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N • Deadline extension

The deadline to register to vote in the New York state primary is March 25. The D.O. put together a few ways to register to vote.

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P • Turning the page

S • Point man

With the Librarian of Congress having been nominated recently, see why some SU community members are interested in the field.

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Gbinije led Syracuse with 23 points on Sunday against Middle Tennessee State. He helped carry the Orange to its first Sweet 16 since 2013.

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TYLER LYDON smiles during No. 10 seed Syracuse’s win over No. 15 seed Middle Tennessee State on Sunday night. The Orange advanced to its first Sweet 16 since 2013. margaret lin senior staff photographer

QUENTIN HILLSMAN, SU’s head coach, lifts both arms into the air as his team celebrates a 76-59 win over No. 12 seed Albany on Sunday in the Round of 32. logan reidsma senior staff photographer

Syracuse keeps season alive in Round of 32 with thumping of MTSU

Syracuse advances to 1st-ever Sweet 16 with 76-59 win over Albany

By Jesse Dougherty senior staff writer

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T. LOUIS — It didn’t matter who it was. It didn’t matter what they did. The response from the Syracuse cheering section, snugly situated behind the Orange’s bench, was on repeat as the game wound down. Like each of the 200 or so fans were pre-programmed to rise, smile and yell in unison. Like a broken record stuck on the same celebratory song.

As Jim Boeheim cycled through his seven-man rotation while SU pulled away from Middle Tennessee State, the ovations came for reasons big and small.

Michael Gbinije’s for scoring seven straight points after the Blue Raiders mounted a small second-half run. Tyler Lydon’s for blocking a shot on back-toback possessions. Frank Howard’s for

sinking a crunch-time mid-range jumper that he’s rarely hit this season.

The list could go on, and at the end of it was the 10th-seeded Orange’s (21-13, 9-9 Atlantic Coast) 75-50 win over 15th-seeded Middle Tennessee State (23-10, 13-5 Conference USA) at the Scottrade Center on Sunday. After upsetting second-seeded Michigan State on the same court Friday, the Blue Raiders ran into a wall of a 2-3 zone and as balanced an offensive effort the Orange will put together. Two days after a 19-point win over seventh-seeded Dayton, Syracuse’s defense wrangled MTSU’s shot-happy offense and put a period on its Cinderella story.

Now a Sweet 16 matchup with 11thseeded Gonzaga awaits in Chicago. The Orange — after a 1-5 finish and secondround exit in the ACC tournament just

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By Paul Schwedelson asst. sports editor

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he memories flashed back in Tammi Reiss’ head. The moments when Syracuse could have crumbled. When accomplishing its goal of hosting NCAA tournament games could have slipped through its fingers. The assistant coach remembered the embarrassment she felt after back-to-back blowout losses to Notre Dame and Louisville.

Then she thought of the Orange’s 11-game win streak this season. The dominance it showed in that stretch.

The way SU’s style could shut down some of the best teams in the country.

“All those things start to go through your mind,” Reiss said.

“All of that was for this moment.”

For the first time in school history, No. 4 seed SU (27-7, 13-3 Atlantic Coast) advanced to the Sweet 16 after back-to-back losses in the Round of 32 the past two seasons. Syracuse took down No. 12 seed Albany (28-5, 15-1 America East), 76-59, on Sunday, in front of 3,842 fans, the third-largest crowd for a women’s basketball game in Carrier Dome history.

The Orange will face No. 1 seed South Carolina in Sioux Falls, South Dakota on Friday.

As junior point guard Alexis Peterson — who finished with 22 points, her fourth consecutive NCAA tournament game with 20-plus points — dribbled out the clock, seniors Brittney Sykes and Cornelia Fondren hugged each other. Then Fondren hugged senior see albany page 12

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MEET monday | nicholas fiore

Junior to research microgravity at NASA

By Gabrielle Hughes staff writer

For some, cells are simply part of the human body. For Nicholas Fiore, they are the future of his career.

Fiore, a junior bioengineering major, said he’s had a lifelong curiosity for the mechanics of cells. He credits his high school AP biology teacher as the figure who sparked his interest in the field by immersing him in the complexities of biology.

This fascination with medical engineering planted Fiore in the biology program at Syracuse University his freshman year. But with about 3,000 other biology majors at SU, Fiore wanted to stand out. Although the medical field intrigued him, Fiore’s aptitude for mathematics steered him toward medicinal lab work.

By developing smarter tools for surgeons, Fiore said his research will help people with ailments across the globe.

Fiore hopes to attain a Ph.D. in immunology or tissue engineering to make strides in stem cell research, and his ultimate goal is to work with the production of artificial organs.

But Fiore is ready to explore biology beyond the medical field.

“To be honest, my interests

are scattered across the wide field of bioengineering,” Fiore said.

“There is so much to choose from and I find them all fascinating.”

This summer, Fiore will take one large step for man and an even larger step for his career at an apprenticeship with NASA. He will conduct research at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston for the National Space Biomedical Research Institute.

“I’ve always wanted to be involved with NASA,” Fiore said. “I never thought I would have been chosen.”

Fiore’s hard work has prepared him to study human cell culture, mimicking 3-D human tissue to study the effects in microgravity.

This research contributes to the investigation of Earth-to-Mars human space travel, Fiore said.

Fiore said he won’t let anything hold him back — not even microgravity — from exploring the limits of biology. He’s doing everything he can today to get a head start on his future, and encourages fellow students to do the same.

“Get involved, ask questions and develop your skills and relationships with professors,” Fiore said. “Spend sufficient time. Put yourself out there.” ghhughes@syr.edu

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S • How sweet it is The Syracuse women’s basketball team advanced to the Sweet 16 for the first time in program history on Sunday.

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The D.O.’s interactive crime map shows a round-up of criminal activity that happened near SU in the last two weeks.

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As sad as I am that #SpringBreak has come to an end, I’m excited to be celebrating @SyracuseU all week for Philanthropy Week! #CelebrateSU

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Report release The Chancellor’s Workgroup on Diversity and Inclusion will release a report on Monday on its findings about diversity at SU. See Tuesday’s paper

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HOW TO VOTE

Student injures bicyclist

The deadline to register to vote for the New York state primary is March 25. Here are a few ways you can register to vote, depending on whether you are a New York state resident or an out-of-state student.

Register to vote locally by listing your Syracuse address on a voter registration form, which you can download from the New York State Board of Elections' website.

Bicyclist sustains head, minor injuries after being hit with car

New York state residents can get a form from Syracuse University’s Office of Government and Community Relations at 2-212 Center for Science & Technology. State residents with a NYS driver’s license can also register through the NYS Department of Motor Vehicles website.

By Satoshi Sugiyama asst. copy editor

A graduate student in the Martin J. Whitman School of Management hit and injured a bicyclist with his car at East Genesee and Westcott streets Saturday night, police said.

Whitman student Shahryar Gheibi, 30, was driving east on East Genesee Street and was in the process of turning north on Westcott Street when he hit Anthony Patrone, 49, of Syracuse, according to a Syracuse Police Department release.

Patrone was struck while he was riding a bike going west on East Genesee Street, according to the release.

Register to vote in a state other than New York by downloading the Universal Voter Registration Form from the Office of Government and Community Relations website. Choose your home state, then print and complete the form.

Then, mail or deliver that form to: Onondaga County Board of Elections 1000 Erie Blvd. West Syracuse, NY 13204 For help, call:

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Project aims to engage students politically

By Alexa Torrens news editor

As the March 25 deadline to register to vote for the New York state primary approaches, Syracuse University’s Student Voter Registration Project is encouraging students to get involved in the presidential election and make informed political decisions.

The project is rooted in SU’s Office of Government and Community Relations, and has expanded this year to partner with the Citizenship and Civic Engagement (CCE) program at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.

The immediate goal of the project is to increase voter registration

and registration turnout at both the New York state primary election, which will be held on April 19, and the general presidential election, which will be held on Nov. 8, said Kennedy Patlan, a sophomore CCE and advertising dual major who directs the project, in an email.

“The campus has an opportunity to change how we look at politics, activism, and civic engagement,” Patlan said, in regard to other goals of the project. “I think that if we can get students to think about these things a bit more, and how decisions affect our SU community and beyond, that that is something really powerful.”

Diana Napolitano, assistant director of government relations

at SU, said in an email that the project also strives to “inspire students so that they remain civically active not just here on campus, but during their post-college lives.”

Beyond “headline” congressional and presidential races, Napolitano said it is important for students to get involved in elections for school boards, town councils, state offices and judicial posts, among others.

“We all need to remember that our votes have the most influence at the local level,” she said.

In addition, Patlan said the project aims to give students the tools to be efficient and knowledgeable voters by educating them about the voting process and

individual candidates, regardless of party affiliation or political beliefs, Patlan said.

Before becoming involved in the project, Patlan said she was “like a lot of students” in that she wasn’t fully informed about candidates, unsure of her home state of Florida’s voting processes and timelines and hesitant about how much weight her vote could have in the outcome of the elections. Patlan said she thinks these are all reasons why students don’t tend to engage in the political process.

“It can be overwhelming, timeconsuming, and nerve-wracking,” she said. “In a time when a lot of people are cynical about the political systems, it see voting page 4

Philanthropy Week encourages seniors to donate

By Rachel Sandler asst. news editor

Current Syracuse University seniors are being called upon to give more money or time back to the university as part of Philanthropy Week, a week-long campaign that aims to bring awareness to how charitable giving and volunteering impacts society — especially when it comes

to donating money to the university.

Philanthropy Week is held in March, about 80 percent of the way through the academic year, to symbolize that only 80 percent of SU’s operating budget is covered by student tuition and fees, according to the Philanthropy Week website.

The remainder, which is about $150 million, is raised through alumni gifts, donations and through other

sources, according to the website.

To help raise the 20 percent of the budget that isn’t funded through student tuition and fees, the Student Philanthropy Council, which hosts Philanthropy Week, undertakes a major campaign to, in part, thank current donors and try to get current seniors to donate to the university.

This campaign culminates in Class Act Day, which will be held

on Thursday. Seniors are encouraged to give $20.16 — for the Class of 2016. Those who donate get to wear a chord at Commencement.

The Student Philanthropy Council has heard some complaints about Class Act Day. “A lot of students have this whole idea that their tuition is (about) $50,000 a year so there’s no reason

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Here is a round-up of criminal activity that happened near campus this week and the week before Spring Break, according to police bulletins: CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE A Syracuse man, 26, was arrested on the charge of criminal possession of a controlled substance, according to a police bulletin. when: Saturday at 2:30 a.m. where: 700 block of Irving Avenue ASSAULT A Syracuse man, 29, was arrested on the charges of trespassing and resisting arrest, according to a police bulletin. when: Saturday at 1:30 a.m. where: 700 block of Irving Avenue HARASSMENT A Syracuse man, 49, was arrested on the charge of harassment, according to a police bulletin. when: March 14 at 7:15 a.m. where: 700 block of South Crouse Avenue MARIJUANA A Potsdam boy, 16, was arrested on the charge of unlawful possession of marijuana, according to a police bulletin. when: Monday 2 a.m. where: 503 Eucllid Ave See dailyorange.com for our interactive crime map.

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Celebrate the power of philanthropy!

It’s Philanthropy Week—when we come together to celebrate volunteerism, charitable giving, and other efforts to better our world, and especially how philanthropy and the generosity of our donors affect all of us at SU. Be part of the celebration. Visit yourmark.syr.edu and tell us what you do to make a difference in the world. Then join us for these important events!

Phanstiel Lecture Tuesday, March 22 4 p.m., Schine 304 This year’s lecture features Jim Carrick G’98. The CEO of LPA Software Solutions and member of Syracuse University’s iSchool Board of Advisors will discuss the benefits of giving back to one’s community and why he believes it’s so important.

Orange Circle Awards and Reception Tuesday, March 22 Immediately following Phanstiel Lecture, Schine 304 Be there as we honor members of the SU community who have done extraordinary things in the service of others. Our 2016 recipients are Tumay Tunur, Ph.D., leader of the Moving Through Possibilities program; OttoTHON, the student-run organization that raises awareness and funds for Upstate Golisano Children’s Hospital; and Matthew Zeller G’06, founder of No One Left Behind, a nonprofit that helps combat translators as they pursue U.S. residency.

National Orange Day Thursday, March 24 10 a.m.–4 p.m., Schine Atrium Wear Orange and come by Schine for a slice of birthday cake and a photo with Otto. At 12:30 p.m., we’ll share the results of Orange Around the World, our campus-wide service project honoring SU’s military alums!

School ranked No. 1 in public affairs for 8th year

By Brigid Kennedy asst. copy editor

For the eighth consecutive time, the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University has been ranked the No. 1 graduate school of public affairs by U.S. News & World Report.

Program rankings are calculated according to a nationwide survey of deans, directors and department chairs at 272 different master of public affairs and public administration programs, according to an SU News release.

Maxwell has held the top spot since 1995.

David Van Slyke, associate dean and chair of the public administration and international affairs program at Maxwell, said he believes the school’s consistent No. 1 position speaks volumes about the caliber of its program.

“We believe that this is a strong testament to the quality of the program, the quality of the students, faculty and staff engaged in that program and a very nice recognition about the strength of our alumni and the types of students that we are attracting here at Syracuse University,” Van Slyke said.

Maxwell’s Master of Public Administration program was created more than 90 years ago, and was the first of its kind, according to the release. The school is sharing this year’s No. 1 spot with Indiana University-Bloomington.

“Most schools of public affairs have programs in international relations, public administration, public policy, but they do not then have side by side the complementarities of economics, political science, history, sociology, anthropology and geography,” Van Slyke said. “And that really is what makes Maxwell so different.”

While most MPA programs span two years, Maxwell’s is only 12 months. Students come in the first Monday of July and graduate the last Friday in June, Van Slyke said.

He added that although there are schools attempting to replicate this structure, Maxwell still remains, by and large, the original proprietor of such a format.

“Certainly people see this as a real opportunity to be able to take advantage of some of the real strengths of the school while being out of the paid labor market for a shorter period of time,” Van Slyke said.

About 120 students are accepted to the full-time program each year. Then, they are

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can definitely be hard to participate.”

To encourage students to get involved in the voting process, members of the project will table more to make voter registration forms more widely accessible to the student body, Patlan said. Project members will also provide students with registration dates, timelines and infographics to “help them navigate” both the primary and general elections, she said.

A survey distributed by the project examined where out-of-state students at SU come from in an effort to find how students can most effectively learn about absentee voting, since regulations on absentee voting differ from state to state, Patlan said. She added that students “are highly encouraged” to contact their local government offices for information about how and where they can vote as an out-of-state student.

“We want to provide students with the tools to be able to do these sorts of things, while also simplifying what can be a very complicated process,” Patlan said.

The survey was created by the project and its partners in the EDGE Development program

grouped into a cohort, with which they also graduate, so they have the chance “to work closely with faculty, to work individually and to work as small groups and teams on a host of both assignments and experiential opportunities,” Van Slyke said.

The cohesion and collaboration between students of the same cohort is another defining characteristic of the Maxwell program, said Scott Barrett, associate dean for external affairs at Maxwell.

We believe that this is a strong testament to the quality of the program, the quality of the students, faculty and staff engaged in that program and a very nice recognition about the strength of our alumni and the types of students that we are attracting.

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“What I see here from the graduates of the MPA program is that tight cohesion in the cohort … they know each other very, very well. They seem to know the faculty very, very well. And there’s a great pride among them, and so the number one ranking is a great point of pride for them, as well,” Barrett said.

“They love it and they talk about it and they celebrate it and it is definitely part of their identity that we celebrate too. It’s kind of a neat feel here at Maxwell in that regard.”

Van Slyke added that, in the future, he would like to see Maxwell work on strengthening the depth of its involvement in interdisciplinary integration and global perspective — recognizing the opportunities to provide public affairs education not just within the U.S. but around the world as well.

Both Barrett and Van Slyke agreed that Maxwell’s curriculum and values are echoed both nationwide and across the SU community, and that relevance sets the school up as No. 1 for years to come. brkenned@syr.edu

— a program based in SU’s branch of the Public Relations Student Society of America — and The New House Advertising Agency, according to an SU News release. It found that out of 250 SU students who responded, 77 percent were not only registered to vote but also willing to vote in the general election, Patlan said. Fifty-nine percent of the survey respondents said they had never voted before, according to the release.

Napolitano said a reason why there is a discrepancy in the survey results between how many students were registered versus how many had actually voted before is that many of the survey’s respondents were first- and second-year students who registered to vote before the legal voting age of 18 and may have missed deadlines in actually voting in elections.

Patlan said the 77 percent statistic is “exciting more than anything” and counters descriptions of students in the media as “‘lazy, selfish, uneducated and careless.’”

“We do care, and we do want to make a difference,” Patlan said. “But I think the biggest issue is the component of education and knowing how to actively use our rights.

And hopefully this project can change that.” atorrens@syr.edu

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Uber legislation should avoid low road

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efore the popular ridehailing service Uber can be introduced into greater New York state, legislators should take a detour to make sure all is fare.

The former head of the New York City’s Taxi and Limousine Commission, Matthew Daus, raised concerns in a recent radio interview with John Catsimatidis about Uber’s price surging. Daus outlined that the company is setting a dangerous precedent for the industry and that it is no different from a normal taxi company yet follows different rules to undercut rivals.

The critique comes as ride-hailing services are pushing the state government to allow them to break the boundaries of New York City and expand into other metropolitan areas like Syracuse. The only thing stopping the near imminent expansion is an insurance law that will be likely tackled by legislators in April, said Assemblyman John McDonald, a co-sponsor of the bill. But not everyone is eager to welcome the new competitor as taxi companies and experts — like Daus — continue to voices concerns on the matter.

And it is this commentary that justifies a key objective as the bill courses its way through the state legislature: Uber has definitely proven its benefits, but New York should not be too hasty to let it off the leash. Daus is right to take a hard look at Uber, the sanctions that Uber bypasses with practices like price surging threaten both the security of the industry and the consumer. As long as the state can insure that Uber and other transportation services are all following the same set of base regulations, the company should be welcomed into upstate roadways.

The expansion of the service has been pushed for by numerous state lawmakers, advocacy groups and leadership figures — including Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner and Syracuse University Student Association President Aysha Seedat — who have been advocating on the basis of a low-cost, accessible service that would support an augmented job market.

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IT’S NOT PERSONAL, IT’S BUSINESS Employment as an Uber driver has the potential to offer a high degree of flexibility with a choice of hours and having insurance covered while on the job. Looking specifically at the Syracuse area, Uber has estimated, as reported by Syracuse. com, it would create 700 new jobs for drivers who could earn a combined $400,000 a month — or roughly $571 per driver — over 60,000 fares.

As some taxi operators have been quick to point out, Uber is able to achieve low fares because — in places like New York City — its fares are not controlled by the city government like that of the taxi industry. And if it were to grow under this same system, it’s simply not right to have taxis crippled in this way while Uber would be able to have an unfair advantage in the local market.

This lack of fixed fare could also hurt customers: the New York Daily News reported that during a January blizzard earlier this year, Uber took advantage of the inclement weather to increase its UberX fares to 3.5 times the normal rate before capping the increase to remain aligned with a 2014 deal made with Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.

In a city that is as snowy as it is economically downtrodden, such a stunt would be disastrous in Syracuse. If Uber was to become the dominant service in the city, riders could end up paying one fare going to their destination only to be informed that their return home will be triple that because it started snowing.

Mark Ilacqua, president of Suburban Taxi, a dominant taxi company in Syracuse, explained that it would be unwise to ignore the fact that Uber and traditional taxis are not playing by the same rules.

“In (New York City), Uber complies with all the insurance and local regulations in place for for-hire livery vehicles. They purposely deceive the public by stating they are allowed to operate

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in (New York City) and not allowed to operate in Upstate,” said Ilacqua in an email. “That is a lie, they comply with the rules and regulations in (New York City), and they refuse to comply with these same rules and regulations in Upstate.”

Uber is currently not required to pay unemployment insurance, payroll tax or local licensing, all which contribute to a stable job scene for the consumer and worker.

Yes, Uber is not a full-time job, which lends to its flexibility for those giving rides. But this leads to workers not being afforded the benefits of stable employment, which is exacerbated by the fact that a number of dispatch and mechanical jobs would be eliminated if taxi companies were to fold.

Though ride-hailing services are popular because they are cheap and easy to book, some advocacy groups have rightfully identified that this service could mean a serious decrease in DUI cases, something that college campuses, including SU’s, would surely welcome. But the convenience and affordability of Uber has led many uninformed consumers to clamor for the service to come to their city and ignore the question of whether or not the expansion of ride-hailing services is worth the damage to the industry.

It’s a tightrope to walk for legislators, but it’s a necessary to find a balance to soften the blow and protect the local economy and larger transportation sector when Uber is beginning to dominate city markets. And in what is sure to be a time of transition for the industry, state lawmakers should ensure these services are faced with the same regulations on insurance and fare limits that traditional taxi services are met with.

If not, Uber will surely undercut local businesses and leave hundreds jobless due to a ruthless campaign of cost cutting and regulation dodging.

Theo Horn is a sophomore political science and public policy dual major. His column appears weekly. He can be reached at tahorn@syr.edu.

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SU should explore peer endowment advising Syracuse University should explore the option of joining a peer-to-peer advisory network as a supplemental resource in navigating the management of its endowment.

The Intentional Endowments Network announced the launch of a peer-to-peer coalition consisting of 77 institutions last week to support socially conscious endowment investment practices — specifically for efforts related to environmental sustainability, social and governance — in order to enhance financial returns while remaining aligned with respective institutional missions and values.

Founding members of the peer networking group — which currently include Arizona State University, University of Maine and University of Dayton, an SU peer institution — will have access to resources and industry experts as a part of what is designed to serve as an educational initiative without needing to commit to any binding course of action.

And while SU is not obligated to support the ethical investment of its $1.166 billion endowment — the amount outlined as of June 2015 on the university’s website — as a private institution, the administration should consider working with an institutional collective to be exposed to a range of informed and socially conscious suggestions — a measure that wouldn’t be unfamiliar to the university.

In a December email to The Daily Orange, Kevin Quinn, senior vice president of public

affairs, said SU’s Board of Trustees’ Investment and Endowment Committee conducts regular audits of its investment portfolio to ensure that SU’s investments meet the requirements for socially responsible investing.

Quinn added that these decisions are supported by Institutional Shareholder Services, an organization that provides investment advising tools to the university.

But while the consideration of joining a peer coalition should acknowledge the ability for the collaborative exchange of ideas across institutions, SU should remain conscious of the fact that the networking group is a mix of public and private institutions from various regions across the United States.

In this way, the asset of diversity of opinion could function as a deterrent for progress and one that creates a degree of pressure, considering a case of disproportionate views on behalf of the universities could mean the group consensus support for a cause that may not support SU’s own mission and reflect poorly on the university — a dynamic the university should avoid if present within the network.

SU’s Board of Trustees rightfully has the ultimate say in decisions regarding the endowment that should aim to achieve the utmost financial return to benefit the university. And though these judgments are not bound to ethics, it would be admirable for SU to consider working with other institutions under the shared understanding that there is always room for improvement.

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Campus climate survey deadline extended until March 28

By Michael Burke asst. news editor

Syracuse University officials have extended the deadline for students to take the campus climate survey until March 28.

The deadline has been extended amid a lack of student response to the survey, but officials remain hopeful that they will be able to garner increased responses with students returning from spring break, said Libby Barlow, co-chair of the Climate Assessment Planning Committee, in an email.

The survey is designed to measure how happy, comfortable and generally satisfied students, faculty and staff are with life at SU. The 14 administrators on the planning committee built the survey along with help from Rankin & Associates Consulting, a firm that specializes in climate surveys.

Barlow, who is also the assistant vice president of institutional research and assessment at SU, said that 14 percent of undergraduate students and 15.5 percent of graduate students had responded to the

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philanthropy to give back. But there’s this 20 percent that isn’t covered and it takes a lot of cash to run a university,” said Gus Whitaker, chair of the Student Philanthropy Council and a senior management major in the Martin J. Whitman School of Management.

Whitaker added that Philanthropy Week also encourages students to volunteer their time to the university in some way if they can’t afford to donate monetarily.

Andrew Brown, a senior in the College of Engineering and Computer Science and a

survey as of March 17. She said SU could use the results from the survey with that rate of response, but added that officials would have to interpret the results with caution because they don’t know whether they have a representative sample of the campus population.

“If we’re interested in the general population, this is an acceptable response rate,” she said. “... We know how many men, women, graduates, undergraduates, et cetera are in our population. But we don’t know how many LGBT or members of other marginalized groups we have, so we have no way to know when we have reached a representative sample.”

Barlow said she has no way to know for sure why there has been a low response rate among students but added that she and others were told several potential reasons that could contribute to it. Those reasons include that students think the survey is about weather, that students don’t know about the survey because they don’t read emails and that advertising for the survey “is so relentless that people are making fun

of that,” Barlow added.

The survey will aim to identify issues that need to be addressed at SU. In addition, the survey will provide information about what groups on campus are experiencing those issues and how they’re experiencing them, which will in turn provide guidance on how SU can address the issues, Barlow said.

“There is no question that this is important, and we know that at least some students don’t feel included,” she said. Barlow added that it is equally important to hear from people who don’t experience those issues in order to have a representative sample.

Student Association Vice President Jane Hong said in an email that SU students “have so many different experiences” and that the survey is important because it will bring different issues to light.

“Some issues are widespread and acknowledged, while others may not be as well-known,” Hong said. “Regardless, it’s important that every single student knows that their voice is valued and heard.”

New York state’s “Enough is Enough” law

— which was enacted last year — requires all colleges and universities in the state to conduct climate surveys measuring the sexual and relationship violence experiences of students, faculty and staff.

SU’s climate survey is broader, though, as it focuses on the campus climate as a whole and will attempt to garner feedback on instances of bias, stereotyping and harassment pertaining to issues such as race and sexual orientation.

The survey was created in response to a suggestion from Chancellor Kent Syverud’s Task Force on Sexual and Relationship Violence.

After the survey closes next week, Rankin & Associates will analyze the data and write a report on the findings, which it will then present to the planning committee for review.

Responses to the survey and findings will be made public, but individual participants will be kept anonymous.

member of the Student Philanthropy Council, said he hears complaints about Class Act Day a lot, even from his own girlfriend.

“This doesn’t mean you have to give $1,000 or $20,000 — that’s not what the expectation is. I think it’s just you giving a token of gratitude back,” Brown said. “Even though it’s more money you’re giving back to the university, it’s for a different reason.

You’re not just investing in yourself, you’re investing in the school itself and its growth.”

Philanthropy Week starts off with Thanka-Donor-Day, which will take place on Monday. The Student Philanthropy Council will table in the Schine Student Center, the Life

Sciences Atrium and the Ernie Davis Dining Center and ask students to write a postcard or tweet a nice message to a donor.

On Tuesday, Class of 1998 SU alumnus Jim Carrick, the CEO of LPA Software Solutions, a company that specializes in businesses analytics, will speak in Schine 304 for the Phanstiel Lecture, according to the website.

Carrick is currently on SU’s School of Information Studies Advisory Board, and he has also served on the board of the Central New York Regional Economic Development Council — which played a role in the development of SU’s National Veterans Resource Center — and the Jim and Juli Boeheim

Foundation, according to the website.

Last year’s Phanstiel speaker was Todd Rubin, who established the Rubin Global Design Studio in the SU School of Architecture.

Also on Tuesday is the Orange Circle Award, which recognizes members of the Syracuse community who are particularly philanthropic, according to the website.

To end Philanthropy Week on Thursday is National Orange Day, which celebrates SU’s founding with a community service project.

This year, the project, called Orange Around the World, will accept donations for care packages to send to active duty military alumni.

—News editor Alexa Torrens contributed reporting to this article.

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(FROM LEFT) TAMIR PUNTSAG AND GEOFFREY MILLARD, a graduate student and professor, respectively, at SUNY-ESF co-authored a recent study that shows global climate change is affecting the water cycle. courtesy of suny-esf office of communications

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recent study led by a SUNY-ESF graduate student found that global climate change is affecting the water cycle, leading to flooding and drought.

Tamir Puntsag, a graduate student at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, is the lead author on the study that found changes in the distribution of water, specifically in the northeastern United States, according to a press release on the SUNY-ESF website. “(The study) shows that climate change affects not only temperature, but the water cycle too,” said Myron Mitchell, co-author of the study and Puntsag’s major professor.

Puntsag was unable to comment for this story because she was at home in Mongolia.

After analyzing the samples using isotopic analysis, researchers were able to detect that the changes in the water cycle are associated with the changing of the polar vortex, which is a tight circu-

lation of very cold air in the Arctic, Mitchell said.

As the Arctic temperatures have risen and the amount of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean has declined, Mitchell said the strength of the polar vortex has decreased, allowing cold air to slip into the northeastern U.S., bringing with it water from the north Atlantic Ocean.

The amount of time between the weekly water samples collected in the study:

42 YEARS This has led to greater precipitation in the northeastern U.S. during the winter, the study found. Due to the rise in temperatures, the precipitation tends to be in the form of rain rather than snow. These changes have produced areas of greater flooding and greater drought, Mitchell said.

“If this continues, we might hypothesize that during the winter we will continue to get more rain, changing the availability periods of water in the northeast,” Mitchell said.

The change in the availability period of water can have detrimental effects, including a lack of water during the growing season and a scarcity of drinking water, Mitchell said. It can also be harmful for wildlife including fish and trees, Mitchell said.

The study was conducted using water samples that were archived at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest in New Hampshire. Samples used in the study were weekly precipitation samples collected between 1968 and 2010, Mitchell said.

“The collection period (of water samples) has been over a time in which we have seen a remarkable warming of the earth,” Mitchell said. “This gives us a tool for looking at the effect of climate change.”

Through analysis of the neutrons in the water samples, researchers, including Puntsag, were able to tell where the water had originated, as some water sources are richer in neutrons than others, Mitchell added.

“In the later years, we saw more water derived from evaporation of the Arctic and the North Atlantic oceans,” Puntsag said in the release.

Studies regarding changes in the water cycle have been conducted in the past, but most used yearly records, Mitchell said, adding that the weekly values used in this study created a fineness of scale that made it unique.

“This study shows the real value of being involved in a university,” Mitchell said. “We can combine talents of different people of different ages and different backgrounds to do work that is of interest to the individuals, but also has importance for our understanding of environmental issues.”

Other researchers who participated in the study were John Campbell, a former doctoral student of Mitchell’s who is now affiliated with the U.S. Forest Service Northern Research Station in Durham, New Hampshire; Eric Klein and Jeffery Welker of the University of Alaska Anchorage; and Gene Likens of the Cary Institute of Ecosystems Studies, according to the release.

This study is part of Puntsag’s doctoral program in water and wetland resource studies, according to the release. tnwatson@syr.edu

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Cuomo starts solar energy News briefs: What you may campaigns across state have missed during break

By Michael Burke asst. news editor

Onondaga County is among five counties in central New York state where campaigns to encourage homes, businesses and local communities to install solar energy are currently underway.

The campaigns are part of a recently announced initiative by New York state Gov. Andrew Cuomo to install solar energy throughout the state. More than 900 solar projects are currently being carried out through 26 community “Solarize” campaigns, according to a release from Cuomo’s press office.

Thirty-one more “Solarize” campaigns will be announced this spring, per the release.

The other counties in central New York where campaigns are underway include Cayuga, Cortland, Madison and Oswego, according to the release. Among the five counties, 192 total projects had been underway as of January, according to the release.

Communities participating in campaigns are able to obtain discounts on solar projects, according to the release.

“New York is blazing the trail when it

comes to transitioning to sustainable energy practices and building a clean energy economy,” Cuomo said in the release. “By helping communities across the state install solar technologies, we are opening the door to new opportunities that will lower household energy costs while protecting the environment years into the future.”

The campaigns are a component of Cuomo’s NY-Sun program and his Reforming the Energy Vision strategy, according to the release. NY-Sun is Cuomo’s $1 billion initiative to advance solar energy in New York state and move the state closer to having a sustainable, self-sufficient solar industry, according to the release.

The Reforming the Energy Vision is Cuomo’s strategy designed to “to build a clean, resilient and affordable energy system for all New Yorkers” with statewide initiatives and regulatory reforms, according to the release.

“Solarize campaigns create opportunities for community members to work together to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels and better protect our environment,” said New York State Energy Research and Development Authority President and CEO John Rhodes in the release. mdburk01@syr.edu

By Sara Swann asst. news editor

Here are some news stories that you may have missed during Spring Break.

Beau Biden scholarship established for law students Syracuse University’s College of Law has announced the establishment of the Beau Biden Memorial Scholarship Fund to honor Vice President Joe Biden’s son, who was a Class of 1994 SU College of Law alumnus.

The fund will provide scholarship assistance to College of Law students who have “demonstrated an interest in children’s rights, protecting victims of abuse and/ or helping the most vulnerable in society,” according to a College of Law press release.

Throughout his career, Beau was an advocate for people in need, helping children and victims of abuse, according to the release.

This scholarship will help future generations of advocates find inspiration in Beau’s legacy.

Beau delivered the SU College of Law Commencement Address in 2011. He died from brain cancer on May 30, 2015.

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whitman Patrone was conscious when he was taken to Upstate University Hospital and was listed as being in serious condition, according to the release. He sustained head and other minor injuries when he was thrown from the bicycle.

SPD received a call at 8:13 p.m. on Saturday about the collision, according to the release.

Gheibi said he did not see Patrone on the bicycle because the road was dark and the bicycle did not have lights, according to the release.

No tickets have been issued, according to the release. ssugiyam@syr.edu | @SatoshiJournal

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Dhawal Gandhi, a former Syracuse University student, was arrested and charged in connection to the Feb. 19 theft of 22 computers from Link Hall, according to a court document.

Gandhi, 31, was charged with burglary in the third degree, grand larceny in the third degree and criminal mischief in the third degree, according to the document. All three charges are felonies.

Thirteen of the 22 computers have been recovered, according to a Department of Public Safety notice.

Madeleine Albright to speak at SU Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright will be coming to Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs to deliver the Tanner Lecture on Ethics, Citizenship and Public Responsibility.

The event will take place April 5 at 3 p.m. in Hendricks Chapel. The lecture is free and open to the public, but people interested in attending are strongly recommended to RSVP, according to an SU News release. The event will also be available via livestream.

During the Tanner Lecture on Ethics, Citizenship and Public Responsibility, Albright will discuss her 40-year career in international affairs in addition to threats and challenges in U.S. foreign policy, according to the release. Maxwell Dean James Steinberg, who was previously the deputy secretary of state from 2008-11 under Hillary Clinton, will join Albright during the event.

Memorial held for SU student A memorial service for Justin Robinson, a senior economics major at Syracuse University who died unexpectedly at his home in Palmetto, Georgia, on March 6, was held on the night of March 10.

More than 100 members of the SU community gathered inside Hendricks Chapel to remember and celebrate the life of Robinson. Many of Robinson’s friends shared fond memories of him and performed songs and read poetry in his memory. smswann@syr.edu | @saramswann

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2 1. Bird Library has six floors full of books, DVD’s, maps and a variety of other material, much of which is organized by the Library of Congress Classification System.

2. Carnegie Library is one of thousands of libraries built with donations from Andrew Carnegie. These libraries can be found across the U.S. and the world.

What inspired 3 members of the SU community to pursue information studies his or her interests and focus areas, and also offers online and off-campus course options.

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yracuse University is home to seven different libraries run by staff, student assistants and 36 librarians. These libraries contain resources ranging from an Academy Award statuette to architectural drawings and host hundreds of databases and 25,000 publication subscriptions online.

SU’s School of Information Studies is rated the 4th best school for library and information studies according to U.S. News and World Report. The master’s degree program allows students to choose courses specific to

Last month, President Barack Obama nominated Carla D. Hayden, a librarian from Baltimore as the new Librarian of Congress. Hayden has been CEO of the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore since 1993, according to a statement from the White House. If the nomination is confirmed, she will be the first African-American and first female Librarian of Congress.

Some SU library students and employees stumbled upon the profession by chance while others have always held an interest in information studies.

Marianne Swanberry Hanley, Preservation Department: Marianne Swanberry Hanley helped start a library in a dorm at Canisius College in Buffalo, New York. While she had always loved reading and “grew up in the library,” she said volunteering at this student-run lending system solidified her decision to enroll in the iSchool at SU. After earning her master’s degree, she worked as a law library clerk and spent seven years in a public library system before finding a job at Bird Library’s preservation department.

Now, she and another staff member oversee grad students as they repair everything from modern paperbacks to books from the early 1900s. Hanley said the library never throws anything out, and her department

can usually repair and return a book to circulation within a week.

She said not every college has a preservation department, and she feels lucky to be at one that does. However, Hanley’s favorite part of her job is interacting with students. This is something she took away from her time in the public libraries, where she saw the importance of introducing books at a young age.

While the students she works with now are older, she believes the same ideas still apply.

“They are continually learning,” she said.

“I’m learning from them, they’re learning from me … it’s just that constant back and forth that we have.”

Hanley said she worries that many students don’t know about everything that the see libraries page 10

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or over a century, movie theaters have adapted to remain one of the world’s greatest pastimes. But since the 1990s, this industry has had one particular goal: avoid going down the music industry’s path of piracy and business model failures.

Now, movies are continuing to innovate, but with this innovation comes uncertainty. Hollywood’s new-

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est innovation, the Screening Room (TSR), puts a lot up to chance, but this high risk could equal high reward.

TSR was created by Napster founder Sean Parker, whom you may remember being portrayed

by Justin Timberlake in one of my all-time favorite films “The Social Network.” It’s a top-set box that, for around $150, customers could buy and attach to their television.

With TSR, customers could buy a film on its theatrical release date for $50, which would be viewable once for 48 hours after purchase. Movie theaters would make $20 of the $50 sold, and customers would receive

two tickets to the film in theaters, so that the theater could make more money from concessions.

Looking forward to seeing “My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2” but you don’t want to schlep to Destiny USA? You could gather your friends, put in $50 and watch the film on TSR. If you enjoyed the film so much you want to see it again, you could do so easily with your two theater tickets.

There are many notable supporters of TSR, such as Peter Jackson, J.J. Abrams, Ron Howard and Steven Spielberg. These are seasoned Hollywood veterans, and more importantly, have mastered the art of making money in film.

They, along with the creators of TSR, say this service would not replace seeing a film in theaters

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libraries library has to offer, such as subject specialists and research tools.

“You can even text in a research question,” she said. “That’s amazing.”

Sylvia Hetzel, Library and Information Studies Graduate Student: While studying abroad in Florence as a Goucher University undergraduate student, Sylvia Hetzel loved the city so much she decided to permanently relocate. While in Italy, she worked as a teacher and interpreter before becoming an administrative assistant at the SU Florence program in 1993. In 2011, however, she filled the place of the program’s library coordinator.

That position compelled her to spend a year back in America, enrolling in the SU library and information studies program, something she had previously considered but never committed to.

“I was afraid that it would be boring. I was afraid that it would be too static and just cold and hard cataloging,” she said. “However, once I started working in a library, I

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benjamin but rather expand the audience.

The one-time film viewing has a high price of $50, so this service would be targeted at customers with money to spend. Specifically, the target market would be adults who cannot make it or do not want to go to the theater, which includes early parents and seniors.

These audiences probably wouldn’t see the film in theaters anyway, so why not give them an option to view it in a comfortable setting for a premium price? Win-win, right?

It’s not that simple.

found out what a good feeling it is to help people find what they’re looking for.”

Hetzel said she is especially interested in academic librarianship because she enjoys the challenge of finding information. She considers the ability to research an important quality for a librarian.

More than ever, we need people who are professionally trained to weed through the superfluous and the irrelevant to get to the good, useful, credible information.

community and offering services to meet those needs. Hetzel said she sees libraries as an important resource for immigrants in particular, giving them the opportunity to integrate into English-speaking society.

Hetzel said she disregards the notion that libraries and librarians are becoming obsolete.

“People think libraries are no longer relevant, because you can Google anything you need and any question you have,” she said.

“However, those of us in the field know that’s not the case.”

David Lankes, Library and Information Studies Professor:

“More than ever, we need people who are professionally trained to weed through the superfluous and the irrelevant to get to good, useful, credible information,” she said.

“There’s a lot to navigate in the digital world.”

She said the role of the public library is changing, as it focuses on the needs of the

While he doesn’t hold a master’s in library and information studies, Professor David Lankes considers himself to be a “feral librarian” who has learned from years of experience and other technological degrees.

He completed both his undergraduate and post-graduate studies at SU, and now teaches multiple courses at the iSchool.

While some say libraries are becoming obsolete, Lankes explained they are simply returning to their original use after years of focusing on organizing tools and materials.

“Now that we have more means of delivering

Just as TSR has its supporters, there are many detractors who also know a thing or two about making money in the film industry, such as Christopher Nolan and James Cameron. They say that even though TSR has the opportunity to expand a film’s audience and reach, eventually this expansion could be so large it could become a replacement.

Many worry this service will not prevent piracy adequately. Sure, there will be encryption methods, but there is always someone who can outsmart these devices — if not just outright videotape their television screen. And more so, what happens if this product becomes too successful? Will people simply not go to the theater?

Ultimately, film is a medium that is meant to be seen in the theater. If we cut out that first step, are films just long television shows? What are the artistic ramifications of this service? TSR seems to have a business model where theaters, film producers and customers all win. But we have to ask ourselves, is this too good to be true?

I think the TSR is an excellent idea in 2016, but I worry what would happen in 2020. The biggest losers in this situation would likely be independent theaters, such as the arthouse in Manlius, where highbrow audiences typically gather but would now have the option to stay home.

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information and documents … it really frees libraries and librarians up to get back to what they are doing, which is learning,” he said.

According to his student, Sylvia Hetzel, he is also “active in transformation of libraries from collections to active participants in local communities.”

To Lankes, this means seeing what people in the community need and working to provide it, in both public and academic settings.

“A librarian has to be just as adept at working with a faculty member as they do with the materials and the publications that they come out with,” he said.

Lankes also said libraries fulfill needs far beyond books and research. They often help women escape abusive situations and provide resources in times of crisis. For example, the public libraries provided food and makeshift schooling during the protests in Ferguson, Missouri.

He also said many people do not know how much should be attributed to librarians.

“People really need to understand that the core of a good library is not its collections or its buildings,” he said. “It’s the professionals and people in it.” mcbuck01@syr.edu

The big chains will survive, but the little guy will be trounced yet again. Having firstrun blockbusters in homes is a slippery slope, but maybe this will just force producers to create experiences that have to be seen in theaters. TSR could be the solution to help the film industry continue to thrive. But once this path is crossed, there is no going back.

Erik Benjamin is a sophomore television, radio and film major. His column appears weekly in Pulp. While he doesn’t think making a million dollars is cool, he thinks making a billion dollars is cool. You can email him at ebenjami@syr.edu or follow him @embenjamin14 on Twitter.

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um-Yum’s Gluten Free Bakery and Café sits on West Manlius Street in East Syracuse. According to its website, it is dedicated to “find(ing) quality, gluten free food.” It even takes special orders for take-out and for catering.

That’s great and all, but some readers may be rolling their eyes. “What do I care about some gluten-free bakery? What even is gluten and why can’t people just eat it and stop complaining about it?”

Gluten is a type of protein found in wheat, barley and rye, and similar to yeast, it helps baked products rise. Gluten is naturally found in the biological composition of these three grains.

Celiac disease is the main gluten-related condition and affects about one in 100 people. The auto-immune disease is related to genetics and ingestion of gluten damages the small intestine, making it harder to soak in nutrients from food.

However, many people report symptoms associated with Celiac disease, yet still test negative for Celiac. This is not uncommon, and gluten sensitivity can only be treated by following a gluten-free diet. The same goes for Celiac itself.

It’s so important to completely eliminate gluten from a Celiac’s diet because even tiny traces of gluten can upset the small intestine.

It is not uncommon for traces of gluten to contaminate oats, a naturally gluten-free grain.

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2 1. Yum-Yum’s Gluten Free Bakery and Café provides 40 different flavors of cupcakes, including eggnog, sweet potato and green tea.

2. The pizzas are baked in a brick oven.Besides flavors like Hawaiin and Greek, YumYum’s also offers a build-your-own-pizza option.

Yum’s in 2011 in Syracuse and instead of using wheat flour, Yum-Yum’s uses millet, sorghum, tapioca and rice when baking desserts or kneading pizza dough.

The breakfast menu runs all day and features all the fan favorites: pancakes, waffles, bagels, hashbrowns and bacon. It also serves breakfast sandwiches and wraps. All of the items are reasonably priced and most can be made dairy-free.

The lunch and dinner menus are slightly more extensive and include basic appetizers, as well as soups, salads and entrees, and a variety of sandwiches, paninis and wraps.

Its brick-oven pizza comes in several vari-

eties including Hawaiian, Greek, meatlover’s and more. It offers a build-your-own, with over 10 different toppings to choose from.

The bakery menu is something else entirely.

There are 40 different types of cupcakes, including weird flavors like eggnog and spiced rum, green tea and almond, sweet potato and margarita. There are also cookies, pies, breads and other pastries.

The storefront itself is nondescript, a brick building with maybe one window.

However, walking inside was a breath of fresh air. It looked like a Pinterest board. Decked in bright baby pastels and mismatched café tables and chairs, going

inside Yum-Yum’s was like teleporting to a completely different location.

I ordered a Hawaiian pizza and a chocolate bomb cupcake to-go. The pizza dough was fantastic, chewy like regular dough and certainly better than average. Better yet, it didn’t taste gluten-free at all. They applied a generous amount of Italian seasoning, the cheese was soft and stringy and the sauce was tangy.

As someone who’s not a huge fan of Hawaiian pizza, I actually really enjoyed the pineapple. It was sweet, but not sickly sweet like canned pineapples. If I had to guess, I would say that Yum-Yum’s uses fresh pineapple. The ham was also nicely cooked.

For dessert, I enjoyed the chocolate bomb cupcake. It was perfectly sized, not too small and not too big. However, it was served with only a chocolate drizzle and no frosting, perhaps a byproduct of being dairy free.

The cake itself was a little dry, but I liked it anyway. The dryness might also be due to the fact that I ordered close to closing time, and it had been sitting out all day. The inside of the cupcake was filled with a delightful cream cheese, and immediately erased my disappointment at the dry cake.

Yum-Yum’s has recently announced that it will now ship orders across the country, perfect for a lazy college student looking to try some really good pizza.

The online store, naturally, can’t be as extensive as their restaurant menu, but Yum-Yum’s sells most of the basics to cover a broader range of needs. It will ship bagels, pizza shells, dinner rolls, sandwich wraps, bread, muffins, pies, cookies and cupcakes. All the carb essentials.

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albany Brianna Butler when the clock hit zero. Peterson chucked the ball, and any thought that SU would get upset, in the air and out of sight.

Syracuse had never won an NCAA tournament game when each of them began their careers as freshmen. Now, the Orange has won four tournament games in the past three years.

On back-to-back possessions in the first quarter, Maggie Morrison hit a 3. The second gave SU the lead for good. On Albany’s next possession, the Great Danes couldn’t beat Syracuse’s press and were called for a 10-second violation. Albany called a timeout shortly after. Orange head coach Quentin Hillsman stepped onto the court, windmilled both arms and unleashed a boisterous, “Yeah!” audible from the other side of the court.

“This time of year, it’s fun,” Peterson said. “… You should celebrate, you should feel happy that you’re one of the teams still dancing.”

As Albany cut SU’s lead to nine with 5:28 to play, Hillsman wanted the ball in the hands of Peterson, the first-team all-ACC point guard. The Great Danes had trailed by 10 in the fourth quarter against No. 5 seed Florida and came all the way back in the first round on Friday.

Peterson ensured Albany wouldn’t capture the magic again.

Sixteen seconds later, she drove to the basket and got fouled. Peterson waited to receive the ball at the free-throw line, clapped four times and grinned ear-to-ear.

First shot: swish. Second shot: swish. She held her follow through in the air. Albany never got back within single digits.

“I said, ‘Alexis, I trust you with the ball in your hands. I trust you with the ball. Go get the ball. … I don’t care. Go get the ball,’” Hillsman

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sykes They become shooters. Sykes carved out extra time before the season to refine her jumper and long-range shots, knowing she’d have to compensate for not driving the paint as frequently.

Her shooting success has teetered, with a field-goal percentage nearly eight points worse than either of her other two full seasons. But if nothing else, Sykes has been timely. And on Sunday she picked the start of the second half to be her moment, scoring SU’s first seven tallies of the third quarter.

When Sykes pulled up and hit her first jumper in that stretch, she subtly nodded her head toward the basket. On Syracuse’s next possession she leaked outside the Great Dances perimeter and swished a 3. This time, a little more demonstratively, she tilted her head to the right as she stretched the Orange’s lead to 10.

To cap off the hectic 90-second stretch, she corralled an errant Albany shot. And as if a 2013-14 highlight reel was playing out on the court, she split three defenders en route to rattling down a layup.

“The first half I had my four points,” Sykes said. “Second half it was like, ‘You know what? It’s time to make my mark.’”

The 5-foot-9 fourth-year player erupted in the latter 20 minutes, scoring 20 of her 24 points

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lydon swatting a Perrin Buford layup attempt out of bounds. And after MTSU inbounded the ball moments later, he ranged over to the left block and pinned Reggie Upshaw against the backboard before collecting the loose ball.

“Getting a good block always feels good,” Lydon said. “A big 3 is probably a better feeling than a big block, but a big block is always a lot of fun to look back and watch it.”

With Lydon anchoring the interior

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said. “That’s how much faith I have with her.”

By following the same script it had all season, Syracuse got what it wanted against Albany. Eight made 3s are on par with its standard performance (average: 8.8). So are its 23 caused turnovers (average: 24.5). Knocking down deep shots and suffocating opponents with its press defense are its bread and butter.

Hillsman said the difference between losing in the Round of 32 and making the Sweet 16 would come down to his bench players.

One hundred and fifty-six days later, it did, as Bria Day and Morrison stepped up.

When the game ended, Hillsman pointed his hands to the crowd and shouted, “Thank you!” The fans replied by cheering the coach who never wavered.

“Every year, I have that beginning of the year press conference and everybody says what are your expectations and I say, ‘Go undefeated and go to a national championship,’ and everybody writes that down and kind of smirks,” Hillsman said. “… For us, it’s the next step to being closer to winning a national championship.”

After the Orange lost to Notre Dame in the ACC championship game, Hillsman said his team should host the first two games and should win them.

As soon as the bracket was unveiled on Monday, Hillsman, already with Sioux Falls on his mind, said he’s looking forward to learning more about the city he, and most of his players, have never been to.

With so much unfamiliarity in a new place and a previously unreachable round, Syracuse will lean on what it did Sunday, and the 33 games before that.

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in crunch time. In addition to her seven-point run in the third quarter, she went on a six-point tear to push the Orange’s lead to 15, its biggest of the game with three minutes remaining.

As the final result grew more inevitable, Sykes’ hand steadied. She sunk all nine of her free-throw attempts in the fourth quarter, and twice the stole the ball from the Great Danes in the final five minutes, both of which led to scoring possessions.

“All in all, yeah, probably her most complete game,” head coach Quentin Hillsman said of where Sykes’ performance stacks up in her career. “(It was) her most timely game because we needed all of those points to be successful.”

It’s a career that started with so much promise before crashing down near careerending lows. Sykes knows she has freshmen teammates who haven’t seen a performance like this out of her, and she joked with them that this used to be a nightly occurrence.

Without a drop of cockiness, she reaffirmed her point: this is who she used to be.

But with Sunday’s win came an injection of new life, or in Sykes’ case, old life. And it’s never been a more opportune moment. “‘Just ride with me. I’m going to be there for you,’” Sykes recalled telling her teammates after the game. “This isn’t anything shocking for me. I know I can do this.’ “‘It’s just a matter of doing it.’” cjgrossma@syr.edu | @ConnorGrossman

defense for 34 minutes, the Blue Raiders shot a bleak 11-of-40 from inside the arc. .

If he was feeling any jitters in his first run through March Madness, it only showed at the foul line.

“It was really weird,” Lydon said. “I was telling Trevor, ‘They all feel good, I don’t know what else to change.’”

As it turned out, he didn’t need to change a thing. Whatever he did from that fourth missed free throw on forward was more than enough. jcdoug01@syr.edu | @dougherty_jesse

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Bria Day steps up as ‘MVP’ in 76-59 win over Great Danes

By Jon Mettus digital editor

A chorus of boos erupted in the Carrier Dome as Syracuse center Briana Day readied herself to jog off the court for the final time after fouling out. The discontent only lasted briefly, though, as the fans noticed Bria Day crouching in front of the scorer’s table to check in her place.

More often than not, it was Bria Day, the backup center, on the court instead of her twin sister. Bria Day played a career-high 28 minutes and grabbed 10 rebounds — a seasonhigh and one short of tying her career-high.

In No. 4 seed Syracuse’s (27-7, 13-3 Atlantic Coast) 76-59 win over No. 12 seed Albany (285, 15-1 America East) on Sunday to advance to the Sweet 16 for the first time in program history, Bria Day emerged from her usual backup role and produced one of the most important performances of her career.

“Without her in the paint, no chance to win this game,” Syracuse head coach Quentin Hillsman said. “She was the MVP of this game. I really mean that because she really held it down for us.”

Bria Day usually only sees the court to give Briana Day a break for rest or if she’s in foul trouble. On Sunday, it came early as Briana Day picked up two fouls in the first two minutes of the game.

She was tasked with a tall order — controlling Albany star Shereesha Richards, who entered the contest ranked sixth in the nation in points per game, and being the

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11 days ago — dances on. And everyone’s taking part.

“It’s defense, that’s what we’ve talked about the last couple of days and heading into the Tournament,” said SU guard Trevor Cooney, nodding to all of those possessions when all five SU players seemed to cover the entire court. “When a Syracuse team makes a run in the Tournament it’s all about that 2-3 zone.”

Syracuse looked well in control after 20 minutes — poor MTSU shooting and an emphatic Howard-to-Lydon alley-oop creating that image — but a late Blue Raid-

center of the zone against a team that shoots few 3s and attacks the paint.

“Bria has been our glue player,” guard Maggie Morrison said. “When Briana gets in foul trouble, Bria comes in. She is just great energy off the bench and there’s no dip.”

She was a nuisance for Richards defensively. She didn’t stop her — Richards scored 23 points and had 14 rebounds — but Bria Day slowed her down.

She tipped passes intended for Richards, contested shots and most importantly held off until the 2:56 mark in the second quarter when she had already played 15 minutes before getting her first foul.

“I didn’t want to come out there and try to do something I’m not or I normally don’t do,” Bria Day said.

There were big plays where she didn’t even get credit for a board, like when she smacked a missed shot out to Alexis Peterson, who then buried a 3.

By the five-minute mark in the second quarter it hit her. “I was just like, ‘Wow I’m tired,’” Bria Day said, “But they were like, ‘you just got to push through it,’ so that’s what I was just trying to do. I think eventually I did get over the hump.”

She lasted through halftime, playing the final 18 minutes of the first half and being the only Syracuse player to play the entire second quarter. She had already turned in four rebounds, three points and two blocks to boot.

While breaking Albany’s press, Bria Day was the outlet standing in the middle of the

ers push brought the score to 31-27 at the break. Middle Tennessee State then kept the pressure on after halftime, hitting three 3s and twice tying the game while its cheering section filled the arena with sweeping cheers.

But then the zone tightened up, and MTSU’s open looks disappeared. On the other end, Gbinije hit two off-balance jumpers before nailing a corner 3. He finished with a game-high 23, Lydon had 14 and Cooney and Roberson both collected 12. Middle Tennessee State had just one player score in double-figures, Darnell Harris with 11, and its scoring quartet of Harris, Giddy Potts, Reggie Upshaw and Perrin Buford shot a combined 11-for-43

BRIA DAY logged a career-high 28 minutes while filling in for sister Briana Day, who picked up two fouls in as many minutes to start the game. Bria Day pulled down 10 boards to help SU get to the Sweet 16. logan reidsma senior staff photographer

court for Peterson and the other guards in trouble. On offense, she sets screens for the guards to run around for open shots in the lane that the Orange ultimately thrived on.

“She was tremendous,” Hillsman said.

“Gave us a big spark.”

When Bria Day found out she played 18 minutes in the first half, she couldn’t believe it. “Oh wow. In the first half?” she responded. “Oh god.” She didn’t realize she had hauled in a team-high 10 rebounds either.

It’s not exactly something she’s used to.

Coming into the game, Bria Day averaged

just 11.4 minutes and 3.3 rebounds per game.

For her three-year career so far, her averages dip down to under 10 minutes and under 3 rebounds per game.

But on the biggest stage, she surpassed all of that.

“Bria is a tough kid,” Hillsman said.

“She’s really grown and matured here in our program. Obviously she didn’t play much earlier in her career, but she has made a tremendous jump in her level play … She really stars in her role.”

from the field.

Center Dajuan Coleman muscled his way inside for two late layups. Howard and Roberson, two spotty shooters at best, made mid-range jumpers. If it’s possible for an entire team to click at once, that’s exactly what happened.

“I knew we weren’t going to lose this game if these guys make a jump shot,” Boeheim said. “But that’s hard to do.”

When the NCAA Tournament bracket was released last Sunday, the logical Syracuse run was this: A winnable game against Dayton on Friday before an inevitable loss to Michigan State on Sunday. The Spartans could have easily been a No. 1 seed. The Spartans were one of the best teams in the

country led by one of the country’s best players. The Spartans had their road to the Elite 8, at least, smoothly paved by the Selection Committee.

Then a team from Murfreesboro, Tennessee, turned that logic on its head. When the Blue Raiders beat Michigan State — one of the Tournament’s unlikeliest upsets ever, a real bracket buster — the words “Middle Tennessee State” were permanently etched into college basketball history. But the Orange, whose run is far less notable but now Chicago bound, will always be the biggest benefactor of that win.

Not only is SU advancing to the Sweet 16, but the Bulldogs are certainly beatable.

After that, should Syracuse win, would be the winner of fourth-seeded Iowa State and a questionably top-seeded Virginia. There’s no saying the Orange will turn this favorable draw into a Final Four run.

Yet now there’s no saying it can’t.

“That’s just the beauty of this tournament, it’s all about matchups and getting hot at the right time,” Cooney said. “Teams that play defense and win the 50-50 balls are normally going to have a good chance to win at the end of the day. We did that the last couple days here, and we just have to continue it.”

With about two minutes left, Cooney nailed an end-of-the-clock 3 that gave Syracuse a 23-point lead. Two plays later, a Richardson-to-Roberson alley-oop made it 25. One play later, Gbinije hit a deep 3 that bounced off the back rim before stretching the difference to 28.

As the clock wound down, a dejected Middle Tennessee State team sat slumped on the bench. Some players had their head in their hands. Others leaned back and stared longingly at the overhanging scoreboard as the deficit piled up.

On the other side of the court the SU reserves jumped up and down with every basket. They stared at the videoboard with smiles instead of scowls. They all stayed on their feet.

After all, it’s hard to dance while sitting down.

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LAST TIME SU PLAYED GONZAGA: It's the only time Syracuse played Gonzaga, which was in the second round of the 2010 NCAA Tournament. The Orange won the game 87-65.

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LAST TIME SU PLAYED 3 STRAIGHT NON-POWER 5 TEAMS IN A ROW:

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That was in the 2010 NCAA Tournament when No. 1 seeded Syracuse beat Vermont and Gonzaga before losing to eventual-finalist Butler.

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HOW MANY TIMES SU HAS PLAYED IN SWEET 16 WITH BOEHEIM:

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In Boeheim’s 40 seasons, Syracuse has made it to the Sweet 16 a total of 18 times.

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Syracuse grabbed it back in less than a minute, but it couldn’t pull away. With each bucket by MTSU, its contingent erupted. With each SU response, the cluster of supporters directly behind the Orange’s bench cheered in relief masked by celebration.

After Gbinije’s two buckets from the freethrow area, he stood near one of the blocks as freshman Frank Howard surveyed the court.

Howard’s eyes motioned for Gbinije to dart toward the corner. He did. Howard darted for the lane and kicked out to his second option, who hit a 3 in Potts’ face.

“If I could get around the screen, I had an outlet if I couldn’t get to the basket,” Howard said. “I knew Mike was on a roll at that point, he had like two or three jump shots. So I told him to go to the corner just in case I had to kick it out, and he was there and he made the shot.”

The nine-point lead ballooned to the 20s.

The rest was a quasi-highlight reel for Syracuse, featuring Gbinije’s breakaway twohanded flush and a tomahawk dunk.

The Orange was penciled into the Sweet 16 after Gbinije’s spurt gave it a cushion, but now it was etched in pen.

With under 20 seconds left in the game and the Syracuse pep band yelling out the numbers on the dwindling shot clock, Gbinije handled the ball at the top of the key with a 25-point lead. For good measure, before Malachi Richardson flapped his arms up in the air and Reggie Upshaw draped a towel over his head when the final buzzer sounded, Gbinije hoisted one more shot that dropped right through the net like the nine before.

“He’s the leader of the team. He’s the best player,” Howard said. “We feed off him.

When he’s going, we’re going.”

All season, Gbinije has been going. Sometimes even when the team isn’t. And less than two weeks after it seemed he’d finish his career off of college basketball’s biggest stage, Syracuse is still going.

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Quentin Hillsman has won half of his NCAA tournament games as Syracuse's head coach, including two this postseason.

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Michael Gbinije leads Syracuse to 75-50 blowout win over MTSU

By Matt Schneidman sports editor

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T. LOUIS – To Jim Boeheim, there was only one difference separating Syracuse from Middle Tennessee State. He pressed his fingers on his forehead, his answer repetitive yet concise, and the explanation came with a demeanor that would’ve suggested Syracuse was the second victim in three days to the Cinderella team from Murfreesboro, Tennessee.

“The difference was when Mike got going,” Boeheim said of Michael Gbinije. “That was the difference. That was the only difference in the game.”

Syracuse led by just four points over six minutes into the second half, unable to widen the margin that was the same when both teams were in their locker rooms. But all it took was two minutes and 14 seconds. Two minutes and 14 seconds that Boeheim deemed the lone separation between the Orange advancing to the Sweet 16 and possibly heading back to Syracuse with no games left in its season.

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MICHAEL GBINIJE scored 23 points Sunday to help vault Syracuse into the Sweet 16 and maintained his streak of scoring in double digits, which has reached 34 consecutive games.

He also chipped in three assists and three steals. margaret lin senior staff photographer

men’s basketball

Lydon’s complete performance bolsters Orange

By Jesse Dougherty senior staff writer

ST. LOUIS — When his fourth straight missed free throw rolled off the rim and fell out, Tyler Lydon turned away from the basket and made it two steps toward halfcourt.

Face red, cheeks puffed out, Lydon drew a big breathe while staring at nothing in particular. He later guessed he hadn’t missed four straight at the line since the sixth grade. But before he could walk even farther away from his fifth attempt, Trevor Cooney briskly

Sykes has careerbest game

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See page 15 for a graphical breakdown of Syracuse’s men’s and women’s basketball tournament runs.

First a jumper in the lane that, then another of similar nature. Finally, a 3-pointer from the corner to give the Orange (21-13, 9-9 Atlantic Coast) a nine-point lead that wouldn’t dip any lower. On Sunday night, the fifth-year senior was the fifth-year senior he’s been all year. His 34th consecutive game scoring in double figures came as a surprise to no one. This time, his 23 points extended not only the 10th-seeded Orange’s lead in an eventual 75-50 win against the No. 15-seed Blue Raiders, but also Gbinije’s college basketball career and Syracuse’s season as it advances to the NCAA Tournament Sweet 16.

“I just wanted to apply some energy for us.

Scoring the basketball did it,” Gbinije said.

“I’m just focusing on time and possession, looking at the scoreboard, just trying to make sure that each possession we have the lead.”

The time was 18:39 left in the second half. The possession was with Syracuse, inbounding the ball after the nation’s best 3-point shooter hit his first long ball of the half. But Syracuse didn’t have the lead. Giddy Potts had put Middle Tennessee ahead for the first time in almost 22 minutes.

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jogged from the bench and told him to step back up to the line.

“I don’t know if it can be repeated,” Cooney said of what he yelled to Lydon. “I mean it happens. He just kept looking back and it made me mad. I just wanted him to make the next foul shot and not worry about just missing that one foul shot.”

That’s what Lydon did, and the rest of the freshman’s performance only led to frustration for Middle Tennessee State. He finished with 14 points, seven rebounds and a career-high six blocks as the Orange

(21-13, 9-9 Atlantic Coat) rolled the Blue Raiders, 75-50, at the Scottrade Center on Sunday to advance to the Sweet 16. MTSU favored a switcheverything man-to-man that often gave SU a size advantage inside, and Lydon helped exploit that while using his 6-foot-8 frame to protect the rim on the other end.

An uncharacteristic 6-for-10 night at the line was the only blemish on his performance. And in the end it was hardly a blemish at all.

“He’s a lottery pick in time.

He’s something, he’s something,” MTSU head coach Kermit Davis

said after the game.

MTSU came into the contest as the 14th-best 3-point-shooting team in the country, and the SU zone aggressively extended accordingly.

That forced MTSU to go off the dribble, and Lydon held his own inside.

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Brittney Sykes couldn’t wait for the buzzer to celebrate the highest moment of her career. With 10 second s albany 59 standing syracuse 76 between Syracuse and its first-ever Sweet 16 berth, she swallowed Cornelia Fondren in a hug at midcourt.

It was Sykes’ final moment on the Carrier Dome floor this season, and possibly of her career as next year looms with uncertainty. Syracuse jubilantly spilled out onto the court, celebrating both a historic program win and a season-best 24-point performance from their embattled veteran leader.

Just don’t ask Sykes about a small stumble or trip on the court.

Thirty-four games into the season, she’s annoyed that others haven’t moved on from her twice-torn right ACL like she has. She proved it Sunday with the biggest performance of her career in SU’s second-round NCAA tournament game, one she’s missed out on each of the last two years because of her injuries.

“I look at her and I just go, ‘Wow,’” assistant coach Tammi Reiss said. “For her to do that today on national TV, in the biggest game of our season, has to just make her heart feel so good.

“The moment isn’t too big for her. Lights. Camera. Action. That’s Brittney Sykes.”

It was Sykes’ first 20-point game in more than two years, and she pioneered Syracuse (27-7, 13-3 Atlantic Coast) to a 76-59 win against Albany (28-5, 15-1 America East) to send the program to its’ furthest-ever point in the NCAA tournament. She complemented her scoring eruption with five steals and a season-best 9-of-10 day at the free-throw line.

At times this year she was a shadow of her former self, the player who drove the paint with reckless abandon and weaved effortlessly through defenders. But against the Great Danes she was back in the limelight.

Driving the paint. Splitting defenders. Carrying SU like she once could.

“I told a couple of teammates,” Sykes said, “that it felt like the old me. I felt like the old Brittney when it came to attacking the basket and just being confident.”

She knew the challenges that awaited her at the start of this season, fully acknowledging the “right of passage” endured by basketball players with torn ACLs.

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