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‘Jail on Trial’ talks inmate injustices

‘No justice, no peace’

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down Birthright International posters on several occasions across multiple OCCT buses.

Following Moorthy’s arrest, student groups that aim to fight oppression, including the BU Progressives and Frances Beal Society, created an event called “Pack the Court.” When Moorthy appeared before a judge at Vestal Town Court and set a pretrial

Students and community members met on Thursday to discuss an alleged history of mistreatment at the Broome County Jail and how to combat it, just a day after another inmate died within the facility.

The Broome County Jail on Trial forum, sponsored by Justice and Unity for the Southern Tier (JUST), is the latest effort to organize against the jail, which has seen 11 inmate deaths since 2011. The facility has come under fire from community organizations such as JUST, Truth Pharm, Progressive Leaders Of Tomorrow (PLOT) and Citizen Action of New York, particularly during the recent Broome County District Attorney election, which has yet to be decided, pending absentee ballot tallies.

Activists have primarily advocated through forums and demonstrations, including a protest at the Binghamton Columbus Day Parade, which led to the arrest of four demonstrators.

While Thursday’s forum was planned before the most recent death, William Martin, an organizer for JUST and a

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kimberly gonzalez digital editor Community members and BU students gather at the Vestal Town Court on Thursday morning in solidarity with a student who was arrested for taking down Birthright International advertisements on an Off Campus College Transit bus.

Students gather at court after activist is arrested for tearing down OCCT advertisment Kimberly Gonzalez digital editor

Binghamton University students chanted “no justice, no peace” on Thursday morning in the parking lot next to the Vestal Town Court in

support of a student who was arrested for taking down paid Birthright International advertisements from an Off Campus College Transport (OCCT) bus.

Birthright International aims to provide a nonjudgmental confidential zone to pregnant women seeking help, according to their website. But student groups at BU are protesting the organization, arguing that it is a threat to people seeking helpful clinics,

presenting pregnancy options with an anti-abortion view and misleading the public with their advertisements and website.

Dheiva Moorthy, vice president of BU Progressives, member of the Frances Beal Society and a sophomore double-majoring in environmental studies and sociology, was arrested

by Binghamton’s New York State University Police Department (UPD) on Oct. 21 after she allegedly tore

Deer pose Students explore alternate learning options threat to local drivers Harpur Crash Courses offer coding, social media lessons Jane Mou

contributing writer

One- to three-day workshops offered

by Binghamton University are aiming to help Harpur College students explore

Broome County drivers hit 252 deer since last November Melanie Gulbas

fields outside of their liberal arts curricula.

The workshops, called Harpur Crash Courses, last for three hours each and were introduced last spring in an effort to expand student learning opportunities without adding full-semester courses.

This semester, two courses were offered in coding and social media, and a third is being offered in data analysis.

Carolyn Johnston, a senior majoring in psychology, was in attendance for the Python coding courses, which were spread over three days. According to Johnston, coding is something that she has wanted to learn for a while but has never had the time or resources to do.

She said the crash courses are perfect opportunities to learn skills outside of standard Harpur classes.

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Two wrestlers place first at Bearcat Open

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DePrez beats second-ranked wrestler in championship bout

Besides the slippery conditions and winter weather, there is another pressing challenge that drivers in Binghamton have to face — the growing deer population.

This is especially true during the first few weeks of November, which is the deers’ peak breeding season, according to Lt. Brian VanDervort of Binghamton’s New York State University Police (UPD).

According to the Broome County Sheriff’s Office, since November 2018, there have been a total of 252 vehicleversus-deer accidents reported in the Broome County area, eight of which caused injuries to the vehicle occupants.

The majority of the reported accidents occurred during dawn and dusk, which are the times when deer are most active.

Binghamton University’s Nature Preserve and the rest of campus have struggled with white-tailed deer overpopulation, which creates an environmental imbalance as well as a driving hazard. Surveys done by the University indicate that the Nature Preserve is home to 260 deer, rather

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“I think there should be more programs like this,” Johnston said. “This is a great opportunity for liberal arts students to gain knowledge in different careers.”

The courses were created through a Student Association (SA) initiative and are co-sponsored by Harpur Edge and the

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As the Binghamton wrestling team kicked off its season at the annual Jonathan Kaloust Bearcat Open on Sunday afternoon, redshirt sophomore Lou DePrez impressed in his season debut. After advancing to the championship bout in the 184-pound weight class, he found himself down 2-0 early against the No. 2 wrestler in his weight class, nationally-ranked sophomore Ben Darmstadt from Cornell. DePrez regained his positioning, earning a 7-2 decision in an impressive upset victory over top competition.

“Lou DePrez had a really amazing tournament at 184, knocking off the No. 2-ranked wrestler in the finals,” said Binghamton head coach Kyle Borshoff. “It was good to see Lou [DePrez] compete as hard as he did, and really wrestled the game plan that we talked about. He did pretty much everything we discussed between our coaching staff and him in that bout.” sidney slon assistant photo editor Redshirt sophomore Lou DePrez is recognized after defeating No. 2 Ben Darmstadt from Cornell in the 184-pound weight class final.

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SPORTS

Willie Cole talks art and African American identity,

Artist leads on-campus zine workshops,

Contributing columnist Madelaine Hastings calls for improving relations between students and locals,

Women’s basketball defeats Lafayette in home opener,

Men’s basketball falls to No. 1 Michigan State, 100-47,

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Overpopulation of deer persists in Nature Preserve deer from page 1 than a healthy balance of 15 to 20 deer. The Nature Preserve has lost a large portion of its understory forest because of the issue, according to the BU Nature Preserve’s Deer Management Plan website.

The University’s Committee on University Environment held a controlled hunt in the Nature Preserve last year to try and manage the deer population and help restore the land.

Dylan Horvath, steward of BU’s natural areas, wrote in an email that last year’s controlled bowhunt in the Nature Preserve was a pilot program to explore how feasible it would be to do controlled bowhunting on the property.

“We really didn’t have any expectation of a dramatic decrease of the deer population with the limited scope of the pilot program,” Horvath wrote.

“There aren’t any results to be seen yet as it was just a pilot

program and, no matter what the outcome of hunting, we wouldn’t see changes in deer impacts until years later.”

The deer population leaks onto campus streets, which poses a threat to drivers. Jacqueline Witschel, a senior majoring in English, hit a deer a few feet away from campus last year. Witschel said the deer took her by surprise.

“I was driving down Vestal Parkway when a deer jumped out of nowhere,” Witschel said. “This was so scary because it was dark, and I never expected to see a deer trying to cross the main road. I’m from the city, so I don’t normally see animals when I’m driving.”

Witschel said she is lucky that she was not injured and wants other students to focus on the road in order to stay safe.

“I hope that other students pay close attention when driving,” Witschel said. “Not only can you injure the deer, but you can really hurt yourself.”

Lt. Benjamin Harting of the Broome County Sheriff’s Office

said while avoiding deer on the road, it is important to not risk the safety of others for the wellbeing of the deer.

“Do not risk the life of persons in the vehicle, other operators on the roadway or pedestrians to avoid striking the deer,” Harting said. “Don’t drive off the roadway into a ditch to avoid striking a deer.”

VanDervort said although UPD does not see many reported vehicle-versus-deer accidents, it does not mean they aren’t occurring. He said it is important, especially during this time of year, to be extra cautious while driving around campus.

“There’s no secret that there’s a lot of deer on campus,” VanDervort said. “The deer on campus are typically not as standoffish as deer in more rural settings, but you will see a lot more auto vehicle accidents because deer are breeding and focused on breeding — not so much paying attention to where they are going.”

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

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Basket case MONDAY, Nov. 4, 6:19 p.m. — Officers responded to Johnson Hall of Dickinson Community after receiving a theft complaint.

They spoke to the victim, a 19-year-old male, who reported he put his clothes in the washer at about 3 p.m. and placed his laundry basket on top of the washing machine. He returned about an hour later, moved his clothes into the dryer and placed his laundry basket on top of the dryer before starting the drying cycle. When he returned to remove his clothes from the dryer, he found half of his clothes on the floor and his laundry basket missing.

He went through his belongings and found that nothing was missing aside from his basket. Officers helped him look around the immediate area, but came up empty-handed.

After examining camera footage from the area, officers were unable to identify the culprit.

The victim does not wish to take legal action, but does want his laundry basket returned to him.

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Suspicious soliciting TUESDAY, Nov. 5, 9:10 p.m. — Officers responded to Old Digman Hall of Old

Dickinson Community for a report of a suspicious person, a tall man wearing a business suit with a clipboard and backpack.

The man was traveling throughout the dormitory hall to persuade students to move into off-campus housing. Officers searched Old Digman Hall and were unable to locate the man, but UPD’s dispatch center was observing campus camera footage and found the man in Mohawk Hall of College-in-theWoods. Officers responded to Mohawk Hall and talked to the person, a 25-year-old male who works for an off-campus housing agency. The man told officers that he comes onto campus and travels from door to door, passing out flyers and advertising to any students who may be interested in off-campus housing. The man was advised that he was trespassing since he did not have permission to be in any of the living communities, and officers informed him that Binghamton University has a policy against

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To be or not to be THURSDAY, Nov. 7, 3:17 p.m. — Officers responded to the English department in Glenn G. Bartle Library after receiving complaints about a 71-year-old male who was profusely emailing two faculty members in a series of “manic and incoherent emails.” The situation began on Oct. 17 and continued until Nov. 7, when the male appeared in the English department with packages for the two faculty members. Neither of the faculty members were present at the time, so the secretary accepted the packages for them. When they were notified of his appearance, the faculty members contacted UPD. They told officers that the man had been emailing them upward of 16 times a day about wanting to sit in their classes. After they told him that he could not do so, the man delivered

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Dilapidated Binghamton buildings to be turned into homeless housing A city project put forth by Binghamton Mayor Richard David and the Opportunities for Broome and Opportunities for Chenango purchaserepair programs will aim to renovate four blighted buildings for homeless individuals, according to FOX 40. The project will cost nearly $7.7 million, funded almost entirely by the New York State Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance and Homeless Housing and Assistance programs, and will be focusing on four properties on Binghamton’s North Side: 22 Moffatt Ave., 22 Way St., 4 Sturges St. and 39-49 Munsell St. The project is expected to begin construction in spring 2020 and will be completed in approximately two years.

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Federal agents raid Buffalo City Hall On Wednesday morning, the City

Hall building of Buffalo, New York was raided by agents from the FBI, IRS and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, according to Spectrum News. A spokesperson from Buffalo’s City Hall said the FBI was conducting “court-authorized activity.” According to a source that spoke with Spec-

trum News, the federal agents were looking for evidence to support prior allegations of misuse of funds in housing projects involving the Buffalo Urban Renewal Agency. Agents left the building with three rolling carts filled with unknown evidence, covered up by blue tarps. The FBI has yet to comment on the raid.

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books to them. Officers made contact with the man, a Binghamton resident, and advised him to stop contacting the professors. Despite officers’ advice, the man immediately emailed the professors asking why they would contact authorities. The case is ongoing.

Cash cab FRIDAY, Nov. 8, 1:54 a.m. — Officers responded to a verbal dispute outside of Bingham Hall of Newing College. Upon arrival, officers spoke to two males, a 18-yearold student and a 51-year-old cab driver.

When asked what happened, the student told officers that after riding home the cab driver asked for his fare, which the student said he already paid via Venmo. The cab driver retorted that he did not receive any such payment, which led to a verbal dispute that culminated in the student pushing the cab driver. Officers arrived and separated the two parties and the student took out his phone to show that he had in fact paid the driver.

However, when he went to his Venmo, he saw that there was an error that resulted in his payment not being processed. Upon seeing that he was in the wrong, the student apologized to the driver and completed the purchase, resolving the dispute. The taxi driver declined to press charges. Neither party was injured in the argument.

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Community organizers discuss inmate welfare, safety jail from page 1 Bartle professor of sociology at Binghamton University, said it made the meeting even more urgent.

“Tonight is an action to get people to come together and get mobilized over addressing the deaths in the jail, which there was another one,” Martin said.

“A rather brutal case from what we’ve been hearing.”

Bobby Black, another member of JUST, said he doubts the death of the inmate, a 40-year-old man from Binghamton, stemmed from natural causes. Broome County Sheriff David Harder, who oversees the operations of the jail, said the inmate appeared to have a medical emergency, and noted that no trauma to the inmate’s body was discovered during a autopsy on Thursday.

“Folks are saying right now that people who were incarcerated with him heard him screaming that he needed help,” Black said. “He was just left in his cell, and they found him later on.

I’m more inclined to believe that than to believe Harder.”

Binghamton Mayor Rich David was briefly in attendance, but was asked to leave by organizers, who said he is complacent in the jail’s alleged ongoing abuse. On his way out, David remarked that the organizers’ attitude is why “nothing ever gets done.”

During his speech, Black spoke about his experience with the jail system in Broome County, which began in 2011. He was also re-incarcerated for 79 days over the summer. Black said the point of the forum was to spread information on the negative

john atkinson staff photographer Jackie Card Wood speaks at the Broome County Public Library alongside the ashes of her brother, Robert Card, who died while incarcerated at the Broome County Jail.

effects mass incarceration has on the community.

“None of these folks should have died,” Black said. “Every single one of them should be with us. It’s egregious what’s happening there.”

Yasir Barton, brother of Salladin Barton, a formerly

incarcerated person who died while in Broome County Jail’s custody almost five years ago, was also present at the forum via video. Barton said he believes the jail has gotten worse since his brother’s death.

“I know it’s still going on,” Barton said. “At this day, at

this moment, this morning as I record this on the seventh of November, I know someone is getting mistreated in there.”

Another speaker, Jackie Card Wood, brought up a box containing the ashes of her brother, Robert Card, who died in January while in custody of

the Broome County Jail.

“This is how I have to hug my brother now,” Card said while clutching the box.

Margaret Maydick, a senior majoring in economics, Maydick said she attended the forum after attending a protest during the arraignment of Dheiva Moorthy,

vice president of BU Progressives and a sophomore doublemajoring in environmental studies and sociology. Moorthy was arrested by Binghamton’s New York State University Police (UPD) after removing paid advertisements for Birthright International, a national pregnancy center, from Off Campus College Transport buses on several occassions.

Maydick said Moorthy’s arrest made her want to take action.

“Most recently, I was prompted by a friend and fellow organizer who was charged,” Maydick said.

“She was targeted because she was a student organizer of color.

White students have done similar actions and have not faced the same consequences.”

Maydick said she feels it is important for students to participate in community events and not limit themselves to issues only surrounding the school and student body.

“There are issues that we perpetuate and contribute to as students that often we don’t acknowledge, such as the gentrification issues in Binghamton,” Maydick said.

“I think it is part of our duty as students and community members to confront these issues head on.”

Judy Santucci, a member of Truth Pharm, said she is eager to see change at the jail.

“I hope they can change the leader — he needs to be fired,” Santucci said. “I hear stories all the time of corrections officers beating up on the prisoners for no reason. They need to start at the top and clean that place out.”

University students, faculty pack court for arrested student arrest from page 1

lucas peterka contributing photographer Students gather in the Glenn G. Bartle Library to participate in a Python coding workshop, one of three Harpur Crash Courses being offered this semester.

Tech workshops aim to teach Harpur College students outside of curriculum course from page 1 Harpur College dean’s office.

Wendy Neuberger, ’84, director of Harpur Edge, recently took on the task of advertising the courses and signing students up on B-Engaged. She said the response has been positive so far, with several of the courses filling up and creating a waitlist.

“We saw a need to provide opportunities for Harpur students to get some additional applied, skill-based experiences that they could build upon during internships, in classes and for future jobs,” Neuberger said.

Sankung Darboe, a senior majoring in biochemistry, also attended the Python crash courses. According to Darboe, programming was a hobby that he started to learn but stopped because it was not

in his major curriculum. He praised the workshops, but expressed concern over their lack of inclusivity.

“I think this should be open to all University students, not just Harpur students,” Darboe said.

On Nov. 3, the social media workshop was held in the Glenn G. Bartle Library, led

by Ryan Yarosh, ’09, senior director of media and public relations at BU. According to Yarosh, the workshop provides essential concepts and methods behind successful digital communications.

Students heard from the organizers of LUMA and learned about the behind-the-scenes efforts that go into creating large-scale events and movements.

“In the age of social media, employers, groups and institutions all need expert communicators who can

craft compelling messages that engage audiences across multiple platforms,” Yarosh said.

Yarosh is scheduled to lead another workshop on Nov. 20, which will also host Spectrum News reporter Vince Briga.

Yarosh said his experience at BU and in communications prompted him to host the workshops.

“As a graduate of [BU] and someone who had a passion for journalism and communications during my time here, I am thrilled to be able to give back and offer opportunities to other students with that same passion,” Yarosh said.

Nancy Um, associate dean for faculty development and inclusion at Harpur College and a professor of art history, led a data analysis workshop last semester. Um said she

has done many workshops for Harpur College faculty and graduate students, but this was the first one that was oriented toward undergraduates.

According to Um, the response from students in attendance was very positive.

Um said students were excited to learn new skills in a forum that was entirely voluntary and would not be graded.

“We live in a world that produces more data than we can possibly ever analyze,” Um said. “All [BU] students need to understand how we generate trails of data in our everyday lives and how that data is then used to make decisions that affect us.”

The next Harpur Crash Course on data analytics will take place from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 16 in the Alpern Conference Room.

date, approximately 60 students, faculty and community members came to support her actions and protest Birthright International and Moorthy’s arrest.

“Clinics like these often prioritize their religious ideologies over the health of the people seeking help, delay pregnancies and do not provide comprehensive and accurate information about all the available options,” the event’s description read on Facebook.

“Many students have been outraged by these posters and have also removed them, but this student is being targeted because of her involvement in campus and community organizing.”

In February 2019, the Women’s Student Union (WSU) also vocalized their opposition toward the posters, removing them from OCCT buses. But Moorthy’s arrest marks the first time that someone has been arrested for taking down posters. According to Mack Conan, ‘19, public relations coordinator for OCCT, OCCT will continue to press charges against individuals who tear down advertisements on their buses.

“When OCCT last spoke to Pipe Dream, we stated that if the situation were to escalate, we would begin pressing charges,” Conan wrote in an email. “Since individuals have continued to vandalize school property, we have decided to take the next step in pressing charges. From now on and into the future, we will continue to press charges if any more advertisements are vandalized, regardless of who the individual is or what the advertisement is.”

After her appearance in court, Moorthy gave a speech discussing the importance of community organizing and alleging she was racially targeted.

“As organizers, our job is to ask people what they don’t like about their lives, ask them to change with us and understand what systems are at play all the time,” Moorthy said.

“In this case it is misogyny. In this case it is whiteness [and] Christian fundamentalism. They shouldn’t have a clinic here.”

In an email, Frances Beal

Society executive board members said Moorthy’s arrest is not the first instance of racial targeting on campus.

“For many white students, they never imagine facing criminal charges on campus,” members wrote. “This arrest illustrates that’s not the reality for students of color, who are suspended and expelled, sometimes even jailed on the whims of [UPD].”

According to a BU Progressives representative, their group agrees UPD has persecuted students of color unjustly on multiple occasions.

“White students, encouraged by professors, have routinely ripped down posters and sustained minuscule repercussions,” a BU Progressives representative wrote in an email. “Out of the testimonials we have gathered, the worst punishment was a phone call from UPD. Because the posters have become more robustly secured, they are now laminated and posted behind glass, it is clear that UPD hopes to punish active students of color in order to protect financial interests.”

Multiple faculty members have also shown support for the activists.

Last semester, following the WSU’s opposition to the advertisement, a faculty member wrote an opinion piece for Pipe Dream supporting the WSU’s opinions. Dara Silberstein, an associate research professor of women, gender and sexuality studies, recently created a Change. org petition demanding that UPD drop the charges against Moorthy.

According to Conan, Moorthy was the only individual who committed the act multiple times.

She was arrested by UPD after they viewed video footage of her tearing down the advertisements. OCCT will not be removing the posters, according to Conan.

“We have heard the concerns of some students,” Conan wrote.

“However, under legal advisement, we will not be taking them down.

Denying a group the right to advertise may be considered discrimination.

Advertisement requests are open to on- and offcampus organizations as long as they are not displaying anything inappropriate.”

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Blue books have no place in modern universities Antiquated examination techniques remain a burden on students and professors

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Blue books are common testing utensils used to provide standardization to written exams, but they lack good incentive for their use and take more time for effective grading. Although some professors and administrators argue the necessity of blue books, I think it’s fair to say the majority of humanities students vehemently dislike them.

But how could a little blue book garner so much criticism from the student body? Their small size definitely plays a role, forcing students to purchase two books prior to their test just to guarantee they’ll have space to finish their responses. There are other concerns involving Binghamton University’s use of blue books, as the books demonstrate both an inequality faced by students of opposing departments, as well as an

aging solution to the professor’s dilemma of timely grading.

Blue books are said to have originated at Butler University in the late 1920s, but there have been references to their use at Yale University during the 1860s.

Yes, Yale does still use them.

After looking at different forums of students online, it seems like it’s not just BU and Yale putting them to use; blue books still carry a presence in most universities’ humanities departments. Multiple companies have capitalized on the niche production of blue books, with BU using books from Roaring Spring Paper Products.

One of these companies, Comet School Supplies, has claimed that their production has increased in recent years, which would allow them to turn a higher profit. Is it reasonable that our school and other companies have found an opportunity to profit off test taking in the humanities?

The cost of blue books depends on the university and this price generally ranges from 25 cents to a dollar. At BU, the blank books cost upward of 70 cents. Although the

books’ costs are on the high end here, it isn’t necessarily the price that students regard as unfair.

Does it seem reasonable that our University charges students to take their exams, which were already paid for in their tuition?

If BU intends to charge for their blue books, why wouldn’t they just include them in the tuition of specific classes? That leads me to the main critique that students carry in regard to the books, the fact that students are required to provide them, which adds an inconvenience prior to testing. As a senior at BU, I’ve heard countless stories of peers forgetting to purchase their blue book and then having to sacrifice time on a midterm or final.

Considering that only students in the humanities departments regularly use blue books, it seems like their presence is only inconveniencing one group of people. It’d be much easier for these students to pull out three pieces of loose-leaf paper and begin their test, but this practice is not always allowed.

The only justification for the

presence of blue books is that they convenience professors by standardizing the written portion of exams, but in many ways they also inconvenience professors.

Poor handwriting, partly due to the small size of the books, is a major issue noted by professors on various online forums.

I’ve heard many accounts of professors choosing to buy extra blue books for their classes just in case someone ends up forgetting, which forces those professors to spend their own cash to teach their classes. These issues faced by both students and professors are now being mitigated to appbased alternatives.

The idea of the blue book is one that originated during the time of the American Civil War and many essential parts to higher-education testing have changed since then. Now, instead of handwriting large documents, people just type them, and only a few universities are honoring that shift in the realm of test taking. UNC Chapel Hill, another public university, has begun transitioning away from the

usage of blue books. In 2008, around 30 professors at Chapel Hill started using a software called Securexam, which blocks all applications on the students’ computers except for a typing program used for the exam. The software is expensive, costing around $30,000 a year, and only 1,000 students used it during exams. Its price tag seems to be a major factor in why other universities haven’t made the switch; the advantages of it show the necessity of a cost-effective computerized method of test taking. On the teaching end, professors report that they can grade two to three times more papers a day while utilizing Securexam, because they are not being forced to decipher handwriting and the software increases standardization of testing. The presence of a computerized alternative to blue books would remove the more than 150-year inconvenience, as well as create fairer conditions during written exams for students with disabilities.

The development of a

reasonable alternative to our current testing methods would not only be more convenient, but also potentially promote higher performance from both professors and students. When blue books were first integrated in university teaching, they were supplied by their respective colleges. Now, institutions with endowments exceeding billions of dollars pretend as if they cannot afford to supply them. The monetization of education has played a role in perpetuating the blue book system, a system that disadvantages those who do not study the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields. I think it’s ridiculous that this school charges specific students any money to take an exam, regardless of the amount. While our school builds massive new buildings for those in STEM programs, they continue to make humanities majors pay to take tests they’re already charged tuition for.

Sam Pomichter is a senior majoring in integrative neuroscience.

BU students should confront their prejudices against local residents Binghamton’s town-gown gap stems from an elitist culture Madelaine Hastings Contributing Columnist

My first hint of the on-campus attitude toward those who live in Vestal and Binghamton was when one of the student volunteers at my college orientation, in an attempt to emphasize the consequences of binge drinking, said that we should avoid being incapacitated around the Binghamton “townies.”

Another adviser stepped in to gently correct her terminology and both agreed that drinking heavily around anyone is unsafe, but the judgment about Vestal and Binghamton natives that floats around campus became clear.

Only 7 percent of the class of 2023 hails from Broome and Tioga counties, in contrast to the 49 percent of students from the New York City and Long Island areas.

Students experience culture shock when those raised

amid a grid of skyscrapers and concrete are suddenly transplanted to Binghamton University’s campus, where the only educational building taller than four or five floors is the massive Glenn G. Bartle Library Tower, and where the separation between student living spaces and an expansive deciduous forest is measured in meters.

The majority of college students also come from a background of relative affluence, although this reality is beginning to shift as the general population recognizes that an undergraduate degree is no longer a marker of the intelligentsia but a tool for economic survival. A 2015 study from the Pell Institute found that only 9 percent of the college-age kids in the lowestincome quartile will receive a bachelor’s degree by the age of 24, as compared to 77 percent of the college-age kids in the highest-income quartile. It also indicated that from 1965 to 2015, the percentage of those in the lowest quartile who had secured

a bachelor’s degree within the age threshold has generally not increased, an unfortunate and surprising reality considering the recent push for accessible education in the last decade.

With 33.3 percent of Binghamton residents living below the poverty line, a devastating number compared to the statewide poverty rate of 15.1 percent, many of the students at BU are strangers living side by side to a city where one out of every three citizens is choked by economic destitution. More than just living minutes away from the city of Binghamton, many upperclassmen live literally right next to the people who are the subjects of classist ridicule that circulates around campus. They have just as much of a stake in the welfare of the greater community, because just like “townies,” they patronize local businesses, attend local events and are impacted by the local government. Tracing that prejudice of “otherness” to the cultural and economic contrast between the BU student

population and the Vestal and Binghamton civilian population isn’t a stretch, but that doesn’t make it any more acceptable.

The derogatory nature of the word “townie” and its associated philosophy of cultural superiority and elitism are offensive and, like all prejudices, have the potential to creep into actual oppression if not carefully managed.

The Town-Gown Advisory Board (TGAB) was created to foster positive relations between the University students and those living in the surrounding communities, and their board includes members from the University, the city of Binghamton’s local government and the commercial sector of Downtown Binghamton.

One of their active proposals, the Bus Stop Improvement Program, is especially promising for combating toxic “townie” culture.

The academic autonomy, the lack of parental oversight and the sudden induction into unfamiliar learning and living

communities are only a handful of transitory changes experienced by college students. While the challenges of acclimating to new people, new places and new academic expectations cannot be undervalued, it is the challenges presented by the newfound lack of mobility that cause strife within the student body — and the greater Binghamton community.

Transportation opportunities are limited; cars and Uber rides are expensive, parking is cumbersome and the on-campus bus system is less than reliable. This may seem like an ultimately inconsequential issue to have, but the lack of student exposure to the areas surrounding BU’s pocket of campus, tucked away in a forest, exacerbates the rift between the student body and the local community. The Bus Stop Improvement Program was set in motion to help combat the discrepancy between campus and the city with the addition of shelters to several stops along the Broome County Transit and Off Campus College Transport

(OCCT) routes, incentivizing students to exercise their bus privileges. With the TGAB’s initiative to improve the ease and comfort of utilizing the bus system, hopefully the BU students will be able to shake off their apprehension about Vestal and Binghamton. In doing so, they would move away from the mindset that embraces hurtful, prejudiced terms like “townie.”

While the efforts of the TGAB are certainly a movement toward a more cohesive, healthier Binghamton, it is only a small shift on the periphery of the true issue. The plain and ugly truth is that “townie” culture is fed by prejudice and ignorance, the same prejudice and ignorance behind the more violent, destructive manifestations of class strife. If the students at BU refuse to shake off their entitled and hurtful attitudes toward locals, they’re welcoming a future University that is plagued by bitterness.

Madelaine Hastings is a freshman double-majoring in English and economics.

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Four day workweeks are the future of the job market Several companies have seen benefits from reducing hours

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Michael Levinstein Contributing Columnist

In 1930, economist John Maynard Keynes predicted a 15hour workweek in the future.

Approaching nearly a century later, there has not been a significant decrease in working hours. In America, the standard workweek is 40 hours, which breaks down to working about five days a week for eight hours each day. This amount doesn’t count overtime or work taken home, but in our current era of modernization, it’s strange. The productivity of American workers has increased, and yet we have not seen an equal increase in hourly compensation. If we aren’t

going to regulate wealth so it all can’t be held by business owners, it’s time to consider cutting the workweek by one day. In keeping with Maynard’s prediction, it’s time we shorten our current workweek.

This isn’t a crazy idea. As the United States industrialized, work hours per week fell. While estimates are hard to find for agriculture in the 1800s, the average workweek fell from about 70 to 60 hours for manufacturers, according to the Economic History Association. For the 20th century, data is easier to find for the manufacturing sector. From about 1900 to 1930, hours fell again to about 50 hours per week.

The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 made overtime pay after 40 hours mandatory, effectively lowering the average workweek to 40 hours. Since then, nothing

major has changed. This has also led some employers to have people work just under 40 hours per week as to not pay them benefits required by law, so a new system is obviously needed.

Surprisingly, lowering workweek hours is not only accomplished through government intervention — it has happened in the private sector, too.

While the government effectively mandated a five-day workweek in 1938, Henry Ford implemented the practice in his factories long before the government did. Ford, however, saw an economic benefit and personal financial gain to lowering work hours and acted on it, as his employees would be able to buy the products that they themselves produced.

Decreasing the workweek isn’t an idea just tied to the past. Perpetual Guardian, a New

Zealand firm that manages trusts, wills and estates, held a twomonth trial where employees worked four days a week without a pay cut in 2018. Employees reported a better work-life balance, and supervisors reported an increase in productivity. This past August, Microsoft concluded a monthlong four-day workweek experiment in Japan that showed a 39.9 percent gain in productivity, as measured by sales per employee. Japan, a country with some of the longest working hours, benefited from a reduction of the workweek. If Japan can benefit from a reduction in work hours, why can’t we?

Benefits are not limited to just productivity. Both studies encouraged an overall better work-life balance. In a four-day workweek, workers not only have more leisure time, but

more time with family. This can be invaluable, especially to new parents who juggle work with raising children and maintaining a life outside of the office. By working only 32 hours a week, we lessen the burden that hardworking Americans face.

A four-day workweek doesn’t have to mean that workers get paid less, either. Just as Ford didn’t lower wages in his factories when he shorted the workweek, Microsoft didn’t lower their wages in Japan, where their workers were paid for five days of work in a four-day workweek. In both of those cases, firms managed to cut costs by closing one day.

If workers have more money available to them and more time to spend it, then more can circulate through the economy, raising the gross domestic product. I am defining workers

here as wage or salary laborers, or those who work for an employer who sets their hours. Outside of purely economic benefit, however, workers deserve more compensation for their labor. The majority of Americans deserve a break, and anyone telling you differently is ultimately saying that the working class should continue to be exploited.

Although few politicians seem to be talking about it, former Alaska senator and presidential candidate Mike Gravel has released policy proposals for making it a reality, such as mandated vacation time, increased federal holidays and paid leave. We’ve gone almost 80 years without a decrease in work. Not only is that strange historically, it is wrong morally.

Michael Levinstein is a senior double-majoring in political science and economics.

Letter to the Editor: In response to Pipe Dream’s Oct. 31 Editorial Thomas Dowling Guest Columnist

The opinions expressed in a recent piece published by the Editorial Board could suppress student turnout such that it would create a Republican majority in the House of Representatives in November 2020. Democratic Rep. Anthony Brindisi scored one of the biggest upsets of the 2018 midterms by winning a seat that President Donald Trump won by more than 15 points. Of all 233 Democrats in the House of Representatives, only one represents a redder district than Brindisi — Rep. Collin Peterson (D-MN), who won his seat in a district that Trump won by more than 30 percentage points in 2016.

Republicans are chomping at the bit after former Rep.

Claudia Tenney’s embarrassing loss in 2018. Three Republicans are already running, including Tenney and Broome County District Attorney Steve Cornwell.

The policies advocated by each of them would be disastrous for students as they would serve as a rubber stamp by toeing the party line for the GOP, putting their wealthy special interests first and putting students and immigrants last. As Pipe Dream correctly noted in their editorial, Tenney voted with Trump about 97 percent of the time in 2018.

New York’s 22nd Congressional District spans from Binghamton to Utica and has the same problems that plagued the Midwest with the loss of its manufacturing jobs and a struggling economy.

However, because New York state isn’t electorally important, nobody cares about the struggles in its rural upstate — but Brindisi does. Brindisi used his

leverage to gain a seat on the House Agriculture Committee, which is extremely important because we need to stand up for our farmers, as Trump’s unpredictable, impulsive trade wars ravage farmers as they are faced with more and more uncertainty.

If the Editorial Board ventured outside the friendly confines of Binghamton, they would see the struggles of the dairy farmers in Madison County or the diverse Bosnian refugee population in Utica — they would realize that NY-22 is more than just students, which make up just 40,000 of the roughly 697,000 people in NY-22.

The op-ed continues to be misleading and omit important information. Brindisi defied the National Rifle Association (NRA) and other big special interests to support universal background checks to combat the series of mass shootings that plague our

country. Brindisi also supported the Equality Act in order to provide explicit protection from discrimination in housing, hiring and education for members of the LGBTQ community. Tenney refused to back the Equality Act when she was in Congress, has an A-plus rating from the NRA and does not support universal background checks — going against the grain of 97 percent of gun owners who support it.

Tenney also received a paltry 28-percent ranking from the Human Rights Campaign over her support of LGBTQ issues.

The allegation that Brindisi is out of touch with the opinion of students is utterly false.

Brindisi has been on campus at least twice since he was elected to Congress and has held two town halls within 15 minutes of campus, one in Binghamton and another in Apalachin. Brindisi also held a town hall in April on campus discussing the issue

of climate change and just last month held a roundtable with student leaders to discuss the pressing and close-to-home issue of student debt. Tenney never appeared on campus during her two years in Congress and treated Binghamton University students as an afterthought. There is no better representative in uplifting student voices than Brindisi, despite the small fraction of the population they make up.

Tenney’s Twitter profile is filled with fearmongering, falsities and other right-wing propaganda.

What is missing is any local engagement or evidence that she cares about issues impacting students and Binghamton.

The Editorial Board seems to encourage not voting for Brindisi because Brindisi does not fit their perfect image of a progressive Congress member.

If Tenney is elected to office because students sat out the election, it would be illegal to

get married on Sunday as a same-sex couple, and you could be evicted from your apartment on Monday and get fired on Tuesday. You might not agree with every vote Brindisi takes, but he is better than Cornwell, or Trump’s minion Tenney, who is more concerned with playing politics and toeing the party line than being a true, independent voice for upstate New York. If students want to see the Democrats maintain control of the House to exercise their constitutional obligation to investigate and check Trump, they should vote for Brindisi.

However, if they would rather see Rep. Kevin McCarthy (RCA) serve as a rubber stamp for Trump’s radical and disparaging agenda, they should sit out and live with the consequences.

Thomas Dowling is treasurer for the Binghamton University College Democrats and a senior majoring in political science.

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Acting and theatre often involve a diverse range of skills.

For local theatre artist Barbara L. Gregson, it involves mask making and mime.

On Saturday, Gregson discussed the importance of this diversity while showcasing her

2018 book, “Theater Artists Play,” at a talk hosted by the Broome County Arts Council.

“Theater Artists Play” is a guide to understanding and creating works of theatre. Gregson’s discussion mostly touched upon her life experiences and involvement in the performing arts. Attendees were greeted with hot-mulled apple cider as Gregson displayed some of her handmade masks and photos from previous workshops.

Gregson started the discussion

by recalling her childhood love for putting on shows for her local community.

“I did plays starting at age 10,” she said. “I did ‘Mary Poppins,’ hired all the neighborhood kids, made them all sign contracts and of course they would all quit. I ended up playing all the parts with my sisters and we put it on for our school.”

Starting at an early age, Gregson insisted on putting on shows independently and gaining experience in all areas of theatre.

“It was all a cappella and I was standing on the stage singing, probably off-key,” she said. “We had our own costumes because my great-grandmother died and left me all these beautiful, wonderful 1800s clothes.”

Gregson said her elementary school principal was enthusiastic and supported her early endeavors in theatre.

“The respect that she had for me at age 10 was really awesome,” she said. “It made me think, ‘Okay, I can do this. Why not?’”

lucas peterka contributing photographer Local theatre artist Barbara L. Gregson uses mask making and mime to showcase the diversity of performing arts.

Gregson’s love of theatre continued through the rest of her education, leading her to study drama in London. After drama school, Gregson found work with an avant-garde theatre company in Hamburg, Germany. Because she couldn’t speak German, she mostly played mime and nonverbal part, which sparked her interest in miming. She eventually traveled to Paris to study miming with Ella Jaroszewicz.

“I love mime because it breaks all the barriers,” Gregson said.

“You’re in disguise. You can be whoever you want, especially if you’re wearing a mask, and play different characters. I can be an old man, a mother, a child and you can play all the parts.”

Gregson also said miming can be a useful skill to have outside of theatre, noting that comedian Stephen Colbert has also studied it.

“Colbert does a lot of mime,” she said. “He studied acting, clowning and mime. It’s great for storytelling. Even if you’re just speaking, it’s a great skill to learn.”

Gregson’s understanding of miming helped her in her first job at a correctional facility outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she performed for inmates and worked with them to help them put on a show of their own. Gregson was hired to help improve the literacy rate among inmates and introduce them to a new art form. After performing for them, she invited them to try on her masks and sign up to be part of the show.

“One guy came up and put on the sad mask and fell down

to his knees,” Gregson said.

“It was a moment that affected everyone. He took the mask off and said afterward, ‘This is how this place makes me feel.’ We were able to gather an amazing group of people and put on an amazing show.”

Gregson also spent time in Italy, studying Renaissance mask making. She discussed the various types of masks with attendees and explained how each mask maker has their own unique style and techniques. According to Gregson, apprenticeships can be extremely useful for those working toward a career in the arts.

“My philosophy is that if you wanna go study with someone, you go,” she said. “I don’t believe in going to school, necessarily.

I believe in apprenticing — working and studying. You learn an art form through going and doing it.”

Throughout the talk, Gregson emphasized the importance of actors and artists having multiple talents and feeling empowered to create their own jobs and become independent.

“Actors, as you may know, never get any work,” she said.

“This book is about how to create your own material so you can work.”

Gregson said she values a variety of talents among the musicians and artists she works with.

“I always loved working with a musician,” she said. “That’s really important. Musicians have to be able to improvise and create new and original music. Any artist I work with has to think in that way.”

Willie Cole talks life and work at BU Art Museum Artist is best known for use of steam irons Patrick Earns

assistant arts & culture editor

Artist and sculptor Willie Cole filled the seats of the Binghamton University Art Museum with curious listeners on Thursday while detailing his work and life as a contemporary creator, the latest installment in the BU Art Museum’s season-long exhibition, “not but nothing other: AfricanAmerican Portrayals, 1930s to Today.”

While Cole has utilized

a variety of techniques throughout the course of his career, he is best known for his work with steam irons, which he began to experiment with in 1980. While walking the streets of Newark, New Jersey, where he lived at the time, he discovered an iron that had been hit by a car. Cole brought it back to his studio, and through taking hundreds of photos of the iron, he began to connect it to his life and personal experiences.

“It began to reveal things to me,” Cole said. “Things about myself, about my family and just about our country and our world in general.”

Cole’s interpretation of the

iron was a meditation on black identity in the United States, and how the ongoing legacy of slavery shapes racial experiences.

For Cole, the colors of both sides of an iron are representations of America’s exploitation — the black branding side as a standin for race, the silver handle as a stand-in for money. Cole showed a chart he created to document his connections, tracing a line between modern white wealth to the invasion of Africa and the capture of slaves. For Cole, these connections all trace back to the original object.

“It became like an equation where everything there led me to something about the iron,”

Cole said.

According to Cole, working in the 1980s left him keenly aware of the idea of branding in a capitalist sense. Referencing the importance of names such as Gap or Calvin Klein, he saw a connection between these “brands” and the physical act of branding that he sought to perform with an iron.

To show the connection between his work and the African American experience, Cole referenced a 1997 work he created known as “Stowage,” in which 12 smaller iron markings on plywood surround a larger one. The 12 small irons represent different tribes in Africa, while

the centerpiece is a reference to the ships that carried slaves to the United States like stowed cargo.

While Cole is best known for his prolific iron work, which led him to adopt the nickname “Willie the Scorch,” he also spent the last two decades pursuing other passions.

Between constructing lifesize masks out of repurposed shoes and creating cars and chandeliers out of water bottles, Cole has diversified the body of his work, along with placing his art in public locations to draw a wider audience.

“The art world is positioned in a way where a lot of people

don’t experience it in a deep way,” Cole said. “You can’t touch things in a museum — some people are intimidated by museums.”

Autumn Riesel, a junior majoring in geological sciences, attended the talk after doing a class assignment on Cole’s piece “Eva Mae” that is currently hanging in the BU Art Museum.

She said Cole’s diverse style can be an inspiration to artists.

“Explore different possibilities,” she said. “He works with a lot of different mediums and he’s able to express himself in a lot of different ways and find different things that he likes to do.”

Comics artist JB Brager leads on-campus zine workshops Brager discusses zines in classroom, the Q Center Gabriela Iacovano

arts & culture editor

While some say mainstream print media is on the decline, DIY scenes still embrace zines as unique art objects and channels for communication.

On Thursday, JB Brager introduced Binghamton University students to zines, small self-published booklets that can be created from a single sheet of paper. Brager, a comics artist who currently teaches history at Ethical Culture Fieldston School in the Bronx, visited both the Q Center and a class taught by Tina Chronopoulos, an associate professor of classical and Near Eastern studies and interim director of the Center of Medieval and Renaissance Studies.

Chronopoulos learned about Brager a few years ago while volunteering in Madison, Wisconsin for LGBT Books to Prisoners, an organization that sends books to LGBTQidentifying people who are incarcerated.

She said she invited Brager to visit campus because the final

project for her class, Classics 380C: America & Classical Antiquity, asks students to create a zine about a figure from an underrepresented group within the field of classics or ancient Mediterranean studies.

“I also wanted to invite JB [Brager] in order to put someone else at the front of the room other than me, so students can get a different perspective and meet someone whose artistic work is about empowering sex workers and trans[gender] [or] nonbinary folks, and whose activism centers around indigenous rights and police brutality,” she wrote in an email. “I think our campus isn’t quite political [and] activist enough, so I wanted my students to meet a real radical.”

Brager shared a genealogical history of zines with the class, starting with the invention of the printing press, before leading a hands-on workshop. Later in the day, they led a more informal workshop at the Q Center, where a small table of attendees learned the “one-page-fold” technique and took an hour to draw, collage or write a zine.

In addition to making zines and comics, Brager has also taught university courses, facilitated workshops and given

lectures on subjects including comics, zines, social media, photography, human rights and genocide studies.

Brager said college can be a good time to explore zinemaking, especially since students often have resources like printing at their disposal. They said Chronopoulos’ class was a unique forum for talking about the medium.

“I think it’s a testament to the fact that zines can be about anything,” Brager said. “They sort of activate a different part of your brain and your creativity, and you can make a zine in a physics class — it doesn’t matter. It just allows us to be creative when there’s not many opportunities to do that in college when you’re stressed out.”

While zines are often associated with historical moments like the Riot grrrl movement of the ’90s, Brager has noticed resurgences of zines within the past decade via online communities like LiveJournal, where users often create networks of pen pals.

“In some ways [zines] are making a comeback, but in some ways they never left,” Brager said. “There’s something about the materiality of a zine that has

a different effect and resonance with people, getting one is more like getting a present than getting an email … It’s a more human thing.”

Zines hold value in the art economy, and according to Brager, they also serve an important role during the rise of digital surveillance.

“People are realizing that digital spaces are not secure in terms of sharing information, especially for activists, so one of the things I told the class is that right now in Hong Kong with the democracy protests, those protestors in one of the most technologically advanced places in the world are making zines,” they said.

Julian Zumbach, a junior majoring in medieval and early modern studies, sat in on Chronopoulos’ class and the Q Center’s workshop.

“I learned that anybody can make a zine and it doesn’t matter how it turns out — you can just make it for the joy of making something,” he said.

Brager said there’s freedom in both the accessibility and ephemerality of zines, which can be photocopied, distributed, destroyed or given as gifts, depending on the artist’s intent.

“It’s all these moments that you get to save in this interesting way,” they said.

“They’re ephemeral enough that

you can make them disappear if you decide to, but they’re maybe precious enough that you’ll want to save them.”

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HPC brings killer comedy ‘Almost, Maine’ depicts to the Hinman Commons complex relationships Murder mystery involves audience participation Adam Fallis

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On Saturday, the Hinman Commons was packed and buzzing with excitement as the Hinman Production Company (HPC) hosted a highly anticipated rendition of “The Game’s Afoot,” written by Ken Ludwig.

The show commenced with a loud bang from the entrance doors as the actors took the stage. Taking place in the 1930s, the play focuses on a renowned Broadway actor, William Gillette, who plays the character of Sherlock Holmes. In the middle of his performance, Gillette gets shot by an unknown assailant, survives and recovers in his castle residence. He invites his friends over and they catch up on each other’s lives. In a sudden turn of events, a homicide occurs out of the blue. Every character becomes a viable suspect and they go through many different twists and turns to connect the

dots and find the killer.

Despite the murder-mystery plot, comedic undertones were juxtaposed with the case to make the play positively unconventional in its own right. The stage included elements that gave the show a professional feel, such as a revolving apparatus that was utilized for several sequences during the performance.

In addition, intermission included a dinner show where the audience interacted with the actors, who were still in character. A hefty serving of pasta and bread was accompanied by amusing interactions that kept the play continuously running.

Ben Jones, a senior majoring in sociology, played Gillette. He said the cast was able to flow well together.

“What made the show go so well was that the cast was such a cohesive unit,” he said. “It was a very small cast of eight people and the fact that we had so much chemistry and became friends during the entire endeavor made this play the way it was.”

Amy Williamson, a senior majoring in philosophy,

politics and law, took on the role of primary director for the first time and said the production required extensive work to create an amusing and unique performance.

“It pretty much was a wholesome effort, top to bottom,” she said. “The set was incredibly complex and a lot of work went into this. It was just working two months straight with the whole crew and the support of everyone that made this behind the scenes possible.

I think that the play has humor, suspense and solemnness and so many different layers that anybody would enjoy it.”

A packed crowd gave a resounding ovation on the final curtain. Steve Jones, of Peekskill, New York, was among the satisfied audience. “[It was a] great play and story with very talented kids,” he said. “I loved the twistsand-turns aspect that is sort of common with murder-mystery themes. My favorite was the second act where it was starting to get much funnier, especially the scene where they tried to hide the body.”

lucas peterka contributing photographer “The Game’s Afoot” is a murder mystery in which every character is a suspect.

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Continuing a trend of performing works that showcase the intricacies of the human condition, The Dickinson Community Players (DCP) held their first show of the semester on Friday with “Almost, Maine,” a play that depicts the simultaneous stories of nine couples in a small town on a snowy night in northern Maine as they fall in and out of love.

Over the past few semesters, DCP has chosen plays that relate to life past simple theatricals, such as last semester’s play, “Our Town.” Alivia Ruiz, an assistant director of “Almost, Maine” and a junior majoring in biology, said “Almost, Maine” fits perfectly into this theme.

“It can really apply to anyone regardless of perceived gender, sexual orientation or age,” she said.

“Even if you haven’t experienced what some of the characters are going through, you can still pull and apply [it] to your own life.”

The play is layered with various elements that allow the audience to intimately connect with the characters. Characters interweave their interactions with the magical realism of the play, acting as though the magical things happening during their journeys fit right in place. The unique perspective from characters makes it hard to decipher what is imagined and what is real.

Bill Engle, director of the play and a senior majoring in geological sciences, said this effect stems from the focus of the scenes.

“The scenes exist only to the couples,” he said.

Nicholas Vogel, an assistant director of the play and a junior majoring in psychology, added that the seating arrangement for the show is curved with an aisle in the middle, a unique feature.

“The playwright, John Cariani, wanted the audience to look through a window into the town of ‘Almost, Maine,’” he said. “But we want to take it one step further and see how can we immerse the audience without breaking the fourth wall to make it such an intimate setting.”

Mike Boyle, a cast member

in “Almost, Maine” and a senior majoring in English, said as an organization with minimal resources, DCP has turned challenging situations into creative results. For this particular show, despite a simple backdrop, the directors made an effort to add another layer of mysticism by having lights shown on the cast members’ faces during scenes to mimic the aurora borealis.

Since DCP is a philanthropybased theatre group, Ruiz said its members pride themselves on giving back to their local community while doing what they love.

“What sets us apart is that half of our proceeds always do go to a charity,” Ruiz said.

Fifty percent of the proceeds from “Almost, Maine” are going to Family Planning of South Central New York, an organization that connects thematically to the show’s plot.

“What we like to do is find a theme from every show that connects to the outside world,” Vogel said. “We can both send a message about these themes and send our support to an organization that’s relevant to that theme.”

miya carmichael staff photographer “Almost, Maine” blends magical realism with stories about the human condition.

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Monday, November 11, 2019

Wrestling competes at Jonathan Kaloust Bearcat Open wrestling from page 1 DePrez, currently ranked No. 11 nationally, has national championship aspirations this season, and was one of several Bearcats to place at the team’s home tournament.

Redshirt sophomore Zack Trampe, currently ranked No. 13 in the country, also won his weight class, taking the 133-pound title.

Two other Bearcats were defeated in first-place matches: redshirt junior Audey Ashkar and senior Anthony Sparacio both placed second in their respective weight classes. Ashkar’s second-place finish came one year after winning the 125-pound competition in last season’s meet.

“It was a great opportunity for our whole team to get on the mats,” Borshoff said. “The guys that wrestled today, they wrestled great … What we were talking about all week was going out and scoring points and being aggressive, not worrying too much about wins and losses. At this point in the season, what we really need to do is figure out what we need to work on.”

Four other Bearcats placed in the top six of the tournament.

Redshirt sophomore Joe Doyle finished fourth in the heavyweight competition. Redshirt junior Alex Melikian placed fifth in the 174-pound weight class, followed by freshman Jacob Nolan in sixth.

Freshman Carson Sauriol also placed sixth in the 125-pound group. Both Nolan and Sauriol were freshmen competing in their first collegiate event.

Although Nolan and Sauriol may not be in the 10-man dual meet lineup, they are able to compete in open tournaments such as the Bearcat Open, as teams are allowed to enter multiple wrestlers from the same weight class. As a result, there was a wide variety of competitors in the field.

“There were some great matches here today,” Borshoff said.

“I love this tournament because we get a really good mix of top guys. Every weight class has some really good guys, and then every weight class has a bunch of the mid-tier guys and then some of the lower-level guys. Everyone on the team today got some wins, which is awesome, and everyone on the team today got to wrestle some really high-level competition.”

Several of the nation’s top programs competed at the open,

sidney slon assistant photo editor Redshirt sophomore Zack Trampe won the 133-pound title at the Bearcat Open, defeating Army’s freshman Andrew Wert, Jr. in the final bout.

including No. 1 Penn State, as well as Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association rivals No. 10 Lehigh and No. 18 Cornell.

Binghamton will take on both the Mountain Hawks and the Big Red

later this season in dual meets, and Borshoff hopes that these earlyseason opens can help the team improve before those matchups.

“We have to work on selfgenerated offense,” Borshoff said.

“We struggled a little bit in our setups today and that was holding us back from scoring points from neutral and turning guys on top.“ Next up for the Bearcats is a trip to South Dakota State this

weekend. The team will take on the Jackrabbits in a dual meet on Friday at 5 p.m. and participate in the team’s open on Sunday.

Both events will take place in Brookings, South Dakota.

Women’s basketball downs Lafayette, moves to 2-0 Moon scores career-high in back-to-back games Samantha Marsh

assistant sports editor

Forty-one seconds into the women’s basketball home opener against Lafayette, senior guard Kai Moon collided with Lafayette’s freshman guard Jess Booth.

Both players had to be taken off the court. While Booth never returned, Moon left the court for five minutes before subbing back in. Moon’s return proved vital for the Bearcats. For the second straight game, the guard set a new career high in points, scoring 36 and propelling Binghamton to a 74-64 win over Lafayette.

“Thirty-six points — that’s a lot of points,” said BU head coach

lucas peterka contributing photographer Senior guard Kai Moon had a career-high 36 points in the Bearcats’ 74-64 home-opening win against Lafayette.

Bethann Shapiro Ord. “Take 36 from 74, what do you got?”

Moon was responsible for almost half of the team’s offense; 36 points in one game is tied for the fourth-highest total in program history and ties the Division I program record. She also contributed three steals, three rebounds and an assist. Thirteen of Moon’s points came from free throws, where she was 13-for-14 on the night.

Moon was fouled 11 times throughout the night. With less than three minutes left in the game, Lafayette sophomore forward Makaila Wilson committed four fouls, all against Moon, sending her to the free-throw line three times. Wilson ultimately fouled out with 49 seconds left in the game. Lafayette senior guard Sarah Agnello fouled Moon four times, sending her to the freethrow line once.

“I’m used to getting fouled at this point,” Moon said. “I’ve played a considerable amount of games where you know they’re

gonna foul you. I just try to be strong with the ball, and I think it’s all a part of being a senior and a point guard.”

The first basket of the game didn’t come until almost two minutes in, when freshman guard Zahra Barnes converted a layup. It was the Bearcats’ first and last lead until the very end of the second period. With fewer than four minutes left in the second quarter, the Bearcats were down by nine but went on a 10-0 run to enter halftime up by one. Contributing to this run was sophomore guard Hayley Moore, junior forward Kaylee Wasco and Moon.

“The first half we had a slow start just a bit,” Shapiro Ord said. “We picked it up defensively, getting into our flow. I felt like [the] second half we just keep grinding out.”

Throughout the second half, senior guard Carly Boland was a force for the team. She ended the night with 15 points, 10 of which came in the second half. Boland had 16 points in the season opener

and thus is averaging 15.5 points per game. Lafayette nearly took over the lead in the fourth quarter, coming within two points of the Bearcats, but Boland had back-toback 3-pointers to put the team up by eight points with 5:11 left.

“In the beginning my shot wasn’t really falling,” Boland said.

“But my teammates and coaches picked me up and set me up for good shots.”

Senior guard Karlee Krchnavi and Wasco were also contributors to the game. Krchnavi ended the night with eight points, 11 boards, one block and one steal, while Wasco had four points, seven rebounds and three dimes. “[Krchnavi] was terrific,” Shapiro Ord said. “I’d say her and Wasco came in big. I’ve been bringing the two of them off the bench, and when they come into the game, it’s not like the team, because we’re subbing, goes down.

We don’t miss a beat. We just keep attacking, and it’s been great.

I’d say both of them were the unsung heroes. They did all the

dirty work.”

Four freshmen saw the court Friday night, and freshman guard Khoryn Bannis saw her first collegiate points when she converted a layup in the fourth quarter. Bannis was fouled by Lafayette junior forward Natalie Kucowski in the process and was able to secure an additional point from the line.

“I was so happy for Khoryn [Bannis],” Shapiro Ord said. “She’s really, really good defensively, so I just told her to attack when she can, and that’s what her team needed from her. She did, and she was strong with it.”

Binghamton’s 2-0 start to the season marks only the third time that the Bearcats have started their season with two wins.

The team hopes to continue its early success to the season on Tuesday when they face off against Bloomsburg University.

Tipoff against the Huskies is scheduled for 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 12 at the Events Center in Vestal, New York.

Men’s soccer season ends in AE quarterfinal defeat Bearcats fall to Hartford in road playoff match Edward Aaron

assistant sports editor

After closing out its regular season on a 3-1-2 run and reaching the America East (AE) tournament for the first time since 2016, the Binghamton men’s soccer team fell to Hartford in a quarterfinal matchup.

The Bearcats (6-9-3, 3-4-0 AE) had their return to the postseason spoiled in a 2-0 defeat at the hands of the Hawks (11-4-4, 4-2-1 AE).

“I thought that the guys were a little bit out of sync today,” said Binghamton head coach Paul Marco. “I thought that in the warm-ups they looked pretty nervous. The way that the guys were under-hitting passes and things like that. When you play that way you make a mistake … But once the game started I thought we settled in quite well.”

Nearly the entire Binghamton roster was playing in the postseason for the first time in their collegiate career. Entering the game, only graduate student defender Stephen McKenna had ever played in the playoffs for the Bearcats. The Hawks were in a similar position, as they were also making their first playoff

appearance since 2016.

The first Hartford goal was scored off a corner kick in the 28th minute, and the second came eight minutes later off a free kick.

“They got both goals off of second chances on set pieces, so that’s probably the difficult thing to take,” Marco said. “You train, you work hard and it comes down to a moment where you have chances to clear the ball and you just didn’t do it.”

Aside from the set-piece scoring opportunities by the Hawks, the game was played fairly evenly between the two teams.

Shots finished 17-15 in favor of the Bearcats, but the team was not able to convert any of its shots on goal.

“I don’t think our guys played to their strengths as much as they could’ve or should’ve today,” Marco said. “We played, and we played hard, their effort was good.

I just didn’t think that the things guys do individually well, they didn’t try and put themselves in positions to do those as often as possible.”

The second half was evenly contested, with no goals scored.

Despite adjusting tactically to a more offense-oriented game plan, the Bearcats were unable to make a goal, and the game ended with a 2-0 victory for the Hawks.

Prior to the playoff game, three Bearcats were selected for the AE All-Conference teams.

Junior midfielder Noah Luescher was named Second Team AllConference, as well as the AllAcademic team.

Freshman defender Oliver Svalander and sophomore goalkeeper P.J. Parker were selected to the league’s AllRookie team.

This year’s roster was substantially younger than teams in the past few years. Last year’s team featured 11 graduating seniors and failed to reach the playoffs, whereas this year’s team

has just five total upperclassmen, but was able to make the jump into the postseason.

The Bearcats will graduate just two players this offseason — McKenna and senior forward Haris Brkovic. With a strong finish to the season and a young roster, Binghamton has the potential to take steps forward in 2020.

“I think that the future is extremely bright,” Marco said.

“The guys are really disappointed.

The bus has been quiet all the way [back to Binghamton]. They’ll continue to work hard and we’ll try to improve the roster.”

alex gross contributing photographer Graduate student defender Stephen McKenna finished his five-year career in the Bearcats’ 2-0 playoff loss against Hartford.

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Men’s basketball blown out by No. 1 Michigan State Binghamton concedes 54 points in-paint in loss Justin Zion

sports editor

Last season, the Binghamton men’s basketball team faced off against No. 2 Michigan, and the game did not go as expected, with the Bearcats hanging with the Wolverines for 30 minutes. On Sunday, the Bearcats traveled to East Lansing, Michigan to take on No. 1 Michigan State, and the game went exactly as expected, with the Spartans (1-1) winning big over the Bearcats (0-2), 100-47. It was the first time since November 2001 that the Bearcats conceded 100 points in a game.

“They’re just really, really good, and their size is a big deal,” said Binghamton head coach Tommy Dempsey. “I was proud of the way we competed. Our guys — they never quit. We were diving on the floor for loose balls all day long, we were working our butts off on the glass, we got 14 offensive rebounds ourselves. We were hustling out there and we were competing.”

Throughout the contest, Michigan State displayed a balanced attack that involved many of its players. The Spartans were able to score from the outside, with seven 3-pointers, and from down low, with 54 points in the paint. Eleven total players scored points for the Spartans in the game, with five of them reaching double figures.

Senior guard Cassius Winston, who played in the game only a day after his brother Zachary died after being hit by a train, co-led the Spartans with 17 points, along with junior forward Xavier Tillman.

Binghamton, on the other hand, struggled on offense, converting only 30 percent of its field goals and 20 percent of its free throws in the contest. Michigan State blocked seven of BU’s shots, and the Bearcats turned the ball over 21 times. Binghamton did see some success on the offensive glass with 14 offensive rebounds, but only managed to turn them

Sophomore guard Sam Sessoms led the Bearcats in scoring against No. 1 Michigan State with 12 points off 5-for-17 shooting.

into seven second-chance points.

Sophomore guard Sam Sessoms led the Bearcats in scoring with 12 points on 5-for-17 shooting, followed closely by senior guard Richard Caldwell, Jr.’s 11 points.

One notable moment in the game for BU was the exit of senior forward Pierre Sarr, who left early in the contest with an apparent injury. Dempsey said after the game that the preliminary report on Sarr was a concussion, and that

the symptoms he showed did not allow him to return to the floor that night.

“We lost Pierre [Sarr] in the first couple minutes of the game,” Dempsey said. “That was a tough thing because he’s our oldest and most physical guy. In a game like that, that hurt not having him …

It was a tough blow to lose Pierre [Sarr] tonight, not that it decided the outcome, but just from a standpoint of trying to stay a little

bit closer in the game.”

This was the first time in the history of Binghamton’s men’s basketball program that the team faced the top-ranked team in the country in the AP Top 25 Poll.

Though they had just come off a loss to No. 2 Kentucky, the Spartans wasted no time in showing why they’re among the best teams in the nation, hitting three quick 3-pointers in the opening minutes of what turned into a magnificent

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offensive performance for them.

Though the margin of defeat was large for Dempsey’s Bearcats, he did take some positives away from the matchup.

“The score is not the most important thing, especially at this stage of the season,” Dempsey said.

“It’s about possession by possession, trying to execute your defensive rotations, trying to execute your offense and find some chemistry.

We had some good things going

on, it’s just not quite connected yet because there’s so many new faces, but I did see some bright spots, and we’ll focus on trying to get better and better and get ready for Wednesday night.”

Next up for the Bearcats is a road contest against Columbia, the final game before the team’s home opener. Tipoff against the Lions is scheduled for 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 13 from Francis S. Levien Gymnasium in New York, New York.

Volleyball swept by New Swimming and diving Hampshire in home match teams overpower Canisius Binghamton remains winless in 21st matchup

Bearcat women dominate Golden Griffins 207-93

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The Binghamton volleyball team was swept on Friday evening in a match against the University of New Hampshire, losing in straight sets to continue its winless season. “[I’m] disappointed in our play, but I think they work hard,” said Binghamton head coach Glenn Kiriyama. “Our team is working hard, trying to get better, and there’s certain things we see that [indicate] the effort’s there on a lot of them, we’re just not executing very well right now.

I wish we could execute a little better, but New Hampshire’s a good team. They just beat the top team in the conference, so they’re definitely a solid team that we’re playing against.”

During the opening set, the Bearcats found themselves on the wrong side of an 8-3 run following the first serve. Some improved ball movement soon allowed the team to trim the deficit to just two points. This, however, was as close as the team was able to get to tying. For the remainder of the set, the Wildcats were firing on all cylinders, ultimately taking the set by seven points.

The teams went back and forth with their scoring in the first few volleys of set two and though the Wildcats had the initial lead, a kill by sophomore setter Kiara Adams allowed Binghamton to tie the set at seven.

“She had a nice match,” Kiriyama said. “I thought we didn’t pass well for her, so she was making a lot of plays out of some tough situations. She was able to get some points for us in situations where maybe we wouldn’t have been able to get

Coming off a loss against Bucknell last month, the Binghamton men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams swept Canisius on Saturday at the Patricia A. Saunders Aquatic Center in Vestal, New York. The women took down the Golden Griffins 207-93, while the men were victorious with a 167-131 win. Many of the individual performances led Binghamton to a decisive win, but the overall team contribution helped propel the team ahead.

“We swam well on the women’s side, we got off to a great start and just kind of rolled all the way through,” said Binghamton head coach Jerry Cummiskey. “On the men’s side, we lost the first five races, which is pretty unique, not winning either relay and los[ing] five races, but we had a full team effort all the way through that helped us make up the ground.”

At the start of the meet, the women’s team (3-1) crushed the Golden Griffins (2-4), taking first and second in both the 400 medley relay and the 1,000 free. The 1,000 free was won by junior Kaitlyn Smolar, clocking in at a time of 10:49.77, over 12 seconds ahead of the next finisher, junior Kaitlyn McCarthy. Following the first two events, freshman Manuela Matkovic took nine points, finishing first in the 200 free with a time of 1:59.76.

This was followed by a win from freshman Audrey Pesek in the 100 backstroke (59.58) and the 200 backstroke (2:10.25).

Additional first-place finishes from freshman Meadow Perez in the 100 and 200 butterfly (1:00.52 and 2:12.49), senior Sydney Atendido in the 100 breaststroke (1:06.07), senior Olivia Santos in the 100

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miya carmichael staff photographer Sophomore middle blocker Tyra Wilson tallied four kills in Binghamton’s loss to New Hampshire on Friday night.

those. So, it was nice to see that.”

Following the tie, New Hampshire kicked into gear on both sides of the court, dominating their opponent. It took the visiting team 18 additional points to win the set, and during this time they held the Binghamton offense to just five.

The third and final set began much as the prior one had, with the Wildcats taking an early lead before Binghamton made an effort to come back. While BU was able to keep the score within two points early on, the New Hampshire offense began to pull away when it scored eight to BU’s one, expanding its early two-point edge to a nine-point margin. With the score now 1910, the Bearcats scored a quick four points, the last of which came via a kill from junior outside hitter Francela Ulate.

“Fran, she came on late in the match there,” Kiriyama said. “Had some nice swings in that third set.

We wished we could have gotten her a little bit more sets, but we just didn’t control the ball well enough on our side. That’s the major downfall of this match.”

The Bearcats’ offense

continued to go off, with the team finishing the set stronger.

It was, however, too little too late. While BU was able to finish strong, the deficit proved too much to overcome that late in the frame. New Hampshire ended up claiming its victory in this final set by a three-point margin.

“It’s just a lot of small things here and there,” Kiriyama said.

“Everything from communication to a little bit of ball control and being able to hit the spots and read the play a little bit better. Just a lot of small things.”

Ulate ended the night with nine kills. She was followed by freshman middle hitter Anna Sprys, who had five. Adams finished the match with four kills, eight digs and 20 assists.

With just two games remaining, the potential of a winless season is imminent for Binghamton. The team’s final matches of the season will take place next weekend at home against Albany and UMBC. The match against Albany will take place on Friday, Nov. 15. First serve is scheduled for 7 p.m. from the West Gym in Vestal, New York.

freestyle (54.61), senior Rebecca Nelson in the 100 individual medley (1:01.83), sophomore Kelli O’Shea in the 200 breaststroke (2:27.83) and the 400 medley relay team further widened the gap in favor of the Bearcats. In five of the women’s swimming events, all top-three spots were taken by Binghamton swimmers.

“It’s not just those that are winning the events that make a difference, but the athletes that are coming in second, third and fourth,” Cummiskey said.

The women’s diving team was unable to repeat its sweeping performance against Bucknell back in October, as Canisius took both the 1- and 3-meter events. Sophomore Amanda McGraw salvaged seven total points from both events, but the results from the Canisius divers did not make up the ground lost in the swimming events.

The Binghamton men’s swim team (2-1) didn’t have an easy go of it at first, struggling right out of the gate. The Canisius 400 medley relay team took 11 points in the opening event, finishing above the Bearcats, who managed second- and thirdplace finishes. Binghamton lost the next four events, with the streak being broken by senior Ross Bernstein in the 200 butterfly.

Bernstein clocked in at 1:55.31 with the men’s first win of the meet.

Freshman Justin Meyn won three events on the day, earning crucial points to make up ground against the Golden Griffins (4-2).

He took the 50 freestyle with a time of 21.82, 100 freestyle in 47.72 and the 100 individual medley in 53.53 for his fifth first-place finish of the season.

“It’s really about the team,” Meyn said. “We always push each other and we go up to each other before all of the different events, and the guys who are seeded lower we keep pushing to get them higher and higher … And that’s where our depth really comes into play.”

To add to the score, sophomore Brian Harding led a 16-point sweep in the 200 backstroke, finishing with a time of 2:00.18 and followed by two other Binghamton swimmers taking second and third.

The men’s diving team managed to deliver a comfortable result, with sophomore Chris Egan winning both the 1- and 3-meter dives with scores of 257.70 and 283.57, respectively.

“I think we’re in a good place, I like where we are,” Cummiskey said. “It’s November swimming so we’re beaten up, but we raced hard and we got a good group.”

Binghamton will next head to New Rochelle, New York to go up against Iona College at 1 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 16.

sidney slon assistant photo editor Freshman Meadow Perez won both the 100 (1:00.52) and 200 fly (2:12.49) in the Bearcats’ win against Canisius.