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A law professor at Georgia State University said Syracuse University could be liable if someone were hurt by one of the four missing DPS shotguns.

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Syracuse has come back against Virginia Tech for two straight seasons. Michael Gbinije came up clutch at the end of both matchups with key jumpshots.

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To help combat the crisis in Flint, Michigan, several groups in Syracuse worked together to collect water bottles. The bottles will be delivered on Friday.

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SU to pilot program

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Orange SUccess to improve advising communication online

By Nina Leeds staff writer

Stealing a game MICHAEL GBINIJE attempts to steal the ball from a Virginia Tech guard during Syracuse’s 68-60 win in the Carrier Dome. After hitting a buzzer beater in last year’s contest, Gbinije hit a key 3-pointer as regulation wound down to push Syracuse to overtime where Syracuse scored 12 points to Virginia Tech’s four and stole the game from the Hokies. See page 16 for coverage. logan reidsma senior staff photographer

Results of climate survey to influence policy

By Bridget McAllister staff writer

Beginning Feb. 9, Syracuse University will be implementing a campus climate survey to all students, faculty and staff measuring how happy, comfortable and generally satisfied they are with life at SU. A committee of 14 administrators, with assistance from Rankin & Associates Consulting — a firm that specializes in climate surveys — built the survey that will be distributed online and in paper form in several areas of campus. The

survey says The campus climate survey has been in development since last spring.

The results of the survey will be released in fall 2016.

groups will then use the survey responses to determine what initiatives the university can pursue to maximize campus satisfaction.

“A happy campus is one where people feel welcomed, valued and can pursue their education and dreams,” said Rebecca Reed Kantrowitz, co-chair of the Climate Assessment Planning Committee.

When the survey closes on March 11, Rankin & Associates will comb through the data, write a report on its findings and present the report to the survey committee for review, said Libby Barlow, assis-

tant vice president for institutional research and assessment at SU and another co-chair of the committee.

Exactly how one measures satisfaction in a campus community can be subjective, said Barlow. She added that the measure of satisfaction in a campus community also depends on what the members of the community prioritize.

“The key aspects (of a happy campus) are the aspects that the people in this community tell us are important,” Barlow said.

Under New York state’s “Enough is Enough” law, all colleges are

required to conduct climate surveys measuring the sexual and relationship violence experiences of students, faculty and staff, said Katelyn Cowen, director of the Office of Health Promotion at SU and a member of both the survey committee and the Chancellor’s Task Force on Sexual and Relationship Violence.

“We’ve seen college campuses across the country start to do climate surveys to really get a better sense of what the issues are around sexual and relationship violence,” Cowen said.

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Groups are held to help develop survey questions.

The survey and implementation methods are developed in the fall.

The survey will be implemented online and distributed at student centers to seek input from SU students, faculty and staff.

The 14-member survey committee will report the results of the survey to SU students, faculty, staff and administration.

The results of the survey are expected to be implemented into action by the administration to improve the university climate.

An online advising tool aimed at improving communication between all members of the Syracuse University community will pilot this semester.

Orange SUccess will pilot at all 100 and 200 level courses in the College of Arts and Sciences, the Martin J. Whitman School of Management and University College.

Kal Srinivas, director for retention in SU’s Office of Academic Programs, said Orange SUccess will be an information hub to allow students to collect information in one place and let both people and systems trigger alerts and give compliments to students as necessary.

It will only be successful if students know about it, which is why we are assisting in its promotion.

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This is the first semester that Orange SUccess is being implemented. Srinivas said the idea was conceptualized as a part of the university-wide Fast Forward initiative. The tool aligns with the Fast Forward goal to “nourish the whole student to support academic, social and emotional well-being,” Srinivas said.

There are three primary types of users on Orange SUccess, Srinivas said: students, instructors and advisers.

Through the tool, faculty will be able to raise “flags” if there is a concern with the student, such as an attendance problem, low assessment scores

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When Emilie Ricco first took her job at the campus Office of Disability Services, she was so anxious that she was nervous even to answer the phones.

A junior child and family studies major with a minor in disability studies, Ricco now finds empowerment through her job at ODS. “When I first took the job, I didn’t think I was going to do well,” Ricco said. “I’ve realized that I can actually help people.”

Ricco works as a student assistant at ODS, serving as a liaison between students and the administrative assistant, who pairs students with counselors to create an accommodation plan. Built on a platform of innovation and inclusion, ODS puts emphasis on students becoming selfadvocates for disability services.

When she’s not helping students, making files and handling payments, Ricco is busy training an emotional support dog, which she often brings into the office for human interaction and affection.

Upon graduating, Ricco plans to work towards a career in psychology. She hopes to someday work as a counselor, drawing from her oncampus experience.

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EMILIE RICCO is working to train an emotional support dog which she brings to the office in order to provide the dog with human interaction.

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she said, “so this job is perfect because I get to interact not only with students, but also their parents.”

Much of this is done during a preorientation, where Ricco works with other members of the ODS staff in introducing new students with disabilities to the campus. They inform students of campus resources such

as writing and tutoring centers in a one-on-one setting, aiming to help any student that needs it.

Ricco said her job helping others has helped her to grow personally as well. By speaking to those in different aspects of the disability field, such as students, counselors and administrators, she said she feels

enabled to be an agent for change.

ODS works with students with any physical, mental or learning disability, and helps create a college experience without worry.

“I feel like a lot of people think ODS is just for people with severe disabilities,” Ricco said. “It’s for all kinds.” dbertoli@syr.edu

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Program to help veterans Warrior-Scholar Project transitions veterans into 4-year colleges

By Amanda Silvestri contributing writer

Live long and prosper The “Star Trek vs. Star Wars: A Logical Choice” exhibit, located in Syracuse’s Tech Garden, showcases various pieces of pop art relating to the two astronomical entertainment franchises. Here, Spock, the famous Vulcan character from the Star Trek franchise, is shown wearing 3D glasses. The framed portrait itself is surrounded by several pairs of 3D glasses. riley bunch photo editor

Lost shotguns could pose liability risk for SU

By Michael Burke asst. news editor

Syracuse University could be liable if someone were injured by one of the four Department of Public Safety shotguns that were lost more than three months ago, said a law professor who specializes in tort litigation.

On Oct. 16, 2015, DPS officers realized that four unloaded 12 gauge shotguns — which had been placed in the back of a truck following the officers’ annual certification at the Elbridge Rod and Gun Club in Elbridge, New York — were missing.

Hannah Warren, public information and internal communications officer for DPS, said in an email Tuesday that she could not provide any further comment on the situa-

tion. Emails to Kevin Quinn, SU’s senior vice president for public affairs, also went unreturned.

Timothy Lytton, a professor at Georgia State University’s College of Law, said in a phone interview that liability would depend on whether the guns were properly secured and if someone were injured within a close proximity — both in time and distance — to the guns being lost.

Lytton, who authored “Suing the Gun Industry: A Battle at the Crossroads of Gun Control and Mass Torts,” said DPS likely didn’t secure the guns properly.

“The test for carelessness is whether or not the care was that of an ordinary, prudent person under the circumstances,” he said. “So it’s probably safe to say that an ordi-

nary, prudent person under the circumstances doesn’t leave firearms unlocked to the extent that they would fall out of the back of a truck.”

But Lytton added that SU’s liability would also depend on whether an incident occurred in a timely manner and at a site close to where the guns were lost.

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The number of days between the incident and when the shotguns were announced as missing

If someone were to have found one of the guns and shot someone with it within a day or two, “then that might give rise to liability,” Lytton said. But if, for example, a

gun went through several transactions and ended up in a criminal incident in New York City months after it was originally lost, it would be less likely that there would be liability exposure, Lytton added.

“The more time that elapses and the more hands that the guns go through, the more difficult it would be to establish liability,” he said.

But Lytton added that it would ultimately be up to a jury to both determine the relevance of the proximity and whether carelessness occurred in handling the shotguns.

“If an average juror thinks the link is too long or too freakish or that too many odd things are going on … those are things that would weaken the liability in the eyes of a jury,” Lytton said.

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Syracuse University recently launched @OurSyracuseU, a new student-run Instagram account.

The purpose of @OurSyracuseU is to show the SU experience through the eyes of its students, said Maren Guse, the assistant director of digital and social media for SU News.

The account is meant to complement the university’s leading Instagram account, @SyracuseU, Guse said.

The account was officially launched on Jan. 25 with contributing photographs from Student Association President Aysha Seedat.

“I developed the idea for this account based on some of the other successes we’ve had with our @ SyracuseU Instagram account,”

Guse said.

Within 24 hours after the account’s launch, it gained 1,000 followers, Guse said. While the other SU accounts promoted @ OurSyracuseU, Guse said the growth was mostly due to promotion through word of mouth.

Guse oversees the account, recruits students to run it and trains and guides them for their

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A program that aims to make the transition from the military to college a little easier for United States veterans will return to Syracuse University this summer.

The Warrior-Scholar Project (WSP), founded in 2012 at Yale University, offers weeklong programs from May to September for military veterans looking to transition to a four-year college.

Started by three students at Yale, WSP’s goal is for veterans to have an easier time acclimating to life in college, said Sidney Ellington, the executive director for the Warrior-Scholar Project.

Ellington, a retired veteran commander of the U.S. Navy, said he was attracted to the project’s goal of giving veterans the skills they need to succeed.

“These veterans get to spend a week at the campus, be with professors in a classroom, write

week on the account.

The training is essentially some guidelines for the students. Guse said she wants them to share their involvement in different classes and organizations and what their day-to-day life at SU is like.

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GETTING SERIOUS Members of the United Statesled coalition fighting the Islamic State plan to increase efforts to destroy the militant group. source: the new york times

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ZIKA VIRUS Local health officials in Texas reported the first known case of a Zika virus transmission, which they said was likely contracted through sex rather than a mosquito. source: reuters

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Oversharing online can endanger professional, personal image

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he high-profile figures millennials tend to look up to often do the very things young people should go out of their way to avoid.

This was seen just last week when an argument between Kanye West and Wiz Khalifa escalated to the point where West’s ex-girlfriend, Amber Rose, embarrassingly detailed West’s sex life. But even after a series of deleted tweets and bad press, the amused commentary and the tens of thousands of retweets and favorites revealed an alarming truth: young people are celebrating public figures’ oversharing on social media.

Although young people often idolize celebrities, millennials should refrain from following in their digital paths considering this could lead to them finding themselves jobless or even worse. Unfortunately, many do and face unintended consequences as a result.

Several social and psychological forces lead millennials to share too much personal information, according to Makana Chock, a professor of communications in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University.

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Socially, the “pics or it didn’t happen” mantra applies: young people feel a pressure to provide proof that they are always doing interesting things.

Oversharing on Facebook in particular, is rooted in the psychological aspects of social media. A 2015 study from Western Illinois University found that frequent activity on the site stems the need to be validated by others. Similarly, as reported last week by The Guardian, those who overshare on Facebook are psychologically driven to do so in order to achieve a greater sense of belonging.

“There’s an illusion that the people that are part of your social media network are part of your personal network,” Chock said.

However, as tempting as it may be to give your friends and followers an intimate look into your life, young people must resist the urge to share on social media or they may face issues with their reputation, profes-

sional image and even personal security.

Social media sites are riddled with expletive-filled rants, party photos and meaningless arguments that can be used against young people in the employment process. A 2015 poll found that over 52 percent of employers used social media to research job candidates, so millennials may be hurting their chances in the job market if they use social platforms recklessly.

In addition to potentially affecting job opportunities, revealing information on social media could also pose a risk to a person’s life. Often tweets, statuses and images are geotagged, meaning that a social media user’s location is attached to the post. That is to say, anybody with access to a person’s profile knows exactly where that person is when they post something.

In 2013, the Pew Research Center reported that 16 percent of teens on social media have their account set up so that it reveals their location every time that they post.

Even giving out seemingly harmless information, like the name of a favorite pet, can be dangerous in the right hands. Identity thieves

often look at online profiles to hack passwords.

But before all of these consequences of oversharing comes the essential problem with social media: the speed of sites like Instagram and Twitter allow people to post things before thinking them through, explained Chock.

The lack of face-to-face interaction makes millennials aggressive without considering the aftermath. They’re more likely to pick fights or insult other people, as shown by West’s argumentative tweets. Character limits also provide a greater chance of being misunderstood.

The harmful nature of excessive posting on social media seems to be too often forgotten. Whether it means losing a job offer, undermining a relationship or posing a threat to personal security, oversharing is problematic. Instead of following in the footsteps of celebrities with no boundaries, millennials should set their profiles to private and leave some things a mystery.

Tayler Knapp is an undeclared freshman in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. Her column appears weekly. She can be reached at tmknapp@syr.edu.

letter to the editor

Community member cites animal cruelty in popular clothing item As I commute through campus daily, I can’t help but notice the incredible amount of students wearing Canada Goose coats. At a cost of over $700 I wonder if the students realize how Canada Goose “harvests” the coyote fur and down or if they care? For the coyote fur, Canada Goose employs trappers to provide them

with the fur they need to make the coats.

Canada Goose’s commitment to “the humane treatment of animals” conflicts by their trappers’ use of The Agreement on International Humane Trapping Standards’ approved body-gripping and leg-hold traps that prevent wild coyotes from escaping. These animals suffer in these traps for

24 to 72 hours. The coyotes face blood loss, shock, dehydration, frostbite, gangrene, and attacks by predators, if they don’t freeze to death. Mother coyotes, who are desperate to get back to their starving pups chew off their own limbs to escape the traps.

As for down, this product is also inhumanely obtained. It is impossible for Canada Goose to track feathers back to their original supplier and determine how they were obtained. Ducks and geese are usually plucked alive and spend their entire lives in crowded, filthy conditions on factory farms before being killed in a violent, painful way by having their throats slit while they are still conscious and able to feel pain. If this all seems too hard to believe, there is actual

video of what the coyotes and birds are objected to before they are killed for these coats.

In this 21st century, people can choose to be cruel and look the other way or be kind. With so many cruelty-free options available today that are durable, innovative, and warm, there is no need to use animal fur and goose down. Hopefully Canada Goose will transition the company to eco-friendly faux-fur trim and synthetic down in the near future, and people will be more aware of what they are buying and have compassion and not condone companies who profit handsomely from the misery and torture of animals.

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#SororityRevamp inspires reflection

SU community should embrace climate survey

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oing through Greek recruitment is a bit like wearing the Hogwarts sorting hat. “Try me on and I will tell you where you ought to be.”

Like Hogwarts students, potential new members must trust the system and wait for a decision that may determine the rest of their campus experience.

The two-week Panhellenic recruitment, which ended on Sunday, was fun, intriguing and for many young women, it reaffirmed their desire to be a part of the Greek community. Full disclosure: I also went through recruitment and am an excited new member of Greek life.

But as much as the positive values of sororities are promoted, for some, the Greek experience doesn’t come with a happy ending.

Syracuse University senior Alex Purdy recently created “Why I left my sorority,” a video criticizing her experience with Greek life and calling for #SororityRevamp.

In her video, which has acquired more than 20,000 views since it was posted last week, Purdy condemns the superficial behavior she says she observed: not wanting any “FUPAs” in the house, being told to dress “sluttier” for the next formal and hearing the suggestion to put a weight loss supplement in a sister’s gift basket.

Her time in an on-campus sorority was not the sisterhood and sense of belonging she had signed up for, Purdy said in the video. She emphasized that her problem with Greek life isn’t about one specific chapter or the partying culture, which is prominent on college campuses anyway. Instead, she says that “the problem is the overwhelming lack of compassion for one another.”

Speaking out against such a celebrated institution — and possibly some of her friends — was probably out of the ordinary and a little risky, but Purdy’s decision to leave

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a place where she was unhappy and use her voice to inspire change is admirable. It reminds us that sororities should first and foremost be about sisterhood and genuine connections — ideals that can be forgotten if we become too focused on the social or shallow aspects.

Panhellenic Council President Tristan Ruzic declined to comment on Purdy’s video; however, she emphasized the amazing things Greek life has to offer. “One person’s experience does not define a chapter or community,” Ruzic said in an email to The Daily Orange.

The reality is that Greek life is much more diverse than the movies portray. Every girl isn’t a carbon copy of Elle Woods and one sorority isn’t the duplicate of another. And the sense of community isn’t just a label.

According to a 2014 GallupPurdue University study of 30,000 college graduates, fraternity and sorority members are more likely to thrive in well-being. For instance, 52 percent had a strong sense of community, defined as “the sense of engagement you have with the areas where you live … having pride in your community,” compared to the 46 percent of individuals not in Greek life.

There are numerous happy endings in the stories of young women who chose to join a sorority. And while we should celebrate those positive experiences, Purdy’s own story should not be invalidated. The toughest part about being in any community is wanting to belong, but also wanting to remain an individual. Speaking out requires courage, and it’s important to remember that every voice counts, even if the message is uncomfortable or unpopular.

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Greek life can be a genuine and life-changing bond, and should not be considered frivolous simply based on negative stereotypes.

Purdy went through the process of recruitment, gave it a chance and used it as a learning experience.

This is much more productive and intelligent than the people who bash on the Greek experience as “buying friends,” without even trying it.

As Purdy says in her video, “it’s built on such good intentions” and hopefully her experience is an “outlier.”

Experience is always the best way to understand something more deeply, and hopefully Purdy’s story will be a lesson to improve Greek life.

The recruitment process showed me that Greek life is about stepping out of your comfort zone, but, of course, like anything, there are some negative aspects. It’s terrible to see girls crushed because they didn’t get invited back to certain chapters. It’s heartbreaking to see these beautiful, intelligent, strong young women questioning their self-worth based on the recruitment process.

Rejection blues, jealousy and resentment have been overwhelmingly obvious in the past few weeks.

It’s an unintended and unfortunate consequence of an otherwise unique and eye-opening process. Feeling a sense of community with a group of girls, who were strangers two weeks ago, is as strange as it is surreal.

At the end of the day, potential sorority and fraternity members shouldn’t blindly place Greek life on a pedestal, nor should they be deterred by Purdy’s video.

However, Greek or not, stay true to yourself, know your self-worth and as Purdy said, choose “to act with love in your heart and compassion toward friends and strangers.”

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Syracuse University has made strides to secure an accurate, inclusive and transparent method of gauging the opinions of the campus community through the development of a campus climate survey — an opportunity that should be realized by the university body.

A collaborative effort between university administrators and Rankin & Associates Consulting — a firm that has conducted climate surveys at nearly 170 college across the country — will result in the release of a university-wide climate survey starting Feb. 9 to measure community satisfaction with life at SU. The assessment will consider various social and cultural aspects of campus life, including instances of sexual assault, relationship violence, bias, stereotyping and harassment in regard to topics such as race and sexual orientation from students, faculty and staff.

The implementation of this survey as the first of its kind at SU ties in strongly with the same values that propel the Fast Forward and One University initiatives in actively listening for input from communities represented in administrative policies rather than SU leadership acting on blind decisions.

But what sets this survey apart most from previous efforts to garner community feedback, and carries the most potential to take the university forward, is that the responses collected will be made public while preserving participant anonymity. This component that not only adds a human ele-

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ment in a typically data-driven evaluation, but also allows the community to hold the administration accountable should there be a failure to respond to the survey accordingly.

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This transparent nature of participant responses will allow students, faculty and staff to highlight what should be addressed by the university, what is already being attended to and what has been sidelined.

But however transformative, these observations can only be made if students provide genuine feedback, advice and criticisms to the survey — an opportunity the university body has called for and should take advantage of.

SU has done its part to provide students, staff and faculty with a comprehensive approach to measure the campus climate with the enlistment of a firm that specializes in creating impactful surveys and outlining a specific timeline for progress to be made before responses have even been collected.

However, it is ultimately the responsibility of students, staff and faculty to make use of such an accessible outlet to offer input and generate tangible results that will improve the working and living environments of the Syracuse University campus.

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SU to save over $130,000 by cutting maintenance costs

By Matthew Gutierrez contributing writer

By streamlining the ways in which it buys goods and controls its inventory, Syracuse University will reduce its environmental impact — and will save over $130,000 while doing so.

Custodial and maintenance supplies will no longer be delivered to several distribution points around campus, said Ray Kowalski, a facilities zone manager at SU, in an email. Instead, the supplies will be “strategically focused, making the process efficient and reducing delivery vehicles on campus,” he said.

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survey on sexual assault and relationship violence, Cowen said, but will be much broader, focusing on the campus’ climate as a whole and considering a wide variety of social and cultural aspects of campus life.

The survey will partly look into experiences students, faculty and staff may have with instances of bias, stereotyping and harassment surrounding topics such as race and sexual orientation.

Cowen added that the committee hopes

Kowalski said the university has also partnered with Grainger Industrial Supply, an industrial equipment and maintenance tools supplier. The partnership, which comes as a branch of the Operational Excellence division of Chancellor Kent Syverud’s Fast Forward initiative, means SU will use just one preferred supplier — Grainger — for a majority of its custodial and maintenance supplies.

This allows the university to cut spending and make inventory more efficient, Kowalski said.

Replacing the more than 1,000 paper towel dispensers on campus with electric hand dryers is also part of the effort, which, based on an Operational Excellence analysis, will save SU a projected $130,000 annu-

ally, he said.

The majority of custodial and maintenance service purchases will be made through SU’s existing procurement system, an electronic marketplace for the buying and selling of supplies, Kowalski said. In the past, he added, only part of SU’s purchases were made through the system.

“By adopting a total inventory solutions approach, we’ll be able to enhance Physical Plant and FixIt service, improve delivery times and reduce waste on campus,” said Pete Sala, vice president and chief campus facilities officer, in an SU News release. “Grainger’s best-in-class strategies will help us consolidate our supply list, improve ordering pro-

cesses to keep our facilities up and running and enhance our ability to manage costs.”

As operations costs continued to rise, Operational Excellence initiative teams reconsidered how the university buys goods and services, keeping in mind a labor-andcost-saving approach, Kowalski said.

“We benchmarked against other similar institutions and discovered how Syracuse could improve efficiencies and manage our costs on frequently purchased items,” he said.

Kowalski added that SU continues to renegotiate the pricing on many of the supplies it purchases and could see further savings as a result.

to hear from marginalized communities on campus.

The survey was developed in response to a suggestion from the Chancellor’s Task Force on Sexual and Relationship Violence, and has been in the works for many months, beginning back in spring 2015, Barlow said.

Barlow added that Rankin & Associates Consulting starts building a school’s survey with a basic outline, which is then reviewed, administered to focus groups and tailored to fit each university as specifically as possible.

Rankin & Associates Consulting has conducted climate surveys on nearly 170 college

campuses nationwide. The firm’s diverse experience was a main reason why the university hired the firm, Barlow said.

When the survey opens, it will be available on an online server owned and operated

by Rankin & Associates.

One notable feature that sets the climate survey apart from other surveys is that all findings will be made open to the public, said Jonathan Schmidt, the Student Association representative to the survey committee.

The results of the survey are public, but the answers provided by students, faculty and staff will maintain anonymity.

“Built into the whole process, it’s guaranteed that initiatives are going to be taken,” Schmidt said. “We’ll take the results and develop about three specific policies looking at the results.”

Schmidt acknowledged that students in particular are sometimes skeptical of the practicality of surveys, but insisted that the data taken from the climate survey was not going to go to waste.

“A lot of times people say, ‘Oh, these surveys don’t actually do anything,’ but for this one, it’s guaranteed that there are going to be tangible outcomes,” Schmidt said.

the account with four students who had been on #44Social — SU’s student social media team — or had worked with it in the past, Guse said.

Leah Strassburg, a junior public relations

major, was a part of the account’s pilot while she was studying abroad and said it was a great experience for her.

“For me it was just nice to share my perspective, and everyone has got a different experience here, so we all have something to contribute here,” Strassburg said.

Over the past few years, Guse said she has seen tremendous growth of the @SyracuseU Instagram account. She recognized the growing popularity of the platform among students — and increasingly all ages — and noticed that photos reposted from current students were often very popular among the account’s followers.

“From this, we saw a valuable opportunity to deepen our involvement with the platform and strengthen our connection

with followers,” Guse said.

The account is currently looking for involved students from all schools to apply for consideration to take over the account, Guse said.

There is an application and interview process, followed by training for selected students.

There are things that are specific to the student experience that can only be portrayed by a student, which provides a certain level of transparency, said Jennifer Grygiel, an assistant professor in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications who specializes in social media.

“Whatever the process is for picking students to run the handle (is) really representative of the student body,” Grygiel said.

program, Srinivas said progress surveys will be given to faculty three times a semester to check in about their courses.

“The advising offices in the three pilot schools and colleges will be monitoring and managing the responses to the flags raised,” Srinivas said. “The core team will support the advisers throughout the spring 2016 semester in this endeavor of collaborative advising.”

There are many goals of the program that contribute to this overall goal of “(nourishing) the whole student to support academic,

social and emotional well-being,” she said.

One of these goals, Srinivas said, is “to improve student success and timely degree attainment by identifying students who are facing difficulty and provide them with coordinated support before their academic and personal objectives are compromised.”

Other goals, she added, are to “foster a culture of student success and retention” and provide students with the opportunity to ask for help and “(engage) in their own journey toward their success.”

Student Association President Aysha Seedat

said SA is getting involved in the promotion of the program because “it’s aiming to enhance the undergraduate academic experience.”

“Some of the issues that are raised to the Academic Affairs committee in Student Association are solved with Orange SUccess,” Seedat said. “It will only be successful if students know about it, which is why we are assisting in its promotion.”

Seedat underwent a test trial of the Orange SUccess program in the fall to ensure that it was easy to use.

first semester in a pre-med program.

“This program really helped show me what to expect when I go to college and how to excel,” he said. “Education is a tool to learn more about yourself and society. It’s empowering. I feel like I’m more ready now to go to medical school.”

Sarah Tolley, a member of the Pennsylvania National Guard — previously Army Reserves — was in the summer 2015 program at SU. She is now pursuing a bachelor’s degree in kinesiology with a minor in nutritional science with the hopes of earning a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in public health.

Tolley found out about the program when she met Gina Bartolomeo, director of orga-

nizational development at WSP. “This program has helped round me out as a student,” Tolley said. “I’m very thankful for WSP and all they have done for me.

They’ve helped push me to want to go to graduate school.”

WSP takes all veterans without a bachelor’s degree and helps give them exposure to undergraduate study while paying for everything except travel, Bartolomeo said.

There are currently 12 campuses nationwide that offer classroom space and access to their dining halls and dorm facilities to WSP, said Ellington. This coming summer, there will be 235 veterans in the program at campuses across the country, including SU,

Harvard University, Cornell University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Stanford University will begin its partnership with the program in 2017.

“Post-9/11 veterans have an immense degree of untapped potential to succeed in higher education institutions and to progress on to successful careers,” Ellington said in a press release. “Yet college can be a significant challenge. … Our boot camps address veterans’ misperceptions about college and build their confidence through an intense academic reorientation.”

The WSP program will be held at SU from July 9–17.

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instagram (and) our alumni with the day-to-day life of Syracuse University,” Guse said.

Guse said she hopes followers of @OurSyracuseU will learn more about SU and feel more connected to the campus community through the experiences of students on the account — from classes they may not have known about, to student organizations that might interest them, to what day-to-day life is like for students in different schools and majors.

Even Guse was able to learn something new when a student posted that the SU Abroad office offers a backpacking course.

Last semester the university did a pilot of

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Advisers will have access to this information and will be able to follow up with the students in order to encourage the improvement of the student, she added.

On the other hand, Srinivas said faculty will also able to send compliments — or “kudos” — through the program if a student is doing exceptionally well.

In order to monitor the success of the

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warrior papers, stay in the dorms and eat in the dining halls,” he said. “The idea is that they will come out of this program with a better understanding of the college experience, a higher level of confidence and skills to set them up for success.”

Piragash Swargaloganathan, an active duty member of the Navy from Sri Lanka, said he found out about the program through the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs’ Facebook page. After researching, applying and attending WSP’s boot camp at SU last summer, he has just completed his

From this, we saw a valuable opportunity to deepen our involvement with the platform and strengthen our connection with followers.

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By Tara Tolton staff writer

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he abandoned train station platform in downtown Syracuse alongside Route 690 is being renovated for the first time since its closing in 1962.

The project, which is scheduled to begin in mid-March, is an effort to revitalize the historical landmark. The Department of Transportation has dedicated $1.5 million to the renovation.

The significance of the project is linked to the history behind the train station. Matt Driscoll, former mayor and Department of Transportation commissioner, told Syracuse.com that it is a “gateway” to the community and follows New York state Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s plan to improve living conditions across New York state.

Some of the most well-known aspects of the station are the white statues of people waiting for a train that never arrives. The statues can be seen by the platform on Route 690. The question about what to do with the white statues has yet to be answered.

“Either we’re going to have put a hardhat on them or we’re going to move them,” Driscoll said in an interview with Syracuse.com. “It’s doubtful they’ll stay there. We want it to go back to the historic look.”

The statues, which were created by public artists “Duke” Epolito Sr. and Larry Zankowski in 1982, according to Syra-

cuse.com., deserve to be in a better place, said Sarah Kozma, research specialist at the Onondaga Historical Association.

“If they need to be moved to preserve them, that would be the best thing,” Kozma said.

Michael Fong, sculptor and digital fabrication adjunct professor at Syracuse University’s School of Art, said the removal of the statues from the platform in favor of new renovations would strip the statues — and the platform — of their historic value.

The statues are narratives that tell the story of the post industrious history of Syracuse, Fong said. To Fong, the platform should be protected, not restored.

“In some sense, it’s like it would be polishing out our history,” he said. “It seems like a sanitization, to clean up something that has been there for so long, and that’s not what’s been happening (to the city).”

Kozma said the platform is a unique aspect of Syracuse’s history. In its heyday, it was one of the only elevated subway terminal stations left in the country since other states had already phased out the train in favor of highways and other modes of transportation, she said. This makes the platform a direct link to the industrial age of Syracuse’s past, she added.

The renovation could increase the city’s moral, Kozma said.

“When the city is taken care of, the people take notice,” she said. “It gives a boost to the people who live there.”

Some community members do not agree with Cuomo’s

New York state to revitalize Route 690 train platform

view of the project, though.

In letters to the editor at Syracuse.com, many said the money being used to renovate the train station platform could be used to help the city instead.

One Onondaga citizen wrote that Cuomo should use the money to repair the sewers and water lines in the city instead.

Another citizen wrote that the state’s priority should be on the living conditions for the citizens of Syracuse.

The platform is being renovated for aesthetic and safety purposes, as well. Kozma said it has been an “eyesore” and added that it is not the best way to welcome the number of cars that drive on that highway per day, which is 127,000 on average, according to the DOT. She added that she would like to see it dressed up, as if it were a welcoming sign to the city.

Alternatively, because of the platform’s current dilapidated state, Kozma said it could become a danger to those who travel on Route 690 and live near the platform if it is not renovated.

The majority of the renovations include cleaning and repairing the existing steel structures and replacing the tin roof over the station with fiberglass, according to Syracuse. com. The chain link fence will also be replaced with ornamental fencing. In addition, because the station is so close to the highway, the grass is also being replaced by gravel, Driscoll said. trtolton@syr.edu

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Bottle of love Local groups team up to collect water bottles, deliver to Flint amid crisis

By Tobi Thompson contributing writer

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tocking up on water. Not just for the luxury of having the cleanest water during a storm.

Stocking up on water so often for so long that it has now become unaffordable.

Since the water contamination crisis in Flint, Michigan was revealed, residents have had to stock up on bottled water to brush their teeth and cook.

Bottled water is, however, expensive and limited in quantity. About 41 percent of households in Flint are below the poverty line, according to the U.S. Census, and have lead-contaminated taps, so clean water is more or less out of reach.

Flint’s state of emergency called for help and Syracuse has responded. People’s AME Zion Church, the city of Syracuse and the Syracuse City School District are holding a donation drive as an effort to deliver as much water as possible to the city. The hope is that the groups can bring enough water to fill a 53-foot trailer, AME Zion Pastor Daren Jaime said.

Cases are being accepted through Thursday and can be dropped off at any SCSD building, Syracuse’s City Hall, the Southwest Community Center and People’s AME Zion Church.

1,500 The approximate number of cases of water bottles that have been collected for the drive

James Johnson, a member of AME Zion, said he and about 35 other volunteers will head to Flint on Friday to help and support suffering residents. As of Monday morning, Johnson said more than 1,500 cases of bottled water have been dropped off at the church.

Originally, the National Guard was set to distribute the water in Flint, but Jaime said he located some communities who hadn’t received water yet and thought they should get it as soon as possible.

Lead contamination levels have been dangerously high since Flint switched water sources from Lake Huron to Flint River in April 2014. Besides the discoloring, the water is also very dangerous and can cause a variety of symptoms such as rashes, growth stunts and even death, according to a Jan. 21 Mother Jones article.

In October 2015, officials switched the water source back to Lake Huron. Due to the lack of standard chemicals, known as corrosion controls, that were needed to prevent metals from straining through, the issue still persists.

Young children and babies are advised by the Environmental Protection Agency to bathe with wipes, bottled water and/or tubs outside of the district to reduce the risk of accidentally ingesting the water.

Cornelius Murphy, a senior fellow for environmental and sustainable systems and former president at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, said that while the switch may have been the cheaper option, the city is now paying the price.

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First Lockerbie scholar to graduate from SU stays in US

By Matthew Gutierrez staff writer

Late last June, Erin McLaughlin was chasing a mailman through the streets of the Bronx in pursuit of one thing: her green card.

She had received text and email updates in the days prior,

each stating her application was being processed. But because she had also applied for an extension to her visa, she was unsure if these messages were for that or the card.

So McLaughlin tracked down the mailman and asked if he had something for her. He didn’t, but

the two exchanged phone numbers and a few days later, McLaughlin finally received a call.

It was not until the card was in her hands that McLaughlin felt relief. Last summer, after what had been almost 12 years since arriving at Syracuse University as a 17-year-old Lockerbie Scholar, she

was granted permanent residency in the United States.

“It was just a lot of work, a big pressure, so finally to get it, I was so happy that my work had paid off,” said McLaughlin. “I was just so grateful to receive it.”

Before McLaughlin, no Lockerbie Scholar stayed all four years

and received a diploma from SU, let alone a green card. The typical Lockerbie Scholar would attend SU for a year, participate in Remembrance Week to honor the 270 victims who died in the Pan Am Flight 103 crash — including 35 SU students and 11 from see lockerbie page 10

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Surprise release albums only work for well-established artists

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igital streaming was the worst thing to happen to album sales.

Barely anyone will dish out $10 or more for an album when, at best, listeners will buy one or two singles they like for 99 cents each — or, at worst, listen to the whole thing on Spotify or YouTube for free.

To combat plummeting sales, artists have taken to releasing new albums with little to no warning in advance, using the instant nature of the Internet to their full advantage.

This phenomenon first appeared with Radiohead’s 2007 album “In Rainbows,” announced ten days before its release and sold digitally through a “pay-what-you-want” distribution system. Though unprecedented, this release lead to wide commercial success and a top spot on the Billboard 200.

Frank Ocean pulled a similar trick with his debut album “Channel Orange” in 2012, releasing the album a week earlier than expected to debut in its first week with a similarly high charting position (especially for a new artist).

Beyoncé’s take on the surprise release,

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lockerbie Lockerbie, Scotland — and finish his or her degree back in Europe.

But McLaughlin just couldn’t leave Syracuse. In the spring of 2007, she became the first former Lockerbie Scholar to also become a Remembrance Scholar and SU graduate.

McLaughlin remembered saying, “‘I can’t imagine going home, I can’t imagine leaving.’”

The year before she arrived at SU, McLaughlin began exchanging emails with Andrew McClune, a Lockerbie Scholar the year before her. He wrote telling her what a great time he was having, which made her even more excited to become a scholar.

On the morning of Dec. 13, 2002, tragedy struck when McClune died after falling from Sadler Hall’s seventh floor. It was then that Erin felt an even greater connection to the scholarship.

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though, was arguably the most important of all. With no indication in advance that she was working on an album at all, the pop star released a new album in the middle of December, becoming a double platinum success.

Last Wednesday, Rihanna pulled a surprise release of her own, distributing her highly anticipated eighth studio album “Anti” as a free download on the music streaming service Tidal. Though sales figures haven’t been announced yet, the album is projected to go platinum, especially with news on Monday that digital streams will now be counted towards album sales.

It seems easy to say that cases like Radiohead’s, Beyoncé’s and Rihanna’s are definitive proof that albums can still sell well in this unfriendly climate. What this argument ignores, however, is how

“When he passed away, I felt like it got even more personal for me because the disaster happened when I was so young,” she said. “For me, it was incredibly important to get to apply, and then to be chosen and just kind of instill positivity.”

For me, it was incredibly important to get to apply, and then to be chosen and just kind of instill positivity.

Erin McLaughlin former lockerbie scholar

While at SU, McLaughlin immersed herself in campus life. She took an honors course load, did hours of volunteer work

unviable surprise releases are for the vast majority of artists.

Though the nature of these albums’ sudden releases surely helped their sales, without the loyal followings these artists had leading up to their releases, their albums would never have performed so well.

A common argument against music streaming is that it favors the musical elite.

Artists at the top of the food chain either bought or earned their way up and make up the overwhelming majority of the money in the business. Artists in this musical “onepercent” are the only ones able to afford bold, high-risk, high-reward maneuvers like these surprise album releases.

Albums as we know them are dead.

Ninety nine-cent singles on iTunes dug their graves, while Spotify buried them in the ground and spit all over the dirt covering them. Surprise releases are just a way for the elites of the record industry to pat themselves on the back, whisper “everything’s going to be alright” and prove that today’s studio albums are only a novelty or

relic from the past.

Music, for the most part, is more disposable than ever. Even I contribute to the issue — almost every new album I listen to won’t get more than one or two virtual spins on my Spotify. In this day and age, cultural events come and go quickly, and this attitude is reflected heavily in how we treat new albums.

Surprise albums are fun to follow for a bit while the rest of your friends are getting excited over them. And I’ll admit I downloaded “Anti” when I first found out it was released. But I still don’t see the release structure being viable in the long run. For better or worse, albums are generally on the way out. Surprise album releases just aren’t the great savior of the music industry that they’re being propped up to be.

at the VA Medical Center and served as a Lockerbie and Remembrance Scholar.

Now, as Assistant Director of Experiential Engagement at Fordham University, McLaughlin uses her experience as she engages with students.

McLaughlin’s friend Michael Nordman, also a Remembrance Scholar and 2007 graduate of SU, said helping others has been her life’s work.

“She really takes an interest in students, their stories, helping them and sort of guiding them,” Nordman said. “She understands what it’s like to be foreign and adjusting.”

Judy O’Rourke, former director of undergraduate studies and mentor of the Lockerbie Scholars, frequently talked with McLaughlin while she was an undergraduate. O’Rourke said McLaughlin almost immediately sought ways to contribute to the community.

“She just got involved with everything

and really worked at it,” O’Rourke said.

“Erin was just interested in people, and that came through.”

Today, she sports orange and blue all year, calling herself “the biggest SU fan” around. She carries an SU tote bag to work — across the Fordham campus, to boot — and wipes her shoes on an SU doormat every evening.

McLaughlin didn’t always fit in on the SU campus. Her friend, Lindsay Truesdell, also a 2007 graduate, said when she first met McLaughlin she had to ask her to repeat herself because of her accent, but they soon became close friends.

“I couldn’t understand a word she said,” Truesdell said.

But McLaughlin’s friends say she only has a hint of the distinct Scottish brogue now.

“I’ve been here almost 13 years,” McLaughlin said. “I had to blend in at some point.”

Brett Weiser-Schlesinger is a sophomore newspaper and online journalism major. He can be reached by email at bweisers@syr. edu or by Twitter at @brettws. His column appears weekly in Pulp.

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flint old city, it is likely to have a lot of cast iron and ductile iron piping. If homes have lead pipes or lead soldered pipes, the faucets can release lead from the soldered points or from the pipes itself.

“The increased corrosivity of that water from the Flint River doesn’t mean it’s bad water,” he said. “It just means the water is more corrosive than the alternative supply.”

Murphy said one solution to contamination problems would be protective biofilm and scaling agents on the inside of the pipe.

Sister Elizabeth Walters is taking a different approach to the problem: faith. She’s visiting religious sites to raise awareness for the water crisis in Michigan.

Walters is an activist who tries to raise awareness about social justice, peace and ecological sustainability in Michigan. She works with a group in Detroit called the People’s Water Board, which campaigns for water as a human right all over the state of Michigan, and has been focusing on the water crisis in Flint.

Detroit is also facing water issues, though different than Flint’s. Walters said tens of thousands of Detroit residents have had water shut off because they cannot afford it since even though the water is clean, it’s also expensive.

Walters had been advocating with the PWB before she learned about the Flint

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crisis, but her message is still applicable.

“Our position is that you can’t deny people of such a basic need,” she said. “They can’t have their water turned off. Folks living on bottled water has been very, very difficult — it’s been their savior until some justice happens.”

The water crises in Flint is a direct result of government attempts to save costs, according to a Jan. 18 CNN article. In Flint, government officials had to ask for help from

emergency managers, Walters said.

“They didn’t have an investment in the community. They made decisions not for the health and well-being of people, but to save money, and the governor said he’s not responsible, but that’s where the responsibility started,” Walters said.

“You can’t take elected officials and make them powerless and put in your financial people to run a city; it isn’t right.” tathomps@syr.edu

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CHRIS FREEDMAN (LEFT) AND ANDY HORVATH (RIGHT) have worked together to produce two tapes for Horvath’s band, Super Defense. The tapes were made at Freedman’s independent record label, Ghoul Tapes, which he started last summer. katherine sotelo web designer

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n the top of his left knee, Chris Freedman has a stick-and-poke tattoo of the letters “G” and “T” etched inside a tombstone. The lines are rough and uneven; the letters in small handdrawn sans-serif type, done by Bay Area street artist Trevni on a whim.

“It was awful,” Freedman said of the pain he went through to get the tattoo of his independent record label, Ghoul Tapes, logo. “But it’s the spirit of it. I want Ghoul Tapes to feel kind of reckless and stupid and it’s cool, I like it and it’s unique to me. So why not get a stick-and-poke tattoo?”

Freedman, a sophomore Bandier student from Los Angeles, started Ghoul Tapes last summer after reading an article about how the National Audio Company still makes cassette tapes, a music medium that went largely extinct during the introduction of CDs and digital downloads.

A music lover for as long as he can remember, Freedman didn’t grow up listening to cassettes, but instead mostly listened to the vinyl collection he started in middle school. Ghoul Tapes came about from an interest in audio quality instead.

“The first month I started Ghoul Tapes I had no product, but I had this idea and I had this vision and I was just like f*ck it, look at me, I own a record label,” Freedman said. “It was something that I always wanted to do and it just seemed like fun to me.”

Now Ghoul Tapes has put out two tapes for Super Defense and will soon release “Pinwheel” by minnoe, both Syracuse-based bands.

I had no product, but I had this idea and I had this vision and I was just like f*ck it, look at me, I own a record label.

Chris Freedman owner of ghoul tapes

Creating the cassettes starts with the art, which either he designs or the artist gives to him. Then he and the band record the music and it’ll be ready to sell. Since Freedman loves all kinds of music, he said the Ghoul Tapes label can be anything and that he wouldn’t be opposed to putting out an electronic, hip-hop or death metal album as long as it’s good music.

It’s a collaborative labor of love.

“As the first member of being on this label, Chris has done a really great job putting my needs at the highest priority, and I’m sure that’s something that he’s going to keep with every single band that he signs,” Andy Horvath of Super Defense and sophomore Bandier student, said.

Both in music and in life, Freedman is drawn to high energy. Growing up in California, Freed-

man went to D.I.Y. venues like The Smell, an all-ages punk rock/noise/experimental venue in downtown Los Angeles, and Touch Vinyl, a halfrecord store, half-concert venue with a laid-back atmosphere. The latter parallels a skate shop, where Freedman spent years riding ledges.

Here, he got his start as a DJ, playing at events held between the two stores. Though he loves music and guitar, he doesn’t play any instruments. DJing is only a hobby he picked up as a result of his vinyl collection.

“There’s a lot of people who play guitar, but there’s not a lot of people who are just go-nuts audio nerds,” Freedman said. “I get just as much joy collecting and taking in the music than I think someone playing it would. I think I’m just a big super fan.”

Over years of hanging around CD and vinyl shops in California, Freedman’s constructed a network of record stores around the country where he sends and sells his tapes. Now he buys blank multi-colored audio cassettes from Cryptic Carousel in New York City and records and releases music on them for $5.00.

There’s a magic in the “crumminess” that comes with a cassette, he said, but he also understands that there’s a format for everybody. His just happens to be a little old school.

“The whole idea I even run Ghoul Tapes is weird to me; it’s all surreal,” he said. “I’m low-key going crazy doing this, but I love it and I can’t imagine doing anything else. Cassettes are my f*cking life.” kasotelo@syr.edu

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lydon nothing but net as the first-half buzzer sounded. A lethargic Syracuse offense made the worst defensive team in the conference look like one of the best, but the freshman’s deep ball gave the Orange a sliver of momentum heading into the half down six.

With 8:46 left in the game and Syracuse down three, Lydon f lushed a two-handed dunk and let out a guttural scream toward the Syracuse bench.

Seconds later on the other end of the court, Bibbs drove right at Lydon for an answer.

A microcosm of the mix of caution and aggression the freshman had to balance as the game teetered and he tried to avoid sending one of the league’s best foul-shooting teams to the line.

“He was aggressive,” Michael Gbinije said, “but he wasn’t stupid.”

Virginia Tech broke Syracuse’s secondhalf press with relative ease and the familiar sight of a guard charging in open f loor faced Lydon on multiple occasions.

Earlier this season, Lydon had trouble staying straight up when defending under the basket.

Now, that was his only option.

“I thought Tyler Lydon saved the game when we were trapping and pressing and they got the basket and he changed their shot, got the rebound and we got out and scored,” Jim Boeheim said. “I think he did that once or twice.”

The Orange’s first lead came with 22 seconds into overtime. It quickly vanished.

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defender as Syracuse tried to do the same with the game.

The senior’s layup didn’t hit the rim, only the backboard.

But as it dropped back toward the court, Lydon charged in pursuit, corralled his third offensive rebound of the night and f lushed another two-handed dunk.

This time one that would help distance the Orange for good.

“I just saw him get that slight little edge on the defender,” Lydon said. “… I got to be there in case he misses.”

In a game Syracuse looked buried in with under two minutes left, it was now running out the clock. The Hokies didn’t even bother

He was a game-changer toward the end. ... He was able to block a shot or make them miss it and come back again and make that guy miss it again. I mean he was unbelievable.

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to play defense.

Lydon rose from his seated position on the bench and joined Malachi Richardson in f lapping his arms upward with a towel in hand.

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Syracuse’s current class — quarterback Rex Culpepper, athlete Moe Neal, safety Scoop Bradshaw, offensive lineman Sam Heckel and preferred walk-on quarterback Tyler Gilfus.

In a frantic effort to fill the class, the new coaching staff has picked up 17 verbal commitments in the past two months, including nine from players who visited SU during the weekend of Jan. 23. All nine were uncommitted when the visit began and within three days, each had verballed to Syracuse.

The rankings

The geography

Syracuse’s 2016 class is ranked as the 60th best in the country and 19 of SU’s 21 commits with scholarship offers are ranked with three stars, according to 247Sports.com’s composite rankings.

That puts the Orange’s class second-tolast in the Atlantic Coast Conference, ahead of only Boston College.

The 5-foot-11, 160-pound Neal is the highest-rated player in the class. He chose SU on Aug. 1, 2015, and stuck with Syracuse despite the coaching change. In his senior year at Forestview (North Carolina) High School, Neal rushed for 1,381 yards on 251 carries and caught 27 passes for 519 yards, per MaxPreps.com. He has enrolled early and could play either running back or wide receiver.

Babers also said on Dec. 7 that he would focus on local talent and prioritize players from New York. Syracuse only has one player in its 2016 class from New York, preferred walk-on quarterback Tyler Gilfus.

Riggins, who attends Aquinas (New York) Institute in Rochester, was the only other 2016 commit from New York.

In total, Syracuse has no commits from the states of New York or New Jersey and has just two from Pennsylvania. The Orange has picked up five commits from Florida in the Babers era.

“You need to start in your backyard,” Babers said. “We need to take care of the state of New York. We need to get over to New Jersey. We need to start to work near Philly, we need to shoot down that corridor to Pittsburgh, Chicago, Detroit, and then we got to hang down there and go back to Florida and cross our T’s and dot our I’s. But we’re always going to start close to home.”

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POSTGAME PLAYBOOK tweet it out

the big three Get a breakdown of three key aspects stemming from Syracuse’s game against VT.

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comeback city

Syracuse trailed by seven with 2:56 remaining in regulation. The Orange came storming back, though, and with 20 seconds left, Michael Gbinije’s NBA-range 3-pointer tied the game up at 56.

SU never led in regulation but pulled together a strong enough ending to the game to squeak out the eight-point overtime win.

cold man

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Syracuse center Dajuan Coleman turned in another mediocre performance in just 16 minutes against the Hokies on Tuesday night. He went 0-for-2 from the field and scored three points, all coming from the free-throw line.

He also pitched in six rebounds, but his performance remained on par with his season averages of 16.8 minutes and five points.

hot streak

The Orange enters a stretch of eight days without a game. SU has won three in the past six days with wins over then-No. 25 Notre Dame, Georgia Tech and Virginia Tech. Syracuse is amid a stretch of winning six of its last seven games since head coach Jim Boeheim returned from his nine-game suspension.

@LydonsMustache “A refined mustache like myself requires no ghost writers” @Coach_Hopkins “Great fight tonight. Just when you think you’re out of it, you find a way. Never give up! #cusemode” @Thy_WillBeDone “Syracuse needs to stop putting me through this”

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MICHAEL GBINIJE

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top Syracuse out-rebounded the Hokies by

seven, and it’s 37 total boards was SU’s most in a game since beating Duke on Jan. 18.

forward HT: 6’8” WGHT: 226 YEAR: JUNIOR

middle The Orange took advantage of its

silent and deadly

Much like last year when Gbinije hit a game-deciding shot against VT, Syracuse’s point guard hit a 3-pointer to tie the game late. He then hit the first shot of overtime to give SU it’s first lead of the game, and a lead it held for good.

TYLER ROBERSON

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extra trips to the charity stripe, making 20-of-32 free-throw attempts, more than double the attempts Virginia Tech had.

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bottom A Gbinije jumper 23 seconds into

overtime gave Syracuse its first lead of the game. It proceeded to have five other players score in the overtime period to zoom past the Hokies.

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plugged in Roberson grabbed 15 boards to supplement his 12 points. Syracuse has usually followed in the steps of Roberson when he’s had big rebounding performances. SU upset Duke when the junior had 20 boards at Cameron Indoor Stadium.

full circle Malachi Richardson and Trevor Cooney combined to shoot 6-of23 from the field, good for 26.1 percent.

Syracuse shot just 14.3 percent from 3-point land in the first half against the Hokies.

7.6 percent

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Syracuse led Virginia Tech for just 7.6 percent of the game.

This isn’t a criticism, but if no one is guarding you and no one is boxing you out, you should get a rebound.

This is the first night we just didn’t have it for 36, 37 or 38 minutes, whatever it was.

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That was a hell of a shot, and a hell of a time to step up and make it.

Trevor Cooney

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We realize we may not have the resume to get in the tournament, so we’re really trying to go full throttle and try and make something happen. su guard

agent zero Hudson shot 0-for-7 from the field and hit none of his four 3-point attempts against Syracuse. He scored just two points, more than six points below his average of 8.6 points per game. He also collected zero rebounds, while he averages 2.1 per game.

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Number of free throws SU took against Virginia Tech, the second most they’ve taken all season.

Number of games Tyler Roberson has collected double-digit rebounds. He grabbed 15 on Tuesday.

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Both teams shot 24 3-pointers on Tuesday. VT made seven and Syracuse made eight.

Number of minutes Trevor Cooney played on Tuesday.

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men’s basketball

Three takeaways from Syracuse’s 68-60 OT win over VT

By Matt Schneidman sports editor

Syracuse’s first lead came under a minute into overtime, but the Orange (16-8, 6-5 Atlantic Coast) escaped with a 68-60 overtime win over Virginia Tech (12-11, 4-6) on Tuesday night in the Carrier Dome. The Orange struggled to score in regulation against the worst defensive team in the conference, but a string of deep balls in the extra period put Syracuse above .500 in ACC play for the first time.

Here are three quick reactions from the game.

Outlet

Even as Syracuse couldn’t hit water from a boat in the first half from 3-point range, Tyler Roberson grabbed eight boards and added eight points to stabilize the Orange. Four of those were of the offensive variety, which equaled Virginia Tech’s first-half team total.

A second-half sequence where he flushed a two-handed dunk through contact and hit the front end of a one-and-one seconds later erased VT’s lead for the first time since the beginning of the game. It also gave him a double-double with about 10 minutes to go, his sixth on the season. from page 16

virginia tech off. On, then off. Off, then on. That’s how it went until Virginia Tech bumped its lead to five and SU started to unravel.

But then it caught itself, just in time.

Down seven with a minute and a half remaining, Richardson hit a step-back 3 in front of the Orange to cut the Hokies’ lead to four. On Syracuse’s next possession, Richardson knifed inside and dumped a pass to Lydon, whose two-handed dunk shaved the

Syracuse finished with a 14-7 advantage in second-chance points as Roberson ended with six offensive boards, 15 total rebounds and 12 points.

Mustached man

Tyler Lydon thrust his arms in the air from the bench with 30 seconds remaining in overtime.

The freshman had fouled out earlier in the extra period and was relegated to the bench for the finish of a frantic game that Syracuse rarely had in its grasp.

Minutes earlier, Lydon corralled a missed layup by Michael Gbinije and slammed it home to put Syracuse up five for its largest lead of the night at the time. He provided a more than sufficient reinforcement to Roberson’s standout day down low.

Lydon finished with 13 points and six rebounds.

Grinding it out

TYLER ROBERSON (21) drives into the lane against two VT defenders on Tuesday. He scored 12 points and grabbed 15 boards. logan reidsma senior staff photographer

Trevor Cooney stepped to the foul line for his inevitable first points late in the first half, an 0-for-6 mark from the field already to his name. But two misses and two scrunched faces from his dad in the stands later, Cooney stood 0-for-3 from the line in

addition to a fruitless shooting first half.

The first shot of the second ha lf was a 3 from right in front of Syracuse’s bench to cut Virginia Tech’s lead to three. That’s about all he had going for him in regulation.

Cooney finished an abysmal 1-of-9 from the field with only three free throws to

account for his regulation scoring after opening the second stanza with a long ball. But with three minutes left in overtime, after his 3-pointer Cooney screamed toward the Carrier Dome roof after putting the Orange up 61-58, a lead that never vanished.

deficit to two with 1:01 on the clock.

After Justin Bibbs missed the back end of two free throws with 46 seconds left, Gbinije called for a Roberson screen he had no intention of using, the game clock flying below 40 seconds, and coolly made a 3 from way behind the 3-point line.

“That was a hell of a shot,” Cooney said of Gbinije’s game-tying 3. “And a hell of a time to step up and make it.”

Bibbs missed on the other end and a Richardson shot arced toward the rim and a

suspended silence cut through the delirium in the Dome. But the ball hit the front rim, then back rim before falling to the court.

Overtime. Five more minutes. One last chance for the Orange to show it has the guts to win three conference games in five days.

And that’s exactly what it did.

Gbinije hit a step-back jumper. Cooney swished a 3. Richardson did too. By the time Dajuan Coleman walked to the foul line with 45 seconds left in the extra period, Syracuse’s lead had stretched to seven and

half of the players on Virginia Tech’s bench were staring at their shoes.

There was nothing for the Hokies to look at on the court. Just a celebrating team and its celebrating fans. Another year and another opportunity slipped away.

“We want to win,” Gbinije said. “We realize we may not have the resume to get in the tournament, so we’re really trying to go full throttle and try and make something happen.”

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men’s basketball

Lydon helps SU pull away Freshman battles foul trouble while tallying 13 points, 6 rebounds

By Matt Schneidman sports editor

Justin Bibbs went straight at Tyler Lydon, who tumbled backward and sideways under the basket. W histled for his fourth foul, Lydon took his place in between the hashmarks and watched as Bibbs stretched Virginia Tech’s lead to three with 45.7 seconds left.

When the clock hit triple zeroes minutes later, Lydon was still playing in a game still going.

13 TREVOR COONEY celebrates making his second 3-pointer of the game, one that gave Syracuse the lead for good in overtime. The Orange never led in regulation, but pulled out a 68-60 win over Virginia Tech in the extra period. logan reidsma senior staff photographer

By Jesse Dougherty senior staff writer

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alachi Richardson stood 30 feet from the basket, no ball in sight, and flapped his arms into the air. The Carrier Dome crowd was loud, but he wanted it to get even louder. Syracuse had trailed by seven in the closing minutes of regulation, improbably forced overtime and willed its way to an eightpoint lead against a Virginia Tech team that refused to go away.

Now the Hokies were done pressing because an Orange win was all but sealed. Players were exchanged emphatic high-fives in front of the SU bench. When the final buzzer sounded, Michael Gbinije let the ball roll away from him and finally exhaled.

“Really that’s as good of a

comeback as you’re going to see,” SU head coach Jim Boeheim said. “... Especially at the end, that last spurt was incredible in regulation.”

Really that’s as good of a comeback as you’re going to see. … Especially at the end, that last spurt was incredible in regulation.

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Then Boeheim let out an audible sigh, his tie nowhere to be found and his top button undone. For the second time in two seasons,

Syracuse trailed late — nearly too late — before stealing a win from Virginia Tech. Last February in the Carrier Dome, the Hokies held a 8-point lead with four minutes go, but Gbinije eventually won it on a buzzer-beater. This time, SU (16-8, 6-5 Atlantic Coast) erased a late Virginia Tech (12-11, 4-6) lead to capture a 68-60 win on a night where it played far from its best basketball.

But that didn’t matter, at least as far as the final scoreboard was concerned. In its fourth game in nine days, the Orange willed its way to its unlikeliest win of the season and improved to 6-1 since starting 0-4 in ACC play.

“We’re in a good a position as we can be in really, realistically, starting out 0-4 in this league,” Boeheim said. “... We just got to keep fighting.

We can’t do anything about that.

We have to get better and I think we need some time off.”

Boeheim said it was the first game since his return from suspension that the Orange just “didn’t have it,” and was much was evident in the first 20 minutes.

With 11:58 left in regulation and Syracuse still playing as poor as it did out of the gate, the Dome crowd screamed through every Virginia Tech possession and contested each foul call against SU as if it were deciding the entire season. But the Hokies answered each of Syracuse’s pushes with a stadium-quieting bucket to preserve a one-possession lead.

Then the Orange would score and turn the noise back on. Then the Hokies would score and turn it back see virginia

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recruiting

What to know about Syracuse’s Class of 2016

By Paul Schwedelson asst. sports editor

With National Signing Day upon us, it’s time to look back on the ups and downs of Syracuse’s 2016 recruiting cycle. Players that did not enroll for the spring semester can turn their verbal commitment official on Wednes-

day by signing paperwork to join the Orange.

Here are five things to know about Syracuse’s 2016 recruiting class.

The shakeup

Following head coach Dino Babers’ hiring, Syracuse’s 2016 recruiting class shook significant-

ly. At the time of Scott Shafer’s firing, 16 players were committed to the Orange. None decommitted while SU was in search of a new coach, but after Dec. 5, when Babers took over, 11 players left the class. That number includes Sadiq Palmer, whose offer was pulled due to academics, and Taylor Riggins, who was reportedly

told the new staff wouldn’t have a spot for him.

After Shafer was fired, members of the athletic department told recruits their commitments would be honored by the new staff, but that was only the case for certain players. Only five players who committed to Shafer are left in see nsd page 12

Tyler Lydon scored 13 points on Tuesday against the Hokies. It was just the third time in conference play that Lydon scored in double digits.

It wasn’t until three minutes into overtime, after his emphatic twohanded slam gave the Orange its biggest lead of the night at the time, that Lydon finally headed to the bench with his fifth foul. He spent the last 2:04 watching from next to assistant coach Gerry McNamara, the only time he couldn’t play and the only time Syracuse had the game finally in its favor.

The freshman chipped in 13 points before fouling out and his six rebounds were second only to Tyler Roberson’s 15.

His three offensive boards reinforced an SU rebounding corps that continues to improve, just as Lydon continued to trend upward while battling foul trouble in Syracuse’s (16-8, 6-5 Atlantic Coast) 68-60 overtime win over Virginia Tech (12-11, 4-6) on Tuesday night in the Carrier Dome.

“He was a game-changer toward the end,” Trevor Cooney said. “He had four fouls and they were driving to the lane, but he was able to block a shot or make them miss it and come back again and make that guy miss it again.

“I mean he was unbelievable.”

Lydon’s night was kick-started when his turnaround 3-pointer hit

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