Spring 2016 Issue 9

Tuesday, February 23, 2016 | Vol. LXXXIX, Issue 9 | Binghamton University | bupipedream.com

Celebrating 70 Years as the Free Word on Campus

SA PRESIDENT ANNOUNCES RESIGNATION EVP Zachary Vigliani assumes role of SA president, appoints interim replacement

Dillon Schade's resignation to take effect starting Feb. 24

Alexandra Mackof News Editor

Zachary Vigliani, the current SA executive vice president (EVP), will be replacing Dillon Schade as president on February 24. Vigliani has appointed SA member Naomi Barnett as interim EVP until formal elections are conducted.

Barnett is a senior double-majoring in business administration and English.

She has been an assistant to the EVP since August of 2015. Barnett is also a hiring supervisor for Binghamton University tour guide positions. Barnett will take office on Wednesday, Feb. 24. Both Barnett and Vigliani declined to comment.

Franz Lino/Photography Editor Pictured: Naomi Barnett

EVP re-election process explained: 1. After Dillon Schade resigns, who will be the next Student Association (SA) president?

Zachary Vigliani, the current executive vice president (EVP) and a senior majoring in business administration, will become president after Schade’s resignation goes into effect on Wednesday.

committee will be accepting letters of intent from Feb. 25 until March 4. On March 7, the ballot will be voted on for approval at the Student Congress meeting. The candidates can then begin campaigning on March 7, after their approval. An election will be held on Wednesday, March 16. A candidate must receive at least 40 percent plurality to win the election. If no candidate earns at 2. Who will take over for the least 40 percent, a run-off election will be current SA executive vice president? held between the top two candidates.

According to the SA constitution, the Planning, Research and Elections 4. Will the EVP candidates have committee is required to hold an election sweeps? for a replacement within 15 class days No, there will be no sweeps for the of the position’s official vacancy. This new EVP. Each candidate can campaign replacement executive vice president on their own to promote their platform, will hold the position until the end of the following regular election campaign spring 2016 semester. rules.

While the election process is underway, the new president must 5. Can clubs endorse EVP appoint an interim executive vice candidates? president. The appointed individual Yes, clubs can endorse candidates. must already be a member of the SA. The same endorsement rules apply Viglianni nominated Naomi Barnett as those in place for regular E-Board during Monday night’s Student Congress elections. Any executive board, judicial meeting. board or member of the legislative body can endorse a candidate. No group 3. How will the EVP election can explicitly say to vote for a specific process work? candidate.

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Franz Lino/Photography Editor Dillon Schade, president of the Binghamton University Student Association, reads his resignation speech to the Student Association Congress and other attendees Monday night.

Nicholas Vega Editor-in-Chief

“People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.”

Outgoing Student Association President Dillon Schade recited Mother Teresa’s famous poem, “Do it Anyway,” during his final speech to the Student Congress Monday evening.

In his address, Schade claimed that his decision to resign came after a meeting with the Black Student Union’s (BSU) executive board, where he was given “an ultimatum.”

“It was either I resign my position as SA president and they go quietly, or I do not resign and they threaten to use their alumni base to reach out to local, state and national media and the NAACP and force my resignation,” he said.

The president also alleged that he was not allowed to attend BSU’s town hall meeting on Thursday to defend himself.

Pipe Dream reached out to BSU for comment about Schade’s claim, and to Schade for more clarification about the circumstances under which he was not allowed at the town hall, but did not receive a response.

Schade also criticized Pipe Dream’s coverage of the events, and said that he was not given an opportunity to speak for himself.

Pipe Dream spoke with Schade about his Tinder profile last Monday afternoon, but he declined to go on the record. On Tuesday, Pipe Dream reached out again and was referred to Assistant Dean for OffCampus Services Milton Chester.

Schade’s speech capped off what was a tumultuous week for the president.

Following the revelation that his Tinder profile contained offensive, racially charged language, BSU authored a letter calling for his resignation, which was promptly signed by other prominent student groups.

He attempted to limit the damage by first issuing an apology on his Facebook

page, which deferred responsibility for the offensive language to an unknown party, and later by sending a formal apology to the student body via email.

However, the requests for him to step down did not go away — the Pipe Dream Editorial Board also called for Schade to resign.

“Given the situation, and the fact that I have a job [that is] at-will at a major firm in Washington, D.C. after graduation, it was in my personal best interest to [resign],” Schade explained Monday evening.

Schade went on to thank many of the people in attendance at the meeting, including his executive board and the students of congress, as well as the “hundreds of people” who reached out to him in support.

“Certainly, this has been a tough time for myself and my family,” he said. “I am looking forward to graduating and moving forward from this experience [and] watching the students who are a part of the SA grow together.”

Leadership series grows in second year SA election candidates Semester-long forum features female alumni to mentor, empower students approved by congress

Stacey Schimmel Pipe Dream News

An intensive one-day women’s leadership conference has turned into a semester-long series of female alumni speakers to empower, educate and inspire women at Binghamton University for life beyond the classroom.

This past Thursday was the kickoff program with alumna Christina Muscatello, who graduated in 2008 with a degree in history. Muscatello is the co-

founder and program coordinator of the Memory Maker Project, a Binghamton charity that works for advocacy programs and art therapy for those suffering from memory-loss diseases. She hosted a workshop that encouraged students to think about their passions, hobbies, interests, strengths and weaknesses in order to find career directions they may not have previously considered.

The Alumni Association started the program last spring as a conference that consisted of a networking lunch,

a keynote alumni speaker and three sessions of two programs. The program ended with a networking reception filled with local alumni and roughly 40 students.

Now, the program includes two to three sessions each month, in the form of either a speaker with 50 students, a workshop for 20 students or a brown bag lunch for 10-12 students. Students can complete the enrollment form and

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Pepsi engineer talks path to success Ariel Posner, '12, stresses risk taking to kick off engineering week Alana Epstein Pipe Dream News

The Thomas J. Watson School of Engineering and Applied Science hosted alumna Ariel Posner to kick off this year’s Engineering Week, and invited her to share her journey from Binghamton University to PepsiCo. Posner, who graduated in 2012 with a bachelor’s of science in bioengineering, now works in the PepsiCo Global R&D Beverage Platform Team. She supports the coffee and hydration platforms by working on systems to create and develop new products from the brainstorming stage until they reach the hands of customers.

Posner said she was excited to share her experience of growth with her fellow Bearcats.

“My initial thought was, ‘I only

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Rebecca Kiss/Contributing Photographer Alumna Ariel Posner, ‘12, kicks off this year’s Engineering Week. Posner discussed her journey from Binghamton University to PepsiCo and was excited to share her experience with fellow Bearcats.

ARTS & CULTURE

The Black Student Union brought poets to Binghamton for its annual poetry slam, See page 5

OPINIONS

Go behind the scenes of Binghamton University’s costume shop, See page 5

The Editorial Board discusses Dillion Schade’s resignation remarks and the work ahead for the SA E-Board, See page 8

2016-17 Student Association E-Board hopefuls to begin campaigning, seeking endorsements Alexandra Mackof News Editor

Letters of intent for 2016-2017 Student Association (SA) E-board positions were due on Friday, Feb. 19, and all candidates were approved for elections in Student Congress on Monday night.

The positions available are president, executive vice president, vice president for academic affairs, vice president for finance, vice president for multicultural affairs and vice president for programming.

Nicholas Ferrara, Adina Matos and Ruslan Klafehn, the current vice president for multicultural affairs, are running for president. Raaga Rajagopala and Justin Santabarbara submitted letters of intent for executive vice president. Bradley McBride and Adam Wilkes are running for vice president for academic affairs. Kate Tashman, the current vice president for finance, will be running for re-election against Serena Tesler. Jeremy McClure, Jr. is running against Tori Peña for vice president for multicultural affairs, and Max Maurice is running unopposed for vice president for programming.

Candidates may begin campaigning on Feb. 23. Each candidate has an $80 spending limit for campaigning and access to SA Ink for a maximum of 300 full-sheet flyers and four posters.

All other SA resources are off-limits

for campaigning purposes, including Listservs.

Putting up flyers is allowed in dining halls, but solicitation is prohibited. All types of campaigning are allowed in the Marketplace and Glenn G. Bartle Library.

Any executive board, judicial board or member of the legislative body can endorse a candidate. If an organization publicizes its endorsement, it must mention endorsements for more than one position, or mention other positions. No group can explicitly say to vote for an endorsed candidate, and members of the Planning, Research and Elections Committee (PRE) and Student Congress are prohibited from endorsing candidates.

Sweeps will be held on Tuesday, March 8. Each candidate will have the opportunity to give a three-minute speech to each housing community, followed by a five-minute question and answer session. Afterward, housing communities will also endorse candidates.

PRE will confirm the ballot with a two-thirds majority in Student Congress on Wednesday, March 9 and elections will be held on Friday, March 11. On the day of elections, all campaigning flyers must be removed from any designated voting areas and campaigning is prohibited within 100 feet of these locations. Voting centers will be the

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SPORTS

Binghamton hosts 11th annual Celebrating Women’s Athletics Luncheon, See page 9

Five players score in double figures to lead Binghamton men’s basketball past UMass Lowell, See page 10

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Urban planner shares keys to revitalization Kenneth Reardon discusses work reforming Memphis community Chloe Rehfield Staff Writer

In an effort to help improve Binghamton’s neighborhoods, an award-winning urban planner came to Binghamton University and delved into his story of urban development in South Memphis.

Kenneth Reardon, a professor and the director of the graduate program of new urban planning and community development at the University of Massachusetts Boston, gave a lecture called “Overcoming the Memphis Blues through Participatory Planning, Design and Development” in the Old O’Connor Alumni Center. He described his career, which began by heading Cornell University’s New Orleans planning initiative to produce a recovery plan after Hurricane Katrina. His efforts earned him the William R. and June Dale Prize for Excellence in City Planning.

The lecture was arranged by BU assistant professor in public administration, George Homsy.

He is also the organizer of the Neighborhood Heritage and Community Sustainability project at BU, an effort by students and faculty to reach out to community members and strengthen what they believe to be the city’s good qualities. Homsy, who was a former student of Reardon’s at Cornell, hoped to elicit inspiration for Binghamton’s own efforts to make the city less dangerous, have healthier food options and ultimately become a closer community.

“There are a couple of neighborhoods struggling that need community development,” Homsy said. “It’s not just about putting in businesses. It’s about connecting people. It’s about making sure that a place is safe, a place is clean, a place is sustainable. We wanted to bring in someone with a lot of experience who could make connections with our own community.”

Reardon’s speech focused on his time as planning director in Tennessee, where he rebuilt South Memphis through participatory planning and design.

By collaborating with clergymen and churches across the city, he sorted out the area’s issues by establishing attainable goals that community members agreed upon.

Kaely Hankison/Contributing Photographer Students and community members gather at Oakdale Mall on Saturday for the sixth annual Binghamton University Day. Extracting DNA from strawberries, jewelry making and learning how to count in different languages were all activities attendees could enjoy as part of the community outreach event, which featured over 30 different University departments ranging from science to the humanities.

Community, University mingle at mall

Sixth-annual BU Day at the Oakdale Mall features hands-on activities Amy Donovan Contributing Writer

Students and community members gathered at Oakdale Mall on Saturday for the sixth annual Binghamton University Day. Extracting DNA from strawberries, jewelry making and learning how to count in different languages were all activities attendees could enjoy as part of the community outreach event, which featured over 30 different University departments ranging from science to the humanities.

Darcy Fauci, one of the organizers of BU Day, said that the main goal of the event was to connect with people from the local community who wouldn’t normally see what the University has to offer.

“Binghamton University is a tremendous resource in our community, and unfortunately not many people really get exposed to what’s there,” Fauci said. “We have a lot of local students — however, there are so many more people in the community who

don’t get to see all of the faculty, researchers and performers.”

Dana Stewart, a BU Italian professor, was teaching people how to count from one to 10 in French, Spanish and Italian with the help of other faculty and students from the department of romance languages and literatures. She said she was excited to be tabling at the event this year because in the past, mostly science departments were featured.

“It’s great to get out and interact with the community,” Stewart said.

“I’ve been participating and seeing how great of an event it is and seeing that a lot of the sciences were represented but that not as much of the humanities, so I’m extra excited that my colleagues wanted to do this.”

Performances and demonstrations occurred throughout the day, including ones from a cappella groups Koinonia and the Binghamton Crosbys.

There were also games for children such as one conducted by the Physics

Outreach Program (POP), where an air machine would shoot out plastic balls and kids had to run and collect as many as possible and bring it back to their side.

Binghamton residents were also able to see different research that the University is conducting, such as work being done with 3D printers.

Tuc Nguyen, a graduate student studying biology, said the biology department attends BU Day every year to interact with the community through science and hands-on activities.

He helped people extract DNA from strawberries, and there were also live insects on the table that people could look at and touch.

“We do this every year to raise awareness about genetics to the community and to introduce some basic science,” Nguyen said.

“We’re also showing how we can do a very simple extraction of DNA from something very ubiquitous, like strawberries.”

Michelle Thompson, a firstyear graduate student studying education, said that the various activities were great for her

children to enjoy.

“This is excellent, it’s so much fun,” Thompson said. “I brought my kids because they like all of these hands-on activities.”

Lydie Murray, a Binghamton resident, also brought her children to BU Day, where they were able to learn about new topics with the help of science projects.

“This is a great event for the kids to get involved with handson activities,” Murray said. “My favorite part has probably been the fossils and some of the cool science projects they have. The kids think it’s cool because they’ve never seen things like that before.”

Fauci said that as members of the community, it is a part of the University’s responsibility to connect with the people that make up the Binghamton community.

“It’s the mission of the University, and it has been for many years, to do more to make connections with the community,” Fauci said. “So this is just one of those efforts to make those connections with the community at large.”

“We had a very high unemployment rate, a very high poverty rate, one of the lowest employment rates in the city, a very high morbid obesity rate amongst children,” Reardon said.

“But we were unable to address the structural causes of inequality and concentrations of poverty we were dealing with.”

Reardon and his team created the South Memphis Revitalization Action Project, which aimed to collaborate with community members to establish boundaries of each neighborhood and single out problems specific to each of them. A lack of healthy food, he said, was the biggest shared issue.

“With a large number of people, we could build a nonpartisan, political base of support for the plan so we could demand implementation,” Reardon said.

In a few months, the team transformed a vacant lot in South Memphis to a once-weekly, fully operating farmer’s market. The market became a year-round public facility and commercial kitchen that can be used by anyone in the community. Cooking classes that taught healthy ways to cook traditional African-American dishes were offered five nights a week, and a food truck to deliver healthy food options to four other areas in Memphis was established.

In addition, Reardon and his team used an $85,000 grant from a local urban art organization to build pedestrian walkways and safer bike lanes lined with sculptures and cultural art.

Katherine Dillon, a fourthyear graduate student studying archaeology, works with two professors involved in the Neighborhood Heritage and Community Sustainability project and said she hopes to use Reardon’s speech as motivation to achieve her project’s goals in Binghamton.

“We put on events to meet other people who live in our neighborhood and make connections, and find out what they want out of the neighborhood,” Dillon said.

“Reardon has a lot of experience in planning and engagement. The students here that are working to make neighborhoods more sustainable could get a lot out of that and use skills to build stronger projects to help change this community for the best.”

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Pipe Line LOCAL NEWS $2K Reward for BU assault arrest The reward for information leading to the arrest of those involved in a January 31 assault of three BU students was raised to $2,000 on Monday. Family members of those attacked on Hawley and Exchange Streets on Jan. 31 have offered a $500 reward for information, and the Binghamton Police Department has agreed to match it, bringing the total award to $1,000. According to the Press and Sun-Bulletin, another family offered to match the $1,000, bringing the total to $2,000. The suspects are described as a black male about 5 feet 9 inches tall with glasses, a white woman about 5 feet 6 inches tall with blond hair and a black woman about 5 feet 4 inches tall with curly hair.

Broome County gets $35K to educate doctors on opioid abuse Broome County received a $35,000 state grant on Monday to fund The Opioid Prescription Reduction

by Academic Detailing project, according to the Press and SunBulletin. The program, which is expected to begin in April, will educate drug prescribers at 98 local medical practice locations to educate on ways to curb the potential of the over-prescription of opioids. Currently, there are no known cases of over-prescribing in the community, but Broome County Executive Debbie Preston said this program will make sure that does not change.

Lunar Year Festivities

Teen indicted in October West Side assault Willie Costick, 17, of Binghamton was indicted by a grand jury in the gang assault against a man on the West Side, according to the Press and Sun-Bulletin. The attack, which occurred on October 3 on Murray Street and Gerard Avenue at 2:15 a.m., consisted of Costick and at least two others punching and kicking a 20 year-old-man, causing serious injuries. Costick has been indicted on felony counts of second-degree gang assault and second-degree assault and could result in three and a half to 15 years in prison.

Police said a second suspect, Walter Andino, 26, allegedly shot the same victim in the chest and has been charged with attempted murder in connection with the shooting.

BC Transit changes routes to save money Two of the 21 Broome County Transit bus routes have changes that will be implemented by the end of the month, according to the Binghamton Homepage. TransPro, a Florida-based route planning specialist, conducted the study on the bus system, and shared its findings with legislators on Friday.

Changes include a new route along Court Street, a new service to bring riders to the main entrance of Binghamton General Hospital and the combination of the 23 and 57 bus on the West Side. The changes will save the county about $500,000, and the County plans to deliver the information to riders for the next 10 days over social media, on flyers in the buses and through a transit call center.

This Day in History February 23, 1886 The London Times publishes the world’s first classified advertisement.

“I wish him well — he’s a nice person, he fought really hard.”

— Donald Trump, on Jeb Bush’s decision to suspend his presidential campaign on Saturday.

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Police Watch Fence Fraud FRIDAY, Feb. 19, 8:30 a.m. — Officers were contacted on Friday by a Binghamton University Facility Constructions representative who reported that a construction fence gate at the Innovative Technologies Complex (ITC) had been ripped from the ground, said Investigator Patrick Reilly of Binghamton’s New York State University Police. The fence gate, located in Lot J3, is used to gain access to the construction area for the Engineering and Science buildings. Workers were notified to inventory in order to determine if anything had been stolen.

The case is still under investigation.

Cut and Run FRIDAY, Feb. 19, 3:40 p.m.

— Officers were called for a larceny in Cascade Hall in Mountainview College on Friday, Reilly said. The victim, an 18-year-old female, reported that she was given a handmade cutout of a Disney lion from a person in the sorority she is pledging. She hung the cutout on the front of her door around 2 p.m, but later found that it was not there. After conducting an investigation, officers were able to determine who took the cutout. The suspect, a 20-yearold male, admitted to taking it and said he did it as a joke. The cutout was returned to the victim.

Sit Down and Shut Up SATURDAY, Feb. 20, 1:26 a.m. — A 24-year-old male

A lighter take on campus crime Derek Schuster Police Correspondant

reported a suspicious person at Hillside Community’s Hempstead Hall on Saturday, Reilly said. It was reported that a male with dark hair and a black shirt had been continuously knocking on their door. Officers were able to locate a 20-year-old male who matched the description and lived above the victim. He said he was knocking on the door because the victim was being loud. The victim said he had knocked on the suspect’s door to ask him to be quiet earlier in the night because he was being extremely loud. No charges were pressed.

Trip and Fall SATURDAY, Feb. 20, 11:30 p.m. — Officers responded to a report of a person having a panic attack in College-in-the-Woods’ Onondaga Hall on Saturday, Reilly said. The suspect, a 17-year-old male, was pacing back and forth in the vestibule of the building when officers arrived.

Despite the officers’ attempt to help him, he was extremely agitated and ended up striking one of the officers. They were able to take control of him despite his continued resistance. After being brought to Binghamton General Hospital by Harpur’s Ferry, it was determined he had been drinking and was tripping on LSD. The suspect was not a student at the University and had been visiting friends for the weekend. After coming down from his trip, he was arraigned at the Town of Vestal court and released to his parents.

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'12 alumna provides career path insight Workshops aim to ALUM FROM PAGE 1 graduated three and a half years ago, how much could I have to share?’” Posner said. “I immediately kicked myself for having this mentality, reminding myself that my journey from classroom to graduation through the early years of my career have been full of growth because I have believed in myself.”

According to Cheryl Monachino, the director of industrial outreach for Watson, Engineering Week is a time for engineers across the country to show pride for their chosen career path. The week is filled with student-run events like a talent show on Monday, Tuesday night dinner, group trivia on Wednesday, networking events on Thursday and a community day on Saturday.

Posner shared insight into the world of opportunity that exists for engineering students beyond graduation. When Posner first came to BU in 2009, she thought she wanted to go into biomedical engineering. But after taking various courses offered at BU, she said she realized that her

current field of complex systems engineering was what truly interested her.

When she was offered a position with PepsiCo as an associate engineer after she graduated from BU, she decided to embrace the challenge and accept the role.

She said that her background at BU helped her by giving her opportunities to grow, even if she didn’t realize it at the time.

“Looking back I believe there are several key aspects of Binghamton’s engineering program and extracurricular activities that I attribute to my growth, adaptability and success,” Posner said. “These include semester projects, professional skills courses and senior design project. As a student, I didn’t fully appreciate all of these assignments or even fully understand how they could help me grow.”

Many Watson students who attended said the talk gave insight into the professional engineering world. Adam Weiner, a junior majoring in electrical engineering, attended the event with other members of the engineering fraternity Theta Tau. Weiner said

Posner’s story of moving up in a large company like PepsiCo was inspirational.

“PepsiCo is a huge company, so to hear someone come and speak from PepsiCo is definitely beneficial for everyone,” Weiner said.

Posner advised students to start building their professional networks early and get advice on opportunities, resumes and interview skills.

“Network like it’s your full-time job,” Posner said. “Reach out to family, friends and use LinkedIn to connect with as many experts as possible.”

Prisca Hoffstaetter, a sophomore majoring in industrial and systems engineering, said she left the event feeling empowered and inspired.

“I really wanted to expose myself more to the engineering community,” Hoffstaetter said.

“I learned the power of believing in yourself and pushing yourself through your career.”

Posner reminded students that although the engineering curriculum can be tough, it is important to stay motivated

and passionate.

“As a student, I often remember being asked why I chose such a hard major, but looking back I never once had this question for myself,” Posner said. “My answer to my fellow friends, students and family was that while [it] may be hard in the moment, when you’re really interested and passionate about your work, you embrace and enjoy the challenges along the way.”

... when you're really interested and passionate about your work, you embrace and enjoy the challenges along the way —Ariel Posner BU Alum

2016-17 SA E-board election season begins SA FROM PAGE 1 Pods in Science Library, the Information Commons in the Glenn G. Bartle Library and the Chenango Champlain Collegiate Center (C4) Pods.

A candidate must receive at least 40 percent of votes to win, and candidate positions on the ballot are randomized. If no candidate receives a 40 percent plurality, run-off elections will occur between the top two candidates. Each will receive 150 full-sheet copies from SA Ink and $40 for additional campaigning.

Write-ins are prohibited in runoff elections, and the candidate that receives the majority of votes will win.

2016-17 Election Timeline February 23: Campaigning begins March 8: Sweeps March 11: Election Day March 14: Election results approved by Student Congress

empower women LEAD FROM PAGE 1 bring it with them to the first session they attend. According to the assistant director of alumni engagement, Courtney Huff, the target audience is those who identify as women, but no students are turned away.

Muscatello’s workshop centered around “personal asset mapping,” in which students discussed their strengths, hobbies, weaknesses and passions. This helped them think about career paths they may not have considered in order to touch on their passions.

Huff said that when her team evaluated the initial program, she saw potential for it to expand to be longer than one day and to accommodate more students.

She said that the mission for the program is to educate and prepare students for life in both the classroom and in the workforce, and to help them realize their strengths as women in order to help encourage diversity and advocacy in the workplace.

“I really hope our students gain an understanding and appreciation for connections with our alumni, and that someday the students want to reciprocate and give back once they become successful and accomplished alumni themselves,” Huff said. “I think the term networking is sometimes a scary term to students and they’re not sure what to expect, but these are small, intimate, focused programs so I think that makes networking much more accessible.”

Jazell Johnson, the assistant director of case management services and budgeting, said she values the women’s leadership series because, as a woman, she appreciates the opportunity to mentor and be mentored by great women.

“In particular, as a woman of color, I believe it is really important for students of color to see women who look like them in a positive light and have an opportunity to connect with them, share experiences and learn to overcome personal institutional obstacles,” Johnson wrote in an email.

Brianna Nelson, a senior majoring in biology, said she went to Thursday’s talk to build her leadership and communication skills and meet new students and faculty members. She said that these talks are a great resource for students to get valuable advice and ask questions.

“Her story made me realize that it’s not the end of the world if your life isn’t completely figured out by the time you graduate college,” Nelson said.

“Finding a career path that speaks to your interests and passions is what is important.”

The next luncheon will be held on February 26 with alumna Andrea Roma, ’05, M.S. ‘14. She will be talking about switching career choices and heading in different directions within a major.

It's not the end of the world if your life isn't completely figured out by the time you graduate college —Brianna Nelson BU Senior

BU sees $1M increase in donations Student Congress: 2/22/2016

Growing alumni base adds to spike in endowment Four bills approved to be voted on at next meeting Brendan Zarkower

reported during the previous year.

The additional donations can Charitable donations to be attributed to many factors, Binghamton University have including BU’s growing alumni been increasing and have grown base and increased outreach by nearly $1 million in the past efforts by the University itself, year. such as alumni networking BU received $7.57 million in events, telefunding and soliciting total giving during the 2014- donations from companies.

2015 fiscal year, which is an Among those leading the increase from the $6.43 million outreach efforts is Jim Broschart, the University’s vice president for advancement. The Division of Advancement is responsible for alumni outreach and many of the major annual fundraising efforts of the University. According to him, donations are a vital part of increasing BU’s national reputation.

“Philanthropy creates the margin of excellence that separates great institutions from good ones,” Broschart wrote in an email. “Philanthropy creates the environment for excellence in that it allows University leadership to create new or strengthen existing programs for students and faculty.”

People who give money are allowed to donate funds to be used for a predetermined program, which is the most common form of donation, but general donations are also received. The charitable donations collected by the University are used for a wide variety of programs, including funding scholarships, building enhancements and new academic programs, according to Broschart.

“Just as the strategic priorities outlined in The Roadmap to Premier drive the direction of Binghamton University, our future fundraising initiatives —Jim Broschart will remain in sync with the BU Vice President for Advancement Roadmap,” Broschart wrote in an email.

According to Broschart, about 40 percent of the money given to BU comes directly from alumni. Another 20 percent comes from friends, parents Pipe Dream News

Philanthrophy creates the margin of excellence that separates great institutions from good ones.

Philanthropy creates the environment for excellence in that it allows University leadership to create new or strengthen existing programs for students and faculty

and currently matriculated students. The remaining 40 percent is divided up between foundations, corporations and corporate matching gifts. Senior giving asks graduating seniors for a donation; 7.5 percent of the class of 2014 made donations, the class of 2015 had 12 percent participation and the class of 2016 reached a set goal of 14.5 percent participation.

Binghamton University’s alumni donation rates are still slightly below the national average of other public research universities. In terms of total funds raised, the disparity is even greater. Other New York schools generally report significantly larger totals for charitable donations.

Stony Brook University’s 2014-15 number was $71,089,622 and University at Albany’s was $12,565,057.

While Broschart said BU may lag behind comparable schools in terms of donations, he said he sees a lot of potential for growth in the coming years.

“While we don’t expect to grow at this rate every year, we do plan for philanthropic gifts to Binghamton to increase by another $1.1 million this fiscal year,” Broschart wrote. “We know our alumni care deeply about Binghamton University.

Thus, we think we can do better and have lofty goals to double our fundraising results by 2020.”

Binghamton University students express a variety of attitudes toward the idea of giving back to the University after graduation. While some students say they are open to the idea, many see themselves with different goals immediately following graduation.

“Maybe I would consider donating after my thousands of dollars of debt are paid off,” said Nikki Laird, a junior majoring in business administration. “But until then, I wouldn’t even think about it.”

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Monday’s Student Congress meeting saw both the resignation of the Student Association (SA) president, an appointment of a new executive vice president (EVP) and the introduction of new legislation.

After roll call, the meeting moved to Executive Board reports, which began with SA President Dillon Schade formally announcing he would be stepping down from his position following the discovery of racially charged language on his Tinder profile and the ensuing aftermath.

This is getting ready to adjust to the student body growing. There will be more students Downtown. That justifies that purpose. If we don't start adjusting now, we won't be able to get that third ambulance —David Hagerbaumer SA Executive Director

Providing a timeline of the series of events, Schade said his resignation was for the best.

“I want to thank everyone for an incredible four years here at Binghamton University,” he said. “Certainly this has been a tough time for for myself and my family, I am moving forward to graduate and move forward from this experience.”

Executive Vice President (EVP) Zachary Vigliani, who will be taking on the role as president for the remainder of the semester, then announced the appointment of EVP aide Naomi Barnett as interim EVP until a special election is held on March 15.

Vice President for Academic Affairs Amanda Baker discussed progress on a course replacement policy. She also later proposed new legislation that would require professors to submit a certain percentage of students’ grades by the withdrawal deadline, as well as legislation that would require professors to give a 10-day notice regarding changes in the syllabi.

Vice President Afor Multicultural Affairs Ruslan Klafehn discussed his continuation of an off-campus safety committee begun by Schade and urged students to get involved.

“It’s getting a little bit ridiculous because these are important issues, and the groups I’ve been reaching out to aren’t responding,” Klafehn said.

In regard to both the upcoming special elections and those concerning the 2016-17 E-Board, Planning, Research and Election Committee Chair Julie Kline announced the upcoming voting dates.

She also reminded Student Congress of the upcoming referendum on the student

activity fee, which determines whether the $99-per-semester fee is required or not. The fee funds all SA-chartered organizations, Off Campus College Transport (OCCT) buses and Harpur’s Ferry.

“We want to make sure as Congress, as students, that it remains mandatory,” Kline said.

Student Life and Academics Chair Brendan Cunningham gave updates on an off-campus alert system, saying that the current method being proposed, an app called Nixle, did not seem feasible.

“It couldn’t be realistic for it to be used as an alert system,” Cunningham said.

“When officers report to a crime scene, it’s not their first priority to update an alert system.”

Other new legislation approved to be voted on during the next congress session included a bill supporting the union that represents Sodexo workers at BU during their contract negotiations with the international company.

“Sodexo is avoiding proper negotiations at every turn,” said union representative Bryan Staul. “And the reason why I’m here tonight is because we need the support of the students.”

Amendments to the constitution, which included raising the amount of the student activity fee that goes toward Harpur’s Ferry, were also approved to be voted on during the next meeting.

The increased funding would go toward buying a third ambulance.

“This is getting ready to adjust to the student body growing,” said SA executive director David Hagerbaumer.

“There will be more students Downtown.

That justifies that purpose. If we don’t start adjusting now, we won’t be able to get that third ambulance.”

ARTS & CULTURE

Behind the scenes of BU's costume shop

With guidance, students create Mainstage looks Georgia Westbrook Staff Writer Few people outside of Binghamton University’s theatre department know that deep in the trenches of the Fine Arts Building, there is a secret stash of dress patterns from the 1950s, costumes from the 1930s and fabric scraps in every color and material imaginable.

The department’s costume shop, located two stories down from Watters Theater, provides the complete wardrobes for all of the Mainstage productions that the department puts on each semester.

This includes everything from making dresses to selecting the right accessories for each costume.

The costume shop is run by three professional staff members, but students perform the majority of the work as part of classes or to fulfill requirements for the theatre major and minor. Students outside of the major, particularly those who are interested in fashion design, also work in the shop.

Andrea Lenci-Cerchiara, head of the costume shop and an adjunct lecturer in the theatre department, feels a special connection to BU and its theatre program, as she is an alumna herself. After graduating from BU, Lenci-Cerchiara went on to become a freelance costume designer. She later studied in the history of design graduate program at the Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian

National Design Museum before returning to Binghamton, where she has been for the past four years.

Lenci-Cerchiara said she feels lucky to be back in Binghamton, where students have so many opportunities and the ability to collaborate with a variety of departments and individuals oncampus.

Visiting the costume shop on a recent weekday, the staff is busy preparing for the photo call, during which the cast dresses in full costumes and makeup so photos can be taken for promotional materials.

The upcoming production of the play “Dancing at Lughnasa,” a family drama set in 1930s Ireland, requires researching period makeup and accessories, sewing garments from vintage patterns and sourcing vintage clothing to tailor to the actors’ bodies and even getting the right underwear.

Lenci-Cerchiara said that she wants students to realize that the costume shop is responsible for putting together “everything to create a show,” which includes “a lot more than sewing.” Classes taught in the costume shop include theatrical makeup, costume design, history of design and costume technology.

Nicolas Coccaro, a junior majoring in theatre, works in the costume shop for about eight hours a week to fulfill major requirements, as well as for his class, costume technology.

Vladimir Koleshikov/Contributing Photographer Michelle Neiderman, a senior majoring in economics, and Chelsea French, a first-year graduate student studying theatre, work in Binghamton University’s costume shop. The costumes for Binghamton University’s Mainstage productions are made in the shop by students and faculty.

“It’s very fun to get involved and actually be able to see your work go up on stage,” Coccaro said. “If something works for the actors with the costumes or something’s not right, it’s on you and you can feel responsible for how the production goes.”

Marisa Cartusciello, a sophomore majoring in theatre, is also in costume technology this semester, and enjoys the

environment the costume shop provides for students.

“Sandy, Andrea and Marisa are so helpful and patient,” Cartusciello said. “They put on music for us to listen to and there is always a good atmosphere when we work.

I think it is a fantastic learning opportunity for the students to be able to get hands-on experience in the costume shop.”

Students also have the

opportunity to participate in a theatre intensive class, which meets every night during the two weeks leading up to each Mainstage production. This class gives students a taste of all of the aspects of putting together a theatre production, including costume work, scene work, technical skills and house management.

If you wander around the Fine Arts Building and are able to find

the costume shop, you’ll discover a trove of vintage clothing, a rainbow of fabrics and more machines than you would imagine could fit in such a space. But you’ll also find students and faculty members who really love what they are doing and are working really hard behind the scenes to create a hugely important aspect of each play. And if you can’t find the costume shop? You’ll see the finished products on stage soon.

BSU hosts poetry jam

Annual event featured noteworthy voices Yadira Sierra Contributing Writer

Neil Seejoor/Pipe Dream Photographer Audience members view “Bellissima” by Italian director Luchino Visconti as part of Harpur Cinema’s spring film series. The series will run from February 19 through April 17, with showings on Fridays and Sundays, in Lecture Hall 6.

Films as they should be

Harpur Cinema kicks off their spring series Nicholas Terepka Contributing Writer Harpur Cinema, Binghamton University’s only film society, continued the celebration of its 50th anniversary season with its first showing this semester, 1952’s “Bellissima” by Italian director Luchino Visconti.

Since it was founded by the department of romance languages back in the fall of 1965, Harpur Cinema has consistently attempted to show notable films that the student body may not be able to access on its own.

Joyce Jesionowski, the programmer for Harpur Cinema and a professor in the cinema department, has been the programmer for Harpur Cinema for the past eight years, and is proud to have ushered in the society’s 50th year. “’Bellissima’ is a favorite of mine,” she wrote in an email. “I’ve been waiting to show that film because I love Anna Magnani’s fullthroated passionate characters, because it’s an example of ‘cinema about cinema’ and because I wanted to introduce Visconti to the Binghamton audience, particularly to our students.”

Many of the films shown by Harpur Cinema are well-received by critics, but lack mainstream appeal, despite their importance to the art form.

“The series represents a mix of interesting films that screened at Cannes and the the Toronto International Film Festival and other international festivals,” Jesionowski wrote. “As well, I wanted to pay tribute to a truly great filmmaker, Chantal Akerman (‘Almayer’s Folly’) who passed away in 2015 … She deserves the widest audience possible.”

Central to the ethos of the club, the series is shown in a traditional theater setting in Lecture Hall 6. The black walls are meant to enhance this setting as much as possible.

“Cinema is changing — it used to be a theater experience shared by audiences in common,” Jesionowski wrote.

“Harpur Cinema offers audiences the opportunity, right on campus, to have that experience of getting lost in the cinema image, or being outraged by it, or cheering, or protesting what’s up on the screen.”

This experience is one that the club has offered since its founding.

For the cinephiles on campus, Harpur Cinema is a solace from poorer-quality and frequently interruptible Netflix viewings, and for exposure to films by masters of the craft in the manner they were meant to be seen.

For most film series, there are some films that are worth more of a viewing than others. This semester,

Jesionowski believes otherwise.

“I recommend that students see all the films in the series,” Jesionowski wrote. “I had originally thought of concentrating on films about filming, but in the end there were too many interesting films coming up in the current festivals, so I opted to ‘bookend’ the series with two Italian masters making films about films.”

This is Jesionowski’s last semester as the club’s programmer — she will be passing on the responsibility to a new team of cinema department faculty. She has repeatedly stated that she is proud of where the club has gone during her tenure, and is thankful to those who have made it popular.

“We’ve been really fortunate in the faculty members, from the Cinema Department and other departments who have agreed to introduce films over the years,” Jesionowski wrote. “As well, students have staffed Harpur Cinema … in every role students have made generous contributions to the project, [and I’d also like to thank] the Dean’s office.”

Tickets for film showings are $4 for single admission and there are new showings every Friday, with encores every Sunday. It will run from February 19 until April 17 in Lecture Hall 6. The next film in the series is “The Pearl Button” (2015) by Chilean director Patricio Guzman on February 26 and 28.

On Saturday night, the Black Student Union (BSU) held their annual Poetry Jam. Featuring two performers, Jasmine Mans and Alysia Harris, it was an exciting event that brought poetry lovers from all ends of campus together.

“It’s a tradition that has been going on for every Black History Month,” said Victoria Lewis, the president of BSU and a senior majoring in psychology.

The night’s first headliner, Mans — a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison — is well-known for using her art to speak out against the actions of black icons, particularly in the hip-hop industry. Her incorporation of popular lyrics into her poetry was well-received by the crowd, as snaps could be heard after familiar lines.

“It’s important to address those in the limelight,” Mans said. “I’m a hip-hop fan and it’s something that I think about often. My medium is poetry and I want to talk about rap.”

Many audience members were anticipating one of Mans’ most popular poems, “Footnotes for Kanye,” which has over 35,000 views on Youtube. Some even came to the event just to hear the popular piece with statements like, “Do you know how many kids at the protest had your sneakers on? None of them. Do you know how many of your songs were played at the protest?

All of them.”

The poet covered a wide range of themes during her performance, from appropriation to thoughts of a mother raising a black son. Sheleasa Ward, a senior majoring in geography, was glad she got to see Mans perform.

“I wanted to support black artists,” Ward said. “She’s amazing. Nina Simone, Lauryn Hill-type vibe.”

The event’s second act, Harris, graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, where she was featured in the university’s spoken word collective in 2007.

She went on to graduate with

a Masters in Fine Arts (MFA) in creative writing from New York University and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in linguistics from Yale University.

At the beginning of each poem, Harris explained how the specific moments in her life inspired what she wrote, and incorporated some humor into her performance. Many know Harris for a slam poem titled, “That Girl,” but on Saturday, she performed the popular poem’s follow-up, “This Woman,” which described her seven-year long journey from being a struggling girl to becoming the strong person she is today. The poem spoke to the many hardships women face during their journey into womanhood, from selfdeprecation to getting over an unhealthy relationship.

The event also featured talent from Binghamton University students. A star of the show was Lindsay Young — vice president of BU’s slam poetry club and a senior majoring in psychology — who received a standing ovation from the crowd and even the night’s headliners. Young shared a poem dedicated to the children she will never have, and emphasized the daily fights black people must face living in the modern world.

“It was great to perform for an audience that was full of people that enjoy poetry,” Young wrote in an email. “I’ve performed for a pretty wide range of event types and performing for poetry lovers always feels the warmest. It was also particularly great to perform for two of my favorite poets of all time. The opportunity was insane.”

Neil Seejoor/Pipe Dream Photographer Jasmine Mans performs in the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center as part of Black Student Union’s (BSU) annual Poetry Jam on Saturday. The event is part of BSU’s programming for Black History Month.

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WARRIORS

Wow, it was beautiful out this weekend! But who needed to take advantage of a nice day when there was so much to be done at night?

Here are some Weekend Warriors who used this sweater weather as an opportunity to get wild and drunk! Actually, a lot of these students haven’t been heard back from after what we presume was this weekend’s collection of screwfests, so let us know what happened.

OPINIONS Tuesday, February 23, 2016

Response to Sarah Saad’s column on political correctness Anita Raychawdhuri

Columnist

SCHADE'S RESIGNATION ADDRESS MISSES THE POINT EDITOR’S NOTE: Because Dillon Schade was critical of Pipe Dream’s news coverage of the scandal, the news editor did not participate in this editorial so as to avoid a conflict of interest.

Student Association President Dillon Schade gave a resignation speech to Student Congress on Monday night. In it, he was defiant, and fought back against those who called for him to step down.

It was a far cry from the composed, respectful email that he sent out to the student body on Friday announcing his intentions to resign. In that email, Schade wrote that it was “time for me to step down so as to not inhibit the further advancement of this institution.”

On Monday, however, he said that it was “in my personal best interest to [resign]” because of

the job that he has waiting for him after graduation. And that’s OK. We are all college students who want to be employed after we leave Binghamton. What was disappointing was the lack of remorse in his speech.

Schade started by announcing that he was going to read his “unbiased timeline” of the events from the past week that ultimately led to his resignation.

Schade’s definition of “unbiased,” however, is unclear, as he promptly proceeded to call the Black Student Union’s letter asking for his resignation “slanderous.”

He played the victim,

explaining how BSU’s letter had spread via Facebook, and that he had been put in a position where he had no choice but to resign.

Pipe Dream was also a target, as Schade alleged that its news coverage did not give him the opportunity to defend himself.

Whether or not Shade is guilty of posting the N-word on his Tinder profile is not yet known — he claims that he is the victim of a prank. But that his farewell address did not feature any sort of apology to the students who lost faith in him because of the offensive language, or that he did not broach the topic of race that he spoke about at length

in his letter to campus was unfortunate.

In the end, Schade missed the point with his last public address. He could, and should, have taken the opportunity to tell the remaining SA E-board, as well as the entirety of BU’s Student Congress, to learn from the events that forced him from office and urged them to push for positive change throughout the remainder of the year. Instead, he used his speech as a platform to fight back on his way out.

Schade’s final retaliation gave an unseemly end to an otherwise effective and influential presidency.

Views expressed in the opinion pages represent the opinions of the columnists. The only piece which represents the views of the Pipe Dream Editorial Board is the Staff Editorial, above. The Editorial Board is composed of the Editor-in-Chief, News Editor, Opinions Editor, Sports Editor and Arts & Culture Editor.

is banned we are not able to see the other side of an issue — and it is valuable to see all sides, even if the side is horrific or uncomfortable.

It allows us to rigorously examine our own views and prejudices as well as understand ways to modify the system. We have to “know our enemy,” so to speak.

Speech identifies problematic people. If someone says something improper then we can, as Sarah astutely suggested, educate them.

If it is in fact a reasonable slip, we can criticize them, allowing a conversation and perhaps even a dismantling of their problematic attitudes. Political correctness breeds resentment which, if anything, stifles progress and proper equality. This doesn’t help prejudice at all — rather, it makes bigoted people more determined to spew their bile. Political correctness is a bandage for the actual system, with bleeding wounds.

We are living in a system that insidiously prejudices against groups, whether that system is education, the workforce, healthcare or the justice system.

Banning words won’t change this and it won’t do much to change attitudes. People who hold offensive views will be ousted by their ability to speak and then, and only then, are we able to have a proper dialogue about the issues.

There is, of course, the issue that not everyone has the same access to speech, and that some speech is more privileged than others. To briefly address this, this will not be helped by creating safe spaces through political correctness.

Again, when people have better access to speech, this is an issue with the system. It can only be dismantled by changing the sociopolitical system completely.

The individuals spouting hate are not the problem so much as the society that produces and reinforces such individuals.

Sarah Saad’s column “We should respect each other through our language” is incredibly conscious of being respectful which, in many ways, is commendable. However, there is not enough of a rigorous examination of political correctness. I have to disagree with Sarah; political correctness is stupid. Let me explain.

Political correctness is an infringement on free speech, critical thought and discussion.

I hate racist comments from Donald Trump and the disgusting rhetoric of rape advocate Roosh V as much as the next guy, but I don’t think these words should be banished. Look, you can quiet people all you want, you can fire people and you can call for legislation that silences, but that does not make the hate behind the words evaporate.

Speech lurks in murky waters because it is not quite an action — but it isn’t inaction either. Speech is very powerful, perhaps more so than actions, to use the cliché, but the hurt of a speech cannot be quantified in the same way as a physical blow. For this reason, it is a lot more dangerous to move toward banning types of speech.

How do we deem what is offensive enough? Who gets left out of political correctness protection?

Who gets to decide what speech is banned? I know “slippery slope” can be a silly argument, but I can’t help but see political correctness as kind of Orwellian.

Offensive speech plays a valuable role in social change and creating a conversation. Without the offenders I mentioned above, would we have had as rich discussions about racism, or women’s rights? Would there have been as aggressive a push to — Anita Raychawdhuri is a change the system? When speech senior majoring in English

Schade resignation highlights issues with race discourse

Serious conversation needed throughout our community as University is faced with inequality Zachary Borodkin

Contributing Columnist

The President of the Student Association (SA) announced his resignation on Friday after a racial joke was found on his Tinder account. He claimed the profile was not his and that it was the result of a prank. The Black Student Union along with other groups, such as The Latin American Student Union and the Women’s Student

Union, were outraged, as they were all too familiar with the events that had taken place at the University of Missouri a few months ago.

We are the first generation to be introduced to social media, with platforms that vary from Facebook to Twitter to Yik Yak. All of these platforms serve as a space for communities to interact with each other in an unlimited exchange of subjects and ideas. Underneath this exchange, however, is the dark undertow of prejudice. Watch any video or read any article and you are certain to find comments that

target culture, race, sex and any other form of discrimination you can think of.

Wrapped in dark sarcasm or just outright explicit, these comments always hit their target and spur an exchange that drives away from our collective consciousness. Whether it is as the student body or society as a whole, it is this collective consciousness that allows us to have a conversation about social diseases such as racism.

The killings of unarmed AfricanAmericans by police, coupled with the Black Lives Matter movement,

have made race a permanent fixture on the national scale and, while there is dialogue among different demographics, we are talking about it in its physical form rather than racism on all fronts.

I am certainly not condoning the words used in the joke. My issue lies in the fact that the words were typed from behind a keyboard and, although this was felt strongly among many student groups, the shock seemed to fade across the rest of the community. If there had been a physical altercation or the same joke had been expressed

verbally, it certainly would have generated a larger reaction and may have even sparked a protest.

The resignation of the SA president was the desired result of the groups who had called for it, but this can also serve as a lesson about how society should approach the discussion of race. We must realize that the discussion must be geared toward forms that are not always visible. A resignation is one way to highlight the issue of race, but the conversation must reach our exchanges behind the keyboard as well. Even if this was

a prank, the blatant language that was used plays a role in how we think about and discuss race.

The keyboard is an issue that is affecting our discourse over race at the national level and needs to be addressed if we are to go beyond treating the symptoms and actually cure the disease. The keyboard may have allowed it to spread, but the keyboard can also be what begins to eradicate it.

— Zachary Borodkin is a graduate student majoring in public adminstration

Hillary Clinton supporters should stick to issues

Feminists should not be shaming women over candidate choice; president needs a thorough vetting Emily Houston

Contributing Columnist

From the year of 1789, our country has been run by 44 presidents with a very common feature: they all belong to the male gender. With this overwhelming presence of testosterone, our country has exploded into the turmoil of civil war, experienced an economic depression of momentous concern and has

been subject to terrorist attacks of numerous forms. Because of these occurrences, I understand why Hillary Clinton’s campaign prevailed in the Nevada caucus last week, the Democratic population of the state supporting her with 52.5 percent of the vote to Sanders’ 47.5 percent. But, even as the vehement feminist that I am, I have a concern as to the true reasoning these proponents have for supporting Clinton’s candidacy.

Favoring Hillary’s campaign simply because she is a female is not the right reason to elect her

as our president. Recently, there has been a trend, particularly in the realm of social media, of females declaring it “un-feminist” to not support Clinton’s candidacy merely because she would be the first president in the history of our country to be a female. This idea is absurd. By equalizing Clinton’s gender with her right to head the country, we are essentially copying what men used to say for years and years: that gender is a singular factor through which we can decide someone’s capacity to lead.

With the election of President

Obama, our country made extreme strides toward breaking away from its history of racial inequality.

Similarly, feminists across the country believe this is the time for gender inequality to be leveled — but is it because they support Clinton, or just because they support the notion of a female president?

To only elect Clinton because of her gender would be an insult to the actual issues that she champions. It is indubitable that women’s rights would improve with her election — so support

Clinton because you believe she will protect your right to choose as proven with Roe v. Wade, and work hard to pass the Paycheck Fairness Act to ensure the wage gap is eliminated. But also remember that there are other aspects to a campaign than women’s issues: Clinton is also leading the country in a surge toward Alzheimer’s research, paid family leave for both men and women, eliminating sexual assault on college campuses and protecting the small business community.

This is not to say that I’m

not wholeheartedly thrilled with even the prospect of putting a woman in the Oval Office. After over 200 years, it is certainly time for a woman to prove that she has the same capacity to lead as a man. Do politics need to be feminized? Absolutely. However, I sincerely hope that our citizens are considering electing Clinton for reasons far better than the presence of her reproductive system.

—Emily Houston is a freshman majoring in English

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BU hosts Celebrating Women's Athletics Luncheon

Olympic gold medalist Amy Van Dyken serves as keynote speaker at 11th annual event Nicholas Waldron

Association, was held on Monday, February 22 at the Events Center.

The luncheon, which was held The Women’s Athletics for the 11th time on Monday, Luncheon, hosted by the raises funds for Binghamton Binghamton Bearcats Athletic female student-athletes and

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serves as a platform to recognize the achievements of those very student-athletes.

The first luncheon in 2006 was a small event attended by 75 people, but the event has

grown exponentially in recent years. Over 500 coaches, alumni, athletes and donors attended this year’s luncheon, which was headlined by featured speaker, Amy Van Dyken — a decorated

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Pictured: Former Olympic gold medalist Amy Van Dyken.

US Olympic swimmer, with six Olympic gold medals and three World Championship medals to her name.

Unlike past speakers — including Rebecca Lobo (2015) and Jennie Finch (2014) — Van Dyken’s athletic achievements were not the focal point of her speech. Van Dyken was in a nearfatal ATV accident in 2014, which left her paralyzed from the waist down. Instead of focusing on her ascent as an athlete, Van Dyken spoke to the Bearcats about what to do when you are at the bottom, trying to get back to the top.

“I want to inspire all females and really everybody to know that we’re going to be handed things in life that really throw you a curveball,” Van Dyken said. “You can have a bad day or you can choose to have a bad moment.”

Van Dyken’s “bad moment” came when everything she previously knew was thrown out of whack, when the two things that earned her AP Female Athlete of the Year, an Olympic Hall of Fame plaque and many other accolades were rendered useless. Her legs were what got her to where she was at in life, but she refused to let that futility drag her down.

“If you have to be in a wheelchair, make sure it’s purple and fabulous,” Van Dyken said to the press before the luncheon.

“Women as a whole need to work together, inspire each other and lift each other up,” Van Dyken said. As a college athlete at Arizona and Colorado State, Van Dyken learned the

value of teamwork and support that athletics teaches so well. By speaking at a fundraising event like the Luncheon, Van Dyken hopes to help countless female student-athletes learn the same lessons.

One student-athlete who has benefited from the experience of college athletics like many of those attending the luncheon is Binghamton softball’s Griffin McIver, the student-athlete chosen to speak at the event. A redshirt senior in her final season with the Bearcats, McIver touched on what has made her time as a Bearcat so special.

Although the crowd heard different speeches from a former Olympian in a wheelchair and a current college athlete, the sentiment from both speeches was very similar; when it comes to athletics and college as a whole, you have to appreciate the time you have. For McIver, softball is something she has done her whole life. Life after it will be much different, as it is for all college athletes, but that doesn’t mean it is going to be worse.

Since its inception in 2006, the Celebrating Women’s Athletics Luncheon has raised upwards of $300,000 for scholarships for female student-athletes.

Van Dyken did not just focus on her hardships, however. She ended with some perfect words for Bearcats and any others who enjoy success in their lives.

“Stop downplaying stuff,” she said. “You are awesome: tell it. Let the world know. It’s not bragging if it’s true.”

Bearcats top Niagara in OT

Ryan nets three goals, including game winner Evan Cole Contributing Writer

The Binghamton women’s lacrosse team gained some confidence this Saturday, earning an electrifying overtime victory over Niagara (0-1) in its first home game of the season.

Binghamton (1-1) started out both halves strong, scoring within the first two minutes of each half. This emphasis gave the Bearcats an edge and quick momentum as they exploited the Purple Eagles’ lack of intensity at the opening moments, which was a crucial part of Binghamton’s game plan.

“We’re playing in smaller increments of time out there and trying to win the little battles on the field,” BU head coach Stephanie Allen said. “Today we made a couple adjustments with our offense and draw-takers so that we were able to get possession and they were able to get the ball down and bury it in the back of the net quickly.”

Despite the early energy boost

from sophomore Tiffany Ryan, the team struggled to maintain its intensity consistently, trading goals with Niagara until the score was knotted at two almost halfway through the first half.

The Bearcats were outshot, 127, in the first half, but senior goalie Erin McNulty made a phenomenal save with just under four minutes remaining to spark the team. Soon after, junior midfielder Callon Williams netted her first goal of the day, giving Binghamton a 3-2 lead just a minute before halftime.

After another goal was scored

by Ryan, the Bearcats held a seemingly controllable 5-2 lead.

However, Niagara went on to score three unanswered goals — two coming in the final 20 seconds of regulation, to force overtime. But Binghamton’s edge in controlling the pace of each period proved to be the determinate factor, as Ryan completed a hat trick by burying her third goal to end the game just over a minute into the overtime period. Allen hinted that this offensive explosion is

something that can begin to be expected from the young attacker.

“Last year she definitely got some minutes and experience as a freshman, but she’s starting to come into her own,” Allen said. “[She’s] understanding the game and game flow a little bit better, so she’s someone we’ll look to a lot more this season.”

Defensively, senior Allie Rodgers stood out, as she secured three ground balls to help stop Niagara’s late comeback efforts.

Additionally, McNulty played solidly in goal, making an impressive 11 saves.

“I’m just really proud of our team’s resiliency out there today,” Allen said. “We’ve been learning over the past couple of years how to win and it was really encouraging to see them come out and stay composed in a very tough situation at the end of the game.”

The Bearcats are set to return to action on Tuesday when they take on Lafayette. First faceoff is scheduled for 7 p.m. from Fisher Stadium in Easton, PA.

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Sophomore attack Tiffany Ryan scored a team-high three goals in Binghamton’s victory over Niagara on Saturday.

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Junior Jon Alkins received the Coaches’ Award at the America East Indoor Championships after finishing first in the 200 meter, second in the 60 meter and anchoring Binghamton’s second-place 4x400 relay team.

BU shines at Indoor Finals

Men 2nd, women 3rd at AE Championships

Eric Gaccione Contributing Writer

The Binghamton track and field teams competed at the America East (AE) Indoor Championships over the weekend, with the men finishing second for the eighth time in nine seasons as the women finished in the top three for the fourth straight season.

BU head coach Mike Thompson was very pleased with the performances of his runners, as they did exactly what he expected of them.

“I was really just hoping we would get second,” Thompson said.

“On paper it looked like we were going to score about 135 points and we ended up with 146, so we did better than we should have. We easily got second and that’s what we hoped to do.”

The men’s team, which took home second place for the eighth time in nine seasons, was led by junior sprinter Jon Alkins, who won the men’s Coaches’ Award for his stellar performances. He took the top spot in the 200-meter event with a time of 21.39 seconds and finished second in the 60-meter hurdles (6.90) and anchored the 4x400 relay team, which also placed second. Alkins finished the day with a total of 20 points.

Other men’s winners included senior Adam Mcle and junior pole vaulter Peter Fagan. Mcle repeated

as the 800-meter champion (1:52.45), while Fagan finished first in the pole vault with a height of 17-2 ¾ feet. The pole vault proved to be one of the men’s strongest events, as BU boasted five of the top six finishers in the event. Senior Joe Miceli also notched a first-place finish, capturing the heptathlon with 5,132 points.

The Bearcat women were led by none other than junior Keishorea Armstrong, who blew away the competition by placing first in both the long jump (19-11 ½ feet) and the 60-meter, finishing with a time of 7.45 seconds. Armstrong, the women’s Coaches’ award recipient, also took fifth place in the triple jump (37-3 ¾ feet).

Also winning on the women’s side were seniors Kierra Arthur and Tori Shaffer. Arthur took home the gold in the 60-meter hurdles (8.70), while Shaffer repeated as high-jump champion with a height of 5-7 feet.

When asked about the key to his team’s success throughout the season and in the conference championship, Thompson’s answer was simple — talent.

“We have good people in almost every event,” Thompson said. “We don’t have huge numbers of people, with a couple of exceptions, but we have somebody in every event, and those people did as well as they were supposed to or did even better than expected.”

This dispersal of talent is evident in the Bearcats’ team this year, as nine men and seven women received All-Conference honors subsequent to the meet.

Despite high finishes from both the men’s and women’s teams, Coach Thompson did discuss his disappointment that star runner Jesse Garn couldn’t compete in the event due to nagging injuries.

“It’s unfortunate,” said Thompson. “Instead of trying to force the issue and have him run, and maybe make things even worse, we just decided to let him focus on outdoor [track and field], and make sure he’s healthy.”

Thompson also stated it would not have been worth it for Garn to run, as he has much bigger events to compete for in the future.

“It means a lot more to us to for him to go to National’s Outdoors [Championship] and then the Olympic Trials this summer and do well there,” Thompson said. “It was too bad and he was disappointed because he wanted to compete, but it will be a long [spring] season for him. Hopefully it will pay off in the end.”

Although the conference championship is behind them, the Bearcats’ indoor season is not over yet. Binghamton is set to compete at the ECAC/IC4A Championships in Boston, Massachusetts from March 4-6. The start time of the meet has yet to be announced.

The Binghamton BASEBALL, SOFTBALL AND MEN’S LACROSSE TEAMS all opened their seasons this weekend.

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Bearcats rally to top River Hawks

Watkins sparks Binghamton's fourth quarter comeback Orlaith McCaffrey Assistant Sports Editor

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Freshman guard Timmy Rose played a career-high 30 minutes and scored 13 points in BU’s victory over UML on Saturday.

BU earns season sweep of UML

Five starters finish in double-figures as Bearcats top River Hawks E.Jay Zarett Sports Editor

Two minutes into the game between the Binghamton men’s basketball team and UMass Lowell on Saturday, BU sophomore forward Willie Rodriguez opened the scoring with a midrange jump shot. The Bearcats (7-20, 4-10 America East) would hold the lead for the next 38 minutes.

Despite cutting their deficit to just two in the final minutes of the contest, the River Hawks (11-17, 7-8 AE) never managed to swing the scoreboard back in their favor as the Bearcats held on for an 81-77 victory at the Events Center. With the victory, BU moved into a tie for sixth place in the AE standings.

“I think every win puts a little bit more wind in your sails,” BU head coach Tommy Dempsey said.

“I think for the coaches and for the players, you have to validate your improvement as a program and as a team with wins and we were able

to do that today.”

For the first time this season, five Bearcat players scored in double figures, led by 14 points from junior guard Marlon Beck and 13 from freshman guard Timmy Rose. Binghamton scored from all over the floor, attacking the paint against an undersized UML team and knocking down jump shots. BU hit seven threepointers in the game.

“We are playing February basketball,” Beck said. “It’s late in the season, so we’re picking up our tempo on both ends. If everyone can get involved like that, it makes us an entirely better team.”

Following Rodriguez’s jumper, the Bearcats jumped all over the River Hawks. The Bearcats put together one of their best offensive halves of the season, shooting 44.1 percent from the field and 85.7 percent from the free-throw line.

Eleven minutes into the game, a pair of free throws by freshman guard Everson Davis pushed the

Binghamton lead to 14, 30-16 and BU headed into the locker room nine minutes later leading by eight, 39-31. Nine different Bearcats recorded at least two points in the period.

Coming out of the locker room, UMass Lowell began to cut into the Binghamton lead. Every time it seemed as if the River Hawks were gaining momentum, but Rose or Beck found a way to score. After UML cut a 12-point Binghamton lead to seven three minutes into the half, Rose nailed a step-back jumper on the baseline and Beck followed with a three-pointer. Ten minutes later, Beck hit another triple from the top of the key to bring the Binghamton lead back to nine.

However, Beck’s biggest moment of the game came with nine seconds remaining in the contest. After the River Hawks had shrunk the Bearcats lead to two courtesy of an 8-2 run over the final minute of play, Beck stepped

to the line and sank a pair of free throws to push Binghamton’s lead to four and seal the win.

“I really wanted to get this win today,” Beck said about the freethrow attempts. “Coach drew up a play for me or Willie [Rodriguez] to get the ball. We got it in my hands and I just had to finish the game.”

Joining Rose and Beck in double-figures for BU were Rodriguez, freshman forward Thomas Bruce and sophomore forward Bobby Ahearn, all of whom netted 11 points apiece.

BU moved into a tie for sixth place in the conference with Maine.

With only two AE regular season games remaining, Binghamton could finish anywhere from sixth to ninth in the final conference standings.

Binghamton is set to return to action Wednesday night when it travels to take on UMBC. Tip-off is scheduled for 7 p.m. from the RAC Arena in Catonsville, Maryland.

When sophomore guard Imani Watkins of the Binghamton women’s basketball team drained two three-pointers and a layup in a span of 26 seconds in the fourth quarter of Saturday’s win over UMass Lowell (4-23, 1-14 America East), there was a single thought on her mind: refuse to lose.

“I told [my teammates] we weren’t going to lose this game and that we had to refuse to lose,” Watkins said. “One of our assistant coaches says that all the time, ‘refuse to lose’ and that’s what we did today.”

Despite being tabbed to finish last in the AE, Binghamton has come out on top in half of its 2016 conference match-ups.

This was the story once again on Saturday, as BU overcame a double-digit deficit to UML for the second time this year.

Down by 13 headed into the final quarter, it seemed as though the Bearcats were about to be defeated by the lastplace River Hawks, who have earned just one conference win this season. Watkins’ 8-0 run, however, sparked the kind of narrow victory that has been the signature of the Bearcats this season. Watkins’ clutch fourth quarter play highlighted her game-high 21 points.

Although some watching may have counted the Bearcats out after they had fallen behind, BU’s comeback and Watkins’ performance, didn’t surprise BU head coach Linda Cimino.

“Imani is one of the toughest competitors I have ever coached,” Cimino said. “The thing I like about her is she takes constructive criticism very well.

When things aren’t going well or when some of her teammates aren’t doing what I want them to do, I can kind of go at Imani and she listens and she puts it on her shoulders.”

The last five minutes of regulation saw two lead changes and three ties. After Watkins’

run put the Bearcats back in contention, sophomore forward Alyssa James went on a run of her own, netting five unanswered points to give BU its first lead, 51-50, since the beginning of the second quarter. With less than a minute remaining, the River Hawks took the lead once more on a free throw, but a James layup and four perfect shots from the free-throw line sealed the victory for Binghamton.

“I’ve never been more proud of a team and the comeback that we just had,” Cimino said.

“That was probably the best comeback win I’ve ever been a part of and hopefully we can carry that momentum into our next game.”

Cimino attributed her team’s improved play in the fourth quarter to the strong defense that has been the cornerstone of Binghamton’s victories this season. In BU’s first matchup with UML in January, the Bearcats pulled out a thrilling 75-70 overtime victory.

Binghamton was able to hold the River Hawks to almost 20 fewer points on Saturday by using the press more effectively.

“Last time we played [the River Hawks] and pressed them, they went over the top and scored easy layups, so that’s why we didn’t use it,” Cimino said.

In the fourth quarter, however, BU turned its press back on to try and surmount its double-digit deficit.

“We press a lot but because we don’t have the depth and we had a couple of fouls early on, we choose not to press unless we absolutely need it and we needed it today to get back in the game,” Cimino said.

The press helped Binghamton force 21 turnovers, nine of which came in the final quarter. James was an imposing defensive presence in the post, recording four blocks in the game.

Binghamton is set to return to action against UMBC on Wednesday. Tip-off is set for 7 p.m. at the Events Center in Vestal, New York.

Binghamton drops first home match

BU falls on Senior Night to Bucknell in final dual meet, 21-15

Jeffrey Twitty

Assistant Sports Editor

For the third consecutive season, the Binghamton wrestling team closed its Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association (EIWA) schedule against Bucknell, and for the second straight season, BU’s (11-7, 7-4 EIWA) fate came down to the dual’s final match.

Billed as Binghamton’s senior night, both of BU’s graduating wrestlers — 125-pound redshirt sophomore Kyle Kelly and 174-pound senior Jack McKeever — walked away with individual victories. But the Bison (12-6, 6-3 EIWA) won the evening, 21-15, and broke Binghamton’s undefeated

mark at home this season. But despite the result, Binghamton’s regular season finale will serve as a good starting point for the Bearcats, now looking ahead to the EIWA Championships at Princeton on March 5.

“I loved our fight, I loved our aggression,” BU head coach Matt Dernlan said. “Now what we got to do is clean up our execution.

We had plenty of opportunities out there, but we left a lot of opportunities on the mat, so that’s the last part of the phase … and if we can make that jump between now and two weeks from now, we’re going to get a lot of results.”

The Bearcats kicked off the match with a non-scoring exhibition victory by Kelly. Seeing

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Sophomore 184-pounder Steve Schneider was one of five Bearcats to earn a victory in BU’s 21-15 loss to Bucknell on Friday.

only limited action in the 201516 season, Kelly wrestled his opponent to a 16-4 victory to open the night. Following a BU loss in the 125-bout to open scored play, junior Jacob Nicholson brought the Bearcats roaring back in the 133-pound match. Facing off against Bucknell junior Grim Gonzalez, Nicholson captured the dual’s first pinfall win to put BU ahead, 6-3.

Bucknell recaptured the lead, 9-6, after victories at 141 and 149 before 157-pound sophomore Vincent DePrez tied the match, 9-9, midway through the meet. With his team trailing, 12-9, McKeever won his first career match against a Bucknell opponent, 3-2, to tie the match again at 12. As McKeever ended the regular season with a ranking in the national top-30 at a 14-3 record, his senior night victory isn’t likely to be his last in a Bearcat uniform.

“The journey’s not over yet for Jack,” Dernlan said. “I think he still really has some great things to accomplish here in the next month and we got to enjoy the moment.”

Sophomore Steve Schneider picked up a decision victory in the 184-pound battle to give Binghamton the lead late, 15-12, but a loss in the dual’s penultimate match at 197 tied both teams at 15 headed into the heavyweight match-up.

Falling twice to his Binghamton opponent — Tyler Deuel — in the 2014-15 season, Bucknell heavyweight senior Joe Stolfi entered the ring against BU with the match on the line for the second straight year. Facing off against Bucknell’s eighth-ranked heavyweight for Binghamton was redshirt freshman Connor Calkins. Wrestling a strong first period, Calkins managed to fend off Stolfi to a 0-0 stalemate to end the stanza. But a change in momentum in the second period led to a Stolfi pin to give Bucknell the victory, 21-15.

With the loss, Binghamton finished its third EIWA regular season with a record of 7-4: an encouraging mark that is two wins better than its 2014-15 campaign and four better from its first season in the conference in 2013-14.

“Everybody wants everything overnight, but that doesn’t happen,” Dernlan said. “If you want to build something the right way that sustains itself, you got to do it with the right types of kids.

You got to be committed to the process and we’ve got those two things. Are we satisfied? We’re never satisfied. We want more.”

The Bearcats are set to return to action in the EIWA Championships on March 5 and 6. The start time for the event has yet to be announced.

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Sophomore guard Imani Watkins sparked the Bearcats’ fourth-quarter comeback in their victory over UMass Lowell on Saturday.