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PIPE DREAM Tuesday, February 5, 2013 | Binghamton University | www.bupipedream.com | Vol. LXXXIII, Issue 3
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Scoreboard’s liquor license was revoked late Thursday evening.
Lights out for Scoreboard that the actions taken against the bar were racially motivated and unjust. Scoreboard’s license was Scoreboard is closing its doors revoked late Thursday evening, for good, after its liquor license was according to the Press & Sunrevoked following serious liquor Bulletin, following the bar owner’s violations, but the owners are not plea of “no contest” to a charge going quietly, as statuses posted that 14 minors were found in the on the bar’s Facebook page allege bar in early May.
“The establishment has been a continued problem over the past several months,” Binghamton Police Chief Joseph Zikuski told Press & Sun. But on Friday, the Scoreboard Facebook page posted a status claiming the decision to close Scoreboard was racially motivated, citing New York State
Liquor Authority violations by the Rathskeller Pub and Uncle Tony’s, who continue to operate on State Street, to show Scoreboard was treated unfairly. “As our neighbors all around get away with serving minors we got persecuted despite the
Born 10 pounds 3 ounces, Jerry Yang has always been a big guy, but after his freshmen year, the 6-foot-3-inch 200-plus pound standout found a hobby that could allow him to realize his potential: competitive eating. Yang’s first taste of competition was at the 2011 Mutant Mania eating contest in the Dickinson Community. As a first-timer, Yang plowed his way through a carb-heavy menu that included cold egg noodles, bran muffins and biscotti to win the first-place title in just over six minutes. Since then, Yang, now a junior majoring in accounting, has competed in a number of eating contests including CommuniKey’s garbage plate eating contest at Binghamton Hots, a wing-eating contest hosted by Dickinson Town Council and a hot dog eating contest, which remains the only competition to date in which Yang has not been victorious. Competitive eating for Yang comes with little preparation. “The day before an eating
competition, I’ll try to eat a lot of lettuce to stretch out my stomach,” Yang said. Though he turns to the Travel Channel’s “Man v. Food” and the Food Network for inspiration, Yang said his reasons for getting into competitive eating elude even him. “I don’t know what drives me to do this stuff,” Yang said. “My mom, she sees me do these things and she’s like ‘What’s wrong with you?’” Yang, a resident assistant in Dickinson Community, said he always has to add money to his meal plan account throughout the semester, usually totaling about $1,400 by the semester’s end. “And then I’ll go to Walmart and buy chicken and stuff to cook on the side, too,” Yang said. “So I’ll go through enough food to feed a whole year of someone else in a semester.” Yang’s superfluous intake of food doesn’t stop at the end of each competition. “I eat about five to six meals a day,” Yang said. “Each meal could probably feed a person for the whole day.”
Kadish bids BU a warm farewell
After a 50-year career as a professor at Binghamton University — spanning back to when the school was still called Harpur College — history professor Gerald Kadish is set to retire at the conclusion of the semester. Kadish’s office reflects his long career, decorated with replica swords and sarcophagus-themed trinkets, and filled with history books covering every part of the room — lining the walls and even blocking the windows. After his retirement, Kadish will be given a one-year grace period to keep his office and eventually face the challenge of cleaning out his
library and the collection he has compiled through many years and several positions at BU. “I was chairman of the history department, once for three years and once for one year. I was chair of classics for five years, and I’ve chaired a number of major committees on campus.” Kadish said. “I’m also a procrastinator of all sorts.” Despite his self-proclaimed dawdling, Kadish has accomplished many things during his time at BU. In his 50 years, Kadish studied five different languages, taught a medley of courses and published a variety of papers, with an interest in future publications. “I’ve taught all of the ancient histories: I’ve taught Greek and Roman history and other related
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Gerald Kadish, a history professor, plans to end his 50-year career at Binghamton University at the end of the spring 2013 semester. Over the years Kadish has seen class sizes grow and traditions like “stepping on the coat” die.
subjects, ancient Mesopotamia and things of that nature, and then Egypt is my primary field of interest,” Kadish said. Interestingly enough, Kadish’s lengthy stay at BU was never part of the plan. “I remember vividly that when my ex-wife and I came into Binghamton on Labor Day 1963 from Chicago, we looked around and said ‘two years, three years, five years tops,’” Kadish said. “She’s gone but I’m still here!” Over the years, professor Kadish gained the respect of many of his colleagues and fellow faculty members. “When you go and talk to alumni, you go and talk to donors, one of the people that’s frequently mentioned by them as someone who was very influential is Gerry Kadish,” said Donald Nieman, provost and vice president for academic affairs. “Gerry is enormously respected by faculty on the campus. They recognize him as someone who is a person of complete integrity, who is devoted to the highest quality undergraduate education and who has a wonderful sense of humor. He’s fun to talk to and has vast knowledge, so he’s the colleague that everyone likes.” Nieman remembers Kadish as the very first person to greet his wife, professor Leigh Ann Wheeler, when she came to BU to
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Shannon Miller, the most decorated American gymnast of all time, and members of the local and Binghamton University communities line up at the start of Walk for the Health of It. Monday’s event, sponsored by Sodexo, UHS and the athletics department, was held to promote a healthy lifestyle.
community. Robert Griffin, district marketing manager for Sodexo, said that walking is an important Students, staff, community part of a maintaining health and members and even an Olympic well being. gold medalist gathered in the “One of the things that we’ve Event Center Tuesday night to been working with, with UHS promote a healthy lifestyle. Hospitals, Broome County Health “Walk for the Health of it,” a Department and some other program sponsored by Sodexo, agencies, is trying to reinvigorate UHS and the athletics department, the BC Walks program, which featured an appearance by the was for seven or eight years, a most decorated American gymnast pretty active walking initiative of all time, Shannon Miller, in in the community, and I don’t order to advocate for healthier want to say that it fell apart, but lifestyles on campus and in the it wasn’t as maintained as we
hoped it would be,” Griffin said. “So, we’ve been working with them to try and reinvigorate it and our hope was to be able to, along with Shannon Miller, who is a big advocate of walking programs, to create a kick-off if you will, for this reinvigorated BC Walks program.” Students in attendance could register for BC Walks and receive a free pedometer, along with some free samples of healthy Sodexo snacks like peanut energy bars and walnut cranberry quinoa salad. Children from around the