Fall 2015 Issue 5

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SUNY debuts streamlined credit system Transfer Paths allows for seamless reassignment policy between campuses Haley Silverstein Staff Writer

Raquel Panitz/Pipe Dream Photographer Zachary Alexander, a junior double-majoring in accounting and business administration, talks to Talia Schwartz, a junior majoring in human development, and Gabrielle Alexander, a senior double-majoring in mathematics and business administration, who both tabled for Suicide Prevention Day. There were 1100 yellow flags planted on the Spine, representing the 1100 student suicides each year nationwide.

Service animals lend a guiding paw to their student companions From service dogs to emotional support animals, Services for Students with Disabilities sees increase in creatures on campus Gabriella Weick

Assistant News Editor Looking through crowds of students rushing to class, it is no longer a surprise to see a furry face in the mix.

According to Jean Fairbairn, director of Services for Students with Disabilities (SSD) at Binghamton University, there has been an increase in the number of service animals and Emotional Support

Animals (ESA) on campus in recent years, with a total of 15 currently registered with the SSD. “Service Animals and Emotional Support Animals support equitable access, independence and health maintenance for the students who need them – and contribute in exciting ways to the rich diversity of our student population,” Fairbairn wrote in an email.

“Having a service animal on campus

is a civil right under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990,” Fairbairn said.

This includes guide dogs or miniature horses for students with vision or hearing impairment or students who have seizures or panic attacks, and these animals are allowed everywhere on campus.

Emotional support animals (ESAs) are also welcome on campus for individuals whose disabilities make it extremely

difficult or impossible for them to live in their environment without such an accommodation. ESAs are usually restricted to residential halls only, but accommodations can be expanded, Fairbairn said.

He added that there are certain precautions students must take when

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For students trying to switch between State University of New York (SUNY) schools, transferring credits will no longer be a complicated process.

SUNY Chancellor Nancy L. Zimpher has announced that the system now has the most comprehensive transfer policy in the nation, meaning SUNY students will be able to transfer all completed general requirements and major requirements to and from all SUNY campuses.

Transfer Paths is a core curriculum for courses covering each major across SUNY campuses. The curriculum consists of general requirements and even major-specific courses to be completed in the first two years of study, and will allow any student with junior status to easily transfer to any SUNY institution. Nearly 900 SUNY faculty members participated in an online review of the Transfer Paths to determine the core courses for each discipline to transfer.

The transfer policy was passed in

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Series of scam emails plague B-mail inboxes, putting information at risk To combat influx of phishing emails, Information Technology Services issues warnings to protect, secure student passwords Alana Epstein Staff Writer

Sophomore Jane Towery signed on to her Binghamton University Gmail account this summer only to see that emails were being sent out under her name and her own emails were being forwarded to another user.

Earlier that week, Towery had fallen victim to a phishing scam. According to the website of Information Technology Services (ITS) at BU, phishing is a technique in which users are directed by an official-looking email to provide personal information under false pretenses. These phishing scams, which typically claim that the user’s mailbox has reached its full capacity, can cause the user’s B-mail account to become compromised.

According to Towery, who is majoring in mechanical engineering, she received an email that told her she needed to give them her B-mail username and password so that her email wouldn’t be terminated.

“The email looked official so I gave them my Pods login,” Towery said. “I realized a week later when friends contacted me asking why I was sending them suspicious emails that I had fallen for a scam.”

ITS will never ask students for personal information via email, according to Erik Langert, a junior majoring in computer science and the senior Residential Consultant (ResCon) for Hinman. A

ResCon is a student technician who lives in the dorms, providing Internet and tech help for fellow students.

“If they ever did need that information for some reason, they would make them give that information in person,” Langert wrote in an email. “If someone ever feels iffy about an email they got, tell them to email the department they got [it] from.”

According to Towery, when she realized her email had been compromised, ITS told her to change her password and the settings on her B-mail so her emails would no longer be forwarded to the scammer. The ITS desk urges all people who responded to phishing scams to change the passwords on their accounts to a stronger password that is a minimum of eight characters.

Students like Rebecca Wolf, a sophomore majoring in human development, said that she has learned the warning signs, as the phishing scam emails often have spelling errors that lead her to believe they aren’t legitimate.

“Over the course of the summer, I got a lot of emails for users from Birmingham University,” Wolf said. “I knew this was weird and unusual, so I deleted the message. Some of the other messages looked more promising, but if they weren’t regarding my coursework or anything that seemed important to me, I simply

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Raquel Panitz/Pipe Dream Photographer Pictured: A Binghamton Police Department car. By this fall, the Binghamton Police Department will spend $116,000 for body cameras that officers will wear while on duty.

City of Binghamton police officers to wear body cams With execuive order, Mayor Rich David pushes for purchase of 90 chest cameras Travis Clines

Contributing Writer By early November, all Binghamton Police Department officers will be mandated to wear body cameras while on duty.

The city of Binghamton will purchase 90 chest cameras from Taser International, an equipment manufacturing company which specializes in electronics.

According to Jared Kraham, deputy mayor of Binghamton, the police department

will spend $116,000 to cover the first year of a five-year contract that will include the storage of the captured video.

The body camera bill was introduced to the city council via executive action from Mayor Rich David. The council is set to approve the transfer of funds on September 23 and the next day the mayor plans to sign the legislation. The cameras will take about four weeks to arrive and will start off in a pilot program — with certain units of the police department — before expanding to all officers.

The policy and regulations for the cameras that officers will use is still in the works, but is in the final stages. According to Kraham, the cameras are part of the administration’s push for advances in safety.

“This is the latest example of the mayor’s commitment to public safety and reducing crime in our community,” Kraham said. “It allows for increased transparency, increased trust and protects

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Poets and performers from countries around the world showcased in fourth annual festival Farsi poetry, Italian songs about Emily Dickinson amongst performances at University Downtown Center Zachary Wingate Pipe Dream News

Tali Schwartz/Contributing Photographer The Fourth Annual Binghamton International Poetry Festival, titled “Crossroads,” took place Saturday afternoon in the atrium of the University Downtown Center. Fifteen poets and musicians performed in a variety of languages and styles.

Poets from all around the world gathered in the atrium of the University Downtown Center to share their work and participate in “Crossroads: The Fourth Annual Binghamton International Poetry Festival,” which took place Saturday afternoon and featured 15 poets and musicians performing in a variety of languages and styles.

Organizers including Italian professor Mario Moroni and Brian Trimboli, a Ph.D candidate studying English, put their contacts together to get poets and musicians from around the world to come to Binghamton for the event.

“Mario got me through the creative writing department,” Trimboli said. “So we reached out to the right people and it kind

of just worked out.”

Some artists came from as far as Iran, Hungary and Italy. Performances included readings of 14th century Persian poet Hafez in both English and Farsi, a musical number dedicated to Emily Dickinson sung in Italian and a piece about the devastation of Hurricane Sandy.

Performers each took their turn on stage — sometimes one at a time, other times in groups. During intermissions, the audience was able to speak with performers while snacking on refreshments or buying CDs and books by the performers, which were sold in the back.

This was Trimboli’s first year as an organizer. He said he would like to see this festival continue to return every year as a part of Downtown Binghamton’s budding art scene.

“A lot of people don’t know this but Binghamton has a great art scene. We have a great community here and the more that we put in, the more we will reap from it,” Trimboli said.

He said that this year, his goal for the festival was to be centered more on the different cultures featured from around the world while still bringing the local community together.

“For a while, the festival was a lot of Binghamton grad students. We minimized the University’s impact on it and brought in members from the community, like people from the Binghamton Poetry Project,” Trimboli said.

The Binghamton Poetry Project is a literary outreach program that is part of the Binghamton Center for Writers and is designed to bring awareness for art and

literacy. Through poetry, the program aims to bring together Broome County and BU. New Yorker James Ellis also performed.

He has taught poetry to inmates and homeless people as a way of self-expression and he said that he hopes people will walk away from this festival with an understanding about the power of words.

“Poetry gives people a chance,” Ellis said.

“I think festivals like this help to bring back what pure poetry is supposed to be about — transcendence through the power of words.”

Shai Re’em, a senior majoring in psychology, said he was surprised at the interesting variety of performances and that his favorite was the back and forth readings of Hafez poems in English and Farsi.

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not only residents, but also officers and the city of Binghamton.”

Paradyse Blackwood, a sophomore majoring in integrative neuroscience, said that the usage of body cameras is a necessity because of current social issues and an additional way to make sure officers are abiding by police regulations.

“I think that it should happen because police brutality is a serious issue in this country right now,” Blackwood said. “We need to make sure that everyone is following protocol.”

The cameras will not be implemented by Binghamton University Police Department (UPD) officers as of now. Chief of UPD Timothy Faughnan said he is not considering implementing them due to unclear protocol,

such as when to turn the cameras on and off or what the cameras are allowed to record. ”If this was all established and everybody knew exactly how to do it right, I would be all over that,” Faughnan said. “My goal is I want to do it right the first time.”

He added that the issues that surround the storage of the video, which must comply with Department of Justice standards such as being held for seven years before the video can be deleted, cost money and resources that his department does not have.

Patrick Miraglia, an undeclared freshman, said the cameras were something the University police should still look into despite financial issues.

“If there’s money there then I think it solves a problem down the road,” Miraglia said. “It will be a safer environment and easier to

figure out what actually happened.”

For now, Faughnan said that his department will be watching the progress made by the city of Binghamton and apply that to the needs of his department.

“Colleges and universities are a very unique environment,” Faughnan said. “We need to move very cautiously to make sure we protect the rights of the students.”

It ... protects not only residents, but also officers — Jared Kraham Deputy Mayor of Binghamton

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Since the problem has heightened this past summer due to the increase of emails being sent, ITS implemented safety precautions to stop students from giving into these scams. On August 6, ITS began tagging possible phishing emails with a warning in front of the subject field.

According to Langert, a proper domain name for an email is one that comes from “binghamton. edu,” and if the email is from something different, it is probably a scam. Students are asked to forward suspicious emails to the ITS help desk, and these fraudulent email addresses are then blocked on the B-mail network.

Ultimately, students must continue to take precautions

and be aware of scams, said Rick Shumaker, ITS staff member and director of the ResCon program.

“I know that the message is out there about some of the ways that people steal from people electronically,” Rick wrote in an email. “However, there will always be new ways. I think that the long-term message is to ‘B-AWARE’ of our digital surroundings.”

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words to appreciate the delivery,” Re’em said.

“It was really cool how there was Paola Diaz, a senior majoring someone playing music behind in psychology, also appreciated the the performance. A lot of it wasn’t diversity of the festival. in my native tongue, but I didn’t “It was nice to see how culturally necessarily have to listen to the diverse it was,” Diaz said. “Even

though I didn’t know these people and they’ve lived completely different lives, I felt I could still relate to them and feel their emotions and experiences through their poetry.”

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Service animals on BU's campus provide emotional, physical help ANIMAL continued from Page 1 approaching service animals, despite their friendliness, as they have a serious job to perform.

“Service Animals are not pets; they are working animals and need to remain focused on the tasks they’re performing to protect and assist their owner/ handler,” Fairbairn wrote. “You should never talk to, pet or otherwise distract someone’s service animal.”

Carys Gilbert, a senior majoring in Asian studies, has had her German shepherd, Drago, for a year to help her with her severe anxiety. Gilbert said that just because other students can’t always see what Drago is doing to help her, that doesn’t mean that Drago isn’t doing a good job.

“A lot of people will try to pet him or will make noises that might distract him, and I think it’s vital people understand that when I say you can’t pet him, it’s not because I’m trying to be mean,” Gilbert said. “My safety and well-being relies on him staying focused on me and on his job.”

According to Fairbairn, certain residential life accommodations are made for students living on

campus with service animals, such as providing medical single rooms.

Amanda Freno, a junior double majoring in English and psychology, lived in a Dickinson medical single with her Shetland Sheepdog, Zola, due to her severe hearing loss, before moving to Susquehanna. When Zola is not helping Freno with hearingrelated tasks, Freno said that Zola enjoyed playing with her floor mates.

“If someone asks if they can pet her, I give her a command that lets her know she can say hello, and then she is very happy to be pet and admired,” Freno said. “She never barks and loves to cuddle, play fetch in the building hallways and just hang out with people.”

According to Freno, for students with service animals, their feelings towards their animals go much deeper than just a working relationship.

“Because we spend almost every minute together, we have an intense bond, and we always know what the other wants or needs,” Freno said. “I feel extremely lucky to be able to have my partner and best friend with me at all times.”

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December 2012 and will take effect this fall semester. This “seamless” transfer process is meant to benefit more than 30,000 students who transfer between SUNY campuses each year by reducing debt and helping them graduate on time.

According to Binghamton University President Harvey Stenger, the policy makes sense.

“Many students change colleges for a variety of reasons, and if they stay within the SUNY system, we should help them as much as possible with that transition,” Stenger said. “This will directly help many students graduate in four years, even if they do not do all four years at one institution.”

Daniel Knox, the director of Student Mobility at SUNY System Administration, said that the Transfer Paths typically do not include upper-level coursework unless they are approved by the receiving campus. “[The Transfer Paths] do not cover every major, but have been developed for 52 disciplines inclusive of the most popular majors, accounting for over 95 percent of all transfers in SUNY, with more in development,” Knox wrote in an email.

Previously, individual faculty or departments had authority over transfer decisions, and advising for transfer students was inconsistent. According to Knox,

creating one comprehensive transfer policy, students receive more consistent advising, which helps them graduate in a timely manner.

With the new policy, students can appeal campus-level transfer credit decisions to the central SUNY System Administration.

The final authority on the decision rests with the SUNY Provost.

Sarah Ketcham, a senior majoring in nursing, transferred twice before coming to BU at the beginning of her junior year.

Credits did not transfer between the two SUNY community colleges that she attended, which set her back.

“I was behind and had to take summer classes to catch up, costing me more money and pushing me back,” she said. “So this policy definitely would have been helpful.”

For Amanda Fitzpatrick, a senior majoring in nursing, the transfer from SUNY Oswego to BU was simple. Almost all of her credits transferred except for one, and after BU reviewed the syllabus of the class at SUNY Oswego, the credit transferred.

Although her transfer was already seamless, Fitzpatrick sees value in the new SUNY-wide policy.

“I think that having all credits transfer from SUNY to SUNY is an amazing idea,” Fitzpatrick said. “It makes transferring schools a lot less stressful.”

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LOCAL NEWS Endicott man indicted on kidnapping, rape charges Larry J. Servedio, 50, of Endicott was arraigned Friday in Broome County Court after the kidnapping and rape of a woman he met on LinkedIn, according to the Press and Sun Bulletin. Servedio began a relationship with a 52-year-old Wisconsin woman he corresponded with over LinkedIn messages and invited her to New York this July to meet in person. According to the woman, Servedio held her against her will, threatened to kill her and her family if she tried to leave and forced her to have sex with him. After suspicions from the woman’s family, Endicott police found the two at his East Main Street apartment and spoke privately with the woman who then revealed she was being held against her will. Servedio is being held without bail and has been indicted on eight felony counts and four misdemeanors.

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5 students face homicide charges in Baruch hazing death Five Baruch College students have been charged with third-degree murder for the death of freshman Michael Deng after a hazing ritual on a fraternity trip to the Poconos in December 2013, according to NBC New York News. As part of the Pi Delta Psi hazing activity, Deng was blindfolded, weighed down with backpacks full of sand and knocked over repeatedly while trying to walk. He was brought to the hospital after suffering from injuries from the activity, and he died the next day of a head injury due to blunt force trauma. The five students are charged with homicide, involuntary manslaughter, aggravated assault, hazing, hindering apprehension and criminal conspiracy, and five other students were charged with assault.

NATIONAL NEWS No charges for Ahmed Mohamed, teen arrested after bringing homemade clock to school A 14-year-old boy was arrested Monday for bringing a clock to school that a teacher said looked like a bomb, according to NBC News. The teen, Ahmed Mohamed, a Muslim student in the Dallas suburb of Irving, will not be charged following his arrest for bringing the clock to school. Mohamed said he wanted to show his teacher his new invention, but after the clock’s alarm went off during class, it was confiscated by his English teacher, and he was brought to the principal’s office where he was later arrested. Mohamed was interrogated, fingerprinted and had mugshots taken, despite his insistence that his invention was a clock. Support has flooded in from figures including President Barack Obama and Mark Zuckerberg, and #IStandWithAhmed is trending across the Internet.

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Loft at 99’s appetizer course included options of poutine — fries covered in sausage gravy and cheese curds — and butternut squash soup.

Alexandra Mackof | News Editor The Loft at 99 is open and airy, with a modern design: brick walls featuring works by local artists and a bar highlighted by exposed beams.

Not only is the restaurant visually appealing, but it’s also reflective of the owners’ approach to food: taking classic techniques and updating them with a fresh twist.

Co-owners and brothers Kyle and Michael Bunker, who

attended The Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York and New England Culinary Institute respectively, are both classically trained in French cooking. Originally from the Binghamton area, the Bunkers decided to bring their knowledge of cooking back to the city’s up-and-coming restaurant scene.

“There is a new growth happening Downtown, a renaissance of sorts,” Kyle said.

“We want people outside who have forgotten about Downtown to come and experience what is happening.”

The Bunkers’ goal was to open an intimate, 50-to-60seat restaurant that showcases a smaller menu, allowing them to perfect their dishes while using quality products.

In line with their menu, the Restaurant Week options are limited, but carefully selected and comprised of dishes from

regular menu items and specials.

“Sometimes, we’ve been craving something, so we throw that on the menu,” Kyle said. “It will be around for ten days, and we can enjoy it for ourselves.”

Loft’s take on poutine, a popular dish in Quebec, Canada, consisted of house-made fries, a sausage gravy and cheese curds.

The combination of crispy fries with the creamy sausage gravy created a balanced appetizer that was full of flavor.

Inspired by the changing seasons, Loft’s butternut squash soup was light but satisfying. The dish — which will hopefully make an appearance on their fall/winter menu — wasn’t overpoweringly sweet, and the cimicci olive oil added just enough salt.

The appetizer portions were large enough to be an entrée, so make sure to ask for a to-go container so you have room for

the other courses.

The Loft at 99 changes their menu twice a year, and Restaurant Week falls at a perfect time for them to test out dishes before they unveil new selections.

“Restaurant Week allows us to sample things that have been floating around in our heads and get some feedback from customers,” Kyle said.

“We want to offer something a little different from the regular dinner menu, and we want to be a little creative.”

The options for the main course were a pasta dish, risotto or a Loft signature burger.

The pasta was orecchiette, topped with a sausage crumble, broccoli rabe and a fennel lemon dust. The pasta was tender, and the sausage added a hint of spice and salt to round out a light but filling entrée.

The risotto had a basil puree, charred corn, blistered

cherry tomatoes and parmesan cheese. The dish was creamy, well-cooked and complemented by the sweet burst of tomato between bites. It was, however, a heavy dish, and with the cream in both the soup and poutine appetizers, it became a little overwhelming.

The desserts were unique in construction, taste and presentation.

A chocolate peanut butter mousse took the form of a savory pâté and was drizzled with molten chocolate sauce.

A new addition, the l’aveggio cold brew affogato, an Italian dessert that usually includes hot espresso poured over vanilla ice cream, was a creative and modern take on a classic.

The cold brew coffee allowed the ice cream to remain cold, and the less acidic flavor of the cold brew was a delicious complement to the meal’s sweet ending.

Citrea Restaurant and Bar 7 Court St. Nicolas Vega | Editor-In-Chief

Citrea Restaurant and Bar is full of contradictions. It is an Italian restaurant that plays Mexican music, a pizza place whose best dish is its French fries, and a Restaurant Week participant that almost makes you want to pay full price.

Citrea’s Restaurant Week menu has something for everyone — regardless of their preferences. Although they offer multiple options for appetizers, entrées and desserts, you are not limited to choosing one of each.

If you wish, your $25 can buy you three full pizza pies, or an appetizer and two desserts for you to gorge yourself.

You are not forced to choose between two entrées, nor are you forced to eat a dessert that doesn’t appeal to you. This was a pleasant surprise when we first picked up the menu.

For an appetizer, or “antipasto,” we were given a choice of house fries, scallops, pork belly or three different types of salad. We decided to go with the pork belly and the Citrea fries, and we were not disappointed.

First, the pork belly. The portion was disappointingly small, but what it lacked in size, it made up for in flavor. The meat was cooked well and it was deliciously fatty. The vegetables used as garnish were crisp and added good texture to the dish. The presentation was also superb; the meat was laid out on a rich bed of house barbecue sauce.

The fries, though, were the star of the afternoon. Cut — with skin — from whole potatoes, they came in a wax paper cone and were fresh out of the fryer. The fries were perfectly crispy on the outside, tender on the inside, and came with delicious homemade ketchup. The portion size was extremely generous. Our tip: if you come with a date, pick this as your appetizer and split it, then use your extra pick on another entrée or dessert.

We are convinced that if Citrea opened a little shop right by the bars dedicated to their French fries — a la Pommes Frites in New York City — it would be a huge success.

They’re that good.

Moving on to the entrée.

Although pizza is supposedly the bread and butter of Citrea, we

found ourselves disappointed.

Of the four pizzas offered on the Restaurant Week menu, we chose three: Margherita, Salcicca and Citrea.

Each pie is 10 inches in diameter and could easily feed two people — or one very hungry person. The pizzas came quickly, served with a pizza cutter for the table so we could cut slices to sizes of our liking.

The Margherita and Salcicca were strikingly similar, with the Salcicca simply featuring the addition of pepperoni and crumbled sausage. We found ourselves wishing that the two pies had been left in the oven a little longer, as the dough was slightly chewy and difficult to cut. However, the mozzarella had a good flavor, and the fresh tomato sauce added a nice layer of flavor to the overall experience.

By far the most puzzling item of the meal was the restaurant’s namesake entrée: Citrea Pizza. This pizza came with an intriguing combination of mozzarella, lemon, shrimp, chives and jalapeño peppers.

We gave it the benefit of the doubt when we ordered it, but quickly agreed that the unique flavor wasn’t for us. The saving

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Citrea’s dessert course included zeppoles, small balls of fried dough, covered in cinnamon and sugar and drizzled with Nutella. grace of this pizza was the cheese, which for some reason had a much better flavor than the cheese on the Margherita and the Salcicca. However, the combination of shrimp and cheese was something that our taste buds simply couldn’t reconcile. Nevertheless, we could understand how others

might be drawn to the dish and its seemingly random medley of flavors.

Though the meal stumbled through the entrée, it came back with a bang for dessert. We split an order of zeppoles, which are small, fried balls of dough covered in cinnamon and sugar and drizzled with Nutella. It was

the perfect combination of sweet and salty, rich and filling. There was not too much Nutella, nor did we find ourselves scraping the bottom of the plate for more.

All in all, we enjoyed our meal. For three courses, Citrea hit the spot. Plus, we went home with an entire pizza to enjoy as leftovers.

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River Bistro 225 Water St. E.Jay Zarett | Sports Editor For a kid who grew up ordering chicken fingers and hamburgers from restaurants, River Bistro was a huge culinary shock. But don’t let that fool you: what a great shock it was.

River Bistro, located inside the Double Tree hotel on Water Street in Downtown Binghamton, is one of the the city’s best-kept secrets.

Upon entering, it’s hard to miss the upscale decor of the restaurant. The table settings give the feel of fine dining, while the large, open windows allow for a pleasant amount of sunlight during an early evening meal.

River Bistro’s service was

fantastic. As soon as we arrived, our server Nicole greeted us with a warm smile. After we were seated, we tried two dishes from the new tapas menu: coconut curry chicken wings and brussels sprouts. I’ve never had brussels sprouts in my life, but trust me, these are more delicious than anything you can imagine. The mix of parmesan cheese, almonds and perfectly cooked and flavored brussels sprouts led to a dish that left me wanting seconds.

After our tapas came the Restaurant Week menu. Emma, my dining partner, ordered a creative take on French onion soup, while I chose the duck confit.

While most onion soups

feature a layer of cheese at the top, this version had cheese melted on top of a crostini, a baked baguette slice. This soup had a tremendous presentation but the flavor wasn’t all that great. While the soup tasted fine, the crostini and cheese were underwhelming.

The cheese lacked flavor, and probably would have tasted better if it was put in the soup in a more traditional way.

The duck confit can be summed up in three words: oh my god. This is a must-have on the menu. The portion was the perfect size and the duck was tender and moist. The bed of parsnips and carrots complemented it well. Although it was an appetizer, the duck was

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very filling.

Our entrée was equally as good. I’ve always been a huge meatball fan, so naturally I ordered the lamb variety that the restaurant offered. I love my mother’s home-cooked version of this dish, but this updated take on a sometimes-overdone classic was better. Sorry, mom.

The meatballs were perfectly complemented by a Lillet Rouge wine sauce, and sat on a layer of greens. The components worked well together, while still allowing each ingredient to stand out.

Emma opted for a vegetarian option: crispy tofu. The meal was presented perfectly, with skewered tofu pieces surrounding a beautiful sauce with sesame seeds. The dish was tangy and featured a great combo of sweet and spicy flavors.

Dessert did not disappoint, either. We split the two offerings:

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The duck confit was served over a bed of parsnips and carrots. a white chocolate raspberry panna cotta and a banana bourbon pecan bread pudding with sticky toffee sauce. The bread pudding was a heap of dessert goodness, featuring raisins, nuts, caramel and whipped cream.

The raspberry panna cotta

was equally tasty. The ratio of raspberry topping to white chocolate pudding was perfect, and led to a great balance of flavors.

It may be tucked away, but if you’ve never been to River Bistro, go, and go fast.

Social on State 201 State St. Rich Kersting | Release

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Remlik’s sesame-crusted ahi tuna, paired with jasmine rice and vegetables.

Remlik's 31 Lewis St. Carla Sinclair | Assistant News Editor

Not too many Binghamton University students venture north of the roundabout on Court Street. But Remlik’s, located on Lewis Street, is more than worth the trek.

Situated inside a cavernous, ornate building — which dates back to 1903 and was built by a homeopathic medicine millionaire — the four-year-old restaurant may seem like the kind of place you’d only come with your parents ($40 steaks, ahem) and would turn you away if you came in underdressed.

However, manager Tina Henkle said they’re a place for any occasion.

“You can come in in shorts, with a cap on — we don’t care,” she said. “We like to give fine dining service but we don’t like to project the image that we’re just fine dining. You can do anything from cocktails to sandwiches to lamb.”

The executive chef, Anthony Yannuzzi, has a background in French and Italian cuisine, but said that the restaurant is a blend

of all that and more. Whatever this blend is, it’s working.

My date and I spent the ride to the restaurant arguing over who would get to order the caramelized onion croquettes, two deliciously wonderful little breaded balls of creamy housemade risotto swimming in a savory house-made marinara sauce. But when she heard about the soup du jour, chicken tortellini, the croquettes were mine. She described the soup as a fancier version of the classic chicken noodle.

The leftover marinara from my appetizer proved very useful when the server brought over a basket of bread. Not just any bread, though — garlic knots, and better than any that I’ve had in Binghamton. They were warm, soft, just the right amount of doughy in the middle, not too garlicky and perfect for soaking up the marinara.

For entrées, my date had the tortellini paloma. These cheesefilled tortellini came in a creamy red-pepper sherry sauce with prosciutto. She lamented not being able to bring back leftovers even before she finished. Her

only complaint was the peas, which tasted a bit undercooked.

I had the sesame-encrusted ahi. Ahi tuna is my absolute favorite, and I was ecstatic to taste their version. It was good — not great — but definitely good.

There was a lot of sesame, which overwhelmed the tuna’s delicate taste, but the spicy jasmine rice and vegetables were a nice complement to it.

The desserts are chef’s selection, so they are subject to change. We each had a slice of cake, one vanilla and one chocolate. I’m not usually a cake person, but the berry drizzle on the fluffy vanilla cake was too good to resist, and the cold, thick chocolate cake was also delicious.

Just as we thought we were going to fall into a food coma, the chef sent out some fresh fried dough with honey and homemade caramel as dipping sauces.

Tina was right — the food was great, and the atmosphere was both classy and welcoming. So whether you’re looking for a nice place to take your parents that’s not Lost Dog, or you just want to grab a bite with friends, Remlik’s is your choice.

If you’re the type of person who wants to try everything on the menu, Social on State ought to be your first stop this Restaurant Week. As a tapas bar, Social serves many different types of dishes in smaller portions, providing an opportunity for the adventurous eater to taste whatever they’d like.

For Restaurant Week, Social on State is offering a $25 prix fixe dinner menu, where you can select three of the tapas they have available. The benefit of this is that you can easily customize your courses to fit your eating style. The tapas options allow you to choose a variety of foods, from salads and entrée to desserts.

They also have a very respectable and delicious spread of glutenfree and vegetarian options.

The whole fun of tapas is that the meal never gets old.

While every dish isn’t necessarily perfect, they make up for it in how fast the flavors and styles of cuisine change. This isn’t to say that any of the dishes are bad, but some of them definitely outshine

the others. The most memorable taste of the entire dinner was definitely the crispy pork belly skewers. What starts off as a succulent, spicy experience cools down once you reach the taste of grilled pineapple. They’re gluten-free, too.

Social also has some hors d’oeuvres, like the Mediterranean trio and the baked brie. These are definitely great foods to pick at if you’re going for some drinks with your friends, but don’t necessarily want a full meal.

The trio comes with two types of hummus — garlic and roasted red pepper — as well as an olive tapenade.

The constant progression of flavors doesn’t just work from dish to dish, but through a single dish as well. The saltiness from the olive tapenade is reduced by the garlic hummus, which leads you right to the roasted red pepper. The flavors are constantly changing, and many of the dishes have several layers.

Even the more basic items, like the baked brie, achieve a level of sophistication where every bite is as fulfilling as the last. The brie comes covered in a blackberry compote and is topped with

an apple walnut arugula salad, and is the perfect size to share between two people.

This brings me to a conclusion: Social on State is a great place to take a date. While a $50 dinner date might seem a little expensive for the college budget, it’s definitely a place that will impress even the pickiest of eaters. The environment is very conducive to being social, as the name implies. The room is filled with conversation, and you can always hear the person next to you. Plus, they have an excellent bar with quick service.

This month they’re promoting a Southern Tier Brewing Co. Tap Takeover, offering $9 flights of Southern Tier drafts. This is more than you might expect to pay, but the list of options has a considerable variety of excellent fall beers.

Even if you’re not on a date, the trick to tapas is to not go alone. If you’re not trying to impress a significant other, then this place should be enjoyed in as big a group as you can gather.

Remember that the more people you bring, the more flavors you get to experience.

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Social on State combined salty and sweet with their crispy pork belly skewers paired with pineapple.

Thai Time 96 Front St.

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The martini seafood salad and the thai crispy rolls were part of a large variety of dinner appetizers.

Odeya Pinkus | Release Editor If you are looking to feast your eyes as well as your palate, then Thai Time is your go-to choice for Restaurant Week 2015. With everything from decor to dining, this

establishment is phenomenal.

Now is a great time to check this restaurant out, whether you’re a regular Thai Timer or a first-time indulger.

To accurately describe the Thai Time experience, you need to start with the visual.

You start your meal off by

taking in some fresh air on the restaurant’s patio that is accompanied by a beautiful view of the Chenango River.

After that, you can move on to the menu.

This week, Thai Time is offering a three-course lunch for $12 and a three-course dinner for $23. While both are enticing, I recommend the dinner option. Yes, it’s more expensive, but with the large portions, you’ll definitely have leftovers to stash in your dorm fridge. For my dinner appetizer, I tried the Thai crispy rolls and the martini seafood salad. Served with a side of sauce, the crispy rolls are warm and crunchy enough to make you salivate before even taking the first bite. Inside, they are soft, rich and filled with cabbage, potatoes and carrots.

For those looking for a

bit of kick with an incredible aesthetic, order the martini seafood salad. It’s a dish that looks as good as it sounds and tastes as good as it looks.

Served in a martini glass, it’s filled with lettuce, shrimp, pineapple and a special martini sauce, with fresh slices of avocado topping it all off. For those who love spicy, the salad is just spicy enough.

I have a small spice tolerance, so the cool avocado and sweet pineapple diversified the flavor of the dish.

It’s important to take your time when you’re deciding on your entrée. You could order your usual pad thai, or you could take a chance and get adventurous by ordering something like massaman curry. Thai Time offers a large selection, including a list of curry, noodles, stir-fry, fried rice and pho.

Of course, this isn’t all.

In the curry section alone, your options include red, pineapple and green curry, among others. I tried something new and went for the pineapple curry. Served in a coconut milk-based sauce with rice on the side, the dish was a combination of sweet and spicy; the pineapple and curry are served with a meat of your choice – or two.

Kudos to Thai Time for their delicious shrimp. For those looking for a pasta-based dish, try the drunken noodles. The dish consists of wide noodles and your choice of meat in a flavorful sauce. It’s delicious, albeit somewhat spicy (again, my low tolerance), and there is enough to take home for an actual drunken snack.

The desserts are just as enticing as the other menu items. If you love chocolate

and don’t order the lava cake, you are making a mistake.

Served with a side of cold vanilla ice cream, this rich dish with a warm chocolate center is everything you want it to be and more. For those who love all things dairy, try the cheesecake egg roll. It consists of a creamy filling inside a traditional egg roll shell, and is served with vanilla ice cream and drizzled in raspberry sauce. Don’t overthink the desserts here.

Just order with friends and try everything.

For those who don’t have room for any more food, your dessert can be replaced with a glass of house wine or a domestic beer, so you can pick your post-meal poison.

Come for the food and stay for the aesthetic. Actually, stay for both; this place is great.

OPINION Thursday, September 17, 2015

Binghamton needs economic investment The Triple Cities used to be a commerce hub it's time to bring that infrastructure back Lawrence Ciulla

Contributing Columnist

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Candid Camera

n light of the recent movements to increase police surveillance, the city of Binghamton will be issuing 90 body cameras to the city’s police officers.

The body camera bill comes to us via executive action by Mayor Rich David. The Editorial Board commends Mayor David for his commitment to pushing police surveillance in the direction of progress.

Most cities across the country have yet to fully implement body camera programs in their police forces, and we’re proud that Binghamton is part of the first wave of this movement.

Programs are underway in major cities like Denver and Los Angeles, but few cities report having fully implemented programs. It’s good to see Binghamton getting on board at the forefront, especially when other places like Boston have yet

to even begin considering police cameras.

It is a step forward that shows that fair justice is a priority in Binghamton, and can help put many at ease. Police cameras are designed to avoid error. The camera itself is about the size of a tube of Chapstick, and can attach to an officer’s headgear or collar. A raised button must be double-clicked to start recording. The Binghamton Police Department will be using the Axon model, designed by the company Taser, which features a raised button that must be double-clicked to start recording. According to the company, the double-click keeps an officer from accidentally

recording, and the raised button allows for easy access.

Though the BPD patrols the entire city of Binghamton, we feel that they will be particularly helpful on State Street, where the combination of alcohol and large crowds can occasionally lead to rowdy situations. The body cameras act as a two-way street; students will feel safer interacting with local police if they know officers will be held accountable for their actions, and perhaps students will hold themselves to a higher standard of behavior if they know they’re being filmed. While some drunken moments Downtown are unfortunately unavoidable, this will hopefully set a higher

standard for student conduct.

Regardless, these cameras will add an extra layer of accountability to student-police interactions on State Street.

We do recognize that there will be a learning curve. Once the devices are available for officers, regulations still have to be put in place in terms of appropriate use. Until the kinks are worked out, we will not see this equipment on University police. However, if the program proves to be a success in the city, we encourage the state to invest in this technology for our officers. After all, we could certainly benefit from increased accountability from both parties.

Views expressed in the opinion pages represent the opinions of the columnists. The only piece which represents the views of the Pipe Dream Editorial Board is the Staff Editorial, above. The Editorial Board is composed of the Editor-in-Chief, News Editor, Opinion Editor, Sports Editor and Release Editor.

Binghamton metropolitan area is home to over 250,000 people; college students cannot be the sole answer to this region’s woes. BU can only go so far in revitalizing and investing in the area — there are too many families far out of the reach of the University. Its efforts need to be met by our politicians, in reforming policies to develop and diversify the economy, rebuilding the infrastructure and attracting businesses to the the region. We can no longer rely on the state to help bring the change we need.

We must do it ourselves.

Sometimes it is not about big reform, but smaller ideas. Eliminating blight in neighborhoods, attracting new industries in avenues other than START-UP NY, providing job training at community colleges, confronting the homeless problem and making public transit even more accessible so people do not have to travel for hours to get to their jobs. Small reforms add up to overhaul and not everything requires action on a state level. The Triple Cities needs advocates in Albany, but we need reformers here in the Southern Tier. Most importantly, we need people, both locals and students, to rise up and tell their politicians they won’t take it anymore. They will not settle for second-rate status in a state so great. Binghamton has been subjected to decades of economic downturn; that is too long for this community to suffer. We all have a shared interest and desire to see this region grow and it is time that our local politicians realize that.

I first visited Binghamton University as a senior in high school. I was excited to see my first real college and the surrounding area. After touring, I made my way back to the bus station Downtown to get home.

While walking, I noticed a group of people camped out in the park on State Street, alongside the bars. It was the fall of 2011 and Occupy Wall Street was sweeping the country, with mass protests lining the streets of major cities and small towns. Only a handful of people camped out on that cloudy day. It’s been four years since then, and the Binghamton economy is still downtrodden.

During the 20th century, corporations and government investment built the economy of the United States. Areas like the Triples Cities benefited greatly from this, allowing them to grow in population and density. The area was home to powerhouses like IBM and the EndicottJohnson Shoe Company. Yet throughout the 1980s and into the 1990s, corporations began to pull their workers from the area, moving jobs to different parts of the country and across the world.

When corporations left the Triple Cities, government investment left with them.

The region and its people were hung out to dry by Albany, alongside other industrial towns like Rochester, Utica and Schenectady. Downstate received all the attention, while upstate continued to slip. In recent years, Rochester and Buffalo have come — Lawrence Ciulla is a senior back by finding new ways to double-majoring in political build their cities while the Triple science and philosophy, politics Cities continue to struggle. The and law.

Graduation rate, average cost more important than SAT scores when picking college

Your test scores don't matter once you get to college; President Obama's College Scorecard helps measure factors that matter in the long run Rebeecca Klar

Contributing Columnist

Over the past three years, Binghamton University has become my home, so it’s difficult to remember a time when it was just one option out of many schools. At the time, I felt as if I had an impossible decision to make. Although picking a college is a foggy, distant memory, we all remember the painful, anxietyfilled process. What makes this

process even worse is the strange and almost arbitrary ranking of schools. So much emphasis is placed on average SAT and ACT scores and acceptance rates, rather than focusing on important factors in the college decision equation.

President Barack Obama’s College Scorecard website helps students evaluate and choose between different schools by comparing the details and numbers that matter. Yes, I believe it is important to pick a school based on more than just hard numbers. It is important to feel out the university and see if it can

become your home for the next four years.

But if we’re going to discuss and compare statistics when ranking schools, let’s pick the right numbers to compare. After four years at a university, is anyone going to care about your ACT and SAT scores? A university’s highly praised, low acceptance rate is not going to necessarily make you a more marketable job candidate.

Obama’s College Scorecard ranks schools and lists important factors for an applicant to consider. The three main rates highlighted are average cost,

graduation rate and salary after attending. Attending college is an investment in your future. Before picking a school, an applicant should measure out the cost with the potential future outcome.

The website also allows students to see, on average, how much student loan debt current students are graduating with.

This is another factor that is much more useful in measuring a college’s value than the College Board’s mere glance at average test scores.

Obama’s College Scorecard is a step in the right direction.

Choosing a university should be a decision that comes down to two factors. One, an applicant should be able to see him or herself as a student at that university.

But beyond the gut feeling upon a college visit, an applicant should weigh the costs and potential outcomes. If a university has good job placement, low rates of student loans and high graduation rates, that has more value than a 2400 average SAT score.

So much emphasis is placed on average SAT and ACT scores ... rather than focusing on important factors in the college decision equation

— Rebecca Klar is a junior majoring in English.

Cherish your loved ones, because life is filled with unpredictable moments You never know when you could lose someone close to you, so love the people you have and understand that at any moment, anything could happen Samantha Webb

Design Manager

I think the hardest thing about death is that it is so final; when your life is over, it’s over. You don’t get a last goodbye, or one last phone call.

All you get are questions — you get to wonder if you should have said something to them, or remind them of how much you care. You never know what will happen, so ask the people you love how they are, or perhaps ask them for forgiveness.

Being only 22, it saddens me to

know how much death I have seen thus far in my life, which has led me to the conclusion that it is important to cherish your loved ones, each and every day.

On August 31, a young man I graduated from high school with passed away after a tragic accident.

I may not have known him as well as my peers did, but every time I log onto social media, I am reminded that he is no longer here. I am reminded of how many people are hurting and in pure shock from his death. My hometown has been in mourning for a little over two weeks now and as a community we are all wondering how someone so special

could have been taken so soon. He was only 21.

I met a girl my sophomore year of college who lost her father two years prior. He was an NYPD officer, killed on duty. She never got her goodbye; she didn’t get to remind him she loved him. Neither did her three other sisters, because who knew that terrible act would happen?

Just this past summer, a young man I also graduated from high school with suddenly lost his father. It was shocking news for my hometown as we came together to be there for him and his family during their loss. His father was a

known fisherman, a kindhearted man who is now survived by his three kids.

Being in my senior year, with the real world right around the corner, I have begun to question my relationships and decisions with my peers and the people around me.

It makes me question if the petty drama that I have been involved in in the past was really worth it, or worth permanently damaging friendships.

It makes me wonder if fighting with my parents has ever had a positive outcome, or if the three months that my long-distance best friend and I went without talking was worth it. What I am now faced

with is realizing that no argument, no fight, no disagreement is worth staying upset about, because quite honestly, life is short, and no one knows what tomorrow will bring.

Think of your parents, siblings, best friends, cousins, aunts and uncles. I am sure there were a few times when perhaps you didn’t see eye-to-eye with them, or maybe more time than you wanted passed without speaking to each other.

If something happened to them tomorrow, would you regret not picking up the phone? Would you regret not moving past the roadblock in your relationship to

be civil with them again? Life is unbelievably unpredictable, and as we’ve all heard, life isn’t fair. I think it’s sad that we have to lose people in our lives to realize that we should start to appreciate the ones we have.

Death is final, and you don’t want to regret not reminding people what they mean to you. Enjoy the people in your life, invest in forgiveness and understand that we don’t choose when our last day is — it really could be any day, at any moment.

Stop wasting precious time and start taking advantage of right now.

— Samantha Webb is a senior majoring in graphic design.

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Binghamton men finish first, women fourth at Seawolf Invitational

Competing against three America East foes, Bearcat men place four runners in the top 10 en route to first victory of the season Noah Bressner

Pipe Dream Sports After sitting out the season opener, the top runners of Binghamton’s men’s and women’s cross country teams were set loose at the Seawolf Invitational on Saturday. Led by senior Collin Frost, the men’s

squad came out victorious, while the women’s team finished last out of four teams competing.

“I was pleased with both performances,” BU head coach Annette Acuff said. “It’s early in the season, we’re just getting started.”

On the men’s side, BU came out on top, scoring 33 points.

They were trailed by Stony Brook

at 43 points with UMBC and New Hampshire tallying 49 and 89 points, respectively. Collin Frost led both the Bearcats and the field, finishing first in a field of 45 runners with a 26:01 mark on the 8,000-meter course.

Following close behind were third-place finisher senior Ethan Hausamann (26:18) and junior Eric Holt (26:25), who rounded

out the top five runners.

The race went according to plan for Frost, who didn’t make his move until the final kilometer.

“He had a really good sense for the course and his goal going into it was just to sit back and let the other guys do most of the work for him early on,” Acuff said. “In an 8K distance,

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Senior Collin Frost was the top finisher at Saturday’s Seawolf Invitational, leading the Binghamton men’s squad to a first-place finish.

you don’t want to be leading the charge.”

In the last 1,000 meters, Frost and UMBC senior Hassan Omar were neck and neck, separated from the pack. With Hausamann aggressively closing in from behind, Omar fell off, allowing Frost to further distance himself.

“Ethan [Hausamann] was able to push the pace pretty hard and get Collin [Frost] away from the UMBC guy in the last 600 meters,” Acuff said. “It was a great win for him and for our program.”

With the victory, Frost was named America East Men’s Cross Country Performer of the Week for the first time in his collegiate career. Additionally, the men’s team’s rank in the USTFCCCA Northeast Region Poll was bumped up from 14th to 13th.

Despite finishing in last place, the women’s side faced tougher and stronger competition than the men’s.

“The women’s conference is very competitive if you look at it from a regional perspective,” Acuff said. “UNH and Stony Brook are two programs that will probably be top five or ten in the entire region. Both of them have great shots to have national qualifiers.”

UNH placed first in the competition with 30 points, while UMBC took second with a score of 47. Stony Brook and Binghamton rounded out the

results, recording 65 and 95 points, respectively. UNH junior Laura Rose Donegan was the individual champion, running the 5,000 meter course in 18:57.

Senior Alexis Hatcher, pacing the Bearcats in five of six meets last season, once again led the team, placing 11th to complete the course in 20:00. Close behind Hatcher was sophomore Allison Davis in 18th (20:28), senior Elizabeth Greiner in 19th (20:29) and freshman Jessica Thatcher in 22nd (20:32).

“I thought that was a great start for [Hatcher],” Acuff said.

“We had a group of three other girls that were packed well together that really raced to, I think, about the best of their ability.”

The Bearcats also received a sneak peak of the AE championship course, which they hope will give them an advantage when they return October 31st.

“It’s a challenging course, so it’s good that we ran it,” Acuff said. “That’s why we went down there, to get a chance to race on the course and get a good feel for it so we can know what to expect in another six weeks.”

The Bearcats’ road to the conference championships continues on October 3rd, when BU is set to participate in the Lehigh/Paul Short Run hosted by Lehigh. The first race is scheduled for 10 a.m. in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

In penultimate preseason tournament, Bearcats earn victories over Duquesne and Montana Behind impressive performances from Ngo and Walker, Binghamton captures consecutive wins, but drops final two matchups of the weekend Nicholas Waldron

The Binghamton volleyball team split its weekend matchups, with two wins and two losses at the Cherry and White Challenge.

Hosted by Temple, the invitational served as BU’s (3-8) penultimate tournament before America East play begins.

In their opening victory versus Duquesne, the Bearcats split the first four sets. In the deciding fifth set, Binghamton recorded 16 kills while winning the match 20-18.

Sophomore setter Sarah Ngo continued her productive

with 55 assists in the match.

Junior libero Bailey Walker also impressed against the Dukes (56), recording 40 digs — a singlegame program record — on the way to being named the AE Defensive Specialist of the Week for the second time this season.

This young Binghamton team, featuring only one senior on the roster, has found leadership in Walker.

“She’s been fantastic for us,” BU head coach Glenn Kiriyama said of Walker. “She leads by example and leads others to learn and increase their understanding of the game.”

The Bearcats continued their forward strides against Montana

season, tying her career high

(2-7), rallying from a 2-0 deficit

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to win the match. After a hardfought third game that saw the Bearcats come out on top, 28-26, the team gained control of the match and won the next two sets with relative ease.

Kiriyama was pleased with his team’s effort and intensity level in the victory. He described the team as a scrappy bunch of players who can extend rallies with their defense.

“They are a team that fights hard; they don’t give up,” Kiriyama said.

To conclude the weekend, the Bearcats fell, 3-0, to both Temple and Towson. The Owls (7-2) recorded 48 kills in their sweep over BU, while landing

eight aces and recording 45 digs.

Binghamton recorded just 23 kills in the match. The Bearcats held an early 12-6 lead against Towson (10-1) and trailed by just one point, 24-23, late in the set.

But Towson scored the next point, securing the set victory. The Tigers would run away with the next two sets securing 25-20 and 25-16 victories. Ngo combined for 37 assists in the two matches.

Binghamton is set to wrap up its preseason tournament schedule in Ithaca at the two-day Cornell Invitational, where the team will face Cornell, Loyola and Seton Hall, beginning Friday.

Action is set to begin against Cornell on Friday at 7 p.m.

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The Binghamton volleyball team recorded two wins and two losses in Philadelphia over the weekend.

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Junior forward Alex Varkatzas scores in the 67th minute of Tuesday night’s victory over Cornell.

Bearcats split pair of games against Marist, Cornell BU falls, 1-0, to Red Foxes on Saturday before rallying to shut out Big Red three days later Orlaith McCaffrey

Assistant Sports Editor After dropping a close match to Marist on Saturday night, the Binghamton men’s soccer team rebounded quickly with a 1-0 shutout over Cornell on Tuesday night. The victory is the Bearcats’ fourth in five games and marks their first win versus the Big Red (0-5-0) since 2009.

Despite the disparity in results, both games were highly competitive matchups in which the Bearcats frequently traded shots and possession with their opponents.

The story of the weekend, however, was the Binghamton (4-2-0) defense, which allowed just one goal over the course of the two games and made seven total saves.

The Binghamton defense served as both the downfall and strong point of BU’s effort against Marist (2-3). After the Bearcats’ backline misplayed a ball in its own territory, Marist freshman forward Cameron Harr took advantage of the opportunity by scooting the ball past BU junior goalkeeper Robert Moewes in the 13th minute. But the Bearcats defense would not falter again. Binghamton held the Red Foxes to just two more shots in the half.

“I think that our defenders have been doing a very good job, and obviously they have Robert [Moewes] behind them, who’s done very well,” BU head coach Paul Marco said.

BU’s defensive prowess was on display again in the 72nd minute, when a handball in the box granted

Marist a penalty kick. Looking to seal their victory, the Red Foxes were instead met with an incredible save by Moewes to keep the score at 1-0.

The Binghamton offense did its best to capitalize on the defense’s strong showing, outshooting Marist, 10-7, but failed to net an equalizer. BU’s most viable scoring chance came in the 85th minute when junior midfielder Connor Nealis’ volley was saved by the Marist goalkeeper to secure the 1-0 victory for the Red Foxes.

“Marist were up for the game,” Marco said. “It was a disappointing loss, but they played quite well that night.”

The Bearcats once again found themselves in the middle of a lowscoring defensive battle on Tuesday night in Ithaca. Through the first

half, Binghamton and Cornell consistently frustrated each other’s offensive attempts, with neither side gaining a clear advantage.

BU’s formidable backline, which allowed just four shots on goal in the game, included junior backs Zach Galluzzo, Mike Kubik, Shervin Mohajeri and freshmen Kevin Flesch and Florian Orth.

The Bearcats finally broke the stalemate in the 67th minute of play when junior forward Alex Varkatzas headed in the eventual game-winner after a cross from Galluzzo.

“Alex played great tonight,” Marco said after the victory. “He scored a terrific goal for us. [It was] perhaps one of the better matches Alex has played.”

Cornell outshot Binghamton, 10-7 throughout the second half,

but BU held off the Big Red to record its third shutout in six games played this season.

“It has been a very good team performance,” Marco said. “Each player today played very well, played their parts, and it was enjoyable to watch.”

Although the Bearcats had mixed results over the weekend, the team seems to be meshing, according to Marco.

“I think the team is starting to come together better every day,” he said. “Our young guys are showing that they’re great followers, but they can step up and lead a little bit, too.”

The Bearcats are set to return to action at home against Siena on Saturday. Kickoff is scheduled for 7 p.m. at the Bearcats Sports Complex in Vestal, New York.

BU's winless skid hits five after back-to-back losses over weekend On the road against Buffalo, Temple, Binghamton manages just one total goal as offensive struggles continue

Marisa Smith

Contributing Writer In an attempt to bring home a win after a string of recent losses, the Binghamton women’s soccer team headed into its third consecutive, two-game weekend hungry for a victory. But on the road against Buffalo and Temple, Binghamton’s offensive woes continued. The Bearcats (1-5-1) were outscored, 7-1, and outshot, 47-18.

On Friday against the Bulls (3-3-1), BU’s defense was tested early with six shots by Buffalo in the match’s opening 15 minutes.

After a pair of Binghamton shots, UB drew first blood with a goal from sophomore midfielder Julia Benati in the 25th minute. For the remainder of the half, BU continued to pepper the Buffalo net with shot attempts, but with none making it into the goal, Binghamton settled for a 1-0 deficit heading into halftime.

In the second 45, the Bulls dominated offensively, outshooting the Bearcats, 143. Goals by redshirt freshman Carissima Cutrona and senior forward N’Dea Johnson in the 57th and 77th minute, respectively, ended any hopes for a BU comeback. Falling, 3-0, in its first match of the weekend, Binghamton looked to Temple for a chance at redemption.

Despite BU senior midfielder Katherine Corcoran firing the match’s opening shot, the Owls controlled the first half on Sunday

in Philadelphia. Propelled by an 11-2 shot advantage in the first stanza, Temple (6-2) found the back of the net in the 10th and 32nd minute, pacing the offensively stagnant Bearcats by a score of 2-0 at half.

“I thought Temple really did play a good game in the first half and we struggled a little bit to find our rhythm,” BU head coach Sarah McClellan said.

“They capitalized on some of our mistakes,” Following its tough first half, Binghamton fought back in the second, with freshman forward Julianne Johnston putting her team on the board in the 61st minute. The Bearcats additionally managed to play a more even game in the second half, cutting the shot differential to 10-8 in Temple’s favor for the period.

“The team really responded excellent in the second half to get a lot better possession, sharper play, and we were dangerous in our attack,” McClellan said.

“We were able to make it a game at 2-1.”

Not only did BU fight harder for the ball, but they also made sure to change things up at midfield, using all assets in their arsenal, with both new and veteran players contributing to their attack.

“We’re rotating five or six players in the midfield and they’re all making a lot of clean strides and progress,” McClellan said. “I think it’ll be a strong layer for us as we head into conference.

With a mix of some of our older guys and our younger guys, the midfield is looking really good.”

But Temple’s attack continued to be too much for Binghamton to handle. Three minutes after Johnston’s goal, the Owls pushed their lead back to two by way of a goal from sophomore midfielder Elana Falcone. Temple put away its final goal of the day in the 76th minute after a scored penalty kick as BU’s win-less skid hit six with the 4-1 decision.

On the defensive end, sophomore goalkeeper Katie Hatziyianis kept the Owl offense at bay with five saves, while sophomore goalkeeper Haley Downin fended off one shot over the last nine minutes of play. With only two matches remaining before the America East Conference, the Bearcats are looking to next weekend to sharpen up their game against another set of tough, non-conference opponents in Fairleigh Dickinson and Cornell.

“We just want to continue to build on our attacking chances, on being aggressive in going to goal and continuing to sure up some of the mistakes we’ve been making,” McClellan said. “I think the team is really working hard and wanting to put a full game together.”

The Bearcats are set to face off against Fairleigh Dickinson on Friday at 7 p.m. at University Stadium in Teaneck, New Jersey.

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Freshman forward Julianne Johnston tallied BU’s only goal of the weekend in a loss to Temple on Sunday.

Editor’s note: Each week of the NFL season — except week one, sorry, we missed it — Pipe Dream Sports writer Mary Martellotta will give advice on who to start, who to sit and who to add in your fantasy football leagues.

The 2015 NFL season has gotten off to an interesting start. A surprising number of mega fantasy stars who are usually among the most productive didn’t put up the points owners have come to expect.

However, this doesn’t mean owners should take them out of their lineups. I’m Mary, a junior majoring in economics, but I moonlight as a a fantasy football enthusiast. I’ve been playing for the last five years and captured three “titles” in my career — my favorite coming against my current league, which is composed of people who’ve been playing since the ’90s. I may not have as much experience as the rest of my league, but that hasn’t stopped me from going up against the big boys and winning.

Adrian Peterson (MIN) RB: In Monday’s loss against the 49ers, Peterson ended the game with 52 total yards. The 49ers’ defense shut down Peterson and neutralized the Vikings offense in the 20-3 blowout.

Peterson should have an easier time gaining yards and touchdowns this week against the Lions. Detroit gave up 95 rushing yards and two touchdowns to the Chargers last week. Hopefully, Peterson’s performance wasn’t indicative of this coming season; in any event, owners should have a better idea after this week if his prime is behind him.

LeSean McCoy (BUF) RB: In Sunday’s win against the Colts, McCoy was an active member of the Bills offense with a total of 87 yards, but he didn’t score the amount of points you are accustomed to seeing from him. He received 17 carries for 41 yards and caught three passes for 46 yards. During this week’s game versus the Patriots, owners should be confident in McCoy, especially against a Patriots team that allowed 134 rushing yards and one touchdown last week.

This is the perfect opportunity for McCoy to make up for his lackluster performance.

Odell Beckham Jr. (NYG) WR: In Sunday night’s loss against the Cowboys, Beckham was the most productive Giants receiver, but with fewer than 200 passing yards coming from his quarterback, it’s no surprise Beckham’s numbers were less than impressive. This week against the Falcons, Beckham should continue being Manning’s number one target. Since the Falcons’ defense allowed over 300 passing yards last week, Beckham shouldn’t have an issue putting up points.

Peyton Manning (DEN) QB: In Sunday’s win against the Ravens, Manning’s performance was downright awful with only 175 passing yards, no touchdowns and an interception. Without the pick-six by the Broncos defense, Manning’s performance would have cost his team the game. Even with his poor performance, I remain optimistic that Manning will turn it around in week two. This week’s matchup against Kansas City should allow for that. Manning has the perfect chance for redemption against the Chiefs, who gave up 298 passing yards and two passing touchdowns last week. With any luck, Manning will pull himself together and show owners that week one wasn’t the beginning of the end.

Even with wavering confidence in these stars after week one, favorable week two match ups across the board should make giving them a second chance in your starting line-up a little easier and worth the risk.