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P • Filling the stage

Talya Sever, a junior at SU and citizen of Belgium and Turkey, talks about the disproportion in attention paid to terrorist attacks in Belgium over Turkey.

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Musician Anderson .Paak performed the second Bandersnatch series concert of the semester on Wednesday night down in the Schine Underground.

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OPEN ARMS A look at SU’s efforts to improve accessibility

S • Put it on the board

Tyler Roberson has grabbed 27 rebounds in Syracuse’s first two NCAA Tournament games. He’ll be critical on the boards against 11th-seeded Gonzaga.

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commencement 2016

Donald Newhouse to deliver keynote speech

By Justin Mattingly managing editor

illustration by devyn passaretti head illustrator

By Satoshi Sugiyama asst. copy editor

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hen Michael Schwartz arrived at Syracuse University in 2001 as a graduate student studying cultural foundations of education, he needed the Computer Aided Realtime Translation (CART) for his three-hour classes.

The response was surprising: the director of the Office of Disability Services at the time told him that in order to accommodate his need, SU had to hardwire every classroom — which would cost $400,000.

The university’s thinking on the accommodation was based on the question of how much the accommodations would cost, Schwartz said.

In response, Schwartz and his

colleagues started the Beyond Compliance Coordinating Committee (BCCC) to remove the ODS director.

They claimed she was too focused on the costs of disability services instead of accommodating people with disabilities. The BCCC, Schwartz said, also put pressure on SU to change its thinking about disability.

14 The percent increase of students who registered with the Office of Disability Services since last year

The university eventually hired Steve Simon as the new ODS director. “(Simon) understood the need to accommodate. His question was

not ‘How much is it going to cost?’

Rather his question was, ‘What do you need?,’ ... It was a 180 degree turn from the old system,” said Schwartz, who is now an associate professor in SU’s College of Law. Schwartz recalled when he saw the new director and asked for a CART for accommodation. As Schwartz was explaining his situation, Simon stopped him and picked up a phone to call a CART provider.

When he hung up the phone, Simon told him, “You’re all set.”

“That encapsulated the right way of thinking about disability and about accommodating students with disabilities,” Schwartz said.

Over the years, SU has been making progress in increasing accessibility for students with disabilities. see accessibility page 4

university senate

Report proposes Ombuds Office

By Annie Palmer development editor

A University Senate committee is joining a chorus of groups calling for the establishment of an office for students, faculty and staff to voice their concerns confidentially.

The proposal recommends Syracuse University to create an Ombuds

Office, where SU community members can meet with an ombudsman to confidentially discuss issues, according to the report issued by the Senate Committee on Women’s Concerns.

The ombudsman would be a neutral party who, while reporting to the chancellor, would act independently from the university and help with conflict resolution. The office would

be confidential in that all records collected by the ombudsman would be destroyed and inaccessible by anyone in the SU community.

An Ombuds Office would help mitigate feelings of uncertainty and stress in the SU community, according to the proposal, which was presented at Wednesday’s University

see ombudsman page 8

Donald Newhouse, president of Advance Publications, will speak at Syracuse University’s commencement ceremony on May 15 in the Carrier Dome, the university announced Wednesday.

NEWHOUSE “Donald represents a legacy of excellence and a generous figure to the next generation of highly skilled journalists,” Chancellor Kent Syverud said in an SU News release.

Newhouse will deliver his address at the joint ceremony for SU and the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, and will receive an honorary degree at SU’s 162nd commencement. The Newhouse name has long had a presence on the SU campus as Newhouse and his brother, Samuel, run one of the largest media companies in the world. The company owns Condé Nast Publications,

American City Business Journals, the Golf Digest Companies and newspapers in more than 25 cities in the United States.

This year’s announcement comes about a month earlier than last year’s announcement of poet Mary Karr as the commencement speaker. Since primatologist and anthropologist Jane Goodall spoke at the 2005 commencement ceremony, Karr has been the sole woman to be the commencement speaker.

The selection of Newhouse as the commencement speaker follows a recent trend of people in the media industry delivering the address, as he will be the third media professional in the past four years to speak at commencement.

“I was delighted to be asked to speak to the Syracuse University Class of 2016,” Newhouse said in the release. “I want to share life lessons from my own personal challenges and how an education at Syracuse University, along with lifelong learning, can provide them with a strong foundation to pursue the many opportunities awaiting them and the challenges they may face.” jmatting@syr.edu

commencement 2016

Speaker reflects trend in lack of diversity

By Brett Samuels senior staff writer

When Syracuse University announced on Wednesday that Donald Newhouse will deliver the 2016 commencement address in May, it was in line with the types of people usually chosen to give the commencement address.

Newhouse, president of the media company Advance Publications, is a white man in the communications industry, and a Class of 1951 SU alumnus. Those qualities are shared by many past commencement speakers, especially those who have given the address since the turn of the century.

Since 2000, there have been 17 speakers, including Newhouse.

Of those, only four were women, eight were writers of some kind — including each of the last four — and five were SU alumni. In addi-

tion, only one of those speakers was a person of color — Phylicia Rashad, an actress who delivered the 2004 commencement address.

2000-2016 The past 17 commencement speakers have been mostly authors and journalists. Here’s a look at how the speakers break down by profession: Authors & media pros: 7 Politicans: 3 In entertainment: 3 Other: 4

The lack of diversity among commencement speakers isn’t a new issue. The university archives maintains a list of every SU commencement speaker since 1893, and it shows a lack of diversity dating back to the first speaker. see commencement page 6

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THIRSTY thursday | presidente

Presidente perfect for lazy day at the beach

By Max Darrow staff writer

If you were in Cancun, South Beach, the Bahamas, Puerto Rico or any other tropical place this Spring Break, then there’s a good chance you got to drink a few bottles of the classic Dominican beer, Presidente.

I decided to taste this one on my couch on a chilly, Syracuse spring evening, also known as winter everywhere else. From my experience, however, it may taste a bit better sitting under a palm tree on a quiet tropical beach.

As expected, this Pilsner had a beautiful golden color. The body was full of carbonation, producing a foamy yet thin head. You look at this beer and expect it to be crisp.

Presidente has a variety of smells. I identified corn and a few tropical notes. As cliché as it sounds, it smells like the beach.

The taste was pretty tropical up until the finish. It’s sweet and bubbly, and gives refreshing apple, pear and tropical fruit flavors.

But soon after, you’ll be hit with a corny aftertaste.

At first, I was kind of taken aback by the aftertaste. But then I learned this beer is brewed with adjuncts, meaning it could

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Presidente is a Dominican beer that has notes of pears, apples and other fruits and tropical flavors. It is brewed with adjuncts, which leaves it a corn aftertaste. lukas halloran staff photographer

have used corn or rice in the brewing process. My guess is that it was corn, because it is a sweet, corny beer.

You could enjoy a Presidente with a variety of foods. It would go well with seafood near the ocean because of its crisp and tropical flavor, or it could match

really well with a fruit salad on the beach. To take it a completely different direction, Presidente would also complement a quesadilla or burrito with a side of beans and rice perfectly because of the corn flavor.

Though this isn’t a beer that I’d go out of my way to order, it’s not

bad. It just isn’t one that fits with my palate. That being said, it would taste a lot better on a hot day, sitting under the sun on a beautiful beach in the Caribbean. As always, give it a shot and see if you like it, because everybody tastes something a little bit different. midarrow@syr.edu

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@SchneiderlinMo4 Grieving with #Belgium #Turkey &with all the other nations who are suffering these despicable acts.

What they think See how members of the SU community are reacting to the announcement of commencement speaker Donald Newhouse.

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university senate

Proposal clarifies standings Committee report aims to clearly define faculty

By Annie Palmer development editor

A chalk mural drawn on the sidewalk of the Syracuse University Quad on Tuesday paid homage to the victims of terrorist attacks that struck Brussels on Tuesday morning, killing 34 and wounding 270. maggie cregan staff writer

Belgian, Turkish student reflects on attacks

By Rachel Sandler asst. news editor

Talya Sever’s home countries have been bombed twice in the last month.

As both a Turkish and Belgian citizen, Sever, a junior economics major at Syracuse University, has seen the places where she has lived and worked engulfed in violence and subject to horrors beyond her imagination.

Three bombs were detonated in Belgium on Tuesday, two at Brussels Airport and one at a subway station. The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the attacks. Thirty-four people have been killed and 270 wounded, according to the latest numbers from The Associated Press.

Belgian authorities have identified two of the suicide bombers who carried out the attacks, but authorities are still looking for at least one more assailant, according to The New York Times.

In the last few weeks, Turkish cities Ankara and Istanbul have experienced terrorist attacks similar to those in Belgium. An explosion killed at least 37 people and wounded more than 100 in Ankara, Turkey’s capital, on March 13. A week later, a car bomb killed four people in Istanbul.

Corri Zoli, the director of the Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism at SU, said Turkey has been subject to a steady stream of violence for the past six months.

Sever is a second-generation Bel-

If I were in Istanbul, killed in an attack, would anyone acknowledge my death?

Talya Sever junior economics major

gian citizen. Both she and her parents were born in the country, but she is of Turkish descent. She moved to Turkey when she was 10 and lived there until she started high school.

Then she moved back to Belgium to finish high school and apply to college in the United States.

Sever finds it troubling that the Belgian attacks have been drawing

disproportionate news coverage and sympathy from the public, when the bombings in Ankara and Istanbul were blips on people’s radars.

“It made me feel very bad because Belgium is my house, my parents work near the train station, my best friend lost her cousin in the metro station,” she said. “But Turkey has the same issues; it’s sad that the media and the world did not acknowledge Turkey in the same way.”

Sever guesses that the disproportionate attention on Belgium — and on Paris following the November 2015 terrorist attacks on the city — stem from the fact that Turkey is a Muslim country and not a part of the European Union. see attacks page 6

More than 40 minutes of Wednesday’s University Senate meeting were spent discussing a revision to Syracuse University’s faculty policies, leaving little time to address a report covering free speech on campus.

The faculty policies would streamline how the university classifies professors of practice across its various schools and colleges — a resolution that Ian MacInnes, chair of the Academic Affairs Committee, said stemmed from a “complex issue” and has taken years to discuss.

Mary Lovely, a professor of economics, presented the committee’s report, describing how there’s currently no university-wide classification for non-tenure track, fulltime professors. Throughout SU’s faculty manual, they’re referred to as professors of practice, research faculty, faculty fellow or post-doc, or a visiting professor or scholar.

Through the resolution, each college would set constraints on who and who isn’t considered a nontenured faculty member.

Though each definition could be different for each school and college, Lovely said the goal is to ultimately adopt “one faculty, one set of rules.” Another goal is to

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graduate student organization

Updates made to student insurance policy

By Delaney Van Wey Asst. web editor

Changes have been made to Syracuse University’s student health insurance plan as a committee continues to review the policy, Graduate Student Organization President Can Aslan said Wednesday at the group’s meeting.

While the meeting was short and smooth, Aslan made several important announcements about projects he has been working on. Seventeen

members of the voting body came to the meeting, which included votes on funding two events.

Aslan said he has attended more than 50 meetings with the Student Health Insurance Advisory Committee. He said students came to the group with many grievances about SU’s healthcare policy, the first phase of which was rolled out by the university last year.

On Tuesday, the group voted to approve bettering the plan from “Gold” to “Platinum.” While

Aslan could not explain all of the changes that will occur with this switch, he said the “Platinum” plan is better with a minimal increase in cost. SU is currently updating its Health Services website to better explain the changes.

One change Aslan did discuss was what percentage of hospitalization and other services the new plan would cover. Under the “Gold” plan, 80 percent of the cost of these services were covered by Aetna Student Health and students had

to pay the other 20 percent. Now, the “Platinum” plan will cover 90 percent of the cost of these services.

Another policy Aslan said he is developing in partnership with Student Association leaders is one that would more clearly define the relationship SU has with the student governing bodies. Aslan said there have been issues in previous years about how much control SA and GSO had over their budgets versus how much oversight the university had. see gso page 8

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accessibility A June 2015 draft of the Academic Strategic Plan, Chancellor Kent Syverud’s “roadmap” for the university, identified the need to “sustain an inclusive, accessible campus of opportunity for a richly diverse student body.”

The plan specifically mentions “enhanced strategies” to build on the strengths and the core values of the Taishoff Center for Inclusive Higher Education and the School of Education in order to promote retention and success and to assure full accessibility of facilities.

Rochelle Ford, co-chair of the working group on student experience for the Academic Strategic Plan Implementation Committee, said the group is looking to ensure accessibility issues are addressed. Ford, who is also chair of the public relations department at SU, said the group is ensuring students are able to have access to campus resources, such as academic advising.

The Chancellor’s Workgroup on Diversity and Inclusion report — released on Monday — made recommendations to create a centralized budget for faculty and staff disability accommodations; plan within the Campus Framework to house cultural centers, such as the Disability Cultural Center, in a centralized location; require ongoing faculty and staff development on issues of disability; and increase support for staff in areas like the Disability Cultural Center.

Diane Wiener, director of the Disability Cultural Center, said she thinks the idea that disabilities are an expense instead of an asset remains at SU, but is less pervasive than it used to be.

The DCC was deliberately housed under the Division of Student Affairs instead of ODS because disability should not be imagined as always being about accommodations, services and help, Wiener said.

“It’s about inclusion and belonging and creating a space for people where people are interacting with each other and where people with disabilities, including myself, are adding to conversations, not making things harder for people with disabilities,” Wiener said. “It’s actually about the resources that are available by working with people with disabilities.

“Disability can be about empowerment.

It can be about pride. It can be about cultural identity,” she said.

Paula Possenti-Perez, director of SU’s Office of Disability Services, said SU has “a legacy” in the area of disability services — having leaders in disability rights at SU institutions such as the Burton Blatt Institute and the Center on Human Policy.

“All of these are different stakeholders around disability advocacy, and what that told me was that this is an institution that values

this population and elevates the conversation around disability,” said Possenti-Perez, who became director of ODS in August 2014.

Possenti-Perez said one of the first things she did as director was update the testing accommodation request system.

“We wanted to make it a lot easier for students to request the accommodation but also include the decision-making in terms of when they felt that they wanted to access, because not every student uses testing accommodations for every single exam,” she said.

The ODS has made the entire process of requesting testing accommodation easy, she said. Students can sign up online, and the process is mobile-friendly and completely accessible.

Professors also receive a confirmation email from the ODS when a student in their class signs up to take a test in the ODS, detailing the student’s name, course, date and time, she said.

In addition, the ODS has conducted a survey for students and faculty to seek feedback and provide necessary changes, PossentiPerez said. The ODS has expanded tutoring support, summer plans, scholarships and pre-orientation programs as well.

Because of the office’s outreach effort, the number of students registered with the ODS increased by 14 percent since last year, she said.

Justin Freedman, president of the BCCC , said that while the group feels that progress on accessibility has been made at SU, there is “a lot of work left to do” for a more inclusive campus.

Freedman, a doctoral student in the School of Education, said the BCCC is concerned that SU won’t pay to accommodate students with disabilities at on-campus events hosted by student organizations because those events would not be considered part of the students’ education.

“We think that’s unacceptable,” Freedman said, adding that going to meetings and events on campus is “part of (students’) educational experience just as much as any coursework.”

Freedman said the BCCC is currently interviewing students, faculty and staff about their experiences with on-campus accessibility. The BCCC will also send a survey about accessibility to the university community with assistance from the ODS this semester.

In the future, Wiener, the director of the Disability Cultural Center, said it would be helpful to have more opportunities to have members of the SU community talk together about their daily experiences of what it’s like to live and work on this campus for people with disabilities.

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Esports, VR could mirror NFL success

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istening to football on the radio isn’t very fun.

The announcer is trying to describe the actions of 22 men all at once. Even at best, the experience is much less enjoyable than watching the game on television: there are no highlights, no hits, no instant replays. So it isn’t a coincidence that the rise of the National Football League came as televisions started infiltrating homes in the ‘40s and ‘50s.

Football and television were made for each other and it’s a love story that has the NFL reportedly raking in about $13 billion a year in revenue. This formula for success is important because there is a new sport and a new medium that could imitate it. Don’t laugh when I say this, but that sport is esports and that medium is virtual reality.

Before I continue, I need to get something out of the way: The argument over whether or not esports is a sport is a silly one. At its core, sports are entertainment.

Whether it’s people driving cars in a circle or — in esports’ case — teams of video gamers trying to beat one another, they provide an escape for the viewer.

Now that that’s settled, two recent developments indicate the rising popularity and a potential symbiotic relationship between esports and virtual reality (VR).

First, Yahoo announced the creation of Yahoo Esports earlier this month. And while the company isn’t that relevant anymore, its move follows ESPN’s decision to devote a section of its website to esports earlier this year. This type of media coverage is vital to esports’ future growth, because if people can’t watch it or follow it, they aren’t going to become fans of it.

Second, PlayStation released its VR unit for pre-orders Tuesday and the devices sold out on Amazon in minutes, proving enthusiasm for virtual reality gaming.

PAUL SARCONI Or from the perspective of your STUFF THAT WOULD BLOW CAVEMEN’S MINDS

On the esports side of things, even without exposure from the outlets mentioned above, it’s been doing just fine globally.

Esports is characterized

as a form of professional

competitive gaming on

what is esports?

electronic systems.

334 million The number of unique viewers of the 2015 League of Legends World Championship, one of the largest esports competitions

According to League of Legends (LoL) Championship Series, the 2015 LoL World Championship had 334 million unique viewers. Those are impressive numbers, but it’s even more noteworthy that the championship had a 16 percent increase in viewers from the previous year.

That’s not just growth — its dramatic growth. Considering this is only one league and one type of game, 334 million viewers is just a start.

Combine that with the fact that Oculus Rift kits are projected to ship in July with PlayStation’s VR set primed for release in October, it’s starting to look like VR is about to enter homes in a way similar to the historical success of television.

This won’t happen right away, but soon it will be possible to both watch and experience your favorite LoL team from the perspective of your favorite player.

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The advantage that esports holds over the traditional four sports — football, basketball, hockey and baseball — is that the camera angles aren’t a problem.

The camera doesn’t have to be stationed on the sideline or suspended in the air above the field of play. The environment is created and therefore the possibility for camera placement is endless.

But that doesn’t mean the core four sports can’t embrace the new technology.

Rick Burton, a David B. Falk endowed professor of sport management at Syracuse University, said he believes that if a league can capitalize on the game it already has — like “Madden” for the NFL or “NBA 2K” for the NBA — it may see its popularity skyrocket as a result.

“In the same way that the NFL took advantage of television, sports leagues or entities are going to probably take advantage of e-gaming, augmented reality or virtual reality,” said Burton, who is also the faculty athletics representative to the Atlantic Coast Conference and NCAA. “It could possibly be a thing that jumps that sport forward.”

It’s still early in the relationship between virtual reality and esports, but there is no denying the potential that lays in wait.

If it fulfills that possibility, watching a game on a screen may very well become like listening to the radio: it will be much less enjoyable than experiencing it in virtual reality.

Paul Sarconi is a senior broadcast and digital journalism major. His column appears weekly. He can be reached at pjsarcon@syr.edu and followed on Twitter @paulsarconi.

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Commencement decision upholds lack of diversity When Syracuse University named Donald Newhouse as the 2016 commencement speaker, a message that spans several university administrations was reiterated: A successful professional is characterized as a white man in the media industry.

In the past 50 years, only five commencement speakers have been racial minorities. Of the more than 100 speakers listed in the university archives since 1893, only 11 are women. Since 1966, 20 of the speakers have been associated with writing or communications fields.

The failure to acknowledge these alarming trends is as disturbing as it is disrespectful considering the announcement comes days after the release of a report by the Chancellor’s Workgroup on Diversity and Inclusion which outlines ways in which the administration can sustain a more inclusive campus for a diverse student body.

And when a few dozen names are presented to the administration by student marshals from various colleges, it is difficult to grasp the reasoning behind a tonedeaf selection that reflects a lack of diversity in profession, gender and race. This dynamic is further alienating when this year’s choice was a man whose name already brands a college on campus.

That is not to say that Don-

ald Newhouse will not give an impactful speech or that SU’s communications school is not something to be proud of. But systematically choosing individuals who are not representative or even relevant to the greater student body perpetuates a Newhouse-centric narrative that overlooks the successes and prestige of SU’s other schools.

Although the choice is particularly frustrating at a time when the administration is attempting to foster a campus climate that upholds diversity and inclusion in its decision-making processes, this responsibility — or blame — does not lie with one chancellor or administration. These lapses in diversity have been proven through decades-old data to be an institutional problem in which each member involved in the final selection process has failed to assess the implications within the context of commencement history.

It is understandable that the university has to make a selection that functions to keep alumni and those who invest money into the institution satisfied. But when a niche keynote speaker who embodies privileges many students do not have is chosen, the administration is polarizing the graduating body in what is intended to be one of most unifying moments of a student’s time at Syracuse University.

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Of the more than 100 individuals who are listed, only 11 are women.

In the past 50 years, while there have been some speakers who delivered the commencement address multiple times, only five — Rashad, activist Julian Bond, lacrosse player Oren Lyons, singer Pearl Bailey and diplomat U Thant — are racial minorities.

Additionally, in previous ceremonies since 1966, 20 of the keynote speakers have been authors or part of the journalism or communications industries.

“We considered that alumni had been chosen, we looked at the history of who had been chosen, so we evaluated our history and really looked at that and though about what this class might want,” said Tatiana Williams, one of two class marshals for 2016.

The process for selecting a speaker begins with senior class marshals from different colleges and the two Class of 2016 marshals meeting to discuss what type of speaker students would be interested in. from page 3

attacks “If I were in Istanbul, killed in an attack, would anyone acknowledge my death?”

Sever said. “I just want the SU community to understand that these things just don’t happen to Belgium.”

She said she sees this dynamic of disproportionality play out on campus.

After news of the Belgian attacks broke, the Slutzker Center for International Services at SU emailed all three Belgian students who currently attend SU to pledge SU’s support for them. Patricia Burak, director of the Slutzker Center, said it’s customary to email students from countries where terrorist attacks or natural disasters occur.

After several conversations and some voting, the group submits a list of a few dozen names to the administration, which ultimately uses the list to make a final decision based on factors such as availability and price.

When all of the class marshals gathered to discuss potential candidates for commencement speaker, Williams said the group was aware that many past speakers lacked diversity, so they took that into account when forming a list of possible choices.

Alexis Peña, the other Class of 2016 marshal, said diversity isn’t just about race or gender, but more about thoughts and beliefs.

In that sense, she said she believes Newhouse is a diverse speaker.

Williams added that the marshals aren’t involved much in the selection process once the list is handed off to the administration, but said they received updates about some of the people that had been contacted by SU and heard who was and wasn’t available.

“I can trust the university did the best they could and the decision was one they put a lot of thought into,” Williams said. blsamuel@syr.edu

But there was no email sent to Turkish students after the attacks in Ankara and Istanbul.

“Don’t those Turkish students deserve the same attention — what if they lost someone?” Sever said.

Burak said it had nothing to do with the fact that Turkey is not a European country.

“We certainly don’t only respond to European countries versus Middle Eastern or anywhere else,” she said.

Burak said due to SU’s buyout program, the Slutzker Center lost two staff members, which means the remaining staff is spread too thin.

“I work literally 18 hours a day,” Burak said. “If I missed one event I didn’t do it with any kind of bad intentions or any willfulness in ignoring one country over another.” rsandler@syr.edu

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(FROM LEFT) ETHAN JACKSON AND KRISTOFER PEARCE, both University of Alabama students, started their comic book company during Thanksgiving break and have since then sold comic books across the United States. courtesy of dream ink comics

University of Alabama students self-publish, sell comic books

By BreeAnna Poshek staff writer

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hile most students spent their Thanksgiving breaks with family, two seniors at the University of Alabama worked tirelessly at finishing a comic.

Kristofer Pearce and Ethan Jackson finished the comic, “Ghost Phase,” which was the first book for their new company, Dream Ink Comics, on Thanksgiving morning. Four months later, the book has taken off and is being sold in several stores across the United States.

Pearce, a new college production media major, and Jackson, an aerospace engineering major, met as freshmen and quickly realized they shared an interest in comics. Jackson’s primary interest was in the writing aspect and Pearce focused on the art.

“One day we just sat outside with a notepad throwing out ideas. It was a lot harder than we thought it would be. I sort of thought it would be like boom, bam, pow and done … comic,” Pearce said. “It was a continuous strand of why nots to get from one goal to another. We’d ask ourselves things like, ‘We created the character, why not keep going and make the story?’”

One challenge in creating the comic was financial limitations, Jackson said, as the pair only had the money to print books that were about eight to 10 pages.

“At first, I was like, ‘You want me to make a story that’s only eight pages?’ But then I brushed up on my history of comic books and

reviewed some of the older comics, like the first appearance of Batman, which also used this format,” Jackson said. “I was ready for the challenge of squeezing all the elements of a good story into just eight pages.”

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The minimum number of pages Pearce and Jackson had to work with

Pearce said that after finishing their first comic, they were left wondering what their next step would be.

“When we finally got done we were so proud of it. We wound up ordering like 80 printed books. Then we were left like, ‘Well, we each only need one copy, what do we do with the 78 other books?’” Pearce said.

Pearce had ties with an employee at Oxford Comics in Atlanta. He contacted the store, which became the first one to sell work from Dream Ink Comics. The book quickly sold out, and that’s when Pearce said they knew their business had potential to really succeed.

They now sell their comics in six different

stores: Oxford Comics; Chicago Comics in Chicago; Kapow Comics in Sherwood, Arkansas; Forbidden Planet in New York City; The Comicshop in Vancouver; and The Comic Strip in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

Liz Ray, the manager at The Comic Strip, said that although the store primarily sells vintage comics, it was excited at the opportunity to sell comics from local talent.

“Most people who come to the store have wanted to write, edit, draw or do something with comics before,” Ray said. “So, to see someone actually doing it is a huge thing.

Especially someone from their hometown.

That was the initial draw, but people read it and loved it.”

Ray said the store is currently sold out of all of Dream Ink Comics’ work except the second issue of “Ghost Phase.”

“I have people calling at least once a week asking if they’re in yet,” Ray said. “Someone has even put their comics on their pull list, which means they have a subscription.”

Ray added that she thought Pearce and Jackson’s work is one of a kind because of the passion they put into developing characters.

Jackson said that even if he and Pearce end up in different cities after they graduate, they will continue to collaborate on comics because they are best friends.

“I don’t see it as a hindrance to our daily lives,” Jackson said. “In fact, I think our day jobs will be 9-5 and then we will work on the comic books as a way to get away from the real world for a bit.” blposhek@syr.edu

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ombudsman Senate meeting. Those feelings stem from recent structural changes at SU, such as new leadership, the Strategic Plan component of the Fast Forward initiative and the Voluntary Separation Incentive Program, the report states.

Chancellor Kent Syverud plans to meet with the committee to discuss how to move forward with creating the office, said Lori Brown, who is chair of the committee.

If the office is created, SU would join a list of universities that already have an Ombuds Office.

Ten out of the 15 schools in the ACC conference have ombudsmen, according to the report.

The average salary for an ombudsman at a

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university is about $59,000 per year, according to simplyhired.com. An ombudsman’s salary may vary depending on the size of the institution they work for, said Vicky Wang, a graduate student at SU who answered questions about the proposal at the meeting.

The Committee on Women’s Concern is not the first body to suggest an Ombuds Office. At least five organizations in the last several years have recommended doing so — including the Chancellor’s Workgroup on Diversity and Inclusion in a report issued Monday, the Graduate Student Organization in 2014, Committee on Academic Integrity in 2007 and the Academic Strategic Plan’s Student and Faculty-Centered Operations Working Group in February.

While analyzing the culture on campus,

SU’s report from consulting firm Bain & Company noted that the university needs “enhanced feedback mechanisms” and greater transparency and communication.

The committee started exploring the option of an Ombuds Office over two years ago. For more than a decade, the committee was used as a “safe space” to talk about issues of “grave concern” — sexual harassment, abuse of power, bullying in the workplace, inconsistent use of judicial and staff complaints, among others. “... Our experience has revealed that people who turn to us for help do so because they believe there is no other safe place on campus for them to go. Our experience also points to what we see as a long-standing campus culture that causes many community members … to believe that their University neither cares about them nor wants to protect them,” the report reads.

As a result, university-offered support services are sometimes purposely avoided.

An Ombuds Office would encourage people to use a university service, while providing a “confidential, off-the-record, and safe place” where people can discuss issues without fear of backlash, according to the report.

Several senators were concerned that an ombudsman would take their suggestions and

reports directly to the chancellor, giving the university community little involvement in any decisions that are made. Brown reassured the senators that the ombudsman would have his or her own authority, but several people in Maxwell Auditorium groaned in disagreement.

To this, Syverud said the goal of an ombudsman is to resolve things within the SU community, and if that doesn’t happen, then the records are destroyed and other avenues can be pursued.

“The purpose of the role is to take disputes that could well become huge, timeconsuming, anxiety-producing things that don’t have to be and get people to actually talk to people,” Syverud said.

In discussing a perceived lack of transparency and communication at SU, the proposal mentions the closing of the Advocacy Center, as well as the 18-day sit-in held in CrouseHinds Hall by THE General Body in 2014.

While THE General Body was protesting, it served as a “safe space” for students to discuss their grievances — much like an Ombuds Office would function, the report states.

“Indeed, as the events of Fall 2014 and their aftermath have revealed, there is no greater need for, and no better time, for Syracuse University to establish an Ombuds Office,” the report states.

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broad and subjective.

The committee report supported the majority of the working group’s recommendations, but also highlighted a few areas that could be improved upon. These included things like the legal status of SU and how the word “citizens” might disregard international students, the ambiguity of the reasonable person standard and when restricting free speech is acceptable.

The report also called for further clarification of what is a private or public space on campus, more elaboration on when occupying a campus building is or isn’t free speech and the use of banners and signs in public or private spaces — especially flags, among others.

Senators were given a copy of a letter sent

by Chancellor Kent Syverud to Student Association President Aysha Seedat, Graduate Student Organization President Can Aslan and other leaders. In it, Syverud requests that each organization review the working group’s recommendations and report back to him with their thoughts by April 15.

As the meeting crept toward the hourand-a-half mark, the senate decided to continue discussion on the free speech report next week.

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create an annual census of faculty, noting how many fall under each classification — such as tenured, non-tenured, etcetera.

“It would be a big change. Such faculty censuses have not existed in the past and it would be a large step forward, in my view, in transparency and faculty oversight,” Lovely said.

After Lovely finished the report, the senate decided to table any motions for the next senate meeting.

Though senators were told that the meeting might last beyond one hour, many left before Lovely finished her proposal. By the time Tina Nabatchi began to talk about the Academic Affairs report on free speech, some senators began putting their jackets on and slipping quietly out the door.

The Academic Affairs Committee was charged with reviewing the report published by the Working Group on Free Speech in September 2015. The working group, led by former S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications Dean David Rubin, was formed in response to complaints made by students organizations claiming that the university’s free speech guidelines were vague, overly

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This new policy, which Aslan said was only being discussed at this point, would give SA and GSO complete control over their budgets.

The senators also voted to approve funding for two events. The first was a $260 proposal for a spring talent show hosted by SU’s chapter of the Society for the Promotion of Indian Classical Music And Culture Amongst Youth.

The second was for the SU Program for Refugee Assistance (SUPRA). The group requested $900 to fund a tour of Syracuse’s north side for refugees to get familiar with where they live.

SUPRA put on the same tour last year, but only requested $250. The program needs extra funds because it expects more people to participate.

Recording Secretary Patrick Neary ended the meeting by detailing the findings of his audit of the Grant Committee. He said he found many flaws in the data from the previous months, which he had to correct.

He and the committee had to review grant applications that should have been decided on over a month or even a year earlier. They also found that some applications had been approved twice. In those cases, they kept with the higher funding amount that had been approved. dovanwey@syr.edu

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1. Anderson .Paak sings passionately into the microphone as he performs as the second musician in this semester’s Bandersnatch Concert Series.

2. Smino entertained the crowd as the opening act of the concert. His performance lasted slightly less than an hour before Anderson .Paak took the stage.

3. Anderson .Paak takes a moment to look around as the audience danced and filled Schine Underground with excitement and high energy.

4. Concertgoers cheer and sway as the music blasted across the room. The venue, which was filled with students, can hold up to 300 people. liam sheehan asst. photo editor See dailyorange.com for full concert coverage

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Q&A: Tony Award winner Jessie Mueller stars in ‘Waitress’

By Clare Ramirez asst. copy editor

After winning her first Tony Award, Syracuse University alumna Jessie Mueller returns to Broadway in her upcoming musical, “Waitress.”

Mueller, who graduated in 2005, won her Tony in 2014 for playing the songwriter Carole King in “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical.”

“Waitress,” a new musical based on the 2007 movie starring Keri Russell, tells the story of a piebaking waitress, Jenna, and her

struggles with an oppressive husband and unwanted pregnancy.

The production is being described as history-in-the-making by being the first musical to have an all-female creative team, which includes Grammy Award-winning artist Sara Bareilles, who wrote the score.

The Daily Orange spoke with Mueller about being a part of “Waitress” and rehearsing for previews, which begin on Friday.

The Daily Orange: How have rehearsals for “Waitress” been going?

Jessie Mueller: We’re in the thick

of it right now, and we’re already texting about where my mic’s going to go and how we’re going to make the pregnancy boobs work, and all that funny stuff. But this process has just been unlike any other. The team has been so collaborative and very open. We’re all in the trenches together — that’s what it feels like — and I think ultimately we’re going to come out with something really special because of that.

The D.O.: How did you feel when

you found out “Waitress” had Broadway’s first all-female creative team?

J.M.: It’s funny because I didn’t know it going in. I guess I had assumed it had happened before. But now looking at it, it’s awesome thing.

It’s an honor because if it means that the young girls can look at this theme now and say, “OK, that’s a thing that can happen,” then that’s important.

I don’t think about it a lot because to me, they just got the right people to do the job … But if it’s opening doors for generations to come, then it’s pretty cool to be part of.

The D.O.: What made you want

to be involved in the musical?

I had seen the movie shortly after it had come out. … It’s quirky and funny, but it’s got darkness and reality to it.

It really felt like it was telling a very human story. By that point when I had heard about (the musical), I heard Sara Bareilles was connected to it and writing the score. And I heard some early demos of hers and I was blown away by the stuff that she had written for the show. Sometimes I think it’s hard to tell if something is good and if this is going see mueller page 10

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Political tension between Hong Kong, Chinese mainland persists

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unwittingly chose a very politically charged time to study abroad in Hong Kong. The locals here are in the midst of a debate about their own identity.

Hong Kong’s political system is one of the most unique situations in the world. Under “One Country, Two Systems,” Hong Kong is a part of communist China, but maintains its own capitalist system. Hong Kong has its own judiciary, police force and currency, and its people have freedom of speech and assembly.

When the territory was handed over from the British to the Chinese in June of 1997, the two powers agreed Hong Kong would be governed under this system for 50 years.

Recently, some young people in Hong Kong have started to question the terms of this agreement. In 2014, the Umbrella Revolution made international news when students took to the streets to call for universal suffrage for Hong Kong’s chief executive. They used

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mueller to work, especially when it’s a really rough demo.

But there was no doubt in my mind. Amazing.

The D.O.: How is preparing for the role of

Jenna different from your role as Carole King?

J.M.: Thematically, there are similarities.

They’re both stories of women emerging, having personal breakthroughs, and coming into their strengths. I’m intrigued by stories like that because I find them interesting, and I always feel like I’m trying to break through something and find more strength and more direction in my own life. But honestly, in some ways, they feel so different. In every show you do, you start over again. Sometimes I feel like I have to re-learn everything. It’s like you’ve never done it before, almost and in some ways that’s the joy of it. It’s

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umbrellas to shield themselves from pepper spray, earning the movement its name.

Recently, tensions flared again when booksellers who published information critiquing the Chinese Communist Party and President Xi Jinping went missing under suspicious circumstances. Some activists believed they were kidnapped by the Chinese government, which they said was a violation of the “One Country, Two Systems” agreement. Some of the missing people showed up in mainland police custody months later. They said they had turned themselves in to authorities, but family members raised doubts about their confessions. There was a massive protest relating to the booksellers on the day we arrived in Hong

really sort of exploring it and figuring it all out again. Vocally, they feel very different to me.

With “Beautiful” I was trying to do something specific vocally. With this show, it’s a little bit more like using more elements of my voice. Plus, Sara writes for her own voice — and she has an insane voice, in a good way. But her range and her dexterity — they’re quite unique. It’s been a great challenge for me to sing the score and find where it fits in my own voice. Ultimately, it’s just a pleasure to sing the music and so fun.

The D.O.: Do you have a favorite song from

the musical?

J.M.: I think one of my favorite ones to sing is a song called “Bad Idea.” It’s one that a lot of people who have heard about the show probably know because Sara put it out on the record … It’s a duet with Drew Gehling, and it’s sort of high energy. It’s just sort of like you’re just

Kong. That protest was peaceful, but on Feb. 8, Chinese New Year, it was a different story. Rioters clashed with police who shut down illegal food stalls in a popular market district.

There are a number of theories behind why it happened. Some scholars say that frustration with the mainland’s attempts to suppress Hong Kong culture played a role.

Others say protesters were simply fed up with the economic situation in Hong Kong.

Authorities are still investigating whether the incident was pre-planned and by whom.

Since I’ve been studying in the city, I’ve been trying to follow all of this closely, but, as I’m sure you can tell, it’s incredibly complex.

Although I’ve been following local news sources, I’ve learned so much more from just talking to locals. This idealistic, democratic fervor is fueled almost entirely by Hong Kong’s youth. In general, older people are less involved.

There are people alive today who were old

enough to remember the time of the handover between Britain and China, and who will also be alive in 31 years when the “One Country, Two Systems” policy expires. They worked and raised children of their own in a capitalist — but Chinese — Hong Kong. When they’ve lived under so many different rulers and political systems, it’s no wonder people here aren’t sure what it means to be a Hong Kong native.

When I talk to people back home about these issues, some of them ask me where I stand. My answer is that I have no idea. As an outsider, I don’t think I have a right to have an opinion. I don’t get to decide what it means to be a native of Hong Kong. All I can do is appreciate the opportunity this semester offers me in being present for such an important conversation.

jumping on a train and it just goes and takes off. It’s too much fun to sing.

The D.O.: What do you hope audiences

The D.O.: Do you ever find yourself relat-

ing to Jenna?

J.M.: Oh yeah, absolutely. It’s a very human story about somebody who is exploring her worthiness of love and whether she is worthy of that, and whether she’s worthy of happiness. And I think she second-guesses that for a great deal of the play — I think anybody can relate to that, but I certainly can.

There’s something about her vulnerability that I relate to, and I’ve fallen in love with her because I feel like her vulnerability in the beginning of the story transitions into her strength by the end. One of the ways that happens is when she becomes accepting of her vulnerabilities and her bad decisions. It’s the good, the bad and the ugly.

Claire Moran is a junior broadcast and digital journalism and international relations dual major. Her column appears weekly in Pulp. She can be reached at clmoran@syr.edu.

will get from this musical?

J.M.: For me I think it can be very healing. I think it’s about a lot of people learning how to heal. It’s also extremely funny and entertaining, but I think healing is what I want people to take away from it. That’s the best way I can describe it. Any time you go into a theater and you see something honest in front of you, there’s the ability to connect as an audience member.

When you see any piece of art and you relate to it whether it’s somebody’s good moment or somebody’s dark moment, it’s ultimately the feeling of “I’m not alone” and “I’m not the only human on the planet that feels this way,” whether it’s sad or unworthy or unloved. It’s just a bunch of lovely, wonderful, quirky human beings going through life, and I think that’s a great thing for people to watch and experience. clramire@syr.edu | @clareramirez

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FEELING BLUE Puerto Rican artist to showcase paintings about human existence

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amous Puerto Rican artist Arnaldo Roche Rabell will be showcasing his exhibit, “The Blue of Ruin,” at the Point of Contact Gallery on Thursday evening. The exhibit highlights his experiments with rubbing and scraping through still life and portraits.

“I’m an artist that deals with reality,” Rabell said. “(This exhibit) allows me to express myself through the process of touching.”

Plans for this exhibit began over a year ago, as the gallery began looking for new contemporary and experimental international artists to feature, said Miranda Traudt, the gallery’s managing director.

Tere Paniagua, the executive director of the Office of Cultural Engagement for the Hispanic Community and one of the individuals that helped bring Rabell in, described him as a “rock star in his own right.” Paniagua, who is also Puerto Rican, said he sees the potential Rabell’s work could have on the Latin community in Syracuse. “(Rabell) feels very strongly about connecting with that community in Syracuse,” she said.

“It’s very exciting to be presenting this show."

After selecting Rabell, Point of Contact selected the different pieces to be featured in the gallery. They arranged for the shipment of his work and named the exhibit after his use of blue in every piece. Rabell said after living through a tsunami, he began to paint everything in blue, seeing shades of blue in everything. He said he liked how the “consciousness” of these pieces made those circumstances very textual.

Rabell spent this week at the gallery working with the curator to decide where everything should be placed in the exhibition. Some of the pieces will be the largest the gallery has ever presented, the biggest at 15 feet long and 12 feet high.

As for the work itself, most of Rabell’s pieces

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1. Arnaldo Roche Rabell is a Puerto Rican artist whose exhibit, “The Blue of Ruin,” combines history with human life. 2. The gallery’s name originates from Rabell’s use of the color blue in all the pieces, a decision that was inspired by his experience living through a tsunami.

involve portraits of family and friends, exploring memory and personal experience. He said he has constantly struggled with the problem of existence, and he hopes through his work, he will be able “to be aware that others exist and to be comfortable with myself."

After graduating from the school of architecture at Universidad de Puerto Rico, Rabell moved to Chicago to complete his master's degree. He said that while he was there, he went through a number of religious experiences that changed his perspective on human existence and relationships.

“I have a holistic view of how to be happy,” he said. “I use my art to understand the emotional part of art in the case of the bodies or models, or the person behind the canvas. My art is an investigation of myself in relation to others.”

Rabell admitted that at the beginning of his career he didn’t know what he was doing at first, but he had a desire to involve history in his explanations of human life. He said he puts a large amount

of love, care and respect into all of his work.

In terms of his exhibit, Rabell said he is most excited to be able to interact and expose himself and his work to others.

“I’m seeing this exhibition not as part of the process. I’m here with the veins open, letting the blood go any which way. I’m here to share, for the opportunity to engage with younger art students and the community,” he said.

Rabell will be on campus visiting with students and faculty in the painting department of the College of Visual and Performing Arts on Thursday.

Traudt said she was most excited to see all the patrons come into contact with the work.

“Our mission at Contact is to bring the work of these artists from all over the world in contact with the faculty and students at SU to the community of SU,” she said. “We don’t try and tell anyone what to look for and what to find but just to create their own interpretation of the work.” hrhorvat@syr.edu

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How Coleman can provide added bonus to Syracuse

By Matt Schneidman sports editor

ST. LOUIS — With 2:45 remaining in Syracuse’s win against Middle Tennessee State, Dajuan Coleman exited to a standing ovation from the block of Syracuse fans behind the Orange’s bench. His stat line: eight points and five rebounds.

For Michael Gbinije, that would be a travesty. For Trevor Cooney, a disappointment. For Malachi Richardson, possibly underachieving and for Tyler Lydon, nothing too impressive. But after missing the better part of two seasons and only flashing potential in spurts this year, Coleman’s eight points and five rebounds are an added bonus to a Syracuse team that only has five players who consistently leave their mark on the box score.

“It felt real good,” Coleman said after the game of the ovation he received. “I still got to take it all in but it felt real good though.”

Coleman only played 16 minutes against the Blue Raiders, so he had the secondhighest points per minute total behind Gbinije. Even if he receives half the minutes Lydon does at center, a stat line like Sunday’s could give Syracuse the sliver of depth it’s lacked for the majority of the season. And against 11th-seeded Gonzaga (28-7, 15-3 West Coast) in the NCAA Tournament on Friday, No. 10 seed SU (21-13, 9-9 Atlantic Coast) could add a dimension on both ends it hasn’t often had at its disposal if Coleman has a similar showing.

“Now you’re talking about six and seven guys, six guys are able to contribute,” assistant coach Adrian Autry said. “Whenever you get contributions from all the guys that come on the court, that’s what we’re shooting for.”

Coleman’s night got off to a brutal start when he allowed an offensive rebound to MTSU’s Reggie Upshaw and proceeded to foul him less than a minute in. Syracuse head coach Jim Boeheim yelled at Coleman, motioning to the junior to put his hands a certain way when defending in the post before yanking him with only 54 seconds off the clock.

He logged a meager three minutes in the first half but as is customary, he started the second and grabbed two rebounds in the first two-plus minutes. While Tyler Roberson sat on the bench after he knocked his head on the floor going for a rebound, Coleman had a stretch where he scored six of Syracuse’s 13 points as it eventually built its lead into the 20s.

Nobody expects Coleman to score in double figures or dominate the boards on a nightly basis. Those duties are left to Gbinije and Roberson, respectively. But when Coleman doesn’t lose a chance at an open basket on his standard pump fake, instead shedding a defender and scoring, the bench reacts as if Syracuse is scoring bonus points.

“It’s huge for us,” Gbinije said. “He gives us that inside threat and we like it when he succeeds.” mcschnei@syr.edu

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butler shoot the ball,” Butler said, “and when you’re not making shots it’s more so you don’t want to shoot as much.”

Butler is having her worst shooting slump of the season. The NCAA’s Division I active career leader in made 3-pointers has had just six over the last four games — well below her average of 3.6 per game prior to the slump. Syracuse needs her to break the trend when fourth-seeded Syracuse (27-7, 13-3 Atlantic Coast) travels to Sioux Falls, South Dakota, to take on top-seeded South Carolina (31-1, 16-0 South Eastern) at 7 p.m. Friday in the Sweet 16.

I wish she was a bad passer because then she wouldn’t want to pass.

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“She may not have shot the ball very well in the first two games (of the NCAA tournament),” associate head coach Vonn Read said. “I’m OK with that as long as she comes out here and plays in this game and does what I know she’s capable of doing.

“She’s capable of coming out and making seven or eight 3s and really, really getting our team going. So I expect that from her.”

In the Orange’s ACC tournament quarterfinal game against North Carolina State, Butler knocked down 5-of-6 attempts from beyond the arc in the first half. But since then, she’s made just 6-of39 long-range attempts, equating to a dismal 15.4-percent mark from long range.

Butler’s 3-point percentage sat at 32 percent prior to the slump, but her conversion

rate since then has been less than half of that.

“I go into every game with the same mentality that I’m going to try to knock down shots,” Butler said, “and right now it’s just not falling.”

Prior to Syracuse’s game against Albany on Sunday, Great Danes head coach Katie Abrahamson-Henderson said the one player her team would need to stop to feel good about winning would be Butler.

Albany held her to two makes on eight attempts from 3 and 2-of-11 from the field.

It stretched its zone defense out to the arc and pressured her around the line.

Twice she was able to shake defenders with a step back and make the shot. But other times she launched one shot that clipped the bottom of the backboard and another that sailed long.

“If I’m not able to hit a shot I know I can find someone else,” Butler said.

It’s that mentality that Hillsman dislikes. As he has been all of her career, Hillsman is more concerned with the shots that she passes up than with the one that she misses.

Butler has shown to be a good passer in transition, Hillsman said, but he’d rather her take the open shot.

“I wish she was a bad passer because then she wouldn’t want to pass,” Hillsman said.

In Syracuse’s season-ending loss to South Carolina last year, the Gamecocks scored a record 97 points and blew out the Orange by 29. SU’s offense will have a tall order of trying to keep up, requiring plenty of made 3-pointers.

And that task starts with Butler.

“Butler’s a shooter,” Read said. “It kind of comes and it goes a little bit. … And my thing for Butler has always been in this type of game when we really need her, she’s going to step up and be explosive for us and she’s going to win a game like this for us.” jrmettus@syr.edu | @jmettus

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roberson 26 rebounds in the Bulldogs’ first two Tournament wins and averages 11.7 on the season. Roberson is more than three rebounds below that at 8.4 boards per game and his inconsistency on the glass, which SU head coach Jim Boeheim has harped, has plagued his average.

By total rebounds per game, Sabonis is the best rebounder Syracuse will face all season. He ranks seventh in the country in that category, but a year ago his wingspan was measured at 6 feet 10.5 inches, according to DraftExpress.

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program history far less meaningful.

But for a team like the Orange, that has gone through the lows of an 0-4 start to conference season, that has dealt with a suspended head coach and a stressful 100 hours between an Atlantic Coast Conference tournament loss and Selection Sunday, this Tournament has quickly redefined the season’s legacy. The No. 10 seed Orange is playing on borrowed time, and will have the chance to advance to the Elite Eight when it faces 11thseeded Gonzaga at 9:40 p.m. on Friday.

“The Tournament has become, unfortunately, the season,” Boeheim said. “Coaches are getting fired everyday now because they don’t get their team to the Sweet 16. Especially for the good teams, everything hinges on what you do in the Tournament.”

He may consider it unfortunate, but that’s far from the case for the team Boeheim is coaching now. He knows how lucky his team is to even just be playing, and readily admits that he hoped to just play in Dayton’s First Four round when the selection show started a week and a half ago.

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Syracuse will counter the player who anchors the Bulldogs down low with the length of Roberson and Tyler Lydon, and possibly even the bounce of Malachi Richardson.

But the Orange’s ability to neutralize one of the country’s rebounders on the glass may hinge in part on the length of one player’s arms and the capability of his two feet.

“He has a quick jump and if we can’t get it and we can kind of get it up in the air, we’ve got guys that have a lot of quick twitches,” SU assistant coach Adrian Autry said. “They get up off the ground fast, especially Tyler Roberson.” mcschnei@syr.edu | @matt_schneidman

expectations attached to this postseason.

Just a prayer that the Orange would, at the very least, get to play in it.

“To get into the NCAA Tournament, it feels good,” Trevor Cooney said. “To win both of these games, I mean, it’s unbelievable. We just have to keep it going.”

Syracuse could lay an egg against Gonzaga. It could let big men Kyle Wiltjer and Domantas Sabonis dominate the Orange on the glass. Everything could go wrong on Friday night and it won’t change the perception of what was accomplished in St. Louis.

Because, as Boeheim said, the season is right now. The season that mattered started when Syracuse made the Tournament. And since then, it’s collected two nearly flawless wins. Whatever happens against the Bulldogs, it can’t take that away.

“I think we just have to make sure we understand that there’s a lot to be done, a lot can be done,” Boeheim said after the MTSU win. “A lot of good things can happen and we have to focus on that, the next game, and not really look backwards. There will be time to look backwards some day.”

And while backwards is the only direction for Michigan State to look, there’s still life for a Syracuse season that’s continuing on borrowed time.

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3-POINTERS 37.1%

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Days since SU played Gonzaga in the Round of 32 in 2010

2-POINTERS 51.2%

3-POINTERS 29.4%

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

BRIANA DAY

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SC 5.4

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Why Tyler Roberson can be a consistently dominant rebounder think a rarity, his second jump is as quick and as explosive as his first,” said Dave Boff, Roberson’s coach at T. LOUIS – A video of Roselle Catholic (New Jersey) High Baylor’s Taurean Prince School. “I think that that really helps describing what a rebound him get a lot of those second-tip is went viral after the rebounds that a lot of guys don’t get.”

Bears’ loss to Yale in the firstAgainst Middle Tennessee round of the NCAA Tournament. State in the Round of 32, Roberson The simple question posed to grabbed eight rebounds in the first Prince after the game: “How does half. On one sequence, he blocked a Yale outrebound Baylor?”

Reggie Upshaw shot, tipped the ball “You go up and grab the ball off up in the air before others contested the rim when it comes off and then it and eventually came down with you grab it with two hands,” Prince the ball secured in his two hands. said, straight-faced but with more Later in the half, MTSU’s Perrin than a hint of sarcasm, “and you Buford missed a jump shot but folcome down with it and that’s consid- lowed the ball when it hit off the rim ered a rebound. So they got more of and tipped it up in the air. Roberson those than we did.” skied over Buford That may be near Syracuse’s how the majority of His second jump is as bench and secured rebounds come, but the ball at its peak. the way Syracuse’s quick and as explosive He drew a foul while Tyler Roberson has as his first. I think that curling his left arm asserted himself the ball and that really helps him get around as a force on the untangling his right a lot of those second- from Buford’s grasp. boards this season extends beyond Rob er s on’s tip rebounds that a that. Many of Robfather, Edmon Roblot of guys don’t get. erson, said his son’s erson’s rebounds come in scrums, vertical jump hasn’t Dave Boff where he doesn’t been measured roselle catholic head coach grasp the ball with since his freshman two hands at its peak, but rather year of college, but that he boasts a tips it with one. Then it’s back to two 7-foot-3 wingspan. DraftExpress. feet on the ground for each player com has measured prospects’ wing involved and the aerial competition span-height relationship since 1987. for a ball still in the air ensues.

There have been 82 players evaluated Roberson’s second jump, the during that period that are measured height of his jump to contest for a at Roberson’s height of 6 feet 8 inches. tipped ball after he’s already jumped Of that sample size, the average wingonce, is what allows him to corral span was 7 feet, one-sixth inch, giving 50-50 balls in the air. He’s totaled Roberson an almost 3-inch advantage 27 rebounds in the 66 minutes he’s over the standard in addition to his played during the NCAA Tourna- second bounce off the ground. ment — averaging a rebound about “I think it’s my second jump and every two minutes and 27 seconds also just going after it,” Roberson he’s on the court — and provided a said. “Coach Boff is definitely right. boost on the glass for a Syracuse (21- I think it’s really crucial. It really 13, 9-9 Atlantic Coast) team seeded helps me get a lot rebounds.”

10th in the Midwest Region, but set Up next for Roberson and the for a matchup with No. 11 seed Gon- Syracuse frontcourt is Gonzaga, zaga (28-7, 15-3 West Coast) in the which boasts 6-foot-11 Domantas Sweet 16 in Chicago on Friday night.

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TYLER ROBERSON uses his strong second jump to grab rebounds after the ball is tipped in the air, a trait that will be tested against a strong Gonzaga frontcourt. margaret lin senior staff photographer

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T. LOUIS — Tom Izzo barely had 10 minutes to let the end of his season sink in. He sat at the postgame press conference and tried to hold his emotions together as he explained Michigan State’s inexplicable loss to Middle Tennessee State in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. He couldn’t. He cried. He rubbed his eyes. He paused for seconds at a time.

Everything his team had accomplished all season. A 29-6 record. A Big Ten title. The devel-

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THAT’S WHAT I SAID opment of Denzel Valentine, one of college basketball’s best players. It was all seemingly rendered meaningless by one fluke of a game. And Izzo, the head coach and captain of the ship, couldn’t help but break down.

“I don’t care about next year. I don’t care about tomorrow,” Izzo said. “I just care about the present

and what they did for me, for us.

And somehow I’ve got to make sure in all this disappointment, that it is not lost. Because that’s the problem with sports, it does get lost.”

Izzo calls it a “problem.”

Syracuse head coach Jim Boeheim called it “unfortunate.” A team can go through an entire season, but still have it be defined by the success in this one-and-done Tournament. For someone like Izzo, the Tournament rendered one of the best regular seasons in

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women’s basketball

Syracuse needs Butler to break out of slump

By Jon Mettus digital editor

Brianna Butler caught a pass from Alexis Peterson on the right wing behind the 3-point line, but didn’t shoot it like she has an NCAAhigh 373 times this season. She didn’t even turn toward the net to pump fake or get in position for a shot. She just passed the ball

right back to Peterson at the top of the key.

“Face the basket, Butler,” Syracuse head coach Quentin Hillsman yelled while stomping his right foot. Then he called timeout in the middle of the Orange’s offensive possession solely to chew out the senior guard.

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