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CELEBRATING 100 YEARS 1916—2016 Lady Trump is Danes Nothing Make it New Five in a PAGE 4 Row PAGE 5 ALBANY STUDENT PRESS TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2016 ISSUE 6 ALBANYSTUDENTPRESS.NET SPEAKER SERIES Humans of New York Takes Albany By LINDSEY RIBACK stage in the SEFCU Arena Satur- could do anything that he wanted. day night to discuss the rewards After beginning what he With the aim of bringing to- of hard work and following one’s referred to as the “treasure hunt” gether generations of Great Danes dreams. Stanton, 32, initially of photographing downtown and their families, the Univer- picked up a camera as a way to Chicago, he set a goal for himself: sity at Albany’s Homecoming relieve stress from his job as a photograph 10,000 New Yorkers. Weekend did just that with its first bond trader in Chicago. It was not The issue was however, he needed Speaker Series event of the year, until after he was fired from the to not only move to New York but featuring the creator of Humans of job and was able to view time as a he also needed first month’s rent Source: ualbanyphotos.com New York, Brandon Stanton. resource, that Stanton realized that Stanton expounds on his wildly successful photography career. Please see HONY page 3 The Georgia native took to the for the first time in two years he PINK RIBBONS PURE PROFIT By ILENE ROTHMAN Each year University at Albany students dress up in pink and lace up their sneakers to walk in the Ameri- can Cancer Society Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk, after having spent the beginning of the se- mester raising money for their teams. The Oct. 16 walk in Washington Park had over 3,500 participants on 484 teams, collectively raising just be- low $312,000 for a cause that affects one in eight women. On Oct. 7, the Albany Business Jonathan Miller / Albany Leaders Emerging (ABLE) business Student Press organization collaborated with Alpha Phi Omega to host a Volleyball and Over 3,500 people KanJam Tournament. ABLE, one of showed up in Washington- the largest student organizations with Square Park to support around 200 members this semester, breast cancer awareness charged students $5 to participate, and and raise money for a the event was successful with a grand cure. The total brough total of $205 being raised. The MASH in this year was over Card also sponsored prizes for the $300,000. winners of these events. ABLE also is fundraising by selling long sleeve t-shirts. The front of the shirt says “Go Fight Cure” and the back says “Albany Business Leaders Emerging” with pink ribbons on the shirt in the shape of hearts. The shirts cost $15 and $5 from each shirt was donated. Students who choose to walk Please see CANCER page 8 ON CAMPUS CONSTRUCTION Abstinence urged at alcohol confab GSA Office By ILENE ROTHMAN done to educate young adults about the dangers of exces- Search Continues Students and faculty had sive alcohol consumption, the opportunity to discuss the measures that have been By TYLER MCNEIL the GSA hopes to claim the underage drinking at a town put in place to deter the use current office for Student hall meeting titled “Our of fake IDs, how the univer- Despite operating in a Involvement. Community, Our Health, sity provides help to students temporary storage space According to GSA Our Future: A Conversation struggling with addiction, since 2014, the Univer- President Jefferson Garcia, Addressing Underage Drink- and how UAlbany is trying to sity at Albany’s Graduate new space is critical for the ing.” break the stigma of the drink- Student Association expects group to move forward, as a The meeting was held in ing culture at college. to face continued challenges change in space would settle the University at Albany’s Arlene Gonzalez-Sanchez, while seeking a new home organizational concerns Performing Arts Center, on the commissioner for the as the university remains over the current site’s lack Tuesday Oct. 4, after the New York State Office of under construction. of visibility and operational same meeting took place Alcoholism and Substance As several offices are capacity. two years before. Many of Abuse Services, opened the expected to move out of the “We need visibility the returning speakers have event. She detailed how the because we’re in the back Source: Wikimedia.com original Campus Center to eagerly awaited for this event Albany Police Department the building’s West Addi- corner of the building,” to address what has been Please see CAMPUS page 3 tion expansion by next fall, Please see MOVE page 8 PRINTED BY THE TIMES UNION, ALBANY, NEW YORK — A HEARST CORPORATION NEWSPAPER EDITOR: STEFAN LEMBO-STOLBA TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2016 2 [email protected] NEWS ALBANY STUDENT PRESS ALBANY LGBTQ SUNY- THE BATHROOM WARS: USING A Poly BATHROOM IS NOT A CRIME By CLAIRE MCCULLEY In conjunction with National Coming Out CEO Day, Albany Law School held “The Bath- room Wars,” to discuss gender discrimination Quits toward transgender, genderqueer, and By TYLER MCNEIL gender non-conforming individuals in public Awaiting trial for corruption charges, restrooms. Alain Kaloyeros, former University at Albany A group of five Vice President and CEO of the College of panelists and about Nanoscale Science and Engineering, resigned 30 audience members from his post as SUNY Polytechnic Institute gathered in the West head last Tuesday. Wing classroom on Prior to his resignation, Kaloyeros was Tuesday, Oct. 11. The suspended from SUNY Poly amid a pending panel was organized criminal scandal. by OUTLaw, Albany “It has been my great privilege to serve as Law’s LGBTQ and [SUNY Poly] President and deeply rewarding allied student organiza- to see SUNY Poly’s growth over the years,” tion. he wrote in a resignation email. “Now, Facilitated by a host however, I recognize that my continued of local professionals in leadership would pose a distraction from the field, the program SUNY Poly continuing its good work.” began with an introduc- On Sept. 22 Kaloyeros and nine others tion to trans identities faced federal and state corruption charges for and branched into a allegedly bid rigging and self-dealing. Out plethora of equally of the ten developers and power brokers in significant topics. the state, Kaloyeros was accused of rigging Numerous gender bids for three multimillion-dollar state labels are available construction projects, including apartments for people to use in near SUNY Poly, the Times Union reported. their lives. Some of As of yet, Kaloyeros has denied all charges these include terms in the investigation. like cisgender, trans- University at Albany Interim President, gender, non-binary, Claire McCulley / Albany Student Press James Stellar, discussed the investigation’s agender, gender neutral, possible impacts to the regional economy feminine or masculine with the Albany Student Press, following his of center, gender non- identities and expres- on the issue of negative that is even a lot of po- “Only 108 colleges appointment. conforming (GNC), sions can use the internalization during licing even within the in the nation have a “It’s too bad that this had happened,” and bi-gender. Gender facility without fear the panel, “our culture trans community itself. center with a full-time Stellar said. “The indictments alone and the pronouns such as she/ of persecution — has creates the concept that “It’s like, if you’re a professional working change in presidency is a hit, but I think we her/hers, he/him/his, stimulated a complex there are two distinct trans woman, you have on gender and sexual- can get through it.” and they/them/their, conversation on what genders. So, for trans to be the most feminine ity issues and UAlbany Under Kaloyeros’ leadership, since are also applicable. But gender is and why we or gender-fluid people, woman ever, and if is one of them,” said 1988, the college managed to grow from what is the difference are trained to believe we start to think, ‘I you’re a man you have D’Allaird. “We have a basement research lab to a multi-billion- between gender identity that there are only two must not fit; I must not to be the masculine a name change policy, dollar research complex, attracting over $14 and assigned sex? distinct genders. belong… Something is trans man ever,” he we’re creating a safe billion in private and federal investments. “Gender identity “I like to say that the wrong with me.’” said. space for people to In 2008, four years after CNSE was is basically an inter- history of bathrooms D’Allaird equated The audience seemed exist who don’t iden- founded, the SUNY Board of Trustees gave nal sense of being a in this country is the the experience of trans to feel likewise. When tify as either male or Kaloyeros reign over finances and operations, woman, man, or other history of oppression,” individuals with an the panelists opened the female, and we want to POLITICO reported. Instead of reporting to gender,” said Lyndon D’Allaird said, to earlier experience of floor for questions, au- challenge and educate the UAlbany president, he reported directly Cudlitz of the Capital which the audience im- seeing a strange look- dience members raised the entire campus. to the SUNY chancellor. CNSE was initially Region Pride Center, mediately agreed. ing bug and squashing some significant points. There are 18,000 stu- a college within UAlbany until it split with who is very open about According to the it to death, only to try to Issues like transgender dents at this school and the university in 2013 to begin merging with his experience as a National Center for decipher what kind of access to health care, I want them to know SUNY Polytechnic Institute in Utica.