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Men’s basketball head coach Jim Boeheim grew up at a funeral home in Lyons, New York. His roots from the small town have stayed strong throughout Boeheim’s career. Page 12

The LGBT Resource Center will host a clothing swap on March 29 at its suite in Bird Library to help expand the center’s genderaffirming clothing closet. Page 7

Syracuse University’s Graduate Student Organization may discuss the possibility of installing more CCTV cameras in off-campus neighborhoods. Page 3

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SPD chief outlines plan to decrease overtime spending By Casey Darnell asst. news editor

Syracuse Police Chief Kenton Buckner said at a City Hall meeting on Wednesday that he plans to switch police officers to patrols shifts, hire more officers and review the department’s highestpaid officers to reduce overtime spending. BUCKNER The city spent

more than $8.2 million on overtime for the Syracuse Police Department in the 2017 fiscal year and members of the Common Council have criticized the department’s overtime spending in the past. Buckner said SPD has spent $7.4 million on overtime this fiscal year, which ends in June. Institutions like Syracuse University and city schools have reimbursed the department $2 million for events where additional police security is needed. Buckner, who started as chief in December, said in his first four months he has worked

to get a handle on overtime spending. The SPD has 406 officers, but not all of them are patrolling. Some perform community relations functions and others serve in administrative roles, such as in the records department. Buckner said he’s working to change the shifts of community relations to nighttime shifts. Community relations officers were previously scheduled to work 7 a.m. to 3 p.m., but most of their duties involved attending community meetings at night, Buckner said. He said it didn’t make sense to pay those officers

overtime to attend the meetings. “In no way, shape or form is this any shade on any of the individuals working those hours,” Buckner said. “This is just me trying to be a good steward of the dollars we have and how to reduce some of the overtime.” The department is also in the process of reviewing its top 30 overtime earners. Buckner also said he plans to move sworn officers from administrative positions to patrol shifts, decreasing the amount of money SPD has to spend on overtime for patrol shifts.

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The department would hire civilians to replace the officers removed from administrative positions. When the department has a large number of vacancies, officers have to work extra hours to pick up the slack — resulting in higher overtime spending. A total of 29 officers retired from the department between July 1, 2018 and Feb. 28, 2019, Buckner said. SPD expects an additional six officers to retire by April, but a new officer class graduating in May will put the total count at 439 officers. see police page 6

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Mertikas, Saied announce campaign By Gabe Stern

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Syracuse University community members gathered at Hendricks Chapel on Wednesday for its annual Service of Commemoration. The service is held to remember people at SU who have died in the past year. dan lyon asst. photo editor By India Miraglia asst. news editor

Syracuse University’s annual Service of Commemoration was held in Hendricks Chapel on Wednesday to remember SU community members who have died in the past year. This was the third year that the service has been given. More than 100 people attended the service, which honored 84 students, faculty, staff, retirees and trustees. “We gather to remember those that like the turn of the seasons, have now made their own sacred switch from this life to the next,” Hendricks Chapel Dean Brain Konkol said as part of the service’s welcoming remarks. Konkol also began the service with a prayer. Senior Kenny Buckner, a Remembrance Scholar, spoke after Konkol. He talked about being a part of the SU “Orange” community. “In this family, everyone comes to share their stories, their jokes and their love at the

table,” Buckner said. “And when we leave, whether it’s to another city or from this Earth, a plate is still set for each one of us.” The names of the students, faculty, staff, retirees and trustees who died in 2018 were read during the ceremony. Student Association President Ghufran Salih read the names of the two SU students who died: senior Brianna Herrera – who died in a bus crash in January – and alumnus Jason Starzyk. Madison Albert, a friend of Herrera, lit two candles for the students, one before their names were read and one after. Chancellor Kent Syverud read the names of the faculty, staff, retirees and trustees who died, while Department of Biology Chair Ramesh Raina lit the candles. Syverud also spoke during the service. He said it gets harder and harder each year to read the names each service, as each year he knows more people on the list. “The memories are sweet, but it takes

a toll to read this list,” Syverud said. “And yet, on this beautiful spring day, campus filled with young and not-so-young people, we cannot be sad. We really must be grateful for their lives.” SU’s Hendricks Chapel Choir performed two songs during the service — “Flight Song” by Kim André Arnesen and “Ndikhokhele Bawo,” a traditional IsiXhosa song. Anne Laver, university organist, played at the beginning of the service and during its recessional. Freshman Morgan Eaton spoke at the end of the service. He said the memories of people who died are made more special when people work to better the lives of others in the name of those memories. “When someone leaves us in a physical sense, we must take on the responsibility of two people, two lives and two legacies,” Eaton said. “We live our lives on our own terms but are guided by the presence of those see commemoration page 6

Syracuse University students Mackenzie Mertikas and Sameeha Saied announced their candidacy for president and vice president of SU’s Student Association in a Facebook post Tuesday afternoon. Mertikas, a junior public relations and political science major, currently serves as SA’s chief of staff and has served as an assembly member in the past. She is president of SU’s Traditions Commission, which plans events such as homecoming, and cochair of the Student Communications Advisory Committee, said campaign manager Julia Howard-Flanders. Saied is a sophomore studying psychology. Her campus involvement includes being an orientation leader, a member of OrangeSeeds — a first-year leadership empowerment program — and community relations chair for OttoTHON 2019, a fundraising dance marathon for Upstate Golisano Children’s Hospital. Saied also works as a tutor in Literacy Corps, which brings SU students into city elementary and middle schools as part of the Shaw Center. “We believe all students at this university deserve to be seen, heard and understood, and we are passionate about making sure you are,” their statement read. Their campaign will focus on five platforms: diversity and inclusion, financial accessibility, accountability and transparency, health and wellness and community engagement, according to their campaign website. “Every wave starts small – we have set this one into motion, but you are the force that will make it strong and impactful,” their statement reads. SA elections normally take place in April. gkstern@syr.edu

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Political debate College Republicans and College Democrats will host a debate on Thursday evening. See dailyorange.com

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news to know Here is a round up of the biggest news happening around New York right now. UNWILLING ELECTION After an election with no candidates, Lance Bennett, 65, was elected as the mayor of the village of Poland, New York on Tuesday. He received 74 votes, the most of the nine write-ins. He served as Poland’s mayor several years ago and is now a poll inspector. source: syracuse.com

SNOWMOBILE ACCIDENT John Brockway, 50, died in a snowmobile accident not far from his home in Hadley, New York. A search was initiated just before 10 p.m. Tuesday and he was found dead at about 11 a.m. on Wednesday, according to authorities. source: syracuse.com

Spending review DIANE NASTRI (LEFT), MICHAEL MONDS AND STEVEN EVANS, the Syracuse Fire Department’s financial officer, chief and first deputy chief, respectively, answered questions at a Wednesday public safety meeting at City Hall regarding the department’s overtime spending. The city is projected to spend $4.1 million on overtime for the department, which has 359 employees. katie tsai asst. photo editor

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Senate to discuss installing CCTV off campus By Richard J. Chang staff writer

Graduate Student Organization President Jack Wilson informed the GSO Senate on Wednesday evening that Syracuse University’s Student Association is considering working with the City of Syracuse to install more CCTV Security Cameras off campus. The cameras would be placed on Westcott Street and Euclid Avenue,

Wilson said. The efforts to add cameras comes after three students of color were assaulted on Feb. 9 on Ackerman Avenue. The Syracuse Police Department would manage the cameras. Department of Public Safety Chief Bobby Maldonado has said that the closest camera to the assault did not show the assault taking place. In the past, several robberies took place in Clarendon Heights Apartments, primarily targeting international students from China,

Wilson said. Clarendon Heights is located south of the SU campus, near Interstate 81. Wilson said the robberies led to GSO and SA allocating money toward installing cameras in the area. The GSO Senate did not determine if it will support the installation of additional cameras or how much money would be allocated. GSO Senator Obi Afriyie said he opposed the proposal because increased surveillance could

infringe upon the civil liberties of residents or result in racial profiling. Afriyie said he wants to hear from SPD about how the cameras would be used and monitored. GSO also brought in Joseph Personte from SU’s newly-formed Office of Student Living to talk about concerns graduate students have with finding housing. Personte said the office is working with Off Campus Partners, an see gso page 6

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SU Democrats, Republicans prepare for debate By Gabe Stern

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Syracuse University’s College Republicans and College Democrats will discuss income inequality, First Amendment rights and climate change at a debate between the two organizations on Thursday night. The two organizations previously held a debate in fall 2017 on four topics: healthcare, abortion and Planned Parenthood, immigration and gun control. The topics for the debate were picked by both organizations. College Republicans President Domenic Biamonte and College Democrats President Andres Victoria both said that all three topics are relevant for college students. “I think those three topics reflect this generation’s issues,” Victoria said. In early March, President Donald Trump announced a possible executive order that would require colleges and universities to sup-

port free speech in order to receive federal research money. Biamonte mentioned the executive order as a relevant reason to discuss freedom of speech at the debate. Biamonte said that income inequality is particularly relevant in the city of Syracuse, and that college students are more environmentally-aware than most people. “We wanted topics that were relatable not only to constituencies as a whole, but to Syracuse students in particular,” Biamonte said. “What grabbed their attention but could also be substantive.” Grant Reeher, a political science professor in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, will moderate the debate for the second year in a row. The format, though, will change. There will be two debaters for three topics instead of three debaters and four topics. Biamonte said last year’s topics were too contentious. At times debaters looked at policy through a

“partisan lens,” he said. Both Biamonte and Victoria said they want to make the debate less partisan this year and have more substantial conversations related to policy. Parties can find more common ground on income inequality, climate change and free speech than last year’s topics, Biamonte said. “This year we focused on areas where we can really get substantive with policy and focus less on partisan politics,” Biamonte said. “We’re trying to bring the issues to things that individuals on campus are talking about all the time.” Victoria said that debaters have rehearsed their opening statements and agendas to make sure they are on the same page while on stage. Biamonte said he wants Republican debaters to provide a consistent view of what Republican policy looks like, “rather than a Trumpsupporting Republican versus an old-guard Republican” view. The two organizations have

worked together to organize the debate. Biamonte said that leaders from both clubs have two group chats, multiple joint documents and meet once every week to plan for the debate. They have met for up to three hours to prepare for the debate, he said. At the beginning of the debate, there will be a statement imploring students to stay respectful, Victoria said. He added that he wants students to come away from the debate with more informed opinions about topics that will affect them. “These are topics that are going to affect each and every one of us graduating, and that I hope that by attending this event people can bring this back to their own communities and study these issues,” he said. “At the end of the day, everyone here is going to be affected by it.” The debate will be held at 7:00 p.m. in Maxwell Auditorium, with doors opening at 6:30 p.m. gkstern@syr.edu

TRASH LEGISLATION New York State Senate unanimously voted to block a garbage incinerator planned for the town of Romulus in Seneca County. The bill blocks future garbage incinerators in the Finger Lakes from gaining approval under the New State Environmental Quality Review Act if the project meets certain criteria. source: local syr

WATERS THREAT Stephen Taubert, 51, was found guilty on charges related to threatening to kill California Rep. Maxine Waters (D) and former President Barack Obama in a series of phone calls he made in 2017 and 2018. Taubert was convicted on charges of threatening to assault a federal official, using interstate commerce to make a threat and making threats against a former president. Taubert will face 20 years in prison. source: syracuse.com

SEAL SIGHTINGS A harp seal was spotted in the Hudson River in Albany on Monday evening. They are not known to travel far north, according to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. Locals are encouraged to send photos to the DEC if other harp seals are spotted. source: syracuse.com

TRANSPORTATION HEARING Lawmakers will hold a hearing on public transportation at Onondaga Community College this Friday. They will discuss a bill proposing a tax on rental cars which would help fund public transit systems that could generate an additional $22 million a year. source: syracuse.com

BIG BABY Joy Buckley, 31, gave birth to her daughter, Harper, who was born 15 pounds and 5 ounces. She is twice the size of a normal newborn, and Buckley required two doctors to deliver her. The newborn is now in the intensive care unit in Arnot Ogden Medical Center in Elmira, New York. source: syracuse.com

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Syracuse Legacies Organ Conference March 29 -31, 2019 Join us for these public performances celebrating the contributions of Arthur Poister, Calvin Hampton, and Walter Holtkamp, Sr. Organ Recital by Cherry Rhodes Music of Calvin Hampton Friday, March 29, 8 p.m. | Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College Cherry Rhodes

Organ Concert Featuring Katharine Pardee and William Porter Music of Bach, Bonnal, Dupré, and Tournemire Saturday, March 30, 8 p.m. | Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College

Hymn and Anthem Festival Featuring Music of Calvin Hampton Kola Owolabi, organist Hendricks Chapel Choir and Festival Community Choir José “Peppie” Calvar, director Sunday, March 31, 4 p.m. | Hendricks Chapel

Dean’s Weekly Convocation (CART provided) When in our music, God is glorified Katharine Pardee

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Rev. Dr. Brian Konkol, Dean of Hendricks Chapel, speaker Music by Janet Brown, Anne Laver, Samuel Kuffuor-Afriyie, and the Hendricks Chapel Choir Sunday, March 31, 7 p.m. | Hendricks Chapel We welcome people with disabilities. The venues listed above are accessible, and Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) will be provided when noted. For questions about accessibility or to request an accommodation, please contact Michelle Taylor at mjtaylor@syr.edu or 315.443.2191 two weeks prior to the event.

Kola Owolabi This conference is made possible with generous contributions from the following sponsors: • CUSE Interdisciplinary Grant, Syracuse University • Malmgren Fund at Hendricks Chapel • The Westfield Center for Historical Keyboard Studies • The Centennial Millennium Fund of the New York City Chapter of the American Guild of Organists • Syracuse Chapter of the American Guild of Organists • The Organ Historical Society • Special Projects Fund of the Boston Chapter of the American Guild of Organists • Central New York Humanities Corridor from an award by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

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College admissions scandal revealed faults in education system

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o many, the recent college admissions scandal revealed something we already knew — wealthy people have advantages in life. But this scandal also showed us a more striking problem in our education system — there’s a greater focus on succeeding than learning. At least 50 people, so far, face federal charges for being involved in a scheme designed to help students get into prestigious universities. Parents solicited payments to William Rick Singer in exchange for false records and false test scores. Thankfully, Syracuse University was not one of the universities involved. But that doesn’t mean we can’t learn something from this story. While this scandal could just be seen as another example of the

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ALL POLITICS ARE HOPEFUL wealthy being given preferential treatment, we need to look at why parents were willing to do so much to ensure their children got into these colleges. It’s the result of a fractured education system in which college is more about receiving a degree than learning. “It does give you this stamp on your forehead that basically is a way of convincing employers that you are a higher quality person, and that if you can go and learn the material in college well, you can probably learn whatever it is the employers teach,” said Bryan Caplan, professor of economics at George Mason University.

The issue with college begins at a young age. Students are taught that a mark on a transcript is more important than what’s learned in the classroom. Instead of putting in legwork to learn, students often just cram for tests and forget the information learned in lectures. When applying for colleges, students attempt to mold themselves into a candidate for acceptance at a school rather than finding a school that will fit them. In college, students take plenty of classes that won’t hold much relevance to their careers with the goal of obtaining a line on their resume — a college degree. Here’s where this admissions scandal fits in. These parents didn’t participate in the scheme to allow for their children to get a prestigious

education. It seems like they did it so their children could boast a prestigious university on their diploma and get them into the elite networks. If it was about the things they would learn, maybe the parents would’ve thought about their children’s chances of succeeding under such a strict curriculum. The scandal paints a bleak picture of education in America. But, college does provide value to students. Many students gain valuable work experience in college and can make connections that help them in their careers. And at least some of the classes do teach important things that help students later on. From the perspective of admissions offices, there are many factors that need to be taken into

consideration outside of a student’s qualifications. According to Nathan DaunBarnett, associate professor of higher education administration at the University at Buffalo, there will always be a risk of scandals like this. “People know one of the ways to get into top institutions is through being an exceptional athlete, and anytime there is an incentive like that, there’s going to be folks who try to game it,” Daun-Barnett said. The root of this issue exists in a culture where college has become more about the degree than the education.

Nick Turner is a senior political science and policy studies major. His column appears bi-weekly. He can be reached at nturner@syr.edu.

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n Feb. 27, a new openprocess group for LGBTQ identifying students on campus launched. This discussion series, titled “True Colors,” aims to provide a space to talk through spirituality and other related topics. The series is an important move to demonstrate a welcoming space at Syracuse University for all spiritual or religious students. “The goal of the ‘True Colors’ Spirituality Series is to provide an open space for students to be validated within their respective sexual and spiritual identities. Through this series, we discuss local and national topics of interests that resonate with LGBTQI students at SU while collaborating on the different ways that the campus community can be supportive in addressing the needs of LGBTQI students,” Alonzo Turner, a co-facilitator for “True Colors,” said. LGBTQI stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex. “True Colors” increases the visibility of options for support from Hendricks Chapel, the LGBT Resource Center, the LGBT Studies Program and the Counseling Center. LGBTQ students facing challenges seeking community shouldn’t feel alone, and “True Colors” is here to support these

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NOT BLACK AND WHITE students. That’s admirable. “This kind of program is exactly in line with the goals and priorities of the Chapel. We want all of our students to be able to discuss faith in the context of their own identities,” Delaney Van Wey, communications specialist at Hendricks Chapel, said. “We have such a large variety of students on this campus and we know that not every program can address their needs, so this is another way that we can meet the needs of a certain group on campus.” SU’s LGBT Resource Center offers a variety of discussion groups, trainings and social events to provide spaces specifically for creating an empowered, safe and educated community. But specifically for the intersection of religion with gender identity, programs like this one are crucial in fostering an inclusive environment on campus. “True Colors” recognizes these struggles that exist for students and offers a space for open discussion. The discussion group is an important step to making the campus even more accessible and

available to the LGBTQ community by bridging the gap between sexual identities and faith. “LGBTQI people are like everybody else. They might be religious, they might not be. For those who are religious or interested in religion, spaces need to be provided, especially welcoming spaces,” Pamela Dickey Young, professor of religion at Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada, said. “True Colors” does this for the SU community by helping students get answers to faith-based questions and explore more identities — while seeing how these identities intersect with each other. “LGBTQI students facing challenges or questions in their identities shouldn’t feel alone and ‘True Colors’ works to prevent that from happening,” JoAnn Cooke, a cofacilitator for “True Colors,” said. While the discussion series is only four weeks long, the opportunity to connect resources with students is crucial to the university becoming a comfortable space for everyone.

Bethanie Viele is a junior biology major with a focus on environmental sciences and is a religion minor. Her column appears bi-weekly. She can be reached at bmviele@syr.edu.

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police Buckner said the department aims to keep at least 80 percent of its new recruit classes in patrol units. This would decrease overtime because less officers will be needed to fill patrol units while officers are in training, he said. The department is currently aiming for a total of 463 officers. Buckner said this could be made possible by increasing the size of the next recruit class or by hiring two classes at once instead of one. Councilor at-large Steve Thompson, who previously served as Syracuse’s police chief, said the council has already approved funding for the 463 officers. The department only requires Mayor Ben Walsh’s approval to allocate the funds, he added. The Syracuse Fire Department also struggles with overtime pay and vacancies, Chief Michael Monds said at the Wednesday meeting. Monds said the fire department has 359 members, 92 percent of whom are sworn fire-

fighters. The other eight percent of employees are staff. The department currently has 14 vacancies and expects a total of 24 retirements by January 2020, he said. “Staffing is at the very minimum where we need to be for firefighters on the line and as far as the functions we need to do as a staff,” Monds said. The fire department spent $4.8 million on overtime in 2017 and $3.9 million in 2018 — the lowest it has been in the past several years, Monds said. Overtime spending for this year is projected to be $4.1 million, he added. Monds attributed the drop in overtime from 2017 to 2018 to the hiring of a new class of firefighters. Monds said half of the fire alarms and calls in Onondaga County are responded to by Syracuse’s fire department. In 2014, the department responded to a record number of 28,000 alarms. The department has lost 88 sworn positions during the past several years. “We’re doing more and more work with less and less people,” Monds said. cdarnell@syr.edu | @caseydarnell_

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organization that showcases off-campus housing fit for student living, to make sure apartments and houses seen by SU students have had exterior and interior inspections. The Office of Student Living is also working with the City of Syracuse to ensure postings on the university’s off-campus housing search portal are up to city code. Several senators said they have had to find housing results on Craigslist previously. In the past, students searching for off-campus housing were told to Google a place to live, Personte said. He added that international students have often been trapped in signing leases online for housing in “deplorable conditions” based on fake pictures. “It’s not necessarily going to be the perfect experience,” Personte said. “But at least they have been vetted by the city and you know that the lights work, no one’s going to fall through the floor and the locks work. These are real things that have happened.”

Afriyie said he wants the office to not only offer appropriate housing options but also have a way to educate incoming first-year graduate students about all aspects of living in the Syracuse area before they arrive on campus. Personte said his office is already working to educate students on those issues. One senator asked Personte if graduate students with children are accommodated for in the website search. He said that specific needs for each family with children are different. His office will sit down with and point graduate students to family-friendly housing if needed, but the office will not recommend anything, he said.

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Stephen Farnham was elected to fill the vacant seat for Senator at-large in the GSO Senate. Farnham was in the Senate last year and is currently on the GSO Finance Committee. Farnham said he was reluctant to nominate himself for the seat because he has a class that interferes with the time Senate meetings run. rjchang@syr.edu

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commemoration who we care about most.” After the service in Hendricks, the group moved outside the chapel to lay a wreath in front of the chapel steps. Albert, holding the wreath, led the recessional out of Hendricks. The service attendees were quiet as they walked through Hendricks’ front doors and into the warm, sunny spring day. Hendricks assistants handed out white ribbons for people to tie onto trees after the wreath laying ceremony. After another set of remarks by Konkol, the group joined together to sing “Amazing Grace,” before dispersing to tie ribbons onto trees, talk with other service attendees and remember those who have died. “Today as we honor those who came before us, we honor now those around us,” Konkol said. “We look to the future in front of us with the faith, the hope and the trust that we may too be a beginning for others.” irmiragl@syr.edu | @IndyRow

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Fashion forward LGBT Resource Center expands gender-affirming clothing closet

Ï ! aims to broaden the reach of the LGBT Resource Center’s gender-affirming clothing closet through a clothing swap on March 29. The closet is located in the center’s new suite on the fifth floor of Bird LIbrary. colleen ferguson senior staff writer By Colleen Ferguson senior staff writer

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unlight streams into the LGBT Resource Center, in its new fifth-floor suite at Bird Library, through several large windows overlooking the Syracuse University campus. The light washes over a rack of dresses, jackets and other fashion pieces in calm blues, deep purples and fiery reds. Another rack filled with empty hangers stands next to the full one, ready to display more gently used items of gender-affirming clothing. Berri Wilmore, one of the center’s half-dozen student assistants, was struck with the idea for a gender-affirming closet when she realized how many items in her own wardrobe she rarely wore. The freshman communication and rhetorical studies major, has since spearheaded the closet’s development, working towards creating a space for queer people exploring their gender expression to feel validated and affirmed. While Wilmore said the closet hasn’t gained much student attention, she’s hoping that’ll change after the center’s clothing swap event. On March 29 from 6-9 p.m., students can come in, look through, try on and take home available clothing. They are

encouraged to leave items behind. “This is a space for anybody to come to, and we’re always really happy to see new faces coming in and out,� Wilmore said. The LGBT Resource Center’s staff aims to boost its outreach with students through efforts like expanding the gender-affirming clothing closet. The center and its resources are part of a larger push by queer studies scholars to integrate LGBT scholarship and ideas throughout the campus community.

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offer accessories like shoes, bags, hats and jewelry, in addition to clothing. University of California, Davis’s Gender Affirmation Closet offers these items as well as shape-wear like compression binders. Shane Windmeyer, founder and executive director of Campus Pride, told NBC News that LGBT advocates have organized clothing drives for transgender and gender-nonconforming college students for roughly the last decade. The closet at UC Davis has been open for a year and a half, LGBTQIA Center Office Coordinator Ness Nguyen, said in an email to The Daily Orange. In that time, she said, the center staff has changed up available closet items and organization and “only recently settled on a final version of the closet.� The center plans to do an assessment of the closet’s effects on campus this spring, she added. Clothing drop-off boxes for the swap at SU can be found in Schine Student Center and at Hendricks Chapel. Community members can also bring clothing to the LGBT Resource Center at their convenience, Wilmore said. After the swap, donations will be sorted and any items that aren’t considered gender-affirming — meaning items that are appropriate for all genders, like T-shirts — will be donated see clothing page 8

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E.T. to phone home in Syracuse Farm to Fork teaches sustainable cooking By Kerri McAneney contributing writer

Conductor Sean O’Loughlin recalls his 10-year-old self sitting in front of a massive screen, watching “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial� with his family. His uncle joined them at the Rochester movie theater, spoiling the whole family with candy, soda and a large bucket of popcorn. When Elliot meets E.T. in the woods, and the famous alien screams as the flashlight shines on him, O’Loughlin’s uncle — while holding the popcorn — jumped and

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When Mark Pawliw created Farm to Fork 101 back in 2015, he hoped for the event to be a fun and informative way of engaging people with their food and its origins. For the past four years, Farm to Fork has carried that mission to establishments across the city. Farm to Fork 101 partners with

other restaurants in the Syracuse area to promote sustainable food practices. Thus far, Pawliw has worked with one restaurant each month for the past three years. Farm to Fork’s next event will take place at Otro Cinco on March 25 and will feature chefs Carl Helgersen and Clem Coleman. As event organizer and host, Pawliw does the shopping for each see cooking page 8

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clothing to a local church. Wilmore said she’s hoping anybody coming in to check out the closet, for the swap or otherwise, can also learn about the center’s other resources. Beyond the various discussions and events the center puts on, sexual health resources like free STI testing are available every third Thursday of the month. Besides being somewhere to go for gently used wardrobe items, the center is a place for anyone to come in and seek any kind of help they may need, Wilmore said. “I think a lot of people don’t know, and it’s really a hidden secret,� she said of the center and its resources. At SU, the LGBT studies program is thought of as a three-legged stool, said director Margaret Himley. One of those legs is the resource center, from page 7

symphoria 23 in Crouse-Hinds Theater. O’Loughlin said the concert will offer audience members an experience that differs from watching the film. To him, the beauty of the live performance provides the organic nature and energy that watching the film on a screen at home doesn’t offer. One of the people who has helped bring the John Williams classic to Syracuse is Steven Linder — formerly of the Hollywood Bowl, known for producing works with Film Concerts Live! the company that organizes these performances. Linder said they are introducing or reintroducing films to their audiences with a large, communal experience which he can only describe as a once in a lifetime experience. “For a film like ‘E.T. the Extra Terrestrial,’ so many people have never seen it on a large screen.� Linder said he thinks Spielberg would’ve wanted audiences to enjoy it in a communal space rather than how movies are seen today on a laptop. One of the challenges that most of these

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with the others being the minor program and an LGBT-centric University Senate committee. Together, these components are meant to promote queer scholarship across student, faculty and staff communities, Himley said. All the clothes in the center are donated items from when it was located on the 700 block of Ostrom Avenue. Not all of that clothing was of interest to students, Wilmore said. Student assistant Alex Middleton recalled going through the old clothes before the center’s move and realizing how many items were dated and out of fashion. She’s looking forward to seeing “fresh additions� to the closet, she added. Wilmore and the center staff aim to fill the new space with age-appropriate, stylish pieces that college-age people want to wear, she said. “We’re college students, we know what college students are into,� Wilmore said. “One of the things that we definitely wanted to do was making sure that it’s things that people are films have, including “E.T.,� is that these pieces were never meant to be performed live, both O’Loughlin and Richardson agreed. For O’Loughlin, these kinds of concerts require a significant amount of preparation. “It’s not just learning the music, it’s hitting the pacing of conducting the music to a click track,� O’Loughlin said. “You have to realize that when they recorded the music for the film originally, they did it in small chunks.� In addition to thinking about how they will execute the performance, Linder said a lot of thought goes into which shows they select. They aim to choose marketable shows that are compelling to both the audience and orchestra. The films that are selected can range anywhere from classic films like “E.T.� to more contemporary films like “Star Trek Beyond.� “It’s fun to have unique experiences like this with the movies,� O’Loughlin said. “We have so many more programs we are able to offer that do kind of transport you somewhere else for two hours. Whether it be your childhood or outer space or if you’re in a romantic mood, wherever you need to go.� kmcanene@syr.edu

going to want, need and actually get use out of.� Wilmore envisions the closet as a costeffective way for people to look for clothes they’re confident and comfortable in. Clothing is a way for queer people to reimagine how they relate to the world around them, Himley said. She pointed to queer people as fitting into scholar Sara Ahmed’s notion of an affect alien, or someone “out of line with cultural scripts and the public mood — they don’t fit in right, they don’t feel right.� One way that queer people recognize themselves as affect aliens is through their clothing, she said, so a gender-affirming closet space gives them an opportunity to try something different. “It’s an opportunity to play,� she said of the space. “It’s an opportunity to experience the embodied pleasure of what it means to put on different clothes and have people receive you and see you that way.� Himley, who taught a course called “Fash-

ioning Queer Lives� last fall, referred to fashioning as a verb, one that can involve pushing back on the pressures society considers to be the norm. Fashioning, she added, makes life “bearable� for oppressed people and allows gender to be less about biology and more about expression. This concept of gender performativity is most commonly reflected in the drag community, she added. “There’s this capacity to feel affectively the pleasure and joy of bending rules,� she said. Middleton, a freshman communication sciences and disorders major, hopes the oncampus center can be a place for others to explore, just as it has been for her. “I want people to feel free to explore their gender and identity in general,� she said. “The space has definitely been a place for me to do that. I hope people feel that opportunity in this safe space.�

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Helgerson has been cooking in Syracuse for about 20 years and said he eventually hopes to become a farmer and junk shop owner. For him, these future interests are what make events like Farm to Fork so appealing. “Otro Cinco is our community, we hire local, we buy local and we sell local, working with Farm to Fork allows us to give people a different culinary experience,� Helgerson said. Nowadays, Pawliw said he wants to shift his focus toward educating the general public. He hopes to show people that the ingredients around them are easy to work with and that if they give sustainable cooking and eating a try, they might change their views on it. Helgerson said he is looking forward to helping Pawliw on his mission and will assist in curating the menu and planning the service — all while the restaurant remains open, as usual. While he said it is sure to be a long night, Otro Cinco staff members are excited for the task. “Food is where it all starts for my team and I,� Helgerson said, “and our guests can expect to dine on some scrumptious morsels.�

cooking workshop. Participants, he said, are shown more innovative and inventive ways to interact with the garden-fresh ingredients coming right from their local community. “I planned an event to showcase farm-totable cooking and eating in a different way,� Pawliw said. “It was a way to tell a story about the food chain from start to finish.� Food has always been an integral part of Pawliw’s life. He started working with food at age 15 and loved it immediately. Ever since, he’s strived to find ways to focus on chefs and farmers who are often overlooked within the industry. “I loved the way people felt after eating at one of my events,� Pawliw said. “Seeing their joy brings me joy.� This month, he will be working again with Otro Cinco. Farm to Fork 101 has collaborated with the restaurant before, and Pawliw said it was a great experience. Helgerson, chef at Otro Cinco, agreed that past collaborations like Salt City Iron Chef Throwdown have been a good time.

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colgate games. Prior to joining the Raiders, Langel was an assistant coach at Temple University, where he made the NCAA Tournament in four consecutive seasons. In his first season, the Raiders stumbled to eight wins, and a 2-12 conference record. But there was no panic. Former assistant coach Mike McGarvey said the postseason meetings after that first year were about reflection — recruiting, scouting, individual coaching. There was no discouragement, they were on the right path, McGarvey said. For the next seven years, Langel’s vision blossomed. Colgate’s win total climbed the first three seasons, from eight to 16, and in 2015, the Raiders lost in the Patriot League semifinals to American University. That same season, Colgate was one win away from the regular season title. It defeated Lehigh and needed a Bucknell loss to clinch. A handful of Raiders crammed into McGarvey’s office to watch the finish, only to see Bucknell prevail once again. “You really felt for the players to have so much excitement and taking care of our business, and needing something else to happen that didn’t come through,” McGarvey said. Then, everything started to piece together. Two years ago, Jordan Burns — who decommitted from D-II program Midwestern State — came to Colgate. Last year, Sean O’Brien and Jordan Swopshire had strong senior campaigns, averaging 10.7 and 12 points per game, respectively, guiding the Raiders to the CBI and its first postseason appearance in the 21st century. Langel’s vision crystallized last offseason, when Ivanauskas transferred from Northwestern, one of the final pieces to the process. Ivanauskas didn’t play in a single game because of shoulder injuries his freshman year. And he watched the Wildcats’ first two rounds of the NCAA Tournament. “There was this sort of air around the building, of cohesion, just how close we are as well as positivity,” Ivanauskas said about

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Northwestern’s 2017 run. “And I can definitely feel that same environment here.” Langel’s offense isn’t complicated — get the ball inside and if the defense slides down, kick it out. It starts with Ivanauskas, who was named Patriot League Player of the Year averaging 16.4 points and 7.9 rebounds. After receiving the ball in the post, Ivanauskas immediately looks to the opposite wing for a kick-out. If not, he resorts to the baby hook, his “sweet spot.” “We can get buckets, get a cushion, hold on to that cushion,” junior forward Will Rayman said. Against Bucknell in the Patriot League championship, the Bisons’ Kimal McKenzie drained four 3-pointers to start the second half. Then, McKenzie drove and drew a foul. In front of the Colgate student section, he clapped his hands, taunting them. McKenzie had almost single-handedly cut the Colgate lead from 17 to four. But three 3-pointers by Burns and Ivanauskas brought the lead back to double-digits. During that entire sequence, Langel stood in the same position — water bottle in hand, arms crossed just beneath a big “C” pin on his sport coat. In last year’s Patriot League final, hosted by Bucknell, Burns and McGarvey stood side-by-side after the game and watched the Bisons cut down the net. Cameras lined the court for pictures, and McGarvey, holding his daughter Finleigh, leaned in towards Burns and said “This could be us.” Burns, taking it all in, nodded. This season, it was. After defeating Lafayette to clinch the regular season title, McGarvey, now the head coach at Lycoming College, texted Langel “Mission completed. Congratulations.” It took eight years and six losing seasons, but Langel had accomplished part of his goal. Two weeks later, when Burns picked up the ball and launched it toward the roof of the Reid Athletic Center as time ran out, it was completed in full. “The other teams, they didn’t have a chance to call themselves champions even though they were so close,” McGarvey said. “This year’s team does.” — Senior Staff Writer Matthew Gutierrez contributed reporting to this story. arcrane@syr.edu

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howard the NCAA Tournament, answering questions from reporters. On Tuesday, Howard traveled with SU and practiced in the Utah Jazz practice facility with the rest of the team. Syracuse players found out about the suspension once it was made public Wednesday evening, junior guard Tyus Battle said. “He failed a drug test. Not sure what kind or when it happened,” said a former player, who was one of the three people familiar from page 12

lyons Boeheim Funeral Home, was started by his great-grandfather in 1854 on William Street. A portrait of Frederick W. Boeheim hangs on a wall in the house. Had Boeheim himself not rose from Syracuse walk-on to star guard to head coach, he said he probably would have spent his life in Lyons taking care of dead bodies. Aside from a white sign out front — “Boeheim-Pusateri Funeral Home” — there’s little indication that Boeheim grew up there. Fifteen years ago, Tom Pusateri knocked down the basketball hoop in the backyard, where Boeheim and his friends shot for hours after school and on Sundays. James Boeheim Sr. added lights around the hoop so his son could shoot at any time. One night, he was bouncing the basketball after the sun went down, which annoyed the neighbors. They notified a local police officer, who told them: “He’ll be a famous man one day. Let it go.” “They never complained again,” said John Lese, a former police officer in Lyons. At Lyons Elementary School, across the street from Boeheim’s home, Frank Quinn, Boeheim’s former classmate, recalled that Boeheim and a couple of friends didn’t follow the rules during nap time. Instead of resting on a rug, he led competitions of cops and robbers. Boeheim refused to lose. He hated it. Then, after school, when his team lost a basketball game, Boeheim took the ball inside. “He pouted about losing,” said Jim Blandino, a high school teammate of Boeheim. “He had the only ball, so when he lost, we couldn’t play anymore.” Blandino and several other of Boeheim’s high school teammates, including Tony Patanzo, know his early years best. His teammates still live in the Lyons area, and they meet nearly every weekday for breakfast at a cafe on Canal Street, two buildings over from Boeheim’s former home. They said Boeheim’s favorite team ever, after all these years, wasn’t at Syracuse. It was his Lyons High School team. Inside the home, there’s no indication of Syracuse basketball or Boeheim. His father, who died of cancer in 1986, sold the house in 1975 to Pusateri for $90,000. Pusateri, 75, kept Boeheim in the name because the business had been associated with “Boeheim” for more than a century. Lately, most of the furniture was replaced. Pusateri has made modest updates to the house, including new windows, a new paint job and some bathroom updates. In the kitchen, where Boeheim said he grew up on spaghetti and meatballs, the cabinets are still the same old wood. Pusateri doesn’t recall much from

with the situation. Howard’s suspension late in the season is not the first time Syracuse has entered the NCAA Tournament short-handed. Former SU center Fab Melo was ruled academically ineligible two days prior to then-No. 1 seed Syracuse’s first-round matchup with UNC Asheville in 2012. Syracuse is scheduled to tip-off with Baylor on Thursday at 9:57 p.m. in Salt Lake City and will be without their longesttenured starter. csdistur@syr.edu | @charliedisturco mguti100@syr.edu | @matthewgut21

buying the home, though he did remember Boeheim’s father being somber and stern. “You can see it a little in Jim,” he said. With his father, Boeheim enjoyed bass fishing and pheasant hunting. Sometimes, he fished alone at midnight. He inherited his athletic ability from his mother, Janet. Boeheim averaged 17 points per game and scored more than 1,000 in his career. When Boeheim pictures his boyhood home in Lyons, he remembers a mom and dad who disciplined him into the man he is today. Boeheim lives in Fayetteville now, but his heart is still in Lyons. “He’s still that same kid, that product of Lyons,” Juli, his wife of 21 years, said. “He has changed probably zero percent. He doesn’t have an ego. He’s blue collar, hard-working, roll-up-your sleeves, simple-minded, realistic kind of guy, which comes from Lyons. “That is home, and a big part of his heart and who he is.” Boeheim visits Lyons every few years to play golf or see old friends. He goes to his high school class reunion every five years. When he mentioned Lyons during his Hall of Fame speech in 2005, he shed a tear. Approaching Lyons on Route 31, a sign marks the town as, “Hometown of Jim Boeheim.” Next to the door in Boeheim’s current Fayetteville home, a black-and-white replica of the house hangs on the wall. A piece of the basketball court from his high school sits in his office. And he still owns an old hat that reads “Lyons” in script. In times of joy and in times of sorrow, he has subtle reminders of the place that made him. A few seasons ago, after a Syracuse game at Georgia Tech, Andrew Clary, the team security guard, was standing near the team bus, waiting for SU to walk out of the locker room to the bus. An old man with a cane called over to Clary and asked him to give Boeheim a letter he’d written. “What’s your name,” Clary asked. “No, that doesn’t matter,” the man said, according to Clary. “I used to play basketball with Coach Boeheim in Lyons, New York.” “Come on,” Clary said, incredulous. He knew Boeheim graduated from Lyons High School in 1962. “I swear,” the man replied. “Just give him that letter. I have stage IV cancer and I want him to read it.” Clary ran inside the arena, interrupted SU’s coaches meeting and told Boeheim about the man outside. Boeheim looked at it and walked to meet him. The two spoke for about 15 minutes, while the rest of the program filled onto the bus and waited. mguti100@syr.edu | @Matthewgut21

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The Lyons king

Howard suspended for failed drug test Three people familiar with situation detail test By Charlie DiSturco and Matthew Gutierrez the daily orange

JIM BOEHEIM was born and raised in Lyons, where he began his basketball career. Lyons is a town of just 5,000 people about one hour west of Syracuse. Boeheim now lives in Fayetteville. alexandra moreo senior staff photographer

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YONS — In the downstairs bathroom of Jim Boeheim’s childhood home, the old tub looks like a casket. Inside are cleaning supplies for the funeral home. The bathroom’s original wallpaper hasn’t changed. The marble countertops are still there, the piping still exposed, just as it was when Boeheim occupied the space. Down the hallway, the living room — a fireplace, a table and a couch — have remained. In that living room during the 1960s, Boeheim’s mother and father listened to radio play-by-play of Syracuse road games. Up the wooden steps, Boeheim’s twin bed is still there. The wooden floors creak. His room includes a fireplace, cabinet and a window overlooking the backyard, where he shot hoops for hours, well after the sun went down.

By Matthew Gutierrez senior staff writer

Jim Boeheim has left a lasting legacy in his hometown of Lyons

Boeheim, 74, hasn’t lived there since he relocated to Syracuse in the summer of 1962 to begin college. But recently, Boeheim thought about the source of pride in his life — the thing that keeps him going as the longest active coach in Division I hoops about to make his 34th NCAA Tournament. He thought about the 1950s, when he was just a skinny kid who loved basketball. He thought about growing up in Lyons, the place that molded Boeheim before anyone outside of the town knew his name. “I’m proud to be from Lyons, New York, town of 5,000 people,” Boeheim said last month. “Small little town. And got to Syracuse when I was 17. I’m grateful for what my parents did for me there. “I started here with nothing.” His family’s long-standing business, the see lyons page 10

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Langel leads Colgate to NCAA Tournament By Andrew Crane staff writer

Matt Langel stood inside the visitors’ locker room at Boston University’s Case Gym and wrote one word on the whiteboard: “Identity.” It wasn’t that his Colgate team didn’t have one. Langel, the head coach, and his Raiders reached LANGEL the College Bas-

ketball Invitational last season and were one win away from the NCAA tournament. Twice. It was Jan. 19, and Colgate was 2-3 in conference play with two double-digit losses mixed in with a close defeat to Bucknell. The Raiders just needed a spark. “Who are we going to be?” Langel asked his 14 players. “Are we going to be a middle-of-the-pack team or are we going to be a team that competes for championships?” Later that night, the Raiders walked off the court with a 19-point

win. Junior Rapolas Ivanauskas called it a turning point. That season could’ve fallen off the rails, but a composed Colgate group — and coach — kept them on track for their goal: an NCAA Tournament berth. It’s taken more than two decades for Colgate’s return to the NCAA Tournament, and with the culmination of Langel’s eight years in which he adapted the program, the Raiders’ ended the drought. On Friday afternoon, No. 15-seed Colgate (24-10, 13-5 Patriot League) faces No. 2-seed Tennessee (29-5,

15-3 Southeastern) in its first Tournament game since 1996. The 2019 Raiders are riding an 11-game win streak, nearing the peak of Langel’s vision that started when he took over in 2011. “I knew what it took to compete at a high level relative to your competition,” Langel said in early March. “I wanted to bring that here. It’s about the group and the process.” Before Langel inherited the program, Colgate lost 15 of its first 16 see colgate page 10

Syracuse senior point guard Frank Howard has been suspended indefinitely because he failed a drug test before the NCAA Tou r na ment , three people familiar with the situation told The Daily Orange on Wednesday night. It is HOWARD unclear when the testing took place. “The NCA A conducts testing at is championships, and year round on campus in Division I and II programs,” according to the NCA A website. “In addition, the majority of institutions conduct their own institutional testing programs independent of NCA A drug testing.” The penalty for failing an NCA A test related to a performance-enhancing drug means a student-athlete loses one full year of eligibility for a first offense, according to the NCA A. Tampering with an NCA A drug test results in a student-athlete being declared ineligible for participation in postseason competition. Not showing up for an NCA A drug test, or refusing to provide a sample, results in the same penalty as a positive drug test result for a PED. Shortly after 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Pete Moore, SU Athletics’ director of athletic communications for men’s basketball, issued a statement saying Howard “will not play in the NCAA Tournament for an indefinite period of time due to a violation of athletic department policy.” The news came a day before No. 8 seed Syracuse (20-13, 10-8 Atlantic Coast) was set to play No. 9 seed Baylor (19-13, 10-8 Big 12) in the NCAA Tournament on Thursday night. When contacted by The D.O. on Wednesday night, Moore declined to comment any further on the situation and referenced his earlier statement. “(Frank) won’t be here with us tomorrow,” SU head coach Jim Boeheim said Wednesday afternoon in Salt Lake City, before the Orange practiced. Howard did not appear in practice or for interviews Wednesday. Howard, a senior point guard and leader, was coming off his best performance all season, a 28-point showing in a loss to Duke during the ACC Tournament last week. He stood alongside junior guard Tyus Battle three days later when Syracuse earned an at-large bid in

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