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Campus, Broome votes for Cuomo BU voters differ from residents in other statewide races Sasha Hupka News Editor

posting policy of the time.

According to Ryan Yarosh, senior director of media and public relations at BU, the policy was updated after a committee was formed in the spring of 2018 to review and change the original posting policy.

“The new policy was recently implemented and necessary after reviewing the former policy which was outdated, lengthy and somewhat challenging to interpret,” Yarosh wrote in an email.

The committee consisted of five people, including Yarosh and Nicole Sirju-Johnson, director of the Multicultural Resource Center and interim chief diversity officer. Staff also looked for student feedback. Conrad Taylor, ‘18, a communications assistant at BU, worked with the committee as a

Incumbent Andrew Cuomo, incumbent Kathy Hochul and Letitia James will be the Democratic nominees for governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general — two of whom are candidates that took Broome County by more than 15 percentage points.

Thursday’s state and local primary in New York came at the end of a fiercely contested primary season for the state’s Democratic Party, with Cynthia Nixon and Cuomo vying for the gubernatorial nomination. In the lieutenant governor’s race, Hochul faced Jumaane Williams, while the attorney general’s election was a four-way race between James, Zephyr Teachout, Sean Patrick Maloney and Leecia Eve. All Republican candidates in statewide races are running unopposed.

Across Broome County, approximately 10,000 people voted in the election, and on campus, 128 students turned out to vote.

The numbers are a sharp incline from the last midterm primary election in 2014, when only eight students voted on campus and about 4,000 residents voted in the county for the Democratic primary.

In Broome County, Cuomo won the election with 57.55 percent of the vote, Hochul with 60.48 percent and Maloney with 43.78 percent. Cuomo and Hochul secured the nominations over their opponents by substantial margins in the county, while Teachout trailed Maloney

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Ariel Kachuro Assistant Photography Editor Students gather outside the University Downtown Center to demand the removal of Laura Bronstein, dean of the College of Community and Public Affairs, and financial transparency from the school.

Students continue protest of UDC, CCPA Demonstrators demand removal of CCPA dean Amy Donovan

Assistant News Editor

Donned in black clothing, students gathered at the Binghamton University Downtown Center (UDC) to protest the second annual University Downtown Gala on Friday evening.

The students had three demands: complete transparency as to where the money from the fundraiser would be going, the immediate removal of Laura Bronstein, dean of the College of Community and Public Affairs (CCPA), and complete transparency as to what happened to the money from the failed 2017 blue-light initiative.

The protest consisted of a coalition of students, including members of

the Frances Beal Society, the College Progressives, the Black Student Union and the Human Development Emancipation and Activism Taskforce (HEAT).

“They like to try to hide where the money goes and where the money comes from,” said Jacob Chank, a member of the Frances Beal Society and a senior majoring in political science. “I think as students it’s kind of our duty to try and minimize our negative impact on the community and holding the University accountable is a good way to do that.”

According to Bryce Lawson, president of College Progressives and a senior majoring in business administration, the demonstration was a continuation of efforts that started last spring with the UDC protests and in 2017 with the bluelight initiative protests.

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BU updates posting policy in response to spring protests Amy Donovan

Assistant News Editor

With new bulletin boards around campus, Binghamton University is changing its posting policy and allowing students to hang posters unrelated to academics, events, housing and items for sale, a move that is intended to increase opportunities for students to exercise freedom of speech.

The changes follow last semester’s protests at the University Downtown Center (UDC), which were sparked after police responded to students hanging flyers in the building. The flyers were intended to condemn racism on campus. According to police, the students were violating the University’s

BU Libraries brace for budget cuts University jumps six places in 2019 college rankings

Librarians will cancel high cost, low use materials, titles Ariana Benhuri

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During the spring semester, Binghamton University Libraries anticipated a $450,000 budget cut in electronic resources and print periodicals for the current semester due to a campuswide budget reduction. Now, University Libraries are braced for the blow, but the exact amount to be cut has yet to be determined.

The plan for reaching any necessary budget cuts includes holding the book budget flat, according to Curtis Kendrick, dean of University Libraries. Book prices generally inflate about 3.5 percent annually, which lowers the University’s purchasing power of books, but also spares books the worst of the cut.

Because of book price inflation, the book budget has been cut disproportionately over the past years. To avoid further issues, University Libraries also plans on cutting high-cost and low-use electronic and print periodicals, specifically titles for which the cost per use is over $75.

While several budget cuts have been implemented already, Kendrick said he still does not know the full extent of the potential budget cuts facing nearly every department.

“We’re trying to take a rational, evidencebased approach by looking at usage and cost per use,” Kendrick said. “The data will drive the decisions, as we do not wish to single out any department.”

In addition to cutting high cost-per-use titles, the department plans to apply a cut

List position impacted by new grading system Lia Berger

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Tyler Gorman Contributing Photographer Binghamton University Libraries is expecting roughly $450,000 in budget cuts next year and is preparing to eliminate high-cost, low-use resources.

across subject funds based on each fund’s share of the total print periodical and electronic resources budget.

Kendrick issued a statement in late August regarding the proposed cancellations to library resources for the current academic year. According to the press release, subject librarians have been carefully reviewing collections to identify the titles to cancel that will be least disruptive to the University’s ability to support research, scholarship, teaching and learning.

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A list of titles was compiled for “early cancellation decision.” However, the fall cancellation list, composed of titles and databases, is still contingent upon the severity of any reduction and is not final.

Michael McGoff, senior vice provost and chief financial officer, wrote in an email that it is still too early to tell how big the budget cut will be.

“We are assessing the situation, of

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Binghamton University rose six spots in the U.S. News and World Report’s 2019 Best Public Colleges rankings.

In 2018, the University was ranked No. 87 on the “Best National Universities” list and No. 38 on the “Best Public Universities” list. This year, it rose to No. 80 in the nation and No. 32 among public institutions, tying with Colorado School of Mines, North Carolina State University at Raleigh, Stony Brook University, Texas Christian University and Yeshiva University.

The U.S. News and World Report rankings are widely used among prospective students who are choosing where to apply. In addition to national universities and public schools, the site also ranks regional universities and liberal arts colleges.

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According to the U.S. News and World Report website, the rankings aim to provide an objective comparison of schools based on factors such as selectivity, graduation and retention rates and financial resources available to students.

The grading system assesses 16 different characteristics related to academic excellence.

Each year, however, the grading system is tweaked to place emphasis on different factors. In previous years, the U.S. News and World Report prioritized input factors such as student characteristics and the number of academic resources a university offers. The site’s methodology has since changed to focus on output factors, including employment rates after graduation and student retention rates. Recently, the grading system also dropped acceptance rates as a factor, a move that has helped public universities like BU. The University has consistently maintained a high

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Share a laugh with comedian DeAnne Smith at SAPB’s fall comedy show,

Taste locally grown produce at the Fresh Food Face-Off competition this Wednesday,

Contributing columnist Theodora Catrina criticizes professors’ use of expensive textbook access codes,

Women’s soccer blanks two in home stand,

Volleyball took one of three matches at Sacred Heart Invitational,

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SUNY inaugurates 13th chancellor On Friday, Kristina Johnson was inaugurated as the 13th chancellor of the SUNY system at the Fashion Institute of Technology, according to a press statement.

About 600 people attended the inauguration, including the SUNY Board of Trustees and presidents and delegates from all 64 SUNY campuses. During a speech at the inauguration, Johnson highlighted her plans to expand research and community engagement initiatives.

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Shots fired near Binghamton University Pharmacy School Shots were fired near Main Street and Willow Street in Johnson City on Sunday afternoon, according to a B-Alert statement sent at 4:10 p.m. One woman suffered injuries that were not lifethreatening and is being treated at Wilson Memorial Hospital, according to WBNG. Police have one suspect in custody, and are investigating the incident.

Police investigate fatal shooting

Police Watch The following accounts were provided by Investigator Robert Meddleton of Binghamton’s New York State University Police.

A 27-year-old man was shot near Main Street and Walnut Street in Binghamton around 4:44 a.m. on Sunday, according to WBNG. The victim later died of his wounds at the hospital. According to police, the suspect drove away from the scene in a dark sedan. The case is still under investigation, and anyone with information about the suspect’s whereabouts are encouraged to contact the Binghamton Police Department.

Smokin’ up WEDNESDAY, Sept. 12, 12:40 a.m. — An officer on patrol was driving down Connector Road when he detected the odor of burning marijuana near the Nature Preserve. Upon entering the Nature Preserve near Lot M, the officer observed two 18-year-old males, a 19-yearold female and two 20-year-old females passing around a lit joint. When the suspects saw the officer, one of them quickly flicked the joint into the grass nearby.

After questioning, the suspects admitted to smoking marijuana and the officer advised them that the Nature Preserve is closed at night. The suspects were referred to Student Conduct.

Tropical Depression Florence expected to hit Upstate New York

Parking revenge WEDNESDAY, Sept. 12, 2:11 p.m. — A 28-year-old female came to the police station and said she had witnessed a verbal argument over a parking space in Lot B. The female said she had observed two vehicles attempt to pull into the same spot. A 22-year-old male driving a Honda pulled into the parking spot and a 19-year-old male driving a Jeep continued circling the lot. Within minutes, the Jeep’s driver found a spot right next to the Honda. He parked close to the other vehicle and the driver of the Honda couldn’t open the door. The males then began arguing in the lot. The female, who said she was concerned one of the males might intentionally damage the other’s vehicle, wrote down the license plates of both cars before going to the police station. An officer walked to the parking space and observed that the Jeep was parked very close to the Honda, but did not see any damage. The officer contacted the owner of the Jeep, who said he had been upset that the Honda’s driver had stolen his parking space. He agreed to move his vehicle.

On Sunday morning, Hurricane Florence was downgraded to a tropical depression after hammering the southeastern coast of the United States earlier this week, according to The New York Times. The predicted pathway of the tropical depression expects it to travel over New York state sometime within the next week. Florence has taken at least 16 lives since its landfall on Sept. 14.

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Stalking ex WEDNESDAY, Sept. 12, 4:50 p.m. — UPD assisted the Johnson City Police Department after a 21-year-old female reported being harassed by her 22-year-old exboyfriend who attended Broome Community College.

The victim had previously filed a harassment report against the suspect in May 2017, when she said he kept coming to her apartment on campus. According to the victim, the suspect left her alone for a while, but eventually tried to contact her on Facebook in August.

The victim blocked him on social media. On Sept. 7, she noticed an individual following her while driving to her home in Johnson City. After the victim arrived home, she heard a knock on her door. She did not answer and called a friend to come to her house. Her friend advised the ex-boyfriend, who was outside the house, that the police would be called if he continued harassing the victim. The suspect later approached the victim while she was in Downtown Binghamton to apologize for his behavior. Officers advised the victim to file a report with the Johnson City Police Department and the Binghamton Police Department.

Only two tickets WEDNESDAY, Sept. 12, 9:10 p.m. — An officer on patrol observed a gray Jeep Cherokee fail to halt at a stop sign on West Drive. The officer stopped the vehicle and spoke with the driver, a 20-year-old male. Upon checking the male’s driver’s license, the officer found his license was suspended due to persistent traffic violations. His vehicle registration was also suspended, as he lacked insurance on the vehicle. When questioned, the driver said he had only gotten two tickets. However, according to the background check, he had received five. The driver’s vehicle was towed to his residence at UClub Binghamton. The driver was issued an appearance ticket for Vestal Town Court.

BU sees increase in ranking RANKINGS FROM PAGE 1 retention rate, retaining 92 percent of students last year and far exceeding the national average retention rate of 72 percent. Increased emphasis on that factor in the 2019 rankings contributed to BU’s boost on the

lists.

“Binghamton is making moves,” University President Harvey Stenger tweeted. “Being in the top 50 and #32 public is something we should be proud of and this year, U.S. News updated its methodology to place more emphasis on student outcomes,

which helped.”

Katie Bulger, a senior majoring in geography, said she is impressed by the University’s higher ranking.

“I’m proud to attend a school that keeps moving up in rankings,” Bulger said. “I’m so happy to be a Bearcat.”

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Students call for transparency PROTEST FROM PAGE 1 In spring 2018, students posted flyers at the UDC that condemned racism on campus and criticized the University administration’s lack of action against racist incidents.

Police responded to the flyering, which prompted a protest at the UDC. Bronstein was invited to talk with students at the protest, but did not attend.

The previous year, students protested the Blue Light Initiative, a project submitted by the Roosevelt Institute and led by BU that would set up blue light call boxes and cameras in the greater Binghamton area.

“The University has a very large hand in gentrifying Binghamton proper so finding out where this money is going [is important] because people in the community that are supposed to be benefiting from this never know where this money is going, and sometimes those initiatives that the University comes with are harmful [to] the community,” Lawson said.

According to the gala’s event page, the purpose of the fundraiser was to celebrate community partnerships, student achievement and faculty research within CCPA. Nick Terepka, a senior majoring in sociology, said the student groups want to hold the University accountable due to the administration’s lack of transparency in the past.

“They’re saying the money is going toward CCPA initiatives, but they’re not specific about it and based off of

previous attempts of the University to try and do things in the community, we don’t trust them with that, specifically with the Blue Light protest,” Terepka said.

Protestors stood outside both the front and back entrances to the gala, passing out flyers to guests as they arrived.

In addition to the coalition, several professors attended the protest. Lubna Chaudhry, an associate professor of human development, said she attended to support her students and their demands.

“I think it’s very important for our students and also faculty who support them to express their viewpoints,” Chaudhry said. “Especially when they are departing from the administration and especially when anti-racism has not been on the agenda of the administration. I think what we’re asking for is fair and all we want is more equity and justice for people of color and their allies.”

According to Ryan Yarosh, senior director of media and public relations at BU, the University encourages students to express their opinions and right to protest.

“Binghamton University is committed to creating a campus climate that values everyone, celebrates diversity, and strives for equity and inclusion,” Yarosh wrote in an email.

“We respect our students’ commitment to social justice and civic engagement, and we will continue to support their right to express their ideas freely and to engage in peaceful protest.”

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Primaries Results On campus

128 total voters

70.3%

57.6%

Broome County

9,871 total voters

65.6%

Cuomo

26.2%

60.5%

New York State

1.5 million total voters

53.3%

29.8%

Hochul

Governor

16.2%

40.6%

James

Lieutenant Governor

Attorney General

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Campus, county see increased turnout PRIMARIES FROM PAGE 1 16.51 percent and Hochul by roughly eight percentage points. In the 2014 Democratic primary, Cuomo won Broome County with 50.8 percent of the vote.

Students voting on Binghamton University’s campus, which is represented

by Vestal electoral districts 11, 12 and 13, elected Cuomo with 70.31 percent of the vote.

In other races, however, the student population strayed from the county’s overall vote, with Maloney only receiving

losing to Williams on campus.

In the attorney general’s race, Teachout received the most students votes, followed

by James.

Across the state, however, the results were slightly different.

Although the lieutenant governor’s race was decided by a fairly broad margin in Broome County, it was somewhat tight statewide, with Hochul securing the nomination over Williams by just over five percentage points.

In the attorney general’s race, James, rather

than Maloney, took the state with approximately 41 percent of the vote. Among Broome County voters, she received approximately 1,500 votes — just 16.15 percent. Maloney led the race in most of western New York, with Teachout seeing popularity in the eastern portion of the state and James securing victories in New York City and Long Island.

Although voters elected nominees for state and local positions, New York’s federal candidates were decided in a separate primary in June. It is

the only state in the country to hold separate federal and state primaries.

Now, Cuomo, Hochul and James will face Republican and third-party candidates in the general election. Marc Molinaro, the Republican nominee for governor, will be Cuomo’s main adversary. He will also face challenges from independent candidate Stephanie Miner, Libertarian candidate Larry Sharpe and Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins.

The general election will be held on Nov. 6.

South Asian clubs talk religion, unity Libraries await final budget decisions

Students discuss cultural struggles Yuri Lee

Assistant News Editor

In an effort to break stereotypes and foster greater understanding between students, multiple South Asian organizations came together for their first kickoff event, “Breaking Barriers.”

Hosted on Thursday evening by the Indian International Student Union (IISU), Hindu Student Council, Muslim Student Association (MSA) and the Pakistani Students Association, the event was the first collaboration between different South Asian clubs on campus for “Back to School Brown Town Weekend.”

According to Tiara Roy, president of IISU and a senior majoring in integrative neuroscience, the event was created to foster a unified presence between clubs and to let students know they can join more than one club on campus.

“This year, we made it a mission to get together and host this weeklong thing so that all the new freshmen who come to campus can learn about each South Asian organization and see that it’s not [that] if you pick IISU, you can’t do the rest or things like that,” Roy said. “It’s not pick-

and-choose because that’s not how you are as a person.

You could be Hindu and from Pakistan. There are so many different sects, you’re not confined to one specific thing.”

During the event, attendees discussed common misconceptions and stereotypes, such as the belief that all Hindus are vegetarian, everyone in India is poor, all South Asian parents want their children to be doctors and all Pakistanis are Muslim.

For Naseeb Ally, senior adviser for MSA and a senior majoring in accounting, discussing these misconceptions helps prevent divisions and increase understanding between different religious and cultural groups.

“There’s lots of divides — everyone thinks that there’s a lot of tension and that we all hate each other but as you can clearly see from coming here today and see how we interact with each other, we’re all friendly,” Ally said.

“As a minority on campus, we feel it’s very important to stick together.”

Attendees also shared personal testimonies about their own struggles attending religious schools, growing up with familial pressure to succeed and discovering their faith and identity. According to Roy, sharing these common struggles allows people to

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Sidney Slon Staff Photographer The Indian International Student Union, Hindu Student Council, Muslim Student Association and the Pakistani Students Association host “Breaking Barriers” as part of “Back to School Brown Town Weekend” on Thursday in the Fine Arts Building.

realize how similar they are, regardless of their religion or culture.

“A good way to get all the organizations to relate on a common ground was to talk about struggles we’ve had with our religion, or what stereotypes are associated with our culture,” Roy said.

“At the end of the day, they have the same core values.

So we felt that breaking these stereotypes would be a good way to help us all realize that we’re essentially all the same,

it’s just different practices.”

According to Ellma Demirovic, a junior majoring in biology, events like “Breaking Barriers” are important for promoting more conversation and knowledge. Demirovic said she didn’t know that Pakistan is one of the few countries to recognize a third gender, and enjoyed learning about South Asian cultures.

“I’m Muslim, but I’m not from any of the South Asian countries, so I like seeing

a different perspective,” Demirovic said. “I like seeing what other Muslims are going through and plus, it’s not just other Muslims, it’s everyone else together.”

Other events for “Back to School Brown Town Weekend” included the Onam Celebration, an annual Hindu festival celebrated in the South Indian state of Kerala, on Sunday at Old Union Hall.

All proceeds from the event will go toward the Kerala Flood Relief.

course, but we don’t yet know the size of the challenge and, therefore, the size of the cuts we will have to make,” McGoff wrote. “I am hopeful that we will have more details in the next month or so.”

According to the fall cancellation list, romance languages are potentially facing the biggest impact with a total of seven titles canceled already, and 20 more titles proposed for cancellation.

Mathematics, anthropology and reference may be facing larger impacts as well, with over 20 titles proposed for cancellation.

By sending the proposed cancellation list to the faculty, Kendrick and University Libraries hope to receive valuable feedback from the BU community that will enable them to make a more informed final decision.

“We expect that by sending out this list, professors will take precautionary steps toward planning their coursework for students,” Kendrick said.

Kendrick said that once University Libraries knows the magnitude of the cuts, he plans on holding several open meetings with faculty and subject librarians to discuss further steps to be taken.

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Ryan Giglio Contributing Photographer General-use bulletin boards have been installed across campus as part of the University’s new posting policy, which is intended to expand students’ freedom of speech at BU.

student last semester. He wrote in an email that the updated policy will help individual students and organizations convey their messages more readily.

“The University’s new policy is clear, straightforward and sensical,” Taylor wrote. “I’m happy to see Binghamton taking proactive steps in addressing an outdated policy, and in turn creating a new policy that can help all students, from club presidents trying to recruit new members, to activists trying to spread their message.”

According to the updated posting policy, flyers can be posted on events, housing or newly created general-use bulletin boards, but cannot be posted on office and departmental boards.

Additionally, flyers cannot be posted on walls, doors, painted surfaces, windows or ceilings. Students are permitted to use water-soluble chalk on uncovered pavement and concrete sidewalks.

Although there are no guidelines on exactly what can be posted on the general-use bulletin boards, students are required to adhere to the Code of Student Conduct while posting, which prohibits students from targeting groups or individuals based on race, gender or sexual orientation.

According to Yarosh, the updated policy is meant to create an environment in which students can readily express their agendas.

“The below-posting policy has been designed to promote the free exchange of ideas and assist sponsors in more effectively promoting their

events and make event information more readily accessible to the campus community,” Yarosh wrote.

“It should be noted that this policy requires the cooperation of the entire campus community to be successful.”

Some, like Kalissa Sawyer, ‘18, a case worker and outreach coordinator at the American Civic Association, believes the policy does not effectively address the issues of racism on campus and the administration’s response that students brought up last semester.

Sawyer, who participated in the protests at the UDC last semester, said she believes the policy is still restricting freedom of speech.

“It also just refers to the posting policy being about ‘events’ and says nothing about the kind of posting we did, which was completely

about bringing awareness to the environment of ongoing racism and [the] indifference of the Binghamton administration in effectively addressing it and truly listening to the problems people of color face,” Sawyer said.

According to Sirju-Johnson, the committee looked at the original policy and the history behind it in an effort to provide more opportunities for expression. Sirju-Johnson said that being part of a community comes with responsibilities.

“However, I urge campus constituents to remember the saying that ‘to whom much is given, much is required,’” Sirju-Johnson wrote in an email. “In short, there is a great deal of responsibility that comes with expression of ideas that takes the entirety of the community and campus into account.”

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Local restaurants compete for freshest recipes Proceeds will benefit the Cornell Cooperative Calendra Scahill

Contributing Writer

Local restaurants will vie for the top spot in a friendly face-off highlighting fresh produce on Sept. 19.

The Cornell Cooperative Extension of Broome County will host its ninth annual Fresh Food Face Off where chefs will create various dishes featuring locally sourced ingredients and locally grown produce. With funding from the Cornell Cooperative Extension, chefs choose ingredients from the Broome County Regional Farmers Market and prepare a meal to compete for the Best Taste and People’s Choice awards. Local dignitaries will serve as judges for the food, and guests can vote for their favorite dishes, too.

The event is the Cornell Cooperative Extension’s annual fundraiser, which helps the educational organization network and conduct research in tandem with Cornell University to improve the lives of Broome Country residents.

Beth Roberts, grants/ contracts administrator for Cornell Cooperative Extension, said the event’s idea was inspired by the growing importance of local produce.

“We really wanted to highlight our local food system that we have here in Broome County,” Roberts said.

Others have also recognized the significance of Broome County’s food system. Jay Pisculli, chef and partner at Social on State and Craft, has participated in the event for over seven years and said the event is unique because it displays how much effort goes into making one meal.

“People don’t think about what

Local Binghamton restaurants, including Social on State, Thai Time and Craft, will participate in the food competition on Sept. 19.

goes into a plate of food,” Pisculli said. “Somebody had to grow that vegetable, somebody had to pick that vegetable, somebody had to bring it to the farmers market, somebody had to cook it — there’s lot of things that go into one dish of food that people don’t think about and this sort of shows how it all comes together.”

Among the restaurants competing are Craft, Number 5 Restaurant, Thai Time, Social on State, The Colonial and other

Binghamton favorites. Some of the competition’s past winners are Social on State, Remlik’s and Binghamton University Dining Services.

Originally a formal cooking contest, the event has transformed into a friendly competition that focuses on the community. Roberts said much of the event’s success is due to its positive impact on local businesses.

“It’s just fun because not only are we highlighting the

market for local food, but we’re really highlighting these places of business and I think that’s why we have so much success,” Roberts said.

Pisculli agreed and said that winning the Fresh Food Face Off helps restaurants gain some recognition.

“There really aren’t too many competitions that directly put the chefs against each other in this town, so I think if you come out on top there is some prestige to it,”

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Pisculli said.

Along with the competition, there will be desserts from local restaurants and tastings from wineries and breweries. This year, the event is going to be an hour longer and will add the Cutler Botanic Garden and Agriculture Development Center to the venue.

Although the event was designed to raise money, Roberts said it also aims to give people a new perspective of Broome County.

“It’s a night out for … people to really see their community maybe in a different light,” Roberts said. “We have such a beautiful community, that the more we can have opportunities to showcase it, the better.”

The Fresh Food Face Off will take place on Sept. 19 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Broome County Regional Farmers Market, located at 840 Front St. in Binghamton.

Tickets are $50 per person or $90 per couple.

Ice cream takes the tracks Get the inside scoop on Scoopy Dooby Sarah Buerker Arts & Culture

Students of Binghamton University recognize Downtown Binghamton for its restaurants and University Downtown Center, but they may not be totally aware of its historical hidden landmarks. In fact, Downtown hosts the first Dick’s Sporting Goods, is the hometown of IBM and was once a hub for cigar and shoe manufacturing. There is even a plaque commemorating its part in the Underground Railroad at the doors to City Hall. While not every relic of Binghamton’s early years remains, many of these historic sites are getting revamped to benefit the current community of permanent residents, students and faculty.

Built in 1905, at the base of the Marconi Tower on Lewis Street, where Guglielmo Marconi demonstrated to the world that we enable the radio to communicate to a fast-moving vehicle, sits a newly open ice cream shop.

The shop, Scoopy Dooby, is one of the many recently opened businesses aimed at serving the growing base of BU students living Downtown.

Mark Yonaty, a co-owner of Scoopy Dooby, said he bought the Lackawanna Train Station in 2012 and renovated the historical building to house local businesses.

“The building that was there was a dilapidated structure that really had no use,” Yonaty said.

“Had no utilities, no plumbing, nothing. A lot has happened in the last five years in terms of developing. One of the things that was lacking was that there’s not a place for ice cream. Every time I went out for ice cream I’d see a dense population of students. I’d ask students in line, ‘Why do you guys come here?’

Provided by West End Magazine DeAnne Smith will headline SAPB’s first comedy show of the semester on Saturday, Sept. 22.

SA to bring DeAnne Smith Comedian to headline first show this semester Katy Wong

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Christine DeRosa Contributing Photographer The new Downtown ice cream shop will be in business during the Trucks on the Tracks food festival on Sept. 27 and Oct. 11.

And they’d always just say, ‘This is the closest place.’ We also wanted to make sure we could accommodate several people on a patio, people inside, people outside and that it would be close to Downtown.”

The ice cream shop colors are whimsical pink and blue, with flavors ranging from cake batter to old-fashioned soft-serve chocolate. Its menu features milkshakes, Italian ices, floats and cookie sandwiches with your choice of ice cream in between two warm, homemade cookies.

The cherry on top is the specialty sundaes menu, which adopts some of its creative names after the shop’s past life as a train station with sundaes like the Caboose, The Polar Express and the Trainwreck. Yonaty even enlisted his nieces and nephews to help with creating new sundaes for the shop.

“I have three nieces and one nephew,” Yonaty said. “Kids are fascinated with ice cream. So, I gave them the task of creating their own sundae, which was funny in itself. You would have thought these kids were studying for their SAT. We thought it would be fun for the kids to come up with their favorite sundae.”

Scoopy Dooby still has yet to set its schedule but had its soft opening concurrent with the Truck on the Tracks event series at the Lackawanna Train Station, which has two more dates: Sept.

27 and Oct. 11 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at 45 Lewis St. The playful ambiance of the pink- and bluestriped shop plays along with the makings of a child’s dream, six months in the making. Despite the warm summer months coming to an end, the shop has plans to stay open through the winter months.

The Student Association Programming Board (SAPB) announced on Tuesday evening that Canadian-American comedian DeAnne Smith is headlining the first comedy show of the semester.

Jillian Pizzuto, variety chair of SAPB and a junior majoring in Spanish, is excited to bring Smith to campus because of her growing popularity.

“Deanne Smith is a name you’re definitely going to hear in the future so this is a show you don’t want to miss,” Pizzuto wrote in an email.

Pizzuto, who is also a member of Bing Stand-Up, is going to be opening for Smith’s tour in Binghamton, Ithaca and SUNY Cortland.

Smith is no stranger to upstate New York, as she was born in Endicott — a 15-minute drive away from the city of Binghamton — before moving to Montreal in 2004.

Smith first got into comedy when she was 11 years old, though quickly suppressed the

dream for a more marketable career path. At 28 years old, she went to her first open mic night in Montreal and decided to decline her acceptance into an MFA writing program to pursue the path of comedy.

In 2008, she went on her first tour to debut her fulllength solo stand-up show, which led to critical acclaim and her first win at the Sydney Comedy Festival’s Time Out Best Newcomer Award.

Since then, she has traveled internationally on tours and appeared on television shows including “The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson” and “Last Comic Standing.”

Smith is most known for her viral Facebook and YouTube clip, “Straight Men, Step Your Game Up,” which racked up a total of 37 million views. The clip was taken during her standup routine at the Winnipeg Comedy Festival in 2017. In the video, Smith, who has been dating a woman who has only dated guys before, explains how even the simplest tasks impress her partner.

“I just show her basic human decency and she loses her mind,” Smith said in the video. “Straight guys, I don’t know what you’ve been doing

until now, but clearly it’s not enough.”

Critics often describe Smith’s comedic style as witty and smart, though Smith said that she doesn’t want to fit into one specific category.

“I’m very open onstage,” Smith said in a 2010 interview with AfterEllen.com. “I’ll hit on women in the audience; I talk about my relationship. I just am who I am. I don’t want to be pigeonholed as a ‘gay comic.’

I’m more interested in queering up the mainstream.”

Next January, Smith will be featured in her own live Netflix special along with fellow Canadian comedian Ivan Decker.

“I knew booking Deanne at this point in time would give a great opportunity for Binghamton students to see her perform,” Pizzuto wrote.

Previous SAPB Comedy Show acts include Nicole Byer, who currently hosts the Netflix show “Nailed It!” and worked on the reality show “Girl Code,” and Sasheer Zamata, who is a former “Saturday Night Live” cast member.

Smith will perform on Saturday, Sept. 22 at 8 p.m. in Lecture Hall 1. Admission is free for students.

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The school year is finally in full swing, and with that comes catching up with friends, going out and trying to fit your workout in there somewhere. If you’re looking for ways to keep off the freshman 15, Pipe Dream has come up with some outdoor workouts to keep those dining hall calories off. Don’t worry if you haven’t signed up for an East Gym membership yet; these can all be done outside by the track and on the bleachers.

Full body at-home workout (3-4 rounds) Complete this full-body workout on the track or any open space that has an incline. Repeat three to four times with around 30 seconds of rest in between each set.

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Leftist rap personality JPEGMAFIA is set to touch down at Binghamton University this Thursday at 8 p.m. in the Undergrounds, courtesy of Binghamton Underground Music Presents (BUMP). Check out this playlist to familiarize yourself with the radical politics and internet-troll tendencies sweeping rap and indie in 2018.

LATERAL SQUAT WALK (9 times each way) Stand with your feet a little more than shoulderwidth apart. Get into a squat position, knees at roughly a 45-degree angle, and walk sideways. Take nine steps to the left, then right, keeping your knees bent and maintaining form. Repeat. Try keeping your arms outstretched in front of you, which will help you balance during the exercise.

SPLIT LEG PULSE LUNGES (12 per foot) To start, begin with feet hip-width apart while facing away from the bleachers. Engage your core and take a step forward with your right foot while placing your left foot on the bleachers behind you. Lower your hips until both knees are bent at a 90-degree angle and pulse in between each rep. Be sure to keep your right knee directly above your right ankle to keep good form while lowering your left knee to the floor. Rise back up to initial position and repeat 12 times on each foot.

TRICEP DIPS (15 times) Use the bleachers or a bench for this workout as you put your hands on the bleachers shoulder-width apart with your legs outstretched in front of you. Straighten your arms with little bend in your elbows to keep tension on your triceps without overstressing your elbow joints.

Bend your elbows slowly while lowering your body to the floor until your elbows are at almost a 90-degree angle and keeping your back close to the bleachers.

Then press down into the bench to straighten your elbows to return to that starting position with legs and arms extended. Try to keep your shoulders down during the exercise to keep form.

SQUAT JUMPS (20 times) Stand with feet shoulder-width apart and start by lowering into the squat position. Engage your core muscles and push off the balls of your feet to jump up in an explosive motion. While you land, try to land as quietly as possible and end back in the initial squat position. Repeat 20 times.

STAIRCASE WORKOUT (4 rounds) This workout is perfect for when the weather is nice and you don’t want to spend the day stuck in the gym. Repeat four rounds with little to no rest in between each exercise.

HIGH KNEES For this exercise, run up the stairs in an explosive manner while trying to bring your knees as high as you can for each step. Jog back down the bleachers once you reach the top and then repeat twice.

SKIP-A-STEP RUN Simply run up the stairs as you would normally, but skip a step in between. Try to keep core engaged throughout the run. Jog back down the bleachers and repeat twice.

“VENGEANCE” — Denzel Curry ft. JPEGMAFIA and Zillakami The standout track from Denzel Curry’s 2018 release “TA13OO” saw the underground rap veteran including these two featured artists for an intense exercise in lyrical acrobatics. The chemistry is natural between the trio as they trade verses almost seamlessly as the song progresses. JPEGMAFIA takes sly shots at mainstream rappers Drake and 6ix9ine, while Curry flexes that he’s the kind of rapper that “Freddy [Krueger] wouldn’t sleep on.” The end result is a song that will be in heavy rotation in any rap fan’s workout playlist.

“Ain’t It Funny” — Danny Brown In light of JPEGMAFIA recently teasing a collaboration with Danny Brown on social media, it only feels appropriate to include a track from one of rap’s most eccentric personalities of the 2010s.

The industrial synthesizers sound like Trent Reznor-influenced production, as Brown tackles an abrasive instrumental that most rappers wouldn’t feel capable of spinning. However, Brown has a knack for the unorthodox, as his rap flow brings a natural structure to the chaotic instrumental. The Jonah Hill-produced music video uses the song to highlight Brown’s dynamic with drug use and his perception in the mainstream by injecting Brown into a “Full House”-esque sitcom setting. “Ain’t It Funny” is a disturbing — but high energy — song detailing the way drug use and stardom feed off of one another.

“URL IRL” — Cities Aviv Cities Aviv is a Memphis-based rapper and former frontman of the hardcore punk band Copwatch, showing his radical stripe and making him a natural colleague to JPEGMAFIA. “URL IRL” is a reference to internet terminology (URL being a website link, and IRL being an online acronym for “in real life”) that sets the tone for the glitchy instrumental that features chopped vocal samples. The track bears some similarities to the “Veteran” standout track, “Baby I’m Bleeding,” which also uses a chopped vocal sample to create its unconventional rhythmic pocket.

JPEGMAFIA and Cities Aviv represent a pioneering edge in hiphop experimentation. Paired with an uncompromising leftist attitude, this sonic direction of the genre shows great promise for the future of underground hip-hop.

SNAKE RUN Start at one side of the bleachers and run all the way up the set of stairs, jog across the top row, then jog down the next set of stairs. When you reach the bottom of the steps, continue to jog to the next set and repeat until you reach the opposite end. Do this four times.

SIDE STEP (2 times each side) Start with your right side facing the bleacher stairs with arms bent in front of you to help keep your balance. Take a lateral step up the stairs with your right foot while replacing it with your left foot as you run sideways up the stairs. When you reach the top of the stairs, jog down them slowly and then repeat again on the opposite side.

“1539 N. Calvert” — JPEGMAFIA The album opener on JPEGMAFIA’s 2018 breakthrough album, “Veteran,” is an excellent showcase for JPEGMAFIA’s unique abilities in rap. JPEGMAFIA blends his glitchy and distorted hip-hop production with an intuitive sense for melody and rap flows, making the track sound like a dystopian take on modern SoundCloud rap. JPEGMAFIA sounds like he’s borrowed notes from artists like Playboi Carti and Lil Uzi Vert, while also being unafraid to make his instrumentals more experimental and his lyrics more political. The song is also a dedication to Baltimore’s former venue and recording studio, The Bell Foundry, a nod to the Baltimore scene that helped launch JPEGMAFIA into underground rap notoriety. The track features a crass lyric referencing conservative personality Kellyanne Conway, demonstrative of JPEGMAFIA’s reputation as one of the biggest trolls in rap.

LUNGES Start with legs hip-width apart and begin by placing one leg two steps up in a lunge position. Walk up the stairs by alternating lunges all the way up. Once you reach the top, jog back down the steps and repeat once more.

SQUAT JUMPS, SKIP ONE STEP Begin by standing, facing the bleacher stairs with your feet slightly wider than shoulder-width apart. Squat down and jump up onto the other step while skipping one step in between and land in a squat position.

Repeat all the way up the flight of steps.

“JJ” — Priests Take some time away from the ingenuity of JPEGMAFIA to appreciate the BUMP show opener, Priests. Priests is a D.C.based punk band with a strong emphasis on the DIY aesthetics and community safe spaces. On inauguration day last year, the group played an event titled “NO: A Night of Anti-Fascist Sound Resistance in the Capital of the USA.” As a strong opponent of the “alt-right,” Priests is an evident pairing to JPEGMAFIA. “JJ” is a choice cut from the group’s 2017 release, “Nothing Feels Natural,” and sees lead singer Katie Alice Greer crooning over a rolling bass line and angular guitars. Greer’s impressive vocal range harbors similarities to riot grrrl pioneer and Sleater-Kinney vocalist Corin Tucker, highlighting a strong point of reference both ideologically and sonically for the group. “JJ” is the kind of track that could spark excitement in any audience, even among first-time listeners.

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Acts of kindness often stick with their recipients Even in our darkest moments, it is possible to recognize our shared humanity Aaron Bondar

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Jeff Smith Perspectives John McCain shakes hands with the crowd after delivering a speech at his presidential rally in Colorado on Sept. 6, 2008.

John McCain does not deserve adulation In response to Aaron Bondar’s Sept. 4 column Jacob Hanna

Contributing Columnist

John McCain passed away on Aug. 25. If you didn’t see the reports as it happened on Twitter or cable news, you likely saw the eulogies pour in thereafter. You probably heard about, if not saw, the state funeral. The funeral and the media attention that came with it was all undeserved.

McCain, both in the real world and outside of his invented “maverick” persona, was a virulent misogynist and racist warmonger who contributed to the reason why we have President Donald Trump in the White House today. He deserves no adulation, least of all from self-professed liberals, with some reports finding them to view McCain more favorably than conservatives.

It goes to show how successful McCain was in image cultivation, that he could say the things he said about many people and still get away with

being seen as the everyman maverick.

During his campaign for the U.S. Senate in 1992, he was documented as calling his wife a sexist slur after she lightly teased him about his baldness. He joked in 2008 that Chelsea Clinton was ugly “because Janet Reno is her father.” He has called his Vietnamese captors blatantly racist slurs and compared the president of Iran to a monkey.

What’s more, he appears to exude more conservative views on political agendas. He opposed a motion to declare Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday a national holiday, and while he reneged on this particular issue in 2008, it is clear that he did not have some sort of “come to Jesus” epiphany on civil rights. He did, after all, support and ultimately vote for Betsy DeVos to be secretary of education, whose proposals to arm teachers with guns using public money pose a direct threat to students of color. This is to say nothing of his vociferous opposition to a woman’s right to have an abortion, including advocacy for the overturning of

Roe v. Wade.

We must also not forget his blatant disregard for life outside of the United States. McCain agitated for the Iraq War not long after the September 11 attacks.

In October 2001, he falsely attributed the then-current anthrax attacks to Iraq. The death toll as a result of the Iraq War — of his agitation — is still murky, but it is widely agreed that hundreds of thousands of civilians have been killed. During the 2008 election cycle, he advocated for bombing Iran (notably in sing-song fashion — “That old, eh, that old Beach Boys song, Bomb Iran … Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, anyway, ah …” — as if bombing other countries is so fun, songs must be sung about it).

He was friendly with Henry Kissinger, the former secretary of state who secretly bombed Cambodia during the Vietnam War, and aided the coup in and transformation of Chile from a democracy under the left-wing Salvador Allende to a dictatorship under the fascist Augusto Pinochet. McCain

called protesters at a hearing at which Kissinger was present “lowlife scum.”

Strange that Kissinger, a man who sabotaged Vietnam peace talks, which may have prolonged McCain’s internment as a prisoner of war, should receive such favorable treatment from McCain.

This is just a snippet of the real McCain. The real McCain was not a maverick; he was an opportunist, a sexist, an imperialist and a racist. The real McCain “defended” Barack Obama while implying that to be an “Arab” and a “family man” was to be a living contradiction in terms. The real McCain introduced the country to Sarah Palin, who unleashed a wave of right-wing paranoiac extremism through attacks on the media, racist attacks on Muslims and on Obama, as well as other such methods. The real McCain was far from worthy of the praise that he has received.

We should, at long last, recognize that.

— Jacob Hanna is a junior majoring in economics.

In 1944, my grandmother was sent to a death camp in the Polish countryside. The name of that camp, Auschwitz, has now been branded into our collective memory as the physical and ethereal embodiment of human evil. Auschwitz is no longer just a place, but a representation of the human urge to discover how far down the abyss evil really goes.

Her memories from that place — the murder of her sister, the death of her mother — have never left her to this day.

In my 22 years on this planet, I have heard many of her stories.

Surprisingly, even though she is 92, I have not yet heard them all, and I suspect I never will, even if given 200 years with her. Sometimes, well into her retelling of a particular story, she will pause and remind me that there was a qualitative difference between the Wehrmacht, the German regular armed forces, and the Schutzstaffel, or SS, the outfit gleefully tasked with the extermination of the Jews.

This effort to distinguish had always puzzled me. My grandmother’s personality is not one built for nuance. It couldn’t be. Her life demanded certainty, action and bravery — qualities that rarely allow for careful discernment. And yet, in describing the greatest tragedies of her life, now she had time for shades of gray?

The strangeness had always confounded me until, like a puzzle, the piece I had been missing came in the form of one of her stories, told and retold, which I hadn’t given its due importance. It was this story, and this realization, that taught me something important about our capacity and responsibility as individuals to do good, and the immense power we have to change the world even with our slightest actions or a few kind words.

The story goes like this: When my grandmother was interned in Auschwitz, there was a guard who had always been abnormally kind to the prisoners. According to my grandmother, he was not a member of the SS but of the German army regulars, tasked with guarding the camp and the prisoners when they left the camp

to perform slave labor outside its walls. She recounts a particular moment — one must remember this happened over 70 years ago — when he approached her, looked at her and said gently, “You remind me of my daughter.”

Seventy years later, my grandmother remembers this moment with clarity and emotion.

I believe it was enough for my grandmother to consider, if even briefly, the idea that people were yet redeemable, despite their complicity in any amount of evil. That moment certainly wasn’t enough to compensate for the inhumanity, pain, suffering or mutilation, which had been inflicted upon her and millions of others, but it still resonates decades later.

Whether or not he deserved my grandmother’s accepting of his words for their softness and kindness instead of considering it an infinitesimal payment on a debt she was owed, for a moment there was a light lit in the middle of a raging tempest, and my grandmother — despite her pain and her loss — recognized herself and him as human beings, one undeniably guilty and the other tragically innocent. It is not necessary to exonerate him from his crimes, to acknowledge his complicity in a boundless evil.

What is extraordinary is that singular moment could shine through the darkness that covered the world like a burial shroud and remain rooted in her mind — the same mind that remembers the starvation, the humiliation and the murder of her family.

This is the extraordinary power of a single moment of kindness, of a recognition of our shared humanity. It is a miraculous power that we all have. If a miracle is an event that goes against the natural order, an event that is distinctly improbable because of this quality, then what could be more miraculous? We have the capacity to practice these moments of kindness and to go against the natural order of inertia, of unfeeling, of uncaring.

Never, never underestimate the power you have on other people and the impression you may make by a single kind word. They may tell it to their grandchildren almost a century later, and give them the sense that redemption is possible.

— Aaron Bondar is a senior double-majoring in political science and economics.

Professors should not require expensive access codes Many students cannot afford to do their homework and assignments Theodora Catrina

Contributing Columnist

With the start of a new semester, students are faced with a slew of obligatory expenses like laundry detergent, pens, notebooks and, of course, textbooks. Recently, professors in almost every discipline are transitioning from mandating the purchase of physical textbooks to requiring one-time use digital access codes. The codes are distinct serial numbers that give students access to online materials, such as homework

assignments and quizzes, and are often bundled with the required reading for the course. Unlike textbooks, which can be purchased from different sellers, printed as a PDF or even held on reserve in the Binghamton University Libraries to mitigate costs, there are no other possible methods for obtaining access codes.

On average, these digital codes cost students $100, per class, per semester. For students nationwide, these additional expenses make the heavy burden of tuition considerably worse.

Because these codes give students access to homework and quizzes, a large portion of their grade for the class is dependent on their ability to

purchase them, and oftentimes there is no “opt out” option for students who simply cannot afford them.

It is not difficult to see why professors would require digital access codes. Online homework platforms all offer instant feedback to the student, and homework and quizzes are automatically graded. The time and effort that previously accompanied handwritten homework assignments is now a thing of the past, and the immediate response is undeniably convenient for the student. However, if websites like WeBWorK and myCourses are offering similar services for free, why are students still being forced

to pay hundreds of dollars to do homework?

As students cut costs on physical textbooks, companies such as McGraw-Hill Education, Pearson and WebAssign all secure revenue from selling access codes to students, effectively eliminating any consumer choice. Nevertheless, is it right for universities and professors to be participating in this “textbook industry” with full knowledge of the immense financial burden it places on students?

For example, a fellow Binghamton University student was required to purchase an access code for each of his five classes, which amounted to a

total of $500. He told me that he couldn’t afford all of these codes, so he was forced to look for other alternatives. He ended up asking his professors if they would open all of the assignments due for the semester so he could finish all of the homework during the twoweek free trial period. Three out of the four professors he had asked refused to do so.

His experience is certainly not unique, and when students are driven to these extremes, it is an indication that their education is being compromised. A student should not be pushed into a position where they feel the need to do 15 weeks of homework in two weeks.

For students who are in a financial position in which they cannot afford digital access codes, there should always be an easily accessible alternative.

Furthermore, if there is a feasible way to assign homework without costing students hundreds of dollars each year, it should be employed regardless of any potential inconveniences it may cause professors.

Ultimately, universities should be working with students, not textbook companies, to create a fair system for their education.

— Theodora Catrina is a sophomore majoring in mathematics.

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Libra: Sometimes the sun sets in the east. On the cloudy nights especially. We pretend we don’t see it, but intellect unbraids itself. You look like a pretty girl, dressed up like that. Stick gum on the bottom of your shoes and operate as if it is your secret. Transform into a slug. It is almost your time.

Scorpio: Two kings remain in the bottom of the pot, alive. You love them both through punishment. This is your begrudged curse, your resented silver jewelry. Don’t forget to feed them, water the pot. You can’t allow them to escape yet.

Sagittarius: Consuming too much toxicity should be avoided. Lillian will get mad and your liver will quarrel back. Place your breath in a picture frame and give it to your dog. Lillian will also dislike this, but screw her! You have a mind of your own.

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Women’s soccer shuts out Bryant and LIU Brooklyn Binghamton remains undefeated at home Michael Steinberg Pipe Dream Sports

The last two games before conference play for the Binghamton women’s soccer team could not have been more different, but both ended with the same result: a win.

Over the two games, the Bearcats (5-3-2) maintained a perfect home record, beating the Bryant Bulldogs 1-0 in overtime and the LIU Brooklyn Blackbirds, 4-0.

“We’re just comfortable here,” said BU head coach Neel Bhattacharjee about the perfect home record. “We love this facility.

We certainly get confidence from this; we get security.”

Not only has Binghamton been undefeated at home, but the team has yet to give up a single goal at home thus far this season.

“We have this mentality, this is our home field,” said senior defender Kaycee Pickard. “This is our house. We don’t let up goals here. We don’t lose here because this is our field. I think it gives everyone that confidence. That pregame ‘grrr.’”

In the first game against Bryant (4-4) on Thursday, BU played a tight game, coming through with a 1-0 victory about three

Ariel Kachuro Assistant Photo Editor Redshirt senior forward Kayla Saager picked up her seventh and eighth goals of the 2018 season in the women’s soccer rout of LIU Brooklyn.

minutes into overtime. Freshman goalkeeper Haylee Poltorak played two phenomenal games in each of the shutouts the Bearcats produced at home. Binghamton finally scored in the game against the Bulldogs after a goal by its lead scorer, redshirt senior forward Kayla Saager.

On senior day, the Bearcats

overwhelmed LIU Brooklyn (26-1) in the beginning of the first half. White jerseys swarmed the opposition’s side of the field, relentlessly attacking the goal. Freshman defender Kayla MacKenzie took little time finding her way into LIU’s net. MacKenzie found an edge against a defender and scored right in front of the

LIU cage, just 1:25 into the game.

Binghamton kept pestering LIU throughout the beginning of the period, but failed to score as possessions began to even out.

After some adjustments, BU engineered a monster second half.

Saager played a huge part in that surge. She came very close to scoring twice in the first half,

breaking away from multiple defenders only to be stopped by LIU Brooklyn sophomore goalie Megan Virgin right in front of the goal. Then, Saager exploded in the second period, scoring two goals.

One of them was almost blocked

by Virgin before Saager vaulted over the goalie and hammered a shot to the back of the net. Saager has now scored eight goals in nonconference play so far this season. This comes after leading the nation in shots and leading the America East in points last season.

However, the game against LIU especially was a full-team effort with eight different subs taking the field at different times and three different scorers: Saager, MacKenzie and sophomore forward Essie Bonney.

“We talk about being 24 deep,” Bhattacharjee said. “It’s a warm day. We wanted to play more players within our rotation. If we did that, I felt like that was going to help us out in the second half where we could kind of keep the level of the pace going and hopefully lead to some goals, which it did.”

Bhattacharjee said the last few games gave Binghamton a huge wave of momentum moving into conference play.

“We got an overtime, kind of grind-it-out type of game win on Thursday night versus Bryant,

and we had a 2-0 win here versus Cornell before that and then a tie.

So, to get four straight results, the last three being wins, shutouts, that’s certainly a great feeling,” Bhattacharjee said.

The whole team echoes Bhattacharjee’s enthusiasm.

“With a bit of a rocky start at the beginning of the season, we just kind of found a groove now and now we’re just cooking with fire,” Pickard said.

However, despite the surge in the momentum, Bhattacharjee said he sees room to be careful.

While undefeated at home, the Bearcats have still not won a road game this season and their first conference game will be against Vermont, a team they have struggled against in the past.

Binghamton appeared poised for the challenge, though.

“Certainly we’ll be prepared for Vermont,” Bhattacharjee said.

“They’re a team that’s kind of had our number the last couple of years and it’s a different animal once you get to America East play.

Lots of one-goal games and so it’s something that we’ve certainly got to be ready and prepared for.”

The Bearcats will travel to Burlington, Vermont on Sept. 23 to play in their first conference game of the season against Vermont. Kickoff from Virtue Field is scheduled for 1 p.m.

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After dropping its first two matches of the Sacred Heart Hampton Inn Invitational, the Binghamton volleyball team rebounded and swept NJIT to close out the event. The Bearcats (211) finished their final preseason tournament with one win and two losses against Rhode Island and Sacred Heart.

“I think they raised their level of play a little bit, considering the past weekends,” said BU head coach Glenn Kiriyama. “It was good to see them compete well with the teams during this tournament.”

The first match was on Friday afternoon against Rhode Island.

The Rams (6-6) defeated BU, 3-0. The first set was close early on, but Rhode Island repeatedly pulled away, taking a 14-8 lead and, later on, an 18-13 edge. The Bearcats had to keep fighting back but fell short, losing 25-20.

The second frame was similar, but proved more contentious. Early in the frame, Binghamton took its only advantage of the match at 2-1, but the Rams led for the remainder of the set, winning 2523. Rhode Island dominated the third and final frame, winning 2516 and sweeping the match.

On Saturday, Binghamton returned to the court for two matches, beginning with a matchup against tournament

host Sacred Heart. The Pioneers (7-4) fell in a tight first frame.

Trailing 22-18 in the first game, Binghamton went on a 9-2 run to win the set 26-24. Despite the early successes, Sacred Heart dominated much of the remaining three sets, winning 25-17, 2518 and 25-21 and taking the match 3-1. “[Rhode Island and Sacred Heart] were a lot more consistent,” Kiriyama said. “Being able to execute at a better level, higher percentage than we were.”

Still seeking its first victory of the invitational, Binghamton faced off against NJIT for its final match of the tournament.

The Highlanders (1-12) were dominated by BU in their first frame. The Bearcats jumped out to an 18-7 lead and cruised to a 25-14 victory in the set.

“We served well, I thought [senior outside hitter Gaby Alicea] got on a nice run serving,” Kiriyama said. “And we blocked really well in that first game, and we just really closed in on their hitters and made it tough for the other team to score points.”

The final two games featured NJIT fighting hard against a superior Binghamton team. After falling behind 22-13 in the second sequence, the Highlanders went on an 8-0 surge to make it a onepoint game, but the Bearcats held on, scoring three of four points and winning 25-22.

The third set was highly competitive, with both teams exchanging the lead throughout the frame. Trailing 19-18, Binghamton took over, going on a

7-1 run to close out the set 25-20 and the match 3-0.

“They kept their poise,” Kiriyama said. “I thought their focus was good, they kept their pressure on the other team by just executing a little bit better down the stretch and serving tough, taking the opponents out of their system.”

Senior outside hitter Erin Shultz led the Bearcats with 13 kills in the final match, also tallying six digs. Alicea finished with 10 kills and 16 digs.

With the nonconference schedule now complete, the Bearcats now turn their focus toward their America East (AE) opponents. Coming off a run to the AE championship game last season, Binghamton was picked to finish fourth in the preseason poll. Through nonconference play, Hartford (7-4) is the only AE team to have a winning record.

Despite an underwhelming record thus far, there have been bright spots for BU, and Kiriyama is confident in his team heading into conference play.

“At times they competed well, they fought hard,” Kiriyama said.

“I thought they sort of established themselves as a scrappy-type team, a team that doesn’t give up on defense and will go after every ball. So that was good to see, and hopefully we can carry that forward going into conference.”

Binghamton opens its conference schedule with a match against UMBC on Friday, Sept.

21. First serve is set for 7 p.m. from the UMBC Event Center in Baltimore, Maryland.

Morrison put Binghamton down 1-0. Colgate freshman midfielder Kian Alberto won a 50-50 ball, passing the ball up to Morrison while Shutler rushed out of the box to try to stop the shot.

Morrison, remaining calm and collected, dribbled past Shutler and scored his first of the season.

“I misread the ball,” Shutler said. “It didn’t bounce as I thought it would, and [Morrison] touched it around me. I just need to clean up my play and get rid of the mistakes.”

The Bearcats did not allow the goal to discourage them and came back with a goal by junior forward Haris Brkovic in the 74th minute to tie the game up 1-1.

Brkovic netted his second goal of the season as he capitalized on a botched clearance by one of Colgate’s defenders. Seizing the opportunity, Brkovic bounced the ball off his stomach and fired the ball into the top right corner of the net, completely out of reach for Colgate junior goalkeeper Jacob Harris.

“I don’t remember too much of [the goal],” Brkovic said. “The ball just bounced in my area, so I kind of took a half volley and connected really well with it.”

Binghamton attempted to increase its advantage during the second half with shots by freshman midfielder Andrew

McDonnell, Luescher, freshman forward Ben Hamilton and graduate student midfielder Kevin Flesch, but none of the shots found the back of the net, bringing the Bearcats into overtime.

During the first 10-minute overtime, both the Raiders and the Bearcats had one shot, yet neither team was able to produce a game-winning goal, forcing the teams to go into a second overtime. With just three minutes left to go, it looked as though the Raiders were going to score the game-winning goal when Shutler made a crowdgasping save. Shutler, who was recently named the America East Defensive Player of the Week, blocked a shot taken by Colgate senior forward Freddy Jonsson right in front of the six-yard line, sustaining the final 1-1 score.

“I just tried to close the space as fast as I could,” Shutler said.

“I just tried to make myself big, and luckily I was able to put [the ball] wide and not back into the middle.”

The team is set for Tuesday’s 2 p.m. game against George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Taking place at the Mount Vernon Athletic Complex, the match is BU’s final game before conference play begins.

After going into double overtime and outshooting No. 18 Colgate, 16-7, the Binghamton men’s soccer team came away with a tie against the Raiders (44-1). The Bearcats (1-4-2) were able to maintain possession for the majority of the first half, outshooting Colgate, 10-2, but could only manage three shots on goal. Binghamton recorded three shots within the first 10 minutes of the game while the Raiders did not get in a shot until the 25th minute.

“I gave the team a couple friendly reminders,” said BU head coach Paul Marco. “One of them was, ‘Can we compete hard for the first minute? Can we really make things difficult in the first minute, and then at halftime, can we have 10 shots on the board?’”

The first shot was taken less than five minutes into the game by senior midfielder Connor McKnight with shots followed by sophomore midfielder Noah Luescher, senior midfielder Harrison Weilbacher, sophomore back Chris Stamper, sophomore forward Jack Muller and senior forward Nikos Psarras.

Weilbacher was credited for half of the shots taken in the first period and looked as though he was going to score in the 44th minute after taking a shot hard enough that it deflected off the goalie. However, Weilbacher could not finish on the rebound and barely missed the goal as it almost brushed the post. Despite all of the missed shots by the Bearcats, the team was able to remain on the offensive for the majority of the half, as redshirt junior goalkeeper Chris Shutler only had to make one save the entire first half.

“I don’t know how many saves I had, but I didn’t have many,” Shutler said. “The guys really put their bodies on the line, just blocked the shots before they even connected, so it was good for them.”

The second period proved slightly more difficult for BU Rebecca Kiss Photo Editor when an early goal by Colgate Junior forward Haris Brkovic netted Binghamton’s only goal in the 75th junior midfielder Kentaro minute against No. 18 Colgate in an eventual 1-1 draw.