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Volume LX, Issue 24

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The Statesman celebrates its 60th anniversary

By Mike Adams Contributing Writer

Sixty years after The Statesman was first founded, reporters and editors from the past and present gathered at the Hilton Garden Inn to celebrate the campus paper’s diamond anniversary.

“Stony Brook is bound by very little tradition,” Executive Director of Alumni Relations for Stony Brook, Matthew Colson, said.. “If there’s one thing that has been a constant through all this change, it’s The Statesman telling the stories of everything that has happened on campus.”

Looking back at their formative years, many of those in attendance recalled how their time at The Statesman shaped their lives and careers going forward.

“This is a really overwhelming experience for me,” David Joachim ‘93, now a financial crimes editor for Bloomberg News, said. “I found myself at The Statesman. It wasn’t just I found my career, I found who I was.”

The Statesman is the oldest organization in Stony Brook’s history, having been established as The Sucolian in 1957 when the then-State University College on Long Island opened in Oyster Bay. Prior to the 2006 establishment of the university’s School of Journalism, the campus paper served as the only training ground for student

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The National Residence Hall Honorary held the second annual Scale Smash for Body Positivity on Wednesday, March 29 in the Academic Mall. At the event, students were encouraged to demolish scales with sledgehammers. journalists, save for a few isolated reporting classes.

“In those days, there was no journalism program on campus,” Jonathan Salant, Statesman editor-in-chief from ’74-’75 and Washington correspondent for The Star-Ledger in New Jersey, said. “If you wanted to do journalism, you had to do Statesman. The joke was I got my degree in political science, but my major was Statesman.”

Time and time again, the alumni from the early days of The Statesman Continued on page 3

Race for USG executive VP will go into runoff election

By Rebecca Liebson Assistant News Editor

After weeks of campaigning, the new leaders of Stony Brook’s Undergraduate Student Government have been decided, with the exception of the race for executive vice president, which ended in a tie.

The Party Next Door secured five of seven executive branch positions. Ayyan Zubair will take over as president, Alex Bouraad as treasurer, Justine Josue as vice president of Communications & Public Relations, Katherine Colantounias as vice president of Clubs and Organizations, and Nicole Olakkengil as vice president of Academic Affairs.

“I feel so humbled by the trust that the student body has placed in me.” said Zubair. He went on to acknowledge the hard fight put up by his opponent, Lydia Senatus.

“It is a testament to the diversity and inclusion on campus that your two candidates for president were a black female and Muslim guy. Lydia is a great student leader and I hope to work with her in the future for the betterment of the student body.”

From the LIT party, Jaliel Amador will take on the position of vice president of Student Life & Programming.

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Stony Brook participates in research competition

By Rawson Jahan Contributing Writer

On Feb. 27, a research team from Stony Brook Medicine showcased its skills in STAT Madness, a virtual bracket-style contest in which medical schools, universities and research institutions compete to prove that they have the best innovation in science and medicine.

Alberto Perez, Ken A. Dill, Joseph A. Morrone and Emiliano Brini represented the team from Stony Brook’s Laufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology.

Dill serves as the director of the center. The group of researchers entered its article, “Blind protein structure prediction using accelerated free-energy simulations,” published in the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s Science Advances on Nov. 11, 2016.

“It’s awesome that the research done at Laufer Center has been recognized among the best in life science innovations,” Nancy Rohring, the administrative director of the Laufer Center, said. “It says a lot about the high caliber research done here at Laufer Center and SBU.” The Stony Brook team’s research has brought about a method involving pharmaceutical applications.

The method gives a way to predict a protein structure needed to create a rational drug design.

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It predicts this structure in a way that bioinformatics cannot, using Modeling Employing Limited Data.

MELD uses a Bayesian inference, which is a mathematical approach that helps scientists avoid anything that isn’t a real protein when searching through the body. It is necessary to find these real proteins so that scientists can predict their structure.

“We can’t just wait for the computer to try all possibilities – it would take longer than the age of the universe,” Perez, a Ph.D. student at the Laufer Center, said. “So instead, we use what we know about proteins, they’re compact, make secondary structure and hydrophobic residues are likely to interact with each other,

and this helps us hop from place to place, avoiding many possible shapes that wouldn’t look like real proteins.”

The team’s findings took them to the second round of the competition, where Stony Brook lost to Weill Cornell Medicine’s team on March 6.

Cornell’s research team authored “A Data-Driven Approach to Predicting Successes and Failures of Clinical Trials” published in the Journal of Cell Chemical Biology The article explores a computational approach that predicts the failures of clinical trials.

“We made it to the round of 32 contestants. Our Twitter skills were lacking,” Perez said. “In particular,

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Ken Dill, Ph.D., left, and Emiliano Brini, Ph.D., right, are members of the team that competed in STAT Madness.

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War correspondent comes to campus.

Cuisine and Confessions comes to Staller.

Time to cut down on the computer.

Women’s Lax sweeps weekend.

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Roy Gutman sheds light on conflicts in Syria.

Performers transformed the stage into a kitchen.

Why we should lessen our daily screen time.

Seawolves notch a win over top-5 opponent.

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Pulitzer-winning war reporter talks Syria Research team ends run in top 32 of STAT Madness

By Mike Adams Contributing Writer

International correspondent Roy Gutman spoke to a small group of students about his coverage of the civil war in Syria, at the Melville Library during Campus Life Time on Wednesday, March 29.

Gutman is best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning work as a correspondent for Newsday, playing an instrumental role in uncovering the Bosnian Genocide during the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s. Dean of the School of Journalism, Howard Schneider, Gutman’s editor at the time, called his work in the Balkans “one of the proudest moments of my life as an editor.”

While both Schneider and journalism professor Pablo Calvi praised Gutman’s efforts in covering conflicts all over the world, the bulk of the lecture focused on Gutman’s current work in Syria. Gutman claimed his interests lay not so much in war itself, but in its impact on human lives.

“Syria may be the thorniest problem on Earth today,” Gutman said.

“Syria today is a scene of huge tragedy, a wellspring of terror and war crimes. It’s hard for the public to even grasp these conflicts, but it’s easy to grasp what it’s led to.”

Gutman described the outflow of five million Syrian refugees into Europe as a prime motivator for both Brexit and the travel ban issued by the Trump administration.

Recently, Syria has seen the bombing of Aleppo by Russian and Syrian government forces and alleged deaths of hundreds of civilians in American airstrikes.

Gutman repeated his controversial claim that the rise of ISIS and the Kurdish PKK — as well as several other militia forces in the area — was actually instigated by the Assad regime. In a desperate bid to retain power, Gutman believes Syria effectively ceded its portion of Kurdistan to the PKK, and released Al Qaeda terrorists from prison in Iraq who would go on to form the keystone of the Islamic State.

“Syria is one of the least reported places on Earth because ISIS is killing journalists and aid workers

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Newsday war correspondent Roy Gutman, above, speaks to students at Melville Library on March 29. for the shock effect,” Gutman said.

“There is a vast criminality in Syria, which the U.S. has allowed to happen without comment. I think it’s about time we come to grips with the crisis.”

In conjunction with Stony Brook’s Marie Colvin Center for International Reporting, Gutman has begun a project that encourages local Syrians to become journalists themselves, chronicling daily life in their war-torn homeland, through originally-written letters, for the rest of the world to see.

“Roy is taking the amazing initiative to give voice to local reporters in Syria,” Calvi said. “I’ve never heard of any initiative of this quality and magnitude. Having locals reporting on their trials and tribulations gives us a much more direct perspective as to what’s happening, as opposed to our mediated Western point of view.”

While Gutman has served as the primary curator and editor of the letters since the project’s inception half a year ago, the Colvin Center plans to involve journalism students in the editing process, once the initiative gets its feet off the ground.

According to Calvi, paid editing internships will be offered as part of the project by next summer.

Audience members were given copies of the first article in the series to be published. Houssam Muhammad Mahmoud, a Syrian who submitted a letter to the project entitled, “Letter from Madaya, Syria,

Under Siege by the Assad Regime for Nearly 2 Years,” provided in his account an up-close and personal view of the Syrian civil war that journalists like Marie Colvin died trying to acquire. Formerly a student of French literature at the University of Damascus, Mahmoud has born witness to tragedy on a scale few can imagine: “I am haunted by what I’ve witnessed,” Mahmoud wrote. “I recall trying to extricate the body of a man buried under the rubble — along with his wife, a daughter, and another relative — only to have his limb separate from his body. We stayed three hours into the night to bury them because a sniper was shooting at us. I have nightmares. I see the bodies of people who died in bombings. I see the people who died of starvation and who I helped to bury. I will always remember Suleiman Fares, a farmer, aged 50, who weighed only 50 pounds when we buried him.”

When asked what the United States could do to make a difference in Syria, Gutman pointed to the lessons of Afghanistan, stressing that the answer is far from simple.

“There’s no 25-word response to this question,” Gutman said. “It’s not a question of sending in the 82nd Airborne, it’s a question of understanding the local politics. You have to find which of these forces are most likely to produce stability. You cannot vacillate between Assad and the opposition.”

we did not do a good job to engage the SBU community in knowing about this event and knowing that they could vote to help the science being done in their university to move forward.”

The competition is broken into two parts. First, a “fan-favorite winner” is chosen by online users following the competition, and then editors can pick the winner from the original contestant pool, Megha Satyanarayana, news editor of STAT News, said.

“We had more than one hundred entries we went through and picked,” she said. “We looked for the most innovated, what affected a large number of people, and what solved problems in life sciences – it didn’t necessarily have to be all those things but that’s what we were looking for.”

Although Stony Brook’s team did not win, Perez says that the team’s opportunity to compete in STAT Madness was unexpected yet rewarding.

“We had hit a milestone with our research that got accepted in a good visibility journal and we contacted the Media Relations Office at Stony Brook, Lauren Sheprow and Gregory Filiano in case they saw a good way

to publicize it,” he said. “Greg found out about the STAT Madness competition and he thought it was worth a shot, and he certainly was right.”

Perez and his team members were initially inspired to find a new way to predict protein structure, because the current approaches used could not predict structures beyond those that were similar to the 100,000 already known ones, he said.

“But simulations are lengthy, costly and have not been successful in the past, and success here would be huge for pharmaceutical applications,” Perez added.

The team says it will continue to find ways to improve its technology and make it more useful to researchers and the general public.

“We are always on the lookout for collaborations with pharmaceuticals where this kind of basic research can end up making a difference in the life of people through better health,” Perez said.

STAT Madness will announce the fan-favorite winner on April 3, and then announce the editor’s pick shortly after.

The fan-favorite winner will receive publicity on STAT News’ website, and the editor’s pick will receive “bragging rights” and an article published by STAT, Satyanarayana said.

LIT party wins majority of Senate seats in USG election Continued from page 1

“Although I’m upset for my party since the results of the executive council did not go our way in most positions, I’m extremely grateful to be elected a second year in a row,” he said.

The LIT party gained the upper hand in the Senate, bringing home 10 of 19 seats. Jay Abad, Christian Cole, Tahiana Abad, Kojo Dansoh, Clare Finnegan and May Chan will represent their party as CAS senators, Stanley Zhao and Matthew Nation as CEAS senators, Courtney Lall as

HSC senator and Keiko Nagami as At-Large Senator.

The Party Next Door’s Peter Alsaloum, Jessica McKay, Abdelrahman Salama, and Bianca Benayoun will also act as CAS senators, Forum Doshi and Anthony Montalbano as CEAS senators, Lily Lin as College of Business senator, David Ashurov as Junior Class senator, and Lazaro Rivera as sophomore class senator.

The race for executive vice president will continue next, with runoff elections taking place between Bria Midgette from the LIT party and Christina Dorf from the Party Next Door.

Generations of Statesman alumni recount their experiences at the paper Continued from page 1 touched on the impact made by the late Martin Buskin. Buskin, a longtime education editor for Newsday, came to invest his time and energy in the fledgling paper after he was contacted by its reporters. For years, Buskin would work as an adjunct professor at Stony Brook, teaching nighttime journalism classes and working with The Statesman to foster an entire generation of reporters.

“There are a number of journalists in this room who started out in Marty’s courses,” Larry Bozman, editor-in-chief of The Statesman from ’72-’73, said. “Marty was one of those sparks that led to a lot of people becoming journalists. We had a truly great mentor.”

During Buskin’s tenure as mentor of the paper, The Statesman printed 36 pages of news a week in three issues, a density of coverage surpassed on Long Island only

by Newsday itself. Buskin’s former protégés credited their success to the high standards he set for them.

“Marty Buskin was an instrumental part in the lives of everybody at The Statesman, especially the editorial board,” Leonard Steinbach, former news editor and principal of Cultural Technological Strategies at Johns Hopkins University, said. “Knowing that we had him looking over our shoulder really brought out the best in us. He would meet with us in our office and just tear us apart. I still remember him saying ‘Steinbach, you can do better than that!’ And we did.”

Though a heart attack in 1976 brought about Buskin’s death at the age of 45, his legacy lives on in the form of the Martin Buskin Award for campus Journalism, awarded annually to Stony Brook students whose work demonstrates excellence in campus reporting.

Arielle Martinez, 2016 Buskin Award recipient and current editor-in-chief of The Statesman, reflected on the paper’s past while looking toward its future.

“It means so much to me that I get to lead the paper at such a critical point in its history,” Martinez said.

“The Statesman is not just a club, it’s a community forum, it’s a chronicle of campus life, it’s a training ground for new journalists. As we transition to a digital-first outlet, it means so much to me that what I do now could affect the paper for the next 60 years.”

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Larry Bozman, Class of '74, speaks at The Statesman's 60th anniversary reunion on April 1 at the Hilton Garden Inn.

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Students celebrate diversity with Open Mic and Food Tasting

By Stephanie Yuvienco Contributing Writer

On March 30, the UNITI Cultural Center collaborated with students to celebrate the diversity in culture and talent at Stony Brook with the Multicultural Open Mic and Food Tasting event in the Student Activities Center Ballroom A. “Because of the snowstorm in February, this program is in place of a campus-wide tradition, ‘Journey Around the World Multicultural Show and Food Tasting,’” Cheryl Chambers, the associate dean of Multicultural Affairs, said. “We conjoined elements to allow students to be part of an evening of cultural entertainment.”

Ten student performers entertained the audience with various acts including song, dance and spoken word poetry. At the end of the performances, the attendees voted for their choice of first, second and third place.

When the clock hit 8 p.m., Dean Chambers kicked off the show with a speech, then Aamen Arthur, a senior biomedical engineering major, performed spoken word poetry as the first act. The acts thereafter resonated with the audience, who snapped or cheered the performers on and off stage.

“I’m feeling great,” performer K’La Rivers, a sophomore sociology and anthropology major, said. “[Through spoken word poetry], I have the confidence to say what everyone wants to say so they feel heard and understood.”

Not only did the event gather students from all walks of life on campus, it also brought in admitted students who were still deciding whether to commit to the university. Admitted students from various high schools in New York City who were visiting the university for an overnight stay attended the event.

“Forty students are here to see what campus life is like and experience the diversity,” Dean Chambers said.

“This was an intense event,” Dylan Obas, a senior at St. Edmund Preparatory High School in Brooklyn, and one of the admitted students who attended the event, said. “I enjoyed the different types of entertainment thrown at me. It gave me a different feel of students on campus.”

After the performances, Dean Chambers shifted the attention to the cultural cuisine prepared for dinner. Students got to enjoy food like jerk chicken, vegetable samosas and egg rolls. The evening continued with lighthearted conversation as more students, inspired by the previous per-

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Singing, dancing and spoken word poetry were all performed at the Open Mic night and Food Tasting event held by the UNITI Cultural Center on Thursday, March 30.

formers, hopped on stage and gave solo performances.

“This event was helpful with the whole diversity initiative,” L’Oreal Ellington, a chaperone for the high school students, said. “It was great to bring the SBU community together for a night of culture, food and talents.”

The winners were announced when the evening came to a close.

Eshani Goradia, a sophomore biology major, won first place with her cover of “My Heart Will Go On” by Celine Dion. Cary Lamb, a senior theatre arts major, tap danced his way into the audience’s heart and won second place. Charles Woodbine, a senior and tentative English major, delivered an empowering spoken word about identity and won third place.

“I don’t usually participate at these activities,” Woodbine said. “I was pretty nervous, but I got on stage and clicked with everyone.”

The UNITI Cultural Center, which was previously located in the Student Union, is now in the Student Activities Center.

The close proximity to student life makes it more accessible for future collaborations.

Review: Having breakfast for dinner with Cuisine & Confessions

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Les 7 Doigt's Cuisine & Confessions was performed at the Staller Center on April 1 at 8 p.m. and April 2 at 4 p.m..

By Rebecca Liebson Assistant News Editor

Any dedicated chef or foodie will tell you that cooking is an art form. Cuisine & Confessions, a show from Canadian creative collective, Les 7 Doigts, exemplifies this idea, combining acrobatics, acting and cooking for a unique live experience.

I was immediately hit by the scent of garlic wafting through the air upon entering the Main Stage at the Staller Center for the Arts. My eyes were drawn to the steam rising above the stage, which looked like a kitchen complete with a stove, open cabinets housing an assortment of cookware and a large banquet table in the center.

The cast was putting on a performance before the show had officially started. One performer played catch with the crowd, tossing a lemon back and forth from the stage. Another ran into the audience, challenging people to crack an egg using only one hand.

Soon after I sat down, an acrobat named Mishan approached me. He asked me about my favorite and least favorite foods and any memories I had in the kitchen, scribbling all my responses down on a notepad. He told me about his own cherished food memory, his grandmother’s Spanish omelette. He tried to recreate the recipe himself, but could never get the distinct taste of saffron to come through in the same way.

Before long, he ran off to go interview more audience members.

As the lights dimmed and the show began, there was a sense of uncertainty lingering among the audience, like no one quite knew what to expect. So you can imagine my shock when less than 20 minutes into the show, Mishan turned to the audience and asked, “Where is Rebecca? Can Rebecca please stand up?” As I rose to my feet, Mishan stared straight at me and said “I decided I’m in love with you.” You could practically hear the sound of my jaw hitting the floor.

Before I had time to process what was going on, I was dragged up on stage, where I was seated at a table set for two. The cast tumbled all around me, flipping and leaping, cartwheeling and juggling. One woman serenaded me with a dreamy accordion performance. All throughout, the performers painted pictures of their experiences with food and romance: making eggs for a lover in the morning and sipping hot cocoa before a first kiss.

A delicately-folded omelette that was prepared right on stage was placed in front of me. One of the acrobats presented me with a small forkful and instructed me to open my mouth. Fluffy eggs, combined with the sharp taste of green onion and the sweet relief of a farmstand tomato, was simple yet so delicious.

The audience sat in anticipation as they awaited my feedback,

and cheered when I gave a positive response. I was ushered back to my seat where I enjoyed the rest of my omelette while watching the performance.

The show was organized into a series of vignettes and highlighted the points at which food intersects with love, lust and loss. The storytelling was accentuated by death-defying feats of athletic prowess.

The story of cast member Sidney’s relationship with his mother was represented through their mutual love for banana bread. As a monologue about growing up without a father figure played in the background, he and another acrobat took turns leaping through hoops that were up to eight feet high.

Audience interaction was an important component of the show. As the performers placed pans filled with banana bread batter into the oven, they asked everyone to pull out their phones and set a timer. Thirty-six minutes later, at the end of the show, a chorus of digital alarms went off in unison. We were then invited to come up to the stage and sample a piece.

The show was full of lighthearted moments. One scene parodying an infomercial for kitchen appliances ended with one of the cast members fashioning pots and pans into a suit of armor and “slaying” the rest of his peers. In another, three random audience members were

pulled onstage and were forced to sit around the table together and get acquainted over a bowl of olives.

One of the most powerful moments of the night came when cast member Matias told the story of his father, a political dissident who disappeared at the hands of the Argentine government. Matias described the perfect last meal he had envisioned for his father – his whole family gathered around eating a traditional Italian pasta dinner.

Matias expressed his feelings of pain and emptiness visually, climbing up and down a massive pole on the left side of the stage.

In a display of immense strength — both physical and emotional — he hung horizontally from the pole. His stiffened body looked like a flag jutting out in the wind.

The most shocking move came when Matias slid down the pole headfirst, and actually removed his hands so that he was free falling. A sigh of relief emanated from the crowd when he stopped himself, grabbing back onto the pole just inches from the ground.

Cuisine & Confessions simultaneously engages your five senses while pulling at your heartstrings. What on the surface may appear to be two hours of pure sensory overload is actually a meticulously-crafted entertainment experience that captivates the audience. I left with a newfound appreciation for the way food shapes the human experience.

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MFA student Dewayne Wrencher showcases artwork in 'Bodies' exhibition

By Emily Norman Contributing Writer

The tagline of graduate student Dewayne Wrencher’s website reads “Native Born Black … Artist.”

“There is so much meat in that little center,” Wrencher said, referring to the ellipses. According to Wrencher, there is so much more to him than just the color of his skin.

The Chicago native, a candidate for a Master of Fine Arts at Stony Brook University, is featured in the current exhibition at the Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery titled “Bodies: MFA Thesis Exhibit 2017.”

The show features the artwork of four graduate MFA candidates whose work holds a special emphasis on sculpture, printmaking and photography.

The gallery features a 13-foot piece by Wrencher called “Collection of Questions.” The linocut, a design made by carving into linoleum, asked a series of background questions such as, “When and where were you born?” which he says is meant to build a sense of identity.

In order to answer these questions, Wrencher interviewed a series of people and used those answers in three separate pieces. Each piece features men and women strategically placed at the bottom of a canvas so that their hair takes up the rest of it, acting as a frame.

“In their hair there are going to be visual representations of the answers I got from all these people,” Wrencher said.

Two of the pieces, titled “Beliefs” and “Tradition,” have one

person depicted on the canvas.

The other, “Social Behavior,” has multiple people but is much wider, creating a bigger story.

Wrencher said he uses various mediums for his art, preferring those that most effectively illustrate his creativity. He often uses linoleum because of its smoothness, allowing him to create his desired curves and shapes.

“I will use anything,” he said.

“I mean anything, from spoken word, poetry, canvas, inks, washes, paintbrushes, anything.”

His favorite medium to use is printmaking, something he is now teaching at Stony Brook in ARS 274: Introductory Printmaking.

Printmaking is a task he describes as “delicious.”

“That’s a term I use a lot,” he said. “I even put it on my bookmarks. I give to my students.

It just represents so much, like it’s so good. All you need to say is delicious.”

Wrencher’s love of art began in his junior year of college at the University of Wisconsin when he tried to bond with his eldest brother, Edgar. Though it was Edgar who taught him how to draw, Wrencher says his passion for art truly emerged around the same time, while he was watching people perform spoken word, a type of performance art that uses poetry.

“The energy, and the exchange of emotion, and sacrifice from the crowd, and the poet was just unbelievable,” Wrencher said.

The 30-year-old’s work is centered around getting people to talk about the complex question of identity, something even he has

struggled to understand, according to his website.

“I’m a thinker by nature,” he said. “It just comes. I think about everything, I question everything.

I noticed that one of the things I was struggling with was identity.”

Although Wrencher said that he likes to be honest and truthful with himself, he added it did not always come so easily for him.

“Identity was a big thing to me because I was trying to figure out, how do I explain to someone who I am if they ask me?”

Wrencher said.

Because of this, he said that he is the primary audience of his own work. He believes that it is an artist’s job to be as honest as they can with their work because the easiest person for an artist to lie to is themselves. Aside from himself, Wrencher targets a minority audience with his work.

“Anyone that identifies as black or is under the umbrella of, you know, the term black, for sure that’s my core audience because I’m trying to push out that identity, that sense of self,” Wrencher said.

Growing up, he felt like he lacked education about his own roots. Wrencher tried to learn about his identity during his senior year of college, where he had the opportunity to focus on African American studies while earning his Bachelor of Science in art. Though he is unsure, Wrencher said that he may pursue a degree in African American studies in the near future.

Ultimately, Wrencher’s goal for his work is to introduce questions of identity to the viewer.

“Then you can build a beautiful sense of identity and know

yourself, just like I know who I am,” he said.

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Dewayne Wrencher, MFA student, has artwork that is on display at the Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery exhibit, "Bodies."

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Teams will compete in an Easter scavenger hunt on April 7.

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Watsi will be hosting an Easter egg scavenger hunt on April 7 at 2:30 p.m., starting in the Student Activities Center. Teams, who have registered and paid a fee, will decipher clues and complete challenges around campus to win prizes. After all 12 eggs are found, the scavenger hunt is complete. The first team to finish will receive a gift basket.

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Xin Ying, above, performing Diversion of Angels, a dance whose choreography and costumes were designed by Martha Graham in 1948. It will be performed on April 8.

Friday, April 7

Second Annual Date Auction

Friday, April 7

Join Camp Kesem at the Tabler Blackbox Theatre for its second annual Date Auction, where students can bid on a date with one of many talented and eligible Stony Brook students. All the proceeds will go directly to Camp Kesem and its efforts to offer camp for kids who have been affected by their parent’s cancer. The event, with a semi-formal dress code, is from 7 to 10 p.m..

Saturday, April 8

Sanger College in Tabler Quad is hosting an evening of appreciation of South Asian culture. Starting at 7 p.m., the event will have Bollywood music, South Asian cuisine from the Curry Club and performances by Stony Brook Bhangra, Junoon and Yuva and henna by Humira and Rumana.

Martha Graham masterpieces and other contemporary works will share the Staller Center Main Stage on April 8. The Martha Graham Dance Company will perform Dark Meadow Suite and Diversion of Angels, two classic pieces created by Graham herself, as well as Woodland and Lamentation Variations, two newer pieces inspired by her work.

Tickets are $48 and can be purchased online.

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Help for dealing with depression and anxiety in college

By Michael Kohut Staff Writer

Secondary education in America matters. It matters a lot. Regardless of if you want to go to college, it has been noted for some time that attending is becoming less of a choice, and more of a requirement. But what about when mental or physical issues get in the way of a fruitful college experience?

Depression, anxiety and ADHD, what I once saw described as the “millennial cocktail,” can do just that. Here I’ll tackle that cocktail with advice based on firsthand experience.

Dealing with mental health problems at this point in life can be extra difficult because of the sheer amount of things happening around you. Juggling schoolwork, a social life and your first taste of political involvement while only getting five hours of sleep.

Sound familiar? If so, the first thing you can change is getting the recommended eight hours of sleep every night. In spite of the temptations by the internet or what have you, nothing contributes more inconspicuously to unhappiness than sleep deprivation.

Even if you’re getting enough sleep to function, you’re not your best self when you’re tired.

That might seem obvious, but what isn’t is the way that small amounts of sleep deprivation can compound invisibly to contribute to the problems you’re already having.

Get rest, even if you have work to do. You’ll get more done in the long run and be happier, too.

Speaking of getting stuff done, pace yourself. College workloads can be enormous, but it’s only possible to do one thing at a time. So, deal with your workload accordingly — even if you’re backlogged. Make a list of everything you need to do. Depression can make you nervous about writing everything down because then you need to confront it, but doing so means that you can start checking things off your todo list.

Getting over your issues and finding happiness for yourself is much easier when you can spend your free time fully experiencing the moment, without nagging thoughts of tasks undone.

On the flip side, set aside time to not do work — even if you

have work to do. This helps you remember that work and play is a balance and not a binary. Your life is more than waiting to do work and it’s important to remember that.

Finally, admit it to yourself and others when something isn’t right. This one was the hardest for me. If I had been able to recognize something was wrong earlier, I could have saved myself from a fair amount of hardship. Just because you could always rely on yourself in the past doesn’t mean that you need to in the future. Speak up. Friends, peers and educators are more understanding in real life than in your self-constructed reality.

If the feelings persist beyond what’s discussed here, speak to a professional. Don’t feel guilty over chemical imbalances in your brain that you can’t control.

If you’re depressed, you’re not weak, you’re not useless and you’re not alone. But you are sick, and you can become healthy again.

We all deserve a shot at happiness, being depressed can make us forget that, but keeping it in mind will help you heal.

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Monday, April 3, 2017

It's important that we cut down on our computer time

By Rawson Jahan Contributing Writer

Instagram was my form of cocaine. Netflix and Hulu were my morphine. Like enjoying those joyous warm caramel macchiatos from Starbucks despite the 30 minute long lines, like all the bad habits you know you shouldn’t do, I kept spending all of my time looking at my phone.

My family, my friends and my boyfriend all knew that if they wanted my attention, it couldn’t be any time I was near my phone. I’d scroll through my feed and stop a conversation mid-track like, “Omg who is she? She’s so hot, I wonder if Fit Tea really works?”

“Haha, look at this golden retriever wearing a onesie.”

“Where can I get a life like Jay Alvarrez?”

But don’t be so quick to brand me with a scarlet letter ‘A.’ You know you’ve done it too — ignored the people around you for a virtual reality of perfection and puppy videos. No one can escape binge-watching cute dogs doing cute dog things.

When did I become a person who couldn’t go 15 minutes without periodically checking her phone? When did I become someone who ignored others because I was too enamored by a show or Snapchat story?

According to a news report by The Telegraph, the average person has five social media accounts and will spend an hour and 40 minutes browsing through those accounts daily. That’s about 28 percent of the total internet usage for the day. This was all too familiar, and I sounded even worse than this.

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According to the Neilsen Company Audience Report for 2017, the average American spends approximately 10 hours daily using media like television, internet and video games.

A few weeks ago, I deleted the Facebook, Twitter and Instagram apps off my phone. Last night I deactivated my Instagram account entirely. In these past few weeks, I’ve been going to the gym a lot more than my usual once a week I-really-shouldgo-if-I’m-eating-all-this-dessertrun through. I don’t deserve a cookie for detoxifying my life of bad habits and too much social media usage. But, this small app cleanse on my phone got me thinking — even if I wanted to, can I really escape the internet?

According to the Nielsen Com-

pany Audience Report for 2017, the average American spends 10 hours and 39 minutes daily using media like television, internet and video games. That’s about 74.6 out of the 168 hours that make up a week.

Those 10 hours are just the amount of media we consume, the entertainment part of the pie in our daily media usage. What about the number of hours we spend on Blackboard, Gmail and Solar for school daily?

If you’re a Stony Brook student, these three websites are just the basic must-checks that you have

to maintain in order to do well in school.

Then there’s EBooks, Echoes, Cengage, Aleks, Oscer and the list goes on depending on your major.

Whether you spend the recommended three hours per class, per week studying or not, it’s inevitable that you will use the internet for school-related work.

I’m a double major studying journalism and economics. Don’t get me wrong, I love reading the news, creating media and writing a good story — but that means I’m on the internet or behind a computer screen for more than

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four to five hours everyday. Then there’s my economics homework and lectures.

Maybe this makes me come off as a self-entitled princess, but I like to enjoy every meal and that means I’m going to watch my Hulu show, Netflix series or a makeup video on YouTube with it. It’s the only form of relaxation I can get as a student when I do have time for myself, whether it’s 15 minutes or less.

A Psychology Today study from 2014 reported that too much time behind a screen literally damages the brain. Loss of brain tissue/ shrinkage occurred in those with internet and gaming addiction.

That’s pretty terrifying.

Many of us already know that opening up that website for a class or study guide can lead to 15 extra tabs that don’t relate to the work you need to do. And as students, can we really blame ourselves for wanting to enjoy some form of entertainment to stop ourselves from being overwhelmingly miserable over our schoolwork and commitments?

I think the best that we can do is use the internet in moderation.

Like with all the things that we love, there needs to be some level of self-control.

In a perfect world, we wouldn’t have to rely on the internet so much. But from schoolwork to daily life, this isn’t going to happen anytime soon. So maybe all we can do is cut back on our social media usage and stop watching so many television shows and YouTube videos. Then we can truly be happy in the moment, build the “ideal” lives that we glorify on social media for ourselves and connect better with the people that matter to us.

The good, the bad and the high potential of CulinArt

By Scott Terwilliger Contributing Writer

Stony Brook students are hardpressed for a Sodexo meal that will not have them reaching for the Pepto Bismol. The solution, proposed on Jan. 9 by the Faculty Student Association, is to have a re-bidding process.

Currently at the starting line are the two contenders: Aramark and CulinArt. Each has presented its proposed alterations to improve the campus dining experience at public meetings. Having not gone to Aramark’s presentation, I may be biased in saying that CulinArt is well-equipped to finish first.

CulinArt’s plan will lead to a cornucopia of food — if it comes to fruition. For those living on east campus, H-Quad will be receiving salads, sandwiches, sushi, fruit, parfaits and fresh baked goods. East Side Dining customers can choose from a New York deli, vegan and vegetarian cuisine and a self-serve smoothies operation. At the SAC Loop, there may be a Nathan’s Hot Dogs cart to quell pangs of hunger during the wait for a never-arriving ride. Inside a more retail-oriented Roth there will be a Cocina Fresca –

CulinArt’s spin on Chipotle since Chipotle does not franchise — a deli, and a Shake Shack in 2018.

Lastly, West Side Dining will cater essentially the same variety of options as at East Side, with the addition of a bagel market in the GLS/HDV Center. The cherry on top is campus delivery for food.

Who will they be hiring? Student drivers, which means more opportunities for students to work on campus. All of this sounds spectacular, but why should we, as students, trust CulinArt? CulinArt is a company on Long Island, approximately 24 miles away from our campus, as highlighted in their presentation.

Because it is in such close proximity, the company has numerous connections to the university. For example, it has been providing food for the Staller Center Gala for nine years. Alan Inkles, the director of the Staller Center for the Arts, said that in his time at Stony Brook, “none of the others come close to the exceptional quality of [its] food, service and execution.”

However, before the university puts all its eggs in CulinArt’s basket, a few concerns should be considered.

CulinArt is also the food service provider at Carnegie Mellon Uni-

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A student worker at West Side Dining in fall 2016. Stony Brook's Faculty Student Association has proposed a re-bidding process for current food provider, Sodexo. versity. In an article from 2014, their student-run newspaper, The Tartan, critiqued the meal plan’s block system, writing, “a salad from Spinning Salad with edamame cost a student just as much as the all-you-can-eat buffet.” In

an article from 2016, CulinArt was shown to be stringent on employee wages.

While Sodexo employees at the University of Pittsburgh make up to $15.92 an hour, CulinArt employees at Carnegie Mellon had

to fight for a wage above $13.35 an hour.

If the university wants to chance adopting a lesser-known company, CulinArt could potentially reinvigorate the campus dining experience.

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Stony Brook wins both Sunday games to seize series from Albany

By Tim Oakes Staff Writer

Stony Brook Baseball played host to Albany at Joe Nathan Field this past weekend. The Seawolves won the final two games of the series. Despite a five-run loss in the first game of the series. Stony Brook improves its conference record to 4-2.

Game 1: Albany 8 - Stony Brook 3 The Seawolves fell behind early in the first game of the series, allowing two runs to the Great Danes in each of the first two innings. The four runs proved to be all that Albany would need to defeat Stony Brook, 8-3.

Sophomore starting pitcher SBU ALB Bret Clarke was 8 3 charged with four of the six runs allowed in his five innings pitched, and also walked seven batters. Last season’s America East Rookie of the Year has continued to struggle this season, posting a 9.74 ERA in 31.1 innings. Neither he nor head coach Matt Senk can pinpoint what exactly has been going wrong.

“If I had an answer, I would have already shared it with Bret.

So I don’t really have a good answer to that,” Senk said. “I have

Upcoming SBU Sports Schedule Baseball Tue. April 4 3:30 p.m. vs. Iona Fri. April 7 3:30 p.m. at Sacred Heart Sat-Sun April 8-9 Three-game series vs. Sacred Heart

Softball Wed. April 5 3:30 p.m. at LIU Brooklyn Thu. April 6 4 p.m. at Seton Hall Sat-Sun April 8-9 Three-game series vs. UMBC

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some things going through my mind that we might try in order to help us not be in the situation that we have been in when Bret has pitched. But if there is a button to be pushed, I haven’t pushed it yet.”

Albany junior starting pitcher Jack McClure kept Stony Brook hitters off balance all day. He allowed four hits and one run while striking out four in six innings.

“I don’t remember him being up in the zone much,” Senk said. “I think that was the biggest thing. He made us work for everything we got. We had our chances and we didn’t capitalize.”

By the time McClure left the game, the Seawolves were down by five runs. Senior centerfielder Toby Handley hit a solo shot in the seventh inning, his third of the season, to bring the game within four runs. But it was too little, too late.

Game 2: Stony Brook 8 - Albany 3 The Seawolves fell behind early in the game once again, coughing up three runs in the first two innings. But the Stony Brook did not rest on its laurels. After the Seawolves scored three runs in the fifth inning, tying the game, sophomore right fielder Dylan Resk pummeled a two-run home run over the left field wall to take the lead.

“I was just looking for some pitch to drive and I put a good swing on it,” Resk said. “I am really focusing on seeing the ball up [in the zone] more in hitters counts.”

Resk now leads the Seawolves with four home runs. The hit proved to be a decisive one, as Stony Brook never looked back, defeating Albany 8-3.

While Stony Brook worked SBU ALB to take the 3 8 lead, freshman starting pitcher Brian Herrmann refocused after getting rattled in the first two innings. His resilience and calm demeanor was on display, following the second inning. Herrmann silenced the Great Danes’ bats, allowing just one more hit before being removed in the sixth inning.

“Brian is maturer than his years.

He doesn’t show a lot of emotions out there,” Senk said. “He doesn’t let

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Senior first baseman Casey Baker holds on an opposing baserunner during a March game at Joe Nathan Field. Baker had five RBIs over the course of the weekend. much, if anything, bother him. That’s why he was able to bounce back.”

Senior first baseman Casey Baker finished the game with a gamehigh three RBIs. He drove in his first run of the game in the fifth inning, hitting an RBI double to right-centerfield. Baker also added a two-run single in the eighth inning, bringing the game to its final score of 8-3.

Game 3: Stony Brook 7 - Albany 1 Stony Brook typically plays four games over the course of a week: one game during the week and three on the weekend. But weekend starts are reserved for the team’s main three-man pitching rotation. After being a redshirt in 2016, freshman starting SBU ALB pitcher Greg 1 7 Marino received the nod from Senk to start Sunday’s rubber match against Albany.

“It felt amazing,” Marino said.

“I finally got an opportunity after a redshirt year. I did my best ot make the most of it, but I am just glad we were able to get the win.”

Marino entered the game with a 2.45 earned run average in 18 innings pitched. Despite making just one weekday start this season,

he showed that his promotion was the right decision. He allowed just one run and four hits while striking out eight batters in six innings on the mound en route to earning his second win of the year. Stony Brook defeated Albany 7-1.

“The reason Greg was out there is because he has pitched well in his last several outings,” Senk said.

“He went out there and made the most of it. I think it solidifies or pitching [rotation] as we move forward.”

Marino’s only blemish came in the second inning when he allowed a solo home run to sophomore infielder Travis Collins.

However, Seawolves senior shortstop Jeremy Giles quickly tied the game in the bottom of the inning on an RBI double to right-center field.

Baker’s hot hitting continued into the rubber match. He hit a two-run home run in the third inning to give his team a 3-1 lead. He finished with 5 RBIs on the day.

“You can’t drive in runs without your teammates getting on [base] for you,” Baker said with a smile on his face. “I want to drive them in every time and today I was able to.”

Sat. April 8 7 p.m. vs. Princeton

Women’s Lacrosse Sat. April 8 2 p.m. vs. Binghamton

Men’s Tennis Wed. April 5 1 p.m. vs. Wagner Fri. April 7 1 p.m. vs. Queens Sun. April 9 12 p.m. vs. Monmouth

Track & Field Sat. April 8 Metropolitan Championships at Rutgers University

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Sophomore right fielder Dylan Resk, pictured in a March game, hit a home run Sunday.

Athletics to cut Men's Tennis

By Daniel Gatta Contributing Writer

On Friday, Stony Brook Director of Athletics Shawn Heilbron announced the men’s tennis program will be discontinued following the 2016-17 season.

In 2014, the America East Conference dropped men’s tennis as a sponsored sport. Since then, Stony Brook has been competing in the Missouri Valley Conference. The university’s decision to discontinue the team “stems from recent changes in the conference landscape that has caused several institutions to eliminate both their men and women’s tennis,” a news release said.

Stony Brook will retain its women’s tennis program, which is currently in its first full season as a member of the Missouri Valley Conference. Heilbron stressed that this decision relied heavily on conference alignment.

“This difficult decision for our men’s program, while ultimately helping from a budget standpoint, was not driven by that factor,” Heilbron said in a news release. “Without a conference, we simply can’t operate as an independent program and expect to compete on a level that would allow our student-athletes to have a first class athletic experience.”

Seven of the 10 members on Stony Brook’s men’s team have remaining eligibility, and should they decide to transfer and play for another school, will be granted full releases. For members of the program remaining at Stony Brook, the school plans to honor whatever scholarships or financial aid they have throughout their matriculation.

The team’s next match is on Wednesday, April 5 against Wagner. The program’s final home match ever will be on April 14 versus UConn at 3 p.m.

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Heilbron discusses plans for Joe Nathan Field upgrades Women's Lax defeats Albany

By Tim Oakes Staff Writer

Stony Brook Athletics is “proactively” looking into building a new baseball-softball complex, Shawn Heilbron, the university Director of Athletics, said.

The hope is that an official announcement will be made by the end of the year.

“We are in conversation with the campus and certain donors about what we want to do,” Heilbron said. “I think in the short term we need lights, we need seats and we need restroom facilities. Ultimately we want to host an [NCAA] regionals here.”

However, he is not suggesting a new 10,000-seat stadium be erected. But Heilbron does think it is necessary to have 1,500-2000 seats surrounding Joe Nathan Field. The current facility has bleachers that accommodates 1,000 people, according to Stony Brook Athletics. They cannot host night games, because they do not have lights, and the current bathroom facility at the field is a row of portable toilets.

He made his intentions clear that the baseball-softball complex is the next most pressing need on his agenda, now that the new indoor practice facility is moving forward. It will allow all Stony Brook intercollegiate athletic teams to practice all year long. It was made possible when

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Senior centerfielder Toby Handley stands on deck during a game at Stony Brook University's Joe Nathan Field.

Glenn Dubin and his family pledged five million dollars to the project.

Heilbron wants to ensure that Stony Brook Baseball, which has won five America East Championships, has a new facility to coincide with the program’s growth.

“We have one of the greatest coaches in the country in Matt Senk, who is able to recruit well, but ultimately our ability to win is going to be dictated by the strength of the facilities that we surround our athletes with,” Heilbron said.

Senk has coached the Seawolves since 1991, orchestrating

the swift growth of the program.

He has developed a program that is a consistent player in the America East and has sent four players to the MLB. Stony Brook is attracting higher-end recruits such as Michael Wilson, who was drafted by the Boston Red Sox in the MLB draft last season.

“Facilities is hugely important but especially at the Division I level. Something like that will help us immensely in recruiting,” Senk said. “It will help us immensely in taking care of fans and I think more of the community would want to come out. I look forward to that happening sooner rather than later.”

Conference rival Albany.

“I wouldn’t say it was a trap game for us, but it was a tricky game” Spallina said.

Stony Brook asserted its presence early, with the team’s first goal just 33 seconds into the game. Sophomore attacker Keri McCarthy SBU ALB received a feed 18 11 from senior midfielder Dorrien Van Dyke and gave the Seawolves an early 1-0 lead. McCarthy’s fingerprints were all over the game. Her dominant performance in the draw control department — including eight controls herself — allowed the offense to have its way.

Stony Brook continued this strong start, jumping out to a 5-1 lead within the first eight minutes of play. Albany struggled to keep pace with the Seawolves scoring barrage. Spallina noted that a quick start was an emphasis in pregame walkthroughs.

McCarthy’s strong game was painfully rewarded with an inadvertent shoulder to the nose during a struggle for one first-half draw control. McCarthy briefly was forced out of the game due to the blood. The rivalry game status was verified by the brutal number of fouls during the game: a combined 43.

“We were not really good, I thought we were O.K. today,” Spallina said of his team’s performance. “There’s a lot to learn from today’s game, lots to look at in film.”

For Stony Brook’s juggernaut offense, it was a collaborative effort in which five different players registered hat tricks. The Seawolves were led by Taryn Ohlmiller who registered eight points on the afternoon.

One of those who registered a hat trick was midfielder Dorrien Van Dyke, who said, “you circle the Albany game on the calendar and you want to beat them.”

Kylie Ohlmiller tallied another ridiculous goal for the Seawolves in the second half on Sunday, scoring behind her back while falling forward, hitting the top corner opposite of her body’s momentum. “[Coming in,] we were thinking, ‘We win this game, we clinch America East [regular season championship],” McCarthy said. “That’s what our coach was saying, we want to have home playoff games.”

With Sunday’s win, barring a disastrous loss to one of the league bottom-dwellers, Stony Brook will remain atop the conference the rest of the season.

Stony Brook will resume action next Saturday at home against conference opponent Binghamton at 2 p.m..

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Women's Lacrosse sweeps weekend, defeats Colorado, Albany think it’s [working], it gives a mental edge: ‘Hey, we’re prepared.’”

On offense, a familiar, familial tandem led the way for the Seawolves. Junior attacker Kylie Ohlmiller scored three goals and two assists — for an NCAA-best 70 points this season — while her sister, freshman attacker Taryn Ohlmiller, had a pair of goals and four assists.

“I think Kylie’s the best player in the country and I think Taryn’s the best freshman in the country,” Spallina said.

By Skyler Gilbert and Nick Zararis

Sports Editor and Staff Writer

The Kenneth P. LaValle Stadium turf was slick, coated with 35-degree rainwater. The flags in the corner ripped with fierceness through the gale, their ropes taut. The Colorado women’s lacrosse team wore black leggings and sleeves, 1,800 miles from sunny Boulder.

But Stony Brook seemed right at home on Friday night, earning its highest-ranking victory in program history.

“This is our weather,” sophomore defender Mackenzie Burns said after the game, her hair still dripping under a camouflage Stony Brook baseball cap.

SBU COL “We love play10 6 ing in that.”

The No. 5 Seawolves defeated the No. 4 Buffaloes, 10-6, to render the road team its first loss of the season.

Throughout the practice week, head coach Joe Spallina had his staff soak the players’ stick shafts with cold water to simulate the inclement conditions, similar to NFL quarterbacks practicing with drenched footballs.

“I think a little bit of it is placebo effect,” Spallina said. “They

“I think Kylie’s the best player in the country and I think Taryn’s the best freshman in the country.”

- Joe Spallina, head coach The pair put on a show again.

In the first half, Kylie Ohlmiller dove through the splashing water for a disallowed, hockey-style goal. Later she made the game 9-6, falling to her right with a defender piggy-backed on her. Taryn scored one behind her back, a play that has become a staple of her older sister’s repertoire.

“I’m not going to say she taught me that,” Taryn Ohl-

miller laughed. “She’s [scored] a bunch of BTBs first, so I’m just trying to catch up basically.”

The Seawolves entered halftime with a 6-2 lead, then the margin tightened. The Buffaloes scored four of five goals to cut the advantage to 7-6 with 14:56 left in the game, when Spallina called timeout to settle his team.

“There’s definitely some ingame jitters,” Kylie Ohlmiller said. “You don’t want a team to come back from a four-goal lead, but we had a lot of confidence coming out of that timeout and we got it done.”

Stony Brook locked Colorado down for the rest of the game, scoring the final three goals of the contest. In the game, the Seawolves forced 26 turnovers and beat the Buffaloes 20-8 on ground balls.

“Our defense was incredible,” Spallina said. “We thought this team, more than other teams, would try to dodge our zone, so we talked about getting out on the ball and then pinching our adjacent slides.”

On Sunday, the Seawolves won again, their sixth in a row, by a score of 18-11 over America East Continued on page 11

Kylie Ohlmiller's 2017 Season:

75 points (First in NCAA) 35 assists (Second in NCAA) Current 6.82 points per game pace would set NCAA points record in 22 games.

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