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Doja Cat, Gucci Mane to headline 2019 fall concert

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Rap artists will take the stage on Oct. 17 in the Events Center Lakhsmi Chatterjee arts & culture intern

Get ready to yell “Mooo!” on Oct. 17 as rappers Doja Cat and Gucci Mane take over the Binghamton University Events Center.

For the sixth year in a row, the Student Association Programming Board (SAPB) is bringing rap and hip-hop artists to perform for the fall concert. Last year, 21 Savage was scheduled to perform until his show was canceled because of

a snowstorm that impeded his travel to Binghamton.

Christopher Wright, vice president for programming for the Student Association (SA) and a senior doublemajoring in economics and political science, said most students favored the rap genre in a recent survey.

“When choosing the artists for this year’s Fall Concert, we looked at the survey and saw that students voted heavily in both the rap and pop artist category and wanted to provide students with a show that a variety of people would enjoy,” he wrote in an email.

Doja Cat, born Amala Zandile Dlamini in Los Angeles, California,

came to prominence with her 2018 song, “Mooo!” The song went viral after she released a novelty music video where she danced in a cow costume in front of a green screen. As of October 2019, the video has acquired more than 56 million views.

In March 2018, Doja Cat released her first studio album, “Amala,” which features guest appearances by rapper Rico Nasty and singer Konshens. In August 2019, she released a remix of her single “Juicy” with rapper Tyga. The song debuted at 83 on the Billboard Hot 100. She is currently working on her sophomore album, and its first single, “Bottom Bitch,” released on Oct. 3.

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Gucci Mane, born Radric Delantic Davis in Birmingham, Alabama, has been actively making music since 2001, releasing 12 studio albums and more than 70 mixtapes. Gucci Mane first achieved commercial success with his sixth studio album, “The State vs. Radric Davis” in 2009. The album reached No. 10 on the Billboard 200 and was certified gold in 2010. Since 2016, he has collaborated with Drake, Lil Wayne, Selena Gomez and other artists, appearing on popular tracks like “Black Beatles” with rap duo Rae Sremmurd.

On Thursday, he released “Big Booty” with rapper Megan Thee Stallion.

Wright said these artists were chosen

for their diverse music style.

“Gucci Mane and Doja Cat portray two different styles of music and are well-known artists that have done well in the last few years,” he wrote. “We hope that the show will be an enjoyable experience for students — and [we’ll] continue working on making the event a success on October [17].”

Tickets went on sale for students at 5:30 p.m. on Oct. 4. As in previous years, tickets will be $40 for floor seats and $25 for general admission.

The show will take place in the Events Center on Oct. 17. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and the show starts at 8 p.m.

LGBTQ History Month Lecture highlights Digital brings campus parade work of Walt Whitman LSAT sees technology failure Event celebrates 50th anniversary of Stonewall riots Lakhsmi Chatterjee & Osama Teepu pipe dream news

Blue and silver streamers, bellbottom jeans, the music of Whitney Houston and marchers chanting, “Gay people are good,” echoed along the Brain, the main road that circles the Binghamton University campus, as students and faculty participated in the Pride Month Kick-Off Parade.

Organized by the Q Center, the

parade set off a series of events they will host in October, which is LGBTQ History Month. Following a 1970s theme, it paid homage to events such as the Stonewall riots, which had its 50th anniversary this June.

While the majority of groups that participated in the parade were LGBTQ-based, faculty-based groups such as BU Libraries also marched.

Nicki Chanecka, senior assistant to the dean of University Libraries, said BU Libraries is promoting studies of the 1960s, specifically the history of

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Robert Wilson’s talk connects democracy, Whitman’s poetry Ethan Knox

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Even 150 years after poet Walt Whitman wrote most of his works, his words are still being discussed at Binghamton University.

BU Libraries’ Special Collections hosted a talk on Thursday by Robert Wilson, an adjunct lecturer of English, titled “Singing the Body Electric: Opera, Democracy and Voice in the Poetry of

Walt Whitman.”

The talk focused on Whitman’s connections to opera throughout his life, spanning from his time as a journalist who reviewed theatre to his career as a poet, where he drew inspiration from art. Wilson said Whitman’s concept of “vocalism,” the human ability to communicate through speech, developed from this connection.

“The voice is, for Whitman, the means by which to actualize the ‘life’ in life, in poetry,” he said. “He would be immersed, he would feel himself in

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Democratic chair aims to connect with BU Callaghan-Kane to converse with student organizations Erin Kagel & Rachel Tavares pipe dream news

Bridget Callaghan-Kane, Broome County’s newly elected chair of the Broome County Democratic Committee, is aiming to build a stronger relationship between the Broome County community and the students at both Binghamton University and Broome Community College (BCC) by bringing young people into the world of local politics.

Callaghan-Kane is a native of Brooklyn, New York, and moved to Owego with her family 15 years ago.

She became involved in local politics after volunteering with the Tioga County Democratic Committee for a political science course she was taking

at BCC. She has served as president, and currently serves as vice president, of the Democratic Women of Broome County and as chair and vice chair of the New York State Federation of Democratic Women.

After her candidacy in the 2018 midterm election, Callaghan-Kane said she immediately got in contact with Democratic student groups, such as BU’s College Democrats, to discuss ways to build a strong relationship between students and to get more young people involved in the conversations around building those relationships.

“I truly appreciate the students in this area,” Callaghan-Kane said.

“I just love their energy. I love their intelligence, I love everything about them. I love to be surrounded by them.

I think they’re our greatest assets, quite frankly.”

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john atkinson staff photographer Bridget Callaghan-Kane, the newly elected Broome County Democratic Committee chair, said she is focusing on connecting with Binghamton University and Broome Community College students in her new role.

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Loss of network wipes data on BU student examinations Nicole Kaufman news intern

During the first fully digital administration of the Law School Admission Test (LSAT), Binghamton University students and other testtakers were unable to complete their exams, and their data was wiped due to technological problems.

The digital exam was being administered in three different BU lecture halls on Sept. 21, but only one was affected when all the tablets were disconnected from the network four-fifths through the exam. After 45 minutes of attempting to restore the system, the test was canceled.

One of the affected test takers was Amanda Ricci, a senior majoring in philosophy, politics and law. According to Ricci, the test-takers seemed upset and confused as test administrators struggled to resolve the issue.

“I was very shocked that they canceled our test,” Ricci said. “Multiple people started crying. Some were arguing with the [Law School Admission Council (LSAC)] administrators, and others were trying to find a solution to fixing the network.”

Test-takers were not the only distressed students. Stephen Perez, a junior doublemajoring in political science and sociology,

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A new exhibition, “Hidden in Plain Sight,” exposes the decay of New York architecture,

The third-annual Serling Fest celebrates the 60th anniversary of “The Twilight Zone,”

Columnist Jessica Gutowitz praises Chanel Miller for coming forward as “Emily Doe,”

Women’s soccer goes winless in two matchups,

Cross country teams compete at Lehigh/Paul Short Run,

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Oakdale Mall affected by Forever 21 bankruptcy Forever 21 in the Oakdale Mall will be closing its doors; however, an exact closing date has yet to be set, according to WBNG. The Oakdale Mall location is just one of many

Forever 21 locations set to close after the company filed for bankruptcy last week. Still, the Oakdale Mall is welcoming new potential storefronts and offices, including a Broome County workforce center, a Lourdes Hospital health and wellness center and a Beer Tree Brew Co beer garden.

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Court blocks state officials from enforcing ban on flavored e-cigarettes On Oct. 3, the Appellate Division of the New York State Supreme Court put a temporary hold on Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s ban on flavored e-cigarettes,

which was scheduled to begin Oct. 4, according to NBC. The pause follows a lawsuit filed by the Vapor Technology Association (VTA), Benevolent Eliquids and Perfection Vapes in protest of the ban. VTA argues the ban will hurt small businesses and adult smokers who use flavored e-cigarettes to help them quit.

Homeless man charged for murder of four other homeless men in New York City Randy Rodriguez Santos, a 24-year-old homeless man in New York City, was charged with the murder of four other homeless men and attempted

murder of a fifth homeless man in New York City on Oct. 5, according to The New York Times. The charges follow a series of attacks in Chinatown where these five men were fatally struck on the head with a metal object while they were sleeping. A sixth victim was badly injured. Currently, there is no known motive.

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The following accounts were provided by Investigator Mark Silverio of Binghamton’s New York State University Police.

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SUNDAY, Sept. 28, 2:30 p.m. — Officers responded to Glimmerglass Hall of Hillside Community after a University grounds employee reported a downspout gutter was bent in half and hanging off the building.

After reviewing camera footage, officers found that at approximately 2 a.m. a male suspect made his way out of Glimmerglass Hall and proceeded to climb up the gutter toward the second story of the building before going off camera. Moments later, the gutter gave way, causing both the suspect and the downspout to collapse. The male jumped up and scurried away, but showed clear signs of being in physical pain. The following day, officers were able to identify the male in question, who was a 24-yearold visiting his girlfriend who lives in Glimmerglass Hall. The female’s roommates told officers that the couple had returned home for the holiday and would be back on Tuesday. On Tuesday, officers returned to the residence to meet with the suspect, who confirmed that he broke the gutter, and explained that one of the roommates had forgotten her key so he attempted to climb through her window to let her in.

Unfortunately, the gutter gave way before he could climb back down, and he and the gutter came crashing to the ground. He will be receiving a bill from the University for $75 in damages.

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WEDNESDAY, Oct. 2, 4:29 p.m. — Officers were dispatched to Parking Lot Y1 near Mountainview College after receiving a report of a hit-andrun motor vehicle accident. The victim, a 20-year-old male student, said he parked his car at approximately 9 a.m. with no damage present on his vehicle and returned at 4:29 p.m. to collision damage on his driverside rear wheel. He was approached by someone else in the parking lot, who said they had witnessed a red Honda Pilot hit his vehicle and drive away. After reviewing the external Mountainview College cameras, officers observed the red Honda Pilot make contact with the vehicle and proceed to park

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about nine spaces away. The suspect was later identified as a 19-year-old female who, after parking her vehicle, made her way to the dorms. Officers made contact with the suspect, who said she was parked very close to the car so she chose to move spots. She thought she had bumped into the car, but never checked to see if there was any damage to the vehicle.

When told that she had caused significant damage to the vehicle, she apologized and was issued a ticket for leaving the scene of an accident. She will appear in Vestal Town Court.

Just a little bit WEDNESDAY, Oct. 2, 9:45 p.m. — Officers responded to Cayuga Hall of College-in-the-Woods after receiving a report of drug activity. On their arrival, they spoke to the resident assistant on duty, a 20-year-old male, who said he smelled a strong smell of marijuana coming from a room in the building. After locating the odor’s origin, officers knocked on the door and were met by one of the 18-year-old female

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“Warner Bros. believes that one of the functions of storytelling is to provoke difficult conversations around complex issues. It is not the intention of the film, the filmmakers or the studio to hold this character up as a hero.”

— Warner Bros. Studio on their newest R-rated film, “Joker,” which was released this past week. Despite provoking controversy over whether its main character celebrates gun violence, it earned $93.5 million in U.S. box offices and an additional $140.5 million internationally, according to The New York Times.

residents, who immediately admitted to using marijuana. Another 18-year-old female resident took ownership of the marijuana and voluntarily produced a tupperware container filled with 26.6 grams of marijuana. After performing a consensual search of the room, officers found no further contraband and issued the suspect an appearance ticket. She will appear in Vestal Town Court.

You gotta be quicker than that FRIDAY, Oct. 4, 1:12 am — A UPD officer was patrolling on foot around Newing College when he noticed the strong odor of burning marijuana. After searching the exterior of Endicott Hall, he located two 18-year-old individuals, a male and a female, hiding around the corner smoking what appeared to be a marijuana joint. Once he made his presence known, the male suspect attempted to conceal the joint by hiding it behind him, dropping it to the ground and slyly stepping on it without the officer realizing.

The officer was able to recover the joint and it field-tested positive for marijuana.

The female suspect, who was visiting Binghamton University to see her boyfriend, took ownership of the joint and was issued an appearance ticket for unlawful possession of marijuana in the second degree. She will appear in Vestal Town Court.

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Community members march through Old Dickinson Community on Friday, celebrating the start of LGBTQ History Month.

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“This march is really for the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots,” Chanecka said. “Students were not on campus in June when the main celebrations took place worldwide, but we support the history and camaraderie it’s bringing to campus today.”

The Stonewall riots lasted for six days in 1969, after police raided a gay club in New York City named “Stonewall Inn.” Katherine Robinson, a volunteer for the Q Center and a senior double-majoring in classical and Near Eastern studies and medieval and early modern studies, said the theme reminded her of the struggles LGBTQ people have fought in the past.

“Stonewall and Woodstock happened in 1969 and June

was the 50th anniversary of Stonewall,” Robinson said.

“Stonewall was important in pushing for the rights for the LGBTQ community and Woodstock was a fun event we wanted to celebrate alongside it.”

Other LGBTQ groups on campus such as Keshet, an LGBTQ Jewish organization within Hillel, marched in the parade to raise awareness of available resources for the community. Allison Abrams, director of Keshet and a senior majoring in Judaic studies, said she hoped the event brought a sense of community to those who didn’t know about them.

“The queer community is interconnected,” Abrams said. “I really believe that if you’re queer and a part of a niche community that you’re just as responsible for the whole community. The

parade shows people who may not know about all the resources that tell LGBTQ people that they’re not alone. We are here, we are queer, we are normal — there is nothing wrong with us.”

As the parade went down the Brain and the Spine, students stopped to hear the music and chants. Kira Hawes, a sophomore majoring in environmental studies, saw the event as she left Jazzman’s.

“Even though we weren’t on campus for Pride Month in June, it was nice to see how groups on campus did not forget the importance of events like Stonewall in our history,” Hawes said.

For the rest of October, the Q Center and other cultural groups will host a variety of events to commemorate LGBTQ History Month. On Oct. 10, Taína Asili,

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Materese, Heather Staley and Lori Wahila,” Callaghan-Kane said. “In addition, I worked very hard organizing door-knocking canvases for these three, as well as the legislative candidates in the town, our Supreme Court candidate, Anthony Brindisi, Donna Lupardo and our Johnson City Trustee candidate, Ben Reynolds. My record shows that my commitment to our Democratic principles is total.”

When asked about the work that she will be doing for the county with her new role, Callaghan-Kane said although she has a higher position now, she still makes a point of staying involved with base level operations.

“Now, my main responsibility is to get good Democratic candidates to run and to raise money, but that doesn’t stop me from doing some hard work either,” Callaghan-Kane said.

“I do a lot of the grunt work — phone calls, banking, stuffing envelopes, [sending] postcards, knocking on doors, canvasing, dropping off lawn signs for people that want them. [This new role] won’t stop me from doing that stuff because I like helping candidates in that way as well.”

founding of the Latin American Student Union (LASU). On Oct. 24, Steven Canals, ’08, will host a talk at the Anderson Center as part of the Multicultural

Resource Center’s (MRC) Binghamton Distinguished Speakers series. Canals recently won an Emmy award for creating the LGBTQ drama show “Pose.”

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Callaghan-Kane aims to build these relationships by starting conversations between students and the community, and said a basic understanding of each group’s needs is necessary to those relationships being successful.

“How do we get to know each other unless we sit down and talk to each other?” Callaghan-Kane said. “The best way of building relationships is to actually speak — tell each other what we need and what our hopes and dreams are. It’s not that difficult to forge these relationships, you just have to be willing to reach out, and I am.”

Timothee Markbreiter, president of College Democrats at BU and a sophomore majoring in political science, said they are working to have Callaghan-Kane come speak to the club soon.

“We’ve had many local politicians come speak to our club about issues affecting the area [and] we’ve run events to get students registered to vote in the Binghamton area,” Markbreiter said.

Callaghan-Kane said she wants to start working on internship programs, both paid and unpaid,

as ways to introduce students to local politics and community activism. By inspiring an interest in community activism, Callaghan-Kane also hopes to build a strong relationship with the students in the area.

“I went down to Brooklyn a couple of years ago when Hillary [Clinton] was running, and I went down to her office down there and she was surrounded by young people all over the place on their laptops and the energy and knowledge and what they were doing — it was infectious,” Callaghan-Kane said. “I want that here. I want that relationship.

It can’t be one way — you can’t just call someone when you need something from them. We need to have a relationship. We need to keep the lines of communication open always.”

In her nominating speech for her new position, CallaghanKane talked about the work she has done in local elections and how her Democratic values have shaped her life and her work.

“Under my leadership in the town of Union, we raised money and [were] able, for the first time in many years, to do a very nice mailing into the town for our candidates, Rick

‘00, and her band La Banda Rebelde will play in the Mandela Room to honor both the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots and the 50th anniversary of the

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LSAT fees waived because of connectivity issues lsat from page 1 plans on taking the LSAT next summer. Perez said this incident has made him feel more nervous about taking the exam.

“I know that some things are largely out of control when it comes to technology, but students pay so much money to take these tests and receive their scores,” Perez said. “These scores play a vital part in the application process and can make or break someone’s application.

All of that studying and mental preparedness and for what? For a test to be erased? It’s so awful and discouraging.”

According to the LSAC website, BU was not the only location to experience technical issues, and some other locations experienced an error in shipping their tablets to other testing locations.

Over 21,000 students were registered to take the Sept.

21 LSAT, according to Troy Lowry, senior vice president of technology products, chief information officer and chief information security officer at the LSAC. According to Lowry,

there were more than 550 testing centers across North America, and a majority of them did not experience any technological difficulty.

“While the test day went smoothly at the vast majority of test centers, we did have some unfortunate situations that prevented the test from happening in a few locations,” Lowry wrote in an email. “Unfortunately, the Binghamton University center experienced technical issues which affected some test takers’ ability to complete the test. We are deeply sorry for the problems that occurred at Binghamton [University] and other locations.”

Although the digital interface is designed to save test-takers’ progress to a central hub in the testing room, the affected students at BU will still have to complete a new exam. The LSAC will be providing reparations by allowing test-takers a free makeup test and four free law school reports to use in their law school applications, according to Lowry.

The LSAT costs $200 to take, and each individual law school report costs $45.

According to Lowry, the

LSAC’s current focus is to decrease the impact the technical issues have on the test-takers’ application process.

“We have communicated directly with all affected test takers and are doing everything possible to address their needs,” Lowry wrote. “We will also continue to gather feedback from test takers and test center staff to improve the digital experience for future LSAT administrations.”

Lowry wrote that in addition to constructive criticism, the LSAC has received optimistic responses to specific features of the digital LSAT, such as the on-screen timer, five-minute warning and the ability to flag questions to go back to.

Despite the issues, Lowry said future administrations of the LSAT will remain digital.

“We apologize for the issues that affected a small number of testing centers in September,” Lowry wrote. “We know how hard students work to prepare, so we will not be satisfied until we have zero technical issues, and the test day experience is smooth and positive for 100 percent of our test takers.”

this sort of chaotic, vibrant, busy life of the city. ‘Vocalism,’ as he calls it, is a way of feeling oneself ‘feeling.’ To vocalize the poetry is to feel it in your body. And that kind of embodied resonance, I think, was very important to his understanding of what poetry is supposed to be.”

Wilson’s talk was part of Special Collections’ exhibition, titled “Leaves of Grass: Walt Whitman’s Masterwork,” centered around a first edition of Whitman’s poetry collection.

The collection was recently gifted to the University from the libraries of C. Mossman McLean, a Binghamton businessman who ran McLean’s Department Store.

The multimedia exhibition will be available for viewing until Oct. 15.

Blythe Roveland-Brenton, head of Special Collections, said the talk and the showcase itself was a way to increase the presence of the library branch on campus and in the minds of students.

“I wanted to build more than just the exhibit[ion], to have interaction and have folks come and see it in different ways,” Roveland-Brenton said. “It’s really important to me that people

know about Special Collections, especially students, the richness of it, the diverse nature and know that it’s here for them to come and use. It’s not some kind of a vault where we keep precious items and just take them out occasionally — they’re here to be used. I want to draw lots of different audiences.”

Students and faculty alike attended the event, which was open to all and took place in the Bernard F. Huppé Reading Room.

Laura DeLuca, a sophomore majoring in English, attended the event to learn about Walt Whitman and think of him in a way she had never considered before, and said she was excited to see so many people in attendance.

“Having a professor come in and make these unique connections with opera, democracy and Whitman — it’s providing not only students, but professors, teaching assistants, random observers, with a unique perspective on knowledge,” DeLuca said. “A lot of people have some exposure to new ideas they would have never even thought about.”

James Fitz Gerald, an instructor of English and a fourth-year Ph.D. student studying English, cites “Leaves of Grass” as an impetus to his passion for literature. He said

he was in attendance at the talk to reacquaint himself with Whitman’s work and learn something new.

“I found a ‘Death-Bed’ edition in my high school library, and that was a very informative moment for me,” Fitz Gerald said. “I study 20thcentury literature and culture, so I’ve departed from my origins with Whitman and 19th-century literature, which is part of why I’m here now. As far as vocalism goes, I am a novice in sound studies, so that’s part of why I’m here too. Bob [Wilson] has been really helpful in helping me to think about the other senses.”

After Wilson’s speech, attendees were able to see the first edition collection in the University’s possession. DeLuca said the speech impacted how she saw the collection.

“Professor Wilson is very eloquent, and he has this ability to pack so much meaning into such few words,” DeLuca said.

“His connection with opera and democracy in Whitman is something I would probably have never pieced together and most of the people in that room never thought of, but it works. I thought it was incredible.”

rose coschignano photo intern Robert Wilson, an adjunct lecturer of English, presents his talk titled “Singing the Body Electric: Opera, Democracy and Voice in the Poetry of Walt Whitman” on Thursday.

Bear Necessities distributes free produce to students Campus pantry aims to help fix food insecurity Noe Lebanidze

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Approximately 2 million students nationwide struggle to purchase food, according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO), but at Binghamton University, the Bear Necessities Food Pantry is aiming to help with their nearly monthly produce giveaways.

The food pantry is a program

created by BU’s Dean of Students office to try to combat food insecurity on campus. On Friday afternoon, the pantry distributed fresh produce, featuring mostly vegetables and a few fruits, on a first-come, first-serve basis, with students allowed to take up to two or three pieces of each.

The only requirement was that the customers show their BU ID before entering the room.

Located in University Union room 102, students waiting for the event split in two lines sprawled out over the University Union lobby. Albert Zhang, a freshman

majoring in accounting, said he was surprised by how large the crowd was when he came for the giveaway.

“I didn’t think this many people would come through for fresh fruit,” Zhang said.

Gerard Dempsey, a Bear Necessities Food Pantry employee and a sophomore majoring in integrative neuroscience, said the giveaway was not only about supplying food, but healthy food, which is not always a prominent part of college students’ diet.

“It gets people a free dose of nutrients, essentially,” Dempsey

tyler gorman staff photographer Students gather in the University Union for Binghamton University’s Bear Necessities Food Pantry produce giveaway on Friday.

said.

Dempsey also said food insecurity is a crucial issue for college students in maintaining both their health and academic well-being, emphasizing how the food pantry and the produce giveaways they organize are important in combating it.

“If you’re hungry, you can’t focus, you can’t study,” Dempsey said. “That’s the thing about your hunger — not your grades, not your academics. When people come to school, they shouldn’t worry about where they’re getting their food from.”

Milton Chester, assistant dean for off-campus programs and services, helped direct and organize the event. He said the pantry’s giveaways have become more popular in recent years.

“Produce giveaways have been happening for about three or four years,” Chester said. “But the food pantry has been here since the ’90s. It wasn’t as established as it is now, but there was some form of it.”

Michael Seman, a warehouse supervisor of the Broome County Council of Churches, which contributed to the produce giveaway, talked about the low visibility of students in the issue of food insecurity in general.

“Not many people realize, though, that University students are affected by hunger as much as they are,” Seman said.

According to a 2018 study from the GAO, almost 2 million students who were potentially eligible for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), also known as food stamps, did not report receiving

benefits. The office also found that low income is the main factor for putting students at risk for food insecurity.

In addition to fresh produce, the food pantry normally supplies other basic necessities, such as packaged food and cleaning products, according to Dempsey.

“You can get food, you can get other basic necessities — Bear Necessities Food Pantry it’s called, like soap and shampoo, stuff like that,” Dempsey said. “So it covers all the basics that people need.”

The food pantry giveaway is not a one-time event. Rather, organizers hope to schedule at least one per semester.

“We’re gonna do one in November, then February, March and April,” Chester said. “And if we have extra money, maybe we’ll do something in the summer.”

The Bear Necessities Food Pantry is located in Nelson A. Rockefeller Collegiate Center room 168, and is open from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays.

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The militarization of police will never solve community problems BPD’s attempt to socialize with the community is cheapened by their armored car purchase Evan Moravansky Opinions Editor

Given the recent trend of militarizing police forces, Tina Moore and Sarah Ryley of the Daily News write that, “If the zombie apocalypse ever comes to New York, towns big and small will have the weaponry to handle it.” The police force, a Machiavellian machine pushing for public order through fear tactics, sounds like the kind of post-apocalyptic content you’d see in the movies, but this is the reality we’re living now. Although there is little value in enforcing the law if it means creating divisions that feed into hatred and violence, the ongoing militarization of our police force means exactly that.

As part of a nationwide program, the Binghamton Police Department

(BPD) announced that they would be holding a “Coffee with a Cop” event to help improve their relations with the community.

This kind of outreach sounds phenomenal in a time where policecommunity tensions are high, with distrust still growing day by day.

It’s quite comical, then, that this announcement comes on the heels of BPD acquiring a confounding waste of money on wheels meant to terrorize citizens: the BearCat G3, an armored truck probably great for fighting off the aforementioned zombies. Forgive me if I’m wrong, but a $2 coffee from McDonald’s does jack to counter their $275,000 investment in a tool of war.

FOX 40’s brief news snippet does little to assuage my concerns, either. The short clip they aired fails to show any meaningful interaction with the community beside a conversation with old white men — arguably the demographic with the least need for improved

relations with the police. When police disproportionately target and kill African Americans — with or without militarization — what this means for the local police department is clear: It’s going to affect the same parts of the community where they already have a poor record.

Coffee aside, in an ideal world, man would not need policing — and in that ideal world, the police would be abolished entirely. I recognize that there cannot be a perfect world as I describe, but it’s markedly nonnegotiable that something fundamental must change if the police force as we know it is going to continue to exist.

The Pentagon’s $4.3 billion program that permits the dissemination of military equipment renders cops nothing more than defenders of the status quo and agents of terror. New York alone has received $28 million worth of equipment, and that’s

just the number from 2014. Even Eugene O’Donnell, a lecturer of law, police science and criminal justice administration at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and a former police officer, argues against the program for not ensuring that those operating the equipment are trained to do so, though I disagree with his impression that undoing the program means we’ll be worse off than before. The most viable solution, then, beyond demilitarization, is building police from the bottom up, an approach that runs directly counter to the current practices of policing in the United States.

This more community-centric approach is the best alternative to the recurring issue of militarization, if we are to keep the police at all.

The community should be more involved in who becomes an officer, and those who are already in the police department should be held accountable by the same standard

of community support.

This is hardly close to how police departments are currently run. Police chiefs across the United States have rehired 451 fired officers between 2006 and 2017, which accounts for nearly a quarter of those fired. Having this staggering number of violent and power-abusive officers remain in positions of authority is terrifying, but is precisely the result of appeals required by union contracts. If we were to take these officers off the street, however, we might actually see less crime.

Take, for example, the brief periods when the NYPD prowled the streets in fewer numbers than they typically would. In these short stints, such as the one in 2019, reported crimes dropped significantly. In the week that followed the firing of Officer Daniel Pantaleo, who unjustly choked Eric Garner to death in 2014, the subsequent NYPD drawback saw reported

crimes go down 27 percent from the year before. This drop in reported crime is attributed to a decrease in “broken-windows policing,” a policy that aims to target lowlevel crimes in hopes that it would prevent more serious ones, much of which result in unnecessary arrests.

In other words, we’re subject to their fearmongering.

These minor, unintentional experiments in less policing are meager, but they have widereaching implications for the function and purpose of a policing force in our society. What it shows us is that we don’t need to buy military-grade materials and cheap coffee dates with cops to improve our relationship with the police.

Instead, at the very least, we need the police to be from and for the people they’re meant to serve.

After all, we’re not a war zone — we’re a community.

Evan Moravansky is a senior majoring in English.

Chanel Miller reminds us that rape is never the victim’s fault Miller’s memoir, ‘Know my Name,’ is a survivor story of triumph after sexual assault 22.

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We all, unfortunately, remember Brock Turner and the infamous 2016 case in which he sexually assaulted an unconscious woman.

The victim was known only as “Emily Doe” until recently, when she revealed her identity. Previously, Chanel Miller’s words were only known through her impact statement, published by BuzzFeed and read aloud by journalist Ashleigh Banfield in an emotional CNN segment. She has now made her voice heard in a memoir titled “Know My Name” and on an episode of “60 Minutes” that aired on Sept.

Despite Miller maintaining anonymity, she was able to win her case; Turner was convicted of three counts of sexual assault. The victory rang hollow, however, when he was sentenced to only six months in jail.

Many women who come forward about the assaults they have suffered do not get the chance to keep their identities quiet. As such, they see their reputation and character slashed in the media. They even become the butt of a joke. A recent example that comes to mind is Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, who testified to the U.S. Senate that Supreme Court Justice and then-nominee Brett Kavanaugh molested and tried to rape her when they were teenagers.

Many news outlets tried desperately to discredit her, often

bringing up her Democratic party affiliation and the small donations she has made to political causes.

Even now, over a year later, I saw that the “People Also Ask” suggestions on Bing listed the third-related question as “How old does Christine Blasey Ford look to you?” Her appearance, the last thing anyone should care about, is one of the most-searched questions about her assault. Every part of a survivor’s public image is torn apart.

Back in 2015, when Miller was first dealing with the trauma she suffered, she likely had the choice to put her name out to the public.

Her choice not to reflects society’s harassment of women who have already been victimized. She was brave enough to see her trial through, even to the incredibly bitter end — a feat not easily

accomplished when only 8 percent of the rape cases reported to the police get taken to trial.

And courtrooms are not forgiving; cross-examinations can be traumatizing on their own.

Simon McCarthy-Jones, associate professor of clinical psychology and neuropsychology at Trinity College Dublin, writes that, “Detailed questioning can recreate the powerlessness and terror of the original assault. This is referred to as secondary victimization or the second rape. It can have serious consequences for survivors’ mental health and well-being.” Miller was even able to read her victim statement in the courtroom after all this, still refusing to have her voice drowned out.

Her bravery is not lessened by her anonymity. Choosing to protect

herself in whatever way she could is still brave. She said, “In newspapers, my name was ‘unconscious, intoxicated woman.’” She was subjected to this dehumanization as a side effect of her anonymity.

Choosing to hide her identity in remaining anonymous was brave, even though the media took this opportunity to treat her as an object, in much the same way Turner did.

It is possible to seek justice without lambasting a victim. Even though it was suggested during the trial that her drunkenness brought on her assault, even though the defense team tried every strategy to undermine her credibility, Turner was still convicted. His punishment was hardly a slap on the wrist, but that’s a topic for another column.

Miller had the strength to go through with the entirety of the

trial, even when it was demeaning.

It seems like this should hardly be something I need to talk about — we don’t tell victims of robbery that it was their fault for owning nice things, and we shouldn’t tell victims of sexual assault that it was their fault for being drunk, or wearing something revealing, or being attractive, or any of the thousand things we say to dismiss women’s claims.

Miller said it best herself: “Rape is not a punishment for getting drunk … You deserve a hangover, a really bad hangover, but you don’t deserve to have somebody insert their body parts inside of you.” Not only must we believe women, but we must also refuse to take part in their discrediting.

Jessica Gutowitz is a senior majoring in English.

The Supreme Court should defend abortion rights now more than ever The SCOTUS’ decisions have the ability to set a dangerous new precedent Elizabeth Short Assistant Opinions Editor

This Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear and rule on a Louisiana law concerning abortion access in the state. While an eerily similar law was vetoed in Texas in 2016, the agreement from the court to hear this case has the potential to set a dangerous precedent for future and even existing laws.

“June Medical Services v. Gee” examines a 2014 Louisiana law that requires doctors who want to perform abortions to have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of the location of the abortion. Admitting privileges are defined as “the right of a doctor, by virtue of membership as

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a hospital’s medical staff, to admit patients to a particular hospital or medical center for providing specific diagnostic or therapeutic services to such patient in that hospital.”

If this law were to go into effect tomorrow, it would leave one doctor able to provide abortions in the entire state of Louisiana, according to the Center for Reproductive Rights.

Women across the entire state of Louisiana would not only have to rush to that doctor, but they’d also have to make sure a fetal heartbeat wasn’t detected in order to have an abortion, even in cases of rape or incest.

Other states have also passed massively restrictive abortion laws in the past two years, with Alabama going so far as to pass legislation banning abortion with incredibly few exceptions. Several other states have also passed heartbeat

bills similar to Louisiana’s. While the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has filed lawsuits against many of these states to block the laws before they go into effect, the fact that laws like these are even up for debate prove that women’s health care is in danger.

Nearly 25 percent of American women will have an abortion by the time they reach 45 years old, for a variety of reasons. Some women will have an abortion because they will die if they carry to term, or the fetus has developed fatal anomalies, or they were raped, or they cannot afford to have or care for the child, or they don’t want a child right now or for many other incredibly valid reasons. All of which, by the way, are no one’s business except the woman making the decision.

Normally, a bill like this wouldn’t cause as much concern, but with the appointment of

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Justice Brett Kavanaugh replacing the left-leaning Justice Anthony Kennedy, the court is now more conservatively sided. While Justice Kavanaugh has described “Roe v.

Wade” as “important precedent,” and stated that he will be sure to express “his views ‘as a judge’ and not his personal opinion on a woman’s right to choose,” the recent inundation of anti-abortion laws prove that nothing is set in stone.

Admittedly, years ago, if you had asked me about my views on abortion, I would’ve pulled the, “I don’t know if I’d be able to go through with it, but I’d never stop someone from getting what they needed” card. I was naive and surrounded by a strong Catholic school administration and peers that had strong ideas about where I’d end up in the afterlife if I was pro-choice. Spoiler alert: Regardless of circumstance,

it’d be hell.

After educating myself, understanding reality, listening to the hardships others face and coming to terms with the fact that I may have to one day make that choice, I don’t hesitate. I will defend mine and others’ right to an abortion to the death.

I know young mothers my age, and I applaud them for their bravery and determination in the face of adversity. While I know how deeply they love their children, they all acknowledge how difficult life can be. I am in awe of their courage — I certainly couldn’t do it. But, I am equally in awe of every woman who chooses to have an abortion. The strength they have to deal with the judgment they face is insurmountable. And they deserve better.

No matter how many women protest, how many well-known faces come forward with support

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or how many will die as a result of attempting an illegal abortion, there will always be those who want to police women’s bodies. Be it in the name of religion, personal belief or even the so-called “concern for women’s health,” any and all reasons to deny women the right to an abortion are weak ones.

No one wants to come out and say it, so I will. By trying to control what women can do with their bodies, you’re really trying to control women as a whole. It’s almost strange hearing the, “Don’t these conservative lawmakers understand that banning abortion doesn’t stop abortion?” argument nowadays when abortion is so blatantly under attack. “Don’t they know that women will die as a result?” They do. They just don’t care.

Elizabeth Short is a junior double-majoring in English and biology.

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Serling Fest celebrates 60 years of ‘The Twilight Zone’ Annual event honors Binghamton-raised writer Gabriela Iacovano

arts & culture editor

In celebration of the 60th anniversary of “The Twilight Zone,” fans from the United Kingdom, Belgium, Canada and all over the United States gathered this weekend to honor creator Rod Serling’s legacy.

Binghamton’s Serling Fest, held annually since 2017, is hosted

by the Rod Serling Memorial Foundation. While 2017’s festival lasted only one day and 2018’s lasted two, “The TZ@60” spanned three days, with events held at Atomic Tom’s on Friday, the Broome County Forum Theatre on Saturday and the Helen Foley Theatre at Binghamton High School on Sunday.

Andrew Polak, 58, president of the Rod Serling Memorial Foundation and a Binghamton resident, said the event has been able to grow because of the closeknit community surrounding

Serling’s work.

“There’s a really big online presence of fans; there’s a dozen ‘Twilight Zone’ Facebook pages and we all just keep in touch with each other,” he said. “This is a good way for a lot of fans to get together.”

Attendees sat in on panels and presentations from “Twilight Zone” scholars and podcasters, pausing between programs to browse displays of Serling memorabilia and get books signed by featured authors. Panels focused on both Serling himself and his works, including “The Twilight Zone” and

nate platzner video editor Binghamton’s Serling Fest, hosted by the Rod Serling Memorial Foundation, included panels and presentations from “Twilight Zone” scholars.

the horror anthology series “Night Gallery,” which turned 50 this year. Bill Mumy, who acted in “The Twilight Zone” as a child, called in via satellite for a discussion on Saturday. Fans young and old, mostly of “The Twilight Zone,” had opportunities to explore the Serling-verse past the show’s original run of 156 episodes.

Willow Katz, 44, of Texas, who has seen all 156 episodes at least a few times over, found out about the festival through the “Twilight Zone” podcast.

“It’s huge that after so many years people are still so affected by it and passionate about the show,” Katz said.

Cassie May, 19, of Auburn, New York, proudly showed off her “Twilight Zone” nail art and Rod Serling phone wallpaper. She said she revisited the show as a teenager after watching it with family as a child, and Serling’s writing challenged her assumptions about mid-century television. “[Serling] was a pioneer, and especially since I know more about him, I know he really didn’t dig censorship,” she said. “He definitely wanted to talk about more, but he couldn’t, so he had to disguise it.”

Discussions touched upon Serling’s similarities to Charles Dickens, the series’ themes of nuclear anxiety and its influence on 21st century media, with Jordan Peele’s 2019 reboot being an especially hot topic.

Martin Grams, 42, of Maryland and author of “The Twilight Zone: Unlocking the Door to a Television Classic,” said the show’s influence can be seen not only in new iterations, but in its status as a gold standard for media.

“It’s amazing how many shows will be produced and they’ll have a quote from some reviewer saying it’s the new ‘Twilight Zone,’ even though it has nothing to do with it, but they feel that’s the biggest compliment they can get, so I see it for television ads all the time,” he said.

On Friday, performers from Bold Local Artists of the Southern Tier (BLAST) performed a dramatic reading of “The Happy Place,” an unproduced, never-released script that was originally meant to serve as the pilot of “The Twilight Zone.”

Liam Roma, a Binghamton High School student who performed, has a coincidental connection to Serling — his grandfather, William Fitzgerald, hailing from Vestal, was stationed with him during World War II. Fitzgerald’s name was used in “The Purple Testament,” a “Twilight Zone” episode about a World War II soldier who can sense impending deaths in his platoon.

Serling moved to Binghamton from Syracuse as a toddler, spending his youth in the city before joining the army after high school graduation. Helen Foley, a schoolteacher whom Serling was especially fond of, started the

memorial foundation in 1985, 10 years after Serling’s death.

The influence of Binghamton on Serling’s writing can be seen in the “Twilight Zone” episode “Walking Distance,” in which a man travels back in time to find his childhood self riding a carousel said to have been inspired by the one in Recreation Park.

Serling’s daughter, Anne Serling, author of “As I Knew Him: My Dad, Rod Serling,” said “Walking Distance” was probably the most autobiographical “Twilight Zone” episode that her father wrote.

“He said he had a propensity to write about the past,” she said. “He had a very idyllic childhood and loved Binghamton.”

In the closing narration of “Walking Distance,” Serling describes the episode’s main character as “successful in most things, but not in the one effort that all men try at some time in their lives — trying to go home again.” A quote from Serling on display at the fest echoes this view of the hometown as a universal source of comfort: “In the strangely brittle, terribly sensitive makeup of a human being, there is a need for a place to hang a hat, or a kind of geographical womb to crawl back into, or maybe just a place that’s familiar because that’s where you grew up … For whatever else I may have had, or lost, or will find, I’ve still got a hometown.”

Binghamton goes purple for Bundy Museum exhibition domestic violence awareness features historic architecture Fraternity members sport high heels in support Marcus Budashewitz staff writer

As a horde of fraternity brothers in high heels paraded down Washington Street for their “Walk a Mile in Her Shoes” fundraiser, locals and Binghamton University students alike gathered to watch in support of National Domestic Violence Awareness Month.

The event aimed to educate the community on domestic violence and support organizations focused on domestic violence prevention.

While it was organized by the CVAC, many groups, such as Real Education About College Health (REACH) and Planned Parenthood of Binghamton, had tables set up with handouts and representatives ready to educate anyone who wanted to gain a better understanding of their mission and services.

Regardless of where attendees came from, the positive purple energy enveloped Washington Street. As purple serves as the color for domestic violence awareness, attendees donned everything from purple T-shirts to purple wigs. Haley Murphy, ‘14, campus sexual assault liaison for the CVAC, explained the color’s significance.

“Purple is also a color for

peace, so that’s kind of where we get that purple connection,” Murphy said. “We want events like this to get people started on having conversations about what healthy relationships look like and if your relationship isn’t healthy, how do you feel safe and supportive enough to come forward and ask for help.”

As attendees roamed around and enjoyed the blaring music, speakers assembled to make their voices heard. Musical performances, speeches and poetry were delivered by current students and locals.

Kelti McEvoy, a sophomore majoring in theatre, grabbed the mic for a poem detailing a personal experience with domestic abuse.

“I decided to write about my own experience and something my first boyfriend did to me,” McEvoy said. “I wanted to make it really from the heart and make it real. The more you tell your story, the more likely someone else is going to take inspiration from that and tell their story so they can get the help they need.”

The event’s attendance by students and residents is a positive development for organizers, who have often struggled with raising awareness. Cheryl Sullivan, chief assistant county attorney at the Broome County Attorney’s Office, said the community has trouble accepting that this problem

even exists.

“We have a very difficult time getting people to want to talk about the issue, especially when it comes to children,” Sullivan said. “We very often have adults in our community that just say, ‘I can’t wrap my brain around that.’

They feel like it doesn’t happen in our community. I think it’s fear of having it impact them or their family, and not accepting that it happens doesn’t make anyone safer.”

Murphy said early education is a good place to start when tackling the issue.

“I think it should start at a really young age so by the time that people are ready to have sex and have those relationships, they’re aware of the different nuisances and they understand themselves enough to make decisions about consent,” Murphy said. “That’s a hard ask for our society obviously because it has to be starting at elementary school, but I think that’s a really good way to start it.”

While “Paint the Town Purple” served as a kickoff for Domestic Violence Awareness Month, there is much more to come. Oct. 14 to Oct. 18 will serve as the “Week Without Violence” to continue to raise awareness, with many Downtown bars and restaurants serving purple drinks and a portion of the proceeds being donated to the CVAC.

miya carmichael staff photographer The Crime Victims Assistance Center and Tau Alpha Upsilon hosted “Walk a Mile in Her Shoes,” an event to raise awareness about domestic violence.

‘Hidden In Plain Sight’ opened at First Friday Sean Carr

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On Friday, the Bundy Museum of History and Art held the opening reception for “Hidden in Plain Sight,” an exhibition designed to highlight historical architecture throughout New York state and prevent its decline. Sponsored by the Preservation League of New York State, “Hidden in Plain Sight” aims to raise awareness for the “Seven to Save” locations chosen by the League that have been weathered by neglect and the passing of time.

The photography in the exhibition was taken by Bruce Harvey, a professional historian and documentation photographer based in Syracuse, and shines a light on the horrid conditions of certain historical buildings. The photos also aim to educate others about how they can improve them.

While the Preservation League of New York State releases new versions of the “Seven to Save” list biannually, Harvey’s involvement with the cause just started recently. He traveled to locations on the Preservation League’s 2018-19 list to take photos of what he found. After visiting all seven locations, he reached out to the League and told him about his project. The result is a traveling exhibition that makes stops all over New York state to showcase Harvey’s photography and raise awareness for “Seven to Save.”

Along with educating others, Janna Rudler, ‘95, who now works with the Preservation League and the Bundy Museum, said the exhibition is meant to encourage Binghamton citizens to adopt a newfound appreciation for the city’s architecture.

“We want people just to take notice as they are walking down the street, and think about how valuable these buildings are to the landscape in which we live,” Rudler said. “Binghamton would not be the same without its historic buildings.”

Bella Buchannan, a sophomore majoring in visual communication arts at SUNY Broome, visited the exhibition during opening night to peek into the past and get a glimpse

ariel kachuro photo editor The traveling exhibition aims to educate attendees about the decline of historical architecture across New York.

of a time she never knew.

“People should be more aware of the preservation of buildings and properties in New York,” Buchannan said. “I have never been in these places or known they have existed, but I have been [in the communities these buildings are in].”

Kyle Brehm, a junior majoring in economics at Binghamton University, went to the exhibition with no knowledge of local buildings in need of preservation.

Despite the exhibition’s scope of the entirety of New York state, Brehm took away an appreciation for what the town of Binghamton used to be.

“I look at all these pictures and I just think about the buildings and where they are now, and it is just not the same at all,” Brehm said. “It is actually kind of cool to see how much the city has changed and what is

now different.”

Emphasizing the importance of the old architecture in the area, Rudler referenced LUMA, one of Binghamton’s largest events.

“What would LUMA be without the historic buildings that they project on?” she said.

“You could project it on a blank wall, but how boring would that be? They are irreplaceable.”

Rudler also provided advice for people after their visit to the exhibition.

“Advocate for [the preservation of historic buildings],” she said.

“Go to a town meeting and speak up. When there is a hearing about a building, just pay attention to the actions that take place around town and show up. That’s really all it takes.”

The Bundy Museum will continue to display “Hidden in Plain Sight” from Oct. 4 until Nov. 1.

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Women’s soccer held winless by Albany, Stony Brook Bearcats tie Great Danes, fall to Seawolves Edward Aaron

assistant sports editor

Entering the week tied atop the America East (AE) standings, the Binghamton women’s soccer team took the field against its two toughest competitors of the season so far. The Bearcats (8-32, 2-1-1 AE) earned just one point across the two matchups, drawing against Albany on Thursday night and falling to Stony Brook on Sunday.

“What we told them is, this has gotta be a point that we’ve gotta look at ourselves, in terms of what it is that we want,” said Binghamton head coach Neel Bhattacharjee. “This is the time of year where teams typically can separate themselves in one way or the other, and games like this really help you in terms of seeding or just getting to the postseason.”

On Thursday, Binghamton traveled to Albany to face the defending AE champions. The Bearcats and the Great Danes (53-3, 2-0-1 AE) played to a scoreless draw. Despite Albany leading in many of the statistical categories, the teams played a relatively evenly matched game.

“We felt like, in particular that case, we dropped two points,” Bhattacharjee said. “We certainly

had opportunities to win the game. But that one where you’re playing away, you can somewhat live with a point on the road, but you definitely don’t want to be dropping points at home, with this being our first loss.”

In both matchups, a normally potent Binghamton offense was held scoreless. BU was outshot 21-12 by Albany and 8-2 by Stony Brook. Both shots against Stony Brook were free kicks that went on goal.

“We’re disappointed with not scoring against Albany, we’re disappointed with not scoring against Stony Brook,” Bhattacharjee said. “For us to have only two shots and zero corners [against Stony Brook], that’s not like us. We’ve certainly got a number of really good attacking personalities on this team. We’ve gotta work on just getting more numbers around the ball, getting numbers higher into the attack.”

Against the Seawolves (9-40, 3-0-0 AE) on Sunday, a slow start plagued the Bearcats. Stony Brook outplayed the Bearcats throughout the entire matchup, appearing faster and a step ahead of BU’s attack.

“Unfortunately, we didn’t have a good start, and really that was one of our poorest halves, that first half,” Bhattacharjee said. “We can’t play against a good quality opponent and not have the defensive effort.

For whatever reason, it started at

the very beginning of the game.

We deserved to go down 1-0 10 minutes into the match, and unfortunately, we didn’t really roll our way out of it.”

Binghamton played more competitively in the second half, with a few scoring chances, but were unable to get on the scoreboard. A Stony Brook goal in the 70th minute by junior forward Alyssa Francese secured a 2-0 win for the Seawolves.

“We had a better competitive mindset in the second half in terms of stuff we talked about at halftime, but we still lacked quality,” Bhattacharjee said. “We can’t expect to just give away 45 minutes and have an opportunity to get a result in the end.”

In both matchups, Binghamton found itself in unenviable positions in which its net was wide open with the goalkeeper forced out of position. In both cases, senior defender Lauren Spinnato was in position to make a save, and was instrumental in Binghamton securing a result on Thursday and keeping the game closer on Sunday.

“Hopefully we don’t put ourselves in those particular scenarios and situations, but [Spinnato] can certainly help us in terms of possession, she can certainly help us in terms of defending,” Bhattacharjee said.

“When she needs to make a big play in the back, certainly she can do

john atkinson staff photographer Sophomore defender Kayla MacKenzie played all 110 minutes of Binghamton’s draw against Albany, holding the Great Danes scoreless throughout the match.

that … Again, hopefully we don’t have to ask that of her too much or too often.”

With four games completed and four remaining, the Bearcats are halfway through their conference season. With a week off to prepare for its next matchup, a road trip to

Maine, BU has time to regroup in the stretch of its season. The Black Bears (4-5-1, 0-3-1 AE) are winless in conference play so far.

“We dropped three points today is how we’re looking at it, so we’ve gotta make sure that we come with better focus, better preparation,

and that starts with this week getting prepped and ready for an away game against Maine,” Bhattacharjee said.

Kickoff against Maine is set for noon on Sunday, Oct. 13 from Mahaney Diamond in Orono, Maine.

Men’s soccer shut out by UMass Lowell in home matchup BU drops second straight conference game Kyle Reina

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With two America East (AE) matches in the books, the Binghamton men’s soccer team remains winless in conference play after dropping a Saturday evening home contest to UMass Lowell. The

Bearcats (2-6-1, 0-2 AE) outshot the River Hawks (6-2-1, 2-0 AE) 10-5 in the game and performed well for much of the match, but were unable to capitalize on any of their offensive chances.

alex gross contributing photographer Freshman defender Oliver Svalander had two of Binghamton’s five shots on goal in Saturday’s 1-0 loss against UMass Lowell.

“I thought we were really good, disappointed we did not get a goal again,” said Binghamton head coach Paul Marco. “We’re creating enough chances to score goals; the guys just have to be better in front of goal.”

Two of the five shots on goal came from freshman defender Oliver Svalander. Svalander has taken 14 shots throughout the season and is currently eighth in the AE for number of shots taken.

Despite outshooting UMass Lowell, Svalander and the rest of the Bearcats could not convert.

Instead, the sole goal of the match came from the River Hawks 30 minutes into the first period off a throw-in by UMass Lowell freshman defender Denis Petro.

Senior forward Alejandro Osorio capitalized on the throw-in, putting the River Hawks up 1-0.

Following the goal, Binghamton controlled the ball for the majority of the match, especially in the second half.

“One moment we’d give them a bit of breathing room on the throwin and they score a goal off of it,” Marco said. “That was extremely disappointing, because our young guys are not realizing that you get

punished for mistakes when you miss things and you don’t really put a lot of value into a moment. Every moment at this level has value, but overall, I thought the guys played great today. We are chasing the game, it doesn’t matter if we drop another goal and lose 2-0, we’re chasing the game; we have to try and get a goal. So, the guys played with more urgency and that caused them some problems. The way we started the game, I thought the guys were very good as they had a good idea of what to do.”

Following the River Hawks’ score, their only other good look at the goal came minutes later when senior midfielder Dario Jovanovski landed a second shot on goal for the team. The Bearcats adjusted their offense in the second half, as they were hoping to control possession of the ball and decide the pace of the game.

“Our starting positions went a little higher, and I think we’ve let teams dictate where the game is played and starts, and we need to do a better job of taking the game at our opponent a little more and I thought we did a much better job of that in the second half,” Marco said.

In the second half, the Bearcats’ offense performed better, as they registered seven of their 10 total shots in the game, three of which were on goal. Binghamton’s defense, led by junior defender Chris Stamper and graduate student defender Stephen McKenna, successfully shut down any offensive pushes the River Hawks made in the second.

“I thought everybody played their part,” Marco said. “[Sophomore goalkeeper P.J. Parker] only had to make one save in the game. Their keeper had to make five, so it’s disappointing that we couldn’t put one past their goalkeeper today with as much as we created. Both teams played soccer, and I thought our game plan was really good going into the game. I thought the execution from the guys was terrific, and I thought we kind of ran out of time; we were really good in the second half.”

Binghamton will look to snap its winless streak in a nonconference matchup against Columbia on Tuesday, Oct. 8.

Kickoff is set for 6 p.m. from the Bearcats Sports Complex in Vestal, New York.

Men’s cross country finishes third at Lehigh competition Binghamton women place 38th at Paul Short Run Joe Tonetti

contributing writer

At one of the year’s most competitive events, the Binghamton men’s and women’s cross country teams ran at the Lehigh/Paul Short Run on Saturday. The men’s team took third place overall out of 45 teams. Redshirt sophomore Matt Goyden finished 12th and redshirt senior Daryn Hutchings placed 14th out of nearly 392 runners at the event. “[Goyden] definitely had the race of the day in terms of improvement from last year,” said BU head coach Annette Acuff. “That was a standout performance from Matt so we’re very excited for him. He worked very hard from last year to increase his level of fitness. He

bumped his mileage up and he trained really hard.”

At the 2018 Paul Short Run, Goyden ran a time of 26:40:00 in the 8K, placing 98th. Last Saturday he improved to 25:00.4, earning silverware along with Hutchings, who clocked in at 25:02.8.

“This year’s team performance was definitely much better than last year’s team performance,” Acuff said.

Last year, redshirt junior Dan Schaffer placed first overall at the meet, but Acuff seemed to think that the overall quality of the performance greatly improved, especially from the previous meets this season.

“It was definitely a progression from Colgate and Iona and it was definitely an improvement,” Acuff said.

“Hopefully we’re on the right track.”

On the women’s side, sophomore Aziza Chigatayeva

performed well again, finishing 40th out of 366 runners with a time of 20:47.1 in the 6K race. Chigatayeva raced in the Women’s Gold Race, the most competitive level at the meet.

Acuff seems confident that she has a shot for a top-25 finish at the conference meet, as the difficulty of Saturday’s meet simulates the competitiveness of the NCAA regional meet.

Senior Jessica CuevaScarpelli also finished in the top half of the standings, coming in 170th with a time of 21:47.1.

Acuff said that junior Kaylee Stone did not compete due to illness and will miss the rest of the season. Overall, the team finished 38 out of 43.

The freshmen at the meet ran their first collegiate 8K (men) and 6K (women). Acuff seemed to think that they handled the course and competition well despite the novelty of the course itself, the longer distance and

challenges of collegiate athletics, with a hunger to improve as the season progresses.

“I think that [the result] helps the freshmen especially because it’s nice to come in as a freshman, not really sure what to expect; it’s so competitive compared to high school, it’s nice to experience some success like that both individually and as a team,” Acuff said.

Freshmen Marty Dolan and Ryan Guerci finished 70th and 90th overall, running 25:29.5 and 25:38.6, respectively.

“I think our perspective is to try and continue to train well and be smart about what we’re doing in practice and try to continue to take good care of ourselves so that way we can keep everyone healthy over the next month going into the conference meet,” Acuff said. “It’s going to be really competitive, it’ll be a good challenge for us to try and finish

in the top three again this year … So far I’m very pleased with the progress and I think we’re moving in the right direction.”

BU’s next meet will be the Princeton Invitational on Saturday, Oct. 19. The event will take place in Princeton, New Jersey.

provided by joseph hale Redshirt sophomore Matt Goyden placed 12th of 392 runners in the 8K with a time of 25:00.4 at the Paul Short Run.