Pipe Dream Fall 2012 Issue 20

Competitive Eating

Dirty Talk Author of "Why is the Penis Shaped Like That?" speaks about sexual perversions

The editorial board contemplates how BU can become #1 in Division I athletics

Eddy Ifft Preforms The comedian entertained campus at Late Nite event

PIPE DREAM Tuesday, November 20, 2012 | Binghamton University | www.bupipedream.com | Vol. LXXXII, Issue 20

GAMBINO

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Volleyball wins AE title

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Junior captain Grace Vickers celebrates during a ceremony honoring the volleyball team’s sweep of top-seeded University at Albany in the America East Conference championship match.

In a field of 16 Binghamton University students posing as competitive eaters at the Dickinson Town Council’s wing-eating contest on Friday, Jerry Yang, a junior majoring in accounting, came out on top, finishing 60 wings over the course of four painstaking rounds.

Yang pulled ahead early, leading the field after the first round by eating 29 wings in six minutes.

“That was agonizing for me,” said Jeffrey Mena, the emcee of the competition and a sophomore majoring in electrical engineering, after the first round. “I was hot just standing next to them. I can’t imagine what they were going through. It was exciting. It was exhilarating.”

After the first round, Vincent Riemma, the eventual runner-up and a freshman majoring in biochemistry, was at a loss for words.

“Holy shit,” he said.

Four contestants advanced

Thanks to an in-conference season turnaround, the Binghamton University volleyball team positioned itself for a shot at the America East title. And on Saturday, the Bearcats capitalized on their performance to date and swept No. 1 seed University at Albany to win the conference and the associated NCAA tournament berth for the third time in the program’s Division I history.

Binghamton (13-17, 8-4 AE), which finished the regular season tied for second place, had to beat University of Maryland, Baltimore County (15-15, 8-4 AE) in the conference semifinals on Friday to earn a date with the Great Danes, the league’s defending champs.

to the second round, as dozens of onlookers cheered and clapped.

— Jerry Yang WIing contest champion

“I’m only here to see someone puke,” said Jeremy Bernstein, an undeclared freshman.

The next two rounds were

The match against UMBC was a gritty five-set win for the Bearcats (16-25, 25-22, 20-25, 25-20, 15-9), fitting for two teams that had split during the regular conference season. Trailing two sets to one, the Bearcats produced a .324 hitting percentage, their best of the match, in the fourth set to pull even and force a fifth game. Binghamton had gained momentum and took control of the fifth set to secure the win.

Junior libero Xiomara Ortiz posted 24 digs to break Binghamton’s individual conference tournament record, and senior outside hitter Iva Partaleva collected a matchhigh 21 kills.

“We didn’t start out very strong,” Binghamton head

a mad dash to see who could strip the most meat from the bone. In the end, however, it came down to just Yang and Riemma.

Yang used the snap and suck technique, snapping the wing in half and sticking the entire bone in his mouth, using his teeth to pull off all the meat at once, while Riemma took a different approach, biting around the wings in a more traditional method.

Students stretched their limbs on Sunday during a relaxing yoga session with Binghamton University President Harvey Stenger.

More than 50 people joined Stenger in the Appalachian Collegiate Center to meet him and other Binghamton University “VIPs” like Ann Merriwether from the human development and psychology departments, John Frazier from the geography department, Morgan Appel from the Dean of Students’ office and Mohammad Bishawi from the Career Development Center.

The event, run by Mountainview College resident assistants Shira Gelfand and Sabrena Myers and Dickinson Community RA Anneth Delgado, aimed to help students network with faculty in a more casual setting. The RAs hoped to show how accessible and friendly Binghamton faculty can be.

“We came up with yoga because Sabrena [Myers] originally asked President Stenger if he would

do belly dancing and he wanted something a bit more modest,” said Gelfand, a junior majoring in English. “Yoga was perfect because anyone can do it at any level. Also, It totally breaks the ice when you all look like fools wobbling on tree pose.”

Ricky Sosulski, a Campus Recreation instructor, led the 30-minute yoga session. Delgado, a junior majoring in biological anthropology, said that although they only did yoga for half of the event, everyone felt relaxed afterward.

“Many people do not find the time in their schedules to go to the gym to work out but doing yoga is just as beneficial,” Delgado said. “We can practice yoga anywhere — right now while sitting, one can focus on breathing.”

After the yoga session, the students were given a chance to talk to the professors about possible classes for the upcoming semester. Donald Glauber, a professor in the health and

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Students hold a triangle pose alongside University President Harvey Stenger Sunday evening at a ResLife event aimed at connecting students and faculty in a casual setting.

Rap 'Royalty' rocks West Gym Sunday

The lights dimmed and the air smelled of sweat and weed as Childish Gambino took the stage in the West Gym Sunday night.

The rapper extraordinaire got the party started as soon as he stepped on stage.

“It’s hype as fuck up in this shit!” Gambino exclaimed.

This was the second major concert that the Student Association Programming Board (SAPB) held this semester. It was the first concert held in the West Gym since 2008, but SAPB concert chair Adam Sebag said he was impressed.

“This show was a great cap to a fantastic semester of concert programming by SAPB for our students,” said Sebag, a senior majoring in biology. “I hope students were satisfied this semester with the variety of acts we brought.”

Brianna Friia, Student Association vice president for programming, said she was excited for Childish Gambino at Binghamton.

“I’m a big fan and I was blown away by his performance,” said Friia, a senior double-majoring in math and anthropology.

“I think he’s one of the most energetic performers I’ve ever seen. I hope the students loved him. Fuck yeah!”

Gambino is unique in the world of rap, mixing his damn good lyrics with a live band including stringed instruments and no laptop.

“Childish Gambino put on a great live performance,” Sebag said. “What makes Gambino’s show so interesting is his full live band, which most artists similar to him don’t have.”

Logic hit the stage at 8:15 p.m., preparing the audience for a kick-ass show.

“Make some fucking noise!”

Logic shouted. “Y’all are in for a motherfucking show!”

An hour later, Gambino took control, kicking off his set with “Outside” and later leading into a blazing performance of “Bonfire.”

“It is hot as fuck in this fucking gym, let’s make it hotter!” Gambino said.

For nearly an hour and a half, he kept the crowd of 2,100 pumped up with his energetic performance.

As part of his encore, Gambino busted some rhymes, “rockin’ freestyle at Binghamton.”

“We don’t do this shit a lot, but you guys deserve it,” Gambino said.

Before Gambino wrapped up the show with “Lights Turn On,” he praised the Binghamton audience, taking off his shirt to the delight of the crowd.

Yang had already eaten 54 wings going into the fourth and final round. Riemma was close behind with 48.

The finalists struggled with each and every wing in the final round, clenching their teeth to keep any of it from coming back up. But in the end, Yang came out on top.

“I’m really full,” Yang said after his victory. “I usually get food after eating contests, but that was a lot.”

Riemma was gracious in defeat, shaking hands with Yang after the final round was over.

“I pretty much knew the entire time that Jerry Yang was going to win,” he said. “I weigh 155 pounds. He’s got 100 pounds on me!”

Still, Riemma remained confident that his future is bright.

“I got it next year,” he said.

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Jerry Yang, a junior majoring in accounting, inhales one of the 60 hot wings he consumed over the course of a four-round competition. He was crowned “the king of wings” on Friday night during the wing-eating contest hosted by Dickinson Town Council.

Talent show highlights cultural groups by the amount of audience applause each act received, resulted in a tie between Masti, a South Pacific dance club, and the BU Tae Kwon Do Club.

The International Connection executive board members were called on stage to break the tie, but their votes only led to another tie of four to four. Jay Arora, the host of the event, asked the crowd to cheer once more for the group that they wanted to win, resulting in Masti gaining the final victory.

“It feels so great [to win],” said Amy Mundanchira, cocaptain of Masti and a junior majoring in biology. “We didn’t think we’d win this, there’s so much talent in here.”

— Logic Musician

“Give it up for yourselves for being the fucking dopest audience,” Gambino said. “I love Binghamton, you guys know the fuckin’ words to my songs.

That’s crazy.”

Mayesha Quasem, a senior double-majoring in biology and political science, said Childish Gambino was phenomenal.

“Despite being familiar with only one of his songs before the concert, the stage presence he had was powerful, and his passion for his work was infectious enough to have me singing along with everyone else by the end,” Quasem said.

Chelsea Desruisseaux, an undeclared freshman, said the concert was “absolutely amazing.”

“Everything from the strobe lights to the energy of the crowd went perfectly,” Desruisseaux said. “I almost pissed my pants when he jumped down and I got to touch him. Logic was awesome too, he got the crowd really hyped for Childish.”

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Donald Glover, aka Childish Gambino, returned to Binghamton University three years after he performed in the Events Center as part of the comedy group Derrick Comedy.

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Sul Poong, a traditional Korean percussion group, performs at Binghamton’s Got Talent on Saturday night in the Mandela Room. The event featured 10 performances, a fashion show and food.

Dozens of students showcased both their skill and cultural diversity on stage Friday, but Masti, a South Pacific dance club, took home the title as the winner of the first talent show hosted by International Connection.

The first “Binghamton’s Got Talent” competition was the final event of International Education Week, which celebrates the diverse backgrounds of Binghamton University students. The talent show featured 10 student

The Taiwanese American Student Coalition’s held its 19th annual Night Market Saturday, featuring traditional Taiwanese music, food and games.

Shen-En Lee, a junior majoring in psychology, said the market was a chance for people who came to the event to learn about her country.

“For people who don’t know a lot about Taiwan, [Night Market] is a great introduction,” Lee said. “They will see all the places they should especially if they travel the rail.”

According to TASC secretary Eva Fan, this year’s theme was the Taiwan High Speed Rail.

“It’s one of the things Taiwan is really proud of,”

performances, a fashion show and international foods.

“We want to bring cultures from every single part of the world together, and show the diversity,” said Munira Pulodi, vice president of International Connection and a junior majoring in biology.

During the fashion show, models walked through the center aisle where the audience was seated, showcasing traditional Japanese clothing, African wear, Indian saris, Turkish outfits, a Caribbean celebratory costume and a traditional Chinese kimono.

International Connection’s E-Board members performed

a choreographed dance routine to the Korean pop hit “Gangnam Style,” the Hindi song “Thug Le,” and the Spanish/Portuguese song “Danza Kuduro.”

Featured acts included Beijing Opera, Korean percussion group Sul Poogn, contemporary ballet dance group Orchesis, BU Tae Kwon Do Club, and Laura Keim.

Student dance groups also performed, including routines by the BU Greek Club, BU Japanese Association (BUJA), Binghamton Masti, BU Irish Club and International Flag Dancers.

The competition, judged

said Fan, a junior majoring in integrative neuroscience.

Old Union Hall was adorned with murals and depictions of cities the high speed rail passes, from Kaohsiung to Taipei.

Crystal Wang, TASC financial vice president and a junior majoring in economics, said a night market is just like other festivals and markets. “[It is] a traditional market in Taiwan that only takes place at night where people eat and play games,” Wang said.

The 200 students and alumni at TASC’s biggest event of the fall semester could enjoy traditional food like lu rou fan, scallion pancakes, celery dougan and milk black tea.

Fan said she enjoys the food at traditional night markets.

“You can go through it and get little baggies of food for a really cheap price and by

the time you exit the night market, you would have eaten 20 different things for the equivalence of $20,” Fan said.

“We cooked the food [for BU’s Night Market] ourselves to make it a more authentic taste.

We change some of the dishes every year.”

Students could also play mudslide, a game TASC discovered on a Taiwanese game show, test their chopsticks skills by picking up Skittles, and play games like ring toss, hook a bottle, and fishing for goldfish.

Fan described traditional night markets as “chaotic,” but she said it feels like Taiwan. “[It is] an Asian combination of a street fair and a festival put together except it’s at night,” Fan said. “And it’s so crowded, you have to walk through waves of people. We bring the night market from Taiwan to BU for students. They can walk through it and feel like they’re in Taiwan.”

— Munira Pulodi Vice president of International Connection

Only two years old, International Connection put a lot of planning into creating their first major event.

“We have been planning this event since the end of last semester,” said Stephen Hernandez, social chair for International Connection and a senior majoring in mathematics.

She said events like the night market highlight how special Taiwanese culture is.

“It brings out the uniqueness of the culture, especially if you live in the U.S. and never travel there,” Fan said.

Jamie Lhungay, an undeclared freshman, said the food tasted as though it were really from Taiwan.

“I like how the food is authentic,” Lhungay said.

“Very different from Sodexo.”

She added that she heard about the market from the friend, and that she had fun at the event.

“I like how Night Market really shows the cities and different scenarios around the country,” Lhungay said.

“It’s fun and has a good atmosphere.”

Pipe Line

A wild ride

Greek Life to host a Thanksgiving dinner The Interfraternity Council, the Panhellenic Council and the Professional Fraternity Council are teaming up to host a Greek Life Thanksgiving dinner from 6 to 8 p.m. today in the Old University Union, room 209. The dinner is open to the entire campus. There will be no cost to attend but students are encouraged to bring cans of non-perishable food to donate.

Alternate side parking to begin in December Alternate side of the street parking will be in effect from Dec. 1 to March 15. The policy allows for snow plows to cover a greater area of the street, and requires drivers to park on the even side of the street on even calendar days until 5 p.m. and on the odd side of the street on odd calendar days until 5 p.m. After 5 p.m., drivers must park on the opposite side of the street. Alternate side parking rules apply to all city streets, including those with parking on only one side.

For information on exceptions to the policy, contact the Binghamton Police Traffic Division.

Waste pick-up rescheduled for week of Thanksgiving The waste pick-up schedule for Binghamton will be altered for the rest of the week. Wednesday and Thursday trash pick-up will be moved back one day, and there will be no pick-up on Thanksgiving Day. Friday waste pick-up will remain the same. There will be no yard waste pick-up for the week, and the last pick-up of the season will be Nov. 26.

Outside experts to review hydraulic fracturing A New York state official said the health department has named experts from George Washington University, University of California, Los Angeles and the Colorado School of Public Health to review the state’s environmental study on shale gas development using hydraulic fracturing. Health and environmental groups have pressed for a comprehensive and independent health impact analysis before hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is allowed. Environmental Conservation Commissioner Joe Martens rejected that request in September, saying State Health Commissioner Nirav Shah would do the review with help from outside experts. The DEC faces a deadline of Nov. 29 to complete new regulations for fracking. Martens said the agency’s proposals won’t be finalized until the health review is finished.

Groups advocate for higher minimum wage Advocates for the working poor and under-nourished are urging New York government leaders to raise the minimum wage during a possible special session of the Legislature that could include a salary boost for lawmakers and top government administrators. The groups used their annual Thanksgiving appeal for aid for hungry New Yorkers to push for the wage initiative during a march and rally held in downtown Albany on Monday. They’re also seeking better funding of food pantries for victims of Superstorm Sandy.

The groups say the minimum wage must be raised to at least $8.50 an hour, from the current $7.25 an hour with regular, automatic increases.

In other words

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Stephen Cholewka, a senior majoring in Russian, performs Saturday night in the Old Union as part of the band Steve LaBrecque’s Wild Ride.

This Day in History November 20th 1962

— Angry tweets directed toward Taylor Swift after obsessed fans hear rumors of a romance with One Direction's Harry Styles.

On this day, the Cuban Missile Crisis officially ended. The Soviet Union removed its missiles and bombers from Cuba while the U.S. ended its military blockade of the island

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Students celebrated Diwali, an Indian “Festival of Lights,” at an annual event hosted by the Hindu Student Council (HSC) Saturday.

“It is a time for everyone to appreciate things we take for granted in our daily lives and realize how lucky we are,” said Shilp Dalal, vice president of HSC. Diwali, celebrated by performing traditional rituals and ceremonies, is considered one of the most important festivals of the year in India.

“The major significance of Diwali is the victory of good over evil and the inner awareness to become better as human beings,” said Dalal, a junior majoring in integrative neuroscience.

Gauravi Patil, president of HSC and a junior majoring in integrative neuroscience, said Diwali is a time to be thankful.

“Diwali is when family, friends, and neighbors come together to contemplate and thank god for the life they have,” Patil wrote in an email.

According to Patil, Diwali is celebrated by Jains, Hindus and Sikhs, each for a different reason.

“For Jains it is important because Lord Mahavira attained nirvana during this time,” Patil wrote. “For Sikhs it is important because it rejoices the time when the sixth Sikh guru, Guru Hargobind Singh was released from his imprisonment. For Hindus it is the time when Lord Ram returns from his fourteen yearlong banishment from his home town of Ayodhya by his father. The people of Ayodhya light diyas (little oil lamps) in rows to guide Rama, Sita and Lakshman back from the forest.”

This year, the Hindu Student

Stenger does yoga wellness department, even advertised a freshmen-only section of yoga.

“I was extremely thrilled with how the event turned out,” Gelfand said. “President Stenger was really friendly, and after the yoga session, I noticed that so many students felt comfortable going up to him and talking.

Doing yoga really breaks the ice.”

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Members of Binghamton University’s Indian Graduate Student Organization perform traditional dances in their annual Diwali celebration Saturday night.

Diwali, also known as the “Festival of Lights,” is considered one of the most important festivals of the year in India.

Council teamed up with the Binghamton Sikh Association for the first time to host the annual event.

The banquet featured dinner catered by Moghul, an Indian restaurant in University Plaza, and performances by Binghamton Bhangra and Binghamton Masti.

“The atmosphere was very colorful and filled with life,” Patil wrote. “We has streamers and colorful outfits and food from a very good restaurant.”

About 100 people attended the Diwali banquet, one of the largest attendances HSC has seen over the years.

“I think the event was very

successful, we have never had such a huge outcome and everyone enjoyed themselves,” Patil wrote.

Dalal said he thought the banquet went well and that he was impressed by the diversity of people in attendance.

“Both Hindu Student Council and Binghamton Sikh Association worked very hard to make it a great success,” he said. “I really liked how the people that showed up were from all different types of cultures. This shows how open-minded the students at this university are and that is a very encouraging and pleasant thing to know.”

— Shira Gelfand Mountainview RA

Gelfand said she was pleasantly surprised to see students and professors standing side-by-side “I had expected that the professors would all group together in the corner,” Gelfand said. “But everyone mixed up and really got into it. Not only that, but all the professors there were very easy to talk to and all of them participated in the class!”

Delgado said she believed the event was a huge success.

“It was a moment of relaxation for everyone and a perfect way to end the week,” Delgado said.

Let's talk about sex, baby Peters twins, a pair of German porn stars that say they are monogamous with one another Students participated in outside the porn studio.

“The Dirtiest Sex Talk You’ll “Is anyone familiar with Ever Hear” in Academic these two gentlemen?” Bering Building A Monday evening, asked the audience, showing when the Binghamton a picture of the twins. “You University Evolutionary Studies wouldn’t admit it if you were.”

Program (EvoS) hosted speaker Bering asked the audience if Jesse Bering, author of the they found a problem with the book “Why Is the Penis Shaped Peters twins’ relationship.

Like That?”

“It seems a little Bering’s talk, titled “The narcissistic,” said an audience Psychology of Lust, Disgust member from the back of the and Moral Reasoning,” focused room. on human reactions of disgust and lust and their evolutionary significance.

Bering discussed the research of Daniel Fessler, a UCLA assistant professor of anthropology, who found that women are more likely to be disgusted by sexual deviance, which inhibits them from participating in “biologically suboptimal sexual unions,” including extreme age disparities, bestiality and — Jesse Bering incest.

Author of "Why is the Penis Shaped “Fessler has discovered that Like That? " when women are at high risk of conception … they are much more easily disgusted and Bering said that he wants much more readily disgusted people to appreciate the range by these types of suboptimal of sexual impulses within the unions,” Bering said. “Nature human species, including would have given her a helping sexually deviant attractions hand by turning her stomach like incest, pedophilia and even more than usual.” necrophilia.

Men, however, are less picky “I really want to sort of when it comes to choosing deliver the message that people sexual partners. have completely no control “One of the things that makes over their sexual attraction,” male sexuality fundamentally Bering said. “What’s imperative different from female sexuality is to separate the behavior from is that men are not limited in the orientation.” their reproductive success to Bering said that denying the certain periods of the month,” existence of sexual minorities Bering said. “We produce on with urges that we consider average 85 billion sperm per “intrinsically immoral” does day, that’s in each testicle. If nothing to eradicate deviant men are too disgusted, too sexual urges. easily grossed out, too picky, “It doesn’t make any when it comes to people to have difference whether you say you sex with, this is going to put ‘accept’ pedophiles or not, they them at a disadvantage.” still exist,” Bering said. “Only Bering gave examples of what when we have that scientific we consider to be disgusting information can we make as a society, including the improvements.”

Bering’s talk was part of the EvoS program’s fall seminar series. The seminars are open to everyone, but students enrolled in “BIOL480S: Current Topics in Evolutionary Studies” earn two credits for attending and completing other work outside of the seminars.

EvoS director David Sloan Wilson, a professor in biology and anthropology, said the program brings lecturers to speak on a wide range of topics pertaining to the program.

“It’s wonderful that people can come here and they can listen to such a diversity of talks,” Wilson said. “Every week it’s a new topic, but they all tie together.”

Brian Kirschler, a student enrolled in the class, said he has gained a lot from the seminar lecturers.

“It’s nice that you can look at other fields that you may not have known existed even, and just see what they’re like,” said Kirschler, a senior majoring in biological anthropology. “It’s my favorite class I’ve taken.”

Senior Samantha McInerney said Bering’s talk brought a new light to a topic she learned about in previous classes.

“As a biological anthropology major, I’ve covered a lot of sexual [topics] that we cover more than other classes,” McInerney said. “Seeing it from this perspective and discussed as a kind of disgust mechanism was different.”

McInerney said the audience was more responsive to Bering’s lecture than they were to past speakers.

“There was a lot more engagement with the audience, most of the time it’s more a lecture-type thing,” McInerney said. “This one was much more interactive.”

As for Bering’s conclusion that women are more selective with their sexual partners than men, McInerney was amused by the findings.

“Pretty telling, I guess,” she said.

Between the busyness of classes and the frigid weather, it’s sometimes difficult to take a step back and think about what’s great about Binghamton. Here at Release, we asked our writers what they’re thankful for.

Rich Kersting | For those of us not gifted with the magic of music, the strong music community on campus may seem useless. However, it’s the music that gives the campus its character, its beat. It’s how we walk down the Spine, how we spend our Saturday nights, who we are and how we see and hear ourselves.

Perhaps most importantly, it’s how we’re heard.

The goal of Binghamton University student L “Rampage” Frim, a senior double-majoring in music and creative writing, is to amp up a static community in order to ensure that people are able to express themselves. Her project, tentatively named “Note the Color,” is an ambitious music project aimed at a large collaboration of musicians all jamming out together and practicing their art.

“Bridging the divide between student musicians, as well as offcampus musicians, to create a sense of musical and social community” is the project’s mission. Frim, who spends an extensive amount of time Downtown, has realized the deep well of talent there. By creating a more cohesive on-campus music community, Frim hopes to bridge the obvious gap between the campus and the local community.

Frim used herself as an example: she is now singing for a new band, L and the Symbiotic Dance, which is comprised of local musicians, her being the only Binghamton University student in the band.

While the project seems a little far-reaching, Frim asserts that it can work. That is, if the campus is ready for it. According to Frim, the world is rapidly changing, and the time to pursue a project as ambitious as this is now.

“Obama has been reelected, all this legalization, this is time for a cultural revolution,” Frim said.

The truth of the matter is, Binghamton is not the sunniest place around, and people really feel that. When it rains, all the good

Eve Simmonds | After a competitive twonight competition in Late Nite Binghamton’s annual singersongwriter competition, Sara Greenberg emerged victorious. She impressed judges with her cover of the “Golden Girls” theme song on acoustic guitar as part of this year’s TV show theme.

“The concert was a thrilling experience and I was honored to share the stage with so many talented people,” said Greenberg, a sophomore majoring in biology.

On the first night, each performer played an original song, as well as a cover of a TV show theme song. The judges picked the top five performers, who returned on Nov. 10 to perform the same TV show cover and up to two original songs each. This year’s finalists also included Mikhail Shapiro, Derek Parry, Kim Torres and Tom Fuchs.

Greenberg’s two original songs were titled “You Don’t Even Know Me” and “Fool Out of Anyone.”

Shapiro, a junior majoring in electrical engineering, won the contest last year. He commented on this year’s contest in verse:

I’m thankful for… …being able to put my winter wardrobe to good use!

- Alexandra Wolff …my friends all living within walking distance. And for the chicken salad at College-in-the-Woods. Gabriella Ginsberg …Binghamton University’s student-run Food Co-op.

- Michele Quiles …my family who’s supported me through everything and allowed me to grow into the person I want to be.

- Eve Simmonds …Buffet Star’s food coma-inducing selection to choose from. - Tiffany Moustakas …Jazzman’s caramel cappuccinos and the Nite Owl’s pizza logs. - Alyssa Bossio …the amazing people on 5 M-X in Oneida Hall.

- Kathryn Shafsky …all of the Sodexo workers who smile at me every day, and know my name. Hi Mark! Hi Cindy! Hi Amy and Joany, and the guy who makes my burritos.

- Dorothy Farrell …those I have worked with on shows and taken classes with in the theater department, and especially all my wonderful friends from the Hinman Production

Company. I can’t imagine how different my life would be if I hadn’t discovered my passion for theater, so thank you, Binghamton.

- Rachel Powers …all of the new friends that I have made and that they’re as equally strange as I am.

- Eurih Lee …my friends and I finding a nice apartment off campus to live in next year, which will save us tons of money and be infinitely more pleasant than oncampus living.

- Nathan Partridge …the Chenango Room.

- Gabriela Tilevitz …the shower pressure in Hinman College.

- Rebecca Porath …the sun.

- Alex Carducci …Wegmans and Cracker Barrel. - Erik Bacharach …all the friends I’ve made in Binghamton who have helped me through my freshman moments.

- Emily Mancini …Disney karaoke at two in the morning.

- Samantha Steiner …the communities I’m part of that make Binghamton a home for me. - Jacob Shamsian, Assistant Release …my friends and family (often interchangeable), a plentiful harvest, Obama and my brothers at AXP. - Darian Lusk, Release Editor

Photo Provided by Eliana Frim

L "Rampage" Frim

Nathan Partridge | vibes and colors get washed away.

“What’s better than on a cold and rainy day to have somebody come over and just serenade you?

I’ve done it, and people’s moods are automatically uplifted,” Frim said. This project is a push for more personal expression, and more public personal expression. To amp up the music community would bring more color and more energy to campus. L “Rampage” Frim speaks from experience. She knows how music has kept her life full of color and hope. A self-proclaimed “disciple of the Universe,” Frim wishes to spread the music by giving musicians a place to call home and a group to call family.

The only requirement to join is the willingness to do the work and take

ownership of one’s own musical talents. “[The rules] are up to the discretion of the musicians; I’m not going to make the rules,” Frim said.

“I’m opening a window; people need to come through it themselves.”

Her goal is not to be the lead singer or the spotlight act, but the “driving force” of the project, making it possible for others to step into the spotlight.

L “Rampage” Frim’s advice for the campus community was “to be open, free, accepting. To be themselves and let others be themselves.” And for all musicians out there yearning for a place to jam, look her up, she’s on Facebook.

“I thank the Late Nite Show Down Board/and all that came along/to Showdown, for the guitar chords/and cover TV songs,” Shapiro said.

This being the 12th consecutive year of the competition, Late Nite definitely knows what it’s doing.

The show provided free food and drinks. In between the acts, games entertained the audience. People came on stage and told their favorite pickup lines or improvised a 30-second song based on a word given to them by the judges. They made sure to keep the energy uplifting and exciting throughout the night.

Held in the Undergrounds Coffeehouse, the competition was one of the biggest nights of the year for Late Nite, with the lines during both nights winding up the stairs of the Old University Union.

Every single couch and chair in the Undergrounds was occupied, and people resorted to sitting on the floor and standing around the stage.

“I had to sit on the floor,” said Brooke Kilmer, a freshman majoring in history. “I couldn’t see the stage, so it was like ‘The Voice,’ where you can’t judge people by

their appearances.”

The atmosphere buzzed with excitement, and it was clear that both the audience and the performers were getting into the music. Performers demonstrated aptitude in a wide variety of instruments. Some played the piano, guitar, ukulele or harmonica, just to mention a few. The audience clapped, sang along to some of the more well-known TV show themes and some even took out their cell phones and waved them around like lighters.

“The atmosphere was great.

Very energetic and friendly. It was a very nice place to sit and enjoy good music and fun people,” said Tony DeGelorm, a senior majoring in biochemistry. “I enjoyed all the performers. All of them were so excited to be there — it brought a lot of positive energy to the room.

They all performed very well.”

Though Greenberg ended up winning, all the performers put on shows worthy of writing home about. Next year, contestants will have to work that much harder to outshine their brilliant predecessors.

Bethany Beckman has a simple goal: Write a full-length work of fiction during the month of November.

Beckman, a freshman doublemajoring in chemistry and creative writing, is one of over 200,000 people around the country National Novel Writing Month, affectionately termed “NaNoWriMo,” the most masochistically rewarding literary event of the year.

Participants must write a full work of fiction, 50,000 words or over, between Nov. 1 and Nov. 30. That’s all there is to it. Once completed, writers can submit their transcripts to the NaNoWriMo website, and if it surpasses 50,000 words, then the author has won. Prizes include a badge and certificate of completion, a professional printing of your finished product and, most importantly (really, ask any winner), the completion itself.

NaNoWriMo is not a competition per se. Writers do not compete against each other for “Best Novel” or “QuickestWritten Novel” awards, as the official NaNoWriMo website states.

There are many winners every year, basking in the glow of a real achievement.

It began in the San Francisco Bay area in July 1999, long before the heyday of the Internet, with a scant 21 wordsmiths taking a stab at writing a novel in a month. Early writers notably had trouble simply

finding an actual medium on which to write their novels. These were the days before the advent of laptops, when portable computers more closely resembled small refrigerators than the miracles of modern technology we now take for granted. This group of friends, fresh off of a creatively fruitful summer and high on ambition, would always be found rooted to café tables, sharing advice, asking opinions and totally rewriting the arduous novel-writing experience, together.

In the years since, barely over a decade, that group of 21 friends has exploded into an enormous 256,618 participants in 2011, 36,843 of which met the goal of 50,000 words. As of 4:30 p.m., Nov. 15, when this article is being written, hopeful scribes have already penned 1,664,069,172 words. That is already over 600,000,000 more words than were written over the course of an entire month on the first run.

For those of us who have never written 50,000 words over 30 days, which I suppose is a rather high number, it is hard to imagine taking on such a task. How could anyone pledge to try and write an entire novel over the course of a month, with the intention of actually doing it? Who could actually succeed?

Seckman is already one of those victors. At 18 years old, she is on her third year of novel-writing, having won in 2011 after understandably falling short on her first attempt.

“It is INSANE, but in a strangely

good way,” Seckman said. “You’re juggling five million things on top of writing … and it’s ridiculously hard to do, but you enjoy yourself despite everything.”

Further elevating the already lofty goal, she has to write at least 1,600 words a day in order to meet her goal and still have time to polish her work to its potential.

Despite her schoolwork and other on-campus activity, she is on track.

“This year’s attempt is going pretty well. I’ve been ahead most of the time, something that’s never happened to be before,” Seckman said. “The writing for the past couple of days has been a little subpar, but that will edit out later.”

Everyone who participates in National Novel Writing Month learns a lot in the process. They take on a huge task and feel “an incredible sense of accomplishment” upon its completion. Ambitious young authors learn how to accept the failure of missed goals, shoddy writing and writer’s block.

Everyone goes in expecting the pain and the misfires, but what people do not expect is the fun. They do not expect to draw any enjoyment from this tooth-pulling, but they do, every time. Because more than anything, NaNoWriMo is about creativity and self-discovery. What could be better than that?

When asked if she plans on taking on the challenge for a fourth year, Seckman only has one thing to say: “Oh yes. I plan on doing Nano from here until the end of time.”

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Eve Simmonds | The comedic stylings of Eddie Ifft had some Binghamton University students rolling in laughter, while others left miffed Saturday night. “America’s dirtiest comedian� held true to his title within the first five minutes of his set, using the f-word as every part of speech imaginable and telling the audience that he believes his name sounds “like a slow-leaking fart.�

He also added that he was more excited to do a show at Penn State, where he could make molestation jokes, instead of being in Binghamton, the country’s fifth most depressing city. “I heard Binghamton is the fifth most depressing city in the country, which is weird because it’s the fourth most depressed I have ever been,� Ifft said.

Ifft catered to the college crowd in the Undergrounds Coffeehouse,

telling the audience he doesn’t smoke pot, he eats it. “I had a bad experience once,� Ifft began. “I ate a pot cookie. And, let me tell you something about eating pot — it opens doors that never close. I got so high and so paranoid that I went onto Yahoo Answers and typed in ‘I just ate a pot cookie, how long am I gonna be high?’ First answer back: ‘probably forever.’ Not the best thing to tell someone who’s already paranoid.�

He had the audience in the palm of his hand, but then took a decidedly crass route when he started in on several jokes about suicide despite protests from the audience. After that, much of the audience was lost, his jokes started to fall flat and people walked out.

Ifft sensed the crowd’s shift in attitude and wanted to be reassured that BU wasn’t a religious school. “We’ve got the politically correct crowd here tonight,� Ifft said. “You

guys don’t laugh at jokes that I love, that I tell everywhere.�

He saved himself toward the end of his set with humorous stories of the homeless people in his neighborhood and a short quip about cops. “I saw a cop the other day and I thought the same thing I always do when I see a cop: I could get that gun!� Ifft said.

Arguably, the three BU student comedians from the Binghamton University Stand Up Comedy Club who opened for Ifft fared better with the audience. Jeremy Kaplowitz made jokes about Jews (he’s allowed, he is one), Mike Amory educated the audience on his porn habits and Darian Lusk kept it classy with some high-brow humor.

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So where does this put us on the radar of Division I athletics? We’re not even a blip.

The America East is a conference in the same way that Rosie O’Donnell is a sex symbol.

The real question is how we make a name for ourselves on the national level. The answer? We invest our time, budget and spirit into a sport much ignored by other universities: competitive eating.

Competitive eating could open new doors for Bearcat athletics. As the only university with a competitive eating team we would win the national title every year. We’re already, according to several news sources, in the top five morbidly obese cities in the nation, so let’s turn that to our advantage. Hopefully, having a nationally acclaimed sports team wouldn’t take administrators’ focus away from

our academics.

Our beloved fatties, those World of Warcraft players ignored by high school coaches since adolescence, would become our bastion of hope, our high-held heroes. The University would generate millions from official bib sales and competitive gaming mouse pads featuring our star eaters — by the way, competitive gaming should be our next venture, we could win that, too.

But there are two major concerns. One: if our competitive eaters are the best in the country, how do we keep them from seek the riches and fame they’d be sure to find by taking their talents into the world of Major League Eating? We don’t want to fall into the same trap college basketball has: the one and done. Lucky for us, one and done is not

something the competitive eater understands; they’re more into the one, and a lot more, and still not done (it’s an eating joke). First crisis averted.

Two: our greater fear should be the creation of a second competitive eating team by any other university. Until that day, we would be guaranteed first place. After that day, we would only come in second. Of course, we could still say we’re No. 2, at least until there’s a third team. As competitive eating catches on, as it certainly will, our national standing will start to fall, until it ends where it always does, dead last.

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When politicians and historians look back at the 2012 presidential election, they may very well declare it a turning point in American politics. The coalition assembled by the Democratic Party under a newly reelected President Obama reflects what the future face of America will look like going forward.

President Obama won reelection despite the cacophony emanating from right-wing media and the obsessive desire of Congressional Republicans to sabotage the Obama presidency from its inception, a desire most famously articulated by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell in an interview with the National Journal on Oct. 23, 2010 in which he said “the single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.”

President Obama’s diverse coalition of African Americans, young people, single women, Hispanics, Asian Americans and the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered community propelled him to a second term in office in spite of McConnell’s objective. While losing the crucial white vote that has historically dogged the Democrats since the

conservative resurgence of the 1980s, particularly in the crucial battleground states of Ohio, Florida and Virginia, Obama still coasted to victory with solid margins in both the national popular and electoral vote.

After the election was over and the ballots were counted, The New York Times reported that Obama won despite only securing 39 percent of white voters and 44 percent of voters older than 65. White men made up only one-quarter of Obama’s winning coalition on Election Day. After the election, Al Cardenas, the chairman of the influential American Conservative Union, reacted to exit polling data on the future face of the American voter by saying, “Before, we thought it was an important issue, improving demographically. Now, we know it’s an essential issue. You have to ignore reality not to deal with this issue.”

Since Lyndon Baines Johnson signed the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, the demographic makeup of the United States has become predominately less white.

Non-Hispanic whites accounted for approximately 90 percent of the vote during the 1970s; in 2008 it stood at 74 percent. The Associated Press has reported that the white vote has declined, on average, three percentage points each presidential election since 1992.

The lasting consequences of these demographic shifts in America’s electorate are striking in their consequence and will be lasting in time. We shouldn’t forget it wasn’t that long ago when Karl Rove

was speaking of forging a permanent Republican majority in the aftermath of the 2004 presidential election. None would dare entertain the idea now.

The old reliable Republican base of white rural, high income and married, suburban voters is eroding as a new American majority emerges. Thomas B. Edsall, a professor of journalism at Columbia University, noted that the minority constituencies that voted for Obama by as wide a margin as 8-2 make up 34 percent of the electorate today and will constitute a majority by 2050.

Ideologically, Hispanics, young people, single women and African Americans do not share the knee-jerk conservatism the right relies on to whip up support and increase voter turnout. This rising majority has become alienated from the Republican Party for several reasons, whether it’s because of their insistence on the self-deportation of illegal immigrants, rejection of same sex marriage, antediluvian views towards birth control and rape or fine-tuned racial dog whistle politics.

And yet, after the Election Day dust had settled and the Republicans began licking their wounds from the elections, the GOP’s leadership continued to remain steadfast in defense of its political platform.

The Republican Governors Association, chaired by Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell, convened in Las Vegas last week and pledged itself to ideological purity.

Ignoring the demographic shifts throughout the country, particularly in swing states like New Mexico and Colorado, the governors blamed their party’s loss on the organizing efforts of the Obama campaign and Mitt Romney’s lack of appeal among Republican and independent voters.

Representative Mike Pence, newly elected governor of Indiana, said, “No country ever taxed its way back into prosperity.”

“I think most Americans know that,” Pence said. “I think the last thing we ought to do is embrace any policy that would result in a significant tax increase, particularly upon those in the best position to put hurting Americans back to work.”

Republicans ignore the new makeup of the American public at their own peril.

Should they continue to neglect it, they risk becoming a regional party of old white men predominately from the Deep South, unable to return to Congress and the White House with either majorities or mandates.

The old strategy of riding Evangelical Christians, white suburbia and big business to victory will not stand the test of time for the GOP. Demography is destiny. The question is, will it doom the Republicans?

— Taylor Arluck is a senior doublemajoring in economics and philosophy, politics and law.

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Point Counterpoint Two takes on the renewed violence in Israel

My last name is Weinberg and yes, I’ve been on Birthright. With that logic I should be posting Facebook messages like this one quoting the man, the myth, the legend Bibi Netanyahu: “If Palestine put down their weapons there would be no war, if Israel put down their weapons there would be no Israel.”

One of the biggest weaknesses of not only our generation but our modern reality is the good versus evil dichotomy that has forced everyone to view the world in such a myopic prism. It is, in fact, possible to support Israel without supporting or at least questioning its policies and actions. That is how we support America when our party is out of office: Republicans spent the past four years calling President Obama anti-American and Democrats spent the eight years prior calling George W. Bush a war criminal.

This is all while we spent the last decade questioning our own wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

If you want the best for any nation or idea, it is always best to question it, to keep it honest in the face of power. This means I will not vow to boycott The New York Times because their headline read “Ferocious Israeli Assault on Gaza Kills a Leader of Hamas,” because that is in fact what happened. Israel took out Hamas military commander Ahmed Jaabari and then proudly posted the video to YouTube, because everyone knows the best way to push for peace is to flaunt a leader’s death to his supporters.

If you want to complain of a

New York Times media bias, look at their cover story the next day, which listed the deaths of Israelis in the first sentence, but waited until the sixth paragraph to report the deaths of Palestinians.

All lives are worth the same, and at the time of writing, around 103 lives have been ended due to the conflict; where three too many Israeli civilians have died, at least 100 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, including 24 children and 10 women, while 850 people have been wounded, 260 of which are children.

Nations have a right to defend themselves, but the manner in which they do so often determines their need to fight in the future. Forget for a second the cyclical violence fueled by an assassination and then flaunting of this magnitude — if the goal of it all was to stop rockets flying in from Gaza, how did this help?

Not only was Jaabari able to quell the rockets coming out of Gaza prior to last week’s shortlived ceasefire — that by many accounts broke when the IDF shot a 12-year-old boy playing football — but he was a relative moderate compared to the people waiting to take his reins. One of the groups now looking to take power is the Salafist jihadi group the Mujahideen Shura Council of Jerusalem, a rival to Hamas that is responsible for many of the rockets launched into Israel recently.

This is compounded by the fact that Gershon Baskin, founder of the Israeli think tank IPCRI, said that the day Jaabari was executed, the Hamas commander was reviewing a long-term ceasefire that Baskin had given to him, which history has shown to be the only means of reaching peace in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

As put last month by Yosef Kuperwasser, director of Israel’s Ministry of Strategic Affairs, “If

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worst comes to worst, we can [launch] a much wider operation in Gaza. But that is not going to really solve the problem. There is a wide and deep problem of hate indoctrination that produces more and more terrorists all the time.”

Kuperwasser goes on to say that Hamas has recently been deterred from sending rockets into Israel due to the violence returned upon Palestinian civilians, but these other Islamist groups are far less bothered by the loss of civilian life. “Most of the activity is coming now not from Hamas,” said Kuperwasser, adding that Islamic Jihad was receiving a relatively bigger share of the weapons that had “been pouring into Gaza.”

Yossi Verter of Israeli newspaper Haaretz makes an interesting point, tying the strike to a common theme in Israel of military escalations two months prior to an election, adding, “A sweeping military operation at a sensitive political timing inevitably raises the question, why now? Couldn’t the extrajudicial killings have been carried out earlier? After all, we experienced quite a few hostile outbursts over the past year and Israel’s policy was always marked with restraint.

Or, wouldn’t it have been better to wait until after the election?

Presumably, Jaabari would still cruise Gaza’s streets in his car after January 22.”

We live in a world where actions have consequences, including the loss of human life. Whether it be election year politicking or true military action, wars should be questioned, especially by those who care most for the nation and people involved.

— Geoffrey Weinberg is a senior double-majoring in history and political science.

There can be no moral equivalency drawn between Israel and Hamas. People on both sides of the border are in danger. On both sides there is pain and suffering. But there are fundamental differences between the two.

Hamas and its subsidiary terrorist organizations have been deliberately targeting innocent civilians with more than 12,000 rockets in the past 12 years. That’s why more than a million Israelis have been ordered to stay within 15 seconds of a bomb shelter.

Israel, on the other hand, takes every possible step to prevent civilian causalities.

Only in response to rocket bombardment from Gaza did Israel launch Operation Pillar of Defense.

The IDF exacts surgically targeted measures against proven terrorists with blood on their hands. This is what happened last week, when the IDF took out Ahmed Jaabari, the Osama bin Laden of Hamas. Jaabari was an evil mastermind who orchestrated the kidnapping of Gilad Shalit, among other terrorist plots.

Israel does not haphazardly drop bombs on Gaza. To the contrary, the practices of the Israeli Air Force are unequaled in their attempts to reduce civilian casualties. Israel has been warning Palestinians to steer clear of Hamas operatives (through Twitter and airdropped pamphlets) lest they be caught in the crossfire.

From the other side, Hamas has been launching hundreds of rockets over the last week into city centers like Tel-Aviv and Jerusalem and smaller cities scattered throughout the south.

As of Monday night, there is no reliable ceasefire in sight.

In the words of Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, Hamas is committing a “double war crime.” On one hand, Hamas is launching hundreds of rockets daily into southern Israel. On the other, Hamas is committing war crimes against its own constituents, the Palestinians of Gaza.

Hamas operatives deliberately launch rockets from civilian areas, school and hospitals.

This endangers powerless Palestinians who have only their own leadership to blame.

We can, and should, question Israeli policy with regards to the West Bank, treatment of Palestinians and a cornucopia of other complex issues. But would any other government wait this long to defend her people? To question Israel’s right to selfdefense in this instance is truly absurd.

I have spent time in Sderot, in bomb shelters, synagogues and blown-apart homes. The city has been the target of relentless rocket fire from Gaza for more than a decade. Just think about that for a moment. That means that if you are a teenager in Sderot, you’ve known no life other than one of bomb shelters and red sirens.

When a red siren is sounded, you have 15 seconds to find a bomb shelter. That’s why it’s become second nature for Israeli children in Sderot to assess which elements of playgrounds and schools can be used as cover from rocket fire. That isn’t justifiable in any situation. If you heard a red siren when you

started reading this paragraph, it may already be too late.

There is no independent media in Gaza. That is why we ought to be skeptical of the pictures and numbers that claim to represent Palestinian casualties. Just last night I saw a picture purportedly showing a Gazan man carrying his son, the victim of an Israeli airstrike. In fact, the photo was confirmed to be the evidence of Syrian intranational violence from over three weeks ago.

Take a step back. How did we get into this situation? In 2005, Israel unilaterally withdrew every citizen from Israeli-held Gush Katif, the area we refer to as Gaza. This was a painful sacrifice which meant that about 9,000 Jews left their homes and communities; it was a moment of extreme national solemnity and hope. The Palestinians living there finally had the chance to establish their own state, govern themselves and live peacefully alongside Israel.

Instead, Hamas, an internationally recognized terrorist organization, turned the entire region into one of despotic chaos. Homes and schools became rocket launching pads. After Israel withdrew from her own borders, the rocket bombardment only increased.

Hamas considers any Palestinian who negotiates with Israel a traitor. Hamas’ charter calls for the destruction of the Jewish State. Is this the way to end suffering? Are these partners for peace?

Israel wants peace. Israel has a proven track record of making costly sacrifices for peace. We’ll see peace when we can say the same for her neighbors.

— Michael Snow is a junior majoring in philosophy.

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“We had a tough time. We got a little better as the match went on. It was a tough match, the team persevered and fought well in the fifth game and came through when we needed it.”

On Saturday, the Bearcats overpowered the Great Danes on their home court in three sets (25-17, 28-26, 26-24) to win in the finals. Binghamton led most of the way in the first set but had to fight back in each of the following two, overcoming deficits of 18-7 and 16-9 in the second and third sets, respectively.

In the clinching set, Binghamton finally tied the score at 24, and Partaleva delivered consecutive kills to give the Bearcats the victory.

Junior captain and middle hitter Grace Vickers received the championship’s Most Outstanding Player award, and All-Tournament honors were given to Partaleva and sophomore setter Amanda Dettmann.

“I am so incredibly proud of my team,” Vickers said. “We have worked for hours on end, perfecting our style of play and we executed this weekend at Albany.

Our level of focus was off the charts. I am absolutely elated and can’t wait to see where we get to play for the first round of the NCAA tournament.”

This year’s conference championship win is especially significant to the Bearcats, who missed the conference tournament last year for the first time since 2003. With the victory in the title game, Binghamton earned admission into the 2012 NCAA Championship.

Further details on BU’s first match will be revealed during the 2012 NCAA Selection Show, scheduled to be aired live at 4:30 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 25 on ESPNU.

The Binghamton University women’s basketball team dropped its third straight game to begin its 2012-13 campaign, falling to Austin Peay State University, 71-67, in Clarksville, Tenn. on Sunday afternoon.

The loss spoiled the performance of BU sophomore forward Sherae Swinson, who posted a career-high 23 points to lead all scorers. Junior guard Jasbriell Swain chipped in with 10 points and 11 boards for her second consecutive double-double.

BU head coach Nicole Scholl said she was proud of her team’s efforts but added that the players lost their legs toward the finish.

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“We played very well against a very good team,” Scholl said. “But in [the] second half I just thought that we had a few mental mistakes and I think some of that was a little bit because of fatigue, and that caused us to lose that lead late. We played well at the end, but it wasn’t good enough, and Austin Peay hit their free throws at the end to close out the game.”

Binghamton (0-3) and Austin Peay (12) were both mired in an offensive funk to begin the game, but the Lady Governors pulled ahead with an early 13-9 lead. The

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Bearcats answered with a 6-0 run to go up by five, 19-14.

BU closed out the first half by extending its lead to 31-21 thanks to contributions from the bench and the play of Swain, who scored eight of her 10 first-half points in the final five minutes.

Scholl said that the team’s tenacity on the defensive end was a major factor in its success in the first half.

“We talked about from the start just to focus on team defense, and I thought we did a nice job of really doing that,” Scholl said. “We started to get some easy transition baskets because we were able to get some defensive rebounds and get [out and] run a little bit.”

But Binghamton could not carry its momentum over into the second half.

Austin Peay opened with back-to-back three-pointers to trim BU’s lead to six.

After junior guard Stephanie Jensen connected on a three-pointer, the Bearcats lost their way offensively, going 0-for3 from the field and committing three consecutive turnovers. BU’s offensive futility propelled the Lady Govs to go on a 13-2 run, which would give them a 4038 advantage midway through the second half.

Binghamton did not go down without a fight, however. The Bearcats went up by one, 43-42, after freshman guard Kandace Newry hit a three-pointer. But they relinquished the lead soon thereafter and never got it back due to the efforts of Austin Peay senior forward Leslie Martinez and senior center Kaitlyn Hill, who scored a combined 18 points down the stretch to seal the victory for the Lady Govs.

Binghamton exceeded its season average in points and shooting percentage, with 67 points and a 40.4 percent clip from the field. The Bearcats also saw a season-high 33 points from the bench.

Binghamton is scheduled to continue its trip through Tennessee with a match against Belmont University tonight. This will be the first-ever meeting between the

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Sophomore forward Sherae Swinson led all scorers in Sunday’s match-up against Austin Peay with a career-high 23 points.

two teams.

“Belmont by far will be the toughest competition that we will have seen this season” Scholl said. “They’re big inside; they’ve got some really good shooters on the outside. So height-wise, it’s definitely

a mismatch for us. But for us, again, it’s going to be focusing on team defense and getting out in transition [so we can] run a little bit.”

Opening tip is set for 7 p.m. at Belmont’s Curb Event Center.

The Binghamton University wrestling team had its best season in program history last year. Under the guidance of former head coach Pat Popolizio, the Bearcats rewrote the record book on a weekly basis, boasted a season record of 29-9 in duals and ultimately earned a 13th-place finish in the NCAA Championship with two All-America honors.

Since then, Popolizio and last season’s heavyweight AllAmerican Nick Gwiazdowski bolted to North Carolina State University. The stage was set for a tough transition period for the BU wrestling team, and whoever would succeed Popolizio would have big shoes to fill. The pressure was on even before the season had officially begun.

Matt Dernlan, formerly the head coach of Clarion University of Pennsylvania, signed up for the challenge in May. He said he is not fazed by the pressure and expectations he faces. Instead, he welcomes the tall task with open arms.

“There are expectations,” he said. “There are standards. There are goals that not only myself but the administration would like to see this program obtain.

As a coach, we are like our athletes; we are competitors. I want to have that responsibility.

I want the administrators and presidents saying, ‘We expect to be one of the top programs in the country.’ I don’t really see pressure. I see opportunities.

And I am excited about that and

I embrace that.”

Dernlan explained that his decision to come to Binghamton was a result of the coinciding visions of himself and the University on what a successful wrestling institution should be.

“Institutionally and academically, [Binghamton University] is in line with what my philosophy on sports is — creating an attitude of excellence in all areas: academic excellence combined with the opportunity to achieve athletic excellence,” he said. “That made it a very appealing choice.”

To say that Dernlan is no stranger to wrestling would be a huge understatement. He has been involved in the sport for over 30 years now and said that no matter how hard he tried, he just could not separate himself from wrestling.

“I started as a youngster with my four brothers,” he said.

“I wrestled through college, tried a number of things after college but kept getting pulled back into wrestling. At times I thought this is what I have known, and this is what I want to be. I have tried to step out of it, but it kept pulling me back in. [I] finally came to the realization that wrestling is my true passion in life.”

For every fan, player or coach of any sport, at least one unique factor separates their sport from the pack. When asked about his views on wrestling, Dernlan said that his sport is special in the ability of every single match to act as a life lesson for the athletes.

“One of the great aspects

about our sport is you are out there on your own — a man on an island,” he said. “You get a seven-minute test on what life is truly about. If you can figure out how to master those seven minutes, you’re going to master your life. If we view it and approach it with the proper perspective, those 420 seconds is one of the greatest learning experiences you can go through.”

Dernlan is now in the 10th year of his coaching career, which began in 1997 as an assistant at St. Paris Graham High School in Ohio, his home state. But he made his name at Pennsylvania State University, where he was the assistant coach and director of recruiting for seven years. During his tenure with the Nittany Lions, the team won its first national title in 53 years and had four top-10 finishes. Dernlan reflects on his time there as a “special time of my life.”

In 2011, Clarion University gave him his first crack at head coach. In his solitary season with the Golden Eagles, he guided the team to a 14th-place finish in the NCAA Championships and a national rank of 18th — the highest national ranking in program history.

Dernlan admitted that the added responsibility that comes with the being the head coach is the main difference from his previous experiences as an assistant, and that the step up represented a major learning curve in his career.

“I have created a culture where our staff has an input in

BEARCAT BRIEFS Cross country wraps up season at ECAC/IC4A

By Donna Umana | Contributing Writer As she has done all fall, senior Rachel Miura led the way for the Binghamton University cross country team, placing seventh and propelling the women to a fifth-place overall finish at the seasonending ECAC/IC4A Championships in Bronx, N.Y. The men finished ninth in the 16-team field.

“Both teams had some solid performances,” head coach Anette Acuff said. “This was a developmental meet for us. We did not run our full teams. We weren’t concerned too much with the team place due to this. [We were] just looking for some good individual races to build off of going into next year. Overall, the meet went how I expected.”

Miura, who completed the 5,000-meter course in a time of 18:41, joined the ranks of four former BU runners who have placed in the top 10 of the ECAC race. The last Bearcat to do so was Katie Radzik in 2006.

Junior Caitlin Jelinek placed 25th (19:17) overall, and not too far behind her was freshman Lizzie Greiner, who finished in a time of 19:23 to

place 29th overall. Freshman Naomi Barnett came in 40th (19:37), and classmate Shannon O’Hara finished in 64th place (19:58).

Winning the 177-runner race was George Mason University sophomore Bethany Sachtleben with a time of 18:04.

Freshman Ethan Hausamann led the Bearcats on the men’s side, finishing 15th overall.

Hausamann ran the 8,000-meter course in a time of 26:37.

“Ethan has run consistently well for us all season, and I look forward to seeing how much he improves next year,” Acuff said.

Sophomore Collin Frost followed Hausamann, finishing in 24th place with a time of 26:56. Junior Chris Fernandez finished 33rd (27:04) overall, senior Anthony Gaetani was 59th (27:31) and freshman Jade Marhaba placed 93rd (28:30).

Taking first in the men’s race was Colgate University senior Christopher Johnson with a time of 25:28.

all areas, but ultimately I am the one that has to make that last decision,” he said. “For good or bad, I have to live with the result. And you’ve got to be confident.”

Dernlan’s coaching philosophy, which he said is a “hybrid of four individuals that had a big influence” on his career, is a simple one.

He demands and expects 100 percent attitude and effort from his athletes at all times.

“Those are the two things that our student-athletes can control during the seven minutes that they are out there,” he said. “You can’t always control what your opponent is going to do; you can’t control what the ref is going to do or the calls he makes. But if we put our max effort and our max attitude out there and hold ourselves accountable at the highest level, we’re probably going to get the results we want.”

Dernlan also acknowledged that the team went through an uncertain transitional period after he took over as head coach.

But after the summer, when he got to work with the athletes, Dernlan became convinced that he now has the support of the whole team and that the team truly believes in the visions and philosophies he has laid out.

“Initially, whenever you go through some sort of transition, and the new guys come in and the old guy that is leaving has produced some results, there are going to be some thoughts of uncertainty,” he said. “But I think over the summer, when

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Matt Dernlan took over as head coach of the Binghamton University wrestling team after Pat Popolizio resigned last spring. In the wake of last year’s historic season, Dernlan has his sights set on a national championship.

we were really incorporating the system, the level of [buoyancy] and excitement for the guys says that they believe it. I don’t think there is any uncertainty now with our guys.”

Dernlan’s ultimate goal during his time at Binghamton is to guide the Bearcats toward a national title. While he realizes that the path toward success will be a gradual process, he believes that the team’s potential is immense and is confident that the team’s achievements this

year will surpass those of last season.

“To get this program to the next level, we need to consistently produce results that we did last year,” he said.

“My goal is to win a national title for Binghamton University.

That is a high mark, but a mark that I believe we can achieve up here. Everything we need to win the national title, we have all those resources in place here.”

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By Ricky Guan | Contributing Writer The Binghamton University men’s swimming team finished fifth out of seven teams at the Bucknell Invitational over the weekend, while the women’s team took sixth place.

Freshman Brian McKenna posted a time of 20.69 in the 50 free to give the Bearcats their only win on either side. Senior Tim Cabasino also put forth a finalist performance in the event, finishing in a time of 21.14 en route to a fifth-place finish.

Cabasino also fared well in the 100 butterfly, placing second with a personal best time of 49.67, good for sixth on BU’s all-time top-10 list.

The men recorded top-three finishes in all four relay events, including a second-place finish in the 400 medley relay with a time of 3:24.50.

For the women, the 100 free was highlighted by three finalists from BU. Sophomore Caitlin Kelly,

senior Caitlin Nelson and sophomore Shannon Lampe took fourth, sixth and eighth, respectively, in the event. Kelly also captured fourth in the 50 free.

In the 400IM, junior Lauren Flower placed 11th and ascended into second place on Binghamton’s all-time list with a time of 4:33.03. Senior Melissa Lindahl finished the 100 back in a time of 58.21, a lifetime best, and placed fifth in the 200 back in a time of 2:05.08, good for third all-time in Binghamton history.

The Bearcats are scheduled to return to Lewisburg in two weeks to take on Bucknell in a dual meet on Saturday, Dec. 1. The event is set to begin at 1 p.m. at Kinney Natatorium.

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Reed leads Binghamton past St. Peter's for first win of season

The Binghamton University men’s basketball team took one step further toward shedding the memory of last year’s recordsetting losing streak with its first win of the season this Sunday against formerly undefeated St. Peter’s College. After suffering a loss to Army on Friday, the Bearcats were able to build upon the experience and garner enough energy and momentum to push past St. Peter’s, 62-54.

On Friday, the Bearcats (14) bounced back from a 56-40 deficit against Army (2-1) with a 12-5 run that brought BU within nine with 9:53 left. But with two minutes remaining, Binghamton found itself down by 11. BU junior forward Roland Brown closed the gap with a three-point play to bring the score to 78-70, but the Bearcats were ultimately unable to stop the Black Knights, who won 85-76.

Freshman guard Jordan Reed had a notable performance, notching 18 points and eight rebounds to lead the team. Junior guard Rayner Moquete also had a strong presence, burying three-pointers that closed the gap between the Bearcats and the Black Knights to only nine points on two different occasions.

Senior guard Jimmy Gray and senior forward Taylor Johnston each contributed 12 points. The Bearcats shot over 50 percent, but failed to secure enough opportunities for the win.

“I think we have to get our transition game in gear a little bit to open up some easier scoring opportunities,” Binghamton head coach Tommy Dempsey said following Sunday’s game.

“We’re getting better defensively and I think our energy level was really high on Friday, I think it was really high today and that’s something we need to go on.”

Sunday’s game was close from start to finish. With the teams bouncing back and forth on the board, the game featured 14 ties and as many lead changes.

For most of the afternoon, the largest lead was only four points, but after Binghamton reached a six-point lead with 4:03 left, the Peacocks (3-1) wouldn’t recover.

The Bearcats maintained their poise and kept their energy high to put away St. Peter’s.

“I don’t typically overreact to wins or losses, but I’d be lying if I said that that first win isn’t really important,” Dempsey said. “Just for this group, after everything that they’ve been through, the last thing that I wanted was a losing streak that lingered.”

The team’s win can be at least partially attributed to BU’s success from inside the threepoint line, converting on 18-of-39 shots from there while shooting only 3-for-10 from beyond the arc. The Bearcats, who snatched 46 rebounds to the Peacocks’ 35, committed 15 turnovers compared to St. Peter’s eight.

Gray, who had six points and tallied a team-high four assists, credited the win to the team’s unity.

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seventh-place finish at the New York State Championship.

The Bearcats (0-2) endured an evening to forget in Ithaca to start the weekend as the Big Red The Binghamton University demolished BU, 30-7, winning wrestling team had a weekend of eight of the 10 matches. mixed fortunes as it was soundly Binghamton head coach Matt beaten by Cornell University at Dernlan admitted that the better Friday’s dual meet but rebounded team on the day won, and that he the next day to secure a respectable was disappointed with his team’s

“I think the big difference was that guys collectively are coming together,” Gray said.

“We’re having guys being able to trust each other, we’re getting more comfortable on offense, defensively we’re getting better.

Every game, every practice, that’s our concentration right now.”

Reed continued his impressive play, shattering Binghamton’s single-game rebound record and earning America East Rookie of the Week honors. He secured his second double-double on Sunday, with 17 points and 18 boards, both team-highs once again, and threw down five dunks. Over his first three games, he has averaged 16.7 points and 12.3 rebounds.

“He has a chance to be really special; you’d have to be blind not to see that,” Dempsey said.

“To just be three games in and to have the impact that he’s had, he’s going to be a handful.

He’s only going to get better and better because he’s a relentless worker — he loves the game.”

Reed said that crashing the boards is the way he plays, but that while some of his rebounding efforts are natural, he gives credit to his coaches.

“They’re always telling me to get rebounds because sometimes we play with more guards — four guards and one big guy — so they tell me to get in and scrap, and that’s what I did for my team,” he said.

Senior forward Javon Ralling returned on Sunday following his four-game suspension and shot 2-for-4 from the floor and grabbed four rebounds. Freshman guard Karon Waller matched Ralling’s stats, but Dempsey said that their presence was hidden in the numbers, and that their energy kept the team alive.

“We did things that winning basketball teams do,” Dempsey said. “We were definitely more energetic. We were definitely the tougher team, and that was a real [key to the win].”

Johnston sat out of Sunday’s

display and effort. “[Cornell] did everything that we preached to our guys to do,” he said. “They made their efforts to get to positions and we didn’t. We didn’t put the effort out there to get the results that we are looking for. We deserved the outcome of the match.”

Binghamton’s two individual victories came from No. 2-ranked

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Unseeded senior Derek Steeley went undefeated at the New York State Championship en route to capturing the team’s lone individual title.

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Freshman guard Jordan Reed was named the America East Rookie of the Week on Monday after shattering Binghamton’s single-game rebound record on Sunday and earning his second double-double with a team-high 17 points and 18 boards.

game with a sprained ankle, which Dempsey said is still being evaluated. He predicted the forward could be out for anywhere from one and three weeks.

Dempsey said he just hopes that with this win, the team can

cast aside last year’s shadow and look forward.

“We’ll be talking about this basketball team, and this coaching staff, and this group, and not talking about everything that’s gone on here in the past,”

he said.

The Bearcats will look to keep things rolling on Saturday, when they are scheduled to host Marywood University at the Events Center. Tip-off is set for 7 p.m.

149-pound senior Donnie Vinson and No. 8 197-pound redshirt senior Nate Schiedel. Vinson defended his undefeated slate this season and picked up win No. 7 with a victory over junior Ryan Dunphy. Schiedel holds a 6-0 season record of his own after topping sophomore Billy George with a 6-3 decision.

Dernlan praised the two seniors as bright spots in an otherwise dismal outing.

“They both went out and got what they deserved in the competition,” he said. “I am proud that they put the effort out there and met the standards for themselves during the seven minutes.”

Following the rough match against Cornell, the Bearcats remained in Ithaca on Saturday to compete in the New York State Collegiate Championship.

Competing without sophomore Joe Bonaldi, Schiedel and Vinson, the three highest-ranked wrestlers on the squad, Binghamton ended the weekend on a positive note, finishing seventh out of 18 teams.

“Our first two dual meets, I think we really came up lacking in our effort and attitude,” Dernlan said.

“But last week at the Binghamton Open and Saturday at the New York State Championships, we saw

a reversal of those things. We saw some really good performances, a lot of good individual efforts. We had some decent placements from a number of guys.”

The most impressive performances of the day came out of the 133-pound weight class, where two Bearcats faced off in the championship. Senior Derek Steeley and redshirt junior Dan Riggi went head-to-head for all three periods, and Steely came out on top, 8-2.

When asked about having two wrestlers compete against each other in a championship match, Dernlan said, “It was great. When you put two guys out there and they both make it to the final match, it gets pretty exciting.”

Both went into the tournament unseeded, upsetting the top two seeds in their weight class. Steely took down Army’s second-seeded senior Jordan Thome, 8-5, in the first round of the tournament. In the semifinals, Riggi defeated the No. 1 seed redshirt junior Jamie Franco of Hofstra University by an impressive technical fall.

“That was a big building block for [Riggi],” Dernlan said. “[Both wrestlers] really stepped up their performances each round, and I was really proud of what they put

out all day.”

Binghamton redshirt sophomore heavyweight Tyler Deuel concluded his weekend with a third-place finish after fighting back from an opening round defeat. After being placed into the consolation bracket, Deuel won five straight matches, two of which he pinned his opponents.

BU redshirt junior 184-pound Cody Reed also placed in the tournament, finishing fourth with a 3-2 mark.

Though the Bearcats are 0-2 in dual meets, Dernlan said he does not necessarily believe the team is a better tournament team than it is in dual meets.

“Like it or not, we only have a few opportunities to be in tournaments, so we better figure out a way to turn these results around in dual meet competitions,” Derlan said. “We are capable of it. Everybody has got to be accountable, and everybody has to contribute.”

The Bearcats are set to return to action at Sunday’s Northeast Duals, where they will face off against Army, Rutgers University and University of Illinois. Action is set to kick off at 11:25 a.m. at Hudson Valley Community College.