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Don Garber, commissioner of Major League Soccer, spoke Tuesday night in Hendricks Chapel as part of the University Lectures Series.

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PìeìThe windy city

Syracuse University’s men’s basketball team is traveling to Chicago for its Sweet 16. Are you going with them? Check out Pulp’s complete city guide.

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OìeìActivism advice

Student Life columnist Rashika Jaipuriar argues that student activists should be more realistic when it comes to their demands for a better campus.

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SìeìFrom the bottom

SU point guard Alexis Peterson embraces being the underdog, a role that suits her and SU well heading into a Sweet 16 matchup with one-loss South Carolina.

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Bitter pill State efforts to reform prescription system may increase heroin use Text and Photos by Riley Bunch photo editor

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t took Kasey Lanese 10 seconds online to get a refill for her prescriptions through Syracuse University Health Services.

“It tells me, ‘Pick up your prescription at 1:15’ or something like that,” Lanese said. “It’s pretty foolproof. Takes me five seconds.”

Lanese, a sophomore communications and rhetorical studies major at SU, said it took one call from her doctor’s office to get prescriptions filled whenever she wants.

SU Health Services is working on com-

pleting the switch from old-fashioned paper prescriptions to electronic prescribing by Sunday, which is the deadline to implement mandatory electronic prescribing. This deadline was set last year when New York state Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature amended the Public Health Law and the Education Law. The extension aimed to increase the seriousness of the issue and give time for health service providers to transition, according to the New York State Department of Health.

Health service centers such as the one at SU are currently converting to computer software that meets federal security

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MICHELE FRONTALE, supervising pharmacist at SU Health Services, said the center has been through a slow transition process ever since it made the switch to electronic prescriptions.

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Through electronic prescribing, students at Syracuse University will be able to fill out prescriptions at SU Health Services for non-controlled substances and controlled substances.

requirements and is registered with the Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement as they comply with Cuomo’s state law.

Michele Frontale, supervising pharmacist at SU Health Services, said the center has been going through a slow transition.

“When I took over the pharmacy (in 2012) I really implemented a lot of the new pharmacy laws, so once we heard about electronic prescribing it was probably around 2013 that we started hearing see

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Firm representative talks past designs at NVRC lecture

By Michael Burke asst. news editor

A representative from the architecture firm Snohetta presented images on Tuesday of buildings the firm has previously designed at the first of a three-part lecture series from the firms that have been chosen as finalists to design the National Veterans Resource Com-

plex at Syracuse University.

Craig Dykers spoke in front of a packed Slocum Hall Auditorium, flipping through projected images of buildings across the world that Snohetta has designed, including theaters and libraries. Snohetta, Adjaye Associates and SHoP are the three finalists to design the NVRC. All three firms are also finalists to design

the Obama Presidential Library in Chicago, dedicated to United States President Barack Obama.

Design proposals for the NVRC were not discussed Tuesday and will not be discussed during the lecture series.

The NVRC, which was proposed by SU in October 2015, will serve as a hub for research and programming related to veteran

and military affairs in central New York. The complex will also be the center of veteran life on the SU campus.

Dykers, who also serves as a visiting critic in SU’s New York City architecture studio, showed images of the inside and outside of buildings including the Library of Alexandria in Egypt; the Norwegian National Opera

and Ballet in Oslo; and the Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, among others.

Dykers also showed photos of the Times Square reconstruction project that Snohetta is currently leading.

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WORK WEDNESDAY | bud buckhout

InclusiveU director helps with academics

By Danielle Bertolini staff writer

Bud Buckhout once worked with a student who made such a detailed diorama in place of an essay that her professor changed the syllabus to allow more academic choice for all students.

Since becoming the director of InclusiveU in January 2014, rethinking how students learn and display their knowledge has been Buckhout’s job. He coordinates programs, assists students and strengthens InclusiveU’s connections to campus.

InclusiveU provides individualized academic support for students with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Programs within InclusiveU such as Peer2Peer Project, the Access Program and Project SEARCH all fall under InclusiveU’s responsibilities. InclusiveU itself advocates for access to higher education for students with disabilities.

According to the InclusiveU website, the program was created to “build higher expectations for higher education.” By refusing to create separate classes for their students, InclusiveU aims to create an environment in which students with disabilities are not as removed

from the university experience.

“SU is a very accepting environment,” Buckhout said. “It’s just realizing that people come on campus for different reasons.”

Buckhout said his favorite part of his job is seeing friendships form between matriculated and nonmatriculated students, including those made through InclusiveU’s Peer2Peer program which foster campus interactions.

Although InclusiveU students take Syracuse University classes, accommodations are sometimes made to play to a student’s strengths.

He emphasized that InclusiveU students may learn differently, but they are still absorbing the same content and taking the same classes — it’s all a matter of finding which path will make the student most successful.

And InclusiveU is still growing.

The program recently received a grant which will allow it to start working with high school students in the area.

If Buckhout has learned one thing through his position, he said it’s to never accept what he’s told.

“I’ve seen students come through that were told not to expect much by their parents,” he said. “Yet I’ve seen them accomplish some pretty amazing things.” dbertoli@syr.edu

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Syracuse point guard Alexis Peterson is averaging over 20 points per game in the postseason.

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ROB FORD DIES Former Toronto Mayor Rob Ford died on Tuesday after battling an aggressive form of cancer, pleomorphic liposarcoma, which he was diagnosed with in 2014.

Ford’s time as mayor was filled with scandal after videos surfaced of him using crack cocaine and being intoxicated in public. source: usa today

(FROM LEFT) RICK BURTON, a professor of sport management at SU, and DON GARBER, commissioner of Major League Soccer, spoke Tuesday in Hendricks Chapel about some of the challenges and opportunities MLS currently faces. zach barlow asst. photo editor

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MLS head looks to future of soccer league

By Matthew Gutierrez staff writer

Don Garber licked his finger and pointed it in the air.

“You don’t just go like this and come up with something smart,” he said.

For Garber, the commissioner of Major League Soccer, research is required to devise strategies for how to manage the highest level of professional soccer in the United States and Canada. With 17 teams in the U.S. and three in Canada, MLS has grown mightily since its inception in 1993.

While he said he’s happy with the progress MLS has made, Garber is looking at the future of the league five, 10 and 20 years from now. That was the main focus of Garber’s address to the Syracuse University community on Tuesday night in Hendricks Chapel as part of the University Lectures Series.

“The league is doing very well, but we have a lot of work to do,”

Garber said.

The discussion was moderated

by Rick Burton, a professor of sport management at SU. Burton asked a series of questions on topics such as the recent FIFA scandal, how MLS targets its fans and how it develops its players.

It is a sport for this new America.

I wholeheartedly believe you are consuming it in different ways than their parents did.

Done Garber commissioner of Major League Soccer

Garber became MLS commissioner after a 16-year career with the

National Football League, where he finished as senior vice president of NFL International. When Garber became MLS commissioner in 1999, the league comprised 10 teams, he said. Now, the league has 20 teams across the U.S. and into Canada. In 2014, Garber helped MLS secure media rights with ESPN, Fox Sports and Univision Deportes, he added.

Five former SU men’s soccer players have been drafted by MLS teams in the last two years.

In January, former SU standouts Julian Buescher and Ben Polk were selected on the first round of the MLS SuperDraft by D.C. United and the Portland Timbers, respectively. The pair helped SU reach the Final Four in 2015.

Garber began by saying he’s proud of the way MLS handled the FIFA corruption scandal, which erupted last year after U.S. authorities disclosed cases of corruption.

When Garber licked his finger and pointed it in the air, he was refer-

ring to MLS’s challenge of attracting a younger audience. Millennials want an urban experience, he said, where they can take the subway or ride a bike to the game. Many millennials grew up with soccer and can relate to it more than people of older generations, he added.

“It is a sport for this new America,” Garber said. “I wholeheartedly believe you are consuming it in different ways than your parents did.”

How consumers get to games, buy tickets and consume content are just some of what MLS is researching, he said. On a similar note, Garber later outlined MLS’s analytics strategies. In practice, every player wears a small monitor on the back of his jersey to help researchers examine fitness levels, among other measurements, he said.

“We have to improve quality of play,” he said. “How long it takes a player to touch and distribute, scoring percentages, (we) have been

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Deans examine US military’s domestic role

By Satoshi Sugiyama asst. copy editor

(FROM LEFT) WILLIAM BANKS AND JAMES STEINBERG, the deans of SU’s College of Law and Maxwell School, respectively, discuss Banks’ book on the U.S. military. satoshi sugiyama asst. copy editor

Since the earliest days of the republic, Americans have developed “a dependent, yet uneasy relationship with the military,” William Banks said, referring to the theme of his new book.

As part of the Campbell Public Affairs Institute lecture series, Banks, the interim dean of Syracuse University’s College of Law, sat down Tuesday afternoon with James Steinberg, dean of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, in Eggers Hall to discuss Banks’ book “Soldiers on the Home Front,” which was

released in January. About 35 people attended the discussion.

The book, co-authored by Stephen Dycus, a professor in the University of Vermont’s law school, examines the domestic role of the United States military in the history of the country.

Banks said the U.S. has cautiously embraced the military at home.

“We understand the value of a highly disciplined and wellequipped experienced fighting force to defend against foreign invaders or to help out civilian authorities who are overwhelmed by domestic violence or natural disasters,” Banks said. “But we also recognize that see military page 4

ATTACKS IN BRUSSELS At least 30 people died and 230 more were injured in a series of terrorist attacks in Brussels on Tuesday. The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attacks. Four days earlier, authorities in Brussels caught a man who they believe to be one of the perpetrators of the November 2015 Paris terrorist attacks. source: the new york times

MONITORING MUSLIMS Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said the government should “patrol and secure Muslim neighborhoods” in the United States in response to the terrorist attacks in Brussels on Tuesday. Cruz’s comments drew intense backlash from American Muslim groups. source: the new york times

HACK IN Three men associated with the Syrian Electronic Army were charged with hacking into computers systems operated by high-profile news outlets and companies, such as The Associated Press and Thomson Reuters Corp. The Syrian Electronic Army supports embattled Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and aims to punish opponents of his regime. source: bloomberg

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DEADLOCK The Supreme Court handed down a 4-4 decision on Tuesday, the court’s first since Justice Antonin Scalia died in February. The decision means that a ruling in the lower 8th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals stands, but it does not resolve conflicting ruling from a different appeals court on a similar case. The decision — which was one sentence long — said the Court was “equally divided.” source: cnn.com

HEALTH

EARLY WARNING The Food and Drug Administration announced Tuesday that the warning labels on Vicodin and Percocet will be required to warn of addiction, abuse, overdose and death. Vicodin and Percocet are some of the most widely-used painkillers in the United States and account for 90 percent of all opioid painkillers prescribed. source: business insider

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tracking that. People sit in an office looking at (that) in real and post time, taking all that information, spinning it out.�  He also touched on MLS’s theme of driving a soccer nation in America. The soccer culture, he said, is what makes the sport different.

One of Garber’s biggest challenges is developing and retaining world-class players, he said. In the U.S., the traditional trajectory is for soccer players to attend

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even under civilian control those forces hold the potential for mischief.�

Banks said the book focused on the current and future domestic activities of U.S. military so that readers would understand the significance of those activities to civil liberties, national security and representative government.

The book also presented the history of the U.S. military’s involvement in domestic affairs.

Banks read an excerpt from the book about how former President Andrew Jackson was adamant in keeping martial law during and after the War of 1812. Fearful of a British attack on New Orleans, Banks said, Jackson instituted martial law in December 1814, assuming full control of the city and the civilian population.

After the British force was defeated in the Battle of New Orleans, the threat was removed and the war had formally ended. Nevertheless, Jackson refused to lift the martial law, Banks said, despite objection from a state senator and a federal judge.

Banks said this action by Jackson is evidence of Americans’ dependent and uneasy relationship with the U.S. military.

Banks added that the framers of the U.S. Constitution adopted the concept of “separation of powers� and a federal system to share responsi-

college and work toward a degree while playing the game. Elsewhere around the globe, though, players become professionals at younger ages, he said.  To fix that, MLS has began to invest more in academies starting at age 14. Garber said teams are spending upwards of $8 million to $10 million a year in player development. “How do you have (a) player think about nothing else but the team when they’re 16?,�

Garber said. “That culture doesn’t yet exist and it will take some time before that happens.�  mguti100@syr.edu

bilities of internal security between a national government and states, which also prevents overreach by the military. At the same time, Banks said they anticipated that military forces might be required to perform domestically, and knew the troops sometimes might need to help enforce civilian laws, only to fall short in articulating when such action is justified.

Banks said military influence has expanded over time because the original legal framework for domestic use of the military under civilian control has “eroded� and civilian political leaders have abused the legal authority to use the military domestically in the past and could do so in the future. “We hope that if lawmakers read the book they might be prompted to enact measures to better balance the risks and benefits and accordance with the rule of law,� Banks said.

Steinberg said in terms of intelligence and information, activities conducted through the National Security Agency and other civilian agencies happen to reside with the military, even though those actives are not martial. “But because the military commands a great deal of respect, we know that in terms of trying to get resources for functions and capability, you are more likely to persuade Congress if it’s coming from the military,�

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Misguided statement has safety risks The right to free speech should always be protected with the upmost regard. But limitations must come into play when Islamic State group recruitment practices could be permitted on college campuses.

Rep. Martin Daniel (R-Knoxville) said last week that terrorist organizations, specifically the Islamic State group, should be allowed to recruit at universities. The remarks came after a debate regarding the “Tennessee Student Free Speech Protection Act.” Daniel argued that the legislation “would direct schools to observe freedom of speech on campus” after what he claims have been restrictive speech policies in recent years at Tennessee institutions.

Daniel’s sentiment in an attempt to preserve the freedom of expression may have been well-intentioned. But — at its core — this rhetoric fails to align with the fundamentals of the First

Amendment. The active promotion of the Islamic State group has the capacity to incite imminent lawless action, considering the terrorist organization has claimed responsibility and inspired deadly attacks across the globe.

The group most recently named itself behind attacks in Belgium where at least 30 people have been confirmed dead with more than 230 others wounded after two explosions — at least one caused by a suicide bomber — at Brussels Airport and another in a Brussels subway station Tuesday morning, The New York Times reported.

In response to a question concerning whether he believed the Islamic State group should be able to “recruit for ISIS” within campus communities, USA Today reported Daniel said that like any other organization or cause, the Islamic State group is “just part of

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being exposed to differing viewpoints” as long as it doesn’t disrupt university proceedings.

Recruitment ventures among college students for the Islamic State group would likely disrupt the communities with counter protest demonstrations. Regardless of this factor, universities and lawmakers alike should have a clear understanding that the advocacy for free speech in the form of protecting operational practices for terrorist groups is a dangerous approach.

Limitations on free speech should never be implemented without substantive reason. But institutional leaders like Daniel should consider the fact that the protection of personal rights should not mean outwardly putting the safety of college campuses and the greater United States at risk at a time of intense international conflict.

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Activists should consider difference between radical, realistic calls

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tudent activists: take notes.

THE General Body staged an intense protest at Syracuse University in 2014 and released a 45-page list of demands regarding campus diversity and university policy, raising issues which, at the time, seemed daunting. Now, students and administrators can see intra-university collaboration at work in a report released Monday by the Chancellor’s Workgroup on Diversity and Inclusion that outlines 33 recommendations for ways in which SU can be more socially welcoming.

Meanwhile, Western Washington University is going through a similar phase. WWU activism group “Student Assembly for Power and Liberation” recently published a petition with demands to fight systemic oppression through the creation of a multicultural residence hall, student approval for some faculty hiring decisions and free tuition for any student who has experienced institutional “violence,” among other requests.

Numerous critics have since spoken out against the group’s strategy. The Atlantic’s Conor Friedersdorf — who has written

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numerous pieces on college politics — called it “self-defeating radicalism.” Robby Soave said in a piece for The Daily Beast that administrators should ignore these calls “to create an almost cartoonishly autocratic liberal thought police on campus.”

But whether these demands are too radical or ambitious is a matter of perspective. When one hasn’t personally experienced the grievances of these students, it isn’t possible to judge if they are asking too much. In this way, the ongoing student resistance at WWU is a microcosm of a crossroads that transcends student movements everywhere: outsiders who are unable to relate can either dismiss these activists completely or over-sympathize to the point of withholding valid criticism.

Critically analyzing activist demands can strengthen social movements and help students create impactful change, rather than just publishing a lengthy list of

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grievances and giving the university an ultimatum to act.

For instance, the WWU students’ demand for a College of Power and Liberation — a new school dedicated to social justice — is an admirable goal because it could focus on underrepresented communities.

However, this would arguably limit enrichment to the select few students interested in that one specialized school. And the rest of the university could just go on, unaffected, which ultimately defeats the purpose of trying to educate the campus community on social consciousness.

It’s a tough compromise because lofty visions may not always be achievable, but thinking small may just get students to settle. And because of this, there must be balance between ambition and reality.

Another caveat of this balance in student activism is using a tone that gets people to listen: speaking up means being bold, yet not too aggressive. There’s a difference between a “DEMAND” and a respectful request to a university that technically doesn’t owe students anything.

Sarah Pralle, an associate professor of political science at SU who supported THE General Body,

said the demonstration at SU was a good model for student movements because it first aired its grievances to administrators and governing bodies before hosting the 18-day sit-in.

“Directly going to the streets isn’t always the best strategy,” Pralle said. “You’ve got to be able to ramp it up and you’ve got to hold something in your back pocket.

So I think them starting with the normal channels, building some support, building a dialogue across campus (was effective).”

One goal for universities across the country should be that all students, regardless of personal factors like background, race, sex, gender and wealth have an enjoyable and insightful higher education experience. This is especially true if you’ve already experienced a lifetime of institutionalized racism or oppression. For instance, the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights found in 2014 that black children and children with disabilities are disproportionately disciplined in public schools.

So when it’s time to go off to college, one would imagine it to be an escape — a worldly and cultured

environment, filled with diverse and open-minded people. When that doesn’t end up being the reality, it is understandable for students to unleash their frustrations to the respective institutions.

But before tackling an entire institution and stepping on the gas, racing full-steam ahead, student activists should pause and examine their immediate environment. Rather than trying to imitate other recent social movements, like the ones at the University of Missouri and Ithaca College, activists should calmly assess what they truly want and what they can realistically accomplish for their respective campus.

“Go big or go home” is a popular piece of advice thrown around, but when it comes to creating real change, maybe you don’t have to “go big.” Because even if rules and regulations on paper are drastically changed overnight, public opinion will always take time to evolve.

Rashika Jaipuriar is a freshman broadcast and digital journalism major. Her column appears weekly. She can be reached at rjaipuri@syr.edu and followed on Twitter @rashikajpr.

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SU alum encourages university community to give back

By Sara Swann asst. news editor

Jim Carrick predicts that Syracuse University’s men’s basketball team will beat the University of Kansas to win the championship game of the NCAA Tournament.

Carrick showed his March Madness bracket at the beginning of his Phanstiel Lecture on Tuesday to explain that philanthropy is all about giving back to something you are passionate about. And for Carrick, that something is SU. As part of SU’s Philanthropy Week, Carrick spoke to a crowd of more than 100 members of the SU community on Tuesday in the Schine Student Center to encourage them to give back to the university. Philanthropy Week events started on Monday and will continue until Thursday.

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prescription about the mandate laws.”

Health Services was up and running with electronic prescribing of non-controlled substances by 2014, Frontale said.

Electronic prescribing of non-controlled substances means that students will not only be able to call in refills for non-controlled substances, but controlled substances as well, according to the New York State Department of Health. Controlled substance electronic prescribing is more difficult because it requires software to be registered with the New York state Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), according to the Department of Health. Once the software is certified, Health Services is able to accept electronic prescriptions for controlled substances, which include any medications unable to be obtained without a prescription.

But, Frontale said, this can be controversial for college campuses seeing an increase in

Foundation and SU men’s basketball’s Hardwood Club. In addition to SU, Carrick said he is especially passionate about donating to help support people with cancer, as his wife Peggy is a two-time cancer survivor.

He said giving back is more than just writing a check or making a donation. Instead, Carrick said people should get more involved with the organizations to which they are donating.

For example, Carrick said he has run several races with his family and friends to raise money for cancer research and treatment.

At the start of the Phanstiel Lecture, SU Chancellor Kent Syverud mentioned five

examples of philanthropy at SU, including the anonymous $1 million donation to SU’s science departments last spring and JPMorgan Chase’s $13.8 million donation to support SU’s Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF).

Syverud said he thinks SU is a “great and thriving place” because of these examples of philanthropy and “selfless giving back.”

Philanthropy Week was established by SU Trustee and Class of 1971 SU alumnus Howie Phanstiel and his wife Louise in 2010 after the couple made a $20 million donation to the university to create the Phanstiel Scholars program. The program provides financial resources for middle-class students to attend SU, according to the Philanthropy Week website.

During his lecture, Carrick talked about some of the people who have influenced his life, particularly in regard to philanthropy. The first was his mother, who despite not having a lot of

money when Carrick was growing up, still managed to find ways to give back to people, he said.

Immediately following the Phanstiel Lecture, the 2016 winners of the Orange Circle Awards were announced. OttoTHON, a student-run philanthropic organization, was chosen for its efforts in raising more than $152,000 for Upstate Golisano Children’s Hospital.

Tumay Tunur, a postdoctoral associate in the exercise science department at SU’s School of Education, was chosen for her leadership with the Moving Through Possibilities program, which supports people with Parkinson’s disease by teaching them ballet.

The final Orange Circle Award recipient was Matt Zeller, a Class of 2006 SU alumnus who co-founded the No One Left Behind program to protect military translators overseas and provide them with travel visas.

recreational prescription drug use.

In 2013, New York state passed the Prescription Drug Reform Act Internet System for Tracking Over-Prescribing (I-STOP) to prevent the forging of prescriptions for hydrocodone, oxycodones and other controlled substances.

Under the I-STOP bill, when a controlled substance is dispensed from a pharmacy, it is reported to a registry online. All physicians are required by law to check this registry prior to writing the prescription to ensure that the patient doesn’t have a history of drug abuse.

“Because that’s what happens with the oxycodones and the oxycottons, a lot of (people) shop around … they’ll hop from ER to ER to get ‘scrips,” Frontale said.

Pharmacies’ live feeds allow them to check the registry to see if patients have had prescriptions filled recently, Frontale said, which helps the decrease of prescribing controlled substances.

This system encompasses all controlled prescriptions, including Attention Deficit Disorder

medicine. Although I-STOP has addressed and improved the issue of overprescribing, opioid abuse is still prevalent.

In New York state from 2003–12, poisoning deaths involving opioids increased both in number and as a percentage of all drug poisoning deaths. In 2012, 70.7 percent of deaths involving an opioid also involved at least one other drug, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

“They’ve shown that this I-STOP regulation has decreased the distribution of hydrocodone and oxycodone and other things like that being prescribed,” Frontale said. “… But the downside is because of this decrease in pills and other controlled substances there has been an increase in heroin.”

A spokesman from New York State’s Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services confirmed that the office’s data showed an increase in the last three years in young people seeking treatment for opioid abuse, but said there was

also an increase in mortality rates from heroin.

Frontale said it seems as though new crackdowns on prescribing of non-controlled and controlled substances has both its positive and negative consequences. Heroin is easy and cheap to get a hold of, she said, and it is also more harmful.

“Heroin is where all these deaths are coming from,” Frontale said. “There’s a give and take. We don’t know, (I-STOP) has definitely helped in overprescribing, but there’s still the prescribing of (opioids) and still the illicit use of them out in the college world.”

A 2015 study by researchers at The Ohio State University shows that 33.5 percent of undergraduates and 29.8 percent of graduate and professional students say it is easy or very easy to obtain prescription pain medications.

New regulations surrounding prescribing are intended to lower these numbers, but there still are increases in the usage of drugs that are cheaper and easier to get.

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The company that owns Destiny USA has announced its updated plans to build a smaller, cheaper hotel across from the mall. Original plans for the hotel were made in 2014, but the new proposal cuts the budget costs nearly in half. courtesy of destiny usa

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Destiny USA company reveals plans for cheaper hotel than originally proposed

By Tara Tolton staff writer

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he same company that owns Destiny USA has unveiled updated plans to build a hotel across from the iconic mall.

The updated plans seek a smaller, cheaper hotel than the one The Pyramid Companies, the Syracuse-based company that owns Destiny USA, originally proposed in 2014. Rather than a 255room hotel, the new plans describe a 209-room hotel, according to a letter sent from a lawyer representing Destiny USA to the Onondaga County Industrial Development Agency (OCIDA).

The hotel will also be less costly under the new plans, as the budget for the project has been adjusted to $48 million. The previous budget was $75 million, according to Syracuse.com.

The project developers are also asking for 12 years of property and sales tax exemptions that total $6.84 million, less than the previous request of $20 million in total exemptions over 20 years, according to the same Syracuse.com article.

Construction for the hotel would begin in May or June and finish by summer 2017, according to Syracuse.com.

The proposed hotel would create 225 construction jobs, including 74 permanent jobs to run the hotel, according to the letter. The letter also said the company has pledged that at least 50 percent of those

hired for the 225 jobs will be Syracuse residents.

Jan Ondrich, a Syracuse University professor of economics who has a specialty in urban economics, said in the 30 years he’s lived in central New York he has seen a lot of the region’s malls and hotels fail and become abandoned.

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This adjusted budget for the proposed Destiny hotel is less costly than the original budget, which was $75 million, according to Syracuse.com.

He said the company should be given more than the proposed tax breaks to create more jobs than the number the company projected.

“If a hotel comes to Syracuse, and it’s successful, I think that’s great,” Ondrich said. “It should be given a large amount of tax exemptions, as long as the city can stand it, because we have an employment problem.”

Ondrich said he can see a problem in the potential clientele of the hotel. The Destiny USA mall attracts a large portion of its customers from Canada, he said, and because the exchange rate in Canada has fallen while the rate of the U.S. dollar has risen, he said shopping or staying in the U.S. is

now a much more expensive venture for Canadians.

He added that understanding the exchange rate changes in Canada is pivotal to the construction of the hotel because a lack of understanding could lead to another failed hotel that the community is stuck paying for.

Since the hotel plans have been reinitiated, there has been backlash from the Syracuse community. Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner criticized the OCIDA’s proposed tax exemption for the hotel in a statement from her office, in which she called the proposal “yet another experiment in a failed economic strategy that enriches developers and leaves the rest of our community behind.”

Miner said in the statement that Destiny USA has received more than $700 million in tax breaks in the construction of “a grand hotel,” among other things, but has “repeatedly walked away from commitments.”

“The people of Syracuse are tired of the false promise of trickle-down development with developers who get rich while our people struggle,” Miner said.

Ondrich said Miner has been in Syracuse for a long time and is not new to failed business endeavors. Miner is asking that the company “has done their homework,” he said.

“She wants a guarantee that abandonment isn’t going to happen,” Ondrich said. trtolton@syr.edu

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New York state sees surge in online voter registration

By Rachel Sandler asst. News editor

As the deadline to register to vote in New York state’s presidential primary nears, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Tuesday an unprecedented surge in voter registration through the state’s online voter registration system.

MyDMV, New York state’s online voter registration system, processed more than 40,883 voter registration applications within a 10-day period between March 10 and March 20, according to a press release from Cuomo’s office. About half — 20,889 — of those proposals came from first-time voters, according to the release.

The deadline to register to vote in the New York state primary is March 25. The primary will be held on April 19.

A record number of voters registered on March 18, according to the release. This was three days after Florida, Illinois, Missouri, North Carolina and Ohio had primary races that resulted in Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) dropping out of the presidential race.

“Our online voter registration portal is key in this administration’s efforts to knock down barriers to democracy and encourage more participation in the electoral process,”

Cuomo said in the release.

Onondaga County is also seeing high rates of voter registration. As of Feb. 16, 30,000 people registered to vote in the county.

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Percentage of first-time voters in New York state who registered online between March 10 and 20

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has a strong lead ahead of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in New York state, according to FiveThirtyEight’s weighted polling average, which has Clinton up by nearly 40 points.

On the Republican side, business mogul Donald Trump is also ahead of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) by nearly 40 points, according to FiveThirtyEight.

A survey spearheaded by Syracuse University’s Student Voter Registration Project found that 77 percent of SU students are registered to vote and are willing to participate in the general election. rsandler@syr.edu | @rachsandl

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from 1989-2001, Dykers said. The library is of a circular form and sits on a steep tilt.

The Norwegian National Opera and Ballet is also built on a slant, with an accessible roof on top.

Both the library and the Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts house a number of tenants. The library houses museums, a planetarium and a school for information science and conservation facilities, while the Isabel Bader Centre serves as a home for a performance hall, classrooms and performance spaces for several departments at Queen’s University.

That’s similar to the NVRC in that the complex is expected to serve as a home to eight tenants, including SU’s Institute for Veterans and Military Families and the Office of Veterans and Military Affairs.

Many of the buildings that Dykers showed Tuesday have prominent, public lobbies, including the Isabel Bader Centre and the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet.

Dykers also discussed Snohetta’s ongoing

reconstruction of the public space in Times Square. The firm is focusing on improving “physical and operational conditions of the streets, sidewalks and sub-surface infrastructure” with the goal of increasing the functionality and safety of Times Square, according to Snohetta’s website.

The area has already become more pedestrian-friendly, as there has been a 40 percent decrease in pedestrian injuries since the start of the reconstruction, Dykers said.

The pedestrian-friendly aspect could be of interest to SU. At a Campus Framework update session earlier this month, Michael Speaks, the dean of SU’s School of Architecture, discussed potential plans to make both University Place and Waverly Avenue — where the NVRC is expected to be built — more pedestrian-friendly with the creation of promenades.

Dykers closed his lecture with a short Q&A session before a reception took place in the first-floor atrium of Slocum Hall.

The next lecture in the series is set for March 31, when William Sharples of SHoP will speak in Slocum Hall Auditorium at 6 p.m. mdburk01@syr.edu | @michaelburke47

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Grant to allow Plastics Collection to hire curator

By Karli Ann Gasteiger contributing writer

“Just one word: plastics.”

These were the words spoken to Dustin Hoffman’s character Benjamin Braddock in the famous 1967 movie, “The Graduate,” but could also very well serve as a catch-all motto for Syracuse University’s Plastics Collection.

On the sixth floor of Bird Library are the Syracuse University Archives and Special Collections. One of its acquisitions, The Plastics Collection, is home to approximately 2,500 artifacts. The collection specializes in 20th century plastic materials and also contains books, periodicals and manuscripts on the topic of the synthetic.

In February, the collection received a $1 million anonymous donation to fund a curator position and allow the collection to grow even bigger.

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The Plastics Collection began with help from Harry Greenwald, a 1951 alumnus who is also a donor on the libraries’ board of advisors and prominent figure in the plastics industry. In 2007, Greenwald gave money to fund a temporary curator position for a collection started by SU and the Plastic History and Artifacts Committee of the Plastics Pioneers Association.

The collection was to be housed at the National Plastics Center and Museum of Leominster, Massachusetts. Even a year after its founding, the collection failed to take off, so the materials were sent to SU. Ronald Thiele, assistant dean for advancement of Syracuse University Libraries, said this donation will allow the collection to grow even more.

“We really, sorely needed to have somebody who could focus part of their attention as a curator on maintaining the collection,

growing the collection, developing the collection,” Thiele said.

In 2013, donor Glenn Beall made a gift of $100,000 to fund the creation of The Plastics Reading Room, a study space featuring a curated assortment of items from the collection on Bird Library’s sixth floor. Last November, Beall called to notify Thiele of a donor wishing to gift $1 million to the collection in order to hire a permanent curator for it. The donor wishes to remain anonymous, but is a prominent figure and original entrepreneur in the plastics industry.

“He felt he wanted to do something that would help sustain the plastics collection,” Thiele said of the donor’s intentions behind his philanthropy. “As much as plastic is a great material … some of these older things, they need to be stored carefully; they can deteriorate.”

He reflected a need for careful conservation of the older and rarer materials the collection is fortunate to be endowed with.

In just 30 days, Thiele said they were able to get the endowment agreement together and move forward with the advancement of the plastics collection.

Lucy Mulroney, senior director of the Special Collections Research Center, is thrilled with the donation.

“There’s such rich material here, looking at the way plastics were used — from fashion to household goods, to chairs, to buildings, to clothes, hairbrushes, toothbrushes,” Mulroney said.

There’s something in the collection for everyone, Mulroney said. Architecture and design students will be able to look at prototypes, sketches and drafts, and use that as source material for their own creative processes. She added that science students can use the collection is to think about the chemistry and the evolution of plastic as a biochemical medium.

Because the field of plastics is such a diverse and interdisciplinary one by nature, Thiele said the library is lucky to have such an abundant resource of primary source materials.

Mulroney said there haven’t been a lot students up on the sixth floor using the collection, but hopefully this donation will change that.

“Having this plastics curator come in and be able to work with the faculty to get students in is what we’re really trying to do,” Mulroney said. “Nobody knows about it — we’re a hidden gem.” kgasteig@syr.edu

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!ĂŹ was inspired by musician Mac DeMarco to start his own musical career. He has built a make-shift recording studio in his dorm room, and he plans to finish his first album, “Banzai,â€? by the end of May. evan jenkins staff photographer

Sophomore Andrew Mendosa is self-starting his musical career

By Joe Bloss staff writer

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alk into Andrew Mendosa’s room in Booth Hall, and you’ll find an intimidating mess. Clothes lie in piles across the hardwood planks, and wires and cords pose a hazard with nearly every step.

Looking past the clutter, though, and there’s an image that sums up Mendosa’s living quarters.

Up on a shelf, hidden behind a bottle of sriracha sauce and three Star wars figurines, a poster of Mac DeMarco peels from the wall. The indie rocker is one of the reasons Mendosa, a sophomore television, radio and film major, is just a few months away from releasing his debut album. “Through Mac DeMarco I learned that you could kind of do it yourself,� Mendosa said. “I never thought that was possible.�

Although it was Bob Dylan who inspired Mendosa to start writing lyrics and poems, it was DeMarco who made him realize he could put music behind the words.

In 2013, a friend introduced Mendosa to DeMarco’s music. Soon after, with the money he saved up from his job at a pizzeria, he decided to follow DeMarco’s path and self-start his music career. He bought some musical equipment and began a do-it-yourself approach to recording music. He had two months of drum lessons during the fifth grade and had taught himself guitar, but otherwise had no prior legitimate musical experience.

Mendosa has used that equipment to set up a makeshift studio in his dorm room. He has a mini mixing board and a plethora of instruments to accompany his vocals.

As far as released material, not much has come from Mendosa so far. His Bandcamp account, under the name AndyJohnMendosa, does have three tracks — two originals and one cover. But the young artist has plans to expand his discography soon. He expects his debut album, entitled “Banzai,� to be finished by the end of May.

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With the finishing touches in the works, Mendosa wanted to make one thing clear about the new album. In the past, his music has ended up sounding more like a reproduction of DeMarco.

But with “Banzai,� Mendosa said he doesn’t want to copy DeMarco’s distinct guitar tone. In his opinion, the tone is used by too many startup artists just like him. If DeMarco is considered melancholy, Mendosa wants to be seen as intense. “One of my main goals now is just separating myself from (Mac DeMarco’s) sound,� he said.

While sound is obviously the main component to any form of music, Mendosa said his

work has a “visual image� that coincides with the lyrics. Much of his inspiration in this sense comes from his passion for film. He gets some of his ideas from the work of Quentin Tarantino and Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa.

Film helped shape “Banzai,� which is a western concept album. An idea made famous by artists such as Willie Nelson and Johnny Cash, concept albums usually deliver an overarching story or theme. Mendosa’s interest in western themes stems from his longtime admiration of Ennio Morricone. The Italian composer recently won his first Oscar for the score of Tarantino’s “The Hateful Eight,� and also worked with Tarantino on the western film “Django Unchained.�

Growing up watching Tarantino’s movies, Mendosa has always been a fan of the dark feeling that flows from Morricone’s work. But it wasn’t until he started to analyze the music more closely that he found inspiration.

The title of “Banzai,� which is a Japanese battle cry that roughly translates to “10 thousand years of life to you,� stems from Mendosa’s appreciation of Japanese culture, and especially its influence on the development of cinema. Mendosa said he sees a lot of similarity between the feudal Japan period — which lasted from the 12th-17th centuries — and the setting of Western movies.

In a more common sense, Mendosa said “banzai� means to run into something with no inhibitions. He went on to explain that the seven-track album is the tale of a man on the run, telling a “simple western story.� “It’s a story about life and the way the character in the album goes through life,� he said. “He’s very much on a banzai charge.� jtbloss@syr.edu

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Everything to know about Gonzaga ahead of Sweet 16

By Sam Blum senior staff writer

Syracuse (21-13, 9-9 Atlantic Coast) will travel to Chicago on Friday to play Gonzaga (28-7, 15-3 West Coast) in the NCAA Tournament’s Sweet 16. The No. 10 seed Orange won two games in St. Louis this past weekend, upsetting No. 7 seed Dayton before taking care of business against the Cinderella story in 15th-seeded Middle Tennessee State. The No. 11 seed Bulldogs upset sixth-seeded Seton Hall and No. 3 seed Utah to advance.

Syracuse hasn’t been to the Sweet 16 since 2013, when it went all the way to the Final Four. Gonzaga has made the Tournament in 18 straight seasons, but is one of only two non-power conference team remaining in the Tournament.

Here’s everything you need to know about the Bulldogs.

All-Time Series: 1-0 in SU’s favor.

Last time they played: On March 21,

2010, Syracuse blew out Gonzaga, 87-65, in the Round of 32 in the NCAA Tournament.

It was the only matchup between the two teams. At the time the Orange placed as a No. 1 seed in the Tournament. Wesley Johnson scored a career-high 31 points in the game played in Buffalo. The 12 3-pointers that SU hit was the most in the program’s NCAA Tournament history. Conversely, Gonzaga made just 3-of-21 from behind the arc.

Syracuse went on to be upset by Butler in the Sweet 16. That was the year when Butler made the Tournament final for the first time.

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Percentage of Gonzaga’s points scored

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The Gonzaga report: Gonzaga is also

the eighth tallest team in the country, per Kenpom.com. It is likely due to the experienced big men Kyle Wiltjer and Domantas Sabonis on the roster, both of whom are at least 6-foot-10. Another big man Przemek Karnowski (7-foot-1) was injured five

games into the season. He was arguably the team’s best player.

The Bulldogs didn’t do much wrong this year. Its’ worst loss came at home to UCLA. It also lost to St. Mary’s twice, before defeating it in the WCC championship game. They didn’t collect many good wins, though, until the NCAA Tournament. A win over Connecticut in the Battle 4 Atlantis was the best regular season win.

Sabonis, though, is one of the best at his position, averaging more than 11 rebounds per game. Syracuse will have a tough time going up the Bulldogs’ their size.

How Syracuse beats Gonzaga: The

Orange needs to find a way to keep the ball out of the high post so Wiltjer and Sabonis can’t find too many scoring opportunities.

They will get their points and they will get their rebounds, and because of that the Orange will need to do other things right. That involves making 3s and limiting the Bulldogs on the offensive glass. Unfortunately for the Orange, GU also limits 3-point shooting really well, and shoots it at a high percentage from the outside. Syracuse has the advantage of having played tough teams that are good at rebounding this season and finding a way to hang in there. But unlike North Carolina, GU is dangerous with 3s. So this isn’t an ideal matchup for SU, but there are few that are for the Orange.

Stat to know: Both Gonzaga and Syra-

cuse play very tight rotations. The Bulldogs only use their bench 22.9 percent of the time, which is 338th in Division I. Syracuse uses its bench 16.2 percent of the time, good for 350th in Division I. Having six or seven players has seemed to hurt SU this season a bit, but the Orange will be on a level playing field in that area come Friday.

Player to watch: Sabonis is a monster

on the glass, and it will be interesting to see if Syracuse can find a way to at least neutralize that ability. He’s had 14 games this season where he had 10 or more rebounds on the defensive glass alone.

There’s no way to know which Tyler Roberson shows up to battle with him on the boards, but if it’s not the “plugged-in” one, then Sabonis will likely be able to bully the Orange and make it a lot harder for it to win. sblum@syr.edu | @SamBlum3

Gonzaga has dominated its first two opponents, led by its versatile big men. The Orange will be tasked with neutralizing the strong interior presence of the Bulldogs in the Sweet 16 on Friday. logan reidsma senior staff photographer

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Syracuse learns from 4 extra-inning games this season

By Matt Feldman staff writer

Syracuse head coach Mike Bosch has stressed the importance of playing as many games as possible before conference play. According to Bosch, these extra games not only bolster up next the Orange’s VS Niagara resume, but at SU Softball Stadium Wednesday, 3 p.m., 5 p.m. also help the players get more acclimated to any situations that arise before conference play begins.

One situation that the Orange has found itself in frequently this season is extrainning games. Syracuse has played in four extra-inning games so far in 2016 and has won three of them.

“We’ve played in so many tight games, (extra-inning games) are just an extension of that,” Bosch said, “I can honestly say

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peterson “When I get in that mode, you see me screaming, that’s where it’s coming from,” Peterson said. “When you play with the boys, they don’t respect you. That’s how it is here, they don’t respect Syracuse.”

With a matchup against No. 1 seed South Carolina (33-1, 16-0 Southeastern), whose only loss came against undefeated three-time defending national champion Connecticut, No. 4 seed Syracuse (27-7, 13-3 Atlantic Coast) is looking to crash the top-heavy women’s

if you look back at our games, they are all within one, two, three runs either way, so we’re fairly prepared to play extra innings.”

Syracuse took an eight-inning game against Bryant in February, 3-2, and another in eight against North Carolina, 8-2, in early March. Just last Wednesday, the Orange went nine innings in a 3-1 victory over Charleston Southern. Its only extra-inning loss came in an eight-inning defeat against Purdue just two weeks into the season in the ACC–Big 10 Challenge, 4-3.

According to Bosch, the cause of extrainning games this season has been twofold strong pitching and defense as well as weak offense. Syracuse (12-14, 1-5 Atlantic Coast) will try and build on the latter heading into its home-opening doubleheader Wednesday against Niagara (2-10) at SU Softball Stadium.

“Defensively, we do a lot of things well,” Bosch said, “We don’t give up a lot of runs, and our pitching is probably top 25 in the nation with ERA.”

The Orange staff boasts three pitchers that have performed exceptionally well in the circle in extra-inning games. Jocelyn Cater, AnnaMarie Gatti and Sydney O’Hara have given up just four hits in five innings of extra play this season, and have surrendered just one run.

Offensively, the narrative has been the opposite. With a lineup that has struck out 147 times in 26 games this season, the Orange struggles to put runs on the board, averaging just three per game.

“There has been a severe lack of (hitting) adjustments made in the seven innings,” assistant coach Alisa Goler said, “That’s really the reason that we keep dragging (games) out the way we do.”

O’Hara has seen extra-inning games from both the pitcher’s circle and the batter’s box.

The junior has pitched in two of the Orange’s extra-inning games this year, earning the win in both. She also hit a three-run home run in the eighth inning against North Carolina on March 12 that proved to be the game-winner.

“As a pitcher, I’m not rattled when I have to go in, I just focus on hitting my spots,” O’Hara said, “Up at bat, I just look at putting the ball in play, because we need base runners.”

O’Hara said that the team becomes more focused when the game gets drawn to extra innings, and hitters narrow their focus at the plate to include more sacrifice bunts, sacrifice fly balls and walks to implement small ball to earn that one possibly decisive run.

As important as runs are to success, Bosch knows that the Orange’s defense is what ultimately gets it into, and keeps it in, these extra inning games. Now, the other half has to come around.

“Our pitching staff has done a tremendous job of getting out of big situations, and likewise our defense has made really sensational plays when the game is on the line,” Bosch said, “I think those two key things always give us the chance to come around and maybe get that clutch hit and win the game.”

basketball national landscape and advance to the Elite Eight with Peterson leading the way.

She’s already carried the Orange to its deepest point ever in the NCAA tournament and is averaging 20.4 points in Syracuse’s five postseason games.

On Friday, SU has a chance to knock off the first giant it faces in this year’s NCAA tournament — Syracuse beat No. 13 seed Army and No. 12 seed Albany to reach its first-ever Sweet 16 — and Peterson understands what it’s like to be the underdog.

“Getting that respect that you may think you deserve or that you’ve earned is definite-

ly something that has shaped my career,” Peterson said.

Peterson laid her foundation of playing with a swagger and smile on the street with Norris.

When Peterson struggles in college, Norris tells her, “Play like you’re on the playground.”

“We ain’t losing this game!” assistant coach Tammi Reiss remembered.

Then she hit another 3 on the next possession to give SU the lead that it hung onto the rest of the game. The following day, the Orange catapulted back into the AP Top 25.

“It was at that moment that I knew, ‘The kid’s ready,’” Reiss said.

Before the game against Albany on Sunday, Peterson shook her leg the same way she did in the locker room during halftime of the district championship her junior year.

Peterson finished with 22 points and six assists over the Great Danes.

In high school, Peterson wasn’t recruited by any big-name programs. Xavier, Ole Miss and Wake Forest were all in the mix with Syracuse. But she wasn’t offered a scholarship by Ohio State, which is located in Peterson’s hometown of Columbus, or any other big-name programs. Norris described the snub from OSU as, “almost a slap in the face.”

Three years later, Peterson ranks second in the ACC in assists (5.18 per game) and fourth in steals (2.5 per game).

“I better tell you, there’s a lot of coaches in the United States right now that’ve watched this girl play,” Peterson’s AAU coach, Jim Clayton, said, “that kick themselves in the heiny for not recruiting her.”

The first time Clayton coached Peterson in a practice, it lasted for eight hours. He was determined to find out which of his players were “whiners or winners.”

Peterson never let her play diminish even as the time wore on.

“That’s when I knew, man, she was some kind of player,” Clayton said.

The first time Peterson scored 30 points in a game, against Wake Forest last season, her teammates fully realized her ability to take over games.

“It was like, ‘Dang,’” said Diamond Henderson, Peterson’s former teammate at SU. “…

I think that was the first time I was really like, ‘OK, this kid can really do it day in and day out.’”

More than a year later, Peterson is piecing together the best stretch of her career in some of the biggest games she’s played. But with a matchup against No. 1 seed South Carolina looming, the rest of the nation may expect the Gamecocks to roll to another blowout win.

And that’s exactly what Peterson wants you to think.

“When you have a threat that you don’t see coming and they just make this great run and do such great things” Peterson said, “it’s a good story to have because that’s always been my story.”

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Assists per game Peterson has this season, which ranks second in the ACC.

Steals per game Peterson has this season, which ranks fourth in the ACC.

Though she was one of the quickest players on the court, the boys didn’t recognize her for that. When she’d blow past defenders and get to the rim, she’d let out a scream to earn their attention because simply being better than them wasn’t enough.

While watching games in the men’s NCAA Tournament with her boyfriend this past Friday night, Peterson rooted for teams like No. 11 seed Northern Iowa, No. 13 seed Hawaii and No. 14 seed Stephen F. Austin because she could relate.

“I feel like I’ve always been the underdog and always had to prove myself,” Peterson said.

Even with Syracuse hosting the first two rounds at home and being seeded significantly higher than its first two opponents, Peterson told herself to keep thinking like the underdog. That’s what she feels comfortable doing. It’s all she knows.

In the district championship game her junior year, Peterson’s Northland (Ohio) High School team was trailing at halftime.

Olentangy (Ohio) High School had beaten Northland earlier in the season and one of Northland’s key contributors was out with an ACL injury for the rematch.

While sitting in the locker room at halftime, Peterson rapidly bounced her leg up and down. Norris, one of Northland’s assistant coaches, saw Peterson’s body language and knew she was locked in.

At one point in the second half, Peterson yelled, “We ain’t gonna lose!” her mother, Georgia Peterson recalled.

Peterson finished with 27 points, 13 in the fourth quarter, and the Vikings won 51-50.

“She really won that game by herself,” Georgia Peterson said.

At North Carolina State on Feb. 14, with Syracuse’s eventual 11-game win streak on the line, the Orange found itself in a backand-forth battle in the fourth quarter. With 3:37 left to play, Peterson hit a 3 from the corner to cut the Wolfpack lead to one.

She ran down the court and screamed

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dejoe What’s helped DeJoe with his dodging is work in the offseason and the daily oneon-one drills in practice that he says have increased this year.

And while other players such as Sergio Salcido or Nick Mariano draw the long-stick midfielder from opposing defenses, DeJoe normally gets the short-stick midfielder defending him, which is a favorable matchup.

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gonzaga Schneidman: Every team can shoot, but most can’t shoot like Gonzaga.

The Bulldogs’ effective field-goal percentage, according to Kenpom.com, ranks 12th in the country. The scariest thing about Gonzaga’s arsenal of efficient shooters is that two of them are 6-foot-10 or taller, but we’ll get into those guys in the next question. The Zags have shown the ability to get into the cracks of a defense, whether it be in its 16-point dismantling of sixth-seeded Seton Hall or 23-point romping of third-seeded Utah.

That’s even more lethal against a zone, which last time I checked, is Syracuse’s defense. So watch out for the Zags to slip to the foul line, high post or short corner for attempts they don’t miss on a consistent basis.

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2. How can Syracuse handle Wiltjer and Sabonis?

S.B.: Well you really can’t handle those two

players. They’re going to get their rebounds and their points. Syracuse just has to be better in other areas and hope Tyler Roberson and Dajuan Coleman play as well as they can on the glass. It means the Orange needs to shoot the ball well and keep the ball out of the

“You’re supposed to beat your short-stick midfielder,” DeJoe said. “That’s how our offense is set up, for you to dodge, to beat the shorty and draw the slide and move it or you have the open shot.”

Through the first three games of the season, he didn’t have a shot saved. Nine shots, six on goal and six goals. He’s more than tripled the shooting percentage mark he set last year.

The midfielder known for shooting from the outside estimates that he had only taken two perimeter shots prior to the game

against Johns Hopkins on Saturday.

“I watch him, he’s more assertive in their offensive schemes,” Johns Hopkins head coach Dave Pietramala said earlier this season. “He’s more involved. … He shoots the living snot out of the ball and he’s hitting the goal.”

DeJoe’s jumped from the second-line midfield role he had to open the season to now being in the starting lineup. He filled a temporary vacancy left because of injuries to Tim Barber and Nick Piroli to make the first three starts of his career.

“He’s definitely proving himself,” Donahue said. “He’s there and he’s earned it.”

DeJoe’s career had remained relatively unchanged for the first three years, but now he’s seized the opportunity given to him this season. He’s emerged as the Orange’s most efficient scoring threat.

“Time helps everyone,” Donahue said, “and I think he finally figured out who he is. He’s getting a lot more comfortable dodging and moving off ball. He runs the offense awesome.”

high post so those two guys won’t get as many touches. It’s the same formula that SU always needs to follow when it plays teams with good bigs. Thankfully for Syracuse, this isn’t the hardest matchup its had this season.

J.D.: Syracuse can handle Wiltjer and Sabonis by doing its best to not solely focus on handling Wiltjer and Sabonis. If you sift through these guys’ games this year, it’s clear that they are going to get theirs because the Gonzaga offense repeatedly puts them in scoring situations. There are specific ways I think Syracuse could try to slow these two down — doubling down on Sabonis and making him attempt cross-court passes from the block, extending the zone early to Witljer to not let him catch and shoot, among others.

But if this pair scores it’s near 40 combined points and the Orange wins because the rest of the team fumbles, I’d say SU contained Witljer and Sabonis just fine.

M.S.: Syracuse can only handle Wiltjer and Sabonis to an extent. They’re two of the best shooting big men in the country and will hit shots from the perimeter against the zone.

The question is how many. The Orange was able to close out on Middle Tennessee State’s most effective shooter in Giddy Potts, but SU’s next opponent has much more depth with McClellan, Dranginis and Perkins closely as

capable to Wiltjer and Sabonis as knocking down from anywhere. The former Kentucky national champion, Wiltjer, shoots 53 percent from 2-point range and 43.2 percent from deep. Sabonis shoots over 62 percent from inside the arc, which should scare the life out of Jim Boeheim especially since the big man could hurt SU on the low block just as much.

Friday, every team SU faces from here on out will be extremely talented and it couldn’t hurt to get some of these talented big men — the two mentioned above, Virginia’s Anthony Gill or Iowa State’s Georges Niang if you’re interested in looking ahead — in early foul trouble to shake things up. SU drew 16 fouls against Dayton and 15 against Middle Tennessee State, and it would help if that number got over 20 with the talent level rising.

M.S.: As simple as it may sound, Syracuse’s 2-3 zone helped it run away with two games this past weekend. It let up a combined 101 points to Dayton and the Blue Raiders and stifled any comeback attempts by the two when the Orange pulled away in the second half of both games. As for what it needs to improve on, Syracuse closed out on shooters too quickly and in too many numbers.

On one end, that’s crucial to limiting a team’s best shooter, like Potts for MTSU. But if SU does that with Wiltjer and Sabonis when they extend to the perimeter, both have the ability to drive and expose a Syracuse frontcourt with now only one player to man the paint if two close out. Finding the balance between closing out quickly and defending the paint will be crucial on Friday, especially against the best versatile big men its seen all season.

3. From the first weekend, what was one thing Syracuse did exceptionally well and one thing it needs to improve?

S.B.: Syracuse allowed an average of 50.5

points per game in its first two NCAA Tournament contests, so the zone is clearly clicking. Every single MTSU player said it was nearly impossible to handle. In terms of improvement, there’s not really a lot to say when you win two games by a combined 44 points. The Orange did struggle at the line on Sunday, though, going 13-of-22, and that can’t happen again.

J.D.: Syracuse’s 2-3 zone was excellent in its first two games of the Tournament, and trying to pick out an area for improvement after two lopsided wins would probably be nitpicking. So if I had to pick out something the Orange could improve on moving forward, I’d say it could draw some more fouls. Starting

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DeJoe sees increased opportunity Senior midfielder scoring at a higher rate in 2016

By Jon Mettus digital editor

ALEXIS PETERSON had to prove herself growing up, and she didn’t get any scholarship offers from powerhouse schools. Now, after finishing first-team all-ACC and leading SU to its first Sweet 16, she’s made her mark. logan reidsma senior staff photographer

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lexis Peterson would nag her aunt, Carla Norris, to keep playing.

She’d refuse to go indoors and end her day with a loss. “‘Nah ah ah, we’re not done auntie, we’re not done,’” Norris remembers Peterson saying.

But throughout Peterson’s childhood, the 5-foot-11 Norris backed down her much shorter niece and scored over her in one-on-one games on the street. The hoop kissed the curb and was supported at its base by sand and cinderblocks. Only when cars rolled past, the duo was forced to take a breather.

Peterson was forced to learn how to dribble aggressively toward the basket

Syracuse point guard Alexis Peterson has kicked her game to a new level in the postseason. In the past five games, she’s averaged 20.4 points and an 88.2-percent clip at the free-throw line.

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and launch deep jump shots against bigger defenders, two signature elements still part of her game as a 5-foot-7 junior point guard at Syracuse.

Until she was 10, Peterson played in organized leagues with boys and trained

with Norris in preparation to face more physical players. That combination laid the groundwork for Peterson’s quest to prove she belonged, which continues to fuel her.

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Beat writers dissect SU-Gonzaga matchup 1. What is the biggest threat Gonzaga poses to Syracuse?

Sam Blum: Gonzaga is probably

the biggest team left in the NCAA Tournament, and it’s going to pose a serious threat to Syracuse’s hopes of survival on Friday night.

Domantas Sabonis is one of the best, if not the best, rebounder in college basketball. He’s 6-foot-11.

Then there’s 6-foot-10 forward

It’s funny that before he was just a man-up player.

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More often than not, Derek DeJoe has found himself in unfamiliar territory this season. The player that Syracuse head coach John Desko equated to a 3-point shooter prior to the year is opting for layups and slam dunks instead.

“I’ve been shooting from right around the crease as opposed to that 15-yard shot that I normally take,” DeJoe said. “It’s not necessarily easier or harder it’s just it only makes sense that it’s going to be easier to score close to the goal.”

In his senior season, DeJoe is scoring goals at a higher rate than the three years prior. He’s tied for third on the team with 10 goals, which is just three shy of his total through his first three seasons at No. 5 Syracuse (5-1, 1-0 Atlantic Coast). His 45.5-percent shooting percentage is the best among the starters and ranks fourth in the ACC and 18th in the country.

DeJoe has stepped into the starting midfielder role for the first time ever and blossomed as a result.

Kyle Wiltjer, who is also a presence inside. Part of the reason why Gonzaga is only a No. 11 seed is because they had to play most of the season without arguably their best big man in Przemek Karnowski. So needless to say, this is a big team and Syracuse is vulnerable to big men. It’s not a great matchup for the Orange, but SU has shown a good ability to adjust in this Tournament.

Dougherty: Balance on offense. Sabonis and Wiltjer, Gonzaga’s frontcourt pairing, are on their own a diverse two-man scoring machine. Sabonis is an NBA-bound post scorer averaging 17.5 points per game while Wiltjer is a 6-foot-10 sniper who averages 20.4 points per game and shoots 43.2 percent from 3. But the Bulldogs offensive versatility doesn’t end there. Eric McClellan Jesse

and Josh Perkins can find the gaps off the dribble and even guard Kyle Dranginis, a “glue guy” who doesn’t score too often, can penetrate and score at a high percentage around the paint. If it were just Sabonis and Wiltjer, Syracuse would have its hands full.

But Gonzaga’s arsenal of scoring options really complicates any game plan to defend the Bulldogs.

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“It’s his last go around, so he wants to play,” Desko said. “Wants to make his own mark. And I think he is. I think he’s played very well.”

It took less than four quarters this year for DeJoe to showcase his new tool that’s led to such a high shooting percentage. He came from behind the net, slipped past his defender and fired a shot in from less than 10 yards out in the seasonopening win over Siena on Feb. 13.

SU attack Dylan Donahue has seen DeJoe’s ability to dodge in practice over the last three years, but DeJoe never had a chance to display it in a game. He was confined to the man-up unit with a designated role of staying about 15 yards away from the net and shooting from the outside.

“It’s funny that before he was just a man-up player,” Desko said. “… He’s just improved his game. He’s dodging better, and he’s an outside threat.

Doing a little bit more with the ball this year than he has in the past.”

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