Don’t forget to bring your towel

MONDAY, NOV. 14, 9:42 p.m. – Officers arriving on the fifth floor of Oneida Hall, A-L side, to investigate a marijuana complaint found a towel jutting out from under one of the dorm-room doors. They listened closely and they could hear males talking and listening to music. The officers became suspicious of the towel because of how students in dorms typically use towels for recrational use. “It’s done to try to block the odor from going out under the door,” said Capt. Donald A. Chier, a spokesman for Binghamton’s New York State University Police. When the police identified themselves as law officers, the students in the room went quiet. “They would not come to the door, even though they said, ‘who’s out there?’,” Chier said. Officers could hear movement in the room, including the sound of items being put away. The occupants were referred to the campus judicial system.

Multiple identity disorder

TUESDAY, NOV. 15, 6:30 p.m. – While inventorying a purse lost and found in the University Union, officers found five different licenses all belonging to the same person, including a forged Maryland license and a chalked New York license.

The young woman whom the items belonged to told officers that she wouldn’t be enrolled as a student next semester, though the police only referred her to the campus judicial system, and didn’t file criminal charges.

“Since she’s not coming back, why charge her and put her through all that,” Chier said.

I’d hate to twist your arm…

WEDNESDAY, NOV. 16, 11:10 a.m. – Tina the Hinman Cashier was sent to a local hospital after she tried to confiscate a meal card belonging to a female student being used by a male student — and the person twisted her arm.

“He got mad, grabbed her arm, twisted her and grabbed the card and pushed her off,” Chier said. “He obviously is not the person on the card. We’re trying to chase him down.”

The police are looking for the suspect, whom they described as a black male wearing camouflage.

“The lady was treated by Harpur’s Ferry, treated and released,” Chier said. Two other men in the dining hall who were also pushed around by the suspect declined medical treatment.

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WEDNESDAY, NOV. 16, 9:42 p.m. – Officers went to the second floor of Newing’s Bingham Hall on a drug complaint phoned in by a dorm resident assistant. Officers isolated the marijuana-smoke odor to a specific room. They knocked on the door, but no one answered. The police left. “They got the names of the individuals who lived there,” Chier said, and referred them to the campus judicial system.

Roused by a stiff board meeting

THURSDAY, NOV. 17, 12:10 a.m. – Medics and the police found an underage female student, intoxicated, passed out on the floor of Hinman’s Cleveland Hall. “The officer repeatedly tried to rouse her, wake her up, make sure she was OK,” Chier said. When the police finally managed to awaken her, she appeared to believe she was in a board meeting. She stood up, then collapsed back onto the floor and passed out. According to the police report, she had been drinking following a relationship break-up with her boyfriend. Harpur’s Ferry medics transported the student to Binghamton General Hospital.