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N • No fursMembers of the Syracuse community protested outside J. Michael Shoes on Saturday about the use of fur in Canada Goose products sold at the store.Page 3
P • All in the bandThe SU marching band has a long history, but it didn’t always include women. While women make up most of the band today, but they first joined in 1966.Page 11
S • Out of characterThe Syracuse press faltered as SU was beaten, 68-57, by No. 2 Notre Dame in the ACC championship game on Sunday. Page 20
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Provost-designate plans for future of SU
Faculty members talk length of provost search
By Justin Mattinglymanaging editor
Syracuse University’s next vice chancellor and provost wishes she was a cell phone — wanting to
plug herself in and download all the informa-tion about the university.
“ R e a l l y , I need to get a brain dump
from everybody,” Michele Wheatly said. “There’s a lot of things going on across the nation in higher edu-cation and you need to learn these distinctive things that are happen-ing at the institution.”
She was approved by the Board of Trustees on Friday to be the vice chancellor and provost-des-ignate. Coming to SU from West Virginia University, she’ll play a key role in many of Chancellor Kent Syverud’s initiatives, most notably the implementation of the Academic Strategic Plan.
SU made its formal announce-
ment of Wheatly’s hiring on Friday. She’ll replace Interim Vice Chan-cellor and Provost Liz Liddy, who has served in the position since last January after Eric Spina announced in December 2014 that he was step-ping down from the position.
Over the next two months, Wheat-ly, referring to herself as a “cool pro-vost” who “likes to make the journey fun,” said she’ll be spending time with different constituency groups on cam-pus, such as students, the University Senate and other administrators.
And although she officially starts her now job in May, Wheatly says she’ll work to gather as much information about the university and its issues as possible.
“...This is going to be a time when I will actually get to learn and start dealing with the issues,” she said. “There’s a lot to be done, but because I’ve moved before I’m up to it and it’s also very invigorating and exciting.”
Academic Strategic PlanAs the chief academic officer, Wheat-ly will oversee the implementation of
see wheatly page 10
see provost search page 6
By Brett Samuelssenior staff writer
Syracuse University announced its new vice chancellor and pro-vost 455 days after its old one stepped down on Dec. 5, 2014, leaving the school without a per-manent chief academic officer for about 15 months.
The university officially announced a search committee for the new provost and its members on April 16, 2015 — 132 days after Eric Spina announced he was leaving.
“I have not had that discussion, so I don’t really know why there was a gap,” said Charles Driscoll, chair of the provost search committee. “You might think maybe the search would start immediately or start later because we’re sort of doing this strategic planning exercise.”
Michele Wheatly was named SU’s vice chancellor and provost-designate on Friday. She’ll offi-cially start her new job on May 16.
In the days and weeks leading up to the announcement, some faculty members noted that the search had been slow out of the gate, and one asked during a December University
Senate meeting “what was taking so long.” The provost search was longer and took longer to start than search-es the university has conducted in the past three years for a new chan-cellor and athletic director.
The committee held its first meeting last May, and Driscoll said there wasn’t much the group could do to move forward with the search over the summer since campus isn’t very active then. In that time, the university hired a search firm and formed a website so community members could provide suggestions.
In the fall semester, the com-mittee held town hall-style meet-ings and gathered feedback. By December, the committee went through applications and began reducing the pool of candidates, Driscoll said. Off-campus inter-views were held in New York City in January, and a group of finalists visited campus in the beginning of February, he said.
Based on feedback from admin-istrators who met with the finalists and other research, the committee made a recommendation to the chan-cellor in mid-February, he said.
By Jesse Doughertysenior staff writer
Trevor Cooney is not even looking to see if they go in.
As each jump shot leaves his hands, the reaction in the Carrier Dome tells him the result. But it’s not a full crowd, or any crowd at all. Just a small group of coaches and managers standing under the rim, gathering his rebounds and feeding passes into his chest.
When he hits one, they say, “There it is.” When he misses, they say, “Make the next one.”
It’s a few minutes after 3 p.m. on Jan. 12 and the outlook of Cooney’s final college season is grim. Three days ago Syracuse fell to North Carolina and dropped to 0-4 in conference play. Cooney scored a season-high 27 points that felt somewhat hollow in the loss.
One day later, the Orange will beat Boston College to start an 8-1 run that sidesteps another empty season. And now, thanks to that stretch, Syracuse is in range of the NCA A Tournament as it heads to Washington, D.C. on Wednesday for a make-or-break ACC
ONE LAST SHOTTREVOR COONEY is, in fans’ eyes, only as good as his last jump shot, despite improving his overall game during his five years at SU. logan reidsma senior staff photographer
With little time left, Trevor Cooney’s legacy is both complicated and incomplete
see cooney page 19
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INSIDE N • Fishy business See how a professor at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry will help save cod in the Baltic Sea.
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S • Luck of the Irish Notre Dame topped the SU women’s basketball team in the ACC championship Sunday by taking care of the ball.
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By Gabrielle Hughesstaff writer
On the top floor of DellPlain Hall, sketchbooks, Oreos, pickles and a friendly resident adviser are sprawled across the lounge. Laughter and smil-ing residents in the hall outside cre-ate a welcoming environment.
As a part of that environment, RA Kara Sheplock, a senior food studies major, said she strives to end stigmas placed on mental ill-ness. It is Sheplock’s goal to initiate a campaign that will raise aware-ness for society’s stigmas and how to approach conversation about mental illness by the end of March.
Sheplock, who said she strug-gles with depression and anxiety herself, wanted to take her love of caring for others to the next level. Everything she does stems from an understanding of mentality and health because it is the root of the human experience.
Sheplock also said if the human being is classified as being homo-geneous, and each person is the product of sperm and an egg, then we should be the same. But, com-paring humans to pizza, she added that even though each slice is made with the same ingredients, each piece is still different.
“We’re all colorful pizza,” Shep-lock said. “Let’s slice the stigma.”
Sheplock said she plans to cre-
ate a visual campaign incorporat-ing video inspired by Robert X. Fogarty’s “Dear World” campaign, which showcases thousands of people who have written their fears and losses on their skin to share their stories. Sheplock will table in DellPlain and hold dialogs open to all students.
She said she hopes this campaign will reach as many people as possi-
ble and welcomes all to participate, which reflects the mentality she’s had in her two years as an RA.
The whole point of being an RA — making connections with people — is challenged by the idea that RAs are “dorm cops,” Sheplock said. She said she believes the key to improv-ing social connections is initiating conversation and education.
Whether that means reading
an article or attending a lecture, any attempt to educate oneself on the matter has a great impact, Sheplock said.
“Race, ethnicity, gender — it started off like mental illness did where it was more taboo,” Shep-lock said. “There’s got to be some-thing we can do. It’s okay to talk about this.”
Senior fights stigma surrounding mental illness MEET monday | kara sheplock
KARA SHEPLOCK is an RA in DellPlain Hall who deals with with both depression and anxiety. She is using her “Colorful Pizza” campaign to change people’s stigmas. prince dudley staff photographer
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Free as a birdAssociated Press correspondent Kathy Gannon will receive the 2015 Tully Free Speech Award on Monday in Newhouse 3.See Tuesday’s paperN
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Week in newsThe D.O. News Department compiled a list of the biggest Syracuse University and Syracuse news stories last week.See dailyorange.com
Crime mapThe D.O.’s interactive crime map shows a round-up of criminal activity that happened near Syracuse University this week.See dailyorange.com
student association
How a Clemson conference helped SA at SU
Group protests sale of Canada Goose jackets
By Nina Leeds staff writer
Members of Syracuse Univer-sit y ’s St udent A ssociation attended a leadership sympo-sium at Clemson University the weekend of Feb. 27-28 to discuss activist issues, which resulted in a proposed change to SU’s bike-share program.
Each of the five SA members in attendance focused on a dif-ferent, specific topic related to activism. SA President Aysha Seedat focused on sexual vio-
lence; SA Vice President Jane Hong focused on gentrification; and assembly members Peter Choi, Madeleine Fitzgerald and Valerie Alyssa Corona focused on gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender access to resources, physical accessibility and mental health, respectively.
Hong said she was inspired by one of the keynote speakers at the symposium, who spoke of the importance of students engaging with the community around their college campuses, to propose an initiative to incen-
tivize SA’s proposed bike-share program in order to promote student engagement in the city of Syracuse.
“It has yet to be finalized, but I would really like to create some
sort of way ... to really reward stu-dents for the community service that they’re doing and to create more incentives for them to use the bikes to get into the local com-munity,” Hong said.
She added that one of the big-gest benefits of attending the leadership symposium was being able to meet students from other schools — many of whom were not elected officials or involved in student government.
Hong said the symposium’s focus on activism was especially
see conference page 8
By Rachel Sandler asst. news editor
About 20 Syracuse community members and students protested in front of J. Michael Shoes on Marshall Street Saturday afternoon over the store’s selling of Canada Goose jack-ets, which the protesters claimed are made by harming animals.
The protest started at noon and ended at about 2 p.m.
Many held signs with photos of animals on them that said “trapped and terrified” or “your fur had a face.” Most signs had the People for the Ethical Treatment
of Animals logo on it, but the pro-test was not organized by PETA. Rather, a local grassroots group,
Syracuse Animal Rights Orga-nization (SARO), organized and led the protest to support PETA’s campaign against Canada Goose.
The protest had been in the works for a few weeks after repeated talks with J. Michael Shoes stalled, said Amber Cana-van, a 2015 alumna of the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and For-estry who was at the protest.
Camilla Visconti, a sales asso-ciate at J. Michael Shoes, said there was some dialogue between SARO and the store. But Jim Hicks, a store manager, said SARO had mostly just been “active on our Facebook page.”
Canavan said J. Michael Shoes was repeating the same market-
ing lines as Canada Goose and wasn’t interested in changing anything, which is why she and the others decided to protest out-side of the store.
“We want Canada Goose to adopt humane standards,” said Canavan. “These animals are trapped for up to several days and are bludgeoned or shot to death. There’s cruelty in every stitch of Canada Goose jackets.”
Hicks said the protesters’ claims are exaggerated.
“Canada Goose is a very repu-table company,” he said. “Real fur
Here is a round-up of criminal activity that happened near campus this week, according to police bulletins: BURGLARY
A junior in the Martin J. Whitman School of Management, 21, was arrested on the charges of burglary in the second degree, harassment in the second degree and criminal contempt in the first degree, according to a police bulletin.
when: Thursday 1 a.m. where: 700 block of Eucllid Ave SOUND REPRODUCTION
A junior in the Martin J. Whitman School of Management, 22, was arrested on the charge of sound reproduction, according to a police bulletin.
when: Saturday 9:20 a.m. where: 800 block of Ackerman Ave
A Syracuse man, 48, was arrested on the charge of sound reproduction, according to a police bulletin.
when: Wednesday 11:35 a.m. where: 400 block of Stafford Ave ROBBERY
A Syracuse man, 20, was arrested on the charges of robbery in the second degree and assault in the third degree, according to a police bulletin.
when: Friday 2:32 p.m. where: Destiny USA SEX OFFENDER
A Syracuse man, 49, was arrested on the charge of failing to register as a sex offender within 10 days, according to a police bulletin.
when: Friday 10:45 a.m. where: 511 S. State St. HARASSMENT
A Syracuse woman, 35, was arrested on the charges of harassment in the second degree and criminal mischief in the fourth degree, according to a police bulletin.
when: Friday 8:05 p.m. where: Destiny USA STRANGULATION
A Syracuse man, 33, was arrested on the charges of strangulation, endangering the welfare of a child and criminal obstruction of breathing, according to a police bulletin.
when: Friday 5:40 p.m. where: 511 S. State St. LARCENY
A Syracuse girl, 17, was arrested on the charge of petit larceny, according to a police bulletin.
when: Wednesday 5:32 p.m. where: Destiny USA
— Compiled by Michael Burke, asst. news editor
See dailyorange.com for our interactive crime map.
crime briefs
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Bad to the boneThe “As Bad As I Wanne Be: Reimaging Black Womanhood Exhibition” in Syracuse’s Community Folk Art Center shows work that integrates concepts of femininity, gender and race. Work by artists Nina Buxembaum, Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle and Delita Martin are featured in the exhi-bition, which is open from Tuesday to Sunday every week until April 23. rebecca ruggieri shays contributing photographer
The Student Association is the student government body of the university. SA is currently in its 59th session and Aysha Seedat is president. Outside of the cabi-net, there are four committees and four boards, which report to the association.
what is sa?
We want Canada Goose to adopt humane standards.Amber Canavansuny-esf alumna
business
Direct investment in technology startups is a bright idea for NY
New York state has the potential to be LED into a prosperous future as long as its leaders know when
to let it go. The city of Dewitt will be welcoming Soraa, a California-based manufacturer of LED lights, later this year in a deal that the plant will be built and owned by SUNY Polytechnic Institute to be leased to Soraa for an indefinite amount of time. With Soraa projecting to invest $1.3 billion into the project within the next decade, the plant will bring 420 new jobs to the region, according to Syracuse.com, and will be a local fixture for years to come.
The state is wise to use part of the $500 million awarded to the region from the Upstate Revitalization Initiative (URI) to partner with the private sector and cash in on developing technologies. As long as the state eventually sells the manufacturing plant to the company — a question which has not yet been formally answered — both sides, and most importantly central New York, will come out well from the arrangement.
The manufacturing plant is an expen-sive project, which is why the state has promised $90 million to build and equip the facility. Coupled with the fact that Soraa will not pay rent on the facility, this might seem to be a questionable invest-ment — at least initially. But $70 million of the startup money will be taken from the URI, the purpose of which is improving the central New York economy. Investing in manufacturing plants certainly has the potential to yield great returns for central New York, considering one of the reasons that the region has won this grant for revitalization is a desire to cash in on the clean and budding technology that New York state has been excelling in creating as of late. Albany has recently become a hub of nanotechnology, thanks to similar efforts by SUNY Polytechnic and the state to consciously create a mini silicon valley in upstate New York. The tax breaks and subsidization is certainly a gamble, but they are ones that seem to be paying off so far. Tax-free zones that have been set up around SUNY campuses have helped many businesses get off the ground and contributed to the growing nanotech scene in Albany.
In addition to its aim to supplement the local film industry, these measures and past examples certainly have garnered enough good faith for us to lend our support to the Soraa facility. Soraa itself is the child of a group of professors who used their education to innovate. With SUNY Polytechnic and other regional schools creating jobs, there is a precedent for a multitude of skilled and well-educated professionals in New York that should be encouraged to settle
down in the state so similar companies may take root. Michael Wasylenko, senior associate dean for academics and administration and professor of economics in Syracuse Univer-sity’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, was clear to praise the state’s recent actions.
“Many states have been doing this (direct investment into businesses),” said Wasyl-enko. “I think it’s a good idea. It’s a better way to do development, act as a venture capitalist.” But the failure to release the plant after the company has proven themselves would be a blunder that would cause the state more problems and implode a smart program. It is neither the job nor expertise of New York to run a major manufacturing industry. If Soraa is as successful as projected after a few years of running, the state should sell the factory and reap the return on investment because retaining ownership yields few positives in the long run. However, it should be clear that Soraa is profitable and stable before selling to them, lest central New York end up with another barren factory. The facility would serve as insurance that the state still has a semi-per-manent asset that can be leased to another tech company if Soraa is not the right fit. As long as the state is prudent enough to sell when success has been proven, there’s little risk regardless of whether the company suc-ceeds or fails. It could be argued that the state should stay out of the investing business entirely and stick to a more traditional tax-reduction strategy for attracting business. Yes, the state could attempt that, but as any business knows, you have to stand out or you’ll be passed over. Basing its strategy on tax reduction has its risks — most arguably holding onto the plant and not selling it — but to stick to the status quo would be a fatal blow to the ailing state economy. “I think eventually the state should get out of the business of holding the factory and sell it to the company if it’s successful,” said Wasylenko. New York is wise to invest in Soraa and other emerging tech companies. The state’s strategy of constructing plants and offering subsidies is one of the smartest and safest ways for New York to stand out in a crowded business space. And while companies may see central New York as a starting point, it’s key to make them stay after the tax subsidies and startup invest-ment wear off. Upstate New York may well be on its way to becoming a major technology cen-ter. But only through balanced business deals will future projects light up across the upstate scene.
Theo Horn is a sophomore political science and public policy dual major.
His column appears weekly. He can be reached at [email protected].
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$70 millionThe amount of money that will be
invested in the Soraa plant from the Upstate Revitalization Initiative funds
THEO HORNIT’S NOT PERSONAL, IT’S BUSINESS
what is upstate revitalization initiativeThe Upstate Revitalization Initiative is a state effort aimed to revive upstate New York’s economy through stimulus packages. Central New York was granted $500 mil-lion over the course of the next five years in order to help fund long-term job growth through develop-ment projects.
Climate change isn’t sexy, but Leonardo DiCaprio is. The actor shocked the
thespian community in his recent Oscar acceptance speech after win-ning Best Actor for “The Revenant,” when he took advantage of his long-anticipated face time as an opportu-nity to address the issue of climate change rather than acknowledging Hollywood’s running joke about his lack of Oscar wins. After explaining how the production of “The Revenant” had to move to the southernmost tip of the planet in order to find snow for filming during the hottest year on historical record, DiCaprio bla-tantly stated that climate change is real and ended with a call to sup-port leaders who work to combat it. And with the United States in the midst of a contentious election season, one might wonder: Who would Leo endorse? The answer may have emerged when presidential hopefuls former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders met yet again for Sunday night’s seventh Demo-cratic debate. The CNN debate was moderated by Anderson Cooper at the University of Michigan’s Flint Campus. Flint, Michigan — a city in the national spotlight due to its lead-ridden tap water crisis — offered the change of setting needed to facilitate discussion on previously sidelined topics. While Flint is primarily regarded as a public health issue, it demonstrates a dearth of envi-ronmental provisions in political decision-making. And with cli-mate change on the minds of many millennials, it was finally time for a more in-depth conversation about the candidate’s respective environmental records that could set them apart in the election.
Hillary Clinton: Current Democratic Frontrunner
Flint Response:
Clinton was among the first to respond to the Flint water crisis stating that there had not been an adequate sense of urgency and that it would not have occurred had Flint been a rich suburb of Detroit. She has dispatched two of her top aides to assist Flint Mayor Karen Weaver and has influenced Michigan’s call for federal help and emergency declaration by chastising Gov. Rick Snyder’s (R-Mich.) response. During Sunday’s debate, she criticized Michigan’s lack of financial support for Flint’s crisis stating, “It is raining lead in Flint and the state is derelict in not com-ing forward with the money that is required.” Clinton said that as
president, she would work to rid the United States of lead nationwide, in soil and in the paint of older homes as well as water infrastructure. But her record on clean water policy is questionable. In 2005, Clin-ton opposed a bipartisan effort to ban a carcinogenic fuel additive that was linked to the contamination of water supplies nationwide. To Sand-ers’ disadvantage, he did not mention this vote in Sunday’s debate.
The Big Picture:
According to the League of Con-servation voters, an organization that assesses political candidates environmental voting records, Clin-ton has an 82 percent lifetime score, meaning that 82 percent of the time, she has voted in favor of policy ben-eficial to the environment. Clinton’s five-year stalemate on taking a position on the Keystone XL pipeline has come under fire in previous debates, which calls into question the role of corporate campaign contributions in the formation of her political agenda. At Sunday’s debate, Sanders claimed, “I don’t take money from the fossil fuel industry,” which was an obvi-ous dig at Clinton’s corporate ties.
Bernie Sanders: A Fierce Challenger
Flint Response:
Renowned environmental activist and lawyer Erin Brockovich has supported Sanders’ early call for the resignation of Snyder — a stance that Clinton adopted at Sunday’s debate — claiming that his “outra-geous” irresponsibility contributes to the Flint crisis. However, Snyder still has not resigned. Like Clinton, Sanders has stated that he wonders if the response in Flint would have been different if it were a white suburban community. Reflective of his grassroots-style cam-paign, Sanders has even established a campaign office in the economically-depressed downtown Flint. Sanders made a promise Sun-day night to rebuild the nation’s infrastructure, including water systems in Flint, instead of giving tax breaks to the wealthy. Sand-ers stated that as president, his appointed Environmental Protec-tion Agency director would ensure that every water line in the United States be tested and that communi-ties know the quality of their water.
The Big Picture:
Sanders has a 95 percent lifetime score on environmental legisla-tion and a 100 percent score in the
past year as a Vermont senator, according to voters in the League of Conservation. Sanders, an ardent crusader of campaign finance reform, has said that fossil fuel corporations and lobbyists have compromised con-gressional environmental policy and have contributed to the over-whelming climate change denial within the Republican party. w When pressed about the topic of fracking during the seventh Democratic debate, Sanders declared his fierce opposition, which garnered significant applause from the Flint live audience — likely due to the fact that fracking is strongly linked to groundwater contamination. Sanders also said the U.S. must transform its energy system to efficient and sustainable sources, adding in his characteristic Brooklyn accent, “We’ve gotta’ do it yesterday.”
The Bottom Line:Clinton’s pragmatic approach may be more adequate in addressing localized and short-term issues like Flint’s water crisis. But Sanders, who continually addresses funda-mental issues in all areas of his cam-paign and has the stronger overall environmental voting record, is the best candidate for combatting an issue like climate change. Clinton has strong ties to the fossil fuel industry, which may make it difficult for millennial voters to trust her with their future on this planet. And while many envi-ronmentalists have dramatically stated that this election is United States’ last chance of electing an environmentally-conscious leader, the reality is that no leader can solve or mitigate the monumental issue of global climate change on their own. “No matter who gets elected, it will be difficult to make the significant change that is needed unless there is a social movement that addresses the issue,” said Jack Manno, a professor in the envi-ronmental studies department at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry. Sanders is the only candidate that has reiterated this senti-ment throughout his campaign, calling for a political revolution among voters. And millennials are providing that momentum with the belief that Sanders is the best champion of their future. So while it may sound counter-intuitive, if you’re experiencing the heat of climate change, you may just want to “Feel the Bern.”
Mia Tomasello is a junior environmental communi-
cations major at SUNY-ESF. Her column appears weekly.
At a time when the bulk of student demonstrations are university-centric, recent efforts by the Syracuse Animal Rights Organization (SARO) prove that it takes visibly engaging within the community to promote social progress that may be disregarded as too idealistic. A group of about 20 commu-nity members protested in front of J. Michael Shoes on Marshall Street on Saturday afternoon in a gathering organized and led by SARO in response to the store’s selling of Canada Goose jackets, which the protesters claimed endorse animal cruelty. While the demonstration may have been considered disruptive, or “awkward” as one passerby wearing a Canada Goose jacket noted, it should be maintained that college students have the right to protest, voice concerns and raise distinctive points of view. And while the group may or may not be successful in effectively holding J. Michael Shoes or Canada Goose accountable by halting the local sale of fur products, SARO’s efforts are commendable in sparking a conversation on the ethics of these sales within the local market. Though a J. Michael Shoes employee said protesters were unfair to focus on a small busi-ness rather than Canada Goose as a greater brand, businesses who sell fur products like the Marshall Street vendor are subject to backlash and share the responsibility of supporting the fur industry. But the impli-
cations of the small-business argument play a greater role in the discussion. It is understood that local outlets like J. Michael Shoes may make a substantial portion of their revenue from the sale of fur products, including Canada Goose jackets, in a notoriously cold place like Syracuse. But the fact of the matter is that the emphasis on profits outweighs that of social progress far too often.
Wielding capitalist interests as a reason behind the continued sale of fur products only promotes stagnancy on an ethical basis. And while the sale of fur products at local outlets may not be halted by one protest, for students to voice their beliefs in a public display sheds light on the prospect of a more principled future. The call for social progress may not be soon and it may not start with J. Michael Shoes, but the message does have to start somewhere. And the fact that the end objective may seem idealistic now should not mini-mize SARO’s efforts when the demonstration acts as a smaller catalyst in the larger prospect toward a more progressive com-munity that values ethical sales practices and community voices.
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20The approximate number of protesters outside of J.
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“Feeling the Bern”Liberal columnist Mia Tomasello takes on 2016 hopefuls Hillary Clinton’s and Bernie Sanders’ environmental stances in the seventh Democratic debate.See full version on dailyorange.com
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Clinton, Sanders clash over Wall Street, gun restrictionsBy Michael Burkeasst. news editor
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.) sparred in an often fiery seventh Democratic presidential primary debate on Sunday night.
The two presidential candidates debated in Flint, Michigan, the site of the lead contamina-tion water crisis. And while the debate’s early moments centered around the crisis — both candidates called on Michigan Gov. Rick Sny-der to resign — the night also featured feuding between the candidates over their past records.
Sanders criticized Clinton for her Wall
Street ties and support of trade agreements, while Clinton attacked the senator over his stance on gun restrictions.
It started when Clinton condemned Sanders for voting against the 2008 auto bailout, arguing that the auto industry “would have collapsed” if everybody had voted the way Sanders did.
“The money was there to save the Ameri-can auto industry and 4 million jobs,” Clinton said during the debate. “… I voted to save the auto industry, he voted against the money that ended up saving the auto industry.”
But Sanders quipped back, pointing out that the bailout was also for Wall Street banks, which is why he said he voted against
it. The candidates were referencing the Trou-bled Asset Relief Program, which originally committed $250 billion to stabilizing banks and $82 billion to stabilizing the auto indus-try, according to the United States Depart-ment of the Treasury’s website.
Sanders used that as a launching pad to both call on Clinton to release the transcripts of her paid speeches to Wall Street firms and criticize the former secretary of state for hav-ing the support of a super PAC.
The senator also went after Clinton for her past support of trade deals such as the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP),
attacks he has intensified recently in the form of advertisements and tweets.
But Clinton pointed out that she voted against the Central American Free Trade Agreement during her Senate tenure and ultimately opposed the TPP.
Clinton also criticized Sanders for his stance that gun manufacturers shouldn’t be held liable for selling firearms that are eventually used in mass shootings.
Sanders said doing so would be the equiva-lent to banning the manufacturing of guns, which Clinton said was similar to rhetoric used by the National Rifle Association.
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“People have said, ‘Why is it taking so long,’ but if you think about it, we started in April and couldn’t really do anything until September,’” Driscoll said. “Septem-ber until now is pretty fast to find a chief academic officer.”
Robert Van Gulick, a philosophy profes-sor and member of the University Senate, said the search process was probably on schedule considering the delay in starting.
“I don’t really know why the search didn’t get going early in the spring of 2015, in which case it’d maybe be done by fall of 2015, but it was just a little slow out of the gate,” Van Gulick said.
Kevin Quinn, SU’s senior vice president for public affairs, said the timing was a mat-ter of taking the amount of time needed to appoint a search committee with members who reflected the campus community.
While not all dean and senior leadership searches are the same, the search that conclud-ed in Wheatly’s hiring was unusually long com-pared to others the university has conducted in recent years. In particular, the gap between Spina’s leaving and the formation of the search committee was lengthier than usual.
After Nancy Cantor said on Oct. 12, 2012 that she would step down as chancellor in 2014, it took 96 days for a search com-mittee to be publicly announced. In total, 335 days passed from the time Cantor announced her planned departure until Kent Sy verud was named her replacement. Professor Deborah Pellow, who was on the chancellor search committee, said the committee met through the spring and summer during that process.
George Langford, former dean of the Col-lege of Arts and Sciences, announced in December 2013 that he would step down the following June. The interim dean, Karin Ruhlandt, was appointed 124 days later, and
she was named the permanent dean 291 days after that following a national search.
In a more recent example, Daryl Gross announced on March 18, 2015, that he was leaving his position as director of athletics. It took 19 days for a search committee to be announced and 93 days for Mark Coyle to be chosen as the next director.
Van Gulick added that there was an interest
from faculty in getting updates on the search, and said Syverud would tell the senate during meetings that the process was moving along.
Given the need for confidentiality in the process, Van Gulick said there isn’t much more that could be said. The way candidates were interviewed and the lack of specifics until the announcement is pretty standard for these types of searches at private universities, he said.
If a candidate has a job at another univer-sity, they likely wouldn’t apply unless it was kept confidential that they were applying for a position at a different school.
In addition to occasional updates from the chancellor, Driscoll sent emails on an almost-monthly basis to the campus com-munity providing updates on roughly where the committee was at in the process.
“I don’t think people think this hasn’t been a transparent process,” Van Gulick said. “It’s not typically the type of thing you get a lot of information about.”
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People have said, ‘Why is it taking so long,’ but if you think about it, we started in April and couldn’t really do anything until September.Charles Driscollchair of the provost search committee
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By Taylor Watsonstaff writer
Professor Karin Limburg of SUNY-ESF recently became involved with a research project in an effort to deter-
mine the age of cod in the Baltic Sea — something that can have a considerable impact on the fishing industry.
The ultimate goal of Tagging Baltic Sea Cod (TABASCO), Limburg said, is to dis-cover a better way of aging these fish so the fishing industry can receive more reliable information for fishery management.
“This problem could vary year to year,” said Limburg, who is a professor of environmental and forest biology at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry. “It is extremely bad at the moment, but could improve upon the coming togeth-er of factors that improve cod health, allowing them to grow stronger.”
TABASCO is a new endeavor expect-ed to span over the course of four years, Limburg said. Limburg’s role is to help determine the age of the cod.
The professor’s involvement in the project stems from her role as a visiting professor in the Department of Aquatic Resources at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU). She will advise graduate students working on the project in Sweden, she said.
Limburg said it is “vital” to be able to age cod in order to manage them sustainably. She called cod fisheries “economic engines.”
“Cod is an iconic species,” she said. “They used to be one of the most abun-dant large fishes in the Atlantic, but they became heavily overfished.”
The fact that it is difficult to deter-mine the age of cod in the Baltic Sea has a direct economic impact on the fishing industry, Limburg said. Age determination contributes to the devel-opment of stock assessment models, which are necessary to set sustainable fishing quotas. The Marine Steward-
ship Council (MSC) sets standards for sustainable fishing.
MSC clients receive a certification known as an ecolabel, which means those products are more sustainable, Limburg said. Retailers including Wal-Mart and Whole Foods Market purchase MSC-certified products, which consum-ers are willing to pay more for, she said.
MSC has pulled its certifications of cod in the areas surrounding the Baltic Sea due to the lack of reliable informa-tion about the fish, Limburg said.
The difficulty in aging the cod stems from a condition in the Baltic Sea called hypoxia, Limburg said. Hypoxia is an oxygen deficiency in the water and is the result of industrial and agricultural pollution from surrounding countries. Global climate change also contributes to hypoxia, as rising water tempera-tures cause the water to hold less oxy-gen, she added.
Limburg compares life for fish in hypoxic waters to being cooped up in a stuffy room, making it difficult to breathe.
Cod tend to spawn in areas of the Bal-tic Sea that are hypoxic, Limburg said, because those are the only areas with enough salinity — or the amount of salt dissolved in water — to keep their eggs buoyant. If the salinity requirement is not met, eggs will sink to the bottom of the sea and perish, Limburg said.
Limburg studies the chemical com-position and trace elements of oto-liths, which are calcified structures that grow in the inner ears of most fish species. Over time, otoliths develop growth rings, which allow scientists to determine the age of the fish, like tree rings help scientists determine the age of trees, Limburg said. Otoliths in Baltic Sea cod have become increas-ingly difficult to read as a result of the hypoxia, she added.
Cod are also facing starvation as their prey have moved elsewhere, Lim-burg said, and these combined stresses make them more susceptible to diseases and parasites, affecting their growth.
“My expertise can be used to help understand if some of the chemical properties (of otoliths) can help us with age determination,” she said. “Even though we cannot see the growth bands clearly, chemistry still has a sea-sonal pattern.”
Other researchers involved in TABASCO are tagging individual cod and analyzing data from the tags to find information about the environment the cod live in, including temperature, salin-ity and depth. This will be compared to the information that Limburg and her collaborators find in the otoliths.
KARIN LIMBURG, a SUNY-ESF professor, is researching how to age cod in the Baltic Sea as part of the Tagging Baltic Sea Cod (TABASCO) project. The effort is expected to last many years, Limburg said. courtesy of karin limburg
Otoliths, which are calcified structures that grow in the inner ears of most fish species, allow scientists to determine the age of cod. It becomes difficult to do this when the water has an oxygen dificiency. courtesy of karin limburg
Cod is an iconic species. They used to be one of the most abundant large fishes in the Atlantic, but they became heavily overfished.Karen Limburgprofessor of environmental and forest biology at suny-esf
COD REDSUNY-ESF professor works to determine age of cod in the Baltic Sea
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Study finds black students pursue low-earning majorsBy Stacy Fernandezstaff writer
A recent study from Georgetown University found that black college students are more likely to pursue lower-paying majors.
The study, titled “African Americans: Col-lege Majors and Earnings,” was conducted by the Center on Education and the Workforce at Georgetown University this year. The study analyzed 137 detailed majors, the number of black students represented in the majors and the median earnings for black students in each major with a bachelor’s degree.
Twelve percent of the population in the United States is black, according to the study. While access to college has increased among black students, they are concentrated in open-access four-year schools that offer a limited range of majors, according to the study. Open-access schools are schools that are either public or have high acceptance rates, or both, according to the study.
African-Americans are underrepresented in the majors associated with the fastest grow-ing and highest paying jobs: STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics), health and business, according to the study.
In STEM fields, according to the study, African-Americans account for 8 percent of general engineering majors, 7 percent of mathematics majors and 5 percent of com-puter engineering majors. In business, 7 percent of finance and marketing majors are black, according to the study.
At the same time, the study found that African-Americans are overrepresented in majors associ-ated with serving the community, which tend to be low-earning. In human services and commu-nity organizations, African-Americans account for 20 percent of the field and in social work they account for 19 percent, according to the study.
The majority of the low-earning majors Afri-can-Americans pursue are part of the “intellec-tual and caring professions” — highly educated workers whose salaries don’t reflect their years of higher education, according to the study.
African-Americans also represent 10 percent of health majors, but are concentrated in the lowest-earning major with 21 percent in health
and medical administrative services. This is compared to 6 percent in the higher-earning majors of pharmacy, pharmaceutical sciences and administration, according to the study.
Surveys conducted for young African-Americans who initially enrolled in a STEM program and then decided to leave found that the students didn’t feel appreciated in the class, didn’t feel like they were a part of the class or felt they were expected to speak on behalf of their race, said Nicole Smith, senior economist at the Center on Education and the Workforce at Georgetown University.
“It’s a matter of isolation as well and not necessarily embracing different learning styles, different opinions, different perspec-tives,” Smith said.
Smith said it’s important that students are able to choose majors based on their own interests and values and not go into other fields just because they feel unwanted.
The highest median earning for African-Americans is in pharmacy and pharmaceu-tical sciences and administration majors at $84,000, according to the study, and the low-est median earning was for those who majored in early childhood education at $38,000.
Smith said it is important for black stu-dents to choose higher-paying jobs so that there is more balance and representation in the job market.
“We want to feel in 2016 in America and beyond that everyone irrespective of race, color, country of origin, gender, (that) you have the same opportunity as everyone else,” Smith said.
More African-Americans in high-paying jobs can lead to more positive role models for younger generations to be financially successful, according to the study.
Smith said a way to increase the percent-age of African-American students in higher paying majors is to have counseling and career services available from day one.
“We have self-selection by gender, by income level, we have self-selection by various different categories,” Smith said. “We have to let them know that the world is your oyster when you’re a college student and you have the opportunities to be whatever you want to be.”
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Choi, an assembly member, attended the event and focused on the topic of LGBT access to resources.
Choi said his group concluded that just because same-sex marriage has been legal-ized doesn’t mean the fight is over for the LGBT community.
“There are so many more issues that they are battling, and we must stick with them. Being mindful and inclusive are the first steps to take toward a more encompassing
campus environment,” he said.Corona, another assembly member who
attended the event, said she benefited from talking with students from different uni-versities about specific problems because it allowed her to see issues with a different frame of mind.
“We also all talked about the ways our campuses could improve and grow, and how we could make it more inclusive for all,” she added.
Next year’s leadership symposium will be held at Wake Forest University.
Other SA members are planning on attending and representing SU at The National Conference on Student Leader-ship in Denver, Colorado, later on in the spring semester.
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Study finds eating chocolate may increase brain powerBy Nicole Valinotecontributing writer
Good news for chocolate lovers: a Syracuse-based study has found that regularly con-suming chocolate is associated with higher cognitive abilities.
The Maine-Syracuse Longitudinal Study, which was published last month in the jour-nal “Appetite,” found that people who eat chocolate one time a week perform mod-estly better cognitively, said Merrill Elias, a researcher and professor at the University of Maine who led the study with David Street-en, a Syracuse-based medical physician.
“Chocolate has often been thought of as bad for you health-wise because it has sugar, but indeed it is good for you because it has nutritional elements that are good for the brain and good for the body,” said Elias, who is also a former faculty member of Syracuse University’s Department of Psychology.
Elias and Streeten collected nutritional data on nearly 1,000 adults, mainly from Syracuse, for the study.
The study began in 1975 when Elias and Streeten began studying hypertension, cognitive functioning and high blood pressure. In 2000, that study expanded into a study of cardiovascu-lar risk factors and their effects on cognition.
Elias said the study of chocolate began when Georgina Crichton, a senior graduate student at the University of Maine, wanted to look at nutrition variables in the Maine database, but there weren’t any. Crichton began researching on the study with Elias.
“One of the reasons we did the study is because the literature indicates that choco-late is good for a lot of biological outcomes,” Elias said, adding that chocolate is good for cardiovascular health.
During the study, participants came in every five years and had a medical examina-tion and an interview. They would also take diagnostic tests and tests that measured their cognitive functioning.
Corey White, an assistant professor of cog-nitive psychology at SU, said there have been nutritional studies that would indicate higher cognitive performance with other foods as
well. For example, he said studies have indi-cated that coffee can lead to higher cognitive performances due to the stimulant caffeine.
Elias said the research was conducted in Syracuse because he was employed at SU when the study began. When he transitioned to the University of Maine, the research continued in Syracuse.
Elias said he does not think the location had an impact on the results but added that he can’t know for sure because the research-ers had not looked at any other samples.
“We generally hope and believe that a lot of these things aren’t dependent on exactly where the study takes place or the people that are in that study that takes place,” White said. “However, there certainly could be factors that could affect it.”
For example, White said socio-economic status has been shown to impact cognitive performance.
“I would hope that the results are broadly applicable, that it’s not specific to something in the water in Syracuse,” White said. “One of the difficulties with research like this is that
we can’t tell what the causal relationship is.”There are three possible ways to interpret
the relationship between chocolate consump-tion and higher cognitive abilities, White said.
The first possibility is that eating choco-late makes a person better at performing cognitive tasks, he said. The second possibil-ity is that people who have higher cognitive abilities eat more chocolate. He added that it’s equally possible that there’s a third vari-able that the researchers don’t know about, which relates to both chocolate consump-tion and cognitive performance.
“I like the interpretation that people who are smarter are the ones who are going to choose chocolate because that’s a wise deci-sion to make,” White said.
An alternative study to better understand the association between chocolate and higher cognitive performance could be to bring in a group of people and have only half of them eat chocolate, White said. Then the whole group would perform cognitive tasks and a compari-son between the two groups could be drawn.
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Sanders takes Maine caucus while Rubio wins Puerto RicoBy Sara Swannasst. news editor
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) won all 23 dele-gates in the Puerto Rico Republican primary on Sunday, making this his second win in the 2016 presidential race so far.
Rubio came in third after business mogul Donald Trump and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), respectively, in the Kansas cau-cus, Kentucky caucus and Louisiana pri-mary on “Super Saturday.” He also placed fourth after Cruz, Trump and Ohio Gov. John Kasich, respectively, in the Maine caucus on Saturday.
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders won the Maine Democratic caucus on Sunday. He win 15 delegates, while former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will win eight, accord-ing to NBC News projections.
On Super Saturday, Sanders also beat Clinton in two out of the three contests, winning both the Nebraska and Kansas cau-cuses. Clinton won the Louisiana primary with a total of 35 delegates.
So far Clinton has won 11 different states and garnered 1,129 delegates. Sanders has won eight different states and has 498 del-egates in total. The Democratic candidates need 2,383 to win the nomination.
On the Republican side, Trump is leading with 12 state wins and 384 delegates. Cruz has won in six states with 300 delegates in total. Rubio has won only two contests so far and is trailing with 151 delegates. Kasich, who hasn’t won any states, has only 37 delegates. The Republican candidates need 1,237 delegates to win the nomination.
On Tuesday, the four Republican candi-dates will compete in the Hawaii caucus, Idaho primary, Michigan primary and Mis-sissippi primary. Also on Tuesday, the two Democratic candidates will go head-to-head in the Michigan and Mississippi primaries.
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is the only thing that will work against the elements of the snow. There’s no synthetic that can work as well as real fur.
“Why are they protesting us and not Can-ada Goose headquarters in Canada?”
Hicks added that regardless of the actions of the protesters, J. Michael Shoes will con-tinue to sell Canada Goose jackets.
Peter Riemers, a J. Michael Shoes employee and sophomore communications and rhetorical studies major at Syracuse University, said it’s unfair for the protest-ers to attack a small business that car-ries Canada Goose jackets, rather than a Canada Goose store.
“To stand outside our store on a weekend is a little extra,” he said. “It’s a little excessive.”
A few times, groups of women wear-ing Canada Goose jackets walked by as protesters were chanting, “Canada Goose has blood on its hands.” One group laughed together as a woman wearing a Canada Goose jacket said, “This is so awkward” and walked into Starbucks.
Jackie Smith, a freshman psychology major at SU, stood outside Starbucks talk-ing to a group of friends. She was wearing a Canada Goose jacket.
“I’m just trying to avoid them. Are they going to harass me? Are they going to throw tomatoes at me? It’s just a hood,” she said. “I’m not a crazy fur wearer.”
AMBER CANAVAN, a 2015 SUNY-ESF alumna, holds a sign in protest of the methods used by Canada Goose to make their jackets. She says that Canada harms animals and wants the company to switch to synthetic fur. rachel sandler asst. news editor
Sen. Bernie Sanders
(D-Vt.) won Maine and got 15 delegates.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) won Puerto Rico and got
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the Academic Strategic Plan.The Academic Strategic Plan is one of the
three components of Syverud’s Fast Forward initiative. The plan will “serve as a strategic roadmap to guide priorities and institutional decision making in the coming years.”
Wheatly, a scientist by trade whose work
focuses on biomedicine but has implica-tions for other parts of the life sciences, said the plan — completed last July — was “well-crafted” with the right amount of input from the community. During the pro-cess of developing the plan, SU turned to the community for feedback and got it from more than 1,000 sources.
“I’m glad (the plan’s) been done, but now we have to start working on the goals and estab-
lishing the benchmarks and all that stuff,” she said. “It’s moving into the doing the action part, and I’m very excited about that.”
As provost at WVU, a position she held from January 2010 through June 2014 before becoming special assistant to the WVU president, Wheatly oversaw the imple-mentation of a strategic plan, something she said will help her with the Academic Strategic Plan at SU.
“Because I have experience from other institutions, including being a provost, I know a lot about all of these six areas (of the Academic Strategic Plan) but what I don’t know so well right now is the Syracuse cul-ture and community, so I’m hoping the peo-ple will lead me and teach me, very quickly, what would be needed for me to know so we can start moving ahead,” she said.
ResearchComing off an announcement that SU researchers helped prove Albert Einstein correct and the university’s move into the top tier of research institutions, Wheatly
said it’s important for the university to only improve when it comes to research.
“The goal is always to try to do better and not get complacent about being in the top tier,” she said.
In terms of research activity, SU moved from an R2 designation to an R1 desig-nation, determined by the 2015 Carn-egie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, last month. The university was one of 15 schools to move from R2 to R1 and is now one of about 100 institutions in that R1 designation.
Days after the new research classifica-tion, it was announced that SU researchers had helped prove Einstein’s theory on gravi-tational waves to be accurate.
“Doing better work, getting better brand recognition on the national scene and really being an institution of first choice I think is going to be very critical,” Wheatly said of research at SU moving forward.
Student officialsWheatly is like Mary Poppins — “just so elo-quent,” Student Association President Aysha Seedat said.
Serving on the provost search committee as a representative of undergraduate stu-dents, Seedat said she was looking for a vice chancellor who will be visible to students and will “talk at our level.”
Seedat said she liked the fact that Wheat-ly has experience implementing a strategic plan, similar to what she’ll be doing at SU.
“This person has to come into the job knowing that the Academic Strategic Plan is long and it’s going to take awhile to imple-ment, so you need someone who is going to be captivated and is able to motivate every-one and say, ‘Hey, we still need to keep going, we’re almost there, we’re almost there,’” Seedat said. “And it’s something about her, it’s the way that she talks to you, that she’ll pick you right back up again.”
Like Seedat, Patrick Neary, former Grad-uate Student Organization president and a member of the search committee, said the Academic Strategic Plan will play an impor-tant role in Wheatly’s tenure.
During the transition period from now until mid-May, Neary said he’ll “just really try and help her understand the breadth of what we have going on here at the university.”
“I think she absolutely has the ability to come in and help steer SU down some really exciting new paths when it comes to strate-gic planning and just generally, improving SU’s academic portfolio,” Neary said.
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Cuomo curbs sales practices of energy service companiesBy Matthew Gutierrezstaff writer
When an energy company salesman walked into Matthew Huber’s home promising him cleaner energy, Huber knew something wasn’t right.
“The guy was really aggressive and it was actually really difficult to get him out of my house,” said Huber, an associate profes-sor of geography in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. “It just seemed really sketchy.”
The salesman, an energy service com-pany (ESCO) representative, tried to sign Huber up for an energy contract that would provide him cleaner energy at a reduced cost. Although he said he considers himself an “environment person,” Huber declined.
In response to an industry-wide review conducted by the New York State Public Service Commission, New York state Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced last month a plan to protect consumers from deceptive business practices in the retail energy service industry. Among the plan’s points is a “do not knock” rule that protects energy consumers from unwarranted intrusion, like in Huber’s case.
“We have zero tolerance for these unscru-pulous companies, whose business model is to prey on ratepayers with promises of lower energy costs only to deliver skyrocketing bills,” Cuomo said in a release from his office.
ESCOs are commercial or nonprofit energy companies that compete with utility companies, according to the release. They emerged in the 1970s after the deregulation of the electricity markets, Huber said. Today, there are about 200 ESCOs eligible to provide electricity and natural gas in New York state, according to the release.
But thousands of New York residents have signed contracts with ESCOs, only to later find themselves stuck in contracts with exorbitant prices, according to the release.
Huber said his case highlights the growing problem of ESCOs across New York state. In many cases, solicitors market households, prom-
ising low electricity rates. Once they get consum-ers locked into contracts, they can overcharge for electric and gas service, Huber said.
The New York State Public Service Com-mission is auditing these companies following the review, according to the release, and pro-hibiting new ESCO contracts with residential or small commercial customers from taking effect unless the companies provide guaran-teed cost savings, or at least 30 percent of the supply comes from renewable energy.
The commission will also strengthen the process for revoking ESCO eligibility to do business in New York if it is found in violation of state regulation, according to the release.
The commission’s review found several ESCOs in upstate New York charged more than double what National Grid, an electric company that provides power to Syracuse and Syracuse University, charges, according to the release. In one case in the Finger Lakes region, an ESCO was found to have charged eight times what Rochester Gas & Electric charged for electricity, according to the release.
Four companies in the Hudson Valley region charged more than double what Central Hudson charged for electricity. In New York City, a com-
pany charged more than triple Con Edison’s rate for electricity, according to the release.
The commission also found, according to the release, “several instances where companies were blatantly misrepresenting themselves, such as pretending to represent the local utility in order to trick customers into signing costly and harmful contracts.”
Huber said part of why ESCOs have been so successful is because review commission budgets and staffs have been cut, leaving fewer people left to enforce regulations.
He added that customers tend to be ill-versed in the electricity markets, making it easy for companies to take advantage of them.
Because it’s much easier to regulate a single utility, Huber suggested banning ESCOs. But he said Cuomo’s plan is a step in the right direction.
“The Public Service Commission’s role is to make sure the electricity markets are fair,” Huber said. “And so it looks like they’re trying to do that.”
Companies that fail to comply with the points outlined in Cuomo’s plan will lose their ability to do business in New York state, according to the release.
200The approximate number of energy service
companies eligible to provide electricity and natural gas in New York state
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Community reflects on 50 years of women in SU marching bandEditor’s note: In light of Women’s History Month, this four-part series looks into how Syracuse women have contributed to the fight for equality.
By Clare Ramirezasst. copy editor
Linda Meltzer Strickon chose to attend Syracuse University knowing she want-ed to be a band conductor. But it wasn’t until she got to campus in September
1964 that she discovered there were no women in the Syracuse University Marching Band.
“I was upset because I loved marching band, and I was in it in high school,” said Strickon, who graduated in 1968 with a degree in music education. “Why didn’t I look into that before?”
Strickon had to wait until her junior year when university policies finally allowed women to join the marching band, which she said at the time was com-posed of around 100 members. Before that, women could only play in concert bands in orchestras.
She was one of the first 22 women to play in the marching band in 1966, marking a step away the name “100 Men and a Girl” — a moniker used to describe the band that formerly con-sisted of all men and one baton twirler.
Fifty years later in 2016, 104 out of the 175 members of the SU marching band are female. They play across all sections of the band, includ-ing saxophones, flutes and trumpets. This year, three women serve as drum majors, leading the band on and off the field.
“It just shows that somehow more and more women are becoming interested in music,” Strickon said. “It shows that they do pick based on who is best.”
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The Syracuse University Marching Band first allowed women to perform in 1966. Fifty years later, women now hold a number of leadership positions in the band. This year, 104 out of the band’s 175 members are women. david salanitri staff photographer
Saxophone players of the SUMB in 1975 rehearse for upcoming performances. In 1966, there were 22 women who were first allowed to play. courtesy of su archives
CINDY RANDALL was a former piccolo player for the SU marching band. courtesy of su archives
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‘Zootopia’ joins the long list of excellent Disney animated films
This weekend Walt Disney Animation Studio’s “Zootopia” opened with a bang. In fact, this bang was so
loud that “Zootopia” recorded the highest grossing opening for a non-Pixar animated Disney film of all time with over $70 million in the bank. Why so successful? It comes down to a strong marketing campaign, criti-cal acclaim and ultimately, the good will of the Mouse House.
Months ago, the marketing of “Zootopia” started with a simple premise — it was advertised as simply a movie with anthro-pomorphic animals that live in their own society. When I saw this advertisement, I was initially rather unimpressed. The idea sounded somewhat trite, and I felt like I had seen it already. Ultimately though, this sim-plicity allowed Disney to do whatever they wanted with “Zootopia.” The concept was easy enough to understand, and while not reinventing the wheel, Disney could really impress with a great story and execution
within this rather unoriginal concept. As marketing continued, though, the mate-
rials released let audiences know that “Zooto-pia” could actually be something special. There would be animals living in civilized society as promised. But the advertising showed how similar a society to ours these animals lived in, such as sloths working at the DMV.
Here, we saw that “Zootopia” might feature animals to attract little kids to the theater. But the satire of the specificities of our society would appeal to adults, regard-less of whether they had children or not.
Another important factor in the advertis-ing of “Zootopia” was the highlighting of both a male and a female protagonist. While Disney has had recent, albeit extreme, success with films that would traditionally
be enjoyed by female audiences such as “Tangled” and “Frozen,” “Zootopia” was very clearly accessible for both genders. Boys would want to come to see the fox, while girls would want to come and see the rabbit.
This is not to say that “Tangled” and “Fro-zen” did not have crossover audiences. In fact, the reason “Tangled” and “Frozen” have those titles rather than “Rapunzel” and “The Ice Queen” was so that boys would not feel uncomfortable going into the theater.
In addition to recent successes such as “Wreck-It-Ralph” and “Big Hero 6,” these films have been raking in audiences male and female, adult and child. This recent hot streak has shown that Disney has created a renaissance in animation. They are now consistently producing high-quality, engag-ing films that appeal to wide audiences.
Finally, as the week has progressed, hype for “Zootopia” has grown with its critical acclaim. “Zootopia” logged a 98 percent on Rotten Tomatoes and an 81 on movie review
website Metacritic, indicating “Critical Acclaim.” While many people might not look at these websites frequently, the word of stel-lar reviews gets out fast and shows audiences that “Zootopia” is a film not to be missed.
Word of mouth has been extremely strong, as the film jumped over 60 percent from Friday to Saturday. This was partially because kids had the whole day free, but also because the word spread quickly.
Beginning with “Tangled,” Disney has once again proven that they can make suc-cessful animated fare that is separate from Pixar. Audiences have come to expect qual-ity films, and “Zootopia” only raises the bar. As long as Disney continues to be original, creative and attractive to all audiences, the success will continue.
Erik Benjamin is a sophomore television, radio and film major. His column appears
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official band in 1901, relying on donations, concert proceeds and community support.
Though 1966 was the first year women became permanent members of the march-ing band, there was a time when women were allowed to temporarily march with the group. During World War II, the shortage of men forced the university to recruit women who had been in band in high school or had enough musical knowledge to keep up.
The women made their debut in October 1943 during a football game between Col-gate and Cornell universities.
But this opportunity was short-lived. There were some talks of creating an all-female marching band after the war, but when veterans returned and a new director took over in 1947, the band went back to being all males.
The change in 1966 was largely due to Edward W. Volz, the band director at the time who, in interviews, said he could “build a better case for putting women in than keeping them out.”
Devil’s advocates at the time posed many questions: Are girls able to take the physi-cal strain of marching? Will they object to getting their hairdos wet? Could they march in the mud and still carry their weight musically?
“Since a girl normally takes shorter steps and is not as tall as a boy, we have found it is not advisable to put a short girl on the outer
step of a pinwheel formation,” Volz said in a 1966 interview with The Syracuse Herald-Journal. “In every other respect, she’s fine. Women have proven reliable, have helped to fill and expand the band, and have added an element that has changed the character of the band, settled it down.”
During Strickon’s first two years at SU, she would go into the offices of the band con-ductor and the dean of the school of music to let them know she wanted to be in the band.
Their response was usually the same: “We’ll think about it.”
When the school finally made an announcement about letting women in dur-ing her junior year, Strickon said she imme-diately signed up and was allowed to play.
“Everything was so exciting, and these were opportunities I would not have had if I had not been in the marching band,” Strickon said.
• • • Since Fall 2014, Ashley Ogasawara was a section leader for the marching band’s flute section. The senior computer art and ani-mation major called it being the “mom” of the section, putting together bonding events and teaching new members how to march.
Ogasawara is one of 38 section leaders this year, 23 of which are women. She said she wanted to become a section leader to make sure that incoming band members were welcomed into a cohesive and safe environment where everyone was included.
This is the kind of environment that
marching band director Justin Mertz expects members of the band will create for each other: open and inclusive, where “everyone is safe to be who they are.”
As leaders in the band, students gain real-life experience, Mertz added. They’re “empowered and expected” to practice con-flict resolution and implement solutions to problems they come across.
He also said the students’ success in their roles isn’t due to whether they are men or women — it’s because they have the qualities that talented and smart leaders exhibit.
“I think the evolution of the role of women in the marching band has mirrored the evolution of the role of women on cam-pus and in society at large,” Mertz said. “As social progress happened and women stepped into roles that were previously viewed as exclusively for men, it’s only nat-ural that the representation in the SUMB and SU would increase.”
• • • Every year, three students in SUMB are cho-sen to be drum majors. They’re the most vis-ible leaders of the band, conducting at games, leading practices and planning events.
During Mertz’s first year as director of the SUMB, all three drum majors were female. One was alumna Jen Luzzo, who received her undergraduate and graduate degrees from SU in 2007 and 2009, respectively.
Luzzo held the position of drum major during her junior and senior year. She returned the next two years as a graduate
assistant while studying for her master’s in music education.
“Being two steps ahead of everyone else and trying to think forward was a skill you needed to learn as drum major, and that’s something that I still use today,” Luzzo said.
For Luzzo, the position of drum major is not a gendered role. She said she’s proud of the individuals — the students who stand before the almost 200-person ensemble and conduct during football games in the Carrier Dome.
Just like 10 years ago when Luzzo held the position, three women now serve as the band’s drum majors. Mackenzie Mildram, a junior music education major, said she and other drum majors embrace the fact that they’re women.
Each year, Mildram said the drum majors choose the lanyards they wear around their neck for their whistles. Their only require-ment is that it has to be the color orange and have something SU-related on it. This year, they chose bejeweled orange lanyards that have the Syracuse “S” on them.
Looking back at the history of women in the marching band, Mildram said she couldn’t believe that it has only been 50 years since women were first given the opportunity to play.
“For me, there was never a question whether or not my gender would impact my experience in SUMB,” Mildram said. “I feel very fortunate for that, for not having to be worried about these sorts of things. It’s never felt exclusive at all.”
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Hollywood industry is stuck in a rut of making spinoffs, sequels
Sequels are weird, right? It’s weird that the world has a “Full House” sequel show, or there’s just another “Walk-
ing Dead” or about 73 Marvel Cinematic Universe things. All of these sequels and spinoffs and reboots taste sour to me. Sure, they’re just money grabs most of the time, but that’s not necessarily a problem — we saw the original versions of these shows because they were also money grabs.
The weird feeling comes from something deeper. Every time a new sequel or spinoff gets the green light, it means we are one step closer to TV becoming a raw, unapologetic recycling machine.
If sequel culture is like anything else, we are going to get tired of it eventually. I think we’re already on our way there, or at least looking down from the peak of sequels’ successes.
The market is flooded with sequel shows, and there are even more to come. Eventu-ally, the bubble will burst.
We as a collective audience will eventu-ally realize that good stories are meant to have an ending. That there’s no reason for a company like Yahoo! to resurrect “Commu-nity” when it’s devoid of the two characters who made the show funny and two and a half seasons past the end of its prime. Stories end. It’s much better that way. Get over it.
So what will happen when there’s no audi-ence for “CSI: Syracuse?” Hopefully some good new shows. However, until that happens, we are left begging for our old favorites to return.
Throw all of this together and what do you get? “Arrested Development” season 5. Say what you will about the puzzling fourth season, but there’s no doubt that the fifth season will happen with plenty of people welcoming the promises of showrunner Mitch Hurwitz, producer Brian Grazer and Gob Bluth himself played by Will Arnett, that the fifth season will happen.
The incredibly overblown irony of the show is its own arrested development since its early days on Fox. It transitioned between networks while still on its original run, ended its third season with the hope of return, never lost hope for that return for almost a decade, then returned with a fourth season on Netflix as the king of sequels in 2013.
And once again, we find ourselves in the awkward phase between seasons. So I have to ask myself, is a fifth season worth it? The
fourth season underwhelmed, lost cohesive-ness and gained a bajillion plot lines. But honestly, I still laughed and enjoyed it.
And that’s the problem. The people who make the show are funny and they know how to write a show, so the show will be funny. But at what point will adding more to the story ruin the show? “Arrested Development” might not be a perfect example, as it makes fun of itself so much and the end goal of the show was never to find a perfect ending.
At some point pop culture and TV will implode from repeating itself and something else will happen. Until then, we’ll keep getting seasons of “Arrested Development” in differ-ent increments of time. Probably.
Kyle Stevens is a sophomore advertising major. His column appears weekly in Pulp. You can email him at [email protected] or
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LET’S BE FRANKHeid’s of Liverpool serves up tasty hot dogs, milkshakes, fries
By Casey Russellstaff writer
Admittedly, I wasn’t sure what to expect when I first went to hot dog joint Heid’s of Liverpool. In the age-old question of “hamburger or hot dog?” nine times out of 10, I would
choose the former.Ever since I learned about preservatives and
food processing, I’ve usually turned my nose up to hot dogs. So going to a hot dog place — something I had never seen in my home state of Massachusetts — was definitely going to be an experience.
I was impressed by Heid’s food, and it’s defi-nitely changed my opinion on hot dogs.
Heid’s is located on Route 370 in Liverpool, about a 15-minute drive from the Syracuse Uni-versity campus. Getting there was a bit of a chal-lenge because, as a conditioned back-country road driver, navigating the different highways proved to be a challenge. Since this was my first time driving myself in the Syracuse metro-politan area, the experience did have a bit of a learning curve. After losing my way a few times and Siri getting annoyed at me for not listening to her directions, I made it to the restaurant.
Heid’s menu is made up of almost entirely
hot dogs, with a solid choice of different all-American sides. They also feature some other options like chicken fingers and grilled cheese. I’m sure both of them are delicious, but going to Heid’s means ordering a hot dog — end of story.
One rather strange menu item that I noticed is their Doubles option. They serve two franks in one bun, two Coneys in one bun and even offer the choice of one of each in one bun.
All the items on their menu were reasonably priced, averaging at about $4 for a dog or sau-sage, which makes it totally affordable for even the most broke of college students.
I ordered their traditional frank as well as a kielbasa with kraut, short for sauerkraut, or German pickled cabbage. As a side, I tried the fries and a chocolate milkshake to drink.
Just like its website assures, “There’s just nothing like the taste of a Heid’s hot dog.” The frank I had was so different from other hot dogs I’ve eaten. It had almost a chicken-like light-ness to it, even though the dogs are made with beef, pork and “secret spices,” as Richman said. As someone who’s not a huge fan of hot dogs, I don’t know how I’ll ever be able to look at Kayem’s again. If all hot dogs tasted like Heid’s, I would eat more of them.
The kielbasa, too, was delicious. I had never
eaten sauerkraut before, and I was excited to try it. I ate it with a tastefully spiced homemade brown mustard, and bless the central Europe-ans for bequeathing this gift to humanity. The sausage itself was cooked to perfection.
The fries were good too, but they were a little mushy for my personal taste. If for no other reason, order a side of fries and a milkshake just to create the famous ‘50s combination. This is the ultimate sweet-and-salty combina-tion and can never be replaced by the newfound craze for salted caramel.
The shake itself, when I wasn’t using it as a con-diment, was thick and creamy. No Johnny Rockets, McDonald’s, Wendy’s or whatever concoction will have anything on this shake. I could tell it was homemade, but I don’t think I could ever make a shake like this myself. They must have some other hundred-year-old recipe for the shakes as well.
Overall, I would definitely list Heid’s as one of my new favorite restaurants in the area. The drive to Liverpool is a necessary pilgrimage for any SU student. Heid’s is more than a diner. It’s an integral part of the Syracuse story, Syracuse culture, and it’s a shame to go four years on campus without ever exploring the world around the Hill.
Heid’s of Liverpool opened in 1917 and claims to be one of the oldest drive-ins in the country. It serves franks that cost around $4 as well as Coneys, chicken fingers, grilled cheeses, french fries, milkshakes, Sauerkraut and an assortment of other all-American sides. kelli mosher staff photographer
By Matthew Gutierrezstaff writer
No. 24 Syracuse (8-3, 2-3 Atlantic Coast) couldn’t hold onto a 2-0 lead Sunday, fall-ing to North Carolina State (8-3, 2-2) in Raleigh, 5-2.
For the second straight match, the Orange won the doubles point, but struggled in sin-gles play.
After Gabriela Knutson and Valeria Sala-zar won their doubles match, Knutson car-ried her play into singles, winning 6-2, 6-1. Her win on Sunday was SU’s only singles win in its past two matches.
With the match tied at two, Dina Hegab
won the first set 6-3, but lost the next two 2-6, 2-6. Since starting the year 8-0, Hegab has dropped two straight.
To clinch the match, NC State’s Martina Frantova defeated No. 42 Anna Shkudun, 6-4, in the third set. Shkudun won the first game, 6-4, but dropped the next two.
After winning its first seven matches of the year, SU has dropped three of its last four.
Sunday’s match at Dail Outdoor Stadium was SU’s first outdoor match in a month. On Feb. 6, the Orange beat Tulane on outdoor courts, 5-2.
The Orange is back on the road next weekend for matches with Georgia Tech and Clemson.
No. 24 Syracuse loses to North Carolina State, 5-2
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MADISON CABLEg ua r dHT: 5’10” YEAR: GRADUATE
The sixth woman came off the Fighting Irish bench and hit six 3s Sunday, including one in the third quarter to stop an SU run that reduced UND’s lead to 11. Notre Dame’s second-best all-time 3-point shooter, who can also juggle while wakeboarding per UND’s team site, helped build a 12-point half-time lead with four 3s and iced the title with another in the fourth quarter.
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CORNELIA FONDRENg ua r dHT: 5’18” YEAR: SENIOR
Fondren, who is leading Syracuse in turn-overs, finished Sunday’s game under her season average of 2.96 per game. She was one of a few bright spots for the Orange in a game that was largely a blowout. Fondren scored 10 points and grabbed eight rebounds against the Fighting Irish in the ACC champi-onship game.
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top Fondren outpaced her season scoring average by 3.1 points against Notre Dame on Sunday. She scored 10 points, tied for her fourth highest total of the season.
middle Syracuse’s first player off the bench led the Orange in rebounding with eight boards, tied for her sixth highest total of the season.
bottom Against the Fighting Irish, Fondren recorded no steals, only the fifth time this season that’s happened. It also was the second straight game she hasn’t tallied one.
Syracuse shot 0-for-7 from 3 in the second half, leading to its
17.4-percent mark, which is SU’s third-worst total on the season.
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Led by Madison Cable, UND hit eight 3s against SU, which
struggled from behind the arc.
notre dame Senior guard Cornelia Fondren gave away the ball four times on Sunday,
accounting for one-third of SU’s total turnovers.
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BRIANNA BUTLERg ua r dHT: 5’11” YEAR: SENIOR
Butler shot just 1-of-7 from beyond 3 and scored just six points against UND. She assisted on only one other bucket and grabbed just one rebound in the game. For the first time since Feb. 14, Butler scored in single digits and it was her worst rebound-ing performance since Feb. 7.
We wanted to be at arm’s distance, and we were, so we just had to make a few more plays to get matched up. We just didn’t do a good job getting matched up in certain situations.Quentin Hillsmansu head coach
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Syracuse as a team combined for only six assists against Notre Dame, matching a sea-son low.6
Number of steals for Notre Dame, which
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Syracuse grabbed only 29 boards Sunday com-pared to 43 for Notre Dame.29
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switching to deny the pass right away and a center or forward crashing in from behind to stop her shot.
“It says a lot about what they think of her as a post player,” Hillsman said, “that when the ball went inside, they doubled her. So it was a game where I thought she played really tough, very physical, tough basketball game.”
W hen Syracuse was blown out at Notre Dame on Jan. 21, Day was just 3-for-11 with six points. Her first two shots of the first half in that game were swatted away by Turner.
Though Turner was still able to knock away one of Day ’s shots on Saturday, the Syracuse center finished the game as the most efficient shooter on the f loor.
“She was blocking my shot all night long so I didn’t want that to go down this game,” Day said. “I just had to play smart and use my counter moves. Know that ’s she’s a shot blocker and that ’s what she’s trying to do.”
Day ’s countermoves consisted of pump fakes and reverse layups. If she got the ball on the right baseline she’d swing under the basket and make the shot on the left side.
On one play, she caught a pass about 10 feet from the basket and turned toward it. She paused, dipped her shoulder and
faked a step to the right before running left and finger rolling in the lefty shot.
“Briana Day played huge, you know?” SU guard Brianna Butler said. “There’s a lot of hype behind Brianna Turner, but there should be hype behind Briana Day. She came out and played.”
Day entered the game averaging less than seven points per game against ranked opponents this season and had nearly two and a half times that Sunday. She had averaged a shooting percentage of 37 percent on the season, but connected on almost 67 percent of her shots against the No. 2 team in the title game.
“She got the ball in the post and was strong with it,” Syracuse guard Cornelia Fondren said. “If she can do that every game she can be good.”
With just seconds left on the clock, Syra-cuse guard Maggie Morrison launched a 3-pointer in transition that bounced out. Day, the only player in the paint and the only one still playing, caught the ball and quickly released it for the buzzer-beating layup.
Her last basket of the a f ternoon required no moves. Turner was out at the 3-point line defending the initial shot. It was the only one in her 30 minutes that came easy.
“It was big,” Syracuse guard A lexis Peterson said of Day ’s play. “… If we can get her playing like that, that ’s good for us and good for our team.”
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Syracuse put two athletes on the podium Sunday as the team finished its indoor track and field season at the Eastern College Ath-letic Conference Championships.
Freshman Richard Floyd placed third in the 60-meter hurdles, finishing at 8.01 sec-onds — just .78 seconds slower than Hamp-ton’s Trey Holloway, an NCA A qualifier. Sophomore Danielle Delgado reached the podium in the same event on the women’s side, taking third in 8.69 seconds.
The Orange sent members of the team who hadn’t qualified for the NCA A Cham-pionships, which begin Friday in Birming-ham, Alabama, to the ECAC meet in Bos-
ton, Massachusetts.In the 3000-meter, Mar y Ma lone
bested her previous career mark by 10 seconds, coming in 11th with a time of 9:43.30.
Karina Ernst reached the finals in the women’s mile as the only SU runner in the event. She eventually finished ninth in 5:01.43. Earlier in the meet, she’d run a 4:55.24 in the preliminaries.
Syracuse’s Griff Molino and Simon Smith set personal bests in the mile and it became the theme of the afternoon. Other personal records were set by Juris Silen-ieks and Kevin James (3000-meter), Kashif Miller (200-meter dash) and Paul Lovell and Elizabeth Reynolds (800 meters).
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BRIANA DAY shot 8-for-12 from the field Sunday, helping SU hang around against UND and Brianna Turner, the ACC leader in blocks. evan jenkins staff photographer
minutes earlier.SU head coach Quentin Hillsman yelled
“Steal the ball. Get me that ball.” But the possession wore on with four Notre Dame offensive rebounds, lasting more than a minute and only ending in a missed shot rather than a steal.
Even when Syracuse came within arm’s distance, Notre Dame did just enough to maintain its comfortable lead and drain the clock en route to a 68-57 win for its third consecutive conference championship.
“We just kind of got a little caught up sometimes,” SU point guard Alexis Peter-son said. “Miscommunication, just trying to scramble … just kind of got lost.”
No. 1 seed Notre Dame (31-1, 16-0 Atlantic Coast) repeatedly broke down No. 3 seed Syracuse’s (25-7, 13-3) normal-ly rabid defense and on Sunday afternoon in the Greensboro Coliseum, snapping SU’s 11-game win streak. The Orange’s quest for its first conference title since 1985 and second in program history fell short by one win.
After Syracuse made itself even more relevant in the national landscape by beat-ing No. 7-ranked Louisville on Saturday, SU’s defense, its spark plug all season, wasn’t good enough to take down the sec-ond-ranked team in the country.
“We wanted to be at arm’s distance, and we were,” said Hillsman, whose voice was hoarse after the game, “so we just had to make a few more plays to get matched up. We just didn’t do a good job getting matched up in certain situations.”
UND relied on several home run passes to cross half court and break Syracuse’s press, getting the ball to Mabrey and Madi-son Cable when point guard Lindsay Allen faced pressure. Notre Dame’s Kathryn Westbeld knocked down several open jump shots in pockets of space created by the 2-3 zone, and Brianna Turner pushed her way inside to convert contested layups.
With 6:23 to play in the second quar-ter, Hillsman called timeout with his team trailing 33-20 and its defense getting stretched thin.
Hillsman walked onto the court to
greet his players and moved his hand in a circular motion. The Orange wasn’t playing at the pace that had made it so successful for the past month and a half. Out of the timeout, Syracuse switched to its man-to-man press, “double fists,” and it led to some success — SU outscored the Fighting Irish 27-26 in the second half after allowing 42 first-half points.
“It was just a few moments where we might have missed a shooter or helped out or did something,” Sykes said, “but we made up for it on the back end. We ran out of time.”
After a Briana Day basket cut the deficit to 14 late in the third, the Orange didn’t set up its press fast enough. Notre Dame got the inbounds pass to Allen, who calmly dribbled up the court. Hillsman squatted in front of SU’s bench, threw both clenched fists across his body and yelled “Damn it!”
On Saturday, Notre Dame head coach Muffet McGraw said what stands out most about Syracuse is its press defense. On Sun-day, McGraw said the key to beating it was Allen’s ball-handling, committing only two turnovers and orchestrating the Fighting Irish’s offense.
“We didn’t want it in her hands,” SU guard Cornelia Fondren said of Allen.
Entering the season, Hillsman had cer-tain goals: 10 nonconference wins. Check. 10 conference wins. Check. Double bye in the ACC tournament. Check.
But earlier in the week, the head coach was asked what would make the trip to Greensboro a successful one. An ACC championship.
That goal remained incomplete.The last time Syracuse faced Notre
Dame, on Jan. 21, it lost by 28. This time it lost by 11. But last time, the Orange forced 19 turnovers and on Sunday, it caused just 14. SU’s early defensive letdowns put it in a hole and its midgame defensive turnaround came too late.
“It’s not enough,” Sykes said. “It’s the championship.”
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QUENTIN HILLSMAN grew visibly frustrated as SU didn’t execute its press and, as a result, saw its 11-game win-streak snap. evan jenkins staff photographer
55.2 Syracuse’s defense forced the Irish to shoot just 30 percent (9-for-30) in the second half, but UND’s 55.2 percent mark (16-for-29) in the first half gave it the needed breathing room to beat
the Orange.
It was just a few moments where we might have missed a shooter or helped out or did something, but we made up for it on the back end. We ran out of time.
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What do you think Syracuse has to do in the ACC tournament to make the NCAA Tournament?
Sam Blum: I would say that Wednesday against Pittsburgh is a “must-win” if only because SU doesn’t want to be sweating too much on Selection Sunday. But in real-ity, a loss to the Panthers might not end the Orange’s NCAA Tournament hopes. It could. Or it might put Syracuse in Dayton’s First Four game. Or SU might be a 10 seed. It’s impossible to tell. If Syracuse can beat Pittsburgh on Wednesday, it’s NCAA Tour-nament prospects rise significantly.Jesse Dougherty: Simply beat Pittsburgh. I can’t imagine the selection committee is going to hold SU accountable if it loses to North Carolina in the second round, but if the Orange loses to the Panthers that could be all she wrote. With that said, there is prevailing logic that the committee wants teams they think can compete in the tournament, so I think a secondary part of this is that Syracuse needs to play the Tar Heels close if they do beat Pittsburgh. A narrow win over Pitt and then a blowout loss to UNC could be almost as bad as losing a tight one to the Panthers. Matt Schneidman: Syracuse has to beat Pitts-burgh to avoid Jim Boeheim sweating through five shirts before Selection Sunday. I don’t think a loss completely eliminates the Orange from Tournament contention, but it would certainly put SU in murky waters with a fifth loss in its last six games. In a “what have you done for me lately” kind of world, snapping a two-game losing streak against the Panthers would do wonders and, in my opinion lock up a bid in the 68-team field even if Syracuse does get blown
out by North Carolina in the next round.
Who is the player that needs to step up for Syracuse to beat Pittsburgh in the first round of the ACC tournament?S.B.: SU’s struggles of late have coincided with Trevor Cooney’s inability to be a con-sistent scorer. He needs to find some way
to fend off his always-present late-season struggles and make some big shots. He’s too much of a liability if he’s going to be missing the vast majority of the shots he’s taking. He really struggles to take the ball to the rim and his best strength is making catch-and-shoot 3s with a quick release. It’s a useful skill, and one the Orange needs to have at full strength against the Panthers. J.D.: It has to be Trevor Cooney. The fifth-year senior has made just five of his last 30 attempts from beyond the arc, and the Orange offense needs someone to inject some life into it after a handful of listless performances at the end of the season. It’s no secret how much better the Syracuse offense is when Cooney is at least making some of his shots, and it also opens up a lot of opportunities for his teammates to work inside and create off the dribble. M.S.: Tyler Roberson. Plain and simple. He needs to have an inhuman rebounding effort since the last two games against Pitt have result-ed in Syracuse being outrebounded by a total of 38. Sure, seven or eight boards from Tyler Lydon wouldn’t hurt, but the Orange can ill afford to get bullied on the glass again. Michael Young and Jamel Artis can easily blow this game open with second- and third-chance opportunities, but Roberson could stifle those if he plugs that outlet all the way in and doesn’t let it loosen.
Can Syracuse beat Pittsburgh while being dominated on the glass?S.B.: Yes, but there’s contingencies. Syra-
cuse will need to shoot pretty well and play otherwise good defense, especially on the Panthers’ second-chance opportunities. The Orange has showed that rebounding isn’t the most important part of its blueprint to victory. But when SU rebounded well, it’s played well too. So while it’s not the most important thing, it shows a correlation to success. J.D.: When you play a team that rebounds as well as Pitt does, the margin for error really shrinks on the court. It means you have to defend the perimeter better, shoot better and, particularly in the Orange’s case, push the pace. If Syracuse can get out on the break and pick up some easy buckets that way, the Panthers won’t be able to have as many play-ers crash the offensive glass. It’s one thing to have centers and power forwards for the SU frontcourt to box out, but it’s unreasonable for this year’s zone to have to also account for athletic players from the wing. Playing in transition will alleviate the rebounding pressure from those forwards and bigger guards, and that will be key for the Orange. M.S.: I really don’t see Syracuse beating Pitts-burgh if the Orange gets dominated on the glass. Cooney and Richardson haven’t been consistent enough to shoot SU ahead in a game where it’s dominated inside the arc, and Pittsburgh’s mid-range game and prowess on the glass does just that. If Roberson and Lydon can’t neutralize a frontcourt they’ve been ravaged by, Syracuse could be looking at a trip to the NIT.
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TREVOR COONEY has hit 33 percent of his 3-point attempts, having hit 265 3s on 796 career attempts. During his 134-game career, Cooney has averaged 5.94 3s and scored nearly 60 percent of his points from 3. liam sheehan asst. photo editor
Tournament opener against Pittsburgh. All that’s left in Cooney’s five-year career is postseason basketball, one last chance to untangle a complicated legacy and dis-prove the blanket statements that have followed him for four seasons.
That he’s one-dimensional. That he doesn’t hit the big shots. That he loses steam at the end of every year.
“I know that the better year I have this year and however far we go and how many games we win, that’s what I’ll be remembered as,” Cooney says. “That’s why this year’s so big and you just want to play well and win a lot of games because that’s what’s going to stick.”
But for now Cooney warms up an hour before a light Boston College walkthrough with a full-speed workout. All that’s important is his next jump shot. That’s the future he sees.
He dribbles hard around an invisible screen, his dry-fit shirt soaked in sweat, and bricks a mid-range jumper. His response is animated, a hop into the air that cuts through the rhythm of the drill. He catches the next pass on the move and sinks a 3 from the left wing. His response is subtle, a light nod at the rim as if to say, “Thanks for letting that one through.”
It goes on like this. There it is or make the next one. Make the next one or there it is.
The two phrases echo throughout the empty stadium. They start to sound like words to live by. After all, this is Cooney’s life.
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Trevor Cooney is, more often than not, placed into one of two categories.
At times unstoppable: 33 points on nine 3s against Notre Dame in February 2014, 28 points on seven 3s against Florida State in January of 2015, 19 points in the first 10 minutes at Wake Forest on Jan. 16.
And at others unbearable: two points on six shots in a loss to Dayton in the 2014 Tour-nament, the two times he’s been held score-less in 25 or more minutes, the three times he’s shot 1-of-8 from 3 in a Syracuse loss.
The euphoric highs and painful lows have
made Cooney a polarizing player in central New York, but there’s a lot in between.
He was on the floor when Syracuse lost to Michigan in the 2013 Final Four and hasn’t left it since. He’s a rare three-year starter in the era of one- and two-and-dones, helped the Orange to a 25-0 start in 2013-14 and was a stabilizing presence while NCAA sanc-tions mired much of SU’s last two seasons. He’s been a rock in the 2-3 zone and made himself comfortable atop the ACC steals leaderboard. If he gets hot in the postseason, he could finish with the second most 3s in Syracuse history. He’s on pace to finish his career with close to 1,400 points, more than 200 assists and more than 200 steals.
Jim Boeheim continually comes to Cooney’s defense, suggesting that fans don’t see Cooney’s whole effect on games. After SU’s loss to Florida State on Saturday, Boeheim was asked about Cooney’s struggles and said “I’m tired of that same old story.”
On Feb. 29, North Carolina head coach Roy Williams said “Trevor Cooney is one of the toughest kids I’ve ever competed against.”
All of that puts him in the thick of elite company. So why is there so much reluc-tance to call Cooney elite?
“If you went through the country and found all the players who can make five 3s in the league in one game, who can make five?” SU assistant coach Mike Hopkins said. “Trev-or’s made nine. He’s broken records. And if he doesn’t it’s like, ‘Woah, what happened?’
“And so I think that whenever you reach the pinnacle of your profession everybody is trying to knock you down a bit.”
When Cooney got to Syracuse in 2011 — in the same class as future NBA players Michael Carter-Williams and Rakeem Christmas — he was wanted but not needed right away. The coaching staff worried that redshirting the 65th ranked recruit in the country would present problems. Players of that caliber usu-ally expect to play right away, and they didn’t know if the lights-out shooter from Sanford (Delaware) High School would react.
But whenever Hopkins walked through the Carmelo K. Anthony Center that first year, he’d see Cooney running around the court. Sometimes with SU assistant coach Gerry McNamara, other times alone. There were 5 a.m. wake ups. Long days in the weight room. A jump shot to perfect: feet shoulder-length apart, a quick bend at the knees, the slightest hitch before releasing the ball, then ...
Swish. Again. Brick. Again. And so on. “There are a lot of expectations with shoot-
ers. I remember coming into school and being labelled as that and then wanting to work on my shot a ton,” Cooney said. “... And look, people think we shooters should make every shot, and sometimes I have those games and sometimes I don’t. But you can’t get caught up in it. It comes with just playing, you block it out.”
He started as the third guard in a tight backcourt rotation, shot 26.7 percent from 3 and went into his sophomore season as the shooter who needed to shoot better. He fine-tuned the other essentials of his game — the angles of the zone, ball-handling and spac-ing the floor for his teammates — but was, and still is, only as good as his last jumper.
So he tirelessly worked to make sure that shot went in. When it didn’t, he shot more. It helped him mentally to physically work the kinks out of his game, but it also started to slow him down.
“If you struggle in any way, all you do is what? You have to work harder. That’s how he’s built,” Hopkins said. “But sometimes you also have to work smart. Sometimes you can work yourself to a detriment, especially when you’re playing as many minutes as he is and you’re a shooter.”
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Trevor Cooney is sitting in the corner, smacking a towel against the floor and laughing uncontrollably.
Practice wrapped up 20 minutes ago, Syr-acuse is two days away from its Feb. 11 meet-ing with Florida State and three Orange walk-ons are playing a half-court game against a group of teenagers from military families. Cooney is providing color com-mentary from the baseline, and his analysis is laced with playful jabs at his teammates and bellowing celebrations when the wide-eyed teenagers score. When the game dies out, Cooney slumps into a folding chair by the court and signs team posters while giv-ing out his Snapchat name.
A year ago, he couldn’t finish practice without making a certain number of jump shots. Even if Syracuse played on Saturday and had another game Monday, he’d put in the extra hours before and after practice. McNamara once had to kick him out of the gym altogether.
But there was gradual wear on Cooney’s body, notably a back injury at the end of last season and lots of miles on a shooter who depends on his legs. Two years ago Cooney scored in double-figures in one of Syracuse’s last 10 games. Last season he hit more than one 3 in just one of the Orange’s last six contests. His numbers have even dipped in the final weeks of this regular season, as he’s shot 5-of-30 from deep in SU’s last four games and missed a game-tying 3 in Satur-day’s loss to the Seminoles.
“The last few years, and I don’t think this is the perfect word, but his legs have burned out a little bit toward the end of the season and we’ve been looking for a reason why,” said Matt Cooney, Trevor’s brother who has trained him over the years. “One of the things we landed on was that maybe he was burning himself out during the sea-son with huge workouts after practice and things like that, and I know he had to dial it back a little bit.”
That’s been met with other changes to his overall approach. The Cooney who had to make a certain number of shots before leav-ing the gym was also driven by strict rou-tine. On game days he always ate a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, had to get to the Carrier Dome at a certain time with certain people and take a certain number of shots in a 20-minute window.
Now he’s not as interested in a rigid
approach as he is about getting his mind in the right place. He doesn’t do peanut butter and jelly sandwiches anymore, and instead frequents Mom’s Diner off Westcott Street for a bacon egg and cheese sandwich on game days. He then rests before a light work-out in at the Melo Center, usually focused on his core, and arrives at the Dome three hours before tip off with a less-regimented pregame plan.
It’s all designed to shake his late-season reputation. He leaves the gym after prac-tice some days and instead takes jump shots in his head, closing his eyes to visu-alize the mechanics of a make and the miscalculations of a miss. He’s done wor-rying about the things he can’t control. He feels settled.
“When he’s made shots, we’ve been a better team,” McNamara said. “As far as the legacy goes, you can’t define it yet. I think the bigger thing is you have to let it play out and see how it ends up.”
While Cooney watches from the sideline as the Syracuse managers start a post-prac-tice scrimmage, one of the teenagers from earlier sheepishly walks up to to him.
“Hey Trevor, you should play for the Knicks next year,” the teenagers says. “They really need a shooter.”
“Yeah? Well if they want me you tell them to call me, OK?” Cooney answers, smiling at the thought. “I have a little more basketball to play here, though. Then we can talk.”
•••
Trevor Cooney is used to hearing it. From opposing players, opposing coaches, announcers. From everyone.
“You’re still in college? You haven’t grad-uated? How old are you?”
These jokes are low-hanging fruit, but Cooney’s been at Syracuse for half a decade. He’s played with four differ-ent starting point guards in four seasons. He’s joining a guys-who-played-forever group that includes former Ohio State point guard Aaron Craft, current Villa-nova guard Ryan Arcidiacono and current Kansas forward Perry Ellis.
“I think Robbie Hummel actually was in college for six years,” Cooney added, ref-erencing the former Purdue forward who stretched his college career to the limit. “I mean that’s just awesome. How cool is that?”
It’s clear that Cooney isn’t ready to leave. He still hasn’t hit every diner in Syracuse. He doesn’t have to tell the barbers at The Shop on Erie Boulevard how he likes his hair cut. Then there’s the basketball, and those nights when the Carrier Dome is filled to the brim and it feels like he’ll never miss another jumper again.
“I’ve done a lot of growing up here, just been through a lot and just learned a lot about myself and it’s definitely going to be tough to leave,” Cooney said. “... But I defi-nitely have plenty of time, time to go out as a winner, as a guy who left it all on the floor. I would love to be remembered as that.”
How long Cooney has is, in part, up to him. There may be no way to straighten out his twisted legacy. Not now. Not this late. His career numbers, impressive as they are, could be mere footnotes of his career if this final stretch doesn’t tilt in his favor. That’s basketball. That’s life.
And all he can do is keep shooting and doing the little things that go unnoticed. He has to clear his mind, find the last ounces of strength in his legs and confidently toss the ball toward the hoop. Then watch and hope.
Because if his last shot rolls off the rim, he’ll never have a chance to make the next one.
“That last one I take, you’re going to have that taste in your mouth forever really,” Cooney said, and his eyes seemed to trail toward one of the Melo Center baskets.
“You have to make it and give it your all and make sure you don’t regret anything. I guess it’s that simple.”
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If you went through the country and found all the
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He’s broken records. And if he doesn’t it’s like, ‘Woah, what happened?
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I think (former Purdue forward) Robbie Hummel actually was in college for
six years. I mean that’s just awesome. How cool is that?
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GREENSBORO, N.C. — When Notre Dame’s Brianna Turner smacked Syracuse center Briana Day’s arm on a layup attempt, it echoed through the 5,017-person filled Greensboro Coliseum.
Day raised up her left arm through the contact and scooped in the layup as the referees whis-tled for a foul.
Despite being matched up with the conference’s leader in blocked shots, Day f lourished
offensively, shooting 8-for-12 on her way to 17 points. She was the only post player to score for SU and the only player to shoot over 50 percent. Day was a bright spot for a No. 17 Syracuse (25-7, 13-3 Atlantic Coast) offense that was held under 60 points for the first time in six games. Despite her efforts, the Orange fell to No. 2 Notre Dame (31-1, 16-0) in the conference title game, 68-57, on Sunday.
“We threw the ball down to (Day),” Syracuse head coach Quentin Hillsman said. “ We
knew we had to attack (Turner) a little bit down in the paint and we did that. Just made some good moves.”
Notre Dame matched up with Day in a way that Hillsman doesn’t think anyone would have expected. Despite having one of the top post defenders on her, the Irish double teamed with a guard when Day got the ball down low.
While rolling off pick-and-rolls, it was the opposite. UND defended her with a guard
By Sam Blumsenior staff writer
Syracuse point guard Michael Gbinije was named to the All-Atlantic Coast Conference second team, the conference announced in a release on Sunday afternoon. He received eight first-team votes, tops among anyone else on the sec-ond team.
Malachi R ichardson was named to the ACC all-freshman team. Tyler Lydon finished fourth on the ACC’s sixth man of the year award list. Gbinije also was on the ACC’s all-defensive team.
Gbinije averaged 17.6 points per game and 4.5 assists per game. He was the only player in the ACC to score at least 10 points in every game this season. He also received a vote for the ACC’s top defensive player this year.
Joining Gbinije on the All-ACC second team is Miami guard Sheldon McClellan, Notre Dame guard Demetrius Jackson, Duke forward Brandon Ingram and Louisville guard Damion Lee.
North Carolina forward Brice Johnson, Virginia guard Malcolm Brogdon, North Carolina State guard Anthony ‘Cat’ Barber, Duke guard Grayson Allen and Clemson forward Jaron Blossomgame were named to the All-ACC first team.
Syracuse plays Pittsburgh in the second round of the ACC tour-nament on Wednesday at noon at the Verizon Center in Washing-ton, D.C.
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GREENSBORO, N.C. — Hannah Huffman stood on the sideline ready to inbound the ball. She lifted her right index finger and pointed to the side of her head. Notre Dame
had to play smart against Syracuse, the nation’s leader in forced turnovers.
While Michaela Mabrey dribbled across halfcourt, Brittney Sykes set her feet in front of her along the sideline, fell backward upon absorbing contact and drew a charge.
Back-to-back baskets followed and the Orange was down 12 with four and a half minutes to play, inching back into a game it trailed by 18 just four
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NOT THEIR GAMECEDRIC SOLICE, Syracuse’s director of operations, looks on as the SU women team leaves the floor without its ultimate goal. The Orange was unable to overcome UND’s hot start to capture its first conference title since 1985. evan jenkins staff photographer
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