BU Pipe Dream

Binghamton Policy Project hosted a release party this week to celebrate its 12th-annual edition of the organization’s publication, The Blueprint. The event, held in Old Union Hall, featured five policy design presentations crafted over the year that proposed “actionable solutions to drive community change.” Binghamton University faculty and Binghamton City Council representatives attended the event.

The Binghamton Music Group is an organization for students interested in the music and entertainment industry, a field many of the organization’s E-Board members feel is often overlooked as a subject of interest for business students.

The first week of the 25th edition of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival kicked off last weekend, from April 10 to April 12 at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California. With artists Sabrina Carpenter, Justin Bieber and KAROL G headlining the event, the festival sold out less than a week after its announcement. Like each year before, the Coachella festival offers three exciting nights packed with performers on eight different stages from 1 p.m. until nearly 1 a.m., for two weekends.

Student Association Congress representatives brought a motion to impeach Nick Ginsberg, executive vice president and a senior double-majoring in political science and sociology, during last night’s special body meeting. After a private discussion, the SA Congress voted to indefinitely table the resolution, leaving Ginsberg in his role.

Danica Lyktey If you spend any time online, you probably know about “cancel culture.” A celebrity is exposed for something they said or did at some point in their life and the entire internet vows to exile them from the realm of popularity, effectively canceling them. The phenomenon of “canceling” has even spread to ordinary people, with colleges and jobs receiving emails from thousands of angry internet users when a video of someone saying a racial slur or behaving inappropriately surfaces.

Jamie Eliana Papa, a second-year graduate student studying theatre, produced an acting thesis titled “Yuridisi” — an adaptation of Orpheus and Eurydice, featuring the Greek myth through a cultural lens while centralizing personal experience, passion and Filipino history. As a graduate student with an acting concentration, Papa is a Filipina theatre artist who has appeared in numerous productions.

The Binghamton women’s lacrosse team fell to Vermont 13-8 on Saturday afternoon, as a strong start from the Catamounts proved too much for the Bearcats to overcome despite a competitive push in the second and third quarters. “Today’s outcome was mostly contributed to our shot conversion and Vermont’s capitalization on our turnovers, especially in the first half,” wrote Binghamton head coach Stephanie Allen.

There is a specific, suffocating heaviness that settles over a room when someone walks in and immediately unpacks their exhaustion. You know the exact feeling. You’re sitting with friends, enjoying a rare moment of peace, when someone drops their bags and answers a simple “how are you?” with a trauma dump of looming deadlines. Before even taking a breath, they start complaining about a difficult professor, a minor inconvenience or simply how tired they are.

On the back of a 16-5 loss to Albany last Saturday, the Binghamton men’s lacrosse team lost 14-8 to the visiting UMBC. Although both squads battled to a 6-6 deadlock by halftime, the Retrievers outscored the Bearcats 5-2 in the third quarter, building out a lead they did not relinquish as the Bearcats surrendered another three scores in the fourth period.

The most recent visiting artist event brought dozens of students, faculty and community members to Lecture Hall 6 for an otherworldly encounter with the digital creations of multidisciplinary artist Peter Burr. Organized by Binghamton University’s Cinema Department, the evening celebrated and reflected on the film career of the Brooklyn-based artist, who uses innovative techniques to craft unique and deeply moving experiences.