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Tercero to face murder charges DA says Tercero strangled Anderson, issues warrant Sasha Hupka News Editor

Orlando Tercero, the 22-year-old suspect in the homicide of Binghamton University student Haley Anderson, has been charged with second-degree murder.

Provided by National Nicaraguan Police Orlando Tercero.

At a press conference on Saturday morning, Broome County District Attorney Steve Cornwell said the Binghamton City Court has issued a warrant for Tercero’s arrest. Tercero is suspected of killing Anderson, a fellow 22-year-old nursing student at BU, and fleeing to Nicaragua on an international flight. He was apprehended Tuesday at the Hospital de León and received medical attention for self-inflicted injuries, the Nicaragua National Police said in a press statement.

Cornwell said there is no definitive timeline on when Tercero could return to New York, but the U.S. Department of State is working with the Nicaraguan government on extradition. Tercero has dual citizenship in the United States and Nicaragua. In New York, he faces 15 years to life behind bars.

“There is never a guarantee, but at this point and in the future, we are

going to do everything we can to make sure that he returns,” Cornwell said. “[It’s] up to diplomatic efforts, it’s up to Nicaraguan authorities, but it could be as soon as a plane ride to Texas or Florida, or as long as it takes, but he will be back in the United States at some point.”

In a letter written on Thursday to U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan, U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer urged the U.S. Department of State to make the case a top priority.

“I understand that, while we have an extradition treaty with Nicaragua, there are challenges to achieving this vital objective due to Nicaraguan law,” the letter read. “But we are not without considerable diplomatic and other leverage in our relationship with Nicaragua, and — given the gravity of this situation and the urgent need to provide justice to Haley Anderson and all who knew and loved her — all available levers of influence and persuasion should be employed to secure Mr. Tercero’s prompt extradition.”

Cornwell also released new details on the case. According to Cornwell, several of Anderson’s roommates found her body on Friday at 23 Oak St., a student residence on Binghamton’s West Side, after becoming concerned about her welfare. Police responded to the scene at 12:53 p.m. Anderson, a senior majoring in nursing from Westbury, New York, did not reside in the house. Her death was officially declared a homicide following an autopsy performed Saturday, March 10 at Lourdes Hospital in Binghamton.

According to Cornwell, Anderson was strangled. He declined to release a motive because of the ongoing investigation.

“When Haley’s friends found her unresponsive in the apartment they dialed 911,” Cornwell said.

“Binghamton police responded

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Victor Skormin, a professor in electrical engineering, responded to a Listserv email from the National Society of Black Engineers on Wednesday, asking for about a society for “white engineers.”

Administration condemns email Professor apologizes for offensive reply Jillian Forstadt

Assistant News Editor

Everybody on the electrical and computer engineering graduate Listserv got an email Wednesday morning promoting the National Society of Black Engineer’s club fundraiser at Outback Steakhouse.

Everybody on the Listserv also got professor Victor Skormin’s response.

“Please let me know about a dinner of the National Society of White Engineers,” Skormin wrote in the email.

“Thank you.”

The email has since been called inappropriate

by Binghamton University students, faculty and administration.

Douglas Summerville, professor and chair of the computer and electrical engineering department, sent an email at 3 p.m. on the same day to students in the electrical and computer engineering program.

“Earlier this afternoon a potentially offensive reply to an email message promoting a National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) fundraising event was sent to all ECE graduate students,” Summerville wrote. “Safeguards should have been in place to prevent unauthorized use of that medium for anything but official department communications.”

Although the email did

not address Skormin, a distinguished service professor of electrical and computer engineering, by name, it said his language is not representative of the department.

“The language that appeared in that email is contrary to the values of the department and would never be tolerated in any department venue,” Summerville wrote. “We strive to foster a respectful and educational environment at all times. The department is committed to diversity among its faculty, staff and students and I sincerely apologize for this unfortunate breach of that commitment.”

BU President Harvey Stenger and Provost Donald Nieman issued a joint statement on Thursday condemning

Skormin’s comment and voicing their support for NSBE. “Clearly, this is neither the level of professionalism that we expect from members of the Binghamton University community nor is it compatible with the University’s commitment to diversity and inclusion,” the statement read.

In his email, Summerville stressed that the department is taking steps to ensure that this will not happen again. Many, however, feel that this incident is not isolated.

While she was taken aback by the comment, Siaki TettehNartey, a member of NSBE and a senior majoring in computer engineering, said she was not surprised to see inappropriate

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Active Minds raises over $5,400 Undergraduates to vote on activity fee Walk brings awareness about eating disorders

SA holds referendum on required semesterly fee

Yuri Lee

Assistant News Editor

Anorexia has the highest mortality rate of any mental illness, according to statistics read at Binghamton University’s first National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) Walk on Sunday.

A crowd of roughly 100 students, families and dogs gathered in Old Dickinson Community to raise awareness and funds for NEDA. NEDA, a nonprofit organization that helps fight against eating disorders, has almost 90 scheduled walks this year aimed to provide resources for individuals and their families that are struggling with illnesses, including anorexia and bulimia.

The walk was hosted by Active Minds at BU, a mental health organization that aims to de-stigmatize mental health issues on campus and in local communities.

Radhika Gogna, a junior majoring in psychology and the events coordinator of Active Minds, said she wanted

Hannah Walter

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Mia Katz | Staff Photographer Students, faculty and families walk around Binghamton University’s campus on Sunday afternoon to help raise awareness for individuals battling eating disorders.

to bring the NEDA Walk to the University to show support and awareness for students battling eating disorders.

“It’s really easy to feel alone in a campus like this, so I think it’s important to show the campus that if you’re going through this, if someone you know is going through this,

you’re not alone,” Gogna said.

According to NEDA’s Collegiate Survey Project, only about 13 percent of universities nationwide use mental health services to help students suffering from mental illness. According to Brendan Graney, a senior majoring in Arabic studies and

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a member of Active Minds, this demonstrates a real need to increase awareness on college campuses, where eating disorders are often widespread.

“During this age, [in the] demographic of college students, it’s so prevalent that

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Every semester, undergraduate students at Binghamton University are required to pay a $99 student activity fee to the Student Association, but an upcoming referendum vote could make the fee optional next fall.

The Student Association (SA) uses the activity fee to fund Harpur’s Ferry student ambulance, Off Campus College Transport (OCCT), concerts, lectures and over 300 student groups on campus. The vote on the fee occurs every two years, as required

by SUNY Board of Trustees Policy 3901, and will be attached to the SA election ballot on Tuesday, March 20.

Harry Bittker, a junior majoring in political science and chair of the SA Election Committee, said making the fee voluntary would likely end all large-scale programming, raise ticket prices for students and eliminate many on-campus jobs.

“The student activity fee is 100 percent allocated to and managed by the Student Association, adding up to a roughly $2.7 million annual

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budget,” Bittker wrote in an email.

“This fee covers the costs of essential services, extracurriculars and Spring Fling and other programming.”

According to students at Harpur’s Ferry and OCCT, making the fee optional could eliminate their funding.

Stephen Baumgarten, chief and executive director of Harpur’s Ferry and a second-year graduate student studying public administration and teaching, said the money his organization receives from the SA supports over 98 percent of their budget.

“That includes funding our vehicle fleet, maintaining our equipment, ensuring we are in compliance with [New York State] Department of Health regulations surrounding EMS operations,” Baumgarten wrote in an email. “Harpur’s Ferry could be seriously vulnerable if this referendum passes. If the student activity fee were optional, then we would be at the mercy of those who wanted to pay and who did not.”

Glenell Jaquez, OCCT’s public relations coordinator and a firstyear graduate student studying accounting, said the student activity fee becoming optional could affect

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Putting a divided masterpiece back together in University Art Museum exhibition,

Assistant professor William Culverhouse celebrates diversity in choir groups,

Contributing columnist Georgia Kerkezis argues for the adoption of a circular economy,

Softball swept at St. John’s Invitational,

Schneider and Garcia each go 1-2 at NCAA Championship,

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Society of Black Engineers urges dialogue following email EMAIL FROM PAGE 1 language coming from a professor.

According to Tetteh-Nartey, organizations like NSBE were created in response to exclusion in the engineering community.

“If you look at the history of why these organizations were started, it was because we weren’t welcome to these regular engineering establishments,” Tetteh-Nartey said. “That’s why we had national societies for black engineers, Hispanic engineers,

woman engineers. It’s because the industry norms did not allow us or make us feel welcomed.”

This semester, Skormin is the only professor teaching EECE 361: Control Systems, which is a major requirement for students majoring in electrical engineering, and EECE 517: Adaptive Control Systems.

He is set to retire next year.

According to Anna Domagala, a senior majoring in electrical engineering and former student of Skormin’s, the professor

is known for intermittently discussing his conservative values in class, particularly on issues like President Donald Trump and minorities in the United States.

“He would always make awful comments in class and would always have the worst attitude, not even toward the students, but toward society in general,” Domagala said. “You’re supposed to feel safe in class.

It’s not supposed be that kind of environment.”

On Friday evening, Skormin

sent an apology to everyone on the electrical and computer engineering graduate student Listserv, stating that his reply was not done under his “best judgment.”

“I left room for the misinterpretation of the statement, and consequently the statement was grossly misplaced,” Skormin wrote in the email.

“I did not intend to offend any of my past, present or future student recipients, nor any of my colleagues. Please rest assured

that the impact of the message did not reflect my intent. To any and all who have been in receipt of the email, please accept my personal and professional apologies.”

He also remarked on the nature of his humor, which he said is meant to increase students’ attentiveness in class.

“As the subject I teach is not an easy one, I often make funny and sarcastic statements,” Skormin wrote. “People who know me personally, can testify that such statements are never offensive,

sometimes funny, and the most important, do enhance the learning experience.”

While many students have called for Skormin to be fired, Tetteh-Nartey said coordinating a conversation between the professor and his supervisors on race and appropriateness might be more productive.

“If he gets fired, he gets scorned by a ‘hyper-politically correct university’ and he just has his bias, he’s going to continue on,” Tetteh-Nartey said.

Students compete in National Geographic challenge Geology majors vie for $25K research grant Valerie Oppenheim Contributing Writer

Thousands of students applied for National Geographic’s Chasing Genius in January 2017. Now, the competition has 10 finalists — one of which is a team of two Binghamton University students.

Jasper Baur, a sophomore, and William Frazer, a junior, both majoring in geology, made it to the final 10 in the competition for their technology involving land mine detection.

Baur and Frazer’s idea focuses on creating technology that would be able to detect land mines put in place as a military tactic in countries such as Afghanistan.

Even after a conflict has ended, land mines are often left in these areas, negatively affecting the lives of civilians who live there.

“Our idea is to detect plastic land mines using thermal infrared sensing,” Baur said.

“This is different because these are basically undetectable as of now, and this technology allows us to actually find plastic mines and there are around 10 million of them in Afghanistan currently.”

The national competition, hosted by National Geographic and Sprint, allows people to submit innovative ideas that highlight the ways in which technology can be used to change the world for the better.

The finalists are determined by the Chasing Genius Council

Kevin Paredes | Photography Editor Junior William Frazer and sophomore Jasper Baur, both majoring in geology, are one of 10 teams competing for a $25,000 research grant through National Geographic’s Chasing Genius challenge.

and the winner is determined by popularity — people vote online for their favorite ideas.

Winners take home $25,000 in prize money to develop and carry out their project. According to Baur and Frazer, they would use the money to purchase better

equipment to find land mines more precisely. Timothy de Smet, a geospatial remote sensing research educator at BU, said winning the prize money could allow Baur and Frazer to conduct research on a large scale.

“We could actually complete

this project for $25,000 and have real, tangible results and actually help people,” said de Smet. “I think projects like this show how applicable geophysics is to the real world.”

Baur said the idea to focus on land mines stemmed from

a research stream for the Freshman Research Initiative, where Baur was working with postwar artifacts, which led him to this idea of creating better detection technology. For Baur, the humanitarian application is part of what has caused him

to keep moving forward with the project.

“What’s motivated me is really that the civilians that are injured,” Baur said. “There’s thousands of fatalities every year, mainly children, which is really sad because they confuse the mines with toys.”

Alex Nikulin, an assistant professor of geology at BU, is helping Baur and Frazer to develop their project. According to Nikulin, the ability to carry out the project as undergraduate students sets Baur and Frazer apart.

“I think what separates our students is that their idea not only is novel and innovative, but it’s also feasible and applicable,” Nikulin said. “What they’ve done is they’ve taken this idea and this technology and converted it into a platform that actually delivers a result that has not been delivered before.”

Frazer said even if they do not win the competition, he wants to continue working on the project.

“We’ve been exploring different outlets for funding,” he said. “No matter what happens with this funding, I’m just thinking about continuing to move forward with this project because I truly believe in it and it’s a way that I can both develop some skills but more importantly, make an impact.”

Voting for the Chasing Genius competition can be done through its website once a day, every day until voting closes. The winner will be revealed once voting has concluded on March 20.

Greek life volunteers locally Tercero charged with murder Members give back after 'Fake Parade Day' death

fraternity and a junior doublemajoring in classical and Near Eastern studies and anthropology, said there is a need for alternative events to Parade Day, and this Erin Kagel Pipe Dream News is an important opportunity for Greek life to better its Following a slew of student relationship with the University deaths and harmful hazing and the community. practices, many colleges “It didn’t just start last year,” across the nation have been Maurer said. “Any time people questioning what benefits Greek talk about Parade Day in years life organizations bring to their communities over the past several years.

Binghamton University is no different. This time last year, a “Fake Parade Day” celebration ended tragically when student Conor Donnelly, 18, lost his life at a fraternity party on Binghamton’s West Side.

In memory of Donnelly, the Panhellenic and Interfraternity councils committed to making a positive impact in the Binghamton community this year by organizing a day of Ashley Rottkamp, service for all social sororities and President of the fraternities on campus.

Students gathered in Lecture Panhellenic Council Hall on Saturday at 9 a.m. and were divided into groups that past, it was always this hype visited sites around the city and around the idea that people wake areas on campus to give back. up crazy early in the morning, Off-campus sites included the start drinking heavily and then Broome County Humane Society, all go Downtown to fraternity Willow Point Rehabilitation and houses before going to the bars.

Nursing Center and public parks. And that put a longtime strain on Students on campus wrote letters everything, whether it be between to sick children, veterans and the city and the University or the soldiers, made emergency kits for city and Greek life.” the homeless and crafted dog toys According to Maurer, he and for local animal shelters.

Ashley Rottkamp, president of the Yitzhak Maurer, the president Panhellenic Council, a member of the Interfraternity Council, a of Phi Mu sorority and a junior member of the Alpha Epsilon Pi double-majoring in accounting

“We want to show that we are so much more than just people who have mixers”

and psychology, brought the idea of a day of service to their respective councils. Brett Dowler, the vice president of service for the Interfraternity Council, a member of the Tau Alpha Upsilon fraternity and a sophomore majoring in integrative neuroscience, said the event was met with great support from members of both councils.

“Basically, after all [Interfraternity Council] and Panhellenic presidents voted to do it, they told their chapters that and we had a lot more people sign up than we were expecting,” Dowler said. “Over 800 signed up — we were expecting 500.”

Victoria Roldan, a sophomore majoring in human development and a member of the Sigma Delta Tau sorority, said she volunteered on campus and was happy to give back to the community.

“It’s early in the morning, but once I was up, I realized these people need help,” Roland said.

“It made me feel better knowing that I’m helping people who need help.”

Rottkamp said she felt the event helped showcase what makes Greek life important at BU. “We want to show that we are so much more than just people who have mixers,” Rottkamp said. “We do so many amazing community service things, we raise so much money for such amazing organizations and we really do put so much time and effort into our sisterhood as Panhellenic [Council] and I think that we really show that there is so much more to us than just being a sorority and hanging out.”

TERCERO FROM PAGE 1 immediately and determined that Haley was deceased and they immediately began a suspicious death investigation. It was confirmed that Haley died as a result of strangulation while at the residence of Orlando Tercero.”

Currently, Tercero is being held in the Directorate of Judicial Assistance, a prison also know as El Chipote, in Managua, Nicaragua.

“The National Police received a request from U.S. authorities for the location and capture of the delinquent Orlando Enrique Tercero Moreno, 22 years old, who [entered] Nicaragua on Friday, March 9 at 3:55 p.m. from the

U.S.,” Díaz said.

Tercero has hired an attorney, and will be represented by Michael Bachner, a criminal defense lawyer in New York City.

“Orlando is presently now being detained in Nicaragua, subject to further investigation,” Bachner said.

Tercero had been romantically involved with Anderson and left the United States before her body was discovered, according to police.

“This incident and the circumstances of the death [were] not a random act or involving the conduct of a stranger,” a statement from BPD 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 Office, the Federal Bureau of Investigation — Binghamton, New York/New Jersey HIDTA Program Resources, the Port Authority Police Department of New York and New Jersey and the Nassau County Police Department.

Campus walks for NEDA WALK FROM PAGE 1 really any awareness in any way that we can help fight it is worth it,” Graney said.

The walk raised over $5,400.

According to Amy Enright, a registered dietitian for Upstate New York Eating Disorder Service and one of the speakers at the walk, funding for eating disorders is normally very lacking.

“Funding for research for eating disorders is very low, at 93 cents per person that are diagnosed with an eating disorder in comparison for every 88 dollars for people with autism,” Enright said. “So I

think NEDA does a good job of increasing research efforts and educating and increasing awareness of eating disorders within populations.”

Other activities at the walk included a performance by a cappella group No Strings Attached, a speech from Enright and a personal testimony by Thérèse Boyle, a senior majoring in psychology.

Snehith Abraham, a junior majoring in accounting and a participant at the walk, said he chose to attend the event because eating disorders have affected those close to him.

“I have friends who have had eating disorders,” Abraham said.

“It’s nice to know that people are finally coming out and saying how hard it’s been for them. So if I can support that, I’m going to support it. Whatever I can do, I’ll do to help.”

Gogna, who also spoke at the event, said her experience with her eating disorder has made her a stronger person.

“I was afraid that I would never go back to my old self,” Gogna said. “And that’s true.

I’m never going to be the same person I was before my eating disorder. I’m different. And different isn’t always a bad thing.

I’m stronger now, I’m more confident in myself and I’m more resilient.”

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“We need good people in office — people who are actually human and have an ounce of empathy. It’s hilarious because it’s ridiculous. They’re only proving our point that there are so many bad politicians out there. We almost let somebody that would say something like that win and run unopposed.”

The Iraq War begins as the United States and coalition forces from the United Kingdom invade — David Hogg, a student survivor of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida, on Leslie Gibson, a Republican candidate for the Maine State House who dropped out of the Iraq without the support of the United Nations. race on Friday after calling Emma González, another student survivor, a “skinhead lesbian” and Hogg a The war would continue for the next seven years. “moron” and a “baldfaced liar” on Twitter.

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Chenango Town Supervisor dies at 78

Assemblywoman pushes to legalize medical marijuana for pets

Chenango Town Supervisor Harold Snopek died unexpectedly on March 16, according to WBNG. Snopek was 78 and is survived by his wife, two daughters, several grandchildren and several great-grandchildren. Before becoming town supervisor, Snopek served as a member of the Chenango Town Board and was a car salesman.

A New York assemblywoman introduced legislation on Thursday that would make it legal for veterinarians to prescribe marijuana to pets, according to the Press & Sun-Bulletin. Assemblywoman Amy Paulin of Westchester County said marijuana could help with pain management in animals. In 2016, New York legalized medical marijuana for humans; however, Gov. Andrew Cuomo has been reluctant thus far to expand the medical marijuana program.

Home catches fire in Endwell A fire erupted in a house in Endwell on Thursday afternoon, according to WBNG. Police responded to the fire at 3654 Watson Blvd. around 5 p.m. No injuries were reported, according to the Broome County Sheriff’s Office. The fire is believed to have begun in the utility room of the home’s garage.

The following accounts were provided by Investigator Patrick Reilly of Binghamton’s New York State University Police.

Window smoking TUESDAY, March 13, 6:34 p.m. — Officers responded to a drug complaint at Delaware Hall of Newing College.

Upon arriving outside the hall, they noticed an odor of burnt tobacco and a faint odor of marijuana. They interviewed a 20-year-old male who lived near the location of the smell and the male admitted to smoking cigarettes by the window of his dorm room. Officers Tractor-trailer carrying cattle could not smell marijuana involved in car accident in the room. The male was informed of Binghamton A truck carrying cattle was involved in University’s tobacco-free a pileup while traveling eastbound on campus policy and was warned Interstate 86 on Friday night, according about the dangers of smoking in the to the Press & Sun-Bulletin. There were building. about 35 cows being transported and three were killed in the accident. Both Graffiti at Binghamton Review lanes were shut down following the THURSDAY, March 15, 12:09 p.m. — UPD was accident, and traffic was restricted to called to University Union West after graffiti were one lane on Saturday. posted on the Binghamton Review’s bulletin board.

The suspect had written a political statement

Corrections In the March 15 issue of Pipe Dream, the news article “SA Elections: The Candidates” included three answers from Andy Jean-Baptiste, candidate for vice president for multicultural affairs, which were misprinted with answers from Kevin Darrell, candidate for vice president for finance. Additionally, the article reported Michelle Dao, candidate for executive vice president, received endorsements from every community except Dickinson Community. This was incorrect, as Hinman College also declined to endorse any candidate for the position. Pipe Dream regrets the errors.

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in permanent marker on the board. Through investigation, officers determined the suspect was also a suspect in another ongoing investigation regarding large quantities of copies of the Binghamton Review being thrown away since October 2017. An 18-year-old male suspect was identified and charged for the graffiti. He was also referred to Student Conduct for the larceny of Binghamton Review papers.

Learnin’ history THURSDAY, March 15, 1:46 p.m. — A 46-year-old female reported a larceny on the seventh floor of the Library Tower. According to the female, the suspect took 15 U.S. history books from the history department’s display case, which had been locked. Most professors in the department require students to purchase these books for their classes. The female said the history department previously sent an email to the department’s Listserv asking the suspect to return the books if they had borrowed them, but had not received a response. The case is still under investigation, and anybody with information about the missing textbooks should contact UPD.

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Students take headshots at the Start-Up Nation Technology Fair in Old Union Hall on Thursday evening.

Start-Up Nation Fair comes to campus Students network with Israeli technology companies Jacob Kerr

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Israel has the largest venture-capital industry per capita in the world and is known for its high-tech startups in cities like Tel Aviv. On Thursday, 10 of those startups came to Old Union Hall at Binghamton University’s first Start-Up Nation Technology Fair.

Start-Up Nation Technology Fair, a national campaign organized by the Hasbara Fellowship and Israel Ideas, works with student groups to organize events at college campuses across the country. According to Haley Silverstein, program coordinator for the Start-Up Nation Technology Fair, the campaign

aims to exhibit technologies and innovations coming from Israel and helps connect students with these companies, giving them a platform to network to explore internship opportunities. At the University, the fair was co-sponsored by several campus groups, including the Office of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Partnerships, the Fleishman Center for Career and Professional Development and Hillel at Binghamton.

The campaign’s spring 2018 tour has made stops at several schools in the Northeast, including Stony Brook University, New York University and Cornell University, and is scheduled to visit many more, according to the organization’s website. At BU’s fair, students networked with companies like Pruvo, a business that monitors hotel price drops after reservations are made, and Vikki Academy, which takes

academic papers and transforms them into two-minute animated videos.

Nofar Sinai, a co-founder of Vikki Academy, said she came to the University to find talented students to work with her.

“There are many options for bright, brilliant students from here to help us as a startup,” Sinai said. “I want to use the students’ ambition and brain to collaborate with us.”

Entrepreneurs Yisrael Gross, cofounder of L7 Defense; Itzik Yushuvaev, business developer for HelloRented; and Doron Nadivi, the chief marketing officer of Pruvo, participated in the event’s innovation panel discussion, where students were able to ask questions about starting a business and working at a startup.

During the panel, Yeshuvaev said startups often offer unique opportunities

and responsibilities for young employees because of their small size, which differentiates them from established companies. Additionally, startups are more likely to offer opportunities to younger students who lack experience.

“With an internship at a startup, there’s a chance for much more responsibilities and experience, something you just don’t get with the big corporations,” Yeshuvaev said.

For students like Julia Leavitt, a freshman majoring in business administration, the fair was a chance to network directly with potential employers in hopes of finding an international summer internship.

“I attended the fair because I thought it would be a great networking opportunity and to help me find an internship over the summer,” Leavitt wrote in an email.

the number of buses running and OCCT’s ability to pay drivers and managers for their work.

“We pay for all of the bus parts ourselves,” Jaquez said. “It’s not the University. That funding comes from there. Our cleaners, our gas. It’s everything.”

However, Samuel Garcia, a freshman majoring in electrical engineering, said he does not use these services and is not a member of any SA-sponsored group.

According to Garcia, because of this, he does not feel the benefit of the expense and would choose to opt out of paying the fee.

“I don’t really participate in any events that are included in the fee,” Garcia said.

“I feel like I don’t need to pay for it, so I shouldn’t. If it’s optional, I feel like that’s a better way of going about it because to some students that [money] means a lot to them and they have to pay that. It can take from their budget or whatever they really need that money for.”

Bianca Grant, a senior majoring in philosophy, politics and law, said she wants the fee to remain mandatory because it sponsors so many services at BU. “I don’t mind paying for that stuff,” Grant said. “I use the bus all the time. I use Harpur’s Ferry. It’s for a good cause.”

Libby Aliberti, SA vice president for programming and a senior majoring in biology, said she worries about the result of the referendum, as it could affect a substantial amount of student life.

“I hope students vote to keep this fee mandatory, as it is a small price to pay for all of the events that add depth and creativity to education at Binghamton,” Alberti wrote in an email. “Education does not only occur in the classroom, and this fee allows for both educational and entertaining events that bring together differing perspectives and allow people to explore their interests while having a little fun during their time in college.”

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ARTS & CULTURE Terrell Julien | Contributing Photographer Harpur Chorale is one of the four choruses directed by William Culverhouse, director of choral activities and an assistant professor of music. Others include the Women’s Chorus, an all-female group, and the Chamber Singers, a highly selective co-ed chorus.

William Culverhouse charts a course for choral groups Music department gives students a voice in choirs James Tlsty

Contributing Writer

Students stand shoulder to shoulder in a Fine Arts Building classroom. They raise their voices in unison, working together to achieve perfect harmony. They place their trust in the vision of a single man, an expert of his craft.

William Culverhouse, director of choral activities and an assistant professor of music at Binghamton University, revels in the passion of his students.

Culverhouse has a long history of performing in and working with choirs; his first experience was when he was in the second grade. Culverhouse said the group setting of a chorus is what he enjoys the most.

“For me, it ultimately comes down to sharing the joy of singing together,” he said.

Culverhouse is at the helm of four different choral groups on campus: Harpur Chorale, Women’s Chorus, Chamber Singers and University Chorus. Each choir occupies a different niche in the department, but Culverhouse puts an equal amount of work into each group.

The Harpur Chorale is composed of singers who widely vary in skill level. Culverhouse said he looks for singers with a common passion for improving themselves as singers and as a group.

“Everyone auditions and we take people at a variety of skill levels,” Culverhouse said. “The goal is to create group art.”

Students with nearly no prior experience singing in a chorus are invited to audition for Harpur Chorale, as Culverhouse works

closely to develop each singer’s ability to read music and to better their auditory memory. The group has seen a jump in membership to 56 members recently — a 20 percent growth in membership from last semester.

Carina Kahane, a senior majoring in English, is required to perform in the Harpur Chorale for her minor in vocal performance, but said she has valued Culverhouse’s guidance.

“It’s been a really great experience,” Kahane said. “I don’t know if I’ve met anyone more dedicated.”

The Women’s Chorus is made up of female vocalists, and its repertoire features only pieces by female composers. There is often crossover in membership between Women’s Chorus and Harpur Chorale, but the Women’s Chorus provides a specific and exclusive outlet.

Culverhouse’s empowerment of women in the choral groups, however, extends through the department, as each group always has at least one song by a female composer in its program.

Courtney Densmore, a senior majoring in English, has performed in both the Women’s Chorus and the Harpur Chorale, and said she values singing with a chorus as a community and creative outlet.

“I love the sense of togetherness and inclusivity in the choral music program,” Densmore said. “The sense of escape it gives me from my day-to-day life as a student is a huge source of stress relief.”

The Chamber Singers, which requires a more advanced audition process, is composed of 17 vocalists from both Harpur Chorale and Women’s Chorus. These singers are chosen on their sight-reading ability, vocal quality and versatility.

Sam Chosack, a senior majoring in

music, explained that being in the advanced group is both challenging and fulfilling.

“In order to really succeed in the Chamber Singers, you need to be really comfortable with your instrument — that being your voice,” Chosack said. “It’s a really beautiful sound. It’s more cohesive, it’s very pure. It’s just a delight to listen to.”

The University Chorus is a mix of students and community members that often collaborates with music professor Timothy Perry’s University Symphony Orchestra. Its most recent performance last September explored how architecture reflects music performance, drawing inspiration specifically from early 17th-century Venetian cathedrals.

Culverhouse puts a lot of emphasis on this kind of collaboration with other music groups, and said he plans to perform with local high school choirs at the University

this September.

Each chorus is preparing for the department’s May 3 concert, the “Choral Celebration.” Culverhouse described the event as a “festive smorgasbord,” which he hopes will include a great deal of diversity.

“I love doing music from cultures that are … not as wellrepresented within the traditional Western music canon,” he said.

“There’s just so much terrific music out there that’s not getting heard … it’s a lot of fun to bring that music to the public.”

One thing is for certain: Culverhouse’s students support his vision.

“His mastery of the material … I’ve never experienced anyone better,” Chosack said. “Even if you’re having a bad day and you don’t feel like giving your all in practice, he manages to make it infectious. He makes you want to get involved in the music.”

Exploring the mysterious 'Nuvolone' Rave for self-love, body positivity Painting that survived World War II on display Theodora Catrina

Annual event to feature Zumba and giveaways

Contributing Writer

At the center of the current exhibition in the Binghamton University Art Museum, a master painting hangs unframed in the middle of the Main Gallery.

An exhibition unique to the museum, “The Binghamton Nuvolone: Restoring an Object in Six Parts” focuses on the life of Max Eisenstein, the previous owner of the eponymous piece. Eisenstein was an Austrian man who fled Vienna and came to Binghamton, bringing the painting and his family with him.

The exhibition also focuses on the painting’s damaged condition, as three striking red lines divide the massive painting into six pieces.

The painting, gifted to the University’s gallery in 1982 by Norbert Eisenstein, Max Eisenstein’s son, is central to the exhibition, but the exhibition is organized into additional sections so people can explore other facets of the painting’s life. These include the science behind the painting and the methods used to conserve it, the biography of Max Eisenstein through personal letters and requests for restitution and the painting’s status as an artifact of World War II. Though colloquially known as “The Binghamton Nuvolone,” the painting is of St. Benedict and was painted by Baroque painter Carlo Francesco Nuvolone during the 17th century. The painting’s history prior to Eisenstein’s ownership is unknown, although many people worked to investigate its provenance.

However, the curators and researchers have made many inferences for the exhibition from the little knowledge they had of Eisenstein’s time.

Eisenstein, a Jewish man living in Austria during the Third Reich, fled the country to escape persecution.

It is assumed that the painting was cut by Eisenstein in six even pieces so that he could take it with him to Binghamton after fleeing Vienna.

“Yes, it is both a classic example of an old master painting, but perhaps

Renelle Pereira

Contributing Writer

Kevin Paredes | Photography Editor The Binghamton University Art Museum’s newest exhibition, “The Binghamton Nuvolone: Restoring an Object in Six Parts,” debuted last Thursday, March 15. The exhibition focuses on a piece of art that was gifted to the University by Norbert Eisenstein, the son of Viennese businessman Max Eisenstein, who was the previous owner of the painting by Baroque artist Carlo Francesco Nuvolone.

primarily, it’s most valuable as an artifact of World War II and the Holocaust,” said Karen-edis Barzman, one of the curators of the installation and a professor of art history at BU. “We were trying to balance its status both as a master painting and an artifact of warfare.”

The painting’s mysterious destruction provokes questions that leave viewers asking why it was destroyed and why it was left in this condition. Barzman said her first reaction to the painting’s condition was shock.

“That’s the most striking part to me, to see a master painting mutilated like this,” she said. “My initial reaction when I first saw it in storage downstairs was, ‘Who would do such a thing to an old master painting?’”

The collaborative team of curators and directors, such as Diane Butler, director of the museum, Barzman and Neil Christian Pages, an associate professor of German studies and comparative literature at BU, contemplated restoring the work to what it would have looked like prior to its destruction. Although the exhibition features a digital replica of the painting showing its state before it was cut, the team decided to clean the painting instead of completely

restoring it to its original form.

“We decided to leave the painting in this state because that’s the way it tells its story,” Barzman said. “It wants to tell us something about its social life as a painting and having something to do with the Holocaust.”

They were assisted by Joseph Tanski, professor of chemistry at Vassar College; Susan Blakney, a paintings conservator with West Lake Conservators; and faculty members from the geology and classics departments at BU. The exhibition includes documents chronicling Eisenstein’s personal life after he fled Vienna, particularly through letters that discuss how the Holocaust affected him. In one letter from 1963, Eisenstein discusses “the catastrophe that befell [him] at the hands of the Nazis.” Eisenstein’s letters and personal memorabilia complement the painting and explain why it was not fully restored. The painting, and more specifically the damage to it, are representative of the Holocaust and how it affected the lives of those oppressed.

“When we started to unravel the history of the painting and the personal history of the owner, we realized it wasn’t an arbitrary act of mutilation, but it had something to

do with preserving part of the family patrimony,” Barzman said.

The painting and its exhibition chronicle Binghamton’s own artistic history in addition to that of Eisenstein, as the painting was discovered in Eisenstein’s former home on Walnut Street on the West Side of Binghamton.

Annemarie Maag-Tanchak, a junior majoring in art history and president of the BU Fine Arts Society, said she admired how the exhibition focuses on something that is entrenched in Binghamton’s history.

“The Binghamton University Art Museum is right on campus and very accessible, and this exhibit in particular brings it close to home, and makes you see that there’s rich art and culture in Binghamton itself,” Maag-Tanchak said.

The exhibition also features a gathering of objects, photographs and papers paying homage to “Monuments Man” Kenneth C. Lindsay, the founder of Harpur College’s art history department and the museum.

The exhibition will be open from March 15 to May 19 and will feature a free public symposium on May 3 from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. to further discuss the painting’s history.

Students can catch a break and shake off midterm stress at an on-campus Respect Rave on Monday.

Binghamton University’s Eating Awareness Committee (EAC) is throwing its annual Respect Rave to build awareness of body image issues. The event, which will take place in the Chenango Champlain Collegiate Center (C4) Multipurpose Room, is meant to bring people together for a night of dancing and entertainment while teaching attendees about ways to respect and appreciate their own bodies.

“Dance is a way of pulling people in and feeling their bodies and respecting what their bodies can do and [understanding] how it feels to be well in the body,” said Sarah Thompson, a lecturer of health and wellness at BU and the chair of the EAC. “Moving our bodies and feeling our bodies and not worrying about what we look like when we move, but rather experiencing the joy it brings, makes us more connected to our bodies.”

EAC is a cross-campus committee composed of faculty representatives from departments and offices including Wellness Services, the University Counseling Center and Campus Recreation, as well as student representatives.

The group works to spread awareness about and offer support for issues related to eating disorders, body image, fitness and nutrition.

This is the third annual Respect Rave, and this year, the

committee is looking to make an even bigger event. They’ve teamed up with Residential Life and Health Promotion and Prevention Services with the hopes of reaching a broader audience than in previous years.

“We’ve collaborated with [resident assistants] and [residential directors] so that we’re able to bring more students together, not only in the Dickinson and Newing communities, but across all of campus,” Thompson said.

Every year at Respect Rave, the EAC has tried to bring in different dance groups like the BU Dance Team and Hoop Troop. This year, the International Flag Dancers will be there along with Zumba instructors from the East Gym. “While being healthy, the party is also meant to be interactive and engaging,” Thompson said. “We want people to come in, participate and dance.”

The event will also feature a photo booth and free giveaways like tank tops and glow necklaces, as well as raffles and some healthy treats.

Sarah Strupp-Levitsky, a group fitness instructor at the East Gym and a junior majoring in integrative neuroscience, has taught Zumba at the event for the last two years. StruppLevitsky said she thinks the Respect Rave provides a great opportunity to promote body positivity, which is one aspect of teaching group fitness classes that she enjoys the most.

“It’s important to counter traditional beauty standards and show that everyone of any skin color, gender, size or shape is beautiful and worthy of love,” she said.

The Respect Rave will be on Monday, March 19 from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. in the C4 Multipurpose Room.

OPINIONS Monday, March 19, 2018

Annabeth Sloan | Editorial Artist

2018-19 SA E-BOARD ENDORSEMENTS President — Jerry Toussaint Early next week, Binghamton University’s undergraduate students will pick one of three candidates to lead an organization that they pay into every semester but largely don’t understand. For too many BU students, even those who are heavily involved in campus life, the Student Association (SA) appears to be a distant body whose main responsibility is to dole out funds for clubs.

That’s why our Editorial Board is endorsing Jerry Toussaint for SA president. His platform is, simply put, the most practical and direct of the three candidates running for the position. We feel his current roles as chief of staff in the SA President’s office, a member of the Off Campus College Council and president of Kappa Alpha Psi, a multicultural fraternity, have given him solid experience to draw from that will serve him well as president.

Toussaint has provided a clear picture of how to solicit and process student feedback through an online form he plans to call BU Onward.

The interface will collect feedback for the executive board on the SA website and information will also be shared with the student body if it leads to helpful insight and solutions. His platform’s greatest strength is its scale — he plans to continue existing projects, like space reallocation and expanding B-Alert, while connecting more students to University committee openings and centralizing information so it is easily findable and digestible.

Furthermore, Toussaint impressed us with his knowledge of the scope of the SA president’s role and in his hyperfocus on his potential position as advocate for the student body. His platform includes a concrete plan to expand Off Campus College Transport bus service by turning campus shuttles into Downtown Express lines late at night. And while it’s not completely realistic in the short term, Toussaint said he wants to reclaim the University Union as a space for

students, a somewhat idealistic notion that we generally support given the current shortage of space for SA clubs and students around campus. We give our endorsement to Toussaint because he has the potential to set a strong foundation for a future of increased student advocacy and effectiveness by the campus’ largest body.

While Michael Wuest’s platform for increasing engagement between students and community is wellmeaning, we found his expectations for what this relationship would look like to be far-removed from roles that have traditionally been the SA’s priorities — one of his suggestions is to help clubs table at community events off campus, which would likely be an inefficient way of being involved with residents of the Binghamton area. Like last year, he is interested in strengthening student fundraising efforts for the Nature Preserve, which we feel isn’t focused in the direction of the needs and priorities of the student body.

Rachel Anszelowicz, meanwhile, did not appear to be experienced enough within campus leadership to carry the responsibilities of SA president. While her intentions are to make the SA more accessible to the student body, she did not provide any tangible ways to accomplish this goal.

Executive Vice President — Michelle Dao Although Dao is running uncontested, we are confident she would make an excellent executive vice president (EVP).

She currently holds the position of senior business consultant and assistant to the EVP, and her expertise in this position, coupled with her past role as president of Roosevelt Hall of Hinman College and her involvement in organizations on campus like the Vietnamese Student Association, the Asian Student Union and the BU Student Ambassador Program, have prepared her well to take on the responsibilities of the EVP. Dao wants to improve the

relationship between the SA and student groups by diversifying the office and hiring a more personable staff that caters to students from a multitude of backgrounds. She understands the importance of representation and acknowledges the need for a diverse staff that can help and serve all students at BU. Additionally, she wants to work to improve the marketing and public relations department (MAP) in the SA. Dao recognizes the necessity of higher readership of the SA Line and how it can be used to increase transparency within the organization. She knows it’s important for everyone on campus to be aware of the work the SA is doing and the successes of student groups, which foster a greater connection among members of the campus community.

Vice President for Finance — Kevin Darrell Darrell is running unopposed, but we are confident in his abilities.

His platform, which consists of plans to increase efficiency, accessibility, storage and accountability, is nuanced. Specifically, his proposal for increasing communication between the VPF office and treasurers and presidents of student organizations through newsletters, workshops and guiding resources and his plan to increase tracking of vouchers to boost transparency demonstrate a solid understanding of the VPF role.

Additionally, Darrell is currently head assistant to the VPF and vice chair of the Finance Committee, and his platform is only bolstered by this extensive experience within the SA. This year, progress was made in the VPF office, especially with making forms and vouchers submittable online and providing more support for student groups struggling to manage their budgets.

As head assistant to the VPF, Darrell was part of these changes, and his experience should help him build on these advancements.

Furthermore, he appears passionate about working with SA-chartered

organizations to meet their needs and communicating within the SA E-Board to form a cohesive leadership body. We fully believe he can fulfill his promises and implement his plans, and we feel he is the right man for the job.

Vice President for Academic Affairs — None Pipe Dream is choosing to not endorse a candidate for vice president of academic affairs this year. Of the two candidates — Doug Wehbe and Emily Lubin, a write-in candidate — we felt neither student would be able to properly carry out the responsibilities handled by the VPAA office.

Wehbe, who is currently an assistant within the VPAA office, discussed a platform that included reform for SOOT Surveys, but claimed Rate My Professors would be an adequate alternative to the evaluation process at BU. He also mentioned that he wanted to work with student groups that teach their members professional or academic skills, and help students find their way to such extracurriculars, but the VPAA office traditionally interacts more with the administrative side of academia, making these goals outside the scope of the VPAA position.

Lubin, meanwhile, would likely find difficulty in carrying out much of her platform, which includes establishing new majors and minors in photography and data science.

But some of these goals are already in progress and might be outside the purview of the VPAA office; she is also interested in working with the University’s mental health resources, but failed to name a tangible method of facilitating improvements within BU’s variety of mental health-related resources.

Vice President for Multicultural Affairs — Andy Jean-Baptiste Although he presented a rather odd and vast agenda of plans, Andy Jean-Baptiste’s top goals include continuing to diversify the Binghamton University community

and encouraging collaboration between multicultural and noncultural groups. His experience participating in SA Congress and serving as an assistant in the VPMA office will elevate his ability to succeed as VPMA. Jean-Baptiste also clearly demonstrated that he is in touch with students and their wish lists — he wants to advocate for Caribbean dining on campus as well as constructing a programming committee devoted to coordinating premier multicultural events.

Nevertheless, he should seek to narrow his focus, and rather than developing free fitness classes or developing leadership and skill workshops, Jean-Baptiste should strive to enhance campus unity. Ultimately, we expect JeanBaptiste will achieve his goals and implement a sense of multicultural pride on campus.

Vice President for Programming — Courtney Mitchell In our opinion, Courtney Mitchell is an ideal candidate for VPP. He has experience working with the SA and SA Programming Board, but also with organizations like WHRW 90.5 FM and HackBU, making him both knowledgeable about the workings of student government while also tuned in to the concerns and needs of the student body.

Mitchell has appropriately assessed the state of the office he is running for, saying it needs to focus on increased student involvement and enthusiasm, rather than on creating new events. He is pragmatic about the cost of supporting student performances and events and suggested outside funding sources to aid in establishing and furthering efforts to encourage multicultural programming.

He, like other candidates on this ballot, emphasized transparency and the importance of student feedback, suggesting his office establish social media polls, an inbox on the SA website and determining point

people for students to contact with questions, thoughts and concerns.

Mitchell has already demonstrated this commitment by citing concert ticket sales in his platform. His plans respond directly to student feedback given after the Post Malone concert, saying he will give students priority in purchasing tickets in an effort to limit illegal and expensive secondhand ticket sales. Before even taking office, Mitchell has his ear to the ground — and you should put a check by his name.

Disclaimer: Mitchell is a member of Pipe Dream’s photography department. He was not involved in the writing of this endorsement.

Student Activity Fee — Yes In addition to voting on the 2018-19 SA E-Board, students will be faced with a referendum on the undergraduate activity fee, asking them to vote for whether the activity fee should remain mandatory for all students, or if it should become voluntary. Currently, the fee is mandatory, and every semester, each student pays $99, in addition to tuition and other fees. The money from the student activity fee goes to the Student Association, which in turn funds all SA programming, services like Harpur’s Ferry student ambulance and Off Campus College Transport and more than 300 student groups on campus.

We feel students should vote to keep the undergraduate activity fee mandatory for all students.

Although it is a significant amount of money, the fee goes toward services that students use and helps fund groups that make Binghamton University a vibrant, inclusive place. Additionally, the fee provides unique opportunities for students, including events like Spring Fling and Multicultural Extravaganza. Furthermore, the fee ensures undergraduates at BU have a student government to advocate for their concerns.

Without this mandatory fee, all of these benefits could go away or be dramatically reduced.

International Women's Day doesn't prioritize equality Large corporations used the day to capitalize on the trendiness of feminism Kristen DiPietra

Columnist

Earlier this month, men and women across the world celebrated International Women’s Day, a century-old phenomenon that has become more prominent within the past few years. What should be strictly a day of commemoration and insight into the lives of influential women has mutated into a day of pageantry, self-gratification and hollow gestures from corporations looking to capitalize on the hipness of modern feminism. To be blunt, ladies, we’re being taken for a ride.

Most of us woke up to news

stories celebrating women of the past and present that have paved the way for equality. Thanks to the Washington Post, I learned about Sonita Alizadeh, a rapper from Afghanistan whose song “Brides For Sale” exposed her personal battle against child marriage and other structural injustices against women in her country. I learned about Pakistani lawyer and human rights activist Asma Jehangir, who fought for the humane treatment of all citizens and challenged militant religious groups.

Yet the antithesis to wellresearched and inclusive journalism included a plethora of articles that indulged in petulant finger-pointing. Vice’s sister publication, Broadly, issued a narrow and rather

suffocating article, titled “100 Easy Ways to Make Women’s Lives More Bearable,” which include imperatives such as calling the Star Wars princess “General Leia” and abandoning any opinion men may have on abortion or reproductive rights because they are “irrelevant” and men are not entitled to have them.

This language of this halfthought listicle potentially alienates men and women who would have otherwise championed women’s rights.

Rather than stress a message of unity, it obsessed over trivial details without highlighting the important struggles of modern females. I highly recommend the article for anyone who enjoys “Game of Thrones” or calling women pretty, for you must

repent these sins.

The message of inclusive feminism, which includes transgender rights along with global issues such as female genital mutilation and child marriage, is positive if it includes all women without shaming others. Conservative women or even women who still watch “Game of Thrones” aren’t part of the so-called inclusion that liberal feminists tout. While I found a multitude of articles that embraced a more accusatory tone against men and women who do not adhere to strict feminist doctrine, I found too few articles that addressed global plights of women that require the leadership of both sexes to tackle.

There are plenty of modern feminists who will protest

PornHub for its content but will not be as quick to censure female genital mutilation.

Social media feeds were also dominated by a capitalist cooptation of a day that should have been respected. Large chains made condescending gestures; KFC, for example, switched their logo to Claudia Sanders, a feminized Colonel Sanders. To some bemusement, McDonald’s switched its iconic “M” upside down to represent a “W” in restaurants across the country It’s safe to assume that the workers undertaking the cumbersome task were not compensated for their labor. The website Time Out even posted a list of locations across New York City where women could treat themselves to discounted food and drinks.

The day coincided with “A Day Without a Woman,” in which society was supposed to recognize the value that women add to our socio-economic system, excluded women who literally had no choice but to work. Some women attending university abstained from their classes. Even though I simply could have given my shift away at work, I chose not to, because what better way is there to honor my female predecessors who did not have access to higher paying jobs and education than to work and study at my choosing?

Women don’t need discounts, days or self-congratulations. We need equality and we need change.

— Kristen DiPietra is a senior double-majoring in English and human development.

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OPINIONS

To ensure the planet's sustainability, we should transition to a circular economy In our current linear economy, we harvest resources too quickly and produce excessive waste Georgia Kerkezis

Contributing Columnist

Society currently functions under an economy that is linear. We harvest resources from the earth, make them into products and then dispose of the products when they break or when newer models come out. This system is problematic because we are harvesting too many resources too fast, and we are disposing of them in wasteful ways that do not allow for sustainable regeneration.

Fundamentally, this system is destined to reach a point at which there are no more resources to exploit. To every line, there is an end. And if that end hasn’t

already come, it surely will in the near future, given that the world population is predicted to grow to over 9 billion people by 2040.

Quite simply, we are doomed for failure if we continue with the current linear economic system. What we need is a profound change of the system as a whole. What we need is circular economics.

According to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, circular economics is a system based on three main principles: economic growth and human development need not be coupled with the consumption of finite resources; products and resources can remain in use instead of being thrown away; and degraded natural systems can be regenerated by primarily using renewable

energies and responsibly using finite resources.

A key aspect of circular economics is that rather than being product-based, it is service-based. In such a system, consumers do not buy products from producers, but rather, customers receive services from providers. The economy shifts focus from the product to the labor, thus creating more jobs and using fewer resources.

For example, an individual would not buy a washing machine, but rather rent from a company the service of using one. When the washing machine eventually breaks, it would be returned to the company for repair and updates.

Thus, the circle is completed. The company becomes responsible for the end life of its products, and is thus incentivized to create long-

lasting goods, recondition these goods and prevent waste.

In a service-based circular economy, waste is not only prevented, but the entire concept of it is eliminated. “Waste” outputs are either returned to the environment as nutrients, or they become inputs for another manufacturing process, thus bringing the economy full circle.

Goods are prolonged, reused, refurbished and recycled, but they are never thrown away.

All over the world, companies are implementing sustainable practices and systems inspired by the circular economy model. One example is CBPak, a company based in Brazil that has developed a food packaging material out of the cassava plant, which is then collected by local composting companies after use. Another

example is the company Yerdle, based in San Francisco, which collects used clothing items and sells them at lower-than-original prices to customers or back to the clothing company for resale.

The idea of circular economics may seem intimidating, but I assure you it’s not. Its concepts are fairly simple at their core and can be applied to all practices and fields. Just like companies, so too can we implement this way of thinking. As college students, we are young and visionary.

Our ideas are bold, creative and innovative. We have the power to pursue our unique fields of interest and change them for the better — why not restructure them to be sustainable?

We also have the power to mimic circular economics in smaller ways. We can support

composting efforts in campus dining halls. We can buy thrifted clothing or trade shirts with friends. We can make sure to recycle items that were once deemed nonrecyclable, such as Brita filters and K-Cups.

With or without humans, the earth is sustainable; all of its outputs are fed back into the system as inputs, and so the cycle continues indefinitely.

Our linear economic system of take, make and dispose does not reflect this basic truth, and so it is destined to fail. Using nature as our mentor, we must take our current linear economy and mold it into a circle. We must close the loop.

— Georgia Kerkezis is a sophomore majoring in environmental studies.

Why is there a 'one-size-fits-all' approach to fashion?

The industry largely discriminates against people who don't have a certain body type Annick Tabb

Contributing Columnist

I remember my first and only venture into a Brandy Melville store like it was yesterday. I was in ninth grade and ventured into the shop with my mother in tow. As soon as I walked into the store, I saw a strip of lacy material on display on one of the walls. “What an unusual belt,” I thought. Upon closer inspection, I realized that the fabric in question was actually a bandeau top. As I continued around the crowded store, I noticed that a majority of the clothes displayed would not fit me unless I dropped at least 15 pounds.

Brandy Melville prides itself on its “one-size-fits-all” approach to fashion. However, the one size that they market seems rather small for a company whose aim is to appeal to the masses.

Brandy Melville is not the only store whose merchandise is catered to smaller sizes. I cannot count how many times I have walked into Forever 21 or Urban Outfitters, looked at a piece of

clothing and thought, “Who is that meant to fit?”

Despite the fact that the average U.S. woman wears between a size 16 and 18, many clothing stores consider sizes above 16 to be plus sizes. Plus-size clothing has historically been overlooked by designers and retailers. Many designers outright refuse to make clothes for people they deem “unworthy.”

Mike Jeffries, former CEO of Abercrombie & Fitch, was blatant in his disdain. It was under his leadership that Abercrombie & Fitch’s women’s department did not carry a size larger than a 10.

“A lot of people don’t belong [in our clothes], and they can’t belong,” he said. “Are we exclusionary? Absolutely. Those companies that are in trouble are trying to target everybody: young, old, fat, skinny. But then you become totally vanilla. You don’t alienate anybody, but you don’t excite anybody, either.”

Personally speaking, there is something gravely wrong with you if you get “excited” by making clothes that are made to intentionally make people feel excluded and ostracized.

When I was in middle school, Abercrombie & Fitch was one of

the most popular brands to wear.

I admit that I fell into the store’s trap. Looking back at this time in my life, I remember feeling physically and metaphorically uncomfortable in my clothes. I was hyperaware of the models that plastered the walls of the dark and pungent store. They were thin, mostly white, blonde and looked like they were having the time of their lives wearing the clothes they were marketing.

I felt like it was my fault that I was close to the largest size the store sold. This led to a lot of internalized toxic feelings about my weight and whether I was worth less because I wasn’t the “vision of idealized all-American youth” that Jeffries and his company were trying to sell me.

These feelings can continue into adulthood. For example, in the movie “Bride Wars,” a bridal store employee warns Kate Hudson’s character about Vera Wang’s designs by saying, “You do not alter a Vera to fit you, you alter yourself to fit Vera.” This phrase is repeated throughout the film and is never questioned.

Clothes are pieces of printed fabric and nothing more. They should not be able to wield power over us. Designers should

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be held accountable for their The phrase, “Everyone deserves — Annick Tabb is a sophomore discriminatory attitudes that to have clothes that fit them in a double-majoring in English and leave many people out of the way that makes them comfortable,” political science. fashion world. should not be a radical one.

Appreciating the merits of solitude History's greatest thinkers used alone time to spark creativity and self-reflection Joshua Hummell

Contributing Columnist

Friedrich Nietzsche, Stanley Kubrick, Emily Dickinson, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Nikola Tesla, Fyodor Dostoevsky — men and women of absolute genius — all liked to be alone. There is a stigma that being alone is especially bad for people. After all, humans are social creatures.

We constantly attribute negative words like recluse, introvert and loner to people who like to be alone. However, being alone has its benefits and allows you to think more creatively

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You cannot know your strengths and weaknesses unless you identify them yourself. Even if another person tells you your flaws, you don’t realize them until you take ownership of them. Being alone is a great time to ask yourself about your aspirations in any aspect of your life. It is easier to do this when you are by yourself because there is a certain candidness that you rarely share with others.

It’s especially difficult for college kids to reflect on these attributes because they are constantly changing, but being alone allows one the opportunity to explore interests, successes, regrets and failures. This is perhaps one of the things that

deters people from wanting to be alone. Feelings of failure, underachievement or any unpleasant feeling with oneself are perhaps the worst feelings someone can experience, and they are exacerbated when alone.

However, no human has lived without failure. The great thinkers used this feeling as fuel to improve themselves.

Then there’s loneliness, and no one likes to feel lonely. Reed Larson, professor of human development and family studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a researcher of solitude, agrees.

However, according to him, being alone has what he calls a “rebound effect.” It creates “more positive emotions and less

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self-reported depression down the line.” Anyway, the creativity and independence of thought outweigh any of the negatives of being alone.

The greatest thinkers use time spent alone to drown out the outer noise that limits their creativity. One of them, Pablo Picasso, swore that “without great solitude, no serious work is possible.” Alone time gives them an opportunity to think without other people’s ideas muddling their own. A distracted mind cannot be as creative as it is when able to focus on itself in silence. The mind loves this freedom and when it experiences it, one’s imagination explodes.

When you were a kid and you were alone without TV or friends

to hang out with, what did you do? You probably imagined scenarios and acted them out to pass the time. Add on 20 or so years, and you are effectively doing the same thing with adult brainpower. The authors, above all, used this state of mind without distraction to create their worlds, or like Nietzsche or Tesla, to respectively interpret their surroundings philosophically and scientifically.

Being alone gives you independence of the mind.

In our government, and especially in this climate, we need independent thinkers. In our world, we need people to come into the political sphere with different opinions and expressions to diversify the ideas

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we currently have about the government’s purpose. In more practical terms, it allows you the freedom to think outside the box for a class, club, internship or the like. Every teacher, employer and peer is impressed when a student resolves a problem, debates from a contrary position or writes a paper from a unique perspective. Solitude provides time and quiet that allows us to slow the constant flow of thoughts and more deeply think about the world around us so that we can independently and creatively respond to it.

— Josh Hummell is a senior double-majoring in classical and Near Eastern studies and history.

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Binghamton loses two of three against Stony Brook Baseball continues sluggish start to season Evan Cole

Assistant Sports Editor

After opening the season going 3-9 in nonconference play, the Binghamton baseball team played its first America East (AE) Conference series last weekend against Stony Brook. The Bearcats (4-11, 1-2 AE) dropped two of three games against the Seawolves (9-8, 2-1 AE), continuing a start to the season that has failed to live up to the team’s expectations.

Once BU dropped its first matchup of a Saturday doubleheader, the nightcap was suspended after eight innings and resumed on Sunday afternoon. Binghamton won the series’ second game, then dropped its third and final meeting with SBU shortly after.

The Bearcats and Seawolves opened the series with a high-scoring duel featuring three significant lead changes. Binghamton jumped out to a quick 2-0 lead in the first inning thanks to sacrificing hits from seniors shortstop Paul Rufo and

Rebecca Kiss | Assistant Photo Editor Senior outfielder CJ Krowiak drove in the go-ahead run in the baseball team’s sole victory at Stony Brook.

catcher Jason Agresti. Rufo hit his first home run of the season in the top of the third inning, extending BU’s lead to three.

Stony Brook took its first lead of the game and built on it, totaling nine runs in the third and

fourth innings. The Seawolves’ run forced Binghamton redshirt senior pitcher Jacob Wloczewski to exit the game after pitching 3 1/3 innings.

Wloczewski started the game and surrendered six earned runs.

Trailing 9-4, the Bearcats scored

six unanswered runs to take a 10-9 lead in the top of the seventh inning.

After Stony Brook tied the game at 10 in the bottom of the seventh, RBIs from freshman outfielder Shane Marshall and junior outfielder Sean Trenholm gave the Bearcats a 12-10

advantage heading into the home half of the eighth inning.

The Seawolves responded with one final scoring run, totaling five runs in the frame and holding on for a dramatic 15-12 victory. Senior pitcher Joe Orlando was charged with the loss for Binghamton.

Orlando gave up each of SBU’s final five runs, three of which were earned.

Saturday’s seven-inning nightcap featured another evenly matched contest. The Seawolves scored the game’s first four runs, but Binghamton answered by scoring six unanswered runs to take a 6-4 lead into the seventh inning.

Looking to close out its second consecutive game, BU again gave up critical runs in the match’s late innings. Stony Brook tied the game at six to force extra innings. After the eighth inning, the contest was suspended due to darkness and cold weather.

Resuming Sunday afternoon, the Bearcats closed out the game swiftly, posting two runs in the top of the tenth inning and holding SBU scoreless in Sunday’s two frames to secure its first conference win of

the season, 8-6. Junior outfielder Anthony Meduri led the Bearcats’ offensive attack, recording four hits and three RBIs in the win. Junior pitcher Robert Brown was credited with the victory after logging two shutout innings on Sunday.

In the series’ final matchup, BU’s pitching performance improved, but its offense could not muster enough run support to win the series’ rubber match. Junior pitcher Nick Gallagher started the game for Binghamton, allowing three runs while recording seven strikeouts in five innings pitched.

The Bearcats again held a lead heading into the bottom of the eighth inning, up 5-3 in the series finale. An error by Rufo and threerun home run by Stony Brook sophomore outfielder Michael Wilson powered the Seawolves to a 7-5 edge, which it did not relinquish.

Binghamton is set to return to nonconference action this weekend when it travels to Queens, New York to take on St. John’s. The three-game series is scheduled to begin at 3 p.m. on Friday, March 23 at Jack Kaiser Stadium.

Bearcats overpowered by Red Foxes in road defeat Bearcats' losing streak extended to four games Connor Bissaillon Contributing Writer

After being defeated in two consecutive matchups last week to Canisius and Ohio State by two total goals, the Binghamton University women’s lacrosse team was looking to earn a victory and get back to .500 on Saturday afternoon in a match against Marist. The team was not able to take the win on Saturday, instead falling in an 18-8 loss to the Red Foxes (4-3) on the road.

The Bearcats (3-5) struggled in the first half, giving up a total of 10 goals to an efficient Marist offense, which only had 11 shots on goal in the first half. The Red Foxes were coming off of a hard-fought 13-8 win earlier in the week in a road

contest against Bucknell.

Redshirt senior attack Brianne Arthur powered the Bearcats to an early lead, scoring the first goal of the game less than a minute into play. However, the lead was shortlived as the Red Foxes answered with a goal of their own seconds later to tie it up. This back-andforth scoring continued as both teams scored once in the next few minutes to knot the game at two. After trading scores, Marist found the back of the net five times unanswered. The Bearcats were able to find a way to get their offense going again later in the first half, finishing with a total of six goals and keeping the game within reach heading into the Pipe Dream Archives halftime locker room only down Senior midfielder Jacqueline Kennedy netted four goals in Binghamton’s fourth consecutive loss at Marist. by four.

Senior midfielder Jacqueline the Bearcats’ scores for the game. ability to cause turnovers that Kennedy totaled a team-high four “She’s just a huge factor all can transition into offensive play goals on the day, with three in the over the field,” said BU head is really critical … I thought she first half, accounting for half of coach Stephanie Allen. “Her did a really nice job of pushing

the tempo.”

BU also received contributions on offense from senior attack Tiffany Ryan with two goals, and junior midfielder Rebecca Golderman, who added a goal of her own.

The Bearcats started the second half strong, notching the first goal of the half and pulling to within three just several plays into the half. Despite the fast offense, Marist’s attack proved to be too much for the BU defense, constantly threatening on that side of the field. In response to the opening second-half goal, Marist went on to jump-start the second half with eight straight unanswered goals, giving it an 18-7 advantage and essentially putting the game out of reach.

The Red Fox attack was driven by both sophomore attack Samantha Mehalick and senior attack Lauren Mazza, each tallying six goals in

the game.

“Marist did a nice job of exploiting us with their speed … we just did not execute our game plan well,” Allen said of her team’s defense on Saturday.

Kennedy scored her fourth goal of the day to bring the game to 18-8 as the final seconds ticked off the clock.

After losing four consecutive matchups, the Bearcats are still positive going into their next game as they open conference play.

“We’re treating it as a 0-0 record right now … everybody is on an equal playing field,” Allen said. “The focus is working on our intensity and execution so we can be ready to put things together against Vermont.”

BU is set to face Vermont on Saturday. The contest is scheduled for 3 p.m. from Virtue Field in Burlington, Vermont.

Softball swept in four games at St. John's Invitational BU plagued by pitching and defensive struggles Michael Steinberg Pipe Dream Sports

At the St. John’s Invitational this weekend, the Binghamton softball team continued to focus on improving before more meaningful conference play begins. The team fought back hard in its first two games against UMass and St. John’s, but lost all four of its games at the invitational.

In the first two games of the tournament, the Bearcats (3-10) fell behind early and could not manage to claw their way back to the lead. They allowed a total of 13 runs through the first two innings over both games. BU put together some rallies, but could not manage to achieve a comeback in either matchup.

The Bearcats started their first game of the St. John’s Invitational against the Minutemen going down five in the bottom of the second inning.

Binghamton showed resilience, not only

bringing the lead down to two after a three-run third inning, but then regaining the lead in the third and tying the game again in the bottom of the fifth. However, the Bearcats’ efforts were insufficient as BU fell to UMass Amherst, 12-9.

During the next game, the Bearcats allowed an even more disheartening lead to the Red Storm (7-18), giving up eight runs in the first two innings. While the team responded with four runs and held St. John’s scoreless across four innings, the deficit proved too much to overcome as the Red Storm captured the win, 8-4.

BU head coach Michelle Johnston was proud of the way her team fought back in those games, but did not see that same fight on Sunday.

“On Saturday, I thought we got behind early and we worked throughout the game to score runs,” Johnston said. “So, Saturday I was pleased with the fight we had throughout the entire game and we didn’t necessarily show that today.”

On Sunday, Binghamton was overpowered by Boston University

and Hofstra, scoring a total of only three runs. The Bearcats started the day strong with two home runs against the Terriers (10-14), but quickly fell behind, allowing Boston to take the lead and losing the game, 10-2. Binghamton rounded out the invitational with a 9-1 loss to the Pride (14-7).

Johnston emphasized the need for consistency when batting, especially with runners in scoring position and the need for better quality at-bats in the future.

Defense was also a major concern for the Bearcats, which Johnston presumed to be a strength of the team coming into the season.

“I don’t think we’re very happy with the results,” Johnston said.

“I think in all the games, we gave them a lot of extra opportunities, just because of mistakes we were making defensively. We had plenty of chances to get out of innings.”

Despite the defensive struggles, Johnston is sure this team can bounce back.

“We definitely want to see our defense improve and I just think we are making not typical mistakes, [ones] that we normally

wouldn’t make,” Johnston said. “I think we just need to clean our defense up and maybe work on some more pressure situations during practices.”

One player she thinks will rebound is sophomore pitcher Rayn Gibson. Gibson started off the year 0-5 following these tournament losses. However, Johnston still believes Gibson does not have anything mechanical to fix.

“I think our defense is not helping and we obviously would like her to respond a little bit better from after mistakes or giving up hits,” Johnston said. “I think [Gibson] right now just has to get her confidence back.”

Last season, Gibson finished second in the conference, winning nine games and posting a 3.37 ERA. Johnston is confident Gibson will improve and start to have outings more similar to those of last season.

“She’s shown good potential,” Johnston said, “And we just need her to be confident in herself.”

Despite the disappointing results, some Bearcats put

together strong outings. Freshman infielder Alex Guay went fivefor-11 with two runs and an RBI, and sophomore catcher Sara Herskowitz posted an impressive five-for-12 with two runs and two RBIs. Now Johnston is looking toward the future, hoping to turn the squad’s season around with a

solid week of practice.

“We wanna put in some work this week and hopefully come out and play better next weekend,” Johnston said.

The Bearcats is set to face Monmouth at the UMBC Retriever Classic on March 23 at 2:30 p.m. in Baltimore, Maryland.

Katherine Scott | Pipe Dream Photographer Sophomore catcher Sara Herskowitz posted one run and two RBIs on fivefor-12 hitting during softball’s winless trip to St. John’s.

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Wrestling concludes season at NCAA Tournament Garcia, Schneider go 1-2 in championship Grace Palumbo

Assistant Sports Ediotr

Not only was last Thursday the beginning of the long-awaited round of 64 in the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament, but it also marked the first day of the NCAA Wrestling Championships, which featured two BU wrestlers who qualified for the elite competition: senior Steve Schneider and redshirt sophomore Frankie Garcia.

Entering as the No. 13 seed in the 184-pound weight class, Schneider traveled to Cleveland, Ohio for the last competition of his collegiate career. Garcia, on the other hand, made his NCAA debut, qualifying as a sophomore in the 149-pound weight class.

On Thursday, Schneider took down his first opponent, UPenn senior Joe Heyob with a 4-1 victory that allowed him to advance to the round of 16 on Thursday night.

Taking on No. 4 seed redshirt senior Pete Renda, Schneider could not replicate his earlier successes and fell to the NC State wrestler in a 9-0 major decision.

Despite the defeat, Schneider moved on to Friday’s competition in the consolation bracket.

Garcia also went 1-1 on the day, but due to a 7-0 major decision loss to his first opponent of the morning, No. 7 seed Northwestern freshman Ryan Deakin, Garcia moved into the wrestlebacks for

Ariel Kachuro | Contributing Photographer Redshirt sophomore Frankie Garcia earned a victory in the NCAA Championships, posting a 1-2 record over the course of two days.

his second matchup on Thursday.

In the alternate bracket, which competed for the third-place title, he was able to defeat Air Force’s senior Dane Robbins in a close competition that ended in sudden victory. With the win, Garcia

was able to move forward in the consolation bracket on Friday as well. “[Garcia] continues to grow as a wrestler,” said BU head coach Kyle Borshoff. “He’s exciting to watch. I had a number of coaches

come up to me from other schools and say how apparent it is that the effort he puts in and how hard he wrestles, and it’s pretty neat for me as a coach to have one of our athletes being noticed by a number of other schools’ coaches.”

Friday’s competition was not as successful as Thursday’s had been for the Bearcats, although both Schneider and Garcia put up a good fight.

Schneider, in the wrestlebacks consolation bracket, took on

Men's lacrosse drops conference opener

Jonathan Flores | Pipe Dream Photographer Senior attack Thomas McAndrew’s two late-game goals were not enough to erase UMass Lowell’s sizable lead as men’s lacrosse drops another one.

BU falls to UML despite Licata-led comeback Yaakov Spivack

Pipe Dream Sports

Despite a late push, the Binghamton men’s lacrosse team lost to UMass Lowell 14-10 in its first America East (AE) match of the season.

“It’s disappointing … it wasn’t the way we wanted to start northeast play,” said BU head coach Kevin McKeown. “But it’s just our first one, and that’s what we told the guys after the game. Unfortunately,

we weren’t able to build on some of the momentum we got from the win last weekend, and we weren’t able to shoot the ball as well as we are capable of. And, obviously, their goalie did his part as well in making it tough for us.”

The match began with three unanswered goals from UMass Lowell (4-4, 1-0 AE) in the first seven minutes of the first quarter.

The Bearcats (1-7, 0-1 AE) managed to find their way onto the scoreboard before the quarter’s end, however, scoring two goals.

Just a few minutes into the second quarter, the River Hawks scored two goals to extend their

advantage to three. Binghamton won the following faceoff as junior long-stick midfielder Timothy Mattiace picked up the ground ball.

After two missed attempts, freshman attack Sean Makar’s shot found the back of the net. A few minutes later, Makar continued to contribute to the team’s offense by assisting on freshman attack William TalbottShere’s fifth goal of the season.

Several scoreless minutes later, the River Hawks broke the silence with two goals only over a minute apart to end the half.

“You look at the amount of shots that we created … I think if we were able to finish them, some of that

momentum might have gone in a different direction,” McKeown said.

Coming back from the half, UMass Lowell recorded another score almost immediately. BU’s response from Talbott-Shere was soon to follow. With the score at 8-5, the Bearcats were doing their best to remain in the game. This became more difficult as the River Hawks scored two more goals before the third quarter concluded.

It was during the beginning of quarter four that UMass Lowell’s edge began to reach seemingly insurmountable levels. The River Hawks scored two more goals within six minutes, bringing their lead to seven. Shortly after that, junior midfielder Joe Licata gave the Bearcats their first goal of the quarter. Not looking to lose their lead, UMass Lowell scored one in response.

With five minutes on the clock, BU gave its best effort to take the lead, or to at the very least go down swinging. Licata began the onslaught by scoring another goal, which was followed by two from senior attack Thomas McAndrew and one from senior midfielder Joe Grossi. The River Hawks’ defense allowed only one more goal before the clock reached zero, though it was not enough to overcome the deficit.

“We kind of saw a little bit of a spark there, and it was great to see that spark come with a little bit of energy and a sense of urgency,” McKeown said. “But unfortunately, it was a little bit too little, too late.

So as nice as it was to see that, it was disappointing that we didn’t have that a little bit earlier. One thing is, we don’t wanna ever give up, and we didn’t do that. Licata I think was a big part of that; he provided us with some energy, he dodged hard to the goal, he finished opportunities that he got there in that fourth quarter.

Like I said, it was good to see in a way, but at the same time we wish we could’ve gotten that a little bit earlier.”

Redshirt sophomore goalie Kevin Carbone finished the day with 14 saves, and senior midfielder Austin Macchi won 11 of 17 faceoffs.

The Bearcats are set to take on Vermont on Saturday. Faceoff is scheduled for noon from Virtue Field in Burlington, Vermont.

Brown’s junior CJ LaFragola, and despite being seeded higher, Schneider fell to LaFragola, 5-3.

“I think [Schneider] competed well and wrestled hard, but at the end of day we got knocked out and he’s a tough person so he’ll use this experience to build himself up and get better and move forward in whatever he wants to do next,” Borshoff said.

Garcia, taking on No. 9 seed Max Thomsen, fell to the University of Northern Iowa redshirt sophomore in a 14-4 major decision match.

“We’ve got some things to clean up with [Garcia] but he’s got two years left, so getting the experience of being here and wrestling is invaluable,” Borshoff said. “This is going to be something that Frankie builds on over the next couple of years.”

Schneider, who graduates in May, ends his Bearcat career with an impressive 108 career wins, three NCAA Championship appearances and a four-time Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association (EIWA) place winner, the most of any wrestler in BU program history. “[Schneider] was the first four-time EIWA place finisher for our school, three-time national qualifier and we went out of the tournament today and it was hard,” Borshoff said. “It’s always hard when you lose here. You do so much during the year and over your career and you put so much effort and time into this sport and then when you lose it’s always hard.”

BEARCAT BRIEFS WOMEN'S BASKETBALL Justin Zion

Sports Intern

Following a victory in the first round of the Women’s Basketball Invitational (WBI), the Binghamton women’s basketball team moves on to face Yale on its home court at the Events Center. The team advanced to the second round following a 70-59 victory over Youngstown State in round one.

The Bearcats (20-11) and the Bulldogs (16-13) have already met this season on Binghamton’s home floor. The game was a close one, with the Bearcats coming back from a six-point deficit with under two minutes in regulation to tie. The team’s momentum did not carry into the overtime period, however, with the Bulldogs grinding out a four-point victory when the horn sounded.

Binghamton’s selection into the WBI, a postseason tournament for teams that did not qualify for the NCAA Tournament or the Women’s National Invitational Tournament, comes following an early elimination from the America East (AE) Tournament. The team ended AE Conference play with three consecutive losses, including the upset loss to Hartford in the tournament’s first round, but still managed to earn a selection to the WBI. The upcoming game will be played this Tuesday, March 20 with tipoff scheduled for 7 p.m. The game will be the first time that a Division I postseason game is hosted on BU’s campus. Tickets are $6 for general admission bench seats and $12 for reserved chairback seats. Binghamton students receive free admission with a valid BU ID card.

Additionally, the Events Center will host a Bearcat Den Special Tailgate Party prior to the game. The party will feature several varieties of food and drink for sale, including soup, sandwiches and desserts.

The tailgate will be open during pregame and at the halftime break. Admission to the tailgate costs an additional $10 along with the purchase of a game ticket.