Spring 2018 Issue 13

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Suspect in Anderson homicide fled US

Domestic violence resources Domestic violence is a pattern of behaviors used by one partner to maintain power and control over another partner in an intimate relationship.

Unnamed person of interest is male nursing student Sasha Hupka News Editor

The suspect in the death of Binghamton University student Haley Anderson has fled the country, the Binghamton Police Department said on Saturday.

A male student majoring in nursing at Binghamton University is suspected of killing Anderson, 22, and fleeing on an international flight. The suspect’s name has not been released by police.

The suspect was romantically involved with Anderson, and left the United States before her body was discovered on Friday, according to police.

Anderson, a senior majoring in nursing from Westbury, New York, was found dead at 12:53 p.m. on Friday after police responded to a welfare check at 23 Oak St., a student residence on Binghamton’s West Side.

Anderson did not reside in the house.

Her death was officially declared a homicide following an autopsy, which was performed on March 10 at Lourdes Hospital in Binghamton.

“This incident and the circumstances of the death [were] not a random act or involving the conduct of a stranger,” the statement read. “The victim and male student had a previous domestic/romantic relationship. The investigation determined that the person of interest had left the United States by an international air travel flight, prior to the discovery of Haley Anderson’s deceased body.”

The investigation is being conducted by the Binghamton Police Detective Division and assisted by BU’s New York State University Police, the Broome County District Attorney’s

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Warning signs of domestic violence include: • Your partner controls who you see or where you go

Kevin Paredes | Photography Editor Police sit outside 23 Oak St., the residence on Binghamton’s West Side where Haley Anderson’s body was discovered.

• Your partner prevents you from going to work or attending school

Haley Anderson, 22, remembered as good student, hard worker Sasha Hupka News Editor

A few weeks ago, Haley Anderson and Josephine Artin went to Target together, chatting, laughing and making jokes. Now Anderson’s friends are remembering her as a larger-thanlife person with a warm personality.

Anderson, a fifth-year senior majoring in nursing from Westbury, New York, was found dead on Friday afternoon in a house on Binghamton’s West Side. She was 22.

Police are investigating her death as a homicide.

Anderson worked at Jazzman’s in Glenn G. Bartle Library as a barista for over three years and was on track to graduate in May, according to her friends. She had a job lined up at an emergency room on Long Island.

• Your partner pressures you into sexual activity, drugs or alcohol • Your partner exhibits extreme jealousy • Your partner makes insulting or demeaning comments • Your partner destroys your property

Artin said. “I didn’t know anybody who didn’t like her. Her laugh was contagious — I would always be laughing just because she was laughing.”

Others remember Anderson as a lively, extroverted girl with many interests and passions. Brittany Piket, a first-year graduate student studying accounting, said she has known Anderson since high school and became close friends with her at the end of sophomore year.

“Our rooms were right next to each other, and we always had each Facebook other’s backs,” Piket said. “She loved Haley Anderson, 22, was a senior music. We loved to just sit with our majoring in nursing from Westbury, New York. friend John and listen to him play Artin, a senior majoring the guitar. I had this old PlayStation in economics, was Anderson’s 2 that the three of us used to housemate. She said Anderson was play together.” one of the friendliest people she knew.

SEE ANDERSON PAGE 2 “She was the warmest person,”

To get help, call or visit: Local Police — 911 Binghamton University Counseling Center — (607) 777-2772 Crime Victims Assistance Center Hotline — (607) 722-4256 Rise-NY Hotline — (607) 754-4340 National Domestic Violence Hotline — (800) 799-7233 University Police (Emergency) — (607) 777-2222 City of Binghamton Police Department (General information) — (607) 723-5321

State cuts threaten EOP funding Visions to replace M&T Bank at BU

Students write letters, advocate in Albany

University signs contract with local credit union

Gillian Kenah News Intern

Although thousands of college students attend schools in Broome County, traveling to and from the area can be difficult for those without vehicles.

For most, driving or taking the bus are the only options for commuting home or heading to school. Students who cannot drive or do not have a car usually purchase bus tickets from Escape, a student-run bus company that departs from campus, or a variety of bus lines that service the Greater Binghamton Transportation Center on Chenango Street in Downtown Binghamton, including Greyhound and Coach USA. One-way buses to New York City, a common destination, are usually around $35 during holidays.

Although these bus companies connect the Binghamton area to the rest Kevin Paredes | Photography Editor of the state, only certain locations can be reached without transfers. For students As the Educational Opportunity Program faces statewide budget cuts, Junior Cabrera, a freshman

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majoring in computer science; Imaane Carolina, a freshman majoring in computer engineering; and Leslyan Lorenzo Tejeda, a freshman majoring in systems science and industrial engineering, write letters in support of the program at an SA-sponsored event.

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M&T Bank will be replaced by Visions Federal Credit Union in July after serving as Binghamton University’s on-campus bank branch for over 20 years.

Visions will replace the M&T branch located in the University Union as well as the four ATM locations on campus on July 1.

The decision, made by a board organized by BU Auxiliary Services, follows five months of deliberation comprised of student surveys, meetings and the University’s request for proposals from various financial institutions.

Maria Roberts, the associate director of Auxiliary Services, wrote in an email that the board, consisting of students, faculty and staff who manage various oncampus vendors such as the University Bookstore and Dining Services, sent

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requests for proposals to 12 banks.

According to Roberts, the decision was ultimately driven by student needs involving transaction fees.

“The board, guided by a ‘studentfirst’ philosophy, concluded that Visions would provide better overall value to the campus,” Roberts wrote. “Survey responses indicated that one of the main priorities of the student body was lowering overall transaction fees, something which our new contract with Visions will make possible.”

Visions first became a presence on campus in January 2017 after partnering with the Fleishman Center for Career and Professional Development to create the Financial Literacy Wellness Program, an effort to educate students about budgeting, savings and insurance through workshops. Mandy DeHate, the assistant vice president of marketing for Visions, wrote in an email that the bank felt expanding onto campus would give the institution an opportunity to

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M&T Bank to leave after more than 20 years on campus BANK FROM PAGE 1 continue serving students.

“We’ve been part of the Broome County community for over 50 years and felt that this was an opportunity for us to share the benefits of our member-owned cooperative with the students and faculty at BU in a more personal, meaningful way,” DeHate wrote in an email.

DeHate highlighted Visions’ membership in the CO-OP Shared Branch network, which allows customers to use other credit unions throughout the country.

Joe Evangelisti, a senior majoring in human development who opened

an M&T account before coming to BU, said while the switch may be temporarily frustrating, it could ultimately be a good move for BU. “I think it’s annoying for current students, but maybe for future generations it’ll be better since Visions is a credit union,” Evangelisti said.

Carisa McKillop, a sophomore majoring in philosophy, politics and law, said she will not be switching accounts once Visions comes to campus, and that this transition will complicate her banking experience.

“I think it’s inconvenient because at home, on Long Island, there aren’t any ATMs of Visions bank, which makes it inconvenient if I need to

withdraw money or deposit money while I’m home,” McKillop said.

DeHate said Visions aims to create a relationship with students that will last even after they leave the University.

“Our goal for being on the Binghamton University campus is to provide students and faculty with a strong banking partner for life,” DeHate said. “Combining financial education with our products and services prepares both students and faculty for their immediate and future banking needs.”

M&T Bank representatives Kevin Paredes | Photography Editor declined to comment on M&T Bank will be replaced by Visions Federal Credit Union as BU’s campus bank after having served in that capacity for over 20 years. the transition.

Midterms 2018: Tenney kicks off re-election campaign Brindisi challenges incumbent for seat Eric Lee

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Midterm season has begun in New York’s 22nd Congressional District.

Representative Claudia Tenney launched her re-election campaign to represent the district at the Holiday Inn in Downtown Binghamton on Sunday afternoon.

Her challenger, State Assemblyman Anthony Brindisi of Utica, launched his campaign in front of the Broome County Courthouse roughly nine months before in July, 2017.

This year’s midterm election cycle is expected to be particularly tense, as Democrats fight to gain seats in the House of Representatives and Senate, and Republicans attempt to maintain

their majorities. The 22nd Congressional District, which encompasses much of central New York, including Binghamton and Utica, has already received national attention following Tenney’s comments in response to the school shooting in Parkland, Florida.

Tenney told Albany radio host Fred Dicker that many people who commit the mass murders are Democrats. Many other elected officials quickly denounced her remarks, including Brindisi and Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

“This toxic rhetoric is shameful and a new low even for Ms. Tenney,” Brindisi tweeted.

“Inserting politics into a national tragedy is beyond the pale & disgusting. She should apologize now to spare our region any more national embarrassment.”

In response to Tenney’s statements, 50 protesters stood outside her campaign event.

Brian Garcia, a junior doublemajoring in economics and history, said he believes that her response to the Parkland shooting demonstrates her lack of connection with the community.

“Tenney has consistently shown she’s out of touch with our community,” Garcia said. “She voted to take health care away from our vulnerable neighbors, voted to make student loans harder to pay back and doesn’t even hold town halls. She’s just not a choice we can afford. Her response to the Parkland shooting that many of these mass shooters end up being Democrats shows a stunning lack of maturity and an unwillingness to address this serious issue with sensible policy.”

Tenney did not address these concerns in her campaign speech.

Instead, she focused on her accomplishments in supporting tax cuts, resources for tackling the opioid crisis and, in her own words,

fighting against the “D.C. swamp” and the “political elite” in Albany.

Tenney said she hopes to restore manufacturing jobs and continue working with farmers in the region.

“It is very exciting and we are really excited to carry a strong campaign going into 2018 as we move out, but I was very encouraged by the people here, who very much supported the tax cuts, supporting rolling back of regulations, limited government, freedom, continuing the agenda, that the President has brought to the capital,” Tenney said.

Tenney has also been criticized in the past for a lack of town hall meetings. Gilda Ward, town councilwoman for Guilford, New York, and a supporter of Tenney, said this is due to a number of threats made against her.

“She said that it’s not even about the safety for herself, but the safety of everyone at these town hall meetings,” Ward said. “That’s

the reason why she did not have as many town hall meetings as she would have liked to have.”

Christopher DeMarco, political director for BU College Republicans and a junior majoring in political science, said he supports Tenney because she is consistently conservative in her policy interests and background.

“For me personally, values and culture matter a lot, and Tenney has them,” DeMarco said. “Her son is active-duty military, meaning that any national security decision she makes directly affects her. Her multigenerational family business is a great example of the American dream. She understands what’s it’s all about — it’s about what you can build yourself, not what the government can give you.”

Brindisi said his campaign will be based on investing in the local economy, education and infrastructure.

“I decided to run for Congress

because Washington needs more independent voices who are interested in getting things accomplished,” Brindisi said.

“Currently, the extremes on both sides are driving the conversation and I believe bipartisanship is the key to finding solutions that can make a difference for our families and community. I also believe in an economy that rewards hard work. We need to create privatesector jobs, to invest in our local economy with tax breaks for the working- and middle-class people, not tax cuts for Wall Street billionaires paid for on the backs of future generations. We must invest in education and infrastructure to attract new businesses, while using apprenticeship programs to train those who will rebuild our manufacturing base and pay them living wages.”

The primary election will take place on June 26 and the general election on Nov. 6.

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looking to return to their homes in areas outside the New York metro area, trips from school can involve multiple bus transfers at different locations around New York state.

According to Ryan McNamara, an Escape employee, Escape buses go directly to their destinations without any layovers, and students help decide where the buses will travel to.

“Our e-board consists of students that decide on important matters such as what buses to run for the breaks and also when to run these buses,” McNamara wrote in an email. “During this last break we sold out all seven of our buses and had just shy of 400 students take the buses home. Currently we have buses going to Manhattan, Brooklyn, Staten [Island], Nanuet, White Plains, Jericho, Ronkonkoma, Huntington, Fresh Meadows and Ridgewood, New Jersey.”

Nevertheless, many students live in areas outside those that Escape services and approximately 25 percent of students at BU live out of state.

Although some areas, like Scranton,

“My other out of state friends have cars so they don’t struggle to find ways home, but I know before we all had cars it was really frustrating for our parents to have to drive to [Binghamton] and back one day and then again once the break was over,” Hershorin wrote in an email.

Although owning a car helped Hershorin, freshmen are not allowed to have cars on campus, and vehicle costs, including insurance, gas, tolls and parking fees, can restrict driving as an option for students. These restrictions led to the creation of a Facebook page called “Binghamton University (BU) Rideshare Group!,” where students can post if they are driving or looking for a ride and carpool and split the costs with other students.

Audrey Yan, a junior majoring in psychology, said she usually does not have trouble finding a ride by using the Facebook group.

“I went home this break and I did not have a hard time finding a ride home,” Yan said. “I did end up taking a bus back to [Binghamton because] I wasn’t able to find anyone going back the same day I was.”

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ANDERSON FROM PAGE 1 Piket described Anderson as a beautiful person, a hard worker and a good student.

“She was the personality, you know, she walked into the room and you knew it,” Picket said. “She was beautiful inside and out, a beautiful girl. She had this radiant personality, and you could throw her in a room with strangers and they’d all be best friends within five minutes because that’s just how she was,

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Pennsylvania, are only a bus trip away from Binghamton, students who live far from Broome County must find alternative routes home, often by flying. However, the closest airport to BU, Greater Binghamton Airport, only services Delta Air Lines planes to and from Detroit, Michigan, and students seeking to go elsewhere must book flights with layovers or fly out of airports farther from Broome County.

Weather can also complicate travel plans for students using buses or flying. Over the recent winter break, Escape rescheduled its return trips to Binghamton from Wednesday to Sunday as a result of the nor’easter storm on March 7. Other bus companies canceled their trips after Broome County, along with other areas of New York state, was placed under a winter weather warning for over 36 hours.

Emily Hershorin, a senior majoring in psychology, lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and said the only way for her to travel home by bus includes a transfer in Scranton. Hershorin bought a car when she was a junior and said she now drives approximately three hours to get home over breaks.

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she just made everything fun. She was silly and goofy and jumped around and had dance parties. But she was also a hard worker. She would study for tests for days and she would do well on them.”

Piket said Anderson cared deeply for other people and would have made a great nurse.

“She wanted to help people,” she said. “She wanted to make people happy, that’s what she always did. She wanted to get out of here and do something, make something of herself.”

Anderson is survived by her parents, Karen and Gordon Anderson, and her younger sister, Madeline Anderson. Artin said she will remember Anderson as a vibrant person.

“It was tragic and she didn’t deserve that,” Artin said. “But she lived a very, very happy 22 years. She brought joy and light wherever she went.”

Students affected by Anderson’s death can contact the University Counseling Center at (607) 777-2772.

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Teen mom arrested after infant found in roadway The Utica Police Department arrested a 17-year-old mother after her 9-month-old baby was found crawling on a busy roadway, according to WNBG. Officers saw a video on Facebook of the infant alone in the street Friday night, and took the baby to a local hospital. The mother later returned to the scene and told investigators the baby had been in the backseat of her car when she left the area, but was not in the car when she arrived at her destination. She was charged

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New York State Assembly passes gun control bills The State Assembly passed legislation aimed to reduce gun violence on Tuesday, according to the Press & Sun-Bulletin. The new legislation will keep firearms out of the hands of people considered by courts to be a danger to themselves or others, set a 10-day waiting period— rather than the current three-day one — for delivery of a gun to people who have not cleared a background check and prevent people convicted of domestic violence from buying a firearm.

New York considers plastic bag ban Gov. Andrew Cuomo is considering a ban on single-use shopping bags after New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio called for a ban on plastic bags, according to the Press & SunBulletin. Cuomo’s latest appraisal comes after he signed a bill barring New York City from imposing a 5-cent fee on the use of plastic bags. Currently, there are 10 cities, towns and villages in New York state that have banned single-use plastic bags, and a 5-cent fee for using plastic bags started in Suffolk County in January 2018.

Former U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt conducts his first national radio broadcast, known as a “fireside chat.” At the time, the country was in the middle of the Great Depression. Roosevelt would deliver 30 more broadcasts between March 1933 and June 1944.

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“We also lost one of our heroes [Albert Wong], who clearly had demons that resulted in the terrible tragedy that we all experienced here.”

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by Albert Wong, a veteran and former participant at the center.

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Classes have been canceled for senior nursing students Office, the Federal Bureau of on Monday, and counseling Investigation — Binghamton, services will be available.

New York/New Jersey H.I.D.T.A. University officials Program Resources, the Port expressed their condolences to Authority Police Department Anderson’s friends and family of New York and New Jersey in a B-Line news addition on and the Nassau County Police Friday evening.

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community is deeply saddened to learn of the death of senior nursing student Haley Anderson, whose death is being investigated by the Binghamton Police Department,” the news addition read. “During this challenging time, we are offering counseling services for those who wish assistance.”

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T.J. Buttgereit won the Michael K. Davis Award, the first time a student at Binghamton University has received the accolade.

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Binghamton University’s nationally ranked Speech and Debate Team has added another award to its collection.

Earlier this month, T.J. Buttgereit, a senior doublemajoring in history and philosophy, politics and law, was chosen as the recipient of the Michael K. Davis Award, which is given each year to a senior debater from the northeastern United States who began their college

debate career as a novice and has since excelled in competition.

It is the first time a member of the BU team has won the award. The award is sponsored by the Cross Examination Debate Association, which is the largest intercollegiate policy debate federation in the country.

The debate team had two Sweet 16 finishes at nationals last year and was ranked as the sixthbest debate program in the United States. Buttgereit was also named to the Cross Examination Debate Association’s All-American Team.

Buttgereit said his success was largely due to the team’s coaching staff, led by director Joseph Leeson-Schatz, and

his teammates.

“I think I got this award because I was fortunate enough to go to a school and join a debate program that really invested in my success,” Buttgereit wrote in an email. “When you start debate in college, you are really behind when competing against people that have already been debating for at least four years when they enter college. The people who’ve taught me debate, Jesse Smith [‘16], Joe Leeson-Schatz, Trevor Reddick [‘15] and too many others to count who helped me really grow into who I am now as both a person and a competitor are definitely the reason I got the award.”

The team’s president, James Allan, a junior double-majoring in political science and history, said he believes the program’s strong support and focus on its novice team is the key to its successes.

“The award just speaks to the incredible job our coaching staff has done to develop our novice program,” Allan wrote in an email. “The novice division is for those who are new to policy debate, so Binghamton does a great job turning interested and intelligent students into nationally competitive monsters.”

Allan said Buttgereit is continuing to grow as a debater, which is why he was chosen as the

recipient of the award.

“Although T.J. may not want to boast, he received the Michael K. David award because he’s the most successful debater in the northeast this year, bar none,” Allan wrote. “He’s collected speaker awards like candy, he’s appeared in late elimination rounds at a handful of national tournaments and he still takes the time to assist less experienced members of the team to develop their voices and hone their research skills.”

Buttgereit said he and his teammates are looking forward to continuing their successful season at various national debate tournaments in the upcoming

weeks, and the award validates the hard work of the entire team.

“Most of the debaters from Binghamton in recent years start in college rather than high school, and so our mission as a program has been to teach debate to freshmen and sophomores in college in a way that allows them to compete against debaters with [high] school experience who are given scholarships to compete [at] schools like Harvard, Wake Forest, Emory, and Northwestern,” Buttgereit wrote. “I think the [Michael K. David] award really shows that we’ve been successful in that task, and I think it is something for Binghamton to be proud of.”

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Students board buses to head home at the start of winter break. For some students, commuting to and from school is difficult because of a lack of transportation options in Broome County.

Students face challenges heading home over breaks

Lack of transportation options limits travel Mariel Grosshtern Contributing Writer

Although thousands of college students attend schools in Broome County, traveling to and from the area can be difficult for those without vehicles.

For most, driving or taking the bus are the only options for commuting home or heading to school. Students who cannot drive or do not have a car usually purchase bus tickets from Escape, a student-run bus company that departs from campus, or a variety of bus lines that service the Greater Binghamton Transportation Center

on Chenango Street in Downtown Binghamton, including Greyhound and Coach USA. One-way buses to New York City, a common destination, are usually around $35 during holidays.

Although these bus companies connect the Binghamton area to the rest of the state, only certain locations can be reached without transfers. For students looking to return to their homes in areas outside the New York metro area, trips from school can involve multiple bus transfers at different locations around New York state.

According to Ryan McNamara, an Escape employee, Escape buses go directly to their destinations without any layovers, and students help decide where the buses will travel to.

“Our e-board consists of students that decide on important matters such as what buses to run for the breaks and also when to run these buses,” McNamara wrote in an email. “During this last break we sold out all seven of our buses and had just shy of 400 students take the buses home.

Currently we have buses going to Manhattan, Brooklyn, Staten [Island], Nanuet, White Plains, Jericho, Ronkonkoma, Huntington, Fresh Meadows and Ridgewood, New Jersey.”

Nevertheless, many students live in areas outside those that Escape services and approximately 25 percent of students at BU live out of state. Although some areas, like Scranton, Pennsylvania, are only a bus trip away from

Binghamton, students who live far from Broome County must find alternative routes home, often by flying. However, the closest airport to BU, Greater Binghamton Airport, only services Delta Air Lines planes to and from Detroit, Michigan, and students seeking to go elsewhere must book flights with layovers or fly out of airports farther from Broome County.

Weather can also complicate travel plans for students using buses or flying. Over the recent winter break, Escape rescheduled its return trips to Binghamton from Wednesday to Sunday as a result of the nor’easter storm on March 7. Other bus companies canceled their trips after Broome County, along with other areas of New York state, was placed under

a winter weather warning for over 36 hours.

Emily Hershorin, a senior majoring in psychology, lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and said the only way for her to travel home by bus includes a transfer in Scranton. Hershorin bought a car when she was a junior and said she now drives approximately three hours to get home over breaks.

“My other out of state friends have cars so they don’t struggle to find ways home, but I know before we all had cars it was really frustrating for our parents to have to drive to [Binghamton] and back one day and then again once the break was over,” Hershorin wrote in an email.

Although owning a car helped Hershorin, freshmen are not

allowed to have cars on campus, and vehicle costs, including insurance, gas, tolls and parking fees, can restrict driving as an option for students. These restrictions led to the creation of a Facebook page called “Binghamton University (BU) Rideshare Group!,” where students can post if they are driving or looking for a ride and carpool and split the costs with other students.

Audrey Yan, a junior majoring in psychology, said she usually does not have trouble finding a ride by using the Facebook group.

“I went home this break and I did not have a hard time finding a ride home,” Yan said. “I did end up taking a bus back to [Binghamton because] I wasn’t able to find anyone going back the same day I was.”

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Jacob Hanna | Contributing Photographer Rebecca Ho, the Student Association vice president for finance and a senior majoring in business administration, created a mural incorporating rare deep sea fish to represent greatness and identity on campus. Her mural was chosen to be displayed in the Admissions Center. Below: Her public mural for the Student Association office, completed in 2016.

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It may seem like the worlds of business and art don’t often intersect, but Binghamton University senior Rebecca Ho manages to combine the two in her everyday life — while winning some awards along the way.

Ho is majoring in business administration with a minor in studio art, concentrating in drawing. She is also vice president for finance of the Student Association. She said that while her art background makes her stand out from other candidates for business jobs, it also gives her a different perspective on management.

“I find a lot of business majors, over time, that if they’re not involved in something else, they can have a tendency to want to follow best-practice standards [that] don’t usually lead to small improvements,” she said. “Being an art student and being forced to be in environments around highly contentious and radical people, you want to be that way, so when I enter the business world I have the training and the skills but I won’t be afraid to tell someone how to do something better.”

In 2016, she was the winner of the annual 24-hour Drawing Marathon at BU. The marathon consisted of ten artists who were

it that speaks to people.”

Ho began her artistic career with landscapes, but became more interested in portraiture as well as animal drawings after more exploration. Over the years, she has experimented with different mediums including drawing, oil painting and etching.

She has also experimented with symbolism; she uses a tiger as her version of a self-portrait.

During her sophomore year of high school, Ho began to shape her schedule around art, but that ended up creating more stress. Ho said she realized art was something she wanted to use as an escape, not something she wanted to have to escape from.

“I was taking all these art classes and I realized I hated it,” she said. “It made me hate art, hate the process, I was exhausted all the time, I didn’t have any good ideas. The things like portraiture that I was always good at were coming out bad.”

Trying to decide between art and business as a career focus was not an easy decision for Ho to make. Ho said that each discipline has aspects she loves and aspects she hates, but for her, they have to go hand in hand.

“At the end of the day, a lot of us business majors that are expressionists find that without something to frustrate you, asked to draw a live model with Ho said she finds inspiration located in the Marketplace and research on the rare fish that one there is not much to express,” charcoal on large sheets of paper for her artwork from everyday the Admissions Center. The might find in the depths of the she said. “For me, I really enjoy within the allotted time. And Ho’s things that different people can piece in the Admissions Center ocean,” she said. “I came up with the business world; art is my artistic endeavors don’t end with connect with, but she also likes to depicts a rare deep-sea fish — the idea for the anglerfish and way of relieving that tension and paper — her graphic design work paint animals and ocean scenes. which Ho connects to the way that’s the biggest one, the rest expressing myself and without can also be seen on pamphlets Two of Ho’s paintings have been people interact. are there just to support it — and that first thing, art becomes and emails sent out by the SA. turned into murals, which are “I went and did all this I think there is something about relatively meaningless.”

'MythBuster' Grant Imahara will speak on campus Engineer to discuss career on March 24 Georgia Westbrook Arts & Culture Editor

It’s no urban legend — the Student Association (SA) will be bringing Grant Imahara of “MythBusters” to campus later this month.

Imahara will be speaking on March 24 in Lecture Hall 1 at 6 p.m. and the event will be free for everyone. Amanda Faux, the chair of the SA Insights Committee and a senior majoring in history, said that Imahara — who is also an esteemed engineer — was a popular choice for speakers on the survey sent out earlier this year by the SA. “We’re getting a pretty good response,” Faux said. “He was on our survey and he was pretty well-received.”

Imahara will be talking about his career experiences and will be showing a slideshow during his talk. Faux said she anticipates

that the event will be popular among engineering students.

“It should be very cool,” she said. “We have an engineering school at Binghamton [University], so I foresee a good amount of engineering students as well as anyone who’s seen him from television to be pretty excited.”

Faux said recognizability was key in her choice to pursue Imahara, and Kiran Goveas, an undeclared sophomore, said that he knew Imahara from his role on “MythBusters.”

“I know who he is, it’s a very interesting show,” he said. “I love watching it and I’m excited to hear him speak.”

Imahara is known for his role on the build team of “MythBusters,” but his science background goes beyond the TV show. He received a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California and then worked for George Lucas’ Industrial Light and Magic studio as an animatronics engineer and model maker. Imahara worked

on R2-D2 for the “Star Wars” prequels and also worked on “AI: Artificial Intelligence,” “Galaxy Quest” and the sequels to “The Matrix.”

He was one of the hosts of the “White Rabbit Project” on Netflix, which was similar in premise to “MythBusters,” and played Lieutenant Sulu on the web series, “Star Trek Continues.” Imahara is currently a consultant for Walt Disney Imagineering.

Thomas Horowitz, a freshman majoring in computer science, said he is looking forward to the talk.

"I’ve watched the ‘MythBusters,’ like almost all of the episodes, and it’s an awesome show,” he said. “[Imahara] is a really smart guy and a big part of the team, so I think it’s pretty cool he’s coming.”

Faux said there will be a meet and greet after Imahara’s talk, which will be limited to 30 people. Tickets for the meet and Provided by Gage Skidmore greet will be sold on bingtickets. com, with details to be released The Student Association will be bringing Grant Imahara, an electrical engineer and former cast member of the show “MythBusters,” to speak in Lecture Hall 1 on March 24. in the coming days.

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With new owner, an updated recipe for Old World Deli Jordan Jicha, ’15, took over restaurant in Jan. Nikkolette Sather

Arts & Culture Intern

Old World Deli is under new ownership and is looking to expand its menu with a Create-aSandwich contest.

At first glance, the deli on Court Street may seem like a runof-the-mill sandwich shop. But for new owner Jordan Jicha, ’15, it’s much more.

“Being a native of the Southern Tier, I understand the strength in the community,” Jicha said in a news release. “I am proud to be a member of the Southern Tier and will strive to provide the community the quality food and service it deserves.”

He’s looking to bring something to the area that chain sandwich shops like Subway or Jimmy John’s can’t; he said he values the individual attention and quality each sandwich receives.

Aside from making subs, the restaurant serves up fresh soups, salads and desserts.

Jicha grew up in Conklin, New

York and studied economics at Binghamton University before he took over the management of Old World Deli on Jan. 1 of this year.

“The only major change since my new ownership is that we are open on the weekends now — Friday and Saturday until 4 a.m.,” Jicha said. “We are joining the bar scene here in Downtown Binghamton. We will also be open for brunch on Sundays.”

Jicha got the idea for the Create-a-Sandwich competition from his experience as director of business operations for the Binghamton Rumble Ponies.

“We did a lot of contests there and I always thought it was a cool way to get the community involved in your business,” he said.

“I wondered how I could bring that here and I realized we have sandwiches and people can create their own.”

Anyone in the Southern Tier who is interested in trying their hand at creating a new sandwich is welcome to submit their creation in person at the Old World Deli or online through their Facebook page or their website, bingowd.com.

Cesar Rojas, a 12-year veteran

cook at Old World Deli, said he is excited about the crowds this competition will bring in.

“We have quite a few [recipes for] sandwiches that people have already dropped in the box,” Rojas said. “And starting next week, we’re gonna start making them.

I have definitely seen a lot more people come in because [Jicha] advertised it. That’s one thing the other manager didn’t do.”

The competition began Feb. 28 and will run until April 1. For each week of the contest, one sandwich will be featured in the restaurant and the sandwich that sells the most at the end of the contest will be the overall winner.

The sandwiches will also be judged on their “wow” factor, taste and creativeness.

The winner will be announced on April 2 and the creator of the best-selling sandwich will win a free footlong sandwich each week for a year.

The Create-a-Sandwich contest is just one of the few ways Jicha plans to get Old World Deli more involved in the community. In the past, the deli catered a Super Bowl party for the nonprofit organization Mom’s House in

Nikkolette Sather | Arts & Culture Intern Old World Deli is under new management. Jordan Jicha, ‘15, is mixing up the restaurant’s menu with a Create-aSandwich competition open to the public.

Johnson City, and they plan to support more events like that in the future.

Jicha said his long-term goals for the deli are to create more of a “hangout atmosphere” and eventually open a food truck.

He said his interest in owning Old World Deli came from his past experiences at the deli and his desire to provide a new spot for community members to make memories.

“I have always aspired to stay

in this community and give back, everyone here has such a tightknit bond,” he said. “The cool thing about the restaurant business is that everyone has a story about their own restaurant experience and I wanted to be a part of that.”

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Gerald Herbert, File | AP Photo This Feb. 19, 2018 file photo shows Denyse Christian hugging her son Adin Christian, 16, a student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, at a makeshift memorial outside the school, where 17 students and faculty were killed in a mass shooting in Parkland, Florida.

Rejecting the new normal

We cannot view mass shootings as commonplace Morgan Manganello

Contributing Columnist

Since Columbine, over 150,000 students have experienced a school shooting. For us, the idea of hiding for your life with gunshots around you does not conjure up the image of a war zone the way it did for many of our parents. Instead, it evokes the terrifying vision of a probable reality, one that could take place during a normal day at school.

Growing up as a millennial

means living in constant fear. It means that by the age of 13, all of my friends and I had developed the survival skill of mapping an escape route every time we entered a room.

It means that nearly every show that’s set in a high school features a school shooting episode because it doesn’t feel authentic enough without it. It means that getting ready for school in the morning is equivalent to preparing for battle.

In many ways we were, and still are, preparing for battle when we go out into our everyday lives.

To put this into perspective, the average American has a greater

chance of dying from gun violence in the United States than if they had fought in Iraq. Consequently, going about our normal lives is more deadly than going to a war zone.

Even more specifically, the odds of being killed in a mass shooting are one in 11,125. Although I didn’t come across any statistics providing the likelihood of a student being killed in a school shooting, we can imagine that the chances are quite high.

So, what has been done to protect us — the young, the innocent and the vulnerable?

Absolutely nothing. Time and time

again, our lawmakers have proven to us that the right to own guns and their payments from the National Rifle Association (NRA) are more valuable than our right to life.

We are the successors to a society that has adopted complacency as the default answer to its problems. But we are anything but complacent. We are the trailblazers of change and the welders of America’s future.

For better or worse, we have already dramatically altered the landscape of our home by ushering in a new climate of tolerance and forcing laws into effect that reflect

that atmosphere.

More than any other generation, millennials are self-aware; we realize that our actions have consequences and we act according to which side of history we would like to be on in the textbooks our children will read. Watch the brave Parkland survivors go face to face with congressmen and witness what our “brattiness” can accomplish to create a safer country. When you are the ones being hunted, see how quickly you are willing to throw politeness aside if that means no child ever has to watch their best

friend get gunned down again.

These are our lives being threatened. If no one else is willing to take down the NRA’s hold on our society, then we will. Many complain that we are ignorant snowflakes, but I will be damned if my children fear for their lives every time they attend school. So I will wear that snowflake like a badge of honor because I know that each life is unique and infinitely more valuable than a gun.

— Morgan Manganello is a junior majoring in integrative neuroscience.

The importance of utilizing mental health services College students should take advantage of on-campus care Michael Harel

Guest Columnist

To those reading this who are struggling to get by each day, who can’t seem to make it to class or get their work done on time, who may have difficulty forming meaningful friendships and just feel tired, lost and alone — I urge you to seek out help. We have great mental health services on campus that can help you turn a new leaf.

Even if you never pictured yourself going to therapy, it is worth a shot and can lead to changes you never thought possible.

In the wake of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida,

mental health issues have been further stigmatized, and it is even more important to discuss them.

While it is terrible to ever associate mental illness with murder, the voices advocating for greater mental health care are correct.

I have witnessed how access to care can drastically improve an individual’s life.

As college students, we are vulnerable to mental health issues, and it is important that we are aware of them and have access to care. Most mental illnesses begin during college years, given the many new stressors that college brings. According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, a quarter of 18- to 24-year-olds suffer from some form of mental illness, and in 2009 the American College Health Association

reported that 31.3 percent of college students felt “so depressed that it was difficult to function” at some time over the past year.

These are shocking percentages considering the way mental health is treated in society.

As a result of mental illness developing during college years, students can suffer without understanding the cause. Coupled with an insufficient spread of mental health knowledge, when students begin having feelings such as depression and anxiety, it takes time for them to recognize the issue, then overcome the stigma and reach out for help.

Lauryn Maleski, the president of Active Minds, a club that works to end the stigma against mental illness, and a junior majoring in human development, said of her

experiences in the club: “Some students don’t even recognize they have a problem until they hear others talk openly.”

Even if students realize that they need help, they often do not know where to turn. Maleski says that although she believes many people know about the Binghamton University Counseling Center, most do not know of all the hidden gems it contains, such as group therapy, emergency appointments (between 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. on weekdays) and a new 24-hour phone service. She also said that most students are unaware of the helpful psychiatric services provided by Decker Student Health Services Center and other services provided by the Dean of Students Office and Services for Students with Disabilities.

The stigma surrounding mental health issues also prevents people from reaching out for help when they are struggling. The stigma makes it hard to accept having mental health issues. It also makes it more difficult to talk about hardships and Maleski says this will, in turn, make it much more difficult to seek out resources.

We must do better in spreading awareness of mental health issues, fighting the stigma and marketing on-campus resources. I believe a great way to spread awareness of mental health issues would be to require freshmen to take an online course on mental health before entering BU, to emphasize mental health and how it is often a problem for college students.

This would be a great time to

spread awareness of mental health services on campus as well.

Maleski says we must spread awareness of mental health issues beyond social science majors and talk to people in Greek life, multicultural organizations and other student groups to fight against mental health stigmas.

Mental illness causes so much suffering; the least we can do is lighten the burden. It is a huge issue in the college population and in order for all students to achieve their fullest potential and get the most fulfillment out of their college experience, we must work together to destigmatize mental disorders and spread awareness of issues and treatment options.

— Michael Harel is a junior majoring in political science.

Bridging the gap between on and off campus BU should foster a more united community in Downtown Binghamton Gunnar Jurgensen

Contributing Columnist

Binghamton University is a school where students complain about a lack of spirit and engagement. It is as if a common bond forms between students over complaining about BU, rather than sharing a common love for it. It’s possible that this lack of involvement stems from a disunion between

campus and the party culture of Downtown Binghamton.

Imagine walking out of your dorm room and being within a six-minute walk of your favorite fraternity or bar. Imagine being able to walk to class from your apartment or house and not have to map out a strategic plan of attack to get a parking spot. You don’t have to venture to Happy Valley to see this vision, but instead you can venture up Interstate 81 and see it for yourself at the close-knit college community of SUNY Cortland.

Cortland has an entire college neighborhood that’s just a quick walk from campus and totally dedicated to student life. There, students can walk to campus, restaurants and bars, and host events together, even if one person lives on campus and the other off campus. When I asked my friend who attends Cortland about her experience, she described it as the college ideal. At her house, she’s a two-minute walk to bars on Church Street and a five-minute walk to class on campus. She feels that this proximity fosters a better

DEAR Dear Jessica, My roommate is great — he’s nice, clean and respectful. The only problem I have with him is that he seems to never leave the room! He has a much lighter schedule than I do, and I am the first one to leave in the morning and the last one to get back in the afternoon. I know he has every right to be there, it’s just that sometimes I wish I had one hour of privacy in the room. I’ve tried to ask him if he is interested in joining any clubs or

relationship between students.4 Students at Cortland love going to school there, and constantly show their pride in events like Cortaca. Having a football team would make this more feasible at BU, but what’s a a rowdy Saturday tailgate without a close-knit college community in the first place? Basketball games and other sporting events are everywhere at BU — but when was the last time you went to a basketball game?

It is not the lack of sporting, but rather a lack of collegiate spirit at BU.

Ideally, the surrounding areas of campus would be student houses and apartments, including a “Greek Row,” restaurants and bars, however, that just isn’t possible at BU right now. To supplement, the University should work to ensure students living off campus never really feel like they’re off. They could do this by having more events Downtown, expanding the University Downtown Center and by increasing free transportation to and from BU’s main campus.

School pride seems to be a staple of virtually all college

towns. This seems obvious given that students are around the school of their choice at all times, while also being free from the restraints of living on campus.

In a college town, everywhere is basically campus — just without the babysitting. Even without a football team, BU can still foster pride by fostering a greater sense of college community by bridging the gap between on and off campus.

— Gunnar Jurgensen is a junior majoring in political science.

JESSICA

extracurriculars, but to no avail. 20 minutes to yourself then as well.

What should I do?

It might also help to take a look at your schedules and see if you can One thing you can do to get rearrange your routine to catch time alone is figure out your some alone time. For example, if you roommate’s eating or shower usually do some work in the library schedule. If you know he goes to for a couple hours between classes, dinner every night at 6:30 p.m. but you see that your roommate has like clockwork, then you can eat class at that time, it might be worth a little earlier or a little later and heading back to your dorm for a bit. enjoy a bit of solitude while he’s Finally, I’m glad you acknowledge out. Similarly, if you know he that he does have every right to be showers as soon as he gets up in there, but it can’t hurt to talk to the morning, you know you’ll have him. The direct route is often the

best route. If you explain to him that sometimes you need a little time alone during the week to decompress, he might be understanding and decide to join a club, or study in the lounge for an hour in the evenings. He might not, but it can’t hurt to ask.

My idea for you is a simple pasta and chicken dish! You’ll need: One serving of pasta (found at the Hinman and College-in-theWoods C-Stores) One chicken breast (found at the Simple Servings stations in the dining halls) 1 cup of vegetables (found at the Dear Jessica, salad stations in the dining halls) What is a quick and easy dish to Just boil the pasta as directed on make on the weekends with simple the box. Slice the already-cooked ingredients that can be found on chicken breast into small strips or campus? chunks. You can either saute the

vegetables in a frying pan with a little bit of butter or oil (found in the dining hall, of course), or use the new steam station in the Chenango Champlain Collegiate Center to steam them. You can even get some cheese from the salad bar to sprinkle on top. It might be worth checking out sites like BuzzFeed, which post recipes for microwave meals you can make in your dorm room, though their ingredients might require a trip off campus.

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Women's lacrosse falls in close match to Ohio State BU's three hat tricks not enough to secure victory Samantha Marsh Contributing Writer

Splitting its first six games of the season, the Binghamton women’s lacrosse team was looking to go above .500 against Ohio State on Friday. But despite hat tricks from three Bearcats (34), BU was edged by the Buckeyes (2-4), 14-13.

The hat tricks were recorded by redshirt senior attack Brianne Arthur, senior attack Tiffany Ryan and junior midfielder Rebecca Golderman. Arthur’s three goals on Friday allowed her to become the team’s current high-scoring player alongside senior midfielder Jacqueline Kennedy, with 14 goals

to each player’s name. Golderman totaled five points during Friday’s game, bringing her to a total of 18 points on the season.

“I thought [Arthur, Ryan and Golderman] did a nice job executing the game plan when it came to shot placement,” said BU head coach Stephanie Allen.

The Buckeyes were the first on the board, but the Bearcats answered promptly with a goal of their own. This exchange of scores occurred again — Ohio State scored, then Binghamton answered. OSU rallied once more, but instead of BU responding with a goal, the Buckeyes tacked on three more to the scoreboard.

However, BU did not let Ohio State’s run lessen its morale and the half concluded with the score at 7-7, with Kennedy, junior midfielder Ciara Gordon,

graduate student attack Callon Williams, Arthur, Golderman and Ryan leading BU’s attack.

“We certainly showed a lot of resiliency in the game,” Allen said.

The Bearcats headed into the second half ready to compete, opening with back-to-back goals netted by Ryan and Golderman.

This put Binghamton up 9-7, giving BU its first advantage of the game. But the lead was shortlived as OSU netted two goals of its own. After a few more minutes of play, the Buckeyes found the back of the net two more times, pushing the score to 11-9.

Goals by Arthur, Golderman and freshman attack Paige Volkmann were not enough for Binghamton to claim the win.

The Bearcats, down by one with five minutes left in the game,

were not able to find the back of the net, and ultimately took a close 14-13 loss.

“Our discipline on both sides of the ball with our possessions on the offensive side and unnecessary turnovers or empty possessions certainly hurt us in the second half,” Allen said.

Despite three consecutive defeats, the Bearcats are still prepared to compete for their next win.

“Our girls don’t ever lose sight of their goal,” Allen said.

“We’re focused, and they’ll have the weekend off to recover from a physical standpoint, and we’ll be ready to go come Monday.”

The Bearcats are set to face Marist on Saturday. Opening faceoff is scheduled for 1 p.m. from Tenney Stadium at Leonidoff Field in Poughkeepsie, New York.

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BU opens spring season Golf travels to Nevada to play in Jackrabbit Invitational Justin Zion

Sports Intern

After nearly five months of waiting, the Binghamton golf team was back in action this weekend at the Jackrabbit Invitational in Boulder City, Nevada.

Posting a collective score of 41 over par over three rounds, the team finished in 10th place out of 15 teams in its first invitational since October.

“We definitely have some rust to shake off,” said BU head coach Bernie Herceg. “Overall I think we competed pretty well, considering we’ve been indoors until then. It was great to see some of the guys put up some really nice numbers.”

Freshman Nacho Glagovsky led the Bearcats on the individual leaderboard, finishing with a score of plus-seven on 223 shots in a tie for 36th place.

Sophomore Ryan Rodriguez was right behind him at eight over par and tied for 41st place overall. Each posted relatively consistent scores throughout the weekend, with neither taking more than 76 shots in any given round.

Although the team was rusty to start, the Bearcats improved as the invitational progressed. The first two rounds of the 72-par course, taking place on Friday, March 9, saw the Bearcats struggle.

Junior Zak Ottman double-bogeyed two of his first three holes of the day, while freshman Justin Lane failed to birdie a single hole in the first round. By the end of the day, the Bearcats were already 33 shots over par.

On Saturday, however, the Bearcats were able to turn things around.

Rodriguez turned in his best round of the weekend, a 73, while Glagovsky managed to recover from an early quadruple bogey to finish at 74. The top performer of the day for Binghamton was Lane, who achieved an even 72 in the final round, the best round by a Bearcat all weekend.

“As each round progresses here in the spring season early on, we’re shaking off more and more rust,” Herceg said. “They’re getting a little bit more comfortable getting back in the competition. It was good to see in the last round how they improved.”

Taking the first spot in the invitational was UNLV. Entering the final round in third, the Rebels collectively earned a stellar final round of 25 below par to charge past Nevada and UCLA to take the victory. Freshman Devon Bling of UCLA topped the individual leaderboard with a total score of minus-15.

The Jackrabbit Invitational was the first of six scheduled events for the golf team in the spring season. Unlike most of Binghamton University’s athletic programs, the golf team is a member of the Big Sky Conference, and the Bearcats’ schedule builds up to the Big Sky Championships at the end of April, which will be played on the same course as the Jackrabbit Invitational.

“It was very beneficial for us to learn the course a little bit more,” Herceg said. “More rounds on the course are definitely going to help us for the end of April. That was definitely one of our goals.”

The Bearcats also stand to gain from a brand-new practice facility that opened up over the winter. Located in the West Gym, the indoor facility allows the team to practice chipping and putting during the cold months of the year in the Southern Tier.

“This is something that we’ve been working on for a few years now, because it’s something that’s needed for the players,” Herceg said. “When you’re in the offseason up here in the Northeast, you need something to work on your short game … to be able to work on our short game fundamentals in the offseason, we’re just going to be that much more well-prepared.”

The Bearcats’ spring season is set to continue later this month at the C&F Bank Intercollegiate, hosted by William & Mary. The event is scheduled to begin on Sunday, March 25 and runs through Tuesday, March 27 in Williamsburg, Virginia.

Rebecca Kiss | Assistant Photo Editor Redshirt senior attack Sean Gilroy scored a game-winning goal during the second overtime of Binghamton’s match against Delaware this past weekend.

Men's lacrosse earns first victory of 2018 Bearcats take down Delaware in double overtime Yaakov Spivack

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In the Binghamton men’s lacrosse team’s home game against Delaware on Saturday, the two teams traded leads until the Bearcats (1-6) finally won in the second overtime period. This victory marked the end of this team’s six-game losing streak that began in the season opener.

“It was our decision to dictate how we wanna play,” said BU head coach Kevin McKeown. “In past games, I don’t think we had done that. We didn’t come out ready to compete as a team. I think today we competed as a team … we played hard, but we didn’t just play hard, we played smart. It was great to see the guys put it together.”

The first period began with Delaware

(3-3) first taking the advantage, posting two goals in just over eight minutes played. The Bearcats responded to this before the period’s end, however, with two goals from redshirt senior attack Sean Gilroy.

Just a few seconds into the second period, freshman attack Sean Makar scored another goal for the Bearcats.

The Blue Hens responded one minute later, netting a goal of their own. Both teams moved the ball around for several minutes, making numerous unfruitful attempts to score. The period concluded once again in a tie, this time at 3-3.

Delaware scoring three unanswered goals to start the second half, propeling it to a sizable lead. Yet two BU scores from senior midfielder Stephen Petrelli and junior midfielder Joe Licata, respectively, brought the Bearcats to within one.

Just 15 seconds into the fourth period, the Blue Hens scored another goal to push the scoring margin to two. A few minutes later, Binghamton countered

with a goal from freshman attack William Talbott-Shere. As the match was coming to its close, it seemed that Delaware was primed to capture the win. With 14 seconds left in the period, TalbottShere scored again for the Bearcats, tying the game as the crowd roared with applause. BU went on to win the following faceoff but was unable to score in time as the game headed into its first overtime period.

During the initial overtime, Delaware took control of the faceoff, but was denied access to the crease due to a save from redshirt sophomore goalie Kevin Carbone. Now with possession, BU quickly turned the ball over. In the waning minutes, the Blue Hens also turned it over and the Bearcats were left with the ball as the clock struck zero.

In the second and final overtime, Delaware once again won the faceoff.

Unable to translate control of the ball into a goal, BU acquired possession and

Gilroy rifled a shot past Delaware’s goalie to power Binghamton to its first victory of the season.

“It took six games,” Gilroy said.

“But we’ve been working really hard in practice this past week … to get a win today and prove that we could play good lacrosse through four quarters, and we got a win.”

This game was the first time that Carbone joined the starting lineup, and he has taken advantage of the opportunity. Carbone finished the day with 14 saves, including several that came at critical points.

“I’ve been waiting 2 1/2 years for this,” Carbone said. “I’ve been patient and ready for this for a while. I was pretty excited, but maybe a little nervous at the same time. But it felt good to go out there.”

The Bearcats are set to face UMass Lowell at home this Saturday. Opening faceoff is scheduled for 1 p.m. from the Bearcats Sports Complex in Vestal, New York.

Binghamton swept by VCU on the road Pitching struggles as BU collects fifth straight defeat

after losing two close games, 3-1 and 2-1, they were blown out in the third game, 18-3.

“Truth be told, we just have to play Julian Guevara better,” said BU head coach Tim Sinicki.

Pipe Dream Sports “We didn’t play as well as we are capable of this past weekend. We were down a The Binghamton baseball team couple starters who were out with injury continued to struggle this past weekend. but that’s no excuse.”

The Bearcats (3-9) traveled to VCU and BU had trouble finding a timely

hit in the first game of Saturday’s doubleheader. Binghamton outhit VCU (8-8) eight to seven, but also left eight men on base.

The Bearcats had the opposite problem in the second game of the weekend series. VCU took a no-hitter into the eighth inning against BU. After over seven hitless innings, redshirt sophomore infielder Alex Baratta gave Binghamton its first hit with a one-out single to left field.

“I thought we pitched pretty well this weekend up until yesterday’s ballgame,” Sinicki said. “We have not done a great job getting guys in from third base with less than two outs — we have to do a better job there.”

The rest of the Bearcats did not have as much luck, as they were struck out 11 times in the second game of the series. Baratta’s hit ended up being Binghamton’s only hit of the game.

“Defensively we’ve been okay, but we have to clean some things up,” Sinicki said. “There’s no one area that is really outperforming another, so we have to get better in all different areas of the game. Our base running has been erratic as well.”

As one of Binghamton’s lone bright spots of the weekend, sophomore relief pitcher Ben Anderson came in and got the job done for BU on Friday. The 6-foot3-inch right-hander threw three innings of no-hit baseball to keep Binghamton in the first game; unfortunately, the offense couldn’t hold up its end of the bargain and the team dropped the opener 3-1.

“When you pitch and the offense isn’t scoring a lot of runs, you feel like you Jonathan Flores | Pipe Dream Photographer have to go out there and be perfect,” Sinicki said. “Every run that you give Junior starting pitcher Nick Gallagher surrendered five earned runs in three innings during an 18-3 loss to VCU. up makes a comeback that much more

difficult, so we have to be better than that, we have to be able to put that aside.”

Pitching does not appear to be the central problem for BU. Senior Nick Wegmann recorded a quality outing, allowing just one earned run off six hits in 6.0 innings of work to kick off the doubleheader, despite the 2-1 defeat.

“As a pitcher, you can only do the things that you can control, and you can’t control what your offense or defense behind you is doing,” Sinicki said. “All you can do is try to keep their team at bay and it just got away from us a little bit in game three.”

However, the result of the second game in the doubleheader displayed the immense fatigue that this pitching staff is under, since allowing only five runs over two games is strenuous.

The offensive struggles have begun to negatively affect the pitching staff.

After dropping the first two games of the series, BU jumped out to an early 2-1 lead in the top half of the fourth.

The fourth inning was also a rallying cry for the Rams, who scored seven runs to open up an 8-2 lead early on.

Binghamton’s overall fatigue was also made apparent in the field. The Bearcats committed four errors in the third game while VCU was credited with 21 hits, six of which came off of junior starting pitcher Nick Gallagher in three innings pitched. The Rams ultimately swept BU in the three-game series with the score of the final game reading 18-3.

Binghamton is set to return to the diamond this weekend. The Bearcats are scheduled to start America East play with a three-game series at Stony Brook. Their first game is scheduled for noon on Saturday from Joe Nathan Field in Stony Brook, New York.