FRIDAY, Oct. 17, 7 p.m. — A 29-year-old female employee discovered students consuming alcoholic beverages during a fashion show at the East Gym, Investigator Dennis P. Bush of Binghamton’s New York State University Police said. The employee had previously found the group of students in the staff lounge and warned them that the room was off limits.
When the employee found the group in the room a second time, she confiscated three bottles of champagne.
“They were very rude to her when she told them to leave,” Bush said.
The police arrived, but the employee was unable to pick the culprits out of the large group of students at the fashion show. The program manager was told, and she said she would send out a statement right away to make sure it would not happen again.
FRIDAY, Oct. 17, 11:26 p.m. — A female maintenance cleaner found “vile hate speech” written in the men’s room in the Old University Union, Bush said. The Old Union has been closed off to students for construction since the beginning of the semester, though certain staff and workers do have access. Police have no suspects.
SATURDAY, Oct. 18, 3:02 a.m. — A campus patrol was searching College-in-the-Woods’ service drive for a 911 hang-up call when they came upon a 19-year-old male and a 19-year-old female in a heated argument, Bush said. The call had been made by a cell phone, not a blue phone, and the call went to the Broome County Police first. Both students denied making the phone call. The officers checked the female student’s phone, which did not show any 911 calls. The students were advised to end their argument.
SATURDAY, Oct. 18, 5:26 a.m. — A campus patrol came upon a 19-year-old male student arguing with a 48-year-old male in the main traffic circle of the University, Bush said. The older man had given the younger man a ride back to campus from Downtown Binghamton.
The older man did not want to take the student back up to his room and dropped him off by the traffic circle, which angered the student. The younger man made threatening statements, at which point the officers saw the argument.
“The younger man had been drinking,” Bush said.
The older man chose not to press charges and the officers sent the student on his way.
SUNDAY, Oct. 19, 9 p.m. — An 18-year-old female student received anonymous instant messages on AOL Instant Messenger, Bush said. She didn’t like the first message she received and turned on AIM’s recording system.
The student called the campus police and showed the officers the conversation, which she felt was threatening. She had a problem with a male from her hometown a few years ago, though he does not go to Binghamton University. Police have no suspects.