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N • Breaking it down

See how each presidential candidate, including potential dropout and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, fared in terms of delegates on Super Tuesday.

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O • “Welfare queen”

Liberal columnist Mia Tomasello breaks down the conservative rhetoric behind a proposed bill

by New York Sen. Patty Ritchie regarding food stamp restrictions.

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P • On the run

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From Tipperary Hill to Eastwood Park, Syrathon challenges runners to rack up a marathon in a series of races that last from March to October.

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S • Hot and cold

Trevor Cooney’s streaky season continued on Monday against No. 8 North Carolina, but he’ll look to reverse his fortunes against FSU on Saturday.

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Framing ideas Concepts for campus renovation presented at session

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Few Dome updates given Officials say future of the Carrier Dome is still being assessed

By Justin Mattingly managing editor

While the future of the Carrier Dome is one of the most talked about parts of the Campus Framework, the Syracuse University staple was only touched upon briefly at a framework update session Wednesday.

The Dome’s future is still being assessed as part of the Campus Framework, SU Senior Vice President for Public Affairs Kevin Quinn told The Daily Orange on Wednesday morning.

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About 300 members of the Syracuse University community gathered inside the Schine Student Center’s Goldstein Auditorium for a Campus Framework update session on Wednesday afternoon.

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By Michael Burke asst. news editor

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yracuse University’s Campus Framework could include the creation of three promenades that would make campus more pedestrian-friendly, connect key campus buildings and coincide with a renovation of Archbold Gymnasium.

Michael Speaks, the dean of SU’s School of Architecture, presented conceptual ideas of those promenades at an update session for the Campus Framework on Wednesday inside Goldstein Auditorium, which had its lower section filled by members of the SU community.

The promenades would be located on Waverly Avenue, University Place and between SU’s East and West Campuses.

Plans for the creation of the National Veterans Resource Complex (NVRC) were also discussed Wednesday.

Speaks presented ideas and images of what the three promenades might look like, but he stressed that the promenades are still in a conceptual, speculatory stage, and that actual designs have not yet been proposed.

The academic promenade would run from the Life Sciences Complex on the east side of campus to the David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics and Dineen

Hall on the west side of the campus in an effort to better connect “two important academic clusters,” Speaks said.

what is fast forward?

Fast Forward is Chancellor Kent Syverud’s three-part initiative to improve SU and focus on what the university needs to do moving forward. The plan emerged after consulting firm Bain & Co. produced a report on how SU could better itself.

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Number of days since Sasaki Associates presented its preliminary findings for SU’s Campus Framework

In the middle of the potential promenade is Archbold Gymnasium, which could be refurbished and updated with new facilities on the back side of the building, Speaks said. Images of a modernized gym were shown as depictions of what an

updated Archbold might look like.

“Archbold is the center of student health and wellness,” Speaks said. “… The idea would be … to have a state of the art of a facility for students.”

Speaks added that the academic promenade is “the most important in terms of the Academic Strategic Plan,” a component of Chancellor Kent Syverud’s Fast Forward initiative that works in coordination with the Campus Framework, another Fast Forward component.

Syverud was among the attendees at Wednesday’s update session, as were other key university members such as Director of Athletics Mark Coyle and Interim Vice Chancellor and Provost Liz Liddy.

The promenade along Waverly Avenue, which would run from Crouse Drive to Comstock Avenue, would aim to make that area a more prominent spot on campus. Under the idea presented Wednesday, student housing would occupy the side of the street across from Bird Library and the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications.

Having student housing there would facilitate better movement of students across campus, because more students would be able to walk directly to campus rather than taking a bus or driving, Speaks said.

“Having housing along this corridor

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The year the Carrier Dome’s roof was last replaced. The precautionary replacement cost about $14 million.

Much of the landscape surrounding the framework, which is meant to serve as an architectural plan for the university moving forward, was discussed at a framework update in Goldstein Auditorium on Wednesday with about 300 attendees, including Director of Athletics Mark Coyle, Chief Facilities Officer Pete Sala and Chancellor Kent Syverud.

Not only will the Dome serve athletic purposes, but, as part of the framework, it will become a stronger part of the Academic Strategic Plan, said Michael Speaks, dean of SU’s School of Architecture, at the presentation.

He added that the Dome will fit in with ACC-level facilities.

The Campus Framework is one of three components of Syverud’s Fast Forward initiative, along with the Academic Strategic Plan and Operational Excellence. The university hired Sasaki Associates, a Massachusetts-based architecture firm, in 2014 to help with the development of the framework.

SU has been weighing three options for the future of the Dome: see dome page 6

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THIRSTY thursday | abita purple haze

Abita Purple Haze has fizzy raspberry finish

By Max Darrow staff writer

I saw the bottle and immediately decided that I had to review this beer. I’d never heard of it and didn’t check to see if it was an India Pale Ale, pilsner, porter, light beer. I just went for it by its name and label.

Abita Purple Haze is encased in a vibrant purple and gold wrapper and impossible not to grab off of the shelf.

When I poured it, I was a bit surprised with what I saw. Abita Purple Haze has a burnt orange kind of color. While I wasn’t expecting it to be purple, I was thinking it would be a darker color that one could say has a hint of purple in it. However, there is a serious haze or cloud swirling around inside. You can’t see through the beer at all because of the haze.

Unlike the purple haze some Jimi Hendrix fans may know all too well, Abita Purple Haze has a very mild smell. You can pick up hints of flowers and raspberries, but it’s very calm.

I’ll be honest, it didn’t have the unique flavor I was hoping for.

It tasted like a pretty standard

pilsner, crisp and light. However, it didn’t go down like a run-ofthe-mill pilsner. At first, it was very easy on the tip of my tongue.

But all of a sudden, the power kicked in and created a long and powerful, fizzy finish. The taste of a bowl of tart berries lingered for a few seconds afterwards, which was the best part.

After taking my notes, I decided to read what the back of the bottle said about the beer. Here’s what the company writes: “Purple Haze is a lager brewed with real raspberries added after filtration. It is brewed with pilsner and wheat malts and Vanguard hops. The berries add a fruity aroma, tartly sweet taste and a subtle purple color and haze … you even may see fruit pulp in the beer.”

This is another beer that would go great on a hot, summer day. As for foods to try it with, I’d suggest light appetizers, a fruit salad, and perhaps a grilled chicken breast.

Or, you could crack one open with a chocolatey dessert.

Ultimately, this wasn’t my favorite beer, but it was still good. I’d definitely go get a six pack when the weather warms up.

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INSIDE N • Little houses

Students at Santa Clara University are participating in a competition to build tiny houses for good causes.

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S • Can of corn

SU guard Cornelia Fondren leads the Orange in fouls and turnovers heading into the ACC tournament on Friday.

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Up to date The D.O. News Department compiled a list of events happening in or near the Syracuse University community this weekend.

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NEWS

Media guy

Waiting time

Wayne Johnsen, a lawyer who specializes in regulation of media, spoke at SU as part of a series on law, politics and the media.

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See what SU professors and administrators have to say about the length of the search for a new vice chancellor and provost.

See Monday’s paper

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University officials doubt bill Professors would have to show projects are in national interest

By Shubhika Prakash contributing writer

Syracuse University officials are skeptical of a bill recently passed by the United States House of Representatives that would require the National Science Foundation to follow strict guidelines and only award federal funding to research projects that are in the “national interest.”

The Scientific Research in the National Interest Act, which some professors say would limit research at SU, passed the House on Feb. 10, according to the House of Representatives website. The bill has only passed the House, so it still has to pass the Senate and then be signed by President Barack Obama in order to become law.

Several professors at SU have received funding from the NSF in the past.

Peter Vanable, interim vice president for research at SU, said the bill is problematic because what constitutes the “national interest” would be based on whatever Congress thinks.

“Overall, I think researchers should be held accountable for their

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national news Here is a round-up of the biggest news stories happening in the nation now:

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Students approve funding for TA program

By Delaney Van Wey asst. web editor

After extensive deliberation, the Graduate Student Organization voted to approve $7,465 in funds for several student organizations at its Wednesday evening meeting in Crouse-Hinds Hall.

Members of the School of Edu-

cation Council requested $2,000 for a teaching assistant simulation program. Funding for the program was the subject of one of the most contentious debates of the meeting. The program would train international TAs to better communicate with native English-speaking students in a simulation of a classroom environment

at the State University of New York Upstate Medical University.

$7,465 The amount the GSO voted to approve in funds for several student organizations

The program had asked for funding through a different channel at the last GSO Senate meeting on Feb. 10.

It was voted down by senators at that meeting based on the recommendation of the finance committee.

On Wednesday, the finance committee said the proposal had undergone many necessary revisions and see gso page 8

Campaign works to reduce sexual violence

By Deniz Sahinturk staff writer

The White Ribbon Campaign will span the entire month of March this year, a departure from the past when the campaign against sexual and relationship violence

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What: Kickoff Walk Where: Clinton Square When: Friday at noon How much: Free

would last 10 days.

Organized by Vera House, the

White Ribbon Campaign is led by men and encourages all members of the Syracuse University community to join them in their efforts. This male leadership helps to acknowledge the important contributions men have made to this effort and invites others to

take a role, according to the Vera House website.

During the campaign, members of the community wear a white ribbon or wristband to signify that they will not commit, condone or remain silent about

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POLITICS

LAST BREATH Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson said he would not attend the next GOP presidential debate on Thursday. Although he did not drop out of the race entirely, Carson acknowledged on Wednesday that there is no “political path forward” after the Super Tuesday primary results. Carson has not won a single primary state and currently has eight delegates. source: the washington post

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CAR CRASH Aubrey McClendon, the former CEO of Chesapeake Energy, died in a car crash Tuesday night in Oklahoma City — a day after he was indicted for rigging bids for oil and natural gas leases. Oklahoma City Police Department officials do not know the exact cause of the crash yet. source: cnbc

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technology

Facebook’s reactionary response update diminishes social skills

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he largest social media site in world history just ironically added an anti-social feature.

Facebook has reduced the human language down to six emotions with an update that allows users to do more than just “like” a post. They can now respond with “love,” “haha,” “wow,” “sad” and “angry.”

According to Facebook, this is something the masses have been dying to have. In a blog post about the change, the company said, “We’ve been listening to people and know that there should be more ways to easily and quickly express how something you see in News Feed makes you feel.”

It’s understandable as to why it added these expressions, but I wish they made a “stupid” option too, because that’s how I would rate it on Facebook.

I may be old school — well, as old school as a 21-year-old can be — but I’m a fan of just keeping “like.” It’s simple and it gets the point across. If a user wants to add anything else, they can just comment on the post. They can use their words and actually express themselves in a way that goes beyond the six emotions at their disposal.

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The percentage of young people who use their phones to avoid interacting with in groups, according to the Pew Research Center

I’m going to put it like this: If you meet someone and ask how they are doing and they say three words, albeit expressive ones, would you consider them social? Now contrast that person with someone who says 100 words and goes in-depth about it.

It’s clear who the more social person is.

This change by Facebook highlights the

PAUL SARCONI

STUFF THAT WOULD BLOW CAVEMEN’S MINDS funny thing about social media. I’m not the first person to say this, but it’s not really all that social. A more accurate, but definitely less sexy name, would be: communicate media.

Facebook isn’t giving people more options to express themselves — they’re giving them less incentive to do so. Instead of commenting on a post and saying, “this makes me happy because of X, Y and Z,” people are going to hit the “happy” button and move on. It completely leaves out the why and the how.

It may not seem like a big deal, but the why and the how are important parts of communicating with people face-to-face.

These means of communication are likely due to the widespread popularity of emojis.

A like or just a simple smiley or sad face isn’t flashy enough. Especially not when there are things like the “laughing crying face,” “smiling face with open mouth and cold sweat” and even, “disappointed but relieved face.”

It’s kind of crazy how many emotions there are. In fact, there are so many different types of faces that there is website called Emojipedia to help you find the perfect emoji to describe your feelings.

Don’t get me wrong: I use emojis just as much as the next person. I love them, and they can be perfect for certain situations. But I also question how it affects our ability to communicate with one another. One day — perhaps it’s already here — will we verbally say an emoji face when asked how we are doing?

Twenty-one percent of young Americans use their phones to avoid interacting with others in groups, according to a 2015 survey conducted by the Pew Research Center. That’s probably because we don’t know how to have real conver-

sations. We’re not confident in doing so because we’re used to doing it over social media.

I don’t want to sound like the old grandpa here, but I know I do, so I’ll own it. Facebook’s new features are yet another way of diminishing our ability to describe our thoughts and feelings.

There’s an old saying that an image speaks a thousand words. The 21st century

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version of that saying has to be: Six expressions can speak a thousand words.

They have to — people don’t know how to express themselves anymore.

Paul Sarconi is a senior broadcast and digital journalism major.

His column appears weekly. He can be reached at pjsarcon@syr.edu.

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Is PC too PG? Gender and sexuality columnist Brontë Schmit explains the power of safe spaces and breaking the limitations of “political correctness.”

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Welfare restrictions demonize poverty Substantial plan should be provided to campus

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oochers, takers, leeches, freeloaders, animals, sponges.

Such words are common to conservative rhetoric referring to recipients of government benefit programs including Social Security, Unemployment Insurance and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), commonly known as food stamps.

The use of these derogatory terms stem from the fear of many members of the Republican Party that there is an entire class of jobless Americans sustaining a life of leisure by bilking the government and siphoning cash from the wallets of hard-working taxpayers.

And as reflected in a recently proposed bill by New York State Senator Patty Ritchie, a Republican, this sentiment is true of her constituents, 20 percent of whom live below the poverty line, according to a report from the St. Lawrence County Community Development program.

Ritchie’s bill intends to place a series of restrictions on SNAP purchases targeting what she refers to as “luxury foods items,” ensuring that food stamp recipients cannot buy certain foods deemed to be too extravagant or nutritionally lacking.

Ritchie claims the ban is in the best interest of her constituents, citing that the bill would promote health and nutrition, prevent obesity and “protect taxpayers from abuse of a program that’s intended to help those who have fallen on hard times.”

But with lobster and steak being foods that are not traditionally associated with obesity — and two of the prominent foods to be banned under the bill — it is obvious that her motive is driven by the former notion.

Although the bill isn’t likely to pass in the Democrat-controlled assembly, its proposal only highlights the overwhelming stigma and delusion that exists surrounding the poor. Receiving food stamps is not a luxury that recipients take with pride and such policy only adds more hurdles and shame to being impoverished.

The idea that welfare programs, such as SNAP, are riddled with abuse and bestow the poor with lavish lifestyles took root decades ago when Ronald Reagan, in his 1976 bid for presidency, coined the term “welfare queen.” In a series of stump speeches, Reagan grossly exaggerated a case of welfare fraud in which a Cadillac-driving, fur-donning Illinois woman cheated the system by the means of multiple aliases and fake dead husbands.

The welfare queen was an easy villain that fit the beloved narrative of small government. And just like Reagan himself, she has been immortalized in conservative legend ever since.

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Rather than proposing to improve the integrity of such programs they claim to be abused, this concept has Republicans like Ritchie targeting the vulnerable, with the fundamental belief that the social safety net has instead become a hammock.

The sensationalism of such anomalous

cases of welfare

fraud is used as rationale for policy

based on outliers.

Andrew London director of sociology graduate in su’s maxwell school of citizenship and public affairs

Following in the conservative footsteps of such “junk food” or “luxury item” bans, Ritchie isn’t the first to initiate restrictive legislation on SNAP benefits.

Since 2003, more than 10 states have proposed similar measures with largely unsuccessful results, considering that the United States Department of Agriculture published a statement in 2007 determining that such bans are unfeasible. But that hasn’t hindered Republican lawmakers.

The SNAP program already places common-sense restrictions on alcohol, tobacco products, prepared foods and non-food items, but Ritchie’s bill aims to prohibit the sale of foods including high-end meats, seafood, decorated cakes and energy drinks, effectively ensuring that the hungry do not indulge themselves on the government dime.

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The rough allowance per meal per person in 2015, according to the SNAP to Health project

But with the average SNAP recipient in 2015 receiving a monthly allowance of $126.39, according to the SNAP to Health project — which roughly equates to $1.40 per meal — one might wonder just who these swanky welfare recipients are.

It seems lawmakers have ignored that SNAP is “supplemental” nutritional assistance, often leaving the poor to either scramble up money to foot the grocery bill or rely on food banks. It isn’t luxurious to run out of money to feed yourself long before the end of every month and, with

more than 60 percent of SNAP recipients actively working while receiving benefits, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, it certainly doesn’t breed complacency.

But it is undeniable that welfare fraud happens. Just last year, two Syracuse men were sentenced for $1.7 million in food stamp fraud. Abuse exists in every government aid program and realistically always will. But it is obvious that with a decrease in SNAP fraud by three-quarters over the past 15 years and an error rate at an all-time low of less than 3 percent, the aggrandizement of such instances is a serious case of “bad apple syndrome” — one that each time only results in policy and stigma that punishes those who’ve done nothing to deserve it.

Andrew London, a professor and graduate director of sociology in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University, said that legislators should be working hard to ensure food security for everyone.

“The sensationalism of such anomalous cases of welfare fraud is used as rationale for policy based on outliers,” London said. “Such legislation is not representative of who is using the program.”

It does not require a high level of scrutiny to recognize that Ritchie’s implicit aims of addressing wasteful government spending by disenfranchising those that need it most is under the guise of assisting the poor nutritionally. This only emphasizes the hypocrisy of self-regarding smallgovernment Republicans who desire to micromanage everything from a woman’s right to her own body, who we can love and marry, right down to the cuts of meat lower-income populations can eat.

SNAP “junk food bans” are debatable across party lines, but the fact that lawmakers like Ritchie are shamelessly proposing “luxury item” bans is deplorable. Ignoring the fact that SNAP recipients pay into the program, like everyone else, during better times, such “disciplinary” policy only serves to perpetuate disparaging stereotypes that vilify the poor and demean their worth through classism.

We must not allow the welfare queen stereotype, which is simply a reliable tactic of demagoguery, to infiltrate or justify policy that humiliates the poor with the suggestion that they are complacent, greedy and undeserving.

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

The update session for the Campus Framework on Wednesday failed to present any substantive new information to answer the looming questions regarding the future landscape of Syracuse University.

Michael Speaks, the dean of SU’s School of Architecture, presented rudimentary concepts of changes that would be made to the university’s campus during the forum in Goldstein Auditorium. These proposals include the creation of three promenades connecting the east and west sides of campus, a renovation of Archbold Gymnasium and the creation of student housing along Waverly Avenue, among others.

But it is worrisome that the rehashing of old ideas without new substance comes at a time when SU is projected to present the framework to the Board of Trustees in about two months.

For the university to host these information meetings under the guise of transparency and call on the community for input is futile when there still are not concrete plans to be commented on — an ironic circumstance considering it is the experiences of students, staff and faculty members that are most subject to these alterations.

The fact that the update session held nearly one year ago in April was more informative adds to the frustration that it does not seem feasible for the university to develop substantial plans, provide the opportunity for community feedback and have time for collaboration with Sasaki Associates,

SU’s partner design firm, to make the adjustments before taking the proposals to the board for approval.

It is not SU’s responsibility as a private institution to discuss each detail and in-depth plan with the public. But the community should not be left in the dark completely when the design, location and purpose of key components of campus life — including the future of the Carrier Dome, the National Veterans Resource Complex and major university buildings — have the potential to be redefined by these decisions.

With nothing more than abstract concepts made available at this time, it is not possible to make informed judgments on what the ripple effects will be of the creation of campus promenades or what options have been ruled out for the future of the Dome. And at a time when SU is seemingly working to cut back on expenses, as was seen with the recent staff buyout, the university community is left to question the necessity of major construction and renovation without any clarification from the administration.

It is understood that the Campus Framework is a longterm outline for Syracuse University. But with the presentation to the Board of Trustees only two months away, it is clear that time is running out.

And when the administration is working to take the university forward, it should be careful to not leave the value of community input behind.

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Speaker talks online streaming, video programming

By Maxine Williams contributing writer

Television, online streaming and a la carte programming services were just some of the topics discussed at the most recent lecture in the Institute for the Study of the Judiciary, Politics and the Media (IJPM) Law, Politics and the Media Lecture Series.

On Wednesday, Wayne Johnsen, a Class of 1982 Syracuse University alumnus, discussed “Aereo, FilmOn X and the Regulatory Treatment of Video Programming Over the Internet.” The lecture was part of a series held in conjunction with the Law, Politics and the Media (LAW 839/PSC 700) class.

Johnsen, who is also a partner at Wiley Rein LLP, where he said he “specializes in regulation of media,” started the lecture by discussing the history of the communications industry with

laws and regulations. Starting with the Communications Act of 1934, Johnsen explained the lag between legislation in regulating communication and the fast growth in technology.

The last amendment to this act was made in 1999, Johnsen said, adding that there have been many changes in media technology since then. Identifying these problems in legislation helped Johnsen to transition into his main topic: the Aereo company and copyrights.

Aereo was a former media technology company that allowed subscribers to stream television through devices that were connected to the Internet through microantenna technology. The company was dissolved due to legal issues after the Supreme Court ruled that it breached copyright laws.

Aereo founder Chet Kanojia, who is considered by many to be a pioneer in media technology, visited the Syracuse University campus

in November 2015 to talk about the company’s failure in a discussion with Roy Gutterman, director of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications’ Tully Center for Free Speech.

Johnsen further discussed Aereo and the scarcity of laws that fit the scope of the variety of new technologies being developed in the media and entertainment industries.

After explaining the Aereo case, Johnsen identified companies that went through similar issues with copyrights in media. Some of these companies include Sky Angel, an Internet subscription service; Ivi, a broadcast streaming program; and the historic Sony Betamax case.

Johnsen closed his lecture by returning to his point that the current legislation for media copyrights and the communications industry in general does not fit the new technologies that have been created in the past few years.

Amanda Finney, a graduate student study-

ing television, radio and film in the Newhouse School, said she thought it was interesting to have a Newhouse alumnus come back and share his perspective, “especially since he is now an attorney in the industry.”

Many of those in attendance Wednesday were students from the Law, Politics and the Media class, an SU graduate course offered this semester.

Johnsen’s speech was the third lecture in the IJPM Law, Politics and the Media series.

“Hearing from Mr. Johnsen, we wanted to help our students recognize that there is a lot of policy-making and litigation that determines the content you see,” said Keith Bybee, a LAW 839 professor.

There are eight lectures in the series, and each features a guest speaker who is chosen to discuss a topic that is relevant to the class.

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help assess the options.

SU released a survey in May 2015 seeking responses from both students and the general public to garner input on the Dome.

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It has been more than two years since officials first discussed the possibility of building a stadium to replace the Carrier Dome. liam sheehan asst. photo editor

replacing the current roof as is, installing a new roof structure while simultaneously making other improvements or building a different stadium off-site.

In January 2014, local officials discussed the possibility of building a new, off-site stadium in the city of Syracuse with the help of state funding. Mayor Stephanie Miner appointed a task force to look into the possibility of a new stadium, while Syverud created a workgroup to look into the viability of the Dome’s roof. The workgroup released its report relating to the current lifespan of the Dome in May 2015.

In February 2015, the university hired Populous, a global architecture firm that specializes in designing sports facilities, to

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6.5 The amount of acres covered by the Dome’s roof, which is one of few stadium roofs in the world that is air-supported

Dennis Pieprz, a representative from Sasaki Associates, said Wednesday that the survey received more than 20,000 responses.

SU hopes to have a decision regarding the future of the Dome made by the end of this academic year, Syverud said in October. jmatting@syr.edu | @jmattingly306

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framework will be incredibly important,” he added.

Additionally, buildings such as Newhouse, Bird and Schine Student Center would be pulled out closer to the edge of the street and altered to “face the city rather than having their backs to the city,” Speaks said.

The NVRC is tentatively planned to be built on Waverly Avenue. Speaks said the creation of the NVRC will be the first project pursued as a result of the Campus Framework.

He added that representatives from three design firms that are in the running to design the complex — Adjaye Associates, SHoP and Snohetta — will be holding public lectures in the coming weeks at the School of Architecture to discuss their firms.

The University Place promenade that Speaks discussed would transform that street into an area meant only for pedestrians.

Currently, Speaks said, the street is not

pedestrian-friendly, with “students jumping in and out in front” of cars.

The University Place promenade would stretch from Crouse Drive to Ernie Davis Hall, Speaks said.

Speaks led the update session alongside Dennis Pieprz, a principal at Sasaki Associates, SU’s design partner. Speaks is a member of the Campus Framework Advisory Group, which consists of students, faculty and staff, and has collaborated with Sasaki to assess the viability of all buildings on SU’s campus.

Funding for the promenades and other aspects of the Campus Framework has not been a part of the advisory group’s discussions, said Speaks, who added that any decisions pertaining to funding will be determined later and would need to be approved by the Board of Trustees.

The Board of Trustees will also decide at some point on an official plan for the framework, possibly in May, and the framework will then be made public, Speaks said. mdburk01@syr.edu | @michaelburke47

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Santa Clara University students compete in tiny house competition

By BreeAnna Poshek staff writer

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uilding a tiny house is no tiny project.

By the time students at Santa Clara University finish building their house for the Sacramento Municipal Utility District Tiny House Competition, it will be almost two years in the making.

In order to be considered “tiny,” houses must be within 100 to 400 square feet and have a width of less than eight-and-a-half feet.

These dimensions allow the houses to be legally towed on the trailers used to bring them to the competition, said George Giannos, a junior environmental studies major at SCU. The final presentation will occur Oct. 12-15. Each team gets a lot on a small mock street, which they have to decorate to look like the environment that their house will be in after the completion is completed, said Suzette Bienvenue, creator of the Tiny House Project.

The teams will be judged on architecture, energy efficiency, livability of the house and how well they communicate their designs during the public presentations, Bienvenue said.

Giannos, whose interest in the project is primarily in construction, added that it’s not all about the size of the tiny house.

Teams are also judged upon functionality and aesthetics.

One other major aspect of the Tiny House Competition is there has to be an end purpose in mind when building the house, so that the students are designing with a target client in mind, whether they’re real or imaginary, Bienvenue said.

“It helps the students be more thoughtful with their design rather than doing things randomly because it looks interesting,” she added.

The students at SCU decided that their client would be a local nonprofit called Operation Freedom Paws. Janet Wenholz, the assistant to the executive director at OFP, said it is a program in which dogs are taken out of shelters and matched with veterans and people with disabilities.

The team at SCU has had to make sure its design accommodates OFP clients, Giannos said. For example, some of the veterans have PTSD, he said, so the team must make sure that the small space doesn’t feel too confining.

To do this, the team has worked to ensure that as many things as possible are multipurpose, said JJ Galvin, a junior mechanical engineering major at SCU. The team has also accommodated the clients’ dogs by including slide-out dog dishes in the houses, Galvin said.

Students at Santa Clara University in California are participating in a tiny house building competition that has spanned almost two years. The final presentation for the competition will be in October.

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Emma West, a senior environmental science major at SCU, said an additional component that the team will be judged on is whether or not it stayed within its $25,000 budget. This budget only accounts for things that are integral to the functionality of the house, she said.

But West added that the team has had to raise much more than that for things that aren’t judged, such as student pay and the outside decking.

“It’s rare for students our age to be able to take on our own project that is this large with a strict budget and see it all the way through.

But it’s an important challenge,” Giannos said. “It really shows us that the tiny house will be a financially suitable option of the future. I’m excited to see the end result.”

The competition was based on the Solar Decathlon, a competition hosted by the United States Department of Energy during which universities build full-size houses, said Bienvenue, who also works for the Energy and Technology center of the Sacramento Municipal Utility District.

“The Decathlon can be out of reach logistically and financially for many universities, so I asked myself, ‘What can we do to create a similar atmosphere but scale it down so it

is more approachable?’” Bienvenue said.

Galvin said SCU’s past success in the Solar Decathlon was one of the main reasons he chose to attend the university, but SCU did not participate in the Decathlon during the last competition, which concluded in

2015, Galvin said.

“I wound up picking up the Tiny House Project because it seemed like a fun way to learn those same skills but on a smaller scale,” Galvin said. blposhek@syr.edu

SCU students are being judged on how well they stay within the $25,000 budget to build their tiny homes for the competition. courtesy of emma west

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recommended the program receive the funding. One committee member, though, said the student looking to fund the program had made a comment about blockading — or holding up — the next GSO meeting if the committee did not support the funds.

When the student later arrived at the meeting, he said he had no intention of blockading the meeting. Rather, he wanted to bring his students, who are all international TAs, to the meeting so they could explain why the program would be beneficial to them.

The program was ultimately fully funded, but an amendment was added that will allow all TAs to apply to participate in the program.

The GSO will decide how the TAs are chosen.

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campaign domestic or sexual violence, according to the website.

Chris Benton, director of communications and special events at Vera House, said the organization hopes to reach its goal of distributing ribbons and wristbands to a total of 40,000 people.

“We aim for a world free of domestic and sexual violence, and we would love to be a force of change in that direction,” Benton said.

Benton said the campaign has two main focuses. The primary focus, she said, is creating awareness in the community and enabling the community to come together to end domestic and sexual violence.

The second focus of the campaign is to raise money for various Vera House programs and services.

“The core of the program is that we ask participants to pledge to never commit violence, to never remain silent in the presence of violence and to never support violence,” Benton said.

Eric McGriff, a Class of 2015 SU alumnus and former president of A Men’s Issue, said the campaign is an opportunity to address issues of sexual and relationship violence and how pervasive violence really is.

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The largest amount of funding allocated to a single group at the meeting was $4,650, which went to contemporary arts and space programming (CASP) for five events throughout the course of the rest of the semester. CASP provides professional development services to graduate students in the College of Visual and Performing Arts.

The original motion presented by GSO Comptroller Jose Muller was to allot $3,215 to fund three CASP events. After further discussion about the events, the GSO senators decided to fund two additional CASP events that would bring visiting artists to campus.

CASP initially wanted to fund six events at a cost of $6,690, but the sixth event fell outside of GSO’s fiscal year. The events will also allow some VPA graduate students to expand their CVs by displaying work off campus.

Two smaller proposals, totaling $815, were also approved. Senators declined funding for two other proposals.

Rajesh Kumar, a member of the travel grant committee, also addressed the recent change to the GSO travel grant application that will allow students to collect up to $600 for travel. Previously, students could only collect $300 per application.

At the GSO’s Feb. 10 meeting, the organization voted to amend the travel grant policy to reflect the monetary change. At Wednesday’s meeting it approved an amendment that would allow students who had previously applied — and were awarded — a $300 grant for the 2015-16 academic year to apply for an additional $300.

Sam Leitermann, GSO’s vice president of internal affairs, announced that he and three other international graduate students

“I loved being a part of this campaign every year because it’s the right thing to do,” he said.

McGriff added that it is important for men and women to pay attention to the campaign because no one is immune to the effects of violence. It is always better to be proactive and to educate yourself about interpersonal violence rather than wait until you’re put into a situation where you have to be reactive, he said.

“It’s important to pay attention to this campaign because no one should ever be afraid to walk home alone at night,” McGriff said.

The campaign will start with the kickoff walk on Friday, when community members will tie white ribbons to trees and lamp posts to signify the celebration and the beginning of the new campaign.

McGriff said SU also worked closely with Vera House to table around campus and at sporting events to sell wristbands and pins for the campaign.

He added that the White Ribbon campaign “fits comfortably” during the earlier part of the semester because it comes around the same time as the Vagina Monologues, SU Rising, Take Back The Night and other events and initiatives that raise awareness about gender violence and healthy relationships at SU. dsahintu@syr.edu

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work and should provide value in terms of investigating important scientific questions,” Vanable said. “But in general, our congressmen aren’t well-suited to be the judge of what constitutes good science.”

Charles Driscoll, a University Professor of environmental systems, said he was recently funded by the NSF for a project on ice storms.

Recently, SU was ranked a top tier research university by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. The ranking is a result of years of investment into the research sector of SU. Interim Vice Chancellor and Provost Liz Liddy told The Daily Orange the SU administration wants the university to become a “pre-eminent student-focused research university.”

What constitutes as national interest has seven definitions, according to the bill: • Increased economic competitiveness • Advancement of the health and welfare of the American public • Development of an American STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) workforce, including com-

would be traveling to Washington, D.C. to lobby Congress on behalf of graduate students on National Association of GraduateProfessional Students’ Advocacy Summit and Legislative Action Days.

One of the students going on the trip said American students should be more active in the event in the future because international students are not impacted by student debt policies in the same ways American students are.

Leitermann also led the senate in the meeting’s only election. Jasmine Vickers, a graduate student in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, had vacated the position of recording secretary, and three students had expressed interest in taking her place.

Neary, a former GSO president, was elected as recording secretary in a landslide. dovanway@syr.edu

puter science and information technology sectors, that is globally competitive • Increased public scientific literacy and public engagement with science and technology in the U.S. • Increased partnerships between academia and industry in the U.S. • Support for U.S. national defense • Promotion of U.S. progress of science The NSF already has a process in place in which the research proposals are peerreviewed, meaning fellow scientists look at and help determine if a project should be funded or not.

Driscoll said the NSF also has a “broader impacts” requirement, which both he and Vanable said they believe already addresses the requirement of “national interest.” The “broader impacts” stipulation, Driscoll said, requires a scientist to show how his or her research will benefit society.

“I think that Congress should have better things to do. We’ve got major problems facing the country, and I don’t really think we have a problem here,” Driscoll said. “I think our interest would be better served if they focused their attention on the real problems facing the nation.” sprakash@syr.edu

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found and fell in love with this particular race through Syrathon. Syrathon is a series of seven runs, all of different mileages that runners can t was a sunny, blue-skied afternoon on Sept. participate in and try to log 26.1 miles by the time 25, 2011. John Ferrini and his wife, Brandi, ran it is over — 26.1 miles is the equivalent of running across the finish line of the 4-mile, a marathon. If they succeed, they Strathmore Parks Run, holding hands. RUN WILD are honored as a “Syrathoner” with He donned a bow tie while she sported The dates of the runs span a medal at a ceremonial breakfast a tutu and veil. Both wore brand new from March 5 to Oct. 16. after the last race.

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The dates of the runs span from Immediately after the race, the March 5 to Oct. 16. It is $10 to sign two headed to a gazebo in Onondaga up for Syrathon and be awarded a Park, still decked out in their running medal, but a runner must additiongear, and were married in front of 700 strangers. ally register for each individual race in the series.

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Former No. 1 EDM DJ Hardwell to perform in Syracuse

By Delaney Van Wey asst. web editor

In a small outbuilding by Destiny USA, one of the world’s most famous EDM DJs will yet again lay down some of the hottest tracks in dance music for locals and students alike.

Hardwell — whose real name is Robbert van de Corput — will visit Syracuse for the second time

and is bringing Kill The Buzz and Thomas Newson with him. The show will be on Friday at F Shed at the Market, where he performed in 2014.

Hardwell said in an email that he is looking forward to coming back to Syracuse and playing at a more intimate venue because it allows him to be more experimental with his set.

Originally from Breda, Holland,

the DJ started rising through the ranks of Dutch dance music at age

400,000 The number of visitors at the 2015 Belgium music festival, Tomorrowland

14 when he signed his first record deal, according to his website. He

became the youngest DJ to ever win the top spot on DJ Mag’s Top 100 DJ list in 2013 and won again in 2014.

The megastar is now accustomed to playing at major music festivals such as Tomorrowland in Belgium, which brought together about 400,000 visitors in 2015, according to Inquisitr.com. But coming to the fans is just as important to him, he said.

“I’m actually a really big fan of doing bus tours, because it allows me to visit smaller, unique cities and share the music that I love with them,” he said. “The sets are always more intimate, and the energy is just wild because we’re playing back-to-back shows for basically two weeks straight.”

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syrathon This year, the seven runs on the Syrathon calendar in order are: the Tipperary Hill Shamrock Run, the Dunn Tire Mountain Goat Run, Paige’s Butterfly Run, Valley Nature Run/ Walk, Inner Harbor 5K, Strathmore Parks Run and Eastwood Parkto-Park Autumn Run. In 2009, the Syracuse parks department paired with Fleet Feet Sports, Saucony, Crouse Hospital and C&S Companies — a national engineering company — with the mission of encouraging people to run throughout the year and explore new parks and neighborhoods in Syracuse. Thus, Syrathon was born.

During that first year, there were only five races and only a total of 26.1 miles to be logged. Now, seven years later, the series has grown to include seven races and 35 miles. If a runner goes beyond the 26.1 mile challenge and completes all 35, their title is upgraded to “UltraSyrathoner.”

Chris Abbott, a director at the parks department and a runner himself, said the main goal of Syrathon is not to crown the best runner in the world, but to challenge runners to stay active all year.

People can put the events on their calendars in advance and then have a reason to keep running, and it’s also a chance to expand people’s view of the city, he said.

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hardwell tour, which is the third iteration of Hardwell’s famed bus tours. His 2014 appearance in Syracuse was also part of a bus tour.

Although on this visit he is not the No. 1 DJ in the world — Dimitri Vegas and Like Mike usurped him in 2015 — he said he is still set to play the dynamic, spur-of-themoment set he is known for.

Other new additions to this tour include Kill The Buzz and Thomas Newson, who are

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“A lot of these races showcase hidden gems in the city,” Abbott said. “The uniqueness of Syrathon is that the races we chose bring people into the parks and the city neighborhoods.”

Keller said that if it were not for the Syrathon series he probably wouldn’t have continued running and probably wouldn’t have found his wife. The two met at Paige’s Butterfly run, the third run in the series.

Ferrini echoed Abbott, saying he’s run seven marathons, 48 half-marathons and countless 5Ks in a variety of cities and parks. He believes races are a great way to explore cities.

“We’ve all been to parks through Syrathon that we have never been to before and probably never would have been to,” Ferrini said. “Some of these places are pushed away and then brought back out through a race

and there’s nothing better then a couple hundred people, on a beautiful day, going through a park that you’ve haven’t ever seen before.”

Ferrini is one of three people who has completed every race in every series since the race’s inauguration in 2009. Syracuse locals Beth Montague and Todd Keller also completed all the races. This means they have all achieved the title of “UltraSyrathoner” each year.

Joking that he only ran from the cops when he was younger, Ferrini actually began running in his 40s, in 2007. When he discovered Syrathon, it became special to him as it was a series of “great races” close to home.

Unlike Ferrini, Keller’s first race was coincidently the first race of the inaugural 2009 Syrathon series — the 4-mile Tipperary Hill Shamrock Run. When Keller’s co-worker convinced him to run in the race, his only goal was to finish.

He had played sports in the past, so he was athletic enough to cross the finish line, but beforehand, he was never an avid runner.

After he finished, another friend convinced him to do the second race in the series and before he knew it, he had run the entire 2009 Syrathon.

“At the end of the last race that first year, I didn’t even know I would be recognized,” Keller said. “But then suddenly I was being handed a medal, and I realized I was hooked on the series and running.”

both signed to Hardwell’s own record label, Revealed Recordings. Both of the up-andcomers are also from Holland.

The two opening acts have only been prominent on the electronic dance music scene for a few years, but Hardwell said they still constantly learn from each other.

“The whole Revealed team is like a family, so it’s always great to be able to spend time with my friends and do what I love to do with them,” he said.

Aside from touring, Hardwell has also spent time recently working on his charity,

the United We Are Foundation. On Dec. 13, he put on a show in Mumbai, India, that he called the “World’s Biggest Guestlist” to raise funds for education initiatives in India, according to the event’s Facebook page.

He invited 100,000 fans to come to the show on his personal guestlist and donated the money he would have made to his United We Are Foundation and the United Welfare Trust, an Indian non-governmental organization, to disperse to children in need, according to the Facebook page.

When Hardwell comes to Syracuse, he will

bring people together for a different reason.

Young locals and Syracuse University students will have the chance to meet each other and share experiences in ways they usually do not outside of major EDM concerts.

“It makes me so happy to see the positive impact that EDM is having on the world,” Hardwell said. “There’s no feeling quite like seeing your music bring together a group of different people that are united together for one cause — to share in the beauty and magic of EDM.”

RUN WILD Here are the different levels of parcipants for Syrathon: 1 Syrathoner Syrathon is a series of seven runs, all of different mileages that runners can participate in and try to log 26.1 miles by the time it is over — if they succeed, they are honored as a “Syrathoner” with a medal at a ceremonial breakfast after the last race.

2 UltraSyrathoner If a runner goes beyond the 26.1 mile challenge and completes all 35, their title is upgraded to “UltraSyrathoner.”

A lot of these races showcase hidden gems in the city. The uniqueness of Syrathon is that the races we chose bring people into the parks and the city neighborhoods.

Chris Abbott parks department director

The couple now runs with the Lake Effect Run Club, a local, free running group, along with Ferrini and his wife, Abbott and many other runners. The majority of the group plans to run in the Syrathon series and the club will preview the courses of all of the races beforehand. They are a close-knit group of friends who support one another through life events, running related or not.

“Lake Effect, and the Syracuse running community in general, is just so friendly — truly a fantastic group of people,” Ferrini said. ararcham@syr.edu | @Alex_And_Raa

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his Friday, student cultural clubs from around campus are coming together to celebrate diversity during the inaugural Night of Languages.

The event will be put on by S.C.O.P.E., the South Campus Organization for Programming Excellence, in order to enhance the living experience on South Campus, S.C.O.P.E. president Lynn Clervois said.

“We realized, what better way to educate the residence of South Campus than to have a night where we can all come together and learn different languages,” Clervois said.

S.C.O.P.E.’s e-board came up with the idea for the event at its budget meeting last semester, Clervois said. They wanted to have an event that had a “focus on diversity and diversity education.”

The event will entail different groups setting up tables that represent and capture their country’s culture. Each table will share and teach their language to each other. There will also be performances by two dance

troupes, Zinda Fusion Dance team and Kalabash Dance Troupe. Lastly, a spread of food from different countries, or “delicious bites,” will be set up, Clervios explained.

“We cannot forget the food,” she said.

“And an awesome DJ rocking the house.”

Night of Languages will be held in SkyBarn, a small concert venue located on South Campus. Associate Director of Student Centers and Programming Services Scott Casanova said SkyBarn is reserved mostly for dance parties, receptions and talent shoes, as it is one of the few event venues on South Campus.

Casanova explained that SkyBan was a natural choice for the event because a lot of S.C.O.P.E.’s meetings occur there.

Clervios said she hopes it will continue to grow for years to come.

“This event is so important because often times we forget how different we all are culturally, and we forget to celebrate it,” said Clervois.

“It is exciting to learn new things, and even more exciting to learn a different language.”

Many student groups have said they are just as excited to attend the event as S.C.O.P.E. was in planning it.

Bingzhu Luo, president of Chinese Students and Scholars Association, said the event

is a great way for people of different cultures to come together and get to know one another.

what can you expect to see?

There will be performances from the Kalabash Dance Troupe, Zinda Fusion Dance Team and the Chinese Students and Scholars Association along with the following: An organization is preparing a map of China to introduce different dialects of the nation.

They will also serve famous Chinese food.

There will be displays on Chinese calligraphy and classical dancing among other activities.

“We believe that this event will not only introduce Chinese culture to more students, but also helps more Chinese students to know other cultures and prompt the true diversity in our campus,” he said.

His organization is planning on preparing a map of China and introducing different dialects and famous Chinese food. In addition, it will display Chinese calligraphy and classical dancing, among other activities.

Although the event is targeted to campus cultural organizations, students are still encouraged to attend.

“I am in Russian 202, and would absolutely attend this event,” Jake Manelis, a sophomore accounting major, said. “I love learning languages, and thinking hanging out with people of different cultures in a casual atmosphere would be fun.”

Clervois said she hopes the language theme of the event will spark an interest in attendees to research other cultures’ customs and traditions.

She also said S.C.O.P.E.’s close relations with the Office of Residence Life and with community representatives may help attract more people to the event and allow more people to speak about their opinion of South Campus.

Said Clervois: “All in all, it is a night where we can come together and enjoy the company of each other and grow the horizons of our minds.” hrhorvat@syr.edu

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O’Hara returns to form in all facets after arm injury

By Jack Upton staff writer

Sydney O’Hara’s hand began to swell and she couldn’t grip a softball. Her arm, which won her 16 games during her freshman year, became fatig ued. up next S o m e thing was Stacy Winsberg Memorial Tournament (4 games) wrong, but Friday-Saturday O’Hara didn’t know what it was.

During spring break last year, she saw a doctor who thought she had a blood clot. After a sonogram proved otherwise, O’Hara continued to pitch.

After two weeks of pain, doctors finally diagnosed her with Golfer’s Elbow, a condition that causes pain on the inner side of the elbow. The first team All-Atlantic Coast Conference player as a freshman was shut down, not allowed to do anything but run for six months.

“Over the summer it was very tough because I couldn’t pick up a softball,” O’Hara said. “It was just very hard and I was very frustrated because I knew it was going to take time to get back to normal.”

Through 13 games this season, O’Hara has proven she’s back. She can’t pitch a full game yet, but she can still be effective. In 16 innings, O’Hara boasts a 1.31 earned run average in the circle and she hasn’t made an error when playing left field. At the plate, she’s recorded nine hits and five RBI’s.

Each day over the summer she rehabbed in her nearby hometown, Cicero, hoping to get her right arm from 50 percent to 100.

When she returned to SU in the fall she was put on a throwing program.

O’Hara doesn’t talk about her injury when surrounded by teammates. Assistant coach Alisa Goler only hears about O’Hara’s injury when they speak one-onone. Goler worries about athletes who have been out for a long time that try to push themselves too hard.

“It’s very nerve-wracking for them when they’re finally back,” Goler said. “They get

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fondren Fondren with a scouting report based around the opponent’s help defense near the lane.

Either Fondren has the green light to put her head down and go to the basket, or she knows she’ll have to jump stop. From there, she can either dish the ball or pull up for a shot.

“When she puts her head down and goes in the lane,” Reiss said, “there’s always that 50-50 chance that she’ll get an and-one or she’s going to get a charge and that you got to kind of live with that.”

Because Fondren plays so many positions on the floor, she’ll sometimes make it the majority of the way through the game without assuming her role of backup point guard. Starting point guard Alexis Peterson plays more than 31 minutes per game, leaving fewer than nine of Fondren’s nearly 27 minutes to be handling the ball.

She’ll look to make a great play or thread the needle, Reiss said, but they are questionable plays for starting point guards and not needed from someone in the backup role.

“Distribute the ball. Don’t turn it over.

Be you. Don’t try to be something you’re not,” Reiss said. “… When she doesn’t have the ball in her hands all game long and then you ask her to run the show it’s a different feeling. It’s a lot for somebody.”

overjoyed … then they get put back to the everyday routine stuff and they start to get a little nervous because they don’t want the injury to happen again.”

Goler said she can tell when O’Hara is holding back and thinking about her injury.

The biggest step in rehab, Goler said, is believing the injury won’t happen again.

Senior shortstop Corinne Ozanne said O’Hara “doesn’t do anything stupid.”

Ozanne, who’s had to deal with injuries herself, recognizes that it’s easy to lose sight of recovery goals when injuries occur.

“Mentally it takes a strain on you,” Ozanne said. “Physically, it’s just awful … you sit back and it tears you apart mentally, physically you have to work that much harder to get back to where everyone else is at.”

O’Hara has taken over a different role this season. The junior has pitched, played the field and been the designated hitter.

She’s provided a dimension that no other SU pitcher can. When O’Hara is pitching, the Orange doesn’t need to use a pinch hitter.

“It’s tough. I’ll be hitting and they’ll say, ‘Go warm up.’ Or I’ll be playing in the field and they’ll say, ‘Go warm up,’” O’Hara said.

“I’m back and forth. I don’t complain about it because it’s my job.”

In the fall, Syracuse head coach Mike Bosch made sure to give O’Hara’s arm a break, allowing her to hit more than pitch.

As a result, she’s emerged as Syracuse’s closer, Bosch said.

But in both areas, she’s helped SU. In four games this past weekend, she recorded six hits and allowed just one run in six and one third innings.

The swelling and pain that O’Hara dealt with last season is mostly gone. And with her improved physical health, she’s gradually inching back to the form that garnered her accolades as a freshman.

“From a pitching standpoint I’ve been really impressed with her ability to throw strikes and go through the order,” Bosch said. “… batting-wise things always go up and down, we just want her to be consistent throughout the year.” jfupton@syr.edu

As the blemishes mount, they can throw Fondren off her game, she said, and confine her to the bench.

She tries to make up for each turnover by forcing one or getting an assist, but it doesn’t wipe the slate clean.

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“Always,” Fondren said. “Turnovers are always in my head. Going back and watching film, you see your mistakes.

You see you’re turning it over and you try to make it up.”

Last season, SU guard Diamond Henderson tore her ACL before the ACC tournament and Fondren had to step up, scoring at least 16 points in the Orange’s three postseason games.

This year, Syracuse doesn’t need those kinds of heroics. It just needs her to take care of the ball. jrmettus@syr.edu | @jmettus

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Scott Firman rounds into more complete long-stick middie

By Chris Libonati asst. sports editor

Scott Firman let a few players fly by him as he tried to catch his brain up with the footwork it takes to play close defense. It hit Firman, as he was standing closer up next to the net by the endVS Virginia at Klockner Stadium Friday, line, that he 5:30 p.m. hadn’t done this in a few years.

A three-on-three drill from behind the cage in the beginning of Syracuse’s season took him back to his high school days, when he used to play close defense against attacks.

“It took me by surprise, because I haven’t been down there in a while,” Firman said.

In Firman’s two-plus years at Syracuse, he has played strictly on the wing for faceoffs and as a long-stick midfielder. Formerly the No. 4-ranked defender and No. 17 player overall in the Class of 2013 by Inside Lacrosse, he’s adjusted to the midfield well. Long-stick midfielders typically guard players farther from

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cooney “When (Cooney’s) not playing up to par,” Tyler Roberson said, “it’s tough for us to win.”

Cooney was only part of the problem on Monday as SU misfired 15 3s and scored once in the last two minutes. But he is the Orange’s most qualified 3-point shooter, yet once again is faltering from the field in the season’s final stretch.

As a junior two years ago, Cooney scored double-digits in only two of SU’s final 10 games, which included a second-round exit in the NCAA Tournament. He scored just

the net, while close defenders play near it.

Every year, Firman’s role has grown, from mostly a face-off wing specialist in 2014 to being the backup long pole in 2015 to now being the No. 3 Orange’s (3-0) first long pole into the game. While he was used to locking down the other team’s best player in high school, he’s gained more responsibility to his workload. This season, he has nine ground balls, only three less than his freshman year total of 12 and nearly half of last year’s total of 20. He’ll look to add to that total on Friday at 5 p.m. against No. 14 Virginia (2-2) at Klöckner Stadium.

“I’d say its more defensive minded here at Syracuse,” Firman said of playing as a longstick midfielder. “In high school, it was more of a transition thing.”

The technique, Firman said, is a bit different. Midfielders start in front of the cage and attacks from behind. When an attack gets to the goal line, Firman would swing his foot to keep the attack behind the net, something he doesn’t have to deal with in front of the net.

Against Johns Hopkins in 2014, current SU attack and former Jamesville-DeWitt

(New York) High School teammate Jordan Evans recalled Firman making an overhead check on then-senior midfielder Rob Guida with 30 seconds left in the game. The Orange slipped past the Blue Jays, 12-10.

“That was the biggest play I’ve seen him make,” Evans said. “I think it went very underrated that he was the type of player that nobody really knew about and he was making those plays.”

Last season, Firman helped Peter Macartney shut down Duke midfielder Myles Jones, one of the best players in the country. Jones tallied just one assist as Syracuse drubbed the then-No. 4 Blue Devils, 19-7.

Firman was again the key when Syracuse closed out Army on Saturday. Before midfielder Tim Barber’s game-winning goal against Army, faceoff specialist Ben Williams turned his stick over the ball and pinned it to the ground, but couldn’t scoop it up. Firman rushed in, fighting off two Black Knights players for the groundball.

He ran to the offensive end and dished the ball off. Eventually, the ball found Barber on the possession, who scored the game-winning goal.

Later, an errant Army pass hit the ground and Firman rushed through to scoop the ball. He trucked down the field and the Black Knights left him open. In high school, he may have taken the shot Army was giving him.

Evans said Firman would pass the ball up early to an attack and cut to get the ball back.

“We’d joke that Scott should be on the manup on the right side,” Evans said. “He has a pretty hard shot, I don’t know if I’d say it’s accurate.”

But on Sunday, he didn’t wind up and fire.

After Barber’s game-winner, Firman just dished the ball to attack Dylan Donahue on his left, who cradled around the offensive end until SU called a timeout.

Army did get a shot to tie the game, but Firman grabbed the groundball and time ran off the clock. It was another big play in a career that, so far, has seen a few of them. And while he’s been steady so far, his role at SU is still growing.

“He’s played really within himself. He’s a very steady player,” SU head coach John Desko said. “… It’s nice to have that consistency, we really feel like we can depend on him to do the right thing.”

two points in that loss to Dayton.

In the Orange’s season-ending six-game stretch last year, only once did Cooney connect on multiple 3s. He managed just three points against Louisville on Feb. 18, 2015, in Syracuse’s fourth game after announcing a self-imposed postseason ban, and was shutout completely against Pittsburgh three days later.

Despite the similarities spelled out by the score sheet, Cooney’s given no indication his late-season shortcomings are creeping into his mind as Syracuse rumbles toward the ACC tournament, the most important games he’ll have played in in two years.

“(Shots are) going to fall,” Cooney said.

“I’m not worried about it.”

Last year, Cooney was more heavily relied on for his offensive production. With him, Gbinije and Rakeem Christmas accounted for 64 percent of the team’s scoring. Those were the only three scorers averaging double-digit tallies per game, and his final shooting numbers were usually more indicative of the final score.

Syracuse lost five of its last seven games, and Cooney averaged 8.6 points.

The Orange’s offense this year features four double-digit scorers per game, with the additions of freshmen Malachi Richardson and

Tyler Lydon. Cooney’s shooting nights don’t have to factor as heavily into the final score, and his 3-point percentage in wins and losses only differentiate by two percentage points.

But the Orange is about to embark on its toughest stretch of competition this season, and Cooney’s missed 17 of his last 20 3-point heaves. The only way out of his bind is the same way he got in it: shooting. The success of his final career postseason may depend on it.

“You got to score to win,” Richardson said. “You can get all the stops you want, (but) you have to put the ball in the basket.”

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Emily Resnick settles into starting role as SU freshman

By Liam Sullivan staff writer

During Syracuse’s run to the national semifinals last year, Emily Resnick never missed a game. She religiously tuned in for each one on television, her computer or sometimes even buying an online viewing subscription.

As she watched her future teammates, the thought of starting never crossed her mind. A life-long Syracuse fan from Webster, New York, which is about 75 miles from Syracuse, Resnick was merely counting down the days to standing on the sideline.

Now a year later, Resnick has established herself as a starter for the Orange as a freshman.

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“Taking the field for the first time was indescribable,” Resnick said. “Nothing beats it playing here and I never thought I would be in the role I am now.”

Though inherently talented at passing and finishing, work in the offseason has paid off for Resnick, who has started in each of SU’s first six games. She’s started five alongside captains Erica Bodt and Taylor Gait. So far she’s scored three goals and dished out three assists. No. 2 Syracuse (5-1) will continue to rely on her creativity and consistent play in the midfield Saturday at No. 7 Virginia (4-1).

While head coach Gary Gait said he considers both of his midfield lines to be equal, Resnick’s style complements Gait and Bodt on the starting line in a way that made it impossible to ignore. The freshman plays on the left side of the midfield and said that with Bodt and Gait’s

tendency to make cuts, her passing fits right in.

“She’s got great skills, she doesn’t make many mistakes,” Gait said. “She’s very consistent and is going to have a huge career here at Syracuse.”

Resnick still felt overwhelmed during the fall, even though her skill set fit. Practices were high energy with music blaring from the speakers in Ensley Athletic Center and coaches made one thing clear: all drills would be run at top speed and there would be no plays taken off.

Syracuse runs far more set plays on offense than Resnick’s high school team and the defensive scheme has changed too.

“Yeah, I fit in with Taylor and Erica, and we’ve been playing well together lately,” Resnick said. “It’s taken a lot to get to this point though.”

Despite the tough adjustment, Resnick has been able to fall back on the lessons she learned from Bodt in the off-season as part of the “step-up buddies” program, designed to help freshman players transition to the rigors of college lacrosse by pairing each incoming player with an older player.

Resnick and Bodt called and texted back and forth regularly throughout the summer, exchanging workout plans, lacrosse drills and setting individual and team goals for the season. Bodt helped shape Resnick’s offseason plans to model her own.

After Resnick scored her second goal of the season in a 16-5 win over Marist on Feb. 21 in the Carrier Dome, Bodt embraced her step-up buddy. But so far, Resnick hasn’t just stepped up, she’s been able to establish herself. “(The program) kind of gets them in the competitive mindset and coming in and showing their hard work to the coaches and to the other players,” Bodt said. “… watching her, it puts a big smile on my face, like that’s my step-up buddy.” lpsull01@syr.edu

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HAPEL HILL, N.C. — If only for 25 seconds, Syracuse thought its most prolific 3-point shooter was revived. Trevor Cooney’s hands smothered a Michael Gbinije pass in transition, and he sunk a 3 from the right wing. It was his first make after missing his last 13 attempts from behind the arc.

On the ensuing possession he fled from Joel Berry II to meet another Gbinije pass, and hit again about three feet from the top of the arc. This one brought SU within a point of North Carolina.

Cooney couldn’t resist another try. He pulled up from nearly the same spot, but his heat-check 3 barely grazed the bottom of the net. Back to reality, as a slow “air ball” chant rang through the Dean E. Smith Center.

But even if only for two possessions, did Cooney consider himself on track again just two days after his first game without a 3 in over a year?

“Back on track from what?” asked Cooney, shrugging his shoulders to disregard his recent shooting troubles.

“I made two 3s. I mean, I’ve struggled for two games.

“I’m going to take my shots, and I’m going to make my shots.”

The fifth-year sharpshooter hit only those two 3s and shot 27 percent from the field in the Orange’s road loss to UNC on Monday. He’s grinding out a 5-of-28 shooting rut in his last three games. But in the face of his slump, Cooney’s not abandoning the role he’s spent four-plus years carving out.

He’s hell-bent on shooting his season back to life to avoid another late-year cool down. His final regular season opportunity comes on the road for Syracuse (19-11, 9-8 Atlantic Coast) against Florida State (17-12, 7-10) on Saturday at 2 p.m.

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Throughout the season, Trevor Cooney’s point totals have spiked and dipped repeatedly. After scoring just eight points in losses to Pitt and N.C. State, Cooney scored 14 against UNC on Monday.

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Cornelia Fondren’s aggressive style leads to turnovers

By Jon Mettus digital editor

Each time Cornelia Fondren heads to or leaves the bench, assistant coach Tammi Reiss leaves her with a simple

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reminder. About 15 times a game it’s merely “Corn, just be solid.”

Fondren needs the suggestion because her job on the court is more complex than that. She’s asked to play the point guard and power forward positions and every where in between. She’s tasked with being the team’s

secondary rebounder, secondary passer and leading defender.

The versatility and aggression that define her as a player and make her an asset for Syracuse also come with consequences. Fondren leads the team with 88 turnovers and 3.5 per game in conference play. She’s committed the most fouls (81), often charges, and has fouled out in three games.

Syracuse wins games almost solely on turnover-margin. Heading into its first game of the ACC tournament at 8 p.m. on Friday in Greensboro, North Carolina, No. 3 seed Syracuse (23-6, 13-3 Atlantic Coast) will need to secure the ball and continue forcing turnovers.

That all starts with Fondren.

“That’s the way we play,” head

coach Quentin Hillsman said of his team’s and Fondren’s aggressive playing style. “If it comes back to bite her, it comes back to bite us because we’re not going to back up.”

Fondren alone accounts for a quarter of SU’s turnovers in conference play this year. She often succumbs to offensive fouls and forced passes that end up in the hands of defenders.

While she thrives on driving to the basket, those trips down the floor can lead to a defender on her back and Fondren with a foul.

“I get at least two charges a game by running people over,” Fondren said.

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