Fall 2013 Issue 20

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Scott Diamond, Rory Quiller return for induction, See page 19

Black Student Union celebrates, See page 2

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Greek life cleans up Downtown

UCC sees budget bump

Environmental science students organize trash walk Eurih Lee News Intern

Greek life took to the streets Saturday to clean up Downtown and show the green side of Binghamton Unversity.

Students met at the University Downtown Center and walked along the Chenango River and Front Street picking up trash.

The Interfraternity Council funded the event and supplied students with garbage bags and gloves. The walk was a project organized by a group of students in Environmental Studies 415: Environmental Planning, for 45 percent of their final grade.

Krista Schlueck, an organizer of the walk and a senior majoring in environmental studies, said she hoped that inviting Greek life members to the walk would help improve the Downtown community’s negative perception of Binghamton

University students.

“We have a bad image as students Downtown sometimes,” Schlueck said. “This walk shows that Binghamton University students care about the community.”

About 50 members of Zeta Psi, Sigma Beta Rho, Phi Kappa Psi, Chi Phi, Tau Alpha Upsilon and Pi Kappa Alpha fraternities participated in the green initiative to help clean up the Downtown region. By the end of the walk they had collected three large garbage bags and disposed of them at a dumpster at UDC. Alexander Liu, IFC president, member of Zeta Psi fraternity and a junior majoring in philosophy, politics and law, said Greek life should engage in more community service events such as the Beautify Binghamton Walk.

See TRASH Page 8

Jules Forrest/Staff Photographer

The University Counseling Center, which provides a haven for students seeking mental help, has received a funding increase of $3 per full-time student to increase staffing. The push for funding came after the center saw a 30 percent increase in traffic from this time last year.

Funding increased after 30% rise in counseling requests Center received a funding increase of $3 per full-time Contributing Writer student to increase staffing after seeing a 30 percent increase in use from this time The University Counseling

James Scott

Dems and libs clash

last year, according to Johann Fiore-Conte, the director of health and counseling services at Binghamton University.

“We then wrote a proposal

to administration to increase funds to able us to hire the fulltime equivalent of a counselor

See UCC Page 8

JUMP mentors high schoolers Local students learn about life at college Madeline Gottlieb Contributing Writer

Xindi Tian/Contributing Photographer

Binghamton’s College Democrats and College Libertarians participate in a battle of wits Monday night in the C4 multipurpose room. Topics were debated by two members of each party for 10 minutes, followed by an audience Q&A section.

Students debate Obamacare, affirmative action Jeremy Bernstein and Richard Donnelly Contributing Writer Binghamton University’s College Democrats and College Libertarians clashed in a battle of words and wit during their annual debate.

The debate was split into five sections: Obamacare, minimum wage laws, Iran, affirmative action and environmental policy. Topics were debated by two members of each party for 10 minutes, followed by

an audience Q&A section.

Lori Valentino, a sophomore majoring in biology, moderated the debate.

The night hit its most intense point during the Affordable Care Act debate.

“Definitely the most heated topic was Obamacare, and I think that might have had something to do with the fact that the one female debater was in that debate,” Valentino said.

“She brought heat to the topic.

She was fun.”

Democrat Jessica Dunn,

an undeclared freshman, was especially energetic about the women’s health and birth control aspects of the Affordable Care Act, even calling out Libertarian debaters for their likely lack of knowledge of birth control.

Libertarian Jack Russo asked the audience two questions in an attempt to demonstrate flaws in minimum wage laws.

“How many of you like getting paid more?” Russo asked. The

See DEBATE Page 8

Juvenile Urban Multicultural Program (JUMP Nation) hosted its annual fall semester event, inviting students from Broome County high schools to Binghamton University to get a feel for college life.

Students from eighth to twelfth grades were asked to join a group of BU students for the six-hour event this past Saturday.

“We’ve been doing this for about five years. We have around 34 students here.

I’m very excited about the turnout,” said Girelis Guzman, president of JUMP Nation and a senior majoring in studio art.

JUMP Nation’s overall mission is to reach out to high schools and offer students encouragement and support in the form of a mentor-mentee relationship.

“Basically, we try to encourage them to pursue higher education,” Guzman said. “Because where they’re from, they don’t have positive influences, or they’re just not doing well socially or academically.”

The day’s nine workshops included a forum with P.U.L.S.E. (Powerful United Ladies Striving to Elevate) and the Men of Color Scholastic Society, a Haitian

Student Association (HaSA) leadership forum and Black Dance Repertoire and X-Fact’r Step Team competition.

For the HaSA leadership forum, students were divided into groups. Within their groups, they created an organization, practicing delegation by assigning E-Board positions to the students in their group.

During the BDR and X-Fact’r section, the students were divided into two groups.

One group learned a step routine with X-Factr, and the other group learned a dance routine with the BDR. After they learned their routine, they switched groups.

“The dance was my favorite.

We learned how to step dance.

I was killing it out there,” said Serena Woody, a tenth grader from Binghamton High School.

Even at the lectures about tolerance and leadership, students enjoyed their time at the event.

“I had a lot of fun today.

I learned a lot, and now I’m really excited for college,” said Emily Zeboris, a tenth grader from Binghamton High School.

Holban Velasquez, historian of JUMP Nation and a sophomore majoring in economics, said he was delighted to be reaching out to the local students.

“This is a good way to give

See JUMP Page 6

Ryan Gyanchand/Contributing Photographer

JUMP Nation hosted its fifth annual fall semester event, during which students from Broome County high schools were invited to campus to get a feel for college life. Thirty-four students attended the day’s nine workshops, which covered topics like tolerance and leadership.

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BSU celebrates 45 years at BU Organization hosts banquet to honor achievements Margaret-Rose Roazzi Contributing Writer

After serving Binghamton University and the surrounding community since 1968, the Black Student Union celebrated its 45th anniversary on Saturday.

BSU is BU’s oldest multicultural organization. In collaboration with other campus groups and organizations in the city of Binghamton, the club aims to promote diversity and provide assistance for those in need. The club celebrated the 45th anniversary with a banquet at Tioga Room in the Hilton Holiday Inn. Derrick Conyers, the vice president for academic affairs and a member of BSU, defined the event as more than just a celebration of the organization’s 45 years.

“This banquet is shining a light on black students’ achievements throughout the years here at Binghamton,” said Conyers, a senior double-majoring in political science and philosophy. “We are not only celebrating [black students’ achievements at] Binghamton University

but America and the community as well.”

The room was adorned with black tablecloths as well as red, black and white balloons. A large screen inside the room was playing videos featuring the different programs with which BSU collaborates.

One of the community projects mentioned at the banquet was the BSU Youth Program, which brings local children to come visit a college campus.

The program aims to give those children positive role models and friendship through the mentoring of volunteers.

BSU partner and civic organization U-Turn was also featured. U-Turn is a mentoring program for imprisoned teenagers that focuses on fostering responsibility.

Nayemai-Isis McIntosh Green, the vice president of multicultural affairs, was impressed by the guests present at the event.

“You have people who were the president of the Black Student Union from the year 2002-2003 speaking,” said McIntosh Green, a sophomore double-majoring in history and human

development. “You have motivational speakers coming in who actually impacted the campus, letting us know that we’re doing the right thing and how to move forward.”

Mariana Moriello, the vice president of programming for the Student Association, said she was honored to be invited to the banquet, and she praised the work of BSU in general.

“A lot of people know who they are and what they’re about so [BSU] is great,” said Moriello, a senior double-majoring in anthropology and psychology.

BSU President Ese Olumhense, a senior majoring in English, said she has high hopes for the organization’s future.

“I hope BSU continues to be active in the community and to work with other organizations to put on bigger and better events and programs,” Olumhense said. “I think that diversity is one of this institution’s highest selling points, and I hope that BSU helps to promote understanding and appreciation of this diversity.”

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Black Student Union celebrated its 45th anniversary on Saturday evening in the Hilton Holiday Inn on Hawley Street.

BSU is Binghamton University’s oldest multicultural organization.

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Local News Remains found in upstate NY ID’d as abuse suspect Human remains found in a wooded area in upstate New York have been identified as a sexual abuse suspect who disappeared after posting bail. The Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin reports that the body of 54-year-old Paul Terwilliger was identified by dental records.

Hunters found Terwilliger’s decomposed remains Saturday morning in a wooded area in the town of Chenango. Capt. Fred Akshar of the Broome County Sheriff’s Office said there is no indication of foul play.

Terwilliger was charged last April with first-degree sexual conduct against a child. He was jailed after his arrest but was later released on bail. Terwilliger was reported missing in May. Akshar said a suicide note was found during the course of the missing person investigation.

NY legislator wants state facilities kept open A ranking state legislator is urging the Cuomo administration to hold off on a plan to close state facilities that house mentally ill and disabled New Yorkers. Sen. Thomas Libous, a Binghamton Republican and deputy leader of the coalition that controls the Senate, is also backing legislation to prohibit closing of the Greater Binghamton Health Center and Broome Developmental Center and other facilities before April 1, 2015. The Office of Mental Health wants to consolidate 24 inpatient psychiatric hospitals statewide into 15 regional centers.

The Office for Persons with Developmental Disabilities plans to close four institutions for the disabled in its shift to group homes and community settings. Libous says he’s meeting next week with a top deputy to Gov. Andrew Cuomo. An administration spokesman declined comment.

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Shannon Chin, a sophomore majoring in economics, and Sam Ashley, an undeclared freshman, pour rice into a balloon to make stress balls as part of the Women in Business’ “Damsels in De-Stress” workshop. At the beginning of the workshop, students spoke about what stressed them out as individuals.

National University News Ex-frat members not liable in Del. pledge’s death A jury on Friday concluded that two former members of a University of Delaware fraternity were not liable for the alcoholpoisoning death of an 18-year-old pledge in 2008 during a ritual.

Ruling in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the parents of Brett Griffin of Kendall Park, N.J., jurors said former chapter president of Sigma Alpha Mu, Jason Aaron, and former pledge master, Matthew Siracusa, were not responsible. The fraternity and other members previously reached settlements in the case, but attorneys for Aaron, 25, and Siracusa, 26, argued that they were not liable because they did not participate in any hazing of Griffin, and that no one had forced him to drink. Griffin died with a blood-alcohol level of .341, more than four times the threshold for drunken driving, hours after a fraternity ritual in which he and other pledges were introduced to their “big brothers” and their “family drink.” For Griffin, that was a bottle of Southern Comfort. The jury found that Siracusa, either alone or with others, had hazed Griffin, but that the hazing was not the proximate cause of Griffin’s death or any pain or suffering he experienced.

National News Small NH coffee producer prevails over Starbucks A small New Hampshire coffee producer that operates out of a barn has prevailed in a trademark infringement case brought by Starbucks over a blend called “Charbucks.” Annie and Jim Clark own Black Bear Micro Roastery in Tuftonboro. They were sued in 2001 in federal district court in New York by Starbucks, which alleged that Black Bear’s use of the name “Charbucks” infringed, blurred and tarnished its famous trademarks. Starbucks appealed to the 2nd U.S. Court Circuit Court of Appeals after Black Bear prevailed in district court. The appeals court agreed with the district court in a decision Friday, saying Starbucks didn’t prove its case. Charbucks, introduced in 1997, is Black Bear’s darkest roast coffee. The appeals court noted that “one of the reasons Black Bear used the term ‘Charbucks’ was the public perception that Starbucks roasted its beans unusually darkly.”

But it agreed with the district court in finding minimal similarity and weak evidence of actual association between the brands.

Police Watch A lighter take on campus crime

Sounds like one for the Hardy boys THURSDAY, NOV. 14, 10:21 a.m. — A 23-year-old male transfer student was reportedly the victim of an Internet scam, said Investigator Patrick Reilly of Binghamton’s New York State University Police. The victim was on the Internet when a pop-up appeared on his computer advertising an alleged federal grant.

The victim clicked on it, gave his information and applied for the grant. The victim was told that he would receive an email including the legal details. He never received it and found that his credit card was charged for a purchase he did not make. The victim proceeded to call an 800-number for another federal grant agency to ask about his grant. They informed him that he was scammed and that he should close his credit card. The victim called the bank and received a new card and had the prior card put on hold. After receiving his new card, the victim then received a call from a person claiming to be a New York state police officer and was told that he was part of a scam and that he would face seven years in prison if he did not cooperate. He told the “officer” that he was an exchange student and that he had no financial ties to the United States. The person on the other end then abruptly told the victim that he had to go. The victim has since changed phone numbers.

I don’t know what we’re yelling about!

THURSDAY, NOV. 14, 11:22 p.m. — A 20-yearold male was acting disorderly in Choconut Hall, Reilly said. Officers responded to the hall due to reports of a domestic dispute. Two individuals were yelling at the suspect when the officers arrived. The

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suspect allegedly had a prior relationship with a guest that was in the room for a party. The suspect was angered by this and was yelling at the residents as a result.

The officers escorted the suspect off the premises.

You won’t like me when I’m angry FRIDAY, NOV. 15, 3:22 p.m. — Lot Y1 was vandalized, Reilly said. An officer reportedly saw that a stop sign was removed from the entrance of the lot. It looked to be torn off of its post. There are currently no suspects or witnesses.

But wait, did you do it or..?

SATURDAY, NOV. 16, 11:45 p.m. — Officers on patrol at the University Union were approached by a cab driver who claimed to have seen an unknown suspect removing a “Do Not Enter” sign from Lot Q, Reilly said. Officers looked for a student who matched the description given by the witness and found someone who did match it. When asked if he stole the sign, the student laughed and stated that he saw a broken sign and only moved it away.

When asked again if he stole the sign, the student became belligerent and sarcastically stated that he stole the sign while laughing. The male walked away, still laughing. As he was walking away, officers asked again and the student became angered and started to ask the witness for a statement. The officers returned to the witness, and when asked if he saw the student break and steal the sign or just move it, the witness stated that he was unsure. Officers returned to their patrol afterward.

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Speaker researches Korean family trees Eugene Park's findings show that geneology may not be as regal as previously thought Brendan Zarkower Contributing Writer

While some Korean natives may claim to be able to trace their family history back to royalty, professor Eugene Y. Park of the University of Pennsylvania’s Korea Foundation said that genealogy may not be accurate.

On Friday, the Center for Korean Studies hosted Park, who presented his research about Korean genealogy and ancestry.

Park challenged ideas about Korean familial history by questioning traditional notions about royal heritage in Korean families.

“You’re not going to find any real stories from before 1900 about how 95 percent of Koreans lived,” he said.

According to Park, many Korean families have oral or written traditions about the noble ancestry of their family. However, Park found that these stories are modern fabrications. This is best evidenced by the sheer number of traditional Korean heritage stories that have a significant emphasis on nobility.

Park contends that the numbers do not add up because most Koreans were not part of the noble class throughout much of history.

“Typically, aristocracy could not make up more than 1 to 2, maybe 5 percent of the whole of the people,” Park said.

Park’s presentation addressed reasons why there are so few Korean surnames and the formation of ancestral histories within Korean families. He contrasted Korean stories with those of Japan and Western culture, saying that the cultures put different values on different things. While the Western stories do not shy away from tales of social mobility and the “rags to riches” story, Korean family history tends to be more concerned with the aristocratic elements of a family’s past.

Park, an associate professor at

“You're not going to find any real stories from before 1900 about how 95% of Koreans lived”

UPenn, specializes in Korea’s social history since the 17th century. He was born in South Korea but grew up in Southern California.

The Center for Korean Studies brought Park to Binghamton University to give the lecture and meet with graduate students at the CKS’ graduate student colloquium.

Students from professor Immanuel Kim’s courses, Asian and Asian American Studies 242: 20th Century Korean Literature and AAAS 380O: Literature in North Korea, and professor Sonja Kim’s courses, AAAS 211: Korean Civilization and AAAS 361: Korea in the Age of Empire, were encouraged to attend and comprised the majority of the audience. The professors expressed a desire to expand future CKS programs to include a wider audience.

“The attendance was great, but, more importantly, the participation and questions at the end of the talk were engaging and a reflection of the students’ genuine interest in the speaker’s topic,” Kim said. “CKS will continue to hold such events, and we expect the larger student body and faculty at BU to attend and expose them to Korea.”

— Eugene Park University of Pennsylvania Professor

Tycho McManus/Staff Photographer

Eugene Y. Park, an associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania specializing in the social history of Korea, spoke Friday afternoon in Lecture Hall 7. The Center for Korean Studies hosted Park, who presented his research about Korean genealogy and ancestry.

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Students challenge campus to brighten up Inspirational Post-it notes appear all over Binghamton University, promote positive mindset Emily Coleman Contributing Writer As winter takes hold over upstate New York, a group of students set out to brighten up Binghamton.

Brighten Up Binghamton, also known as the Post-it Project, is a mission to spread positivity and kindness on campus.

Nina Abrahams and Danielle Bayer were co-chairs and started Brighten Up Binghamton to do little things to improve campus morale.

“Something small can make someone’s day so much better than it was,” said Abrahams, a freshman majoring in human development.

Around 20 volunteers made around 200 inspirational notes on Nov. 12 and then placed them in various public places around campus. Notes were placed in dining halls and Lecture Hall.

“We wanted to put them in a place where everyone walks through — such as the lecture hall, library, dining halls etc,” Bayer wrote in an email.

The Leadership Team, a group formed this year by Maya Yair, a senior majoring in political science, requires members to organize an event. Bayer used this opportunity to try to make campus a happier place.

“Brighten up Bing is an effort to spread more joy and boost self-confidence all over campus,” wrote Bayer, an undeclared freshman.

The Leadership Team attempted to reach as many students as possible with its notes.

“I was having a bad day, and seeing those notes definitely made me feel better,” said Patrick Kranz, a freshman majoring in biochemistry.

The Leadership Team invited other groups to come help make notes, including Active Minds and Rainbow Pride Union. Abrahams and Bayer printed out funny or inspirational quotes for volunteers to choose from or allowed people to choose their own words of encouragement.

“The notes are very cute,” said Jessica Weller, a sophomore majoring in psychology. “I think it’s good because sometimes people need encouragement and also handwriting seems personal.”

Abrahams came up with the idea to

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Photo Illustration - Brighten Up Binghamton, also known as the Post-it Project, is a project aimed at spreading positivity and kindness on campus. Nina Abrahams and Danielle Bayer started Brighten Up Binghamton to do little things to improve campus morale and, along with approximately 20 volunteers, posted over 200 inspirational quotes around BU.

leave Post-it notes from her positive experiences of sending letters to her friends.

“I got this idea when I used to send snail mail to my friends,” Abrahams said.

“I felt so important, someone’s writing something handwritten for you. I wanted to share that with people here.”

According to Yair, the mission was not without obstacles, as some of the notes left in Lecture Hall were taken down by cleaning staff the night they were left.

“Unfortunately, some of the notes got taken down,” Yair said. “But I think it’s been really successful in the dining halls.”

Abrahams and Yair at first attempted to keep Brighten Up Binghamton as anonymous as possible.

“We don’t want to take credit for it, because we just want it to brighten people’s day,” Yair said. “We don’t want people to think it’s for one group.”

Yair and the co-chairs of the event wanted the notes to reach everyone and bring general positivity to campus.

“Anyone could do it,” Abrahams said.

“It shouldn’t matter who leaves the notes.”

While Brighten Up Binghamton started off as a single mission, Yair was not opposed to putting up another batch of notes.

“If people really like it we can do it again,” Yair said. “We still have a lot of Post-its.”

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The project was originally started as our goal,” Yair wrote. an anonymous venture, but the creators ultimately decided to reveal their identities.

“Maya, Danielle and I decided together that it is more important to bring awareness to the issue of mental health and remind people the significance of brightening up people’s days by doing little things but be recognized in the article, rather than being anonymous and not talking about the main point,” Abrahams wrote in an email.

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High school students from around Broome County participate in JUMP Nation’s all-day annual reach-out event. The day’s nine workshops included a forum with P.U.L.S.E. (Powerful United Ladies Striving to Elevate) and the Men of Color Scholastic Society, a Haitian Student Association (HaSA) leadership forum and a Black Dance Repertoire and X-Fact’r Step Team competition.

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back to the community and expose students to a college campus,” Velasquez said.

JUMP Nation members tried to create a laid-back, easygoing experience for these students.

“I’m from the Bronx, and I have experienced how terrible the education is. As far as education, it wasn’t fulfilling for me. When I came to college is when I realized how undereducated I was,” Guzman said. “In inner cities, they don’t take education seriously.

Teachers don’t care about their jobs, they just pass students to

pass them. I wanted to be the positive influence for someone else. I have older sisters for mentors, but I want to be that person for someone who doesn’t have it.”

Other E-Board members shared similar sentiments about the program.

“It means a lot to me. When you first come to college, you’re in a bubble and then you learn how people live and from where they’ve grown up.

You realize other people don’t have the same support system growing up. Some of these kids don’t have proper guidance counselors or parents who want to push them further in life. So

“We try to encourage them to pursue higher education” — Girelis Guzman JUMP Nation President

we want to be their support system and role models,” said Kiana Smith, public relations for JUMP Nation and a junior majoring in English.

This is JUMP Nation’s only

mentoring event of the year.

“Every spring semester we have a program where we bring up 90 to 100 inner-city youth and students from the Bronx, Brooklyn and Manhattan. And we bring them up for a fourday, all-expenses weekend, and we pair them up with mentors,” Guzman said.

After spending a full day at this conference, the high school students are excited for their futures and what college can do for them.

“I’m excited. There’s a lot of clubs and fun things you can do in college,” Woody said.

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Teens at risk of alcohol abuse Graduate students discuss adolescent binge drinking Carla Sinclair

figure out what path to follow in choosing a career,” said Ashley Hall, Neuroscience Club president and a senior majoring in integrative neuroscience. “We figured that having students be spoken to by someone who is similar in age and conducting research, a popular decision by many students recently, would allow them to see the information and the example firsthand of what it is like to be a researcher.”

The presentation was focused around research conducted on rats, which have similar reactions to alcohol as humans. In both species, the consumption, reaction and tolerance of alcohol is different when it comes to age, namely in the time between adolescence and adulthood.

As the brain matures from adolescence to adulthood, Saalfield explained, development of brain functions is limited due to the rewiring of the brain.

These conditions, combined

Contributing Writer Research being conducted in Binghamton University professor and researcher Linda Spear’s lab may allow people to further understand the damage caused by drinking as an adolescent.

In her presentation titled “Why Adolescents Can, and Do, Drink A Lot,” Jes Saalfield, a graduate student studying behavioral neuroscience and working in Spear’s lab, outlined research on the correlations between consumption and age.

“I think this presentation is important because many teens and young adults do not understand the consequences of their drinking behavior,” Saalfield said.

The presentation, organized by the Neuroscience Club, also provided students a glimpse into careers in research.

“We wanted to present this information because we feel it is important to help students

“Adolescents consume large amounts of alcohol in a binge pattern, which can cause longterm problems” — Jes Saalfield Graduate student

with an increase of myelin, which increases the speed and efficiency of messages sent to the brain, can be detrimental in the long run.

Adolescents are more sensitive to the “rewards” of alcohol, such as social acceptance, and less sensitive to the bad, such as susceptibility to its sedative properties, impaired motor skills, anxiety; they also face less of a hangover. The lesser short-term pain can lead

to binge drinking, according to research conducted in Spear’s lab.

“Adolescents consume large amounts of alcohol in a binge pattern, which can cause longterm problems,” Saalfield said. “I hope that the research being done in this field helps educate the community on the repercussions of drinking at such an early age.”

These patterns lead to complications in the future, as chronic alcohol abuse in adolescence weakens the body’s response to it, which may lead to alcohol abuse.

Saalfield and her colleagues’ research is not being done in pursuit of any specific result or in correspondence with any pharmaceutical research, just to figure out “why.”

“This research is very knowledge based- i.e. we do this to improve knowledge in the field,” she said in an email.

“And to possible extrapolate it to a clinical setting.”

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Binghamton University’s College Democrats and College Libertarians debated for an hour and a half in the C4 multipurpose room. The debate was split into five sections: Obamacare, minimum wage laws, Iran, affirmative action and environmental policy.

DEBATE continued from Page 1 whole audience quickly raised their hands. Then, “How many of you like paying higher prices?

Instead of playing catch-up with minimum wages, maybe we should consider policy issues.”

Democrat Jon Mermelstein countered that over 50 percent of minimum wage employees have to receive federal aid just to live above the poverty line.

On the topic of affirmative action, Libertarian debater Andrew Schwartz argued that a different type of diversity is necessary in the workplace.

“We need diversity of beliefs and upbringings rather than physical features,” he said.

Democrat Jon Mermelstein, a sophomore majoring in history, countered that affirmative action is necessary to correct past racial and economic wrongs.

“The Libertarians had good points, but overall the Democrats were stronger” — Ryan O'Rourke BU Freshman

“Social mobility is at its lowest level in American history,” he said.

The Libertarian panel argued that it was racist government policies that created racial inequality in the first place.

Democrat Gregory Smaldone, a senior double-majoring in accounting and history, conceded that the government may have been responsible for

some of today’s racial inequality.

“But that doesn’t mean that government policies of the present can’t fix those problems,” Smaldone said.

Discussing possible worldwide regulations on pollution, Russo said he worried that U.S. production would decline while other countries would surpass American manufacturing unburdened by the same regulations.

“We’ll be dragging a ball and chain behind our feet while China and India move past us,” he said.

Democrats responded that the U.S. needs to lead by example, and climate change is simply too big a problem to ignore.

Valentino said she was impressed by the quality of debate.

“All of the debaters were extremely informed and very

well prepared for the questions and all the prompts,” Valentino said. “There was no hesitation.”

Debaters and audience members were split on who won the debate.

“The Libertarians had good points, but overall the Democrats were stronger,” said Ryan O’Rourke, a freshman majoring in integrative neuroscience.

“They both clearly did a lot of research on that issue so it was fun to watch.”

Libertarian Daniel Milyavsky, a junior majoring in biology, said that neither side was the clear victor.

“I thought that the Democrats won the questions regarding global warming and affirmative action and that we won the questions regarding minimum wage and Obamacare,” Milyavsky said.

Students clear Downtown TRASH continued from Page 1 “Greek life has a responsibility to give back to the community — this exemplifies what the community should be, and I think that we’re moving toward that,” Liu said. “I hope this will set a good precedent for future collaborations between students, departments and Greek life and the different chapters involved.”

According to Liu, while philanthropy and community service are pillars of the Greek life community, there has been a bigger focus on the philanthropy services than community service.

“In terms of philanthropy, I think we do a good job,” Liu said. “In terms of community service, I think we can do more.

Philanthropy is just handing over a check. Community service engages with the community on a different level, and I think that’s important for improving our reputation.”

Peter Frantellizzi, IFC philanthropy chair, member of Sigma Beta Rho and a senior majoring in mechanical engineering, said that organizations participating in community service events highlight the beneficial aspects of the Greek life community.

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Greek life took to the streets Saturday to clean up Downtown along the Chenango River and Front Street. The cleanup was organized by a group of students in Environmental Studies 415: Environmental Planning, for 45 percent of their final grade.

Frantellizzi suggested that the University embrace the Greek community as a volunteer group to effectively beautify the Downtown region.

“We have the biggest organization to get things accomplished. If we put our minds to it, basically anything we want gets done,” Frantellizzi said. “If we want to start a green initiative, we can make it as good as we want.”

Francesca Nedvin, an organizer of the event

and a senior majoring in environmental studies, said she hopes to engage more BU students in similar programs within the Binghamton community.

“It would be good to encourage more students to get more involved and be a part of the city and community,” Nedvin said. “This is the city they’re living in, so they should care about it.”

“This is the city they're living in, so they should care about it” — Francesca Nedvin BU Senior

and a physician for a year,” she said.

The University Counseling Center is fully funded by the student health services portion of tuition, which also funds the Decker Student Health Services Center. The amount of funding is now about $181 per full-time student.

When a student goes to the Counseling Center, he or she must fill out paperwork and set up an intake appointment to assess his or her needs. If the student’s condition is found to be too complex for the staff, or if the staff is fully booked, they are referred to an off-campus mental health center.

“Counselors only have so many hours in a day, so nonemergency students can either choose to sit on the waitlist or be referred off campus for consultation,” Fiore-Conte said.

A Binghamton University student wrote in an email to Pipe Dream saying that she sought help from the University Counseling Center due to a long-standing history of depression, anxiety and recovery from an eating disorder.

“I filled out my paperwork which asked a ton of questions about my history, which I answered honestly. There were a lot of questions about being or having been suicidal,” she wrote. “At the time of this appointment, I hadn’t been legitimately suicidal in about 3 years, but as soon as I checked ‘yes’ on having ever had thoughts of suicide, I felt the attitude towards me change. The way they treated me once I admitted to having been suicidal was like I was a liability.”

After the initial intake appointment, she wrote that she was referred to an offcampus mental health clinic due to a lack of expertise of the Counseling Center staff.

“After my first appointment, I scheduled a second one at which time I was told that my case was too complex for them to handle and that they were referring me to a therapist off campus. I told them I couldn’t see someone off campus because I couldn’t afford it and also because I didn’t have a car,” she wrote in an email.

“I was very upset; the way they went about it made me feel like I was too messed up for them.”

Fiore-Conte said that there will be better management of the waitlist and increased availability for students to acquire mental help thanks to the increased funding.

“We have been increasing staff since 2009 to meet the increasing student demand for counseling,” she said.

Fiore-Conte said that all students who are on the waitlist choose to be on the waitlist, and for those students who are in extreme crisis there are emergency hours Monday through Friday from 2 to 4 p.m., which do not have a waitlist and are done day by day. Also, if a student is in a crisis not during that time, they should call 911.

Maggie Morrisey, a junior majoring in human development, has been visiting the Counseling Center since her freshman year and found the experience to be a

“We have been increasing staff since 2009 to meet the increasing student demand for counseling” — Johann Fiore-Conte Director of Health and Counseling Services

positive one.

“They work hard to provide you with all the advice and resources to help you with whatever you need, even if it’s just having someone to listen to your problems and help you work through them,” Morrisey said. “The Counseling Center has seriously helped me deal with my anxiety in a healthy way.”

Lisa Stockman, a junior majoring in psychology, said that she went to the Counseling Center in the fall of her freshman year to get help for anxiety and minor depression and was referred off campus due to a lack of staff availability.

“When I first went to the Counseling Center and filled out the forms, I was told to sign up for an appointment because there was a waiting list, so I booked the earliest one available which was three weeks from that time,” she said. “At the appointment it seemed like she was just assessing me rather than giving me advice or feedback.

After about 20 minutes she referred me to another mental health center because she said they can only take on patients who are in dire need of it.”

Stockman said that the psychiatric center to which the Counseling Center referred her put her on an even longer waitlist.

“The psych center that the counselor referred me to had a huge waitlist, they got back to me two months after I called them to say that they were just nearing my name,” she said.

“I ended up having to do my own research about affordable social workers in the area.”

Despite the problems that some students have found with the counseling services on campus, Morrisey said that she still thought it was an important and positive experience.

“Everyone who works at the Counseling Center is welcoming and genuinely wants to help you,” she said.

“I encourage anyone who is considering it to just go and try it out, you won’t regret it.”

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For those of you who went to Cortaca: How was it? Before you start to tell us: Stop. Nobody really WANTS to hear about it.

Don’t you know that? Anyway, thanks for heading Downtown, you loyal, trustworthy and preferred Binghamton students. You looked good. You kind of looked like you could use a break from Binghamton, though. Maybe you should’ve gone to Cortaca.

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Nov. Campus Playlist What people are listening to at Binghamton Katie Kravat | Release

Ever pass a fellow classmate on the quad and wonder what he or she’s listening to? Release took to the streets to find out what songs are helping us cope with that pre-Thanksgiving stress and providing the soundtrack to our day-to-day lives.

1. “Higher” — Big Sean

Ryan Cartwright, junior majoring in management 2. “The Innocent” — Mayer Hawthorne Weronika Kowalczyk, junior majoring in computer science 3. “Worst Behavior” — Drake Leroy Coleman, junior majoring in economics 4. “Emotions” — Destiny’s Child Megan Burney, undeclared freshman 5. “Wu-Tang Forever” — Drake Derrick Conyers, senior majoring in political science 6. “Each Coming Night” — Iron & Wine Isabella Castiglioni, freshman majoring in anthropology 7. “On Fire” — Eminem Muniam Chaudhry, undeclared sophomore 8. “Still Wanna” — Pusha T Daniel Spicehandler, freshman majoring in biological sciences 9. “Wicked Games” — The Weeknd Pedro Cordova, senior majoring in economics 10. “Da Art of Storytellin” — Outkast Colden Lyons, senior majoring in biological sciences 11. “Where Are You Now” — Mumford and Sons Kimberly Flores, freshman majoring in accounting 12. “Just Give me a Reason (Cover)” — Sam Tsui Evelyn Chevere, junior double-majoring in anthropology and psychology 13. “Valhall Awaits Me” — Amon Amarth Zach Sorenson, undeclared freshman 14. “Atlantis” — Azealia Banks Mohamed Sesay, senior majoring in English 15. “Martin” — Zac Brown Band Victoria Hanczyk, sophomore double-majoring in psychology and human development 16. “The Language” — Drake Jeffrey Ma, sophomore majoring in integrative neuroscience 17. “Kill Bill” — Brown Eyed Girls Yunjin Jing, sophomore majoring in economics

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18. “Oh Holy Night” — Celine Dion Urenna Nwogwugwu, undeclared freshman 19. “Power Trip” — J. Cole Nafia Islam, freshman majoring in economics 20. “Time Warp” — Rocky Horror Picture Show Elijah Alsdorf, junior majoring in biological sciences 21. “So Far…” — Eminem Steve Merola, senior majoring in human development 22. “What Now” — Rihanna

Music studio means business The Business District offers outlet for local artists John Sansone | Contributing Writer

Amanda Wolfe, junior majoring in English 23. “Haru Haru” — Big Bang Matthew Teich, senior majoring in geology 24. “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” — Green Day Jessica Addolorato, junior majoring in environmental studies 25. “Can We Go Up” — Paper Diamond David Rosenfeld, senior majoring in electrical engineering 26. “Come Alive” — Netsky Dan Pesce, freshman majoring in engineering 27. “Down” — Blink 182 Stephanie Mungroo, freshman majoring in management 28. “A Place for my Head” — Linkin Park Patrick Carlino, junior majoring in industrial and systems engineering 29. “To Build a Home” — The Cinematic Orchestra Joshua Krinsky, undeclared sophomore

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If you hear any locals mention the Business District in Johnson City, they aren’t referring to the city’s financial hub. They’re talking about the recording studio that hosts emerging artists and is propelling the Southern Tier’s music scene.

Hunter Davidsohn founded the Business District four years ago. Since then, he has worked with a variety of rock bands from the East Coast, including Porches, Sirs, Frankie Cosmos, Level Up and River Gazer. Davidsohn was “sick of being on the clock” at other studios and wanted to “be able to put in the time to try something new and keep stuff fresh.” Although he spent some time at a music program at SUNY Broome Community College, Davidsohn said he learned most of his technique independently, preferring real experience over classroom exercises.

Before starting his own label, Davidsohn recorded at an apartment in Downtown Binghamton. The studio’s beginnings were humble — Hunter acquired equipment through the Internet, “hopelessly wandering” through rummage sales, liquidation sales at music shops and friends from the area.

His mixing console, a modified Yamaha PM1000, came from a pawn shop. Today, the majority of his equipment is from the ’60s.

All his amps are pre-1966, as he prefers their sound.

The vintage equipment suits Davidsohn, as his tastes tend to run toward the sounds of the ’60s and ’70s. He said his two biggest influences are producer Lee Hazlewood, who recorded Nancy Sinatra’s “These Boots Are Made For Walkin’,” and engineer Joe Meek. Meek was able to achieve innovative recording techniques and unique sound with only a small amount of equipment, which Davidsohn strives to emulate.

Davidsohn does everything “minimum wage,” as he put it, working with an eight-track half inch tape machine and low budgets. But instead of feeling limited by his resources, he feels the restrictions cause his ideas to become more focused.

He mainly works with rock bands, but is open to recording any kind of project, especially rappers. He prefers not to charge bands by the hour, believing it to be restrictive to their creative processes. With his studio, Davidsohn, who calls himself a “romanticist,” wants to “rethink the studio approach” and create an environment that is more conducive to creating art than generating profit.

I came to the Business District while local band Summer People were writing and recording their new album. The pace of the session and the atmosphere in the mixing room was laid-back — Brandon Musa, Summer People’s bassist, told stories of recording at Electrical Audio, Steve Albini’s recording studio in Chicago that

produced albums by the Pixies, PJ Harvey and Godspeed You! Black Emperor.

Justin Musa and Peter Ives, the band’s guitarists, made lightly selfdeprecating jokes about songs that hadn’t yet been titled, calling them “The Misfits One” or “The Black Flag One.” But when it’s time to record, there’s no fooling around.

Singer Alex Craver, a Binghamton University alumnus, nails his vocals in only three takes, gaining applause from his bandmates on the last one. During his tracking session, Ives listened attentively to the replayed take and criticized his own strumming, although the other members appreciated its rawness. Davidsohn, the studio’s owner, sole engineer and longtime friend of the band, was thrilled with the tone he was able to get on the guitar track.

“That’s got to be one of the coolest tones I’ve gotten in my life,” Davidsohn said.

With his studio, Davidsohn, who calls himself a ‘romanticist,’ wants to ‘rethink the studio approach’

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Students turn to start ups For these comp sci students, new companies are the better bet Cameron Wade | Contributing Writer Facebook began as a site for Harvard University students developed out of Mark Zuckerberg’s dorm room, as the story goes. But Yahoo!, Google, Reddit and Microsoft began as projects by college students too. In fact, Binghamton University has its own share of entrepreneurs willing to forgo positions at established companies and, instead, start their own.

Around 60 people went to last year’s Startup Weekend Binghamton, many of whom were BU students, forming teams and presenting prototypes and business plans to judges who rewarded the best startup idea with a cash prize.

In September, 19 BU students traveled to the University of Michigan to attend MHacks, a “hackathon,” where student programmers and designers gathered to create applications and devices, and competed for

Binghamton University has its own share of entrepreneurs willing to forgo positions at established companies and, instead, start their own.

$30,000 in cash. But why are students choosing to join or create startup companies over working for an established company?

BU’s own entrepreneurs were quick to point out the major differences between their startups and other companies.

Zachary Feuerstein, a junior majoring in computer engineering, spent the last summer as an engineer on Circulate, a website for reading and sharing news articles.

“From day one interning there, I saw the results of my work put up on the website,” Feuerstein said. “I also had a lot of creative freedom to come up with whatever I wanted and not just be shut down because I was an intern.”

Circulate also gave Feuerstein some equity in the company, which gave him a stake in future profits.

“The equity was something you can never get at a large company, and it’s great because it gave me incentive to make the product as best as it can be,” Feuerstein said.

Other students working at startups agreed. Jordan Messina, who graduated from BU in 2009 with a computer science degree, has since founded a few companies. Most recently, he founded Designly, a website designed to make website creation easy.

“After school I worked in corporate America for a few months, and it was painful.

Things move slow, and you can’t make much impact. I was miserable and uninspired,” Messina said.

“Startups, whether you start your own or join one early, give you the opportunity to learn more than you can imagine and accomplish so much in such short periods of time.”

While the rewards of a startup succeeding can be great, money isn’t the only

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reason these entrepreneurs choose startups.

“I spent all summer creating this website, and it is the greatest feeling when many people use and love something that you made,” Feuerstein said.

David Corrigan is a graduate student studying computer science who wants to use his company to help BU students.

He’s making his own software company called Hourglass Applications.

“I have been writing applications for a few years while mentoring students willing to learn mobile programming,” Corrigan said.

“At one time I had as many as five students working with me on mobile applications just because they wanted to learn.”

Corrigan wants to keep the company local, employing BU students and offering an internship program to mentor

students in software and application development.

Startups provide a wealth of opportunities for students, but they also present unique challenges.

“I did everything from traditional back end web development to accounting, payroll and doing the dishes,” Messina said. “When you have a small team and you need to move fast, you’re above nothing and have to get your hands dirty, even if it means quite literally.”

Creating your own business can be risky and will definitely require hard work, but smaller, growing companies also offer opportunities and rewards that bigger companies don’t. Who knows? The next Silicon Valley phenomenon might start right here at Binghamton.

Students, faculty, locals and poetry lovers flocked to Broome County Arts Council on State Street for the “Literati Reading Series.”

The program featured poets Rachel McKibbens and Abby Murray and made the sometimes intimidating art of poetry accessible to everyone.

The November session was headlined by Rachel McKibbens, an activist, playwright and essayist as well as a poet. McKibbens addresses themes of infidelity, loneliness, gender and motherhood in her poems. She began with “Head Above Water,” a poem from her new book “Into the Dark & Emptying Field.” The piece confronts what she calls an “It,” which refers to any life-changing, personal, tragic event. The audience responded with murmurs of agreement to a few of McKibbens’ particularly haunting lines.

McKibbens freely offered insight into her personal life, mothering five children, growing up in a violent household and dealing with bipolar disorder.

“I’m not like Charlie Sheen, I don’t lock hookers in a closet or do lots of cocaine,” she said to the audience.

From McKibbens’ reading, which included poems like “The Giver” and “But Wait, It Gets Worse,” it was obvious that she has performed slam poetry. The latter poem expresses her grief at the loss of her niece, interspersed with lengthy pauses. Before reading the poem, McKibbens explained that the absence of language is still powerful language.

“I liked that her speaking voice was different from her poetry reading voice,” said Amanda Boltax, a junior double-majoring in computer science and English.

According to McKibbens, hearing poetry and reading poetry are completely

different experiences.

“A poem isn’t really completed until it’s given to the air,” McKibbens said.

Tara Betts, a doctoral candidate in English, organized the series and hosted and coordinated this reading.

“I wanted to do something that was free and open to the public,” Betts said.

Betts emphasized her desire for free poetry events accessible to anyone. She has experience in the Chicago poetry community, coaching youth slam poetry teams whose members are now teachers themselves. She hopes to create opportunities for others through poetry, which the reading series continues to do.

Abby Murray, a graduate student studying English, opened the reading with her poem “Bones.”

Her powerful images, like “crescent moons and teardrops of shrapnel spiral up the leg,” were often rooted in her personal experience as the wife of a soldier. Murray punctuated her poems with personal anecdotes that came to life in her poems. Her dynamic set included a poem called “Empty Glass,” about fruit, sex and women, and a piece musing on the simulated living spaces in IKEA. “People have been listening to stories since birth,” Murray said.

“It’s part of our biology.”

The program was sponsored

by Binghamton University, the Binghamton Center for Writers, the creative writing program and Curcio Printing. McKibbens and Murray sold and signed their books and chatted with the audience after the reading. Previously featured poets include Nicole Santalucia, director of the Binghamton Poetry Project, Kyle Dargan and Jennifer L. Knox. The next reading in the series will be at 6 p.m. on Dec. 16, featuring Joseph Legaspi. The readings are free and accessible to anyone looking for an engaging poetry experience.

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With Sony’s launch of the PlayStation 4 and the upcoming release of Microsoft’s Xbox One, the eighth generation of video game consoles is here. And with the new consoles comes the age-old question: Which system is better? Consistent factors, like hardware, games and price, recur with every console generation. With this in mind, the question extends beyond which gaming system is superior. Rather, is it worth it to make the leap right now?

Games Each system boasts an extensive lineup of games both at launch and within the launch window, which lasts until March 2014. However, after factoring out multi-platform titles, both systems are relatively barren of the most important part of each system: the games. At launch, the two major games released for the PS4 were “Knack” and “Killzone: Shadow Fall.”

“Knack” is an interesting return to the action platformer genre, but has been criticized for lacking depth. On the other hand, “Killzone: Shadow Fall” is yet another first-person shooter (FPS) in a market saturated with similar titles. “Infamous: Second Son” could be the biggest title within the PS4 launch window, but with a March 2014 release date, there is no reason to rush.

Xbox One features a larger list of exclusives, with “Ryse: Son of Rome,” “Dead Rising 3”

and “Killer Instinct.” “Ryse” and “Dead Rising 3” both provide a third-person action experience, with the former focusing on tactics and the latter relying on weapon creation. “Killer Instinct” provides some diversity with a polished fighting game aimed at both experienced players and those new to the genre. “Titanfall,” a game developed by former members of Infinity Ward, manages to mix up the FPS genre with the inclusion of mechs, but isn’t set to release until March.

While there is a variety of other games available on both systems, including “Call of Duty: Ghosts,” “Battlefield 4” and “Assassin’s

Creed 4: Black Flag,” many are already available on modern systems. While it also depends on personal preference, Xbox One has a slightly stronger launch in terms of games.

Hardware While both systems are similar in terms of power, the PS4 seems to have the edge over the Xbox One. Each console boasts nearly identical central processing units (CPU). Where the consoles diverge in terms of hardware is the RAM and GPU. While both feature 8GB of RAM, the PS4 has higher bandwidth, more than double that of the Xbox One. Also, the PS4’s GPU is larger Price While it may seem that Sony has a clear-cut advantage over Microsoft in terms of price, one has to consider the overall package that each system provides. The

and 50 percent more powerful than Microsoft’s system. It is important to note that while the PS4 is technically more powerful, it is up to game developers to make use of the system’s full potential. One caveat: There have been reports of malfunctioning PS4s among the launch systems.

It is still too early to determine how many are affected, but it is worth noting.

basic PS4 package sits at $400, boasting a $100 price difference from the Xbox One. However, this fails to reflect that the Xbox One includes more out of the box. The Xbox One includes the latest version of Kinect, the system’s camera controller, with every console. The PS4 package, on the other hand, does not include its competitor, the PlayStation Camera, which costs an additional $60.

Furthermore, both systems require a subscription to access online multiplayer.

PlayStation Plus will cost an additional $50 and includes additional discounts on the PlayStation Store and free games. Xbox Live Gold includes similar features for $60 and also is

required to access streaming services like Netflix. Overall, the PS4 is still cheaper than the Xbox One by $50 after factoring in extra peripherals, but players uninterested in motion controls can enjoy a hefty discount with Sony.

As it stands, the Xbox One has a strong starting lineup, but the PS4’s superior hardware and reduced price make it the better system in the long run. Yet, both systems also feature a relatively small library after factoring out multi-platform games. Anyone already making the jump should take advantage of the next-generation versions of this winter’s big-name titles. However, for those hesitant about what system to buy, give it some time.

Within a year, both Microsoft and Sony will fix any issues with their systems, and there will be more than enough games to justify the purchase.

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ou don’t need a thermometer or annoying Facebook friends to know that it’s getting cold. While nothing beats coming home to a warm house or dorm room after a long day on campus, don’t murder the environment in the process of staying toasty.

When we live in the dorms, we don’t have to sweat things like “heating bills,” “electricity” or “responsibility.” But whether you live in Hinman, Hayes or Hawley, the smallest actions can make a difference in reigning in your carbon footprint.

When you leave for Thanksgiving break, unplug everything. Those notices the resident assistants give out in the dorms aren’t solely about Binghamton University saving money. It’s not a bad idea to get into the habit of unplugging anything not in use: cell phone and iPod chargers, appliances, speakers. A lot of devices drain energy even when they’re not in use, and unplugging is the only way to ensure you’re not inadvertently using these “energy vampires.” Plus, you’ll reduce the wear and tear on your gadgets by giving them a rest.

If you live off campus, turn down the heat and kill the lights when you go to class in the morning, then power back up when you get home.

Keeping the heat low at all times is good, too; you don’t need to be able to cook Hot Pockets on the living room floor. But it doesn’t count if you substitute your heat with an electricity-chugging space heater; we suggest bundling up for warmth and, of course, cuddling.

Ever been to an ugly sweater party? Of course you have, and they’re awesome. Not only because nobody cares how they look, but because everyone is comfy as hell. Take notes; it’s not hard to incorporate the snugness of a winter sweater into your daily life, and if you’re worried about looking frumpy, remember how little is expected of your fashion sense in the winter months.

For the more proactive students, there are several do-it-yourself projects that will reduce both your heating bill and your carbon footprint.

Insulating your windows is easy, cheap and will achieve remarkable results in terms of keeping the heat locked in and the cold shut out. Consider

rubber weather sealing to close up the gaps, plastic shrink film to insulate the windows and draft snakes to slide next to your doorways.

While we’re on our envi-kick, as you figure out your break travel plans, make sure they involve some kind of carpool. You don’t need to lug a ton of stuff home for the less-than-weeklong break, so space shouldn’t be an issue, and it’s nice to have some company for the haul back home.

Before we seem too preachy, these are notes to ourselves, our friends and our housemates, too.

Very few of us live up to the ideal citizens Captain Planet hoped we’d turn out to be, but we’re recognizing how much work we have to do, and we’re trying to take the steps needed to make our lifestyles more sustainable. We hope you’re inspired to join us. Especially with the sweater thing.

National day of gratitude has turned into celebration of consumerism

Contributing Columnist

With America’s favorite holiday hastily approaching, we are all reminded to give thanks. However, the sad fact is that most Americans are not thankful for the blessing that is America. Here there is an abundance of food, shelter, protection, education, opportunity and most importantly, freedom. Yet rather than taking a second to actually live like we are thankful, Americans today are too busy thinking about what they don’t have and how they can get it. Consumerism is turning a once wonderful holiday that all Americans could celebrate together — regardless of race, religion or location — into a shopping spree that turns our attention away from what is truly important and undermines the very theme of the holiday.

If you turn on the television, you will surely see a variety of

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advertisements for Black Friday and other “great” deals that stores have to offer precisely when we are supposed to be spending time with our families and being grateful for what we already have. If you suddenly get sick of watching commercial after commercial, all imploring you to buy and spend, and you go to see the latest development on YouTube, you will undoubtedly witness the phenomenon of civilized people transformed into savages, stampeding through stores as if at war. All this on a day when we are supposed to contemplate the blessings we have.

Thanksgiving symbolizes the birth of our nation and embodies what it means to be an American. On this day America unites. Unfortunately, during these big sale events, being an American in this generation does not look so patriotic or commendable.

While people in other countries can only dream and pray for the life that most of us have in the U.S., we are too preoccupied in an all-out battle, wrestling with one another for whatever coveted item is 50 percent off. One would think that stores would close so employees could go

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home and take part in America’s oldest tradition, but sadly that is not the reality. Many large franchises open late Thursday night and stay open throughout Friday. Therefore, many workers are forced to try and organize the chaos that is Black Friday and consequently miss Thanksgiving dinner with their families so they can keep their jobs and put food on the table.

America is certainly not without its faults, but it is still a place where people can prosper. The paradox is that during a sacred day of reflection and thanks, people sacrifice limited time with their loved ones to go and purchase insignificant and meaningless products. Granted, these sales do help many families purchase expensive presents for their loved ones that they would not be able to afford otherwise. Still, let’s all be honest: That is not why the stores are filled with people who are neck

and neck, clutching items for dear life and with every intention of ripping them from the other person’s grasp.

The sales themselves are fueled by people’s irrational desire for brand name merchandise that they do not need. Saving money is great, and consumerism is essential to a healthy economy, but is it really more important than taking the time on just one day of the entire year to appreciate what we already have?

Thanksgiving is not about a turkey, a parade, a football game or even a big sale. Thanksgiving is about family and thanks. This year, do more than just say what it is you are thankful for.

Take one day out of 365, and live like you are thankful.

Being an American in this generation does not look so patriotic or commendable

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BuzzFeed boasts much fluff, little substance Popular list-based 'news sites' offer nothing more than distractions Macon Fessenden Columnist

We sit in front of our computers and are flooded with stupidity from social media sites. Your weird uncle posts what I’m sure he thinks is a popular and informed opinion about Obamacare’s death panels, that friend from high school you haven’t spoken to in years updates you with her newest bout of vaguebooking (“Ugh, I can’t do this anymore…”) and everyone else is sharing the newest “story” from BuzzFeed, Thought Catalog or the myriad other websites starting to take over the Internet.

I’m sure that there exists somewhere a name for these types of sites. They mass-produce content with the sole purpose of going viral among the most vulnerable crowds.

Each day my faith in humanity constantly fluctuates between lost and restored as BuzzFeed pumps out its attractively headlined “news

articles” about dolphin killings and the homeless being talented.

BuzzFeed panders to everyone’s less dignified side, writing stories about how the new World Cup stadium in Qatar looks like a vagina (this was its top story in the sports section), or using hyperbole to reel in the page views with headlines like, “This Breaking Bad Alternate Ending Must Be Seen To Believed!” I feel uncomfortable reading its content, but just a little more uncomfortable not reading it.

The most shared items on these websites are usually lists that gently stroke the weird part of your ego that simultaneously makes you want to have nothing in common with people as well as share that lack of commonality with other people.

“13 Things Only An Optimist Would Understand,” “25 Amazing Benefits of Living With Your Best Friend” and the classic ’90s kids lists seem to

put you in an elite group among the lesser folk. But they don’t. People read them and think, “O-M-G, this is totally me!,” but they can be applied to most of Facebook. Most people I know consider themselves optimists (when they probably aren’t), live with their friends and were born in the ’90s.

Another terrible trend sweeping the net is the poorly made, in-yourface infographic that tries to be edgy by making pop culture references and using the F-word too much. Recently, the most popular one was The Oatmeal’s story about Christopher Columbus. Is the fact that Christopher Columbus was a terrible person actually news?

Don’t we have this discussion every time his holiday comes up?

I don’t need someone to make an obnoxious infographic to tell me that Columbus killed thousands of people with germs and steel.

I felt that the author was condescending

I know I’m dangerously close to sounding like 'old-timer' curmudgeon

and yelled at me. It’s not wellwritten, and he or she tries to be “hip” by peppering in colloquialisms that just sound immature and out of place.

I know I’m dangerously close to sounding like “old-timer” curmudgeon, but this trend is scary. We’re going to be used to getting our news and information in stupid lists and poorly made graphics. TED talks, news sites and actually interesting articles are steadily falling by the wayside in place of hyperbolic headlines and insultingly uninformative infographics.

BuzzFeed doesn’t give us real news. Its lists are uninteresting and unsophisticated.

This needs to be stopped before all information is presented in the same format — before BuzzFeed takes over the Internet and makes us all into immature adults who’d rather relive their “’90s kid” childhood than inform themselves on real issues.

— Macon Fessenden is a nonmatriculated graduate student. He graduated in Spring 2013 with a degree in environmental studies.

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The University Counseling Center needs a booster Whatever measures are necessary to bolster mental health services are well worth it Jake Ethé Contributing Columnist

Tuition is expensive.

Well, relatively speaking, it isn’t. Still, tens of thousands is nothing to shrug at.

I’d imagine that, for many, how the number is determined seems to be a relatively arbitrary process. In a purely visceral sense, tuition is what it is because — well, just because.

In the end, though, tuition costs cover just about every service, seen or otherwise, that may be used at any given time on campus. This has both positive and negative effects. In some cases, we may be getting penny pushed. For example, you may spend four years at Binghamton University unknowingly paying the athletic fee component of tuition and not once attending a single BU sporting event or playing an intramural sport. If this accurately describes you, say au revoir to your money. Truthfully, this is an unavoidable reality, and the possibility exists that in any given year, thousands of your tuition dollars will go toward funding a service you will never use.

Here’s an example of a place where

your money isn’t going to waste: the University Counseling Center.

The Counseling Center, as per its website, lists its services as “individual and group psychotherapy, an eating awareness program; the 20:1 sexual assault fraternity peer education program; and Interpersonal Violence Prevention, a comprehensive program for victims of sexual assault, abuse, stalking and bullying.”

But here’s the kicker: It’s free.

As a Binghamton University student, use of the Counseling Center is included in the tuition you pay. The shock value of that fact is probably relatively low among the student population. It’s tough to envision the unveiling of counseling services as free sending a student into some paroxysm. The prevailing narrative would suggest, “Yeah, that makes sense.”

In the real world (I’m taking some creative liberty here in suggesting that BU and the real world, for argument’s purposes, are mutually exclusive), the notion of free counseling is absolutely inconceivable. Not only is counseling not free,

but it is also frequently very expensive.

In addition, because the Counseling Center is University-sanctioned, it guarantees a quality staff. And said staff, led by Johann Fiore-Conte, is just that — quality. The diversity of their services — group and individual, psychological and sexual — is truly remarkable.

So what does all of this mean? To begin, it isn’t a beckon for everyone to immediately shuffle over and flood the Counseling Center. Still, it is a suggestion that its services are perhaps underutilized. Counselors can be a safe haven for students suffering from stress, anxiety and depression.

It’s also important to keep in mind that the degrees to which people may be suffering from some type of affliction are mostly irrelevant. If you need help, they’ll help you.

Of course, there are some qualifiers.

For one, there certainly exists some form of stigma against receiving counseling. Societal or otherwise, it’s an obviously misinformed stigma.

This isn’t something that’ll

In the real world, the notion of free counseling is absolutely inconceivable

change overnight, but the center’s accommodations for confidentiality and clandestine operations certainly help, if only slightly, to ameliorate this phenomenon.

Arguably more trying, however, is the fact that the Counseling Center is packed. As it is, receiving an individual appointment is tough. Appointments are backlogged, and while it still provides for emergency appointments, students will often have to wait for a long time to be helped.

But wait, if the Counseling Center is so packed that students are left waiting weeks to be seen, how is it possibly underutilized?

I’d suggest that the center being backlogged and the center being underutilized (unlike Binghamton University and the real world) are not mutually exclusive. If anything, the fact that the center is so frequently used is a testament to the quality and efficacy of its services, which is to say that more people ought to use them.

Accommodating more people, if they were to seek counseling services (which they should), becomes the new issue. This will be a tough one to solve. A good place to start would be to increase the staff numbers at the Counseling Center, but this has understandable limitations. A solid, more realistic, point of emphasis

would be for the Counseling Center to expand its referral program, whereby it refers students who need help to medical professionals in the greater Binghamton area when the University Counseling Center cannot provide for them in a timely or effective manner as a result of staff limitations. Reinforcing emphasis on group therapy would also provide for a nominal expansion of the center’s capabilities.

Many of these policies aimed at expanding the services of the University Counseling Center may involve reallocating some of the funding that goes toward other services on campus, which isn’t to say that other services aren’t also important. Or it may involve paying just a bit more in tuition, no matter how arbitrary it may seem upon first glance. But it’s worth it.

Why is it worth it? Because, with no empirical or anecdotal evidence whatsoever to verify this claim, I’d venture to believe that the University Counseling Center has saved a life. If not many, then at least one.

That’s no waste.

— Jake Ethé is a freshman majoring in political science.

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Navy sinks Binghamton BU 'uninspired' as Midshipmen cruise to victory Ari Kramer Sports Editor Moments after the final buzzer sounded on the Binghamton men’s basketball team’s 68-50 loss to Navy, head coach Tommy Dempsey had trouble processing his squad’s performance.

“I’m struggling for words right now,” he said. “I was shocked by the way we played today. We were uninspired. I can’t put my finger on it.”

After surging for an 89-79 comeback win at Cornell, the Bearcats (1-3) came out flat Saturday afternoon at the Events Center.

The Midshipmen (2-2) opened on an 8-0 run, carried a 31-26 lead into halftime and led by as many as 21 points in the second half.

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Title defense put to rest

Albany secures final playoff spot with win over Lowell, leaving BU on periphery E.Jay Zarett Pipe Dream Sports The 2012 America East tournament champions will not have an opportunity to defend their crown.

After sweeping UMass Lowell on Friday, the Bearcats (9-19, 7-7 America East) fell to New Hampshire in the regular-season finale. A win over the Wildcats (18-12, 12-2 AE) wouldn’t have helped Binghamton’s playoff chances, as Albany swept the River Hawks earlier in the day to clinch the fourth and final tournament berth.

“I thought we played well over the weekend,” BU head coach Glenn Kiriyama said. “[We] had some really great performances from some individuals. I think over the second half of the season we really upped our level of play, and it was good to see us finish strong.”

Senior middle hitter Grace Vickers especially excelled for the Bearcats against New Hampshire. She finished with a career-high 23 kills, which broke her former record of 18 from Oct. 15 against Cornell, and contributed four service aces en route to earning her second straight AE Player of the Week honors. Vickers closed out her final year averaging 4.12 kills per set with a league-best .458 attack percentage.

She also leaves the program with a .282 hitting percentage, good for second all-time, and ranks in the top 10 all-time in two categories: kills (860) and blocks (276). “[Vickers] has been a big factor for us over the last couple of years here,” Kiriyama said.

“She was very dominant this season, especially in conference. She will be missed and tough to replace. It will be a new team next year, and hopefully we can make up for her loss.”

Senior libero Xiomara Ortiz matched her career-high 32 digs in the final game of her collegiate career. She leaves the program as the all-time leader with 1,925 digs and stands one whole dig per set over the next player on the program’s all-time list, with 4.45 per set.

The match’s first stanza saw the momentum

swing back and forth multiple times. The Wildcats raced out to a 15-9 lead early, but the Bearcats responded with an 11-2 run to take a 20-17 lead. But BU was unable to score again, and New Hampshire embarked upon an 8-0 run of its own to clinch the set, 25-20.

The Bearcats jumped out to a lead early in the second frame, but were unable to hold on, and fell, 25-20.

The third set featured eight kills by Vickers, who led Binghamton in capturing the third and fourth sets, 25-21 and 25-23, respectively.

In the final set, BU and New Hampshire battled to a tie score of six. However, New Hampshire closed the match on a 9-1 run, defeating the Bearcats, 15-7, in BU’s last set of the season.

In their sweep of the River Hawks (0-26, 0-14 AE) on Friday, the Bearcats jumped out to an early lead, winning the first set, 25-16. They would never look back throughout the match, capturing the second, 25-17, and the third, 25-15.

Junior outside hitter Kristin Hovie and freshman outside hitter Allison Hovie led Binghamton. The younger sister finished the match with 12 kills and six digs, en route to garnering her second AE Rookie of the Week honors, while Kristin recorded 11 kills and seven digs.

“We knew [Allison] was good [when we recruited her],” Kiriyama said. “She has done a little bit better than I thought she would.

She’s come a ways. She has really improved throughout the season, and it was good to see her end really well over these last couple of weeks.”

Binghamton finished the season fifth in the conference, missing the playoffs by two games and failing to defend its America East championship title. It is the second time in three years BU has failed to make the playoffs.

However, Binghamton is set to return five starters in 2014 as the team looks to turn the page.

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Senior libero Xiomara Ortiz concluded her time as a Bearcat in style, matching a career-high with 32 digs in Binghamton’s 3-2 loss at New Hampshire on Sunday.

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inductee spotlight Hall-of-Fame

Quiller's return to BU a surreal experience

By Ashley Purdy Assistant Sports Editor

Five years after capturing the NCAA indoor pole vault title, Rory Quiller returned to Binghamton University for his induction into the Athletics Hall of Fame as part of the 2013 class.

But earning the title of NCAA champion was just the satin bow on Quiller’s five-year (2003-8) career as a Bearcat; he was also a five-time qualifier for the NCAA championships, a three-time all-American and five-time America East champion, effectively making him Binghamton’s most decorated athlete in the school’s 12-year Division I history.

Despite all that, Quiller humbly described the experience of being honored at halftime of Saturday’s men’s basketball game as surreal.

“To be back here even looking underneath the bleachers … seeing the old track, and the sweat stains that I’m sure I left a lot of, it means a bunch,” Quiller said. “It’s really kind of where I became a pole vaulter, so it means a lot, and I’m really happy that Binghamton had me back.”

Taking the NCAA title

It’s really kind of where I became a pole vaulter, so it means a lot

— Rory Quiller BU Athletics Hall-of-Fame inductee

was really just a matter of time for Quiller after he captured second place in the tournament in 2007. What may have been the more difficult part of the process was simply getting there — after finishing his undergraduate career at Binghamton, in order to participate with the team for a fifth year, he had to apply for graduate school. Even with his good grades (he graduated with a 3.7 GPA), Quiller said, gaining acceptance into the School of Management’s graduate program was difficult.

But he did it, and he returned to the program for one more historic year.

“That was kind of a strange year because that was my first year at grad school, so I didn’t even know where I was going to be,” Quiller said. “I loved my coach [head coach Mike Thompson] — and he’s still here; he does a great job.

I wanted nothing more than to compete for him for that fifth year because I’d gotten second the year before and thought maybe I could win it the following year in 2008 …

Athletically, coach Thompson just set the table for me great.

He had the workouts written, kept me healthy and the math kind of equaled out to be in my favor, so I was pretty lucky to have it all work out.”

After becoming an NCAA champion, Quiller competed in both the 2008 and 2012 Olympic Trials, reaching the finals with an eighth-place finish in 2012 to build upon his 13th-place semifinals finish in 2008. He also placed second in the U.S. Indoor Track and Field Championships in 2008, and third in 2011.

Now, Quiller is a first-year volunteer assistant pole vault coach for the Navy men’s and women’s track and field teams.

One of 91 Hall of Fame members, Quiller has already made Binghamton University proud. But if history really does repeat itself, and Quiller decides to compete at the Olympic Trials for a third time, BU might need some higher honors to bestow on the everimproving pole vaulter.

Diamond fits in HOF despite his modest claim

By Ari Kramer Sports Editor

For a Binghamton University Athletics Hall of Fame inductee, Scott Diamond assembled a relatively modest resume as a member of the school’s baseball team. He earned America East Rookie of the Year honors, but he humbly said his college accomplishments paled in comparison to his peers in the Class of 2013.

“It’s exciting, especially for this great honor, just being one of the inductees among the other five,” Diamond said. “After hearing all the accolades being announced at halftime [of Saturday’s men’s basketball game], I really don’t think I belong to be sitting beside some of these guys.”

After his freshman year, Diamond earned a pair of AE Pitcher of the Week honors. Rory Quiller, meanwhile, sat next to Diamond at Saturday’s press conference as a former NCAA pole vault champion and three-time all-American.

But on July 18, 2011, Diamond made school history, becoming Binghamton University’s first baseball player to appear in a major league game as he took the mound for the Minnesota Twins.

Diamond lost that start despite pitching well, and he didn’t find a groove in the big leagues until

2012. That season, though, he was Minnesota’s top pitcher, winning 12 games and posting a 3.54 ERA. Diamond underwent elbow surgery last offseason and finished 2013 with a 6-13 record and a 5.43 ERA. The Twins demoted him to the minors in August before recalling him for four September starts.

“Any time you’re sent down, it’s heartbreaking, but you can look at it in two different ways: You can either motivate yourself and try to pick yourself up, or you can sulk about it,” Diamond said.

“I feel like I’ve seen too many guys do the latter, so I knew there was an opportunity for me to come back up in September, so that was my goal, and I was able to do it.”

Diamond said he’s working hard to stay healthy this offseason so he doesn’t face any setbacks in February and March.

“I think the focus this year is to come into spring training ready to go and just be ready to contribute as much as I can,” Diamond said.

“This offseason, I’m just back to training, getting on a diet again and building for next year.”

Though Diamond signed a minor league deal with the Atlanta Braves in 2007, he has kept tabs on Binghamton’s baseball program and remained close with head coach Tim Sinicki throughout the years.

“To see what coach Sinicki and coach [Ryan] Hurba have done

to that program and the recruits they’ve been able to bring in and just how successful that they’ve been so consistently over that time, I think it’s just remarkable,” Diamond said. “It’s just a lot of fun to say you’re an alumni of a program that’s … as successful as they are.”

But as much pride as Diamond has in his college team, Binghamton University has even more in its first-ever MLB player. He may not have earned the accolades of some of his fellow Class of 2013 inductees, but that shouldn’t diminish his enshrinement.

I really don’t think I belong to be sitting beside some of these guys

— Scott Diamond BU Athletics Hall-of-Fame Inductee

“To kind of give Scott a little bit of credit here, saying he doesn’t belong here, I think as far as an ambassador for Binghamton University and just perpetuating excellence at Binghamton, we need guys like him,” Quiller said.

“He certainly belongs in the Hall of Fame.”

BEARCAT BRIEFS BU honors '13 HOF inductees Staff Reports

undergraduate reSearch center

2014 Summer ScholarS and artiStS Program

Binghamton University officially inducted its 2013 class into the Athletics Hall of Fame on Saturday, honoring six individuals who had decorated college careers.

Scott Diamond, who has spent parts of the last three MLB seasons pitching for the Minnesota Twins, headlined the class. He was joined by NCAA pole vault champion and three-time all-American Rory Quiller,

34-time conference champion swimmer David Holmes, basketball standout Glenn McIver, soccer all-American Graham Munro and women’s basketball star and assistant coach Leah Truncale.

The athletics department honored the group at halftime of Saturday’s men’s basketball game against Navy and held a dinner reception in the evening.

Reed named AE co-Player of the Week

By Ari Kramer | Sports Editor

The Binghamton University Undergraduate Research Center offers the Summer Scholars and Artists Fellowship to support undergraduates in special research, scholarship or creative activities during summer 2014.

This prestigious award provides a stipend to permit students to conduct primary research or creative activities with guidance from faculty mentors.

During summer 2013, student scholars and artists produced films, conducted field and bench research, and explored research questions on topics that spanned the world and covered Medieval times to the present.

Proposals from students in all academic disciplines, departments and colleges are welcome.

The fellowships support undergraduate students in at least eight weeks of full-time scholarly activity. Each fellowship consists of a $3,000 student award and a $1,000 faculty award.

The program is open to undergraduate students graduating in spring 2015 or later.

The deadline for Summer 2014 applications is Friday, February 7, 2014.

Additional information and application instructions are available on the Undergraduate Research Center website at www.binghamton.edu/ undergraduate-research-center

Despite several notable individual performances by America East basketball players, Jordan Reed took Player of the Week honors, albeit shared with Chris Pelcher of New Hampshire, the conference announced on Monday.

Reed, a sophomore guard who earned a program-best six AE Rookie of the Week awards last year, averaged 19 points and 14 rebounds in games against Cornell and Navy. He scored 25 points, including the

go-ahead and-one layup, against the Big Red. Pelcher, meanwhile, averaged 17 points, 15.5 boards and 3.5 blocks in New Hampshire’s pair of tilts.

Through three games, Pelcher leads the America East with 19.7 points, 16 rebounds and three blocks per game. Reed ranks fourth in scoring (17.3 ppg), second in rebounding (12.5 rpg) and steals (2.3 spg) and third in blocks (1.3 bpg).

XC men finish 10th, women 29th at NCAA regional Staff Reports The Binghamton cross country teams competed at the NCAA Northeast Regional meet at Van Cortlandt Park on Friday, and the men earned the second-highest finish in their history at the event.

Led by senior Vasili Papastrat, the men placed 10th after carrying a No. 14 ranking into the competition. The women, on the other hand, finished 29th.

Papastrat completed the 10,000-meter race in 31:23, good for 48th overall, while junior Collin Frost (31:45), sophomore Ethan Hausamann (31:46), junior Matt Johnson (31:47) and senior Jason Santos

(32:09) all placed in the top 100.

“I am really proud of how our guys did today,” head coach Annette Acuff said, according to BUBearcats.com. “We raced really well and beat several very good teams who were ranked ahead of us in the region.”

The women, meanwhile, didn’t place a runner in the top 140, as sophomore Alexis Hatcher led the squad at No. 147 with a time of 22:52.

Binghamton is set to compete at the ECAC and IC4A championships at Van Cortlandt Park on Saturday.

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