Fall 2019 Issue 14

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UNDER CONSTRUCTION Students forced to live in hotel after house fails inspections Kimberly Gonzalez digital editor

kimberly gonzalez digital editor A sign posted on 39-41 Chenango St. reads, “UNFIT for HUMAN HABITATION.” Construction delays forced residents of the building to live in a Holiday Inn in Downtown Binghamton from the beginning of the semester to Sept. 23.

When students return to school each fall, they are focused on navigating their classes, buying textbooks and moving in with all their belongings. But in August, Katherine Dennett had bigger problems, because she wasn’t able to move into her

home at all.

At least two groups of tenants, one set of 21 and another of four, came to move into their new off-campus residence between Aug. 16 and Aug. 17, only to find that their apartments were not ready and

they would be displaced to the Holiday Inn in Downtown Binghamton until Sept. 23.

Dennett, a senior majoring in English, is one member of the group of 21 students that was supposed to reside in an apartment complex in Downtown Binghamton,

located at 39-41 Chenango St. According to Dennett, her group signed their lease in October 2018, put down a deposit and last month’s rent at $675 each, and was told the apartment would be ready by March 2019.

It is still not ready.

Dennett stayed in Binghamton over the summer in her previous residence and said she tried to keep track of the

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University Witnesses testify in second day of Tercero trial hosts event for mental health Officials, housemates lay out timeline in court Leora Schwadron

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Mental Illness Awareness Week is wrapping up, but the discussion of mental health at Binghamton University continues.

The University hosted a Mental Health Awareness event on Thursday where students had the opportunity to learn about mental health and take part in activities like yoga. Earlier that day, Kristina Johnson, State University of New York (SUNY) chancellor, announced a system-wide Student Mental Health and Wellness Task Force will be formed with the goal of addressing mental health concerns on all 64 SUNY campuses. According to a SUNY press release, the task force will focus on early intervention to promote a better learning environment.

The event and changes come after years of criticism from BU students regarding mental health services on campus. Erin Herbstritt, a senior majoring in integrative neuroscience, said there are not enough mental health resources at BU, despite the efforts of the University Counseling Center (UCC).

“I personally have been going through a rough patch and the earliest appointment I could schedule with my counselor was over a month away,”

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In a day of trial on Friday that left several of Haley Anderson’s family and friends in tears, Nicaraguan prosecutors presented physical evidence from her murder case and and focused on

testimonies from members of the Binghamton Police Department (BPD) and a medical expert.

While the first day of the trial against former BU student Orlando Tercero, 23, centered around establishing motive for the strangulation of Anderson, a senior majoring in nursing, prosecutors laid out a timeline in the murder on Friday, saying Anderson voluntarily went to Tercero’s residence early in the morning on March 8, 2018 to “hang out with

him.” Security footage shows Tercero exited the residence alone hours later.

Several witnesses, including Anderson’s mother and classmates, testified against Tercero during the first day of his trial through a livestream set up in the Broome County District Attorney’s Office, making use of an interpreter to translate their testimony into Spanish. Friends of Anderson, 22, of Westbury, New York, testified that she had an “on and off” relationship

with Tercero for about a year. Josephine Artin, ‘18, Anderson’s former roommate, called Tercero “obsessive.” Nicaraguan prosecutors used their testimony to build a motive against Tercero, who they say killed Anderson out of jealousy after she ended their relationship.

Binghamton police officer Kristi Sager was the first law enforcement official to testify in Friday’s legal proceedings, which are being held

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BU professor posts Confederate flag image Victor Skormin sees backlash from University, students Jake Kerr

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A Binghamton University professor is once again being criticized for racism, this time for posting a photograph of a man wearing a Confederate flag hat on social media.

Victor Skormin, a distinguished service professor of electrical and computer engineering, posted the image on Sept. 30 at 1:21 a.m. The picture displays a man in a Confederate flag hat with the word “REBEL.” The man, who is holding a gun, is also wearing a shirt that says “REDNECK JEW” and shows the Star of David.

In March 2018, Skormin also saw criticism from students and University officials for his reply to an electrical and computer engineering graduate Listserv email about an event being hosted by the National Society of Black Engineers.

“Please let me know about a dinner of the National Society of White Engineers,” Skormin wrote in the email. “Thank you.”

Skormin later apologized for his email.

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He said his recent post is a “photoshopped cartoon” that was intended to be humorous, and noted he is not the person in the image.

“The photo is humorous because Jews are not known of being rednecks, and the antisemitism is very common among rednecks,” he wrote in an email. “I put on my [Facebook] page everything that I believe is humorous and useful to my students and friends.”

Skormin added that he feels clothing choices, such as wearing an article of clothing displaying the Confederate flag, are an individual decision.

“I believe that people are entitled to wear whatever they want providing that it does not insult others,” Skormin wrote. “Many people are offended by holes in ladies’ jeans exposing parts of the body and nobody protests this.”

In a later message to Pipe Dream, Skormin declined to answer follow-up questions about the source of the photo, and said he would “contact my lawyer” if the article was published.

On Thursday, several University administrators and student leaders reacted to Skormin’s post. Khaleel James, vice president

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facebook A picture posted by Victor Skormin, a distinguished service professor of electrical and computer engineering, on Sept. 30 depicts a man in a Confederate flag hat holding a gun and wearing a shirt that says “REDNECK JEW” with the Star of David. Skormin said the image, which has since been deleted, is “photoshopped” and not of him.

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

Sign snatchers TUESDAY, Oct. 8, 2:00 a.m. — The Vestal Police Department (VPD) received a theft complaint after a sign from Newman House, the Catholic center at Binghamton University, was stolen. After checking the security cameras, VPD officers noticed that the suspects appeared to be five college-age males, who removed the sign and proceeded to walk toward campus. VPD reached out to UPD for assistance. Utilizing security footage from campus, officers observed the suspects toss the sign into tall weeds behind Endicott Hall of Newing College. Officers were able to identify all of the individuals involved and return the sign to the Newman House. VPD intends to charge the students for their actions.

College-in-the-Woods pumpkin patch WEDNESDAY, Oct. 9, 9:00 a.m. — Officers responded to the Tuscarora Office Building, located in College-in-the-Woods, after receiving a report of larceny. They spoke to the complainant, a 68-year-old female staff member, who said she put three pumpkins, a decorative scarecrow and a small hay bale in a Halloween garden decoration outside of the Residential Life office. After Oct. 4, she

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noticed one of the pumpkins was missing and later, after Oct. 7 and Oct. 9, the other pumpkins and the scarecrow were missing.

Officers reviewed camera footage from the area and were able to identify the suspects from each of the three nights. Officers made contact with the suspects, two 19-year-old males and one 19-year-old female, who ultimately admitted to taking the items and setting up their own Halloween decorations in their suite in Oneida Hall of Collegein-the-Woods.

All of the items were recovered and eventually returned to the complainant. The two males involved took the primary blame for the thefts, and were charged with petty larceny.

They will appear in Vestal Town Court.

Guess who’s back, back again WEDNESDAY, Oct. 9, 10:30 a.m. — An officer was parked in Parking Lot T while monitoring traffic. While in his vehicle, the officer observed a car pull into the parking lot and park in a “No Parking” area. The

officer made eye contact with the driver and motioned that he could not park his vehicle there. The driver, a 22-year-old male, exited his vehicle, made his way to the patrol car and was instantly irate and began swearing, informing the officer that he was “nothing more than a security guard,” and a “dickhead, cock-sucker.” The officer asked the male why he was so upset and he continued to repeat that the officer was a “dickhead, cocksucker.” He referred to another UPD officer by name, and said he was also a “security guard dickhead, cocksucker.” The male then asked the officer to relay the message. The officer later discovered that the officer the male was referencing had issued him a traffic ticket several weeks ago.

The officer in the parking lot gave the male a verbal warning for using foul language in public, and suggested he try finding parking in Parking Lot E. Ultimately, the male got back into his vehicle and drove away. He will be referred to the University’s Office of Student Conduct for his behavior.

The tragedy of the common room WEDNESDAY, Oct. 9, 9:45 p.m. — Officers responded to Johnson Hall of Dickinson Community after receiving a report of petty larceny. When they arrived, they spoke to a resident who told them that his three cartons of milk in the communal refrigerator were gone. In totality, the three cartons were valued at approximately $15. Officers reviewed security footage from the Johnson Hall kitchen and observed two males come into the room. The two males initially got something from a nearby vending machine, and then proceeded to the refrigerator in the kitchen. While rummaging through the refrigerator, the suspects took the three cartons of milk, drank from the cartons and then put them back into the fridge.

They rummaged through some of the other food in the fridge, took someone’s leftovers, placed it in the microwave and proceeded to eat it. They then drank more of the victim’s milk before one of them noticed the camera filming them, prompting him to give the camera the middle finger as he continued to finish the carton of milk. After their meal, the suspects threw out everything and left the kitchen. Officers were able to identify one of the suspects as a 19-year-old student and plan to make contact with both suspects.

The resident chose to pursue criminal prosecution, and both of the suspects will be charged with petty larceny.

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SUNY to create Mental Health and Wellness Task Force awareness from page 1 eHerbstritt said. “We need more and better resources, because this obviously isn’t cutting it.”

Herbstritt said she has been going to the UCC for two years. When she does get an appointment, her negative experiences have outnumbered the positive ones.

“The counselors don’t actually seem to care and aren’t actually helpful,” Herbstritt said. “It might feel good to go see someone, and for some people that does help, but almost everyone I spoke to has been completely disappointed with the counseling they received.”

The funding for the UCC comes from the Student Health Services fee, which is classified as a broad-based fee, and can only increase by a certain amount each year — a maximum of 3 percent across all all broad-based fees combined. The fee is split between the UCC and the Decker Student Health Services Center.

Julia Gabalski, a senior majoring in integrative neuroscience, is a member of the Student Health Advisory Committee (SHAC), which aims to help disperse the money from the Student Health Services fee, and said money is one of the major obstacles to improving BU’s mental health services. Still, she said something needs to be done.

“The campus has serious issues in addressing the unique

alex gross contributing photographer Students participate in a yoga class in the Chenango Champlain Collegiate Center (C4) Multipurpose Room in recognition of Mental Health Awareness Month on Thursday.

challenges of our students,” Gabalski said. “In my opinion, the campus has shown some ability to listen to the students and what they need, but they’re

not creating the changes fast enough, especially with all of the student deaths across campus.”

John Santare, Student Association (SA) vice president

for academic affairs and a senior double-majoring in biology and comparative literature, is also a member of the SHAC. He said students have voiced other

concerns, including that the UCC lacks diversity to properly represent the student population.

“Binghamton University should hire more counselors

of color and [LGBTQ] counselors,” Santare said. “If the team of counselors was more representative, then they would empathize with the student body, and situations like these [student complaints] would decrease in frequency.”

Santare said his office is planning to release a series of brochures by the end of the semester that will focus on mental health resources available for students. The goal is to highlight alternatives to the UCC, such as telecounseling, community masters of social work and Support Empathy Empowerment Kindness (SEEK), which was formerly known as the High Hopes Helpline.

To help alleviate the long appointment wait time, Santare said the University is looking into a few projects for the future, including leasing campus counseling space to off-campus providers when it is not being used by the UCC. He noted that the only noticeable downside of the leasing project is that students would have to use their own health insurance.

The SA will be hosting a roundtable discussion, “SA Let’s Talk: Mental Health Resources” at 5:30 p.m. on Nov. 4 in University Union Room 124, with the goal of giving students a forum to ask questions, voice their concerns and propose ideas about mental health resources.

Mountainview joins Co-Rec Hinman construction leads to new team Jeremy Wells

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ariel kachuro photography editor Amelia LoDolce, executive director of Volunteers Improving Neighborhood Environments (VINES), discusses using innovative urban agriculture and community involvement work to help those in need to get access to healthy foods and improve their neighborhoods at the Let Us Dream Conference on Friday.

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In a room full of researchers, community service leaders and Binghamton University students and faculty, the Let Us Dream Conference aimed to provide insight into initiatives and research centering around the betterment of the Binghamton community.

The conference, hosted at the University Downtown Center on Friday, was inspired by Desire, Readiness, Empowerment, Action and Mastery for Success (DREAMS) program founder, Father Lijo Thomas, according to Laura Bronstein, one of the organizers of the conference, dean of the College of Communications and Public Affairs (CCPA) and director of the Institute for Justice and Well-Being. The DREAMS

program, which began in Kerala, India, focuses on an intervention and development program to aid adolescents with school and life.

The conference had 19 speakers in three different panel discussions. The panels discussed upcoming research and initiatives revolving around social, educational and healthrelated topics. Keynote speakers included Myra Sabir, an associate professor of human development, and Amelia LoDolce, executive director of Volunteers Improving Neighborhood Environments (VINES).

Sabir gave a presentation on her work with attachmentfocused integrative reminiscence (AFIR) and life writing. She said AFIR is a cost-effective, efficient form of intervention with a focus on attachment experiences that may reduce perceived stress.

Life writing is a method of AFIR where patients self-document impactful memories.

Sabir concluded that AFIR and

life writing reduces stress and said this is an example of what the Let Us Dream Conference can lead to.

“With reduced stress, we have a new baseline for physical and psychological health,” Sabir said.

“To me, that’s huge.”

LoDolce said VINES helps young people access healthy foods and improves neighborhoods while giving residents an opportunity to learn farming skills. By doing so, VINES hopes to empower residents and improve their quality of life. The group is currently expanding by building new community gardens and increasing the size of an urban farm at Tudor Street in Downtown Binghamton by nearly two acres.

When Bronstein heard about Thomas’ work with DREAMS, she said she wanted the University to collaborate with him.

“Father Lijo talked to me about this conference that he does in different parts of the world, and it sounded just like the work that we do here in the College of

Community and Public Affairs,” Bronstein said. “He asked if we could have the conference here and I thought it was a perfect match for who we are.”

Senegal Mabry, a first-year graduate student studying public administration, worked closely with Bronstein to make the conference happen and said the event aimed to show attendees the impact their scholarly work can have on the real world.

“We want research and community service to be tied together,” Mabry said. “It’s okay to be small. It’s okay to be a local organization working on local problems.”

Angel Morales, an attendee at the conference and a firstyear graduate student studying social work, said the BU campus offers a surprising amount of service programs.

“It’s very interesting to see how many programs are offered and it’s amazing to see how everything’s conjunctive,” Morales said.

Co-rec football is one of the oldest campus traditions at Binghamton University, but Mountainview College has always lacked its own team.

Now, because of the renovations occurring in Hinman College, Mountainview College residents will be able to team up with their neighbors and lead their community to victory as part of a new team.

Every Saturday and Sunday morning in the fall semester, Mountainview College will line up against other dorms to play two-hand-touch, coed football.

The tradition of co-rec football at BU first began in Hinman College in 1971, and has since spread to all the other communities — but never to Mountainview College.

The construction being done on Cleveland Hall of Hinman College meant that there was a vacant spot in the community’s co-rec team — only four residence halls were competing along with the Hinman Fellows, a team compromised of undergraduate and graduate Hinman College alumni. Mountainview College’s desire for a team lined up well with Hinman College’s vacancy, so Mountainview College formed a team to compete in Hinman College’s league. Griffin Wallick, a junior double-majoring in human development and political science, serves as the coach for the Mountainview College team.

“We wanted to create a Mountainview [College] co-rec team because we thought it

would be a really fun way to build community in Mountainview [College],” Wallick wrote in an email. “We also figured that co-rec is a fun thing that other communities do so it would be nice to bring that [BU] tradition to Mountainview [College].”

Students living in Hinman College have been adapting to the changes the renovations have presented. A Hinman College transition team was formed by students and staff in the community to address these changes. To temporarily replace the Starbucks that was located in Hinman Dining Hall, a Starbucks truck now occupies a lot outside of the Hinman Commons. The Subway that was located in Hinman Dining Hall was moved to the University Union, replacing SubConnection.

As Hinman College adapts to its renovations, the joint co-rec effort between Mountainview College and Hinman College continues to gain popularity.

Wallick said the team has been trying to gain momentum.

“Attendance has been going up throughout the year, which is great to see,” Wallick wrote.

“Hopefully, this season can be a launching off point for [Mountainview College] to create their own co-rec league. It would be really nice for Mountainview [College] to create their own corec tradition.”

Julia Diana, a sophomore double-majoring in biology and English, plays for Broome Hall of Newing College’s co-rec league and said co-rec has grown her friendships.

“I love the community aspect of it,” Diana said. “It’s really fun to go on the field and hang out with a bunch of people from the building.”

Skormin previously saw criticism for March 2018 email skormin from page 1 for multicultural affairs for the Student Association and a junior double-majoring in economics and human development, said the image negatively impacts the University’s image among communities of color.

“Just how we recognize one of our professors for winning the Nobel Prize, we should also

recognize our professors for posting this kind of content,” James said. “Every time you post something like this or you respond in the way he has in the past, it does damage to Binghamton University in terms of how we are marketed from students who have had this negative experience.”

He also said that even if Skormin isn’t in the photo, it

remain deeply offensive.

“It doesn’t have to be you — you should be more conscious of what you post,” he said. “It doesn’t change the fact, even if that is photoshopped or whatever, at the end of the day it’s on his page.”

In an emailed statement on Thursday, Donald Nieman, provost and vice president for academic affairs, condemned

Skormin’s post and wrote these types of images do not represent the University’s values.

“Posting a photo that displays a symbol of racism is hateful, bigoted and creates a chilling environment for many,” Nieman wrote. “While the University has no jurisdiction over a professor’s social media account, we find it imperative to condemn any expression of racism that is

inconsistent with our values and longstanding efforts to create a campus that respects all individuals.”

It is unclear if the University will take any action against Skormin. Ryan Yarosh, senior director of media and public relations, said administrators dealt with Skormin’s Listserv email in March 2018 “in a timely and appropriate manner,” but

declined to comment on his recent post.

“Because it is a personnel matter, we are not free to disclose any actions taken,” he wrote in an email.

James said he intends to speak with faculty in the engineering department about the incident and encouraged students in need of support to contact his office.

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Tercero trial continues in Nicaragua via livestream feed trial from page 1 held in Managua, Nicaragua, after Nicaraguan officials denied requests from the United States to extradite Tercero, who holds dual citizenship. Under currently existing extradition treaty, Nicaragua is not required to extradite Nicaraguan citizens facing charges in the United States.

Sager, who was the first officer at the crime scene, said she initially went to Tercero’s residence at 23 Oak Street on Binghamton’s West Side after Tercero’s sister called police, concerned that he might harm himself. His sister told Sager that Tercero had sent her a text apologizing “for everything.”

When Sager entered Tercero’s apartment to perform a welfare check, she found Anderson’s body in the bedroom, a sheet partially covering her.

While processing the crime scene, police uncovered several key pieces of evidence, including a blanket with bloodstains in the kitchen area and a notebook with a handwritten letter in Tercero’s bedroom. BPD investigator Carl Peters testified that he reviewed “a variety of bloodstained evidence,” along with video footage from cameras attached to Tercero’s house and telephone records.

He also interviewed several witnesses in the case. Peters said Tercero’s note, which was written in English and Spanish and was partially illegible, read “like a suicide note.”

“I’m sorry, this is stupid, I’m sorry,” a portion of the note read. “Mommy taught me life is a momentary thing. Nothing is ours. Mommy, I’m sorry, I don’t have any words.”

Investigators believe Tercero attempted to commit suicide twice following the murder

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of Anderson. When he was unsuccessful, they say he packed up his luggage and drove to John F. Kennedy International Airport in Queens, New York, where he boarded a flight. Images from security cameras inside the airport show Tercero with a bandage on his head.

During cross examination, Tercero’s defense attorney questioned if proper protocol had been followed to protect the crime scene. Peters testified that trained crime scene technicians

were tasked with collecting evidence and placing it in sealed bags, which were labeled with the location and type of evidence.

Whenever evidence was opened for analysis, investigations and technicians logged their activities and resealed the bags.

Dr. James Terzian, a pathologist with Lourdes Hospital who performed an autopsy on Anderson’s body on the morning of March 10, 2018, also testified on Friday. Terzian said he found microhemorrhages

on Anderson’s face, abrasions on the inside of her lower lip and bruising around her neck with fingermarks.

“There were a lot of findings in this case,” Terzian said. “[She had] marks on her neck, including fingerprint marks, one on the right and one on the left.”

Through his examination, Terzian concluded that Anderson was manually strangled, although there was also evidence that the necklace

she was wearing at the time of her death acted as a ligature and impeded her breathing.

In Nicaragua, Tercero is being charged with femicide, which carries a maximum penalty of 25 years behind bars. He is facing a second-degree murder charge in the United States, which carries a possible sentence of 25 years to life in prison.

During testimony, Peters said Tercero’s note is a “confession of guilt,” echoing statements from witnesses during Tercero’s first

day of trial, including a moment in testimony when Artin said she was certain Tercero was responsible for Anderson’s death and he was her “top suspect.”

The trial will resume on Oct. 22 at 1 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. At that time, the defense is expected to submit evidence regarding Tercero’s mental state, including a psychiatric evaluation.

Sasha Hupka contributed reporting to this article.

Downtown hotel accommodates displaced student tenants hotel from page 1 construction projects going on in the building to ensure it was ready for move-in by the time classes began.

“Everything just kept being put off and put off,” Dennett said.

“Actually, there were a couple of days that I went in there with lists of what they needed to do and hung them up and literally dragged the workers inside because they would all just be outside smoking cigarettes and ordering pizzas every single day. When the time came for everyone to move in, it wasn’t ready.”

According to August inspection reports, the building was not up to code because of leaking pipes, floors that were under construction, unfinished electrical work and inadequate plumbing.

The inspection report declared that the property was unfit for human habitation.

According to Dennett, when the group signed their lease in October, the scrapping of the interior was complete and the contractors had until March to put in all the work for electric, plumbing and heating.

“When I was here in July, it looked exactly the same as it had the past fall — so they hadn’t done a single lick of work in almost a whole year,” Dennett said. “Meanwhile, [the landlord] was texting us the entire time like, ‘Oh yeah, the apartment’s looking great.’”

The construction work was headed by Tommasos, Inc., a construction company based in Binghamton, who declined to comment on the matter.

When students came to Binghamton and found their housing was not ready, they were put up in the Holiday Inn by their landlord until Sept. 23.

According an anonymous tenant, the experience was stressful, and students had trouble focusing on schoolwork. They also did not have a kitchen to use, which meant they needed to pay for prepared food out of their own pockets — an exorbitant expense.

Multiple tenants said they would were forced to spend more than $10 a meal two to three times a day, amounting to over $30 a day.

For their time in the hotel, that amounted to more than $1,000 per person.

“I’m studying for my test right now and I genuinely don’t know what happened the entire month of September in these classes, because I would just sit there and think about [the landlord] and not having a home and what we were gonna do,” the tenant said. “It was like ‘What am I gonna cook for dinner?’ because I can’t cook and I have to spend all my money going out to eat two to three times a day.

It adds up. It’s so expensive.”

The landlord paid for at least 25 people’s hotel rooms for approximately 36 days. Most shared rooms with two beds while others were placed in singles.

According to the Holiday Inn website, a room for two can range from $100 to $150, depending on time and date. At $100 for 12 rooms for 36 days, the landlord would have shelled out more than $43,200.

According to Dennett and Jessica Tenenzapf, a member of the group of four tenants and a firstyear graduate student studying

business administration, the hotel was accommodating and made the best of the situation.

“The hotel was fine because the housekeepers were really sweet with us,” Dennett said. ”They were like our stand-in moms. The people at the front desk helped us as much as they could, but it was really frustrating. Every single day our keys would be deactivated and we would just be sitting in our rooms alone.”

All tenants of the two groups that were displaced from 3941 Chenango St. terminated their lease and moved out of the hotel on Sept. 23, moving to other off-campus residences in smaller groups.

Their former landlord was supposed to return their security deposit and last month’s rent

by Oct. 1, according to the lease termination agreement. The anonymous tenant said they and some others saw the money returned.

However, Dennett and Tenenzapf said they are still waiting for their refunds.

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Rideshare companies do little to protect users from assault Both passengers and drivers are at risk of sexual harassment while using the service Annick Tabb Columnist

When I was a kid, my mom would often propose that we walk somewhere rather than drive to get exercise and save gas. I absolutely hated this and made a promise that I would never walk anywhere when I grew up, just to spite her. However, I grew to learn that she was right, like she is about most things, and now love choosing to walk places when I have the time and ability to.

Despite this, making the decision to walk wherever I can has often made my life more complicated than it has to be.

Being catcalled by passing cars and getting propositioned by strange men who occasionally try to get me to accept rides from them has added unnecessary hassle and inconvenience to my routine.

Walking at nighttime usually exacerbates these problems, and because I don’t have my license, I sometimes feel like using a rideshare app like Uber or Lyft is my only option for traveling safely. However, considering their poor track record with handling instances of sexual harassment and assault that customers endured while using their apps, viewing rideshare companies as a perfectly safe solution is potentially dangerous.

Rideshare companies like Uber and Lyft have marketed themselves as a safe alternative to get where you have to go, which can feel like a savior when you are running late or trying to get home after a few too many

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drinks. It especially stings to feel like the “safer” options that are peddled to you might be just as dangerous. While it is generally true that you are probably safer being in a car as opposed to walking on the street, especially while intoxicated, the number of cases of sexual harassment and assault that are reported while using rideshare apps says otherwise. With more and more inappropriate encounters like these, the promise of a safe

environment that pays attention to customers’ well-being is called into question.

One San Francisco law firm, Levin, Simes Abrams LLP, claims that it opens five to 10 new sexual assault cases against Lyft and Uber a week. “Right now, we have over 100 cases between Lyft and Uber. We’re getting new cases every day,” said Laurel Simes, an attorney with the firm.

A lawsuit was filed against Lyft earlier this year by more

than 14 unnamed plaintiffs accusing the company of hiring employees without conducting sufficient background checks or administering anti-sexual assault training. One of the plaintiffs, who said that she was raped by her Lyft driver in October 2018 after he took her phone and said that he loved her, said Lyft did not let her know if the driver was ever fired. The company maintains that they conduct criminal background checks

and offer optional anti-sexual assault training, but that they cannot force drivers to complete the training because they are contractors.

While the apps maintain that they prioritize the welfare of their customers, Rachael Maier, who reported being harassed and stalked by her Uber driver to the app, found that he was still active on the app two years later with a 4.94 rating — even after she had received a message from the app

saying that steps had been taken to deal with the problem, but that they had to remain confidential.

“Where is the transparency? … They’ll tell you how many latenight trips [a driver] has taken or if he has a clean car, but they won’t tell you how many people felt creeped out by him,” she said.

Rideshare drivers have also reported difficulties in documenting harassment. An anonymous driver said she was often offered money for sex from male passengers during her four years driving for Uber, but did not receive any kind of response when she made reports to the app. Kevai Floyd, another Uber driver in California, said she was kissed, groped and had her eyes covered by a drunk woman she was driving home. She said the emergency button available to drivers is hard to use while behind the wheel, and that she has only received acknowledgment of her complaint from Uber. “I made $9.20 on this ride for 15 minutes and 19 seconds to have this woman assault me like that,” she said.

It is bad enough to feel forced into spending money that could be better used elsewhere in order to get somewhere safely. Apps like Uber and Lyft simply must do better in order to right their wrongs and to avoid creating new ones. It is also important to remember that people who are harassed or assaulted should not be shamed, regardless of whether they chose to call a car, or took a chance and walked home. This work is not done until everyone feels safe, regardless of what decisions they make.

Annick Tabb is a senior double-majoring in German and English.

The student-professor relationship should be open but remain objective Professors should know the limits of their power in the classroom Madelaine Hastings Contributing Columnist

In late September, a professor in the Watson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences delivered her Engineering Design Division 103: Engineering Communications I students an extra credit assignment: writing a formal letter of complaint to the director of the program. Extra credit assignments are against the policy of the course, and formal letters of complaint are not built into its curriculum. The conflict that resides at the heart of this assignment, however,

is that students speculated the letters were motivated by the professor’s displeasure at not having received the position she applied for in the Watson school, something she mentioned briefly in class.

The alternative assignment to the letter to the department was a “formal professional letter explaining the brilliance of The Backstreet Boys.” In the alternative, the students were tasked with analyzing the Backstreet Boys’ music videos and interviews spanning from the late 1990s to the early 2000s and comparing them to those made in 2019, substantiating any claims with evidence from the video clips.

Students felt that, beyond

the sheer absurdity of writing an analytical letter on the media of The Backstreet Boys for an engineering course, the difference in difficulty of the extra credit options and the sizable impact they could possibly have on their final marks in the class was wrong. Adding 10 points to an assignment the professor describes as having “a large impact on students’ grades,” was perceived as an abuse of the professor’s power as they were an authority figure going beyond curriculum and program structure for noneducational purposes.

Particulars aside, this conflict beckons conversation about the power dynamic in the classroom that should be

happening between students, professors and administrators.

Entering any institution of higher education, students will inevitably encounter a learning experience unlike previous ones, as the removal from childhood dependencies on doting parents means that they have complete ownership over their education.

Teachers are more apt to foster their own learning environments without ceding to the demands of students and their families.

Professors can curse freely, openly discuss their thoughts on current policy and dole out personal anecdotes that would shake pearl-clutching parents.

Barring hate speech, discriminatory or derogatory comments and entirely irrelevant

stories, the college classroom is at its best when professors can speak candidly to students and their discussions can have a natural, conversational flow.

When a professor imbues their course with a personal spark, students respond by becoming more actively engaged in the coursework, as they’re able to connect with the material in a more intimate, humanistic capacity.

The line is drawn when the professor begins taking liberties with the curriculum and the grading system. The intermingling of a professor’s personal opinion and the graded coursework has the adverse effect, breeding animosity between those taking the class and those

teaching it, as any semblance of objectivity is scrapped with the proper, department-endorsed curriculum. Several students approached a higher-ranking professor in the Watson school to notify them of the professor’s adjustment to the curriculum and their personal agendafueled genesis. Their professor subsequently issued an email apology to her students, nullifying both extra credit assignments.

However, this should be a springboard for a conversation about what is appropriate conduct for the professor-student relationship in the Watson school and beyond.

Madelaine Hastings is a freshman double-majoring in English and economics.

Relying on your intuition over others’ advice shapes who you are Listening to others can only satisfy our desire for social validation Hannah Gulko Columnist

Most of us, confronted with problems concerning personal, social, political, health-related or moral matters, tend to rely on a pretty convenient crutch: advice.

We turn to those closest to us who know us best and ask them to offer insight into what they think would be most helpful, or we turn to those who hardly know us when trying to find unbiased guidance. We subconsciously seek the validation of our peers or our superiors in setting the

stones for decision-making, more often than not discrediting our personal opinion in favor of unhelpful advice from someone who may have less experience than us.

And yet, we are all so quick in yearning to establish our independence — to be in charge of our own actions, of our decisions and our opinions.

We begin to associate growth with freedom and expect selfassurance and confidence in the learned. It becomes interesting, then, to note that no matter how old we get, how far we move or how independent we may selfidentify, we not only heed others’ advice, but place it higher than our own intuition.

The advice we seek is our proverbial crutch, a game show lifeline that alleviates the stresses of trusting our own instincts, weighing our own experiences or making our own decisions.

We share these responsibilities with others, hoping that they, too will then be held accountable for the repercussions those choices entail. Sometimes, this social reliance prevents us from obtaining the advice we most sincerely need.

Malcolm Forbes, former publisher of Forbes Magazine, has said that “listening to advice often accomplishes far more than actually heeding it.” This particular distinction is incredibly significant in

suggesting the advice we seek is simply the opportunity to be heard, to allow our own minds to catch up to new circumstances and be able to figure out where we stand.

Take, for example, a situation in which a friend is coming to you for advice. Before being able to dispense any assistance, you must be able to truly listen to hear their story, to understand their context and to be wary of their experience. You do this to avoid giving unsolicited, unhelpful and potentially arrogant advice. A good friend will know that in most cases, one should listen for the purpose of understanding, and not just reply. In this sense, we don’t

give advice to teach or instruct; rather, we deliberately show we are supportive of their personal strength in making their own call.

We must remind one another that while seeking advice is always valid, our innermost moral compass — the values and ideals which shape who we are — assist us in making decisions on our own. We grow from the advice we have previously received when we truly learn how to apply it to ourselves. Like in all matters, our experiences shape the way in which we approach life, the way in which we read and understand and react to situations. We must take the symbolic training wheels off

our bike and trust ourselves to be able to stay upright on our own — to hold our own under new circumstances.

When you’ve spent your whole life listening to everyone else, there comes a time where you have to muster the courage to listen to your own voice. This is a time where you learn how to question the guidance given to you and discriminate between which you should heed and which you can do without.

To me, that time is when we establish our true freedom. It is the confidence within ourselves that defines our independence.

Hannah Gulko is a senior majoring in human development.

Phelps Mansion spotlights Victorian death culture Candlelit tours offered on weekends in October Gabriela Iacovano

arts & culture editor

If you’ve been dying to catch an atmospheric glimpse of Court Street’s Phelps Mansion Museum, this Halloween season might be the best time to check it out.

“Death Comes To The Phelps,” an annual candlelight tour that explores death and mourning in the 19th century, has returned for the month of October.

Mark Dickinson, chair of the mansion’s board of trustees, has been involved in the tour for four of the five years it has been offered.

The presentation features items from Dickinson’s private collection, gleaned from estate sales and antique shops. He will be leading tours along with Joe Schuerch, the mansion’s house manager, and Chelsea Gibson, treasurer of the mansion’s board of trustees and a visiting assistant professor of history at Binghamton University.

According to Dickinson, the tour sells out every October.

“Excitement for it grows every year, which is interesting since the subject matter is not too lively, if you’ll pardon the pun,” he said.

“I think people find a morbid curiosity in it.”

Dickinson said he tries to add

a few new pieces each year to keep attendees interested, and this year, the script for the tour was also changed.

“We changed the script to focus more on the American aspect of 19th-century mourning — even though everything was influenced by the British because at that time whatever Queen Victoria said everyone followed, it eventually became Americanized,” he said.

“We talk a little more about local people involved in the business, and we’ll be focusing more on the family this time.”

The Gilded Age mansion, located at 191 Court St., was completed in 1871 and housed businessman Sherman Phelps and his family. Just 11 years after the mansion was built, every major member of the family had died. Tour guests are led through each room of the mansion, where the death date of a Phelps family member is announced before the presentation of topics like morbid nursery rhymes, embalming practices, superstitions and Puritan attitudes toward death that precede the Victorian era.

One room, for example, focuses on infant mortality and death during childbirth. The exhibit featured Alexandria feeding bottles, infamous for causing infant deaths via bacteria buildup in their long necks. Another displays a vial meant to catch widows’ tears, a

“death mask” cast from a corpse’s face and a few art pieces woven from the hair of dead loved ones.

With high infant mortality rates and low life expectancy because of factors like the use of arsenic in ornamental items, unsanitary surgeries and disease outbreaks that worsened with urbanization, the Victorian era was immersed in what Dickinson calls a “culture of death,” which produced some of the era’s most intricate art.

“There was such fine craftsmanship, from the jewelry to the clothing to paper crafts, down to the last detail,” he said. “And no one really mourns like they used to, now you just get two days off from work.”

According to Gibson, the Victorians were also known for an enormous language of symbolism that figured into mourning traditions. Funeral wreaths had a horseshoe shape so that the two ends would point to heaven, and white calla lily wreaths for deceased mothers and infants symbolized youth and purity. Headstones were engraved with a variety of icons; an open book might have signified a love of learning, and drapery often symbolized the veil between life and death.

“I personally really like learning the symbology, because you become literate in a culture that is completely beyond us at this point, so now you can go to a cemetery

and read the headstones in that way,” Gibson said.

Victorian widows followed the strictest mourning rules, undergoing mourning periods of about two years. While men usually just added black accents to their clothing for a short period after a death, grieving women adhered to specific dress codes and were barred from attending festive gatherings.

Women were also tasked with preparing dead bodies for burial, a role that later switched when attitudes about death and medicine marked undertaking as a man’s job.

Gibson said the era’s mourning rituals were heavily influenced by class and gender expectations.

“As historians, we’re trained to look at race, gender and class, so I find it interesting how mourning in the 19th century was such a class-based and gendered thing,” she said. “Wealthy people or middle-class people would perform mourning to fit a kind of social [norm].”

In addition to the Phelps family, the tour touches on local points of interest like the Spring Forest Cemetery, established in 1849.

Gibson said the guides’ research on the Phelps family and local affairs allowed them to more carefully gauge people’s attitudes toward death at specific points in time.

“One puzzle we have is that Robert Phelps decided to put all of the family in a mausoleum right

sidney slon assistant photo editor The Phelps Mansion Museum offers tours about death and mourning traditions in the Victorian era during the month of October.

before he died,” she said. “Did he do it because all the wealthy people in Binghamton were doing it, did he do it because he was afraid of grave robbing or was there another reason? I found this grave robbery that happened in New York City around the same time he created the mausoleum, so that kind of causality is interesting to figure out.”

A small painting displayed on the mansion’s first floor is said to embody the Victorian ideal of the good death: a peaceful death at home, surrounded by friends and loved ones. Gibson said this ideal has echoed through time as modern philosophers discuss the “right to die,” and it’s just one of many Victorian attitudes that might open modern minds toward the subject.

“This kind of thing can make people extremely uncomfortable because we don’t deal with it,” she said. “It was demystified in that period, and I think that’s something useful. As a historian, I think that when it comes to facing death, we’re the first century that hasn’t had to do that, and people forget how recent that is. So seeing this culture that’s so steeped in it seems really weird, but then you’re like, ‘Oh wait, that’s the fundamental process that unites everything.’”

“Death Comes To The Phelps” will be held at the Phelps Mansion Museum on Friday and Saturday evenings for the remainder of October. Starting times can be found on the event’s Facebook page. Each tour runs for about an hour. Adult tickets cost $15 and student tickets cost $10.

Arts & Culture section picks for spooky season flicks As midterms end and Halloween approaches, it’s time to get into the spine-chilling spirit

Patrick Earns Assistant Arts & Culture Editor

“It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown”: It’s not the spookiest pick, but I’m willing to put down money that it’s the most heartwarming. Despite coming out more than 50 years ago, Charles Schulz’s masterpiece is still required viewing for the Halloween season. It’s difficult to imagine a seasonally appropriate movie with more iconic scenes, from Snoopy’s doghouse-riding airborne battle with the Red Baron to Charlie’s ill-fated attempt to finally kick the football that Lucy pulls away at the last second. I love a good horror movie as much as the next guy, but when the weather gets chilly and the pumpkins get carved, there’s nothing I want to watch more than the Peanuts gang as they spend their night in search of the Great Pumpkin.

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Michael Mongelluzzo Contributing Writer

“The Nightmare Before Christmas”: To me, this movie fits all the criteria of a classic Halloween film. It has memorable music, such as “This is Halloween” which is the best Halloween song (sorry, “Monster Mash”). This, coupled with Tim Burton’s iconic animation and pulling double duty as a Christmas film, makes the movie great to rewatch. I also do not like horror movies, so this fits perfectly for me. Although it does have its creepy elements (literally everything Oogie Boogie-related scares me to this day), it is just a really charming movie overall. Halloween and Christmas just wouldn’t be the same without a viewing of “The Nightmare Before Christmas.”

“Scream”: It’s a film that works on so many levels. For first-time viewers, it succeeds as a mystery thriller, keeping the audience constantly engaged with the task of uncovering the murderer’s identity and motive. The film also functions as a slasher film, with all of the genre’s violence and voyeurism in play. But most importantly, the film serves as meta-horror, deconstructing the slasher genre. This is where the film derives its charm: witty commentary on popular tropes and cliches. The film is unabashedly self-aware. Its characters make plenty of references to other horror movies and even entertain the idea that they are living within one. The slasher genre, filled with low-budget exploitation films and appealing to the unrefined tastes of movie-going youths, has always been discounted by critics as a form of cheap entertainment. They’re probably right, but the genre’s undeniable cultural impact, lending itself to the production of dozens of cult films, is quite admirable. The movie’s loving homage to its predecessors shares with its audience a feeling not too common in horror — nostalgia.

Roberson Museum tours reveal spirits of the mansion’s past Tours aim to highlight history and haunts Kyle Reina

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Laden with cobwebs, dimly lit hallways and tales of ghosts echoing through the halls, the Roberson Museum and Science Center hosted its annual “Souls of Roberson Mansion” tours for October.

Veering from last year’s emphasis on the ghost stories of staff and visitors, this year’s tours of the historic building delve more into the history behind the mansion with haunted tidbits

and rumors of ghosts sprinkled throughout the commentary, according to Kelly Cole, public programs coordinator for the Roberson Museum and Science Center.

“In the past, for the haunted tours, we have done a lot more ghost stories, more experiences that staff have had — so, we thought we would throw in more history also,” Cole said. “In the tour, they talk a lot more about the family that lived there and some of the history about the house and their childhood and how they grew up, things like that. We added more of that into the tour than we did last year. I think we are trying to make it like

our normal mansion tours with a little bit of an extra creepy factor to it.”

Throughout the tours, the mansion’s vast rooms are explained, narrating the Robersons’ relationship with the building. Tour guides find all sorts of avenues to tell a ghost story, taking opportunities to give several descriptions of the rooms of the home.

The frequency of the ghost stories ramps up throughout the tour, with added spooky collectibles such as a portrait painting of a deceased baby.

“We had an exhibition going on with that stuff and it just happened that some of that stuff is creepy on

its own,” Cole said. “There’s that the painting of that dead baby and that hair wreath that fit perfectly in with the tour. They just happen to be a part of an exhibition that we recently had up, so we decided to put those up too because they’re perfect for the haunted tour anyways.”

The ghost stories told by the ``tour guides, well timed to make visitors aware of the mansion’s haunted reputation, come from past staff and visitors who have experienced supposed run-ins with the spirits of Alonzo and Margaret Roberson, the original owners of the house.

“We wanted to make sure we kept that lane of thinking about

how we do tours and educate people about the house and the family that lived there, but we also understand that a lot of people are super interested in [the tours] if there are ghost stories,” Cole said. “It’s one of the number-one questions we get asked, so we wanted to incorporate that for

sure. The history is definitely a main part of it also, but the ghost part [is big] as well.”

“Souls of Roberson Mansion” tours will continue on two more Fridays this month, Oct. 18 and Oct. 25. The Roberson Museum and Science Center has tickets available online for $8.

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Women’s soccer falters against Maine in pivotal matchup Bearcats give Black Bears first conference win Ryan Giglio

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After the first 10 minutes of Sunday’s game against the Maine Black Bears, it seemed that all

the stars were aligned for the Binghamton women’s soccer team to successfully rebound from last week’s shutout loss to Stony Brook. Not only was BU (8-4-2, 2-2-1 America East) facing a team that has gone 0-4-1 in its last five games entering Sunday, but the Bearcats pounced early, with junior midfielder Sarah Dibble scoring

the matchup’s opening goal in the eighth minute. However, after a strong first half, not much else went right for Binghamton in the remainder of the matchup, resulting in a disappointing 3-1 loss.

“I felt we got off to a really good start,” said Binghamton head coach Neel Bhattacharjee. “We

sidney slon assistant photo editor Junior midfielder Sarah Dibble scored her second goal of the season on Sunday in Binghamton’s 3-1 road loss to Maine.

played with a good tempo and had some good attacking moments in the first nine to 10 minutes of the game.”

Dibble capitalized on a blocked shot to knock her own rebound into the left side of the net for her second score of the season.

Bhattacharjee called this goal a “reward” for his team having the “good attacking opportunities” early in the game.

According to Bhattacharjee, Maine (5-5-1, 1-3-1 AE) made some tactical adjustments, including playing their forwards higher against BU’s center backs, that led to the momentum shift in the game.

The Black Bears’ scoring began in the 38th minute, when freshman midfielder Olivia Chalifoux scored on a breakaway after the Black Bears moved through a BU offsides trap.

“The first goal looked tight,” Bhattacharjee said. “I have to look at the video, but it looked like someone was offsides and it also looked like there was a foul right before that through ball was played.

I thought that was just kind of an unfortunate break.”

Although the Black Bears didn’t score again until the 77th minute, Bhattacharjee said the momentum changed long before that.

“I thought they had good energy

and they started out-competing us for the 50-50 balls in the last 20 minutes of the first half,” he said.

“That’s where the game kind of shifted. In the second half, they still maintained a high level of energy and a fighting spirit. We didn’t quite match that until we were down [21], but by then it was too late.”

Maine’s go-ahead goal came after junior goalkeeper Mackenzie Hanna made a foot save off a Black Bear breakaway. However, senior forward Beate Naglestad was able to net an open far-post header as the Black Bears crashed on the corner.

Sunday was Hanna’s first start of the season and her 11 saves marked a career high, the most for any Bearcat goalie in three seasons. Hanna got the call over sophomore goalkeeper Haylee Poltorak, who has six clean sheets this season and 0.967 goals against average, good for fourth-best in the league. The change between the posts may have been unexpected to fans, but Bhattacharjee downplayed its significance.

“Hanna’s had a good week at training and she’s been really good with her communication and organization,” Bhattacharjee said.

“We gave her an opportunity today.

She made a couple of key plays and key saves.”

Bhattacharjee declined to

comment on the long-term situation at the position or who would start next week. He said he has confidence in all three of the team’s keepers, all of whom have different skill sets. It seems that the starter may be determined by which keeper is better suited to face the strengths of the opposing team.

Binghamton has now lost two matches in a row, and Bhattacharjee said his team must have short-term memory and put the struggles behind them. Thursday’s game against Hartford is now critical to the team’s playoff seeding. The top two teams in the AE receive a firstround bye in the playoffs and host semifinals, and the next two host quarterfinals. Should the Bearcats fall to the Hawks (6-5-1, 3-1-0 AE), their chances of hosting a playoff game will look bleak.

“Collectively as a group, we have to come together in terms of knowing what we expect, what we want and how we want to play,” Bhattacharjee said. “I look at this match and the Stony Brook match and we didn’t really compete the way we were capable of. We have to bring that energy, effort, fight and spirit every single day.”

Kickoff against Hartford is set for 2:30 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 17 at the Bearcats Sports Complex in Vestal, New York.

Volleyball defeated by UNH in 16th consecutive loss Bearcats’ winless season continues in league play Yaakov Spivack

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The Binghamton volleyball team started off a series of five onthe-road matches on Friday with a match against the University of New Hampshire. Continuing the trend for this season, the Bearcats (0-16, 0-3 America East) were swept by the Wildcats (12-5, 1-1 AE).

“I thought we competed well the first two sets of the match, able to execute whenever we handled the ball well on our side,” said Binghamton head coach Glenn Kiriyama. “Our hitters did a nice job, especially in the first set. In that second set, [we] sort of tailed off a little bit. Third set sort of got away from us there early on. It was tough to fight back.”

During the first two sets, BU was able to keep the score close.

It was only during set three that the team really slowed, seemingly unable to get started offensively

until the very end.

In the first frame, neither team was able to mount any significant edge throughout. Both teams fought hard and there was a lot of action. With the score 24-22, a kill by redshirt sophomore middle hitter Elis Gadelha via sophomore setter Kiara Adams brought the Binghamton team one point closer to tying the set, but a service error from junior outside hitter Francela Ulate ended the set in favor of the Wildcats.

Set two saw a similar situation.

To start, the Wildcats went on a 4-1 run. Not looking to go down so easily, the Bearcats’ offense improved and made the set more competitive. Two kills in a row by freshman outside hitter Audrey Haworth gave the Bearcats a onepoint margin in the set, 9-8. “[Haworth is] just a hard worker,” Kiriyama said. “Pretty even-keeled player, so she’s sort of a rock out there. They have to rely on her. She’s in on every play, she’s pretty active out there. She’s a good player, she was serving well, scored our last few points there in that third set and she’s been

improving. Her mental toughness has gotten better, I think. She’s making better choices, trying to keep the team together in those tough times. She’s doing a lot out there and we’re happy to see her progress.”

The teams continued to trade

points, though it was not long before the Wildcats began to pull ahead. Soon, the Bearcats were down 20-14, and the deficit proved too great to overcome.

While the team fought hard to bring the score closer, the set ended with BU falling by four

miya carmichael staff photographer Freshman outside hitter Audrey Haworth posted 10 kills and nine digs in Friday’s match against New Hampshire.

points, marking another close set that BU was unable to close out, continuing what has become a trend this season.

“A lot of it’s just mental right now,” Kiriyama said. “Because physically, we’re just as good as a lot of these teams. Mentally, we’ve just gotta get a little bit tougher, a little more confidence, especially in those moments, things we’ll definitely be working on.”

During set three, it seemed that the Bearcats had lost their head of steam. The Wildcats began the set with four unanswered points, which soon developed into a 10-3 run, and they never looked back.

With the score 24-6, the Bearcats’ offense shifted into a better gear, but it was too little and much too late. They were able to score five more before a kill ended the set and the match.

“We started off really slow, they served really tough,” Kiriyama said. “Our passing was not great.

[The Wildcats] aced us quite a few times at the beginning of the third set, and that set the tone. And I thought they blocked a little bit

better, because our passing was a little erratic and they were able to set up their block a little bit better in those instances. And maybe they served a little bit tougher.

They picked up their play a little bit, and we definitely didn’t pick up ours. We just couldn’t keep pace with them.”

Haworth and Ulate ended the night with 10 kills each. Haworth also had nine digs, as did senior defensive specialist Kim Lavender.

The loss marks the 16thstraight defeat for the team, which is still searching for its first win of the season. With tough road games ahead before a three-game stint at home, the remainder of the season won’t be easy for the Bearcats.

“We look forward to the games, and we’ve got a couple of tough ones on the road this coming weekend,” Kiriyama said. “So we’re trying our best to prepare for Albany and UMBC.” Next up is a match against Albany on Friday, Oct. 18. First serve is set for 7 p.m. from the University Gym in Albany, New York.

Men’s soccer blown out by Vermont in road thrashing Binghamton falls in third consecutive AE match Spencer Lubell

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The Binghamton men’s soccer team fell to Vermont by a final score of 4-0 on the road Saturday night. The Catamounts (7-4-0, 2-1-0 America East) started the scoring early when their sophomore midfielder Joe Morrison netted a goal in the 11th minute. With four seconds left in the half, Vermont freshman midfielder Hans Oeftger scored the first goal of his career to make it 2-0. Coming right before the break, the second goal stung for the Bearcats.

“We concede a goal with three seconds left in the half on a nothing,” said Binghamton head coach Paul Marco. “I mean, it was a 50-50 ball in their half, a kid goes up and clears it, there’s 10 seconds left and we just need to kick the ball out of bounce, and we do nothing. We just let the kid run with the ball and get a shot, and we are there to make a play and we don’t. I think that’s been

the story this season to us, when you are there to make a play, you need to do things instead of letting things happen, and it’s almost like we think someone else will take care of it.”

The Bearcats (3-7-1, 0-3-0 AE) didn’t have that many shots on net, and they created limited offensive pressure. In the first half, Binghamton had five shots to Vermont’s six.

“It’s extremely disappointing,” Marco said. “We fight really hard to get behind opponents, and we train really hard to break down opponents and we tried to negate their attack. Talk about how people try to attack us, all they really do is put balls forward and run onto them for a goal. From a soccer-playing standpoint, they were deliberate and forceful in what they did, and they were very good at it.”

Binghamton was unable to contain Vermont’s freshman midfielder Frosti Brynjólfsson. He had four points on the night, with two assists and one goal.

Just a minute and five seconds into the second half, Vermont scored another goal.

This time, senior defender Ívar

Örn Árnason scored off a cross from Brynjólfsson.

Trailing by three, Binghamton battled to try and hold the deficit, but in the 62nd minute of the game, Brynjólfsson capped off his night with a goal, giving the Catamounts a 4-0 shutout win.

With the loss, BU falls to 0-3 in conference play as the teams looks toward a game against Stony Brook next week. Marco has to hope that his team will bounce back during practice next week and up its intensity.

“I want our team to beat the heck out of each other next week in training,” Marco said. “Show up and out-compete the opponent in training this week. If we do that, we’ll manage the physicalness, we’ll manage the tired legs, we’ll manage how hard they work for how long they work, but they need to come to kick every ass in training because, right now, that’s the only thing that’s beating us.

It’s not about soccer playing, it’s not about the qualities we have with the ball. Right now we are getting out-competed.”

Marco said that the Bearcats need to adjust their style of play depending on what team

they’re playing.

“When we play teams like Columbia who play soccer similar to us, we play really well, and when we play against teams that try to bang a nail into the board, we are like pine and the nail goes

right through the board, and that’s what happened today,” Marco said.

“This week we are looking for guys to be like steel. Stop attacks, be tough, be gritty. If those things happen, I like our chances on Saturday. If we bring pine next

week down to Stony Brook, well, it is just another nail in the coffin.”

Kickoff in the Bearcats’ next contest against the Seawolves is set for 7 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 19 at Kenneth P. LaValle Stadium in Stony Brook, New York.

rose coschignano photo intern Junior midfielder Noah Luescher had the only two shots on goal for the Bearcats in Saturday’s 4-0 loss against Vermont.