Pipe Dream Spring 2013 Issue 11

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The debate team isn't as prestigious as we thought

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PIPE DREAM Tuesday, March 5, 2013 | Binghamton University | www.bupipedream.com | Vol. LXXXIII, Issue 11

Undergrad applications on the rise 29,089 » Number of

applications for the class of 2017, a new record

28,141 » Number of

applications for the class of 2016, last year's pool

28,963 » Number of

applications for the class of 2013, the previous record

Binghamton University received a record-breaking number of freshman applicants this year, as well as more than 30,000 total applicants, an early indicator that the University’s publicity campaigns are paying off.

This year BU received 29,089 freshman applications, surpassing the former record of 28,963 set in 2009, according to Donald Nieman, provost and vice president for academic affairs.

Transfer applications are still rolling in, but thus far the combined total of transfer and freshman applicants exceeds 32,100.

BU’s Graduate School saw a similar rise in applications, with a 60 percent increase from last year, said Susan Strehle, interim dean of the Graduate School. The University received 3,402

completed applications this year, compared to 2,042 last year.

The Watson School of Engineering graduate program received the most applicants, with 1,169. Second was the graduate program in Harpur College, with 1,140 applications, according to Strehle.

Both Nieman and Strehle attributed the rise in applicants to increased advertising and recruiting efforts in the U.S. and abroad, which has helped to develop BU’s reputation.

“Our undergraduate admissions staff work very hard to get the word out about Binghamton’s quality,” Nieman said. “Binghamton students also go back to their neighborhoods and high schools and tell their parents, high school teachers and guidance counselors about the great faculty and students at Binghamton, giving us really good word of mouth which is hard to beat in recruiting.”

Additionally, the graduate study application has been made simpler, according to Strehle.

“With more applicants, each program can choose more of the very best applicants,” she said. “We are trying to increase the number of graduate students, and the number of applicants is very good news.”

University President Harvey Stenger said the increased number of applicants is a great achievement for BU. “It shows our growing popularity, built from our growing reputation of being a great place to go to college,” he wrote in an email to Pipe Dream.

Nieman said that the applicant pool remains strong, as it has been in previous years, but the acceptance percentage is expected to decrease slightly.

Two weekends ago, the top pair of BU policy debaters qualified for the National Debate Tournament (NDT) — the most prestigious event in college debate and a championship attended by only the top 78 policy debate pairs from around the country.

But budget constraints may keep Binghamton’s top policy debate team, Trevor Reddick and Philip George, from attending the tournament at the end of March.

Joseph Leeson-Schatz, director of the speech and debate team at Binghamton University, explained that the NDT simply does not fit into the team’s budget.

“The tournament is out in Idaho, and the flights are sort of expensive,” he said. “Tickets are running anywhere from $400 to $800 depending on where we would fly out from and which airport we’d fly into. Registration fees are also relatively expensive, as is judging, so in order for us to attend that tournament we would probably need an extra $3000.”

The team receives funds from the

Gamers "1-UP" competition

Twenty gamers went headto-head in the Undergrounds Coffeehouse Friday to test their skills in both retro and new games and determine who would be the victor of the 1-UP Cup, a tournament meant to emulate electronic sports competitions.

The 1-UP Cup was a fiveround tournament with contestants battling in games of “Mario Kart,” “Ms. PacMan,” “PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale,” “Gears of War” and “Just Dance.”

“We wanted to do an ultimate gamer competition rather than a who’s the best at ‘Smash Bros.,’ or who’s the best at ‘FIFA,’ because there’s tons of stuff like that that happens any given Sunday,” said Andrew Menfi, a Late Nite Binghamton programming assistant and a senior majoring

in history. “We wanted to find out who was the best allaround gamer.”

Dow Moran, a sophomore majoring in computer engineering, came in first, and Kevin Armagno, a sophomore majoring in electrical engineering, finished second.

Moran won the Mario prize pack which included a Turtle Beach headset, a console tower, 13 months of Xbox Live, a V-Rocker gaming chair, the PAX Sivir skin for “League of Legends” and a case of Red Bull, while Armagno won the Luigi prize pack of a Turtle Beach headset, 3 months of Xbox Live and a case of Mountain Dew. Moran said the contest was rigorous, with the “Just Dance” competition proving to be particularly difficult.

“Oh my gosh, yeah [it was intense] and everyone else was cheering and it really helped the mood,” Moran said.

“Everyone was shouting. It was a lot of fun, and I didn’t realize

how much energy it takes to dance and I’m actually sore now.”

During the games, Ryan Meitzler, a 2012 Binghamton graduate in English and cinema, and Menfi called the tournament, cracking jokes and commentating on gameplay.

“The biggest thing about playing games is that feeling of community and bringing people together, and also making fun of people as they’re playing the game.” Meitzler said. “I came up with the idea, but Eric really pulled it off.”

Eric Lepkowsky, a resident assistant in Newing College and a senior double-majoring in biology and history, based the 1-UP Cup on various eSports competitions for games such as “League of Legends” and “StarCraft II.” “I like to watch electronic sports, and I wanted to try

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Binghamton goes green for annual festivities The streets of Downtown were lined with green, orange and white Saturday afternoon as students joined the community for Binghamton’s 47th annual St. Patrick’s Parade Day. “Parade Day is a time for us to celebrate Irish culture and the many contributions Irish Americans have made to our community,” said Binghamton Mayor Matthew T. Ryan. “This has become an especially important event here in Binghamton, as thousands of revelers come to celebrate from across the city and around the region.”

At his lecture Monday night, John Teehan, an associate professor of religion at Hofstra University, asked students if groups of people can develop the same sense of solidarity around science that they do around religion.

His conclusion: “It hasn’t been proven yet.”

— John Teehan Associated professor of religion at Hofstra University

Teehan spoke as part of the weekly Binghamton University Evolutionary Studies Program

(EvoS) discussions.

In his lecture, Teehan explained that religion has been a way to unify people, as humans live in some of the largest, most complex societies in the animal kingdom.

“Religion can be a valuable social resource, as it gets harder to keep track of who you can trust,” Teehan said.

According to Teehan, our judgment about who is in the in-group, defined here by being in the same religious group, is equated with whom we deem trustworthy.

Teehan said that this study also showed that if the person in pain was perceived as a cheater, empathy levels would decrease, and pleasure levels in the brain increased.

Teehan has been researching the topic for eight years and said he plans to research more about what needs religion fulfills, and how this may change and grow in coming years. Science, however, is not religion’s competition.

The discussion continued for two hours, the first half used as lecture time, and the second as an opportunity for student and faculty member

questions.

“I was very happy with the questions, they were wellinformed,” Teehan said. “I feel positive about this.”

Rohit Pal, a junior majoring in integrative neuroscience, said he found one study discussed particularly interesting.

“I liked the neuroscience aspect in the study comparing Caucasians and Asians,” Pal said. “You got to see how their empathy levels differed for a person of their own race’s pain, and a person from the other.”

Joana Pjetri, a junior majoring in integrative neuroscience, said the event showed the scientific necessity of religion.

“We got to see how religion could be a set of values from a society that just needed rules for morality,” she said. “People made it up because we needed it, not for spirituality.”

About 100 students attended the discussion, which was co-sponsored by the Department of Judaic Studies, in addition to the faculty and staff members lining the first few rows of Academic A room G008.

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and bring that atmosphere here,” Lepkowsky said. “So we went with gamer tags the whole night for everybody, commentators, referees, giveaways, the whole shebang.

I didn’t want to make it that dark tournament where you just see kids sitting in the corner playing and waiting for hours; I wanted it to be a show.”

The atmosphere of the tournament remained friendly, with contestants ranging from hardcore gamers to more casual players.

“I never really played any

of these games, to be honest, so this is kind of new for me,” said Robbie Glover, an undeclared freshman.

“It’s kind of interesting just because it is all pretty new to me.”

The popularity of the tournament could lead to future gaming competitions, Lewposky said.

“Based on the turnout and the feedback we are definitely considering doing it again — definitely again in the future, maybe even again towards the end of the semester,” he said.

“This is just the first of many to come.”

"Mario Kart" "Ms. Pac-Man" "Playstation All-Stars Battle Royale" "Gears of War" "Just Dance"

Improv groups bring laughs

On Saturday evening, around 200 people filled the seats of Lecture Hall 1 for a night of comedy as Binghamton University’s Pappy Parker Players, a student-run improv group, warmed up the stage for the Upright Citizens Brigade (UCB), an improv group featured for three seasons on its self-titled show on Comedy Central.

The Pappys opened the night with interactive improv games like “3-2-1 Kill Me” and “Innuendo,” asking the audience to suggest a word and performing a skit based off of that word.

Following their performance, UCB took the stage and interviewed BU sophomore Danni Faraczek, who provided material for UCB’s show by giving details about the resident assistant process, her roommates, her housing plans next year and the new Dickinson Community construction.

“Any school that has an improv team here helps immensely because the students are aware of what it is that we do,” said Ben Kameaka, a member of UCB. “Students already have a familiarity with the art form

so its just great to come out to an audience that already knows what you’re doing and respects it.”

UCB performed at BU for the first time three years ago and has performed annually since.

Former Pappy Brandon Gardner, a member of UCB, graduated from BU in 2005.

“We first thought of them a few years ago when we realized one of them was an alumnus,” said Garrett Imbrenda, variety chair of the Student Association Programming Board. “I am really excited to have them back here.”

The ties between the Pappys and UCB are also rooted in a scholarship program started by the Pappys that allows one student to take classes at UCB Theatre.

UCB has two permanent theaters in New York City and one in Los Angeles. The company also sends out a group of comedians called the UCB Touring Company, which consists of house team members who travel and perform.

“I think what I enjoy about improv, and hopefully many of these folks would agree with me, is because it is something immediate and that show just exists between you and the audience that night,” said Langan

Kingsley, a member of UCB. “It’s sort of a shared experience in a way other performing arts are not sometimes.”

Kingsley and Kameaka performed Saturday along with Don Fanelli and Zack Willis.

“Upright Citizens Bridge is the premier comedy scene in New York City,” said Ben Eisenkop, former Pappy and a doctoral student in biology.

Audience members said UCB did a good job of relating to students with BU-specific jokes.

“The show did a great job of incorporating Binghamton references,” said Josh Yeh, an undeclared freshman. “Very funny Dickinson jokes.”

Amanda Hoffman, a 2009 BU graduate, said the show was a great demonstration of improv comedy at work.

“Tonight is a good night for BU students to get exposed to long-form improv comedy,” Hoffman said.

Student Association Vice President for Programming Brianna Friia said it was exciting to bring UCB back to BU. “It was amazing having UCB here!” Friia said. “It was a very relatable show because they pulled from topics on campus and it made it hilarious.”

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Six SUNY Cobleskill students injured in car accident State police are investigating a rollover car accident that injured six students from the State University of New York at Cobleskill. The accident happened shortly after 3 p.m.

Saturday when the driver lost control of her 2001 Volkswagen Jetta while driving east on Route 7 in Duanesburg, just west of Schenectady. The car veered off the road and rolled over twice. Two of the six young women in the car were thrown from the vehicle and suffered serious neck and back injuries.

The other four women had minor injuries, according to police. All were taken to Albany Medical Center. The names of the women were not released. Troopers say the driver had not been drinking.

Cuomo open to “technical” changes on gun control Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he’s open only to “technical changes” to fix mistakes in his landmark gun control legislation, but not substantive changes. Cuomo said he’s not open to changing the provision that requires no more than seven bullets in an ammunition magazine, down from 10 allowed before the law was enacted. That’s among the revisions Senate Republican leader Dean Skelos floated Monday. The Long Island Republican says his conference wants to pursue other changes, too. The gun law has led to large protest rallies in Albany and has also pressured Senate Republicans who represent many of the upstate areas where gun owners are most upset.

Cuomo denies that he was close to approving ‘fracking’ Gov. Andrew Cuomo denies he was close to approving limited hydrofracking for natural gas last month before talking with environmental lawyer Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Cuomo says an Associated Press report citing state officials and an interview with Kennedy was wrong. State officials close to Cuomo and Kennedy had said Cuomo was near a decision last month to order limited drilling. The AP reported Cuomo had come closer than he ever had to deciding whether to approve limited test wells. But after talking with Kennedy, Cuomo decided to await a new comprehensive health study.

Cuomo confirms he was speaking to Kennedy, his former brother-in-law. Cuomo says he doesn’t recall telling Kennedy that he won’t greenlight fracking if it’s a health threat, but that he’s said that before.

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Police Watch But it's not even a real gun FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 4:26 a.m. — Officers on patrol stopped a vehicle without headlights on Bartle Drive, said Investigator Patrick Reilly of Binghamton’s New York State University Police. The officers spoke with the car’s driver, a 19-year-old male, and as they spoke with him they noticed a CO2 cartridge and a knife on the floor of the car. The suspect was asked about the findings, and he said that he was borrowing his friend’s car. He also said he thought there might be a CO2 gun in the back, which was found by the officers. All items were taken, as well as an expired license which the suspect had on his person. The suspect was issued a ticket for unlawful possession of a weapon.

Who let the dog out?

SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 7:39 p.m. — Officers were called to the Fine Arts Building after someone called to say that a dog was roaming the building, Reilly said. The officers found the dog, an adult male pit bull, in the building. The dog had a collar, but it did not have any tags on it. The officers brought the dog back to the station and gave it some water. Vestal Dog Control was called, but they were called off after two students came in asking about the dog. They said that the dog belonged to a professor and had gotten loose. The dog was turned over to the students.

Headstrong SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 10:41 p.m.

— University police received a report of a 20-year-old male who was complaining

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about injuries to his head and back, Reilly said. The victim had been visiting friends in Newing College’s Endicott Hall for the weekend and had gotten intoxicated during the day. When he got back to campus he started vomiting on himself and had to be carried to the bathroom by his friends. The victim eventually went to sleep, but when he woke up he felt like he had suffered injuries to the head and back. Eventually one of his friends, an 18-year-old male student, admitted that he had started hitting the victim in the head because he was being difficult. The victim was transported to Binghamton General Hospital by Harpur’s Ferry, and the case is still open. #ParadeDayProblems SUNDAY, MARCH 3, 3:35 a.m. — Officers on patrol were informed by the attendant at the information booth at the campus entrance of a potentially intoxicated driver, Reilly said. The officers pulled over the driver, a 22-year-old male student, as they observed his car drifting out of the lane and striking the curb of the median on West Drive. The suspect was not wearing a seatbelt, and the officers said he smelled like alcohol. The suspect was asked to exit the vehicle and performed poorly on field sobriety tests. The suspect was then arrested and brought to the station.

Officers administered a breathalyzer test and the suspect was found to be at a level three times the legal limit. The suspect was charged with aggravated DWI, driving without a seatbelt and an illegal lane change.

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applicants are from New York, according to Nieman. Outof-state and international applicant numbers this year were comparable to last year’s

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“So we continue to have a strong attraction to students beyond New York,” Nieman said.

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University president’s office, the Student Association, and the Harpur dean’s office, with $12,000, $19,000, and $15,000 coming from each, respectively, as well as money from the team’s endowment.

Binghamton’s debaters do not pay for tournament fees or hotel stays, according to Schatz. However, they are asked to pay for their own plane tickets whenever the team flies somewhere.

“Between the semesters we went out to California, and the vast majority of the team paid for their plane tickets,” Schatz said.

There is a system in place to help students who don’t have the means to pay for their own plane tickets.

“A lot of times we judge at various different high school tournaments and get paid to judge there” he said. “That’s one of the major fundraisers we do.

Anytime we pay for someone’s plane ticket is because that person has fundraised a very similar amount to how much they need to fly.”

Binghamton had previously qualified for the NDT in the

2004-05, 2005-06, 2007-08, 2008-09, 2010-11 debate seasons.

Schatz said that the nature of Binghamton’s debate team is a contributing factor to the strain on its tight budget.

“A lot of programs like Georgetown, Northwestern, Harvard, Emory, are not really concerned with people who didn’t debate in high school,” Schatz said. “They only care about people who debated in high school and who have a chance to succeed at the national level. Whereas Binghamton’s program is more focused on getting people who didn’t debate in high school and helping them gain experience.

We consistently bring anywhere between eight and 15 teams when we go to a tournament.

Occasionally we’ll go to a national tournament where we’ll bring only our top one or two teams.”

Though Schatz pointed out that the team’s budget has not been increased in several years, he admitted that the team should consider itself lucky.

“The administration has not increased our budget in a while and has kept it steady, which is actually pretty decent given the

fact that most other programs on campus have been cut down due to budgetary constraints and state funding issues,” he said.

Schatz said that he had recently gone to the provost to ask for additional funds so that he would be able to take the team to Cross Examination Debate Association’s national tournament and to the novice national debate tournament, and that his requests were granted.

“When I met with him that was all we needed to have funded,” he said. “I wasn’t necessarily expecting to qualify [to the NDT]. But then we did qualify, which was great because we qualified, but bad because we didn’t have the money to get there.”

Student Association Vice President for Finance Eric Larson said in an email that although the team’s success cannot be ignored, it has no bearing on the amount of money that it receives.

“In the budget packets I released to all student groups explaining how the budget decision process worked, it did establish that the financial council gives preference for

budget increases to smaller groups that need to get a foothold on campus,” he wrote.

Larson also cited the fact that the debate team’s budget was raised to $19,000 in 2010, and said that he has not heard of any additional funding requests coming in.

“According to the records I have, they do have enough money left in their account to cover this $3000 expenditure,” Larson wrote.

Schatz emphasized the importance that the NDT has on the future of the team.

“Getting to the NDT shows high schoolers who follow the college circuit that Binghamton has a competitive program,” Schatz said. “This year there were six different students with high school experience who contacted me who have applied to Binghamton for next year. They found out about the Binghamton program because of how many times we have attended and qualified for the NDT in the past, as well as the national rankings system.”

Schatz said he will be meeting over the next two weeks with the president’s and dean’s offices to try to obtain more funding.

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"Wonderous" new album from Youth Lagoon Rich Kersting | Release

“Don’t stop imagining. The day that you do is the day that you die.” A powerful mantra like this one is common in the context of Trevor Powers and his pop project, Youth Lagoon. For a 23-year-old musician surrounded by clashing genres such as lo-fi, dream pop and hip hop, Powers is a deft master of quiet reflection and slow-building, introverted anthems. On his 2011 debut, “The Year Of Hibernation,” he allowed wide-eyed and naïve lyricism to take center stage, letting a latticework of light drums, synth loops and fuzzed guitar take over when his voice ran out of steam.

“The Year Of Hibernation” was a profound statement in its balance between The Microphones’ introspective tape hiss and Beach House’s inescapably huge emotive tug.

Two years later, Powers has returned with the Ben Allenproduced sophomore effort “Wondrous Bughouse,” swapping out the minimal, contemplative shivers of “Hibernation” for a jaw-slackening set of psychedelic rock sagas. Powers is a talented musician whose distinct blend of genres is heightened and sharpened in “Bughouse.” While the anxious introversion of his debut is still present in the lyrics and vocals of the new songs, Allen’s intricate production style is incorporated well into Powers’ themes of death, mental illness and self-preservation.

After the instrumental opener “Through Mind And Back,” Powers conjures a beautifully idiosyncratic guitar melody to begin “Mute,” the first of many multi-part tracks on “Wondrous Bughouse.” At first, it sounds like typical Youth Lagoon in its echoing, childlike catchiness; then the synths cut out to transform it into a chaotic, twinkling melody that Powers sings with a new, unfettered clarity. It’s powerful and raw, making the subsequent guitar passage all the more arresting.

“Wondrous Bughouse” evokes rock legends like The Who or Pink Floyd, where psychedelic journeys materialize over epic lengths of vinyl and tape.

Make no mistake, though

— Youth Lagoon is still a pop project. Take “Attic Door,” with its smooth guitar hooks and waltzing drums; Powers has conceived a strange world that straddles the line between utopia and nightmare. Sonically, “Attic Door” is light and hopeful, breaking for an instrumental jam that fizzles and pops where older tracks like “Daydream” only pulsed quietly. However, the lyrical content is dark and terrifying, telling the story a loved one’s newfound infertility.

A hallmark of “Bughouse” is the fictional narration of Powers’ anxieties and fears.

“Pelican Man” confronts schizophrenia and delusion with a classic Youth Lagoon climax. The darkness that only lurked in “Attic Door” is unmasked and looming here, cluttered with a busy plain of twitching production tricks and jarring static. “Eighteen demons smile in your bed, questioning everything you’ve ever said/it’s not true, it’s all in your head,” laments Powers, expressing a downward spiral from sanity and order into dysfunction. If “Pelican Man” is the unraveled hysteria at the center of the album, is it all downhill afterward?

Powers’ answer is a negative.

The album’s lead single “Dropla” reorganizes the traumas of “Pelican Man” in one of the album’s most straightforward pop ascents. It’s a white-knuckled resistance to coming to terms with death and human impermanence.

As dissonant piano and sheets of guitar rain around him, Powers reassures himself with youthful innocence: “You will never die, you will never die.”

As Powers matures through trauma, heartbreak and loss, his music only gets stranger and more complex. While “Hibernation” was delicate and resonating, “Bughouse” is a more seasoned, intricate affair that challenges multiple genres and recompiles Powers’ minimal, niche sound into a darker beast. Even at its most frantic moments, “Wondrous Bughouse” is an album in the throes of selfdiscovery and growth for a young artist who’s quickly paving his way to a unique and enviable sound, where uncertainty, mortality and anxiety get turned into inspiring and psychotropic anthems.

Symphony takes audience to sea

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Jonathan Finkelstein | Release On Sunday afternoon, Binghamton University’s Wind Symphony presented their first show of the spring 2013 semester, “La Mer.” With the sea working as the central theme of the performance, the audience — a mix of students, parents and locals — was taken far away from the cold Binghamton area and right out to sea.

“It’s great to see your friends in a different environment, particularly doing things that they are passionate about,” said Jenna Palazzolo, an undeclared freshman who watched her friends perform.

Conductor Daniel Fabricius presented the show as a “varied program of old and contemporary music, using the sea as a common thread.” Most of the music is folkie, hailing from the island nation of Great Britain. However, the show also dealt heavily in American sailing and musical interpretations of Herman Melville’s “Moby Dick.”

The first piece, “Sea Songs,” started off very upbeat and immediately we were out to sea. The piece is an arrangement of British sea-songs by composer Ralph Vaughan Williams. One can hear the subtle tunes of British patriotism within the music, sailing being a huge part of island

culture. The second piece was “Gravity Wave,” a contemporary piece by a relatively new composer, Brian Balmages, unlike any conventional music piece. According to Fabricius, the song is a “mix of warm sounds and cold sounds,” delivering an “illusion of shortening and lengthening time.” The song delivers the imagery of the ocean, and there are, in fact, scientific studies and mathematical formulas which support why. The opening of the piece really sets the atmosphere until the tempo increases and, by the end of the song, the listener is plunged into chaos until ultimately the ensemble is pulled together in “rhythmic unison,” ending the piece.

Fabricius introduced the third piece by explaining, “Toe tapping is allowed, but please fight the urge to dance.” “Molly on the Shore,” by composer Percy Aldridge Grainger, was a complicated and rhythmic folk piece. Following that, “Fantasy on American Sailing Songs” by composer Clare Grundman reminded the listener of those childhood dreams of being a sailor on the open sea. A “robust medley of sailing songs,” it set the feeling that one was really sailing on a ship with Fabricius as captain.

The fifth and final piece, which marked the “end of the voyage,” was titled “Of Sailors and Whales,” which is a tone poem

based on five scenes from Herman Melville’s “Moby Dick.” Each of the five songs in this piece was preceded by a moving reading from “Moby Dick” by local personality Mo “Reese” Taylor (you may know him as the director of the University Pep Band).

Mary Weber, an undeclared freshman, loved the way the readings and the music interacted together.

“The music complemented the readings perfectly. I wish that when I was actually reading the book, it was a bit more like this!” Weber said.

Each song interpreted the emotion of each scene in a very unique and different way. During the third movement/scene (out of five), the symphony sang lowly throughout the piece, delivering a very eerie feeling which was religious, spiritual and beautifully profound. You could hear Ahab’s anger and the wrath of Moby Dick, and it proved to be a fitting end to the performance. It reminded the audience that the sea, while romanticized, is just as angry as it is beautiful.

“It’s especially rewarding when a song can give you the chills, ‘Gravity Wave,’ for me, while you’re playing it,” said Richard Barley, an undeclared freshman who plays the trumpet.

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BU is ranked fourth in the nation overall in debate, so it was only natural that we assumed that this meant we had some of the best debaters in the country, maybe even the best.

Even the University published this ranking on their website and bragged about it during tours without any clarification or explanation.

But in fact, our best pair of policy debaters are probably not in the top 20 nationally, and may in fact be ranked somewhere between 20th and 40th.

We don’t want to diminish their achievement, though. This is actually one hell of an accomplishment. It means that our debate team is more successful than all but one of our sports teams, but it certainly

doesn’t explain how we can be fourth overall.

The top-level debaters compete in varsity debate, but the ranking system that places Binghamton fourth also considers how teams fare in the less prestigious junior varsity and novice debate. It is in these lower divisions that Binghamton thrives. The coach of Binghamton’s debate team said that his program puts extra emphasis on students new to debate, while many of the top-tier programs — who win at varsity debate, the highest level — focus on recruiting high school debaters.

We are not disputing Binghamton’s ranking, nor dismissing their accomplishments; rather, we are saying that we have not made it clear — nor has it been

made clear to us — that as far as top-tier debate schools are concerned, we are not the top dog.

As far as we understand it, the overall ranking of a school is akin to ranking a high school soccer team by totaling their freshman, JV and varsity accomplishments. And while this is important, we want to make it clear that the big guys focus their concerns on success only at the varsity level. At the varsity level, we are only at 55 in the nation — hardly the amongst the best in the nation.

Maybe it wasn’t the most egregious of mistakes, but we should have done our research to understand the full story.

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If student-led groups like Catalysts for Intellectual Capital intend to reach their vision of retaining 20 percent of graduating seniors by the year 2020, events like Building Our Vibrant and Enduring Community will play a valuable role in turning this vision into a reality.

On March 14, students, faculty, alumni and community members will come together to bridge the gap between the local community and Binghamton University, discussing long-term, sustainable opportunities in terms of employment, education, business, housing and social life.

The event’s spark is a trend of international students who have shown a strong interest in relocating to the Binghamton area, but believe their opportunities are severely limited due to the prevalence of short-term employment.

However, the ongoing conversation has implications for the entire student body and anyone who calls Binghamton home throughout the school year.

As many students are well aware, Binghamton is notorious for being one of the most depressed, pessimistic and obese cities in the United States. In years past, Binghamton prided itself on a skilled labor force and a prominent middle class, but as manufacturing left in large part with IBM, so too did its prosperity.

What the city does have on its side, though, is a growing student population.

Binghamton needs to do everything it can to capitalize on its strengths and reinvent itself with the University.

The employment trajectory and city culture would have to adapt in turn, but by raising the aggregate level of talent, we would be investing in a healthy workforce and moving to restore the sense of promise that has been missing here for far too long.

Building Our Vibrant and Enduring Community addresses this imperative quite well. With the help of co-facilitators, the event will introduce and put in context local economic development efforts and how collaborative community building can enact continuity in student retention.

Student attrition is a natural part of any educational setting, but it is through the institutional authority and staying power of the administration that such recommendations will best be realized.

To this end, each committee will have discussion leaders who will help brainstorm

connections and resources needed to improve the student experience, along with student recorders who will listen and transcribe participant feedback.

While our college town has much room for improvement, Broome County and the University have recently inspired some exciting thoughts to be put into action.

From a logistics standpoint, Google Maps will soon include the public transit system in its directions search engine, which will make the navigation of the current bus schedules noticeably more accommodating.

presence on campus, offering graduates a greater incentive to join local office branches. Morgan Stanley is a perfect example, residing just a few blocks away from State Street.

President Stenger — who currently serves as co-chair of the Southern Tier Regional Economic Development Council (REDC) — has made economic development a priority, resulting in significant funding to retain 1,075 jobs and creating another 1,385 jobs in the region. The NY SUNY 2020 Challenge Grant and Southern Tier hightech incubator are both substantial strides in inspiring opportunity growth for local businesses and aspiring entrepreneurs. As stated by Broome County Executive Debbie Preston in an interview with Your News Now, when we bring together the college, government and private sector, the end result will create jobs, especially for former students and young professionals.

But these strategic objectives cannot alone shift the momentum toward revitalization. Truly, it takes the combined input of a student-centered campus to retain the brain power created at the At the moment, most on and off-campus University and to generate the enduring jobs available to students are temporary change we seek for a brighter future in the positions. One proposal that several alumni Greater Binghamton area. in the corporate workforce have endorsed would encourage partnerships with New — Justin Kalin is a sophomore York City businesses that already have a majoring in accounting.

Letters to the editor As a holder of opinions, as everyone is, I am going to get called out every once in a while. After my article about the deficiencies in the East Gym ran on Friday, I received an email from a self-proclaimed “crusty old guy who doesn’t give a fuck” asking to speak to me about the East Gym and shed some light on why it is the way it is.

While sitting in his office listening to him tell me the hoops that are jumped through and paperwork filled out just to take a piss, I realized what it truly means to go to a state school.

The process of doing anything not paid for by tuition and fees is a mess of red tape, bureaucracy and conflicting interests. There are levels of government and agencies I never even knew could exist, all making and enforcing rule after rule that define and restrict appropriation of resources. The East Gym deficiencies aren’t the product of lack of care from Binghamton employees, but are

typical of governmental bureaucracy.

Since the East Gym building is so old, it is a designated historic building. This means it literally cannot be altered to look different on the outside in any way, which is why it is still there. There also isn’t enough money in the SUNY “strategic initiatives” fund, which provides funding for the construction of brand new buildings.

There was, however, plenty of money in their “critical maintenance” fund, which is for renovations. This means that, even if they had enough money (which they didn’t), they wouldn’t have been able to expand the East Gym because that would have been a new building. However, our new dorm buildings are funded by a completely separate pool of money, which is generated by the Dormitory Authority of the State of New York’s selling of bonds and can be used however they want. Are you following?

As a rule, tuition is used only for academics, which is fair. So every penny that the school of Binghamton could spend on a new gym has to come from our fees. In the early 2000s, students shot down a proposal to increase recreation fees for a new fitness facility. Since then, SUNY has adopted a policy that restricts fee

increases to 2.5 percent per year, all of which ends up being used to keep up with the rising costs of employee fringe benefits and inflation.

predictions, which are based on past experiences with the appropriation board and are by no means definite, are that we could have these facilities by 2017.

I hope I have quelled any fires without selling my soul. There are two sides to every story, and both deserve to be heard. If you read my other article, you know how I feel about the facilities. My opinion of the floors hasn’t changed. Neither has my opinion of the mini-courts. My opinion of the crustiness of the old guys hasn’t changed either.

But I wanted to clarify and confirm my position on these crusty old guys. The crusty old guy is the system. It’s in the very fundamentals of government. Yeah, restricting fee increases sounds nice … until you want a new gym. It’s the same debate that’s raging at the national level, and people with opinions still opine about the inadequacies of governmental programs. I guess all we can hope for is a big enough scissor to cut through the red tape.

However, my crusty old friend has reassured me that they are working through the red tape. They have submitted a plan for expansion of the East Gym to meet the recommended number of basketball courts for a university of our size among other goodies, like a new turf field. These recommendations are argued in — Macon Fessenden is a junior a supplemental report done by a majoring in environmental policy consulting agency that says that and law. our facilities are inadequate for the amount of people that use them. The

Winter facial hair upkeep requires a careful regimen Parade Day weekend has flown past us in a flurry of alcohol and shamrocks, and spring is in the air.

Oh, who am I kidding? We’ve got at least another month of winter up here in Bing. Due to Binghamton’s yearly chilling embrace, I thought I’d share a bit of information that my housemate shared with me.

Something a majority of us guys hold dear is in danger during the wintry weather — and ladies, if you’re not trying to become the main attraction for a Coney Island sideshow or trying to seriously break some gender roles then this column may not be for you. Feel free to share the information with your guy friends, though.

Funnily enough, what is at stake for us men are our beards — just the thing we want to keep around and in

the best condition during the colder portion of the year. Fortunately, prepping your facial hair for snowy season is a relatively easy and inexpensive thing to do.

The first step to taking care of your beard is admitting that you may actually have to care of your beard. It’s not something that really crosses many guys’ minds and, with everything else our college years throw at us, who really wants something else to worry about on top of all the schoolwork, meetings and bars that need attending to?

I’ll admit that even I am having trouble starting a beard-care regimen, but, as a man who plans to keep his facial hair around for a little bit, it’s something I’m seriously considering doing. The financial burden’s not very fun to bear, but there are various levels to which you can take your manscaping endeavors.

If you’re just worried about the harsh, dry air during these windy, winter days, you may want to look into holding daily oiling sessions for your shaggy stubble. A combination of tea tree oil and coconut milk will help keep your beard softer and tamer than it normally is while also protecting

the skin hidden underneath.

It’s as easy as mixing the oils in a bowl, getting yourself a fine brush similar to what the barber brushes your neck with when you get a haircut (though a toothbrush makes a nice replacement) and applying it lightly to your face. For those with more scruff than most, you may need to take extra measures if you want to keep everything under control.

really bad days.

When things are just too damn unruly or your neck beard is a little too thick for your liking, trimming becomes inevitable. Electric clippers and trimmers can be quite the godsend for times like these, but if you aren’t sporting the most impressive facial hair, you can probably get away with just your average razor. A good shaving cream or lather is also important. No one enjoys a dry shave.

If you’re struggling for stubble in the first place, you may want to change up your diet or add some pills to your daily intake which contain riboflavin and/or niacin vitamins.

Good rest and keeping a clean face are important as well.

So, to veterans and aspiring whisker-wearers alike, I hope you got something out of this article and keep that beard looking good. There are plenty more tips and advice out Conditioning your beard as you there on the Internet, so start doing shower can work wonders, but try to your research if you want facial hair shy away from shampooing it, as many as famous as Einstein’s or Nietzsche’s shampoos contain damaging silicones. in the future.

Your experience may vary, so don’t be terribly afraid to experiment. All— Zach Stanco is a senior doublenatural pastes and smoothing creams majoring in philosophy and English. can come in handy as well for those

To the editor: Hello, my name is Sunny, I am one of the philanthropy directors at Alpha Sigma Phi Fraternity along with Cameron Carillo, after reading the article about the success of the recent Purim Carnival [Pipe Dream, Feb. 21, 2013], I am deeply disappointed and upset at the fact that the only main sponsor mentioned is Chabad, you recognize that organizations work hard to bring the event together but do not acknowledge that most, if not all of those organizations besides Chabad were Greek Life. Being that my fraternity was a main sponsor and worked tremendously hard to give our campus a great reputation but received no appreciation angers me.

Pipe Dream is often very biased to exploit Greek Life of anything they can find, yet when Greek Life sacrifices to the greater good there is no recognition. In the future, when Greek Life does charity I hope you take the time to justify their hard work.

Sung Jun Park Class of 2015 To the editor: As students prepare to graduate this upcoming May, many are excited to start a new chapter in their life — either continuing their education through graduate school or starting a new career. Before beginning this new chapter, however, many students must undergo the grueling task of paying back their student loan debt.

Student loan debt continues to burden 37 million Americans. With an increase in students relying on loans, many are finding it increasingly difficult to attend college due to the tremendous amount of debt accumulated in the process. Total student loan debt has risen 511 percent over the past 13 years. The average student graduates with over $26,000 of debt.

Recent cuts to financial assistance programs have only made the situation worse. In New York, former Governor Paterson’s restrictions on eligibility for the Tuition Assistance Program (TAP) made it harder for many students to qualify for aid and eliminated TAP for graduate students.

Paterson’s administration enacted several detrimental changes to TAP, including the denial of future aid to students in default on any state or federal student loans, reductions of the maximum TAP awards to married students with no children and increased academic standards for eligibility of non-remedial students.

This is a critical point in the lives of college students, and in order to protect access to an affordable college education, students from all academic fields and regions must join forces and have our voices heard. With New York’s budget process looming, Binghamton University students have the opportunity to make a real difference in New York’s investment in higher education.

Enough is enough. In tough economic times like these, finding a job and financing for graduate school is already a daunting task. New York policymakers can and should do more to alleviate our student loan debt burden.

Christopher Carusone Class of 2013

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Despite getting on the board first, Binghamton women’s lacrosse team fell to Canisius 13-7 after the Golden Griffins used two prolonged runs to push past BU at the Bearcats Sports Complex on Saturday.

“We didn’t execute many levels of our game plan,” Binghamton head coach Stephanie Allen said.

“Communication and hustle are two things that we can control, and [we] fell short of both of those areas this past weekend.”

Binghamton (0-3) was led

by junior attack Angela Vespa, a transfer from Onondaga Community College, who recorded her first career hat trick as a Bearcat on Saturday. Vespa scored the first goal of the game to give BU an early lead with 25:36 left in the first half, but Canisius (1-2) responded with five unreciprocated goals to close out the half with a 5-1 advantage.

Binghamton senior midfielder Katherine Hunsberger scored just three minutes into the second half, but Canisius again responded with a goal of its own to extend their lead to 6-2.

Goals by Vespa and senior attack

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Kimberly McGeever sandwiched another Golden Griffin goal, cutting the deficit to 7-4. But Canisius answered Binghamton’s push with six-consecutive goals to put the game on ice.

The Bearcats compiled a late run of their own by scoring three-straight goals in the last three minutes to put the final score at 13-7. Vespa, sophomore attack/midfielder Alex Fisher and freshman midfielder Allie Rodgers scored during the stretch.

“I think we went out there and were able to identify some matchups in the second half and exploit those matchups, but just couldn’t get the tempo that we wanted set in the first half for our shot that we were hoping to generate,” Allen said.

The head coach said Vespa was a bright spot in the loss.

“Angela did a nice job for us this weekend,” she said. “[We] had the ball moving through her a lot more in the second half. She was able to put herself in position to get different looks on kids that kept us moving back in the right direction as far as the score went, but just a little bit too late.”

Canisius outshot Binghamton 32-17 and held a 28-13 advantage on groundballs. The Bearcats turned the ball over 24 times while forcing 16 turnovers.

The Bearcats are set to return to game action on Wednesday against Marist, which is 0-4 this season. “[We] are looking forward to making … adjustments in practices the next two days and being prepared to take on Marist Wednesday,” Allen said. “We are just going to take it one game at a time.”

Face-off is set for 4 p.m. at the Bearcats Sports Complex.

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Junior transfer Angela Vespa recorded the first hat trick of her Binghamton career, but the Bearcats couldn’t top Canisius.

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The number of RBI sophomore Jake Thomas drove in during the team’s four-game series against VMI this past weekend.

The number of goals men’s lacrosse allowed against Hobart. It was BU’s best defensive performance since holding Marist to a single goal in 2008.

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The number of wins the women’s basketball team has earned in their last three games.

The softball team’s record at Arizona State/Wilson DeMarini Invitational this past weekend.

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The number of double-doubles

freshman Jordan Reed recorded

this season, good for best in the conference.

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BU falls to 2-7 on the year after 1-4 weekend in Arizona Playing against elite competition at Arizona State/ Wilson DeMarini Invitational, the Binghamton softball team went 1-4 over the weekend, beating North Dakota 8-5 on Saturday for its sole win. Losses to East Carolina, No. 3 Arizona State, No. 20 Baylor and North Carolina rounded out the Bearcats’ weekend.

The Bearcats (2-7) kicked off play on Friday against East Carolina (8-11). In the top of the third inning, BU freshman outfielder Sydney Harbaugh, who finished the game 1-for2 with a pair of walks, scored on a triple by senior outfielder Jessica Phillips. Freshman catcher Lisa Cadogan then drove in Phillips with a single, giving Binghamton a 2-0 lead.

But the Pirates pushed across two runs in the bottom of the frame to tie the game.

Binghamton had the bases loaded in the fourth but couldn’t take advantage, and the score remained tied until the bottom of the ninth inning, when ECU junior Jill Jelnick delivered her fourth hit of the game to drive in the decisive run of her team’s 3-2 victory.

Later in the day, Arizona State freshman pitcher Alexis Cooper allowed just one run on two hits to lead the Sun Devils (21-1) past Binghamton 9-1 in five innings. The game marked the first time Binghamton has played a nationally ranked opponent in its Division I history.

—Michelle Burrell BU head coach

Cadogan and junior pinch hitter Chelsey Locatell combined for Binghamton’s two hits, and Locatell’s secondinning single drove in Cadogan for the Bearcats’ only run.

Arizona State scored three runs in each of the first three innings, chasing senior starting pitcher Rhoda Marsteller from

the game after one frame of work. Marsteller allowed six runs, though only three were earned, and surrendered five hits and four walks.

On Saturday, Binghamton picked up its second win of the season, defeating North Dakota (7-10) 8-5.

Freshman first baseman Tiffany McIntosh and junior second baseman Jessica Bump each hit two-run home runs, and junior third baseman Mikala King finished with three RBI. Senior pitcher Kate Price earned her first win of the season.

The Bearcats faced off with No. 20 Baylor (19-3) later in the day, however, and were unable to faze freshman pitcher Heather Stearns. The Bearcats didn’t score against Stearns until the top of the sixth, when Harbaugh brought in a runner with a bunt to bring the score to its final state, 6-1.

According to Binghamton head coach Michelle Burrell, the team came together in Sunday’s tournament finale against North Carolina (15-6), though it ultimately fell 7-4.

In the third inning, Cadogan evened the score at one with a RBI double. Then, in the sixth inning, after North Carolina

ASU Wilson DeMarini Invitational Game 1: vs. East Carolina Game 2: vs. No. 3 ASU Game 3: vs. North Dakota Game 4: vs. No. 20 Baylor Game 5: vs. North Carolina

The Binghamton swimming and diving program closed out its season at the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference Championship this weekend, with five members representing the Bearcats.

Binghamton had not participated in the event since 2007.

Sophomore Corinne Zotter highlighted the outing for BU, taking second place in the 100 breast with a time of 1:04.02 to become the first member of the women’s squad to take a medal at the ECAC Championship since 2005.

“It was great to see Corinne on the medal stand,” Binghamton head coach Sean Clark said in a press release on www.bubearcats.com. “She was leading much of the race, but was just out-touched by an America East rival [UMBC sophomore Claire Barron].”

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qualify for the 200 breast final by swimming an awesome race in the consolation final,” Clark said in the press release.

Freshman Andrew Duszynski finished 22nd in the 200 fly and 26th in the 200 back, notching a pair of lifetime bests in the process with respective times of 1:57.74 and 1:56.40. The rookie also finished 18th in the 100 back.

Provided by bubearcats.com Sophomore Corinne Zotter

Senior Lauri Crimmins recorded the second-best time of her career in the 500 free, finishing 36th in a time of 5:16.73. She also finished 32nd in the 200 free.

Freshman Claudia Coccaro notched 20th, 32nd and 33rd-place finishes in the 100 back, 200 back and 100 fly, respectively.

On the boards for Binghamton, sophomore Kim Robertson took 11th on the 3-meter board with a — Sean Clark score of 205.85, and 13th on the 1-meter board with BU head coach a score of 184.20.

“We are pretty happy with the results with the small crew that we took this weekend,” Clark said in Zotter rounded out her weekend with a ninth- the press release. “We had some good performances place finish in the 200 breast and a 22nd-place finish and lifetime bests, which is always good to see. I in the 50 free. She missed the finals in the 200 breast think next year we want to attack this meet with with a 10th place finish in the preliminaries, but more fervor and make a much larger impact.” won the consolation final with a time of 2:20.85. The time would have been good for third in the final.

“Zotter also regrouped well after failing to

had taken a 4-1 lead, freshman catcher Taylor Chaffee hit a double to tack on another Bearcat run before King doubled to knock in two more and tie the score at 4-4.

But in the bottom of the sixth inning, North Carolina freshman second baseman Erin Satterfield blasted a three-run home run to left center. The Bearcats left the tying run at the plate to end the game.

North Carolina junior Lori Spignola had nine strikeouts, giving up five hits and one walk.

In general, Burrell said her team’s defense needs to improve. The Bearcats committed seven errors and allowed six unearned runs on the weekend.

“We kept our energy positive after Saturday’s losses, and the girls did a good job adjusting offensively,” Burrell said. “We had two big hits during the [North Carolina] game, and I think Mikala and our freshmen played really well, coming up with some clutch hits during the North Carolina and North Dakota games. We need to stay positive, and play together as a team.”

Binghamton is set to return to game action at the Maryland/Miken Invitational this weekend. The Bearcats are scheduled to play three games and kick off the weekend against St. John’s at at 3:30 p.m. Saturday at Robert E. Taylor Stadium.

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Though Binghamton went 1-4 at Arizona State’s Wilson/DeMarini Invitational, junior third baseman Mikala King had a solid weekend, driving in five runs.

The Binghamton men’s basketball team held a 33-32 lead over UMBC with 14:53 left, but 20 turnovers and a 34 percent clip from the field plagued the Bearcats in their 59-49 loss on Sunday afternoon at the Retrievers Activity Center.

The Bearcats (3-26, 1-15 America East) were led in the first half by senior Taylor Johnston. The 6-foot-7-inch forward scored 10 of his 16 points in the opening frame, including five points in a 19-second span to help give Binghamton a 14-9 lead with 12 minutes left in the opening 20.

But Binghamton’s impressive shooting performance to start the game wouldn’t last, as the Bearcats shot just 3-of-14 in the final eight minutes of the half.

The Retrievers (7-22, 5-11 AE) and Bearcats evened the score three times over that stretch before UMBC escaped the first half with a 26-25 lead when junior guard Ryan Cook drained a 3-pointer. Cook finished with a game-high 24 points on 7-of-14 shooting from the field.

UMBC scored 12 points off 11 Binghamton turnovers in the first half.

In the second half, BU reclaimed the lead with 14:53 left to play on one of Johnston’s four 3-pointers. And after

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the Retrievers regained and extended their lead to as many as six, the Bearcats pulled to within two points, 42-40, midway through the half after freshman guard Jordan Reed converted a pair of free throws.

But from there, UMBC sophomore guard Brian Neller hit two 3-pointers in a span of 1:15 to propel the Retrievers to a 48-40 lead that they would not surrender. The Bearcats were outscored 17-9 to end the game.

“Overall we didn’t play very well,” BU head coach Tommy Dempsey said, according to www.bubearcats.com.

“Give UMBC credit … They stepped up and made a lot of big shots, especially their seniors. Our energy in the zone was good but their top two shooters [Cook and Neller] hit shots in crucial times. As a group, we made poor decisions against their zone and that caused a lot of turnovers.”

Binghamton junior forward Brian Freeman scored eight points to go with nine rebounds and three blocks.

Reed’s 11 points and 12 rebounds were good for his league-leading 13th double-

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double. With Maine sophomore Justin Edwards pouring in 29 points in the Black Bears’ regular-season finale on Sunday, Reed now stands at No. 2 on the America East scoring chart. The freshman is averaging 16.667 points per game to Edwards’ 16.678.

Reed, who is also averaging a league-best 9.6 rebounds per game, is seeking a spot as the conference’s first-ever freshman to win both the scoring and rebounding titles.

As the No. 8 seed in the conference, Binghamton is set to begin its postseason with an America East quarterfinal matchup against top-seeded Stony Brook. It marks the second consecutive year that the SUNY schools have competed against one another in the quarterfinals.

In last year’s postseason matchup, the Bearcats converted half of their attempts from the field and hit 10 3-pointers, but ultimately fell to the Seawovles 78-69.

Tipoff is scheduled for 6 p.m.

Saturday at Albany’s SEFCU Arena.

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Despite 16 points from senior forward Taylor Johnston, Binghamton fell 59-49 to UMBC on Sunday.

BEARCAT BRIEFS No. 24 Cornell sweeps men's tennis

By Alisha Ogbewele | Contributing Writer The Binghamton men’s tennis team failed to pick up a single match point as it fell 7-0 Sunday afternoon against No. 24 Cornell at the Reis Tennis Center. The Bearcats (4-5) have now dropped two straight matches.

While Binghamton has fared well against unranked teams this season, compiling a 4-1 record, the Bearcats are 0-4 against ranked teams.

BU freshman Sid Hazarika lost his second singles match of the season, 6-2, 0-6, 6-4, in a close three-set contest against Big Red sophomore Alex Sidney.

“I don’t know if he got a little bit nervous at the end there, or the other guy picked up his game a little bit,” Binghamton head coach Adam Cohen said. “It’s definitely a match I thought that he could win, and

he knows that.”

Three other singles matches went to three sets, but the Bearcats could not come up with a victory.

Sophomore Robin Lesage won the first set of his match 6-4, but Big Red junior Venkat Iyer stormed back to win the final two sets, 6-2, 6-0.

Sophomore Ismael Dinia lost his match to Big Red sophomore Quoc-Daniel Nguyen, 6-3, 3-6, 6-0, while Cornell sophomore Kyle Berman narrowly evaded Binghamton freshman Eliott Hureau, 6-4, 0-6, 6-4.

“We were there with these guys, but didn’t get the result,” Cohen said.

Binghamton is scheduled to face Temple at 6 p.m. on March 9 at TU Pavilion.

Women's tennis falls to Harvard and UMass

By Megan Brockett | Sports Editor The Binghamton women’s tennis team dropped a pair of road matches this weekend, suffering a 4-0 sweep by Harvard on Saturday before falling to UMass Amherst 6-1 on Sunday.

Sophomore Katherine Medianik recorded the only Binghamton (3-8) victory of the weekend, topping UMass junior Yuliana Motyl 6-2, 3-6, 6-1 at No. 1 singles on Sunday. The win marked Medianik’s first singles victory of the dual season. She now leads the team with 16 career wins.

The rest of the Bearcats didn’t fare as well against UMass (9-2), who has now won three consecutive matches by a score of 6-1. Binghamton’s three doubles tandems fell in straight sets to open up play against

the Minutewomen, and apart from Medianik’s win from the No. 1 singles spot, the Bearcats were swept in straight sets in their remaining five matches.

A day earlier, Harvard (4-3) finished off Binghamton 4-0 at the Murr Center Tennis Courts.

The Crimson captured the doubles point with 8-2 and 8-3 victories in the first and third doubles spots, respectively. Harvard then notched three straight-set wins in singles play to secure the win. Three singles matches went unfinished after the decision had been reached.

Binghamton is set to return to action on Saturday against Princeton. Play is scheduled to begin at noon at the Lenz Tennis Center.

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With the trauma of the Feb. 26 bus crash on Interstate 95 in Georgetown, Mass. still fresh, the Maine women’s basketball team announced on Monday afternoon that they will not participate in this weekend’s America East tournament.

The Black Bears (4-24, 3-12 America East) were scheduled to face top-seeded Albany in the first round. The Great Danes (25-3, 16-0 America East) will receive a bye to the semifinals as a result of Maine’s decision.

Bus driver Jeff Hamlin lost consciousness at the

wheel at around 8:30 p.m., causing the vehicle to cut across the highway, avoiding oncoming traffic but crashing into trees on the side of the road.

Freshman guard Milica Mitrovic suffered a broken hand, while three staff members were diagnosed with concussions.

All the players and staff were taken to local hospitals for observation.

According to an article by the Sun Journal, Hamlin was listed in fair condition Monday at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.

Track competes at 2013 ECACs

By Ari Kramer | Assistant Sports Editor Several members of Binghamton’s track and field teams competed at the 2013 Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference and Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America Indoor Championships this weekend, and freshman Jon King recorded the group’s best finish with a No. 13 placing in the high jump.

Senior Adam Helman was the only other athlete from the men’s team to place in the finals of his respective event. He finished 15th with a 4.80-meter performance in the pole vault.

Junior Jacob Platel committed a foul in the weight throw while freshman Temi Bajulaiye posted a time of 1:07.78 in the 500-meter run, which prevented him from advancing past the preliminaries. Freshman Cameron Black also didn’t advance, finishing the 60-meter hurdles in 8.42 seconds.

For the women, junior Alexis Murray placed 18th in the long jump at 5.39 meters and redshirt freshman Christy DiMichele didn’t reach the finals of the pole vault.

Binghamton highlights split with two last-inning wins first three runs.

“But I thought he threw the ball well,” Sinicki said. “All four The Binghamton baseball guys did a good job as starters team coupled two last-inning and kept us around in terms of comeback wins with two close giving our offense a chance to losses this weekend, splitting its score some runs.” series with the Virginia Military Institute at Gray-Minor Stadium in Lexington, Va. “Anytime you go on the road this time of year and compete against teams who are outside playing and practicing on a regular basis, if you come away from that splitting a series, I think you’ve done a great job as a program,” Binghamton head coach Tim Sinicki said. “I really think that we’re progressing well through the first few weekends, and I was real pleased with the way we competed this past weekend.”

The highlight of the series came on Sunday in the first game of a doubleheader when the Bearcats (4-4), trailing 6-1 and down to their last out, scored 10 runs to beat VMI 11-6.

BU sent 15 hitters to the plate in the final inning.

Sophomore reliever Mike Kaufman struck out the side to — Tim Sinicki end the game, giving redshirt BU head coach sophomore Jed Lemen, who pitched a scoreless eighth, the win. Junior starter Jack Rogalla VMI got its revenge in surrendered five earned runs the second game of Sunday’s on seven hits in five innings of doubleheader. After the Bearcats work. scored a run in each of the During the weekend, BU’s second, fifth and sixth innings starting pitchers tossed 22 to give themselves a 3-0 lead, innings and limited the Keydets the Keydets put together a pair (5-8) to seven earned runs. of three-run rallies in the sixth “They all threw well, and seventh innings to knock off including Rogalla,” Sinicki said. BU 6-4.

The head coach said defensive Binghamton junior Mike errors disrupted Rogalla’s Meleski threw five scoreless rhythm, which resulted in his innings but didn’t factor in the

decision.

Sinicki said he thinks his team’s offense needs to find consistency.

“I think we’re doing a decent job,” he said. “I just think we need to continue to see live pitching in order to get our timing and things like that.

We’ll continue to work at it and continue to be more consistent as the season goes on.”

In the opening game of the series on Friday, VMI broke an eighth-inning tie with a solo shot that would be the deciding run in the Keydets 3-2 victory.

The Bearcats left nine men on base in the loss as senior starter Jake Lambert put forth a quality start, holding VMI to two runs on four singles while striking out six.

Binghamton bounced back the next day with a 12-inning victory, topping the Keydets 9-7 after junior John Howell and sophomore right fielder Zach Blanden came around to score on an errant throw and an RBI single from sophomore outfielder Jake Thomas, respectively.

Senior Jay Lynch allowed only three hits over six scoreless innings and struck out three batters without surrendering a walk. While he left with a 4-0 lead, Lynch didn’t get a decision.

Thomas continued his torrid start, going 7-for-13 for a .538 batting average over the weekend. He also drove in seven runs.

“Jake’s really one of the pure hitters in the conference,” Sinicki said. “We knew that coming into his freshman year, when we recruited him, that he was going to be the focal point of our offense for four years. He

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Though it split at VMI, Binghamton swept the America East weekly awards, with Jake Thomas, Jay Lynch and Jake Cryts each earning accolades.

had a good year last year, but he continues to mature as a hitter and he’s really taking advantage of mistakes pitchers are making.”

For his efforts, Thomas won America East Player of the Week.

Lynch and freshman pitcher/ designated hitter Jake Cryts helped the Bearcats sweep the weekly awards, taking Pitcher

of the Week and Rookie of the Week, respectively.

Binghamton is scheduled to head south again next weekend to face off against North Carolina A&T for another four-game series.

“I just want to go down and want us to play good baseball, plain and simple,” Sinicki said.

“I want us to try and get better in all areas as we prepare for league play.”

The first game of the series is set to start at 3 p.m. on Friday at War Memorial Stadium. A doubleheader is scheduled to begin at 1 p.m. the following day, while the first pitch of the series finale is set for 1 p.m. on Sunday.

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BU holds UMBC's top scorer to eight points in Senior Day win the energy in the place, and it was awesome.”

The game opened with junior After downing UMBC 62-45 at guard Jasbriell Swain stealing the Events Center on Saturday’s the ball from UMBC senior guard Senior Day, the Binghamton Raven Harris, who is averaging women’s basketball team has 15.5 points per conference game. locked up the No. 7 seed for the That set the tone, as Harris was America East tournament. The held to just eight points, and the Bearcats (6-23, 5-11 America East) rest of the Retrievers shot a mere have won two of their past three 14-for-41 for the game. games.

Scholl attributed Harris’ 4-for“It was a great win, and [I’m] 18 shooting night to “Jas Swain just really happy and proud of and team defense.” our players, especially our three seniors,” BU head coach Nicole Scholl said. “[It was a] nice way on our home floor to go out before the tournament,” she added.

Freshman forward Morgan Murphy finished with a game-high 14 points, scoring seven points and picking up three rebounds and an assist all in the second half.

“I felt like there was a mismatch, they had some smaller girls playing, and I was able to take advantage of that,” Murphy said. “My teammates got me the ball, and as an offense — Mallory Lawes there was a lot of balance. [Senior Senior guard guard Mallory Lawes] was shooting great, [junior guard Stephanie The Bearcats out-performed Jensen] was shooting great, we UMBC (10-19, 6-10 AE) in both were scoring on the inside. When rebounds and steals, while also there’s a lot of balance on offense, it converting more second-chance makes things easier.” attempts.

Lawes finished her last home Additionally, Binghamton shot game at Binghamton with a career- 55 percent from the charity stripe, high 13 points, and said she was happy with the outcome of the game and her time at Binghamton.

“It’s been amazing,” she said.

“There have been bumps and bruises, literally and figuratively, but Binghamton has been a great time for me to develop myself as a person and ball player, and I’ve loved it here. I can’t ask for a better senior night. This was 62 great tonight, and you could feel

while UMBC shot a dismal 38.1 percent.

Despite only leading by four at halftime, the Bearcats were able to pull away during the second half, scoring 12 in a row as they forced more turnovers and played better defense.

“One big piece that has changed is the cohesion with this group, and they just read each other much better,” Scholl said on her team’s development this season. “[Against UMBC] there was a lot of unselfish play, and we did a good job of distributing the basketball and taking advantages of the mismatches that we had.”

Slated as the No. 7 seed, the Bearcats are set to play against No. 2 seed Hartford in the quarterfinal round of the America East tournament on Friday.

“We’re obviously excited for this Friday, and I think we’re headed in the right direction winning the last two out of three,” Scholl said.

“Hartford is a tough matchup, but when it comes to tournament matchups, as we all saw last year, anything can happen.”

Last season, No. 5 seeded UMBC reached the title game before falling to No. 2-seeded Albany 6961.

Binghamton’s matchup against Hartford, which will be broadcast

by ESPN3, is scheduled for noon at Albany’s SEFCU Arena.

Women's Basketball vs. UMBC

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Senior guard Mallory Lawes netted a career-high 13 points in Binghamton’s Senior Day victory over UMBC.

Springer put Binghamton on the board, and junior midfielder Michael Antinozzi followed suit seconds later with his fifth goal of the season.

Hobart scored once more before the quarter’s end to knot the score at two, but it would be the Statemen’s last of goal of the game, as the Binghamton defense shut Hobart down for the final 51 minutes of play.

The Binghamton men’s lacrosse team held the seventhbest scoring offense in the nation to two goals on Saturday, knocking off Hobart 6-2 at the Bearcats Sports Complex.

The win, highlighted by a 51-minute period during which BU held Hobart scoreless, was the Bearcats’ first of the season.

“You can’t say enough about how our defense played today,” Binghamton head coach Scott Nelson said, according to a press release on www. bubearcats.com. “To hold a team of Hobart’s caliber to just two goals is a really strong performance.”

The Statesmen (1-2) entered Saturday’s match having scored a combined 29 goals in their first two games of the season against Siena and currently ranked No. 3 Cornell. But Binghamton junior goalie Max Schefler recorded 15 saves, and the Bearcats posted their best defensive performance since holding Marist to a single goal — Scott Nelson BU head coach in 2008.

After falling behind 1-0 within the game’s opening four minutes, the Bearcats won the ensuing faceoff, an area In the athletic they have struggled in early department’s press release, on this season. A minute and Nelson acknowledged the a half later, junior attack Matt performances of Schefler and

junior defenders Greg Cove and Garrett Augustyn.

“Both Greg and Garrett anchored our back line and …

Max was great in net for us once again,” he said.

Hobart junior goalie Peter Zonino collected a season-high 17 saves but couldn’t keep up with the Binghamton offense, which outshot the Statesmen 49-27. Twenty-three of BU’s shots were on goal.

Sophomore midfielder J.T. Hauck recorded his first goal of the season to give the Bearcats a 3-2 advantage heading into halftime. Antinozzi opened scoring in the third quarter with his second goal of the game after a feed from senior midfielder Tyler Perrelle.

Perrelle, who scored a goal of his own shortly after Antinozzi’s second, stretched his streak of consecutive games with a point scored to 23.

The Binghamton defense remained solid in the final quarter, forcing seven Hobart turnovers, including two by Cove. The junior finished the game responsible for four of the the Statesmen’s 26 turnovers.

Augustyn caused Hobart to turn the ball over three times.

With 6:32 remaining, junior midfielder Kelly Donigan recorded the last goal of the game to secure a 6-2 Binghamton win. Freshman midfielder Johnny Maher

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Junior midfielder Michael Antinozzi scored two goals to lead Binghamton to a 6-2 win over visiting Hobart on Saturday.

assisted the goal, earning the first point of his collegiate career.

Binghamton won 6-of-12 faceoffs on the day, with junior midfielder Alex Doerflein going 6-of-11 from the spot.

The Bearcats are scheduled to take on Delaware on Saturday at noon at Delaware Stadium’s Tubby Raymond Field.

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