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Conrad Taylor finishes first month in office

BU sophomore tackles infrastructure, economic development Downtown and on the North Side Pelle Waldron Assistant News Editor

Last year, a Binghamton University sophomore announced his campaign to run for City Council. Now, Conrad Taylor is over a month into his term and is already making strides to change the city.

Taylor, a sophomore majoring in political science, was elected to Binghamton City Council’s fourth district seat as a Democrat. The area encompasses the North Side of Binghamton as well as Downtown neighborhoods, and is one of seven districts on the council.

Taylor ran on a campaign focusing on fixing blighted housing Downtown, code enforcement on the North Side and the development of buildings Downtown. One thing that wasn’t on Taylor’s radar but emerged at the start of his term is the lack of North Side street repair. According to him, in the past three years, only two streets in his district have been repaired with government money, while hundreds have been repaired in other parts of the city.

Taylor’s immediate desire to help the city sets him apart, according to seventh district Democratic City Council representative Bill Berg. He said that he mentored Taylor, and that he thinks he will be successful going forward.

“I do believe once he gets his feet

firmly set on the ground, he’s a person who will make his own decisions based on what is best for his district and what he believes in,” Berg said.

Taylor has already begun working with the code department at City Hall, addressing four code concerns for houses on the North Side. He has also secured money for the demolition of seven run-down houses, and is now turning his attention to fixing up the parking garages Downtown.

The legislation that is needed for Taylor to get these projects started is new to him, but he says he has picked it up quickly and it is not something he thinks sets him back.

“I think that there’s definitely a learning curve; I am new, I’m not going to hide from that,” Taylor said. “But I think that it’s sort of the fact that I’m so passionate about doing this job, that I’m so excited to do this job, that that doesn’t really matter because I’m still going to do the same job as someone who might have known a little more about the process going in.”

Taylor’s age played a factor in negative rhetoric surrounding his campaign, and he is currently 19 years old. However, Taylor says that he is proud of how young he is, and that it gives him an advantage as an enthusiastic councilman.

“I think that I really showed that as long as you’re running for the

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Tamar Ashdot-Bari/Pipe Dream Photographer Bollywood Film dance group performs for the annual Tamasha dance show in Watters Theatre Saturday evening. The group started preparing for the event in the summer, and the members choreographed different dance styles to represent Indian culture. The event also featured performances by cultural groups like Black Dance Repertoire, Binghamton Masti and Bollywood Beats.

Tamasha draws diverse talent

Dance performance showcases past and present Indian culture Stacey Schimmel Pipe Dream News

The Watters Theatre stage was filled with bright lights, hip-hop routines, sparkling outfits, a cappella performances and classical dances on Saturday night as part of the Indian International Student Union’s (IISU) annual Tamasha dance show.

Tamasha, which means a grand show or celebration involving dance in Hindi, is typically held in December

during midterm week but was moved to this past weekend this year in hopes of drawing a larger audience. The group started preparing for the event in the summer, and the members choreographed different dance styles to represent Indian culture. The event also featured performances by different cultural groups including Black Dance Repertoire, Binghamton Masti and Bollywood Beats. It cost $8 to attend, and the proceeds will go toward funding the group’s future cultural events.

According to IISU President Tiffany Kurian, a senior majoring in integrative neuroscience, the show brings IISU together while also teaching others to appreciate Indian culture.

“When you come into college, you can lose yourself a little bit because you’re surrounded by so many things, but a lot of us are deeply rooted by our culture — it’s a part of us, it’s how we’ve grown up, it’s an aspect of us that’s always there

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Search continues for LGBTQ Center director BU bikers go Khristian Kemp-DeLisser presents plan for future of inclusion, acceptance on campus cross-country for charity Kanchi Chandwani Staff Writer

Binghamton University’s search for the new LGBTQ Center’s founding director continued on Friday afternoon with a presentation by the second of four candidates.

Khristian Kemp-DeLisser earned his doctorate in educational policy and leadership and master’s in higher education from the University of Vermont.

Chosen by the search committee based on his experience as an assistant dean and director of the LGBTQ Initiatives at Colgate University, Kemp-DeLisser presented his vision for developing the new center. He focused on the progress of the center over the next three to five years and the hope to add over 25 student and faculty members.

The search committee consists of students and faculty, many of whom are from LGBTQ outreach groups such as SHADES, Residential Life and the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (ODEI).

They review the candidates based on aptitude, connections and the goals that they want to achieve in order to advance BU. While working to promote social justice and inclusion by supporting minority groups in his role at Colgate University, Kemp-DeLisser has developed and facilitated relations across social differences, and conducted research on LGBTQ and racial identity in a campus climate.

Kemp-DeLisser said he wants to try

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In national project, riders travel for 10-11 weeks to build affordable housing Michelle Kraidman Pipe Dream News

surprised to hear that, but it is true.”

As an example, Wright cites Willis Sharpe Kilmer, who was one of the first to use print advertising as way of marketing his liver diuretic.

“The first local entrepreneur to market his product nationally was from Binghamton,” Wright said. “He took out ads in a Philadelphia newspaper to advertise a medicine called Swamp Root.”

Kilmer was also the owner and breeder of several horses that won the Kentucky Derby in the 1910s and 1920s.

The project is also researching previous occupants of buildings that many students frequent, but don’t know the cultural history.

“Around the turn of the century, there was a cigar factory underneath one of the bars down on State Street where

A small group of Binghamton University students and alumni are putting pedal to the metal to raise money and awareness for affordable housing by biking from coast to coast.

Five BU-affiliated participants are biking with Bike & Build, along with 30 other volunteers. The organization was started in 2003 by Marc Bush, who led a cross-country cycling trip with the now-discontinued Yale Habitat Bicycle Challenge in 2001.

That experience inspired him to expand on that model and consequently create Bike & Build, which now operates eight crosscountry and two regional trips yearly as a way to help create fair and decent housing.

The riders will bike for 10-11 weeks beginning in May, covering approximately 70 miles a day from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. They will advocate for the cause and dedicate 10-15 days to building housing in local areas on their specific route — which range from Maine to Santa Barbara — with organizations like Habitat for Humanity.

In order to participate, the riders need to independently fundraise $4,500 each.

Bike & Build expects to raise $600,000 with this trip, which will go toward different organizations and can be used for initiatives such as spreading awareness or building houses for over 300 affordable-housing nonprofits across the country.

Justin Villere, the director of operations for Bike & Build, said that Bush hopes to advocate for affordable housing while letting participants have a meaningful experience, and stressed that participants do not need to be professional cyclists.

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Raquel Panitz/Pipe Dream Photographer Khristian Kemp-DeLisser presents his vision for the new LGBTQ Center at Binghamton University. KempDeLisser is the second of four candidates for the position of founding director.

Local history revitalized Activist details life as a religious minorty in Israel with digital preservation Kevin Wright organizes inter-disciplinary effort to document Binghamton's past

Jonathan Elkhoury explores Christianity, gay rights in Middle East

Brendan Zarkower Pipe Dream News

Derek Schuster Contributing Writer

As a gay, Christian man who lives in Israel, Jonathan Elkhoury describes himself as a minority within a minority.

But according to him, his unique perspective enables him to see the world in a new way.

On Monday evening Elkhoury shared his story with students at Binghamton University, as part of a speaking tour he is doing at colleges across the Northeastern U.S. The event, titled “Escaping Lebanon: How an Arab Christian Found Refuge in Israel,” was sponsored by the groups Binghamton

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Tamar Ashdot-Bari/Pipe Dream Photographer Jonathan Elkhoury discusses life in Israel as a gay, Christian man. Elkhoury shared how he found refuge in Israel after leaving Lebanon.

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A group of Binghamton University administrators, professors and students are digging through Binghamton’s past in order to uncover the history of the Southern Tier.

The Past 2 Future project is seeking letters, diaries, videos and any other forms of documentation that depict the culture and history of the area.

The project, directed by Mountainview College faculty master and former human development professor Kevin Wright, started last semester. They have recently begun collecting and processing documents, which have been solicited from the community.

“There is so much interesting history in this area,” Wright said, “and I know students who come from other places are OPINIONS

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Religious refugee depicts life in Israel Historical documents ELKHOURY FROM PAGE 1

University Zionist Organization (BUZO) and Bearcats for Israel.

Arianne Storch, the president of BUZO and a senior majoring in psychology, helped put on the event and said that Elkhoury’s uncommon perspective and life story was the reason students wanted to hear him speak at BU. “I think it’s relevant to have him right now because Christians around the Middle East are being persecuted,” Storch said. “Israel is a lot of times criticized and looked down upon but people don’t realize that people flee to Israel to find refuge.”

Although originally from Lebanon, Elkhoury fled with his family as a child to neighboring country Israel for safety. He said that he speaks at schools hoping

to open students’ minds and give them a better understanding of life as a minority in Israel.

“What I’m hoping to accomplish is for people to better understand what is happening to minorities in Israel,” Elkhoury said. “Most of [the minorities] want to be part of the society but they are afraid to do that.”

He talked about what it’s like to be a Christian in Israel and worked to dispel negative views about it. He also discussed what he said was the often-inaccurate portrayal of violence in Israel that is seen in the media. He then said that his life experience allowed him to offer a different view of Israel that many are never exposed to.

“People are fed by a biased media, and they’ve never heard from a minority who has

succeeded in integrating into Israeli society, they’ve never met a person like that before,” Elkhoury said. “I encourage people to go and visit Israel to go and see it in their own eyes.”

He also spoke about the progress that he has seen in Israel for all minority groups, especially over the past few years.

“I can see that now, compared with 2008 or 2011, everyone is really trying to make progress, and to integrate into the Israeli society,” he said. “They are progressing towards a better future of working together.”

Arly Mintz, an undeclared sophomore, said that despite her visits to Israel, she had never been exposed to this kind of viewpoint before.

“I thought it was really interesting to hear a new

perspective,” Mintz said. “I’ve been to Israel many times but to hear from a Lebanese Christian is very new for me.”

Other students like Josh Fisher, a senior double-majoring in psychology and Arabic, said that he had gained a lot of new information about Christians in Israel.

“I took away that living as a minority in Israel is a lot easier than living as a minority in other countries in the Middle East,” he said. “There is a place where you can go and feel safe.”

Elkhoury summarized his talk with a message of promise and hope for minorities’ lives in Israel, not just in the future, but now.

“We are looking at a better future,” Elkhoury said. “We are looking at a better present.”

reveal Broome's past PAST FROM PAGE 1

men and women were paid an equal wage,” Wright said. “A key part of the job was licking the cigars after rolling them in order to seal them up, which resulted in many cases of oral cancer among workers.”

The project represents a confluence of several highlevel university goals.

The interdisciplinary nature of the research, which includes English, classics and mechanical engineering, coupled with the involvement of undergraduate research opportunities and local community engagement, has elevated the status of the collection endeavor within the University.

The documents are being digitized and stored on BU’s servers. They are then returned to their owners after processing.

Owners of the documents sign a transfer of rights, but the University cannot profit off of the documents.

Documents have come from a variety of sources, including Wright’s personal community connections.

“Some of the first films we received come from a friend I play poker with, whose uncle just so happens to have unprocessed film from the ’40s lying around,” Wright

said.

Undergraduates have the opportunity to get involved in the collection and digitization process.

According to Wright, opportunities to conduct undergraduate research in the social sciences are often tough to come by and students are pleased to find options available.

Jonathan Lanz, one of the eight undergraduate researchers and a freshman majoring in history, has been researching the Johnson City building that is slated to become the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.

“As a history major, it is difficult to find research opportunities in the social sciences,” Lanz wrote in an email. “But I was happy to find out that Binghamton began this project.”

The project is open ended, and the collection’s database will be publicly accessible to be used in further research. Currently, Wright is focusing on long-term goals for the data.

“Eventually, we are looking to string these documents together and develop overarching themes,” Wright said. “The obvious ones are entrepreneurship, innovation, immigration and the environment, but maybe more will emerge as we keep going.”

Students bike for affordable housing BIKE FROM PAGE 1

Raquel Panitz/Pipe Dream Photographer Pictured: Conrad Taylor, a Binghamton University sophomore majoring in political science. Taylor was elected to Binghamton City Council’s fourth district seat just over a month ago.

Taylor looks to revamp Downtown housing TAYLOR FROM PAGE 1 right reasons, and as long as you’re passionate about making a difference, your age doesn’t matter,” Taylor said.

“I’m fighting just as hard, if not harder, than anyone else for the people of my district.”

Giovanni Scaringi, a fourthyear Ph.D. candidate studying

political economy, serves as a Republican representing the first district. He said he was aware there were initial concerns regarding Taylor, but that his win proves his qualification.

“There are different residents who view things in their own respective ways, which of course they have the right to,” Scaringi

said. “But I think that at the end of the day, if a person wants to do good and they have the support of the people, then they obviously should be given the opportunity to do that.”

According to his campaign manager Harris Weiss, a senior majoring in political science, Taylor’s unique perspective as a student will allow him to help in

moving the city forward.

“I believe his future is bright,” Weiss said. “I just hope he is able to bring a new voice, a student voice, to the issues and topics that the city deals with. I hope to see Binghamton University play a big role in the revitalization of Binghamton, and I believe it will be Conrad leading that charge.”

“We call it the Triangle of Awesome,” Villere said. “Riders will have an adventure that they may never get a chance to do again by seeing the country by bike. They’ll do it with 30 other passionate young adults from all over the country who they will develop lasting relationships with and they’ll complete some muchneeded, fantastic service work for individuals and families in need.”

Though the University is not affiliated with the venture, BU students are getting involved.

Shane Tracy, a senior majoring in industrial and systems engineering, said that raising the money is not an easy task, and he has been reaching out to friends and family and plans on talking to BU and local businesses for sponsorship. Tracy has also set up a rider page via the Bike & Build website, where people can donate.

Tracy said that he hopes that the ride will be an enlightening experience both due to the cause and the people he will be riding with.

“I am looking forward to meeting like-minded people and creating lifetime friendships, seeing the country in a way that others only dream about, spreading awareness about affordable housing and helping as many people as possible along the way,” Tracy said.

Katherine Barone, a BU alumna

who graduated in 2014 with a degree in economics, is participating in the ride as well and, like many others, found out about the ride through word of mouth.

“I was trying to figure out how to justify riding my bike across the country, when a friend of mine told me about Bike & Build,” Barone said. “It seemed like a great way to see more of the country, while also volunteering for an awesome cause.”

In addition to the $600,000 that Bike & Build hopes to provide to affordable-housing nonprofits around the country, each rider will donate $500 to the affordable housing affiliate of their choice.

In the past, Bike & Build has donated $1,200 to Broome County Habitat for Humanity, $1,000 of which came from the riders’ $500 donations.

Barone said that her family and friends have been generous in helping her fundraise and that she will be reaching out to some local businesses as well as the BU Alumni Association to ask for support.

“I think this trip will be about physical and mental toughness,” Barone said. “We will be biking anywhere from 30-100 miles per day and I am sure I’ll need to find some inner strength to stay focused. I’m excited to meet new people and explore new communities throughout the South.”

Colgate Dean vies for LGBTQ Center position John Babich/Assistant Photography Editor, Tamar Ashdot-Bari/Pipe Dream Photographer, Several dance and music groups perform at Indian International Student Union’s annual Tamasha dance show in Watters Theatre on Saturday. Tamasha is Hindi for a grand show or celebration involving dance.

Indian dance, culture take center stage IISU FROM PAGE 1

but we don’t necessarily know how to embrace it,” Kurian said. “I think it’s important that we don’t lose that cultural side of us, that we don’t lose that identity, so I feel this is a good way to bring everything together.”

Cornell Bhangra, Cornell University’s co-ed Bhangra dance team, also performed.

Kurian said they like featuring performances by other schools when possible, and in the past they have featured groups from

SUNY Albany.

The show consisted of short introductory videos of each of the featured groups before they performed. This included rap battles from Supa Hot Masala, classical dances to remixes of songs like “Cheerleader” by OMI and “7/11” by Beyoncé and a fusion of English and Indian songs from Bollywood Beats. The Bollywood Film club incorporated dance with a South Asian movie twist and performed a story of how two lovers met in the BU Marketplace, titled “How I Met Your Mother.” Black Dance

Repertoire featured songs from Rihanna and Fetty Wap, and the show ended with a fashion show by members of IISU of the modern day Indian-American fashion.

Eric Russell, the president of Black Dance Repertoire and a senior majoring in human development, said cultural events expose students to a variety of cultures while also providing entertainment.

“We want to get different cultures to come out and audition, to come out and view it,” Russell said. “You can relate

to anything, it doesn’t matter what ethnic background you relate to.”

Students like Savanna Vidal, an undeclared freshman, came to learn more about Indian culture and watch the student performances.

“I’m very impressed, it’s cool to see all the effort that people have put in, and I had no idea that it was going to be this many acts,” Vidal said. “I now have an appreciation for Indian dance beyond what I’ve seen in movies because that’s the only exposure I’ve had to it thus far.”

CENTER FROM PAGE 1 to introduce programs similar to the ones he created at Colgate University, like seminars on various sex education topics such as “yes means yes” and “this is not a play about sex.” He also wants to work on the Bystander Intervention Program, which teaches students, faculty and staff to remind people of their personal responsibilities to confront discrimination in everyday life — which includes LGBTQ biases — and interrupt bias or persecution when they see it.

“Although the Bystander Intervention model is focused on intervention for sexual assault, my team and I adapted it to be used for practically any form of injustice,” Kemp-DeLisser said.

“I want to empower students to act when they see forms of injustice and give them the tools and courage to be able to challenge the beliefs taught by the hook-up culture and society’s ‘stigmas.’”

According to Kemp-DeLisser, the role of the LGBTQ director is to provide access to resources for various members of the BU community by creating a safe, anonymous and judgment-free center. Kemp-DeLisser said that in order to make a successful center they would work with outside groups and training centers to be able to receive students and other community members who are struggling.

“We can help build the infrastructure for local neighborhoods, and more people can get access to the resources we provide,” Kemp-DeLisser said. “I strongly believe in supporting historically marginalized communities, including the LGBTQ community and organizations involving students of color, women’s rights issues and other minority groups, and I believe in the social justice of lifting up the people in those groups.”

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LOCAL NEWS Bicyclist struck by car in Binghamton A 31-year-old man was hit by a car in Binghamton on Sunday night, according to WBNG Binghamton. The man was riding his bike on Broad Ave. and Court St. around 5:45 p.m. on Sunday when he was struck by a car. The man was transported by ambulance to Binghamton General Hospital where he suffered non-threatening injuries to his arm and leg. The driver was fined for failure to use caution.

Broome DA vows help, not arrests for drug addicts Broome County District Attorney Stephen Cornwell introduced a new plan on Monday to help drug addicts get clean and avoid jail, according to the Press and SunBulletin. Operation SAFE, which stands for Save Addicts From Epidemic, will be made available to drug addicts who seek helpfrom a local police agency, and they will be connected with available treatment facilities across the country at a low or no cost to the addict. The program is modeled after the Angel Program in Gloucester, Massachusetts, and will receive funding from the drug forfeiture and traffic diversion funds.

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Wolfgang Ballinger, 21, of New York City, was charged with attempted rape after an incident at the Psi Upsilon House at Cornell University, according to the Binghamton Homepage. He was charged with felony accounts of first-degree attempted rape, first-degree criminal sexual act and first-degree sexual abuse.

The alleged incident occurred around 2 a.m. on Sunday and Ballinger is being held in the Tompkins County Jail, where he remains on $25,000 cash bail or $50,000 bond.

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New York to ban conversion therapy

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Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Saturday that New York state will create regulations to ban conversion therapy of LGBTQ people, especially minors, according to the Press and Sun-Bulletin. The New York Department of Financial Services will issue regulations prohibiting NY insurers and Medicaid from providing coverage for conversion therapy given to people under the age of 18. The governor was praised by LGBTQ rights groups following the announcement.

This Day in History February 9, 1969 First test flight of the Boeing 747.

Kevin Paredes/Contributing Photographer Members of the Chinese Student and Scholar Association’s Dancing Melodies perform onstage in the Mandela Room Saturday night. They were part of “Dragon Night,” a collection of performances celebrating Chinese culture.

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Police Watch Driving Downhill Fast FRIDAY, Feb. 5, 1:11 a.m. — An officer in a patrol car observed a grey Ford Explorer fail to stop at a stop sign and enter Lot Q1 the wrong way, passing a “do not enter” sign and prompting a vehicle stop, Reilly said. After stopping the vehicle, the officer noticed a distinct odor of marijuana from the suspect, a 19-year-old male, eventually turning over a bag containing a green plant material that later tested positive for marijuana. The officer also noticed two different licenses in the suspect’s wallet, one from New York and one from Connecticut.

The Connecticut license was seized and destroyed. The suspect was given a traffic ticket for failing to stop at a stop sign and appearance ticket for possession of marijuana.

Personal Foul FRIDAY, Feb. 5, 6:46 p.m. — Officers responded to a harassment complaint at the East Gym, Reilly said. The suspect, a 25-year-old male and graduate student, set a pick in a basketball game, but as the

“This game was like this season has been. It tested our toughness, our resilience and our unselfishness. It’s only fitting it turned out that way.”

— Peyton Manning after the Broncos’ Super Bowl win on Sunday night.

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A lighter take on campus crime Derek Shuster Police Correspondant

victim attempted to push through it, the suspect yelled, “Don’t do that again or I’ll rip your head off.” While the suspect was jogging away, the victim yelled back, “Shut up, fat boy.” The suspect then confronted the victim, pushing him to the floor. Both the suspect and victim gave the officers identical accounts of the incident, and the suspect has been advised that the victim is not looking to press charges.

The victim was advised that had he had not yelled, “Shut up, fat boy,” this incident could have been averted.

Macaroni Mischief SATURDAY, Feb. 6, 1:52 a.m.

— An officer on post at the Chenango Champlain Collegiate Center (C4) Dining Center observed two males, 19 and 20 years old, eating chicken nuggets in line at the grill before paying for them, Reilly said. The officer then observed one of the suspects later eating mac n’ cheese bites while standing in line. The suspect was placed under arrest for petty larceny and brought back to the station for processing, there admitting he was drunk. The suspect was given an appearance ticket to the Town of Vestal court.

Congratulations to BU basketball player Willie Rodriguez for making the most accurate Super Bowl prediction in our picks on Friday!

Actual Score: Denver 24, Carolina 10 Rodriguez’s prediction: Denver 28, Carolina 24

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February's must-read book releases Georgia Westbrook Staff Writer

Though classes are starting to pick up, it’s still early enough in the semester to actually have some downtime. But if you’ve already re-watched “The Office” for the sixth time, it might be time to put down the remote and pick up a book that isn’t required reading. February is stacked with great new releases, and these five books — all coming out today — will keep you turning the page.

In Other Words

by Jhumpa Lahiri

Jhumpa Lahiri is an author known for her explorations of human nature and the way people’s lives intertwine. “In Other Words” — a hybrid of Italian prose, a short story and an exploration of Lahiri’s relationship with language — is the author’s non-fiction debut. Lahiri’s other works are known for their compelling plots and portrayals of complex dynamics within families and friendships, but in writing about her own life, Lahiri was forced to confront the trials of learning how to express herself in a foreign language after having been so successful at writing in English, her native language. “In Other Words” is a meditation on how language plays into who we are, how communication connects us to others and how we feel when the words are hard to find.

The Heart: A Novel

by Maylis de Kerangal; translated by Sam Taylor Previously published to great acclaim in France, Maylis de Kerangal’s “The Heart” is being published in English for American audiences this week and promises a provoking look at life, death and all that can change in a mere 24 hours. In the day following a fatal car crash, de Kerangal tells the story of the heart of a boy who was killed and the woman who receives it as a transplant. The novel explores the emotions and conflicts experienced by the other people involved in the process of the transplant — parents, doctors and nurses, among others — as they grapple with rights, wrongs, life, death and the hardships and blessings of being an outsider to an intimate tragedy.

Wreck and Order

by Hannah Tennant-Moore

“Wreck and Order,” the debut novel written by Hannah Tennant-Moore, follows main character Elsie as she travels across the world, and ultimately finds herself and who she hopes to be. Elsie’s travels around the world under the guise of education may sound appealing, but as she tries to escape through her journey, she finds that life is hard and confusing, and that we carry ourselves no matter where we go. Because of this, Elsie discovers that figuring out who we are is the hardest — but most important — adventure that we can embark on.

Ways to Disappear

by Idra Novey

“Ways to Disappear” is a mystery novel set in the heart of Brazil: Rio de Janeiro. With the upcoming Summer Olympics calling the same city their home in a few months, this fantastical novel provides an escape to both a city and culture which will soon be made public. When an author, Beatriz, goes missing in Brazil, her American translator, Emma, sets out to track her down, believing that the key to her whereabouts lies in her prose. Teaming up with Beatriz’s adult children, Emma must untangle the secrets and meanings that literature-intranslation creates and ultimately determine the true power of Beatriz’s words.

Sudden Death

by Álvaro Enrigue; translated by Natasha Wimmer Álvaro Enrigue’s “Sudden Death” begins as a tennis match, albeit an undeniably strange one; the ball is made from the hair of Anne Boleyn and the players are Italian painter Caravaggio and Spanish poet Francisco de Quevedo. Weaving art, history, religion and modern questions of existence together, Enrigue creates a story that is at once familiar and fantastical. By exploring colonial relations and conquests during the Age of Discovery, “Sudden Death” is not only a vehicle for examining the world as it was long ago, but it is also a story in which one will find love, lust, war, death and humor.

MOVIE REVIEW: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

Austen gets a gory twist

Zombies simplify story in new film adaptation Kara Brown Staff Writer The overarching theme in Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” — that women are competent, thinking beings — translates well in Seth GrahameSmith’s modern adaptation of the classic, “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.” While the book came out in 2009, this gory take on a literary mainstay hit the big screens this past Friday.

The original Jane Austen novel centers around the Bennet family, and the tensions that arise when their strong-willed daughter Elizabeth, meets the brooding Mr. Darcy. So how exactly do zombies get added in? In this alternate universe, a plague has spread across England, bringing the dead back to life.

In Austen’s original text, in order for a young woman to be viewed as accomplished, she must have “a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing, and the modern languages.” In addition to these qualities, the updated Grahame-Smith version states she must also “be well-trained in the fighting styles of the Kyoto masters and modern tactics and

weaponry of Europe.” In this adaptation, the Bennet sisters are more than just pretty faces; they are warriors, and Mr. Darcy — now Colonel Darcy — fights zombies whilst donning a leather tail coat.

At the time Austen wrote this book, it was improper for a woman to be outspoken and independent. To have a woman like Elizabeth Bennet give her opinion — as antagonist Lady Catherine de Bourge put it, “very decidedly for so young a person,” — was extremely revolutionary at the time.

Fast forward to the 21st century and it is no secret that women have opinions. Due to this societal change, the true essence of Elizabeth Bennet may not be so obvious to a younger audience simply by reading the original novel. But as opposed to putting Elizabeth in a crop top and jeans, this movie uses zombies as a fun twist on a classic story. In doing so, this adaptation will intrigue fans of Austen, while making her intended message more digestible and appealing to a modern audience.

The characterization of key players is taken to the next level on-screen and it’s a key to why this story is so much easier to

understand. If you didn’t think Mr. Collins could be any more ridiculous, you thought wrong.

Played by Matt Smith, best known for his role as the Eleventh Doctor on the BBC show “Doctor Who,” this character was easily one of the most enjoyable parts of the movie.

However, in dumbing down the story, the plot is also rushed.

While the basic story line is maintained, a lot of the romance is lost. The best part about watching or reading “Pride and Prejudice” is the longing you develop for Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy to get together and that warm, fuzzy feeling of love once you reach the end. At no point during the film are you made to feel this way and, unfortunately, you’re also not dying to know if they defeat the zombies.

There was just something so strange about the combination of the Jane Austen and zombies that you couldn’t focus on the zombies enough to care about them.

Still, if you are obsessed with the 2005 film adaptation of “Pride and Prejudice” starring Keira Knightley, prepare to be pleasantly surprised. From her long brown hair to bone structure so sharp it could cut someone, Lily James, who plays Elizabeth Bennet in this version, bears a striking resemblance to Knightley. The sets are also nearly identical. For example, the main hub of the Bennets — the dining room — is the same deep, peacock blue.

Overall, the movie was entertaining. It did a good job of revitalizing the plot, but a lot of the heart of the story was lost in translation. While the majority of people probably won’t be rushing to the theaters to see it, it’ll serve as one of the weird-butworth-watching movies once it Photo provided by AP Exchange hits Netflix.

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TV that's not a 'drag' The new season will be more fabulous than ever Haralambos Kasapidis Staff Writer Every season on “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” contestants showcase their “charisma, uniqueness, nerve and talent” to see who will become America’s next drag superstar. The queens fighting for this season’s crown were recently revealed via social media, and it already seems like this season will be one to watch.

Promotional pictures were posted on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter, and Logo TV — which the show airs on — has placed introductory videos on their website.

This season’s cast is eccentric, though this is true for nearly every contestant that has appeared on the show. In fact, it’s usually the queens that don’t make a statement who are the first to go. On the show, RuPaul emphasizes how much he hates when the contestants play it safe, so every queen who tries out knows that they must leave it all on the table.

“RuPaul’s Drag Race” started from humble beginnings. In the first season, the winner won a lifetime supply of MAC cosmetics, was featured in an LA Eyeworks campaign, joined the Logo Drag Race tour and won a cash prize of $20,000. Though this does sound lavish, the cash prize from the last season has been increased to

$100,000, as well as a year’s supply of makeup from Anastasia Beverly Hills cosmetics and the nowfamed title of America’s Next Drag Superstar. Though this season’s prizes have not been confirmed, they will likely be of a similar magnitude.

Ratings have been up as the competition series continues to gain exposure, jumping 20 percent over the past two seasons. The spike may be attributed, in part, to the show’s large presence on social media. Before the season finale, RuPaul asks his viewers to hashtag and promote their favorite queen so they can help make the final decision. Fans from all around the world flood their accounts with reaction gifs of their favorite queens, and RuPaul sees it all.

This season’s contestants are as follows: Acid Betty from Brooklyn, NY; Bob The Drag Queen from New York, NY; Chi Chi DeVayne from Shreveport, LA; Cynthia Lee Fontaine from Austin, TX; Dax ExclamationPoint from Savannah, GA; Derrick Barry from Las Vegas, NV; Kim Chi from Chicago, IL; Laila McQueen from Gloucester, MA; Naomi Smalls from Redlands, CA; Naysha Lopez from Chicago, IL; Robbie Turner from Seattle, WA; and Thorgy Thor from Brooklyn, NY. Some contestants have already made a name for themselves on the drag scene. Derrick Barry, a

Britney Spears impersonator from Las Vegas, is among one of the most well known of the bunch.

He has previously auditioned for “America’s Got Talent,” where he made it all the way to the quarterfinals.

Dax ExclamationPoint, a 31-year-old drag queen from Savannah, Georgia, is another well known contestant. She is the drag mother — a queen who takes another drag queen under her wing — of Violet Chachki, who won the most recent season of the show. She describes her style as “road-warrior, glitter-punk superhero assassin, kind of.” Based on Chachki’s performance, people are expecting a lot from ExclamationPoint.

Other notable contestants include Acid Betty, who, at 37, is the oldest queen of all the cast members this season. She is known for her outlandish looks and attention to detail. One look at her Instagram page and fans already know that they can expect tons of color and personality from her.

“My drag style is very aggressive, alternative and hyper-colored glow in the dark,” said Betty in an interview with Logo.

These three names are just the beginning, however, and this season of “Drag Race” is sure to shine among this spring’s TV lineup. “RuPaul’s Drag Race” premieres its eighth season March 7 on Logo.

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Angst Column

DAYS SINCE THE ADMINISTRATION HAS MADE A STATEMENT ON WHETHER OR NOT THEY'D COLLECTIVELY "DO" ME

Millenial Melissa #2

Ummm, what’s on your body?

I’ve become literal clickbait.

Depression is...

TFP My obession with reading every thinkpiece and sharing my comments on Facebook will actually suffocate me soon.

They should do a Vice article on me.

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A Stalk of Brocolli

Hi kids! Why don't you put down that sugary cereal and pick up a nice stalk of brocolli instead.

Come on. Throw away that Happy Meal you disgusting wretch of a human being. Look at you, stuffing your face with processed carbs. Think about me next time you drive to Taco Bell when you're high because you think that's like a funny thing to do. "Duuude, let's get Taco Bell." Are you serious?

What are you, the first person who ever smoked weed? Sorry, I heard someone talk about getting high and going to Taco Bell, and it's like, what kind of douche brags about that? Let me guess, you listened to Sublime on the way there. You know what? Don't eat me. I'm too good for you. I am God. Broccoli is God.

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23 Teammate of Esposito and Bucyk 25 Classic ride 26 Is no longer in the same state?

27 “Ground beef is the healthiest food you can eat,” e.g.?

32 Eleanor, to Teddy 33 Newbery Medal winner Lowry 34 __ English Bulldogge 35 Barrel race site 37 Pressing letters 41 Staff member 42 It may begin with “Here’s” 43 Metalworker’s mess 47 Bowl, perhaps 49 Distress 50 Symbol of mediocrity 51 2002 Springsteen album on the decline?

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OPINIONS Tuesday, February 9, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR In response to Pipe Dream's recent editorials regarding student safety Downtown

NO ID? NO PROBLEM Last weekend, there were rumors that the bars on State Street were being raided by the police in order to catch those either drinking underage or using a fake ID. The prospect scared many underclassmen and the idea of getting arrested for a night out kept some inside hunkered down in their dorms. The thought of a police raid is enough to scare many, and despite the rumor mill proving to be false, the idea of an arrest is, rightly so, terrifying.

Perhaps the bigger issue here is that a police raid is frightening because besides these bars, students feel that there is not much more to night life in Binghamton.

While Residential Life offers an alternative with Late Nite, full of activities for students on-campus, this option isn’t for everyone.

Sometimes on a Friday or Saturday night, students want a little more to look forward to than just hanging out in the Union. They’d rather explore Downtown, but as of right now these options are few and far between, if you are under 21.

Many students want to escape the bubble of Binghamton University.

With limited destinations late at night in the city of Binghamton, students find themselves in fraternity parties or finding a way into State Street bars. We believe there is a market for venues that offer more to students than a “four floors of mayhem, girls party free” slogan or your best friend’s sister’s cousin’s expired

learner’s permit. The demand is there — someone just needs to grab the opportunity.

Whether it’s Court or Washington Street, many properties have the potential to be transformed. We envision a dance club open to those 18 and over, where underage students can still have a legal night out.

It could be open as late at the bars, yet avoid any aspect of drinking. They can host bands and DJs, even student ones.

This could definitely turn into a popular option for students while simultaneously nurturing some budding Bearcat musical talent.

A couple of years back, 18-and-under club Flashbacks

was an option for students on State Street. Due to what we can assume was lackluster advertising and a poor turnout, it closed because it seemed to not generate any business.

It’s fair to say that with a new option, a new outlook is needed — students need to be prepared to embrace an unfamiliar type of nightlife, and give it a chance.

Developing Downtown Binghamton can not only calm student fears, but attract more students off-campus. It would do more for the area than First Friday, building a safe and legal community for all students with the potential of a night out for all.

Views expressed in the opinion pages represent the opinions of the columnists. The only piece which represents the views of the Pipe Dream Editorial Board is the Staff Editorial, above. The Editorial Board is composed of the Editor-in-Chief, News Editor, Opinions Editor, Arts & Culture Editor and Sports Editor.

NH splits on Democratic preference Clinton surrogates chastise women for supporting Sanders instead Melanie Sharif

Columnist

Amidst the recent chaos in American politics emerges one Hillary Clinton, struggling to keep smiling for the cameras as she watches her numbers get slowly munched on by Bernie Sanders.

As the general election approaches, Democratic voters — and any citizens who desire a backup plan for the Donald Trump apocalypse — face a dilemma that can only be a part of the 21st century American canon: Are we really going to get this close to the first female president and let the chance pass us by?

In a recent stand for Mrs. Clinton, feminists Gloria Steinem and Madeleine Albright think that we should not, in the name of feminism, let this happen.

Both women urged young female voters, who have been polled to show more support for Sen. Sanders than for Mrs. Clinton, to think about the consequences

of turning their backs on Hillary.

As Ms. Albright has said many times in different ways, “There is a special place in hell for women who do not help other women.”

It is here, in the 2016 election hoopla, that we see a problem with feminism exposing itself: Feminism is not the blind support of all women in every single one of their endeavors — for that would be not an ideology, but a cult.

Feminism, in its best descriptions and most noble achievements, is liberation, or the freedom to act on your desires. Feminism is an assertion that everyone deserves the same degree of liberation in human culture, so should they desire it.

What was suggested by those women is not explicitly “cultesque,” but rather an important feminist message repurposed for a political context. However, it seems as though political contexts breed misunderstandings and this case of feminist gusto is no exception. A young woman who supports Bernie Sanders is not “holding back” Hillary Clinton, but exercising her political freedoms.

In American politics, we historically brag about sound ideas, nobility, charisma and morality as being important qualities in our best executive heads. Not race, not gender, not wealth — just homemade American character.

The trouble with these ideals is that they are thoroughly subjective, as most spheres of human culture eventually reveal themselves to be. What this means is that we cannot impose their goodness on each other. We must come to believe in the goodness of these things on our own, find it in the face of a political candidate and proceed to getting that warm, fuzzy feeling inside. Then we take that fuzzy feeling right to the polls.

Obviously, the American political system isn’t as simple as representation via individual choice anymore.

However, we continue to bicker, read intensively or avoid newspapers like the plague just so that we can maintain our own unique stance on politics. Truly, the heart of American freedom is the ability to think and speak as you wish, even if what you think and say has an

impact that others may not agree with.

As the political playing field lights up with shots fired on our potential futures, we must remember that feminism is something that aligns with the spirit of freedom, and not something that we should use to suppress it.

Hillary Clinton going headto-head with Bernie Sanders reflects a change in American sentiment which may not have been possible a few decades ago.

Quite obviously, Mrs. Clinton is not a better presidential candidate than Sen. Sanders because she is a woman just as Sen. Sanders is not a better presidential candidate because he is a man.

In the coming months, the youth electorate in America would be astute to pay attention to that which makes someone appear as a good person to them — which is hopefully close to what makes someone a suitable leader. Maybe then, we may just collectively land on a great leader.

Pipe Dream has recently published editorials and articles about off-campus incidents involving assaults on Binghamton University students. The editorials questioned why the University did not provide alerts or notifications to the student body about these incidents and our commitment to transparency about off-campus safety. As the chief student affairs officer and chief law enforcement officer at the University, we met with the Pipe Dream editorial board last week to directly address the questions they had raised.

The University has control over and responsibility for the on-campus environment. When something occurs on campus that creates a safety risk, we have a high level of confidence that we can communicate accurate, timely information that will inform and assist the campus community and we regularly provide alerts. The University does not have control over the off-campus environment, responsibility for it or access to information necessary to provide authoritative, timely alerts.

The University does not receive direct notice of police or safety matters involving Binghamton students in the City of Binghamton or other off-campus communities where students live or visit. When the University does learn of such incidents, it is almost always afterthe-fact, through third parties or because the responding law enforcement agency requires some information from the University to assist with any investigation. We first learned of the Hawley Street incident late Sunday morning through thirdparty reports. We did not fail to notify the community of the incident to hide anything, but because by the time we had confidence in the information, everything we knew about the incident had already been publicly reported. The University does not ever receive notice of safety matters in the surrounding community involving non-students, except through news reports like everyone else. In fairness to city officials, they do not always know that specific victims of crimes are University students.

That the University has only sporadic and incomplete information about criminal conduct in surrounding jurisdictions has implications for what notice we can confidently provide. If the University becomes aware of an incident involving students at a particular location and alerts students to avoid that location, we run the risk of inadvertently directing them toward another location that may involve a greater risk to safety based upon circumstances of which we are not even aware.

Contrary to the implication of the recent Pipe Dream editorials, Binghamton University is fully supportive of student interest in access to information about offcampus safety. The University Office of Off Campus Programs provides a prominent link to the most recent crime maps available from the City of Binghamton on its website. The University even provided technical expertise to initially create the map. Contrary to one of the quoted sources in a recent Pipe Dream article, the University does provide information about off-campus safety through New Student Orientation.

Indeed, we received complaints that we were unfairly trying to scare students from living off-campus when we simply pointed to the crime data available on our website.

The University regularly contacts

City of Binghamton officials on matters affecting student safety and influenced the public release of police information concerning both the Ice House incident and the Hawley Street fight.

Student and community access to safety information can clearly be improved. It is ultimately the City of Binghamton that has control of and responsibility for safety information within its jurisdiction.

While we remind you that the city is the proper target of your advocacy for improved access to that information, the University nonetheless has and will continue to be supportive of efforts to improve such access. Both the University and Pipe Dream helped promote the City of Binghamton’s new community notification app (Nixle) in November 2014. We support efforts to explore whether Nixle can be better used to provide residents with timely alerts and notifications impacting resident safety. The two of us have personally offered to assist Pipe Dream in identifying officials and offices where they can gain access to publicly available police information from surrounding communities. The University has been and will continue to be an advocate for timelier sharing of crime-map data by the city. The University has supported in the past — and will continue support — convening town and gown coalitions around specific safety initiatives, from housing inspections to Parade Day to the policing of State Street on weekends. More recently, the University has agreed with the City of Binghamton to pay half the salary of one Binghamton police officer to serve as liaison between the department and University students.

While remembering that the University has limited opportunity to share information that we do not readily access or control, we are willing to carefully consider what more we can do. We are actively reviewing off-campus programs at other colleges and universities for programmatic ideas and will carefully consider whether new initiatives can be effectively implemented in our environment. Further, we have offered to share with Pipe Dream (as the campus newspaper) information we may obtain about incidents affecting student safety off-campus unless there is a case-specific reason we cannot do so. As of the writing of this response, we have already shared information of incidents with the Pipe Dream staff.

We hope the above information offers a different perspective on the University’s efforts to promote access to information about safety off-campus than recent Pipe Dream opinion pieces. Our capacity to offer notice and alerts about offcampus matters is substantially different than it is about on-campus matters. The University has not tried to obscure information about off-campus crime and in many ways actively works to promote access to it. We close by observing that the City of Binghamton, other surrounding communities, the University, students and all community members have a shared stake in promoting safety. We will do better by promoting partnerships and cooperation among us than we will by throwing darts at one another. We genuinely thank the Pipe Dream for its interest and attention to off-campus safety and for their willingness to hear us out.

Timothy R. Faughnan, Chief of University Police Brian T. Rose, Vice President for Student Affairs

February 9, 2016 | bupipedream.com

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SPORTS

Bearcats fall to Brown and SJU

After winning four straight to begin year, BU suffers first two losses Nicholas Waldron Pipe Dream Sports

Kaely Hankison/Contributing Photographer Redshirt freshman Mark Tracy recorded a major decision victory in the 197-pound weight class in BU’s contest against American on Friday, marking his 14th victory of the season.

Binghamton rallies to top American

The Binghamton men’s tennis team (4-2) dropped two road matches over the weekend, losing 6-1 to Brown (4-1) on Saturday before a 5-2 defeat to St. John’s (8-1) on Sunday. While the Bearcats were unable to record a win, the weekend was not without bright spots.

On Sunday, senior Eliott Hureau defeated St. John’s senior Lucas Hejhal, the 56th-ranked singles player in the nation. After dropping the first set, 6-2, Hureau came back with a vengeance to take the second set, 6-0 and the third, 6-2.

Nearly taking home a point for the Bearcats was senior Sid Hazarika, who took his first singles match versus senior Daniel Skripnik to three sets, ultimately falling, 10-8, in the third. BU freshman Ludovico Cestarollo was the bright spot for Binghamton on Saturday, as he was the only player to record a win against Brown. Despite trailing, 5-2, in the second set, he was able to take the 7-5 victory to claim the

Bearcats’ only point.

“He’s had a lot of experience playing over in Italy,” Zieziula said of Cestarollo. “But we got to work to keep him a little more stable the whole way through the match.”

As a team last season, the Bearcats struggled to find consistent production from all six singles players, so performances like Cestarollo’s in the lower singles spots bode well for Binghamton going forward. However, an aspect of the Bearcats’ game that they will have to work on is their doubles play, all the way from the first to the third spot. Binghamton will look to continue to improve its doubles play before the Mid-American Conference season begins in March.

“We competed at one and three very well on Sunday,” Zieziula said.

“But we’re going to go back to the drawing board this week and possibly change some things up.”

The Bearcats are set to take on VCU on Friday from Thalhimer Tennis Center in Richmond, Virginia. The time of the first match has yet to be announced.

BU improves to 3-0 at home on season with come-from-behind win Jeffrey Twitty Assistant Sports Editor The Binghamton wrestling team pushed its record at home to 3-0 with a 22-17 victory over American on Friday night.

But the meet wasn’t without hiccups for the Bearcats, (105, 6-3 Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association) who found themselves in the grip of the Eagles (4-7, 0-5 EIWA) for much of the match.

Junior Jacob Nicholson picked up BU’s first win of the evening with a six-point injury default victory in the 133-pound matchup, but a pair of American victories in the 125- and 141-pound bouts put BU behind early, 7-6. In the 149-pound battle, freshman Jesse Dellavecchia escaped with a 1-0 decision victory to give Binghamton the edge for the second time, 9-7.

“When something unexpected happens you can’t let it bother

you, you can’t let it keep you from doing what you’re trying to do,” BU head coach Matt Dernlan said. “And the guys stepped to it.”

But the middleweight matchups left Binghamton back in a hole, as 157-pound sophomore Vincent DePrez and 165-pound redshirt freshman Anthony DePrez gave up major decision and decision victories, respectively, to put the Eagles back on top, 14-9. BU captured the lead right back, however, in a decisive bout at 174. Jack McKeever, 28th-ranked senior, notched a six-point victory by disqualification, due to excessive stalling from AU sophomore Michael Eckhart in an attempt to control the match’s pace.

Sophomore Steve Schneider — entering the 184-pound matchup with his team ahead, 15-14 — earned his 18th victory of the season against AU junior Jason Grimes to put Binghamton up by four, tallying nine team points in two matches.

“[AU] wanted to lose by decision, lose a close match, so we had to have even extra energy, more fight, battle through tough times to get where we wanted,” Dernlan said. “And for the guys to get two bonus points at 174 … and for Steve to continue to go out there and look to dominate — it was great.”

With the victor yet to be decided by the penultimate matchup, 197-pound freshman Mark Tracy earned a convincing major decision victory, 15-4, to push BU’s team lead to 22-14 and secure the match for the Bearcats.

Along with clinching the match, Tracy’s victory on Friday was his seventh straight and the latest stop on the freshman’s uphill climb this season.

“He’s been fighting … but the biggest thing is he’s believing,” Dernlan said of Tracy. “He didn’t deviate when things started going wrong early in the season.

For a freshman at 197, it’s never going to be easy. So he showed

tremendous resolve the first two months of the season and showed a lot of belief.”

American captured a decision victory in the heavyweight round, but the Bearcats came out on top, 22-17. Along with locking an EIWA finish of .500 or better for Binghamton, the sixth conference win marks the most for BU since joining the conference in 2013. With three matches remaining before the EIWA championships in March, Dernlan hopes that his team can continue to build on its momentum.

“Once you get a taste of that, it gets contagious and then all of a sudden you get momentum,” Dernlan said. “And momentum becomes confidence and once you get confidence, a lot of good things can start happening.”

Binghamton is set to return to the mat on Friday at Buffalo.

First match is scheduled for 2 p.m. from Alumni Arena in Buffalo, New York.

Bearcats break six program records

Armstrong, Miceili lead Binghamton at Sykes & Sabock Challenge Eric Gaccione Contributing Writer The Binghamton men and women’s track and field teams competed at Penn State this weekend in the Sykes & Sabock Challenge where both teams finished in sixth place — the men in a field of seven teams and the women in a field of eight teams.

Six Binghamton competitors broke school records during the meet, including junior Keishorea Armstrong — shattering her previous 60-meter record set in 2014 of 7.48 seconds, with a time of 7.43 seconds.

Armstrong also came out on top in the 200-meter with a time of 24.11 seconds. She was the only athlete on the women’s side to place first in her events.

Emily Earl/Pipe Dream Photographer Junior Alana MacDonald broke Binghamton’s school record in the women’s 800-meter race at the Sykes & Sabock challenge over the weekend, recording a time of 2:14.40.

Sophomore Brooke Bonney also broke her own record in the weight throw competition, throwing a distance of 58-5 ¾ feet, almost six feet further than her 2014 record distance (52-10 ¾).

Senior Alexis Hatcher claimed Binghamton’s record for the mile on the women’s side, placing seventh with a time of 4:58.49.

Coming off a stellar first place performance at the Cornell/ Robert Kane Invitational last weekend, senior Nina Sarmiento broke the school record for the 600-meter race, placing ninth and finishing with a time of 1:34.96.

Junior Alana MacDonald was the fifth Binghamton woman to break a school record at the meet, running the 800-meter in 2:14.40.

Senior Kierra Arthur finished an impressive third place in the 60-meter hurdles, running a time of 8.77 seconds.

For the men’s team, it was the duo of star senior pole vaulters Joe Miceli and Peter Fagan who took the top two spots in their event, both reaching a height of 16-9 ½ feet.

Senior Pat Heikklia was the only men’s team member to break a Binghamton school record, finishing second in the shot put with a throw of 55-0 feet, breaking former Bearcat Brandon Bordeau’s mark of 55-2 ¾ feet set in 2015.

Junior Eric Holt and sophomore Thad Okon both had high finishes in their events.

Holt ran a time of 1:50.24 in the

800-meter, placing second, while Okon finished fourth in the high jump, hitting a mark of 6-8 ¼ feet.

With the America East (AE) Conference Indoor Championships in less than two weeks, BU Head Coach Mike Thompson is confident in his team’s ability to compete with the rest of the conference.

“This was definitely our best meet of the year,” Thompson said. “In all the years that we’ve been traveling to Penn State to compete, I would say that this was the best we’ve done as a team across the board.”

Thompson also commended his team’s ability to conquer Penn State’s intimidating atmosphere.

“A lot of times, because Penn State is such a big athletic school, sometimes it’s intimidating for a smaller school like Binghamton to go in there,” Thompson said. “But we went in there this weekend and acted like it was just another meet, stepped up and did extremely well. I couldn’t have hoped for any better.”

Although satisfied with the discipline and intensity of his team during practice and in meets, Thompson did say that the best is still yet to come — specifically on the women’s side.

“My women’s long jump group is capable of doing really well, and I think they’re just about ready to break through.”

The Bearcats are set to return to action again on Sunday in the Sunday Invitational at Cornell University. The time of the first event has yet to be announced.

Emily Earl/Pipe Dream Photographer Senior Eliott Hureau pulled an upset over No. 56-ranked SJU senior Daniel Skripkik, 2-6, 6-0, 6-2 on Sunday.

WRESTLING

Binghamton captures victory over AU See Page 9 Tuesday, February 9, 2016

Neil Seejoor/Pipe Dream Photographer Freshman guard Everson Davis scored 12 points and grabbed seven rebounds in Binghamton’s loss to New Hampshire on Saturday.

Bearcats drop home games against UNH, Albany Despite overcoming foul trouble, BU falls into last place of America East as losing streak hits four

E.Jay Zarett Sports Editor The Binghamton men’s basketball team carried a lead into the locker room for the fourth-straight game on Saturday afternoon against New Hampshire. But, just like in each of the previous two contests, the Bearcats (5-19, 2-9 America East) failed to hold on.

Despite shooting just 30.9 percent overall, the fourth-place Wildcats (14-9, 7-3 AE) outscored BU, 38-32, in the second half to capture a 59-55 victory. The loss was the third consecutive for the Bearcats.

“That’s a tough loss any way you slice it,” BU head coach Tommy Dempsey said. “It was

unfortunate that we weren’t able to win that thing at the end because I think it would have been a great team win.”

At 43 seconds into the game, the refs blew their whistles, indicating a foul on the Bearcats star, sophomore forward Willie Rodriguez. Twenty-two seconds later, it appeared as if disaster had struck for BU, as Rodriguez fouled UNH senior guard Ronnel Jordan.

BU’s leading scorer at 14.2 points per game, was saddled with two fouls just 1:05 into play and was forced to sit.

Rather than crumbling, however, the Binghamton offense found its rhythm. By the time Rodriguez checked back into the game with 12 minutes left in the half, the Bearcats had a 13-11 lead on the Wildcats.

“Honestly, I didn’t think much about it, next man up,” Dempsey said regarding Rodriguez’s foul trouble. “I have confidence in everybody that we’re playing right now.”

Despite Rodriguez picking up his third foul seven minutes later, the Bearcats, led by junior guard Marlon Beck, continued the momentum to carry a 23-21 lead into halftime. Eight different Bearcats recorded at least one point in the half, highlighted by seven from Beck. He finished the contest with a team-high 16 points.

“We had a lot of adversity through the game, a lot of foul trouble,” Dempsey said. “We had to call upon a lot of different guys, and the thing I was most pleased about was that every guy that we

checked into the game played as hard as they can.”

With Rodriguez back in the game five minutes into the second half, the Bearcats’ lead grew to as many as nine points. But the Wildcats’ tandem of sophomore forward Tanner Leissner — the reigning AE Rookie of the Year — and junior guard Jaleen Smith slowly chipped into the deficit.

UNH sliced the BU lead to two or fewer five different times before eventually gaining a one-point lead, 51-50, with 3:05 left to play and the Bearcats never regained an advantage in the contest.

Binghamton had a chance to tie, trailing by three with possession of the ball and eight seconds left on the clock. But, New Hampshire elected to foul BU freshman guard Everson Davis

before allowing a 3-point shot.

Davis, who chipped in 12 points for Binghamton, hit the first free throw and intentionally missed the second. Leissner grabbed the rebound for UNH and knocked down a pair of free throws at the other end of the floor to secure the victory.

Leissner finished the game with 21 points — 14 in the second half — while Smith added 16 for the Wildcats.

“Leissner is a good player in this league,” Beck said. “He kind of got himself going a lot of times and he kind of led them. It just comes down to defense down the stretch.”

With three straight losses to Maine, Stony Brook and New Hampshire, the Bearcats now sit in a tie for last place in the AE with

UMBC. BU led by one point after the first 20 minutes of play against conference powerhouse SBU and by four points in its game against Maine before eventually falling, 76-51 and 74-63, respectively.

BU returned to action on Monday night against Albany, falling, 69-56, in the Binghamton “Pack the House” game. Despite playing in front of a seasonhigh home crowd of 4,923 and a tremendous performance by sophomore forward Dusan Perovic — who entered the game averaging 5.3 points per game but scored 24 points in the contest — the Bearcats were outscored, 36-25 in the second half en route to the loss.

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Binghamton suffers back-to-back AE road losses Bearcats fall by 15 at UNH, six to Albany, currently sit in fifth place Orlaith McCaffrey Assistant Sports Editor After losing its conferenceopening game to Binghamton on a buzzer-beating putback by freshman guard Rebecca Carmody on January 9, the UNH women’s basketball team recorded six more losses and just one victory to complete its first half of America East (AE) play. The Wildcats’ narrow loss to BU (10-13, 5-5 AE) in a contest which they led with as few as seven seconds remaining certainly served as motivation on Saturday afternoon as UNH (8-14, 2-7 AE) capitalized on an offensive outburst from freshman forward Ashley Storey while showcasing an impressive defense to defeat Binghamton, 64-49.

Neither team gained a clear advantage in the first quarter, as both the Bearcats and Wildcats traded possession and scoring opportunities, with the latter going up 17-15 at the end of the quarter.

The UNH offense broke through Binghamton’s 2-3 zone defense in the second quarter to outscore the Bearcats, 16-7. Integral to the Wildcats’ scoring streak was Storey, who netted 12 points in the first half and a career-high 22 Sasha Dolgetta/Pipe Dream Photographer points by the time the final buzzer Sophomore forward Alyssa James tallied a team-high 16 points and nine had sounded. Storey, whose rebounds in the Bearcats’ 64-49 loss at UNH. previous scoring high was nine

points, served as the spark-plug for the UNH offense, shooting 83 percent from the field and sinking both of her free throws.

Binghamton had no answer for UNH’s first-half offensive onslaught as the Wildcats executed an effective man-to-man defense.

At the half, BU was down, 3322, and sophomore guard Imani Watkins, who paces the Bearcats with 16.1 points per contest, was held to just four points. Watkins, who regularly plays entire games, was on the court for a season-low 33 minutes. BU head coach Linda Cimino attributed her decision to try an offense sans Watkins to UNH’s stellar defense.

“We just had a better flow with [Watkins] on the bench today,” she said. “Their whole scouting report was about Imani [Watkins] and Alyssa [James], so sometimes you’ve just got to change things up.”

Despite the Bearcats’ efforts, UNH continued to control the game after the half. With 5:32 remaining in the third quarter, BU came within eight, 39-31, before the Wildcats responded by going on a 9-4 run to give themselves a 13-point lead at the end of the quarter.

“We turned the ball over too many times; we turned the ball over in the backcourt,” Cimino

said. “We’ve got to make sure that we’re aggressive on the rebounds and we don’t let people rip the ball out of our hands.”

The impressive UNH defense also successfully stifled BU senior guard Kim Albrecht, swarming her with guards any time she received the ball beyond the arc. The Wildcats’ strategy proved effective, as Albrecht hit just two of seven 3-pointers and netted nine points.

The only aspect of the BU offense which UNH couldn’t reign in was the production of sophomore forward Alyssa James, who recorded 16 points, 9 rebounds and two assists.

UNH held onto its doubledigit lead for the remainder of the game, scoring seven of the final 11 points to ensure its 64-49 victory.

The Binghamton defense has rarely faltered this season, but when it has, it has been due to weak transition defense and committing too many turnovers, both aspects in which the Bearcats struggled against UNH. BU turned the ball over 16 turnovers and struggled to hold off the Wildcats in transition.

Cimino, however, credits UNH’s offensive performance just as much as Binghamton’s shortcomings on defense for the outcome of the game.

“You’ve got to give New Hampshire all the credit,” she said.

“Those girls came out to win this game. There was no way they were playing today without winning and their offensive effort was off the charts.”

Binghamton suffered a narrow loss to AE-leading Albany on Monday night. Despite heading into halftime with a 29-24 advantage, the Bearcats could not stifle the Albany offense and fell, 64-58, marking the closest conference game that the Great Danes have played all season.

Sophomore guard Imani Watkins and senior guard Kim Albrecht lead BU with 22 and 21 points, respectively.

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Sometimes you've just got to change things up —Linda Cimino BU Head Coach