Issue 5

SUNY Smart Track

A painful brand

Adelphi shutout

Chancellor Zimpher announces program to simplify college financing...Page 5

The Editorial Board weighs in on the misleading Times article and the campus' response....Page 9

Men's soccer wins by 3 in non-conference finale...Page 12

PIPE DREAM Tuesday, September 25, 2012 | Binghamton University | www.bupipedream.com | Vol. LXXVII, Issue 5

Greek life rallies against the Times New York Times accusations of hazing downplay BU's efforts to turn the page James Galloway News Editor

In light of national press surrounding the hazing allegations and the halt to pledging last semester — including a front-page article in The New York Times on Wednesday — more than 100 students involved in Greek organizations gathered outside the Glenn G. Bartle Library to publicly denounce hazing.

The rally, largely organized by the fraternity council presidents and Greek conduct coordinator Will Madera, was an attempt by Greek Life to distance itself from the perceived misrepresentation by

the Times article.

“He made it sound as though all of us were just as bad as the people and the incidents he wrote about,” said Zach Stein, president of the Interfraternity Council.

“Everyone was upset to be stereotyped and generalized like that again, because we’ve been working so hard to move away from that and fix our ways.”

The Times article included reported incidents of hazing from anonymous sources, but did not name any Universitysanctioned fraternities or sororities.

“They decided to report on actions that were mostly secondhand, anonymous, reports,” said University President Harvey

"Everyone was upset to be stereotyped and generalized like that again, because we’ve been working so hard to move away from that and fix our ways."

— Zack Stein President of the Interfraternity Council

Stenger. “I think it was old news that was something we’ve addressed for the last five months, and I think it’s unfortunate that

they didn’t talk about the way that we’ve addressed it.”

The only fraternity accused of hazing by name was Alpha Pi Epsilon, or APES, which is not sanctioned by the University and not associated with any national organization.

“The article did specify, but they didn’t specify clearly enough that APES and SAMMY — and groups like that where a lot of the worst hazing does occur — aren’t part of any of our councils, and they’re not a part of our school,” said Stein, a senior majoring in anthropology. “We’re trying

Record-setting year far from Keegan's mind

BU Bearcats

Erik Bacharach Assistant Sports Editor

He’s broken records and received awards. His performance has demanded the spotlight. But all Jake Keegan cares about is winning.

In his senior year, the forward has taken college soccer by storm, accumulating eight goals and 19 total points through just nine games, good for first in the America East and fourth in the nation in both categories.

The John Jay High School alumnus has already earned his place among Binghamton record holders with his program-best 25 career goals and 62 career total points. And with eight regular season games left to play in his collegiate career, there’s still a lot of history to be written.

But for all his personal accolades this season and

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Darian Lusk Release Editor

The Student Association confirmed on Monday that Grammy award-winning DJ and producer Afrojack is coming to Binghamton University.

Afrojack will perform at 8 p.m. on Nov. 8 in the Events Center as a part of his U.S “Jacked” tour. Both ticket prices and the opening act have yet to be announced.

“We’re excited to give students a cheaper electronic option after this year’s Avicii concert,” said Brianna Friia, vice president of programming for the Student Association.

The news of the concert was released first by Afrojack himself, not the Student Association.

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2 » Organizations with disciplinary warnings

1 » Organization on probation

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“We woke up this morning and Afrojack had released us on his website, Rolling Stone and Billboard, so we are very excited that we could start spreading the word to the students,” Friia said.

The SA Programming Board posted a photo of the DJ and producer on their Facebook page by noon Monday with the caption, “Yes the news is true…AFROJACK is coming to Binghamton THURSDAY NOVEMBER 8TH!!!

Details to come soon…”

Afrojack was listed as No. 7 on DJ Mag’s top 100 DJs of 2011. His song “Take Over Control” was No. 1 for six weeks on Billboard’s Hot Dance Airplay chart.

“We’re gonna be his third or fourth college that he’s played in the U.S,” said Adam Sebag,

concert chair of the Student Association Programming Board.

He was also a popular choice on the fall concert student survey.

“Lot’s of people give us complaints about how it [the survey] is not realistic, but Afrojack was on it. We followed through with one of the best electronic producers in the U.S.,” Sebag said. “The production is gonna be as big if not bigger than Avicii. Lights, a whole bunch of other surprises, so stay tuned.”

The Student Association Programming Board promises a year of bigger and better acts than ever before.

“We’re trying to make this the biggest year of programming so far,” Friia said.

Debate team places second at first tournament Adam Tarchoun and Sky Stage

Despite all the attention surrounding his remarkable play this season, senior forward Jake Keegan is only thinking about his team and the postseason.

still under investigation

Binghamton gets Jacked with Afrojack

Senior puts winning season ahead of personal achievements throughout his career, Keegan remains adamant about his top priority: winning.

“It’s probably cliché to say, but personal achievements are nice if the team is winning, but if you’re not winning then they really don’t matter,” he said.

The Bearcats have disappointed in the past three seasons, losing in the America East Quarterfinals in 2009 and 2010, Keegan’s freshman and sophomore years, and failing to even make the tournament in 2011 for the first time since since 2002.

“Maybe somewhere down the line I might think about it,” Keegan said about his personal achievements. “But we haven’t been great in any of the three years that I’ve been here, so overall, its been a disappointment. So hopefully, if we can be successful this year, we can wipe all that away.”

In both his freshman and junior seasons, Keegan led the team in goals with seven, so his output in 2012 thus far shouldn’t come as a shock.

But as Keegan reflects back on his freshman season, he sees how far he has come as an athlete.

“As a freshman I wasn’t nearly as polished of a player,” he said.

“I kind of just got by on creating or getting on the end of chances and I was able to score a few goals, but this year I’ve kind of been able

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Binghamton University continued its successful stretch in competitive debate at the Northeast Regional Opener, held in the Fine Arts Building this weekend.

It was the third straight year that BU hosted the the regional opener, an event run by the Cross Examination Debate Association (CEDA).

The tournament was broken into three skill divisions, Novice,

Junior Varsity and Varsity, with each division debating under the guidelines of CEDA and the National Debate Tournament (NDT).

Binghamton took second place to Rutgers in the Varsity finals. West Point won the tournament at both the Novice and JV levels.

“It was a good result, we made it very far despite our lack of experience,” said Joe Leeson-Schatz, director of the BU speech and debate team since 2001. “It provides good ground moving forward and for providing the education for our

debaters on how to get to the next competitive level.”

BU was ranked 10th in the nation last year, marking the team’s seventh year as a top-10 team. In 2008, the team was ranked No. 1 in the nation.

About 25 different universities attended the tournament and nearly 300 students competed.

This year’s debate topic was the United States federal government and its fiscal involvement in modern energy production.

Chirag Raparia, a novice debater and an undeclared

freshman, participated in his first debate at the weekend opener.

Raparia said he practiced for the tournament with experienced members of the BU speech and debate team.

“This is a test round to see how it is and to see if I’m good at it,” Raparia said of his first experience debating. “I plan on staying in debate. With proper training, I can make arguments come naturally.”

Michael Dong, a sophomore from Cornell University

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www.bupipedream.com | September 25, 2012

NEWS

Fields of dreams complete for Division I athletes Anika Michel and Ashley Purdy Contributing Writers

After a year of construction, Binghamton University officially opened its new athletic facilities on Friday.

Binghamton University President Harvey Stenger and Athletic Director Patrick Elliott hosted the ceremonial grand opening, which was attended by Assemblywoman Donna A. Lupardo and state Senator Thomas W. Libous, as well as several BU sports teams.

“Our hope is that these new state of the art facilities will give our coaches and student-athletes an even greater edge to recruit and train, while competing for conference championships and NCAA tournament awards,” Elliott said.

The opened facilities include a renovated baseball field and tennis courts, as well as a new softball field.

“I believe that probably right now we can say that we have the best sports complex in the American East,” Stenger said.

Senator Libous said the new fields add to the ongoing endeavor to make BU competitive at the Division I level.

“This is the quality for Binghamton University as a Division I school,” Libous said. “This puts us up right in with the big schools. It ranks with the academics and overall quality of this University.”

The renovated tennis facility includes 12 new courts with cushion surface on six of them, in addition to a center promenade for spectators and coaches, concrete walkways and new windscreens.

“The new courts are a big improvement from last year,” said Michael Gross, a member of the men’s tennis team and a sophomore majoring in psychology. “The [previous] courts had a lot of cracks and it was just too vintage.”

The baseball field added a natural grass surface with irrigation and drainage, stadium seating and a 30-foot center field batter’s eye.

Bijan Mangouri, an infielder on the baseball team and a senior majoring in biology, said he was happy with the new field.

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Binghamton University President Harvey Stenger and Athletic Director Patrick Elliott preside over an opening ceremony for the new outdoor athletic facilities on the east side of campus on Friday.

Coming 9/28 to Binghamton

“It’s just incredible to have a place to call home now,” Mangouri said. “Last year we spent almost every game on the road because we didn’t have a home field.”

The softball field was moved from the east side of campus to a spot behind the Events Center. The new field has natural grass surface, bullpens with batting cages down each foul line and an 8-foot outfield fence.

“I think [the new field] is great,” said Shannon Kane, an outfielder for the softball team and a senior majoring in philosophy, politics and law. “They are beautiful and really represent us as a community and a university.”

Both the baseball and softball fields added professional-style dugouts and professional-grade dirt, as well as a press box, sound system and wiring for additional lighting.

BU men’s basketball coach Tom Dempsey said the University’s sports facilities should reflect the level at which BU competes.

“I think that most importantly, we’re playing Division I baseball, softball, tennis and we want to have facilities that scream we are Division I,” Dempsey said.

John Hartrick, BU’s associate director of athletics for communications, said he believes the new facilities will benefit both students and spectators.

“Each facility has a spectator component that has been upgraded,” Hartrick said. “Both our students on campus and the community will have a much better opportunity to just be comfortably seated and enjoy the action.”

Stenger said he believes that the new facilities will make attending games more enjoyable, which in turn may make teams more successful.

“The students will find it more comfortable to come to a game,” Stenger said. “You’ve got a concession stand right behind here, you’ve got really nice seats, a really good team. Then that makes the players play harder and enjoy playing a little better, and that helps to recruit better students.”

Fracking petitioners hit home

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Members of New Yorkers Against Fracking gathered Downtown at the Martin Luther King Jr. Promenade on Saturday to continue their fight against hydraulic fracturing in New York.

At the “Downtown Frackdown,” petitioners walked door-to-door asking Binghamton residents and businesses to support a ban on fracking in the Southern Tier.

The petition was organized by a number of anti-fracking groups including New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG), Frack Action, Citizen Action of New York and others organizations that are part of New Yorkers Against Fracking.

Isaac Silberman-Gorn, an environmental organizer with Citizen Action of New York, began the event by engaging attendees in a role-playing activity to demonstrate what petitioners should do when residents respond negatively. However, he added that most residents would be supportive because “no one in this city has anything to gain from this.”

“We are going to win this fight,” he said. “There’s too much at stake.”

Silberman-Gorn said the fight

against fracking in New York is especially important because it will set a precedent for the rest of the nation.

“The world is watching New York,” he said.

Rob Kornblum serves as both the project coordinator for NYPIRG on campus and the NYPIRG Southern Tier hydrofracking coordinator. He said that Saturday’s petition was a combined effort by community members and students ban hydrofracking.

“I thought it was essential that Binghamton students had to join forces with these groups,” Kornblum said.

He said that he has seen a “vastly increased student presence in the hydrofracking movement,” but he still hopes to expand student involvement.

According to Kornblum, most residents were supportive of the petitioners. He said the petition is a way to remind people they are not alone if they are against fracking.

“A lot of people can feel powerless when they don’t know that,” Kornblum said.

He received signatures from about a dozen local businesses, including River Read Books, Thai Time and several art galleries.

NYPIRG intern Nikia Williams said she went to about 100 houses

asking residents to sign the petition.

Williams, a junior doublemajoring in comparative literature and philosophy, politics and law, said many of the residents were not home, but those who were seemed overwhelmingly anti-fracking.

She said that before her internship with NYPIRG, she knew little about the process of hydrofracking.

“After learning about it and hearing about it, it’s definitely a very important issue,” Nikia said.

“It’s very important that we keep our water uncontaminated.”

Kornblum said that in the future, students should expect to see NYPIRG ramping up their presence on campus with a series of educational events.

Their plans include phone-athons to Governor Cuomo, demonstrations of clean vs. fracked water and educating students on where local candidates stand on fracking.

Kornblum said he is optimistic about working with NYPIRG on campus this year, and that the group has a good mix of freshmen and seasoned anti-frackers.

“We’ve got a good group so far this year,” Kornblum said.

“I’m just looking forward to an excellent season of student activism.”

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BRIEFS

Police Watch

Students and alumni perform

Pacifying molly WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 19, 5:03 p.m. — Officers from Binghamton’s New York State University Police responded to a drug complaint in College in the Woods’ Seneca Hall, Investigator Patrick Reilly said. The officers spoke to the resident director and then went to the room where the smell of marijuana had been detected. The officers knocked on the door, and the room’s occupant allowed the officers entry into the room. The suspect, a 19-year-old male student, appeared to be under the influence of marijuana and after questioning he admitted to using it. The suspect was asked for identification and a forged Arizona driver’s license was found. Upon search the officers found a plastic baggie with a pacifier and a white powder in it, which the suspect identified as molly and is being tested in the police lab. The officers also found a glass pipe with a green leafy substance, which tested positive for marijuana. The student was issued three appearance tickets to the Vestal Town Court.

Keystone blackout WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 19, 11:33 p.m. — Officers on patrol noted a vehicle exit the Hinman Community without its lights on, Reilly said. The officers followed the vehicle for a safe distance, and then initiated a traffic stop. The officers performed a check of the vehicle and as they did so they found an ID card in the vehicle. When they asked the driver, a 19-year-old male student, about the card he said he didn’t know about it. The officers checked the card, which was a state of Pennsylvania ID with the suspect’s face, but an incorrect date of birth. The case was referred to judicial.

Ounces of excess THURSDAY, SEPT. 20, 12:17 a.m. — University police officers responded to a complaint of an intoxicated male in Newing College’s Broome Hall, Reilly said. The reporters said that they had brought the suspect home after he had drank a 16 oz. water bottle of cheap whiskey. When the other students tried to wake him up, he would just vomit.

Harper’s Ferry was called and the student was transported to Wilkinson Hospital.

Correction A photo caption in the Sept. 21, 2012 edition of Pipe Dream with an article about “Connect With Other Bearcats,” a Residential Life event, incorrectly stated that the subject of the photo was a student attending the presentation and that the event was held on Friday. The subject is actually Richard Mendez, the resident director of Windham Hall, and the event was held on Thursday, Sept. 21, 2012.

Pipe Line B INGHAMTON U NIVERSITY Campus entrance to close Thursday The incoming lanes at the main campus entrance will be closed from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Thursday, weather permitting, while the Harpur Monument is moved from the Vestal Parkway location to its new location at the Harpur College Quad. Traffic will be permitted in the outgoing lanes.

Parking lot C will also be closed most of the day on Thursday to facilitate the move. Preparation work is not expected to affect campus activities.

Events Center to host Disaster Preparedness Fair Broome County Executive Debbie Preston, in partnership with dozens of community partners, will host a Disaster Preparedness Fair from 3-8 p.m. on Wednesday at the Events Center. The fair will offer insight and advice to local residents on a wide array of disaster preparedness issues.

The fair is free to the public.

HR course to be held downtown Binghamton University’s Office of Continuing Education and Outreach will sponsor a four-course certificate program titled, “Human Resources Certificate in High Performance Coaching.” This program begins on Tuesday, Oct. 9 at the Binghamton University Downtown Center and runs for four consecutive Tuesdays, ending on Oct. 30. The workshop fee is $499 or $449.10 for alumni, and includes all materials, parking and certificate of completion with Continuing Education units (1.6 units).

Bloomberg Assessment Test coming to BU The Bloomberg Assessment Test (BAT) will be coming to campus this weekend. The goal of the BAT is to match student strengths with employer needs, so you do not need to be an expert on all sections of the test. The BAT screens students for careers in finance, economics or business and will be offered at 2 p.m. Friday, Sept. 28 and Saturday, Sept.

29. The test is free for undergraduate and graduate students.

L OCAL Universities to develop teacher-training pilot program Two New York state universities have been awarded nearly $1 million to develop teacher preparation pilot programs.

The state education department said on Thursday that the State University of New York colleges at Cortland and Oswego will work with Binghamton High School and the Syracuse school district, respectively. They’ll develop pilot programs aimed at preparing teachers to educate students in high-needs schools in math and science, as well as those who teach English as a second language. stabilizing: we are never ever getting back together

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The Binghamton Crosbys, top, and the Treblemakers perform at the Dollar Show on Saturday night. The semi-annual a cappella show featured Binghamton University performance groups such as Kaskeset, the Harpeggios and the Pappy Parker Players.

IN OTHER WORDS

"I believe the Times article focused on negative second hand and anonymous reports and not on our five months of effort to find cases of hazing and prevent them from reoccurring."

University President Harvey Stenger, in an email to Pipe Dream

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to keep a safe distance away.”

According to Stein, Madera wanted to invite SAMMY and APES to the fraternity councils meeting to discourage them from hazing.

“I told him we don’t want to associate with them in any way, shape, or form,” Stein said.

At the rally, students wore their Greek letters while waving flyers with a no hazing graphic.

Doug Matijakovich, president of Pi Kappa Phi, estimated that 10 or more members from each fraternity and sorority attended the rally.

“We just want to bring it to people’s attention that we are not who people make us seem to be,” said Matijakovich, a senior majoring in biology. “Because of all the negativity, we need to take baby steps, we’re not going to fix our image in one rally.”

Despite the attempt of Greek Life to portray itself as adamently anti-hazing, the secrecy of the pledging process still leaves doubts as to whether hazing has ceased altogether.

Jon Ganzarski, a founding father of Alpha Epsilon Pi, said he expects hazing to continue, although perhaps to a lesser extent following the disciplinary actions last semester.

“The rally was a move,” said Ganzarski, a first-year graduate student. “They got in a lot of trouble last year and they want to get out of trouble, so they need to look better with President Stenger. Every Greek organization wants to function as much through their own traditions and practices, they

"We're not going to fix our image in one rally."

— Doug Matijakovich Pi Kappa Phi President

remain tied to campus for legal reasons and the benefits of being an on-campus organization.”

Ganzarski said he is no longer active with Alpha Epsilon Pi and does not pay annual dues. He would not comment on whether AEPi hazes pledges.

IFC president Stein said he can do little more than take fraternities at their word that pledging rituals do not include hazing.

“We have a lot of mutual trust between the IFC president and the presidents of all the chapters, and if they tell me something I believe it until they prove me wrong, which I hope doesn’t happen,” Stein said.

Matijakovich said that the secrecy of the pledging process, at least for Pi Kappa Phi, has its roots at the national level.

“We have rituals that have fraternal secrets involved, and we don’t want everybody to be aware of our secrets, our personal secrets,” Matijakovich said. “So, in a sense some things have to be secretive. It doesn’t mean this secret information involves hazing, it’s just saying that we have secret information that we cannot tell an outsider.”

He said many of the secret rituals involve learning the history of the Pi Kappa Phi

fraternity. Pi Kappa Phi was not the subject of hazing allegations last semester, and was reinstated within weeks of last year’s halt to pledging.

“The things that we keep behind closed doors are to make it a bond that only we understand,” said Tim Szczesny, a member of Pi Kappa Phi and a sophomore majoring in computer science.

“We weren’t hazed. There’s a lot of things you can go onto the Pi Kappa Phi website and they’re nationally known. Our rituals are about brotherhood.”

However, Stein admitted that Greek tradition is steeped with hazing nationwide, and phasing it out in Binghamton will be a slow process.

“They’re getting rid of the dangerous stuff first, anything that’s going to put anyone in any mental or physical harm they need to get rid of that, but then slowly but surely we’ll get rid of the milder stuff, and then hazing altogether,” Stein said.

Even the professional fraternities have had their problems, acknowledged Jessica Iankowitz, president of the Professional Fraternity Council, who said there were reports of sleep deprivation last year.

“We have since agreed that we should have a cap, and that people should not be out past

a certain time,” Iankowitz said.

“Everything is just completely different than last year.”

According to the Office of Greek Life website, two fraternities — including Theta Tao, the engineering fraternity — are still under investigation, and one fraternity remains on probation.

Stein said he could not comment on the specifics of the investigations, but he believes members of the organizations under investigation attended the rally.

“A lot of them have done a lot of hard work to change their process, to change traditions that have been there for years to make it safer,” he said.

On Monday, President Stenger released a letter on B-Line acknowledging the national coverage of hazing at Binghamton. In the letter he reaffirmed his commitment to student safety.

“Student safety is my highest priority,” Stenger wrote.

Stenger, who was a member Alpha Sigma Phi, told Pipe Dream that he believes hazing is not a standard practice in fraternities and sororities.

“It is not something that people do because they want to do it, it is usually one or two people within a house that get out of hand and they do something that they probably shouldn’t have done or don’t know why they did it that moment,” he said. “The students in Greek organizations did a good job of telling people that their organizations aren’t involved in the actions highlighted in the New York Times article.”

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Duvinsky's research aims to reduce procrastination, deal with anxiety Gabrielle Gampel Contributing Writer

Binghamton University graduate Jerry D. Duvinsky recently published a book on psychology meant to help students who procrastinate due to anxiety and stress — a problem he believes is common among college students.

According to Duvinsky’s book, “How to Lose Control and Gain Emotional Freedom,” procrastination is not the underlying issue behind bad grades and low functionality but occurs as a byproduct of the anxiety and stress that students never truly deal with. According to Duvinsky, students should release their “dark emotions” in order to increase their functionality in school and other aspects of life.

“Procrastination is an avoiding mechanism, so what is it that they are avoiding? Not the work, but their feelings associated with doing work,” Duvinsky said.

“Fears of failure, fears of not living up to social expectations, et cetera. I lead them into the fear.”

Duvinsky, who was awarded

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his doctorate in clinical psychology from BU in 1990, researched how people should deal with dark emotions while working as a clinical psychologist in Binghamton. He said that in addition to being open about their dark emotions, people should embrace them rather than sitting silently while harboring negative feelings.

He uses a technique called emotional surfing to help people embrace these harmful emotions and lead more productive lives.

The process of emotional surfing requires people to “just go with what they, people, are feeling, in a very deliberate and poignant manner.”

“The goal of the healing journey is not to no longer have feelings and experiences such as fear, shame or anxiety,”

Duvinsky writes in his book. “It is our endeavors to control or subjugate them that causes a large percentage of our personal and interpersonal distress.”

Duvinsky said he began developing ideas for his book years before writing it.

“It had been rolling around in my head for six years prior to book, slowly fermenting in my brain,” Duvinsky said. “However, it was only the last year and half that I started committing my thoughts to paper.”

When told about Duvinsky’s approach, students were receptive to his ideas and even volunteered their own ideas.

Gabrielle Schiller, a freshman double-majoring in human development and psychology, responded to the idea of procrastination being rooted in deeper anxieties.

“I totally agree with that,” Schiller said. “I also believe that when people complain about others in a group project, its just about their own deeper reservations.”

Cara Natale, a freshman majoring in integrative neuroscience, seconded Schiller’s opinion. ”I guess that makes a lot of sense for overachievers,” Natale said. “When I have a big project, I really want to do it right.”

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SUNY gets students on the Smart Track Chancellor Zimpher announces campaign to help students manage finances Davina Bhandari and Nicolas Vega Pipe Dream News

In an attempt to make the complex process of navigating college financing more manageable, SUNY Chancellor Nancy Zimpher plans to launch a new SUNY-wide financial aid campaign she hopes will combat student debt.

Zimpher’s “SUNY Smart Track Campaign,” announced on Sept. 12, aims to educate students about their loans and keep them on track to repay them.

Dennis Chavez, director of financial aid and student records at Binghamton University, explained that the campaign will allow for greater transparency, offering students school-specific information regarding graduation rates, average student debt, default rates and educational cost.

According to a press release from SUNY, the program will implement a system that will identify students taking out unrealistic loans that they may be unable to pay back.

Once an at-risk student is identified, he or she will receive assistance from the SUNY Loan Service Center, a program that gives loan advice to students throughout their time at college.

The Service Center will be expanded to all SUNY campuses

under the campaign, according to the press release.

Dan Tramuta, president of the New York State Financial Aid Administrators Association, said unrealistic loans are a big threat to college students, particularly those at Binghamton University.

“At a school like Binghamton, probably six out of 10 students are borrowing Federal Stafford Loans,” Tramuta said. “We have 34 million Americans who start college and never finish. When we see a student early on who is potentially at risk we will focus our attention on them.”

Chavez added that while the campaign itself will not directly reduce student loans, it would hopefully allow students to take better advantage of their financial aid opportunities.

“At Binghamton, anytime a student comes in asking for additional money, it is typically going to be in the form of additional loans,” Chavez said. “It is then that we have

conversations about budgeting, lifestyle choices and trade-offs with expenses. We also discuss what taking on additional loans can mean and ensuring that students make informed decisions. Additionally, we send out information to seniors about how to best manage their debt.”

Eventually all SUNY schools will have uniform financial aid award letters under the Smart Track Campaign. Rather than focusing solely on the amount of money awarded, the new SUNY financial aid letters will include statistics about the school the student was accepted to, including average student debt and graduation rates.

The pilot version of the program is currently being tested at six SUNY schools: SUNY Albany, SUNY Fredonia, Niagara County Community College, Purchase College, Schenectady County Community College and SUNY Ulster. It will expand

"Higher education is the best investment an 18-yearold freshman can make."

— Dennis Chavez Financial Aid Director

Friendship Family program helps international students adjust Local community members guide students through American culture, customs Monica Gray and Shannon O’Hara Pipe Dream News

A longstanding Binghamton University program has helped international students navigate American life for more than 30 years by pairing them with local families eager to ease their transition.

According to Ellen H. Badger, director of International Students & Scholar Services, the Friendship Family program assigns students from other countries to a local family to help them learn American customs and the Binghamton area.

The program also reaches out to students during the holidays when they would normally be home with their families.

“Through this family/student connection, the Friendship Family program hopes to ease the student’s feelings of loneliness and homesickness,” Badger wrote in an email.

Families have many reasons for wanting to assist students with the academic and cultural adjustment of life in the United States, according to Badger.

Elizabeth Mayner, along with her husband Dave and their two children, is working with two students in the Friendship Family program this year.

“We love meeting international students and learning about their countries and cultures,” Mayner wrote in an email. “We lived in a foreign country for a couple of years when we were first married, so we understand some of the difficulties internationals face and enjoy helping them in any ways we can.”

Throughout the more than 15 years her family has participated in the program, Mayner has met and worked with 40 to 50 international students.

“Some we get very involved with; others we

meet only once,” Mayner said. “It all depends on the student.”

Youngmin Chung and Hye Young Min, both first-year graduate students from South Korea, are the students the Mayner family is working with this year.

Mayner said that her family plans to remain in contact with the students for as long as they are in Binghamton.

Mayner’s family has tried to include their students in holiday celebrations in previous years.

“We always invite a lot of students to our home for Thanksgiving Dinner, and have also included various ones for Christmas and Easter celebrations,” Mayner said.

Badger and Mayner said that the relationship between student and family can be as simple as sharing a meal, bringing the family to Family Weekend and other campus events, or the family helping the student with travel and immigration details.

Friendship Family only provides a social relationship for international students. According to the Friendship Family website, “Friendship with a Friendship Family does not include assistance with financial, academic, medical or psychological problems.”

BU alumnus George Cummings said he keeps in touch with international students he has hosted in the past.

“I have several past International students that I stay in touch with and have many nice memories of the students I have been with thru [sic] the years,” Cummings wrote in an email.

He said that his experience with international students enhances his own travels abroad.

“I am an alumni, and I travel internationally, so I like the idea of this program,” Cummings added.

Badger said that currently, 70 families and an estimated 90 students are participating in the Friendship Family program.

Debate teams meet for regional opener ARGUE continued from Page 1 majoring in computer science, said he respects BU’s speech and debate team.

“Binghamton has good debaters who are known for crazy things; the evidence and authors that they use aren’t conventional,” Dong said. “BU is doing an excellent job of hosting.”

John Maine, a junior majoring in philosophy, politics, and law, is a new member of the

BU debate team.

“It’s good to take on positions that you don’t agree with in order to see the other point of view,” Maine said. “I like arguing and find debate intellectually stimulating; it is a commitment, debate is like two classes worth of work.”

Maine said that BU’s coaches helped the speech and debate team perform very well at the tournament.

“The coaches have been instrumental in helping and

preparing, they work very hard and it is paying off,” Maine said.

Leeson-Schatz, a professor in the English department, said that he was impressed with the team’s turnout for its first tournament of the school year.

This year, 38 students attended the first tournament.

Leeson-Schantz expects numbers for subsequent tournaments to remain in the high 20s, and more dedication from team members this year.

to all SUNY campuses by the beginning of the 2013 school year, according to the press release.

Tramuta insisted that the costs of a college education are outweighed by the long-term benefits, and understanding financing is the first step to securing those benefits.

“Higher education is the best investment an 18-year-old freshman can make,” Tramuta said. “We know that a student who gets a college degree will make $1 million more in their lifetime than a student who does not.”

Rachel Appel, a junior double-majoring in management and political science, said she is looking forward to seeing the campaign come to Binghamton.

“I believe this campaign can do a lot of good at BU,” Appel said. “Nearly every one of my friends has taken out loans.

I’m sure they would all be open to assistance.”

Montana Ortel, a sophomore majoring in mechanical engineering, expressed similar sentiments about the campaign.

“I know a ton of people who have graduated and feel overwhelmed by the loans they took out to get a decent education,” Ortel said. “With this guidance I feel I’ll be more apt to pay off my loans in an intelligent manner.”

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"Coexist" has a few great songs, but doesn't compare to the original.

Jacob Shamsian Assistant Release Editor

British indie pop band The xx burst onto the music scene in 2009 with “xx,” one of the best debut albums in years. Unlike many new bands, their first album already had a distinct and established sound in place. They immediately stuck out for their elegant use of polished notes composed with a minimalist temperament, having the overall effect of raw emotion.

Their instrumentals gently propelled emotional, low-key lyrics, often about love, making their songs catchy but unlike anything heard before.

Their 11-track new album, “Coexist,” has a few great songs.

“Angels,” the album’s opening track and first single, in particular is as good — if not better — than anything in “xx.” Some of the other songs, though, are less impressive. “Coexist” sometimes feels like an album from a band searching for a voice, even though “xx” was from a band with a strong, unique voice already in place.

Many songs sound like what the band may have written in early stages of their musical career. Perhaps The xx is trying to expand their sound, but

if so, they are doing it with mixed success.

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“Coexist” sometimes feels like an album from a band searching for a voice, even though “xx” was from a band with a strong, unique voice already in place.

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“Coexist” is more poppy than “xx” in the generic way, not the lively way. “Try,” for instance, is downright boring and sounds like they aren’t trying at all. Like a few other songs on the album, it has the distinct moodiness we’ve come to expect from The xx, but lacks the pulse to keep us engaged with the song. “Missing” is better — it experiments with more sustained tones like “Try” does — but the singers imbue the lyrics with a soul, “My heart is beating in a

different way/Been gone such a long time and I feel the same.” However, both of these songs exemplify the greatest disparity between this album and their previous one: “Coexist” is more concerned with moodiness at the expense of fun. “VCR” from “xx,” by contrast, is a good example of the bass-enforced moodiness that The xx is capable of producing in the act of being fun.

“Reunion” and “Sunset,” both appearing in the middle of the album, are lyrically elegant, delving deeper into the lingering feelings from past relationships. From the latter, for example, there is, “We make believe, I’ve never seen your face, you neither mine/And catch my eye, don’t register a smile/You were more than just a friend, oh but the feeling/It never came to an end, I can’t bear to see you.” But the songs don’t have the energetic, emotional instrumentals to associate with them and make the songs glow.

“Tides” and “Unfold” are the kind of low-key, quiet, emotionally-intense ballads that The xx excels at, but they feel rather ordinary coming after the songs in “xx.” They’re fine songs, but they aren’t at the standards of some

of The xx’s other similar low-key ballads. I can’t imagine why anyone would revisit those songs instead of, say, “Crystalised,” “VCR” or even “Angels,” earlier on the tracklist.

One of the most emotionally powerful of their songs, “Our Song” finishes the album. It’s possibly their best love song, with sincere lyrics like “Well I know all the words/Didn’t take

you apart/You know I know you’re hurt/I want to mend your heart.” Its subtle earthy tones and emotional authenticity suggest the real new direction that The xx may be headed, something quieter, even more minimalistic, with intense passion.

Let’s hope their next album explores this more.

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A painful brand L

ast Wednesday, to the surprise of many, Binghamton University found itself on the front page of The New York Times.

In the article, Peter Applebome dredges up months-old allegations of last year’s hazing scandal, which led the University to enact a campus-wide suspension of pledging and induction.

The crux of the article is the depravity of the alleged hazing. The proof, by-and-large culled from second-hand sources, paints a dark picture of the Greek system at Binghamton: waterboarding, force-feeding and paddling are just a few of the incidents reported.

But Applebome’s article misses the mark on an important — crucial, even — fact. A large chunk of the reports about hazing, including the charge that “some of the pledges had acquired pneumonia from …‘waterboarding’” are in reference not to organizations recognized by campus, but to “fraternities” that have neither national nor campus charters.

Applebome does, to be fair, point this fact out.

But he does so as an aside: “the problem is compounded by the presence of unsanctioned fraternities, some with rowdy reputations.”

Stuck at the end of an unrelated paragraph, the fact that the fraternities are unsanctioned receives no elaboration.

To the outside reader, this may appear insignificant — which is exactly the problem.

The article appears to indicate that hazing is pervasive at Binghamton University — that virtually every organization here is engaged in nightly hazing of pledges, and that the difference between sanctioned and unsanctioned organizations is semantic.

But to anyone who goes to school here and is guilty of attending at least the occasional frat

party, the difference is clear — and it is far from insignificant.

Let’s not kid ourselves, hazing is to some degree a part of every Greek organization, and even those sanctioned by the University have stuck a head down a toilet or shoved a bottle down some poor pledge’s throat once upon a time.

The unsanctioned organizations referred to — APES and SAMMY — were also campus and nationally-recognized organizations, once upon a time. But they lost both charters due to hazing and other malfeasance. Since then, they’ve operated with impunity, subject neither to campus regulation nor the burden of a national chapter.

To us, it is no surprise that organizations with no campus affiliation, no national oversight and no real link to Greek life at all engage in persistent, extreme hazing. They have no one to report to.

The Times’ articles lackadaisically blurs the lines between affiliated and non-affiliated organizations, and fails to adequately address why exactly the article is again newsworthy, months after the scandal.

While three organizations are currently banned from recruiting new members, another two received warnings and two are still under investigation, there was nothing in the article that wasn’t true last semester, when the first New York Times article about hazing at Binghamton came out.

The release of an article that does little but add a sensationalist spin to old facts is not constructive. It does not prompt administrators

here to action — it simply rubs salt in the wounds of a school already struggling to repair its reputation.

But while the article left certain things unclear, it did prompt members of Greek life into action: last Friday more than 100 fraternity and sorority members showed up to an antihazing rally on the Spine.

Waving signs decrying the evils of hazing and chatting amiably with members of the media about how their organization would never, ever dream of hazing, the handful of Greeks proudly wearing their letters didn’t seem to be aware of the irony of their actions.

While we doubt that every Greek organization is engaging in anything as serious as waterboarding, hazing is not an issue restricted to off-campus organizations. Anyone with a friend in a social Greek-letter organization can tell you that. So for us, the rally was a shallow if hilarious attempt at damage control.

Yes hazing does happen. Greek life at Binghamton needs some serious work. We don’t pretend to know the right answers. But we do know what the wrong answers are: confusing a part with its whole — or more precisely, confusing a whole with its degenerate cousin — and kicking the entire Greek system off campus, a warning that’s been tossed around.

If the biggest part of the problem is unaffiliated organizations that have been kicked off campus, then we fail to see how kicking more organizations off campus is a solution at all. It seems that that would truly compound the problem.

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Replacement refs are bad news, but we'll watch anyway Either we stop watching or the refs cave. Those are the only two ways the real refs return to the field and we stop watching referees who just months ago were working games at high schools and the Lingerie Football League. Their mistakes have been widespread: blown calls, saying the wrong team names, incorrect application of penalties, giving challenges when they were not permitted — the list goes on.

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One ref was even pulled from the Saints game two weeks ago after his Facebook was discovered, showing him to be a die-hard Saints fan, while another was reported to have told Jaguars running back Maurice Jones Drew that he needed more points from him for his fantasy team.

The fallout from the mistakeprone refs has been felt even in Vegas, where casinos have reportedly added an additional 0.5 to the spread for the home team due to the refs. According to gambling expert RJ Bell, that 0.5 addition to the spread “would be the equivalent of a team having a superstar receiver or running back on the field or an opponent missing its star because of injury.”

The reason behind the addition is the disproportionate number of penalties called in favor of home teams during the first two weeks of the season. Chase Stuart, who writes for The Fifth Down, the New York Times blog devoted to the NFL, has done the math and found that “so far this season, there have been 231 penalties against visiting teams and only 188 penalties against the hosts.

“That ratio — road teams dealing with 23 percent more penalties — is far out of line with historical data, which informs us that road teams had seven percent more penalties enforced against them than home teams from 2000 to 2011,” Stuart writes.

The best comparison given so far was from Jaguars offensive lineman Uche Nwaneri, who said, “It’s like when you’re in school and have a substitute teacher: you’re going to push the envelope and see how much you can get away with before they catch on and start asserting their authority.”

The ability to influence the refs, whether it’s the fans, players or coaches, is an additional danger to a sport that has come under intense scrutiny in the past few years.

Complaints have been loud from every direction, whether it be the daily criticisms leveled against them on SportsCenter or during each game, where commentators and players never fail to voice their displeasure.

Giants linebacker Mathias Kiwanuka spoke out this week, saying, “There’s no doubt the integrity of the game has been compromised not having the regular officials out there. We’ve got to get that taken care of.”

Player condemnation of the

officials has been so widespread that NFL officials had to call every team last week to tell them to respect the new officials. After the Patriots lost in Baltimore this Sunday, Patriots linebacker Brandon Spikes tweeted “Can some1 please tell these (expletive) zebras foot locker called and they’re needed Back at work !!!! #BreakingPoint.”

Despite all of this, the locked-out referees have no leverage in negotiations. Players will continue to play and fans will still tune in — the show will go on.

So when it comes down to it, no matter how many games take three and a half hours to finish or calls are blown, the NFL will continue to have a projected revenue of $9.5 billion this season and Commissioner Roger Goodell will still double his salary this year to around $20 million.

— Geoffrey Weinberg is a senior double-majoring in history and political science.

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Missing that spice in your life?

How to deal with those pesky hookup droughts we all go through There comes the awkward time in pretty much everyone’s life when you find that you’re not having sex, for whatever reason, but it hasn’t stopped the rest of the world from getting down and dirty.

Jake Lewis

Sex Columnist

Sexual frustration is rough.

Especially when you’re constantly reminded that other people are having sex every time you decide to dance at the Rat, or come home and find that you don’t have anywhere to sleep unless you’re willing put up with whatever banging is going on your roommate’s side of the room.

To put it bluntly, sexual frustration isn’t fun for anyone, but a lot of people deal with it on a regular basis. Maybe your moves are stale, maybe you’re in a long-distance relationship or maybe you’re just really picky — there’s nothing wrong with any of that — but there are things you can do to make it a little easier on yourself.

I think the best solution is to get a wingman. If your moves aren’t the best, then getting set up with the help of a friend is a quick fix. That friend could know someone perfect for you who you would never have found otherwise. Plus, it’s good to have someone push you out of your comfort zone if you’re not the best at flirting.

Personally, I don’t recommend finding a hookup online, if only because it’s so easy to lie about information and you never really know what you’re getting into. I do watch “Law and Order” on occasion, so that could be clouding my judgment too.

If you or your friends do get laid, let’s talk about sexiling for a second. It’s one of the oldest college frustrations and it’s in practically every college movie there is.

Still, it’s hard to ever be prepared for the harsh reality of having to sleep on a couch or

In other words

search for a friend with a free bed.

The only thing I can say about it is that you should try to keep a level head. Imagine if the tables were turned. If you got lucky, you probably wouldn’t want your roommate banging down the door or lying in the bed across from you while you’re awkwardly sitting there with a potential hook-up.

If you personally don’t believe in sex (I’m trying to run a politically correct column here) then you might be out of luck as far as that reciprocation goes, but do your best to be as understanding as possible — for a lot of sexually frustrated people in college, sex is not a regular occurrence.

Whatever you guys need to do to work it out, do it. Pick a system like the classic sock on the door or just shooting them a quick text so that there’s no conflict. Nothing is worse than a fight between roommates on a night that could have been great otherwise.

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Sexual frustration isn't fun for anyone, but a lot of people deal with it on a regular basis

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad should not be welcomed at the United Nations. The Iranian President is expected to speak at the U.N. General Assembly in New York this Wednesday. Ahmadinejad’s record, both in rhetoric and leadership, makes it clear that he is a pernicious ideologue undeserving of the liberty and protection of free speech.

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One last piece of advice: You shouldn’t shy away from getting it on with yourself. Seriously, just masturbate.

Sexual frustration is hard enough to deal with as it is; you don’t need to make it harder on yourself.

Guys and girls, it’s natural and, if you’re really insecure about it, try to remember that the hottest people you’ve ever seen in your life masturbate too — at least 99 percent of them, anyways.

So to sum it all up: Be choosy, be safe, be understanding and good luck!

— Jake Lewis is a junior majoring in English.

“When you have a fire in an aircraft, there’s no place to go, exactly, there’s no — and you can’t find any oxygen from outside the aircraft to get in the aircraft, because the windows don’t open. I don’t know why they don’t do that. It’s a real problem.”

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Ahmajinedad's message of hate has no place at the United Nations

Michael Snow

Columnist

Ahmadinejad is not worthy of the platform of the U.N., an organization meant to facilitate international peace and cooperation.

Ahmadinejad is way past shouting fire in a crowded theater. His speeches are infamous for their inflammatory and hateful nature. He’s unabashedly made public, at the United Nations and elsewhere, his intent to wipe a fellow U.N. member off the map.

In past appearances at the U.N., Ahmadinejad has used the platform to conduct public Holocaust denial.

Evidenced by his visceral Jew-hatred, Ahmadinejad’s discernible intent of downplaying and denying the Holocaust is to repeat it.

Most troubling, though, are Iran’s attempts to conceal its nuclear program.

For years, Tehran has been lying to the International Atomic Energy Agency about the true nature of its nuclear program.

Just last week a senior Iranian official confirmed that Tehran has been providing the IAEA with false information, alternating their story from claims of peaceful energy production to outright denial. This recent news has led many to fearfully speculate that Iran could be as close as 90 percent of the way to obtaining a

nuclear bomb.

You might be thinking: Many countries in the world have nuclear weapons. Why shouldn’t Iran have the same right? As I’ve written here and elsewhere, Iranian leadership has proven itself to be a threat to Israel and world peace. As such, it would be dangerously naïve of us to treat them with anything less than a zero-tolerance stance when it comes to nuclear weapons.

But it is not just supporters of Israel who should object to Ahmadinejad being given a public platform at the U.N. to espouse his hate and bigotry.

Anyone who cares about human rights, the treatment of women and gays or basic civil liberties ought to take a stand.

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Ahmadinejad is way past shouting fire in a crowded theater. His speeches are infamous for their inflammatory and hateful nature

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When speaking at Columbia University in 2007, Ahmadinejad was asked why Iran inflicts draconian punishments on homosexuals. His answer: “I don’t know who’s told you we have this phenomenon like you do. We have no gays in Iran. It is not a problem there.”

Ahmadinejad’s foolish denial that any homosexuals exist in Iran, reminiscent of his Holocaust denial, stems from his desire to rid his country of gays.

Ahmadinejad operates from a certain sense of lunacy. His fundamental worldview takes him out of the realm of productive political discourse.

“But wait,” you might say. “What about respect for dissenting views? Isn’t that an American value?”

Yes, tolerance for diversity in outlooks and customs is a virtue. But it’s not just Ahmadinejad’s ideologies that are so dangerous. His leadership, along with the broader governance of the Islamic Republic of Iran, has demonstrated itself to be as materially pernicious as it is hateful.

Iran is the leading state sponsor of terrorism in the world, funding Islamic Jihadist groups like Hamas.

Ahmadinejad’s Iran is also guilty of committing severe human rights violations against its own citizens. This was most noticeable in the public, bloody suppression of Iranians protesting the 2009 rigged presidential election, which resulted in another term for Ahmadinejad.

This is also important because it shows that Ahmadinejad does not represent Iranians. He is a leader in the dictatorial sense.

His despotic leadership is grounded in intimidation and force, characteristic of any war criminal, all the while betraying the people he is supposed to represent.

Excluding someone from the liberty and protection of free speech should be a difficult decision. But looking at Ahmadinejad with open eyes makes it easy.

As college students, partisans of the free world and supporters of peace, we ought to recognize the danger behind Iranian nuclear ambitions and Ahmadinejad’s human rights violations.

Most importantly, we ought to have clarity on the fact that Ahmadinejad is unwelcome at the U.N. — Michael Snow is a junior majoring in philosophy.

Letter to the editor: Stenger on diversity forum To the editor: The following is a letter to the students, faculty and staff who participated in the Forum on Diversity and Inclusiveness held at Binghamton University on Thursday. While it is directed to the participants, I felt it was important to share with all of your readers. *** Dear New Friends, We came together recently to talk about relationships between people who are different. I recounted the event of last spring when an anonymous person drew a man urinating on the continent of Africa in a classroom where many African American students were

about to take a class on civil rights. At that time I wrote to campus expressing disappointment and reaffirming our goal of inclusiveness and respect.

The responses I received from that letter led to three very different conversations: one with an individual who said condemning the drawing was my attempt to quash freedom of speech; another with students from the class where the drawing was found, who said I should have included an image of the drawing with my letter; and another with a gay student who asked why I didn’t apply the same level of public disappointment toward the “preacher” who stands on a campus bench several times a year proclaiming that Jesus Christ can cure homosexuality.

Those three conversations made me realize just how complex it is to move from being a diverse, multicultural campus to an inclusive one and we needed to talk about it. As a result, we held our first Forum on Diversity and Inclusiveness.

Participants rotated among five tables to discuss questions including: How do you interpret diversity? How do you perceive the campus culture?

What can you do to affect a change to the campus culture? How can people with varying traditions, beliefs and values learn to live together in the same community? What role has diversity played in your college career?

You talked, wrote, drew and shared your thoughts on these questions for more than two hours. Each question

was answered by each participant, switching tables and questions every 15 minutes, with a different mix of students at each table during each segment. We learned that discussing a topic among a diverse group is not easy or natural. Answers came down to your willingness to be open and to learn about others’ cultures; finding common ground, not focusing on differences; and speaking with sensitivity and listening with thick skins.

I sat in the background of each table to listen to and learn from your conversations. You were open, sensitive and profound and you made me proud. But I feared that when we left the room we would lose all we had gained, so I challenged you to do one

“random act of inclusiveness” (RAIs) each week, to total more than 1,000 RAIs by the end of the school year.

Then one of you said, “Let’s do this again and next time bring two friends.” … I smiled. Then several of you moved the night’s discussion to a lounge to continue the conversation. I smiled wider. Something had happened and was taking people’s minds and hearts in a good direction. I left feeling hopeful.

My laptop screen saver now includes photos of the words and art you created that night. Thank you for one of the most positive experiences of my career.

— Harvey Stenger Binghamton University President

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Bearcats shut out in back-to-back games

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Shutouts have been a common occurrence for the Binghamton University women’s soccer team in 2012, and the trend continued this weekend, as the Bearcats were blanked by Marist College and University of Hartford.

Binghamton is now 4-4 in shutouts.

On Friday night, the Bearcats (6-4, 0-1 America East) traveled to Poughkeepsie, N.Y. to take on a Red Fox (65) squad that entered the contest with 10 straight home wins, dating back to 2011. The Bearcats were unable to find the back of the net in what head coach Sarah McClellan called an odd game. Her team fell, 2-0.

The Red Foxes struck in the third minute, as junior midfielder Rycke Guiney converted from six yards out after an initial deflected shot.

“It wasn’t the best start to the game for us, and the first real attack Marist had they ended up scoring,” McClellan said.

Marist was able to tack on another in the 57th minute when sophomore midfielder Marjana Maksuti volleyed in her own rebound after heading the ball into the woodwork.

The Bearcats were penalized only nine times, as opposed to the Red Foxes, who got blown for 22 fouls.

“Every time we possessed the ball we were getting fouled, so there was no kind of rhythm to our attack,” McClellan said.

Junior goalkeepers Carrie

Martin and Stephanie Speirs split time in goal, recording a save apiece.

Though dropping the final tune-up before conference play was not ideal, the Bearcats finished their non-conference slate at 6-3.

“We’re pretty happy about how we did and what we showed in the non-conference segment of the season,” McClellan said.

On Sunday, Binghamton opened America East play against Hartford (5-2-3, 1-0 America East), falling 1-0 in dramatic fashion.

The Hawks, who were ranked No. 2 in the conference preseason poll, grabbed a late winner in the 86th minute when senior striker Amelia Pereira converted from the penalty kick spot. McClellan said the spot of the foul was borderline.

“We probably shouldn’t have allowed the play to occur, so we could have prevented the whole situation,” McClellan said. “It was on the line of the 18, so I think with four minutes left in the game, which was pretty even … that’s a really tough call to make.”

The Bearcats were able to put three shots on goal while the Hawks were able to manage two, showing just how light the whole affair was.

“We had some really good opportunities,” McClellan said.

“We’re just one dribble short, one pass short of having an open chance. We just have to keep grinding away.”

Martin and Speirs again split the 90 minutes evenly, with Speirs being called upon to make one save.

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Binghamton found itself on the wrong side of two shutouts this weekend, the second of which came in its America East opener against Hartford.

Binghamton begins conference play 0-1 and will look to get its season back on track against University of New Hampshire at home later this week.

“We had some really positive things to take away from [Hartford], so I think we’re going to work really hard to stay positive because we know we’re a very good [team],” McClellan said.

The Wildcats didn’t have as

Women's tennis wins five matches Kohtz continues solid start to collegiate career with pair of victories Raj Burela Contributing Writer

The Binghamton University women’s tennis team continued its slow start to the season over the weekend, managing five wins at the nonteam-scoring Brown Invitational, which hosted teams from Boston University, Boston College and Rutgers University, alongside Binghamton and Brown.

On Friday, sophomore Missy Edelblum acquired Binghamton’s sole win of the day, topping Rutgers sophomore Satreethai Sasinin 6-0, 6-2.

With two days of play left ahead of them, the Bearcats looked to rebound strongly on Saturday, but were once again held to a single win. Binghamton freshman Sara Kohtz, who picked up her first career victory in her

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collegiate debut last weekend, captured her singles match against All-America East senior Jessi Linero of Boston University. Kohtz secured the victory in straight sets 6-2, 6-3.

The freshman returned to the courts on Sunday against Boston College freshman Katya Vasilyev, winning a hard-fought battle 6-4, 3-6, 6-4.

Although Kohtz went 2-1 during the tournament, the Bearcats as a whole performed poorly in singles play, winning only four of the 13 matches in which they competed.

The doubles teams did not fare much better, winning only one of their four matches.

Each Binghamton doubles team consisted of one freshman, mirroring head coach Libby McGovern’s game plan from the Columbia University Invitational last weekend, Sept.

14-16. The duo of freshman Shea Brodsky and sophomore Katherine Medianik was strong enough to overcome the Providence College team of Alana Prinos and Taylor Corder, winning 8-5 for the team’s sole doubles victory.

The Bearcats are set to return to action on Oct. 6 at the USTA National Tennis Center Invitational, a three-day event.

“It was tough emotionally. I didn’t know how I would hold up … This is new territory for me personally. I never really had to deal with a death in the family, let alone my brother ... It’s part of life and, due to my teammates and my family and friends, I’ll be able to get over it.”

— Baltimore Ravens wide receiver Torrey Smith, who recorded two touchdowns on Sunday following the death of his younger brother less than 24 hours earlier.

impressive of a non-conference performance as the Bearcats, finishing at 2-6-1. They are just 1-5 on the road, but will enter Thursday’s match with two consecutive victories after beating College of the Holy Cross and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in the conference opener.

Kickoff against UNH is set for 6 p.m. on Thursday at the Bearcats Sports Complex.

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With a dominant team performance at Adelphi University over the weekend, the Binghamton University men’s soccer team has sent out a clear message to its America East opponents: the Bearcats are ready for conference play.

The Panthers were the only team standing between Binghamton (4-5) and its Sept.

29 America East opener against University of New Hampshire.

They were toppled by BU on Saturday, 3-0.

[Hughes'] first goal was a firsttime volley into the goal, a terrific goal, probably up there for goal-ofthe-year candidate Paul Marco,

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Senior forward Jake Keegan started the scoring early, picking apart the Adelphi defense in the 10th minute with an assist from sophomore forward Steven Celeste. The goal was Keegan’s eighth of the season, tying him for fourth in the nation. His 25 career goals are the most in Binghamton’s Division I history.

“We started the match very well, got an early goal,” Binghamton head coach Paul Marco said. “We settled down quickly. We thought we could have three goals before half time.

There were a couple of balls we just missed in the six yard. I thought we should have done a little better in those moments.

And I thought we were on top of the game the whole game.”

In the 24th minute, junior back Robbie Hughes doubled Binghamton’s lead with a volley that flew into the top right corner.

Hughes then wrapped up the win for the Bearcats, with a thumping header from senior midfielder Adam Whitehead’s corner with just over 20 minutes left. Marco praised his junior defender for a solid all-around performance.

“We played [Hughes] up higher, and he played higher in the team on set pieces,” Marco said. “His first goal was a firsttime volley into the goal, a terrific goal, probably up there for goal-of-the-year candidate.

And the second goal was just hard work.”

The victory marked the 100th win of Marco’s career as head coach. With a record of 100-7036, he is only the second coach in the 62-year history of the program to reach the century mark in wins. Now in his 12th season with the Bearcats, Marco is grateful for the opportunity he was given to lead the team in 2002, thanking all the players he has worked with, past and present.

“Whenever you achieve some kind of milestone, it makes you reflect and remember the memories with all the great players that have played for you,” he said. “I certainly wouldn’t have had any of the wins without the players that we had. I am very fortunate to be at a great university like Binghamton, to get to bring in the guys that we have in the current team and the guys that played before them.”

With the first game of conference play right around the corner, Marco said he is encouraged by the team spirit that the players have shown this season and is convinced that the

team is set to get the conference campaign started.

“I think we are ready,” he said.

“I think that the guys are going to be very fresh. We may still have a few guys out with injury.

But the team’s frame of mind is terrific, with smiles on their faces. It is just a joy to be around them.”

After a disappointing campaign in 2011, the coach said he is expecting drastic improvements and believes that his team is good enough to contend for the championship this season.

“I thought that from day one

when we came in, the frame of mind the guys have is going to be our biggest obstacle,” he said. “I don’t think it is going to be what they are doing with their feet, but rather the six inches in between their left ear and right ear. And if they can concentrate and focus and show the will to compete for the 90 minutes of the game or overtime, I think that we have enough to be a championship team.”

Kickoff against University of New Hampshire is set for 7 p.m. on Saturday at the Bearcats Sports Complex.

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In their final tune-up before conference play, the Bearcats got on the board early against Adelphi and cruised to a 3-0 victory.

BU blanks UMBC in AE opener

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A record does not always paint a full picture, and the Binghamton University volleyball team has recently indicated that its disappointing mark does not reflect its potential.

Two days after defeating Syracuse University, the Bearcats (4-12, 1-0 America East) opened conference play with a convincing home win over University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

Binghamton has had an affinity for five-set matches, playing in six and losing five. But the Bearcats needed just three to sweep the

Retrievers Friday night.

UMBC came closest in the first set, but the Bearcats prevailed 2522 and took the second and third sets by scores of 25-18 and 25-12, respectively.

“Boy, I tell you, that’s the best I’ve seen them play all year,” BU head coach Glenn Kiriyama said of his team. “They just played a really complete match. I was really impressed, especially with our offense. I thought it was running very well. I thought Amanda [Dettmann] did a nice job of setting it up.”

Dettmann, who was named America East Setter of the Week for her efforts against the Orange and

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Amanda Dettmann’s stellar performance against UMBC helped Binghamton to a 1-0 conference record and earned her America East Setter of the Week honors.

the Retrievers, doled out 41 assists against UMBC. Her production helped Binghamton to a .402 hitting percentage on Friday.

Sophomore Kristin Hovie and senior Alex Roland benefited most from Dettmann’s sets, finishing with 16 and 11 kills, respectively. “[Dettmann is] a really good worker,” Kiriyama said. “[She] wants to get better and continues to improve throughout the year.

She’s made steady progress so we’re happy with how far she’s come.”

And just as Dettmann has progressed, her team has also made significant strides lately. The Bearcats narrowly lost to Baylor University and Tulane University at the Kathy Trosclair Memorial Tournament before topping Syracuse and UMBC. So even though the non-conference record of 3-12 indicates a rocky start, Binghamton has gained some momentum as matches become more important.

At the end of the day, Kiriyama knows that his team’s America East record is all that matters.

He said he would rather have his team on a roll now than in early September.

“If there’s anytime to do it, this is the time to do it,” he said.

“I think the preseason was good preparation. We came very close with a lot of teams so it wasn’t like we [were] getting blown out for those games. I think the team is geared toward conference and they were looking forward to it and especially their first home game.”

Kiriyama took note of the home crowd, saying, “It was big on Friday, it was a big crowd. They were making a lot of noise, so it was good to see, and I’m sure it fired up the team very much.”

Binghamton is scheduled to host Providence College on Friday night in the second game of its America East slate. After falling in their conference opener at University of Hartford, the Friars are just 1-17 in 2012.

The match is set for 7 p.m. at the West Gym.

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Golf four-peats at Cornell Invitational

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The Bearcats captured the Cornell Invitational for the fourth straight year over the weekend, edging out second-place Fordham by four strokes.

Despite poor weather conditions, Binghamton rides strong performances from Holling, Edmister and Cellura to title Megan Brockett Sports Editor

Sophomore Josh Holling propelled the Binghamton University golf team to its fourth straight Cornell Invitational title over the weekend, capturing his first career individual crown with a 36-hole total of 142 (-2).

The Bearcats beat out secondplace Fordham University and 11 other teams with a two-day total of 593 (+17). They boasted a tournament-high 28 birdies, led

by Holling’s tournament-best 11.

Holling recorded identical Day 1 and Day 2 scores of 71 (-1) to edge out Cornell junior Zack Bosse by a single stroke for the top individual honors. Holling is the first Binghamton golfer to take first place in a tournament

with a medalist performance since Jake Katz in 2010. “[Holling’s] had a great year so far, leading up to [the Cornell Invitational], [with] his scoring and things that he’s been doing for us,” Binghamton head coach Bernie Herceg said. “He’s right there as in how close he is to doing this week in and week out and it was great to see him pull it off this week.”

At the end of the first day of play, the Bearcats found themselves trailing St. Bonaventure University by three strokes. But the Bonnies faltered on Day 2, recording a 319 and slipping five spots in the standings to finish the weekend in sixth. After a first day score of 297, Binghamton posted a 296 on the second day to capture the

title.

“It was a great win,” Herceg said. “There was a little pressure on us to four-peat and for the guys to pull through, [and] it was tough weekend due to the weather.”

According to Herceg, the event was initially scheduled to be 54 holes, but rainy conditions reduced it to 36.

“The course was playing tough and the guys adapted and adjusted their games and pulled it off,” Herceg said. “It was great to see.”

Junior Bryce Edmister trimmed four strokes off his first day score to post a 73 on Day 2 in the Bearcats’ push for first.

Edmister finished ninth overall, marking his second top-10 finish in three outings this season.

Senior captain David Cellura tied Edmister for ninth after sliding three places in the individual standings on the second day. Cellura, who led the Bearcats with a 15th-place finish at The McLaughlin last weekend, recorded a Day 2 total of 77 after posting an opening day score of 73.

Edmister and Cellura have finished among the top three for BU in each of the team’s first three outings of the season, and Herceg attributed some of the team’s success so far to their consistency.

“When you have two guys that you can rely on that are going to always be there for you and have those consistent scores, the rest of the team thrives off that too to make the whole team more consistent,” he said. “They still haven’t gotten to where they need to be yet this year and they definitely would attest to it …

It’s good to see the consistency but I know they know where they want to take their games and be able to shoot some scores under par and have a better fall season than where they are right now, so I’m really looking forward to them stepping it up the last three events.”

The Bearcats are set to resume play on Oct. 7 and 8 for the firstever Binghamton University Collegiate Fall Invitational at the Links at Hiawatha Landing. The event will mark the first time the team has hosted an event since the America East championship in 2007. “[The team is] really excited about it, as am I,” Herceg said.

“It will be a good test for the golfers coming in, as well as our team. We’re hoping to pull off a victory.”

Play is scheduled to start at 9:30 a.m. on Oct. 7 and resume at 9 a.m. the following day.

Keegan among nation's leaders in goals and points SOCCER continued from Page 1 to bring it all together. I think I can play multiple areas on the field and I can do a lot of different things well now.”

At 5 feet 9 inches and 150 lbs., he’s one of the smallest players on Binghamton’s roster. While he’s never necessarily looked the part of an offensive powerhouse, Keegan said that’s the way he has to think of himself.

“If you don’t think of yourself in that way as a forward then you’re probably not going to be very good,” he said. “Confidence is everything, especially for a goal scorer.”

Binghamton head coach Paul

Marco, who is in his 11th season leading the Bearcats, recruited Keegan in high school. He said that Keegan has “always had a knack for scoring goals,” but this year he has noticed an even more “persistent” Keegan.

As much as anything else, Marco said he has always been impressed by Keegan’s demeanor off the field. The senior has consistently been on the honor roll and has always put family first, according to Marco.

“When you talk about a player and the five pillars — physically, technically, tactically, psychologically and lifestyle — I think he fits the bill,” Marco said.

“He’s close to the center in all of

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Despite all the attention surrounding his remarkable play this season, senior forward Jake Keegan is only thinking about his team and the postseason.

them … The way that he carries himself is an example. I think he’s got some days after Binghamton that he might be playing as well.

I think that that’s the kind of guy he is. He’s a pro.”

Keegan said his sights are set on professional soccer after graduation. He plans to compete in trials and hopes to find a team in the U.S. or even overseas.

And if that doesn’t work out, Keegan said he doesn’t envision himself ever leaving the game behind completely. He’s thought about coaching after his playing career, which should come as no surprise. He has been playing soccer since he was four years old and is a student of the game.

But Keegan’s not your traditional leader. He’s not the type to give a passionate pregame speech to get the team pumped. Instead, he leads by example.

“He’s not a very outspoken person,” Marco said. “He’s not flamboyant. You wouldn’t see him in the locker room being a ‘ra-ra’ guy. He’s a guy, though, that when the whistle blows, if you’re standing across from him, you better be bringing it. And if you’re standing behind him, you can expect consistency from him and a terrific competitive spirit.”

It’s clear that Keegan has always had a team-first mentality, but it’s hard to believe he never thinks about the legacy he’s building as a Bearcat. With eight more regular season games remaining in his collegiate career, he needs only five more goals and 10 more points to break the Binghamton single-season record.

“The only way that enters into my mind is that I’ll probably need to score that many and more for us to win this year, so I guess in that sense, yes, I do think about,” he said.

With a 4-5 record on the season and conference play on the horizon, the Bearcats will look for Keegan to continue to lead by example, and to shatter those records.

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