CELEBRATING 100 YEARS 1916—2016 DANES SEX, TAKE COCAINE, AMERICA RAPE EAST PAGE 3 CROWN PAGE 10 ALBANY STUDENT PRESS TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2016 ISSUE 9 ALBANYSTUDENTPRESS.NET ON CAMPUS CECH Sex assult forum BLOCKED held after attack By ILENE ROTHMAN UAlbany’s Title IX Coordinator, Chantelle Cleary. The club IN SA Following the Oct. 23 sexual supports students wishing to learn assault incident on the University business skills and network with at Albany campus, student professionals alongside other organizations are recognizing students who actively advocate for the importance of having open women to excel in the currently VOTE discussions about issues that male dominated business world. students are facing on campus, as “Sexual harassment is the By TYLER MCNEIL well as ones they may unfortunately unwelcome conduct of sexual have to deal with in the future. nature that is sufficiently severe, The next Student Association Comptroller The Women Excelling in persistent or pervasive,” according Ilene Rothman / Albany Student Press remains undetermined after nominee Emily Business Club invited all members to Cleary who said this is the most Chantelle Cleary, addressing members of Cech was shot down for the position on of the university to attend an open currently used definition of sexual the Women Excelling in Business Club on Wednesday. forum on Thursday about sexual harassment. matters of sexual violence and harass- ment. After over an hour of debate in executive harassment in the workplace, led by Please see FORUM page 8 session, Cech’s appointment was rejected by over half of the SA Senate in a 29-12-2 vote. Three days after the failed confirmation, the SA Board of Finance decided to keep provisional office control. Before deciding on the next appointment, the board will seek feedback from the senators about the nomination failure. “Whenever you make a decision you want to make sure that it’s the best decision you can possibly make,” said SA President Felix Abreu. “So, despite the fact that the process has been so long, the main issue here is that if we didn’t have an interim comptroller, there would be a bigger problem.” In order to be confirmed, the next candidate will need to get at least a two- thirds vote from the senate. Cech failed to reach 71 percent of the senate, resulting in the appointment’s landslide defeat. Before the executive session broke out, Please see COMPTROLLER page 2 RESIDENTIAL LIFE UAS Seeks RA Pay Change Elena Pollack / Albany Student Press By TYLER MCNEIL UNINVITED, The University at Albany’s Residential Life is hoping to determine the future of WINTER ARRIVES resident assistant pay before month’s end to replace the department’s long-standing IN ALBANY stipend system. Working with UAS, Residential Life is Albany’s first snow of the season came looking to break away from compensation almost a month early this year. A passing by moving towards alternative methods of snow shower on Thursday, Oct. 20 payment, such as partial-board remuneration, covered the campus and greater Albany in a system which would subsidize board fees thin sheet of snow, heralding what some for RAs. fear may be winter’s premature arrival. Being in the early stages of research and Typically, Albany records its first average development, details surrounding alternative snowfall on Nov. 16. Please see RES LIFE page 3 FUTURE DANES Scavenger Hunt Gives Students Taste of College By ELISE COOMBS After gathering into six groups Motivated by the prizes up for in front of University Hall on grabs at the stadium, some students A tour in the form of a scavenger Friday, the students raced to find were especially competitive as they hunt was led by University at clues across campus and make it to eagerly ran ahead. Other students Albany tour guides to give sixth Casey Stadium first. Along the way, trailed behind, speaking amongst Elise Coombs / Albany Student Press grade students from Stephen and volunteers stationed at strategic themselves and the tour guides. One of the UAlbany tour guides who provided the sixth Harriet Myers Middle School a positions handed out the next clue Tour guide Anthony Piché talked graders with clues and perspectives on college life. taste of the college experience. to the students. Please see HUNT page 8 PRINTED BY THE TIMES UNION, ALBANY, NEW YORK — A HEARST CORPORATION NEWSPAPER EDITOR: STEFAN LEMBO-STOLBA TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2016 2 [email protected] NEWS ALBANY STUDENT PRESS ACTIVISM Haunted House Offers New Perspective on Domestic Violence By JASMINE MILLNER the haunted house, they were the students of FIA analyzed met with total darkness and loud horror movies such as Carrie, Using the horror of noises from all angles. The FIA The Shining, and Amityville Halloween, the University at students crawled on the floor, Horror. Albany held a haunted house on rocked back and forth in the “All of the horror happens in Monday to convey to students fetal position, and some even the home,” Hobson said. the horror that comes with being screamed. The darkness and The supernatural elements a victim of domestic violence. sounds were used to signify the in these horror movies can be Every nine seconds a woman true horror of domestic violence. metaphorical for the violence in America is assaulted or beaten. After exiting the exhibit, occurring in the real world, More than 10 million Americans students would come across according to Hobson. In addition are victims of physical violence other exhibits created to to watching horror movies, the every year and 15 percent of represent domestic violence students read articles to learn all violent crimes are domestic in the home. These included more about domestic violence. violence incidents. a bed to signify sexual abuse, “You’ve seen the horror Janell Hobson, an associate and a dining room with broken stories, but what about the real professor of Women’s Gender plates and overturned chairs horror? October is Domestic and Sexuality Studies and her to represent physical and Violence Awareness Month and Feminism in Action (FIA) emotional abuse. All of the FIA it ends with Halloween, so why students, spent two weeks putting students wore black and applied not combine the two?” Hobson together “Haunted House: A fake blood to their faces. The said regarding the decision to do Domestic Awareness Exhibit,” group also gave out fact sheets, a haunted house, which was an converting the usually bright which is the source for all of interactive way to simultaneously open room of the Assembly Hall the information in this article, engage and educate participants. Jasmine Millner / Albany Student Press into a dark depiction of domestic with appalling statistics about There are many violence. domestic violence. misconceptions about domestic Students examine one of the displays at the Feminism in Action (FIA) Haunted House. As students walked through In preparation for the event, Please see HAUNTED page 3 COMPTROLLER SUSTAINABILITY Continued from Page 1 Terra Awards Celebrate Cech was questioned about her availability, experience, and familiarity with SA Greenest Danes operations. Cech, a junior majoring in By TIMO NIJSSEN works with TerraPass to make accounting and finance, cited sure the offsets are certified. her experience as a finance The nomination period for the “We purchase the equivalent intern for Goodwill Industries. University at Albany’s annual of 4 metric tons of carbon “I came in with the drive to Terra Awards has just come dioxide per recipient,” Mallia take this position,” Cech said. to an end and winners will be said. “That is roughly the Along with mentioning her announced Nov. 18 during the equivalent to driving 9,500 miles experience in finance, Cech Energy Campaign recognition a year or 6 months of electricity said that her availability would ceremony. use in the average home.” fit with comptroller duties as The Terra Awards, presented Eleanor Stein, a former she is only taking 13 credits every semester by the Office administrative law judge, this semester. of Sustainability since 2013, received the Terra Award last SA comptrollers are recognize individuals on campus semester for teaching classes on required to maintain frequent who have been making an effort climate change and chose the communication with student in the area of sustainability. carbon offset award. groups and the office of “There are so many people “My work is in the area student involvement. Due to Albany Student Press /Jonathan Peter doing great things to advance of climate change so it was a of the position’s workload The SA votes on Cech’s candidacy. According to Sen. Mosby, sustainability awareness on natural step for me,” Stein said. the deputy comptroller, Alex leadership is thought to favor a comptroller with membership in campus,” Mary Ellen Mallia, She believes the awards Schindler, declined to manage Phi Alpha Delta. the director of the Office of should have more publicity the position earlier in October. Sustainability, said. “We hope within the university to draw appointing Nikash Nanavaty comptroller and that’s all I While questioning the that this award will assist in attention to sustainability. as the interim comptroller. really have to say about that,” candidate’s time management recognizing them … as well as Michael Paolicelli, a Over two weeks, the board Mosby said. and credentials, senators inspire others to action.” cybersecurity major, agreed. landed on four candidates to While the board focuses broke parliamentary procedure Students, faculty, and “I believe a sustainable take Warshauer’s seat. The on pushing an appointment several times by interrupting staff were able to nominate a mindset should be rewarded,” pool of candidates narrowed through the senate, Nanavaty the candidate and breaking candidate, including themselves, Paolicelli said. “It’s the direction on Oct.