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How to Dress Well will play at Moefest '15 WHRW music festival won't have any food from Moe's this year Jacob Shamsian Release Editor

Michael Contegni/Pipe Dream Staff Photographer, Raquel Panitz/Pipe Dream Photographer, Franz Lino/Photo Editor

Saturday’s Spring Fling festival featured a sprawling carnival on the Peace Quad and a concert with four different artists, including one student band. Students saw Bad Rabbits, Sage the Gemini and The White Panda perform in front of Glenn G. Bartle Library.

Musicians sing, students swing, at Bing Spring Fling Sage the Gemini, The White Panda and Bad Rabbits perform at evening concert on Harpur Quad Jacob Shamsian Release Editor

Saturday’s Spring Fling concert followed the recent trend of hosting wildly different types of musicians. This year, students got the chance to dance to a funk-rock band, a rapper and a mash-up duo.

The concert had no primary headliner, but Sage the Gemini was the biggest name to perform, with his singles “Gas Pedal” and “Red Nose.” In the middle of his set, Gemini

took a break and walked off the stage for a few minutes, leaving the audience restless and listening to hits by other artists, like “CoCo” and “Shots.”

“We were having the most technical difficulties during his set,” said Stephanie Zagreda, Student Association vice president for programming and a senior majoring in English. “He wanted to stop for a minute to see if we could fix the issues that were happening.”

But Sage and his DJ handled the night’s

technical difficulties graciously, apologizing to the audience for the delays and trying to keep them entertained in the interim.

After the break, he reprised “Gas Pedal,” and audience members responded well to the familiar tune.

The White Panda followed Gemini, and played mash-ups with songs ranging from Capital Cities’ “Safe and Sound” to Tove Lo’s “Habits (Stay High).”

Bad Rabbits, playing before Gemini, played energetic rock songs, livening up the

crowd with “Take it Off” and “Fall in Love.”

Both Bad Rabbits and The White Panda played an extra 10 minutes each for their sets.

“They were having a good time, they saw the crowd was having a good time, and they decided to keep going for as long as they could,” Zagreda said.

Prime Ordeal, a 10-piece student band, opened the concert at 7:30 p.m. after

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Ph. D candidate looks across globe to break down science of breaking up Craig Eric Morris examines reasons behind physical and emotional side effects of ending relationships Stacey Schimmel Staff Writer

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Over 200 students gather in front of the University Union clock tower for a vigil for the 8.1 million people impacted by the April 25 earthquake in Nepal. Organized by Zainul Lughmani, a member of Sigma Beta Rho and a sophomore majoring in economics, the vigil helped raise over $800.

Student groups hold candlelight vigil to aid victims of earthquake in Nepal Raising over $800 during past week, student groups look to aid those displaced with candlelight memorial Alana Epstein Staff Writer

More than 200 students gathered at the University Union clock tower Monday evening to support the 8.1 million people in Nepal who were impacted by the April 25 earthquake.

At the candlelight vigil, Hillel at Binghamton’s Rabbi Akiva Weiss and Binghamton University professor Tara Dhakal addressed the crowd, and a moment of silence followed.

According to student organizer Zainul Lughmani, a member of Sigma Beta Rho and a sophomore majoring in economics, the goal was to join the community together while bringing attention to the natural disaster.

“Just because this didn’t occur in our local community doesn’t mean anything,” Lughmani said. “One day we’re going to need help, so by reaching out now we’re creating a connection. Our organization really believes that we’re nothing without our community.”

Dhakal, a Nepal native and professor of electrical and computer engineering, stressed the importance of reflecting on the events that occurred and helping those hurt by donating money.

“We are busy in our daily lives, so this event makes us think about the people who are suffering,” he said. “It helps to reflect and realize that we’re all interconnected and need to help one another. Once people are aware, they do what they can to help.”

Students from the Alpha Delta Phi

Society created a Himalayan prayer flag, a tradition in the region to honor the dead, which was hung across the Spine to remember the lives lost in the earthquake.

According to Weiss, the Nepalese government is struggling to provide for the 400,000 displaced people.

“The government in Nepal is doing the best they can,” Weiss said. “So far they’ve only supplied 29,000 tents. That’s only twice the number of students we have at Binghamton. Hospitals are overflowing, and water is becoming scarce. The people of Nepal are in desperate need.”

Sigma Beta Rho collected money at the event, as well as at Spring Fling. They have raised just over $800 for the effort, nearly doubling their goal of $420. According to Lughmani, $420 will provide a year’s worth of supplies for a struggling village in Nepal.

Melissa Levin, a senior majoring in mathematics, said that events like these show students that no matter how far away Nepal is, coming together can make an impact.

“It can be really isolating because the event happened so far away,” Levin said.

“Even though it feels like one person can’t make a difference, when people come together they can really make something meaningful.”

The vigil attracted a diverse group of students from a wide variety of organizations, including the Alpha Delta Phi Society, Kappa Phi Lambda, MALIK, Lambda Phi Epsilon, Sigma Omicron Pi, Delta Epsilon Psi, Indian International

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Breakups are not fun, as anyone who has experienced them knows. Craig Eric Morris wanted to figure out why.

Over 120 students filled Academic Building A on Monday night to hear the doctoral candidate in anthropology talk about how people react to breakups and the sources of these responses.

Morris surveyed 5,705 individuals from 96 countries. Half of the participants were from the U.S., 10 percent were from the U.K. and the others were scattered internationally.

He sent out his survey to chairs of 400 different anthropology departments around the world, in addition to using social media forums such as Facebook and Reddit.

The study surveyed men and women 18 years and older, with most of the respondents between the ages of 20 and 40.

Only 38 percent of those who responded were undergraduate or graduate students.

The survey included questions about how many breakups participants have had,

how long relationships typically lasted and whether age influenced the effect they had on people.

He found that thousands of respondents never had a breakup and about a dozen had only one. The average number of breakups for both men and women was 3.5 by age 30, and 25 percent of all relationships lasted a year or less.

Morris’ research found that 85 percent of individuals will have at least one breakup in their lifetime that affects them seriously.

People can experience physical effects, such as weight gain, and emotional effects, such as anxiety.

He explained that since women have a limited amount of reproductive material, they behave in a certain way that is more selective and protective when choosing a mate. Men have unlimited reproductive material and theoretically an unlimited reproductive lifespan, so they may be less choosy.

“Reproduction, romance, love,” Morris

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Leave your fedora at home, because How to Dress Well will headline this year’s Moefest on Friday, May 8.

Now in its fifth year, Moefest is WHRW 90.5 FM’s biggest annual event. The free music festival will be held on the Peace Quad starting at noon. How to Dress Well — the stage name for Chicago-based artist Tom Krell and his band — will play at 8 p.m.

Krell is known for his ambient electronic, pop and R&B music, as well as for publishing free mixtapes on SoundCloud. Since 2010, he has released three albums and one EP, each to critical acclaim. Pitchfork called his most recent album — 2014’s “What Is This Heart?” — “a pop album of the highest caliber.”

Jizzy Fra — otherwise known as Jared Frazer, a senior majoring in English — will open for Krell by playing his trippy remixes as part of his DJ set. Prime Ordeal, the 10-piece student funk band that opened the Spring Fling concert, will play before him, along with several other student and local musicians, including a freestyle group.

In the past couple of years, Moefest has been held on the Newing College and Hinman College quads, but this year it will be in the middle of campus, on the Peace Quad.

“It’ll attract a wider audience and get people who aren’t just involved in the station,” said Carly Klein, WHRW promotions director and a sophomore majoring in English. “People who aren’t part of WHRW will get to be part of the concert, just like Spring Fling.”

The Binghamton Food Co-Op and the Student Association Programming Board will provide snacks on the Peace Quad, but there will be no food from Moe’s this year. Daniel Kadyrov, WHRW’s general manager and a senior majoring in mechanical engineering, said that Moefest actually has no connection with the TexMex restaurant, but is named after the station’s mascot.

“Moe Lucamp is the spirit of the station from the 1980s,” Kadyrov said.

“In the 1970s, there was graffiti written on some part of campus saying ‘Mo Loogham is coming!,’ but he was actually a drug dealer from the 1970s from Long Island. So obviously the station would be obsessed with a drug dealer from the 1970s as their prophet.”

WHRW will provide giveaways, and throughout the day attendees will be able to paint a banner hung outside, which will then be placed in the WHRW office in the New University Union basement for the following year.

Campus protesters demand justice for Freddie Gray Demonstrators rally for change in light of recent incident of police brutality Pelle Waldron

Pipe Dream News On April 12, Baltimore resident Freddie Gray died while in police custody, setting off weeks of protesting in the area and across the country. On May 1, dozens of students at Binghamton University gathered to rally for the people of Baltimore.

Organized by Students for Change (SFC), the march around campus was open to all students and was designed as a response to recent accusations of police brutality.

According to Epiphany Munoz, a member of SFC and a sophomore doublemajoring in sociology and Latin American and Caribbean Area studies, the protest was about more than just Freddie Gray.

“We felt it’s our obligation to show solidarity,” Munoz said. “The people in Baltimore have been being oppressed for decades; what we are seeing right now on the media is just a result of that oppression.”

Students gathered in front of the Old University Union at noon, and walked across the Spine and through the Marketplace.

Throughout the march, people shouted

chants, including “All night and all day, we do this for Freddie Gray” and “Resistance is justified when people are occupied.”

The demonstration concluded in the Tillman Lobby after about 20 minutes of marching, where the protesters performed a “die-in.” They laid on the floor for four minutes and 32 seconds to represent the amount of time, in hours, that Michael Brown — the victim of another highprofile shooting — was left on the ground in Ferguson, Missouri before paramedics arrived.

Jermel McClure, a member of the Binghamton Speech and Debate Team and a freshman majoring in political science, said that the demonstration helped inform members of campus about the full story in Baltimore.

“The importance of doing it here is making sure everyone is aware of what’s happening,” McClure said. “Making sure everyone knows that although the media is often showing the negative images of rioting and looting, there are people who are doing this for positive reasons.”

Conversely, Ayal Goldberg, a junior majoring in psychology, was studying in

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Toivo Asheeke, a third-year doctoral candidate studying sociology, and Tiana Camacho, a junior majoring in theater, rally for the people of Baltimore. Organized by Students for Change (SFC), the march around campus was open to all students and was designed as a response to recent accusations of police brutality.

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Despite technical difficulties, concert successfully hosts eclectic artists Vigil raises $800 FLING continued from Page 1 for earthquake That one change winning the Battle of the Bands relief in Nepal contest hosted by Late Nite for had us on our toes, the past few weeks. With a singer, three guitarists, a drummer, a brass section and an excellent keyboardist, they played a mixture of covers — “Valerie” by Amy Winehouse and “Da Ya Think I’m Sexy?” by Rod Stewart — and original songs.

The concert was held in front of the Science Library, where the Harpur Quad fountain stood as the centerpiece of this year’s crowd.

Permission to use this area for the stage, which was initially ruled out, was secured just two weeks before and had to be built while Zagreda readjusted the layout of the festival.

“That one change had us on our toes, but it ended up working out very quickly, and it ended up working well,” Zagreda said.

“Although we had that huge change happening very last minute, it did end up working out for the better.”

In recent years, the Student Association Programming Board (SAPB) hosted the concert in the grassy area in front of the Student Wing, nestled between the Lecture Hall and Academic Buildings.

Franz Lino/Photo Editor However, it was forced to change location because of construction Sage the Gemini, one of the four artists featured in the Spring Fling concert, performs on stage in front of the Harpur Quad fountain. This year, students got the chance to see a student band, a funk-rock band, a rapper and a mash-up duo. in those areas. Originally, the two

but it ended up working out very quickly — Stephanie Zagreda Student Association Vice President for Programming

candidates for the concert location were either in front of the Old University Union by the bus stop, or on the Peace Quad. The SAPB ruled out the Peace Quad because, for technical reasons, the Spring Fling carnival rides needed to be set up in that area, and because the SAPB didn’t want the concert to interfere with “Tartuffe,” the theater department play held in the nearby Watters Theater in Fine Arts.

While there was no epic, rainsoaked finale this year, students still took full advantage of the free show, as the night ended with the fountain clear of people, but littered with the remnants of a good time.

NEPAL continued from Page 1 Student Union, Asian Student Union, Philippine American League, Peace Action, Hillel at Binghamton, Taiwanese American Student Coalition and the Hindu Student Council.

“The true diversity on Binghamton’s campus was evident today,” Lughmani said. “No matter what groups students came from they came together for a peace offering for Nepal. I can’t express enough gratitude to everyone who came out. This just exemplified the generosity of Binghamton University students.”

We're all interconnected and need to help one another Tara Dhakal BU Professor

Graduate student tracks global breakup trends After Baltimore, students march for reform END continued from Page 1

for 50 percent of breakups, and many respondents did not believe said. “All these things are generated it was due to distance or actions of by our biological need to ‘get it on’ others. and make copies of ourselves.”

He also detailed the “silver Part of Morris’ studies focused lining for women,” which refers on Post Relationship Grief to the post-breakup reflection (PRG), which is a complex web of where many report learning about emotional and physical responses themselves and their relationship associated with the termination of a preferences. Thirty percent of romantic relationship, colloquially women confirmed this to be true. known as heartbreak.

“Most women, most of the time, “One thing I found amazing is become introspective, go through whether your breakup happened a lot of physical and emotional a week ago or 40 years ago, you pain … and move on,” Morris said. report your reactions exactly the “Most men report anger, violence, same,” he said. profanity, alcoholism lasting Physical after-effects, like weight eight to nine months and other loss or gain, are higher in women. dangerous behavior.”

Lack of communication accounts Joseline Cruz, a senior majoring

in biology, said women are perceived as being “broken” after breakups, but that is not always actually the case.

“This talk looked at breakups as a positive thing, meaning women come out stronger,” Cruz said.

“Obviously you don’t tend to think of it that way so it’s a pretty novel idea.”

Morris said his main message was that honesty is the way to make a relationship work.

“Be honest about what you want, what you don’t want, what they’re doing that’s bothering you,” Morris said. “All those things, infidelity, this, that, it’s lack of communication.”

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“Had I not known what was going on in Baltimore I would have the Marketplace when protesters no idea what they were protesting came through. Although she said just because of the nature of their she supported their cause, she chants and the words they were argued that their means were saying,” Goldberg said. “But I think confusing. there are things that need to be fixed and they have every right to draw attention to them.”

The chants were led by Toivo Asheeke, a third-year doctoral candidate studying sociology. He said that protests encouraged bystanders to start thinking about these issues.

“We’re so flooded with so much — Epiphany Munoz BU Sophomore stuff that we don’t want to pay attention to; so many things that are negative or ‘bring us down,’ or that people don’t want to actually

It's our obligation to show solidarity

engage in,” Asheeke said. “Whether it’s rape culture on campus, whether it’s black people getting shot down by police, this kind of forces people to at least interrogate it and to engage it in a way that’s maybe not comfortable for them.”

For many of the protesters, this march was an opportunity to raise awareness about an issue that they said everyone should be involved in.

“This is not a Binghamton problem, this is not a white versus black problem,” McClure said.

“This is just a national day of solidarity where we’re standing in support of Baltimore and in honor of Freddie Gray, the man who lost his life.”

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Thirty-five-year-old Mitchel Quail of Richfield was racing close behind in his 1997 Toyota Camry and was unable to avoid a collision Sunday afternoon. Smith suffered a head injury when the vehicles collided. He was transported to Wilson Memorial Hospital, where he died. An autopsy is pending and state police are still investigating.

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Get A Load of This Guy THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 10:12 p.m. — A 19-year-old female believes that an unknown male entered her room in O’Connor Hall in Dickinson Community, said Investigator Patrick Reilly of Binghamton’s New York State University Police. A resident of the room lost her ID a few days prior so the victim decided to keep the door ajar so the resident could get in. The victim left the room and kept the door ajar for a night and returned in the morning. When the victim arrived, she did not notice anything missing. Later in the day, the victim took a mug and filled it with water. She drank from it and noticed that it tasted strange. When she looked inside, she saw several off-white chunks floating in the water. The victim smelled the water and determined that the cup contained semen. The victim promptly vomited the substance and a few days later contacted UPD. The victim believes that someone came into the room overnight and ejaculated into her mug. Investigation revealed that no one entered the room at this time. The victim was told to contact UPD if any new information comes up.

tracked down the suspects and arrived at their flat. A 19-year-old male answered and told the officers that he took the pylons but dropped them down before he got back to his room. The suspect was charged with petit larceny and was given an appearance ticket returnable to Vestal Town Court.

Slippery Situation SATURDAY, MAY 2, 6:30 p.m. — Officers patrolling Spring Fling noticed people sliding on the fountain outside of the Library Tower, Reilly said. The suspects were told to get out of the fountain. While interviewing a 22-year-old male suspect, the officers noticed that he was bleeding from his left foot.

Harpur’s Ferry was called and they treated the suspect. The blood was cleaned from the scene. As a courtesy, an officer drove the suspect to the UHS walk-in clinic to get his wound checked out.

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Once a film student, now living the dream life Photo from Binghamton University 1970 yearbook, provided by Special Collections at Glenn G. Bartle Library.

J. Hoberman, ‘71, stands on the far left. At BU, he studied cinema under renowned experimental film director Ken Jacobs. Later, he became an acclaimed film critic, writing for The Village Voice for nearly 30 years.

At Harpur College, J. Hoberman found the education that made him a world-renown film critic and professor Jacob Shamsian | Release Editor When J. Hoberman wanted to go to the 1968 New York Film Festival (NYFF), he realized that the best way was to go as a magazine writer.

The only trouble was, he wasn’t a magazine writer; he was just a junior at Harpur College.

But that didn’t stop him.

Hoberman told the festival that he was a writer for “‘Harpur Film Journal’ or some such,” as he recalled years later. And to his surprise, the ruse worked and the festival gave him press credentials.

“I cut all my classes for the first several weeks, because the festival was in September,” Hoberman said. “I was at the film festival every day.” He ended up writing a 10-page report, which he distributed to the Harpur Film Society.

In its own weird way, that document began Hoberman’s path to becoming the most influential film critic alive.

In addition to his 11 books, he wrote film criticism for The Village Voice for nearly 30 years, and now frequently writes about movies for the New York Times, Artforum, The Nation, Tablet and The New York Review of Books. He’s taught film at Harvard, New York University and Cooper Union. In a list of the best movie critics of all time, Complex listed him at number five, writing, “Simply put, there’s no greater living film essayist than James Lewis Hoberman.”

But before all that, Hoberman got his film education at Binghamton University. He arrived in the fall of 1966, chasing a high school girlfriend, and began as an English major, but switched to cinema under the sway of Larry Gottheim and Ken Jacobs.

Before founding the cinema department in 1970, Gottheim taught cinema courses through the English department and was also the faculty adviser to the Harpur Film Society. (Hoberman never actually took a class with Gottheim.)

In 1969, Gottheim brought Ken Jacobs to BU to give guest seminars for a week, and he was so popular that students petitioned to hire him as a professor. The administration relented — despite Jacobs’ lack of a high school diploma — and he began teaching in the fall.

“I took all my remaining courses

Jacobs’ views on cinema changed the way Hoberman saw film

with him,” Hoberman said, and switched his major from English to cinema.

Today’s cinema department continues Jacobs’ tradition of nonnarrative cinema. He’s arguably the most acclaimed experimental filmmaker alive. The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), which has hosted several retrospectives of his work, describes his work as “the aesthetic, social, and physical critique of projected images.”

Jacobs appointed Hoberman as his projectionist. At the time, the professor was known for “Tom, Tom, the Piper’s Son,” made in 1969. Still considered a landmark work of experimental cinema (it was admitted to the National Film Registry in 2007), it’s an examination of a piece of footage he found from 1905, refilmed and recontextualized into a featurelength movie.

“What he did was he ran it backwards, he focused in on certain details,” Hoberman said. “He performs all these exercises on the film. So being his projectionist was very stressful.”

Jacobs’ views on cinema changed the way Hoberman saw film.

Movies weren’t just self-contained stories made of light and shot on celluloid — they were objects, artifacts and social constructs that told something about the world from which they were made. By examining a film, one examines the series of events and situations that led to its creation. In a New York Times essay about Jacobs on the occasion of his 80th birthday, Hoberman wrote, “I had never encountered a teacher who could talk so passionately about art, spontaneously integrating political views and childhood recollections.”

In the classroom, Jacobs emphasized avant-garde films (“We took them apart, like you might take apart a watch,” Hoberman said), studying Griffith, the Soviet directors and films rented from MoMA. But he also screened Hollywood talkies from the ‘30s and ‘40s, old Yiddish films and talked about movies playing in theaters at the time.

Growing up in Queens, Hoberman always thought he was destined for Queens College. But in his senior year of high school, the opportunity to go to BU presented itself. In 1966, the Regents Exam doubled as an admissions exam to the state university.

“If you got above a certain mark on the Regents, you were not only admitted, but you got a scholarship,” Hoberman said. “It was a fantastic deal. I paid more for day care for my kids than I paid for my entire college education.”

At first, Hoberman lived in Broome Hall in Newing College, but found off campus cheaper.

“I lived on campus for not even a full semester,” Hoberman said.

“I knew some people who were

upperclassmen, and they needed a roommate, and I just got permission to move off campus.” Like many students, he lived “in various sketchy parts” of Binghamton, but moved to the West Side, which “was kind of nice.”

A year before Hoberman enrolled at Harpur College, a young Art Spiegelman did. The two met on campus and struck up a friendship, one that lasts to this day. Young Spiegelman was also a disciple of Jacobs’; he left Harpur College in 1968, but stayed in the Binghamton area and continued going to his classes.

“In those days, any college town would be full of people who would drop out and stayed around, or other people who just sort of gravitated there,” Hoberman said.

“He had a very well-developed sense of aesthetic as it related to comics, which was translatable to film.”

When Hoberman first visited Binghamton, he wasn’t too enthusiastic about it. He credits Binghamton’s drug use to the depressed atmosphere.

“You had all these kids from New York and the suburbs who just sat down in what, to them, was the middle of no place, with no parents,” he said. “It just seemed like a backwater to me, and sort of exotic for that.”

And indeed, drugs were on everyone’s mind. This was the late ‘60s, and hostility between students and the local Binghamton area ran high. Hoberman said there were very well-publicized drug busts of students. But even with that, he was surprised there weren’t more arrests.

“Drugs were so prevalent on campus, and one of the weird theories was that the reason they were not cracking down harder is that [New York Gov. Nelson] Rockefeller wanted it to be eventually named Rockefeller University,” Hoberman said. “It was a very interesting time. And classes were by no means the most interesting thing going on.”

In 2013, Hoberman published an essay titled “The Cineaste’s Guide to Watching Movies While Stoned” in The Nation. “I’ve heard that the French call one’s late teens and early 20s the ‘age of moviegoing,’” Hoberman wrote. “It certainly was mine; it was also, for me, the age of smoking pot — and for a period of seven or eight years, the two activities were not unrelated.” But in class and at Harpur Film Society screenings, Hoberman remained sober. He said Jacobs thought drugs were unnecessary while watching trippy films anyway.

In line with Binghamton’s drug culture, The Colonial News changed its name to Pipe Dream at the beginning of the 1970 fall semester.

“It was clearly a reference to smoking pot,” Hoberman said. “The Colonial News was a terrible name.

Everybody could agree that that

was horrible. And of course, in the ’60s, even worse. Like, what are we, colonized people?”

But as the legend goes, Pipe Dream got its name not from pot, but from a quote in Eugene O’Neill’s “The Iceman Cometh”: “To hell with the truth! As the history of the world proves, the truth has no bearing on anything. It’s irrelevant and immaterial, as the lawyers say. The lie of a pipe dream is what gives life to the whole misbegotten mad lot of us, drunk or sober.” Hoberman quickly shot that theory down.

“I’m sure that was brought up,” he said. “Even that would be crazy, because Pipe Dream is used in a completely negative sense in ‘The Iceman Cometh.’ Some literary purveyor or theater person probably just threw that out there.”

(Hoberman himself didn’t write for Pipe Dream, but he does remember Tony Kornheiser being “the big writer” on campus.)

Hoberman graduated in 1971 after finishing his thesis film — now housed in the Anthology Film Archives in New York City — for the cinema major and made his way back to the city. Career-wise, he was directionless, living a “bohemian life” in the East Village.

“I drove a cab, I took other jobs like that,” Hoberman said. “I was interested in a fringe theater, this sort of underground theater.”

Hoberman ended up working for the New York City Board of Water Supply for several years, but was laid off when the city neared bankruptcy.

He was eligible for unemployment insurance, and floated by on it for a while freelancing for a few zines and alternative papers — Idiolex, High Times, Crawdaddy — as well as the occasional piece in The Village Voice. He adopted the byline “J. Hoberman,” deciding that Jim was too informal and James too stuffy.

In the “mid-to-late ‘70s,” Hoberman

enrolled at Columbia University for an MFA program for cinema, where he made several more films and continued his freelance work.

At the time, Hoberman was deeply involved in New York City’s underground film scene. Vincent Grenier, a Binghamton University cinema professor, moved to New York from San Francisco in the mid-1970s to join the burgeoning avant-garde community.

An important part of that community was a group called The Collective for Living Cinema, which also included now-well-known intellectuals and filmmakers like Judith Shulevitz, John Sloss and Bob Schneider.

“There was one aspect of it which was a little startling,” Grenier said.

“It seems that everybody involved in the organization came from Binghamton.”

Grenier quickly recognized that many of those people were Jacobs’ former students, and found Hoberman — as well as Spiegelman — in the scene. At that time, Hoberman was regularly writing about it, and even reviewed some of Grenier’s own films in the Voice.

The Voice hired Hoberman as a full-time film critic in 1983, and he succeeded the legendary Andrew Sarris as the senior critic in 1988.

He worked there until 2012, when the paper laid him off.

In those 29 years, Hoberman wrote an astounding body of work.

In addition to his regular film criticism, he wrote nine books, including “Vulgar Modernism: Writing on Film and Other Media,” a canonical volume of film criticism; “Bridge of Light: Yiddish Film Between Two Worlds,” inspired by the Yiddish cinema screened for him in Ken Jacobs’ classes; and “Film After Film: (Or, What Became of 21st Century Cinema?),” one of the most important works about cinema in the digital age.

He’s also taught, starting at New York University in the mid-1980s and teaching the history of cinema regularly at Cooper Union since 1990, and spoke at BU in the early ‘90s, giving a talk based on “Bridge of Light.”

Like Manny Farber, the film critic who influenced him most, Hoberman writes about complex ideas in a clear and lively way, championing experimental alongside narrative cinema. Farber wrote for Artforum while Hoberman was at BU, and Hoberman picked up on his tendency to neither trash popular movies for being trash nor write esoterically about esoteric films. With every movie he writes about, he brings a rich body of knowledge about film history with him, with a mastery of each director’s oeuvre and where each movie is placed within it.

On campus, he recalls being influenced by some of the ideas that Camille Paglia — the professor, social critic and contemporary of Hoberman at BU — later wrote about on myths and sexual identity.

He also remembers being inspired

by Spiegelman at Binghamton, even at such a young age.

Shortly before the 2014 NYFF, the magazine Film Comment published Hoberman’s report on the 1968 one. Hoberman ended up using the same trick three times in the next few years without any trouble, and the festival’s lax press standards provided at least one other avenue for great cultural journalism: Andy Warhol began Interview magazine to get press credentials to the NYFF. Introducing his report, Hoberman reflected on his time as a critic. “For most of the many years I spent at The Village Voice I imagined that my ideal reader was the teenaged Me,” he wrote. “This passionate if puerile moviegoer is that guy.”

Photo from Binghamton University 1970 yearbook, provided by Special Collections at Glenn G. Bartle Library.

J. Hoberman, ‘71, in glasses, and on the right, receiving a high five from a fellow student.

April 17, 2015 | bupipedream.com

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RELEASE

Phase 2 is complete, but 'Avengers' sequel isn't too marvellous What 'Age of Ultron' means for 'Black Panther,' 'Infinity War' and the rest of the Marvel Cinematic Universe James Sereno | Staff Writer This past weekend marked the release of Marvel Studios’ “Avengers: Age of Ultron.”

With the record-breaking film ($191.3 million this weekend in the US alone, second only to “The Avengers”), the studio has completed “Phase Two” of its Marvel Cinematic Universe films.

In “Ultron,” Earth’s mightiest heroes return for another city-smashing showdown to save Earth. Instead of an alien invasion, the team faces off against a monster of Tony Stark’s creating, the sentient robot Ultron. Both James Spader’s voice acting and the visual design for Ultron are phenomenal.

While Ultron is a CGI machine, the character feels more human than Loki, the first film’s villain.

Along with Ultron, the film introduces three new characters:

The Vision, Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver.

Although The Vision does not enter the film until the second half, Paul Bettany’s performance as the newest Avenger adds a new, unique character to the team.

Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch get plenty of screen time, but less dialogue than you’d expect.

This turned out to be a smart decision: Elizabeth Olsen, who plays Scarlet Witch, does a poor Eastern European accent. More enjoyable was the focus on characters who don’t have their own standalone films. Hawkeye plays a much more important role in this movie than the first, giving the audience a human lens through which to view the superhuman team.

While the action was able to match that of its predecessor, the film leaves a lot to be desired overall. Even with a runtime of two hours and 21 minutes, it feels as though not much

actually happens.

The Avengers movies are supposed to be a culmination of all the standalone films at the end of each “Phase,” but this one feels more like filler. Many jokes were forced, and very little of the plot added to the story line of the “Infinity Stones” — the powerful mythical objects that recur throughout the series — that will be the focus of the third and fourth Avenger movies.

What this film does that the first did not was give the audience an idea of where the following standalone films will go. Spoiler alert: Here is what to expect from Marvel Studios’ “Phase Three”: “Captain America: Civil War” — With the hype this film is getting, it could get away with changing its name to “Avengers: Civil War.” Captain America and Iron Man end “Age of Ultron” on friendly terms, so we’ll likely see their battle from beginning to end in the film — as well

as a glimpse of your friendly neighborhood “Spider-Man.” “Thor: Ragnarok” — Since Thor had the vision about the Infinity Stones during “Age of Ultron,” his standalone could be the biggest connection to “Avengers: Infinity War.” While Loki receives no screen time in “Age of Ultron,” expect to see him again in Thor’s third installment.

“Black Panther” — Remember the scene in “Age of Ultron” in Wakanda with Andy Serkis as Ulysses Klaue?

Expect to see his return as the villain when we are introduced to the South African hero, Black Panther, in 2017. The loss of Ulysses’ arm in the film will connect to the comics as he replaces the arm with vibranium, the same material as Captain America’s shield.

“Avengers: Infinity War” parts I and II — Coming to theaters in 2018 and 2019, the

Avengers will finally face off against the Mad Titan, Thanos, the MCU’s main villain. Making an appearance again in “Age of Ultron’s” credit scene, Thanos now has the Infinity Gauntlet but still needs to collect the Infinity Stones. Since this film will close out “Phase Three,”

changes to the Avengers lineup could be very possible before its release. As “Age of Ultron” ended with Captain America training a new batch of Avengers (War Machine, The Vision, Scarlet Witch and the Falcon), they may need to replace characters that won’t make it.

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For promise in printmaking, senior wins an award

Inspired by her professor, Binghamton student Carolyn Votaw brings her passion for art and history to the page Chloe Rehfield | Staff Writer Carolyn Votaw hasn’t graduated yet, but she’s already being recognized for her art.

Votaw, a senior doublemajoring in art history and Italian, has just been granted the Sande H. Zirlin Art Award for her impressive work. The contest, run by General Federation of Women’s Clubs (GFWC), was open to upperclassmen attending a New York college, along with all graduate students within the state,

studying art or a related field.

Hundreds of students applied for the award and sent in portfolios and polished essays, but Votaw was victorious in the regional competition.

Her family consistently encouraged her interest in history and creativity. When she came to Binghamton University, she soon discovered a love for printmaking, a way to make art that employs various techniques such as engraving, woodcutting and etching on a sheet of paper. She eventually picked up printmaking

as a minor.

Her printmaking professor, Alexandra Davis, was her biggest inspiration and helped her think about creating art in a new way.

Davis has worked with Votaw throughout her time at the University, and was the one who introduced her to the award and encouraged her to apply. It was Davis’ support that made her believe that her work deserved to be recognized and spread to areas outside of Binghamton.

“I admire Alexandra Davis greatly as an artist, educator and

person,” Votaw said. “She is everencouraging to all students.”

Most of Votaw’s pieces were inspired by her trips to Italy and other travels. Her goal is for the works to mirror an intimacy that she wants to have with a place and its history.

“My artwork often reflects my interest in time, space and what becomes symbolic of culture and identity,” Votaw said. “My process reflects my interest in piecing histories together.”

In her work, Votaw cycles through different techniques.

Right now, she is fascinated by a process called chine-collè (a method similar to collage), but continues to learn.

For her application for the prize, Votaw continued to collaborate with, learn from and be inspired by Davis. Votaw gathered 10 recent pieces — most of which she’d made in printmaking courses here — filled out forms, wrote about her experience in art and future plans and collected recommendation letters from different professors. But the time she put into submitting her

portfolio paid off when she won the award, along with $1,000 and a retreat to Saratoga Springs.

Votaw’s artwork will be on display at the BU Senior Show on May 8, where she will also be demonstrating etching at the Fine Arts Open House. Votaw graduates at the end of this month, and over the summer she will resume her studies in an Italian languageintensive immersive program at the Middlebury Language Schools in Vermont. In the fall, she plans to return to BU to complete her master’s degree in Italian.

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OPINION Tuesday, May 5, 2015

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Snap Out Of It ith finals right around the corner, many students rely on study drugs to power through assignments and tests.

Whether it’s Adderall, Ritalin, Concerta or Vyvanse, an increasing number of students choose to illegally take prescription drugs during this stressful period.

It may seem easy enough to pop a pill — students don’t always consider all the consequences.

Many cleanse their systems of marijuana or other recreational drugs to prepare for jobs, internships and the potential drug tests that accompany them. But tests extend further than that,

and employers may shy away from students who test positive for study drugs. How many hospitals, research labs or doctor’s offices want an intern who abuses prescriptions? How well will you perform, and how reliable will you be when you’re sober?

It seems harmless to take just one pill for just one paper, but it’s easy to fall into a cycle of dependency. Some take study drugs for days in a row, getting high off amphetamines that render

them unable to handle the crash.

They have to take another pill the next day just to feel normal. Some end up popping pills regularly in an attempt to delay withdrawal.

They don’t sleep, they don’t eat properly and they certainly aren’t healthy.

So, how did we get here?

It’s easy to blame poor time management, but study drug use is bordering on an epidemic fed by more than just carelessness.

Acceptance of these drugs is

increasing on college campuses, and students are likely to adopt the behavior of their peers. If your friends are doing it and getting good marks, then maybe Adderall doesn’t seem like such a bad idea.

It’s important to remember the sources of these now-mainstream substances.

Pharmaceutical companies distribute these ADHD medications at unprecedented rates, as doctors diagnose large numbers of children and adults alike. Due to a large supply, it’s

easier than ever to acquire the drugs illegally at relatively low prices. The drugs can work for those who have been diagnosed with ADHD, but for those who likewise have ADHD and are hounded by their friends and classmates to sell a pill, it isn’t.

So who profits from these cases of abuse? It’s Barr Pharmaceuticals, which makes money off of each and every last minute addiction.

It’s Novartis that profits every time a student thinks he can’t

possibly write his last paper without a boost.

At the end of the day, if you’re resorting to study drugs to get through the end of the semester, chances are you won’t be dissuaded from your plan.

Remember to drink water and check in with your friends. In semesters to come, and in life after college, we have a choice. An A on your final is worth less than your health and the health of our community.

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It's ok if you don't have a clue what's going on In a college setting, sometimes poor decision-making leads to meaningful relationships and insights Senior Column Davina Bhandari Former Assistant News Editor

I have no idea what I’m doing. I never knew what I was doing. As it turns out, you needn’t know much to stumble upon great success and happiness. Your worst mistakes and moments of trying uncertainty will not be the end of you, so long as you face them with people who care while wearing your most comfortable clothing. I’ll address that later.

I chose Binghamton University somewhat blindly and stumbled around slightly impaired for the entirety of my four years here. It was the friends who were willing to allow my emotions to become

their emotions (I feel a lot) and the jobs I had been granted that both stabilized me and morally aligned me during the process.

Knowing how to pen my own name quite well, I signed up for a Pipe Dream GIM my freshman year. That decision has given me a great deal of what I am most proud to boast about when I look back on my time at BU. The office simultaneously became a home while it attempted to teach me how to behave professionally. Thank you, Jim, for allowing me back onto staff on two separate occasions. I’m the best.

Knowing how to mumble nervously to the people I sat next to during class and encountered in my living quarters, I formed amazing, interesting, engaging and beautiful friendships. I love every weirdo I’ve

had the pleasure of getting to know (except you. You know who you are) and I hope to pick all of your brains for years to come.

Should you choose to declare majors in English and art history, push yourself to engage beyond the material. The unexpected relationships you create and the assignments you experiment with until it’s almost too late will make your degrees something to be proud of, rather than paper for incredibly valuable origami.

Pipe Dream Staff 2013-14: Thank you for putting up with me.

I deeply care for and respect all of you for all of the hard work you put in despite the challenges we faced.

Nick and Geoff: Thank you for essentially doing all of headlining.

I hope I don’t have to headline this article. Rachel: I was the assistant

you never wanted. Thank you for always being happy to see me anyway. Christina: Thank you for being so forgiving and so admirably patient in some really trying times.

You’re all amazing.

To the women of Oneida 5J: I will never live with five other females again. Ever. But that is probably because I will never find five other humans who are wholeheartedly down to raise a stray caterpillar with me, no questions asked. I love you all. We love you, Liam.

Katie, Amanda and Rachel: You give me life. You hold my hand. You give me your clothing. You feed me food. I don’t deserve your lovin’ but I need you never leave me please I’m begging.

Mom and Dad: I have kindly provided you both with enough stress to last a lifetime. Inexplicably,

you show me love and let me live in your house anyway. I am who I am because you two have given me everything you have.

Keera, my Didi: I am so excited to live out the next few years of my life on your futon. I’m kidding. Am I kidding? Haha. You have always been and will always be the only and the strongest role model I’ll ever need. Thank you for teaching me how to be cool. You did a horrible job.

I want to stress something, and I want to stress it to no end: It is okay to have no idea what you’re doing. Your indecisiveness and reckless decision-making — you may be mistaken for a free spirit.

Your friends will know better — will lead you to some of your greatest and most rewarding experiences.

Forgive yourself for making what

might be regarded as bad decisions; I am convinced they are the key to your success at this University.

Nobody knows anything and you’ll be OK. If you’re from Long Island, I might advise admitting it rarely, if at all.

And finally, avoid wearing “professional” and “respectable” clothing for as long as you can. Buy a blazer, sure. Invest in a lime green pantsuit, if you must. But do bask in the days when no one expects you to behave or look like a “real person.”

I promise that comfortable footwear will bring you to beautiful places.

Don’t ask me about the things I’ve said. Be your best potato.

— Davina Bhandari is a senior double majoring in English and art history

Quitting in dire circumstances can open door to better prospects The decision to leave graduate school may be the right one and shouldn't be viewed as giving up entirely Senior Column Derek Stampone

Contributing Columnist

I quit.

After four years and two universities, I’m done with graduate school. But why?

Some might say graduate school is meant to be difficult and challenging. It’s meant to separate the wheat from the chaff. It’s not for the fainthearted and isn’t meant for everyone. Many upper-echelon

schools take pride in their attrition rate as evidence of their quality.

And it’s certainly not about being smart. Someone smart would know better than to get a Ph.D. There are a few reasons to get a Ph.D., and maybe the only good one is to become a professor. In some ways, that was the false idol I fixed my gaze on. A deep-seated call to teach a subject I love to others has been my guiding framework since I was 16 years old tutoring my friends in high school.

But in an era of decreased

public funding of the sciences, the competitiveness for tenure-track positions has become untenable.

No longer do freshly minted doctoral graduates begin a career in academia in their late 20s. Now they’re expected (and have no other option than) to complete one or two postdoctoral appointments.

After reading a paper by three Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers asking if there are too many Ph.D. graduates or too few academic job openings, I realized how dire my circumstances would be. They concluded only

about 13 percent of Ph.D. graduates can attain academic positions in the U.S. And this is more than just your typical millennial bemoaning.

The creative destruction of yesteryear that eliminated one job while creating 10 down the road has devolved into a widening gap between the haves and the have-nots. Average is over, and it is impacting all sectors of the economy.

But my desire to teach has another outlet, perhaps one with a greater opportunity to effect real

change. Come this fall, I will enter a classroom at a Title I school in the New York City public schools. Title I schools are designed specifically for children who are at risk of failing.

I’ll check my naïveté at the door and come prepared to do the hard work that needs to be done. I’ll bring the full force of a university-trained physicist to do what small good I can do in my corner of the world. I will do what I can to inspire the next Neil deGrasse Tyson or Bill Nye. Psychologists and behavioral economists are too familiar with the sunk cost fallacy and how

it adversely impacts our lives.

Whether it’s putting in too much money to repair a run-down car or staying in an intimate relationship well past its expiration date, we fear quitting because we’ve invested too much time. But only through quitting can we take back control.

Only then can we take that time and money and put it toward a new aim.

Quitting is our friend.

I’m quitting grad school, but I’m not giving up.

— Derek Stampone is a physics PhD candidate

bupipedream.com | May 5, 2015

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OPINION

Do more of what makes you happy every single day Sacrifice sleep and perfectionism to pursue the activities and people that make life fun Senior Column John Linitz

Design Assistant

“Do more of what makes you happy.” I came across this simple phrase on a Johnny Cupcakes T-shirt. It hit me at a relatively important time in my life, as my high school career was ending and I had to decide what I would spend the next four years studying.

The Advanced Placement courses I took had never caught my interest, but a half-year computer graphics

elective did.

To be honest, there are still times when I am embarrassed to say that I’m a graphic design major (or art and design, or whatever name the department decides to change it to next). When you are surrounded by a sea of electrical engineers and biochemistry majors, you can feel inferior. Many students don’t even know that there is a graphic design department. I’ll even jokingly say to my friends that I’m taking advanced coloring this semester. However, many overlook the attention to detail and pursuit of perfection that

graphic design entails. People joke about how, “You love fonts!” while an understanding of typographic terminology is critical to being a successful designer. I don’t care if people don’t understand my passion for design because I truly don’t see myself doing anything else. I’m going to keep my head up and think back to the sign in my Graphic Design 1 classroom that read, “Perfect is good enough.”

Aside from work, it is important to keep doing what makes you happy in your fleeting moments of freedom. There is a reason why I am writing this senior column at

2:47 in the morning. I spent the day cliff jumping in Ithaca, and the night laughing with a beautiful girl whom I was fortunate enough to meet in one of my classes. I don’t sleep because I simply don’t have the time. But more importantly, I don’t care. Granted, working as a designer for Pipe Dream has adjusted my internal clock to stay awake until the lovely 3 a.m. printer deadline, but I’d sacrifice sleep for the things I love every day of the week.

Your school work is important, and I hope you are truly passionate about what you do. But it is not

everything. Employers are looking not only for high GPAs, but also real humans with personalities and passions. Go out for trivia on Wednesday, even though you have a test on Friday. Kiss her until the sun rises, even though you have a part-time job in a couple of hours.

Read a book for fun in addition to your required readings. Join every possible extracurricular that piques your interest. Pick up your guitar and play at that open mic event, even though you haven’t played in years. Design 20 Snapchat geofilters for campus, even if they get rejected. Fall in

love (yes, in college). Get inspired by the Mayweather fight and go hit that heavy bag in the East Gym. You might not be the next welterweight champion of the world, but boxing looks fucking fun, doesn’t it?

I recall one of those “life hack” accounts on Twitter that said to “Minor in what you love, and major in what will make you money.” Screw that. Major in what you love and kill it. Keep your head high, and always “do more of what makes you happy.”

— John Linitz is a senior majoring in Art and Design

Joining Pipe Dream team helped me reach my full potential Participation in intramural sports and Pipe Dream proved the defining experiences of my college career Senior Column Corey Futterman Design Assistant

College is a place where you have the freedom to do as you please. It’s a place where you can do whatever you want, wherever you want, whenever you want, with whomever you want. College is a place where you can be whomever you want to be. It’s a

place where you discover yourself and really find out who you are and what you can become. For me, Binghamton University did that and more.

When I first got here, I enjoyed a life free of many dayto-day restrictions. I went to classes, did my homework, played video games and partied on the weekends. I also played sports a lot. For anyone who knows anything about me, I love sports. Watching sports, playing sports, discussing sports, it

doesn’t matter. Anything sports related interests me. As a young college student, I chose to play intramurals and pick-up games of football, soccer, basketball, baseball and volleyball with my friends.

Playing sports was really something that I could connect with, something that brought me together with other people.

Participation in sports provided an outlet and a place where I could feel a sense of community.

I think that’s part of the reason

I love sports as much as I do.

Sports allow me to be a part of something so much bigger than myself. They surround me with others who bring out the best in me and encourage me to reach my full potential.

Pipe Dream has done this for me, too. I was brought in as part of the family, and I became an intern junior year. Though the idea was to get four easy credits, the results were more than simply a good grade. The following year I was brought in on a new

Growth does not end at graduation Setting a time frame for personal fulfilment is counterintuitive Senior Column Tiffany Moustakas Release

When it comes to public speaking, I’ve always been afraid.

My stomach does somersaults and my hands dry up. Recently, however, I realized that these feelings have diminished. No somersaults, no dryness, just me and my voice. And it’s all thanks to my time at Binghamton University.

In July 2011, I stepped off a bus in front of Hinman College’s Smith Hall to take part in the Binghamton Enrichment Program, a summer program for students in the Educational Opportunity Program.

A week before, I had graduated from a small high school in the Bronx where the top 5 percent of my class excelled at public speaking and confidence: two things I lacked.

That summer, I was ready to start anew. I joined Pipe Dream’s Release section and the Hellenic

Cultural Society and immersed myself in BU. As a wide-eyed freshman, I had an idea of what I’d be like by the time I was a senior: smarter, confident and put together. Obstacles would be obsolete. But that was just a pipe dream (yes, you saw what I did there).

The path to being who I am today, a senior with only two weeks left in college, turned out to be as bumpy as Riverside Drive. I made the right choice to join the organizations I did, and I made friends, but my fear of speaking kept holding me back. I had so much to say, but a voice in the back of my head always told me that I wasn’t good enough. It wasn’t until I joined the Alpha Delta Phi Society that I started to silence that doubtful voice.

After ending my tenure as president this past week, I can give you the whole spiel about who we are and what we stand for, but I have a word count to adhere to.

There’s something about ADPS

that pushes and challenges you in the right direction that I never experienced before coming to BU. Within the last two years, I’ve become more comfortable with myself and feel more in my element because I tried things I never would have before and stopped listening to that doubtful voice inside my head.

This isn’t to say that joining a co-ed fraternity solves all of your problems and absolves you from any future issues. Sometimes I still struggle with being afraid to speak up, and that’s OK. Somewhere between last year and this year, I realized that there was no use in being afraid and feeling sorry for my shortcomings. There is no time frame for when you’re supposed to “have it together,” so why not work with what you have one day at a time?

There’s one lesson to take away from my four years at BU. Embrace the old cliché that you should push your own boundaries and step out of your comfort zone. When I look

back at all of the people I’ve met over the years, those who never pushed boundaries are still in the same place they were four years ago. Those who did have made leaps and bounds in terms of what they’ve achieved.

On May 17, I won’t leave BU with the confidence and aura of “having it together” as I thought I would four years ago. Instead, I’m leaving that part of myself open for future experiences. To quote the incomparable Buffy Summers from “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” “I’m cookie dough. I’m not done baking. I’m not finished becoming whoever the hell it is I’m gonna turn out to be.”

I can’t even begin to list all of the people who have made my college experience worthwhile, so thank you to everyone who has ever supported me in some shape or form. I wouldn’t be here without any of you.

— Tiffany Moustakas is a senior majoring in English

Dare to embrace your inner vulnerabilities Finding your unique passion may not be an easy road, but it's worth it Senior Column Stephanie Izquieta

Contributing Columnist

There are places and moments in our lives in which our futures are decided. Many are sights we either would rather forget, or can’t remember: State Street and The Rat, Parade Day and Bar Crawl.

Others are sights that symbolize and exemplify our character: student-organized protests, student clubs, Lecture Halls and all-nighters in the library.

Binghamton University is a transformative place.

We were brought here to develop perspective and to find our own path, and after years of hard work and dedication, we are so close to the end. We tend to think of perspective in terms of the classes we’ve taken, but I believe that the most important perspective has been taught between the hallways and outside the lectures.

As a freshman, everything interested me, but nothing held my attention. Truth be told, I was not enjoying my time here.

I made friends easy enough and my classes were enlightening, but there was nothing I was passionate about. I had not found my North Star.

Eventually, to what can only be attributed to sheer, dumb luck, I found something that gave my time here meaning. I became a TEDxBinghamtonUniversity organizer. Now, I could talk about TEDx all day, but for the sake of brevity and to not further annoy my editor, I will summarize my TEDx experience as follows with a quote from Paul Buchheit: “To create something that a few people love, even if most people don’t get it right away.” In that spirit, I’ve decided to share the wisdom and experiences that matter to me, with the hope that it will reach the right person. This is, after all, a world defined by outliers.

My first tidbit of advice is somewhat odd, but please,

I implore you: Dare to be vulnerable. I know this seems to go against conventional norms, but vulnerability is important. To be vulnerable is not to be weak; rather, to be vulnerable is to be susceptible to all possibilities. We tend to associate vulnerability with pain, but vulnerability gives us our humanity. It allows us to feel empathy and compassion and to connect to one another.

Our greatest strength is not our ability to overpower or outsmart one another; it is our ability to understand one another.

My second bit of advice is to act with conviction. This one is a lot tougher than the first. There are no shortcuts in life. Trust me, I’ve looked. There will be countless obstacles that make you question your choices every single day, but don’t let dreams be dreams.

Work at them, become obsessed with them and chase them until you can’t push any more. The only difference between you and someone you admire is hard work.

Don’t get me wrong, natural talent

takes you a long way, but there is a lot of wasted talent in this world, so capitalize on that fact and hit the ground running.

My last bit of advice is to learn to be comfortable with uncertainty.

Don’t follow a pre-existing path and don’t look to imitate your role models. No two experiences are the same — they may be similar, but they are never the same. Do not be afraid to carve your own path, however unorthodox it may be. Sometimes the best decisions in life are the ones you understand the least. We live in an interesting time and though I’m sure every generation thinks so, we are the first to see it unfold so rapidly.

I’d like to thank my housemates for making college so memorable.

A huge shout-out to the Murray squad for being a bunch of saucy spunions, I seriously love you guys so much. I can’t wait for Basslights 2015.

— Stephanie Izquieta is a senior majoring in philosphy, politics, and alw

design staff with two other very talented designers, Emma and John. Together, we went above and beyond what was expected of us. I’m so proud of what we’ve accomplished in the past year.

In a world dominated by professional sports, where mostly every kid grows up idolizing athletes around the world, Pipe Dream became my new sport, new team and new family. Working as a team brought us closer, so much closer than I imagined. I think one of the greatest things

I’ve realized is how much better it is to be a part of something bigger than yourself, and my passion toward Pipe Dream shows exactly how beneficial such an experience can be. I’m very thankful not only for my Pipe Dream teammates, but everything we’ve achieved together. We’ve left our mark on Pipe Dream, and I expect the new staff to push the paper even further in the coming years.

— Corey Futterman is a senior majoring in Art and Design

Letter to the Editor

Campus mental health resources need reform University must take steps to address mental health crisis Dear Editor, We have seen students voice their concerns about the lack of resources to address the mental health crisis in our student body multiple times in this publication.

Students have referenced a variety of statistics; suicide is the second-leading cause of death in college-age students in America.

Students have called out the stigma associated with mental health that still permeates our campus. Students have shared their own personal stories about their battles with different mental health conditions. Yet, it does not seem that the university has concentrated on making mental health a priority despite its lasting effects on students.

As members of the BIOL 480-B Introduction to Public Health seminar, we interviewed Binghamton University faculty and staff who have expertise in working with mental health cases on campus. We used their input as a guide to do our own research on how to formulate ideas to help address this growing concern on campus.

We encourage the university administration to consider three goals in addressing mental health on campus: 1.

Prioritizing mental health as an area of growth that needs funding and attention. The University Counseling Center does its best to accommodate a student body of our size but it remains a fact that the center is understaffed. Speaking with the University Counseling Center staff, we understand that the UCC has been attempting to expand their services and sustain quality of care. We suggest that the university administration specifically concentrate a portion of its fundraising efforts to expansion of the UCC for services and staff.

2.

Having a diverse array of counselors and staff at the University Counseling Center so

that students may be able to feel comfortable with professionals to which they can identity with.

Binghamton students are a diverse group of students with different socioeconomic statuses, sexual orientations, and gender, cultural, and ethnic identities. While we do not think quality of care is compromised when a counselor/ psychologist/psychiatrist does not reflect a similar identity of the student they are counseling, we do think that students may be more forthcoming and comfortable with UCC staff members that they can identify with. Mental health is shrouded in stigma and when social and cultural barriers arise, this potentially raises the anxiety, stress, and shame a student may feel.

3.

Provide staff training to better equip faculty and staff with the tools to properly address students that may be suffering from a mental health issue.

Although there are various outlets on the Binghamton University campus geared towards addressing mental health, increasing the tiers of support a student can receive would be more effective.

Binghamton University markets itself as the Premier Public University of the Northeast.

Certainly, there has been huge investments in increasing quality of education and resources on campus from renovating old buildings to hiring brilliant professors.

However, our students could use the development, funding and effort we see in so many other aspects of the university into promoting an atmosphere on campus in which mental health care is easily accessible and de-stigmatized.

- Aisha Bowen, senior majoring in integrative neuroscience, Deborah Iyiade, senior majoring in psychology, Denise Lobo, senior majoring in biology Melissa Luong, senior majoring in biology and English

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After two-year layoff, Martin excels on bump for Binghamton Junior leads Bearcats with 10 wins, 3.57 ERA E.Jay Zarett

Assistant Sports Editor As a high school senior, Cara Martin was dominant. Martin, who attended nearby Windsor High School, led her team to the 2011 New York State Class B Championship and was named the 2011 NYSSCOGS Class B CoPlayer of the Year.

When it came time to choose at which institution she would continue her career, Martin decided to leave home and play at the University of Rhode Island.

That decision changed the course of her entire career.

“I chose Rhode Island because I wanted to get away from home a little bit — or I thought I did,” said Martin, who is currently a junior softball pitcher for Binghamton. “Rhode Island was beautiful, New England was gorgeous … I went to go visit, loved the campus, loved everything about it.”

In her freshman season at Rhode Island, Martin appeared in 15 games while tallying 67 innings on the bump and recording a 6.27 ERA. However, while she enjoyed her teammates, the strain of being away from home weighed on Martin. Her freshman season would be her first and last as a Ram. “It was a difficult year with regards to being away from home,” Martin said. “I made a lot of friends there … [but] I was just ready to come home.”

After departing from Rhode Island, Martin took an atypical step: She stepped away from the softball field. In fact, Martin enrolled at BU for the spring 2013 semester and spent a full two seasons without playing

college ball. However, she did not leave the game entirely. During that time, she remained around softball, serving as a personal instructor and an assistant coach for the 18U Conklin Raiders travel organization.

It was being around the game that made Martin miss playing. “[Not playing] was weird,” Martin said. “But I busied myself with other things. I got involved in coaching. I gave pitching lessons and then I kind of realized I missed it, so last summer I started pitching again to see how I liked it.”

It was in the spring of 2014 — after nearly two full seasons since she last stepped on the mound as a Ram — that Martin fully began to believe that she wanted to return to the mound.

Interestingly enough, her pupils were the ones who led her to this realization.

“When their season came around and they started playing, I realized that this was something that I wanted to be doing again,” Martin said. “Especially because I had a couple of years of eligibility left and you realize that window closes very, very quickly.”

Martin contacted head coach Michelle Burrell to inquire about restarting her career as a Bearcat.

“I did know of Cara,” Burrell said. “Definitely knew of her, but didn’t really know too much about how she threw. I just talked to some people, her coaches, her teammates and they had a lot of positive things to say about her work ethic. It was good timing for us … That was a need for us.

It has been a great fit for both her and us.”

Martin returned to the mound this season for the Bearcats

and impressed immediately.

In just her third appearance of the season, the junior logged 7 1/3 innings against nationally ranked Arizona State, allowing just four hits and one unearned run.

For the season, the junior has racked up 82 1/3 innings for the Bearcats and has compiled a 10-4 record, the most wins on the team this season. She also leads BU with a 3.57 ERA. Martin has been named the America East Pitcher of the Week twice this season, most recently this Monday after she allowed two runs, one earned, and just five hits in seven innings over two games against Maine.

BU clinched the third seed in the upcoming America East Tournament in the series.

“The first time she went on the mound she kind of showed that she was a little nervous and we kind of realized she hadn’t been on the field in two years,” Burrell said. “I think every game she started throwing with more confidence, and I definitely think that’s helped her. It has definitely helped this team out as well.”

Martin’s teammates have embraced her since she joined the Bearcats, something she believes has played a role in her successful comeback.

“To be with a team that just works so hard and to be able to be successful as a team has just been amazing,” Martin said.

“The way that we just work for each other is incredible. [My teammates] support me 100 percent and that’s awesome, too. They welcomed me on the team right away and that is something you don’t find everywhere.”

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Junior pitcher Cara Martin leads the BU pitching staff with a 10-4 record and a 3.57 ERA.

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BU earns 13 All-Conference honors Men third, women fourth at AE Outdoor Championships Orlaith McCaffrey Pipe Dream Sports

After recording second and third place finishes at the conference indoor meet at the end of February, the men’s and women’s track and field teams each dropped one spot to take third and fourth, respectively, at the America East Outdoor Championships over the weekend.

The two-day meet occurred over the weekend at Albany’s University Field and featured competition from nine AE teams. The host Great Danes dominated the meet, far surpassing their closest competitors on both the men’s and women’s side. The Albany women tallied 227 points to capture first place for the seventh consecutive season. The men racked up 192.5 points to take the title for the 11th straight year.

The BU men combined to score a total of 113.5 points while the women ended up with 123.33.

Though neither squad was able to improve on its score from the indoor season, the Bearcats secured three individual titles awarded by the conference.

Sophomore Keishorea Armstrong earned two of those titles. The BU Women’s Athlete of the Year has had an even more successful outdoor season than her already impressive indoor

campaign. She was named the Women’s Most Outstanding Field Performer after sweeping both the long jump and triple jump, with distances of 20-6 ½ feet and 41-1 ¾ feet, respectively.

In the long jump, Armstrong set a new program record, which she had already broken two weeks before at the Bucknell Team Challenge. She also received the Coaches’ Award for scoring 33.5 points — more than any woman in the meet — thanks to her successful participation in five events. She came in second in the 100-meter event and took the bronze in the 200-meter in addition to anchoring the third-place 4x100meter team.

Senior Brandon Bordeau also received an individual award, the Men’s Outstanding Field Performer, for his first-place finish in the discus (159-5) and runner-up title in the shot put (52-8 ½).

Elsewhere on the men’s side, the 4x800-meter relay pack of sophomore Eric Holt, graduate student Chris Fernandez, freshman Billy Hector and senior Jesse Garn — which entered the event seeded sixth of eight — beat its closest competitor by a full 10 seconds to earn the gold medal. Two members of this squad, Garn and Holt, also ended up on the podium in the 1,500-meter race. Garn won the event while Holt secured third.

The men were also successful in the pole vault, in which sophomore Peter Fagan took second with a vault of 15-11 meters while freshman Charles Villa snagged third with a 14-11 meter performance. Also contributing to the men’s bronze medal finish was sophomore Jon Alkins, who finished second in the 200-meter event and third in the 400-meter.

Top finishers on the women’s squad was senior Daniella Olusoga who claimed second in the heptathlon with 4,787 points across seven events. Senior Christy DiMichele also impressed, taking third in the pole vault with a vault of 11-11 ¾ meters. Sophomore Jackie Crunden won second in the high jump with a jump of 5 feet, 5 inches.

The men’s and women’s teams combined to earn 13 All-Conference honors, which were awarded to firstplace relay teams as well as the top three finishers in each event. Eight of these titles were obtained by the men’s squad while the women garnered five.

Next up for the Bearcats is the ECAC/IC4A Outdoor Championships, which will be hosted at Princeton from May 1517. This competition will allow participants to qualify for the NCAA Outdoor Championships held in June. The first events are scheduled for 10 a.m. on Friday.

As multiple Division I men’s basketball coaches have remarked this season, recruiting has turned into a year-round job. For Binghamton’s coaching staff, the task is no different.

With two scholarships vacated after guard Jordan Reed and forward Nick Madray both transferred, head coach Tommy Dempsey was able to sign on two recruits in the past two weeks. The first to sign was Everson Davis, a combo guard out of New Jersey.

Then, last Wednesday, Bucknell transfer guard J.C. Show signed with the Bearcats. Show will have to redshirt the 2015-16 season due to NCAA transfer rules, but will have three years of eligibility remaining after that.

Davis signed his National Letter of Intent on April 20. The 6-foot-3 point guard gone shooting guard played for the Peddie School in Hightstown, New Jersey and made first-team All-Mid-Atlantic Prep League in the 2014-15 season. He averaged 15.2 points per game as a senior at Peddie, including 1.7 made 3s across 24 games. Davis also received offers from University of Tennessee and Tennessee Temple University.

Show signed his National Letter of Intent to play for Binghamton last Wednesday after receiving his release from Bucknell the day before. In 34 games for the Bison in 2014-15, the 6-foot2 guard averaged 6.9 points and 1.6 rebounds in 18.3 minutes per contest. He shot 39.5 percent from the floor and 36.6 percent from 3-point range and was a 71.4 percent free-throw shooter.

Prior to his debut year at Bucknell, the Clarks Summit native was named Pennsylvania “Mr. Basketball” and Gatorade Pennsylvania Player of the Year

in 2014, his senior season playing at Abington Heights. Show is the high school’s all-time leading scorer after recording 1,950 career points.

So Binghamton picked up two solid guards in the offseason, presumably working to replace former star Jordan Reed, who was granted his release from the program on Dec. 5. But Binghamton doesn’t have a gaping hole in its one and two (and even three) spots like it does in other roles.

Primarily, BU has made no headway in replacing 6-foot9 stretch four Madray. The big man out of Mississagua, Ontario, was granted his release from the program on April 13 and announced via Twitter his commitment to Eastern Michigan University on April 29. While the Bearcats still have 6-foot-9 freshman sharpshooter Dusan Perovic and will benefit from incoming freshman Thomas Bruce — a 6-foot-8 rim protector who signed his NLI in November — BU was the worst shooting team in one of the most obscure conferences at the Division I level.

Binghamton trailed the America East with 39.6 percent shooting from the floor and averaged a second-worst 57.7 points per contest en route to a 6-26 finish, 5-11 in conference play. Of course, worth mention is that both Madray and Perovic suffered season-ending injuries in late December and early January, respectively, and Reed — the team’s leading scorer the past two seasons — played in just five games. For Perovic, before tearing his ACL in practice, the Montenegrin was the team’s leading scorer. He was shooting a team-best 44.2 percent from the field and 45.3 percent from beyond the arc. Those numbers are better than Madray’s were.

Defense produces offense, as some saying somewhere goes,

and Binghamton has fielded good defense. However, Binghamton will need to utilize a variety of shooting means and not score just in transition or off the dribble if the team wants to take the next step.

One of the Bearcats’ biggest weaknesses this season was their inability to break out of a scoring drought. With opponents able to crowd the paint and oversize them (Binghamton’s roster is gratuitous in listing so many players at 6-foot6), the team needs more guys who can post up and also stretch the floor.

The Bearcats will clearly have the option to go small. If Perovic recovers adequately and if Bruce is the low-post scoring, shot-swatting player that he’s made out to be, then Binghamton will have the capacity to go relatively large, too.

Unfortunately, without another actual big man to back up either one of them, injury could plague the Bearcats for yet another year.

Fortunately for fans, Binghamton should have one more scholarship to offer. And with the recruiting season spanning four seasons nowadays, and over 600 transfers so far this year (according to ESPN’s Jeff Goodman), it shouldn’t be too problematic to pick someone up.

Binghamton will need to utilize a variety of shooting means ... to take the next step

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