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Tercero found guilty in Nicaraguan trial Former BU student to face 25 to 30 years in prison for murder Jacob Kerr & Kimberly Gonzalez pipe dream news

On Friday, former BU student Orlando Tercero was found guilty of murdering senior Haley Anderson in March 2018, eight weeks after the start of his Nicaraguan femicide trial.

After the trial was temporarily delayed because of a 5.3 magnitude earthquake, a Nicaraguan judge deliberated for roughly an hour and a half before handing down the verdict. Now, Tercero, 23, faces a sentence of 25 to 30 years in prison.

Anderson, 22, a nursing student from Westbury, New York, was found dead in Tercero’s residence at 23 Oak St. after Binghamton police officer Kristi Sager went to the house for a welfare check. On Oct. 12, Sager testified to the judge that she found Anderson’s body in the bedroom, a sheet partially covering her.

The same day, Tercero landed

in Nicaragua, where he holds dual citizenship. After U.S. officials issued a warrant for his arrest, Tercero was detained on March 13 by Nicaraguan police and transferred to El Chipote, a prison in Managua, Nicaragua.

Nicaraguan officials consistently denied requests for Tercero to be extradited to the United States.

On Friday, Tercero’s defense attorney presented one witness, a forensic psychiatrist who administered a mental evaluation for Tercero in jail.

The doctor noted that Tercero tried to commit suicide twice in the hours following Anderson’s death, and was temporarily admitted to a psychiatric hospital following his arrest in Nicaragua. He also testified that Tercero experienced several epileptic incidents while incarcerated.

Tercero now appears to be mentally stable and is not currently receiving therapy, according to the doctor.

During the trial, prosecutors called upon multiple former BU students who knew Anderson and Tercero. According to Anderson’s friends, Anderson and

“She was an aspiring nurse and had her whole life to look forward to. She was and still is, my best friend and I miss her every day. She has many friends that miss her every day and she had one of the biggest hearts for all of her friends and all people that she knew ...

She is unfortunately not here to advocate for herself.”

— Karen Anderson, mother of senior Haley Anderson

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Campus community Student groups fail SA aims celebrates Diwali to attend conference to launch housing project Event hosts dancing, singing groups for Indian holiday Richard Jannaccio contributing writer

Diwali 2K19, the 12th-annual Festival of Lights event sponsored by the Indian Graduate Students Organization (IGSO), lit up the University Union’s Mandela Room on Sunday afternoon and evening with more than two hours of upbeat

rhythmic music and dance by an everchanging cast of performers.

Diwali is a holiday that celebrates the triumph of good over evil, traditionally celebrated by Hindus, Jains and Sikhs in India.

Sunday’s full-capacity crowd was estimated at 450 by Bharath Reddy, one of the event’s organizers, vice president of the IGSO and a secondyear graduate student studying systems science and industrial engineering.

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SA to issue penalties to absent organizations Kimberly Gonzalez digital editor

The Binghamton University Student Association (SA) hosts an annual Fall Leadership Conference for more than 450 students groups, but this year, 39 of them failed to attend and are facing punishment.

On Sept. 8, the SA invited all

presidents and vice presidents of student groups to their conference to inform them of resources and information that aim to help leaders successfully run their organizations. According to Erin Bishop, executive vice president of the SA and a senior majoring in economics, different student groups missed the event for a variety of reasons.

“In part [it] was either that they didn’t see the email, or that their predecessors never mentioned to them

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More than 50 Binghamton University students and faculty members gathered at Appalachian Collegiate Center for a candlelight vigil on Friday night to honor Brandon PeartWright, a BU student who passed away earlier this semester.

Peart-Wright was a senior majoring in political science from Rockville Centre, New York, who transferred to BU after attending Nassau Community College for two years.

During his time on campus, he served as a mentor for the TRIO Student Support Services (SSS) program and was a member of BU Model United Nations.

His body was found in early September in Palisades Hall of Hillside Community. The University has not released an official cause of

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Community commemorates late student’s kindness, friendships Gillian Mathews news intern

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Moving off campus at Binghamton University can be a rite of passage for students as they enter into the world of leases, rent and landlords for the first time. In an effort to ease stress that can be associated with the process, the Student Association (SA) is creating a new project to provide students with housing resources and knowledge about their rights as tenants.

In 2018, the Student Housing subcommittee of the Town-Gown Advisory Board proposed a student representative program to promote housing literacy, noting a need for the distribution of accurate housing information from the city of Binghamton’s Office of Building Construction & Code Enforcement. With this goal in mind, Matthew Johnson, assistant director of the SA, has been working alongside Khaleel James, vice president for multicultural affairs and a junior double-majoring in economics and human development, John Santare, vice president for academic affairs and a senior double-majoring in biology and comparative literature and BU Council Representative Franklin Richards, a second-year graduate student studying public administration, to bring the

Campus vigil honors Brandon Peart-Wright

lucas peterka contributing photographer Students gather in the Appalachian Collegiate Center to mourn the death of Binghamton University student Brandon Peart-Wright, who passed away earlier this semester.

New initiative will provide offcampus housing resources

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Binghamton Philharmonic’s Beethoven Project pays tribute to the composer’s life and works,

BU’s cinema department screens “Fuses” and “Kitch’s Last Meal” in honor of Carolee Schneemann,

Contributing columnist Eric Lee advocates for Portuguese language education at BU,

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SPORTS Men’s soccer falls to Hartford 1-0,

Women’s soccer eliminated in AE quarterfinals,

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Owego mourns loss of two children in car accident On Oct. 20, second-grader Zachary Allen and sixth-grader Trinity Allen lost their lives as result of a car accident on Route 17, according to WBNG. The accident occurred while the car was stopped for a deer in the road. A tractor trailer collided with the stopped car, according to a GoFundMe page set up for the family. Almost two weeks later, the community gathered at Owego Elementary School to grieve the loss of the Allen siblings. Friends and family shared memories and listened to music under a candlelight vigil. The GoFundMe effort exceeded the $25,000 goal, raising $25,855.

Off-duty officer in kilt rescues man trapped in burning house New York State Police Sergeant Robert Bloom III was on his way to play with the Edward P. Maloney Memorial Pipe Band at the

Broome County Academy Graduation on Friday when he noticed smoke coming from a residence in Apalachin, according to the Press & Sun-Bulletin. Bloom discovered a bedridden man trapped inside the burning house and with the help of a neighbor, was able to get him into a wheelchair and to safety outside. Bloom, the neighbor and the resident were transported to area hospitals for smoke inhalation and are expected to make a full recovery.

STATE NEWS

New York state bill aims to give drivers diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder a special driver’s license A new bill introduced to the Committee on Transportation would allow people diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder to obtain a special driver’s license, according to Rochester First. The bill would help law enforcement and first responders recognize a driver with autism and react appropriately. Ad-

versaries of the bill are concerned that some with autism would not want a distinct license indicating their diagnosis. If the bill passes through the Committee on Transportation, it will go into effect in New York state immediately.

Jamaica police arrest off-duty FDNY firefighter for drunk hitand-run accident At around 3:15 a.m. on Sunday morning in Queens, New York, a drunk driver crashed into another car and attempted to flee the scene, according to the New York Daily News. Police were able to catch the suspect and identify him as Latchman Teelah, a 25-year-old off-duty FDNY firefighter. Police reported that when they showed up at the sight of the crash, Teelah tried to drive away and showed signs of intoxication. Authorities say he then refused a breathalyzer test. The other vehicle’s driver suffered only minor injuries, receiving “bumps and bruises.” Police charged Teelah with leaving the accident, driving while drunk and refusing to

take a breathalyzer test. On Sunday, his arraignment was pending in Queens Criminal Court.

New York ‘dry’ town to vote on alcohol sales Residents of Argyle, the largest town in the state without liquor sales laws, will vote on Tuesday on whether the town should begin to allow alcohol sales, according to the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle. Since prohibition ended in 1933, multiple referendums have failed to legalize alcohol sales or make the town “partially dry,” which would allow the sale of alcohol in specific contexts, such as at a restaurant or eatery. New York has just eight towns that still do not allow alcohol sales.

NATIONAL NEWS

Beto O’Rourke drops out of 2020 presidential race On Friday, former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke announced the end of his presidential campaign via a post on

Medium and through an email to his supporters, according to The New York Times. O’Rourke quit the race in the middle of the week before Democratic candidates were to gather in Iowa, citing financial strain. O’Rourke came to national prominence in the 2018 Texas Senate elections, where he mobilized a significant electorate against incumbent candidate Ted Cruz.

McDonald’s CEO fired over relationship with employee The board of directors of McDonald’s fired chief executive officer Steve Easterbrook on Sunday after they found Easterbrook “demonstrated poor judgement” in a consensual relationship with a subordinate employee, according to The Washington Post. Following a board review, the company determined Easterbrook violated policies against manager-employee relations, leading to his firing. In an email to McDonald’s employees, Easterbrook apologized for his actions and admitted that the relationship was “a mistake.”

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Student groups perform on stage for BU’s 12th-annual celebration of Diwali on Sunday.

Over 400 students join campus celebration of Indian holiday diwali from page 1 “We always have a sold-out event every year,” Reddy said.

Reddy said the historic roots of the festival are found in the Indian epic “Ramayana,” dated thousands of years B.C. “People would celebrate by getting together with their inner family circle, wear[ing] new clothes and celebrat[ing] by bursting firecrackers,” Reddy said. “This year, however, people in India have scaled back on the traditional use of firecrackers due to a heightened awareness of

climate change.”

The celebration started with a lamp-lighting ceremony, followed by a traditional Indian dance performance called Kathak.

Several honored guests were introduced and spoke briefly, including Upinder Dhillon, dean of Binghamton University’s School of Management, Eric Krohn, director of business incubation at the Koffman Southern Tier Incubator, Mohammad Khasawneh, chair and professor of systems science and industrial engineering and Nagendra Nagarur, a professor

of systems science and industrial engineering.

Each related their own experience with good triumphing over evil, as well as their reflections on, or appreciation of, Indian culture.

Krohn spoke about the mission of the Incubator and its relevance to the celebration of Diwali.

“The University built the Incubator to encourage startups,” Krohn said. “We look for darkness, pain and what we can do about it.”

Khasawneh spoke of his

connection to India and Indian culture.

“I’m from Georgia,” Khasawneh said. “I go back to Georgia once a year, but to India I go five times a year.”

The stage was then turned over to the many entertainers lined up to perform. Solo dancers and group dancers took the stage for a few minutes each, often in uniform or festive, colorful clothing.

Vinay Reddy, a second-year graduate student studying computer science, held auditions recently and choreographed all of

the group dances. Reddy said all of his dancing and choreography skills are self-taught.

“I learned to dance on YouTube,” Reddy said.

After the last dance performance, a seven-piece band performed a variety of music from both Indian and American culture, while a parade of lead vocalists lined up and took turns fronting the band.

The music for dancing and vocals spanned many genres, both Indian and American, including traditional, pop, alternative, deep house and rap.

Among the U.S. chartbusters were tunes such as Michael Jackson’s “Billie Jean” and Radiohead’s “Creep.”

Many of those attending wore brightly colored Indian clothing, with yellow being the most popular color, especially among men at the celebration.

After the band closed with a rendition of “I’ll Be There for You,” originally by The Rembrandts, the attendees entered the adjoining dining room, where a buffet of hot food catered by Moghul Fine Indian Cuisine awaited them.

Officials have yet to determine date of Tercero’s sentencing verdict from page 1 Tercero were in a romantic relationship, but after their breakup, Tercero became “obsessive.” While discussing her verdict on Friday, the judge told the court that Anderson’s friends knew Tercero had “aggressive tendencies” and that he would “yell at her indicating he wanted to be with her.”

Prosecutors also presented surveillance footage of Tercero and Anderson entering Tercero’s residence around 4 a.m. on March 8. Later video footage showed Tercero leaving the residence around 9:45 a.m. the same day.

Tercero’s blood was also found in the vicinity of Anderson’s body, and officers at the crime

scene found a notebook with a handwritten letter in Tercero’s bedroom, apologizing for his actions.

“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.”

Prosecutors believe Tercero attempted suicide twice before leaving his residence for John F. Kennedy International Airport in Queens, New York, where he boarded a flight.

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 earlier in the trial. Terzian said he found microhemorrhages on Anderson’s face, abrasions on the inside of her lower lip and bruising around her neck with

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

Anderson, and argued the crime deserves to be classified as femicide because of their previous relationship.

“This is a woman we’re talking about,” she said, as interpreted by a translator. “It doesn’t matter what nationality.”

Through tears, Karen Anderson, the victim’s mother, said “not a day goes by” that she does not think of her daughter.

“She was an aspiring nurse and had her whole life to look forward to,” she said. “She was, and still is, my best friend and I miss her every day. She has many friends that miss her every day and she had one of the biggest hearts for all of her friends and all people that

“She lighted the paths of the unfortunate, the searching and the ones who needed help. Her flame is now extinguished.”

— Gordon Anderson, father of senior Haley Anderson 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.”

acted as a ligature and impeded her breathing.

In closing statements on Friday, the prosecutor said Tercero was conscious of what he was doing while murdering

she knew … She is unfortunately not here to advocate for herself.”

Tercero was afforded the opportunity to speak to the court, as required under Nicaraguan law, but declined to talk.

The date of his sentencing has yet to be determined, and will be negotiated by Nicaraguan and U.S. officials.

Gorden Anderson, the victim’s father, said he hopes Tercero receives the maximum sentence.

In the meantime, he will think of his daughter, who he described as “a beacon, a lighthouse” for others.

“She lighted the paths of the unfortunate, the searching and the ones who needed help,” he said. “Her flame is now extinguished.”

Friends, family remember Peart-Wright as a leader vigil from page 1 death.

At the vigil, hosted by SSS, attendees were encouraged to write positive messages to PeartWright on a poster board. Many wrote thank-you notes for his kindness and friendship.

Stephen Rebello, director of the SSS program, encouraged those who spoke to remember the positive impact Peart-Wright left on the BU community.

During the vigil, fellow students, coworkers and family members remembered his character and shared their favorite memories.

Sofia Jordan, a sophomore majoring in biology, said she became close with Peart-Wright during the SSS summer training programs.

“He was a really sweet boy — I got to know him more over the summer after inviting him to sit with me at the training for resident assistant and

TRIO members,” Jordan said.

“When we finally got to talk, he explained how passionate he was about being a mentor, and back then I wasn’t part of those but actually I ended up applying to TRIO because of Brandon [PeartWright].”

As a fellow TRIO member, Ada Cheng, a sophomore double-majoring in human development and mathematics, said she always felt appreciated around him and admired his

ability to care for others.

“We weren’t the closest, but we worked together and had some good interactions,” Cheng said. “I’m kind of shy so I don’t initiate conversations, but he was one of the only people I felt comfortable talking to — he was just so sweet and so warm. I could talk to him about anything, he always greeted me and tried to make the most out of every interaction.”

Ryan Gennarelli, a

Binghamton’s New York State University Police (UPD) officer and Crisis Intervention Team-trained mental health law instructor, stressed the resources available to those struggling with the loss of Peart-Wright.

“If you are in a crisis, we want to make sure you have the help you need,” Gennarelli said.

“It’s about knowing where to go and helping those around you as well. Students can contact the

[University] Counseling Center, Residential Life, UPD and plenty of off-campus resources.”

Additionally, Gennarelli discussed the importance of being there for others after the loss of a BU community member, urging attendees to lean on each other.

“We are all a part of the same community and we all feel for this situation,” Gennarelli said.

“We are all there for each other in times such as these.”

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Professor visits Dominican Republic to teach debate skills Joseph Leeson-Schatz leads second youth camp Jeremy Wells

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provided by joseph leeson-schatz Joseph Leeson-Schatz, director of speech and debate at BU, held his second debate camp in the Dominican Republic to benefit children grades six to 12.

In October, Joseph LeesonSchatz, director of speech and debate at BU, got on a plane to the Dominican Republic to run his second debate workshop at the Ashton School, bringing his expertise to train students in grades six to 12 in the art of debate and rhetoric.

This year marks the second that Leeson-Schatz has run the workshop at the school, which is a selective academy located in Santo Domingo that offers training for activities such as Model United Nations and junior achievements, in addition to a debate club. The workshop focused on teaching students debate techniques, skills and philosophy.

“I worked with students grades six through 12 on how to form arguments, researching evidence and learning the basics of utilitarianism for impact comparison,” Leeson-Schatz said. “On top of lectures, we did a series of speaking and debate drills.”

Leeson-Schatz said the program was designed to prepare Ashton School students for local and international competitions.

“The goal of the program was

to teach debate, better prepare Ashton for the competitions they already have in the Dominican Republic as well as train them in the topic they’ll be debating when they travel to the United States to compete later in the year,” Schatz said.

However, the program does not just benefit children at the Ashton School. Leeson-Schatz said he sees it as a way to spread word of BU’s debate team and the University itself. “[This program] is also an opportunity to reach out and recruit potential debaters to Binghamton University and promote our school’s international reputation,” he said Two other people were involved in organizing and coordinating this program, both of whom reside in the Dominican Republic. One is Leyti De Los Santos, administrator of the leadership program at the Ashton School. “[Los Santos’] daughter also goes to Binghamton University and is on the debate team, which is how I made the initial connection,” Leeson-Schatz said.

“Terisha Lluberes is another mother who was actively involved in helping me come to run the workshop. She had two kids who participated in [it].”

Although this is only this program’s second year, LeesonSchatz intends to make it an annual trip.

“We are planning on it to continue to be an annual event and expand it in the future to include more people from Binghamton University attending,” he said.

Leeson-Schatz said he also plans to expand the scope of the program, starting workshops with instructors in the Dominican Republic to use the skills and tools of debate to provide a better educational experience. He is modeling the program after a curriculum he will soon be implementing at BU. “That training will be based upon the Debate Across the Curriculum workshop I will be running for the Center for Learning and Teaching at Binghamton [University] later this semester,” Leeson-Schatz said.

He noted his experience creating the program has been extremely rewarding, something he hopes will continue.

“In addition to seeing the joy of new students learning how to debate and loving the activity, I got the chance to experience a baseball game in the Dominican Republic, partake in a coral reef restoration training and forge friendships that will last long beyond this individual workshop,” Leeson-Schatz said.

“Universally, all the students enjoyed the workshop and were immediately asking when it could be run again.”

Housing project aims to address student rental concerns project from page 1 housing advisory project to life.

The project has a tentative start date of spring 2020, but is still in the developmental stage.

Santare was approached by Johnson to help construct the literature of the project because of his experience with writing policy literature for the SA. Santare said he believes the program would be mutually beneficial to both students and the city of Binghamton.

“Students would be more prepared for off-campus living, now equipped with additional tools and bits of information,” Santare wrote in an email. “As of right now, student use of Code Enforcement resources is a reaction to unfavorable conditions that they find themselves in. A goal of increasing the flow of information would be preventing future occurrences of these bad housing situations.”

According to Santare, the program will hire students as code ambassadors to be trained in specific topics pertaining to

the housing process, such as how to address deficiencies that may compromise personal health or safety, how to promptly and effectively reach out to the Office of Building Construction & Code Enforcement and how to be a good neighbor.

After an initial training period, additional education will occur throughout the school year, all of which would be sponsored by the Municipal Code Department of the city of Binghamton with periodic support from other affiliated organizations, such as the New York State Department of Health.

James was brought onto the project to help combat issues that students of disadvantaged backgrounds may find themselves in during the housing process.

James wrote in an email that the project is necessary and important to helping students transition into living off campus.

“Knowing that the off-campus housing in Binghamton has not gotten the greatest reviews from the student body, I figured this could be a way we as the SA could

help,” James wrote. “Taking on something this big is not a walk in the park so with this in mind I wanted to ensure that this project went as smooth as possible.”

According to Santare, project leaders are working through a variety of decisions, such as the number of housing advisers that will be hired. In addition to helping circulate information, housing advisers would have insight about housing code and common violations and would be available to the student body through office hours. Ambassadors will receive a stipend for their time, although that amount has yet to be determined.

Carter Carrieri, a junior majoring in accounting, said a project like this is useful to many students moving off campus, noting he has dealt with unethical landlords in the past.

“I think that this project could be really helpful for students moving off campus,” Carrieri said.

“In my own experience, landlords do things that are illegal and violate students’ rights, so this could be a good resource.”

john atkinson staff photographer The Student Association hopes to create an off-campus housing project to provide students with resources on renting and tenants’ rights.

Thirty-nine student organizations to face SA penalties conference from page 1 about this yearly, mandatory event,” Bishop wrote in an email.

“Organizations have had issues with transitioning to a new executive board, and this problem is prevalent in the attendance of this conference.”

In order to combat the lack of attendance, Bishop noted in the most recent SA Congress meeting she would be instituting penalties for the groups that did not show up. These penalties include temporary suspension of the

organization’s B-There account, a system that allows groups to make room reservations for events. In order to reserve rooms without B-There, leaders need to meet with the event planning advisor, who would then evaluate how the particular student group runs their organization and work with them in order to ensure smooth operations for the club’s future.

Bishop wrote the penalties will offer encouragement rather than punishment.

“The purpose of this penalty is not to punish groups, rather

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than to ensure that they get the guidance they need,” Bishop wrote. “A big part of these ‘advisory meetings’ between the group and my adviser is also to encourage groups to think about their long term goals, to keep legacy notes and make sure they have well-trained successors.”

According to Abigail Stark, an SA Congress representative and sophomore majoring in anthropology, a Multicultural Resource Center (MRC) event on diversity training also occurred at the same time as the Fall

Leadership Conference. Stark wrote in an email that the SA will aim to avoid such conflicts in the future.

“In future semesters, the SA is going to be sure to schedule the conference at a time during which competing events aren’t being held,” Stark wrote. “They’re also going to try to publicize it more.”

Sarah Starace, president of Binghamton Cheese Club and a senior majoring in biology, was one of the leaders who attended the conference, and said it included valuable information.

“It mostly discussed the obligations of group leaders and the rules of the SA, including some policy changes like the food policy,” Starace wrote in an email.

“I think the leadership conference is a great way to have group leaders meet and mingle in order to make club relations that maybe they otherwise wouldn’t make.”

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We convince ourselves that consuming alcohol is worth it — but it isn’t The many cons of alcohol vastly outweigh its so-called pros Nicholas Walker Columnist

We are going through a drug renaissance right now — cannabis is becoming legal across the United States, nicotine has become prevalent among high school and college students and psychedelics are finally being researched again. Yet, there is a missing piece here, the vile elephant in the room: ethanol, more commonly known as alcohol.

Aside from drinking, ethanol is used as a solvent in the synthesis of organic chemicals and as an additive to gasoline for cars. Sounds delicious to me.

How has drinking this become so idolized? This is especially interesting when looking at the language around addiction.

Those addicted to opiates are called opiate addicts and those addicted to nicotine are called nicotine addicts. But alcohol addicts? They’re called alcoholics.

They are personally branded and attacked; it is implied they weren’t able to control themselves around alcohol like “we” can. We feel the need to draw a line between them and us.

Our unhealthy relationship with alcohol is further evident in how we react to those trying to quit it. If one of us stops drinking alcohol, then the quitter can be perceived as passing judgment on the rest of us, whether they actually are or are not. Say John

Doe binge drinks twice per week and he says he drinks too much.

Well, the rest of us drinking that much or more will feel threatened by his proclamation. Equally so, if Jane Doe says she’s trying to escape the throes of alcohol, one of her friends will absolutely offer her a drink the next time they party. “Have a drink, what the hell?” It’s peer pressure at its finest. If a cigarette smoker is trying to stop using nicotine, we wouldn’t offer them a Juul hit, we’d congratulate them for trying to stop a bad habit. Why must we automatically shame our courageous friends who try to escape alcohol?

“But, alcohol tastes so good!” one might say. Does it, though?

Well, 200-proof ethanol, aka 100-percent alcohol, will kill you, and that stuff smells like hand sanitizer. So, why do we think alcohol tastes good? Mixed drinks taste good from the sugar and other additives to the alcohol, not the alcohol itself. Beer and wine?

From a young age, we are told that it’s “an acquired taste.” Our parents give us a sip, our faces pucker and they assure us that it’ll be delicious in 10 years. Acquired, alright. We tell ourselves that we like the taste, even though we don’t at first. We see our parents drinking after work “to relax” and we can’t have it, so that makes us want it even more.

And then there’s the constant advertising of how amazing alcohol is. I recently saw a Coors Light advertisement propose that I “open up a can of chill.”

What’s so chill about alcohol?

Beer commercials show these

perfectly sculpted bodies on a beach or rooftop bar cracking open a cold one. This implies that to have fun and look great, one must drink ethanol. Or liquor. Dos Equis’ wizened old man offers intelligence through the television. Thanks, 80-proof ethanol dude, but alcohol-related issues are the third-leading preventable cause of death, costing the United States nearly $224 billion per year.

With continuous use of alcohol, the brain reduces the amount of dopamine it usually makes due to the artificial spikes from alcohol. This lack of dopamine interferes with daily happiness, causing the user to return to alcohol for another hit of dopamine. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, drinking any type of alcohol can lead to six types of cancer, cirrhosis of the liver and death from overdose. Ethanol is broken down into acetaldehyde, which is a carcinogen, damaging cell DNA and causing cancer. We have been lied to, told wine is good for one thing and beer is good for another. Yes, there are antioxidants in wine, but there are also antioxidants in many plants that don’t come with a known carcinogen like ethanol. It is insane that alcohol’s carcinogen status is not communicated at all.

Then, we are tricked into thinking alcohol is a necessary social lubricant to meet new people and have a good time.

Our inhibition to say or do stupid things is lowered and our entire nervous system is depressed.

We aren’t fully present with our

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friends and our memory of the night before could be foggy. Why would we purposefully inhibit the full potential of our time together? I know I have done this many times myself, but I’m not sure it was worth the cost of me

being far louder and more dulled than I usually am.

I once thought there was some good to having an occasional drink, or more, but it’s clear we’ve been lied to. The possibility of uncomfortable encounters

and all other awkwardness that comes with human interactions is definitely better than the consequences of alcohol.

Nicholas Walker is a senior majoring in biomedical engineering.

BU’s contruction projects are a detriment to campus life The constant construction on campus unnecessarily disrupts student comfort Daniel Eisenhower Guest Columnist

As Pipe Dream’s assistant fun editor, I’ve joked in person and in memes about the sheer number of construction projects Binghamton University is currently working on. To name a few, there’s Hinman Dining Hall and Cleveland Hall of Hinman College, the Engineering Building, the University Union Undergrounds, the Science Library and Parking Lot M. This list doesn’t even include sidewalks, paths and tiles that have been getting constant upgrades over the years.

But each one of these projects was started before the previous was completed, beginning construction between last spring semester and now, and are all in a varying degree of completion today. This makes campus appear to be constantly under heavy renovation, and has the unfortunate effect of an academia version of Professor Calamitous, a cartoon villain who iconically “could never finish anything.” It’s not a good look for the University, and even worse, it’s an inconvenience for students, faculty and staff.

Time and again I’ve had to take an alternate route on my way to class because of sudden and unexpected construction projects. The first time I really took notice of it was last school

year, when buildings in Collegein-the-Woods were being revamped. It was my third year as a Mountainview College resident, and I had gotten used to using the trail paths as an ultimate shortcut down to the University Union and Engineering Building area. But within the first few weeks of the fall 2018 semester, the trails were closed off by fences and I had to create an alternate daily route. Not only were my precious trails closed off, but so were much of the College-in-theWoods walkways and staircases that so many other students used each day. Without a proper warning or even knowledge of these changes, students may face being late to class, lose their favorite spots on campus or feel displaced from what is supposed

to feel like their home away from home.

Another unintentional detour happened a few weeks ago as I was walking back to my car parked in Parking Lot M4, where there was a fence closing off a sidewalk that I had walked along earlier that same morning.

Granted, both of these situations were simple enough to solve.

If I couldn’t go over it, and I couldn’t go through it, I had to go around it. But it cost time and caused annoyance.

It’s one thing to have the entirety of campus in ruin for those who only see this campus as a school and nothing more, but more often than not students find a part of themselves here. In my case, the campus I saw as a prospective student was a major

factor in why I decided on BU and living on campus for three years has only strengthened my appreciation for it. I’m not alone in this either — there are tons of students here who love the look of the campus and its facilities. So I ask, why would the administration want to fix something if it isn’t broken?

I do understand the benefits of the school demonstrating that they’re always working on something, no matter how big or small. As a creative individual, I know that the concept of having a work in progress is alluring to your audience. It creates an aura of mystery that intrigues and encourages them to want more and become more involved.

But the problem is that BU is not yet a creativity-focused

university. If you need proof on that, notice which of the buildings are currently being renovated. The Fine Arts Building has needed renovations for years, and it has taken until President Harvey Stenger’s last State of the University address to announce it will finally get the attention it deserves. Despite its necessity, it remains just another of the seemingly endless construction projects ongoing around campus, as if the University never got finished being built in the first place. The facade of progress the school puts up about this neverending construction project is not sustainable, especially at this volume.

Daniel Eisenhower is a senior majoring in mechanical engineering.

BU’s romance language department is incomplete without Portuguese Portuguese speakers span the world, yet don’t have a home at BU Eric Lee Contributing Columnist

As someone with familial ties to the former Portuguese colony of Macau in China, now a special administrative region of the People’s Republic of China, I find it perplexing that a language spoken by up to 260 million people around the world, is not offered as a course at a premier public university like Binghamton University.

With the fast-growing economies of Mozambique, Angola and more, it is more important than ever that the University take the initiative to provide Portuguese instruction

to students, particularly if BU plans to promote itself as a premier public university and one that advocates for diversity and multiculturalism.

According to the 2017 U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey, there are over 790,000 Portuguese speakers in the United States, with many Portuguese speakers residing in the northeast states of New Jersey, New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts.

The 2000 U.S. Census also found that there are over 41,378 Portuguese speakers in the state of New York alone, with many of them coming from places like Brazil, Cape Verde and Portugal.

Over 205 million Portuguese speakers reside in Brazil, a country that’s an integral part of Latin America. I believe that

by incorporating Portuguese with Spanish education, we are informing the wider student community of how diverse and unique Latin America is. Also, by doing so, it will provide the student community the opportunity of a richer understanding of Brazilian culture, music, history and politics that have played a major part of the development of Latin America as a whole.

As Portuguese is a romance language closely related to Spanish, I believe that more integration of Portuguese will create new bridges between the Lusophone — Portuguesespeaking — world and the Spanish-speaking world in Latin America.

For example, Portuguese is offered at University at Albany,

Westchester Community College, SUNY New Paltz and Monroe Community College, but not here at BU. As one of the premier elite universities of the wider SUNY system, we should put pressure on the romance languages department to offer Portuguese to students at BU. How can it be called the romance languages department if you don’t offer Portuguese, a central romance language? The absence of Portuguese classes at BU is a void in the University’s continued push for diversity and multicultural education.

In order for the University to play a bigger role, not just in the future economy and development of New York state or the United States, but in promoting prosperity through higher education around the

world, we must unlock those new spheres of opportunities and include Lusophones.

This argument isn’t just limited to the University.

Latinx student groups should also make an effort to promote Portuguese language education and make Portuguese-speaking students feel welcome. Doing so would help spread culture and understanding between Latinx people of different cultural backgrounds.

According to José Carlos Guerreiro Adão, deputy coordinator for the Portuguese Language Programs and Educational Affairs in the United States of America at the Portuguese Consulate General of Newark, “There are about 49,000 Portuguese registered at the consulate in New York,

which combines the states of Connecticut and New York.

Our estimate is that there are currently 1.5 million Portuguese and Portuguese American[s], but we will only know the exact number of people who identify as Portuguese in the Census next year.” With the continued growth in Portuguese speakers in the Lusophone world and as the fifth-most spoken language in the world, I highly encourage BU to offer Portuguese classes in the future and for more opportunities to use and speak Portuguese at BU. As Adão said, “For all these reasons, teaching and learning Portuguese is an added value for students and the institution itself.”

Eric Lee is a senior doublemajoring in biochemistry and economics.

Annual Asian Night challenges cultural, social bubbles Performances include beatboxing, dancing Kyle Reina

staff writer

The Osterhout Concert Theater was brimming with energy on Saturday night as the Asian Student Union (ASU) hosted Asian Night from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., where seven different subgroups performed alongside individual performers like YouTube-famous artist Albert Posis.

While the show primarily focused on the cultures of the different groups represented, it also carried a unifying theme of “Bubbles.”

Prior to the event, Michael Messina, president of the ASU and a junior majoring in physics, said the theme tackled social and cultural barriers.

“The theme of ‘Bubbles’ is talking about the different kinds of social and cultural bubbles we make for ourselves, and the good

things that can come about with that as well as the dangers that can come with that,” Messina said.

“We’re incorporating it through some of our performances, who have really taken it to heart.

We’re also developing a skit that we are going to be performing as a storyline between each performance throughout the night, and that will grapple the themes of having bubbles and breaking away from bubbles. It’s about two people working in a bubble tea shop and they have to learn how to work together. How to both respect bubbles as well as how to break away from their bubbles in order to work together and save their tea shop.”

Jia He, a member of the the Chinese American Student Union (CASU) and an undeclared sophomore, said the event showcased different Asian cultures and backgrounds through choreography and performances.

“I think that’s the purpose of [ASU], because I think being

Asian means coming from a lot of different cultures and races, and each of us have our own different background that we grew up with,” he said. “Being able to showcase and focus on that is very important, but also being able to support each other’s culture and showcasing it together, that’s what makes it really great.”

The performances were purposefully diverse, as the ASU wanted to avoid an overuse of singers and dancers, according to Messina.

“We want as diverse of a lineup as possible,” he said. “We don’t want to have just singers or just dancers, so we might go into fight choreography [chanbara]. We also went into different kinds of modern step dance twists on classic traditional Chinese dances.”

Chanbara, also known as fight choreography, was performed onstage and accompanied by a backstory via video.

ASU was able to showcase several different facets of Asian cultures

and the differences between each culture, according to He. “This performance for us is a showcase of Chinese culture, especially the fan dance from China,” he said. “It’s just to represent our culture and show it off to the whole school, because our fan dance is different from the Vietnamese Student Association and the Taiwanese American Student Coalition. Our fan dance is different from theirs because of our Chinese culture. Being part of Asian Night, it’s important to showcase and represent the Chinese American student body.”

Other performers included Katie Lhungay, senior adviser for the ASU and a senior majoring in political science, who sang two songs, and Skylar Lai, a sophomore majoring in biology, who also sang. There were also high-profile performances

by Darren Fugu Yu, a beatboxer known as “Ghost,” and guest performer Posis. Posis, a Filipino American artist, is well known on YouTube with 120,000 subscribers,

david grinberg contributing photographer The Asian Student Union hosted Asian Night, a celebration of cultures and diversity within Asia, on Saturday evening.

and his track “Everlasting” has 8.5 million views.

Joshua Yam, a sophomore majoring in biology, was especially fond of the performances by Lhungay and Posis.

“It was fantastic,” Yam said.

“It was wonderful seeing all of

the ASU subgroups performing and presenting a portion of their culture, along with Albert Posis, who is a valid singer. He has a great voice, [you] should listen to him on Spotify. Katie Lhungay’s singing pulled at my heartstrings. It made me want to cry.”

Beethoven Project celebrates composer’s 250th birthday Concerts bring awareness to hearing disability Mithila Farin

contributing writer

Regarded as one of the most definitive composers of the classical period and the bridge to the romantic period, Ludwig van Beethoven has

continued to be a vivid presence through his music. With the coming of his 250th birthday in December 2020, the Binghamton Philharmonic is paying tribute to his life and works with the Beethoven Project.

The Beethoven Project kicked off with its first event, “Beethoven: A Legacy of Isolation and Amusement” on Sept. 28 with the Binghamton Philharmonic

endicott performing arts center The Beethoven Project celebrates the composer’s 250th birthday and aims to raise awareness of hearing disabilities.

performing Symphony No. 1 and No. 2. The Binghamton Philharmonic will perform all nine symphonies by the end of the two-season project.

The project is the result of a collaboration of more than 25 different organizations, each of which will host various events throughout the duration of the program.

“Beethoven Project events range from concerts and recitals to a 5K race, Bee(r)thoven Beer Festival and Murder Mystery Party, with many events in between,” said Andrea Carey, interim executive director of Binghamton Philharmonic.

This weekend, Theatre Street Productions contributed by showcasing the living history of Beethoven’s music at “Beethoven at the Phelps,” hosted by the Phelps Mansion Museum. Yü Lee on piano, Christina Docenko on violin and Daniel Eby on cello gave a performance that aimed to highlight the dynamics of

his music.

“You can just play through it and give it a normal monotone view, or you can try to deep dive into the music,” Docenko said.

“What do you think [Beethoven] meant here? I don’t know, I think he was trying to pit the pianist and the cellist against each other.”

In the first piece of the evening, Beethoven’s Piano Trio, Op. I, No. 3, Docenko and Lee played out the sarcasm of Beethoven’s music by utilizing theatrical facial expressions and body language to demonstrate a spar between the pianist, violinist and cellist. The audience laughed along on the journey of melodramatic expression of frustration, shock, anger, confusion and calm.

Lee, who played piano as accompaniment to an opera performance by Andrea Gregori and Cole Tornberg, ‘18, emphasized his connection to history through music.

“What I found more and more was the connection I made across time,” Lee said.

“When I study a piece, with every note, every word, I would see exactly what the composer or lyricist saw. That brought me extreme joy.”

In addition to sharing Beethoven’s music, the Beethoven Project draws attention to the critical fact that the artist, for much of his career, was composing while deaf. “[The Beethoven Project] also raises awareness for the deaf and hard of hearing through lectures and demonstrations of Beethoven’s declining hearing throughout his life,” Carey said.

Prior to every Binghamton Philharmonic performance, there will be a pre-discussion with audiologist Rebecca Jacob, who explores the psychosocial impacts of hearing loss and how to compose music while deaf.

The Binghamton Philharmonic performances are made deaf-

friendly by allowing those in the audience who are deaf or hard of hearing to reserve seats by an interpreter.

Upcoming events include Tri-Cities Opera’s event “We Shall Find Peace,” which is in celebration of veterans and those currently serving in the military and the Roberson Museum and Science Center’s “Bridge to Beethoven: Exploring Music in May” which will share the science of music and planetarium shows to explain what influenced Beethoven’s music.

“The goal of the project as a whole is to expose our community to organizations and events that they may not otherwise attend, through the efforts of cross-promotion and wide variety — all in the name of Beethoven,” Carey said. “The creativity of our community is truly remarkable.”

The Beethoven Project will continue performances and events until December 2020.

Film department screens ‘To Sleep With Anger’ Carolee Schneemann’s work shown at BU Art Museum Late director’s films known for controversy Rebekah Ehrlich

contributing writer

Artist Carolee Schneemann died in March, but her work lived on last week through a showing of two of her films, “Fuses” and “Kitch’s Last Meal.”

The event, part of the BU cinema department’s Visiting Film & Video Artists & Speaker Series, was held from 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Tuesday in Lecture Hall 6, drawing a crowd of about 40 people.

“Fuses” is a silent film with a run time of approximately 30 minutes, shot on 16mm film. The second film, “Kitch’s Last Meal,” is almost an hour long and features sound as well as color. Kenneth White, an assistant professor of cinema at Binghamton University who has contributed to the Carolee Schneemann Foundation and edited the anthology “Carolee Schneemann: Unforgivable,” said “Fuses” was originally 23 minutes long, but some of the materials were rediscovered and reincorporated into the film.

Both films featured visuals of Schneemann’s black cat, as well as scenes that had overlapping images of nature. The second film included audio of Schneemann speaking, as well as the sound of the cat meowing and a train.

After the films were shown, White answered questions from

the audience. When asked how Schneemann was able to achieve the distortion of the films, White expanded on a variety of Schneemann’s methods.

“She was painting on the film, baking it, leaving it out in the weather, putting stickers on it, burning it, using a whole range of direct-on-film techniques,” White said.

Ray Flaks, a junior majoring in cinema, said he liked the aesthetic of the films and the process by which Schneemann achieved it.

“I really liked her use of coloring,” Flaks said. “We later found out that she painted on the film and that she was a painter before she was a filmmaker, and that really translated in an interesting way because her films had a really cool color palette and a really cool just sort of use of paint manipulation.”

“Fuses” is the first film in Schneemann’s trilogy, while “Kitch’s Last Meal” is the last of the series. “Plumb Line,” the second film, was not shown at the event.

White said a common theme in the trilogy was domesticity.

“These three projects were various iterations of an interest, both in domestic life, especially her own … and striving to transform that into an opportunity for feminist revolution,” White said.

According to White, “Fuses” has faced many obstacles in reaching the public because ofo its controversial content.

“There was in fact, and Carolee

[Schneemann] used to love to tell this story, a laboratory that specialized in pornographic cinema, and they were the only lab that would take this film,” White said. “And they were very uncomfortable with it too, because it did not fit the conventions of the material they usually produced. It was something very extraordinary for them but they were willing to work through the material, both in terms of its photochemical content and the materiality of the film itself.”

White said another one of Schneemann’s controversial projects, “Meat Joy,” led to a situation that endangered her life.

“For ‘Meat Joy’ was, as she knew, a provocation to the deepest, most fundamental premises of repression, sexual and political,” White said. “At its first iteration in Paris, the work generated a sensuous exchange. So intense, that a man rushed out of the audience and attempted to strangle her, to censor Schneemann.”

White included a quote from Schneemann that explained what she thought the purpose of her art was. “’My materials do not solve the question, just continue to open it,’” White quoted.

The cinema department will continue to present events on Schneeman. “Breaking the Frame,” which will be presented by filmmaker Marielle Nitoslawska and will focus on Schneemann’s life, will be held at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 8 in Lecture Hall 6.

Film’s themes connect with current exhibition Adam Fallis

contributing writer

As part of Binghamton University’s most extensive display of African American artwork in the history of its art museum, Harpur Cinema screened Charles Burnett’s “To Sleep with Anger” on Friday and Sunday.

The event paired the film with the ambiance of “not but nothing other: AfricanAmerican Portrayals, 1930s to Today,” which showcases a wide range of pieces in different artistic mediums, highlighting topics of African American media representation and selfhood.

Before “To Sleep with Anger” was played, Chantal Rodais, event coordinator and a lecturer of cinema, discussed its historical context and impact on the film industry.

Although the film was a lowbudget production, Burnett was able to create a movie that was unconventional and pioneering for its time. Through the effusive praise of movie critics, Burnett’s career catapulted and he produced more iconic motion pictures that garnered him prestigious awards for his directing prowess.

In her speech, Rodais said the film challenged African American stereotypes in media.

“Moving away from Hollywood’s treatment of African American characters, Burnett offers a radically different film form that portrays with pointed insight and from a place of intimate knowledge, the complexities of a Black middleclass family and neighborhood,” Rodais said. “He counters the reductive and stereotypical images of blackness produced in Hollywood with his fluid tonal shifts, from drama to comedy, his rich texture of references to black folklore and oral storytelling traditions of the old South and his use of music that uniquely contributes to the fabric of his film work.”

The movie depicts an African American family that leaves behind its Southern roots and traditions to live in a predominantly white Los Angeles community. Harry, an old, charismatic friend, suddenly shows up on their doorstep and reminds them of their past, the good and the bad. He also brings forth a deviant, menacing energy that starts to rip the family apart, portrayed through backwoods mysticism and spiritual folklore.

The patriarch, Gideon, and his family go to church and have all the comforts of modern life. However, they still raise chickens in the backyard and believe in superstitions that are not linked to their current church. Harry represents the soul and the traditions the

family have left behind, yet strangely cling to.

Claire Kovacs, curator of collections and exhibitions at the BU Art Museum, said the content of the film perfectly aligns with the exhibition.

“Since the art exhibition displays a vast array of African American artwork ranging from the Harlem Renaissance to modern times, we thought of hosting screenings to the general public that are in conjunction to its themes,” Kovacs said. “The movie does a great job of opening up conversations and furthering the exhibition’s mission in representing people of color and their artistic legacies.”

Audience members that were at the screening presented diverse backgrounds and ages.

There were faculty, students and locals alike that exited the event with different interpretations.

Olivia Holmes, a professor of English at BU, said the film presented a common dichotomy of morality and corruption.

“It was almost like an apocalyptic playing out of good versus evil,” Holmes said. “The youngest son who leaves his family and comes back at the end, tells his wife that there was something fighting for his soul.

I was thinking about the thing that you see in the cartoons where you have an angel or devil fighting for the soul. I thought that the film was really beautiful and masterfully crafted.”

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Freshman defender Oliver Svalander had eight shots and four shots on goal in the team’s 1-0 loss to Hartford.

Bearcats’ unbeaten streak snapped by Hawks Spencer Lubell

contributing writer

In the penultimate conference game of the season, the Binghamton men’s soccer team fell to the Hartford Hawks by a final score of 1-0, snapping the Bearcats’ four-game unbeaten streak. However, because of other results from around the America East conference, Binghamton still managed to secure a berth in the AE tournament over

the weekend.

The Bearcats (5-8-3, 2-4-0 AE) either had to win against the Hawks (9-4-4, 3-2-1 AE), or Stony Brook had to lose against UMass Lowell for BU to clinch a playoff spot. Stony Brook’s 2-1 loss against UMass Lowell secured the Bearcats’ first berth to the AE tournament since 2016.

In the matchup against Hartford, the first and only goal of the game came in the 44th minute when the Hawks’ junior forward Nyrik Antoine’s shot hit the post and went in for Hartford. The goal was Antoine’s

first of the season and served as the game-winner.

“I think that we give up way too many opportunities to the opponent, at the start of or at the end of the half, and its come back to bite us a little bit,” said Binghamton head coach Paul Marco. “We’ve given up too many goals in the last five minutes. I mean it’s another goal in the last minute, so it’s hard to say that it’s desire, that it’s effort. For some moments for sure that’s what it is, but it’s more about an attitude, a frame of mind …

For the next five minutes, we’re locking this game down. ”

In the second half, the Bearcats worked to attempt to tie the game, recording 10 shots during the second half to Hartford’s two. On top of that, Binghamton had six shots on net while Hartford failed to register a shot on net in the final 45 minutes. Throughout the entire game, Binghamton registered 18 shots, 11 of which were on net.

The offensive leader for BU in the game was freshman defender Oliver Svalander, who recorded eight shots throughout the game, with four of them on goal.

Hartford senior goalkeeper Jimmy Slayton made 11

saves on the night, opposed to Binghamton’s sophomore goalkeeper P.J. Parker’s one save. The Bearcats also had eight corner kick opportunities to try to capitalize on but couldn’t get anything past Slayton.

“It’s disappointing ‘cause in particular their player only had one shot and one goal, and we end up having 18 shots and I think 11 or 12 were on goal,” Marco said. “This was one-way traffic in the second half only at their goal, really. They didn’t really have any attacks that led to anything in the second half.”

The closest opportunity that

Binghamton had was in the final minute of the game when Svalander’s shot went off the post. The horn sounded with the score remaining at 1-0.

Svalander’s eight shots with half on goal throughout the contest were the highest on the team and the most in a game this season.

Svalander is also third in the AE conference in shots on goal.

Binghamton’s next match will be its regular season finale, a home contest against Albany.

Kickoff is set for 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 6 from the Bearcats Sports Complex in Vestal, New York.

Volleyball swept in two matches, remains winless in 2019 Binghamton defeated by Stony Brook, Hartford Kiernan Fischer

contributing writer

The Binghamton women’s volleyball team dropped both its games over the weekend, losing to Stony Brook and Hartford.

Although the Bearcats (0-20, 0-7 America East) were swept in both contests, the games were very different.

On Friday, Binghamton led Stony Brook (9-13, 4-3 AE) for a portion of the first set before losing the final two points to drop the set 25-23. The Bearcats came out strong in the second set, jumping out to a 5-1 lead, but faltered late in the set and allowed Stony Brook to end the frame on a 7-3 run to claim the set 25-18.

The third set was dominated by the Seawolves, completing the sweep with a 25-14 win.

“Against Stony Brook, we competed well,” said Binghamton head coach Glenn Kiriyama.

“We were more aggressive with our serving and our hitting. It was a pretty good match for us, there was a lot of energy with how we played. We just couldn’t execute down the stretch like we needed to.”

Junior outside hitter Francela Ulate led the way on offense for Binghamton with eight kills, while senior defensive specialist Kim Lavender had a team-high 12 digs. The Bearcats did a much better job defending against Stony Brook senior outside hitter Maria Poole than they did last

time these teams met, as she had just three kills compared to 12 in their previous game.

However, Sunday’s loss to Hartford (13-11, 4-3 AE) was a blowout from start to finish, as Binghamton lost every set by double digits (25-15, 25-15, 25-6).

“Against Hartford it was tough because they are a physical team and we didn’t match up with them well,” Kiriyama said. “We struggled on offense, we didn’t pass well and we were not able to handle their physicality.”

One player who the Bearcats had trouble matching up with was senior middle blocker Jenna Bridges, who had 18 kills for Hartford.

“She’s just a bigger hitter,” Kiriyama said. “She hits hard and high and hit around the block fairly easily. When she’s on, it is going to be hard to dig. She showed why she is the defending player of the year.”

The first two sets of the game played out in a very similar fashion, as Hartford jumped out to a 7-2 lead in both. In the first set, Binghamton responded by cutting its deficit to 15-12 before Hartford ended the set on a 10-3 run. The Bearcats cut the Hawks’ lead to as close as 13-9 in the second set, but Hartford held on to win 25-15. The third set was less competitive than the first two, as Hartford started the set on an 8-0 run and did not let up in a 25-6 win to complete the sweep.

“We played a different lineup [in the last set] and it didn’t mesh as well as we would have liked,” Kiriyama said. “Things really just came together for [Hartford] in that last set.”

Leading the way for Binghamton on offense with eight kills and a .500 hitting percentage was senior outside hitter Victoria Keghlian. Sophomore setter Kiara Adams had 18 assists in the match. “[Keghlian] did a good job hitting on the right side,” Kiriyama said. “[Adams] did a good job setting.”

On defense, Ulate had a teamhigh five digs for Binghamton, while Hartford sophomore defensive specialist Alex Lucero led the way for Hartford with 11 digs.

With its sequence of five consecutive road games now complete, Binghamton will return home to face New Hampshire on Friday, Nov. 8, still seeking its first win of the year. First serve is set for 6 p.m. from the West Gym in Vestal, New York.

sidney slon assistant photo editor Senior outside hitter Victoria Keghlian led the Bearcats with eight kills and two blocks in Sunday’s loss to Hartford.

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MEN’S SOCCER

BU falls to Hartford SEE PAGE 9

Monday, November 4, 2019

Women’s soccer defeated in America East quarterfinals

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Freshman midfielder Olivia McKnight capped off her rookie season with a goal and an assist in Binghamton’s season-ending quarterfinal loss to New Hampshire.

BU suffers season-ending loss to New Hampshire Edward Aaron

assistant sports editor

After finishing its regular season on Thursday, the Binghamton women’s soccer team entered the America East (AE) Championship as the No. 5 seed. The team traveled to face No. 4 New Hampshire in a road quarterfinal, and its season came to an end Sunday afternoon. The Bearcats (10-6-2, 4-3-1 AE) were defeated by the Wildcats (10-7-0, 5-3-0 AE) in a 3-2 decision.

“Unfortunately, we came off to a slow start,” said BU head coach Neel Bhattacharjee. “The

first 30 minutes were in favor of UNH. We were a little bit slow to react at certain moments and as a result we ended up going down 1-0.”

New Hampshire scored the game’s first goal and controlled much of the first half. Nine minutes after the initial goal, the Bearcats scored an equalizer.

Freshman midfielder Olivia McKnight chipped a shot over the head of UNH sophomore goalkeeper Cat Sheppard to put the Bearcats on the board.

The teams headed into the halftime break deadlocked at one, despite the fact that the Wildcats controlled much of the half. New Hampshire outshot the Bearcats 13-5 and junior goalkeeper Mackenzie Hanna made six saves

throughout the first 45 minutes.

The stats were more even in the second period, but the Bearcats let New Hampshire convert two breakaway opportunities into goals. The Wildcats scored 11 minutes into the half and took a commanding 3-1 lead in the 74th minute.

Binghamton put forth a stronger attack in the game’s final minutes to try and preserve its season. The team converted an opportunity, with junior defender Erin Theiller tipping in a header from McKnight, but it was too little, too late. Time ran out on the Bearcats’ season, and New Hampshire advanced to the semifinals.

“The second half we felt was a pretty competitive half for

both teams,” Bhattacharjee said.

“Unfortunately, we just left a little too much space behind on both of their goals … I loved how our team didn’t quit. We changed our system of play a bit to try to get two goals back, we got a good goal to cut it down to one and unfortunately time ran out before we could get an equalizer.”

The Bearcats closed out their regular season last Thursday night against UMBC. In a game shortened by intense rain and poor field conditions, the Bearcats came away with a 2-0 victory. If New Hampshire had lost or tied its game that night, Binghamton would have hosted a quarterfinal instead of going on the road.

With its season now complete,

Bhattacharjee and the Bearcats will look ahead to the future of the program. While the leadership provided by this year’s senior class was strong, the Bearcats will lose just one consistent starter to graduation this year.

Throughout the season, McKnight’s development as a freshman was a key storyline for the Bearcats. Her goal was her sixth of the season and the assist was her fifth. She finished her freshman season as the Bearcats’ leader in goals, assists and points.

She is number one in the AE for shots on goal and is a contender to be named AE Rookie of the Year, a selection that will be announced on Thursday.

In August, her twin sister, freshman midfielder Victoria

McKnight, was injured in a scrimmage and forced to redshirt her freshman season. The pair had comparable high school careers, so before even announcing their incoming class, the Bearcats can look forward to a key addition next season.

“Certainly, we hope that Tori McKnight will come back to her full ability,” Bhattacharjee said.

“A number of freshmen were able to contribute [this season] along with the sophomores and juniors … We’ve got a very good group.”

With a junior class including both of Binghamton’s allconference selections and several key contributors from the freshmen and sophomores, Binghamton has a strong foundation to build upon in 2020.

Cross country teams place fifth at AE Championships Chigatayeva places fourth of 87 in women’s race Joe Tonetti

contributing writer

As the Binghamton men’s and women’s cross country teams both took fifth place out of nine in this season’s America East (AE) Championships at Albany last Saturday, three athletes delivered outstanding performances, each taking all-

conference honors among the toughest competition in the AE Conference. Freshman Ryan Guerci finished 14th out of 84 finishers in the men’s race, sophomore Aziza Chigatayeva took fourth out of 87 athletes on the women’s side and senior

provided by bu athletics Senior Jessica Cueva-Scarpelli (left), freshman Ryan Guerci and sophomore Aziza Chigatayeva earned all-conference honors at the America East Championships.

Jessica Cueva-Scarpelli ended her last AE Championships appearance in 12th to win the first all-conference selection of her collegiate career.

“I’ve always wanted this,” Cueva-Scarpelli said. “It took me four years but it was worth the wait and worth all the workouts and miles. It was definitely fast and it hurt but it was an amazing feeling at the end.”

The results of the women’s meet were close, with only 11 points separating the fourthand seventh-place positions.

Binghamton took fifth with 134 points. Cueva-Scarpelli finished with a time of 17:41.14 in the 5K race, while Chigatayeva ran ahead among three UNH finishers. She went out with the three UNH athletes, staying with them for most of the race, but began to tail behind two of them in the last mile, still managing a fourthplace finish and continuing to outperform the majority of her competition. She clocked in at 17:04.95. Additionally, redshirt junior Emily Mackay, who had just returned from injury, and junior Hannah Mellino took 38th and 39th, respectively, to earn the Bearcats crucial points and keeping them in fifth place.

“I was really hoping that everyone would put themselves out there, which they did,” Cueva-Scarpelli said. “I knew as

a whole we were going to try our best and that was good enough for me.”

Because of stiff competition from schools like Stony Brook and UMass Lowell and rough performances from the upperclassmen, the men’s cross country team only mustered a fifth-place finish compared to their third-place performance last year. Binghamton’s top-three finishers were freshmen; Guerci took 14th with a time of 24:30.08 in the 8K and was the secondhighest-placing freshman of the meet behind Stony Brook’s Evan Brennan, who was named the AE’s Most Outstanding Rookie.

Behind him finished Bearcat freshman Matt Cavaliere in 28th place (24:58.38), followed by freshman Marty Dolan in 29th (25:01.03). Overall, the Bearcats finished with 137 points, while Stony Brook took the title with 22 and is currently ranked third in the region.

“I had mixed emotions on the men’s side — it was a tough day but also very encouraging,” said Binghamton head coach Annette Acuff. “Our top-three finishers were freshmen, so I didn’t expect that, but at the same time that was fantastic for them because for freshmen that’s a rarity. You don’t typically see that many freshmen finish that high.”

Aided by good weather, a short

travel time and familiarity with the course, Guerci’s time seemed to surprise Acuff. He was the first Binghamton men’s freshman to be named all-conference since 2009, when Jeff Martinez, ‘14, took 10th at the meet.

“He almost ran a minute faster than what he did two weeks ago and how he did that is just unbelievable to me,” Acuff said. “I think it’s a testament to Ryan’s talent.”

Last year, redshirt junior Dan Schaffer finished second overall at the meet but missed this season due to an injury.

“If Dan Schaffer had been with us this year … we still would have been fifth,” Acuff said. “I think New Hampshire and Vermont had much stronger teams.”

Binghamton’s next competition will be the NCAA Northeast Regional Meet.

Coming off of Saturday’s result, the athletes will have to physically and mentally prepare to deliver good performances.

“I want to focus on what I’ve been doing these past few weeks because I feel like that’s been helping, just mentally preparing, eating the right food, getting the right amount of sleep and balancing out work,” Guerci said.

The NCAA Northeast Regional Meet will take place on Friday, Nov. 15 in Buffalo, New York.