Swimming and diving competes at AE Championships

Men earn second place, women finish fifth in final standings of conference competition finale.

Over the weekend, the Binghamton swimming and diving teams competed in the culmination of their entire season at the America East (AE) Championships in Massachussets. After four days full of events, the men and women achieved second and fifth place finishes, respectively, and several BU students received individual honors for their performances.

“Both of our programs had great weekends that we are very proud of,” said Binghamton head coach Jerry Cummiskey. “We had multiple school, freshmen and conference records throughout the weekend, and collectively, I think it was our best conference meet in the last four years. Our team got better this week, and we look forward to building off this meet into continue success in the seasons to come.” just that by satirizing the romcom that is none other than an authentic college experience.

Highlighting day one of competition for BU was the 800 free relay team composed of juniors Jake Vecchio, Henry Shemet, Liam Murphy and freshman Liam Preston. The quartet took first place with a time of 6:30.57, setting a new conference, meet and pool record.

Muha, a junior majoring in political science, expanded on how sometimes the funniest content is sourced from real life.

“In the sketch ‘The Outbreak,’ pretty much all of the main character’s dialogue was based on DMs that I wrote to my friends, and we recontextualized [them] for the purpose of the show,”

Muha said. “Everything from ‘God smiles upon the wicked’ to the ‘femcel T-swift style poetry,’ you look into yourself and make fun of yourself a little bit.”

Getting by in college means poking fun at the utter absurdity of each day. A situationship, for example, is a dramatized, all-consuming relationship that avoids the dreaded act of confrontation, an effort feared by many. “The Outbreak,” a sketch written by Muha and Strier — a junior majoring in computer science — themselves, brought the situationship to the stage by portraying it as a deadly disease, rendering the gravity that college students place on their social lives.

Muha discussed how the relatable content was perceived by the cast.

Tuesday, February 28, 2023