Fall 2017 Issue 26

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Finals administered ahead of schedule Professors violate University policy with early exams

a practice that violates Binghamton University’s policy regarding final exams.

Although he isn’t currently aware of any specific faculty members violating Allison Detzel the policy, University Provost Donald Pipe Dream News Neiman is aware that it happens from time to time.

As finals week approaches, students “Ending the semester early by giving are flooding the library in preparation for the final exam or last exam during the tests, papers and projects. Some students, last week of classes deprives students however, will enter finals week having of valuable instruction,” Neiman wrote already taken their last exam for a course, in an email. “Students need the time to

prepare for final [and] end of semester exams and complete final papers. When they have exams in some classes during the last week of classes, it makes it more difficult to do so.”

Final examination schedules are determined by the office of Course Building and Academic Space Management.

According to the University’s academic calendar, final examinations for the fall 2017 semester run from Dec. 11 through Dec. 15, but

it’s not uncommon for faculty members to schedule final examinations during the last week of classes.

In fall 2014, the University’s Faculty Senate, a lawmaking committee that consists of professor representatives from all departments at BU, passed a policy stating faculty must administer their final course exams during the official examination period. The policy,

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Kevin Paredes/Photography Editor In fall 2014, the University’s Faculty Senate passed a policy stating faculty members can only administer finals during the official exam period.

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Reporter joins Officer Weaver on weekend patrol Sasha Hupka Assistant News Editor

A student plays foosball at Frost Fest, an event designed to help students de-stress before finals exams.

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It was 10 a.m. on a Saturday in Downtown Binghamton. As I walked into the Binghamton Police Department (BPD), a blue Off Campus College Transport bus stopped across the street, releasing a crowd of festively attired students heading toward State Street.

Unlike those students, my plans for the day didn’t involve drinks, music or holiday-themed fun. Instead, I was heading out for a ride along with Officer Colleen Weaver on the South Side of the city of Binghamton.

Once I was properly suited up in a bulletproof vest, we departed the BPD headquarters. Just a few minutes later, we were speeding down the street with lights and sirens blaring, on our way to a hang-up 911 call from Saratoga Avenue, where we arrived at 10:34 a.m. A woman had called the emergency line twice,

but hung up both times. When dispatch attempted to call the number back, there was no answer. The caller assured Weaver the calls were a mistake, and that no emergency was occurring.

At 10:53 a.m., we were headed to another call. A manager at a grocery store on Conklin Avenue had contacted police after a 20-year-old male customer started yelling and refused to leave. When we arrived at the scene, the manager told us the customer had left. According to the manager, the customer became enraged when the manager refused to process a return for an item without a receipt.

The manager said he told the customer to leave and not come back. Because the customer had already left, Weaver filed an incident report and told the manager that he should contact police if the man returned to the store.

Although much of Weaver’s time is spent responding to emergency and incident calls, she’s also responsible for conducting follow-ups on victims to ensure suspects have not approached

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University's online aerial BU explores open access tour garners 22K views Open-resource model used at 27 SUNYs

of media and public relations, the availability Video offers prospective of drone technology at BU made it a good time students new perspective to create the video. The technology stabilizes the camera for a smoother shot and is able to Gillian Kenah capture images up to 11,000 feet in the air.

Contributing Writer Yarosh designed the concept and provided direction during the shooting and editing Thanks to drone technology, Binghamton phases, while Casey Staff, a video producer for University’s new online aerial tour of campus BU, shot and edited the video with Jonathan features a bird’s-eye view of the Brain, Glenn King, ‘15, the enrollment management G. Bartle Library and the Nature Preserve. digital video designer for BU. According to Ryan Yarosh, ‘09, the director

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Post Malone parties Downtown post-show Rapper takes shots, selfies with students at The Colonial

senior majoring in computer engineering, Post Malone tried to engage with everyone who approached him.

“He would take people’s phones and do Orla McCaffrey Snapchat videos for them or make them News Editor drinks,” Tetteh-Nartey said.

Within 10 minutes of his arrival, word When Post Malone stepped off the stage had spread and people, mostly students, at the Events Center on Thursday, it turned showed up looking for him. Post Malone out his night had just begun. stayed for between 90 minutes and two The rapper appeared at The Colonial, a bar hours, according to Alex Jaffe, ‘14, one of and restaurant in Downtown Binghamton, the owners of The Colonial. where he downed shots, tended bar and took “A lot of people would be bothered by the selfies with fans.

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Amy Donovan Assistant News Editor

In Florida Virtual Campus’ 2016 Student Textbook and Course Materials Survey, 56.3 percent of 22,000 student respondents said they pay more than $300 for textbooks per semester. Fortyfive percent of students surveyed said they hadn’t signed up for a course because the required textbooks were too expensive.

Robin DeRosa, professor and director of interdisciplinary studies at Plymouth State University in New Hampshire, said the implications of statistics like these are what she’s trying to combat with the help of open educational resources.

On Friday, Nov. 30, DeRosa spoke to Binghamton University faculty, staff and librarians in LN-1302C, also known as the Zurack Family HighTechnology Collaboration Center, about the benefits of open educational resources, an initiative that makes course materials a part of the public domain, ensuring that students can access them at no cost.

According to DeRosa, she first experimented with open-access materials when she enlisted a few of her students to create an anthology of American literature for one of her classes.

“I realized that my students were paying $90 every semester for public domain literature about their own American heritage,” DeRosa said.

“I thought, ‘This is either the least American thing on the planet or the

Stephen Ruiz/Staff Photographer Robin DeRosa, professor and director of interdisciplinary studies at Plymouth State University, discussed the benefits of open educational resources on Friday. Currently, 27 SUNY campuses use the open educational resources model to some extent.

most American thing on the planet that we’re charging students all this money for public domain literature.’”

DeRosa soon became an advocate for open educational resources. She emphasized that the initiative doesn’t stop at making sure students can afford course materials, but is meant to maintain a sustainable ecosystem so that students can finish their education. For DeRosa, this meant implementing small changes within her department, such as providing a child care co-op for students with kids, setting up a food pantry in her office and implementing a department rideshare board for emergencies if students

Local museum ignites the Hanukkah spirit,

Columnist Emily Houston discusses the need for bail reform in Broome County,

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needed to get to campus.

“I started thinking more about this survive domain,” DeRosa said. “Could students come in to get this content delivery … if, for example, they didn’t have the gas money to put in their car to come to class?”

Mark McBride, library senior strategist for the Office of Library and Information Services at the SUNY system administration, helped connect BU with DeRosa. He said SUNY is currently working to encourage the usage of open educational resources at SUNY schools.

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Fans, students pack bar in search of rapper MALONE FROM PAGE 1 fact that 1,000 people tried to show up to take pictures, but he was a champ about it,” Jaffe said.

Bartenders gave Post Malone The Colonial’s “Flaming Shot Menorah,” a menorah affixed with nine shots that is lit on fire. Malone passed out shots from the menorah to people near the bar, including Tetteh-Nartey.

“We all took our shot together while he clinked his drink against ours,” Tetteh-Nartey said.

According to Jaffe, the menorah idea was created by a bartender two or three years ago.

“During the holiday season, we like to go all out with our decorations to celebrate for Christmas and Hannukah,” Jaffe said. “We just make nine shots, light them on fire and give them out. It’s a really fun thing to give out — we love seeing people’s reactions.”

A video of the menorah shots was posted to Facebook early Friday morning by BingPop, a hyperlocal social media blog that highlights and promotes events in Binghamton.

Since then, the video, titled “Post Malone celebrates Chanukah at the Colonial,” has garnered more than

8,000 views.

When The Colonial closed at 1 a.m.

Friday morning, fans stayed in the bar in an attempt to keep interacting with Malone.

“At 1:10, [Colonial workers] were yelling at everyone to get out,” according to Leor Wasser, a senior majoring in psychology.

Jaffe said his staff did a good job handling the extra attention and customers.

“It was just another busy night at the bar — it happens,” Jaffe said.

“Everyone, I think, had a good time.

After the bar closed, we had to get everyone out.”

Before Post Malone headed Downtown, he enjoyed food and other items provided by the Student Association Programming Board.

According to a copy of his hospitality rider, the list of requirements ordered by performers and provided by the host site, the rapper wanted two cases of water, three dozen mild chicken wings, three orders of french fries, two large bags of Lay’s potato chips, assorted Pure Leaf teas, two bottles of Veuve Clicquot champagne, six cans of Red Bull energy drinks, one bottle of Hennessey cognac and five packs of Kevin Paredes/Photography Editor Rapper Post Malone hit up The Colonial on Court Street in Downtown Binghamton after headlining the fall concert on Thursday night.

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Aerial tour Ride-along offers inside look at BPD provides bird's-eye BU views POLICE FROM PAGE 1

TOUR FROM PAGE 1 Staff wrote in an email that the team wanted to ensure that the University’s video differed from the the typical aerial tour.

“We noticed that most of the aerial tour videos on YouTube were similar to one another and we wanted ours to stand out,” Staff wrote. “We chose a high-energy music track and that set the pace and the movement to our visuals. We did our best to travel along a path, so the video would also appeal to those already familiar with the campus.”

BU’s first aerial tour was shot over eight years ago, when aerial video was costly and countless hours were spent on the postproduction process, Yarosh said. This year, the video was shot over six weeks near the beginning of the semester. Jim Johnson, a carpenter and former Physical Facilities employee, shot the last aerial video by using a quadcopter, a device similar to a drone. Johnson frequently shoots aerial video clips, some of which were included in the new video.

With over 500 likes and 22,000 views, the aerial video has racked in more likes and views than any other video on BU’s Facebook page.

According to Yarosh, the team might try a similar project again, but only if there is a new way to visually tell BU’s story.

King wrote in an email that the video was intended to provide easy access to a tour of campus, especially for international prospective students, but not just of the typical campus sights.

“I think this was a great project to show the beauty of the campus from angles that are rarely seen,” King wrote. “Casey and I worked hard on planning just the right shots to give the viewers the best viewing experience. I am extremely pleased at the positive response the video has gotten from students, parents, alumni and the community.”

Randi Traison, a freshman majoring in nursing, said she was outside the Marketplace while the droned filmed overhead, and said the video provided a good resource for out-of-state students like herself.

“I am from Michigan, and when I was deciding on where to apply all I wanted to do was see a video like that one,” Traison said.

Mia Katz/Contributing Photographer The Binghamton Police Department is responsible for responding to emergency calls across the city of Binghamton. Officers handle domestic conflicts, fraud, larceny and disorderly conduct on a daily basis.

them in regard to prior incidents. At 11:59 a.m., after taking a short break to grab a banana and granola bar from her bag in the trunk, Weaver headed to Felters Road to check in with a victim of a domestic abuse incident.

She wanted to make sure the victim hadn’t seen or been approached by the suspect.

As we drove to the next incident at a dentist’s office, dispatch filled us in on what was going on. According to the caller, two suspects, a male and a female, had entered the dentist’s office and began arguing with staff, demanding they be given narcotics.

After arriving, Weaver met with a female who said she just had a tooth pulled and needed narcotics for the pain. Weaver took the female’s ID and found that she had a history of narcotics possession. After speaking with the dentist, Weaver asked the female to leave the premises and not return.

While we handled the next several calls, I could tell things were heating up Downtown. Calls to other officers about the “Santa event” involving “Christmas-dressed SUNY students” steadily continued to come over the police scanner. But while other

officers were busy handling the mass of students Downtown, Weaver and I responded to calls on the South Side — and because of the business on State Street, there was a lot more for us to handle than earlier in the morning.

Finally, we arrived at our last call of the day: a mother-daughter dispute on Mill Street. According to dispatch, the 15-year-old daughter had punched the front door during an argument with her mother, and was standing on the side of the house refusing to talk to her family. According to the mother, she was arguing with her daughter about her friend choices when her daughter got upset and punched through a window on the front door of the house, breaking the glass. While interviewing the mother, the daughter overheard the mother’s discussion with Weaver and accused her of lying. After a short argument, the daughter screamed profanities at her mother and walked away. Weaver caught up with the daughter and convinced her to return home and resolve the dispute.

Following that call, we headed back to BPD, where paperwork awaited Weaver, and a ride back to campus awaited me. But emergencies do not stop for shift changes, and on the ride back to the station, calls continued to pour in.

Professors talk Early finals breach policy implementation of open access FINALS FROM PAGE 1

ACCESS FROM PAGE 1 “At the system level, we’re very interested in student affordability, and so we’re looking at [open educational resources] as a pathway to help with that affordability,” McBride said. “Now our faculty is beginning to tell us different stories, so it’s not just an affordability equation. It’s a lot of what Robin discussed today it’s about student success.”

According to the SUNY Open Educational Resources Services website, SUNY received $4 million from the state to fund the implementation of open educational resources. Currently, 27 SUNY campuses are engaged with open educational resources at some level.

Critics of open educational resources have expressed concern for professors, who wouldn’t receive royalties from

content they’ve published if open access becomes a reality at BU. But according to McBride, many faculty do not receive many royalties from their published work, so most professors would not be significantly affected if they began using open educational resources.

Cláudia Marques, an assistant professor of biological sciences at BU, said she plans to start using open education resources in her curriculum next semester to help her students. After listening to DeRosa speak, she said she thought it would be an easier task to complete than she originally believed.

“It’s more straightforward than I thought,” Marques said. “[It’s important] particularly because a lot of students can’t afford books and it’s easier for them to be able to download an open source for free.”

which applies to final exams and take-home finals, was established when the University switched over from a final exam request system to a system that automatically schedules a final exam for each class.

However, students in Contemporary International Law (PLSC 380F) will take their final this Thursday, Dec. 7 from 4:25 to 5:50 p.m. The course syllabus doesn’t mention an in-class final exam. Similarly, Metaphysics of Pop Culture (ENG 380V) requires a test in the days leading up to finals week, but not during the designated finals week.

Exemptions to the rule are awarded if the class doesn’t have a final exam, if the exam takes place in a lab or if the school’s dean gives permission to administer the exam at an alternate time.

According to Colleen Marshall, the assistant to the chair of the history department, the department tries to enforce the policy, but faculty members often find various ways around it, including not calling their

last examinations “final exams” or offering written assignments.

Marshall said she believes that since courses can differ greatly both in structure and content, professors should be allowed more leniency regarding their final examination schedule.

“Every class is different in the way it is taught, and the information the students are learning,” Marshall wrote in an email. “The professors should be able to decide what is good for that class.”

Kayla Murray, a senior majoring in psychology, said she has experienced added stress due to professors administering finals before the final examination period.

“It’s annoying because you’re trying to finish up work for all your other classes and somehow find time to study for your final,” Murray said. “I don’t think it’s fair to have students take a final before they’ve actually had a chance to get through all the material.”

According to Raul Cepin, the Student Association’s vice president for academic affairs (VPAA), the earlier dates of final examinations are sometimes

mutually agreed upon by students and faculty, benefiting both parties.

“I do not think that our faculty violates this rule in bad faith,” Cepin wrote in an email.

“In many instances professors ask the class for feedback regarding class preference for when the finals should be.”

However, Cepin wrote that as a whole he thinks the policy helps students manage their stress and budget their time during the final weeks of the semester.

“I believe that the policy was written with the intention of protecting students from an unreasonable amount of academic responsibilities in a short period of time,” Cepin wrote.

“Academic policies like this, function as a way to maintain academic rigor, while accounting for student wellness.”

Cepin advised that any student looking to discuss their issues with pre-examination period final examinations should fill out an academic concern form, available through the VPAA office, or contact his office directly.

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Vote on Broome Developmental Center postponed

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Proposed plans to repurpose the Broome Developmental Center into an opioid addiction treatment center won’t be voted on by the end of this year, according to WBNG. The Broome County Office of Management and Budget told News 12 that the vote was pushed back until at least January 2018 because of budget concerns.

Broome County Executive Jason Garnar had previously announced expectations for the Center’s opening by early 2018. “Every day the Chairman waits to accept state funding for treatment, another life is lost,” Garnar wrote in a tweet on Friday. “The time for debate has ended, the time for action is now.”

Data released by Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s office Friday showed that fewer people in New York are contracting HIV, according to The New York Times. The number of new diagnoses of HIV infections in the state population fell by an average of 9 percent — more than double the rate of decline in recent years. In addition, the number of new diagnoses in men who have sex with men dropped for the second year in a row. The changes come after an increase in the implementation of preventative drugs and crisis measures since 2014.

Winter alternate parking rules begin On Friday, Dec. 1, the city of Binghamton’s winter parking rules took effect, according to WBNG. The rules enforce alternate-side parking meant to promote safe and efficient snow plowing, and require vehicles to be parked on alternate sides of the street until 5 p.m., depending on if the date is even or odd. The policy is scheduled to remain in effect until March 15, 2018.

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On Sunday, CVS Health Corp. agreed to acquire health insurer Aetna Inc., according to The Washington Post.

People familiar with the deal said the $69 billion acquisition has the power to transform nearly 10,000 pharmacy locations into community hubs for primary care and basic procedures.

The deal is likely part of a trend of Jacob Hanna/Staff Photographer mergers in the health care industry, Explorchestra held its Fall 2017 Semester Show on Saturday evening in University Union Room 120, featuring 10 original pieces according to Ana Gupte, managing by eight student composers. director and senior analyst of health care services at Leerink. It is expected to close in the second half of 2018 and is dependent on the approval of shareholders and regulators.

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The following accounts were provided by Investigator Patrick Reilly of Binghamton’s New York State University Police.

This Day in History Dec. 4, 1952

A heavy smog begins to hover over London, leading to the deaths of at least 4,000 people.

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Drunk partygoer pees between vending machines THURSDAY, Nov. 30, 7:23 a.m. — Officers arrived at Delaware Hall of Newing College after receiving a report that urine had been found between two vending machines. Officers identified a 19-year-old male suspect from security camera footage. When officers confronted the male in his room, he confessed that he’d been drunk after a party and had originally been trying to use the vending machines. However, he later decided to urinate in the gap between the machines. The male was then charged with criminal mischief and criminal nuisance. He was also charged with criminal possession of marijuana and a forged ID after officers discovered them displayed in plain sight in his room. He was brought to the station and given a ticket to appear in Vestal Town Court.

Burglar steals repeatedly from University Union West THURSDAY, Nov. 30, 8:58 a.m. — A 34-year-old female reported a burglary on the second floor of University Union West (UUW) after discovering the door to her office was unlocked and that her printer and BU ID were missing. It was the first time the female had visited her office in a week. Investigation revealed that multiple cards had access to the female’s office. Soon after, officers received a report of another burglary on the third floor of UUW from a 20-year-old male.

The male’s laptop and $300 were missing, and he also discovered an unauthorized transaction from his bank account to another person’s account. Officers identified the 18-year-old male suspect who’d committed the unauthorized transaction. When confronted, the male

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suspect readily admitted to stealing the 20-year-old male’s belongings and committing the unauthorized transaction. When officers questioned the suspect of the burglary that occurred on the second floor, he also confessed to stealing the printer and ID and said he had gone to three different rooms and stolen from each room. Upon inspection of his dorm room, officers found multiple items from previous thefts. The suspect was charged with three counts of felony burglary and 15 counts of possession of stolen property and was remanded to Broome County Jail until he could post $2,000 cash or $4,000 property bail. The case is currently under investigation.

Male snorts cocaine in bathroom stall during fall concert THURSDAY, Nov. 30, 8:18 p.m. — An officer on duty at the Events Center for the fall concert discovered two males in a bathroom stall. Finding this strange, the officer observed the two males and found that one of the males had a small plastic bag that contained white powder. This 21-year-old male then snorted the white powder.

The officer believed the plastic bag contained narcotics and confronted the males. The male who snorted the powder readily admitted that it was cocaine and was arrested for criminal possession of a controlled substance. He was given a ticket to appear in Vestal Town Court.

Water pipe break causes flooding, water shortage FRIDAY, Dec. 1, 4:15 a.m. — Officers responded to the Library Tower after learning the lower parking lot area had flooded with water. It was determined that the water pressure system had failed and a pipe had burst, causing the water to rise up and flood the lot. An inch of water flooded the copy center, located in the Library Tower basement. The amount of damage caused is not yet known. Physical Facilities workers turned off the water valve.

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ARTS & CULTURE Post Malone pulls off sold-out show

Kevin Paredes/Photography Editor Post Malone’s performance, opened by rapper Dave East, impressed the thousands of BU students and community members who attended the record-setting sold-out concert.

Rachel Greenspan Assistant Arts & Culture Editor Binghamton University had a “rockstar” on campus yesterday — but you probably already knew that.

Sponsored by the Student Association Programming Board (SAPB), this year’s annual fall concert was headlined by Post Malone and opened by Dave East, a rapper from Harlem, New York.

All 4,800 available tickets for the concert sold out within 48 hours, a record for the SAPB. Introducing himself as Austin Richard Post, Malone thanked the crowd for “getting lit” with him. The Events Center became a party scene while Post Malone performed, sloshing around cups of what he called “apple juice.”

“His interactions with the

audience were so cool,” said Danielle Rubin, a sophomore majoring in human development who was a part of the SAPB team working the event.

While the Events Center staff and Binghamton’s New York State University Police (UPD) manned security and crowd control, there were also more than 40 members of the University’s student-run ambulance service, Harpur’s Ferry, present during the concert, in addition to two treatment rooms on-site.

Jewelia Vaccaro, a crew chief for Harpur’s Ferry and a senior majoring in integrative neuroscience, said that the Harpur’s Ferry team worked in collaboration with UPD to make safety a priority at the concert.

“This is something we put a lot of preparation and time into,”

Vaccaro said. “We have been planning this for months.”

According to a Nov. 16 Pipe Dream article, some tickets for this concert were resold online for over $100. Mariah Tyler, a senior majoring in English, is one of the many BU students who purchased a resale ticket. Tyler paid $50 for hers, double the original $25 general admission price for students. Tyler said this is the first fall concert she’s attended in her four years at the University.

Mikaela James, fundraising chair for the SAPB and a senior majoring in business administration, said that she was a huge fan of Dave East, and was most excited for his performance.

James said she thought the hype around Fetty Wap’s performance at the 2016 fall concert was similar to the anticipation for this year’s show.

“In all honesty, I think people like Fetty Wap also brought a lot of excitement, especially from the local community,” James said.

“But this concert definitely has a lot of excitement, students and locals combined.”

Recently, Post Malone has been under criticism in the media for his comments on hip-hop music. On Nov. 20, Newonce, a Polish magazine, released a video interview conducted during Post Malone’s European tour. In the interview, he says, “If you’re looking to cry, if you’re looking to think about life, don’t listen to hip-hop.”

Joshua Gonzalez, vice president for multicultural affairs for the SA and a senior majoring in geography, said that he likes some of Post Malone’s music, but his comments on hip-hop complicate

the experience of being a fan.

“Hip-hop is about feeling, and telling stories from neighborhoods — he’s someone who’s allowed to maneuver in that space because we let him,” Gonzalez said. “And I don’t think he should be saying certain things about hip-hop if he doesn’t really understand it, let alone if he wants to be that type of artist. He should understand how hip-hop works.”

In addition to his comments in the Newonce interview, Post Malone has been criticized for other comments on hip-hop music as well. In 2016, XXL magazine asked Post Malone to be in the running for their “Freshman Class” issue, a popular and often predictive list of up-and-coming rappers. Among 2016’s picks were rappers 21 Savage and Anderson .Paak — and Dave East. Missing from the list was

Post Malone himself. XXL Editorin-Chief Vanessa Satten said in an episode of the radio show “The Breakfast Club” that he declined because he said he didn’t want to be pigeonholed into a specific genre. Post Malone later took to Instagram to contest the truth of Satten’s story.

Malone began his performance last night by acknowledging loved ones and fellow musicians who died too young, including rapper Lil Peep and singer Tom Petty.

Through the shouting and, in some cases, crying fans, Malone held onto this humility throughout his set.

In emotional closing comments, Malone reminded fans that they, too, could be on the stage one day.

“You think about seeing yourself on a billboard, but you never fucking think it’ll be real,” he said.

Beat seasonal Warm up with art at the incubator stress this month Students, community members come together at exhibition Pipe Dream asked experts how to cope with finals, family Melanie Gulbas Staff Writer Finals week pressure, coupled with the anxiety of the holiday season, can become overwhelming. To find coping methods for the stress, Pipe Dream asked Binghamton University faculty, staff and alumni for their best advice.

Jennifer Wegmann, a lecturer of health and wellness studies at BU, said she teaches stress management — as a class and practice — in an atypical way.

“Don’t look at [stress] as a negative, but instead as a positive,” she said. “So appreciate it, and your body’s response is giving you the energy to plow through everything that has to be done, such as studying late at night and pushing forward with your academics.”

However, Wegmann also emphasized that stress is supposed to be temporary.

“Don’t create more stress in your life, but understand that you will be stressed, so utilize these stress responses to your advantage by changing your mindset and the way you think about stress in your life,” she said. “In spite of the stress, you can’t lose sight of the importance of yourself and self-care.”

One way to promote self-care is through meditation, according to Rachael Leonard, ’05, a mindfulnessbased stress reduction teacher. She also explained that “sleep, exercise, smiling, and laughing” can help reduce stress.

“A daily practice of just 10 minutes, in time, literally changes the brain in ways that support and enhance your well-being,” she wrote in an email.

To keep your brain working at maximum efficiency, Julie Lee, one of the two registered dietitians for BU Dining Services, recommended balancing meals with small snacks throughout the day.

“Try to actually take a break to eat, rather than idly snacking while studying or writing a paper,” she

wrote in an email. “It’s especially important to fuel with complex carbohydrates [such as whole grains] which slowly breakdown to glucose — the brain’s primary fuel.”

Lee said that when looking for a snack, try pairing protein with carbs. So, for example, instead of just having an apple, pair that fruit with string cheese.

Alexa Schmidt, Dining Services’ second registered dietitian, also warned of being mindful of caffeine intake.

“Keep it to 2-3 cups (16-24oz) coffee or less each day,” Schmidt wrote in an email. “Looking for a pick me up? Try a quick walk and an ice cold glass of water.”

Once finals are over, the last thing you want is to let holiday stress take over at home. Emily Panigrosso, assistant director of the University Counseling Center (UCC), wrote to Pipe Dream that this kind of stress can be quite common.

“Many students look forward to going home for the holidays only to find it to be a challenging time,” she wrote in an email. “One reason for this is family stress, including the adjustment to returning to home.”

To remedy this stress, Panigrosso suggested scheduling time away from home, working a part-time job, seeking support from friends or doing something fun, like taking a road trip.

She also noted that the holidays are especially challenging because they overlap with the time when many people may find themselves dealing with seasonal depression, or the “winter blues.” To cope, she suggested being in as much sunlight as possible, and exercising each day.

If you’re experiencing severe mental distress, call any of the following resources: The UCC is available at 607-777-2772 during normal business hours; Binghamton’s New York State University Police at 607-777-2393 at any time; or the 24-hour Crisis Center at United Health Services Binghamton General Hospital at 607-762-2302.

Hannah Reichelscheimer Contributing Writer

The Koffman Southern Tier Incubator showed First Friday participants that the artistic process is quite similar to the entrepreneurial one. Friday night’s show, “Art @ INK,” featured work by student artists, musicians and entrepreneurs.

The incubator, which is dedicated to fostering the growth of new businesses, hosted the event in association with Binghamton’s First Friday Art Walk. The night was cosponsored by Harpur Edge, the Office of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Partnerships at Binghamton University and Broome Community College (BCC). The first two floors of the incubator were decorated with art by BU students, while the third floor was reserved for BCC’s “Innovation Celebration.”

At the event, over 20 BU students displayed work of various media, including photography, drawing and painting. Many students took the exhibition opportunity as a chance to promote themselves as artists. Lucy Wong, a sophomore majoring in business administration, displayed her “#instafamous” collection alongside stickers she was selling for $1 and Cassie Armon, a senior majoring in English, showed a few pieces next to copies of the Free Press, a campus publication for which she is an illustrator.

Taylor Hayes, a senior majoring in art, showed work inspired by a surreal interpretation of nature.

“A majority of them are pieces that I did on my iPad, digitally — I drew them out,” Hayes said. “Others are India ink prints of insects that I observed from a dead form or an alive form. I really just love insects, in general. I really like, sort of, anthropomorphic shapes and humanoid things.”

Hayes said she also found the event to be positive in terms of advertising.

“I’m putting my business

Rebecca Kiss/Assistant Photography Editor Erin Sausville, a senior double-majoring in environmental studies and biology, and Maya Wechsler, a senior majoring in art, discuss the art on display at “Art @ INK.” The event was held at the Koffman Southern Tier Incubator as part of December’s First Friday in Downtown Binghamton.

cards out and a lot of people have picked them up so, I think it’s really beneficial for people to get their name out there for future career opportunities and everything,” Hayes said. “I feel like, even if you’re not showing your stuff, you can also meet other people.”

Although the new business incubator has only been open since April 4, it has not taken long for the facility to expand its reach into the community with events like this showcase.

“We have a variety of different companies in the building and we wanted to expand that to the art world. We wanted to give the students a place to showcase,” said Laura Holmes, assistant director of entrepreneurship and innovation partnerships at BU. “As much as they have that on campus, the community doesn’t make its way to campus a lot so, we’re trying to match those two things up.”

The incubator looks for companies that can “come in, grow, hire people and move out into the community,” Holmes said. In order to foster this, the facility has a series of mentors and a three-phase program for growth. In addition, the incubator creates networking opportunities for students and

community businesses.

“We have, we call them mixers, once a month, where it’s just, kind of, a social networking event for business owners to come in,” Holmes said. “This is the first one we’ve ever done across the art world. I can’t imagine we wouldn’t do it again, it’s such a huge success, but I don’t think we’ll do it every month.”

Kathryn Cherny, a fourthyear graduate student studying biology, has used the incubator to help establish her small business. Cherny began the process of creating microBELLA, a cosmetics and “natural AF skin care” company, in January.

Cherny brought two different soap prototypes to the First Friday event and took the time to educate her audience about her product and even offered free samples, using the occasion as an opportunity to promote her small business.

“I’m doing natural, prebiotic skincare,” Cherny said. “I’m doing a startup, so this is my first prototype. I’m trying to create skin care that enhances bacterial growth because bacterial health, like, you know, for your gut — the same sort of situation is on your skin. So, having bacteria on your skin, healthy bacteria, you

tend to have healthier looking skin and behaving skin.”

Cherny said that the incubator has been helpful in securing her lab space and offering her connections with faculty, who have aided her in combining her love of skin care and knowledge of bacteria.

“I have lab space where I’ll start to put together and start making my soaps and my lotions,” Cherny said. “I’m still kind of in the learning stages.

But, I use the resources here to help put together my small business and understanding how you start a business, as well as, the lab spaces, to be able to create these wonderful things.”

Kat Catus, a junior majoring in art, was one of many students and community members in attendance at the event. Catus remarked that this type of art scene was especially appealing due to its appreciative nature.

“I think it’s extra cool because you actually get a chance to buy the art and see that and actually support them, as opposed to, kind of, nebulous exposure, which is often synonymous with exploitation,” Catus said. “I think events like this really, kind of, showcase the worth of the art, as opposed t o just a means to an end.”

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Though the air is dry, your skin doesn't need to be This winter, try Pipe Dream's favorite recipes for refreshing, do-it-yourself beauty products Kara J. Brown Assistant Arts & Culture Editor

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What you need: — 6 tablespoons of olive oil — 6 tablespoons of raw honey — 2 to 3 overripe bananas, or 2 jars of organic banana baby food — 3 to 6 tablespoons of water, if using whole bananas — 3 tablespoons of molasses — 1 tablespoon of apple cider vinegar — 1 to 2 tablespoons of cornstarch dissolved in an equal amount of water (the more cornstarch you use, the thicker the mixture will be) — Plastic conditioning cap or a plastic grocery bag Directions: 1. If using whole bananas, either blend all of the ingredients

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Local synagogue transforms into Hanukkah museum

Temple Concord on Riverside Drive welcomes the community to celebrate Festival of Lights Hannah Ettestad Staff Writer

‘Tis the season for celebration and tradition. The opening of Temple Concord’s 21st annual Hanukkah House Museum took place at 5 p.m. last Thursday. The synagogue’s seasonal museum, located at 9 Riverside Drive on the West Side of the city of Binghamton, aims to create a place to teach people about the history of Hanukkah and Jewish life in a creative and engaging way.

Temple Concord creates a new exhibit to be displayed at the museum every Hanukkah.

This year, the responsibility of constructing the entire exhibit was given to Madison Jackson, a Binghamton University junior double-majoring in Judaic studies and English. Jackson interned with the synagogue this semester and spent two months researching and designing “Food for Thought: Exploring Jewish Food from Around the World.” The exhibition features Jewish recipes from six different continents, as well as more commonly known Jewish foods like challah and latkes.

The choice to focus on Jewish food for this year’s exhibit was inspired by a session that Jackson attended at last year’s Jewish Federations of North America

General Assembly conference.

“I’m really interested in Jewish life around the world, and I’m really fascinated by the way the revival process of Jewish life in other countries is often cultural and revolves around something as simple as food,” Jackson said.

“When it comes to bringing back Jewish life in other countries, food is something that ties all Jews together.”

In addition to the new exhibition, the museum features a few pieces that are present every year. These include three large, fully furnished dollhouses featuring miniature menorahs on tiny dining room tables. The dollhouses were donated by a

former congregation member, Roberta “Bobbie” King, who was killed in the 2009 shooting at the American Civic Association in Binghamton.

There is also an annual exhibit about the history of the Kilmer Mansion, the Victorian-era mansion that Temple Concord used as their synagogue until 1964 when their current synagogue was built next to it. The Hanukkah House exhibitions are located in the Kilmer Mansion, and when the museum is open, tours of the mansion are available to the public.

Thursday night’s opening event was another of Temple Concord’s annual Hanukkah

House traditions. Before turning on the 10-foot-tall electric menorah standing on the front lawn, those in attendance sang a few Hanukkah songs. A longtime member of the congregation, Shari Neuberger, a Vestal resident, has been leading the songs on her guitar at every opening since Hanukkah House first opened its doors in 1996. Songs with English lyrics, such as “Light One Candle,” and songs in Hebrew, such as “Sevivon Sov Sov Sov,” were both performed at this year’s opening.

At Hanukkah celebrations in the United States, it is common to serve latkes, a potato pancake fried in oil, but Temple Concord always serves sufganiyah — a jelly

doughnut that is common in Israel where potatoes are harder to come by. Doughnuts are an appropriate replacement for latkes, since the most important part of dishes for this holiday is the fact that they’re fried in oil, which represents the holy oil that burned for the eight days of Hanukkah.

Visitors can see the dollhouses and Madison Jackson’s exhibition, as well as other Hanukkahrelated displays, from now until Dec. 28. The Hanukkah House Museum is open from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Tuesdays, Saturdays and Sundays, and 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Thursdays. Admission is free, but the synagogue suggests bringing a donation for its food pantry.

Music department concerts to bring holiday cheer Gabby Teaman Contributing Writer

If you’re looking to squeeze in a few more concerts before the end of the semester, look no further. The music department is always showcasing student talent, and the next few weeks are no different.

Dec 5 Percussion Ensemble Concert The Percussion Ensemble will be holding their end-of-the-semester concert from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. The concert will be led by Joel Smales, the percussion ensemble director, lecturer of music and former percussion chair for the New York State School Music Association. This concert will take place in the Anderson Center’s Chamber Hall. Tickets are free for students, $7 for faculty, staff, alumni and seniors and $10 for general admission.

Dec. 8 Nukporfe African Drumming and Dance Ensemble On Friday night, Watters Theater in the Anderson Center will play host to Nukporfe African Drumming and Dance Ensemble. Led by James Burns, music department chair and associate professor of music and Africana studies, and Samuel Elikem Kwame Nyamuame, visiting assistant professor of music and theatre, the performance will feature traditional African music, dance, drumming and storytelling from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. This ensemble consists of 30 to 40 students who have taken MUS 144: African Drumming and Dance.

Tickets are $5.

Dec. 10 University Wind Symphony Concert: Primary Colors The Wind Symphony will be performing Percy Grainger’s “Lincolnshire Posy,” a six-movement piece which was inspired by folk songs that Grainger heard during a 1905 trip to Lincolnshire, England. The show will also feature works

by Noah Taylor, Marvis Rorie, Frank Ticheli and Bob Margolis. It will take place at the Osterhout Concert Theater from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Tickets are free for students, $7 for faculty, staff, alumni and seniors and $10 for general admission.

Chinese Musical Ensemble Final Performance Recital Students of AAAS 188F: Chinese Music Ensemble will mark their final performance on Sunday, Dec. 10. The free concert is open to the public and will be held from 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at Casadesus Recital Hall.

Dec. 7 Holiday Mid-Day Concert Faculty and student performers will participate in this festive concert from 1:15 p.m. to 3 p.m. The free show will feature seasonal classics in Casadesus Recital Hall at the Anderson Center.

Winter Concert: Harpur Chorale, Women’s Chorus and Chamber Singers The Harpur Chorale, the Women’s Chorus and the Chamber Singers are joining forces to put on a winter concert this Thursday in Chamber Hall.

Jennifer Chudacik, the Harpur Chorale director and choral director at Johnson City High School, will lead the concert, which will combine seasonal pieces with songs sung in remembrances of loved ones. The winter-themed variety concert will be held from 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m., and tickets are free for students, $7 for faculty, staff, alumni and seniors and $10 for general admission.

Dec. 9 Singing Chinese Class Recital Students in MUS 280D: Singing Chinese will get the chance to show off what they’ve been working on at a concert on Saturday night. The course’s professor, Hong Zhang, instructor of Asian and Asian American Studies and chair of the Asia Scholarship Committee, will lead the free concert. The show will take place at Casadesus Recital Hall from 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

For concerts that require paid admission, you can purchase tickets at the Anderson Center Box Office from noon to 5:30 p.m. on weekdays, buy tickets online at anderson.binghamton.edu or purchase admission at the door. To find out more information about these performances, contact the music department.

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STRESS TEST With the last week of classes comes the impending doom of finals week — and the realization that this semester, there are only two reading days to prepare for exams after classes end.

The reading days, as the University refers to them, are simply the Saturday and Sunday before finals begin. Students would have those days off anyway, so for the University to designate these days as reading days is nonsensical.

The Editorial Board has examined how the University has designated reading days for finals week in the past, and how it plans to designate them for future semesters.

Save for a few semesters in which additional weekday reading days were provided, the reading days are all simply weekends.

This is unfair for more than one reason.

From a mental health standpoint, the University is not being considerate by neglecting to give students a break after classes end for mental health purposes.

This semester, the last day of classes is Friday, Dec. 8, and finals begin on Monday, Dec. 11. This only leaves the aforementioned reading days in between the end of classes

and the beginning of finals, which is not sufficient.

We will be forced to cram all of our studying into that weekend, which can prove exceedingly stressful for students who have finals on Monday or Tuesday.

The University seems to be aware of mental health concerns for students — it holds “De-Stress December” events for students, which include relaxing activities and services like free massages, free coffee and therapy dogs. However, even with this initiative in place, the University fails to consider mental health in a larger sense.

Additionally, the Editorial Board has found that some professors have been scheduling tests and due dates for final papers or projects during the last week of classes. This clearly violates a provision in the Faculty-Staff Handbook that states “Except examinations for labs, students shall not be required to take

examinations or turn in take-home finals during the week preceding the official Final Examination Period.”

Although due dates and exams during the last week of classes are against protocol, we must, of course, still follow our syllabuses and professors’ rules. This makes it even harder to get a head start on studying for the final exams we have during finals week, or to work on final papers or projects that are due during finals week, like they should be.

F u r t h e r m o r e , professors and teaching assistants are typically not available to answer questions or review material during the assigned reading days, since they occur over the weekend. It’s unjust to expect students to fully prepare for exams without assistance from professors and TAs during the reading period. In addition, mental health services are not available during these weekend reading days.

We believe that the University should designate the same number of reading days every semester, and weekends should certainly not be considered sufficient reading days. Students may have four or more final exams to study for and take in a given semester, and two days without classes to study — that we would have had free anyway — are not sufficient to study effectively, while still taking care of ourselves.

Additionally, professors must act in accordance with the provision that prohibits them from assigning any form of final examinations during the week preceding the official Final Examination Period.

Students need sufficient additional time to study for exams and complete takehome finals and essays once classes have ended. If the University really wants to be considerate of our mental health and well-being, we must be given adequate time to succeed throughout a highly stressful week.

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, Opinions Editor, Sports Editor and Arts & Culture Editor.

have merely been accused of a crime. Many of the people who have been locked up are not a danger to society, nor are they considered a flight risk — if that were the case, they never would have been offered bail in the first place.

Instead, the majority of people incarcerated in the Broome County Jail simply cannot afford the high rate of bail.

In 2015, New York state reported an average poverty rate of 15.9 percent but the specific rate of poverty in Broome County was 18 percent — a full 2 percent more than the state average.

If the poverty rate of this county is significantly higher than that of New York state, it is no surprise that the people in Broome County do not have the financial means to secure their release — but being impoverished should not be equated with automatic incarceration.

There are other options for bail in this country.

Currently, the American Civil Liberties Union is leading a movement in California to amend the bail policy. They want the state’s judges to take a case-by-case approach, looking specifically into each situation to address the “racial and economic disparities in the justice system.” They cite Kentucky as an example of a state with a successful system of release — 70 percent of people who are awaiting trial are released, and 90 percent of releases return for all of their court appearances.

Cook County, Illinois, has also reformed the system — judges are now required to consider if the “defendant has the present ability to pay the amount necessary” when determining the rate of bail required.

A panel of speakers organized by SOC 280B: Activism, Feminism and Social Justice will be discussing this issue on Tuesday, Dec. 5 at 8 p.m. in Room 102 of the University Union. Attending this event can be an effective first step in using your voice as a BU student to help combat this issue.

In the United States, we are innocent until proven guilty — it’s time to create a bail system that reflects it.

The Eighth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution says that it is illegal for courts to require excessive bail as a term for the release of a defendant.

Though the language stops short of defining what is considered “excessive,” it is clear that our Founding Fathers did not want people who were assumed innocent to be in jail as they await trial. They would be disappointed if they saw the broken system of cash bail today.

According to a report by the Department of Justice in 2014, there are around 450,000 people detained in jail who are simply awaiting trial. Staggeringly, this accounts for two-thirds of the entire national jail population.

Of these 450,000, five out of six of them were offered bail but did not have the financial means to post it, as reported by the Bureau of Justice Statistics. Additionally, in 2015, the Vera Institute of Justice, a nonprofit organization improving justice and safety in the United States, reported that “three out of five people in jail are legally presumed innocent, awaiting trial or resolution of their cases through plea negotiation, and simply too poor to post even low bail.”

The practice of incarcerating people not yet convicted of a crime is also happening right here in Broome County. Of all of the inmates currently housed in the Broome County Jail, 75 percent of them have yet to be convicted of a crime.

In 2016, there was a total of 505 inmates at the Broome County Jail — 383 of them were not convicted. These people have not been found guilty of breaking the law; they are imprisoned because they cannot afford the unreasonably high bail required for their release.

This false imprisonment of the people of the city of Binghamton and surrounding areas reflects the broken cash bail system currently implemented in our nation, which — Emily Houston is a junior doubleallows for the detention of poor citizens who majoring in English and political science.

Breaking with brevity

Twitter's switch to a 280-character limit defeats the original purpose of the platform Jessica Gutowitz

Contributing Columnist

As you probably noticed the last time you were on Twitter, it may have seemed like some tweets were longer than others. Twitter recently rolled out a test that doubled the amount of characters a user is able to type into a single tweet, changing the limit from 140 to 280.

Twitter says that the reason for the jump is to encourage more people to tweet. If one doesn’t have to shove a thought into 140 characters, they will tweet more.

This seemed to be backed up by data from countries that speak

languages with an alphabet whose characters express whole words and concepts — rather than just sounds — like Japanese, Chinese and Korean. People who write in languages like these are less likely to be constrained by 140 characters, and thus tweet more.

But that assessment was disproved as the change was initiated. Shift Communications compiled the data and found that there is no correlation between engagement with tweets, in the form of likes and retweets, and the length of the tweet. They note that the 280-character limit is still in its infancy as a form, and they will analyze more data in the coming months to note changes in these trends.

A counterargument offered for the change was to distract both investors and the public from Twitter’s poor fiscal earnings. This is not the platform’s first bad month; it seems Twitter has had declining revenue for some time now.

Increasing the character limit has worked in some respects. The amount of users hitting up against the character limit has dropped from 9 percent with 140 characters to 1 percent with 280 characters.

I think that 9 percent isn’t very many tweets. An 8 percent change doesn’t seem like enough to warrant such a dramatic alteration.

Again, it is too early to see the longterm effects of the character rise, but as of yet, this seems to be the only change.

Let’s be real for a minute.

When was the last time anyone posted a selfie or life update with a photo of themselves on Twitter?

Cue cricket noises. Twitter is not Instagram, Snapchat or Facebook.

With each platform melding into one another, like with the addition of stories, I applaud Twitter.

Twitter is a place for witty comments and political commentary. Scrolling through Twitter right now, the first five tweets I see are two amusing stories, one celebrity responding to another celebrity and two criticisms of the latest Republican tax bill.

These are the things I expect and want when I go on Twitter.

If I want to see the latest goings-on of my friends’ lives I’ll go on Instagram, and if I want to

see pictures of my dance teacher’s twins I’ll go on Facebook. Twitter is trying to be something it’s not.

Maybe at one point, it was a place for these things, but it has evolved into something different and, arguably, better.

Twitter sold itself to people with the promise of brevity. One hundred and forty characters were all you had to compose, but also all you had to consume. If you wanted to express more, you could embrace this new form of elongated expression — the thread. And your followers could choose whether or not to follow you.

The new limit could eliminate or overburden the thread, which would drain a valuable tool for storytelling. It implies both a

progression and a passage of time, which can and has been manipulated effectively. Either threads will be twice as long and thus repulse readers, or cease to be necessary, and this tool will be lost.

I get it, Twitter. Between President Donald Trump’s overuse and verification of white supremacists, along with the deletion of actress Rose McGowan’s account, you’ve been getting a bad rap. If you were just trying for some good publicity, this wasn’t the way to do it. There’s no reason to change your concept. Don’t fix what was never broken. Instead, focus on fixing the existing flaws.

— Jessica Gutowitz undeclared freshman.

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Tackling deer overpopulation in the Nature Preserve A cull, although seemingly unethical, is the most effective way to deal with this problem

Georgia Kerkezis

Contributing Columnist

It is well-known by now that the overpopulation of deer is destroying our Nature Preserve.

Two hundred and twentysix deer currently live on or near Binghamton University property, but the forest ecosystem can only sustain 15 to 20 deer. This colossal imbalance has resulted in the deer eating up to an astounding 99 percent of the forest’s understory, as estimated by Dylan Horvath, steward of natural areas for BU. Without new tree seedlings to replace dead trees, the forest cannot regrow.

Aldo Leopold, considered by

many to be the father of the U.S. wilderness system, once wrote, “A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.”

Culling, or systematically killing, most of the deer, may seem like an incredibly unethical solution. At first I, too, was repulsed by the idea.

However, I argue that it is more wrong to do nothing and allow the overpopulation problem to persist.

I bring this problem back to the forefront of our minds, as six years have passed since the University last attempted to do something about it. A deer cull was scheduled to occur over winter break in 2011, but it was stopped just two days prior by a lawsuit.

It is always possible that more human interference will further disrupt the preserve. Ultimately, human interference is what caused the deer overpopulation in the first place. Twice in history, deer were actually close to extinction, so hunting policies were designed so that the deer population could increase.

Also, wolves and pumas were hunted out a long time ago by farmers who worried about their livestock being injured or killed, thus allowing deer populations to grow unchecked. While we succeeded in preventing deer from extinction, we have now created another problem that is affecting entire forest ecosystems.

But human interference does not have to yield bad results.

Research and studies show that

deer culling is largely successful in managing deer overpopulation.

Thus, according to Leopold, it is ethical. Culling the deer is also ethical because no other known method comes nearly as close to preserving the integrity, stability and beauty of our Nature Preserve.

Cornell University and Vassar College have also tested the effectiveness of infertility treatments at lowering deer population. But even when infertile, the deer will still live for about a decade and will continue to eat the understory of the forest.

The state of our Nature Preserve demands a quicker and more effective solution.

Translocating the deer also wouldn’t work because, first of all, it is illegal in New York state. This is because moving deer to other

locations runs the risk of bringing with them foreign diseases. There are no other areas that we could relocate the deer to anyway, as most of the Northeast United States is also struggling with deer overpopulation.

This strategy also causes the deer to die slow, drawn-out deaths.

Due to the stress and trauma associated with translocation, as many as 95 percent of the deer can end up dying, which can take a grueling 26 days.

A third strategy is fencing off the entire Nature Preserve so that deer cannot get in and eat it. But when the fence is initially built, deer will be inevitably trapped inside. Because they would be unable to escape and obtain enough food from outside the preserve, the deer would slowly starve to

death. Also, how terrible is it to have to open a door to walk into a natural area?

At this time, deer culling is the best solution. I am sure that as time goes on, other effective methods for decreasing the deer population will be invented. The problem is that we do not have time to wait.

Doing nothing will only perpetuate this issue. As long as the deer overpopulation remains a problem, no new trees will replace the ones that die. As the trees continue to die, so, too, will our preserve. Each day that we fail to address the havoc being wreaked by the deer is another day closer to the disappearance of our precious Nature Preserve.

— Georgia Kerkezis is a sophomore majoring in environmental studies.

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BEARCAT BRIEFS TRACK AND FIELD Gregory Maitles Contributing Writer

The Binghamton men’s and women’s track and field teams kicked off their seasons this past weekend at the Cornell Greg Page Indoor Relays. Between the men and the women, BU ended the meet with two first-place finishes and several second-place individual finishes.

On the men’s side, seniors Ted Okon and Charles Villa each took first place in their respective events. Okon powered to the top of the podium in the high jump event with a best height of 6 feet 6 inches. His performance made him Binghamton’s top men’s finisher. Villa took the pole vault event with an Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America-qualifying height of 15 feet 9 inches.

Junior Nick Green and sophomore Jack Fitzgerald finished second place in shot put and high jump, respectively.

Fitzgerald tied teammate Okon’s height of 6 feet 6 inches in the high jump, but was awarded second place due to missing a greater number of attempts during the event.

Green took second in shot put with a distance of 49-0 1/4.

Two wrestlers place at invitational Provided by BU Athletics No. 14 senior Steve Schneider took sixth place in the 184-pound weight class at the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational this past weekend.

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This past Friday and Saturday, the Binghamton wrestling team traveled to Las Vegas, Nevada, to participate in the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational.

“It’s the toughest tournament in the country, outside of the NCAA Tournament,” said BU head coach Matt Dernlan. “Over 50 percent of all the ranked guys in the country were competing in this tournament, so it was as tough of a test as you could possibly get.”

As Dernlan alluded, the invitational is a marquee event in the college wrestling world.

Several of the nation’s top-ranked schools were participating, including No. 2 Ohio State, No. 3 Michigan, No. 6 Arizona State and No. 11 Virginia Tech, among others.

Despite the tough competition, two Bearcats were able to place in the event. Senior

Steve Schneider took sixth place at 184 pounds, and redshirt sophomore Tristan Rifanburg took eighth at 157 pounds.

“I think we performed well, having five guys advance to the round of 16 and two guys in the placement round on the podium,” Dernlan said. “When you can get deep in the tournament, to the second day, and actually put guys on the podium like that, it gives you a good indication of what could possibly be out there in the future during the postseason, so it’s a good litmus test.”

Schneider, currently ranked No. 14 in the country in his weight class, finished the tournament with a 4-3 record, defeating No. 8 senior Jordan Ellingwood of Central Michigan, No. 16 junior CJ LaFragola of Brown University, No. 15 redshirt junior Dylan Gabel of Northern Colorado and redshirt freshman Dom Ducharme of CSU-Bakersfield.

Rifanburg had similarly strong performances throughout the tournament. His 3-3 record

included victories over redshirt sophomore Andrew Shomers of Edinboro, No. 14 senior Colin Heffernan of Central Michigan and sophomore Landon Knutzen of Utah Valley.

Although he did not place, redshirt junior Vincent DePrez had a strong performance as well, being the only other Bearcat besides Schneider and Rifanburg to advance to the second day.

DePrez put together a solid performance after losing his first match to win three straight heading into Saturday, when he lost to sophomore Demetrius Romero of Utah Valley.

While assessing his team’s performance in the tournament and during the season so far, Dernlan had high praise for his squad.

“This is the true test we’ve been waiting for, all first semester, to see what we’re bringing to the table when we have to be at our best against the best teams in the tournament,” Dernlan said. “We didn’t win all

of the matches, but we were in every match, and there’s a ton of positive takeaways and a ton of things we can point towards and get better at throughout the next month.

Looking ahead, the Bearcats will have a long break before taking on Minnesota, Michigan State, Southern Illinois and Franklin and Marshall in the South Beach Duals at the end of the month.

“Right now, our primary focus is going to be getting the kids through the semester, making sure take care of our business with finals and in the classroom,” Dernlan said. “Then this next month is going to be a really good learning month for our guys where you can actually go back to the drawing board and work on some things, which is nice when you have this big gap.”

The South Beach Duals will take place on Friday, Dec. 29 and Saturday, Dec. 30 from the Deerfield Beach Sportsplex in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

While the women did not have any first-place honors at the end of the relays, they did enjoy the success of five secondplace finishes. Senior Oyin Adewale earned two second-place finishes, both in weight throw (52-8 1/4) and shot put (45-3 1/2). Adewale’s shot put distance of 45-3 1/2 set a new school record, breaking the old record of 42-10 1/4 set last season, which was also

by Adewale.

Additionally, freshman Brittany Korsah claimed second place in the 300-meter event (40.03), breaking the old school record of 40.37 set back in 2011 by Jessica Henning.

Sophomore Samantha Beyar was runner-up in the pole vault (1111 3/4), falling only to senior Katherine Pitman of Ithaca College. Senior Sunja Joseph had a strong showing in the triple jump (37-1 3/4), also earning runner-up honors, behind only junior Christabel Ezidiegwu of Cornell.

Both teams turned in strong first performances to build off of going forward in the winter season. The teams will return for the Southern Tier Collegiate Relays on Jan. 6. The meet is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. from Barton Hall in Ithaca, New York.

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Week 8: Waiver wire steals Samuel Ditchek Sports Editor

Fantasy Basketball Point Guard A l e c Burks (UTA): Alongside Rookie of the Year candidate Donovan Mitchell, Burks has b e e n

automatic offensively.

While fellow teammate Rodney Hood continues to miss games with left ankle soreness, the Jazz have relied on Burks and Mitchell to dominate in the points column. Over his previous three contests, Burks has put up 24, 28 and 14 points, respectively. In addition to his points, he has not missed a free throw since Nov. 22, has had multiple-steal performances in four out of his last five showings and has averaged close to five assists this past fantasy week. With Hotod out, Burks is certainly worth consideration in an owner’s lineup.

Shooting Guard Zach LaVine (CHI): Understandably owned in only 72 percent of Yahoo leagues as of Sunday evening, LaVine may be worth a stash, especially in deep leagues, as he is nearing his return from a torn ACL injury. Although Bulls head coach Fred Hoiberg recognized this past Tuesday that LaVine will not be making his season debut until late December, LaVine was assigned to the NBA G League’s Windy City Bulls on Thursday.

Owners may be hesitant to pick him up because of his injury history, but in an offense where Justin Holiday — yes Justin Holiday — averages almost 15 points per game, LaVine is definitely worth the stash.

Small Forward Danilo Gallinari (LAC): In a similar situation to LaVine’s, Gallinari is worth a stash in deeper leagues based on his upcoming return.

Injury reports indicate that he is making solid progress in

his rehabilitation, although there is no concrete timetable for recovery for his strained left glute. Gallinari has participated in a series of pick-and-pop drills and some full-court conditioning over the past few days. With the assumption that he’ll be back on the hardwood in the near future, Gallinari will assuredly be the No. 1 option for the Los Angeles Clippers in the absence of All-Star power forward Blake Griffin.

Power Forward Kenneth Faried (DEN): Capitalizing on injuries to Paul Millsap and Nikola Jokic, Faried has been thriving in Denver recently. The highflying power forward is a double-double machine who unquestionably brings intensity as soon as he steps onto the court. Through his past four contests, Faried averaged an estimated 10 boards and 13 points. As long as the injury bug

continues to plague Nuggets head coach M i k e Malone’s squad, F a r i e d is worth a look as he’ll see an up ward trend in minutes and usage.

Center Zach Randolph (SAC): Father time has clearly not caught up to Randolph yet, as the Michigan State product has been dominating out in Sacramento. Randolph has logged double-digit scoring in every single contest since Nov. 18 to go along with at least five rebounds over that stretch as well. In addition to the output, the 36-year-old has given the Kings an unexpected amount of minutes while center Willie Cauley-Stein battles a nagging back injury. One year removed from playing for the grit-and-grind franchise that is the Memphis Grizzlies, Randolph is translating his two-dimensional style of play in a Kings uniform. As long as he possesses a starting role at the five, he is worth a pickup in standard leagues.

Men's basketball brushes past Colgate

Ariel Kachuro/Contributing Photographer Senior forward Willie Rodriguez shot 80 percent from beyond the arc, leading the Bearcats to victory over Colgate this past weekend.

Led by Rodriguez, Bearcats win fourth straight contest Justin Zion Contributing Writer

The Binghamton men’s basketball team stormed back in the second half to secure a 76-65 comeback victory against Colgate on Saturday. The Bearcats (5-4) extended their winning streak to four with the victory, and remain undefeated on their home court this season.

“Really solid win for us,” said BU head coach Tommy Dempsey.

“We just hung with it, we grinded it out possession by possession on both ends, and eventually we were able to get back in the game, and once we got the lead we never looked back.”

Junior forward Thomas Bruce was once again the star of the show for Binghamton. Seventeen of his 26 points came in the second half, fueling the Bearcats’ offense.

Bruce added 12 rebounds to his performance, earning his fifth double-double on the year to propel the Bearcats to their victory.

“We didn’t give up,” Bruce said after the game. “We raised

our intensity and we rose to the challenge. It was definitely a good win for us.”

In the first half, the Bearcats’ offensive play was clean with solid ball movement, but the shots simply weren’t falling. The team’s field goal percentage was below 40 for much of the half, as Colgate’s defense allowed few uncontested shots. It was left to senior forward Willie Rodriguez to carry the offense on his shoulders, as he found a rhythm when no other Bearcat could. Rodriguez hit four shots from downtown in the half, scoring 12 of his 16 points in the period.

On the other end of the court, the Raiders’ offense was on fire.

Colgate (3-4) shot 65 percent from the field in the first half, and 50 percent from beyond the arc.

Freshman guard Jordan Burns led the charge, scoring 15 off the bench. Using this offensive flurry, the Raiders managed to open up a 13-point edge with three minutes remaining before halftime. The Bearcats were able to stick around, though, putting together a late

11-4 stretch before the conclusion off the half. Junior guard J.C. Show capped the run by hitting a buzzer-beating 3-pointer to pull the Bearcats within six at the break.

“I said to our kids at halftime, ‘Let’s let the end of that first half be the reason we win today,’” Dempsey said. “We were down 13, but we had a nice spurt at the end of the half to cut it to six. Instead of going into the locker room down double digits, it was only a six-point game with them having shot 65 percent. I thought we were right there.”

The first 10 minutes of the second half were evenly matched and consisted of low scoring.

Colgate got into early foul trouble, while Binghamton’s shooting woes continued. Throughout, Colgate’s lead fluctuated little, and settled at 54-47 with just over nine minutes remaining in regulation.

It was in these final minutes that the Bearcats turned on the jets.

The floor seemed to open up for Binghamton, and the team found the consistent shooting that had eluded them in the first 30 minutes.

Junior guard Timmy Rose got

things started with five quick points to cut the deficit down to two, while Bruce used his size to grab two consecutive offensive rebounds, which he turned into putbacks. A little later, Bruce slammed down a dunk on a nice feed from Rodriguez to give Binghamton its first lead since the first half. The Bearcats would increase the advantage to nine thanks to seven consecutive points by Show, which capped a 20-4 Bearcat run.

Over the course of the game, the Bearcats shared the ball nicely, racking up 17 assists. Three players — Bruce, Rodriguez and Show — finished in double figures, and the Bearcats turned the ball over only eight times. With the win over Colgate (3-4), the team is back over .500 for the first time since their season-opening win over Morgan State.

Following this victory, the Bearcats face a tougher test as they take on Army in the second game of their two-game homestand on Wednesday, Dec. 6. Tipoff is scheduled for 7 p.m. from the Events Center in Vestal, New York.

Binghamton falls to Yale in overtime James posts 23 points as women's basketball drops to .500 Evan Cole Assistant Sports Editor

Ariel Kachuro/Contributing Photographer Senior center Alyssa James posted 23 points and six blocks in Binghamton’s loss to Yale on Saturday.

Down by six points with just one minute remaining, the Binghamton women’s basketball team appeared to have sealed its fate.

After four quarters of inconsistent play and poor free-throw shooting, the Bearcats’ defense tightened significantly. Two Yale turnovers and two blocks by senior center Alyssa James compensated for the team’s previously erratic effort and resulted in a 6-0 run from BU (4-4) to force overtime. Binghamton’s effort, however, disappeared again as the Bulldogs (4-3) capitalized on the game’s most meaningful possessions to win the game, 73-69.

“From the beginning of the game, Yale came out harder than we did, and we didn’t answer,” James said. “[We] got a little bit of momentum at the end of the game, but in overtime, just like the way the game started, they had more energy than we did. That’s the rea-

son the game ended the way it did.”

The Bearcats opened the game slowly, going scoreless for almost the first four minutes. The drought was ended by James, who carried the team’s offense for the remainder of the first half. Using an array of pump fakes and pivots, James found success isolating in the post, finishing the first half with 13 points, six rebounds, three blocks and a steal. Outside of James’ defensive performance, BU’s guards saw little success defending Yale sophomore guard Roxy Barahman, who tallied 16 points on 50 percent shooting in the first two quarters.

Consistently hitting tough pull-up jumpers, Barahman led Yale to a 35-30 halftime lead.

“We were playing [man-toman] mostly in the first half,” said BU head coach Linda Cimino. “We made an adjustment at halftime and went to our zone defense.

We were able to shut [Barahman] down a little bit.”

Binghamton’s defensive adjustments proved effective in the

second half, as Barahman was held to just three points on oneof-seven shooting. Binghamton’s offense featured a shifted focus as James’ scoring efficiency fell. Yale played James more physically and often doubled her in the post, unintentionally creating more space for senior guard Imani Watkins on the perimeter. Watkins scored 10 second-half points and was able to drive to the rim repeatedly. “[In the] first half, it was really Alyssa [James’] half, so we just pounded it in and fed it to her,” Watkins said. “She got tired, they changed the way they defended, so somebody else had to step up.”

Watkins ultimately had a chance to win the game in regulation, missing slightly long on a runner from the top of the key as time expired. In overtime, Barahman scored five unanswered points in a 30-second span to regain momentum for the Bulldogs. Watkins kept Yale’s lead within one possession multiple times in the game’s final minutes, but the Bulldogs’

execution at the free-throw line kept their lead intact throughout overtime. “[Yale] shared the ball well — they made the extra pass,” Cimino said. “They made some open shots.

They’re not a very good free-throw shooting team or 3-point shooting team, and today they shot the ball well.”

Binghamton’s poor showing from the free-throw line put them at a disadvantage, shooting just seven-of-17 for the game. The team has shot 71 percent shooting from the charity stripe on the season.

“You can’t win a basketball game, especially when it’s a onepossession game going into overtime by missing 10 free throws,” Cimino said. “That’s the most frustrating thing that I’m taking from the stat line today, minus the fact that we lost the game.”

Binghamton is set to return to action against Bryant on Thursday. Tipoff is scheduled for 7 p.m. from the Chace Athletic Center in Smithfield, Rhode Island.