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SU faculty remember student Peers, staff members recall graduate student’s energy, inviting personality

By Ellen Meyers asst. news editor

LONNIE REEDER, a Syracuse University maintenance man, poses with a filter in the cellar of Day Hall. Reeder has been working at SU for 41 years, and has become well known for his kind heart and willingness to help others. margaret lin photo editor

Another year wiser

On his 80th birthday, maintenance man reflects on his work, life in Syracuse

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men’s basketball

SU draws No. 3 seed in South Orange will play No. 14-seed Western Michigan on Thursday in Buffalo

By Elaina Crockett asst. copy editor

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itting in a silver pickup truck behind Flint and Day Halls, Lonnie Reeder has watched the world go by. He often goes without notice, a gentle man with eyes the color of a sunset, holding stories within them. His hands are thick and weathered, an illustration of the 80 years he’s been alive.

Today is his birthday.

Born on St. Patrick’s Day, Reeder jokingly tells everyone he is Black Irish. His coworkers at Syracuse University maintenance, where he has worked for 41 years, have planned dinner for him, and he will have three different parties to go to.

Before working at SU, Reeder was a student there. He was born in Alabama in 1924, the youngest of four and the only son to a single mother. They lived in poverty, which prompted young Reeder to get on a train at seven years old and travel to Texas to look for work.

On the train, an older white man, named Mr. Baker, asked him where he was going. When Reeder explained his situation, Mr. Baker

When James Duah-Agyeman met Marinda Williams, she was a school counselor in the Syracuse City School District. Williams knew Duah-Agyeman’s daughter’s mother, a teacher in the district. Williams’ twin sister, Marissa Willingham, had been working with Duah-Agyeman in the Syracuse University Office of Multicultural Affairs for a while.

Duah-Agyeman, director of OMA, said she was a vivacious, professional, caring individual who loved life.

“When I met her, it was easy to get to know her,” he said. “It was easy to interact with her because she was

By Trevor Hass asst. sports editor

REEDER looks through supplies in his office in Day Hall, which is organized with recycled jars. margaret lin photo editor

took Reeder home, bought him his first pair of shoes and gave him a job.

“I walked myself to death,” Reeder said, beaming as he remembered the first time he wore shoes.

Mr. Baker took Reeder into his family of four children, which gave Reeder the opportunity to go to school. His mother didn’t know where he was, thinking he was dead until four years later, when he finally returned home. see reeder page 18

Syracuse (27-5, 14-4 Atlantic Coast) earned the No. 3 seed in the South Region of the NCAA Tournament and will play No. 14-seed Western Michigan (23-9, 14-4 Mid-American Conference) on Thursday in Buffalo, N.Y. Tipoff is scheduled for approximately 2:45 p.m., or shortly after the conclusion of the game between No. 6-seed Ohio State and No. 11-seed Dayton. If Syracuse beats the Broncos, it

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MEET monday | amamda quick

Senior starts media site for entrepreneurs

By Jen Bundy staff writer

Amanda Quick is inspired by ideas.

The senior broadcast and digital journalism major said there are great ideas for businesses and nonprofits from student entrepreneurs across the country, and on campus at Syracuse University too.

“College campuses are the best place to start up a business,” she said.

“Schools have the resources, mentors and programs to help get a business off the ground.”

But the ideas created by college students are rarely transferred to other universities, Quick said. This issue soon became the inspiration for her own startup business, “The Next Zuck.”

The company is a media website that features student entrepreneurs from campuses all over the country, she said.

The goal of the company is to create a platform for college entrepreneurs, and allow them to connect with their peers.

The website also helps publicize the students’ companies, and currently features videos.

“The big thing is giving them the press and exposure they need,” she said.

“Student businesses won’t get covered immediately by Forbes or CNBC.” The website gives people and investors an inside look at what is happening on college campuses, many of which Quick has visited herself, including University of Pennsylvania and Ohio State University.

The website features a variety of content from a wide range of students who are entrepreneurs in different fields, from high tech applications to baking pastries to clothing lines.

As a broadcast and digital journalism major, Quick said she has always had an interest in telling people’s stories and The Next Zuck allows her to combine her passions of journalism and business.

“I’ve always wanted to be a reporter,” she said. “Whether you are reporting on sports, business or feature pieces, you are telling someone’s story.”

Quick said she is constantly looking for new ideas and student entrepreneurs to profile. As a recipient of the iSchool Entrepreneurship Engagement Fellowship, Quick will be able to work on her own business idea next year while also earning a master’s degree. jbundy@syr.edu

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226 How many chapters Sigma Alpha Epsilon has nationwide.

The fraternity also has 15 colonies across the country.

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fraternity and sorority affiars

SAE to end process of pledging

By Brett Samuels asst. news editor

Orange fans raise their hands to form an “O” during the Feb. 1 Duke game. SU will sell 70 tickets for the second round matchup of the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament against Western Michigan University in Buffalo on Thursday.

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March Madness student tickets to go on sale

By Jacob Pramuk and Justin Mattingly the daily orange

Though the Syracuse University men’s basketball team has stumbled into the 2014 NCAA tournament, many student season ticket holders are jumping at the opportunity to see the Orange in March Madness.

The university will sell approximately 70 student tickets to the Orange’s second round matchup against Western Michigan Univer-

sity in Buffalo, N.Y. on Thursday, said Jeremiah Maher, associate athletics director of ticket sales and operations, in an email. An email outlining the sale was sent to student season ticket holders after the Orange’s game location was finalized Sunday night, Maher said.

Ticket sales will start on Tuesday at 7 a.m. at the Carrier Dome Box Office and continue until 2 p.m. while the tickets last. The box office will only accept major credit cards for the sales, according to the email.

When students buy tickets for the second round, or round of 64, they will automatically be charged for third round tickets, or round of 32, should SU advance, according to the email.

The ticket allotment is proportional to the percentage of students that hold season tickets, and the number of available tickets will increase should SU advance deeper in the tournament, according to the email.

A similar NCAA tournament ticketing process has been in place for the seven years Maher has

worked at SU, he said.

Nicole Goroshovsky, a freshman public health major, said she appreciates that the university is offering tickets to students.

“I think it’s awesome that they are going to be giving special deals to Syracuse students if they want to make the trip to Buffalo,” Goroshovsky said. “It shows that we have an awesome basketball community.”

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commencement 2015

SU announces class marshals to help plan events

By Caroline Strange staff writer

Ashlee Newman and Ronald Taylor both wish to inspire change on the Syracuse University campus.

As the newly selected class marshals for SU’s Class of 2015, they will receive a unique opportunity to work with faculty to bring a commencement speaker that will hopefully

connect with next year’s graduates.

Newman and Taylor, both juniors, were selected as class marshals earlier this month, according to a March 5 SU News release. The marshals are primarily responsible for selecting a commencement speaker, representing their class at university events and providing feedback on the university.

When selecting class marshals,

a committee reviews an application, the student’s academic record, involvement in SU and the Syracuse community, leadership qualities and innovation. Newman and Taylor were selected from 25 applicants, five of whom had an interview as well, said Sylvia Langford, associate vice president for student affairs and chair of the selection committee.

Langford said selecting class

marshals is never easy. However, Langford said Newman and Taylor “had purpose.”

“They loved SU,” she said. “They were articulate in why they wanted to represent the class.”

The committee also selected an alternate, Kristen Weeks, in the event that one of the other marshals could not fulfill their duties. Langford said

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Sigma Alpha Epsilon, one of the nation’s largest fraternities, announced that effective March 9, it will eliminate pledge programming, and the classification of “pledge” will no longer exist.

All of the fraternity’s 226 chapters and 15 colonies nationwide will be required to implement the change, according to SAE’s website.

Since 2006, there were nine deaths from events related to SAE — more than any other fraternity. In total, there have been more than 60 fraternity-related deaths in the U.S. since 2005, according to a Dec. 30 Bloomberg News article.

The organization will install the new “True Gentlemen Experience,” which consists of three major changes to the process of becoming an SAE member, according to the fraternity’s website.

The first is that members must be initiated as brothers within 96 hours of receiving a bid. In addition, to address eliminated pledge-education programs, all members will participate in member education regardless of year or time spent in chapter. The final component is that expectations and requirements of membership have see sae page 8

need to know President Barack Obama took to Zach Galifianakis’ Web show “Between Two Ferns” to promote health care enrollment.

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Healthcare.gov referrals attributed to the video March 12, the day of its release.

SIGN ME UP The percentage of adults between ages 18-34 who have signed up through healthcare.gov:

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conservative

Ron Paul provides vital, alternative perspective

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ormer Congressman Ron Paul’s political career has always been a big interest of mine since I first began following politics, and more so since I became so fascinated by the conservative media landscape.

That’s mainly because it’s almost always treated Ron Paul strangely: ignoring him.

Why is he ignored? Because despite being very popular among libertarians, his blunt honesty often cuts through many of the common lies in the right-wing info sphere. Ironically enough, these ideas could very well help improve Republican appeal if they were heard more. It’s also the reason I’m so excited to hear he’ll be speaking at Syracuse University on March 26.

One moment almost four years ago at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference captures my point almost perfectly. Many major conservatives were still fans of calling Obama a socialist, and still are today. But when Ron Paul took stage, he outright said that, in an actual economic sense, Obama wasn’t a socialist. Instead, he was a corporatist, working to bring more power to corporate interests instead of the people through the military-industrial complex, through major financial institutions and recently to medical institutions with the Affordable Care Act. So why would the conservative media ignore this? Because he quickly points out that there are corporatists in the Republican party as well, often even more so than among Democrats. He also said Republicans shouldn’t try to full-out repeal the Affordable Care Act and instead work to improve it, mainly by removing the individual mandate.

Considering how much the conservative media has been doing to stir up as much pure

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ESCAPING THE ECHO CHAMBER rage against Obama and his signature legislation for years, these kinds of blunt ideas by Ron Paul almost always have been, and still are, ignored to keep their message consistent, despite how correct they usually are.

There are plenty of other reasons the conservative media overlook Ron Paul when they can.

He’s criticized former President Reagan for the Iran-Contra Affair and their negotiations with terrorists. He’s been against the Iraq War from the very beginning. He’s supported cutting foreign aid to all countries, including Israel.

He’s never flip-flopped on a single belief he holds. He’s OK with abortion, gay marriage or prostitution if a state decides to legalize them, even if he personally disagrees.

Perhaps biggest of all, he’s largely against any major government support amidst a free market, including the bailout the big banks got after the economic collapse, when their losses were socialized while their profits were kept privatized.

It’s a shame Ron Paul has so little spotlight, since there’s a lot of principles most young people can agree with him on. Leaving major social issues to the states and having faith in individuals to make their own decisions, just to start with. Plus, his repeated support for ending the war on drugs would obviously make many college students happy.

While there’s plenty of things I disagree about with Ron Paul (I’m still not sold on ending the Federal Reserve), there’s an unde-

niable authenticity you don’t come across with many politicians. When other major Republican politicians preach about believing in freedom, it’s just an empty buzzword to rile up a crowd instead of an actual reflection of their policies.

Ron Paul isn’t like that. He talks about freedom and liberty, and you can tell that most, if not all, of his political beliefs are honestly based off that. He’s not perfect, and there’d still be problems to deal with in his ideal libertarian society, but that’s true with anybody’s beliefs. It’s refreshing to see a politician on the right side of the aisle that genuinely believes in liberty. It’s something that all SU students, whatever their beliefs, will enjoy seeing.

Max Antonucci is a junior newspaper and online journalism major. His column appears weekly.You can email him at meantonu@syr.edu and follow him on Twitter @ DigitalMaxToday.

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OPINION

Power in numbers

Changing channels

Generation Y columnist Kate Beckman discusses the benefits of websites such as Kickstarter and Indiegogo for raising funds for millennials and their projects.

Pop Culture columnist Cassielee Grimaldi talks about long-term renewed television shows that should be canceled, as well as what networks should do to stay afloat.

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Pledging culture in greek organizations need change Sigma Alpha Epsilon ending pledging across all its chapters is a good start to address the issue of hazing and fraternityrelated deaths and injuries, but the fraternity should be doing more.

On March 7, SAE announced the elimination of its pledging process, replacing it with what the fraternity calls the “True Gentleman Experience.” It would require the fraternity to extend an invitation to initiate new members as brothers within four days, as opposed to the usual sixweek period.

Nationally, SAE has had a notorious reputation for its pledging process, being named “America’s deadliest fraternity” by Bloomberg in a Dec. 30 article. According to the story, SAE has had “nine deaths related to drinking, drugs and hazing” since 2006 — more than any other greek organization.

Although the change in policy indicates SAE recognizes the problem, getting rid of the pledging process may not be its most effective option. Even though there is no longer a pledging process, hazing can happen at any point, especially with fraternity matters happening behind closed doors.

It’s incredibly difficult to enforce a ban on hazing, which is one of the reasons why

these issues with fraternities still exist.

For SAE’s decision to truly work, the new “True Gentleman Experience” should be regulated much more strictly by the national chapter and individual universities.

Although the national fraternity warns that chapters caught hazing will be removed from the organization, individual universities need to take a firmer stance on fraternities and increase the consequences to ensure safety on its campus for students that are part of any greek organization.

Universities should take responsibility because they have the most direct proximity to each chapter, as the national organization may not be able to keep an eye on every chapter.

Although SAE has a new policy in place, hazing will still continue in practice until the entire hazing-culture within greek life is changed. The practice is a problem in all fraternities, with or without a pledging process.

Greek organizations should change their perspectives on pledging and understand that hazing is both an outdated and unacceptable practice today. Changing the policy will not end hazing, but changing the perception can.

women and gender

Gender equality benefits men, women both socially, economically

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hen most people think of gender equality, they envision a women’s movement.

It makes sense — women are the ones suffering the brunt of gender-based oppression. However, gender equality is also socially and economically beneficial for men.

On Friday, Time Magazine published an essay by Phumzile MlamboNgcuka, the executive director for United Nations Women, emphasizing the importance of men’s involvement in gender equality efforts.

Gender equality not only gives women their inalienable rights, but it benefits humanity as a whole. It News Editor Annie Palmer Editorial Editor Alfred Ng Sports Editor Stephen Bailey Feature Editor Lara Sorokanich Presentation Director Lizzie Hart Photo Editor Margaret Lin Art Director Natalie Riess Copy Chief Audrey Hart Development Editor Maddy Berner Social Media Producer Meredith Newman Video Editor Luke Rafferty

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WHAT A GIRL WANTS can help tackle the crippling poverty, illiteracy and abuse that have afflicted nations across the world.

Mlambo-Ngcuka stated that if women farmers had the same agricultural tools as men, they would be able to feed as many as 150 million people.

Although the U.S. doesn’t outright ban either gender from pursuing a career, our educational system and general treatment of both genders skew men toward certain job fields such Web Developer Asst. News Editor Asst. News Editor Asst. News Editor Asst. Feature Editor Asst. Sports Editor Asst. Sports Editor Asst. Photo Editor Asst. Photo Editor Design Editor Design Editor Design Editor Design Editor Design Editor Design Editor Asst. Copy Editor Asst. Copy Editor

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With gender equality, the world could open its mind to more women in STEM professions, and that openness could extend to a man who wants to be an interior decorator or a ballet dancer.

According to a survey by the U.S. Department of Education, in 20092010, females made up less than 25 percent of participants in STEM programs nationally even though they represented 57.4 percent of students receiving a bachelor’s degree. Women are making up a majority of those pursuing bachelor’s degrees but a minority

of those in the STEM field.

Gender equality will also help break down rigid gender roles that afflict us all. Men will no longer have the pressure of being strong caregivers and protectors. They will be free to express sadness and sensitivity without being seen as weak. With gender equality, a man’s emotions will no longer be seen as a ploy to get a girl or signs of a weaker man; it will be seen as human expression.

Men will also no longer have the pressure of proving themselves. With gender equality, everyone can pursue any career, dress in any way and act on any emotion without being seen as too feminine or too masculine.

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Without gender equality, no nation will see the full capacity of its economy or education. No nation can operate at its fullest when half of its population has no voice and no rights.

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Cafe offers reusable to-go boxes to reduce waste

By Leanna Kirschen staff writer

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UNY-ESF’s Trailhead Café is taking a step toward sustainability.

The cafe has begun a new Eco To-Go program that allows students to purchase reusable to-go boxes made of recyclable materials in order to reduce waste on campus.

The program started right after winter break, said James Zappola, the dining services manager at the Trailhead Café, adding that they had been working on the program for months prior to that.

The Trailhead Café is located in the Gateway Center on the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry’s campus, and takes its own form of dining dollars, called “Trailhead Dining Dollars.”

State University of New York at Morrisville recently hired several employees to work for ESF’s dining services, he said.

However, he added that this collaboration involved certain stipulations.

“We needed to try to be as sustainable as possible, so we knew we had to create a new program,” Zappola said.

The Trailhead Café’s dining services did their research, asked around at other universities and came across the Eco To-Go program, he said, and “the price was right.”

The cafe buys containers with three compartments from the Eco To-Go website, he said. The cafe purchased 48 containers so far and about half of them are currently in use.

Zappola said they ask students to empty their containers before returning them and then the cafe washes and sanitizes them. He added that the containers are dishwasher safe and there is no time limit to return them.

“The only time we charge extra for the containers is if they are lost or broken,” he said.

The Trailhead Café is trying to advertise the new system by posting on Facebook, sending out campus emails, putting signs on napkin holders and in front of the cafe, he said.

“There have been a lot of advertisements and emails to the student body,” said Ross

The Trailhead Café now offers reusable boxes for students who want to eat out. The boxes are made of recylcable materials, and are a part of the cafe’s Eco To-Go program. courtesy of get enterprises, llc

Mazur, a junior environmental resources engineering major and treasurer of the Green Campus Initiative.

GCI is not directly involved in the

We needed to try to be as sustainable as possible, so we knew we had to create a new program.

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project and the Trailhead Café originally took on the initiative, he said. However, he added, GCI is heading the zero-waste

campaign, so they strongly support the Eco To-Go Program.

It only costs about $2–3 to make the containers and the Café is selling them for $5 each, he said.

Mazur said that the Trailhead Café dining services often meet with GCI members so that the campus community is represented in their decision-making.

Brendan McCormack, a sophomore in environmental science who frequents the Trailhead Café for lunch, said the new system is a good idea, but he doesn’t often get his food to-go.

“I would waste the same amount (of food) if I was sitting down to eat,” he said. “But if I did get food to go, I would definitely use the containers.”

McCormack said he doesn’t know too

much about the program and hasn’t seen too many advertisements for it.

McCormack added that he saw an advertisement for the system for the first time right before Spring Break, but besides that, he has not seen or heard anything about it.

“I know that its goal is to promote reusing containers so that there isn’t nearly as much waste, but I’m unsure about the other aspects,” he said.

He suggested that the cashiers tell customers about the program as they get food to-go so that they are reminded about the program.

Even though he doesn’t use the program, McCormack admits that it’s a very good idea.

“It really solidifies what we do here at ESF,” he said. lwkirsch@syr.edu

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Boeheim foundation donates to Upstate cancer research

By Justin Mattingly staff writer

The Jim and Juli Boeheim Foundation is giving a $100,000 grant to researchers at Upstate Medical University to study potential new treatments for children with cancer.

The Boeheim Foundation was founded in 2009 to help Central New York children in need and to provide support for eliminating cancer through research and advocacy, according to the foundation’s website. Cancer is currently the fourth leading cause of death in children, according to a March 5 Upstate Medical University press release.

“The Boeheim Foundation is pleased to support such vital research that holds the hope of better treatment for children with cancer,” Juli Boeheim, wife of Jim Boeheim, said in the release.

“To be able to support this research right here in

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marshals if the marshals were unable to attend an event with the Board of Trustees, the alternate might be invited to attend in their place.

Both Newman and Taylor are public policy and political science majors, and Taylor said the policy program influences their ability to judge if changes need to be made in the university.

Taylor said he hopes to focus on encouraging student involvement in the greater Syracuse community. Regardless of their major, he said he believes students can get involved outside of the classroom and off of the Hill.

“Your major has no hold over commitment to involvement in community service,” Taylor said.

Taylor said he is educating himself on campus issues to be the best advocate for how to resolve them.

Taylor said it is hard to pick just one person to speak at the 2015 commencement ceremony.

But both he and Newman will chair the committee in charge of selecting the speaker, and the rest of the committee will tell them if bringing the speaker is feasible. The marshals also have to defend every person they put on their list of possible speakers.

“I can’t say I want the president because he’s the most famous person in the world,” Taylor said. “That’s cute, but it’s not feasible.”

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been established to ensure all members of the chapter are being held accountable.

“Sigma Alpha Epsilon understands and acknowledges that change is not easy and that the implementation on our campuses will provide challenges,” according to a document describing the True Gentlemen Experience.

“However, we are committed to providing assistance and guidance for this cultural shift in our collegiate operations.”

The fraternity said in a statement that the policy changes were motivated partly by bad publicity, but it was not the only factor.

The document said that the mission of new policies is to ensure equal rights and responsibilities for all members, provide accountability by formalizing expectations of members and to educate members throughout their time in the fraternity.

James Ogden, vice president of recruitment of the Interfraternity Council at Syracuse University and a member of SAE, said the

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our own backyard, at Upstate Medical University, makes this grant that much more meaningful.”

The Boeheim Foundation grant will be used to support two areas of research within pediatric cancer, said Timothy Damron, professor of orthopedic surgery at Upstate. Damron said in an email that researchers at the university have investigated different forms of cancer during the last two decades.

The first area of research will investigate new treatment options for children with osteosarcoma and Ewing sarcoma of bone, Damron said. The second area of research will look at ways to reduce the adverse effects of radiation treatments for childhood cancer on bone growth and development.

“Osteosarcoma and Ewing sarcoma of bone are the most common pediatric bone malignancies,” Damron said. “This work proposes to evaluate both tumors with respect to their mechanisms of After hearing Aaron Sorkin speak at her sister’s graduation from SU in 2012, Newman said she wants a speaker that can tell a story.

Newman said she did research into the class marshals’ involvement.

Newman said she wants someone who demonstrates scholarship in action. For Newman, scholarship in action involves problem solving outside the classroom — such as organizations like the White Ribbon Campaign, an organization that works to end domestic violence. Newman she said she joined the organization after her cousin’s abusive husband killed her.

Newman said she is most excited to encourage student involvement, but also wants to focus on skill development. She worked with William Coplin, a professor of public affairs in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, to create a seminar as part of an additional requirement for honors students enrolled in Coplin’s PAF 101: An Introduction to the Analysis of Public Policy class this semester.

After hearing some of the feedback from students, Newman said she feels the classroom is not the appropriate setting for teaching skills such as communication. She said she hopes to continue to shape and change a skill development seminar through other means.

Both Newman and Taylor said the lessons they’ve learned throughout their lives will help them lead in their position as class marshal. cstrange@syr.edu national organization made the decision and the SU chapter had no say. But he said the campus chapter understands the changes and is in favor of it.

In addition, Ogden said the changes help the organization return to its founding ideals.

“I think it’s more going back to how SAE initially started and tying back to our roots,” Ogden said.

He added that the new policies affect how SAE recruits new members since those men will have to be initiated within four days of accepting a bid.

Ogden said before rush begins current members will have to be more proactive about getting to know other potential members who are interested in joining SAE. He added that he didn’t expect the new policies to have any major influence on the relationship among members of the fraternity at SU. Said Ogden: “I think as long as we’re proactive about getting to know kids that are interested, I don’t think it will really have an effect because hopefully by the time they’re accepting a bid, we know them pretty well.” blsamuel@syr.edu

local invasion in order to identify potential translational treatments for affected children.”

Damron and Bryan Margulies, assistant professor of orthopedic surgery and cell and developmental biology at Upstate, are the two principal investigators in the first research grant.

The survival rate of children diagnosed with osteosarcoma and Ewing sarcoma of bone is approximately 50–70 percent, according to the release.

Much of the current treatment of sarcomas focuses on intensive chemotherapy drugs and a new treatment method is needed, Damron said.

“Newer treatment approaches are needed in order to cure these diseases,” he said. “One novel approach would be to target the local labor in order to block the tumor’s ability to cause the damage that allows the tumor to spread and kill.”

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help bring fans to the second round game, Goroshovsky said. She said she is considering purchasing tickets and traveling to Buffalo.

T.J. Wells, a freshman advertising major, said he would also try to travel to Buffalo to see the game. He said he believes the proximity to

the supervision of Damron and Megan Oest, assistant professor of orthopedic surgery and cell and developmental biology at Upstate, and will focus on the adverse effects of treatment for childhood cancer, according to the release.

“Our global hypothesis is that radiation damage to stem cells, specifically mesenchymal stem cells, is key to the post-radiation musculoskeletal damage leading to limb length discrepancy and bone fragility,” Damron said.

There are two steps in investigating the role of mesenchymal stem cells, or MSCs, in bone damage, Damron said.

The first is to show that there’s a relationship between the radiation damage and damage to MSCs, and the second step is to show that rescuing MSCs will reduce adverse radiation musculoskeletal effects, Damron said. jmatting@syr.edu Syracuse may give the Orange an advantage.

And since the tournament game is so close to Syracuse, he said the opportunity might be too good for season ticket holders to pass up.

“I will definitely try and go to Buffalo to support Syracuse. It’s close by and since it’s March Madness, why wouldn’t you want to go?” Wells said. “It doesn’t get much better than that.” jspramuk@syr.edu jmatting@syr.edu

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williams very accepting and inviting.”

Williams died on March 6 in Syracuse, leaving behind her infant son. She was the diversity education specialist for Conversations About Race and Ethnicity in OMA. She had also received a master’s degree in school counseling from SU in 2009 and was pursuing a certificate of advanced study.

“Our hearts are broken after losing this very special, bright and wonderful colleague,” said Rebecca Kantrowitz, interim senior vice president and dean of student affairs in an email. “We knew her to be a thoughtful, sensitive and very giving individual.”

As a diversity education specialist for C.A.R.E., Williams was in charge of coordinating discussions on race and racism, Duah-Agyeman said.

In an email sent on behalf of the Department of Counseling and Human Services, Department Chair Nicole Hill said Williams spoke to school counselors-in-training each year about her experiences and how they could change the system.

“She was enthusiastic about using her counseling skills not only to benefit indi-

vidual students, but their families and communities as well,” she said.

Faculty enjoyed her laughter, engagement in the classroom and positive approach to tackling difficult topics and issues, Hill added.

Afton Kechter, a graduate student in the School of Education, said in an email that Williams was committed to ensuring her students’ safety and well-being.

“She had a vibrant personality and passion for the field that shined through a comment she made in class, ‘If one of my students is getting bullied or treated unfairly, I go find that bully and give it to ‘em!’” she said.

In an email, Cara Capparelli, a graduate student in the School of Education, said she could tell that Williams’ love for counseling and her students was strong through the stories she shared.

“This is truly a tragedy for those who knew and loved her, and especially for her beautiful baby boy,” she said.

Duah-Agyeman said he misses Williams’ presence and how much Williams loved life.

He remembers the love between Williams and her sister, Willingham.

Said Duah-Agyeman: “How much she enriched our life is something that I will treasure always.” ekmeyers@syr.edu | @Ellen_Meyers

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Slumping Syracuse will need to defy history to make deep tourney run

REENSBORO, N.C. — Trevor Cooney hunched forward on his stool, answering each question more quietly than the last.

Behind him, B.J. Johnson hid in his locker, towel draped over his head as teammates slowly walked by to check who was under it.

The “3 2 1” posters that hung between each locker, representing the victories needed to win the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament, were

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The scene played on for about 20 minutes after Syracuse was upset by North Carolina State in the quarterfinals Friday — the low point for a team that only weeks ago was riding the best start in program history.

But head coach Jim Boeheim took a different stance. The same one he has through the Orange’s 2-5 slide leading into the NCAA Tournament.

“I’m not concerned about our

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team,” Boeheim said. “I think we played well all year. I think we struggle shooting it. I think that’s pretty well documented. But in spite of that, we won 27 games.

“And I believe that we’ll be a very good Tournament team.”

No. 3-seed Syracuse (27-5, 14-4 ACC) will begin its NCA A Tournament against No. 14-seed Western Michigan (23-9, 14-4 Mid-American) in Buffalo on Thursday at approximately 2:45 p.m. Disastrous finish considered, the Orange still won more games than 95.4 percent of Division-I teams. Its zone defense is still one of the most effective

in the country and its lineup still boasts two potential NBA Draft lottery picks in Tyler Ennis and Jerami Grant.

But does that make it a team fit to make a deep run in the Big Dance?

Some argue experience and guard play makes an elite contender in March (the Orange has that). Others push for defense and rebounding (those come and go for SU). Others still emphasize late-game efficiency

(what is that again?).

But if history tells us anything, momentum is the most important factor.

No team to lose its first conference tournament game has ever won the NCAA Tournament. And no team to even make the Final Four in the last five years has entered the tournament slumping this poorly.

“On any given night, we could lose to any team,” SU point guard Tyler Ennis said, “but we could also beat any team. We’ve just got to get our confidence back.”

Offensively, the Orange has turned from a balanced and powerful unit to a group of players running very predictable sets.

The double-baseline screens that used to free Cooney aren’t connecting on defenders. The isolation plays that C.J. Fair relied on to burn defenders earlier in the season are leading to air balls and turnovers.

And the post moves Rakeem Christmas flashed at times through the year have disappeared.

In the team’s first 25 games, it shot 45.4 percent from the field. In

its last seven, it’s shot 38.2 percent.

And its leading scorer, Fair, has shot just 36 percent in the team’s five losses. He shot 3-of-16, making just one non-dunk, in SU’s loss to the Wolfpack.

“Every game I take the normal shots I usually take,” Fair said. “And today was one of those nights where I couldn’t really get going.”

To make the Final Four run that Fair targeted last week, the Orange can’t afford another dud from its star senior.

Especially because while SU

is backing into the Big Dance, its regional foes are not. No. 6-seed and potential Round of 32 opponent Ohio State won three straight before nearly upsetting Michigan in the Big 10 tournament. No. 2-seed Kansas could be getting Joel Embiid back for the Sweet 16.

And No. 1-seed Florida and No. 4-seed UCLA, the likely Elite Eight matchup, are coming off conference tournament championships.

“The season’s not over,” SU guard Michael Gbinije said, “and that’s something that us as players realized

and coach just said. We have more games ahead of us.”

The Orange has all the pieces to turn it around. The same players that went 25-0 are still here and healthy for the most part.

But right now Syracuse is not a good Tournament team. And unless something changes, the season could be over as soon as this weekend.

Stephen Bailey is the sports editor at The Daily Orange, where his column appears occasionally. He can be reached at sebail01@syr.edu or on Twitter at @Stephen_Bailey1.

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EARLY EXIT: Syracuse falls to N.C. State in ACC tournament

By David Wilson staff writer

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Earlier in the season, maybe one of those final shots would have found

the bottom of the net. But for Syracuse, playing in its first Atlantic Coast Conference tournament game, that sort of magic has vanished.

Down three to North Carolina State with less than 30 seconds remaining, Tyler Ennis

missed a tough layup. Syracuse gathered the rebound. Jerami Grant missed a putback dunk. Syracuse gathered the rebound. Ennis missed a 3. Syracuse gathered the rebound.

Trevor Cooney missed a 3. Syracuse gathered the rebound. C.J. Fair missed a 3. Syracuse gathered the rebound. Cooney missed a 3. The ball bounced too far out of bounds for Fair to save it.

Six chances to send the game into overtime or at least extend it to an extra possession.

Six misses. The final score lingered at 66-63 through it all and the Orange left its first ACC tournament in the quarterfinals.

We got a few good looks and myself, I got a clean look. I just didn’t knock it down.

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“We got a few good looks and myself, I got a clean look. I just didn’t knock it down,” Fair said. “And from there, we was just scrambling trying to get in another opportunity.”

The 3-point shot, though, has been No. 11 Syracuse’s greatest weakness this season and it prevented the No. 2-seed Orange (275, 14-4 ACC) from another miracle against the No. 7-seed Wolfpack (21-12, 9-9) in front of 21,533 at Greensboro Coliseum in North Carolina on Friday.

SU’s offense was disastrous from the start and Syracuse dug itself into another hole. It found some offensive stability late in the second frame — “We made some really good plays to get back in it,” head coach Jim Boeheim said — but with the game on the line, the offense reverted back to its first-half form and wilted. “…And we made two bad plays to get back out of it.”

With 3:41 remaining, the Orange had completed its rally from a double-digit deficit and

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took a two-point lead. On the defensive end, Grant blocked T.J. Warren to set up a runout in the other direction.

Ennis pushed the ball up the floor and threw up a runner in the lane that missed off the glass.

Cooney committed a foul and Anthony “Cat” Barber sunk two free throws to tie the game.

“It was a really bad play,” Boeheim said, “and we haven’t been making those plays in the close games.”

Until that point, though, Ennis was the one that kept SU close.

When Syracuse fell behind by 10, he carried the Orange back with one of his best scoring displays of the year. He drilled two 3s, sunk another jumper and dished out two assists during a 14-5 run that pulled the Orange within one entering the final five minutes.

“Tyler tries to score when we need points,” Boeheim said, “and we needed points.”

Even after he followed up a rare offensive miscue with an offensive foul two possessions after Fair committed one, there were still chances to be had. With 25 seconds left, the Orange had one more chance that turned into six.

Ennis got to the rim and missed a tough layup, but Grant’s putback dunk should have been easier. Four consecutive 3s missed, including a good look for Fair, and the Orange couldn’t capitalize on its opportunity.

“We needed a 3, so we wanted to get as many 3s up as we could, hoping that one would go in for us,” Cooney said.

The locker room scene that followed is one that has suddenly become familiar. For 25 games, Syracuse never had to deal with a loss, but losing in its first ACC tournament game the Orange is facing the harsh reality that it now can’t afford another one.

Pasted on the wall between several of the lockers was a poster with a picture of the ACC championship trophy in the middle and the numbers “3 2 1” along the bottom — presumably representing each win needed to take home that trophy.

As SU exited Greensboro Coliseum for the first time, the posters remained intact. None of the numbers were crossed off.

“On any given night, we could lose to any team,” Ennis said, “but we could also beat any team. We’ve just got to get our confidence.” dbwilson@syr.edu | @DBWilson2

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tournament would face the winner of that game in the Round of 32 on Saturday in Buffalo.

But SU head coach Jim Boeheim knows the importance of not looking past Western Michigan.

“There’s no such thing as an easy starting game in the NCAA Tournament anymore,” Boeheim said. “Western Michigan is a very, very good basketball team. They won a very difficult conference tournament.”

If Syracuse knocks off the Broncos and Ohio State or Dayton, it will head to Memphis for the Sweet 16. SU is also in the same region as No. 1- seed Florida, No. 2-seed Kansas and No. 4-seed UCLA. The Gators have won 26 consecutive games and received the No. 1 overall seed. Kansas is missing star big man Joel Embiid, but he could return if Syracuse plays Kansas. UCLA won the Pac-12 tournament, knocking off favorite Arizona in the process.

Despite the difficult draw, Boeheim is confident in his team’s ability to compete.

“I’m very confident with the way we’ve played overall the last couple games,” Boeheim said. “Before that we didn’t have Jerami Grant.

I’m very confident that this team will be ready to play on Thursday.”

He’s not worried about the fact that SU has lost five of its last seven games after starting the season 25-0. He mentioned that the last two times the Orange entered the NCAA Tournament fresh off a Big East championship, it got bounced in the first round.

Boeheim cited the Florida State game as a reason to be confident moving forward. The Seminoles needed a signature win to keep their NCAA Tournament hopes alive, but Syracuse squelched any hope they had of making the dance, running

away with a 74-58 win on March 9.

Even against North Carolina State in the ACC tournament quarterfinals, though the No. 2-seed Orange lost to the No. 7-seed Wolfpack, Boeheim said his team played well. SU simply missed shots it usually makes. Boeheim has maintained that the Orange has not been in a slump all season.

“I think we’re right where we should be,” SU forward C.J. Fair said. “We’re a three seed and we had a great year this year. Unfortunately, we

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had a little losing streak toward the end of the season, but overall the season I think is a success as far as regular season, so going into the Tournament we’ve just got to keep fighting and make that one last push.”

The quest for a second consecutive trip to the Final Four starts in Buffalo, a city less than three hours from Syracuse. Fair said Syracuse is ready to play anywhere and is simply excited to be in the Tournament, but that having homecourt advantage will definitely be helpful.

“I don’t think it really matters as far as us because we get a good fan base anywhere we play,” Fair said. “Of course, people normally like to travel to different places they’ve never been, but us going to Buffalo — it definitely can help us.” tbhass@syr.edu | @TrevorHass

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Syracuse draws tough South Region, possible OSU rematch

TYLER ENNIS goes up for a shot in SU’s loss in the ACC tournament. The Orange enters the NCAA Tournament having lost five of its last seven games. chase gaewski managing editor

By David Wilson staff writer

Two years ago, Ohio State stood in the way of a trip to the Final Four for Syracuse. There were other hurdles — an untimely Fab Melo suspension, a tricky first-round game and a nail-biter against Wisconsin — but the Buckeyes were ultimately the one the Orange couldn’t cross.

When the 2014 NCAA Tournament bracket was revealed on Sunday and SU’s path to Dallas for a second straight Final Four was set in stone, there was OSU again, standing in No. 3-seed Syracuse’s way.

Some things need to fall in place for it to happen — the Orange has to beat No. 14-seed Western Michigan on Thursday in Buffalo and No. 6-seed Ohio State needs to do the same to No. 11-seed Dayton. If they do, there will be a rematch of the 2012 Elite Eight game on Saturday.

Along with Western Michigan and Ohio State, No. 1-seed Florida, No. 2-seed Kansas, No. 4-seed UCLA and No. 5-seed Virginia Commonwealth are also teams the Orange could face in the region.

“I don’t think that would help us, thinking about getting revenge on Ohio State, but us taking each game at a time,” SU forward C.J. Fair said. “We look at the bigger picture, trying to make another Final Four run. They’re in the way of that. We’ve just got to take them down, as well.”

Fair is one of three contributing players for Syracuse that played a role when the Orange fell to Ohio State. Rakeem Christmas was a freshman starter that year and senior center Baye Moussa Keita was a role player.

The Buckeyes still have two of the starters from that Elite Eight game — senior guards Aaron Craft and Lenzelle Smith Jr. — and Shannon Scott, Sam Thompson and center Amir Williams all made an appearance in the contest.

Like SU, this year’s OSU team is a bit offensively challenged, but strong on the defense end. Neither Syracuse nor Ohio State rank in the top 200 in terms of points per game this season, but are both top-12 defensive squads.

But before the Orange even thinks about the Buckeyes, it has to worry about Western Michigan.

The Broncos finished second in the MidAmerican Conference during the regular season and upset top-seed Toledo to clinch an automatic berth.

Western Michigan played three games against common opponents to SU, beating Cornell and splitting two games against Eastern Michigan. In their loss to the Eagles in January, the Broncos scored just 37 points.

“We haven’t seen the tape yet,” SU head coach Jim Boeheim said on Sunday. “They’re a really good team in a good conference and they won the tournament.”

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The final team in SU’s sub-region is Dayton, which finished sixth in the Atlantic 10, but still made the NCAA Tournament as an at-large team.

They have wins against Tournament teams Gonzaga, George Washington, Massachusetts and Saint Louis, and competed in the EA Sports Maui Invitational in November, but didn’t meet up with the Orange.

Dayton is the team that SU is least likely to play in Buffalo, but Syracuse can’t focus on any of the potential matchups, anyway. That attention lies squarely on WMU. “I think that can mess up teams, trying to look ahead,” Fair said, “and then you’re not focused on the team in front of you.” dbwilson@syr.edu | @DBWilson2

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FINDING A WAY: SU upsets No. 3 JHU despite faceoff struggles

By Jesse Dougherty asst. sports editor

BALTIMORE — In almost every way possible, Syracuse’s early-season struggles persisted.

The Orange won just four faceoffs in 25 tries, was consequently outshot and collected seven fewer groundballs than Johns Hopkins. The Blue Jays exploited the visitor’s glaring weakness at the faceoff X and, for most of the game, seemed to be running away with their sixth straight win to start the season unscathed.

Yet Syracuse never relinquished a lead salvaged early in the first quarter, and edged Johns Hopkins in the category with the biggest effect on the Orange’s psyche and standing.

“It wasn’t easy,” SU head coach John Desko said. “I wasn’t feeling too good at the time with the way we were doing on faceoffs and they played well.

“We were able to hold them off and score some big goals in the second half.”

Despite another digression from Chris Daddio and the rest of Syracuse’s faceoff specialists, the No. 10 Orange (4-2, 0-2 Atlantic Coast) snuck

by No. 3 Johns Hopkins (5-1) 12-10 in front of 4,337 at Homewood Stadium. SU leaned on its attack to do so, as the Orange’s front line was careful with the ball and made the most of its opportunities with possessions at a premium.

Johns Hopkins’ Ryan Brown netted eight goals — including six in the second half — and was prolific throughout. But sophomore Dylan Donahue countered Brown’s day with a hat trick punctuated by a goal with 2:13 left in the game that put the Blue Jays permanently out of reach.

“Every possession becomes important to us when the other team is winning faceoffs like that,” Desko said.

What the Orange lacked at the X, it made up for with ball security and shot selection.

Johns Hopkins scored its first goal of the game after a possession that nearly spanned three minutes. Then Drew Kennedy — who came into the contest winning faceoffs at a 65 percent clip and stuck true to form — started to win faceoffs one after another.

The stocky FOGO won 3-of-5 in the first quarter then 5-of-6 in the second, but Syracuse didn’t appear handcuffed like it has so often this season.

Johns Hopkins was careless with the ball, the Orange was pesky in the midfield and

senior goalie Dominic Lamolinara yielded just three first-half goals. And when Syracuse did have the ball, it was methodical in making the most of each trip into the attacking third.

Not one Blue Jays player was credited with a forced turnover in the final box score, and only three SU players took more than three shots.

“We had a game plan coming in on that goalie,” Donahue said. “We don’t like looking into it too much, but really it was all about placement.”

While Donahue paced the Orange, midfielders Scott Loy and Billy Ward each added two goals each — and the Orange would need every bit of the collective offensive effort to stave off a late push led by Brown.

The sophomore attack scored three quick goals to start the second half, and after SU entered the fourth with a four-goal lead, three more goals by Brown trimmed the deficit to one at 10-9.

But freshman Nick Weston, who has played sparingly this season and notched just one goal in the Orange’s previous five contests, fired a shot past JHU goalie Eric Schneider from 15 yards out.

As Syracuse celebrated around Weston, a game that was once dominated by the Blue Jays at the X and the Orange on the scoreboard had turned from confusing to climactic. The teams had twice traded 3-0 runs, and it came down to one possession after an SU timeout with two and change on the clock.

Donahue freed himself on the right side of the goal and fired a shot past Schneider’s right shoulder and into the top of the cage. An emphatic fist pump followed.

And when the Orange ran out the clock, the bench stormed the field while the Blue Jays limped off it.

“It’s a huge win for us as a team. It means a lot,” senior long-stick midfielder Matt Harris said. “We were all kind of jumping around and having fun.”

Four faceoff wins doesn’t usually call for a celebration, and with a date with Duke eight days ahead, the problem is as magnified as it will be all season.

But sometimes there are just other ways to win.

Said JHU head coach Dave Pietramala: “You learned today that faceoffs aren’t the be-all and end-all.” jcdoug01@syr.edu | @dougherty_jesse

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n a society where everyone is trying to distinguish himself or herself, it seems that doing the exact opposite is becoming a trend.

Out are all the bright colored, printclashing, avant-garde pieces that have given fashion its artistic reputation. In are the blatantly basic staple items that you would wear on a lazy Sunday.

Simply put, fashion has become a stylized blandness. Blending in has become the new standing out.

K-Hole, a New York based trend-forecasting group, calls it “normcore”. Others call it dressing like a tourist. I’m not sure exactly what to call it, but maybe that’s because I just don’t understand it.

Emily Segal, one of the founders of K-Hole, describes normcore as a submission into sameness. “It’s not about being simple or forfeiting individuality to become a bland, uniform mass,” she explained in a Feb. 26 New York Magazine article. Segal said it’s about being OK with looking like other people and, “seeing that as an opportunity for connection, instead of as evidence that your identity has dissolved.”

The whole idea of normcore is more than just a trend: it’s an attitude about life.

Embracing sameness, rather than being different or authentic, is the new way to be cool.

One of the main principles of normcore is the understanding that there’s no such thing as normal. Normcore seeks the freedom that comes with non-exclusivity. It finds liberation in looking like nothing special.

When applied to fashion, the goal of normcore is just like that of its name: to look normal. Rather than wearing elaborate designer brand items, generic brand non-style clothing is at the center.

I follow a lot fashion bloggers on Instagram, and recently, I have noticed a transition toward normcore. I was used to seeing floral skirts and neon tops with plunging necklines, but now all I’m seeing is jeans and T-shirts — maybe a turtleneck, if I’m lucky.

It seems like bloggers are embracing this new mode of dress, keeping it simple and comfortable.

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I waited at least six hours on that line, and the day before that, I waited another four hours just to get my ticket to the show — which I heard had extended to about four blocks before the tickets ran out.

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WHEN IN DOUBT, WEAR RED unique? I like shopping at thrift stores to find those pieces that I know no one else is going to find. I don’t want us to all look like Levi’s jeans model-zombies.

While I’m all for simplicity, normal can easily get boring. When all that changes is the color of your shirt, your closet can look quite one-dimensional. Prints and experimentation with hemlines are what keep fashion interesting.

When looking at the items that classify normcore, it appears that we’re taking a trip back into the ‘90s, or we’ve stepped off of a tour bus in Times Square. We see Patagonia fleeces and original Levi jeans. We see stark white Keds and Adidas track jackets.

Sure, things that went out of style can come back in, but there is a reason why turtlenecks and khakis with Birkenstocks went out of style and stayed there. Dorky is not always cute.

Today’s geek chic and geek chic of the ‘90s are two whole different entities. If we brought back the geeky style of the ‘90s, we would have a return of Steve Urkel. And that’s exactly what we don’t want a return of.

The style icons for fashion’s new look— Steve Jobs, Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David— are far from the types of celebrities that you would usually see as the trendsetters. None of these men you would consider very fashionable; their clothes are simply functional.

Fashion has been known for putting creativity over function. It seems that now the exact opposite is what is becoming popular.

While I like the idea of normcore and the message that it sends, I’m not sure if I can get used to the fashions that are coming with it. I want fashion that is going to make me excited, not fall asleep.

Alexis McDonell is a sophomore magazine journalism major. Her column appears every week in Pulp. E-mail her at admcdone@syr.edu and follow her on Twitter at @AlexisMickD.

realized by the time I reached the front of the line, the concert would already been over.

Something about paying more than $1,000 for a badge to SXSW also turns otherwise normal people into entitled jerks, just because they paid to be there. SXSW-goers complained when a man tried driving his car out of his own driveway. You’re in their backyards, people.

Just because you paid doesn’t mean you get to be a giant a**hole.

People at the Chance the Rapper concert refused to leave the venue when the fire marshal showed up and evacuated it because it was a fire hazard. People would actually rather potentially burn to death than have to leave a concert there.

SXSW was a great place to be, but always be careful to not develop a case of SXSW-mania — symptoms include an immunity to long lines and acting like the worst person alive.

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reeder He had a little money then and was able to buy things for his family and for himself, including clothes no one else in his neighborhood had.

As a teenager in 1939, Reeder moved to Syracuse. He found work driving a bulldozer on Route 20, and sent $50 every month to the rest of his family in Alabama. One day while working, another employee told him he needed to go to college.

Reeder remembered his reply: “I already know a lot about books and things.” But he agreed to go after finishing one year at Corcoran High School before he could be admitted as an SU student. He said the university was much different then.

“When I went to school, it was $700 a year.” Reeder said, also noting that he went to school the same time as record-setting football player Jim Brown.

Reeder said racial tension existed on the campus back when he was a student; he remembers when spectators didn’t want Brown to play at games. He also recollected a time when he was denied food at a restaurant in Cicero.

“I was born in the Jim Crow times. The blacks had to be in a different section from the whites.” Reeder said. “The university had to pass a lot of laws against segregation.

Downtown they would never pass the laws. The school did more than the city did.”

After graduating from SU, Reeder continued to pick up odd jobs, including work as a

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mortician, before he eventually got a job at the university in its maintenance department.

Reeder’s office now is located in Day Hall, brimming with cords, boxes of bulbs and jars of screws, nuts and bolts. He likes using Jiffy jars, his favorite type of peanut butter, for storage but uses emptied bean cans too.

He smiles at students when they walk by. Students in Flint and Day have make him posters in the past, thanking him for all he has done.

He regularly helps students around campus, and will offer his pickup truck to anyone who needs help moving their belongings. He goes around fixing various things, from lights to washing machines.

“Lonnie is one of a kind. Someone you meet once in a lifetime,” said Tomi Crowell, a worker in maintenance, and one of Reeder’s friends.

“He’s just an open, down-to-the-earth kind of a guy. Heart of gold.”

Another maintenance worker at SU, Rusty Tassini, has known Reeder for four years, and says always been an advocate and volunteer for the Syracuse community.

“He’ll help local food pantries by delivering for them. He uses his pickup truck, he never accepts any money for it,” Tassini said.

“He helps people all over the city. It’s just his nature. He’ll hear somebody has a problem with something and he’ll be there to help,” These are just the echoes of a testament from the rest of the community. In 2006, SU’s Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Committee awarded Reeder with the Unsung Heroes Award. one of their main priorities, as they aim to reach 50,000 subscribers in the next year, Cobuzio said. Matarazzo, who said he has a strong business sense, said he continuously thinks of how they can strategically move their channel forward.

To help achieve their goal, Cobuzio and Mata-

Reeder’s offi ce is lined with Jiffy peanut butter jars repurposed as organizational containers. He also recycles other containers for storage in his Day Hall office. margaret lin photo editor

“Lonnie has been the same person for the four years I’ve known him,” Tassini said. “He’s the first to volunteer. When we would have shovel events, he was out there with a shovel when we needed volunteers.”

Reeder credits his work ethic to his mother, who he was very close to.

“My mother always taught me never to tell somebody something that you can’t do. Never promise nothing you can’t do,” he said.

While many people think Reeder should

retire, he said he’d rather work because he enjoys what he does.

“He certainly never made an excuse about his age,” Tassini continued. “He can still outwork anybody I know.”

While 80 is a milestone age, Reeder shows no signs of slowing down.

Tomorrow, when the celebrations are over, he will be back at his usual spot, ready for work.

razzo began a TubeStart campaign — a platform offering crowd funding for web series — on March 10. They are aiming to receive $1,250 from donors to help their big video ventures in the future.

“We want to get to know our fan base and we’re willing to reach out to them. We need them as much as they need us,” Ensslin said.

Cobuzio said he and Matarazzo are great partners. He hopes it will lead to a job down the road, he said. For now, JTS is their niche, and no one can take that away from them.

Matarazzo said: “I love doing it and it’s a lot of fun. It never feels like work to me.”

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Bamboo House Asian Restaurant shines in food presentation, disappoints in Asian classics

By Vekonda Luangaphay staff writer

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he Bamboo House Asian Restaurant is one place where food presentation outshines dining room décor.

The sushi chefs and cooks show off their artistic flare in the way they plate your food. The Bamboo House Asian Restaurant just had its grand opening a little over two weeks ago, and is located on West Genesee Street in downtown Syracuse.

Although no one was dining while I was, it made my meal come quicker and I was happy with that. The walls were painted in a light orange color. The empty walls made the alreadyvacant restaurant look even more desolate.

The restaurant offers Chinese, Japanese and Thai food. The majority of the menu is made up of Chinese and Japanese food, and there aren’t more than five Thai dishes. It appears the Bamboo House Asian Restaurant specializes more in Americanized Chinese and Japanese cuisine than Thai cuisines, or is still working on adding more Thai dishes to its menu.

I tasted the crab Rangoon for $4.25, the volcano roll for $11.95, and the Chinese lunch of hot and sour soup, pork fried rice, and hunan chicken for $6.50.

I started off with crab Rangoon, a fried appetizer that’s typically wonton sheets wrapped around a mixture of crabmeat and cream cheese.

The edges of the wrappers are sealed together using egg whites, which is crucial, since otherwise the filling would ooze out while deep-frying it.

That was the case with these wrappers. The appetizer dish came with six mini wontons, and not every crab Rangoon had the filling in it, which was disappointing.

Those ones instead ended up being crispy homemade wonton chips, though I did enjoy the ones that had the creamy filling intact. They were fried to a perfect crispy and crunchy texture, which was a total opposite to the warm and creamy filling, which made this a snack worth craving.

Soon after, the waiter brought out the sushi. The

The Bamboo House Asian Restaurant’s menu features crab Rangoon, which consists of wonton sheets wrapped around a mixture of crabmeat and cream cheese. joshua chang staff photographer

volcano roll exploded with flavors. The whole roll was dipped in batter and fried until the outside was crispy, and had seaweed casing and was stuffed with cooked white fish. Then it was cut, and topped with pureed raw salmon, sauces and a crunchy garnish.

It was mouth-watering, sweet and savory, like delicious candied protein. The multiple textures were like a carnival in my mouth: the starchy rice, the mushy pureed raw fish, the meaty cooked white fish, the creamy spicy mayo, the sweet silky drizzle of eel sauce and the crispy tempura flakes that took my taste buds on a fun ride.

On the center of the plate, a cucumber garnish was carved into what appeared to be half of a dahlia flower and a carrot was transformed into a bed of slinky noodles. Both were set right in the center of the plate.

I also ordered the hunan chicken, which is a popular Americanized Chinese dish. It came with hot and sour soup and pork fried rice. The dish also had enough spicy heat to make my tongue feel a bit numb, which I appreciated very much.

ON THE MENU Bamboo House Roll Tuna, salmon, avocado, oshinko, topped with yellowtail and jalapeño 3 Musketeers Roll Tuna, salmon, yellowtail, topped with avocado and tobiko Lion King Roll Shrimp tempura, avocado topped with eel

I love hot and sour soup, but their soup wasn’t what a typically hot and sour soup would have. It had too much tofu, very minimal enoki mushrooms, and absolutely no bamboo shoots at all. They should’ve called it tofu soup instead of hot and sour soup.

If you’re in Clinton Square and crave Americanized Chinese food, then the Bamboo House Asian Restaurant is a good bet.

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Surprises surface at festival

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NICK MATARAZZO AND MATT COBUZIO, students at Syracuse University, are the creators of “Jersey to Syracuse,” which is a new YouTube channel that has garnered more than 5,000 subscribers and 140,000 views. photo courtesy of drew osumi

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Campus comedians attract large following on YouTube channel

By Julia Olteanu contributing writer

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he inspiration to name his YouTube channel woke Nick Matarazzo up at 2:30 in the morning.

“I was thinking about it for at least three hours, trying to figure out what we could do with this new channel,” he said. After he woke up, he immediately began writing down potential channel names.

“Jersey to Syracuse” is a YouTube channel created by New Jersey natives and Syracuse University students Matt Cobuzio and Nick Matarazzo. The channel specializes sketch comedy and prank videos about the typical college experience. Within three months of posting their first video in December, the channel has acquired 5,489 YouTube subscribers. The boys usually post a new video every Monday at 4 p.m.

Cobuzio, a sophomore television, radio and film major, and Matarazzo, a freshman public relations major, started out as acquaintances in high school. Now, seven months later, the pair are inseparable.

They finish each other’s sentences and bounce off each other’s ideas.

These two are more than partners — they’re not only bound by their fraternity, Theta Chi, but also by their mutual passion for creating YouTube videos. With this connection, “Jersey to Syracuse” was born.

Cobuzio wanted to partner with someone just as dedicated and driven as him, he said.

“Nick definitely has a motivation and an inspiration for YouTube, and that’s why I wanted him,” he explained.

Matarazzo said he was already a big fan of Cobuzio’s personal channel, so when the opportunity arose to join forces, Matarazzo could not have been more thrilled. He said it’s always been a goal of his to be in one of Cobuzio’s videos.

After the duo got together, Matarazzo had the epiphany about the group’s

name during Thanksgiving break last year. When titles with the words “orange” or “juice” became unsatisfying, Matarazzo thought of their current name.

Just recently, this power duo decided to bring their friend, freshman engineering major Tatiana Ensslin, on board to help them with scripts.

She has already been a part of two videos.

“Half of the time we film, it’s not even written down. Ninety percent of what makes it into the video is us on a whim. Nick and Matt are really great,” Ensslin said.

After filming for six to seven hours daily for a week and a half during Winter Break, the men behind JTS launched their first video on Dec. 23, 2013, called “How Animals Open their Christmas Presents.”

The channel currently has 14 videos, covering everything from relatable situations, to expectations versus realities and even a fake Super Bowl commercial, which received 65,000 views within four days of posting.

Matarazzo and Cobuzio both said the fans’ comments were the “best reward, hands down.”

A lot of their ideas spawn from being university students and Here are the most viewed “Jersey to websites like Imgur. “Anything Syracuse” videos: that I see, especially around campus, usually becomes an idea that 1. Richard Sherman 2014 could be a potential video,” said Funny SuperBowl Matarazzo.

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by Southwest, remember to go with the flow, because there are just too many things to control. The interactive music and film festival in Austin, Texas, has quickly grown to become one of the biggest events in the city, attracting hundreds of thousands every year as one of the few places you can see the cast of Portlandia, Kanye West, Jay Z and Lady Gaga all in the same 48 hours.

SXSW can quickly become overwhelming if you’re not ready, and even if you are, it’s still too much. I arrived in Austin on March 10 with a notepad scheduled with all the events I wanted to go to. By the time I left to return to Syracuse, N.Y., I hadn’t gone to a single one on that list.

But it turns out the best things about SXSW are the ones you didn’t expect to do at all — like randomly running into video game Shaq Fu extraordinaire Shaquille O’Neal.

I went to a concert that I planned to go to since winter break, and also a surprise show that was announced only 48 hours before it started.

The show I planned to go to was Chance the Rapper, the surprise show was Kanye West and Jay Z. I’ll let you decide which one I had more fun at.

I planned on seeing Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein, the cocreators of Portlandia speaking. I did not plan on Lady Gaga walking right past me down a street in Austin at around 2 a.m.

As much as I love both Chance the Rapper and Portlandia, the surprises at SXSW are what made this festival such a great place to be. Things there could always be bigger, could always be better — at any moment, a mediocre night could become amazing at SXSW. Your friends that go to SXSW will tell you all the same things I’ve told you — the shows were spectacular, brag about all the cool things they did and tell you about the highlight reel of their trip.

But what they won’t tell you, what you didn’t read in the tweets and what you didn’t see on Instagram, were all the lines at SXSW. Anything you wanted to go to in SXSW meant you were getting on a line, from a see ng page 16