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An update session on Fast Forward’s Campus Master Plan will be held for the campus community March 2 in Goldstein Auditorium from 2 to 4 p.m.

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years gone by University Professor Sean O’Keefe has an extensive history in education and public governance. Here is a timeline of his schooling and career: 1977 Graduated from Loyola University in Louisiana with a Bachelor of Arts degree

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With the Salt City Pinball League hosting tournaments and Syracuse Pinheads promoting the game, Syracuse pinball is making a comeback.

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As Syracuse’s season has ebbed and flowed, so too has forward Tyler Lydon’s play. In the Orange’s recent hot streak, Lydon has flourished in multiple facets.

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Sean O’Keefe reflects on numerous highprofile positions, recent appointment

1978 Graduated from Syracuse University with a Master of Public Administration degree

1978-1980 Interned for the Presidential Management program

1980-1988 Worked on the United States Senate Committee for Appropriations

1989-1992 Chief Financial Officer for the Defense Department

1992-1993 Secretary of the Navy

1993-2000 Professor at Pennsylvania State University and then SU

2001 Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget

2001-2004 NASA Administrator

SEAN O’KEEFE, a University Professor at Syracuse University, was recently appointed to be one of six members on a panel to advise the next president of the United States on public governance issues as they transition into office. bridget williams staff photographer

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2005-2008 Chancellor of Louisiana State University 2009-2014 CEO of United States operations for Airbus

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n all of Sean O’Keefe’s 60 years and numerous careers, his biggest challenge has been staying alive.

In August 2010, O’Keefe — who has held jobs as NASA administrator, secretary of the Navy and currently as a University Professor at Syracuse University — was in a

plane crash in Alaska. He and his youngest son, Kevin, were two of the four survivors from the crash.

O’Keefe later amended that the bigger challenge wasn’t about his survival, but about the “absolute fear” that his son would die at the age of 19 before he could start his sophomore year at SU. “I wasn’t sure he’d made it,” O’Keefe said. “In the first half hour, I wasn’t sure if he was alive.”

It took about 18 hours for rescuers to find the plane and pull people out of the wreckage, he said.

O’Keefe went through several months of medical treatment after the crash, and his son “miraculously came through it with just a lot of broken bones.” O’Keefe joked that because of Kevin’s broken jaw, his meal costs went down since he wasn’t able to eat steak.

“I thank God I can laugh about

it today, about that dimension of it,” O’Keefe said.

Of the nine passengers on the plane that day, five of them died, including O’Keefe’s close friend and mentor, Ted Stevens, who was a United States senator from Alaska at the time. Stevens was the first person O’Keefe worked for in the Senate, and the two had traveled to Alaska dozens of times together.

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School officials detail wellness, IT service agreement

By Michael Burke asst. news editor

The agreement between Syracuse University and SUNY-ESF to have SUNY-ESF transition into providing health and wellness services to its students and information technology (IT) services to its stu-

dents, faculty and staff was two years in the making.

The State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry President Quentin Wheeler said in an email that shortly after he and SU Chancellor Kent Syverud were both appointed to their positions in fall 2013, they

began reviewing services provided

by SU to the SUNY-ESF and whether the cost structures for such services were “fair and appropriate” for both universities.

“Many different services had been lumped together, making the evaluation of costs and values difficult,” Wheeler said. “We have

worked … so that a new arrangement could be defined that was up to date and fair to both institutions.”

That arrangement, which includes a new five-year services agreement, was announced last month.

Under it, SU agreed to assist SUNY-ESF in making health and wellness services available to its

students, beginning in the 201617 academic year. Additionally, SUNY-ESF will begin providing IT services to its students, faculty and staff in about three years, said Kevin Quinn, SU’s senior vice president for public affairs.

In addition to the services

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A third generation Syracuse University alumnus, Scott Casanova first started working in Event Productions when he was a student in the fall of 1994. After earning his bachelor’s degree in technical theater, it didn’t take long for Casanova to realize he wanted to be challenged and excited by his job — a revelation that led him back to SU. As an associate director for Student Centers and Programming Services, Casanova works to supervise events operations in the Schine and Goldstein student centers. SCPS also provides and oversees event support for Mayfest, Juice Jam and other nonacademic events.

Some of the events are fairly routine, such as admissions programs for prospective students, while others, including concerts and speakers, require more personalized attention. Casanova said they can go from having a single person at a podium to having to set up full light and sound equipment for nationally known performers.

Casanova said he relishes the opportunity to see student workers develop a passion for the job.

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SCOTT CASANOVA works for Student Centers and Programming Services to supervise both entertainment and academic events, such as Mayfest and Juice Jam. eddie natal staff photographer

“I’ve learned to never underestimate a motivated student,” he said. “It’s always amazing to me to see a student that’s really interested in what we have to offer.”

Casanova emphasized that putting on any event is a team effort.

When overseeing large-scale events, including Vice President Joe Biden’s visit last semester, the SCPS staff must coordinate both technical and venue needs in order for everything to run smoothly.

Having spent several years at the university, Casanova is no stranger to the way the campus runs.

“My father was actually in human resources here for almost 40 years,” he said, “so I kind of grew up on campus.”

Casanova’s passion for SU is obvious not only through his interactions with students and faculty, but in the Syracuse posters and memorabilia covering his office walls.

The SU decorations, however, are

challenged for space by Casanova’s other passion: Star Wars. Stormtroopers and SU basketball players stare at each other from adjacent walls, surrounded by a collection of Star Wars action figures.

Casanova’s love of the franchise, much like his love of the university, is reflected in his daughter, who wears a blue and orange Stormtrooper t-shirt.

“It’s a bit of a family thing,” Casanova said, smiling. dbertoli@syr.edu

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@IVMFSyracuseU @WhitmanatSU Ranked # 5 overall, 1st among private schools in @MilitaryTimes Best for Vets Biz School Rankings

Meeting of the minds The University Senate is meeting on Wednesday afternoon to discuss curricula changes and budget reports.

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Scholar talks print access Advocate calls for more accessibility for students with disabilities

By Rachel Sandler asst. news editor

Caught slippin’ Syracuse University students battled the elements on their way to class on Tuesday. Both freezing rain and snow fell all day, causing the already snow-covered sidewalks and roads on campus to turn to slush and flood in some areas. Temperatures fluctuated between above and below freezing, which made the sidewalks dangerously slippery. See more photos at dailyorange.com kiran ramsey design editor

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School ranked No. 5 for veterans education

By Matthew Gutierrez staff writer

Syracuse University’s Martin J. Whitman School of Management has been ranked the No. 5 best graduate business school for veterans in the nation by the Military Times.

This is the second consecutive year Whitman has appeared in the top five of the publication’s annual list, according to the Military Times.

More than 180 universities responded to a nearly 80-question Military Times survey, which scored schools based on “culture and curriculum that caters to military veterans,” according to a

Whitman press release. Of the 77 schools to make the list, only 23 were private, including SU. More than 100 veterans are enrolled in the MBA@Syracuse program at SU. About 26 percent of SU’s MBA students are either military or veteran students, compared to the national average of 17 percent, said Amy McHale, assistant dean for master’s programs in Whitman.

“We definitely feel proud of the ranking,” McHale said. “When one-in-four of our students are associated in some way with the military, either having served or currently serving, it’s extremely humbling for us to be ranked so

highly because they are a large part of our population.”

McHale said SU’s participation

We definitely feel proud of the ranking.

Amy McHale assistant dean for master’s programs in whitman

in the Yellow Ribbon program has helped lead to the high ranking. The Yellow Ribbon program, which a majority of veteran students participate in, helps them pay for their education, she said.

For many SU veterans, the services come at little to no cost.

Between the university-wide services the Institute for Veterans and Military Families and Whitman offer, McHale said SU has continued to grow its support system for veterans.

“It shows the enormous amount of support that the university gets as a whole,” she said.

The MBA@Syracuse program is online-based, so it can be difficult for students — especially veterans — to meet one another and network. The Adobe Connect platform is the predominant means of communication see veterans page 6

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SU to hold Campus Framework update session

By Michael Burke asst. news editor

Syracuse University officials, a representative from Sasaki Associates and members of the Campus Framework Advisory Group will host an update session on SU’s Campus Master Plan on March 2, the university has announced.

Those leading the event — including Michael Speaks, dean of

the School of Architecture; Dennis Pieprz, principal at Sasaki Associates; members of the advisory group; and other SU officials — will provide details on the status of the plan and the projects expected to be included in the plan’s first phase, according to an SU News release.

The Campus Framework Advisory Group consists of students, faculty and staff who have collaborated with Sasaki Associates, SU’s

design partner, “to analyze the viability of all current campus structures,” according to the release.

The Campus Master Plan is part of Chancellor Kent Syverud’s Fast Forward initiative and is meant to guide future campus development in coordination with the Academic Strategic Plan, another Fast Forward initiative.

At a session for the Campus Master Plan in April 2015, pre-

liminary ideas included the creation of university and academic promenades and renovations to key campus buildings, including the Carrier Dome.

The March 2 update session will be held at 4 p.m. in Goldstein Auditorium inside the Schine Student Center, according to the release. It will be open to students, faculty and staff. mdburk01@syr.edu

Disability advocate Paul Harpur threatens to sue people a lot. It’s a tactic, he said, that is one of the only ways to force big publishing companies to make printed material accessible.

And making books accessible to people with a print disability — like blindness or dyslexia — is essential to ensuring those students have equal opportunities in education, Harpur said. It’s a problem that Harpur has dealt with first hand as a visually impaired academic.

Harpur, a senior lecturer at the University of Queensland and scholar on issues of accessibility, spoke to a group of about 20 people in the Peter Graham Scholarly Commons Room at Bird Library on Tuesday.

He sought to answer the question: What can universities do to improve accessibility of print publications to people with disabilities?

One option, he said, is to sue.

Harpur said he recently threatened to sue a large company that operates an important database for people studying, practicing or teaching law.

“Suing is framed in a way that’s adversarial, but it’s a way of encouraging companies to make

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national news Here is a round-up of the biggest news stories happening across the world: POLITICS

AHEAD OF THE PACK A recent CNN poll shows Donald Trump with a 16 point lead and Hilary Clinton with an 18 point lead in South Carolina ahead of the next presidential primary. source: cnn

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IT’S A BIRD, IT’S A PLANE The U.S. and Cuba signed an agreement Tuesday that will establish an airline service between the two countries for the first time in 50 years. source: miami herald

NEW WAVE Europe is poised to receive even more migrants this spring — and some analysts say the continent is unprepared to deal with the crisis. source: the washington post

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‘Feminist’ comments ironically hurt Hillary Clinton campaign

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eminist icons have condemned young women for backing Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and unleashed a wave of backlash from the very demographic Hillary Clinton needs to engage most.

A recent series of comments made by prominent feminists Madeleine Albright and Gloria Steinem have suggested that millennial women are betraying their gender by not supporting Hillary Clinton’s quest to become the first woman to be elected president.

At a Clinton campaign event last week, Albright, the first woman to be secretary of state, voiced her generational frustrations with young women as Bernie Sanders supporters. She suggested that this voter demographic didn’t understand older women’s “climbing of the ladder” toward gender equality, flippantly stating, “It’s not done.

There’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other!”

Taking the sentiment a step further in a subsequent interview on Real Time with Bill Maher, Steinem explained how women tend to get more radical with age and that young women are backing Sanders with the intent of attracting men.

“When you’re young, you’re thinking: ‘Where are the boys? The boys are with Bernie,’” Steinem said.

With the ironic use of sexist rhetoric, these feminist icons implied millennial women, who overwhelmingly support Sanders, either do not recognize the fight of older generations of women in overcoming systemic oppression or that we are blindly driven by libido in our political decisions.

The implication that young women vote with frivolous concern or don’t exercise independent political autonomy is incred-

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ibly derisive. We vote for various and profound reasons, shame not being one of them.

Albright’s and Steinem’s backing, should have boosted Clinton’s appeal to young women, but instead have only severed her further from a demographic she desperately needed to reach. In an ironic twist of fate, their comments have done a great disservice to Clinton’s feminist identity. After all, it is absurdly anti-feminist to not consider both candidates with equal weight.

In response to the backlash, some have defended Albright and Steinem claiming that their remarks were intended to be “tongue-in-cheek,” but the underlying connotations, especially having come from powerful feminists, were undeniably shocking and insulting regardless.

In an interview with NBC’s Meet the Press earlier this month, Clinton defended Albright’s comment, calling it a “lighthearted, but very pointed remark.”

She also raised the valid point that statements can often be taken out of context and sensationalized, particularly due to modern Americans’ culture of political correctness.

However, without attacking semantics, their statements both point to the flawed logic that women should vote for Clinton simply based on her gender. With that same rationale, black Americans are obliged vote for Ben Carson and Latinos for Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) or Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), but clearly voters don’t — and shouldn’t — vote on the sole basis of shared identities.

With the implication that Sanders’

supporters are somehow anti-feminist by inadvertently hindering Clinton’s progress as a woman, it seems to be long-forgotten that many of Sanders supporters were initially pleading for Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) to run before he entered the race.

Millennial women are paying attention to issues and they have expressed from the very beginning that they want a more progressive candidate than Clinton.

(Young women) may see in Sanders’ campaign a social movement that can advance ideas of intersectionality, encompassing feminism in a wider context along with issues of economic and social justice.

Cecilia Green associate professor of sociology in the maxwell school of citizenship and public affairs at syracuse university

Sanders and Clinton stand nearly identical on women’s issues including pay equity, reproductive rights and paid family leave. But Sanders appeals to millennials in particular on a range of issues, the main of which being his challenge to corporate interests that have greatly compromised our democracy.

“We have to think about what might be alienating young people from Hillary Clinton in broader terms,” said Cecilia Green, an associate professor of sociology in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University.

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“Young women may feel that Clinton represents a disembodied feminism that is simply not enough,” said Green. “They may see in Sanders’ campaign a social movement that can advance ideas of intersectionality, encompassing feminism in a wider context along with issues of economic and social justice.”

Millennials are increasingly concerned with social justice causes and recognize that they are rarely, if ever, mutually exclusive. Sanders has been consistently more progressive on a range of issues, including income wealth inequality, LGBTQ rights and college affordability, all of which having contributed to a network of oppression. Those that believe that feminism is a multifaceted movement affected by various institutions of inequality, have hope in the “revolution” that Sanders proposes.

The insinuation that a male candidate can’t advance feminist policy is passé. A vote for Sanders is not a vote against feminism.

It is simply just delaying the milestone achievement of a president who is a woman on the timeline of the feminist movement.

The concept of a woman as president is revolutionary given the progress women have made and have yet to make, and I want to support women, but my vote is not unconditional.

On Election Day, I’ll be voting for the candidate whose policies I deem best for the future of our country — and certainly not who I think will impress men.

Mia Tomasello is a junior environmental communications major at SUNY-ESF. Her column appears weekly. She can be reached at atomasel@syr.edu and followed on Twitter @MiaTomasello1.

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t’s Black History Month, but white people are still trying to make it about themselves.

Despite heated accusations of “reverse racism,” anti-police sentiment and exploitation of tragedy from viewers across the nation, a New York City protest planned for Tuesday in response to Beyoncé’s Super Bowl performance and her music video for “Formation” didn’t live up to the hype.

The rally, organized by propolice group Proud of the Blues, only amassed a handful of people following a week-long public outcry in the form of the hashtag #BoycottBeyoncé. The outrage comes from the pop star’s Black Panther party-esque costumes and the images from her music video: Beyoncé lounged atop a police car sinking in a New Orleans flood zone, a little black boy dancing in front of police in riot gear and a wall with “Stop Shooting Us” written on it.

Unlike older people who view anything pro-black as anti-white, it’s important that young people step back from the controversy and face reality. Beyoncé isn’t the villain here — she is simply using her position as a pop icon to send an Afrocentric message and bring important matters to light.

Race is still an issue in this country, whether people want to acknowledge it or not. One only has to look at the disproportionate number of shooting deaths of unarmed black men and the slow response to the water crisis in Flint, Michigan to see that.

Bringing attention to police brutality isn’t racist — it’s necessary. Mike Brown and Trayvon Martin are not the only black boys who have been treated with excessive police force in the past few years. According to Mapping Police Violence, police killed 102 unarmed black people in 2015.

Of those 102 killings, only nine resulted in officers being charged.

And while those who claim that race isn’t a problem love to argue that police primarily shoot white people, this is a misleading statistic.

For one thing, this does not take population into account: black individuals make up only

13 percent of the U.S. population.

Because of this makeup, it makes sense that there would be more white deaths overall as white people make up the majority of U.S. citizens. This argument also does not take into consideration that black people were five times more likely to be killed unarmed than white people in 2015, as reported

by Mapping Police Violence.

To say that race isn’t of concern as far as police violence goes is to be ignorant. Instead of condemning Beyoncé’s Black Lives Matter message, there should be a greater shift toward embracing it. The movement is not an attack on white people or the police, but rather a spotlight on the racism that continues to oppress black people in their relations with law enforcement.

But it should be acknowledged that Beyoncé’s message regarding institutionalized racism transcends police interactions and is reflected by the government’s handling of disasters in communities of color.

While some believe that Beyoncé exploited the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina in her music video, it is important to think about the context. The government’s lackluster response to the 2005 catastrophe was a racial issue in itself. In regard to the delayed aid to the people of Louisiana, New Orleans, City Councilman Oliver Thomas was reported

by CBS Radio News to have said that people were too afraid of looting and violence by black people to try to save hurricane victims.

Syracuse University student organization Students Advocating Sexual Safety and Empowerment (SASSE) discussed the “Formation” video and the backlash that Beyoncé’s stance has received in their meeting on Tuesday night. In addition to talking about the pro-black sentiments of “Formation,” the members of SASSE present noted the culturally conscious references to Hurricane Katrina in the music video.

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that time, black people or people of color weren’t in those areas while other people were,” said SASSE Vice President Amy Quichiz, a junior women’s and gender studies major and sociology minor. “All the houses they showed in the video were sinking. The metaphor and the imagery of her sinking in with the cop car — it just talks a lot about police brutality and the system not being for them at all.”

This type of postponed, racially-biased response is echoed in the ongoing crisis in Flint. Since April 2014, people in Flint have been drinking water so contaminated with lead that it qualifies as toxic waste under the Environmental Protection Agency’s definition.

This didn’t even come to the public’s attention until earlier this year and it’s clear why: politicians and government agencies were in the habit of neglecting predominantly black neighborhoods like Flint.

Rather than appropriating tragedies like these, Beyoncé’s music video is bringing awareness to them. Nobody can deny that she is wealthy and relatively immune to the troubles facing people of color in places like New Orleans and Flint, but she should not be criticized for advocating for these groups.

Like those who tried to organize a protest that fell flat, Beyoncé’s most vocal critics were concerned with her use of Black Panther imagery in the halftime show. Although the civil rights group has often been denounced as radical, it is an important part of black history.

Whether or not everybody approved of their methods, the Black Panther Party aided in a movement toward equality. And in the same way, Beyoncé will continue to make history as a woman of color in the music industry, regardless of the disapproving and uninformed white masses.

People shouldn’t be angry at Beyoncé — they should be angry with the oppressive forces that gave her a reason to speak up in the first place.

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.

The ideal dynamic between SUNY-ESF and Syracuse University is a relationship in which the schools are independent in their services, but uphold a strong academic partnership.

A recent agreement between SU and the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry is representative of efforts to achieve this goal, as the schools have unveiled the paired announcements of a five-year services agreement and the renewal of a joint academic and research-based collaboration between the universities — an arrangement that is a step forward for both institutions.

The deal will have SUNYESF provide its own health and wellness and information technology (IT) services to its campus community, with SU acting as an administrative aide in the transition.

From this vantage point, SUNY-ESF will be able to reap the benefits of securing its own health and IT services, a move that will allow the college to be more compatible with the existing SUNY system rather than depend on SU as a third-party organization.

This greater sense of independence will allow SU to have less of a stake as a private institution in SUNY-ESF and more of a focus on channeling its efforts to address the needs of its own student body — a contributing factor as to why the deal was established in the first place.

Kevin Quinn, SU’s senior vice president for public affairs, said that the decision to have SUNYESF provide its own services to its students was the outcome of SU experiencing a heightened demand for health resources.

“Given our increased demand, we mutually agreed that SUNY-ESF beginning to provide its own health and wellness services to its students would, at the end of the day, be in the best interest of both institutions and both groups of students,” Quinn said.

Sustaining this viewpoint to consolidate shared services will prove beneficial for both institutions as SU begins to see the onset of increased enrollment rates. These students will be subject to the university’s outdated facilities that require proper restoration and modernization, an initiative the university can successfully shoulder by moving forward to improve its own facilities rather than those shared with SUNY-ESF.

We mutually agreed that SUNY-ESF beginning to provide its own health and wellness services to its students would, at the end of the day, be in the best interest of both institutions and both groups of students.

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It is understood that this transitional phase will take time, resources and extensive efforts from both institutions to make it possible. And while the updated services may be challenging to adjust to, continuing to forge ahead on this path to assume independence of facilities will lead to the most cost-efficient way of consolidating resources in a approach that will advance each school.

In this way, each institution will be able to focus on improving its own respective campus and university functions, but work collaboratively to ensure that a strong relationship is nurtured between SU and SUNY-ESF though academia.

The more efficient the schools are apart, the more effective they will be working together — whether that is rooted in academics, policy or research.

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o’keefe “I learned so much from him,” O’Keefe said. “It was quite a loss and blow to know that I lost a very valued friend that day and I was right there with him.”

O’Keefe’s next challenge will be having a spot on the National Academy of Public Administration’s (NAPA) Presidential Transition panels.

As one of six panel members, O’Keefe will help advise the next U.S. president on issues involving public governance and public management.

Three Maxwell community members, including O’Keefe, have been chosen as members of the panel. In Maxwell, O’Keefe is a University Professor, which means he can teach and conduct research across disciplines. He is also the Howard G. and S. Louise Phanstiel Chair in Strategic Management and Leadership and Distinguished Senior Adviser for the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

The advising topic, O’Keefe said, is not the most exciting, but part of his and the other five members’ job is to make the future president understand and pay attention to these issues. O’Keefe said public governance and management are the basic problems to watch out for during a transitional time because the U.S. government will be more vulnerable to possible terrorist attacks.

The six members on the panel — three of whom, including O’Keefe, are members of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs community — come from very diverse backgrounds, O’Keefe said, but they all have one common denominator: they have previously served in a public capacity.

For O’Keefe, his experience in serving the public is extensive. During his career, O’Keefe has served as deputy director of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, secretary of the Navy, NASA administrator, chancellor of Louisiana State University, CEO of U.S. operations for Airbus and a college professor, among other positions.

“I couldn’t keep a job,” O’Keefe said with a laugh.

Paul Pastorek, one of O’Keefe’s closest friends since they both attended Loyola Uni-

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partnership agreement, the two institutions also announced the launching of a renewed academic and research-based partnership.

Quinn said that the decision to have SUNY-ESF provide health and wellness services to its students was the result of SU seeing an increased demand from its students for those services.

“Given our increased demand, we mutually agreed that SUNY-ESF beginning to provide its own health and wellness services

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veterans for the classes, which consist of about 15 people each, McHale said. This technology makes the classes convenient for many of the students, she said, but makes it hard to build lasting relationships with one another.

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harpur the changes where the law encourages them to,” he said. “Maybe because I’m a lawyer I think this way though.”

When Harpur first brought the lawsuit against LexisNexis he was told he didn’t have a case because he was not a customer — the University of Queensland was. He called

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versity in Louisiana for their undergraduate degrees, said O’Keefe has always been a public servant.

O’Keefe, Pastorek said, is consistently looking to build a better organization or environment where he’s worked — whether that’s in academia or government.

what is a university professor?

A University Professor at Syracuse University works across academic disciplines to pursue research and teach classes at SU’s different schools and colleges. University Professor is considered a prestigious title at SU.

During O’Keefe’s time as NASA administrator, Pastorek said O’Keefe built a new vision for space exploration after the Space Shuttle Columbia accident that changed the view on how the country would go forward with human space flight. At the time, Pastorek worked with O’Keefe at NASA as his general counsel.

On Feb. 1, 2003, the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated after re-entering the Earth’s atmosphere, killing all seven crew members aboard. O’Keefe said there were no outward signs before the accident that indicated something like it would happen.

“We began to get the reports back from Houston — which is where the control center was — that communications had broken off a few minutes before, and the mood of elation and thrill of ecstasy of seeing all their families coming back turned to confusion and remorse,” O’Keefe said.

He added that there was a long, drawn-out effort in the first few years after the accident to find out how the accident happened, what could be done to fix it and how NASA could rededicate itself to what the crew members had given their lives for: exploration.

The most inspiring people during the whole process, he said, were the families of the crew members who died.

“In the depths of despair, they had this sense of resolve about them, and you know there was plenty of emotion and everything else, but you’d expect that — it was a jarring experience,”

O’Keefe said. “… It was a very emotional experience, and it made a profound impression on me in lots of different ways. It taught me about leadership and a lot about people.”

Once O’Keefe successfully worked through those challenges at NASA, he decided to leave to become chancellor of LSU in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

At the start of his tenure as chancellor, he laid out two objectives for the university: to get LSU back among the top-ranked schools in the country and to conduct a fundraising effort in order to raise the school’s endowment.

Then, in 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans.

Thousands upon thousands of people came to LSU — which is about 80 miles away from New Orleans — for refuge and medical treatment, O’Keefe said, because it was the only functioning public institution within about a 200-mile radius of the disaster-stricken city.

“It was incredible — the diaspora from New Orleans walking into town on a hot August day,” O’Keefe said. “There were thousands of people, just incredible.”

LSU’s basketball arena was turned into a makeshift hospital so that about 35,000 people could be treated in the span of about six to eight weeks, he said.

The one thing I can say about Sean is that it’s family first — family, faith and then his friends — and he takes care of all of them.

Sue Virgil senior administrator for su’s national security studies program

But even while dealing with that natural disaster, O’Keefe managed to accomplish his objectives as chancellor.

“After we’d gotten through Katrina, I said, ‘Time to go!’” O’Keefe said with a laugh. “My three objectives — two of which I’d planned, the third one I didn’t — were successfully managed, so I bolted out of that job.”

Sue Virgil, the senior administrator for the National Security Studies program at SU and a close friend and colleague of O’Keefe, said he has been through more crises than anyone can imagine.

“I mean, no matter where Sean has gone, crisis seems to follow him,” Virgil said.

But Virgil added that no matter what challenges or tasks O’Keefe takes on, he always has the capacity to complete them.

She added that even after O’Keefe survived the plane crash, he was still able to juggle everything, but at a different level.

After the plane crash, Virgil was waiting with O’Keefe’s daughter, Lindsey, for news as whether he was alive or not.

“When I finally got to see him, I said, ‘Oh Sean, it’s so good to see you.’ And he said, ‘No, I’m glad you can see me. You know, I’m here and it’s a good thing,’” Virgil said.

“The one thing I can say about Sean is that it’s family first — family, faith and then his friends — and he takes care of all of them.”

O’Keefe and his wife, Laura, have three children: Lindsey, 29; Jonathan, 26; and Kevin, 24.

Now, O’Keefe is finally living out his dream job as a University Professor at SU — a title he was appointed to in November 2014.

He took the job after surviving the plane crash and coming to the realization that there wasn’t any reason why he shouldn’t be doing what he really wanted to be doing.

“I realized that every day really is a bonus,” O’Keefe said. “Looking around at the consequences of what happened that day, there was no rhyme or reason why one person survived and another person didn’t.”

When O’Keefe was chancellor of LSU, he said the most rewarding part of the job was his opportunity to teach classes because it allowed him to reconnect with students.

At SU, he said he has never had to wonder if there was sufficient interest from students to pursue a certain topic.

“I think this is really an extraordinary experience to be able to have the good fortune and luck to be doing anything for one and also be doing something here,” O’Keefe said. “It’s a dream come true.” smswann@syr.edu | @saramswann

to its students would, at the end of the day, be in the best interest of both institutions and both groups of students,” Quinn said.

SU’s assistance in the transition will consist of “administrative types of things,” Quinn added, including ensuring that SUNY-ESF student records and casework are transitioned smoothly.

Officials from SU’s Health Services did not respond to emails requesting comment.

The process of SUNY-ESF transitioning into providing IT services will take multiple years because of “the complex integration we have of IT across both institutions,” Quinn said.

Wheeler said it makes sense for SUNYESF to provide its own IT services in order to become compatible with IT standards across the SUNY system.

Samuel Scozzafava, chief information officer and vice president for Information Technology Services at SU, referred a request for comment to Quinn.

SU and SUNY-ESF are also trying to finalize the focus of their renewed researchbased partnership. The two institutions are in the process of determining what areas of research they will collaborate on, Quinn said.

“We have so many areas we can work togeth-

er in,” Quinn said. “You can’t do all of them, but we want to find the two or three areas that both schools have an outstanding reputation for and that both schools would benefit from.”

Additionally, Wheeler said there is still an ongoing collaboration between SU and SUNY-ESF to identify other academic areas that the institutions can work together in.

“Such hybrid zones between these two great and remarkable institutions both continue our long tradition of working together and position us to seize new and emerging opportunities,” Wheeler said.

Whitman hosts three “get-together times” for veterans to meet faculty, staff and other students, McHale said. Each year, a military reception is held, thanking the student veterans for their service. It’s initiatives like these, McHale said, that have also contributed to the school’s high ranking.

“I feel like I might be dating myself, but it’s

kind of like watching the Brady Bunch,” she said, referring to the opening of each episode when a grid of headshots across the screen.

“That’s what their classes look like, and so they kind of know one another, but we bring them together to make sure that they get the full opportunity of networking and being together.”

MBA@Syracuse is only a year old, but Whit-

man has provided educational programs to those in service and veterans since 1952.

In January, Whitman was ranked No. 44 in U.S. News & World Report’s top 50 “Best Online Programs” in the nation, and last year, it was ranked the second best business school for veterans.

a few days later and asked if he could become a subscriber. Then he asked if the material on the database was accessible.

“They shut up after that,” he said.

Even when materials are made accessible, they are often not usable, Harpur said.

He likes framing the question of accessibility in terms of usability, or how convenient it is to use an accessible material like an e-book.

Harpur points to a common problem he has when using accessible materials: citing pages — an important part of studying and teaching law.

When printed texts are made accessible, Harpur said, they often don’t even come with page numbers, which makes simple things like citing or knowing where you stopped reading unnecessarily burdensome.

It also takes longer for students with a print disability to get accessible materials, espe-

cially if a print book needs to be scanned to make it into an accessible e-book, Harpur said.

On average, it takes one to three weeks longer for students to get accessible materials.

The main things universities can do, he said, is to continue putting pressure on publishers to make things both accessible and usable.

“Imagine what would happen if universities all decided to demand accessibility?” he said.

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Voter registration in Onondaga County dramatically rises during presidential election year Text by Tara Tolton

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pproaching the April 19 New York state presidential primary, the number of registered voters in Onondaga County is quickly rising.

Onondaga County Board of Elections Commissioner Dustin Czarny projects there will be at least 30,000 new people registered to vote in Onondaga County this year. That uptick is to be expected in a presidential year, he said. Additionally, it is expected that the number of voters who participate in this year’s election will rise, Czarny said.

In January of this year alone, there were 2,700 new registrations, according to the Board of Elections.

In contrast, throughout the entirety of 2015 — a nonpresidential election year — there were about 10,500 new registered voters in Onondaga county, Czarny said.

Czarny said that because of excitement that circulates during the presidential election year, people are driven to vote. The numbers of those arriving on Election Day in Onondaga County may more than triple this year compared to a non-presidential election year,

according to CNY Central.

This is high in comparison to local election years, Czarny said. But he added that it is difficult to compare this number to other presidential election years because the date of the New York state primary moved from February to April beginning in 2012.

Despite the charged political climate, Czarny said, people are not voting more or less because of this particular race. In general, people vote more in presidential election years, he said.

Total registrations amounted to 284,920 in 2008, but fell to 270,214 in 2012, according to county statistics on the Board of Elections website.

This may not be indicative of who the candidates are so much as it is indicative of the environment of the specific county observed, said Grant Reeher, political science professor at Syracuse University, in an email.

Reeher said that although the number of total registered voters changes from year to year, the change does not necessarily reflect the voting atmosphere.

Central New York’s population has fallen as of late, Reeher said. He said this makes the area “polluted” by the effects of new people arriving and others leaving the area.

This, Reeher said, could increase voter registration.

Elections always generate activity and excitement, Czarny said, but he added that multiple things may add to the buzz this year, he said.

One addition may be that this this year there is no incumbent, which gives people a reason to pay more attention, he said. But he noted that this doesn’t have to do with a specific candidate.

Another reason voter registration is increasing in the county could be business mogul Donald Trump’s roots in New York City, or former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s former position as a New York state senator, Czarny said.

During local county elections, the county tends to lean toward candidates of the Republican Party, Czarny said, but when it comes to national elections, the pendulum swings to the left.

For instance, in the past several years, constituents of Onondaga County have voted almost exclusively for Democratic senators, governors and presidents, Czarny said.

Czarny said the county has been getting “bluer and bluer” while getting bigger. trtolton@syr.edu

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Even though pinball was at its prime in the ‘70s, enthusiasts in Syracuse are working to revitalize the classic arcade game. The Salt City Pinball League hosts tournaments and league nights that welcome fans of all skill levels, and the Syracuse PINheads are working to build a sense of pinball community. moriah ratner staff photographer

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yan Zlomek’s lifelong obsession was born when he was just 8 years old. His family traveled to visit a family friend in New Jersey.He ventured into the basement where found classic game consoles like Sega Genesis and Atari. Something else towering above the artifacts caught Zlomek’s eye: a ‘70s-era Dracula pinball machine.

“For me, it was this moment where it was like, ‘Whoa, adults can have toys like this?’” Zlomek said. “I kind of had this idea that someday, I’m going to get a house and have a pinball machine.”

That dream didn’t fade. Within months of owning his first home, Zlomek found two pinball machines on Craigslist and eventually amassed an eight-machine collection.

Now, Zlomek is spreading that love. He recently started Syracuse PINheads, working alongside the Salt

City Pinball League to promote pinball culture in central New York. The league, made of players from around central New York, hosts tournaments and competitions, but both groups provide ways for anyone to explore the hands-on gaming experience.

Though the game’s golden era seems to have passed, Zlomek said interest in pinball is growing again.

“The thing that’s really interesting about pinball is like anything else — it sort of comes in waves, like the sitcom or paranoia about dis-

ease,” Zlomek said. “There’s something about putting your lunch money in a machine that keeps it in your memories forever.”

In the 1970s, everyone was playing pinball at their local arcade. In the ‘90s, Zlomek said, pinball manufacturing companies made bold moves in improving gaming technology.

Today, Salt City Pinball League board member Dave Cohen said manufacturers are back in the game. Tournament site Al’s Wine & Whiskey Lounge, located downtown near Armory Square, is home to both “Game of Thrones” and “The Walking Dead” themed machines, which Cohen said are some of the newest on the market.

Zlomek aims to bring that pinball revitalization back home to Syracuse.

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There’s something about putting your lunch money in a machine that keeps it in your memories forever.

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tournaments at Al’s Wine & Whiskey Lounge and Trapper’s Pizza Pub on Butternut Drive, as well as other events. They’ve been looking to see how they stack up against players in Syracuse and around the world by submitting their scores see pinball page 10

music

Putting labels over artists explains SoundCloud’s sinking profits

For years, music streaming platform SoundCloud has been the main way independent musicians could publish and share their work. But like so many once-promising music services, SoundCloud has fallen into a too-common trap. It doesn’t understand how to monetize music in the digital streaming era.

SoundCloud released financial reports last week revealing that the service lost $70 million in its last two years of operation, sparking

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widespread concerns about its future. The company says it needs a significant increase in outside funding in the next year to stay in business, according to a report released by the Financial Times.

Hoping to eventually become profitable, the company has spent

the last two years trying to work out streaming deals with major music labels like Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment. In doing so, though, they’ve abandoned the people that made them a big name in the first place — small-time artists hosting their music on the site.

SoundCloud has always been an anomaly in the music streaming environment, which is otherwise characterized by overwhelming label control and low profit mar-

gins for artists. Its mission — to provide up-and-coming artists a platform to get their names out in the public and build a profile — has been a noble one. But ultimately, it’s a cause set up for failure.

As I’ve always said, the music streaming environment is set up to favor big-name artists and the labels supporting them. It’s awfully hard to turn a profit without that system in place.

But SoundCloud met a different

purpose in the music streaming community, achieving a reputation earned by its proven record in building followings for independent artists. Recent popular names in popular music like The Weeknd, Kygo, Major Lazer and Disclosure used their presences on SoundCloud to build fan bases across the world to get to where they are now.

It was when SoundCloud abandoned its “artists-first” mentality see weiser-schlesinger page 10

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weiser-schlesinger that it first showed signs of weakness.

When major labels started cutting deals with SoundCloud, they began demanding widespread takedowns of their music hosted on the site. This extended from illegitimate copies of copyrighted music hosted on SoundCloud to perfectly legitimate remixes, mashups and samples.

DJ sets, amateur hip-hop and remixes

make up much of SoundCloud’s most popular content. All three of those categories have one thing in common — heavy reliance on music created by other artists, often with rights owned by major music labels.

Full disclosure: The one song I’ve ever published on SoundCloud, a fairly amateurish mashup I made of CHVRCHES and Miley Cyrus, was even taken down this past fall for copyright infringement.

This aggressive approach that protects the interests of record labels has, in turn,

driven a lot of amateur artists away.

Without question, SoundCloud needed to find a way to make money in order to stay above water.

I won’t even begin to delve into the intricacies of music copyright law here. I barely understand it myself. But I think the clash between music labels and artists is the core of SoundCloud’s struggles. A platform for the artist can’t truly be “for” the artist anymore, as the interests of the music labels are dominating those of the artist.

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pinball to the International Flipper Pinball Association, which tallies worldwide rankings.

Some fans are drawn in by the aesthetic of the machines themselves, whether it’s the art on the outside or the technology it takes to run them.

Inside, each machine is intricately strung with wires and lights. Mechanics are getting more complex as technology advances, in that they now utilize computers for control.

Pinball machines are notorious for breaking down, so Mike Smith, a Salt City Pinball League board member, said anyone with a few machines tends to have at least basic repair skills.

“Sometimes, you have to remove layers and layers of posts and wires just to change a lightbulb,” Smith said.

But the central New York pinball scene isn’t just for dedicated players with a dozen machines clogging up their basement. Despite always having that Dracula machine in the back of his mind, Zlomek wasn’t always a dedicated pinhead, only playing occasionally as he grew up.

Cohen had a similar experience, drifting toward electronic and video games before returning to pinball.

“Two years ago, I didn’t know anything

RYAN ZLOMEK has picked up some pinball repair skills, as machines break down often and few people have the ability to fix them. moriah ratner staff photographer

about pinball except what I remembered from when I was a teenager,” Cohen said. “And that was that it took my quarters really fast.”

Something seems to draw old players back in, whether it’s nostalgia or simply the love of the game.

Instead of video games that replicate physics, pinball relies on it. Smith said the physical sensation of firing the ball and the “controlled chaos” of batting it around the

board is what hooked him.

But it’s an experience not enough people are engaging in. Smith started a CNY Pinball Facebook group, which has more than 100 members, but he’d still like to see more involvement.

In addition to long tournaments,Salt City Pinball hosts location leagues. Players can stop by a local machine when they have time, snap a picture of their best score and submit it online.

“Dave’s score is anemic right now,” Zlomek

Like the rest of the streaming community, the future of SoundCloud is a matter of “wait and see.” SoundCloud could very well fail, along with all the other upstart music streaming platforms without flashy record deals to show. Or, it could find a way to turn its downward spiral around. Without a direction, though, it’s dead in the water with the rest of them.

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

joked as Cohen stepped up to the Swords of Fury machine, this February’s location league spot. Cohen pulled the plunger and, as lights flashed and lion sound effects roared, he attempted to beat his high score.

Swords of Fury is Syracuse Pinhead’s first step toward building a pinball hub in central New York. Nestled in a corner of Cloud City Comics in Shoppingtown Mall, it’s surrounded by classic games like a “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” cabinet game and a “Star Wars” pinball machine awaiting repairs.

Soon, the whole corner will become a retro arcade with more pinball options, with five coming from Zlomek’s own collection.

He said he hopes to see it become a space where pinball lovers can gather to face off in tournaments, or just pop a few quarters in a game while discussing strategies.

Despite gentle teasing and healthy dose of competition, pinball in Central New York puts community before high scores.

“Pinball tournaments are for all skill levels, if you’ve never touched a pinball machine before or you have 300 in your basement that you’ve been practicing since the dawn of time,” Zlomek said. “No matter your skill level, they’re open to anybody.” kjkrawcz@syr.edu | @KathrynKrawczyk

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SARAH IBRAHIM is an artistic jack of many trades. Born and raised in Kuwait and attending a school with no music courses, she wasn’t encouraged to explore the arts. But at age 11, she began experimenting with the guitar, eventually teaching herself to play the instrument.

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Jack of all trades American scholarship helps junior self-taught musician discover artistic freedom

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lot of Sarah Ibrahim’s friends define her music as “ethereal gibberish,” but the Syracuse University junior, who goes by the stage name Midnight Discord, doesn’t mind that her music doesn’t fit perfectly into any one genre.

“Honestly, I don’t know what I’m going for in my sound,” said the magazine journalism major. “I just make.”

Ibrahim’s stage name is a moniker for the time of night when she can freely create and release her pent-up energy.

Ibrahim has already self-released a few EPs and has more planned to come soon.

She has been trading demos and collaborating with German DJs she met on SoundCloud, and is now close to signing a deal with student-run label Syracuse University Recordings.

Born and raised in Kuwait by an American mother and an IndonesianKuwaiti father, Ibrahim became interested music when she was 11 years old.

She taught herself how to play guitar,

then fooled around on the keyboard and the bass. Soon she found she could play a little bit of everything.

I feel like it was always in my genes,” she said. “My aunt is a conductor and a composer.”

But growing up practicing Islam in Kuwait was not an environment that encouraged her to make music. She went to a gender-segregated Islamic school that offered no music courses.

“Traditionally in our culture, music is prevalent, like drums and people doing tribal chanting and dancing,” she said. ”But was I discouraged from following music? Yeah, I was, definitely.”

When she came to America on a scholarship, Ibrahim was finally in an environment where she could express her musical creativity, which was previously limited to the secrecy of her bedroom in Kuwait.

“I have all these interests that are not encouraged where I’m from in my own home,” she said. “So I needed to go somewhere where this can be widely OK and I can meet people that are more like me.”

Ibrahim’s freshman year roommate, who was assigned to her randomly, couldn’t have been a more perfect match.

Adrianna Cummings, a Syracuse native and a musician herself, said she received a message from Ibrahim on Facebook not long after the two were assigned to live together.

“We liked all of the same music, all of the same bands, a lot of the same art,” said Cummings, a junior painting major.

“We were like, ‘Yes, we need to make music together.’”

And as they made more music, Ibrahim spent much of her first two years at Syracuse performing at open mic nights.

Last year, she tried taking her talents to a bigger audience at a basement show, opening for Syracuse-based band minnoe, but she said it was a disaster and she hasn’t played live since.

“Nerves get to you,” Ibrahim said.

“I could feel (the crowd’s) breath on my neck.”

She froze, but after regaining her composure, she used a looping pedal to perform her cover of “Kids With Guns” by Gorillaz, and got the crowd into her set.

Looping, where tracks can be recorded and played on top of each other, is a technique the casual music fan might know from Ed Sheeran’s live performances. Ibrahim borrows the technique not from Sheeran, but one of her biggest influences, Kimbra.

“She uses her voice as an instrument which I find to be really intriguing and inspirational,” said Ibrahim. “She’ll hook up her mic to loop peddles and just loop, and loop, and loop.”

Ibrahim said she draws other inspirations out of a variety of genres, from classic jazz musicians such as Sarah Vaughan to neo-psychedelia bands like Tame Impala.

Her artistic expression is just as visual as it is audible. In addition to music, Ibrahim loves to paint, hone her videography skills and take photographs. Her photography was recently featured on the Tumblr page of online magazine Golden Boy Press, which she interns for.

“Jack of all trades, master of none,” she said. “I think that defines my life.” jtbloss@syr.edu

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Jessica Sibley rides surge on offense late in season

By Chris Thomsen staff writer

Jessica Sibley skated quickly to the net as defender Megan Quinn took a shot from the blue line. The puck slammed off Penn State goalie Celine Whitlinger, bouncing in Sibley’s direction. The junior dropped to her knees, positioning herself lower to possess the rebound. She fired as soon as the puck hit her stick.

And for the second game in a row, Sibley won the game in overtime for Syracuse. It was Sibley’s ninth game-winning goal in her SU career.

“I was just in the right place at the right time,” Sibley said. “But I think confidence has a little to do with it.”

The junior forward is winning more faceoffs than ever in her SU career. Her three game-winning overtime goals have propelled the Orange (16-13-3, 12-4-2 College Hockey America) to key victories against conference opponents. With two games left in the regular season, SU is relying on Sibley’s improved offense.

“I wouldn’t say it’s a transformation,” Syracuse head coach Paul Flanagan said.

“I’d say she’s really paid attention to detail.”

Sibley developed her ability to come through late in her freshman year, when she had two game-winning goals. But in her sophomore year, she earned a minus-27 rating. She had nine fewer points in her second season, only totaling seven goals and 10 assists. Flanagan considered Sibley a one-dimensional player before she returned to SU this fall.

“I knew coming into this year that I had to be better defensively,” Sibley said. “I had

trouble staying with my men and knowing where my person was in the defensive zone.”

Sibley only had four points in her first seven games this season. Her offensive struggles continued until Flanagan bumped Sibley to the first line in November, where she blended well with Melissa Piacentini and Nicole Ferrara. Sibley has recorded seven goals and nine assists since Flanagan’s line change and has earned more total points than both Piacentini and Ferrara this season.

But Sibley credits her two linemates for her accomplishments this season, whose fast, smart play keeps the center on her toes.

“They’re always talking to you,” Sibley said. “You always know where they are. They communicate well. They push me every day.”

Sibley’s greatest strength may be her physical strength. She notes that most of her goals have come from creating space near the net or by pushing her opponents out of the way for rebounds. Sibley’s offensive prowess was so successful that Flanagan created his entire attacking scheme around her physicality.

Even her teammates, such as Nicole Renault, are overwhelmed by Sibley’s size in practice.

“She knocked me down today,” Renault said on Tuesday. “She’s a powerful girl.

When she does stuff like that, everyone else feeds off it.”

Sibley’s offense has improved dramatically. And as Syracuse gears up for a postseason run, Flanagan recognizes her importance.

“I’d say that from a full, broad perspective, she’s been as good of a player as we’ve had this year,” Flanagan said. cfthomse@syr.edu

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Last time they played: Syracuse picked up its signature home win of the season as it defeated then-No. 12 Louisville on Feb. 18, 2015, by the score of 69-59.

The Orange was led by Rakeem Christmas, who had 29 points, and SU won the game despite being down by as many as eight points. Syracuse shot 4-of-18 from 3 and had only five offensive rebounds. Michael Gbinije contributed 18 points, six assists and five rebounds in the win.

“The hot hand was definitely Rak,” Gbinije said after the game. “I just wanted to get him as many touches I could.”

All-time series: The Orange is 8-15 in the previous 23 contests with Lousiville

How Syracuse beats Louisville: Both teams force opponents into taking a lot of time off the shot clock. Syracuse’s defense has opponents taking 19.3 seconds off the shot clock — the most in Division I. Louisville’s 18.7 seconds is fourth most in Division I. This will likely be a classic Big East, defensive showdown. And while the Cardinals are the better defensive team statistically, they do have a propensity to give up relatively more 3-pointers. Syracuse will need to have the same type of strong ball movement that it’s grown accustomed to, and it needs to put home its open looks when it gets them.

Stat to know: At first glance, Louisville might look like it has a resume that stacks up with anyone in the nation. But that’s not

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Levy learns under veterans as freshman attack at SU

By Sam Fortier asst. copy editor

Nicole Levy always tries to rip her shots from 8 meters out. Inside Lacrosse’s No. 7 recruit in the 2015 class is known for her scoring, but there was one startling difference in one of the freshman attack’s first practices at Syracuse in the fall.

As Levy loaded up to shoot, senior defender Mallory Vehar checked her stick from behind.

“Out of nowhere,” Levy said. “I was like, ‘Wow. That was fast.’ … It was awakening. I needed that.”

Levy has spent the fall and winter acclimating to the college game as she figures to be a major factor for No. 3 Syracuse (2-0) this season. She recorded five assists on opening weekend, including four in the first game when head coach Gary Gait played his best players, including All-American attacks Kayla Treanor and Halle Majorana. Levy is a shooter with an unorthodox style, but her undefined offensive role leaves the door open. “(Levy) is going to put pressure on defenses,” assistant coach Regy Thorpe said. “… If you shut down (Treanor), shut down (Majorana), she’s going to get on the stat board.”

Levy distributed on Sunday, hovering between the 8- and 12-meter arcs, swinging the ball around the top of the zone and finding cutters. Once, restarting play on a fast break, she drew the goalkeeper out and dished to Treanor for an easy goal.

In the first game, Treanor and Majorana aggressively pushed into the space in front of the Loyola goalkeeper. Levy tried similar moves, but was unable to finish. Majorana and Treanor combined for nine goals. Levy is still looking for her first.

The biggest adjustment from East Islip (New York) High School to college, she and her coaches said, has been the speed and strength

of defenders. Between the two games, Levy took four shots, two on target, and missed them both.

“It’s just in her head a little bit as a freshman trying to push and get that first goal,” Gait said after Sunday’s games. “She just had a tough day on the shooting end. I thought she played well though.”

Both Gait and Thorpe previously praised her scoring ability. Gait thinks she’s been the team’s best shooter in practice, percentagewise, since she got on campus. In a fall scrimmage against Penn State, Thorpe remembers, Levy got the ball at the 11-yard line and stuck a low-to-high shot in the corner.

“That was fun to watch,” Thorpe said, his eyebrows raised. “… She’s not the biggest, not the most athletic, but she makes plays.”

The 5-foot-2 attack has an unorthodox low-to-high shot usually seen in the men’s game. It comes from years of watching her father, Steve Levy, coach a men’s team.

When he became her high school coach, he brought the style of play with him. Levy’s creativity, how she describes her game, developed at family barbecues while goofing around with trick passes and shots. “(The Syracuse coaches) always encourage me to try new things,” Levy said.

“They’re not going to yell at me if I try a behind-the-back or something.”

In that way, Thorpe said, she fits in with Gait’s free-wheeling style of offense. Levy said Gait reminds her of her dad as a coach.

Though Levy has shown she can pass, and the coaches believe in her scoring, her exact offensive description is uncertain. In the meantime, to avoid getting checked from behind, Gait, Thorpe and Levy herself said she’ll learn from SU’s two top-flight attacks.

“We’ve got an extremely talented offense, but she’ll find her role,” Gait said. “… her role is to, when she gets a shot, take it.” sjfortie@syr.edu

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Beat writers forecast mixed outcomes for SU-Louisville JESSE DOUGHERTY (18-8) louisville 72, syracuse 66

SHOW STOPPERS Rick Pitino said Monday that his Louisville team doesn’t have much to play for these days, but don’t take that to mean that it’s going to let unranked teams take wins out of the Cardinals own building. Postseason banned or not, Louisville is still one of the ACC’s best teams with a backcourt that can match Syracuse’s guards’ experience and an athletic frontcourt that can control games from the inside. Last season, an Orange team with no postseason eligibility beat a ranked Cardinals team in the Carrier Dome. UofL returns the favor in its by putting an end to SU’s five-game winning streak.

MATT SCHNEIDMAN (18-8) louisville 69, syracuse 66

SPOILING THE FUN Not much has been able to slow down the Orange as of late, but a pair of fifth-year senior guards and a team out to prove it won’t lay down because of a postseason ban may be the perfect formula. Louisville is without skilled passing big man Anas Mahmoud, but Damion Lee and Trey Lewis are one of the better backcourt pairs in the country. They might be the best match for Trevor Cooney and Michael Gbinije and this time, the Cardinals get the better end of the deal a year after SU pulled the upset when it was in the same, hopeless spot.

Syracuse’s tear through the ACC comes to a brief end, but a three-point loss isn’t all that bad.

SAM BLUM (18-8)

syracuse 64, louisville 57

DANCE DANCE REVOLUTION Let’s be honest, a win here and Syracuse is basically in. And the streaking Orange does just that against a team that can’t figure out how to pile signature wins. The Cardinals have good senior guards, but so does Syracuse. And don’t discount the fact that Syracuse has something to play for.

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Why Oakland’s Max Hooper only takes 3-point shots

By Chris Libonati asst. sports editor

In the last seven years, Max Hooper has played at five different schools, staying at none of them longer than two seasons.

He’s attended Mater Dei (California) High School, Brewster (New Hampshire) Academy, St. John’s, Harvard and now Oakland.

The only place that he’s remained is behind the 3-point arc. Shooting has been his meal ticket for as long as he can remember.

This year, he’s stayed exclusively behind the arc. Of his 214 shots, none have been 2-pointers. He can remember having the ball for fleeting moments inside the arc, but always dished off to a teammate.

Not once has he cut to the basket and found himself open, stepped on the line while shooting or even been on a fast break.

“I’m shocked at the way it’s worked itself out,” Hooper said. “… It’s not intentional, it’s really just the way it’s worked out.”

Hooper’s constant recruitment put him in touch with Travis Bader, Oakland’s last

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lydon five of its next 12 games, slipping well past its No. 14 national ranking to the depths of the ACC. Lydon reached double-digit points just four times in that span and grabbed 10 or more boards only twice.

“They started guarding him a little bit better, obviously, and he was hesitant a little bit,” Boeheim said. “I think he felt like he’d be wide open to shoot for a while there.”

sharpshooter. Bader played all four seasons at Oakland (19-9, 11-4 Horizon), drilling 504 3-pointers and setting the NCAA record for 3s in a career. Hooper hasn’t quite played up to Bader’s level yet, but he’s filled a role that’s constantly open at Oakland.

The constant pain of moving around the East Coast just to sit on benches in New York City and Boston has culminated with a 98-of-214 (45.8 percent) explosion from 3.

“I’m labeled when I walk out onto the court, the other team knows, they’re yelling, ‘Shooter, shooter, shooter,’” Hooper said. “I think everyone in the gym knows my reputation when I walk out on the court. I welcome those sorts of things.”

From a young age, Hooper had a fascination with shooting. He watched NBA shooters like Ray Allen and Reggie Miller. When he was in elementary school, Hooper would heave shots and they’d somehow find a way into the net.

He’s never had formal training and in elementary school he’d just put his whole body into a shot. But his stroke progressed over time by imitation.

“I didn’t have the prettiest form,” Hooper said, “but I could throw the ball up there with all my might and it would find a way to go in. It was a natural sort of talent at a young age.”

That talent is valued by the Golden Grizzlies, who always have a spot for a shooter they can run off screens and create plays for. The other colleges he’s been at, his skills haven’t been welcomed as much.

Harvard head coach Tommy Amaker made it clear once Hooper reached campus that he wouldn’t get playing time, his mother, Laura Hooper, said. St. John’s head coach Steve Lavin wooed Hooper when the guard transferred, but he played just nine minutes per game in his only season with the Red Storm. Playing a minimal role at each school was the hardest thing Hooper’s had to do, his mother said.

“It’s grueling sitting on the bench,” Laura Hooper said. “… I think it’s fueled him.”

All the while, Oakland head coach Greg Kampe pitched him during each recruitment — during high school, after prep school

and after he left each college. Hooper even became friends with Bader, who he got to know better each recruitment period. After Hooper decided to transfer following the 2013-14 season, Kampe told him he wanted the sharpshooter, but for the first time he wouldn’t actively recruit him.

This time, Hooper bought in. Last season, Hooper shot 38 percent from 3, and even in the last two seasons, Laura Hooper said Kampe has sometimes sat Hooper for other players playing better. But he’s gotten the most playing time in any college season and is making the most of it.

For so long in his career he sat on the bench, but at Oakland his 3-point skills have earned him a place on the floor. And a place in the spotlight, too.

“It’s really just me playing the way I play and just being extremely aggressive to hunt my 3s and hunt down shots in transition,” Hooper said. “A lot of players are taught to run for layups, I run for the 3-point line because that’s an easy shot for me.”

Parts of Lydon’s game that teased to a more complete product started to re-surface. A more trigger-happy approach from the field. Holding his own on the low block despite being outweighed by almost every opponent. Even maintaining his team-best percentage from the foul line began to round out a player helping to resuscitate his own season while doing the same with his team’s.

Against Boston College, Lydon made the most shots he had all season (eight) . He took the third-most 3-pointers he had in a game

and grabbed at least six rebounds for the fifth straight contest.

“My teammates found me open, I was able to make some shots and get inside and be aggressive,” Lydon said after the game.

“Honestly … I’m just trying to play.”

It’s an explanation as simple as Boeheim’s main reason for Syracuse winning games: the Orange is making shots. And so too is Lydon, who continues to stretch defenses and exploit mismatches when opposing defenses switch on screens.

On Monday’s ACC coaches teleconference, Louisville head coach Rick Pitino was asked if he’s ever seen a Syracuse team with as much depth from the field. He said he hadn’t, but only singled out one name from the Orange’s bevy of capable shooters that has helped make its offense relevant again.

“What really makes it difficult is Lydon,” Pitino said, “because he steps out as a backup center and they can play five out on the perimeter.

“It really makes it tough.”

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SIXTH SENSE SU and 6th man Tyler Lydon, both on hot streaks, face No. 18 UofL by the numbers

By Matt Schneidman sports editor

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Michael Gbinije

The freshman is the first SU player to have back-to-back five-assist games in ACC play this year

Gbinije has posted an eye-popping 62-percent clip from the field in Syracuse’s last three games

scoreboard Syracuse boasts three players averaging in double figures while Louisville has two. Here are the top three scorers for each team, all six of which happen to be guards.

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he circle of reporters around Michael Gbinije fanned out so far that T yler Lydon couldn’t even get dressed at his own locker. He had just posted a near double-double against Duke, but the freshman stood near the entrance to Syracuse’s locker room all by himself.

Relative to Lydon’s prior six games, a span in which he averaged six points and fewer than five rebounds, his eight and nine against the Blue Devils stood out — but only by his standards. Four others topped his scoring total that night and Tyler Roberson’s 20 rebounds masked Lydon’s much-improved effort on the glass.

A hesitancy to shoot that bogged him down began to fade along with fragility on the boards.

And since flashing his Battle for Atlantis form against Duke, Lydon has blossomed in a Syracuse offense that’s trending upward at the same time as its second-youngest piece.

The Orange has won eight of its last 10 games, and Lydon has made a 3-pointer and multiple field goals in all eight wins. In both losses, he’s done neither. During Syracuse’s current five-game winning streak, Lydon has shot 50 percent from deep while taking at least two 3s per game. He’s averaged 13.8 points per contest and is coming off a career-high 20 against Boston College as Syracuse (18-8, 8-5 Atlantic Coast) travels to face No. 18 Louisville (19-6, 8-4) on Wednesday night.

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He’s gradually figured it out and he’s had a very, very solid year so far.

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matching up Both teams have backcourts composed of fifth-year seniors. Lee and Lewis are both transfers from mid-major schools and post a combined two points fewer per game than Syracuse’s pair.

arc de triumph Louisville and Syracuse have nearly identical percentages from behind the 3-point line.

Louisville

36.6% Gbinije & Cooney 30.7 PPG Syracuse

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Lee & Lewis 28.7 PPG

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“For a while he didn’t take a lot of shots, and he just felt they weren’t there,” SU head coach Jim Boeheim said. “He’s gradually figured it out, and he’s had a very, very solid year so far.”

The tale of Lydon’s season can be traced along the same lines as Syracuse’s. A 6-0 start also put the freshman on the map and his near-16 points per game in the early-season tournament crafted his identity that was previously unclear even to Boeheim, the head coach said.

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men’s basketball

SU opponent preview: What to know about the Cardinals

By Sam Blum senior staff writer

Syracuse (18-8, 8-5 Atlantic Coast) travels to No. 18 Louisville (196, 8-4) on Wednesday to face the Cardinals at the KFC Yum! Center.

The Orange has won eight of its past nine games, while UofL has

lost its last two. The Cardinals self-imposed a postseason ban that will prevent them from competing in the ACC tournament and NCAA Tournament in March.

Here’s everything you need to know about SU’s next opponent.

The Louisville report: The Cardinals were on the fast track

to be one of the conference favorites before the team’s postseason chances were derailed in early February. The Cardinals beat winless Boston College in their first game following the ban, but have since lost to Duke and Notre Dame on the road. Louisville’s worst loss came on the road to

Clemson. Like Syracuse, UofL starts two senior guards in Damion Lee and Trey Lewis. Lee is in his first season after transferring from Drexel. Lewis transferred from Cleveland State last season and also played at Penn State as a freshman. The two combine to average. 28.7 points per game and

are the only scorers that average in double figures on the team.

As a team, the Cardinals rank second in college basketball in defensive efficiency, per Kenpom. com. They’re also one of the best offensive rebounding teams in the country. They get most of their

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