Spring 2019 Issue 3

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kojo senoo pipe dream photographer More than 100 students, families and community members gathered outside of East Middle School on Tuesday afternoon to protest the alleged strip search of four 12-year-old black girls by school officials on Jan. 15.

COMMUNITY OUTCRY PLOT organizes rally to protest alleged strip search at middle school Yuri Lee

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Holding up signs that read “#BelieveBlackGirls” and chanting “protect our children,” more than 100 students, families and concerned community members rallied outside of East Middle School on Tuesday afternoon in the cold and snow to protest the alleged strip search of four 12-year-old black girls by school officials on Jan. 15.

Organized by the Progressive Leaders Of Tomorrow (PLOT), a grassroots organization that aims to empower and liberate marginalized members of society, the rally called for the resignation of Assistant Principal Michelle Raleigh, Principal Tim Simonds and the school nurse.

Roseanne Vasquez, 33, of Binghamton, said she attended the rally to call for the resignation

of the school officials responsible and to support the four girls.

“I came here in support of the four girls and all the students who are mistreated here — black, white, Spanish, every minority,” Vasquez said.

“A lot of procedures, a lot of protocol, needs to change and I honestly think that the people who were involved in the incident should be fired immediately.”

For Tyron Brown, a second-year graduate student studying public affairs, it was important to participate in the rally as these alleged incidents affect the whole community, not only black women.

“Don’t think that it’s just a black issue or for just black women — black men need to be here too,” Brown said. “That’s why I showed up. And not just us, not just people of color, not just black people but white people need to be here too

because we’re all part of the problem if we don’t do anything about it. This is our community.”

According to PLOT’s Facebook post, the four students were strip-searched by the school nurse and Raleigh — on the behest of Simonds — on the suspicion of possessing drugs. No drugs were found and the students’ parents weren’t contacted to obtain their consent for the searches, according to the post.

In response to the post, the Binghamton City School District released a statement on Jan. 24 maintaining that school officials had not conducted a strip search but rather a medical evaluation. According to the statement, medical evaluations may require the removal of bulky outside clothing to expose an arm.

“School officials acted in accordance with

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SA fails to post fall Congress minutes

TEDx selects student speaker

Lack of minutes violates SA management policies

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For the entirety of fall semester, the Student Association (SA) failed to update the minutes and agendas of SA Congress meetings on their website, an action that violates its own governing documents and rules.

Emma Ross, SA Congress speaker and a junior double-majoring in political science and psychology, wrote in an email that the SA was experiencing technical issues with the website, which

prevented regular upkeep of Congress minutes.

“We have had a great deal of technical difficulties with the website this year and everyone on our team has been working to get things uploaded without luck until over the break when we did an overhaul to add everything the e-board wanted uploaded,” Ross wrote. “Naturally, it took a bit of time before we were able to get the contents everyone wanted uploaded.”

According to SA management policies, minutes and agendas from Congress and its meetings must be posted online for public view by the

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ARTS & CULTURE

Jonathan Caputo to focus talk on implications of self-love news intern

TEDx at Binghamton University is back for another year of presentations from individuals across the country, including this year’s chosen student speaker, Jonathan Caputo, a junior triple-majoring in psychology, philosophy and Italian.

Caputo’s talk, titled “It’s OK To Not Love Yourself,” will discuss the implications of loving oneself and how it impacts mental health.

Drawing from his studies in psychology and philosophy, Caputo said he got the idea for his topic by challenging an accepted

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sidney slon pipe dream photographer Jonathan Caputo, a junior triple-majoring in psychology, philosophy and Italian, is this year’s chosen student speaker for TEDxBinghamtonUniversity.

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Nomikui Ramen revamps old oyster bar into new ramen shop,

“Black on Black” to spotlight African American comedians Downtown on Feb. 2 and Feb. 9,

Columnist Jacob Hanna critiques the response to the Covington Catholic controversy,

Women’s basketball hands Hartford first AE loss,

Pipe Dream’s Super Bowl picks,

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Binghamton to provide $145,000 for homeless prevention programs The city of Binghamton is awarding $145,000 to YWCA of Binghamton’s Emergency Housing Program and Street Outreach Program, the Family Enrichment Network and the Catholic Charities of Broome County in an effort to fight homelessness, according to the Press & Sun-Bulletin. Mayor Richard David announced Wednesday that the allotted money is part of the city’s annual allocation from the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Central New York faces polar vortex Broome County and other areas of central New York are experiencing a polar vortex which could cause frostbite in less than half an hour, according to the Press & Sun-Bulletin. The National Weather Service announced a wind chill warning will continue until Thursday night. The region can expect to see wind chill temperatures dropping to 20 or 30 degrees below zero.

Brindisi holds first town hall Newly elected Rep. Anthony Brindisi (D-NY) held a public town hall in Binghamton on Saturday, according to WBNG. The hall drew over 100 attendees who voiced concerns and asked questions about topics including border security, the federal

shutdown, gun control and climate change. Brindisi has pledged to hold a monthly town hall in New York’s 22nd congressional district to hear constituent concerns.

STATE NEWS

New York passes comprehensive gun laws On Tuesday, New York state passed the most comprehensive set of gun control bills since the Sandy Hook mass shooting, according to The New York Times. The bill bans bump stocks, prohibits teachers from carrying guns in schools and increases the waiting period for people who do not pass an instant background check. The new measures come after state Democrats took the majority in the New York Senate in November.

Mother dies on New York City subway stairs Malaysia Goodson, a 22-year-old mother, died on Monday after falling down the stairs of a Manhattan subway station while carrying her daughter in a stroller, according to The New York Times. Her daughter, Rhylee, survived. The fall does not appear to have played a role in the death, as the city’s medical examiner stated that no considerable trauma was found and proposed that a preexisting medical condition may be responsible. However, Goodson’s death has ignited a conversation surrounding accessibility and infrastructure in New York City’s subway system.

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

Social security number and all FRIDAY, Jan. 25, 12 p.m. — A 26-year-old female contacted police after she received an email that appeared to be from the Apple Store. The email stated her order would be canceled if she did not respond with her personal information. The victim provided her name, address, date of birth, social security number and cell phone number. Once she provided this information, the site asked for her credit card information, which she found suspicious. After realizing the email could be a scam, the victim closed the webpage. Officers advised her to contact her bank to protect her account.

There are cameras, dude SATURDAY, Jan. 26, 9:33 p.m. — Officers responded to Hunter Hall of Mountainview College after receiving a call from an emergency phone. Upon arriving and noticing the phone was off the hook, they searched the area but were unable to find anyone in need of help. After reviewing security footage, officers saw a male intentionally leave the phone off the hook.

The male then walked into Hunter Hall and took a fire extinguisher from its designated location. After seeing the security cameras in the hall, the suspect returned the fire extinguisher and slapped the camera, damaging it. The suspect was identified as a 19-year-old visitor staying with a friend on campus.

When questioned by officers, the suspect admitted to damaging property. He was arrested and will appear

in Vestal Town Court.

Check every pocket SUNDAY, Jan. 27, 12:10 a.m. — Officers on patrol received a report that a four-door black sedan followed an OCCT bus through the gate on campus without stopping at the Information Booth. Officers pulled the vehicle over on West Drive near the intersection of Bunn Hill Access Road, and smelled marijuana upon approaching the vehicle. Officers spoke to the driver, a 33-year-old male, who admitted he went through the gate and identified himself as an Uber Eats driver. When questioned about the odor, he denied having any marijuana and voluntarily emptied his pockets. In his last pocket was a small baggie containing marijuana, which he stated he forgot was in his pocket. His vehicle was then searched and officers found a joint in the driver’s door, a bag of marijuana in a black case in the center console and a joint on the floor of the back seat. Officers brought the suspect to the station to weigh the marijuana and found he possessed 28.8 grams of the substance. He was arrested and will appear in Vestal Town Court.

Just a joke MONDAY, Jan. 28, 6:09 p.m. — Officers responded to Hunter Hall of Mountainview College after receiving a report about a door that had been tampered with.

The person reporting the incident said she had returned to her suite and noticed her door had a bobby pin in the locking mechanism. After speaking with others in the suite, officers determined the incident was just a prank. Emergency maintenance fixed the door. The case has been closed.

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The article “OCCT considers vomit fee,” published on Jan. 28, stated that the Student Association (SA) allocates a minimum of $72,000 per academic year for OCCT, and that the Graduate Student Organization (GSO) determines the amount of money it allocates at the beginning of each semester. This was incorrect. In addition to the minimum $72,000 the SA allocates each year, it also allocates $20 per undergraduate student per semester to OCCT, and the GSO allocates $22 per full-time equivalent graduate student per academic year. Pipe Dream regrets the error.

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SA cites server difficulties minutes from page 1 third regular meeting from which they occurred. The minutes are required to include a beginning and end roll call, copies of the final actions taken and all public documentation submitted to Congress for its proceedings.

Anyone who requested the minutes or agendas would have been sent them, according to Ross. Matthew Johnson, assistant director of the SA, wrote in an email he was working to fix the server memory management issue.

“The challenge, and thus the reason it took so long for us to realize the extent of the issues, was that on the admin side it would publish some of our changes and make it look like we’d successfully saved data, but shortly thereafter the public facing website would sometimes revert back to its earlier content,” Johnson wrote.

“There was no rhyme or reason as to when or how these glitches would happen, so no one caught it earlier in the semester.”

Johnson said he discovered the server’s inability to save or publish new data in December.

Thereafter, a programmer identified the issue with the off-site server the SA website is hosted on, and by mid-January

the major technical difficulties had been resolved. However, a Wayback Machine screenshot captured by Pipe Dream on Jan. 25 showed that Congress minutes and agendas from fall semester were still not accessible on the website. The website has since been updated and the minutes and agendas have been posted.

Johnson wrote that he was able to upload certain information last semester, but had trouble doing so.

“One clarification I would like to make, however, was that different sections of the website were successfully updated during the fall semester,” Johnson wrote.

“For example, at the beginning of the semester I was able to update the information for SA Ink and the Child Protection Policy, functions I directly oversee in my role as assistant director. As I think back on it, I did have some difficulty getting these pages updated in late September [and] early October, but eventually got the changes to hold.”

Hunter Brink, an SA Congress member and a junior majoring in biochemistry, wrote in an email that minutes are recorded by a minute taker during the meetings, which are later reviewed by the

entire body.

“Then I believe the vice speaker sends the minutes out to us the Congress to review and be approved during the next session,” Brink wrote. “I don’t know the logistics of when and how the website is updated, although last time I checked, it’s currently up to date.”

According to Ross, the management policies that require the SA to regularly update their minutes and agendas online can be amended by a Student Congress Representative who would propose a resolution that must be sponsored by at least two voting members of Congress.

“Once the bill is presented to Congress in new business the reps have until the next Congress meeting, two weeks later, to talk to their constituencies and prepare to make an informed vote,” Ross wrote. “When Congress convenes the resolution will be in old business and there will be opportunity to amend the resolution if necessary.

After it is motioned to move in to a vote if there is a majority in favor the resolution passes.

Any legislation is then checked by the Judicial Board to ensure that the changes are compliant with the Student Association Constitution.”

Majors inspire speaker tedx from page 1 norm — that people should be happy with themselves.

“I gained interest for this topic because it is a common notion that you need to love yourself first,” Caputo said.

“But I think that concept is wrong and may actually work against our well-being.”

Every year, TEDx opens an application process for one student speaker to host their own talk. Applicants present a five-minute pitch of the proposed talk that they would present. Secondround applicants are then invited to an interview process where one speaker is ultimately chosen.

According to Bridget Shanley, director of TEDx at the University and a senior double-majoring in English and psychology, the student speaker role is reserved for someone with an idea that inspires, engages and encourages the audience.

Shanley said Caputo fit that role perfectly.

“When we’re looking for a student speaker, the TEDx team looks for someone that has an idea that they’re

really passionate about and wants to share,” Shanley said. “Jonathan submitted an idea to us that we, as a team, wanted to know more about, so we knew our audience would want to hear it too.”

Although the overall theme for this year’s event hasn’t been announced, Shanley said Caputo’s idea was what they were looking for, drawing from his personality and background to present a relatable and prevalent topic.

“Jonathan stood out because his idea is worth spreading, connects with his own life and could easily connect with college students,” Shanley said. “His personality and his passion for his topic were the perfect combination for our event. He had us laughing throughout his entire pitch.”

Caputo, who is also a resident assistant in Roosevelt Hall of Hinman College, said his decision to apply for the role was based on a variety of factors, including inspiration from other TED talks. This was Caputo’s first time applying for the event.

“I really enjoy listening to people speak and I was

immediately attracted to TED talks when I first learned of them,” Caputo said. “Becoming a speaker for my own talk is an amazing opportunity and I am excited to do something I have been interested in for a long time.”

Every year, TEDx at the University hosts its presentation event with speakers from varying career fields and backgrounds, which grew from a small group of students in a classroom to a full-day event.

Since 2015, the event has included undergraduate student speakers alongside its guest panel of professionals.

In 2015, Jack Fischer, ‘17, gave a presentation on the pervasiveness of pornography on the human mind and in relationships. In 2016, Kyrin Pollock, ‘18, and Matthew Gill, ‘18, focused on virtual reality. In 2017, Mollie Teitelbaum, ‘17, presented on peccadillic behaviors and biases. Last year’s event, themed “Infinity,” featured Stone Geise, ‘18, whose talk, titled “Live Your Life Half Empty,” challenged common notions of optimism and pessimism.

kojo senoo pipe dream photographer The rally was organized by PLOT exactly two weeks after the alleged strip search occurred and one week after approximately 200 community members questioned the Binghamton Board of Education about the incident at a board meeting.

Rally draws more than 100 outcry from page 1 the board policy,” the statement read. “We want to reiterate that no students were strip-searched, nor were they punished as a result of the incident in question and they were allowed to return to class after being evaluated.”

However, in a joint statement released on Jan. 25, the parents of the four girls upheld their daughters’ testimonies that they were strip-searched at the middle school. According to the statement, three of the girls complied to sobriety tests and a strip search while one of the girls complied to the tests but refused to remove her clothing for the search, which caused her to be sent to in-school suspension.

“We, as parents, did not consent to these searches,” the statement read. “All four girls missed several days of instruction after this experience, as they no longer feel safe at East Middle.

During this time, school officials failed to communicate with us in any meaningful way, and often failed to return our calls. It wasn’t until the community attended the school board meeting that the administration began to express an interest in helping us transition the girls back into school.”

The incident has drawn increasing media attention in recent days. On Wednesday afternoon, a day after the rally, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced in a press release that he will call on the New York Education Department to launch an investigation on the strip-search allegations and has directed the New York State Police to offer their assistance to local authorities.

“The allegations that 12-yearold girls were strip searched for drugs after being perceived as ‘hyper and giddy’ at a Binghamton middle school are deeply disturbing and raise serious concerns of racial and gender bias,” the statement read. “Asking a child to remove her clothing — and then commenting on her body — is shaming, humiliating, traumatic sexual harassment. In New York, we have zero tolerance for discrimination or harassment of any kind, especially in our schools, and we stand with those who are calling for clarity on this troubling incident.”

According to Roderick Douglass, PLOT’s social media coordinator, the organization is going to follow the wishes of the families of the four girls and continue to advocate for them.

“We follow what the family says to do and if they say everything stops, it stops, and if they say we can keep moving, we’re going to do it,” Douglass said. “This isn’t about our [organization], or any other organization, this is about what the survivors and the family want.”

On Jan. 29, the day of the rally, the Binghamton City School District released another statement reiterating that there was no evidence that a strip search was conducted by administration.

According to the statement, the school is using an independent third-party firm, Ferrara Fiorenza PC, to conduct a review of the incident.

“We realize that even when policies and procedures are followed, that does not preclude those involved, either directly or indirectly, from being affected,” the statement read. “The attention drawn by the media has affected

those children, their families, our administrators, teachers and the district as a whole. It’s important to understand the district is required by law to protect the privacy and personal integrity of our students.

It is a responsibility we take seriously. We remain committed to working with these families to support their children’s success.”

However, following the release of the most recent statement from Binghamton City School District, Korin Kirk, a member of the Binghamton Board of Education, released a personal statement on Facebook claiming her support for the four girls.

According to her post, Kirk also experienced traumatic experiences while attending Binghamton City Schools, including East Middle School.

“Those who needed this incident as a wake-up call that there is more work to be done haven’t been paying attention,” Kirk wrote. “This is one incident of many. I believe those girls. I believe those girls when they say they were harmed.”

According to Douglass, it is only through the support of the community that change and accountability is possible.

“A lot of people across Binghamton had conversations with their children this week and said, ‘Don’t let the nurse ask you to remove your clothes, do not let a principal search you without my consent,’ and that’s important,” Douglass said. “We think kids, children, are a little safer than they were last week and we’re just going to keep the information going and continue community building and continue to let people realize that people have the power.”

Engineering Building to see renovations starting Feb. 4 Updates will be complete by summer 2020 Erin Kagel

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Starting Feb. 4, students and faculty in the Engineering Building may notice construction crews tearing down walls, replacing outdated electrical systems and reconfiguring rooms.

Announced via a Dateline statement on Jan. 24, the renovations are set to be finished in summer 2020.

Until then, classes in that section of the building will be relocated, according to Heath Weeks, the architect working with Physical Facilities at Binghamton University.

“The work will be performed in areas of the building that have been or will be emptied of occupants,” Weeks wrote in an email. “The classrooms will be offline for the duration of the project with the exception of the lecture hall. The lecture hall will be renovated next summer and be back online for the fall 2019 semester.”

anastasia figuera staff photographer The Engineering Building will undergo renovations to update electrical and mechanical systems, perform maintenance and redesign rooms to comply with standards set by the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Other portions of the building have undergone renovations recently, leaving this portion as the last phase of the renovation

project. Weeks said the last renovations were in 2013 and improved Watson Advising and portions of the second

floor. However, the areas now undergoing renovations haven’t been updated in 12 years.

While none of the updates

or replacements are being made because of safety risks, Karen Fennie, communications specialist for Physical Facilities, wrote in an email that they are necessary for properly maintaining the building, which opened in 1976 and was designed

by Curtis and Davis Architects and Planners in a style known as brutalism, a simple, blocklike form of construction.

The renovations will repair mechanical and electrical systems, windows and roofing.

“Generally an architect will sit down with project stakeholders and define a program, what the spaces will be used for and what facilities are needed and scope of work for the project,” Fennie wrote.

“The project is also a ‘critical maintenance’ project, meaning outdated building systems and equipment will be replaced.”

To ensure the safety of those in the building while the renovations are taking place, construction crews will install temporary walls to separate building occupants from construction sites. Additionally, construction will be limited to early morning and evening

to ensure minimal noise disruptions during the day.

Eleanore Colton, a sophomore majoring in environmental studies, said she is not excited about the early morning renovations, but believes the necessity of the work being done far outweighs the negatives.

“As someone who lives in College-in-the-Woods, which is relatively close to the Engineering Building, I’m not that excited about it,” Colton said. “But I think the progress outweighs the negative effects.”

This project will complete the last phase of renovations to the Engineering Building and while staff and students will have to navigate the disruption, Weeks said it will be worth it when the renovations are completed.

“The small inconveniences that will be endured over the next year and a half will allow for a completely renovated building bringing it into the 21st century in appearance, technology, comfort and energy efficiency,” Weeks wrote. “I would just like to thank the faculty, staff and students for their help and patience.”

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“What are your plans for the Super Bowl?”

Alina Young, a freshman majoring in human development:

Michael Esquivel, a freshman majoring in computer engineering:

Breanna Losak, a senior majoring in accounting:

Alejandra Rivas, a junior majoring in integrative neuroscience:

Sophea Clarke, Malik Porteous, a junior majoring in a junior majoring biology: in electrical engineering:

“Probably sleep and do some homework, find out about the game after, maybe watch the halftime show and that’s about it.”

“I’m probably going to go over to my friend’s dorm in Dickinson on Sunday, probably four or five of us. I’m running against the Patriots because I just hate the Patriots — whatever controversies they’ve been caught up in for the past five years kind of makes me dislike them. Maybe order some Domino’s and Insomnia Cookies.”

“Just go out — eat snacks I guess. I’m planning on watching just the commercials.”

“I’m just going to hang out with friends and enjoy some good food. I’ll probably watch [the game] mostly for the commercials.”

”I’m not really into most sports, especially not football, so nothing. I’m going to live a regular day.”

”I’m just going to hang out with a couple of my friends. We’re going to get some pizza, watch the Super Bowl and watch the halftime show. I feel like Maroon 5 could mingle with Travis Scott.”

HackBU encourages students to connect, learn coding Hackathon sees some projects grow outside event Leora Schwadron pipe dream news

In 24 hours, a singular idea can become an entire coded and completed program.

At HackBU, an annual hackathon event held at Binghamton University, more than 350 students from across the Northeast come together to collaborate on various projects, discover new forms of technology, network with recruiters and compete for prizes.

Sometimes, the programs they create live on, even after the 24-hour event is finished.

Last year, Colin Fiutak, a junior majoring in computer science, Kerry O’Neill, a sophomore majoring in computer science and Gabriel Steinberg, a junior majoring in computer science, won the awards for “Best Overall Hack” and “Best Newbie Hack” for their team’s project, a program designed to automatically detect and label fake news in an article.

According to Fiutak, their project specifically targets false news articles such as those seen in the 2016 presidential election.

“The program takes the URL for a given news article

and feeds features such as text complexity and the age of the website to a machine learning algorithm to determine the article’s legitimacy,” Fiutak said.

“The goal of the program is to specifically target the weaponized political disinformation seen during the 2016 elections, where individuals from countries such as Russia and Macedonia spread fake news at an unprecedented rate.”

Following the event, all four members of the team were invited to do research with Kenneth Chiu, an associate professor of computer science at BU, to continue working on their project.

“Our program was effective at detecting fake news from the 2016 elections, but we think that fake news during the 2020 elections will be more polished and harder to detect,” Fiutak said. “We’ve been waiting for the start of the primary season to see what we’ll be up against for the next few years.”

Another project created last year, Kibbutz, also won awards.

Created by three BU students, the project aimed to code a local crowdfunding service, and received the “Best Humanitarian & Open Source Hack” and “Best Fintech Hack” awards.

Adam Nieto, one of the

students on the team and a senior majoring in computer science, said the project was designed to create a communitycentric service.

“We are a local crowdfunding ‘startup’ in order for communities to grow together, while also allowing other people to be exposed to a local community’s projects and interests as well,” Nieto said.

In addition to incubating complex coding projects, HackBU also caters to new programmers.

According to Melanie Chen, codirector of this year’s HackBU and a senior double-majoring in computer science and music, the main aim of the hackathon is to promote connections and help students learn new technologies.

“The goals of the event are to bring students together to make new friends and learn new technologies, introduce students to the HackBU club and introduce students to programming if they haven’t learned it before,” Chen said. “The event can also help students improve their résumé with a new project and network with sponsoring employers.”

Although Steinberg is a more experienced coder, he said HackBU still helped him meet new people and learn new information about programming.

theo mason pipe dream photographer More than 350 students from across the Northeast attended HackBU, an annual hackathon held at BU.

“I ended up making some new friends and learning a lot about programming and machine learning,” Steinberg said.

The event also draws students from across the region. This year, students

from Cornell University, Stony Brook University, Rochester Institute of Technology and other universities are expected to attend and compete for prize categories including “Best Civic Engagement Hack,” “Most Viable

Business,” “Best Security Hack,” “Most Technical Hack,” “Best Newbie Hack,” “Best Design” and “Funniest Hack.”

HackBU will take place from Feb. 9 to 10 in the Innovative Technologies Complex.

Exhibition showcases first president of Harpur College Collection highlights Bartle’s life, legacy Gitl-Yevgeniya Driker pipe dream news

tyler gorman staff photographer BU curated an exhibition that depicts the life and legacy of Glenn G. Bartle Library’s namesake, who was the first president of Harpur College.

In celebration of the 40th anniversary of the renaming of Binghamton University’s library, Glenn G. Bartle Library curated an exhibition on the life and legacy of the library’s namesake.

The exhibition, which was curated by Joe Schill, a graduate student from the University at Buffalo, and Yvonne Deligato, University archivist, opened last semester on Oct. 26. It outlines the biography of Glenn G. Bartle, the first president of Harpur College, and his impact on the University. The exhibition can be found in the Special Collections section of the library alongside an additional exhibition on the development of the library in the North Reading Room.

It was created after Bartle’s grandchildren donated three of his diplomas to

the University in summer 2018. According to Blythe Roveland-Brenton, head of special collections, the timing provided the opportunity to honor Bartle on the coming anniversary of the renaming of the library.

The exhibition traces Bartle’s life from his career as a geologist to his time at the University. Bartle’s master of arts diploma and his dissertation, both of which he earned at Indiana University, are on display. The showcase also includes a medal he earned during his naval career.

Additional cases within the exhibition focus on his career as a professor and dean.

Bartle, a veteran of both World War I and World War II, came to the city of Binghamton in 1945 to assume the position of the dean of Triple Cities College. He became the first president of the University after the college joined the SUNY system in 1950 and was renamed Harpur College.

In 1961, Bartle moved the campus from Endicott to Vestal. Later, Bartle left

the University and became a consultant for the U.S. Agency for International Development in Washington, D.C., where he died in 1977. In 1978, the library was renamed in his honor.

The exhibition mentions different initiatives Bartle implemented during his time at Harpur College, including the four-credit system for classes and a three-trimester system, which is no longer followed. Harpur College was the only liberal arts college in the SUNY system at the time and according to the exhibition, Bartle modeled the school after Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.

Roveland-Brenton wrote in an email that she believes Bartle’s achievements and dedication to the growth of Harpur College are what make him relevant to the University today.

“Bartle had a vision and was able to adapt to changing needs in higher education,” Roveland-Brenton wrote. “At the time of his retirement,

the University was poised to become one of the SUNY research centers with a reputation for academic excellence. He worked with the faculty and the administration of the state university system to create an innovative campus that would promote research and intellectual curiosity — goals that are just as relevant today.”

According to RovelandBrenton, the second University president, G. Bruce Dearing, spoke at the renaming ceremony citing the importance of naming institutions.

“The important function of naming buildings is in no way a trivial or peripheral matter,” Dearing said. “It is the continuity, it is the way of celebrating and affirming values and attitudes and principles and it will mean a great deal to have this central building known by Glenn’s name.”

The exhibition, which was originally set to close on Feb. 1, has been extended to Feb. 15.

OPINIONS Thursday, January 31, 2019

After the alleged strip search of four black 12-year-old girls at a local middle school garnered national attention, all eyes are on the Binghamton City School District.

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The four East Middle School students say that they were stripsearched by the assistant principal and school nurse during school on Jan. 15 after appearing “giddy” and being accused of possessing narcotics. The Binghamton City School District denies these claims, stating that it simply administered medical examinations: “When conducting medical evaluation, it may require the removal of bulky outside clothing to expose an arm so that vitals like blood pressure and pulse can be assessed. This is not the same as a strip search.”

When national news outlets such as Buzzfeed, Washington Post and HuffPost reported on the incident, the school district hired a thirdparty firm in Syracuse to investigate.

Furthermore, Gov. Andrew Cuomo has asked the New York State Department of Education to assist in the investigation, stating that the allegations are “deeply disturbing and raise serious concerns of racial and gender bias.”

The attention from the governor and popular news outlets indicates the severity of this issue, and the Editorial Board is glad that the allegations are being taken seriously. We maintain that no search of any kind should have been conducted without notifying the parents of the girls, and we support the decision to investigate further.

Twelve-year-old girls being “giddy” is nothing out of the ordinary; this

search had little basis in the first place. Regardless of the degree to which the girls were instructed to remove clothing, they are minors and cannot consent to a search.

Additionally, the Editorial Board recognizes that this is not the first time the Binghamton City School District has faced controversy regarding troubling allegations against its students.

The Editorial Board commends the work of Progressive Leaders Of Tomorrow (PLOT), a community advocacy group that is largely responsible for bringing this incident to the public eye, especially through the utilization of “#BelieveBlackGirls” on social media. Its ability to bring so many people together in solidarity with the girls highlights the importance of community organizations and direct action. At a rally organized

by PLOT, community members and Binghamton University students demonstrated outside the middle school on Jan. 29 to show their support for the girls, vowing to hold the school administration accountable. Several people who attended school in the district as children recounted experiencing similar disturbing incidents, including Korin Kirk, a member of the school board. Given that such accusations against the Binghamton City School District have persisted for years, it is clear that this is an institutional problem

in this school district. The Editorial Board wonders why it appears that little has changed after all these years.

Middle school students are in a transitional period in their lives and their education. The Editorial Board realizes that a child’s school experience during their adolescence sets the tone for their education in the future. We are concerned about the lasting effects that actions like these may have on these young black girls.

With statistics showing that black students and students of color are suspended at higher rates than their white counterparts, it is easy to see how incidents like that at East Middle School help proliferate racial inequalities in education.

Such inequalities can even persist at the university level and beyond.

As BU students, we too are members of this community, and we must pay attention when incidents like these occur here.

Moreover, although BU is not directly involved, it is a leader in the area and should take the community’s concerns seriously.

As more details become available, the Editorial Board urges students to keep their eyes on local affairs and to support the Binghamton community. After all, a community can only be as strong as the bonds between its members — local residents and students alike.

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.

Criminalization of black youth persists locally and nationally The recent controversy at East Middle School is not an isolated incident Elizabeth Short Columnist

On Jan. 15, just about five miles away, four female students at East Middle School were allegedly stripsearched during school hours. The four African American students, all of whom are 12 years old, were searched on suspicion of drug possession after “appearing hyper and giddy during their lunch hour.” The story has now gained the attention of news outlets across the country, as it appears to be yet another incident of black

people facing police action for no good reason.

The families of the girls are being represented by Progressive Leaders Of Tomorrow, a community advocacy group, and are claiming that one girl was made to be searched in her undergarments alone, two were made to remove their shirts and be searched in their bras and one student refused to remove her pants and shirt and as a result, received an in-school suspension.

The Binghamton City School District provided a rebuttal of the allegations made, denying that the girls were strip-searched. In a statement provided last Thursday, Jan. 24, the school stated, “When

students exhibit behavior that warrants further evaluation the district has an obligation to ensure their health and wellbeing, which may include physical and medical evaluation … it may require the removal of bulky outside clothing … This is not the same as a strip search.”

The parents of the girls also attended the meeting where the statement was released, stating that they themselves were not notified of the events until their daughters told them afterward. The parents also described the effect the incident had on their daughters, saying the girls “no longer feel safe at East Middle.”

Unfortunately, it seems this is not an uncommon occurrence.

From barbecuing in the park to sleeping in a school lounge to sitting in Starbucks, it seems that black people aren’t able to do simple, everyday tasks without having the police called on them.

And unfortunately, children are not exempt.

Twelve-year-old Reggie Fields’ neighbor called the police on him for mowing lawns in his neighborhood; the police were called on 13-yearold Jaequan Faulkner for selling hot dogs without a permit; and in one instance, a white woman went so far as to call 911, claiming a 9-year-old boy groped her inside a Brooklyn deli. Upon viewing tapes from the store’s security camera, it was quickly shown that his backpack

brushed against her backside as he was leaving the store with his sister and mother.

It’s no secret that racial discrimination and profiling is a problem in America today, but at what point did calling the police for the most trivial reasons become the norm? When is calling 911 on a 9-year-old ever an acceptable practice?

African Americans shouldn’t have to prove they live in a certain building in order to enter it normally; young boys should be allowed to work to earn extra spending money; four 12-yearold girls should be allowed to be as “hyper and giddy” as they want outside of class. The color of their skin makes no difference. What

12-year-old girl isn’t giddy from time to time?

When white people actively treat African Americans as outsiders and call the police on them, they are not only perpetuating dangerous thoughts and stereotypes with no evidence, but are also putting those individuals’ lives in danger. So I invite those who are considering calling the police on others doing something completely harmless to honestly ask themselves: Is there truly a concern for others in your mind, or are you just blinded by the color of someone else’s skin?

— Elizabeth Short is a sophomore double-majoring in biology and English.

The Covington Catholic kids are no angels They are undeserving of the public’s forgiveness Jacob Hanna Columnist

On Jan. 20, a video clip was uploaded to YouTube by organizers of an indigenous people’s march showing a crowd of 50 or more students from Covington Catholic High School surrounding an elder of the Omaha Nation, Nathan Phillips, as he beat a ceremonial drum. The students can be clearly seen performing a tomahawk chop and poor imitations of indigenous musical vocals that are obviously intended to mock, harass and intimidate Phillips. That they wore “Make America Great Again”

caps and that they were there to participate in a separate march to protest a woman’s right to have an abortion — their autonomy and their health care — is also apparent. These facts make the undeserved campaign of revisionism that has seen mass apologia toward them baffling.

One could argue that in making this statement, I am underinformed, as an article in the libertarian publication Reason so claims. In citing the full video, they state that the students were at first reacting to a demonstration by the Black Hebrew Israelites, who are documented saying — without diving into the actual content of their speech — hateful things toward the students. They also state that Phillips approached

the students first, and not the other way around.

The apologia by the media for the Covington Catholic students was swift. Many media figures retracted their initial thoughts on the incident that were formed by the first video clip. Some were moved in this manner by the statement of Nick Sandmann, the student featured most prominently in that clip, the one smirking at Phillips.

In a statement that could only have been written by a lawyer, Sandmann states that, in fact, he was trying to defuse the situation, not preserve it or make it worse.

It all reeks of gaslighting.

Neither the full video, nor the Reason article, nor Sandmann’s “apology” (written by a public

relations firm associated with U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and tobacco companies) fundamentally change what we saw in the initial video whatsoever. The presence of the five-or-so Black Hebrew Israelites and their invective does not, and should not, give the 50-or-so Covington Catholic students permission to surround an indigenous man approaching them at a snail’s pace. It does not excuse the racist imagery of tomahawk chops and musical imitations that they used to harass Phillips. In fact, the full video raises more questions than it answers. Why, for instance, did the chaperones of this trip think it was OK for their students to engage the demonstrators? Why

did they allow them to shout school pride slogans as if that would “defuse the situation?”

I also suppose that if we must look for further context, we must also look at other videos of the Covington Catholic students. And other videos plainly show some of them verbally harassing people in Washington, D.C. In one, they clearly shout “MAGA” and other invective at female passersby.

The Covington Catholic students can say whatever they want in response to the allegations that they said these things — that the people that said them don’t attend the school and as such don’t know its character, for instance. That particular claim does not condemn the act in which they partook (which would

not be nearly enough on its own), and, more importantly, it may be a lie. This is a school, after all, whose students paint themselves in blackface for sports events and pass it off as simply being “school spirit.”

Given this further context, we must conclude that the Covington Catholic students, in general, are no angels deserving of pity and forgiveness. They do not deserve the current campaign of revisionism that is in their favor, and Phillips himself deserves an apology from Reason and all of the people in the media carrying water for this racist narrative of revisionism.

— Jacob Hanna is a junior majoring in economics.

rose coschignano pipe dream photographer Nomikui Ramen, a new Japanese-style restaurant located on Main Street, was opened by Donabel Sayarot alongside her husband Andres Castellanos.

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For some, ramen is defined as the quintessential college meal, trademarked by its curly yellow noodles drowned in an artificially flavored broth that can be cooked in minutes.

At Nomikui Ramen, though, ramen noodles are anything but instant — preparing the authenticstyle broth can take up to 24 hours.

“Making our ramen is a labor of love,” said Andres Castellanos, co-owner of Nomikui Ramen and a Binghamton native. “Many people think ramen is quick and easy to make.

When first starting off, we would sleep at the restaurant overnight to make sure the broth was the perfect consistency we wanted.”

Castellanos and Donabel Sayarot are the married couple behind Nomikui Ramen, a new Japanese-style restaurant that opened on Dec. 1 in Downtown Binghamton. The pair met while attending Le Cordon Bleu, a culinary institute that was located in San Francisco. While there, Castellanos encouraged Sayarot to pursue her dream of opening a Japanese restaurant and later settled down together in Binghamton to achieve that goal.

“Originally, we were planning on opening a food truck in Ithaca because Donabel is versed in Japanese cuisine and studied that in Los Angeles and the Philippines,” Castellanos said.

“We had everything picked out and set for the food truck, but we last-minute saw this empty space and decided to call the owner of the place and ask if they were leasing. We signed our lease and three weeks later, we opened.”

With only a few weeks to prepare for the restaurant’s opening, Castellanos and Sayarot both worked long hours to ensure that Nomikui’s launch ran smoothly.

“The first week of opening was crazy because we’d get no sleep whatsoever,” Castellanos said. “We’d be at the restaurant all day, go home and take a shower, get an hour of sleep and then come back.”

Although the couple had experience in working in the food industry, with Sayarot previously working for “Top Chef” winner Michael Voltaggio and Castellanos at an exclusive Los Angeles club, neither expected to own their own restaurant.

“We’ve worked in restaurants for years but owning one has been Donabel’s whole dream,” Castellanos said. “Opening Nomikui has been a huge eye-opener and we take pride in what we do.”

Obtaining ingredients for many of the dishes has been a literal journey for Sayarot and Castellanos. The duo acquire many of their supplies from New York City

and New Jersey to ensure that they have all the necessary ingredients.

“All of our vegetables and meat are from here, but any Asian products we use are generally from the city,” Castellanos said. “We would drive down to New York City and New Jersey with no sleep just to try and find everything and then drive back up.”

Nomikui specializes in various types of ramen, though the restaurant also offers a variety of Asian fusion dishes including Japanese fried chicken, Chinese-style buns or baos and sushi.

One of the most popular types of ramen that they serve is their shoyu pork ramen — a porkbased broth featuring pork belly and topped with bamboo shoots, a soft-boiled egg marinated in sweet soy sauce, Japanese fish cake, shiitake mushrooms, scallions and seaweed.

Castellanos explained that cooking the broth for this ramen takes about 12 hours due to the labor of boiling pork bones, scrubbing them down, rinsing them out and then adding more ingredients to the pot.

“If there’s one thing I learned about Japanese cooking, it’s that there’s a lot of emphasis to detail,” Castellanos said. “You can’t just throw things in a pot and after it’s done cooking, the broth is ready. Every little step matters.”

The ramen I tried was the spicy miso ramen, which uses a soybean base, ground pork, sesame paste, bean sprouts and cilantro. If you have very low spice tolerance or dislike hot cuisine, this bowl of ramen probably isn’t the one for you. Regardless, the broth was extremely rich, tasty and not too salty for my taste buds. In addition, the bean sprouts and cilantro also helped to balance out the spice level.

Other dishes I tried were their Kara-age, or Japanese fried chicken, and the Chinese-style short rib baos. The chicken was fried to perfection in a crispy coating of dough. To my surprise and excitement, the first bite of chicken did not end up with a puddle of oil dripping onto my plate. The chicken was also juicy and flavorful with a slight kick of spice, but not enough to fill my mouth with flames. The Chinese bao was equally delicious, as the short rib was marinated nicely in barbecue sauce and nestled up in a soft, sweet bun.

Open for nearly two months, Nomikui Ramen has already been feeding the mouths of the Binghamton community, and they hope to fill the stomachs of many more.

“The biggest thing for us is that we like feeding people, and cooking is our passion,” Castellanos said. “Our Colombian and Filipino background is wrapped around food. We love cooking for people and sharing our food.”

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Being downtown at parties or bars on a Saturday night is a routine for some Binghamton University students, but this Saturday, students can shake it up by going to a comedy show instead.

The “Black on Black Comedy Show III” will take place at 9 p.m. on Feb. 2 at Spotlight in Downtown Binghamton. Featuring solely African American comedians from the Northeast, the third edition of this show gives students a chance to do something indoors in this frigid weather. Comedians set to perform include Taury Seward, Charisma “Ris” Wyse, Mike Terry and MrJaxn.

Mike Peters, a comedian and Endicott community member who produced the show, said that the idea for the show was suggested by Seward, a comedian and Binghamton member who assembled the comedians on the bill.

“We wanted to make a show where we can feature some of our favorite black comedians from Syracuse, Ithaca, Rochester, Scranton and the Binghamton area,” Peters said. “This is the third one we’re doing, and it’s just a way to give more people more stage time and the audience a different group of performers. We are really fortunate that the talent around the area, especially for comedy, is

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adam munio contributing photographer Comedian Taury Seward is a producer and headliner on the “Black on Black Comedy Show III”.

so rich.”

Seward said that he pitched the show because, throughout his comedic career, he has done many shows where he was the only African American in the room. He hopes the exposure would be helpful in our current political climate.

“Telling jokes and funny stories [that] other people relate to might give them a better idea of my race and show that we have a lot in common, more than we don’t,” Seward said. “Any form of good comedy is significant in these times when we have a world filled with anger and lacks empathy.”

The show will be hosted by

Wyse, a comedian who has been active in the Binghamton area for years and has previously been a radio personality with WJOB 93.3 FM. The audience should expect a wide array of topics to be discussed at the show, as each comedian is free to perform any material they want. MrJaxn, for example, will talk about being single and make observational humor while Terry will draw on his time as a security guard.

MrJaxn said that this show is important because it gives African Americans a chance to express themselves freely.

“Most of the comedy clubs out there won’t allow us to be so open about certain topics or jokes we

say, so a comedy show exclusively for African American comedians is very important at this time because of the lack of stage time available elsewhere,” MrJaxn said.

“Sometimes comedy clubs will look at the color of your skin and just assume you’ll have ‘urban’ material and won’t book you.”

Peters said that people of all walks are encouraged to attend the event and enjoy a night of laughs and fun.

“We’re just trying to put out the top comedic quality we can get, and we hope the audience comes out and has fun,” Peters said. “Ultimately, we want everybody who comes to enjoy themselves and hopefully come back.”

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Across the world, thousands of participants take part each year in the Global Game Jam, an event where game developers create games in a weekend and submit them to the Game Jam website. SUNY Broome hosted two participating teams this year.

The Game Jam commenced at 5 p.m. on Jan. 25 and continued until 4:30 p.m. on Jan. 27. Teams stayed in the Fairfield Inn nearby overnight, working in the Applied Technology Atrium at the Applied Technology Building by day. The two team leaders directed their teams with the main focus on enjoying the process and learning new skills.

Josiah Bahl, a software engineer for L3 Communication Systems-West who attended the jam, said that the event was a way for people to have fun and meet new people.

“Video games are supposed to be fun, so we want people to have

fun doing this and we also want people to connect,” Bahl said.

“These people are all strangers with each other and they’re spending three days trying to create the best video game they can.”

Every year, the Global Game Jam is centered around a theme; this year’s theme asked the question, “What does home mean to you?” provoking participants to create games that explore personal narrative themes of home.

Although most participants go with the medium of video games, teams can opt to design a board game, a physical activity or anything that constitutes a game.

Both teams from SUNY Broome delegated various aspects of game development to team members, such as one person handling the art and animation of a game with another creating a majority of the code for the game.

Susan Sherwood, executive director of the Center for Technology & Innovation, said that Global Game Jam challenged participants to try something new and hone their skills.

“They looked at the skill sets needed to do games and everybody identified their skills and realized how many art people they have because that’s always the hardest part and the artists picked the rest of the team,” Sherwood said.

One team explored the persistence and determination of an individual attempting to reach home, as they pitted the player against various enemies and obstacles that barred the way in a 2D platformer, which is a sidescrolling genre of video games.

Bahl’s team had the player controlling a dog who had to defend his home from intruding neighborhood animals looking for shelter after a storm.

Not only is Global Game Jam about bringing gamers together and collaborating, but it also encourages the exchange and innovation of ideas. Numerous original and breakout games have spawned from the event, such as the video game “Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes,” where players work together to defuse a bomb as one reads a defusing instruction manual and the other defuses it. Original

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ideas like this are paradigms of what the Global Game Jam can produce — unconventional and engaging games that you do not expect from the AAA gamesdominated market that we have today.

Robert Lofthouse, chair of the Engineering Science Department at SUNY Broome, said that the event also introduces students to the world of game development as they gain experience in coding, animation, level design and other aspects of game development.

“We think it’s a nice opportunity for students to learn coding and work on code and so we like to be able to sponsor events that are positive and related to academics here on campus,” Lofthouse said.

Several members of each team had experience in other game jams, helping first-timers learn the ins-and-outs of making a game in 48 hours.

“I first got into game jams when I went to my first in college, and I had such fun,” Bahl said. “I figured no matter what, we’re going to have fun with this. I did and I think everyone else had a lot of fun as well.”

This Friday evening, the Phelps Mansion Museum will be hosting a live art experience directed by local artist Bob Alan Bricks and featuring performances by a troupe of other collaborative artists known as “Assorted Noble Savages.” The event, entitled “My Latest Adventure,” will feature a variety of different art forms, including painting, collage, sound and poetry.

Bricks has become a fixture in the Binghamton area with his unique, experimental art that does not subscribe to any particular style and makes use of any and all mediums according to his fancy. He began creating art as a young child and was influenced by his grandmother to begin painting, eventually engaging with different art forms. Bricks worked in advertising and then devoted himself to raising his children, and since retiring, he has fervently returned to his work, which consists of both visual arts and sound. Since 2015, he has had more than 25 exhibits throughout the Binghamton, Owego, Vestal, Endicott, Johnson City and Scranton, PA areas.

Bricks’ work can be in the form of paintings or collages depicting images culled from the recesses of his imagination.

Bricks himself does not always know their significance, and delights in leaving the interpretation open to his audience.

“My [work] is kind of ‘trippy’ and it asks more questions than it makes any kind of statements or agenda,” Bricks said. “My favorite thing is when it

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connects [with people] in a way that they don’t even understand … I love that kind of channeling aspect … [I feel like] I meet them in an unconscious space.”

Joe Schuerch, house manager of the museum, said the event will be open to the public and students of Binghamton University are welcome to attend.

“Everything is open to the public, so everybody is welcome to attend — it’s just a fun, very informal type of evening,” Schuerch said. “So it’s kind of like going to an art gallery, except [the artwork] will be displayed in our ballroom instead.”

Bricks said the event comes after much anticipation to create a uniquely interactive art show that shirks the conventions of traditional art shows.

“My dream has been for about five years to put together an interactive kind of art experience — I wanted it to be something that was more of an experience, rather than just a dry art show. So this is an experiment,” Bricks said.

“What I want to do is create, in the same way as a collage, [but] with people and atmosphere.”

Consequently, Bricks will also be presenting experimental soundscapes, running in the background of the exhibition while his troupe of so-called “Noble Savages” perform various artistic acts. He is encouraging attendees to come in costume to reinforce the atmosphere of peculiarity.

“I want to create this interesting, alternative vibe when you walk in, like you’re walking into a strange village, or you’re walking into this strange ball,” Bricks said. “I want it to be uncomfortable, but not dangerous. You know, not scary, but just off enough where you’re just a little off-kilter.”

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Junior guard Carly Boland scored a team-high 19 points in an upset victory for BU over the formerly undefeated conference opponent Hartford.

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After recovering from a 29-point defeat against the University of Maine, the Binghamton women’s basketball team dismantled the University of Hartford’s perfect America East (AE) record with a 73-62 victory.

“The girls did such a great job,” said BU head coach Bethann Shapiro Ord. “It was all about poise, and they did a great job

with that.”

The game began with a slow start for the Bearcats (9-12, 4-4 AE), as Hartford’s graduate student forward Ella Awobajo put up four points for the Hawks (148, 7-1 AE). The two teams went back and forth throughout, and the Bearcats ended the period up one, a 14-13 lead.

The second quarter was just as tight, as both teams were within three points of each other until junior guard Carly Boland sank a 3-pointer to put the Bearcats up 28-23. Boland had 19 points in the game, her second highest of the season. Boland also recorded seven rebounds, four dimes and

two steals.

“I think I just remembered what we were practicing,” Boland said. “I remembered to stay composed, look for our teammates, throw crisp, hard passes and try not to turn the ball over.”

Although the Bearcats attempted to limit their turnovers, the team ended the game with 24, while the Hawks had just 13. Despite the turnovers, the Bearcats excelled in other areas, with three players hitting double digits. Senior forward Rebecca Carmody came away with 16 points, while junior guard Kai Moon had 15 points.

Seven of Moon’s 15 points came from her free throws, making her 78 percent accurate on that front. Carmody also had eight rebounds throughout the match, holding her No. 1 spot in the AE in rebounding. Junior guard Karlee Krchnavi matched Carmody in rebounds and also added three steals.

In the third frame, the Hawks cut the lead to just two, as Hartford’s senior guard Lindsey Abed knocked down a 3-pointer and junior guard Sierra DaCosta added a layup. With the Hawks gaining on Binghamton, the Bearcats put their best foot forward, ending the period

up 54-44.

“We told each other to stay composed,” Carmody said.

“That was our game. We were controlling the game, and we were not going to let them take the lead, so we kept telling each other, ‘Take care of the ball, stay composed and we’ll be all right.’”

Freshman guard Hayley Moore saw time in the third period after Moon was knocked over by Awobajo. Although Moore spent just two minutes on the court before Moon came back in, she was able to net a 3-pointer. The Ramil sisters, freshman guard Annie Ramil and sophomore forward Olivia Ramil,

also had perfect shot accuracy, with both sisters coming away with eight points. Olivia Ramil also contributed four blocks.

The Bearcats pushed themselves throughout the fourth period, advancing their lead to as much as 19 points. The Bearcats commanded the fourth period, defeating the Hawks 7362 and making the top team in the conference rethink its game.

“Don’t count us out yet,” Carmody said.

The Bearcats are set to take on the University at Albany at home on Saturday. Tipoff is scheduled for 2 p.m. from the Events Center in Vestal, New York.

Men’s basketball trounced by Hawks in road defeat Bearcats drop to 1-10 away from home this season Samuel Ditchek sports editor

Despite coming off a solid victory over Maine this past Saturday, the Binghamton men’s basketball team was bulldozed by the Hartford Hawks Wednesday night. The Hawks, who entered the contest with only a modest 3-3 conference record and 10-11 overall record, dominated the Bearcats, 86-60 in West Hartford, Connecticut.

A combination of porous defense and stagnant offense characterized most of the game, especially the first half. The Bearcats (6-16, 2-5 AE) converted only 37 percent of their baskets and 18 percent of their attempts from distance in the first 20 minutes. BU attempted just two foul shots. While freshman guard Sam Sessoms had a team-high 11 points at the break, a lack of production from graduate student guard J.C. Show and senior forward Caleb Stewart largely sealed the game by halftime.

In addition to the struggles offensively, the Bearcats could not contain the Hawks on the defensive end. Hartford took a 17-point lead into the midway point to the tune of 57 percent from the field and a beyond efficient 75 percent from long range. The Hawks also out-assisted Binghamton by eight dimes. Senior guard Jason Dunne paced Hartford with 12 points on four triples.

The second half told a similar story for both teams, even though the Bearcats attempted 11 more free

throws and shot a respectable 44 percent from the field. Show turned it around offensively, posting 10 points on 50 percent shooting. Stewart, however, continued to struggle, misfiring on all six shots he took in the period. He finished the game 1-10 to go along with 10 boards and eight points.

Even though BU certainly shifted gears after a brutal first half and the Hawks came back to Earth, the first half differential proved insurmountable. Hartford still cashed in on 52 percent of its shots and 44 percent of its long balls. Binghamton’s inability to respond defensively laid any hopes of a comeback to rest. The Bearcats ultimately fell to Hartford, who led the entire contest, on a 26-point differential. The Hawks’ largest advantage was 34 points at 10:17 remaining in the second half.

For Binghamton, road games have undoubtedly been a major story of the season. BU is now 1-10 on the road, their only victory over LIU Brooklyn back on Dec. 21. The Bearcats have now dropped five consecutive away matches and have four remaining in their schedule. In comparison, BU has a solid 5-6 home record.

Up next for the team is another road matchup with conference rival Albany on Saturday. The Great Danes (7-15, 2-5 AE) edged New Hampshire in their previous matchup, 62-42. BU’s showdown with Albany will be its first of the season.

Searching for its first conference road win, Binghamton will square off with the Great Danes on Feb. 2.

Tipoff is slated for 7 p.m. from Albany, New York.

rose coschignano pipe dream photographer Freshman guard Sam Sessoms went 10 for 17 on field goals and totaled 22 points in a blowout loss against Hartford.

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Pipe Dream’s Super Bowl LIII Predictions

RAMS

PATRIOTS

ATLANTA 02.03.19

Harvey Stenger

Conrad Taylor

Binghamton University President

BU alumnus, ‘17 and Binghamton City Councilman

Rams 40, Patriots 35 Patriots 37, Rams 34

“I am going with the Rams. I want to see someone other than the Patriots win!”

“This may be Brady’s last chance to prove he’s a legend. I think he takes it.”

Brian Rose

Grace Palumbo

BU Vice President for Student Affairs

BU alumna, ‘18 and former Pipe Dream Assistant Sports Editor

Patriots 36, Rams 33

V.S.

“My prediction for the Patriots Invitational Bowl (some persist in calling it the Super Bowl) is New England 36 - Los Angeles 33.”

Rich David Mayor of Binghamton Rams 31, Patriots 28

Rams 32, Patriots 27 “I think the Rams are going to win because the underdog won last year when the Eagles beat the Patriots. Also, I’m out west right now, so I feel like I need to support the Rams.”

Lia Berger Pipe Dream Copy Desk Chief Patriots 35, Rams 21

“Don’t underestimate the Rams’ defensive line. Brady won’t make throws if he’s always under pressure.”

“As much as I don’t want them to, I think New England is going to win because Jared Goff isn’t Nick Foles.”

Nikkolette Sather Pipe Dream Assistant Arts & Culture Editor Patriots 30, Rams 20 ”Although the Rams have a better record this season, the Patriots have Tom Brady who has more Super Bowl wins than most franchises have. The Patriots also arguably have the best head coach in Bill Belichick, so I think they look like they’re in a pretty good position to win.”

Average scoring margin:

Rams 3

Patriots +2.57

Patriots 4

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NFL must re-examine broken officiating procedures Edward Aaron Sports Intern

Crucial missed call exposes flawed system On Sunday, the New England Patriots will take to the field seeking their sixth Super Bowl championship. On the other sideline, 40-year-old quarterback Drew Brees will look to capitalize on what may be his last-ever opportunity to win a second title for the New Orleans Saints. The Saints, after hitting a deep pass into the red zone in the NFC Championship Game, gained a critical first down by penalty,

allowing them to run down the clock and hit the game-winning field goal as time expired.

But this isn’t reality. The referees missed the penalty call, denying the Saints the chance to run down the clock before kicking the field goal and allowing the Los Angeles Rams to tie the game and ultimately win in overtime.

From the kickoff onward, Super Bowl LIII is tainted. The legacies of several players and coaches are vastly different as a result of one indisputably blown call. If the NFL wants to show its fans that it cares about the product on the field, a complete overhaul of the league’s officiating system is necessary.

A common theme among officiating controversies are the complaints about an overcomplicated rule book. The

infamous “Dez caught it” play four years ago sparked the debate of how to define a catch. All season long, defensive ends were confused about how they could hit quarterbacks to avoid being flagged for roughing the passer.

These kinds of unclear rules irritate fans, players and coaches alike, decreasing the quality of the game.

The controversy that occurred during the championship on Sunday was not a case of a clouded rule book. Both pass interference and helmet-to-helmet contact were clearly committed and the officials simply failed to call them. In the following days, the NFL fined the offending player for helmet-to-helmet contact, acknowledging that a foul had been committed.

This has to be the tipping

point for the league. There is no excuse for missing the call. The millions of fans watching at home saw that it was pass interference, so how did the officiating crew miss it?

In the short term, something needs to happen to protect the integrity of the game. According to NBC’s Peter King, Al Riveron, the NFL’s senior vice president of officiating, is unlikely to survive this controversy, compounded with prior controversies in the two seasons he has held the position. If the league does indeed release Riveron, whoever replaces him must come in with a clear plan to clean up the NFL’s officiating procedures and prevent the referees and the rule book from ruining the game fans care so much about.

While Riveron deserves

significant blame for everything that has happened, he is not the one making the calls on the field.

There are several NFL officials whose performances this season warrant consideration about their future with the league.

In an unprecedented move earlier this year, an official was fired by the league after missing a clear false start. It is a positive sign for the league to be holding their officials accountable for their actions on the field, but it was only one known official removed. An improved system of evaluation, during both the season and offseason, is undoubtedly necessary.

The NFL should expedite plans to implement all forms of technology possible to help officials make calls. For years, the league has been putting

radio-frequency identification (RFID) chips in footballs, using them to collect data about players. Eventually, the use of RFID technology could help the officials determine where to spot a ball or whether or not it crossed the goal line. Increased usage of cameras, particularly on the football or players’ helmets, could help significantly with video reviews.

At this point, nothing can be done to rectify the blown call in New Orleans. The Rams are in the Super Bowl and the Saints’ season is over. The fallout has been and will continue to be a black eye for the league until sweeping changes are made to better its officiating procedures.

Whether it be through personnel changes or increased technology, something needs to change.

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