who is being targeted as unattractive. Body positivity is something that we all need more of. Our disturbing fascination with the physical has caused nothing short of a malaise. We are all forcing ourselves to suffer so that we can try to live up to some attainable ideal.

The point here is that such an ideal is irrelevant. Regardless of what the unfair expectation for beauty is, it is harmful.

There is no legitimacy to a song about body positivity if it only inverts who is being targeted as unattractive Taking the focus away from what we look like is the best course of action if we want to make any attempt at moving forward. We put our bodies under the microscope, obsessed with declaring people “overweight” or “too skinny.” There is some satisfaction that we receive from trying to prove that our size is the one that is acceptable.

In “All About That Bass,” Trainor is seeking validation for her larger size by belittling the thinner female body. If they truly wish to promote positive body image, Trainor and other artists should send a message that we are all “perfect,” regardless of our waistlines or how we look in the mirror.

—Anita Raychawdhuri is sophomore majoring in English

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Any college student can learn to cook delicious meals through trial and error Lawrence Ciulla

Contributing Columnist

It wasn’t the first fire alarm that truly angered my roommates, but it could have been the second. We were standing out in the cold, sometime in the middle of October, waiting for the police car to show up and turn off the alarm in a routine to which we were all too accustomed. It is my first semester cooking entirely for myself and I am slowly getting a grasp on it. Learning how to cook in college is not for the faint of heart.

While it may be convenient to rely on the gastronomical pleasures offered by Sodexo dining services, preparing your own food can be a rewarding experience.

Coming from a household that prides itself on the number of take-out menus plastered on our

refrigerator, not the number of spices in the cupboard, I entered this semester with zero knowledge on how to approach the kitchen in my on-campus apartment. I began the first week with a few Italian cultural dishes such as mac and cheese and spaghetti with tomato sauce that I meant to refrigerate after opening. I gradually began to upgrade my cooking, moving on to daring projects such as fried chicken and meatloaf. Over the past three months, I’ve learned a few things that I would like to share.

First, ditch the recipe. I found that it is generally easier to throw a bunch of ingredients in a pan and see how it comes out than to religiously abide by a recipe found on the Web. It is important to make a rough estimation of cooking time based on the consistency of ingredients and portion-size. Once this is determined, you are set — mashing ingredients together and stealing any spices that your

roommates may have. Make the dish your own.

Second, speaking of spices, learn to throw them on everything. For the first month of my cooking, I understood little about what spices actually do — thinking they just made your food look a little prettier.

To much ridicule, I utilized ketchup as my seasoning — I went through a bottle in a month. I learned that spices, even if you do not know which is which or what may go well together, can truly liven up any meal — turning your chicken from a bland white meat into a flavorful delight. It also makes your home smell really good as you’re preparing, which turns your skeptical roommates into believers.

It is brilliant.

Third and final, don’t be afraid to experiment and try new food. If you have ever had a dish that you didn’t like before, then try to make it yourself and see if you can find a way to make it your own. Sometimes

there is a different flavoring or spice you could use, turning your entire meal around. It could turn a meal you have hated your entire life into the food you make any time you are too lazy to really cook.

Cooking always seemed like such an impressive feat to me — something you could only get at a restaurant or your girlfriend’s house. I never truly understood how it all came together until I threw myself into it all and refused to buy a meal plan. It was one of the best decisions I made all semester. And by the end of the second officer visit, after turning off the alarm, the officer looked at me and my roommates, asking, “Who’s the chef this time?” I looked over, smiling, admitting it was me; boldly declaring that would be a title my mother would be proud of.

—Lawrence Ciulla is a junior majoring in Philosophy, Politics, and Law

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Devils fork Bearcats, 23-15 BU makes a run at NCAAs

Hausamann leads Bearcat men to 13th-place finish Jeff Twitty

Assistant Sports Editor

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Freshman Steve Schneider captured his first collegiate dual-meet victory on Saturday. He wrestled at 174 in BU’s 23-15 loss to Arizona State.

Binghamton drops first dual meet of 2014 Kyle McDonald

Contributing Writer The Binghamton wrestling team opened its dual slate with a 23-15 loss to Pac-12 member Arizona State at the Journeymen Tussle, hosted in the Albany area on Saturday. The Bearcats (0-1) hung tough with the Sun Devils early, but ASU would pull away in the final three matches to send Binghamton home emptyhanded.

“I think our guys really fought and scrapped hard,” BU head coach Matt Dernlan said.

“We didn’t really execute in our discipline areas and execution was the tipping point in a really competitive match.”

Arizona State grabbed an early 3-0 lead with a close win in the 165-pound weight class.

In the next class, BU freshman Steve Schneider stepped up to the mat at 184 pounds and picked up his first collegiate dual match victory to tie the match at 3-3. Schneider took down his opponent, junior Ray Waters, in the final seconds of the match to earn the win.

“Winning a last second match really shows you the character he has inside of him,” Dernlan said of Schneider. “He had been close to scoring the whole match but he didn’t get frustrated, and he scored with five seconds left.

That’s a huge win and is going to be a huge defining point this early in his career.”

After losing two straight matches after Schneider’s victory, one by major decision and one by fall, Binghamton picked up two victories of its own. Heavyweight senior Tyler Deuel, ranked 20th in the nation, defeated ASU’s redshirt senior Chace Eksam, 10-4. He is currently 5-0 on the season.

Next up came the 125-pound class, in which BU’s redshirt freshman Thierno Diallo defeated sophomore Judson Preskitt, 5-2, to cut ASU’s lead to 13-9.

“Thierno came out, got on the attack and scored points and was aggressive in all areas,” Dernlan said.

The Bearcats were able to take a brief lead when they earned a victory by forfeit at

133-pound weight class. This gave the Bearcats a muchneeded six points to put them on top of the Sun Devils, 15-13.

Unfortunately, it was all downhill from there for the Bearcats. Arizona State captured the final three matches, including a major decision at 149-pound weight class by ASU sophomore Christian Pagdilao over BU sophomore Nick Tighe. Arizona State picked up 10 cumulative points in the final three matches while Binghamton earned zero. The Sun Devils captured the dual meet by the score of 23-15.

“In terms of effort and attitude, especially coming out of the gate against a big time school in Arizona State, we competed really hard,” Dernlan said.

The Bearcats are scheduled to return to the mats next weekend for the New York State Intercollegiate Championships, hosted by Cornell University.

The first dual is slated for 9 a.m Sunday at the Friedman Wrestling Center in Ithaca, New York.

At the NCAA Northeast Regional Meet on Friday, the men’s cross country team continued its strong performance in the championship season, finishing 13th out of 39 teams. Junior Ethan Hausamann led the pack for Binghamton University at Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx. The junior took an individual finish of 39th in the 10K race with a time of 31:19.3 to earn BU’s first top-40 finish since 2010.

Not far behind Hausamann was sophomore Eric Holt in the 67th spot with a time of 31:40. Seniors Matt Johnson, Jesse Garn and Andrew Roache rounded out the top-100 finishers for BU in a solid team effort.

“Every year is a little bit different obviously,” head coach Annette Acuff said. “It was a little bit more competitive on the men’s side this year. We were really pleased. That was a great performance for us as a team — we ran really well as a pack again at Regionals.”

As has been typical for the Bearcats this season, the pack finished close together as Holt, Johnson and Garn all crossed the finish line within 10 seconds of one another. In their performance at the AE Championship earlier this month, the three finished within three seconds of each other.

Closing its team season, the men’s side will end the fall ranked 13th in the latest United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Northeast Regional polls — its fourth appearance in the USTFCCCA rankings in six years.

Despite losing senior captain Matt Johnson — Binghamton’s top finisher at the conference championship meet — Acuff is confident that the team will continue to thrive next season.

“We return three of our top five, which I think is pretty huge,” Acuff said. “We lost three of our top five from last year, and we still came back and finished just as strong.”

Even though Roache will finish his undergraduate career

this spring, he still has one year of eligibility left and hopes to return to the team as a graduate student to continue his stellar career.

Fellow senior Garn concluded his time running cross country, but still retains eligibility for Binghamton’s indoor and outdoor track squads. In those programs, he is sure to continue to impress as BU’s second four-minute mile runner in five years.

On the women’s side, junior Alexis Hatcher was the first Bearcat to finish the 6K race with a time of 21:48.0. The finish was good for 74th in the 275-woman race as Hatcher paced Binghamton for the fifth straight race. The 74th spot was also the highest that any Binghamton female runner has taken in seven years.

“She has certainly provided a lot of leadership and guidance,” Acuff said. “[Hatcher has been] a great role model for the rest of the

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The women’s next finisher wouldn’t come until one minute later, as freshman Allison Davis concluded the race with a time of 23:11.1 to finish 178th. Junior Anna Corrigan took the 180th spot, finishing less than a second behind Davis with a time of 23:11.4.

Overall, the Bearcats earned 29th place in the 40-team event.

“We’re very proud of both teams this year,” Acuff said of BU’s overall performance on Friday.

But it was the men who owned the day at Van Cortlandt Park. “[On] the men’s side, we accomplished a lot this year,” Acuff said. “That’s our second conference championship in the last five years and four out of the last six years we’ve only been first or second on the men’s side in the America East conference. That says a lot about our level of success and I think the consistency speaks for itself.”

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Watkins leads BU in 90-84 win over Delaware St. Pouring in 40 points through two games, Watkins earns AE Rookie of the Week honors E.Jay Zarett

Assistant Sports Editor In their first career appearance for the Binghamton women’s basketball team, freshman guards Jasmine Sina and Imani Watkins proved their potential. Watkins scored 40 points over the course of two games — earning America East Rookie of the Week honors on the way — while Sina added 27, leading Binghamton (1-1) to a victory over Delaware State.

That 90-84 win was the first Division I victory for first-year head coach Linda Cimino. Over the weekend, the Bearcats also fell to the host of the Akron Tournament, 80-49, on Friday night.

After a tit-for-tat opening, Watkins took over in the first half against Delaware St. on Saturday.

With BU trailing by four, the 5-foot-8 guard drained a 3-pointer with eight minutes remaining in the period.

From there, she would score eight more points, enabling Binghamton to secure a 42-31 advantage heading into the half. Watkins scored 18 total points in the first 20.

“Imani did a good job in the first half with attacking the basket and getting to the free-throw line,” Cimino said. “She did a great job of scoring good baskets in transition and the half-court.”

Following halftime, Delaware St. (0-2) laid extra emphasis on limiting Watkins’ scoring chances — she would score only three more

points in the contest.

But Watkins’ dry spell gave Sina an opportunity to leave her mark. She scored five points in the opening six minutes of the half, pushing BU’s lead to 57-43 with 14 minutes remaining. Sina would pour in nine more points through the period and finish the game with 18. “[In] the second half, they did a good job denying [Watkins] the ball, so she became more of a role player,” Cimino said. “[Both Sina and Watkins] weren’t afraid to shoot, they weren’t afraid to go to the basket and they weren’t afraid to take big shots.”

However, Delaware St. refused to roll over. The Hornets cut BU’s lead to seven with three minutes left to play. But the Bearcats delivered on their chances to seal the game from the free-throw line, draining ten in a row from the charity stripe. Junior guard Kim Albrecht, who knocked down the last six free throws for BU, scored a career-high 27 points.

“In the second half today, we went 19 of 20 from the free-throw line,” Cimino said. “We made our free throws when it counted.

Coming off short rest — less than 24 hours rest — the girls did a good job playing together as a team, making the extra pass. We had balanced scoring today … and that always helps.”

BU played a competitive half against Akron — the defending MAC champion — to open its

season. Watkins scored 13 points and grabbed four rebounds in the contest while Sina added six points and six rebounds. Both helped to keep BU within striking distance of an Akron team that captured 23 victories a season ago. The two teams headed into the locker room with Akron leading by just three, 30-27.

That gap wouldn’t stay so narrow.

BU had no answer for Akron junior guard Anita Brown. She poured in 23 points in the second half alone and grabbed five rebounds as her team outscored BU, 50-22, in the period on its way to routing BU, 8049. Brown finished the game with 29 points while senior forward Sina King scored 19. “[We] just kind of ran out of gas,” Cimino said. “We were really proud of the way the girls played.

They fought, they played hard and they never gave up. And that’s what we talk about — that is what we want to be about.”

Sina scored nine points, grabbed seven rebounds and dished out three assists in the losing effort while Watkins ended with 19 points, four rebounds and four assists.

Binghamton played the contest without senior forward Sherae Swinson, who missed the matchup due to a “violation of team academic policy” according to Cimino.

The Bearcats will return to action on Wednesday when they travel to Canisius. Tip-off is scheduled for 7 p.m. at the Koessler Athletic Center.

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Freshman guard Imani Watkins totaled 40 points through two contests in the Akron Tournament this weekend. The conference announced on Monday that her performance merited her AE Rookie of the Week honors.

Notre Dame routs Bearcats, 82-39

Volleyball secures postseason berth BU downs UMBC en route to AE Tourney appearance Derek Stampone Contributing Writer

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Freshman guard Justin McFadden scored eight points and grabbed four boards in 23 minutes against Notre Dame. Both were good for second on the team.

In season opener, BU struggles offensively, shoots 27 percent Ashley Purdy Sports Editor

For Notre Dame, Friday night was a night of milestones, in a sense. In an 83-39 rout of the Binghamton men’s basketball team at the Purcell Pavilion in South Bend, Ind., head coach Mike Brey logged his 400th career win. Senior swingman Pat Connaughton eclipsed the 1,000-point mark through his 17-point, 10-rebound performance, becoming the 56th Irishman in program history to do so.

For Binghamton?

The night went pretty much as expected. More than anything, what the Bearcats (0-1) took out of the experience was precisely that: experience. They sent their five active freshmen under the bright lights of the Hall of Fame Tip-off Tournament and started off their season against a rigorous opponent in the hopes of exposing

all the flaws of their system.

One of the most blatant of those flaws was ball control. The Bearcats committed 19 turnovers through the game, losing possession nearly as quickly as they secured it. The Fighting Irish (1-0) were able to embark upon an 18-0 run after the first minute of play, jumping up to a 20-3 lead before Binghamton — which shot 0 of 11 from the field during that stretch — could even draw a foul to slow them down. For an Atlantic Coast Conference team that struggled defensively last year after star senior guard Jerian Grant’s season was truncated due to academic issues, Notre Dame got off to a good start in 2014-15.

Of course, it’s hard to stack America East Conferencemember Binghamton against a program like Notre Dame’s. But it’s safe to say that BU looked deflated after a rough first half.

The Bearcats shot 32.1 percent from the floor and could only

penetrate into the paint for six of their 23 points heading into the half.

The Bearcats technically did hold one lead over their hosts, however: Sophomore forward Nick Madray drained a three in the first minute for a 3-2 advantage. But BU wouldn’t score again until freshman forward Willie Rodriguez drew a foul eight minutes later, narrowing the gap to 20-5.

Entering the second half down, 45-25, the Bearcats were actually looking more settled in than they had in the first.

Their shots were looking better, they weren’t committing five turnovers in four minutes like they did to start off the night and the Irishmen weren’t able to record as many steals. But after some potent 3-point shooting from Connaughton, who converted 4 of 5 treys, Notre Dame pulled away and the gap only grew from there. By the end,

BU was shooting 27.1 percent from the field, 16.7 from threepoint range.

On Binghamton, not one player managed to score in double digits. Madray led the team with nine points in 16 minutes and freshman guard Justin McFadden followed up with eight off the bench. Junior guard Jordan Reed led the way in rebounding, pulling down six boards. He also added six points.

For its part, ND shot 55.2 percent through the game.

Coming off the bench, junior forward Zach Auguste drained a game-high 19 points. Grant — who was named to the ACC’s Preseason All-Conference team — and sophomore guard Demetrius Jackson rounded out the other double-digit scorers, with 14 and 10, respectively.

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The Binghamton volleyball team throttled UMBC in its final regular season match on Friday, securing a postseason bid in the America East Tournament.

Assisted by a loss from Stony Brook over the weekend, BU (9-18, 7-5 AE) earned the number two seed by taking the tiebreaker over the Seawolves.

In the first set of BU’s match, the Bearcats never trailed the Retrievers (10-15, 4-8 AE). UMBC battled BU early to keep the score within three before Binghamton went on a 10-0 run to finish off the first set, 25-12. Freshman middle hitter Alexis LaGoy and sophomore outside hitter Allison Hovie combined for seven kills during the stretch before senior setter Amanda Dettmann connected on one of her trademark drop kills to finish off the set.

“She’s probably the biggest threat of any setter in the conference,” BU head coach Glenn Kiriyama said. “She does a good job of keeping the opponents on their toes. She’s gotten better and better, especially as this season has gone on.”

The second set was tightly contested with 12 tie scores and seven lead changes, but a matchlow .033 hitting percentage coupled with eight attack errors hampered BU throughout the period. UMBC capitalized on BU’s mistakes and finished off the period, 25-21, to even the match heading into the break.

“We didn’t do the same things we did the first game, we didn’t serve as well — missed a few [serves] — the ball just didn’t drop our way a few times there,” Kiriyama said. “We had to pick up our defense and serving a little bit.”

BU came out of the break ready

to impose its will in the pivotal third set. After opening the set on a 7-0 run, Binghamton never looked back. The Retrievers battled to get as close as eight before a kill apiece from senior outside hitter Kristin Hovie and LaGoy — accompanying a service ace from sophomore libero Bailey Walker — closed the set, 25-16, in BU’s favor.

“They’ve done it a few times this year, and they’ve come out strong out of the break,” Kiriyama said. “It’s good to see them regroup like that and be able to regain the momentum and their focus.”

Both teams clamped down on their attack errors and each connected on match-high hitting percentages, with BU and UMBC hitting .364 and .368, respectively, in the fourth set. UMBC held an early 4-3 lead, but after BU tied the score at six, the Retrievers pulled away. A kill from sophomore middle hitter Bianca Anderson sandwiched between two Allison Hovie kills pushed Binghamton’s lead to 10-6. BU never trailed again as they prevailed, 25-20, to take the set and the match, 3-1.

While a victory against UMBC secured a postseason bid for BU, the Bearcats could only secure the two seed after UMass Lowell pulled a shocking upset over Stony Brook.

The win was its first conference victory in the AE. Albany finished in third while Stony Brook took the fourth and last seed. ”Anything can happen in conference, it was important that we won that last match to give us that chance,” Kiriyama said.

“We’re thankful that we’re able to enter the tournament as the second seed.”

Next up for BU is its opening round matchup against Albany, who will host the tournament after finishing first in the conference standings. First serve is slated for 3 p.m. at Lundholm Gymnasium in Durham, New Hampshire.

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In her third season as a starter for the Bearcats, junior outside hitter Megan Burgess became a focal point of BU’s offense in 2014. Burgess, along with the Hovie sisters, combined for one of the most potent sets of outside hitters in the entire America East. Her .225 hitting percentage and 2.57 kills per set rank ninth in the conference.

After playing sporadically in her debut season, sophomore middle hitter Bianca Anderson emerged as a defensive stalwart for BU this season. Constantly disrupting opponents’ kill opportunities, her .99 blocks per set leads the Bearcats, and currently ranks third in the AE.

Freshman middle hitter Alexis LaGoy came up big for the Bearcat offense when there was no experienced player returning to the position in 2014. Since the early weeks of her debut season, LaGoy has climbed the ranks in the AE, holding a top20 spot in four categories. She currently ranks highest in hitting percentage, sitting in second on a .292 clip.

A sophomore from Neenah, Wisconsin, outside hitter Allison Hovie has been a consistent force for the Bearcat offense this season. She was named for America East Player of the Week honors this season for the first time in her career and her 3.16 kills per set average on the season currently ranks third in the conference.

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At no cost, SUNY offers textbooks, classes East Gym SUNY Affordable Learning Solution aims to cut down size of college bill Alana Epstein

Contributing Writer In addition to tuition and room and board, college students normally spend hundreds of dollars every semester on books for class.

SUNY is expanding online resources to offer cheaper options to all its schools.

This past month, the Open SUNY Affordable Learning Solutions website became available to all faculty, staff and students. The initiative provides cheaper alternatives to traditional textbooks and links to free courses online, including one released by Binghamton University mathematics professor Joseph Brennan in 2011.

There are currently seven free Open SUNY textbooks in publication, and 15 more being written. SUNY Chancellor Nancy Zimpher said in a statement that the site would alleviate the need for students to spend large sums of money.

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prepares large-scale upgrades Students to vote on new cardio machines until end of semester

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Sabrina Kahn, a freshman majoring in English, buys a textbook at the bookstore. SUNY unveiled the Open SUNY Affordable Learning Solutions website this month, which suggests less-expensive alternatives to textbooks and provides links to free online classes.

Gym-goers now have a temporary chance to jog, bike and climb stairs, in order to comment on which piece of equipment they want to see permanently in the East Gym FitSpace.

In a trial that began on Nov. 3 and will continue until finals week, the East Gym will have three new cardio machines for students to test every two weeks. Users can then fill out a comment card to argue for which machine Campus Recreation should buy for next semester. Gym staff will consider replacement part

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Clubs unite to fight measles, mumps BU takes on Cornell film fest Six shorts picked as finalists in competition

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Binghamton University students are headed to Cornell this weekend, not to go cliff jumping, but to represent BU in the Centrally Isolated Film Festival.

Six short films made by BU students were accepted into the upcoming weekend’s film festival in Ithaca on Nov. 21 and 22. Four of these films were written, directed and produced by members of the Binghamton Film Initiative’s (BFI) production team.

Jared Biunno, the president of BFI and a senior majoring in cinema, said that this was the

first film festival the club is taking part of as a team, and he’s feeling optimistic.

“When this film festival was going on last year we were just barely coming together, formulating a team, seeing if we could make a film,” Biunno said.

“As time went on we got better, more unified, the chemistry was great. We were able to just bang out films.”

The panelists chosen to select the winners of the contest include two Cornell University professors, two local Ithaca filmmakers and film editor Michael Miller, who has edited movies for Woody Allen, Michael Bay and the Coen Brothers.

They will pick two films — the best film and the runner-up — to win monetary prizes, which according to Biunno, will be amount to “a couple hundred dollars.”

BFI entered a three-minute comedy titled “Heavenly Blue” and an 11-minute romance titled “Spare Change.” BFI also collaborated with 2012 alumnus Ethan Scarduzio on two 10-minute long films, one of which Scarduzio describes as “an odd little film” called “Dead Meat.”

“I started working on [Dead Meat] in Boston, Massachusetts in the spring of 2013, but the area and the film crew felt miscast,” said Scarduzio, who graduated with

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Red Cross banquet raises $1,000 for vaccines Emilie Leroy

Pipe Dream News On Friday evening, students gathered in the Old University Union to raise money to help fight life-threatening diseases.

Over 90 attendees were present at the second annual Vaccinate a Village Banquet, hosted by the American Red Cross Club (ARCC) and Kappa Sigma fraternity, to raise money for the Measles & Rubella Initiative, a global partnership that aims to eradicate measles and rubella in developing countries, especially in parts of Africa and Asia, where most measles-related deaths occur.

The measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine only costs one dollar to manufacture, according to the Initiative’s website, but in 2013, the World Health Organization recorded 145,700 deaths due to measles alone. Despite the MMR vaccine, measles is still one of the leading causes of death for children

under five.

The banquet, which raised $1,000 through ticket sales and donations, featured half a dozen groups performing for the audience, ranging from singing and dancing to martial arts. A cappella groups like the Pegs and Crosbys sang, encouraging attendees to sing along with them. Members of Quimbamba performed salsa and bachata routines, members of Uyai Nnua performed traditional African dances and the Tae Kwon Do Club demonstrated moves.

Lillian Chu, the secretary for ARCC and a sophomore majoring in integrative neuroscience, said some groups, like Quimbamba and Tae Kwon Do, were chosen to demonstrate the scope of those affected by the diseases. “[They represented] international cultures that are affected by measles and other performers were picked based on availability and eagerness towards helping charity,” Chu said.

Kelvin Gutierrez, the vice president of the ARCC, the campus involvement chair for Kappa Sigma and a junior majoring in economics, said that the ARCC wanted to diversify the fundraisers and charities in which they usually participate.

“We took this initiative on to try to add something more to what we do,” Gutierrez said.

“A lot of time on campus we get the misconception that the American Red Cross Club is here just to do blood drives and we want to show people that we do more, we go above and beyond what we’re expected to do.”

Members of the club set up tables and spoke before the first performance about measles and rubella statistics, symptoms and information about the Initiative.

Sammy Wu, the blood service coordinator for the ARCC and a junior majoring in integrative neuroscience, said that he hoped guests would leave the banquet

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City puts locals on speed-dial Mobile system Nixle to keep residents updated updated about public security in their area. The Binghamton Police Department (BPD) signed on with Binghamton’s City Hall and the alert system last week.

Police Department are getting tech Nixle offers free notification savvy when it comes to improving services to local police departments the public safety of city residents and government agencies and of students living Downtown. nationwide. This allows law Last Monday, Mayor Rich David enforcement to send emergency announced the implementation updates, weather hazards, school of the alert system Nixle, which delays, automobile accidents and sends text and email notifications crime to residents, students and to residents so they can stay educators within a set area.

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Binghamton residents can register to receive Nixle notifications for a 10-mile radius by texting their zip code to 888-777, or registering on the Nixle website.

Off-Campus Assistant Dean Milton Chester said that students who live off campus should consider using the system.

“Students live in Binghamton, and things that happen in

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For holidays, dorms BU alum comes clean about truth of dentistry rally to collect gifts Private practitioner Richard Goodman shares secrets of industry ResLife recruits students to donate presents for local families Carla Sinclair

Assistant News Editor Residential Life is hoping to spread holiday joy beyond the walls of Binghamton University this winter by bringing Hand to Heart to dorm communities for its 18th consecutive year.

Students can sign up and receive a bag, which is designated for a certain age and gender for participants to shop for, to ensure no children are left out. Poverty is especially prevalent in Broome County where, according to ResLife, 65.2 percent of families are on public assistance.

ResLife began the program in 1996, when a residential director was inspired by another school, and wanted a way for the University to help support local children and families. Donations collected in the residential halls are donated to the Wyoming Conference Children’s Home and Salvation Army, to be distributed to families in need by Residential Life and the National Residence Hall Honor Society.

Residential assistants (RA) like Mountainview College’s Christopher Szabo, a senior majoring in psychology, are in charge of recruiting students from their dorm communities to donate gifts. He said the combination of good deeds and close proximity to BU made Hand to Heart as popular as it is.

“Many other charities provide the donor with the person you’re donating to, but on top of that, the

child you’re assigned to is from the area,” Szabo said. “Students seem to have a good grasp on the level of impoverishment in this area, and the desire to help those children is stronger because of it.”

Dickinson Community RA Benjamin Seitz, a sophomore double-majoring in psychology and evolutionary studies, said the turnout in the “neighborhoods,” or RA jurisdictions, in Johnson Hall had a positive response.

“The turnout varied from neighborhood to neighborhood,” Seitz said. “But it looked like every RA had anywhere from two to 10 residents signed up which is pretty good given we have 15 RA’s in our building.”

Students like Meg Sexton, a sophomore majoring in philosophy, politics and law, said this was her second year doing Hand to Heart, and she plans on doing it again.

“Even when I move off campus next year, I’m definitely going to donate what I can,” Sexton said.

“It’s a great way to make sure people who don’t have as much have a merry Christmas.”

Seitz said the program was a good way for BU students to engage the area around the University, and give back to the place they call home for nine months out of the year.

“I think it’s really nice to see kids interact with the local community in this manner,” Seitz said. “It’s good for us students to give back to the community.”

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Library North was full of smiles, both from students and across the screen as ‘78 alumnus Dr. Richard Goodman showed off his handiwork to Binghamton University’s prospective dentists.

Hosted by Harpur Edge and Pre-Health Professions Advising, “So You Want to be a Dentist?” was held on Friday afternoon.

Goodman discussed his time at BU, experiences in dental school and the realities of owning a private dental practice.

After studying mathematics at BU, Goodman attended New York University College of Dentistry and then completed his residency at Staten Island University Hospital. He opened his own dental practice on Staten Island 28 years ago.

Goodman began his presentation with a promise to be honest, and encouraged listeners to interrupt him with questions or concerns.

“I’m gonna give you the truth,” Goodman said. “I’m not gonna sugarcoat it, I’m not gonna make up stories. That’s not what I’m here for. I’m here for reality, I’ve been doing this for 33 years.”

Justin Sedaghat, a junior majoring in integrative neuroscience, said that he appreciated Goodman’s honesty in describing all aspects of dentistry.

“He gave you all the intricacies of dentistry and what the lifestyle is like, because being a dentist is more than an occupation,” Sedaghat said. “I think he was definitely really motivating.”

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According to Goodman, hands-on experience can be more valuable than formal education.

“If you want to be a dentist, the best thing to do is somehow get into an office,” Goodman said.

“If anybody here wants to come to my office for a week, come by.

Find a local decent dentist and go see what it’s about.”

Students like Mark Bagatais, a junior majoring in biology, said they were motivated by Goodman’s encouragement that success comes from determination and passion, not just grades and educational background.

“I like seeing dentists like him,” Bagatais said. “I like to believe that he is right when he says when it’s not necessarily how smart you are, it’s the work you put in.”

Goodman also said that in

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order to be successful, one must have a passion for communication and an ability to build strong relationships.

“If you don’t have people skills, don’t be a dentist,” Goodman said. “If you don’t know how to be friendly to people, don’t be a dentist. It’s not about the teeth, it’s about the people if you want to be successful.”

When it comes to building a

reputation as a dentist, Goodman stressed that when promoting the business, it is important to advertise, build connections and be readily available to the patients.

“Any time anyone would call — midnight, one in the morning, two in the morning — I saw [them], because people make your practice,” Goodman said.

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Binghamton University Class of ‘78 alumnus Dr. Richard Goodman speaks about his experiences as a dentist and his practice on Staten Island. The talk, “So You Want to be a Dentist?,” held on Friday afternoon and was hosted by Harpur Edge and Pre-Health Professions Advising.

“Twenty-three percent of college students nationally take classes without purchasing the required textbooks because they are too expensive,” Zimpher said. “We never want that to be the case at SUNY, and with the introduction of Affordable Learning Solutions, it doesn’t have to be.”

According to the Binghamton University Financial Aid Services, students spend an average of $500 each year on textbooks and other school materials in addition to tuition. This cost is expected to increase in the coming years.

Open SUNY textbooks, the online textbook resource, was created

by SUNY Geneseo, Brockport, the College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Fredonia, Upstate Medical University and the University at Buffalo libraries.

Before the program was adopted

state-wide, it was tested in the spring 2014 semester with two online textbooks and, according to the SUNY website, 185 students from the first six schools saved a total of $15,464.

But the new initiative has also raised some concerns. According to Heather Sheffer, the manager of BU’s bookstore, there are benefits to using print textbooks, and online resources frequently do not receive the same level of scrutiny from editors.

“Some of the platforms are very good, but on others the platforms are very hard to use,” Sheffer said.

“A lot of students are still struggling with the digital learning process, and many still like to have the book to write in and highlight.”

Sheffer said that the bookstore staff is fully aware of how expensive textbooks have gotten, and added that she hopes the affordable learning solution will help.

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“The more we can do to lower the costs for students, the better,” Sheffer said. “We hope professors will publish more on the website.”

According to Emma Ryan, a sophomore majoring in integrative neuroscience, the database will positively impact students across campus.

“From a student’s point of view, considering how much [we] spend on textbooks, it seems like a great idea,” Ryan said. “It will have a positive impact on students for sure.”

Sandra Khalil, a senior doublemajoring in Arabic and political science, said that this initiative should alleviate stress for students.

“This initiative is a step in the right direction for students struggling to take care of extra school expenses,” Khalil said. “A resource like this may eliminate one of the many stresses of being prepared for class.”

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Hunter shoots at dead deer on cart, hits other man Authorities say a man who had shot a deer in the Hudson Valley woods was hauling it away on a cart when he was wounded by a second hunter firing at the dead animal. Police in Dutchess County told the Poughkeepsie Journal that a hunter had shot a deer Saturday morning and was using a cart to bring it out of a wooded area 60 miles north of New York City. Officers say another hunter saw the deer moving, thought it was alive and fired, hitting the first hunter in the hand and buttocks. The injured hunter was treated at a hospital for non life-threatening injuries. Police say both men are from nearby towns. The incident is being investigated by the state Department of Environmental Conservation police.

Three sentenced for international car theft scheme Three men have been sentenced for their roles in an international car theft ring in which expensive vehicles stolen in New York were directed to New Jersey and shipped to Abu Dhabi. A judge sentenced 33-year-old Ian Aguilar of Denville, New Jersey, to three years in prison after he pleaded guilty to receiving stolen property and a weapons charge. Under terms of a plea agreement, 32-year-old Adam Hassan of Guttenberg, New Jersey, will serve three years in prison and 28-year-old Tomas Bladimir Castillo-Abreu was given probation. Prosecutors say Hassan would tell Aguilar what cars he needed, and Aguilar would then tell Castillo-Abreu, who would steal the vehicles.

Prosecutors say Aguilar would assist Castillo-Abreu in moving the cars from New York to New Jersey before they were shipped to Abu Dhabi.

NATIONAL NEWS Surgeon with Ebola dies at Omaha hospital A surgeon who contracted Ebola while working in Sierra Leone died Monday at the Nebraska Medical Center’s biocontainment unit in Omaha. Dr. Martin Salia was reported to be in critical condition Sunday. According to the hospital, Salia was more ill than the first Ebola patients successfully treated in the United States. Ebola has killed more than 5,000 people in West Africa, mostly in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leona. Salia has been working as a general surgeon at United Methodist Kissy Hospital in the Sierra Leone capital of Freetown. It’s not clear whether he was involved in the care of Ebola patients. Kissy is not an Ebola treatment unit, but Salia worked in at least three other facilities, United Methodist News said, citing health ministry sources.

Charles Manson gets marriage license Mass murderer Charles Manson has gotten a license to marry a 26-year-old woman who visits him in prison. The Kings County marriage license, viewed Monday by The Associated Press, was issued Nov. 7 for the 80-year-old Manson and Afton Elaine Burton, who left her Midwestern home nine years ago and moved to Corcoran, California — the site of the prison — to be near Manson. She maintains several websites advocating Manson’s innocence. The license does not specify a wedding date and indicates the couple has 90 days to get married or they will have to reapply. Burton, who goes by the name “Star,” told the AP that she and Manson will be married next month. Burton gave an interview a year ago to Rolling Stone magazine in which she said she and Manson planned to marry. But Manson, who became notorious in 1969 as the leader of a roving “family” of young killers, was less certain about tying the knot.

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Members on the E-Board of the Chinese Student and Scholar Association (CSSA) perform a traditional Chinese dance on the stage as part of “International Night — Binghamton’s Got Talent,” in the Mandela Room. They were part of a group of contestants who performed in the third-annual show that included a talent portion, performances and a fashion show, hosted by International Connection on Friday, Nov. 14.

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That’s Why You Always Leave A Note THURSDAY, NOV. 13, 1:05 p.m. — An 18-year-old male reportedly had his backpack stolen from the Appalachian Dining Hall, said Investigator Patrick Reilly of Binghamton’s New York State University Police. The victim said that he was eating in the dining hall earlier in the day and accidentally left without his backpack.

He realized the bag was missing a short time later and came back to the dining hall, but could not find his bag.

None of the workers at the dining hall saw the bag. The case is still under investigation.

What A Creep THURSDAY, NOV. 13, 3:26 p.m. — Officers were contacted by a 21-year-old female who said she was being harassed, Reilly said. The suspect said that a 21-year-old male that she had a relationship with in the past was harassing her over social media. He was sending lewd messages to her over Facebook and Reddit. The suspect was told to stop contacting the victim by the officers. The victim did not wish to press charges; she only wanted the actions documented by the officers.

Go Back To Elementary School SUNDAY, NOV. 16, 4:28 a.m. — Officers on patrol near Digman Hall noticed profanity sprayed on the walls near the entrance to the hall, Reilly said.

Officers were able to find a witness who said they saw the suspect spray paint the area near the card reader on the wall and put the spray paint can into his pants pocket. Officers were able to eventually identify the suspect, an 18-year-old male, and contacted him. The suspect admitted to spray painting the wall as well as other areas that he could not remember. The suspect gave the spray paint to the officers for evidence. Later on, maintenance workers found multiple words spray painted onto random areas in the College-in-the-Woods parking lot. The suspect was given an appearance ticket returnable to Vestal Town Court for making graffiti and possession of a graffiti instrument.of a property damage accident.

This Kid Needs A Hobby SATURDAY, NOV. 15, 1:15 a.m. — Officers on patrol near Digman Hall in Dickinson Community noticed that someone in the hall was shining a laser pointer at pedestrians and cars, Reilly said. The officers could not find exactly which room the laser was coming from. The next day, the suspect was shining the laser again. The officers concluded which room it was coming from this time and went there. The suspect, a 19-yearold male, admitted to shining the laser. The officers confiscated the laser. The officers told him that what he was doing was potentially dangerous for the pedestrians and drivers at whom he was pointing the laser. The suspect admitted that what he was doing was wrong. The suspect was given an appearance ticket returnable to Vestal Town Court for disorderly conduct.

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SHOT continued from Page 1 knowing more about measles and how deadly the disease can be. “There’s been a lot of controversy with the Ebola outbreak, but this is actually more contagious,� Wu said. “It can be spread through the air, like sneezing and coughing, as opposed to Ebola, which is through direct contact with bodily fluid.�

According to the Measles & Rubella Initiative, if a person is not immune to the disease, there is a 90 percent chance that they will catch it if they come in contact with an infected person.

Gregory Rovenger, a junior double-majoring in physics and philosophy, said that he was happy to attend the event and help provide the vaccines to children. “Every child has the right to be vaccinated to protect them from diseases,� Rovenger said. “If we can prevent them, why should anyone else have these problems?�

costs and service agreements, but will ultimately rely on student feedback and votes to make the decision.

Until Monday, two of the machines were updated versions of stationary bikes and treadmills that the gym already has. The third machine was a StairMaster, which the FitSpace previously did not have.

The Cybex 770T Treadmill has added handlebars and a touchscreen, with almost all of the buttons on the digital screen. The Schwinn Spin Indoor Cycling Bike has a forearm rest and allows users to shift the seat and handlebars forward and back, which the existing bikes do not. However, there is no digital screen like on older models.

The StepMill 3 model by StairMaster allows users to walk as if they were going up and down stairs with a six-inch-high step.

As of Friday night, 71 people had voted, 60 of them choosing the StairMaster as their favorite piece, while only seven preferred the Schwinn Spin Bike and four wanted the new 770T Cybex Treadmill. The three machines will be replaced with new options later this week. “If there’s an opportunity to

switch something out so that we can get greater usage, [we’ll take it],� said Cindy Cowden, associate director of Facilities and Internal Operations. “You don’t want a dead piece sitting on the floor taking up real estate that could be used.�

Each type of equipment at the gym has its own warranty for service and repairs, but the FitSpace is on a three-year plan with manufacturers and after next semester the cost of maintenance will be the gym’s responsibility.

Therefore, during the summer, older machines will be returned to the manufacturers for savings on the new models, which will have new warranties with them. “I can say without a doubt that all the treadmills that we currently have will get traded out just because they get so many miles on them,� Cowden said. “We want to keep them in that three-year replacement cycle.�

Gym administrators have not determined exactly how many machines they will purchase or how much they will cost, but according to Cowden there will also be some non-cardio equipment upgrades in FitSpace during the winter break.

Though Cowden said the numbers were subject to change, the costs are estimated to be between three and five hundred thousand dollars.

According to Alexa Francisco,

FitSpace manager, having more variety of equipment keeps workouts interesting. “You get sick of the same old things,� Francisco said. “You want a change, you want new variety, try something new, get a new workout and have fun. You’re overall happier and healthier.�

Taesung Kim, a personal trainer and a junior majoring in integrative neuroscience, said that he assumes the StepMill is the most popular of the three because it is something the gym does not currently have. “I’ve yet to see someone not on the stair master, let’s put it that way,� Kim said. “From a personal trainer’s point of view, it’s good to have alternatives because not everyone is the same, some prefer certain workouts and I think not only is it fun but it’s a good cardiovascular and muscle toning workout.�

Other students agreed that the new machine was a good change.

Xinyuan Wang, a junior majoring in computer science, tried the StepMill for the first time and said that she felt like she was climbing outside. “It was like I was climbing a mountain, and I liked that,� Wang said. “It’s different, but I think it will be a good choice for them to buy.�

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by seniors Michael Chernak and Aleksandr Rikhterman, both majoring in cinema. Rikhterman’s a degree in cinema. “So I sent an “Pura Vida: Solo-Travel� focuses email to Jared [Biunno] at BFI, and on interviewees’ trips abroad, and I’ve been working with those guys Chernak’s “Watch Me Fall Apart� ever since. I can’t think of a better developed from an idea created in a group of filmmakers.�

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man’s acceptance of his inner demons in a surreal world of sex, blood and pop music,� Chernak said.

Biunno said he is looking forward to entering larger competition instead of just the film premiere screening events BFI hosts on campus and in the community.

“We’ve managed to get people to notice film making in Binghamton,� Biunno said. “For the first time in the last couple months I’ve seen people with like minds want to make films together and have fun and with all that happening. It’s an added bonus that an institution as prestigious as Cornell is recognizing us.�

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With over 7,000 college students living off campus, Deputy Mayor Jared Kraham said it is important to have alerts regarding public safety delivered immediately and directly to the city’s residents, and added that he hopes Nixle will raise student awareness about local issues and will increase their overall safety.

“Universities are staying on cutting-edge when it comes to

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“We wanted to keep that positive trend in the city of Binghamton and allow a stronger relationship between city hall and college residents.”

Investigator Carl Smith of BPD agreed, saying Nixle was a good way for the police department to stay in contact with the community.

“We’re trying to use this as another way to reach the community to keep them advised,” Smith said. “It’s another tool to try to get the word out in case of an emergency.”

Kraham said that by providing real-time information to the city’s residents, Nixle would be able to strengthen the relationship

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“It’s important for every government, no matter what level, to be transparent and open with its constituents,” Kraham said. “It lets them know they have a direct line of communication with the police department and city hall without any gatekeepers.”

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Bathabile Mthombeni graduated from Princeton University with a bachelor’s degree in sociology, and received her J.D. from Columbia Law School. In addition to founding her own mediation practice, Untangled Resolutions, she has held many positions such as the associate university ombudsman officer for Columbia University and is currently a mediator on New York City’s Civilian Complaint Review Board.

“I went into this line of work because I am passionate about working with people and problem solving,” Mthombeni said. “I’m not the one that solves the problem, but I provide information and

resources so that a people can help themselves.”

She also focused on how her individual skills can cater to the University’s needs as a large institution.

“Being that Binghamton is such a dynamic and multifaceted institution, it is required that I am versatile, creative and open to collaboration,” Mthombeni said.

According to Mthombeni, the role of ombudsman allows people to gain an objective and informed view of how the University is operating and how it affects students and faculty.

“I am uniquely placed to perceive patterns that could be troubling, or are positive,” Mthombeni said. “It is just as important to recognize good qualities as it is to recognize bad ones.”

In addition to gaining insight, Mthombeni said that the most important part of her job is to aid

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“Because the ombudsman’s office is confidential and impartial, coming here doesn’t put anyone on notice or go on the record. People can discuss things with me without a fear of reprisal.”

Her presentation focused around the ombudsman’s view for “The University Roadmap to Premier.”

Mthombeni said that to her, this meant focusing on how to help the University grow and evolve to reach its goals.

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The Bing brain behind TV hits

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ome people get to college with an exact plan for where they’d like to be after graduation. Others seize opportunities as they come by, until they land their dream job.

Binghamton University alumnus Gary Levine followed the second path, and is now responsible for bringing “Dexter,” “Shameless,” “Weeds” and other shows to primetime television.

Levine’s journey to the big leagues of the entertainment industry wasn’t always in the cards.

At Binghamton, he graduated in 1974 with a major in theater and a minor in music. He shone here as a multifaceted actor, aspiring operatic singer and, in his free time, a director of fellow alum, actor Paul Reiser (’77) in his first theater piece — at HPC (previously the Hinman Little Theater). He also served as president of Harpur Chorale, and played on the basketball team as a freshman, to boot.

Levine’s packed schedule eventually forced him to choose between the arts and athletics, and he opted for the former.

When graduation approached, Levine planned to take some time off and explore Europe. But the School of Management offered an opportunity he couldn’t turn down.

“Senior year, the School of Management put up signs [about] a new program the next fall — an MBA in Arts Management,” Levine said. “Here suddenly was this thing that actually struck a chord, because I not only performed, but I did run a few of those student arts organizations.”

Offered a scholarship to the program, Levine spent a bit more time in Binghamton until he received an MBA in Arts Administration, graduating in 1976 as part of the program’s first class.

“It absolutely opened my eyes to this entire field,” Levine said. “And even led to a job [at] an offBroadway theater in New York that was desperate enough to call SUNY Binghamton to get fresh meat.”

Levine described his time at the Roundabout Theatre Company pre-Broadway, “when it was under siege in Chelsea,” as having been his “first experience on the firing line.” He spent a decade in the nonprofit world, eventually moving to the Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre, and spent five years as managing director at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, where he still holds a board position.

According to Levine, nonprofit theater is a great place to start where “you are given all kinds of responsibility right out of the gate because of the desperation of the nonprofit organizations.”

Levine said that he was passionate about his work there, but his career ambitions lay outside of the nonprofit theater world.

Through an entertainment industry contact, Levine was given an opportunity to work on a show in Los Angeles, which was a launching pad for

him to eventually become a creative executive in television.

“That was about 29 years ago,” Levine said. “It’s been a good ride.”

We can thank Levine for the last seventeen years of great TV. At Showtime, Levine has served as the executive vice president of original programming since 2001, a role similar to his former positions as the head of drama at ABC, and as vice president of creative affairs for television shows at Warner Bros.

“The process [at ABC and Showtime] is somewhat the same, where I was always the one guiding the projects,” Levine said. “At ABC it was much more complicated because there’s just a lot more cooks in the kitchen … The process at Showtime is much, much more intimate, much more streamlined and much purer — which basically is that there’s a few of us that work on it and if we love it, we make it. And if we make it and we still love it, we order a series.”

However, because Showtime is a premium subscription network, Levine can get away with riskier shows.

“The needs of ABC are very different than the needs of Showtime [which] can do much more complicated, sophisticated and risky material, which is why I’ve been here for thirteen years,” Levine said. Showtime’s litany of recent series definitely fits that bill, with shows like “Nurse Jackie,” “House of Lies” and “Ray Donovan.”

While he isn’t singlehandedly responsible for the inception and manifestation of every series at those networks, Levine is a key player.

“The ideas don’t begin with us,” Levine said.

“We’re the ones who hear them, we choose between them, we then cultivate them, we develop them and work with the writers and the filmmakers to make them as good and as interesting and as complicated and high-quality as we can.”

On weekdays, he works at Showtime, but on weekends, Levine pours his creative energies into his job as a cantor at a local synagogue. When asked what he think would have happened if he hadn’t stayed in Binghamton, Levine said that life’s twists and turns had a funny way of getting him to the right place.

“When I went to Harpur, all I did was spread my wings,” Levine said. “What were my interests, what were my talents that I wanted to hone, what parts of life did I want to experience now that I was out of my parents’ house and on my own for the first time, and I did all of that and, as I said, I had a great time there — met my wife there, and found my voice there in more ways than one—my singing voice,

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“Dexter” (1), “Californication” (2) and “Ray Donavan” (3) are three of Showtime’s most successful shows — all of which were created with the help of Binghamton University alumnus Gary Levine.

and probably my own true voice. So, it couldn’t have been a better experience.”

And his favorite Showtime series? Levine can’t pick just one.

“It’s like all my children, and I love ‘em all,” Levine said. “I love the variety and the range. I love the bawdiness of ‘Californication.’ I love the

riskiness of ‘Dexter.’ I love the danger of ‘Nurse Jackie.’ Love the thriller aspect of ‘Homeland.’

Love the intense character drama of ‘The Affair,’ which we just started. It’s all over the place, but I’m very lucky that I get to work on such exciting shows with such talented people.”

Afternoon delight: Binghamton's best lunch specials The food at Currys of India, Fuji San and Grande's Bella Cuisine are cheap and plentiful Evy Pitt-Stoller | Staff Writer Are you tired of Sodexo but still trying to do lunch on a college student’s budget? Luckily, some of Binghamton’s restaurants offer better-than-dininghall quality at comparable-to-dininghall prices. Check out these three lunchtime specials Binghamton has to offer that will keep your stomachs full and your wallets a-singin’.

Currys of India 45 Court St. Located in the heart of Downtown Binghamton, Currys of India offers some pretty unbeatable prices. If you love Indian food and would like to devote an afternoon to eating, come any day from Tuesday through Friday between

11:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. to take part in their $6.50 all-you-can-eat buffet. Yup. $6.50. Pile your plate high with naan, chickpea masala, rice pudding and more. Offering a wide selection of both meaty and vegetarian options, Currys of India is comparable to University Plaza’s Moghul Fine Indian Cuisine in terms of quality, and absolutely incomparable in terms of price. You’ll spend less here than you will in the Marketplace. When you’re done, head across the street to Jabberwock and buy me a thousand incense sticks with all the money I just saved you.

day, lunch is offered from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.. and there are several ways you can get a lot of bangin’ spicy tuna for your buck in those four hours.

For $10.95, you can get any two rolls plus a soup or a salad. For as cheap as $8.95, you can get a Hibachi lunch, which includes a main filling of your choice (tofu, veggies, shrimp, chicken, salmon, scallops, steak or filet mignon — price varies up to $13.95 depending on what you choose), salad, soup, steamed vegetables and the famous Fuji San fried rice. Think that’s good?

Not even close until you hear about the combination lunch boxes. Choose Fuji San: Japanese Restaurant a base order (shrimp, vegetable or 4105 Vestal Parkway East chicken tempura, salmon or chicken Even if you don’t like Japanese food, teriyaki, beef negamaki, six pieces of Fuji San makes it pretty irresistible sashimi or four pieces of sushi), and with their delicious prices. Open every enjoy the side orders, including a miso

soup, a house salad, white rice, gyoza or a California roll. Ranging from $10.50 to $11.95, these combination lunch boxes make me a combination of joyous and ecstatic. And the best thing about Fuji San? They deliver pretty much anywhere, so whether you’re on campus or off, you can have your lunch special at your door in less than an hour. But not for less than $15, so harass a friend until he or she understands the gravity of the situation.

Grande’s Bella Cucina 1171 Vestal Ave. or 1250 Upper Front St. They should just change the name of this place to “Come Try Our Lunch Specials.” Grande’s is a pretty wellknown Italian restaurant among the student population, but not everyone

knows about the unbelievable deals they offer around noon. You can come in any day of the week between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. and get any two specialty slices and a fountain drink for just $4.97. A $5 bill is all you need, and if you come in between Monday and Friday from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., you can participate in a lunch buffet that, at just $8.95, is almost suspiciously cheap. Not only can you get all-you-can-eat pizza, salad bar and fruit, but there are also daily specials of dozens of different types of Italian dishes that Grande’s offers in its buffet.

My class schedule keeps me occupied on Tuesdays and Thursdays, so I’ll see you guys there on Monday. And Wednesday. And Friday.

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Giancarlo Esposito will be Breaking Bing 'Breaking Bad' star to talk about race in Hollywood Jacob Shamsian | Release Editor Giancarlo Esposito — who played the two-faced drug kingpin Gustavo Fring in AMC’s Emmy Award-winning “Breaking Bad” — will speak about his acting career on campus on Friday.

Esposito could not be reached for comment, but if he could, he might have said that he was doing the show because “a man provides. And he does it even when he’s not appreciated, or respected, or even loved.

He simply bears up and he does it. Because he’s a man.”

Amanda Wolfe, the Insights Chair for the Student Association Programming Board, said that Esposito had a lot to offer as a speaker because of his experience as a successful African American actor in the entertainment industry. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, he acted in four films directed by Spike Lee (he played Buggin’ Out in “Do the Right Thing” and Thomas Hayer in “Malcolm X”). A report this year by the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA found that minorities are underrepresented by a factor of about 7 to 1 in lead roles in broadcast comedies and dramas.

“He’ll cover things that really matter,

like overcoming racial stereotypes and boundaries in the world of entertainment, and things he had to do to get into this world, and get the jobs,” Wolfe, a senior majoring in English, said. “Because it’s predominately a white kind of atmosphere in the entertainment world.”

Esposito was nominated for an Emmy for outstanding supporting actor in a drama series in 2012 for his work in “Breaking Bad,” losing out to co-star Aaron Paul. On stage, he’ll share stories from working on the set of “Breaking Bad” and on other shows, Wolfe said.

After Esposito’s talk, he’ll accept audience questions predetermined by a Twitter question-and-answer to be held by the Programming Board at noon on Wednesday.

“We’ll pick the best tweets, and the people who get picked will be able to actually ask him the question in person,” Wolfe said.

The event will begin at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 21 in The Anderson Center’s Chamber Hall. Tickets cost $8.50. There were 25 meet and greet tickets available for $15 each, but they sold out in four minutes.

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Going behind the scenes to find out how they're made Jonathan Ortiz | Contributing Writer

On a campus with mundane building names like “Lecture Hall” and “Science [15],” the Anderson Center for Performing Arts is one of the few structures of campus with a proper noun in its name. Flaunting three magnificent theaters, the building is Binghamton University’s premiere location to get lost in. And getting lost is not hard when each theater is ambitiously constructed with top-notch acoustic technology, lights and eye-grabbing designs meant to arrest the audience’s attention and ensnare them in the world of the performance. This Friday, Harpur Edge offered 15 students a behind-thescenes tour, and Release is here to give you the scoop.

Constructed by the Hutchins, Evans, and Lefferts architectural firm in 1985, the Anderson Center’s three theaters are distinctly designed to accommodate performances of various types. The Chamber Hall and Watters Theatre are on the smaller scale, accommodating 408 and 558 guests respectively, and have stages that drop down to hold a pit of 40 or so musicians. The Chamber Hall’s walls wear reversible acoustic sound boards like armor; flipped to the hard side and they reverberate the low frequencies of a lecture or a play, when flipped to the softer side they provide cushion for acoustically

louder performances. The building itself is named after Floyd E. Anderson, a prominent Binghamton and New York state politician in the early and mid-1900s.

When larger-than-life performances come to town, a larger-than-life theater is needed. Boasting 1,170 seats, an 80man pit and a retractable wall that reveals an additional 1,500 outdoor seats, The Osterhout Concert Theater undoubtedly fits the bill. Sound seamlessly flows from wall to wall of this venue, due to the use of acoustic clouds that hang from the ceiling and reduce reverberations. The National Acrobats of the People’s Republic of China exhibited courage on the Osterhout stage this past Monday, and the Binghamton University Symphony Orchestra will fill the theater with Dvorak’s Ninth Symphony and more on Dec. 6.

Most may argue the best seats in the house are located in the first two rows of the theater, however Casey Korchynsky, the Anderson Center’s house operations director, says otherwise.

“In all of these theaters, the sound is projected towards the back of the room,” Korchynsky said during the tour. “The best seats in the house are about halfway back or a little further.”

On the tour, Korchynsky displayed the Anderson Center’s dressing rooms, costume shop, set shop and green room.

Interestingly enough, the green room, a backstage lounge for performers, is not

green at all but instead features a photo collage of the stars that Gary Pedro, the Anderson Center’s executive director, has worked with. The room’s moniker is thought to derive from these rooms being painted green historically as a tranquil space for performers to relax in.

Most of the theater’s magic is made off stage, evident in the glamorous assortment of hued fabrics covering the costume shop.

Similarly, the set shop bustled with energy as workers prepared vivid backdrops and familiar set pieces for shows like “Little Shop of Horrors” and “Les Miserables.”

“Right before a show, both the set shop and costume shop will be overflowing with workers preparing to bring perfection to the performance,” Korchynsky said.

To make the performances as breathtaking as they are, the Anderson Center relies on ARTSCORPS, its team of volunteers who work for access to free shows, with optional credit for classes.

Whether selling tickets in the box office, ushering as an usher in the theater or working behind the scenes in either of the shops, ARTSCORPS volunteers help to provide a comfortable and enjoyable atmosphere for the Anderson Center’s guests.

“The ARTSCORPS is the first act to every show here,” Korchynsky said. “If the guests are not pleased, the show cannot go on.”

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Brevity is the soul of Whittier Emily Mancini | Staff Writer

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rofessor Whittier isn’t afraid to act her age. She likes to tell her classes, “I’m in my seventies, and I’ve earned every single one of those years. I’ve seen everything.”

And when it comes to our school, she really has. Whittier began teaching at Binghamton University in the fall of 1969, which makes this her 45th year here. She’s seen the University change drastically from a small liberal arts college to the multifaceted, ever-expanding public university it is today.

“I started teaching at Harpur College, and then it was SUNY Center at Binghamton, then SUNY at Binghamton, and now it’s Binghamton University. So it’s sort of like a much married university,” she joked from her office, a cozy study with a well-stocked bookshelf and a miniature portrait of Shakespeare.

“When I started teaching, the general atmosphere was of people who were liberal arts-based in their endeavors and sensibilities, even. Now it’s much more varied, and it will become even more so in the future.”

Professor Whittier’s lectures are certainly diamonds in the rough of academia. She’s known across campus for her free-form style of teaching English that makes Shakespeare feel not just applicable, but important in daily life. It’s impossible to deconstruct her lectures into a bulleted PowerPoint that you can regurgitate into a bluebook on exam day. Her lectures are unique, engaging and interwoven with intelligent insights into Shakespeare’s works, as well as amusing narratives from her own life.

Professor Whittier describes her teaching process as thinking about Shakespeare’s plays creatively.

“I wasn’t suckered in by new historicism,” Whittier said. “I’m not interested in cultural context, and how it implies race, gender and capitalism, I don’t think that’s a good way to understand any artifact.

I think my teaching, my whole life has gone towards the sense of ‘How was this made? What is this thing?’

I’m always looking for the thing that Emily Dickinson said about the top of your head coming off when you read the great poems. I’m interested in the power in a poem.”

And while she seems so comfortable teaching, professor Whittier is far from complacent in the realm of academia. Rather, she’s wary of how the focus has changed over the years, shifting from creative to material-based productivity.

“I call myself a victim of academia, or a recovering academic, as in ‘AA: Academics Anonymous,’” Whittier said. “There’s been a radical culture change in academe. From a faculty standpoint, the focus has shifted on material productivity, so that in my department if you don’t have a book published or under contract by the time you come up for tenure, you won’t get tenure. I think that that’s a kind of commodification of intellect. I’m all in favor of intellect, but I suppose my quarrel is really with certain types of scholarship all together. I would say the University as a corporate entity wants the labor and the material product of it, the same way as if you were making a chair.”

Whittier’s own education began at Middlebury College. She left, got married, and finished her degree four years later at the University of Buffalo. She went on to attend graduate school at Cornell University,

getting her doctorate in 1969. It was there that her “arranged marriage” with Shakespeare began.

“When I went to graduate school at Cornell I wanted to work with 17th-century prose, and I was very attracted to sermons in particular,” Whittier recalled. “But as it happened, the person who was the head of that department was someone I couldn’t have worked with, someone who believed that you couldn’t write about something if others had written about it in the mainstream. I wanted to write about Donne’s sermons, but a book had recently been written about them, and he refused to let me write about something that was in the mainstream. He gave me only two topics: the case of conscience, and the poetry of failed pleasure, and by that he meant a subgenre of poetry about sexuality, what was usually literally like orgasm counting. I was in despair because I didn’t really want to write on either of these topics.”

A former professor suggested she write about Shakespeare. Her answer was simple: OK. “So yeah, it was somewhat like an arranged marriage,” Whittier added.

Looking back on it, however, she isn’t so sure she would’ve made the same choice had she known what she was getting into.

“I wonder now whether if I had given it more thought if I would’ve said yes because, while I like Shakespeare, and I’m awfully glad that I’ve spent this long with it, if I had thought about it a little longer and seen all the bookshelves full of stuff written about Shakespeare, would I have said yes? I don’t know.”

Despite the unexpected pairing, Whittier is happy about where she gave her attention. Next semester, she will be teaching a 300-level class entitled “Shakespeare’s Histories.”

“What I love about Shakespeare is that there is always something new to discover in the text,” Whittier said. “Since my graduate work, I have been lucky that I found so many other things that I love, and that I love to teach, and I’m happy.”

She’s known across campus for her freeform style of teaching English that makes Shakespeare feel not just applicable, but important in daily life.

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ast summer, New York’s Office for People with Developmental Disabilities (OPWDD) announced plans for the gradual closure of the Broome Developmental Center (BDC), expected to be fully implemented by March 2016.

The BDC houses and treats patients who have been dually diagnosed as both mentally ill and developmentally disabled. Proponents of closure — a plan to consolidate New York’s 24 state psychiatric hospitals into 15 locations — argue that the integration of patients into community settings will significantly reduce costs for the state and end the unwarranted segregation of dually diagnosed individuals.

According to local law enforcement, the hastened discharge of BDC patients threatens the safety of community members and patients alike. Local service providers report that they lack the space or personnel to treat these discharged patients. While the closure of the BDC may be inevitable, New York state must fund its mandate and provide Broome County with the resources to properly integrate these patients.

Some BDC patients discharged into communities are failing to adjust, resulting in disastrous consequences.

According to the Broome County Department of Social Services, at least three individuals failed to transition properly, with one patient incarcerated, one admitted to a psychiatric unit and one admitted to a hospital after suffering sexual and physical assault.

This is unacceptable.

The developmentally disabled are more vulnerable to physical and sexual assaults, and it’s happening here. These problems are only likely to increase as more patients are discharged without necessary protections.

Despite claims by proponents of the closure, local service providers are illequipped to treat these discharged patients. The state estimates that there is enough space for smaller facilities to

care for the discharged patients, but these group homes lack the personnel and resources to treat more of these patients because dually diagnosed individuals require such a high level of care. Proponents also claim that patients can be moved to other facilities throughout the state. Forcing patients to move outside of Broome County and away from their loved ones can hardly be called “community integration.”

According to the Press & Sun-Bulletin, children in Binghamton would have to receive treatment in Utica, which is around two hours away.

The BDC employs 650 workers. The OPWDD stated that BDC’s closure will not result in any layoffs and that every BDC worker is guaranteed a state job.

OPWDD does not specify where these state jobs are located. It is likely that many of these employment opportunities

will force former BDC workers to relocate. In its current state of economic decline, Broome County cannot afford to lose 650 jobs or the tax revenue these workers provide.

The state must postpone the closure of the facility until it can demonstrate that local — not state-wide — providers are equipped to treat dually diagnosed individuals. The process for release into the community must be restructured to account for developing patient crises and communication with local service providers and community members. The state should work to allow BDC workers to maintain jobs in Broome County. Yes, this will cost money, but it is necessary to ensure the safety and fair treatment of community members, dually diagnosed individuals and the workers who care for them.

Views expressed in the opinion pages represent the opinions of the columnists.

The only piece which represents the views of the Pipe Dream Editorial Board is the Staff Editorial, above. The Editorial Board is composed of the Editor-in-Chief, News Editor, Opinion Editor, Sports Editor, and Release Editor.

Environmental Columnist

Simple explanations blur understanding of corrupt food industry Food justice depends on people's willingness to adopt comprehensive reforms Dorothy Farrell

Envrionmental Columnist

When I was young, I asked my mom a lot of questions. “Are hamburgers made out of ham?”

I asked. “No, they are made out of beef.” For all of the time I had been eating hamburgers, I’d been completely misinformed.

I imagined that whoever was in charge of creating words for new things was not very well informed either.

“Why are some people vegetarians?” I asked. My mom was responsible for feeding three children, and she was not about to give any of them cause to revolt

against the current menu. Giving her animal-loving daughter the slightest idea that people could advocate for different diets would make her job as the family chef more difficult. “I don’t know,” she said.

Answers don’t always make sense, and some questions are easier to avoid. These are just a few simple truths I gathered, but more importantly, I did not stop asking questions.

As I grew up, I discovered that most hamburgers come from a place called a concentrated animal feeding operation (CAFO).

Many of those animals do not enjoy simple luxuries in life, like sunshine or freedom to walk.

I learned that cows are meant to eat grass, and that the only

outbreaks of E. coli are cultured in cows that are fed corn. I learned that the corn industry receives millions of dollars in subsidies from the federal government, and monoculture operations that cultivate corn are responsible for massively reducing biodiversity.

I learned that everyone needs a job. Some people immigrate to America to find jobs because they don’t have jobs in their country. If everyone has a job, we have a big economy, and that’s important.

Western New York’s economy is driven in part by dairy farms, and dairy farms are run by workers from Mexico and other Latin American countries. Another western New York job sector growing in economic importance is immigration deportation.

Located in Batavia, New York, the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement operates a Detention and Removal office.

The easiest way to fill quotas is by targeting migrant workers. This economic model aligns with a typical cat-chases-mouse reaction.

There’s more. I learned that people like it when food prices are low. This might mean that workers are underpaid, but we don’t know who they are so we don’t care. I learned that taxpayers can afford to finance immigrant deportation, but they cannot afford food that doesn’t sell somebody else short.

Food justice is the idea that every single, living unit, from the grass that feeds the cows, to the bees that pollinate the crops, to the animals that create products,

we’ve allowed simple answers to blur our vision of what is truly happening to our food industry.

The effect has been astounding.

I still have more questions.

Will this system remain indefinitely? No, and that’s because there are physically not enough resources to exploit. The population is growing, and this system is not very efficient. Will the system change in time that the world’s growing population can subsist on dwindling resources? That depends on the certainty of the people that we are deserving of changes that to the workers that handle our benefit everyone. food, should be treated humanely.

The environment needs to be — Dorothy Farrell is a senior preserved, and the people need majoring in environmental to be respected. For some reason, studies

The environment needs to be preserved and the people need to be respected

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OPINION

Dignified death is a human right Put a stop to Terminally ill patients should be permitted to die on their own terms Stephanie Izquieta Contributing Columnist

For most of us, talking about death isn’t easy, and mentioning it can be a conversational taboo.

For something that surrounds us so completely, we seldom talk about death with our loved ones, yet death is a large part of the human experience, and its role in the age of modern medicine merits debate.

All too often we use technology and drugs in lifeor-death decisions on terminal patients who have no hope of surviving. Medical professionals exhaust all of their resources in an attempt to save the lives of these patients. The efforts taken for these terminally ill patients give us the peace of mind that when our time comes, “everything will be done” to save us. This mentality prevents us from asking or answering the crucial question,

“What is a good death?”

A “good death” may sound like an oxymoron, but according to the Center for Disease Control, 70 percent of people say they would prefer to die at home, but only 25 percent actually do. In fact, according to a national survey, more than 90 percent of people think it’s important to talk about their loved ones’ and their own wishes for end-of-life care, yet less than

In an age of increased longevity, death can be prolonged to the point that it does more harm than good

30 percent have discussed what they or their family wants when it comes to end-of-life care.

Perhaps that’s why Brittany Maynard, a 29-year-old with terminal brain cancer and six months to live, sparked such remarkably personal debates when she decided that death with dignity was her best option.

All at once, it seemed, we were confronting the question together: Given a choice, how would we wish to die?

Brittany Maynard became a volunteer advocate for the nation’s leading endof-life choice organization, Compassion & Choices. After discovering her fatal condition, she intensively searched for treatment, but all studies led to the same conclusion: No treatment would save her life, and the recommended treatment would take away from what little time she had left. So Maynard and her family moved to Oregon, one of five states that have Death with Dignity laws.

In an op-ed for CNN, Maynard

wrote the following: “I’ve had the medication for weeks. I am not suicidal. If I were, I would have consumed that medication long ago. I do not want to die.

But I am dying. And I want to die on my own terms.”

The right of a competent, terminally ill person to avoid excruciating pain from an incurable illness by embracing a timely and dignified death is implicit in liberty. Forcing someone to live who does not wish to do so should be considered a crime. We all die, but in an age of increased longevity and medical advances, death can be prolonged to the point that it does more harm than good. We don’t choose to be born, but we can choose how and when to die. For anyone to impede such a decision is wrong.

— Stephanie Izquieta is a senior majoring in Polics , Philsophy, and Law

Pursue greatness for personal fulfillment Achieving success for success' sake is a nonsensical goal Melanie Sharif

Contributing Columnist

Several months ago, I had the pleasure of attending a motivational speech given by successful Disney animator Saul Blinkoff. As a middleclass male from Long Island, Blinkoff was well qualified to speak to ambitious Binghamton University students about the achievement of greatness. The speech was well orated, but sent me along a less-thanmotivational thought process that revealed some dangers of lusting after “greatness.”

Blinkoff described his journey to personal and vocational success. He spoke of an immensely fulfilling clarity he achieved that allowed him to know why he worked hard in life and what his purpose was as a man, a husband and a father.

His icebreaker was most memorable: “People want greatness. Do you aspire to be mediocre?” Obviously, people said no — they wanted to be

the best.

The hour-long treatise left me reeling. I found myself feeling that I should desire greatness, but I didn’t have any clearer idea of how to achieve it than I did before the speech. Blinkoff’s words didn’t emphasize the joy he received from creating art — they emphasized the clean satisfaction he had for having dotted all the i’s and crossed all the t’s that life had dictated him to. This preciseness allowed him to feel “great.” I hadn’t identified the i’s and t’s within my own life and wasn’t even close to completing them. I feared that even if I attempted to do so, I would never feel as fulfilled as Blinkoff proclaimed to be.

I have passions and curiosities that I intend to pursue in life. As for my beall and end-all career, I’m still largely “fundecided.” Because of this, instead of excitement toward success within a specific career, the speech offered me a paralyzing, nonsensical volition to pursue greatness for the naked sake of being amazing.

It’s not inherently harmful

to want to be the best doctor happily and more excitedly or lawyer or business-savvy forward. individual that you can be. The problem is desiring recognition while failing to consider the pleasure that comes with creating and doing things for their own sake.

The compulsion to be great and the anxiety that comes along with it are fabricated. In actuality, you are not required to be great. If you were to accept this and eradicate the conditioned fear of failure to achieve success, you might never find a compulsion to be great. You might never move beyond having influence over a small group of people, and that’s OK. We use greatness to incite competition, which is fine, but being great for the sake of being great is a narcissistic and empty motivation that will leave us trapped in a cycle of negative thoughts.

In an effort to see students succeed, Saul Blinkoff caused me to desire greatness before I stopped to realize what —Melanie Sharif is an greatness actually makes undeclared sophomore fulfilling; the genuine pursuit of pastimes that move us

The problem is desiring recognition while failing to consider the pleasure that comes with creating and doing things

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"Skinny Shaming" Meghan Trainor's "All About That Bass" promotes a hurtful message Anita Raychawdhuri Columnist

Unless you’ve lived under a rock for the past few months, you have definitely heard Meghan Trainor’s upbeat hit, “All About That Bass.”

On the first few listens, the song seems to promote a body positive message, with Trainor crooning, “every inch of you is perfect from the bottom to the top.” Unfortunately, Trainor delivers this message in an exclusionary way by mocking thin women. We’ve been told that fat-shaming is wrong and we need to respect women of all body types.

Trainor fails to recognize that cruelty toward thin women is just another form of body-shaming with equally destructive consequences.

I find it difficult to join the bandwagon championing Trainor as a pioneer in positive body image when her song has lines like, “go ahead and tell them skinny bitches that.” If Trainor’s mother told her, “don’t worry about your size,” then why is she saying that “boys like a little more booty to hold at night?” This is a step in the wrong direction. Not worrying about your size means acceptance of all sizes, big and small, not skinny-shaming in favor of a new body ideal.

Trainor is responding to a culture with specific ideals of attractiveness. It’s hard for her song not to resonate with many young women who’ve been bombarded with images of skinny women and consistently told that only stick-thin people are beautiful. Trainor’s target is misplaced. The problem is not skinny girls, but our obsession with our bodies and our perfectionist attitudes toward attractiveness.

Songs like “All About That Bass” are hardly liberating. Instead of tearing down the idea that our value comes from outward appearances, she creates a new ideal against which we can compare ourselves. Trainor is trying to “bring booty back” to replace “thinness” as the standard of attractiveness. How does that message affect thin girls? It’s

hurtful to be told that your body is offensive, regardless of your dress size.

There is no legitimacy to a song about body positivity if it only inverts who is being targeted as unattractive. Body positivity is something that we all need more of. Our disturbing fascination with the physical has caused nothing short of a malaise. We are all forcing ourselves to suffer so that we can try to live up to some attainable ideal.

The point here is that such an ideal is irrelevant. Regardless of what the unfair expectation for beauty is, it is harmful.

There is no legitimacy to a song about body positivity if it only inverts who is being targeted as unattractive Taking the focus away from what we look like is the best course of action if we want to make any attempt at moving forward. We put our bodies under the microscope, obsessed with declaring people “overweight” or “too skinny.” There is some satisfaction that we receive from trying to prove that our size is the one that is acceptable.

In “All About That Bass,” Trainor is seeking validation for her larger size by belittling the thinner female body. If they truly wish to promote positive body image, Trainor and other artists should send a message that we are all “perfect,” regardless of our waistlines or how we look in the mirror.

—Anita Raychawdhuri is sophomore majoring in English

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Any college student can learn to cook delicious meals through trial and error Lawrence Ciulla

Contributing Columnist

It wasn’t the first fire alarm that truly angered my roommates, but it could have been the second. We were standing out in the cold, sometime in the middle of October, waiting for the police car to show up and turn off the alarm in a routine to which we were all too accustomed. It is my first semester cooking entirely for myself and I am slowly getting a grasp on it. Learning how to cook in college is not for the faint of heart.

While it may be convenient to rely on the gastronomical pleasures offered by Sodexo dining services, preparing your own food can be a rewarding experience.

Coming from a household that prides itself on the number of take-out menus plastered on our

refrigerator, not the number of spices in the cupboard, I entered this semester with zero knowledge on how to approach the kitchen in my on-campus apartment. I began the first week with a few Italian cultural dishes such as mac and cheese and spaghetti with tomato sauce that I meant to refrigerate after opening. I gradually began to upgrade my cooking, moving on to daring projects such as fried chicken and meatloaf. Over the past three months, I’ve learned a few things that I would like to share.

First, ditch the recipe. I found that it is generally easier to throw a bunch of ingredients in a pan and see how it comes out than to religiously abide by a recipe found on the Web. It is important to make a rough estimation of cooking time based on the consistency of ingredients and portion-size. Once this is determined, you are set — mashing ingredients together and stealing any spices that your

roommates may have. Make the dish your own.

Second, speaking of spices, learn to throw them on everything. For the first month of my cooking, I understood little about what spices actually do — thinking they just made your food look a little prettier.

To much ridicule, I utilized ketchup as my seasoning — I went through a bottle in a month. I learned that spices, even if you do not know which is which or what may go well together, can truly liven up any meal — turning your chicken from a bland white meat into a flavorful delight. It also makes your home smell really good as you’re preparing, which turns your skeptical roommates into believers.

It is brilliant.

Third and final, don’t be afraid to experiment and try new food. If you have ever had a dish that you didn’t like before, then try to make it yourself and see if you can find a way to make it your own. Sometimes

there is a different flavoring or spice you could use, turning your entire meal around. It could turn a meal you have hated your entire life into the food you make any time you are too lazy to really cook.

Cooking always seemed like such an impressive feat to me — something you could only get at a restaurant or your girlfriend’s house. I never truly understood how it all came together until I threw myself into it all and refused to buy a meal plan. It was one of the best decisions I made all semester. And by the end of the second officer visit, after turning off the alarm, the officer looked at me and my roommates, asking, “Who’s the chef this time?” I looked over, smiling, admitting it was me; boldly declaring that would be a title my mother would be proud of.

—Lawrence Ciulla is a junior majoring in Philosophy, Politics, and Law

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Devils fork Bearcats, 23-15 BU makes a run at NCAAs

Hausamann leads Bearcat men to 13th-place finish Jeff Twitty

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Freshman Steve Schneider captured his first collegiate dual-meet victory on Saturday. He wrestled at 174 in BU’s 23-15 loss to Arizona State.

Binghamton drops first dual meet of 2014 Kyle McDonald

Contributing Writer The Binghamton wrestling team opened its dual slate with a 23-15 loss to Pac-12 member Arizona State at the Journeymen Tussle, hosted in the Albany area on Saturday. The Bearcats (0-1) hung tough with the Sun Devils early, but ASU would pull away in the final three matches to send Binghamton home emptyhanded.

“I think our guys really fought and scrapped hard,” BU head coach Matt Dernlan said.

“We didn’t really execute in our discipline areas and execution was the tipping point in a really competitive match.”

Arizona State grabbed an early 3-0 lead with a close win in the 165-pound weight class.

In the next class, BU freshman Steve Schneider stepped up to the mat at 184 pounds and picked up his first collegiate dual match victory to tie the match at 3-3. Schneider took down his opponent, junior Ray Waters, in the final seconds of the match to earn the win.

“Winning a last second match really shows you the character he has inside of him,” Dernlan said of Schneider. “He had been close to scoring the whole match but he didn’t get frustrated, and he scored with five seconds left.

That’s a huge win and is going to be a huge defining point this early in his career.”

After losing two straight matches after Schneider’s victory, one by major decision and one by fall, Binghamton picked up two victories of its own. Heavyweight senior Tyler Deuel, ranked 20th in the nation, defeated ASU’s redshirt senior Chace Eksam, 10-4. He is currently 5-0 on the season.

Next up came the 125-pound class, in which BU’s redshirt freshman Thierno Diallo defeated sophomore Judson Preskitt, 5-2, to cut ASU’s lead to 13-9.

“Thierno came out, got on the attack and scored points and was aggressive in all areas,” Dernlan said.

The Bearcats were able to take a brief lead when they earned a victory by forfeit at

133-pound weight class. This gave the Bearcats a muchneeded six points to put them on top of the Sun Devils, 15-13.

Unfortunately, it was all downhill from there for the Bearcats. Arizona State captured the final three matches, including a major decision at 149-pound weight class by ASU sophomore Christian Pagdilao over BU sophomore Nick Tighe. Arizona State picked up 10 cumulative points in the final three matches while Binghamton earned zero. The Sun Devils captured the dual meet by the score of 23-15.

“In terms of effort and attitude, especially coming out of the gate against a big time school in Arizona State, we competed really hard,” Dernlan said.

The Bearcats are scheduled to return to the mats next weekend for the New York State Intercollegiate Championships, hosted by Cornell University.

The first dual is slated for 9 a.m Sunday at the Friedman Wrestling Center in Ithaca, New York.

At the NCAA Northeast Regional Meet on Friday, the men’s cross country team continued its strong performance in the championship season, finishing 13th out of 39 teams. Junior Ethan Hausamann led the pack for Binghamton University at Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx. The junior took an individual finish of 39th in the 10K race with a time of 31:19.3 to earn BU’s first top-40 finish since 2010.

Not far behind Hausamann was sophomore Eric Holt in the 67th spot with a time of 31:40. Seniors Matt Johnson, Jesse Garn and Andrew Roache rounded out the top-100 finishers for BU in a solid team effort.

“Every year is a little bit different obviously,” head coach Annette Acuff said. “It was a little bit more competitive on the men’s side this year. We were really pleased. That was a great performance for us as a team — we ran really well as a pack again at Regionals.”

As has been typical for the Bearcats this season, the pack finished close together as Holt, Johnson and Garn all crossed the finish line within 10 seconds of one another. In their performance at the AE Championship earlier this month, the three finished within three seconds of each other.

Closing its team season, the men’s side will end the fall ranked 13th in the latest United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Northeast Regional polls — its fourth appearance in the USTFCCCA rankings in six years.

Despite losing senior captain Matt Johnson — Binghamton’s top finisher at the conference championship meet — Acuff is confident that the team will continue to thrive next season.

“We return three of our top five, which I think is pretty huge,” Acuff said. “We lost three of our top five from last year, and we still came back and finished just as strong.”

Even though Roache will finish his undergraduate career

this spring, he still has one year of eligibility left and hopes to return to the team as a graduate student to continue his stellar career.

Fellow senior Garn concluded his time running cross country, but still retains eligibility for Binghamton’s indoor and outdoor track squads. In those programs, he is sure to continue to impress as BU’s second four-minute mile runner in five years.

On the women’s side, junior Alexis Hatcher was the first Bearcat to finish the 6K race with a time of 21:48.0. The finish was good for 74th in the 275-woman race as Hatcher paced Binghamton for the fifth straight race. The 74th spot was also the highest that any Binghamton female runner has taken in seven years.

“She has certainly provided a lot of leadership and guidance,” Acuff said. “[Hatcher has been] a great role model for the rest of the

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Senior Andrew Roache finished 98th out of 261 runners at the NCAA Northeast Regional Meet on Friday. He clocked a time of 32:06.

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The women’s next finisher wouldn’t come until one minute later, as freshman Allison Davis concluded the race with a time of 23:11.1 to finish 178th. Junior Anna Corrigan took the 180th spot, finishing less than a second behind Davis with a time of 23:11.4.

Overall, the Bearcats earned 29th place in the 40-team event.

“We’re very proud of both teams this year,” Acuff said of BU’s overall performance on Friday.

But it was the men who owned the day at Van Cortlandt Park. “[On] the men’s side, we accomplished a lot this year,” Acuff said. “That’s our second conference championship in the last five years and four out of the last six years we’ve only been first or second on the men’s side in the America East conference. That says a lot about our level of success and I think the consistency speaks for itself.”

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Watkins leads BU in 90-84 win over Delaware St. Pouring in 40 points through two games, Watkins earns AE Rookie of the Week honors E.Jay Zarett

Assistant Sports Editor In their first career appearance for the Binghamton women’s basketball team, freshman guards Jasmine Sina and Imani Watkins proved their potential. Watkins scored 40 points over the course of two games — earning America East Rookie of the Week honors on the way — while Sina added 27, leading Binghamton (1-1) to a victory over Delaware State.

That 90-84 win was the first Division I victory for first-year head coach Linda Cimino. Over the weekend, the Bearcats also fell to the host of the Akron Tournament, 80-49, on Friday night.

After a tit-for-tat opening, Watkins took over in the first half against Delaware St. on Saturday.

With BU trailing by four, the 5-foot-8 guard drained a 3-pointer with eight minutes remaining in the period.

From there, she would score eight more points, enabling Binghamton to secure a 42-31 advantage heading into the half. Watkins scored 18 total points in the first 20.

“Imani did a good job in the first half with attacking the basket and getting to the free-throw line,” Cimino said. “She did a great job of scoring good baskets in transition and the half-court.”

Following halftime, Delaware St. (0-2) laid extra emphasis on limiting Watkins’ scoring chances — she would score only three more

points in the contest.

But Watkins’ dry spell gave Sina an opportunity to leave her mark. She scored five points in the opening six minutes of the half, pushing BU’s lead to 57-43 with 14 minutes remaining. Sina would pour in nine more points through the period and finish the game with 18. “[In] the second half, they did a good job denying [Watkins] the ball, so she became more of a role player,” Cimino said. “[Both Sina and Watkins] weren’t afraid to shoot, they weren’t afraid to go to the basket and they weren’t afraid to take big shots.”

However, Delaware St. refused to roll over. The Hornets cut BU’s lead to seven with three minutes left to play. But the Bearcats delivered on their chances to seal the game from the free-throw line, draining ten in a row from the charity stripe. Junior guard Kim Albrecht, who knocked down the last six free throws for BU, scored a career-high 27 points.

“In the second half today, we went 19 of 20 from the free-throw line,” Cimino said. “We made our free throws when it counted.

Coming off short rest — less than 24 hours rest — the girls did a good job playing together as a team, making the extra pass. We had balanced scoring today … and that always helps.”

BU played a competitive half against Akron — the defending MAC champion — to open its

season. Watkins scored 13 points and grabbed four rebounds in the contest while Sina added six points and six rebounds. Both helped to keep BU within striking distance of an Akron team that captured 23 victories a season ago. The two teams headed into the locker room with Akron leading by just three, 30-27.

That gap wouldn’t stay so narrow.

BU had no answer for Akron junior guard Anita Brown. She poured in 23 points in the second half alone and grabbed five rebounds as her team outscored BU, 50-22, in the period on its way to routing BU, 8049. Brown finished the game with 29 points while senior forward Sina King scored 19. “[We] just kind of ran out of gas,” Cimino said. “We were really proud of the way the girls played.

They fought, they played hard and they never gave up. And that’s what we talk about — that is what we want to be about.”

Sina scored nine points, grabbed seven rebounds and dished out three assists in the losing effort while Watkins ended with 19 points, four rebounds and four assists.

Binghamton played the contest without senior forward Sherae Swinson, who missed the matchup due to a “violation of team academic policy” according to Cimino.

The Bearcats will return to action on Wednesday when they travel to Canisius. Tip-off is scheduled for 7 p.m. at the Koessler Athletic Center.

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Freshman guard Imani Watkins totaled 40 points through two contests in the Akron Tournament this weekend. The conference announced on Monday that her performance merited her AE Rookie of the Week honors.

Notre Dame routs Bearcats, 82-39

Volleyball secures postseason berth BU downs UMBC en route to AE Tourney appearance Derek Stampone Contributing Writer

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Freshman guard Justin McFadden scored eight points and grabbed four boards in 23 minutes against Notre Dame. Both were good for second on the team.

In season opener, BU struggles offensively, shoots 27 percent Ashley Purdy Sports Editor

For Notre Dame, Friday night was a night of milestones, in a sense. In an 83-39 rout of the Binghamton men’s basketball team at the Purcell Pavilion in South Bend, Ind., head coach Mike Brey logged his 400th career win. Senior swingman Pat Connaughton eclipsed the 1,000-point mark through his 17-point, 10-rebound performance, becoming the 56th Irishman in program history to do so.

For Binghamton?

The night went pretty much as expected. More than anything, what the Bearcats (0-1) took out of the experience was precisely that: experience. They sent their five active freshmen under the bright lights of the Hall of Fame Tip-off Tournament and started off their season against a rigorous opponent in the hopes of exposing

all the flaws of their system.

One of the most blatant of those flaws was ball control. The Bearcats committed 19 turnovers through the game, losing possession nearly as quickly as they secured it. The Fighting Irish (1-0) were able to embark upon an 18-0 run after the first minute of play, jumping up to a 20-3 lead before Binghamton — which shot 0 of 11 from the field during that stretch — could even draw a foul to slow them down. For an Atlantic Coast Conference team that struggled defensively last year after star senior guard Jerian Grant’s season was truncated due to academic issues, Notre Dame got off to a good start in 2014-15.

Of course, it’s hard to stack America East Conferencemember Binghamton against a program like Notre Dame’s. But it’s safe to say that BU looked deflated after a rough first half.

The Bearcats shot 32.1 percent from the floor and could only

penetrate into the paint for six of their 23 points heading into the half.

The Bearcats technically did hold one lead over their hosts, however: Sophomore forward Nick Madray drained a three in the first minute for a 3-2 advantage. But BU wouldn’t score again until freshman forward Willie Rodriguez drew a foul eight minutes later, narrowing the gap to 20-5.

Entering the second half down, 45-25, the Bearcats were actually looking more settled in than they had in the first.

Their shots were looking better, they weren’t committing five turnovers in four minutes like they did to start off the night and the Irishmen weren’t able to record as many steals. But after some potent 3-point shooting from Connaughton, who converted 4 of 5 treys, Notre Dame pulled away and the gap only grew from there. By the end,

BU was shooting 27.1 percent from the field, 16.7 from threepoint range.

On Binghamton, not one player managed to score in double digits. Madray led the team with nine points in 16 minutes and freshman guard Justin McFadden followed up with eight off the bench. Junior guard Jordan Reed led the way in rebounding, pulling down six boards. He also added six points.

For its part, ND shot 55.2 percent through the game.

Coming off the bench, junior forward Zach Auguste drained a game-high 19 points. Grant — who was named to the ACC’s Preseason All-Conference team — and sophomore guard Demetrius Jackson rounded out the other double-digit scorers, with 14 and 10, respectively.

Check bupipedream.com/ sports/basketball for a recap of Monday night’s game against Providence.

The Binghamton volleyball team throttled UMBC in its final regular season match on Friday, securing a postseason bid in the America East Tournament.

Assisted by a loss from Stony Brook over the weekend, BU (9-18, 7-5 AE) earned the number two seed by taking the tiebreaker over the Seawolves.

In the first set of BU’s match, the Bearcats never trailed the Retrievers (10-15, 4-8 AE). UMBC battled BU early to keep the score within three before Binghamton went on a 10-0 run to finish off the first set, 25-12. Freshman middle hitter Alexis LaGoy and sophomore outside hitter Allison Hovie combined for seven kills during the stretch before senior setter Amanda Dettmann connected on one of her trademark drop kills to finish off the set.

“She’s probably the biggest threat of any setter in the conference,” BU head coach Glenn Kiriyama said. “She does a good job of keeping the opponents on their toes. She’s gotten better and better, especially as this season has gone on.”

The second set was tightly contested with 12 tie scores and seven lead changes, but a matchlow .033 hitting percentage coupled with eight attack errors hampered BU throughout the period. UMBC capitalized on BU’s mistakes and finished off the period, 25-21, to even the match heading into the break.

“We didn’t do the same things we did the first game, we didn’t serve as well — missed a few [serves] — the ball just didn’t drop our way a few times there,” Kiriyama said. “We had to pick up our defense and serving a little bit.”

BU came out of the break ready

to impose its will in the pivotal third set. After opening the set on a 7-0 run, Binghamton never looked back. The Retrievers battled to get as close as eight before a kill apiece from senior outside hitter Kristin Hovie and LaGoy — accompanying a service ace from sophomore libero Bailey Walker — closed the set, 25-16, in BU’s favor.

“They’ve done it a few times this year, and they’ve come out strong out of the break,” Kiriyama said. “It’s good to see them regroup like that and be able to regain the momentum and their focus.”

Both teams clamped down on their attack errors and each connected on match-high hitting percentages, with BU and UMBC hitting .364 and .368, respectively, in the fourth set. UMBC held an early 4-3 lead, but after BU tied the score at six, the Retrievers pulled away. A kill from sophomore middle hitter Bianca Anderson sandwiched between two Allison Hovie kills pushed Binghamton’s lead to 10-6. BU never trailed again as they prevailed, 25-20, to take the set and the match, 3-1.

While a victory against UMBC secured a postseason bid for BU, the Bearcats could only secure the two seed after UMass Lowell pulled a shocking upset over Stony Brook.

The win was its first conference victory in the AE. Albany finished in third while Stony Brook took the fourth and last seed. ”Anything can happen in conference, it was important that we won that last match to give us that chance,” Kiriyama said.

“We’re thankful that we’re able to enter the tournament as the second seed.”

Next up for BU is its opening round matchup against Albany, who will host the tournament after finishing first in the conference standings. First serve is slated for 3 p.m. at Lundholm Gymnasium in Durham, New Hampshire.

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BU defeats UMBC, 3-1, in regular season finale

TWO FOR THE SHOW BEARCATS CLINCH TWO SEED INTO AE TOURNEY

MEGAN BURGESS

BIANCA ANDERSON

ALEXIS LAGOY

ALLISON HOVIE

JUNIOR OUTSIDE HITTER

SOPHOMORE MIDDLE HITTER

FRESHMAN MIDDLE HITTER

SOPHOMORE OUTSIDE HITTER

In her third season as a starter for the Bearcats, junior outside hitter Megan Burgess became a focal point of BU’s offense in 2014. Burgess, along with the Hovie sisters, combined for one of the most potent sets of outside hitters in the entire America East. Her .225 hitting percentage and 2.57 kills per set rank ninth in the conference.

After playing sporadically in her debut season, sophomore middle hitter Bianca Anderson emerged as a defensive stalwart for BU this season. Constantly disrupting opponents’ kill opportunities, her .99 blocks per set leads the Bearcats, and currently ranks third in the AE.

Freshman middle hitter Alexis LaGoy came up big for the Bearcat offense when there was no experienced player returning to the position in 2014. Since the early weeks of her debut season, LaGoy has climbed the ranks in the AE, holding a top20 spot in four categories. She currently ranks highest in hitting percentage, sitting in second on a .292 clip.

A sophomore from Neenah, Wisconsin, outside hitter Allison Hovie has been a consistent force for the Bearcat offense this season. She was named for America East Player of the Week honors this season for the first time in her career and her 3.16 kills per set average on the season currently ranks third in the conference.

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