A capella groups at SUNY-Binghamton will lose their rehearsal space following a series of events that began after a Jewish group got themselves thrown out of the Fine Arts Building.

After several incidents involving security lapses and equipment damages in the Fine Arts Building practice rooms used by a cappella groups, the music department has decided to discontinue granting rehearsal space to non-academic groups next fall, unless a system of accountability can be developed.

Discontent has been growing among faculty since March 13, when a behavioral incident involving Kaskeset, a Jewish a cappella group, occurred.

“They were filming nude people in rehearsal classrooms and exposing themselves to faculty and students,” Perry said. “If it wasn’t for the snow storm we had that day, elementary kids [who were supposed to visit campus] could have seen it.”

The department revoked Kaskeset’s privileges to rehearse in the Fine Arts Building.

An accountability system may yet be developed to avert the full revokation of privileges, but Kaskeset will remain on the outs with the university’s music department.