Battle of the Bands picks one to play at Spring Fling After defeating 8 other acts, Funkophiles set to open for Matt and Kim, see page 12
Thomas back on offensive swing
Coders converge at HackBU Programming lasts for 24 straight hours in University's first hackathon, see page 2
Junior left fielder acclimates to attention and finds success against pitchers, see page 20
PIPE DREAM Tuesday, April 29, 2014 | Binghamton University | www.bupipedream.com | Vol. LXXXV, Issue 23
Holocaust survivor shares experiences 75 volunteer to read names of victims for 25 hours of Holocaust remberance
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Rabbi Jacob Jungreis, a Holocaust survivor, lights one candle of 11 representing the 11 million lives lost during the Holocaust. He spoke about his own experiences during the Holocaust as a guest during Binghamton University’s observance of Yom HaShoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day.
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students, faculty, administrators and members of the local Jewish community in honor of Rabbi Jacob Jungreis, a Yom HaShoah, Holocaust and Hungarian Holocaust survivor, Heroism Remembrance Day. Jungreis described his spoke Sunday and Monday to News Editor
experiences as a Jew in Hungary in 1944, when he and his family had heard of the atrocities being committed against Jews elsewhere in Europe. According to Jungreis, his family housed
around 50 Jewish refugees a night in order to smuggle them into Yugoslavia, where they had the chance of getting out of Europe and surviving the war. Yet Jungreis said that he and his
family never believed the war would come to Hungary, the last country to be invaded by Germany. “We just couldn’t believe that this was going on,” he said. “Hungary and Germany were partners, we assumed it cannot possibly happen in Hungary. And it did. Exactly 70 years ago.” Jungreis addressed a nearly full Lecture Hall 14 Sunday night, and a smaller group Monday for a question-and-answer session. He told stories of his time in the ghetto when he was 11 years old, and then his deportation to Bergen-Belsen, where he stayed for seven months. Jungreis was a part of a group of 1,800 Jews who were not liberated from concentration camps, but ransomed. Rudolf Kastner, a Hungarian lawyer, negotiated the release of 1,800 Jews in exchange for $5 million. In the ghetto, Jungreis said that his father, the local rabbi, would receive fake letters from community members who had been kidnapped or deported. The letters, which the Nazis had forced them to write before they were murdered, were always cheerful and positive, saying that the victim would be home after he had learned how to work with
his hands. “They would take away somebody, deport somebody or kidnap somebody before the official deportations started. We had no idea what happened to the people in our city, they were taking people every day,” he said. Jungreis comes from a family of rabbis. He said that the trauma of his situation made him not think about faith explicitly during his time in the concentration camp or ghetto, but it still stayed with him. “We did not think that we would survive, it’s like a shock, we were dumbfounded. We were absolutely certain that we are not getting out alive, however, we did practice our religion.” The Nazis woke the concentration camp up at 5 a.m. and kept them outside until 8 a.m. Jungreis said shacharit — Jewish daily morning prayers — each day as the Nazis counted him and his comrades. “We never abandoned God, and in the end, God did not abandon us either,” he said. Jungreis spoke a lot about his passionate love for the state of Israel. He said that if someone had told him in Bergen-Belsen
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BU professor gives Mayor of Binghamton talks networking speech of lifetime Rich David David Archer treats class as if it were his last one Brendan Zarkower Pipe Dream News
If you were given the opportunity to give a lecture to students about anything, what would you say? Binghamton University professor David Archer posed this question on Monday night as part of the annual “Last Lecture” speaker series. The “Last Lecture” is a tradition inspired by Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University. Pausch was diagnosed
with pancreatic cancer at age 45 and was told he only had a few months of good health left. He delivered a final speech entitled “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams,” which went viral on the Internet and sparked a movement where professors are invited to give a speech as if it were to be their “last lecture.” Archer, an education professor, focused the talk on his life and experiences as a basketball coach, his work as a teacher and a professor and his years as mayor of Endicott from 1992 to 1999. He
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visits campus, offers career advice Tania Rahman
Contributing Writer
Addressing a group of Binghamton University students, Binghamton Mayor Rich David relayed stories of his path to success by way of networking on Monday. After studying
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Binghamton Mayor Rich David reflects on his past and shares career advice with students. David spoke on Monday in Lehman Hall in Hinman College, stressing the importance of networking and internships in facilitating a successful career path.
Israeli journalist shares inside perspective Gil Hoffman discusses international relations, conflicts
Davina Bhandari
Assistant News Editor
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David Archer, professor of education, delivers a speech Monday in the Anderson Center, chronicling his background as a a basketball coach, teacher and mayor of Endicott. The presentation was part of the “Last Lecture” series, an annual tradition in which speakers share life lessons and advice with the audience.
Introducing himself as a lecturer who prefers to discuss the positives rather than the negatives, chief political correspondent and analyst for The Jerusalem Post Gil Hoffman discussed the relationship between the U.S. and Israel as well as the ongoing peace talks between the Israeli government and Palestinian leadership. During Monday night’s talk titled “Red States, Blue States
and the Jewish State: An Insider’s Perspective from Jerusalem on Netanyahu and Obama,” Hoffman addressed both positive and negative developments going on in Israel. Hoffman currently resides in Jerusalem with his wife and two children. Hoffman discussed a wide range of issues affecting Israel at the moment, both internationally and internally, which included tensions in the Middle East, the IsraeliPalestinian conflict and relations with the United States.
“Being Israeli is about hoping for the best and preparing for the worst,” Hoffman said. “And that’s why Israel has to be getting ready just in case in both offense and defense.” He began with his concern regarding Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons, saying that he believed the world has not imposed serious enough measures on Iran, which left Israel in danger. “The warheads have become a lot more advanced and a lot more dangerous, so they’ve gone up both
in quality and quantity,” Hoffman said. “In Israel they’re very worried about Iran.” Also of concern in the Middle East, according to Hoffman, is the war in Syria between government and revolutionaries, where Israel has sent many soldiers. Hoffman discussed the Gaza Strip and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and its resulting attacks on Israel. According to Hoffman, the attacks are happening in three
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