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From flu symptoms to allergies to more serious diseases, students turn to the Decker Student Health Services Center for immediate attention.

Decker is certified by the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care, an organization that annually evaluates health centers’ treatment procedures. It provides primary, chronic, sexual and psychiatric

director of health and counseling services, because Decker is on campus, its staff specializes in working with college-aged patients.

“Our goal is that we can interface with off-campus and on-campus folks so that we can assist the students,” she said.

Many students say their concerns about the health center stem from the availability of walk-in hours. Julian Madera, an undeclared freshman, said that although he appreciated the services he received, he did

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Decker Health Services professionals available on campus five days a week for walk-in hours and appointments treatment, as well as health education and vaccinations to BU students. These services are covered by the mandatory health fee, which totaled $181 for students enrolled in 12 or more credits for the 2014-15 school year.

While the center is open from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. for walk-ins and 1 p.m. to 3:45 p.m. for appointments, Decker refers students to local hospitals for after-hours or emergency treatment.

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not enjoy the wait times.

“I don’t like how walk-ins stop at 11 a.m.,” Madera said. “If you start getting sick one afternoon you have to wait until the next day to be treated.”

According to Fiore-Conte, Decker used to operate entirely on a walk-in basis. But because they could not control the flow of student arrival times, she said, many complained that the waits were too long.

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Sound-proof room allows for cuttingedge audio tech

To improve the acoustics in everyday electronic devices, a Binghamton University professor is studying vibrations to help better understand and control sound itself.

Ronald Miles, distinguished professor of mechanical engineering and associate dean of research at the Watson School of Engineering, and his team of five graduate students study acoustics, a branch of physics concerned with properties of sound, by using custom-made microphones in an anechoic chamber in the Innovative Technologies Complex (ITC).

Meaning “free from echo,” an anechoic chamber is a room designed to block out sound from the outside and absorb sound on the inside so that the microphones can collect the most accurate measurements.

“It is very important to have a quiet place where there are no echoes from the walls when you want to accurately characterize the performance of microphones,” Miles said.

The anechoic chamber itself is about 13 by 15 feet and is covered in long, creamcolored triangular prisms composed of

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A Binghamton University alumna is trying to bring volunteering into the 21st century.

Carol Luong, who graduated in 2008 and majored in marketing and consulting leadership, is one of the founders of GreatPositive, a social media website for community service that helps connect nonprofit organizations with volunteers and donors.

Luong, who has volunteered at nursing homes and soup kitchens since a young age, teamed up with co-founder Matt Martindale

to build GreatPositive.

“When we met we had a shared passion of giving back to the community and making the world a better place,” Luong said. “Six months ago, I left my job and we’ve been working on it ever since. It just goes to show the power of engaging with like-minded people.”

GreatPositive is a marketing platform for nearly 200 nonprofit organizations such as Autism Speaks, Habitat for Humanity and the American Red Cross. For now, the organization must be classified as 501c3, or a tax exempt charitable organization.

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A Binghamton University chemistry professor has been awarded over $500,000 to study the biological properties of native and chemically modified ribonucleic acids (RNA).

Only 2 percent of human deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) encode functional proteins.

However, approximately 70 to 90 percent of DNA is converted into RNA. For associate chemistry professor Eriks Rozners, the mystery behind the abundance of RNA warranted closer inspection.

“For a long time RNA was believed to be just a messenger or middleman in the transfer of genetic information in DNA to proteins,” Rozners said. “RNA plays a significantly more complicated role that we do not yet completely understand.”

RNA is one of three major biological molecules, along with DNA and proteins, involved in the expression of genes. Genetic information encoded in the DNA sequence is converted into a corresponding RNA sequence. RNA serves as a template for the production of proteins, which perform the function of genes in cells.

However, only 2 percent of all RNA is used as a template. The rest of RNA plays important regulatory roles in gene expression that researchers are just starting to appreciate.

Rozners has received grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study modified small RNA molecules that have components of both RNA and proteins.

The NIH grant, totaling $1.5 million over four years, will fund work by BU researchers partnering with individuals

at Vanderbilt University, the University of Rochester and Dharmacon, a biotech company, working on the chemical modification of RNA molecules.

In the study, Rozners and collaborators will look at ways to chemically modify the structure of RNA molecules that regulate gene expression. These synthetic molecules could provide pharmaceutical companies with necessary research tools, since knowledge of gene expression can help in developing drugs to fight diseases such as cancer.

Currently, modified RNA molecules can only knock out genes in the cells used in reproduction, but not in the body cells.

“If we can improve the properties of these synthetic RNA molecules so that instead of just cells we could apply them to a whole animal, that would be a huge advantage,” Rozners said.

The NSF grant, which awarded a total of $570,000 to Rozners and collaborators at the University at Albany, will go toward research on compounds called peptide nucleic acids (PNAs). PNAs recognize certain parts of the RNA code and will only bind to them.

While the science behind PNA is not new, Dziyana Hnedzko, a fifth-year doctoral candidate studying organic chemistry, said that a novel aspect of the project is to increase the effectiveness of cellular uptake of PNA, which usually needs the help of other molecules to enter cells.

Wayne Jones, the chair of the chemistry department, said these projects help expand the breadth of research being conducted at BU. “These two research awards are a great addition to the research going on in chemistry,” Jones wrote in an email. “This is a very strategic project as biological chemistry is one of three research thrusts

that the chemistry department has identified in our Strategic Plan.”

Dennis McGee, a professor of biology and a collaborator on the NSF project, said he enjoyed working with Rozners on the biological components of the study.

“I get to use my cell biology experience in a new twist on biology,” McGee said.

“Also, I get to learn about their whole new world of chemistry of these PNAs.” Although the projects are just getting started, Rozners said he is excited to see what information about the roles of RNA will be gleaned from the research.

“We’re not just doing this because we’re curious,” Rozners said. “We’re doing this because we believe that it will help us understand processes better overall.”

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Eriks Rozners, an associate chemistry professor at Binghamton University, is studying the biological properties of native and chemically modified ribonucleic acids (RNA) to try to gain a greater understanding of its complex functions.

He has been awarded over $500,000 by the National Institutes of Health to chemically modify the structure of RNA molecules that regulate gene expression.

After graduation, following opportunities off the beaten career path

From international modeling to farming, Binghamton University students choose unconventional routes to employment Zachary Wingate

in psychology, will be pursuing a nontraditional career path after he graduates in May. Alberti is planning to expand his world College students spend four years view by traveling to Europe and Japan training for the real world. For some, while working as an international model. this means continuing their education at Although considering graduate school in graduate school or getting an internship the future, for now Alberti plans to make with the hopes of climbing the corporate a living as both a runway and print model. ladder, but for others it may mean finding “Europe isn’t a big cash market for more unconventional opportunities post- what I would be doing, it’s more the graduation. shows and runway type stuff,” Alberti Dallas Alberti, a senior majoring said. “Japan is a little different, so I’ve News Intern

heard. You go pre-signed saying I will work every day for two months.”

Alberti said he would encourage anyone who wants to pursue modeling to get a decent agent, and never disregard education.

“There are too many people who drop out of college, drop out of high school and go straight into it,” Alberti said.

“And by the time they’re expired, as far as modeling, they don’t have anything to them. Have more to you than going around and be told that you’re pretty.”

According to Zoraya Cruz-Bonilla, data research assistant at the Office of Student Affairs, only 11 percent of Binghamton University class of 2014 graduates chose something other than some kind of employment or graduate school after graduating. Fifty-four percent of those remaining graduates went on to apply for jobs while the remaining 35 percent wanted to continue onto graduate school, which is a seven percent decline from recent years.

The information comes from senior

surveys that students voluntarily fill out as well as outside research from the Office of Student Affairs.

Another student trying an alternative path is Daniel Morales, a senior majoring in environmental studies, who said he wants to go into organic farming.

“I have a natural inclination to the outdoors,” Morales said. “Farming gives me that connection, something I won’t find at a conventional job.”

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After commencement, a look beyond the 9-to-5 office job JOB continued from Page 1 Morales said he decided to become a farmer last year after gaining some initial experience.

He worked with Binghamton University’s Acres Farm, a twoacre farm located on campus, by helping weed and build fence posts. This past summer he worked on a farm in east Texas

caring for animals and building greenhouses.

“I saw a different part of living,” Morales said. “The place I went to was a town with really bad conditions. It was an industrial town and didn’t have much going on. It’s a good way to expose yourself to different places.”

After graduation, Morales

plans to work with organizations like AmeriCorps and the Northeast Organic Farming Association (NOFA) to help connect him to farmers in need.

Maggie Scalli, a Binghamton University alumna who graduated this past spring, now teaches in South Korea.

She teaches kindergarten and creative writing to older students

at an international school. Scalli said she went abroad because she could not teach in the United States without certification.

“I wanted to do something that I was sort of afraid of doing,” she said. “Coming to a country where I had no friends and didn’t speak the language was intimidating. But it’s one of the best things I ever did.”

donations monthly will be required to pay a monthly subscription of $25.

“Our mission is to create a sustainable online-to-offline giving ecosystem,” Luong said.

Launched in Binghamton in late March, GreatPositive enables users and nonprofits to create profiles that allow them to search and follow other organizations. Users can also donate and post and share photos, articles and reminders about volunteer events. GreatPositive will encourage users to create a campaign around events, like a birthday, and can suggest donations to an organization in lieu of gifts.

Another feature Luong said users could expect to find in upcoming weeks is a volunteer score for users.

The score will showcase how much students, employees, individuals or communities are giving back, tying that data into a score.

“One of the ways we’re trying to make it more engaging is by putting competitive spirit behind it, ” Luong said. “Every little thing you do does matter because you’re influencing others to volunteer and donate.”

Luong is working closely with Joshua Kotler, a sophomore majoring in business administration.

Kotler, the president of the Binghamton University Marketing Association (BUMA) and 17 other BUMA members are promoting GreatPositive at Binghamton and

building its user base by tabling in the University Union. They plan to host a launch event May 1 with snacks and prizes.

“Being that she’s a Binghamton alumna, it’s really cool that we have the opportunity to make her business grow,” Kotler said.

Over 120 members have already joined the Binghamton University community on GreatPositive.

According to Kotler, they want 1,000 members of the BU community by May 1.

“We all know [our local area] could use a little help,” he said.

“No one is going to turn away a social media platform that is geared towards helping your community.”

Darren Joffe, a sophomore majoring in psychology, said he sees GreatPositive as a useful tool for Greek organizations looking to promote philanthropy events.

“This is something I can see students using,” Joffe said. “It is easier for fraternities and sororities because they have national philanthropies that they get involved in and the students plan and execute philanthropy events for them and donate to their chosen organization.”

Joffe added that there is something for everyone on GreatPositive.

“No matter what you find meaningful,” he said, “there is an organization for everyone that allows them to learn about their cause.”

At Decker Student Health Services Center, access to mental and physical health care on campus DECKER continued from Page 1 To remedy this, the system of morning walk-ins and afternoon appointments was put in place about four years ago.

“At about 10 in the morning it got really busy here,” she said.

“And that busyness just continued throughout the day. That meant that if you came in here around

two in the afternoon, you were at the mercy of whoever came ahead of you. The wait times were really long, and students weren’t happy with that.”

Melissa Neira, a senior majoring in English, lives off campus and said that the early morning walk-in hours are difficult for a student who is feeling ill.

Neira recalled an incident

where she went to Decker to get tested for strep throat and was told that the results were negative.

However, when she got back home she received a call and was told that her results had been misread and that she needed to return to get antibiotics.

“It’s a big deal for me to get to and from campus just to go to the doctor at 8:30 a.m.,” she said. “I was

feeling so sick the whole time.”

However, for Brandon Hohenberg, a sophomore doublemajoring in accounting and business administration, Decker was helpful after he contracted chicken pox and could not go home.

“When something really serious comes up, they are more than accommodating for your schedule,” he said. “When I had a situation

such as getting chicken pox my freshman year, they were more than supportive in contacting the right people and accommodating me on campus. They let me remain in isolation on campus for five days, which was fantastic.”

Fiore-Conte said the Student Health Advisory Committee discusses health issues brought to them by students every few weeks,

and explores how Health Services can respond. In addition, she said, she wants to encourage students to come with their questions about the services.

“They can join us,” Fiore-Conte said. “When there are complaints, we certainly encourage and want students to bring concerns forward.

We almost constantly look at our services and how to improve.”

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Researchers use $1M sound-proof chamber on campus to improve hearing aid tech AUDIO continued from Page 1 metal and fiberglass coated with fabric. This covers all four walls, the ceiling and floor. At the center of the chamber lies a speaker, and hanging from the ceiling is the microphone that collects and sends data to Miles and his team for analysis.

In the chamber, Miles’ team uses BU’s five-axis microphone positioning system to measure sound and reconstruct 3-D images of pure sound that is generated in the anechoic chamber with a loudspeaker.

The chamber stands on springs, which completely isolates it from the rest of the building.

“Inside the anechoic chamber, the walls and ceiling act as if they aren’t there at all,” said Jonathan Walsh, a third year doctoral candidate studying mechanical engineering who works with Miles.

“As if the room stretches out into infinity in all directions. We call that situation ‘free space’ with no reflections or outside noise.”

This is important because

it eliminates unwanted noise, including vibrations, that will affect the acoustic measurements in the chamber. Brenno Varanda, a fourth year doctoral candidate studying mechanical engineering, described the chamber as an ideal environment for noise sensitivity tests because of its isolation.

“It is the closest somebody can get to an ideal acoustic test in the Northeast,” he said.

According to Miles, the chamber was purchased from Eckel Industries as a tool to conduct research as accurately as possible. From there, he and his team designed a soundproof enclosure around it and Eckel measured it to be one of the quietest chambers ever built.

The chamber and enclosure cost about $1 million, funded by money used to build the Engineering and Science building.

Miles’ research focuses on how to detect sound with portable electronic devices that rely on very small acoustic sensors.

“This is important for hearing aid users since it can help them

understand speech when they are in noisy places,” Miles said.

“A directional microphone on the hearing aid gets rid of the competing sounds and enables them to better understand the person they are talking to.”

According to Varanda, people are naturally able to focus their hearing to one sound even when other sounds are around them, known as directional hearing.

Many hearing aids cannot focus on specific sounds, so all sounds become amplified equally.

“The ability for a hearing aid to act as a normal functioning hearing system, that will focus sound coming from the direction you wish, is a must in noisy environments,” Varanda said.

To Varanda, the research possibilities excited him every time he used the room.

“I love to study acoustics because it is a challenging, rewarding and tangible subject,” he said. “There is never a day that I can say I know everything about it; there is always something new to learn and new a toy to play with.”

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Ronald Miles, professor and associate dean of research at the Watson School of Engineering, stands inside an echo-free room that he had designed with the help of his team of five graduate students studying acoustics. Located in the Innovative Technologies Complex (ITC), the anechoic chamber was built to to better understand and control sound in order to study sound waves.

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Bing U Mural Review: Part 2 Release tears down 2 more pieces of campus artistry ... or savagery Jacob Shamsian | Release Editor Odeya Pinkus | Assistant Release Editor This is the second in a series of articles critiquing the murals at Binghamton University.

Both murals reviewed in our second installation of this series had a lot of potential, but one simply fell short of its ambitions, while the other turned out to be an utter disaster. For the rest of the semester, we’ll continue to trek the Unions, Old and New, to give each work of art an accurate assessment.

Campus Media At the foot of the stairs from the Marketplace sits an utter catastrophe of art, a disgusting mishmash of awful clashing styles ostensibly meant to honor Pipe Dream, WHRW 90.5 FM and BTV. It failed at execution. It is not an honor, but a shame. The mural is split into three parts, incoherent both together and independently.

On the left is Pipe Dream’s section, with WHRW in the center and BTV on the right. Each section has one domineering hyperrealistic element. Pipe Dream’s is a giant quill, and Pipe Dream’s printing press, according to the mural,

doesn’t actually print Pipe Dream.

The sheets of paper it prints read “The Colonial News” and “Daily News” (Pipe has never been daily).

It makes no sense. The image flows left-to-right with a printing press, and then a radio and other audioassociated imagery, followed by a bunch of television and videoassociated imagery. It would be fun to pick apart the elements of the mural and explain why each part is incoherent, but there’s nothing that even resembles coherence to pick apart.

On the far right of the mural, all the imagery and, weirdly, a sky, pulls back to reveal a background of … clip art. If you look closely at them, they’re random and completely absurd. Among the hundreds, there are: a lemon slice struggling to fit into a glass, a rotary phone dial, a bunch of gears, a tractor, a lightbulb laid on top of a book, a phone with “24” printed next to it, a petri dish, a splat, a cruise ship, a corkscrew, the scales of justice, a traffic light and the Beats by Dre logo. Really.

There’s one human on the mural, who would be described as bro-y if he had enough detail to properly describe. All the imagery on the mural seems to feed into him. He is the ultimate media

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student. He has a boner, partially hidden by a tablet that says “BTV6.”

But for some reason, there’s a censor bar on his mouth with the word “media” on it, as if the media is censoring him. Students of Binghamton University, we strive to be your voice. Please ignore the mural.

Hillel Lounge Alright Hillel, we get it. We really do. Harmony. Peace. This land is my land, your land, Binghamton, Israel.

We know. And I guess that’s just the problem: We’ve seen it before. Not

with Binghamton, per se, but the melding of skylines isn’t really an original concept. The mural had a lot of potential, and it wasn’t quite achieved. For those who haven’t seen this one, there’s a silhouette of the ocean, which slowly blends into a silhouette of the Jerusalem skyline, which slowly blends into a silhouette of the Binghamton skyline, which slowly blends into a silhouette of mountains. We’re not quite sure what the mountains are supposed to be, but if they’re supposed to be America, the mural

seems to be saying that Binghamton can bridge the gap between Israel and the United States. That’s a nice sentiment, but we’ll say that the gap exists within the Atlantic Ocean, and growing strains between Obama and Netanyahu.

To its credit, insofar as the mural aims for its goals, it achieves them. The navy and blended sunset hues are beautiful.

But the mural just doesn’t give the meaning the wall deserves. We want to see blended cultures, not just blended colors.

At the foot of the stairs from the Marketplace sits an utter catastrophe of art

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Curb your FOMO guys, it will be okay, we promise Odeya Pinkus | Assistant Release Editor Emma Siegel | Design Manager

If you haven’t been on the internet in the past 48 hours, here’s another friendly message reminding you that you are not at Coachella. Yeah, it sucks, we know.

But no matter how many times you rewatch the Coachella Snapchat story, nothing will compare to the weekend of dirt, grime and music that you could be experiencing at the Coachella music and arts festival in Indio, California. And unless you have ticket, have next weekend off or are Beyonce, you won’t see the second round of performances either. You just have to make the most of the Northeast.

Have your own Binghamtella, right here on campus.

1) Festival wear — If you don’t have anything with fringes, odd cuts or vaguely racist Native American themes, don’t worry.

The current trend is festival wear for everyday wear. Even our own bookstore had a “Festival Wear” section earlier this year. Why? We don’t know, but we’re happy about it. Either way, your local Forever 21, Pac Sun, Charlotte Russe or Macy’s will carry just the right amount of sun-patterned tank tops to help you feel like you’re in a desert tent. Stop by Walmart to pick up some facepaint. You’ll

have a great time appropriating someone else’s culture in an inappropriate way.

2) Silent Disco — One of the best-known parts of Coachella is its least loud component: the silent disco. This activity, in which participants listen to music on provided headphones and jam out, while the ambiance remains quiet, is one that you can easily recreate right here on campus. First, find the quietest place possible that’s also really populated. The fourth floor silent reading room in the Glenn G. Bartle Library will be perfect, or that cool soundless room in the Innovative Technologies Complex.

Next, you’ll need some noise canceling headphones to blast your dank beats. Find the Coachella 2015 playlist on Spotify and put it on the loudest possible volume.

Strategically place yourself in the middle of the stacks and start silently rocking out. Pretty soon, fellow library attendees will either join you, take videos of your for their snap stories or report you to UPD. 3) Bring molly everywhere — Just kidding! This is illegal, probably dangerous and really inconvenient with finals approaching. But there are plenty of substitutions. Find your nearest friend named Molly and just bring her along with you everywhere you go. She’ll probably be down for the ride,

and if you don’t have any friends named Molly, now is probably the time to start branching out. Look on the Binghamton class of 2017 Facebook page for some fellow Binghamtella-goers.

4) Atmosphere — It still looks like winter here in Binghamton; all the dead or hibernating vegetation gives the place a nice desert vibe.

Walk out onto the Peace Quad where the grass is all dead and you’ll feel just like you’re in the Californian dry lands. If you drop some acid (kidding again, don’t do drugs) you might even be able to have a hallucination and imagine that the rocks around you are other festival-goers. Maybe Baxter will appear out of thin air?

Maybe Harvey Stenger will be in the Baxter suit? Maybe you’ll get arrested? All of these things are possible at Coachella, and Binghamton.

5) Take a Camelback full of alcohol everywhere — Why should day drinking be limited to Bar Crawl and Parade Day? Remember, it’s 5 p.m. somewhere, and it’s definitely 5 p.m. in Coachella Valley, California. Fill up a Camelback with wine, cranberry vodka or maybe a martini if you’re feeling classy (keep a bag of olives with you at all times). Be sure to share the love and offer alcohol to those around you, even your professors. A little generosity goes a long way, after all.

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Join the pack, get hooked on 'Wolf Hall' Drop 'Downton Abbey' and watch a new British drama Jacob Shamsian | Release Editor The British prestige drama is an old breed, and “Wolf Hall” can count itself as a proud member of the pride.

The miniseries, set in 1520s England, surrounds King Henry VIII’s strained marriage with Catherine of Aragon. Catherine is barren, leaving Henry without an heir, and he’s been enamored with Anne Boleyn anyway. But to be with Boleyn, he’d need to divorce Catherine, a no-no according to the Catholic Church.

Thomas Cromwell, Henry’s chief adviser, is our main character. He wanted to wait for the Pope to approve of the annulment of Henry and Catherine’s marriage, but the Pope wouldn’t. So Henry divorced the Church of England and the Roman Catholic Church, and with that, his own marriage. Cromwell is the political mastermind behind the breakaway, the Reformation.

Wolf Hall — or Wulfhall — is the British manor where most of this all takes place.

The novel “Wolf Hall” and its sequel “Bringing Up the Bodies,” made Hilary Mantel, their author, the most acclaimed author in

England. She won the Man Booker Prize — Britain’s highest literary award — for each of them and is set to finish the final book in the trilogy later this year. For one reason or another, these historical novels about events half a millennium removed from our time have become a critical and commercial phenomenon.

Why care about history dramatized? There are no obvious contemporary parallels in the politics of “Wolf Hall”; it’s not a big metaphor for the war against ISIS or anything. Yeah, we enter one of the more fascinating chapters of how England came to be England, but no one watches dramas for the history lesson.

Yet somehow, it’s compelling on its own. The story’s appeal goes back to those rich Shakespearean themes, evident throughout the story: allegiances held or broken, lovers withheld or joined, destiny achieved or dashed.

Religion in the show is merely a component of the politics. In the first two episodes at least — the show airs on Sundays at 10 p.m. on PBS — deep convictions are created from positions in religious organizations, but no one invokes God in the divorce arguments, the crux

of political events. This stands in sharp contrast to “A Man for All Seasons,” the 1966 drama about Sir Thomas More, another character in this story.

“Seasons” represents More as a saint who argues against Henry’s divorce. Instead of being another politician in a struggle to maintain power in his own interest — these characters are almost all inevitably male — the character is sticking to his own faith and principles.

Part of the joy in series like these is the mid-millennium decorations. The dark castles, the food that would look nearly alien on a plate today, the absurdly impractical costumes.

The aristocracy had strange pets, too: A monkey is kept as a pet and lopes around at mealtime, and Thomas Cromwell holding a shockingly fluffy bunny and walking across the grounds, chatting with a friend, is a wonderful sight.

Real drama doesn’t just come from chains of events, it comes from the arguments between people and the consequences that follow. “Wolf Hall” doesn’t just bring life to one of the most eventful times in European history, it finds the drama in it.

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t the end of last semester, Students for Change released a list of demands it wanted the administration to address.

This semester, the group’s protests, demonstrations and meetings with the administration have placed it firmly in Binghamton University’s spotlight, and the Editorial Board has decided to put the demands themselves under the same scrutiny. Students for Change has split its demands in to two categories: long-term and short-term. Here, the Editorial Board addresses some of the long-term ones.

One of the group’s biggest priorities is that “overall, Binghamton University’s Cultural competency training needs to be updated.” This is simply too vague.

The group has repeatedly claimed that members of the administration, such as Valerie Hampton, are not “culturally competent.” And though group members may have very valid grievances to back up their claims, they must issue a formal definition for cultural competency. Many of their other demands involve cultural competency, and the University can’t move forward in this discussion without knowing for what definition Students for Change is advocating.

We are a group who has taken a cultural competency class offered by this University. Feedback from the staff was mixed, but overall, many of us found it lacking. If this is the kind of course in which they want all students, and most faculty, to participate, we don’t see the benefit. What would a cultural competency GenEd look like? We think it would be most effective to narrow the scope of the classes that qualify for a pluralism credit to ones that truly discus historic oppression or power structures.

Intro to American Politics does little to expose new students to the underlying systems of discrimination in society.

Another point of ambiguity in this discussion is the role of the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (ODEI).

At the meeting with President Harvey Stenger, students and faculty took issue with the office and Hampton, its director.

To many of the points, Stenger said that the issues concerned the Dean of Students office, not ODEI, even though many students seems to have heard otherwise.

ODEI is a new office, so it makes sense that it hasn’t yet grafted perfectly onto the University’s preexisting bureaucracy, but it’s now a priority to clarify the office’s precise role and boundaries.

Students for Change has demanded that the University hire more faculty and staff by 2020 who are queer and transgender, as well as of color. They demand that 50 percent of faculty and staff, as well as of the campus population, be underrepresented minorities within five years’ time.

The basic reasoning behind this demand is logically sound. The student and faculty demographics do not match those of New York state. African-American students make up a mere 5.7 percent of Binghamton’s student body. Only 10.7 percent of Binghamton students are Hispanic. Clearly, not enough is done to attract the best and brightest minority students.

That said, the 50 percent goal proposed is unfeasible and based on inaccurate demographics. Based on 2013 numbers, 18.4 percent of New York state residents are Hispanic or Latino, 17.5 percent are African-American and 71 percent are white. Though substantial, these numbers are not close to the 50 percent figure touted by Students for Change. Binghamton offers in-state tuition to all New York state residents, not simply those from New York City. Any quota proposed by the group must reflect accurate demographic percentages for the entire state, not simply for parts of it.

The University should, however, aggressively recruit from high schools large percentages of minority students, and perhaps allocate more scholarship money to minorities. Recruitment must be a gradual process. We can’t expect the

University to significantly change these numbers by 2020, but goals can be set to increase the number of enrolled minority students each year. The larger percentage of minority students, the more welcoming an environment Binghamton University appears to prospective students of color.

Maybe the reason minority students opt to attend other schools is because they perceive the community as small.

Another of these demands is that Binghamton hire a sufficient number of minority faculty members that they represent 50 percent of that population.

This is not unattractive, but is practically implausible.

Defining minority reductively as blacks and Hispanics, numbers simply fall out of favor for this proposition. Only 8 percent of those awarded Ph.D.s in 2008 — the latest data set available from the National Science Foundation — identified as black or Hispanic. Of all the institutions hiring faculty, and all the institutions likewise wishing to better represent minority populations, Binghamton does not have the most to offer. Binghamton does not

have the most funds, the best geographic location, the best weather, etc. The University may have all the intention of hiring as many minority faculty members as possible, but these unfortunate realities limit any institution’s ability to realize such goals.

What Binghamton does have the ability to do, and does to some extent already do, is alter those numbers. A Ph.D.-granting research institution itself, Binghamton can do more than just encourage its undergraduates to enter academia. The University can focus on recruiting more minority students to its own doctoral programs and devote more resources to fund these candidates.

Binghamton already offers the Clifford D. Clark Diversity Fellowship for graduate students, which provides funding to members of underrepresented groups and students who come from diverse backgrounds. While we may be limited by a small number of minority applicants, we can do our part as a university to increase the pool of minority Ph.D.s for either us or other universities to hire as faculty.

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Free speech rights supercede the right to be offended

A potential Supreme Court ban on offensive imagery could open a pandora's box Daniel Burns

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The issue of the Confederate flag and whether or not it is offensive remains contentious.

The recent decision by Texas legislators to block the creation of a specialty license plate featuring the Confederate flag reignited the debate. The group that proposed the license plate, the Sons of Confederate Veterans, has successfully brought its case to the Supreme Court. The justices now

face an uncomfortable question.

What images are acceptable to display and on what basis?

This court case could set a landmark legal precedent to severely limit freedom of speech. As an unabashed advocate for freedom of speech, I think that a ban on the display of the Confederate flag on an item as small as a license plate will result in larger legal ramifications.

The potential court decision to ban the license plate design raises the question of who can determine what constitutes an offensive image. Since America is a multicultural nation in which no one culture should supersede

others, the creation of a fair system to regulate potentially offensive acts of speech would be impossible.

In recent years, “being offended” has become a national pastime. Any symbol can be labeled as offensive. The possible floodgate of complaints and accusations over what is offensive or what should be banned would create a logistical nightmare that no government agency could properly handle.

For instance, the American flag could potentially be seen as offensive, as shown in the recent attempt by University of California, Irvine students to ban it. The

students argued that the American flag is a symbol of imperialism and homogenization. If the students’ platform is approved, all images or representations of the flag would be removed. But in the students’ quest to make sure nobody feels offended, they are limiting the rights of others for the sake of political correctness.

Flag banning and other symbolrelated regulations limit the ways people can express their own ideals. The ban homogenizes acceptable methods of expression, which contradicts the UC Irvine students’ apparent agenda.

Although the UC Irvine group constitutes an extreme minority

of people in the United States, if the Supreme Court rules against free speech, the government would need to fairly consider the students’ concerns along with any other fringe group complaints. Although I agree that the Confederate flag is an oppressive symbol for many, it is also an image of pride for others. I nor anyone else should have the right to judge what is an appropriate symbol. The real right to freedom of speech should not give way to the imaginary right to be offended.

— Daniel Burns is a senior majoring in history

Spring Fling lineup offers a chance to explore new artists and genres It's impossible to satisfy the specific musical preferences of every Binghamton student John Linitz

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Once again, the Student Association Programming Board’s (SAPB) announcement of the Spring Fling lineup was met with groans of disappointment.

Facebook comments were brutal. Music elitists came out of nowhere to contribute their superior opinions. I have to shake my head at these people. Where does all of this disdain and sense

of entitlement for a free concert come from?

Today’s musical landscape is a peculiar one, and it is changing every day. A few weeks ago, Jay Z announced a new “high fidelity music streaming” service called Tidal with supporters such as Kanye West, Daft Punk and Madonna. This streaming service, along with Spotify and its peers, gives us access to just about all of the music in the world. This ease of access to so many varieties of music has broadened our tastes and genres. You’ve probably never heard of a majority of the artists in my Spotify playlists, and

that’s OK. My dream Spring Fling lineup is inevitably different than yours —even my own music taste changes year after year.

How could the SAPB possibly find a handful of artists to please everyone?

To be honest, when the SAPB announced The White Panda, Sage the Gemini and Bad Rabbits, I couldn’t name a song by any of the acts. However, I had heard of each artist before. The lineup announcement gave me a reason to explore their music.

Bad Rabbits is a groovy funk/ rock band, and I’ve been listening to their latest album on repeat

since the announcement. Sage the Gemini has two radio hits that you’ve probably grinded to at The Rat. The White Panda is constantly on the bill for music festivals all over the country. That being said, I honestly think the SAPB did a great job in curating a lineup with mass appeal on a limited budget.

Looking back to last year when Matt and Kim headlined, you’d probably be lying to yourself if you said you knew another song besides “Daylight.” However, Kim shaking her ass on her drum set in the pouring rain will always be a vivid memory of mine when

I reminisce on my college years.

Give this music a shot. When Spring Fling comes, maybe the weather will be nice enough to wear shorts and a tank top.

Maybe you will know a couple of songs playing at Spring Fling.

You might even discover your new favorite artist. I don’t think that’s a ridiculous thing to ask for. If you are still too cool for a free concert, Governor’s Ball has a pretty stacked lineup. Former Spring Fling artist Drake will be headlining June 5.

— John Linitz is a senior majoring in art and design

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Sophomore attack Brianne Arthur led the Bearcat offense with five goals against New Hampshire on Friday.

Bearcats fail to finish comeback at UNH Despite pulling within one with 10 minutes left, BU falls, 12-9, on the road Marisa Smith

Contributing Writer It was a tight battle between the Binghamton’s women’s lacrosse team and New Hampshire on Friday, but it was the Wildcats (5-8, 2-3 America East) that pulled away, downing Binghamton (6-8, 1-4 AE), 12-9.

“I think we knew we were capable of playing with UNH and went out with a pretty solid game plan,” BU head coach Stephanie Allen said. “Unfortunately we had to come back from a bit of a deficit — you know being down by five we really struggled with our shooting.”

Sophomore attack Samantha Karner got the ball rolling with the first goal of the game to give Binghamton the advantage. But

the Bearcats didn’t keep hold of that advantage long, as UNH followed up with a goal of its own shortly after. The tug-of-war between the two squads carried on for most of the first half, until New Hampshire started to pull ahead in the end of the first half, taking a 7-4 lead in the waning seconds of the half.

Sophomore attack Brianne Arthur closed scoring in the first with a free position goal with one second on the clock. Her lastsecond effort marked her 18th goal of the season as BU entered the half, trailing, 7-5.

The second half started off with the scale in the Wildcats’ favor.

Two minutes into the period, New Hampshire senior attack Kayleigh Hinkle bumped the UNH advantage to three. The Wildcat

lead extended to five before the BU defense shut down UNH for over 10 minutes, putting four on the board in the process. With under 10 minutes left to play, BU found itself within striking distance with the game at 10-9.

“I think we took advantage of a couple matchups that we had down on our offensive end, and made a slight adjustment to personnel on our defensive side,” Allen said. “But more than anything, I think it was just competing with a little bit more intensity and certainty off of the draw controls — paying attention to our first step and getting a good box on their players.”

Despite the late rally, the Bearcats couldn’t finish the job.

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put the nail in the coffin as Binghamton fell, 12-9.

While the main stat of the day didn’t fare in its favor, Binghamton led UNH in shots (26-23) and ground balls (12-10).

“I think it shows that we can step up and compete when we want, but we’ve got to take care of the little things,” Allen said. “It’s our lack of discipline in the area of shooting and a couple things defensively as far as footwork and containing their top players that we struggled a little bit with, so we’ll be focused on that moving forward with Tuesday’s match up.”

Next up, the Bearcats are set to face Colgate on Tuesday. First draw control is scheduled for 4 p.m. at Beyer-Small ‘76 Field in Hamilton, New York.

goalie Tanner Cosens and a turnover by Albany’s reigning Tewaaraton winner in senior attack Lyle Thompson, the game was looking up for the Bearcats.

After a quick goal by UAlbany, freshman midfielder Ben Kocis scored on a feed from senior midfielder JT Hauck to make the Bearcats one-for-one on man-up chances and tie the score at two.

And that’s when the Great Danes broke off the chain.

“Our defense just played pretty well,” BU head coach Scott Nelson said. “I thought a lot of times we left the ball on the ground and [Albany] came in and converted those opportunities, and that really hurt us.”

Albany dominated the possession game for the remainder of the quarter, outshooting BU, 8-1. The Great Danes then scored three more goals to head into the second with a 5-2 lead.

Eighteen seconds into the period, Great Danes senior midfielder Tim Cox added to Albany’s lead to push the margin, 6-2. On the losing end of a 4-0 run, the Binghamton defense went to work on Albany, forcing four turnovers in just under 10 minutes of play. Perhaps the biggest roars of the night came on a pair of turnovers caused by junior defender George Deignan and sophomore defender Garrett Waldron, as the two succeeded in forcing Thompson not only to turn over the ball, but to lose his stick in the process.

That momentum propelled BU to get back on the board, courtesy of another Kocis goal. After a third goal from the freshman and another by sophomore midfielder Tyler Deluca, Binghamton entered the

half trailing just 6-5.

“The last few games, [Kocis has] really picked it up,” Nelson said. “He’s maturing and we think he’s going to be one heck of a player.”

Binghamton kept the pressure on in the third, tying the game at seven after goals from Kocis and junior midfielder Johnny Maher.

But the Great Danes put back four of their own before senior attack Paul O’Donnell made the mark 11-8 in Albany’s favor at the end of the third.

Opening the final 15 with strong defense from both sides, O’Donnell scored another for BU, evening the score at 11-9 with over nine minutes to play.

Winning the ensuing face-off, Kocis attempted his fifth goal of the day, only to have it saved and turned into an Albany goal.

After similar saved attempts

by O’Donnell and O’Hara were converted as Albany goals, BU trailed, 13-9, plagued by what Nelson deemed, “turnover shots.”

“We made too many mistakes to win,” Nelson said. “We played pretty well and we thought we had a pretty good game plan, the guys executed well, but in addition to not getting the ball in the half-field, we made a lot of mistakes … Mistakes killed us tonight. Otherwise it was a very even game.”

Hauck and junior attack Zach Scaduto each scored to try for a late comeback, but it was to no avail, as BU fell, 15-11.

Binghamton is set to face Canisius in a non-conference contest on Tuesday. First face-off is scheduled for 7 p.m. at Demske Sports Complex in Buffalo, New York.

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Bearcats drop two against Stony Brook before capturing finale and sweeping Hartford During a stretch of seven games against three different opponents, the Bearcat (12-13, 3-2 After being dormant for three America East) bats sprung to life in straight weeks due to rainouts, conference play. Binghamton was the Binghamton softball team shutout in its first two America returned to action with a flurry of East games in 2015, but plated a contests over spring break. combined 31 runs over its next

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three conference games to capture three consecutive victories.

The Bearcats also dropped a doubleheader in a non-conference matchup with Bucknell.

In their first action on the diamond in 20 days, the Bearcats were stifled by Stony Brook’s pitching staff. The combination of Seawolves junior Jane Sullen and the 2014 America East Pitcher of The Year in senior Allison Cukrov held BU to eight hits and no runs over two games, resulting in 15-0 and 3-0 Stony Brook (16-12, 5-1 AE) victories.

“We had a rough go trying to get [the season] started with the weather,” BU head coach Michelle Burrell said. “We started with Stony Brook after not playing for three weeks. I thought we came out on Saturday in those two games and I just kind of felt like we were rusty.”

But BU’s offense exploded in game three. Led by three hits and

TRACK & FIELD The Binghamton track and field teams put up impressive performances on both the men’s and women’s side of the Bucknell Outdoor Classic this weekend.

In Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, the women were paced by sophomore Keishorea Armstrong’s record-breaking field performance.

The sophomore was victorious in the triple-jump event, jumping

with four hits and five RBIs, and sophomore infielder Crysti Eichner, who drove in five runs.

Behind those two, BU thoroughly dominated the Hawks (2-30, 0-8 AE), securing 10-2 and 8-0 wins.

“The girls went in there [against Hartford] with a good approach and stayed focused,” Burrell said. “They were focused from the first inning throughout the end of the game. I think we took it one pitch at a time and had good results because of it.”

However, BU’s offense was stymied in a non-conference doubleheader against Bucknell (22-17, 1-5 Patriot League) on Saturday. The Bearcats scored just two runs over two games, falling, 5-1 and 2-1, to drop their record below .500.

Binghamton’s offense has been paced all season by Cadogan and Harbaugh, the 2014 AE Player of the Year. Cadogan leads the conference in doubles, with nine,

as well as on-base percentage, with a .561 clip. She also sits in second in the conference in batting average (.438), slugging percentage (.859), RBIs (28) and home runs (6). Harbaugh is first in the AE with 31 runs scored, third in RBIs with 22 and fourth in batting average (.378) as well as on-base percentage (.500).

“We have kind of been looking for some leadership out of our junior class,” Burrell said. “The way [Cadogan and Harbaugh] have stepped up has definitely helped our team. Both of them have continued to be really consistent and I think that has helped the entire team.”

BU is set to return to action Tuesday with an AE doubleheader against UMass Lowell. First pitch is set for Tuesday at noon from the Softball Complex with a second game beginning shortly after.

BRIEFS

Armstrong, Garn impress at Bucknell Outdoor Classic STAFF REPORTS

six RBIs from junior catcher Lisa Cadogan and two hits along with three runs from junior outfielder Sydney Harbaugh, the Bearcats pounded the pitchers who shut them down the previous day.

Sullen and Cukrov allowed a combined 13 hits and 11 earned runs as Binghamton captured a 13-7 victory, its first AE win of the season.

“I think it is so important that we were able to take that one game [against Stony Brook],” Burrell said. “I was glad to see the girls respond and not get too down after the day we had on Saturday.

They put things back together and overall had a really good team effort.”

Binghamton continued to carry its hot offense into its doubleheader with Hartford two days later. The Bearcats received surprise offensive performances from freshman infielder Tia Smith, who finished the doubleheader

a distance of 41-9 1/2, a new school record. The distance is currently ranked 10th in the NCAA East Region in the event.

Graduate student Alexis Murray finished sixth in the triple-jump with a distance of 37-9 3/4.

Armstrong also finished third in the 200-meter run, registering a time of 24.33 seconds.

Senior middle-distance runner Jesse Garn led the Bearcats on the men’s side.

Garn finished second in the 1,500-meter race with a time of 3:43.72. That time currently ranks second in the NCAA

East Region. Sophomores Jon Alkins and Peter Fagan and senior Brandon Bordeau each recorded sixth-place finishes for the Bearcats in the 400-meter (48.53 seconds), pole vault (15-0) and shot put (52-5 1/2) events, respectively.

The Bearcats track and field teams are scheduled to return to action Friday at the Larry Ellis Invitational, hosted by Princeton. First event is set to begin at 10 a.m. from the Cordish Family Pavilion and Lenz Tennis Center in Princeton, New Jersey.

BU finishes sixth at the Til Duty is Done Invitational STAFF REPORTS GOLF

Behind a strong final round, the Binghamton golf team earned a sixth-place finish at the Til Duty is Done Collegiate Invitational, hosted by University of Connecticut. Sixteen teams competed in the two-day event.

The Bearcats ended the first round of the tournament in 10th place with a combined score of 316 (+28). BU improved its score on day two by 17, shooting a score of 299 (+11) to jump into sixth.

Senior Josh Holling impressed in his two rounds at the Invitational.

After a round one performance in which Holling shot 74 (+2), the senior followed by shooting a 71 (-1) in round two. Holling finished the tournament in third in a field of 89 golfers.

“Josh’s swing was a little off at the start [on Sunday], but he got really comfortable as the round progressed,” BU head coach Bernie Herceg said according to bubearcats.com. “The last two tournaments for him have been phenomenal, and hopefully he keeps things going the rest of the

way for us.”

Sophomore Sameer Kalia followed in second on the scoreboard for BU. Kaila shot a combined 155 (+11) and finished tied for 25th.

Also competing for the Bearcats was senior Jack Sedgewick, who went a combined 156 (+12), freshman Kyle Wambold, who finished with a score of 162 (+18), and junior Jesse Perkins, who shot an overall 163 (+19).

Binghamton is set to return to action Saturday in the Rutherford Intercollegiate hosted at the Blue Course of Penn State.

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Bearcats capture three consecutive AE victories See page 13 Monday, April 13, 2015

Binghamton inducts 26 into NCAHS class of 2015 Eclipsing a 3.4 GPA by fifth academic semester, Bearcats succeed on and off the field Ashley Purdy Sports Editor

Coaches, professors, academic advisers and current members gathered in the TAU Bearcat Room on Monday, March 30 for the induction of the National College Athlete Honor Society’s newest class out of Binghamton University. The class of 2015 featured 26 student-athletes at Binghamton, who qualified for the honor in obtaining a 3.4 or higher cumulative GPA by their fifth academic semester.

The NCAHS, founded in 1996 by former DePauw University head football coach Nick Mourouzis, defines itself as a nonprofit organization established to recognize college student-athletes who excel on and off the field.

Equal parts recognition and encouragement, Chi Alpha Sigma’s stated purpose is to cultivate a fraternal organization that aligns members’ educational and athletic successes for a lifetime.

“This event is one of our favorite events from the student services staff perspective,” said Ed Scott, the senior associate athletics director for student services. “It really demonstrates the values that the students we bring in as athletes here at Binghamton have. Not only are they tremendous athletes and pursue their athletic endeavors everyday, practicing at least 20 hours a week … they still find the energy and the enthusiasm to be able to go to class, to work hard, do community service opportunities, but then also make sure they’re carrying some of the highest GPAs across campus.”

Binghamton has inducted 285 student-athletes in to the honor

Provided by Jonathan King

Binghamton University inducted 26 student-athletes into the class of 2015 of the National College Athlete Honor Society on March 30.

society since the Mu chapter opened at the University in 2006.

National criteria for selection to the honor society include an endorsement by the head coach of the sport in which the studentathlete has attained a varsity letter, earning a minimum GPA of 3.4 and recommendation by the college or university chapter adviser.

Alicia Goode, Mu chapter adviser, as well as assistant athletics director for student services at Binghamton, conducted the

formal induction portion of the ceremony. Each student-athlete, accompanied by a faculty member of his or her choice, was called to the front of the room to receive a green and gold tassel and framed certificate. Current members of the Mu chapter welcomed the new members by presenting them the tassel.

“This is really the only time during the academic year that we actually have faculty here with our student-athletes in this type

of setting,” Director of Athletics Patrick Elliott said in his opening remarks. “I think just having faculty members here with our student-athletes, it’s really what it’s all about.”

Among those inducted this year, accounting was the most popular major, with five of the 26 inductees studying the field. Psychology was second, with three studying that major. The highest percentage of inductees were sophomores by their athletic eligibility, with

11 members listed as on course to graduate in 2017. Nine were listed to graduate this May, and the remaining six in 2016.

Men’s track and field junior pole vaulter Chris Nock delivered a speech on behalf of his induction class to close the ceremony. Nock, a history major, acknowledged the perseverance required of each of his peers to achieve such success, and extended a note of gratitude to all those who helped along the way.

“Although we have done a great deal of work to get here, it takes the commitment of many to help us grow and become successful people,” Nock said. “To all of the coaches, teammates and faculty members who have helped us along the way, I would like to thank you for all the support you have given us as we continue to grow each and every day.”

One student, Pascale Trappe, a midfielder on the men’s soccer team and a senior majoring in human development, was unfazed at the widespread success among his peers.

“We have a great student body here,” Trappe said. “In the studentathletic department, people are just working hard. You see them in the success center working on their papers, working for their exams, so it’s just the result of hard work from everyone.”

For Imani Williams, a senior diver on the women’s swimming and diving team, the balance of athletics and academics was strenuous but rewarding. Williams’ high academic honors are complemented by her impressive athletic achievements — at the America East Championships in February, the theater major took first in the one-meter diving event and second in the three-meter diving event. “[It was] really hard, really very hard,” Williams said of maintaining that balance. “A lot of not resting and a lot of being tired all the time and just trying to work things out. But it’s all worth it now, because I’m a senior and I’m graduating, and I’m glad I did it all. It was painful, I had to have my friends help me with things and my coaches help me with things, but it was worth it.”

BU catches fire, wins six of seven

Bearcats sweep UML, capture two of three over Hartford

Noah Bressner

Contributing Writer

Michael Contegni/Pipe Dream Staff Photographer

Freshman midfielder Ben Kocis tallied a team-high four goals as BU fell, 15-11, to Albany on Saturday.

Bearcats come up short against No. 8 Albany BU hangs tough with nationally ranked Great Danes, but falls, 15-11 Jeff Twitty

Assistant Sports Editor Following a 14-6 rout of UMass Lowell on April 4, the Binghamton men’s lacrosse team returned to its home field on April 11 to face No. 8 Albany.

Despite a strong showing on both sides of the field from BU (3-7, 2-2 AE), the Great Danes (9-2, 5-0 AE) proved their worth as the top dogs of the conference, downing the Bearcats, 15-11.

Carrying an average of 17.9 goals per game, the high-tempo

UAlbany offense is a far cry from the methodical, pass-heavy attack that BU employs. Finding the back of the net on their first possession of the game, it looked as if Albany’s quick-strike attack were ready to let loose against a BU squad it piled 21 goals on in 2014.

Returning fire for BU, senior midfielder Emmett O’Hara tied the contest, 1-1, for Binghamton early in the first. Following a botched face-off by the Great Danes, a save by sophomore

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The Binghamton baseball team caught fire over spring break, taking six of its seven contests and outscoring its opponents by an aggregate 6136 mark. The Bearcats (10-13, 5-6 America East) went 4-1 against America East rivals UMass Lowell and Hartford, while handily defeating Cornell and out-surviving Canisius in a five-hour, 11-inning contest.

The Bearcats jumped out of the blocks strong by sweeping a doubleheader with UMass Lowell (7-16, 3-5 AE) in Ithaca on Monday. This twinbill was a condensed, rescheduled and relocated series, which was initially to be played in Binghamton. However, due to perpetual poor field conditions, Binghamton has yet to host a game.

The first game against UMass Lowell ended in a 5-4 win for the Bearcats. Down 4-3 going into the bottom of the ninth, the Bearcats manufactured two runs. Freshman pinch hitter Chris McGee’s lead-off hit sparked the rally, followed by freshman infielder Paul Rufo’s sacrifice, senior outfielder Zach Blanden’s single, junior infielder David Schanz’s bunt single, senior outfielder Jake Thomas’ RBI sacrifice fly out and junior infielder Reed Gamache’s RBI single to secure BU’s victory.

Sophomore catcher Eddie Posavec’s and sophomore first baseman Brendan Skidmore’s two RBIs apiece led the Bearcats to an 8-0 thrashing of UMass Lowell in the second game of the day. Junior pitcher Mike Bunal, who did not allow a run in his five innings pitched, earned the victory.

The Bearcats took Hoy Field

again on Tuesday, but this time to face host Cornell (9-20, 6-6 Ivy). The teams were locked at two runs each until the eighth inning. At that point, Schanz and Thomas both doubled, and Gamache and McGee each singled, bringing the Bearcats to a total of seven runs on the day. Binghamton allowed just one more run en route to its 7-3 victory.

Wednesday’s game against Canisius (16-20, 8-4 Metro Atlantic) was no pitchers’ duel.

The 11-inning game, which lasted for over five hours, concluded with Binghamton and Canisius racking up a combined 33 runs and 27 hits.

The Bearcats took an early lead in the second inning and then exchanged leads with Canisius five times thoughout the game. The sixth pitcher to take the mound for BU, freshman Jake Erhard took the ball in the 10th and downed six batters in a row. He struck out three of the six men he faced and was awarded his first win, after holding the three-run cushion that the Bearcats provided him in the top of the 11th.

The Bearcats concluded their busy, seven-game spring break with a win in a three-game series at Hartford (12-18, 5-5 AE).

Binghamton split a Saturday doubleheader, dropping the opener 7-6 in 10 innings.

Posavec hit a three-run homerun in the top of the sixth to give Binghamton a 5-1 lead.

But the Bearcats couldn’t hold on. Hartford steadily cut into the advantage and tied the game in the eighth, scoring on an error. Hawks freshman Nick Campana singled in the winning run in the bottom of the 10th.

The Bearcats took the nightcap, 8-4. The Hawks jumped to a 2-0 lead in

the first, but Binghamton responded with four runs in the fourth inning. Gamache then incited Binghamton’s scoring with a two-run double.

Hartford tied the score in the bottom of the fourth, but the Bearcats regained the lead in the fifth when McGee scored on a double from Blanden. Thomas then singled in Blanden, giving the Bearcats a two-run lead.

Both Blanden and Thomas rounded out the night with solo homers in the seventh, bringing Binghamton’s run total to eight to close the win for BU, 8-4.

Binghamton took the rubber game of the series, 9-3, on Sunday afternoon after a pair of dominant innings in the sixth and seventh. Blanden again showed his prowess at the plate, going 3-for-4 with one RBI. Schanz and Skidmore added two RBIs to lead the Bearcats to victory.

The Bearcats are set to return to action Wednesday with a non-conference doubleheader against Marist. First pitch is scheduled for 2 p.m. from the Baseball Complex, with a second game following shortly afterward.

BU OVER BREAK

LOWELL W, 2-0

5-4, 8-0

CORNELL W

7-3

CANISIUS W

18-15, 11 INN

HARTFORD W, 2-1

6-7, 8-4, 9-3

Franz Lino/Photo Editor

Senior outfielder Zach Blanden had a combined six hits and scored six runs in BU’s two victories over Hartford last weekend.