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Tuesday, September 13, 2016 | Vol. XC, Issue 6 | Binghamton University | bupipedream.com
Celebrating 70 Years as the Free Word on Campus
DCL changes to DCR after complaints OCCT reroutes bus line in reaction to local resident unrest Alexandra Mackof News Editor
The Off Campus College Transport (OCCT) DCL bus became the DCR as of Monday, Sept. 12. The bus previously traveled through Binghamton’s West Side on Leroy Street, and the new route follows Riverside Drive. Nicholas Ferrara, president of the Student Association and a senior majoring in political science, said that the change came after the city of Binghamton voiced residents’ concerns that the DCL was creating unwelcome traffic in suburban neighborhoods. “The change happened as a result of many local residents complaining about our buses traveling through very residential areas instead of main roads,” Ferrara said. “The city of Binghamton eventually got involved and asked us to stop sending DCL buses on Leroy Street. We have a good relationship with the city and quickly complied with their request.” Ferrara also said that OCCT hopes to bring back the DCL route while also avoiding the western half of Leroy Street where many residents did not want buses to travel. “Once the city completes some construction projects that will make it possible for our buses to safely travel on Beethoven Street, we will reinstate an improved version of the DCL that will get onto Leroy Street via Beethoven Street instead of West End Avenue,” Ferrara said. “We are unsure how long it will take the city to complete those construction projects but we are hopeful they will do so as soon as possible.” Brian Favela, the Binghamton University executive director of parking
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Kevin Paredes/Assistant Photography Editor Joseph Sanchez, an undeclared freshman, serves himself ice cream at a celebration of new changes event in the Fleishman Center for Career and Professional Development Friday afternoon. The changes include hiring staff and offering students more opportunities to develop professionally.
Fleishman Center expands resources for students
To meet rising demand, career development office increases staff and programs Stacy Schimmel
traffic. According to her, attendance at programs has increased 37 percent this year alone, with 21,943 attendees, and The Fleishman Center for Career and they have held over 6,300 individual Professional Development has increased student appointments along with 931 its staff in the last four months in order self-arranged interviews. This increase in to expand services for students. student participation, Smith said, made Kelli Smith, the director of the hiring more staff a logical next step. Center, said new positions were added “We hit a home run with every to accommodate an increase in student single hire this year,” Smith said. “We
have an incredible team, and everyone is extremely dedicated to our mission of helping students become successful, whether that means deciding on a career, securing an internship or job, or getting into graduate school.” New staff members include career consultants Mohamed Sesay and Cassie Spencer. Sesay acts as a liaison for other support services on campus and
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spearheads programs for students of color and LGBTQ students, and Spencer provides walk-in sessions, appointments and professional development programming. “It’s an amazing opportunity to come and work at the place where I started my career, in terms of my first professional
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Ex-CIA analyst discusses 9/11 reaction
Ray McGovern shares opinions on government response to terrorist attacks David Zeiger
years ago. Students and community members came together for the event, which On Friday evening, a former CIA was hosted by Binghamton University analyst and the mother of a 9/11 victim Peace Action and Broome County came to campus to share their opinions Peace Action, organizations which both on the United States’ reaction to the promote peace activism. terrorist attacks which took place 15 One of the speakers, Donna Marsh
O’Connor, lost her daughter on Sept. 11, 2001. She now acts as a national spokesperson for Families for Peaceful Tomorrows, an organization devoted to channeling families’ grief in the wake of 9/11 into peace efforts. O’Connor was critical of the U.S. government, saying that the reaction to
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the events was militaristic and abrupt. “Following the attacks, I could not believe what was being done in my daughter’s name by my own government,” O’Connor said. Ray McGovern, a former CIA analyst
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Hammock business Prof. re-examines alcohol treatments helps reforestation
Barbara McGrady, psychologist from Albuquerque, shares research on therapies
BU alums founded 'Hang2Gether' as part of class, company plants two trees for each product sold Alana Epstein
The “2” in the company’s name stands Pipe Dream News for the two trees that are planted in an area of deforestation. According to Sedgewick, For students looking to hang up they attribute much of their starting success a hammock between trees while also to the company name, and hope to see at ensuring there are enough trees to hang least $20,000 in sales in the first 12 months. from, Hang2Gether might be a solution. “It’s a unique idea with a name that Hang2Gether was born last spring in solidifies a pretty special company,” he said. professor Tony Frontera’s entrepreneurship SEE HANG PAGE 2 560 class at Binghamton University. Students Lennon Safir, ‘15, Nick Pancerella, ‘15, Jack Sedgewick, ‘15, and Brigitte Cohen, ‘16, each earned their master’s in accounting. According to Sedgewick, the group hoped to create a company with a social mission and decided that for every hammock Hang2Gether sells, two trees will be planted. “Our core mission has always been to pair the selling of hammocks with some sort of social mission, hence the name of our company, which is kind of a play on words for our products,” Segewick said. “Not only are our customers literally hanging from these hammocks, but figuratively, as well, with every purchase going toward a global Photo provided by Hang-2-gether mission of reforestation.” ARTS & CULTURE
Samuel Abaev
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With over 40 years of substance abuse research under her belt, Barbara McCrady visited Binghamton University to lecture on the evolution of alcohol and drug treatment. McCrady, a distinguished professor of psychology and director of the Center on Alcoholism, Substance Abuse, and Addictions at the University of New Mexico, was the speaker of the second annual Stephen A. Lisman Annual Lecture in Clinical Psychology, which was established last year to honor Lisman’s 43 years of contributions to BU as a professor before he retired in 2014. Students and faculty gathered in Old University Union on Monday afternoon to hear her lecture, titled “Alcohol and Other Drug Problems: How Lessons from Clinicians and Researchers are Shaping Treatment.” McCrady outlined the history of alcohol treatment and care for alcohol dependency, and also shared her own research. She said that after prohibition ended in 1933, there was no treatment
system in place for alcohol dependency because there was no prior need for it. In 1935, Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), a fellowship created to fight alcoholism, was born. “After the prohibition was repealed, people suffering from alcohol dependency began to seek out help,” McCrady said. “It was then that a meeting took place between two gentlemen who realized that through their shared experience of alcoholism, they might be able to both recover, and as a result, Alcoholics Anonymous was established.” McCrady noted that it wasn’t until the 1970s that different platforms of research, such as classical conditioning, operant conditioning and family assistance models, began to pave the road forward in battling alcohol dependency. During that time, McCrady began to conduct and unveil her own methods of research. “We started developing and tested what we called alcohol behavioral couple therapy,” McCrady said. “Our model of treatment focused on the primary intimate relationship between the person with the drinking problem
OPINIONS
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Pass on Nite Owl in favor of healthier late-night snacks,
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Contributing columnist Benjamin Goldberg discusses the drawback of Botswana environmentalism,
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and their partner. The model was based on cognitive behavior therapy for distressed relationships, and it consisted of three main pieces: maintaining abstinence, helping partners [of the person with the drinking problem] to learn to support positive change and to improve overall relationships.” McCrady said the next step is discovering what actually drives success in treatment. In one study she conducted at Brown University, the treatment of alcohol behavioral couple therapy offered promising results: When people stay abstinent, they could maintain success after treatment, and the couple stayed together with a relationship that was maybe even stronger. “What we found is that people who are attending Alcoholics Anonymous in general are more likely to remain abstinent, so maybe we should start applying our research — couple’s therapy — to AA,” McCrady said. According to Lisman, McCrady was an easy choice to invite not only because of her research, but
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SPORTS
Men’s soccer splits pair of games at NIU Invitational,
Women’s soccer defeats Temple, 3-1, after strong offensive showing,
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