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HARPUR RATIO OF STUDENTS TO ADVISERS:

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NUMBER OF STUDENTS IN HARPUR:

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Harpur Academic Advising struggling to meet demand of nearly 9,000 students

NATIONAL RATIO OF STUDENTS TO ADVISERS:

CURRENT NUMBER OF ADVISERS:

APPROX. NUMBER OF STUDENTS SEEN PER DAY (WALK-INS)

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Pipe Dream News Brandon Berletti showed up to Harpur’s Academic Advising an hour before walk-ins started, but he was still fourth in line to see an adviser. Advising appointments are booked through Thanksgiving, leaving students in competition for walk-in slots to discuss scheduling and other concerns.

“I know it’s a busy time, but there seems to be some sort of dysfunction,” said Berletti, an undeclared sophomore. “It makes things difficult; it makes things stressful.”

In some ways, Berletti is right; Harpur’s advising staff is currently only half of what it usually is. After three advisers took jobs elsewhere and one left on maternity leave, the advising center only has four of

ADVISERS ON DUTY FOR WALK-INS AT A GIVEN TIME

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See HAA Page 4 Emma Siegel/Design Manager and Sasha Dolgetta/Contributing Photographer

Students wait in line for walk-in hours for Harpur Academic Advising. Appointments are booked through Thanksgiving, and there is currently a 2,231-to-1 ratio of advisers to students.

Yoga relaxes staff, student formalities

Union moves to the beat of Africa Back to the Motherland celebrates global cultures, dances Zuzu Boomer-Knapp

President Stenger among faculty at Mountainview group stretch Kanchi Chandwani Contributing Writer

Binghamton University officials and faculty bent over backward to become more accessible to students at Mountainview’s Appalachian Dining Hall.

Over 30 students gathered on Sunday to stretch their limbs alongside President Harvey Stenger and other administrators like Mountainview Faculty Master Kevin Wright, Director of Residential Life Suzanne Howell and Chief Diversity Officer Valerie Hampton.

Mountainview resident assistants Alexandra Moehring, a junior double-majoring in English and human development;

Contributing Writer

Sabrena Myers, a senior majoring in biology; and Colleen Kelly, a junior majoring in mechanical engineering organized the event with the Mountainview College Council and Campus Recreation.

According to them, the main goal was to create a relaxed environment where students could connect with faculty to learn more about the different departments.

“We planned this event to be a networking experience with President Stenger and the other VIPs,” Kelly said. “You can sit down and relax with people so that it’s not as intimidating for students.”

Stenger said that the event offered students and faculty a

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Ben Grobe/Staff Photographer

Students perform at “Back to the Motherland” in the Old Union Hall on Friday. The banquet was put on by the African-style dance group Uyai Nnua, and celebrated global cultures.

Uyai Nnua may be an Africanstyle dance team, but Friday night the group took students on a world tour.

The team, founded in 2011, put on its first banquet event in the Old Union Hall to celebrate African culture and feature cultures from around the globe.

“Back to the Motherland” follows the story of an African girl who wants to dance, despite her parents’ desire for her to go to medical school.

The audience watched the main character and the rest of her dance team travel from the Democratic Republic of Congo in Africa to such places as India, Korea, Ghana and Jamaica.

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Web database connects students to research Research Connections showcases lab opportunities, openings Haley Silverstein Contributing Writer

Neil Seejoor/Contributing Photographer

President Harvey Stenger sits on a mat during a yoga session in the Appalachian Dining Hall. Over 30 students participated in this third annual RA event on Sunday, organized by the Mountainview College Council and Campus Recreation.

In a converted office with chalkboard walls in Old Rafuse sits a group of coders, developers and interns. They are the team behind Research Connection, a free online search engine for research opportunities.

Research Connection is the brainchild of Ariel Katz, a senior majoring in psychology. According to Katz, he knew there had to be a

more efficient way for students to get involved in research, and this past summer, he enlisted the help of his childhood friend, Columbia University student Kal Victor, to find a solution.

“I wanted to create a website where you could search any research by topic, by researcher, department or university and apply to work for them through the website,” Katz said.

The site’s main feature is a search engine that allows graduate

and undergraduate students to find and submit applications for research opportunities. It also features a newsfeed with information, such as publications and projects, specific to that lab or the researchers who work there.

“It’s Google meets LinkedIn for research,” said Avery Teplow, a junior majoring in psychology.

Teplow, who is working with Katz to expand the program, works with a team of 14 interns as well as professors to better understand

their needs.

According to Teplow, the goal is to bridge the gap between researchers and students.

During the site’s launch on Monday, over 1,000 Binghamton University students signed up. Members of the Research Connection team approached students, encouraging them to create accounts.

“It was founded in Binghamton

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CHOW, ELP educate BU to fight hunger Sustainable Food Fest features Jeopardy, Two Truths and a Lie Chloe Rehfield Staff Writer

Members of the Emerging Leaders Program (ELP) are putting their leadership skills to work combating hunger in Broome County and beyond, one sustainable bite at a time.

ELP is a one-semester program that aims to hone first-year students’ leadership skills. The event was a result of a collaboration between the Global Awareness and Citizenship branch of ELP and CHOW, the Community Hunger Outreach Warehouse.

Program participants went to the Chenango Champlain Collegiate Center Multipurpose Room with stations that provided information about food sustainability around the world, from Africa to New York City and the Binghamton area.

Learning stations run by

students included Jeopardy, where all questions were centered on universal food awareness, a game of “Two Truths and a Lie” that had multiple sets of facts regarding domestic matters, and a trivia game that tested students’ knowledge on global hunger. The winners of the games received prizes such as gift cards to Dunkin’ Donuts, Applebee’s and Sweet Frog.

The Jeopardy station quizzed participants on hunger issues in places across the world like Africa, Asia and the United States.

Questions included “What is the leading cause of hunger in Africa?” and “What accounts for malnutrition across the country and world at large?”

Two Truths and a Lie focused on domestic issues and local food and sustainability problems, like the fact that 45-65 percent of people in Binghamton live in the low-income

range and can’t afford to buy fresh foods.

“We’re focusing on food sustainability and availability, locally and globally,” said Leor Wasser, an undeclared freshman and a member of Global Awareness.

“We’re trying to raise awareness that food sustainability is a problem in many places, but there are resources to help people find nourishing foods.”

The fest also featured a pumpkin carving contest and a caramel apple-making table full of candy and other chocolate goodies.

In the weeks leading up to the Food Sustainability Fest, the students went to CHOW farms in Conklin to help plant, weed and develop new planting techniques, such as “concise planting,” which is meant to harvest the most food from each acre. According to Rachel Nader, a sophomore majoring in

linguistics, practices like these are fundamental in fighting hunger.

“CHOW has gardens for sustainable agriculture for people that may not have access to healthier foods,” Nader said.

After attending the Fest, Michael Polvere, a sophomore majoring in financial economics, said he learned a lot about the prevalence and proximity of hunger.

“The number of people in America that don’t have enough to eat is overwhelming,” Polvere said.

“You wouldn’t think that in such a developed country, we still have to struggle with hunger and basic necessities.”

Program participants will also be donating to The Hunger Project, a global movement with a commitment to end hunger, by hosting a fundraising event at Whole in the Wall on Thursday evening.

Database to streamline search for research jobs DATA continued from Page 1 and we want Binghamton to have this first,” Katz said. “The turnout exceed expectations. Even the administrators of the library and of the New Union were awesome in saying they support our cause and helping us think of ways to increase PR. The library wants us to put up a permanent banner in those glass cases by the entrance.”

Research Connection is working with Per Stromhaug, assistant vice president for innovation and economic development and the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Partnerships office, as part of its Student Incubator program. The

program provides free office space and mentors to student-run startups.

“The team seems to be fantastic,” Stromhaug said. “For being students, they’re almost like professional businesspeople and developers. So that’s really impressive.”

According to Stromhaug, coordinators aim to replace existing research opportunity search programs such as “Find A SUNY Scholar.” He said Research Connection could be an appealing alternative as it gives more comprehensive information on the jobs, researchers and their labs, as opposed to just a database of labs.

Katz says he is working with Stromhaug and the SUNY Levin Institute, which develops and manages innovative programs for SUNY institutions, in hopes of eventually expanding the model to all universities.

The Research Connection team is working with campus coordinators at 12 other universities such as Columbia, Massachusetts Institution of Technology, Boston University and New York University.

According to Katz, the company has received “lower six figures of investment money” from investors, who include friends and family.

Although the website is free for users, Research Connection needed

money for marketing and web development. Research Connection is working with a market research team to measure the number of active users and the responses to the website.

Michael Wan, a junior majoring in human development, says he sees Research Connection as a helpful tool for students applying to graduate school or looking for a job.

“I don’t have a specific need to research,” Wan said, “but it’s a cool asset to have in case I want to have that extra edge in building a resume or putting something out there for networking to kind of bring attention to myself.”

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African dancers lead banquet around globe

Ben Grobe/Staff Photographer

Uyai Nnua, an African-style dance team, performs in Old Union Hall on Friday night. The performance was part of “Back to the Motherland,” a celebration of African and other global cultures.

NNUA continued from Page 1 Urenna Nwogwugwu, a sophomore majoring in integrative neuroscience and member of Uyai Nnua, said the team worked hard to host the event despite financial obstacles. The team wrote the script, designed the costumes and choreographed the dances by themselves.

“All of the costumes, they made,” Nwogwugwu said. “It’s a lot of work they put into this.

African dance is a really integral part of our lives and I feel like it’s time for us to show everybody else how cool it is. It’s fun to show that anyone can be a part of it.”

Binghamton Bhangra joined in when the main character reached India and broke into a traditional dance that transitioned into a hip-hop routine. The high-energy Jamaican dances incorporated modern dance moves, and the Korean set performers did a rendition of “Gangnam Style.”

A scene set in Jamaica featured a solo by Lachoy Harris, a junior double-majoring in sociology and political science. She said that the club accepted her when she

was new to African dance and supported her as she improved.

“I haven’t had experience with dance professionally,” Harris said. “I like that [the girls on the team] weren’t looking for that [experience] and it gave me space to grow as a dancer.”

According to Natasha Madison, treasurer of the club and a senior double-majoring in Africana studies and sociology, Uyai Nnua offers students the opportunity to experience African dance outside of Binghamton University’s more traditional dance classes.

The club showcases African traditions though energetic and lively dances, colorful costumes and rapid drum beats. Members put a personalized and modern twist on classical dances.

Students continued to laugh and smile throughout the night as the play progressed and the dances hopped between various countries.

“Music is music,” Harris said.

“Whether you understand the words or not, there’s something about it that just draws to you.

Once you like it, that’s something that can broaden your horizon and you can explore different things.”

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NYC weighs easing birth certificate gender changes New York City lawmakers are weighing making it easier for transgender people to change the sex on their birth certificates.

The City Council’s Health Committee has scheduled a hearing Monday on a plan supported by transgender rights advocates.

It would eliminate a requirement for people to have genderreassignment surgery in order to change the documents.

Instead, a health professional would be able to affirm that the change would more accurately reflect the person’s gender.

Vermont, Washington D.C., California, Oregon, Rhode Island and New York state have removed surgery requirements. New York City issues its own birth certificates. The city Board of Health voted last month to solicit public comment on the proposed change.

NY woman celebrates 100th birthday with sky dive Eleanor Cunningham of Howes Cave, New York, has bested former President George H.W. Bush. He celebrated his 90th birthday by skydiving; she made the big leap to mark her centennial. Cunningham kissed her 7-month-old great-greatgranddaughter before suiting up for her 100th birthday jump Saturday at Saratoga Skydiving in Gansevoort (GANZ’-voort).

It was her third jump, after taking up the sport at age 90.

Cunningham lives with her granddaughter in their Schoharie County home in central New York. Her doctor signed off on the skydiving expedition, saying her health makes her more than capable of doing what she loves. Dean McDonald of Saratoga Skydiving says Cunningham is his oldest jump partner yet.

NATIONAL NEWS Obama chooses NY prosecutor as attorney general In a second trail-blazing pick for the nation’s top law enforcement officer, President Barack Obama nominated a federal prosecutor in New York to become the next attorney general and the first black woman to lead the Justice Department. Obama announced from the White House on Saturday his selection of Loretta Lynch. If confirmed by the Senate, she would replace Eric Holder, who announced his resignation in September after serving as the nation’s first black attorney general. Lynch, 55, is the U.S. attorney for Eastern New York, which covers Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island and Long Island, a position she also held under President Bill Clinton. Obama had planned to wait until after a trip to Asia next week to announce the choice but then moved up the decision after news organizations began reporting that she was his choice. The White House said Obama is leaving it up to Senate leadership to determine whether she should be confirmed this year while Democrats are in control or next year after Republicans take over.

NATIONAL UNIVERSITY NEWS Student sit-ins and negotiations continue at SU Syracuse University administrators are meeting with students who have conducted a weeklong sit-in to protest what they see as a lack of transparency. The Post-Standard of Syracuse reports that students involved in talks with administrators on Sunday complained the school does not adequately consider student input in making decisions. The students called the General Body at SU are unhappy with administration decisions to close a center for victims of sexual assault and to reduce funding for an inner-city student leadership program. The students’ demands include increasing accessibility on campus and the university’s divestment from fossil fuels.

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Signaled Out FRIDAY, NOV. 7, 1:20 a.m. — Officers observed a vehicle on Glenn G. Bartle Drive go across two lanes and make a turn — all without signaling, said Investigator Patrick Reilly of Binghamton’s New York State University Police. The vehicle was stopped and when officers obtained the license from the 19-year-old male driver they noticed that his license was suspended for failure to respond to a summons. They also found that his inspection was expired.

The suspect was given an appearance ticket returnable to Vestal Town Court for aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle.

Reevaluate Your Priorities SUNDAY, NOV. 9, 3:10 a.m. — Officers on East Drive observed a vehicle driving erratically, Reilly said.

The officers pulled the vehicle over and observed the smell of alcohol coming from inside it. The officers also observed that the 21-year-old male driver looked visibly intoxicated. The officers conducted a routine field sobriety test, which the suspect failed. The suspect was transported to the station, where he refused a Breathalyzer test. The suspect was given appearance tickets for DWI, refusal to take a Breathalyzer test and unlawful possession of marijuana.

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FRIDAY, NOV. 7, 11:12 a.m. — BC Transit contacted UPD to report a hit-and-run, Reilly said. The passenger side mirror of an unidentified vehicle reportedly struck the left rear area of a bus parked at the University Union bus stop. The vehicle continued to drive away, and no license plate number was taken. The cost of the damage is still unknown. The case is still under investigation.

College students frighten easily, but they’ll be back, and in greater numbers, too FRIDAY, NOV. 7, 10:52 p.m. — Officers were called to Seneca Hall in College-in-the-Woods due to a noise complaint, Reilly said. RAs in the hall spoke to the unidentified students in the room and filed complaints for the noise.

When the officers approached the room, they heard loud noise and music coming from it.

When they knocked on the door, they heard multiple people start running. They saw through the glass partition in the door multiple college-aged males run into the rooms in the suite. After they knocked again, a male came out and looked through the peephole in the door and then ran back to his room. The RAs were advised to refer the individuals to the Office of Student Conduct.

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Harpur Academic Advising plans to triple staff by Fall 2015 HAA continued from Page 1

its original eight staff members.

Harpur College currently boasts 8,924 students, which results in one adviser for every 2,231 students. Walk-ins are scheduled Monday through Friday, but the advisers can only accommodate about 40 students a day.

Jill Seymour, the associate director of Harpur Advising, said that despite this setback, the advising staff has been doing the best they can. “It has been a crazy semester but I think it has proven our mettle,� Seymour said. “The students who come to our office

sometimes have to wait a few days to see an adviser, so we really appreciate the students understanding that this is a crazy time for us.�

According to Seymour, the national average for student to adviser ratio is 450 to 1. She said that this discrepancy isn’t good, but with new hires throughout the year, her offices hope to be up to 12 advisers in the spring — tripling what it currently has. “There is no way you can do the job that you want to do with that kind of student to adviser ratio,� Seymour said. “I think the administration has recognized that, so I think that they’re trying to bring our student-to-adviser ratio more on line with what the

national average is.�

Four newly hired advisers are currently being trained and will start seeing students by the end of the week. Greg Nolan is coming from Penn State where he was an adviser, Rachael Perry is coming from Keuka College where she was an adviser, Lucas Pint is a Binghamton University alumnus and Jenna Whittaker is coming from Indiana University, Bloomington.

According to Nolan, the addition of new advisers does more than just add more staff — it also gives students a choice. “Binghamton has the philosophy of choosing your own adviser, so it gives students more of an option as to explore other

advisers, see different styles, see who they want to meet with,�

Nolan said.

Harpur also offers peer advising, with students who are trained to help with scheduling, degree works and requirements readily available. Peer advising is located right next to Harpur Advising in Academic B. Benjamin Yee, a sophomore majoring in biology, was sent to peer advising, but said that it was only a partial fix. “They are doing an adequate job in terms of having peer advisers ready for you, but there’s only so much they can do,� Yee said.

Upperclassmen like Mohamed Bah, a senior majoring in economics, have had difficulty

planning their schedule to fit their final requirements. There are just one or two advisers on walk-in duty at all times while the others are doing appointments or administrative duties. “There is a huge amount of students and they seemed to be understaffed, and they definitely have to do something about it,�

Bah said. “It took me literally three days to speak to someone; it’s terrible. It does not do any justice to Harpur students.�

Jeremy Min, a resident assistant in Dickinson Community and a senior double-majoring in history and political science, said that his residents turned to him because they could not get professional help. He said that having to plan

his schedule while also helping others was weighing him down. “I have most of my classes in the morning and lunch time, that’s the time people line up to get a spot to talk to them, but by the time I end my class and go there, there is no spots, and it’s really pointless,� Min said. “I was always frustrated so I had to actually skip class to get to the advising.�

Berletti, like many students, understands the problems Harpur Advising is facing, but he says it is still frustrating. “I know it’s a busy time,�

Berletti said. “But from an outside perspective, when you’re dealing with an institution with 15,000 kids, I think it should be handled a little more efficiently.�

Stenger, faculty stretch for student connections YOGA continued from Page 1 chance to bond through a combined learning experience. “It’s a little hard the first time,�

Stenger said. “It’s a great thing to try out together.�

After the 30-minute yoga session, many students stayed to mingle with the president and other administrators to exchange information and build relationships.

Hampton invited Judelca Rodriguez, a senior majoring in integrative neuroscience, to her office to talk

about her post-graduation plans. “I’m always interested in opportunities to meet students in a more relaxed environment,�

Hampton said. “I can find out what the students are doing and they can find out a little bit about what my office does.�

The event has become a Mountainview tradition in the past three years. However, this is the first year that administrators besides Stenger were invited and the event was open to all faculty members. “I first wanted to do belly

dancing with the president, but he actually wanted something a bit more modest,� Myers said. “He asked me to send him a basic list of activities and he chose yoga.�

Bryce Farrell, a junior majoring in biology and a yoga instructor for Campus Rec, led the session. “It was nice to put a name with a face, [since] you hear a lot about the president and how he’s involved with the University,� Farrell said. “It’s nice to have more of a personal relationship with somebody who’s involved in making a lot decisions

that impact us students.�

Doug Mackay, a junior doublemajoring in actuarial science and economics, said the event made the faculty and administrators seem more approachable. “This event is great because it shows students that University officials have lives outside of just their jobs,� Mackay said. “When you see the president or one of your professors doing yoga and mingling with students, it gives students a better perspective.�

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Keith Shapiro, host of “The Weekly Show” and a junior double-majoring in mathematics and economics, speaks to the camera on the BTV stage. BTV launched “The Weekly Show,” a weekly and Binghamton-centered take on “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.”

Campus station features Bing-based twists on 'The Daily Show' and 'Weekend Update' Lindsey Klein | Contributing Writer When it comes to talking about the news, the theory goes, it’s better to make it entertaining. That humor and entertainment are the best ways to get to a crowd explains the popularity of topical comedy and late-night shows. The method has been working for years for major networks, and now our own campus has jumped on board.

BTV6, which began in the late ’70s as Harper Television Workshop, develops student films, documentaries and TV programs.

Recently, they’ve launched two new shows: “The Weekly Show,” a lessfrequent and Binghamton-centered take on “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,” and “Binghamton

Update,” a Binghamton-based version of “Weekend Update” from “Saturday Night Live.”

Keith Shapiro, host of “The Weekly Show” and a junior doublemajoring in mathematics and economics, admires Stewart’s work to expose the corruption and absurdity in politics. He chose to create a show that would poke fun and satirize life at Binghamton University modeled off of “The Daily Show” — complete with a “Binghamton Moment of Zen.” He believes that situations exist at Binghamton that are being mishandled by the administration, and it gives perfect leeway to the material for his scripts.

The material is written by a team of writers who collaborate and come up with ideas to be featured on the

show. They work off each other’s feedback to implement jokes that one might not see on the surface of a story.

In the first episode, Shapiro discussed the struggle for students to sign up for housing less than two months into the school year.

“Cause who wouldn’t want to pay $14,000 for students to sleep on an oversized maxi pad?” Shapiro joked to a live studio audience.

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“I enjoy the challenge of finding material to work with and trying to turn it funny, especially in a place like BU where frequent stories are hard to come by, which makes the material very hit-or-miss,” Keith said.

“Binghamton Update,” hosted by Jordan Siegel, a senior majoring in mathematics, and Amanda Rizzi, a sophomore majoring in geography, is a rendition of “Weekend Update” with the two anchors delivering their satirical takes on the campus news of the week.

After the news segments are over, a special involving interviews with students and faculty is aired.

Finally, a “character” is interviewed, which will either be a member of the writing staff or a friend of a member of the production team.

Siegel, who’s made brief appearances on the show “Comics Anonymous” and “Pizza with Vaughan,” boasts an impressive comedy resume.

“I got involved by answering a casting call in the B-Line, then auditioning for the anchor role,” Siegel said. “I am the president of Bing Stand Up, and after taking improv classes this summer at the Upright Citizens Brigade theatre in New York, I was eager to apply my new skills in a comedic acting outlet on campus.”

Neither of these new inclusions would be possible without the help and determination of producer Jared Skwiersky.

Skwiersky, general manager of BTV and executive producer of “The Weekly Show,” oversees

the entire process of recruiting a team, brainstorming ideas and directing people on how to execute them while, of course, facilitating production itself.

“Even in high school, there was never anything more rewarding than completely finishing a project and showing it off,” said Skwiersky, a junior majoring in economics.

“But the feeling is made that much better now when I get to share that pride with the rest of the team.”

Both shows are currently in continuous production.

“The Weekly Show” can be found on BTV’s YouTube page, and “Binghamton Update” will premiere Wednesday at 2 p.m. on channel 6, and will also be on the television screens in the Marketplace.

Mag co-founder gives 'slice' of advice for student writers A peek into the world of literary magazines Meryl Fontek | Contributing Writer “My soul wasn’t fulfilled,”said Maria Gagliano, a senior editor at Penguin Group, when asked why she had started Slice magazine.

On Monday in Library North, Gagliano gave advice to writers on how to get published in literary magazines, and spoke about her experience running her own publication.

When the Brooklyn-based literary magazine was founded in 2007, it was going to feature “slices,” or excerpts, from novels. But it didn’t work out. “[It] logistically wouldn’t have worked,” Gagliano said. Instead, Slice is a literary magazine that hones in on specific themes — like growing up and escape — around which articles and interviews center. However, the poetry and fiction published in Slice aren’t bound by thematic content.

Slice prides itself in featuring “emerging writers.” The term “emerging” is almost daunting.

It implies an eventual or approaching success, which might intimidate young writers who feel as though they have not begun to emerge. But Gagliano defines the term more gently — as someone who hasn’t yet been published, or who has been published only a few times.

Alexi Zentner, short story writer, novelist and English professor, talked about the submission and publishing process.

“Everybody sends out their work too early and before they’re ready,” Zentner said. “A couple years later, you’ll revise and realize the work wasn’t there

yet. When your work is done and ready, people will fight over who can publish you.”

The world of literary magazines isn’t exactly a cash cow. Those types of publications usually have only a few thousand subscribers — if they’re lucky.

“I essentially run Slice as a volunteer,” Gagliano said. “I never made money. A literary magazine cannot sustain itself.

You won’t make money just by selling magazines. For the longest time we couldn’t pay our writers, we’d give them an issue of the magazine. We now do pay our writers! $100 a story and $25 a poem … Funding is really hard. We’ve done everything from selling cupcakes on our stoop in Brooklyn to renting out Housing Works for a literary trivia fundraiser.”

Despite the small audiences and payments, literary magazines still hold a prestigious and essential place in publishing.

Many major writers start off with short stories before booking a deal for a novel at a publishing house. So when Gagliano described the reviewing process for submissions, hopeful young writers leaned forward in their seats.

“For Slice, we don’t even want a cover letter,” Gagliano said. She doesn’t want to be influenced by a writer’s track record with other magazines, instead preferring to focus on the work itself. Before the two co-founders and the editor-in-chief read the work, it goes through “10 to 15 readers” who review submissions only during designated reading periods.

Gagliano stressed the importance of reading submission

guidelines before submitting work to Slice or any other publication. Slice receives 5,000 submissions annually, and keeps tracks of that work by accepting submissions not through email, but only through Submittable, a software program meant to manage them.

Gagliano told writers to know what the publications they’re submitting to are looking for, so that they don’t waste the editors’ time, or their own.

“For Slice, we tend to not like genre fiction, but it really depends on the taste of who is reviewing your work,” Gagliano said when asked what Slice isn’t interested in. “We love experimental genres.

If you create something great it’s really about doing your own research and finding a home for your submission.”

To close the event, Gagliano leveled with the crowd.

“Perspective is a very big deal,” she said. “Publishing isn’t pretty, and you don’t make money. You have to hustle. Hustling is a big deal and of course, loving books.”

Despite the small audiences and payments, literary magazines still hold a prestigious and essential place in publishing

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OPINION Tuesday, November 11, 2014

A Word of Advice

H

arpur College students have been finding it difficult to meet with academic advisers.

Appointments are booked until Thanksgiving, and the lines for walk-in hours stretch outside the door on any given weekday.

The office is understaffed, with one adviser for every 2,321 students, a much greater ratio than the 450 to 1 national average. After three staff members resigned and a fourth left on maternity leave, the office was left without the capacity to serve nearly 9,000 Harpur students. In response to this disparity, the University announced plans to hire eight additional advisers. In the meantime, it’s up to us to show

initiative and find advice elsewhere.

While adviser input can be valuable, students always have the option of seeking out information on their own. A Google search is quick and painless. Departments typically provide lists of major, minor and concentration requirements online. Sites like ratemyprofessor.com, though not entirely accurate, allow students to select courses based on professor reputations. In a school with thousands of undergraduates, peers are our best resource. The advice of older classmates may prove more useful than professional advice.

Anyone in Harpur knows that even when advising is fully staffed, it’s no easy task to get in to see Jill Seymour. Undeclared freshmen and academically lost sophomores have no choice but wait on line to get life advice from the staff in the Harpur advising office. For upperclassmen however, there is another option. Major advisers are an underutilized resource for those of us who have some idea where they want their academic careers to go. Many departments assign students a specific adviser when they declare their majors, and others just have general advising hours

throughout the week. There is no reason to go to Harpur advising for degree planning or course selection once you’ve declared your major. Leave those precious few appointments for directionless freshmen — your professors will have better insight anyway.

Of course this solution requires that professors be readily available. While the University sorts out the situation in Harpur advising as it hires and trains new employees, we implore each department to reevaluate its advising policies. College is hard to navigate on your own. If every

department could set aside some amount of time every day of the week for students to drop by and ask questions about their degrees, it would relieve some of the stress on the students and on their academic advisers.

It’s great that some new advising staff is being added to Harpur, but the fact of the matter remains that there is only one adviser for every 2,231 students. We know that growth brings challenges, but it shouldn’t be harder to get in to see an adviser than it is to get a 10:30 bus Downtown on a Saturday night.

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Voting system must be reformed Environmental progress is unlikely Derek Stampone Contributing Columnist

Did you vote this midterm election cycle? Odds are your vote didn’t really matter. Why? Because of an antiquated election system dubbed “first past the post” (FPP).

At face value, this system seems fair and logical, but it is deeply flawed.

There are better alternatives with the potential to solve many current political crises.

Over several election cycles, the FPP system encourages two-party politics and heavily incentivizes gerrymandering. Under FPP, the winner with the largest percentage of votes represents the district, even if they hold a slim majority.

Political parties will ignore districts where this majority is clearly safe. In the end, citizens become disenfranchised. Voters will choose the lesser of two evils and compromise most of their principles to preserve a few they hold dear.

One solution is to implement mixed-member proportional (MMP) representation. Instead of just casting a vote for their district’s representative, each voter also indicates their preferred

political party. The composition of the representative body is meant to mirror the preferences of the population, with half of the seats assigned according to the winner of each district per the first vote, and the rest assigned to match the total partisan percentage breakdown.

So let’s apply this to the 2012 elections and the United States House of Representatives. To apply MMP, the size of the House must be doubled to 870 members. The first 435 are assigned according to the district winners, 234 to Republicans and 201 to Democrats. After that, 435 MMP pool representatives would be assigned, based on national or state percentage breakdowns.

What are the advantages here? Each district maintains the autonomy to select a representative from their geographic location.

Gone is the incentive to gerrymander since the final composition will match the state at large. Fringe political parties can gain steam and pick up seats in the representative body even if they don’t hold a majority in any one district. Encouraging political diversity should inspire apathetic citizens to become civically engaged because the barrier to entry is lower.

MMP is not a perfect system.

Who, for example, decides the

order of the names on each party’s prospective MPP pool seats? An ordered list encourages office politics within a political party, but does not undermine the integrity of the directly elected representative.

Though the MMP system is different from our traditional, constitutionally mandated system, its success and use in other countries is noteworthy. MMP was first implemented by the German Bundestag, or parliament, after its establishment in 1949. Since then, legislative bodies across the world have adopted this system.

Many Americans take pride in the fixed character of the Constitution.

It’s easy to forget that the old way isn’t necessarily the best way. The willingness of other countries to reform demonstrates that we, too, can reconsider our voting system.

MMP offers an innovative method of electing representatives that empowers the electorate. It lets them embrace or create new political parties without the fear of squandering their vote. Given Congress’ partisan gridlock, empowerment of third parties could be the change needed to shift the balance of power to benefit the American people.

— Derek Stampone is a Physics PhD student

Madison Ball Columnist

The results of the midterm elections are troubling for many reasons, but nowhere are the effects more devastating than on the environment. So for those of you concerned about climate change, I suggest you buckle up and prepare to be hit with bad news at about 90 miles per hour. The Republican-controlled 114th Congress and newly elected conservative governors are poised to set the environmental movement backward and block reform at any opportunity.

There are now 61 senators supporting the Keystone XL Pipeline. Though they still lack sufficient votes to override a presidential veto to a bill approving the pipeline, it is unclear whether or not President Obama would even veto the bill. At this point, neither the president nor Secretary of State John Kerry have publicly stated opposition toward the pipeline. Many presidential advisers expressed that the issue is just a small part of the problem and that regulation of coal plants is

a priority. With the Republicans in control of the Senate, Obama claims he is willing to compromise.

It seems unlikely that he would even put up a fight.

Obama has proposed two major Environmental Protection Agency regulations.

These proposals require coal-fired power plants to cut carbon pollution and end the construction of new coal-fired power plants. These regulations are a prime example of what the Republicans call “the war on coal.”

It’s no coincidence that an end to the war on coal is of particular interest for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, whose home state of Kentucky is a major coal producer.

Concerning the issue of renewable energy laws: Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback (R) has stated that he would like to “phase out” his state’s renewable energy standard.

New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez (R) claims that the EPA overstepped its authority with the Clean Power Plan. Not surprisingly, oil and gas industries were some of Martinez’s biggest financial backers. Ohio Incumbent Gov. John Kasich (R) led his state to become the first in the country to freeze its renewable energy and energy efficiency standards in June.

Scientific America predicted

that if Republicans took the senate, Oklahoma Sen. James Inhofe would likely take charge of the Environment and Public Works Committee. Inhofe, author of “The Greatest Hoax: How The Global Warming Conspiracy Threatens Your Future,” is one the country’s most vocal climate change deniers.

If given control of the Senate committee responsible for climate change legislation, his radical ideology will prevent progress.

The prospect of a green America is looking obsolete, and this is unacceptable. It’s unacceptable to elect officials who, without any background in scientific research, deny the existence of a problem that 97 percent of scientists recommend we address immediately. Ideology aside, we must hold our elected officials to higher standards. We don’t allow medical doctors to act in opposition of scientific fact, so how can we possibly allow our elected officials to make important environmental decisions without scientific proof or understanding?

Even if these officials are simply catering to the interests of their supporters, it is clear that in the next two years, our leaders will do little to protect the environment.

— Madison Ball is a senior majoring in Political Science

Limit social media use on mobile phones to remain present Ilana Lipowicz Contributing Columnist

After a long session on Facebook, mindlessly scrolling, stalking, clicking, liking, I’d often close my computer to find myself in a room that looked strange to me. For the period of time I’d been staring into my screen, I’d forgotten where I was. Then, within five minutes, I’ll find myself checking Facebook again on my phone.

This behavior is so shameful that I’m embarrassed to even be writing about it, but I’ve recently found some solace by removing Facebook from my phone. Like everything else in life, there is a time and a place for social media.

If we never force ourselves out of its hypnosis, the consequences for the well-being of the world and for ourselves are dire.

Although the idealist in me says to just quit it altogether, my trials with this method have proven that there really is a lot to be missed on Facebook. More and more often, clubs, businesses and individuals are using Facebook events as their

primary means of getting the word out about the goings on around town and on campus. In many cases, Facebook is even taking the place of texting as the primary mode of communication between friends. For college students, these uses of Facebook are particularly important.

However, just like work, relaxation, exercise and studying, social media needs to be limited to a part of your day. With Facebook on your phone, this section of your life spreads itself over everything you do, subtracting from all other aspects of your life. If you’re a chronic phone-checker, you know

that as long as you’ve got your phone on your person, you cannot be fully involved in whatever situation you’re in IRL. This isn’t a minor symptom of the social media age. Facebook’s intrusion into every area of our lives is a crisis that needs to be combated immediately. For one, Facebook puts forth a reality that corresponds only tangentially to what we experience. People are hidden behind profiles, and interests behind pages. And as Facebook fine-tunes its personalization, we become more and more isolated from the majority of the world that does not reside in our social circles.

The wealth of information we find creates a dangerous illusion that we are connected with the rest of the world.

All of these problems won’t disappear when we limit our Facebook usage to one device.

But it’s that moment of closing Facebook, of looking around and feeling as if we’ve been awoken from a strange dream, that breaks the illusion and allows us access to a genuine reality. Your phone is always with you, and if Facebook is on your phone, you’re never given a chance to come out from underneath its spell.

Facebook has brought us under

its control in an enormous way. It’s engulfed so many functions that it has made itself a necessity in our lives. It sways us to give up more and more personal information in return for its service. It forced us to download Facebook Messenger onto our phones. The better it gets at imposing these changes subtly, the less we complain. It’s too late for us to quit Facebook, but we can regain some control by limiting how we use it.

— Ilana Lipowicz is a junior double majoring in English and Cinema

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Bearcats edge out D-III Oswego St., 75-74 BU hosts Adapting to new offensive style, Binghamton experiences growing pains Ashley Purdy Sports Editor

Some background information: The Binghamton men’s basketball team was picked to finish fifth in the America East preseason poll. Junior guard Jordan Reed — the team’s star — was named to the All-Conference team the past two seasons.

Freshman forward Willie Rodriguez was tabbed as the top recruit in the conference by a few publications.

So you’d expect BU to rout Division-II and Division-III opponents, wouldn’t you?

You’d be wrong. Binghamton barely scraped ahead of D-III Oswego State, 7574, on Friday night. The teams swapped leads 11 times. Oswego State spent most of the minutes ahead, commanding as large as a seven-point advantage.

In part, that has to do with the way the Lakers played — they buried 57.7 percent of their shots from beyond the arc. But it also concerns the new style head coach Tommy Dempsey is fully implementing this season. Against lower caliber teams in games that don’t actually matter, Dempsey can run his full-court press, stress his uptempo game and pressure Reed to pass rather than score because now is the time for development.

But that development is not without its growing pains.

“We’re still trying to find ourselves,” Dempsey said. “We’re trying to find combinations. We’re still struggling with the new style. But that doesn’t mean we’re

not going to be a great pressing team. That just means that we need time to become a good pressing team. And in the meantime, there’s going to be some learning curve.”

Oswego State didn’t make that learning curve any easier. The Lakers nailed 15 of 26 from beyond the arc. While Binghamton was working on keeping them from shooting in the paint, they would kick out and watch their shots sink.

And Binghamton took a while to adapt.

“We’re so focused on our help defense,” Dempsey said. “That’s been the way we focused every practice — in protecting the paint. But then as the game is going on and the team’s making that many threes, now you have to adjust.”

Part of the adjustment came in subbing out their big men, sophomore Nick Madray and freshman Dusan Perovic.

The two 6-foot-9 forwards struggled to match up with the smaller guards Oswego State fielded, and that opened up room for threes.

Another change was in giving the ball to Reed, who had been looking to contribute in other ways than scoring in the first thirty minutes. Though he shot well — ending the match with 13 points on 6-of-8 shooting from the field — he initially took a background role to teammates like Rodriguez, sophomore guard Yosef Yacob, sophomore forward Magnus Richards and freshman guard Romello Walker.

Rodriguez led the team in scoring with 14 points, but made his largest impact

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Junior guard Jordan Reed contributed 13 points against Oswego State on Friday night, despite playing a background role through most of the game.

in clutch moments like he did against Mansfield last week. With three minutes to go, he added five points to pull away from Oswego State, 73-71.

For his part, Walker led the team with 10 rebounds and added seven points. Yacob shot 3 for 6 from the field to produce eight points. Richards converted all of his shots for eight points while also dishing out two assists and recording a block.

While the narrow victory may seem disappointing, Binghamton is laying its groundwork for when it’s needed in January and February. And with the Hall of Fame Tipoff coming up next weekend,

with Binghamton set to take on Notre Dame on Nov. 17, the Bearcats can really test their progress.

“We’re going to go and we’re going to press,” Dempsey said. “And we’re only going to get better at it by doing it. Are we ready to go and press right now for forty minutes? No, but we’re going to try until we get better at it.”

“I feel like we have enough talent,” Reed said. “We have what it takes. We just have to practice a little bit harder and I feel like things are going to fall into place.

We still have a good chance to be a good team.”

Bearcats rout D-II Mansfield in lone exhibition Five Binghamton players score in double digits in 83-60 victory E.Jay Zarett

Assistant Sports Editor

Emily Earl/Contributing Photographer

Freshman guard Jasmine Sina poured in six threes on a .500 shooting clip. She scored a game-high 18 points in BU’s exhibition victory over Mansfield.

In its lone exhibition of the 20142015 season, the Binghamton women’s basketball team impressed offensively, scoring 83 points in a rout of Division II Mansfield.

“I am really proud of the way the girls played,” BU head coach Linda Cimino said. “Our whole goal and focus in practice has been to play hard and be intense and communicate and I think they did a really good job with that.”

The Binghamton offense saw an explosion from two different players in the first half. Freshman guard Jasmine Sina dominated the early portion of the period, draining three treys from the top of the key to lead BU to an early 20-15 lead with twelve minutes remaining in the half.

“I think my teammates really got me going once I hit my first three,” Sina said.

“They really supported me … I used my nervousness in a positive way after that first three.

Mansfield would not roll over, however.

The Mountaineers scored the next six points to take a one-point lead with six minutes until halftime. At that point,

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junior guard Kim Albrecht took control of the Bearcat offense. She scored nine points — including a long three-pointer and two impressive pull-up jump shots — in the final portion of the period to help the Bearcats extend a 37-29 lead heading into the locker room.

“We were just moving the ball really well,” Albrecht said. “We were pushing in transition and that was really helpful in getting the momentum going and keeping them on their toes. Just pushing the ball was really beneficial for us.”

After the break, the Bearcats were scorching hot, putting the ball in the basket from everywhere on the court. They refused to hit the brakes, pouring in 46 points through the half.

Sina again impressed on the offensive side of the ball, draining a pair of treys on consecutive possessions for the Bearcats to open the half. Albrecht and senior forward Sherae Swinson added back-to-back baskets of their own to push BU’s lead to ten. Mansfield responded with two scores to cut the deficit to six, but Binghamton, led by five points from freshman guard Imani Watkins, erupted on a 12-4 run to increase its advantage to 14.

The Mountaineers were unable to recover, failing to stop BU in the final ten minutes of the half. The Bearcats’ lead ballooned to as many as 25, and the hosts eventually emerged with a decisive 83-60 victory.

Binghamton received double-digit scoring from all five of its starters. In their first taste of action in the Events Center, Binghamton’s pair of rookie guards finished with impressive stat lines. Sina knocked down six from beyond the arc on her way to 18 points, and Watkins added 16 of her own. “[Sina] plays with confidence,” Cimino said. “She studies the game, she has a high IQ and she makes her teammates better.

Imani struggled in the first half… She is a gamer. She probably got her nerves out in the first half. I think in the second half, you saw the Imani Watkins that you are going to see all year.”

Swinson finished with a double-double, dominating the glass with 10 rebounds while scoring 17 points. After her big first half, Albrecht finished the game with 16. Sophomore forward Kristin Ross contributed 11 points and nine rebounds.

The Bearcats are slated to open their regular season on Friday, Nov. 14 against Akron at the Akron Tournament. Tip-off is set for 7 p.m. in the James A. Rhodes Arena.

Kaloust Bearcat Open to start off season

Deuel headlines success, earns heavyweight title Jeff Twitty

Assistant Sports Editor At the Events Center on Sunday, the Binghamton wrestling team opened its season by hosting the sixth-annual Jonathan Kaloust Bearcat Open. With 31 university and club teams represented at the event, the Bearcats found success in the Division I tournament, featuring strong showings from both new and returning wrestlers.

“We came out and competed very strongly,” BU head coach Matt Dernlan said. “A lot of very positive performances and placements from freshmen. And any time you have freshmen breaking into the lineup and competing at a high level in a D-I tournament and placing, I think that’s a big takeaway.”

BU’s biggest takeaway of the day would come by way of its biggest starter, senior Tyler Deuel. Wrestling in the 285-pound bracket, the heavyweight dominated on his way to the title. He registered wins by fall, technical fall and major decision before taking the championship via a 4-1 decision over Old Dominion’s Jake Henderson. The championship at home was especially sweet for Deuel, who saw his junior season end at the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association tournament last year.

“You got to give Tyler a lot of credit,” Dernlan said. “He’s earned that. From the disappointment that he experienced at the EIWA tournament last year and the work he’s put in from March until this point, I was really proud of his effort.”

Also impressing Dernlan this weekend was junior Jack McKeever.

The 184-pound junior took third in his bracket’s consolation round on Sunday, as did freshman Vincent DePrez, wrestling at 157. Redshirt freshman Thierno Diallo and freshman Steve Schneider captured fourth in each of their brackets to round out the top-five finishers for the Bearcats.

For a Binghamton team that only placed three in last year’s top five, none of whom secured a title, Dernlan was impressed by the overall progress of his team.

“There was a laundry list of takeaways on the positive side that we’re going to build towards in the coming weeks,” Dernlan said. “There were no big, glaring deficiencies that stuck out.

It’s a testament to our guys buying into our philosophy and our system, and now they’ve taken ownership of that.”

With the Kaloust Open in the books, Binghamton is set to begin its dual season this Saturday against Arizona State at the Journeymen Tussle. Seeing the Sun Devils for the second time in program history, with the first ending in a victory in 2011, the Bearcats are ready to face off against their Pac-12 opponent. But before they make the trip to the Albany area for the tournament, BU will take a closer look back at its home performance this weekend.

“We got a couple good working days ahead of us … Although I said we didn’t have any glaring deficiencies, we’ve got plenty to work on,” Dernlan said.

“And we got a pretty short work week to get prepared for Arizona State, so we really need to make some adjustments, make some corrections and apply those things on Saturday.”

Binghamton is set to square off against Arizona State at 2 p.m. at Shenendehowa High School in Clifton Park.

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MOEW-ING FORWARD Behind AE Goalkeeper of the Year Moewes, Bearcats advance to conference semifinals, posting a 4-3 PK advantage over Stony Brook

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Clockwise, from top: Junior midfielder Bret Celeste scored his first goal against Stony Brook last weekend and added insult to injury last Saturday, netting the semifinals-securing penalty kick in a sudden death.

Sophomore keeper Robert Moewes has recorded 71 saves and let up 17 goals in 1,433 minutes between the post this season, good for a .807 save percentage. He has recorded two solo shutouts and shared one more.

The team celebrates after junior midfielder Tucker Sandercock's 77th minute equalizer.

BU advances to semifinals with 4-3 PK advantage

Resilience leads Moewes to AE GKOY award

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Ashley Purdy

Contributing Writer

Before the ball even hit the back of the net, the Binghamton men’s soccer team charged from midfield to embrace Bret Celeste at the Bearcats Sports Complex on Saturday night. The junior midfielder had just secured the team an America East semifinals match, nailing a sudden death penalty kick in overtime.

With the score knotted at 1-1 through all of regulation and two overtime periods, the AE quarterfinals matchup between Binghamton (5-13-1) and Stony Brook needed a victor.

Binghamton then entered its first tournament penalty kick shootout since 2006. In that year, the Bearcats prevailed over Boston University, holding a 6-5 advantage in the shootout to take the semifinals game.

This year’s team would not upset that precedent.

After five frames of the shootout, neither team captured an advantage. With the game on line, Stony Brook sophomore back Taveras Thompson rifled a shot at sophomore goalkeeper Robert Moewes, who dove to keep his team’s season alive.

“That’s the goalkeeper’s job,” Moewes said. “That’s how it always is with penalty kicks.”

A modest answer from the America East Goalkeeper of the Year.

“I thought that our goalkeeper today showed why he’s the

Goalkeeper of the Year,” BU head coach Paul Marco said. “Of the penalties he saved, two of them were outstanding. He certainly helped us get to where we are right now.”

With victory directly on the line, teammate Bret Celeste stepped up, hoping to end the game and send his team to the next round.

“There was a bit of pressure, but you want that,” Celeste said.

“You get the glory at the end of it, so it’s what you want.”

Glory was exactly what Celeste got when his shot—the Bearcats’ sixth penalty kick—flew past the diving Seawolf keeper.

“It builds belief in the team,” Marco said. “I think they have a little more belief that they can come back. So if things don’t go our way at Hartford, I think the guys realize that we can come back on a team. Now they have a better idea about themselves. They know what they’re capable of and we’re going to see that at Hartford.”

Though the score against Stony Brook (4-13-2) in its AE quarterfinals match goes down as 1-1 in the record books, Binghamton advances to face No. 2 Hartford on Wednesday after holding a 4-3 penalty kick advantage.

The victory was especially gratifying due to how tight the game was. Both the Seawolves’ and the Bearcats’ offensive attempts in the first 45 were thwarted by each team’s strong defense.

“We knew it was going to be a

very tight game, but I didn’t expect it to be as tight as it was,” Marco admitted.

The match’s scoreless streak finally broke two minutes into the second half. Stony Brook senior midfielder Keith McKenna converted on a free kick from freshman midfielder Thibault Duval, putting the team up, 1-0.

The score would hold until the 77th minute, until BU junior midfielder Tucker Sandercock finished a cross from sophomore midfielder Mike Kubik, garnering his first goal of the season.

“What resilience,” Marco said.

“We were down and out for a while. We kept trying to put things in and balls were scooting across the face of the goal. A couple came off the goalkeeper and we had nobody there. I felt like at that time, we didn’t really have a guy who wanted to step up and be the hero. We were just trying to give the ball to someone else to do it. In that moment, we just jumped up, rose above everyone and one of our guys smashed it in.”

As the clock wound down to the end of regulation play, the Bearcats continued to put pressure on the Seawolves—whom they routed, 5-1, last Saturday—but were unable to take the lead.

“We beat them pretty good the game before, but it was close for a lot of the game,” Celeste said. “No game is easy in the playoffs, but we were expecting a game like this.”

The Bearcats are set to take on Hartford (10-4-5) at 7 p.m.

Wednesday in Hartford.

Sports Editor

Ask Robert Moewes about his achievements, and he won’t tell you much.

Take his first performance back from a foot injury barring him from two weeks of play. Against then-No. 18 Syracuse on Sept. 23, he impressed with an 11-save, onegoal-allowed outing. Of it, he said: “I try my best. What else should I say?”

And after he recorded back-to-back shutouts over conference rivals Hartford and New Hampshire in early October, stopping eight goals through the two contests: “I tried my best again. It was okay.”

Some pretty unassuming remarks from 2014’s America East Goalkeeper of the Year. The 6-foot-3 Dortmund, Germany native — who sat out last season due to NCAA transfer rules — is the first to earn the distinction for Binghamton since 2002. And he was the only Bearcat to make the All-Conference first team this year.

That may be surprising, as Binghamton endured the season without garnering even one ofthe-week conference award. But when asked what sets him apart from the AE’s other keepers, Moewes had an idea.

“I think I have a pretty high presence on the field. I talk a lot; I’m pretty loud. I think that helps — probably,” Moewes said.

Moewes also introduced new

offensive options for the Bearcats through his athleticism. He displayed incredible speed in turning the ball upfield as soon as he got possession of it, increasing his team’s chances to secure oddman rushes. And of course his reaction time was on full display in some incredible stops through the season that eluded even head coach Paul Marco.

In his debut season for Binghamton, Moewes recorded 71 saves and averaged a .807 save percentage through 1433 minutes between the posts. That’s good for a tie for 38th in the nation. But he’s only just begun.

“He’s resilient, he’s tough,” Marco said. “He comes from a very high level of play in Germany. He comes from a mindset of ‘I never give up.’ And let’s not forget this is his first college season as well.

I think the bar is high right now, and he’ll keep extending it. His reach is pretty high.”

So Moewes’ decision paid off.

For a former player on Germany’s U-19 team, the option to come to the United States, and Binghamton specifically, hinged on a balance between athletics and scholastics.

“I tried to study but it’s hard to do both at the same time, and to play at the high level,” Moewes said. “I had to make a decision, and that’s why I came here.”

The European goalie had to adjust not only to the different culture and customs, but also to a different game. Rather than the technical, fluid, tactically-driven “football” of overseas, a more

athletic and pressurized brand is apparent in the States.

“Physicality was always one of my strengths, so I didn’t have a problem with that. I like it,” Moewes said of the change.

For all his own success, Moewes spoke most emphatically of his back line. There was no lack of appreciation for freshman Christian Dam and senior Jamie Forbes — their keeper stressed how important their roles are and how crucial they’ve been to his success.

But he won’t accept much praise himself. After Saturday’s AE quarterfinals victory over Stony Brook, rather than focus on his impressive four-save outing through regulation and his tenacity in the penalty kick shootout — in which he blocked three shots to hold a 4-3 advantage — he doted on Stony Brook’s goal.

“It was a nice win in the PKs,” Moewes said. “But to be fair, before, in the game, I have to take responsibility or part of the responsibility for [the goal].

It wasn’t that great. In the PKs, anything can happen. It went well, but it could have been the other way. It was a little bit lucky as well.”

That’s another recurring theme in Moewes’ answers: There’s no time to celebrate when there’s another contest ahead; in lieu of a perfect performance, there are always improvements to be made.

If that’s the mindset that’s led him this far, then he’ll be moving forward quickly.