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Attendees of the Take Back the Night event walked around the SU campus to raise awareness for sexual violence following a keynote speech by former Syracuse University football player Don McPherson, who talked about how privilege plays a pivotal role in sexual assault culture.

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Checking privilege SU community gathers to rally against sexual assault and gender privilege

By Sara Swann asst. news editor

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on McPherson said he usually stands with the privilege of being a former football player, but on Wednesday night, he stood inside Hendricks Chapel with the privilege of being a man.

McPherson, a Class of 1987 Syra-

cuse University alumnus and captain of SU’s football team during his senior year, said he usually carries the privileges of a man with him everyday, but his privilege was especially apparent to him on Wednesday night.

As the keynote speaker at SU’s annual Take Back the Night event, McPherson spoke to a full house inside Hendricks — which has a capacity of

about 1,100 people — about the imporGrowing up with a father who tance of taking action against sexual was a police officer in New York City, assault and relationship violence.

McPherson said he remembers his The Take Back the Night event father always telling his sisters what was the first event to kick-start the they should do to be safe at night.

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Action, which will Carry pepper spray. continue on April 4.

Walk in well-lit If we cared as much areas. Watch your In November, Vice President Joe Biden about this issue as we drinks,’” his father spoke at SU about do about basketball, would say. sexual assault and He said women are the dialogue would relationship vioprovided with this list lence prevention on of things to do in order be different. college campuses. to prevent rape and Don McPherson Biden’s address was sexual assault, and former su football player part of a four-stop added that if a woman college tour for the White House’s doesn’t do one of them, they are blamed “It’s On Us” campaign. for the violence of men.

During his speech, McPherson, McPherson said he never had to who has called himself an “outspo- do any of the things his father told ken male feminist,” talked about his sisters to do to be safe. And that’s some of his experiences when his when he realized his privilege. privilege was most apparent to him. see rally page 6

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Former athlete charged with rape Clinton to campaign in Syracuse on Friday

By Paul Schwedelson asst. sports editor

Former Syracuse football player Amir Ealey has been charged with two counts of rape for incidents that occurred in a residence hall on the Syracuse University campus in July 2015, police said.

Ealey was EALEY arrested Tuesday and charged with two counts of rape in the third degree for incidents

that allegedly occurred in the Ernie Davis residence hall, according to the Syracuse Police Department.

The victims of the incidents were acquaintances of Ealey’s, per SPD.

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The number of games Ealey played in as a freshman in 2015 before his indefinite suspension in November

The two victims allege Ealey forced them to have sex with him after they told him no, Syracuse.com

reported. Senior Assistant District Attorney Jeremy Cali said Ealey violated a “no means no” rule. Cali also told Syracuse.com that SPD was only made aware of the allegations last week. If convicted, Ealey could serve from one and one-third years to four years in jail for each charge.

Ealey, 19, played in seven games as a freshman in 2015 — mostly on special teams — and recorded one tackle. He was dismissed from SU’s football team on Feb. 4 after being suspended indefinitely in November. pmschwed@syr.edu

By Rachel Sandler asst. news editor

Former United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will be campaigning in Syracuse on Friday ahead of the New York s t at e pr i m a r y on April 19, Clinton’s campaign announced Wednesday.

CLINTON Clinton will

hold an organizing event at the F Shed, Central New York Regional Market at 2100 Park St. Doors will open at noon and the event starts at 2 p.m., according to Clinton’s campaign.

She will also hold a roundtable discussion in Syracuse about small businesses and manufacturing jobs. The time and location of the roundtable have yet to be announced, according to Clinton’s campaign. rsandler@syr.edu | @rachsandl

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THIRSTY thursday | tsingtao

Chinese beer has hints of apple, honey

By Max Darrow staff writer

If you’ve been one of my weekly readers, you may have figured this out by now: This column has been all over the world.

From the Dominican Republic last week, to New Zealand a few weeks back, to England the first week, I’ve done our fair share of traveling around the world through beer.

Now, we can add China to the list. This week I decided to try Tsingtao, one of the bestselling beers in China.

Unlike a lot of beers that have traditional tastes but are brewed in the United States, Tsingtao is actually brewed in and imported from China.

On the pour, it’s immediately obvious that this is going to be a very carbonated beer. It produces a deceiving head — thick right away, only to disappear completely within 30 seconds. Tsingtao has a very golden yellow, translucent look to it. You can see columns of carbonation streaking upwards through the glass.

Tsingtao smells like a typical beer. I smelled a bittersweet aroma, but I couldn’t pin it as any-

thing other than the typical beer smell. I had no clue what it would taste like from the aroma, other than an inkling of sweetness.

I was right about the sweetness, and man, it was delicious.

Tsingtao isn’t overly sweet, but I definitely tasted a combination of apples and honey. It has a very strong, bold initial flavor that will wash away with a quick finish, leaving you with a pleasant dryness in your mouth. As you may expect from simply looking at the beer, it’s very fizzy.

I would order Tsingtao happily in a variety of situations. It’s not heavy like a porter, it doesn’t have an overpowering flavor like an IPA, and it’s better than a Bud Light or Coors Light.

Try it at a happy hour with some traditional bar food, have a glass with dinner one night or try one when you’re just hanging out with a group of friends.

Tsingtao is an extremely versatile beer that works well in most settings.

Out of all the beers I’ve reviewed, Tsingtao is definitely one of my favorites. You won’t be able to get one at DJ’s, but the next time you can order it, give it a try.

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Up to date The D.O. News Department compiled a list of events happening in or near the SU community this weekend.

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@ayshaseedat Spent my morning getting 168 Orangemen & women to Houston, TX for the #FinalFour.

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University Scholars named

Senate approves report

Senate committee announces 12 scholars to represent 2016 class

Report seeks further clarification on free speech policy at SU

By Annie Palmer

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A University Senate committee has announced the 12 students who will be the 2016 Syracuse University Scholars.

The award is the highest undergraduate honor that the university bestows, according to SU’s website. Winners will represent the entire undergraduate class at the Class of 2016 commencement ceremony on May 15.

A snapshot of this year’s University Scholars reveals a dynamic group of students. There’s a graphic novelist, a chemical engineer who hails from a small town, a shortfilm creator from a Haudenosaunee territory and a recently named Fulbright Scholar, among others.

The University Senate has unanimously endorsed a report by the Chancellor’s Working Group on Free Speech, and has also made some recommendations to improve Syracuse University’s free speech policy.

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The University Senate is the academic governing body of the university and is made up of faculty, students, staff and administration members. The majority of the work is done in 17 standing committees, which report to the full senate at least once a year.

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The amount of graduating seniors who are nominated to be a Syracuse University Scholar, according to the university’s website

Many of the students were surprised when they found out they’d been named University Scholars.

One recipient, Alice Blank, said she thought it was a mistake.

“I thought, ‘Oh, this must be wrong.’ I waited a week until I got the email notification and then I told people,” said Blank, a senior English and textual studies major. “I do some things, but I feel like other people do more. I don’t feel worthy.”

The Senate Committee on Academic Affairs made the announcement of the scholars’ names at Wednesday’s meeting, eliciting a round of applause from the faculty and staff who filled Maxwell Auditorium.

One member of the group will be chosen to be the undergraduate commencement speaker, said Kait Hobson, an award recipient and former assistant feature editor for The Daily Orange. The group of scholars will meet every week up until graduation to choose the speaker.

Many of the scholars were nominated to win the award by their respective program’s department chair. Students are nominated for their academic achievement and additional work, such as research or co-curricular see scholars page 8

School spirit (FROM LEFT) CORNELIA FONDREN AND DAVIDA DALE share smiles with a fellow teammate of Syracuse University’s women’s basketball team at a pep rally held Wednesday in Manley Field House to celebrate the advancement of SU’s men’s and women’s basketball teams to their Final Four tournaments. Several SU officials and politicians spoke at the rally. liam sheehan asst. photo editor

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Students line up for free bus tickets

By Satoshi Sugiyama asst. copy editor

About 225 students lined up at Schine Student Center on Wednesday morning to get free bus tickets to Houston to see Syracuse University men’s basketball Final Four game on Saturday.

The tickets went on sale at 10:30 a.m. Five students were permitted to go up to the Schine Box Office at a time, and the line persisted until the afternoon.

Student Association President Aysha Seedat sent an email to the student body Tuesday night that said SA, in partnership with the Division of Student Affairs, would provide buses to Houston free of charge.

Three buses will leave Schine on Thursday at 8 p.m., and the returning schedule depends on the men’s basketball team’s standing in the tournament.

The game will take place on

Saturday at 8:49 p.m. at Houston’s NRG Stadium.

Jay Partridge, a freshman accounting major, was the first student in line, and said his group of friends arrived at Schine around 12:30 a.m. on Wednesday.

It was pretty rough but definitely worth it to come early because we know we are going to make it, and that’s just very satisfying.

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“I mean, it’s a once in a life opportunity,” Partridge said. “… I didn’t think it was going to be a realistic opportunity for us to go to Houston but when the

bus came around, we got here on time and it just all lined up perfectly,” Partridge said.

He added that 155 students were already waiting by the time the doors to Schine opened around 7:30 a.m.

“I have been thinking about this for a while ever since we’ve upset (the University of ) Virginia, and thinking ‘Oh my God, I might have a legitimate shot of going,’” Partridge said. “Now it’s real, look(ing) at this physical object that says I am going to the Final Four. It’s unreal.”

Inbar Porat, a freshman undeclared major, said she camped outside Schine all night with her friends.

“It was pretty rough but definitely worth it to come early because we know we are going to make it, and that’s just very satisfying,” Porat said. “… This is the craziest thing we’ve ever see tickets page 6

In a report presented by the Senate Academic Affairs Committee on Wednesday, the committee sought further clarification over what constitutes a threat to SU’s education mission and which acts are considered permissible demonstrations of free speech. These factors will determine what protections and challenges of free speech can exist on campus, the report states.

There should be few, if any, free speech restrictions at SU, the report argues, adding that speech protected under the First Amendment off campus should be protected on campus.

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Peer monitoring could be viable option Thoroughly combatting sexual assault on college campuses is a continuous process of assessing the effectiveness of anti-assault polices, programs and resources.

And when a model program at a Syracuse University peer institution has demonstrated the power of empowered bystanders, the introduction of such a program to the SU campus should be considered.

A student non-profit called Cayuga’s Watchers at Cornell University trains students to observe social events hosted by campus student groups that could require interventions on the grounds of safety. Using a non-confrontational, peer-to-peer framework, paid and sober monitors can be requested for a function to blend in among partygoers to prevent sexual assault, excessive alcohol consumption and

other concerning behaviors.

Though a student-driven group designated to social events may not prevent each and every incident that takes place at a social event in close proximity of the Syracuse University campus, there is always room to improve the university community’s approach to confronting sexual assault — efforts that can be realistically evaluated by using institutions like Cornell University as sources for comparison.

During Cornell’s Wet Week, the week after the new member period for students involved in Greek life, Cayuga’s Watchers were requested to staff 16 social events and reported 115 interventions, 12 of which were against unwanted sexual advances, according to USA Today.

The watchers pose as an alternative to “sober monitors,” who may

wear neon yellow t-shirts to be identified, which are required at social events hosted by active fraternity chapters at Cornell. Intervention techniques include distracting someone from drinking excessively or joining a couple dancing together to naturally split them up if uncomfortable body language coming from either party is sensed.

Like Cornell, “sober monitors” with distinctive clothing are currently listed as a requirement under policies section of SU’s Office of Fraternity and Sorority Affairs website. Considering that student intervention is a key component of measures against sexual assault, the assessment of the feasibility and ways in which a similar peer-to-peer initiative could fit into the SU campus climate should be gauged.

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NY standardized testing divide should spur revamped system

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n Syracuse and across New York state, parents have a tough decision to make: throughout the month of April their kids will either go to school to sit in a classroom to learn or go to prove their worth on a state standardized test.

Betty Rosa, the chancellor of the Board of Regents — the highest ranking education official in the state — spoke out last week against the standardized testing movement and said that if she had kids of testing age, she would have them sit out the exams. But, in New York City at least, public school teachers and principals echoing the same message are being told by the city’s Department of Education to not have any influence on what parents decide is best for their children.

Herein lies the problem: the system lacks uniformity. In a single state, there is a rift in beliefs between those who make the decisions for individuals: the teachers and the officials.

The effects of this lack of cohesiveness within the bureaucracy are even seen on college campuses. As colleges yearn to attract socioeconomically and racially diverse student applicants, they can rarely boast an achievement of truly diverse populations. This is arguably because the students

these universities hope to obtain have been sitting in deteriorating classrooms and subjected to taking standardized tests that do not accurately measure their intellect rather than working toward personalized educational goals.

The conflict is only a supplement to a New York state education system that is a stranger to neither substandard educational facilities nor arbitrary standardized evaluations. And these traits put New York is in a prime position to find unity and acknowledge a problem in which its children are defined by numbers and its teachers are nothing more than the average of students’ test scores.

But progress can be made if comprehensive ways of evaluating students to place them on a path to success are secured rather than maintaining high-pressure expectations for students that may be unable to learn in environments that are not crafted with their best interests at heart.

If teachers, who are judged professionally on their students’ performance on standardized

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tests, are discouraging parents from signing up their kids sends an incredibly strong message: These tests are not worth it. The tests’ bias toward white, able, affluent students show lapses in a system where teachers should teach lasting lessons that make students better human beings, rather than how to bubble in a Scantron.

Leveling the playing field in this way should mean that being accepted to a university is the hardest part of the process for minority students who are vital assets to college campuses. And with more diversity on campus comes acknowledgement of varied interest, more heterogeneous perspectives and a tendency for open dialogues about social issues that plague institutions across the nation.

So while minority students may be accepted to many illustrious universities around the country, they often do not follow through on attending because they are not being properly educated on how to get an education.

The Hechinger Report found that up to 40 percent of low-income students who have been accepted to college do not end up attending, naming the cost of higher education, overwhelming paperwork and fear of being ostracized on campus as the main reasons.

“The transition from high school to college is not an easy one for anyone, and when you factor in other challenges like poverty and institutional racism, those students are trying to negotiate a lot at once, and they need a strong support system and resources,” said Christina Parish, director of Syracuse University’s Project Advance, a program that poses as an alternative to Advanced Placement in which students take courses to earn college credit.

The Project Advance program exposes high school students to the academic responsibilities that come along with higher education.

There isn’t a looming standardized test at the end of the year, but rather the transfer of an actual class onto a transcript that factors into the student’s college GPA in which participating teachers can evaluate students based on their qualities rather than quantitative results.

Some colleges have been implementing similar programs and they seem to be working: 255 4-year colleges and universities have seen minority graduation rates increase by 8 percent in the last ten years.

“What we find is that if students are provided an opportunity to participate in these advanced courses, many times they can and

do rise to the challenge because they aren’t just studying to a test and can take more ownership over their own education,” Parish said.

These kinds of resources contribute to the dynamics of student body by ensuring that colleges are places of exposure both in and out of the classroom. But for this practice to become uniform across New York state and beyond, the foundational K-12 years must be addressed to establish a rhetoric for a system that teaches students of all backgrounds how to get to where they want to be based on their own interests rather than the percentile school officials hope they score in.

Luckily, The New York Times reports, a fifth of the state’s eligible students — or 220,000 kids — chose not to test in 2015.

But moving forward, if New York can create a regional education standard which recognizes that fairness is integral to equality, disadvantaged students can be exposed to encouragement and the guidance to opt-out of a system that is setting them up to fail.

Joanna Orland is a freshman newspaper and online journalism major. Her column appears weekly. She can be reached at jorland@syr.edu.

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rally “We have the privilege as men to not have to think about it, to not have to talk about it, to not have to examine it,” McPherson said. “I’m speaking to the men in this room. It is not enough for you to be here tonight, to simply stand and support the women who are courageous enough to tell you their stories. We as men have to go back and address the culture of sexism and misogyny that lives in our culture of masculinity.”

The solution, McPherson said, is correcting the violence from where it begins.

When McPherson played in the Canadian Football League, he lived in Burlington, Ontario. While there, he often frequented a local restaurant that was mostly employed by college-aged women. He said it was a “great place to hang out” and a “cool place to be.”

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The report was initially intended to cover only the computer and electronic policy, but it expanded to cover speech of all forms. For example, the report said a recommendation to hang banners and flags only in personal offices or dorm rooms was too “broad and unclear,” ultimately restricting free speech.

The senate report also provided feedback on the working group’s recommendations about

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tickets done, probably.”

The last person in line at 10:15 a.m. was Kristine Earley, a junior environmental education major at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry. Earley said she was at

that comes from their masculinity and address that, McPherson said the problem will not be solved.

He added that people need to start having constructive conversations about these issues.

“If we cared as much about this issue as we do about basketball, the dialogue would be different,” McPherson said.

In addition to McPherson’s keynote speech, other short speeches and a spoken word piece were presented at the event. Samantha Skaller, a junior at SU who was selected to serve on the national “It’s On Us” Student Advisory Committee, highlighted the upcoming “It’s On Us” Week of Action events.

The week’s events will continue with a screening of “The Hunting Ground,” a documentary about sexual assault on college campuses, on April 4 and end on April 8 with a workshop on how gender norms are linked

to sexual assault and other forms of violence.

After the Take Back the Night rally inside Hendricks, the organizers of the event led the crowd of students in a march around the SU campus.

The crowd was encouraged to chant phrases like “Hey, hey, ho, ho, this rape culture has got to go” and “We have the power, we have the right, the streets are ours, take back the night.”

The large group of students marched from Hendricks to Marshall Street and then across Walnut Park. From there, the students walked up past the Schine Student Center and the Hall of Languages to finish back at Hendricks.

The event ended with a speak-out portion during which individuals could share their thoughts and stories. This portion of the event was closed to the media due to its sensitive nature.

public demonstrating and occupations. The group too vaguely defined what a public or private space is, which could result in unnecessary restrictions of free speech, the report states.

The report also called on the group to clarify when occupations of a campus building threaten SU’s educational mission or are a protected form of free speech.

The report suggested SU consider a “reasonable person standard” such as those applied at Mississippi State University. This standard defines harassing speech as words

that are so offensive that a reasonable person with “the same characteristics of the victim would be adversely affected to a degree that interferes with his or her ability to participate in … an institutional activity, opportunity or resource,” according to MSU’s policy manual.

MSU currently has a green light rating on speech code by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, meaning its policies don’t seriously threaten free speech on campus. SU has an overall red light rating from FIRE, specifically on its computing and

electronic communications policy and policy on sexual assault, sexual harassment, stalking or relationship violence, among others.

If SU were to adopt the reasonable person standard, the report recommends that further clarification be made on who falls under that description. For example, what one group — such as men or American students — considers reasonable, might not be reasonable to another group – such as women and international students, the report says.

work, but her boss let her go to see how long the line was.

“I go to ESF, so I always underestimate how big SU really is,” Earley said.

She added that she’d be willing to go see the women’s basketball Final Four game in Indianapolis if free transportation were provided. In the email sent to the student body, Seedat linked to a

survey to determine whether there was sufficient student interest in SA providing free buses to Indianapolis for the women’s game.

SA Vice President Jane Hong said at Schine on Wednesday that many students showed interest in attending the women’s game.

Hong added that she was not expecting such a big turnout for the tickets.

“I think we just underestimated how determined our students are to be going out to the Final Four game,” Hong said.

“Honestly, we are just so unbelievably encouraged by this turnout, and I hope that the men’s basketball team is just as encouraged to see students who are willing to camp out for this.”

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But during the summer of 1991, a young woman in the area had been abducted, raped and murdered. Soon after, a 15-year-old girl from Burlington was abducted, raped and murdered. The man responsible for these crimes, McPherson said, was known to drive a yellow Camaro, but he had not been caught yet.

One day, the yellow Camaro was parked outside of the local restaurant McPherson frequented. He said the people inside the restaurant were scared, but he didn’t understand why they felt unsafe.

“It was my privilege that allowed me to stand there and think (they were fine),” McPherson said. “And they weren’t.”

His privilege prevented him from seeing this issue, he said, because the reality was he had more in common with the rapist than he did with the victims.

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A BITE TO EAR SUNY Buffalo professor creates necklace that can hear what a person eats Text by BreeAnna Poshek staff writer

Illustration by Devyn Passaretti head illustrator

A professor at SUNY Buffalo is hoping to cash in on the latest trend of wearable health devices on the market by creating a device that measures the caloric intake of users.

AutoDietary was created primarily by Wenyao Xu, an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the State University of New York at Buffalo. The necklace-like device is different from a Fitbit because it does not measure the number of calories burned, but rather the number of calories taken in.

Xu expects the first version of AutoDietary to hit the market by the end of 2016 or the beginning of 2017. Xu said his team is working to assure that the price of the device will be under $100.

“We are confident that the sale volume will be similar to that of devices such as the Fitbit,” Xu said. “A healthy life means energy balance.

Right now, the Fitbit can measure the energy expenditure, but there is no wearable device to measure energy intake. This absence in the market was the motivation for AutoDietary.”

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The expected release years of AutoDietary

The device was developed for medical use for people with weight problems or diabetes, but Xu said he hopes to expand it to the general marketplace.

AutoDietary was designed with a complementary smartphone app that has a library of different foods. When an individual chews and swallows their food it has a distinct sound tracked by the microphone in the device.

Xu said the device is able to find the closest matching sound in the library.

“Using Bluetooth, the app receives a signal from the necklace. It can analyze food intake and send reminders to the user,” Xu said. “For example, if the user sets in the app that they only want to eat 2,000 calories for that day, the app can send a gentle reminder when they are nearing their calorie limit for the day.”

Xu and his students rely on volunteers

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The number of foods the device will be expected to recognize

at SUNY Buffalo to come in and eat different foods so that they can add them to their library, he said. Right now the library only has about 25 foods in it, but Xu said the team’s goal for the first version of the product is to include at least 150 common foods.

The current challenges in the development of the device are battery life and accuracy, Xu said.

AutoDietary is meant to be wearable and cannot be too bulky, so the team must keep the battery quite small, which means a diminished battery life, Xu said.

In addition, Xu added that the microphone the team is currently using has trouble identifying between some liquids and softer foods, so before the device is made available to the public, the team wants to improve its accuracy through a more sophisticated algorithm. blposhek@syr.edu

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Congressman speaks at SU about terrorism, media

By Michael Burke asst. news editor

Within an hour after the November terrorist attacks in Paris began unfolding, United States Rep. John Katko’s (R-Syracuse) phone wouldn’t stop ringing.

He received calls from House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael McCaul and a representative from House Speaker Paul Ryan’s office, among others. All of them wanted to implement recommendations from a report by a bipartisan task force, headed by Katko, into law.

The report, which outlined 50 recommendations for fighting terrorism, had been mostly ignored before that, Katko said.

Katko, who spoke Wednesday afternoon in

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scholars activities, according to SU’s website.

When he was nominated, Terry Jones, a senior film student, said he had never heard of the University Scholar award before. He opened the letter containing the nomination when he was with his parents at a restaurant in his hometown. The envelope was inscribed with Chancellor Kent Syverud’s address.

“When I read the letter aloud, my mother had tears in her eyes,” Jones said in an email. “It was an eventful moment because I’m the only one who attended college in my immediate family.”

The submission process required applicants to send their resume, as well as a personal statement of some kind. Jones said he decided to write about his experiences as a non-traditional Haudenosaunee Promise Scholar on campus — an award given to first-

Dineen Hall about his efforts to combat terrorism and the media’s role in bolstering those efforts, credited the media’s coverage of the Paris attacks in bringing attention to his report.

The lecture was part of The Institute for the Study of the Judiciary, Politics & the Media’s eighth annual speaker series.

One of the findings of the report, created by a bipartisan Homeland Security Committee task force, was that Europe had gaping holes in its security, which the report said could make a terrorist attack more likely.

The Paris attacks, Katko said, fell directly in line with the report’s findings.

“Everything that I thought they were going to do, they did,” Katko said, referring to the terrorists who carried out the attacks.

Katko, a member of the Homeland Security

Committee, was the Republican leader of the “Task Force on Combating Terrorist and Foreign Fighter Travel.”

Now, at least half of the report’s 50 recommendations are already law or on their way to becoming law, Katko said. The recommendations are focused on countering terrorist travel.

“They’ve basically taken the recommendations and turned it into our national strategy in combatting terrorism,” Katko said.

Katko credited the media for helping one of the bills pass through a recent markup session in the Homeland Security Committee.

At the hearing, five bills were up for approval. Several Democrats on the committee tried to block one of the bills “for no particular reason,” Katko said.

The media “caught wind” of the situation

and, by the end of the hearing, was there to question those Democrats, Katko said. After that, “four or five” Democrats voted for the bill and it passed, Katko said.

“So the confluence of media and events overtaking strategy in Congress, it happens all the time,” he said. “All the time. You can never plan when it’s going to happen.”

Katko ended his lecture by calling for more action to combat terrorism, saying that the threats from the Islamic State “are real” and that, sometimes, it’s necessary to use the media to make progress.

“We are at the highest threat level since 9/11, hands down,” he said. “... What we’re doing is really important. When you can use the media to augment what you’re trying to push, you’ve got to do it.”

year Native American students who are citizens of an Haudenosaunee territory, such as the Mohawk, Onondaga or Seneca nations.

“I wanted the selection committee to understand who I was as a person, aside from my GPA and letters,” said Jones, who under the username Cornsoupman, uploads his work to YouTube and Vimeo. One of his videos, titled “What in the Hell is Corn Soup” discusses the historical and cultural context of Iroquois corn soup.

Adrian Hatch said that when he sat down to write his personal statement, he realized what was most important was to tell a compelling story. He chose to write about his personal growth through the School of Information Studies’ information technology, design and startups program, which he said is a minor that allows students to develop entrepreneurial skills and eventually launch a company.

“It has to be a story that shares a journey of

some kind,” Hatch said. “So I kind of looked at it as I followed this journey from someone who was content to do anything for anyone, so now I really try and make sure that something I do creates something new and positive.”

realized there was more value in doing what she loves, rather than appeasing anyone else.

Blank is creating a graphic novel interpretation of Horace Walpole’s “The Castle of Otranto,” which is a gothic novel from the 1700s. Initially, her art was used a form of escapism. In her personal statement, Blank said she talked about how she’s since “stopped running” and now uses her art as a way to help people.

Hobson said her “journey” at SU came less from creating something — though she did produce a 40-page research thesis — and more from listening and learning from what others were creating around campus.

“Syracuse taught me to be quiet and listen to other stories that people had to tell,” said Hobson, a magazine journalism and English and textual studies dual major. “It sort of changed my story.”

It was an eventful moment because I’m the only one who attended college in my immediate family.

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Blank, the recipient who thought she’d been named a University Scholar by mistake, originally came to SU on a pre-med track. But by her sophomore year — the same year that she came out as being gay — she

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Syracuse group pieces together plans for Autism Awareness Month

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or Benjamin K. M. Kellogg, crossing the street was a challenge.

Looking both ways was not enough — he had trouble judging which direction cars were coming from and how fast they were going. He couldn’t cross without somebody’s help.

This was because throughout much of his life, Kellogg, 25, didn’t have the depth perception and judgment to do it himself.

The challenge of crossing the street parallels much of what Kellogg has faced throughout his life. Tying his shoes and not being able to make eye contact with oth-

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ers seemed impossible to overcome. Yet with the support of those around him, he felt he could keep going.

“I’ve been able to get a lot of unbelievable things done,” he said. “I remember everything that has gone into that and that motivates me.”

A Mexico, New York resident, Kellogg is one of more than 3.5 million Americans living with an autism spectrum disorder. Autism hinders a person’s ability to do basic tasks, including things like being able to cross the street. In addition to combatting coordination issues, some people with autism face behavioral, speech and social interaction challenges.

After countless hours of therapy and speech, reminders to listen carefully and all the times he’s been told to never give up, Kellogg now finds those tasks

people with an autism spectrum disorder (ages 3-21) in New York state source: 2013-2014 study by the ny board of education.

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more manageable. He has since earned a degree from Cayuga Community College and began a career in writing poetry and children’s books.

April is known as Autism Awareness Month, so in April, three Syracuse-area events will raise awareness for varieties of autism such as Kellogg’s. Buildings in downtown Syracuse will light up in royal blue for World Autism Awareness Day on Sunday. On April 16, the Central New York Autism Society of America will host its 11th annual autism awareness walk.

Throughout the month, Syracuse University Fit Families, a research-based physical activity program for children with disabilities and their families, will hold workshops for parents and their children ages 5 to 10.

More than 3.5 million Americans live with an autism spectrum disorder, which is the fastestgrowing developmental disability in the U.S., according to the Autism Society.

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 1 in 68 children (or 14.7 per 1,000 eight-year-olds) has been identified with autism spectrum disorder.

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35% The percentage of young adults (ages 19-23) with autism who have not had a job or received postgraduate education after leaving high school, according to a 2012 study.

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Sundance Ignite program brings festival experience to campus

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very year, Syracuse University brings students to the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. Unfortunately, there are always more candidates than positions available, so only a select few get to go.

So when Keith Giglio, a television, radio and film professor in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, decided he wanted more students to experience the festival, he pushed to take it to Syracuse.

This weekend, The Sundance Ignite program will do just what its title says: Ignite. It will ignite a flame in all who attend, as they will be fueled with new creative energy.

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autism Each workshop will consist of five different areas of focus: sensory integration and behavior management communication, motor development and physical activity, aquatic opportunities and sports, said Luis Columna, the program’s founder.

Columna and his multidisciplinary team will provide feedback at the workshops to the families to help them implement what they’ve learned, he said. The team consists of faculty from SU’s School of Education, psychology department and exercise science department.

“You can have a disability, you can have an impairment, but that doesn’t mean you can’t achieve great things in life,” Columna said.

In 2004, autism affected one in 125 births. Today, the probability has grown, affecting one in 68 births, according to the Autism Society of America. Autism Aware-

and producer Michael J. Larnell. This is an amazing opportunity for students to not only see a new and exciting film, but then enter an immediate dialogue with the film’s creator. Students can ask about anything, from the writing of the film, to what it’s like to be on the festival circuit. You may even hear about working with another producer of “Cronies,” Spike Lee. The next day, April 2, there will be a short film master class taught by three film professionals. Additionally, there will be screenings of Sundance Short film winners

“Thunder Road” and “Jungle.”

This masterclass is a must-go for any film lover — and anyone who wants to break into the industry. Hearing from people who have made it is an invaluable opportunity. Not only will one get to learn about how to make the perfect short film, but there will also be relevant examples to view and discuss.

This is an excellent platform for students to experience hands-on learning without worrying about a grade. Instead, they can just enjoy the experience and soak it all in.

The Sundance Film Festival always features excellent content and superior talent, and the Ignite Program looks to continue the tradition. By bringing first-rate films and talent to SU, students here will get to

see what makes Sundance so special.

“Cronies” will not only entertain students, but it will also inform them, and the question and answer session is a rare opportunity to put a face on such a complex product like a film. The master class is an opportunity to soak up as much information as possible, and will promote the collaborative nature of Syracuse University.

The school is giving us the resources to become greater artists and professionals, and by using them, we’d truly display scholarship in action.

ness Day was created in 2007 as a way to bring attention to this increase.

Jean Leiker was one of a few mothers whose child had been diagnosed with autism in 2004, a diagnosis that inspired her to start CNY ASA. Now, as a vice president, she’s helped the organization increase awareness and fundraising for the cause.

When parents receive an autism diagnosis for their young child, they may feel isolated from other families and like they’re alone, Leiker said. This led her and her team to promote awareness and serve as “the go-to organization” with the community.

“When you first learn your child has a disability, it’s a tough pill to swallow,” she said.

“It’s not what you expect.”

The autism spectrum is broad and varying, meaning that it affects everybody differently, Leiker said. Each person learns and grows in his or her own way and faces their own issues, often dealing with food, sensory,

behavior and communication.

It’s why people say, “When you met one person with autism, you’ve met one person with autism.”

And it’s also why people with autism and their families celebrate the small things, like making it to the other side of the street.

“I feel my child is who he is supposed to be. I feel he’s not broken. He doesn’t need fixing,” Leiker said.

Kellogg, the writer, has now become a role model for the autism community. He speaks regularly with other disabled people at area high schools, where he usually talks about going to college, writing and how he deals with issues on a daily basis.

Kellogg’s children’s books and poems offer practical advice on how to clean a room, share with others, tie shoelaces and meet friends — all topics that can benefit people with autism. He brings copies of his work to various autism events in central New York.

When Kellogg is on the road promoting his work, his mother Theresa said it gives her hope that people with autism can become more than their disorder, that they can have “more for their lives.”

“He advocates through his books,” his mother said. “For parents of children with autism to see that someone with autism is actually writing, has a college degree and goes out there and promotes his own books, it gives them hope that their own children can eventually go off to college in whatever capacity.”

One of Kellogg’s poems is about all the challenges he faces on a day-to-day basis. All the times he’s been told not to give up. All the times he’s been reminded to make good eye contact. All the times he overcompensated for what he thought were difficult tasks. And all the parents, teachers, family and friends who have shown him the way.

He titled the poem, “For Every Street I Cross.”

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(LEFT TO RIGHT) JESPER VAN DEN BERGH AND KEELY SULLIVAN play Lendall and Gayle in “Almost, Maine,” which was chosen by a previous actress and current staffer for WHAT Theatre. The show opens Friday in Schine Underground. zach barlow asst. photo editor

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HAT Theatre will put on “Almost, Maine,” the group’s second production of this academic year, at Schine Underground this weekend.

The play is a series of short scenes discussing love and other relevant topics. According to the event page, “Almost, Maine” is a “vignette-style show that tells the heartwarming and heartbreaking stories of nine different couples all from a small town in Maine.”

The show starts at 8 p.m. Friday and 7 p.m. Saturday.

The play was selected and pitched by director Victoria Pla. She’s previously performed for and is on staff for WHAT Theatre, a theater group that allow students of all majors and years to perform.

Although she had never heard of the play before, Pla said they chose it because it fit their budget and because it contained themes she was looking for: heartwarming and sentimental.

“A lot of people are truly going to enjoy the stories,” said Pla, a sophomore advertising major. “Even if you stripped away everything — the costumes, the set — it would still be good, because the stories themselves are so raw.”

Pla ran auditions for and selected the 19-person cast. This was difficult, she

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said, because she’s also a performer and knows firsthand how it feels to be cut.

However, Pla was able to follow her gut and choose what she said is an excellent cast. Casting finished at the end of January, and rehearsals began soon after.

Most actors only rehearsed once or twice a week, with Pla working intimately with them to get the perfect show.

“I like that you get such direct feedback,” said Jake DeHahn, a cast member and sophomore industrial design major.

DeHahn stumbled upon WHAT Theatre’s table at the student involvement fair

and immediately wanted to get involved.

In “Almost, Maine,” he plays the character Pete. He said all of the characters in the show are very distinct and their stories range from funny to emotionally sappy.

“I have acted my whole life,” he said.

“It’s something I love.”

Alexis Cardwell, president of WHAT Theatre, compared the play to the movie “Love Actually” in that it’s a collection of shorter stories.

Since Cardwell become president, WHAT Theatre has begun to produce musicals. Cardwell said many students’

have limited opportunities to perform beyond their freshman year, so they want to give people the opportunity to act throughout their time in college.

The idea of producing musicals was an immediate success. Cardwell also said the new shows brought huge crowds in and paved the way for more opportunities for the organization in the future.

“It will establish that we can do plays as well as musicals,” Cardwell said.“We basically do all of this so everyone in the club and everyone watching has a nice time.”

Throughout the rehearsal process, Cardwell has done a bit of everything, from building sets to putting mics on cast members to going on food runs.

“They call me ‘club mom,’” Cardwell said. “I take care of everyone and makes sure what needs to happen, happens.”

Funding for WHAT Theatre and its productions comes from the Student Association, ticket sales and fundraisers. Pla said funding has to get approved before rehearsals start to ensure sure a play is financially plausible.

As for the opening itself, most participants both on and off the stage are simply excited to show off their hard work.

DeHahn said he can’t wait to show people the play they have been working on for months.

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turnaround Hillsman said on Jan. 25. “What if we win the rest of them? It’s a different conversation right? We got a lot of basketball left.”

And the Orange finished the regular season 9-0. Then won two games in the ACC tournament before losing to Notre Dame by just 11 in the title game. Then won four straight in the NCAA tournament.

In the locker room after the loss to Louisville, everyone did a little talking, Sykes said. Senior captains Maggie Morrison and Brianna Butler spoke. So did Alexis Peterson, Briana Day and Bria Day. Nobody was afraid to say how they felt.

Players knew they disappointed Hillsman and the rest of the coaching staff. They wouldn’t let it happen again.

“A team could easily get divided and point fingers and say, ‘it’s your fault, it’s your fault, it’s your fault,’” Sykes said. “But we didn’t choose to do that.”

After that discussion, the shooters Syracuse relies so much on got in the gym more often. When they’d go, they’d encourage teammates to come with them.

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from behind the arc and North Carolina shot 6-of-25.

The North Carolina Report As hot as Syracuse is right now, North Carolina is hotter. It hasn’t lost since it fell to Virginia on Feb. 27, a stretch that has since included an ACC tournament championship and a run to the Final Four.

For much of the regular season, the biggest UNC criticism is that is wasn’t able to beat the best teams. Now, the Tar Heels have compiled wins over Duke, Notre Dame (twice), Virginia, Indiana and Providence in the postseason alone.

The Tar Heels have the best offensive efficiency in college basketball, per Kenpom.com, and play basketball at a pretty fast pace — much different from SU’s last opponent, Virginia. UNC has scored at least 83 points in every NCAA Tournament game this year, including 101 in the Sweet 16 win over Indiana. They have the ninthbest block percentage, third-best offensive rebounding percentage and almost never shoot 3-pointers. The Tar Heels score just 19.9 percent of their total points from behind the arc. They also don’t get to the line that much. Brice Johnson leads the Tar Heels in scoring at 17.1 points per game. But the Tar Heels have three more players that average more than 12 points per game.

How Syracuse beats North Carolina The Orange has done a good job this season

One player getting extra shots up turned into two or three. Those two or three got two or three more. Sykes likened it to a pay-it-forward effect.

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The Orange now enters the final weekend of the women’s college basketball season as one of only four teams still playing.

Two months ago, playing for a national title was a long shot.

“They had soul-searching,” Reiss said.

“Kind of that moment of, ‘Are we going to falter? Are we going to let this define us? Or are we going to be who we can be.’”

“They chose they wanted to be champions.”

of forcing the Tar Heels to shoot from the outside. UNC took 17 first-half 3s in the Feb. 29 game, which was out of character.

But UNC had too many second chances, which Syracuse will have to limit. If the game becomes a shootout, SU will probably lose, so the goal should be to keep the game in the 70s and hope that Malachi Richardson is, once again, unguardable.

The Orange will need Tyler Roberson to stay plugged in, Trevor Cooney to get good looks at the basket — something he’s typically done against UNC — and make them.

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Man-down defense worn out by SU’s excess penalties

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In practice, one of Brandon Mullins’ favorite scenarios is when the defense, his defense, is supposed to get scored on.

The fifthyear defender up next relishes the time Syracuse VS Notre Dame at Carrier Dome spends polishSaturday, 5 p.m. ing its mandown defense, adopting an underdog mentality hard to replicate anytime else in lacrosse.

It ups the team’s competitiveness, he said, and Mullins is the one pulling the strings in the short-handed, five-man defense.

“It’s definitely a hard part of the game,” Mullins said. “Especially when you’re tired and then you got to start sprinting around and rotating.

It’s up there in terms of challenges on defense.”

But testing those man-down schemes against actual opponents has been a challenge this season. It’s looped into the Orange averaging the most penalties per game in the Atlantic Coast Conference, including a team-leading seven by Mullins, the unquestioned anchor of both the fully-staffed and man-down defenses.

No. 7 Syracuse’s (5-2, 1-1 ACC) man-down unit has been worn down as a result of the team’s trouble balancing aggressive play and intelligent play. It’ll be challenged on Saturday at 5 p.m.

by No. 2 Notre Dame (6-1, 1-0) and the team’s 47-percent conversion rate on man-up scoring.

That’s only the third-best percentage in a fiveteam conference, but SU has been sunk by the lowest penalty-killing percentage in the ACC. In part, an exploited man-down defense is what led to an 11-10 overtime loss to Johns Hopkins on March 19, as two late shots penetrated SU in a 55-second span. It nearly cost the Orange in its game against Duke on Saturday, when Myles Jones unfurled a laser at the chest of goalkeeper Warren Hill after Mullins was flagged for holding with under two minutes left in a 15-15 game.

“It’s really difficult. Man-down is a lot of preparation,” head coach John Desko said. “… We’d like to do better percentage-wise than we have, but it is what it is.”

Upon entering a man-down situation, Syracuse’s defense resets into a new formation. On comes 6-foot-5 man-down specialist Bobby Tait, who posts up adjacent to one goal post while Mullins typically mans the other. The Orange pins two of its tallest defenders — Mullins is 6-foot-3 — down low, likely to intercept passes around the team’s most vulnerable area.

Fifth-year midfielder Tom Grimm plays just ahead of the towering duo, and is typically flanked by a mix of Jay McDermott, Scott Firman or Austin Fusco, depending on who received the penalty. From a bird’s-eye view, the man-down unit can look like a modified basketball 2-3 zone.

But the formation’s more fluid than firm, and what transpires is a series of rapid rotations depending on where offensive players move.

“You can identify what teams are doing

BRANDON MULLLINS has spearheaded Syracuse’s man-down defense this year. The unit will be tested against Notre Dame. logan reidsma senior staff photographer

based on where their players are lined up,” Mullins said. “... and then we know we’re going to do this when they do that.”

A miscommunication on the rotations can get the defense “out of whack,” Mullins said, and was the cause of a Blue Jays goals as Tait didn’t anticipate a backward pass from Ryan Brown to Patrick Fraser. Tait left Fraser wide open to wind up and fire against Hill.

Both Mullins and Desko agree because of

the situation, more times than not the offense will score in those situations. But after two consecutive overtime losses to ranked opponents, SU’s weaknesses are starting to get exposed midway through the season.

“You have to scout (man-up offenses).

You’ve gotta know where their shooters are,” Desko said. “… (But) sometimes it’s just great shooting on the other team’s part.” cjgrossma@syr.edu | @ConnorGrossman

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Syracuse defense prepares to face high-powered Duke

By Tomer Langer asst. copy editor

Syracuse, and more specifically its coaching staff, has lauded its strong zone defense all season. The aggressive backer zone blitzes its opponents, leading to many fouls for the Orange, but it also leads to turnovers and frustration. It’s averaging almost two more caused turnovers than last year and its 8.7 mark ranks in the top 40 nationally.

Up against Notre Dame last Sunday, Syracuse faced one of the nation’s best teams after losing three of its previous five. Cortney Fortunato and Rachel Sexton were both top five scorers in the Atlantic Coast Conference. But SU limited the dynamic duo to just

one combined goal in the win.

SU has a similar challenge coming up this weekend. Duke’s Kyra Harney and Kelci Smesko are also top five scorers in the conference. No. 4 Syracuse’s (9-3, 2-1 ACC) defense will have to once again stop a strong two-headed monster if it hopes to stretch its winning streak to three in Sunday’s game against the No. 13 Blue Devils (8-4, 3-0) in the Carrier Dome at noon.

“We haven’t finalized what we’re gonna do yet, but we’ve got some good ideas. It may be a similar concept to what we did against Notre Dame,” head coach Gary Gait said.

But Duke presents another dimension that the Fighting Irish didn’t. Namely, it takes care of the ball and capitalizes on its chances. The Blue Devils commit the fewest

turnovers out of any of the ACC teams (11.4) while also having the best shooting percentage in the conference (49.1).

Earlier in the season, defender Haley McDonnell said the Orange defense was confident enough to not have to change its strategy or its style of play for any opponent.

But if SU commits too many fouls, and subsequently gives up free positions, Duke will capitalize. And an early lead would favor the Blue Devils because then Syracuse would be forced to try and create turnovers.

When SU tweaked its defense to take away Fortuanto and Sexton, it came at a price. The Orange forced just six turnovers, its third lowest total of the season. And an Allie Murray save with 15 seconds left also saved SU’s win.

Syracuse’s best bet to play tight defense will be to play outstanding offense. That’s what SU did in Tuesday’s win against UConn. After a back-and-forth start, SU scored eight goals in the final 12:17 of the first half when the ball stayed near Connecticut’s goal for most of the run.

It’ll be important for the SU offense to capitalize on its scoring opportunities. In a game against a team that makes very few mistakes, SU will have to ensure that it doesn’t miss on its own chances.

The Orange has a chance to get rolling after an up-and-down stretch in which it lost three of five. And it’ll have to overcome Duke’s efficient style of play to do so. tdlanger@syr.edu | @tomer_langer

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Hannah Dossett’s tweaks to batting mechanics are paying off

By Matthew Gutierrez staff writer

Mike Bosch’s iPad noticed Hannah Dossett’s flat barrel before anyone else.

Every couple of weeks, the SU coaching staff uses the head coach’s iPad to up next analyze players’ VS Georgia Tech pre-pitch loads, at SU Softball Stadium bat paths and Saturday, 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. follow-throughs.

They compare players’ swings month-to-month and look for things the iPad’s slow motion feature sees — things the naked eye may not.

During batting practice last week, Bosch’s iPad helped assistant coach Alisa Goler realize Dossett’s loading phase was off. Her barrel was flattening early, leading to a relatively weak top hand and difficulties in hitting balls with backspin.

Goler told Dossett about the “little thing”

in practice. Once aware of it, Dossett focused on keeping a strong top hand to prepare for a weekend series with Notre Dame.

By the end of the series, Dossett’s batting average jumped 31 points, from .139 to .170. She tallied four hits and three RBI’s in nine at bats, thanks largely to the plate adjustments she made. She gave Syracuse (16-15, 3-6 Atlantic Coast) an offensive spurt that helped it take two of three from then 17th-ranked Notre Dame (255, 4-2). The adjustments also have her poised for another weekend of conference play, beginning Saturday with a doubleheader against Georgia Tech (13-20, 2-7) at SU Softball Stadium.

“I was trying to keep myself calm more because I know I’ve been thinking a lot in the box,” Dossett said. “Not guess where the pitch is, but really track it and hit it well.”

In the series’ rubber game Saturday afternoon, she went 3-for-3. It was her first multihit game since Feb. 20 and marked Dossett’s best weekend in a Syracuse uniform to date.

Dossett, a freshman, is one of just three SU players to have started each game this season. She’s third on the team in total at bats. It was only a matter of time, Goler said, before she would find her place in the box.

“There’s been so many balls this season that she has just missed squaring up,” Goler said. “This weekend, with those minor adjustments, she really saw the ball fly off the bat.”

The ball flew off her bat in game two on Saturday, when she belted a pitch deep to straight away center field. As it soared high into the winds at SU Softball Stadium, Dossett sprinted out of the box. Had the wind not been blowing almost directly in, it could have cleared the fence.

Instead, it bounced back off the top of the fence. With Dossett running hard out of the box, she ended up on third base with a triple.

“I don’t know if there is a good spot to throw to her, really,” SU pitcher Jocelyn Cater said.

A day prior, with the game knotted at two, Dossett scored on an Alicia Hansen home

run. It gave the Orange a 4-2 lead that it would hold until the fifth, when Dossett smacked a double to give SU an insurance run.

Cater, a senior, has noticed Dossett’s patience in the box. On Saturday, Dossett ripped a hard ground ball foul. The next two pitches were soft and outside, making it clear UND’s wins leader Allie Rhodes refused to attack Dossett with inside pitches anymore. For the remainder of the at bat, Rhodes stayed away with mostly slow stuff. But Dossett didn’t bite.

Dossett’s patience, Cater said, makes her difficult to pitch to. This is why, if she had to face Dossett in a real game, Cater said she’d have to dive deep into her arsenal.

“I think she would crush me a few times,” Cater said. “She’s just really explosive. Since the second she got here, ... she’s not really over the top, she’s just pretty silent in the box.”

On the scoreboard, though, she’s begun to make some noise. mguti100@syr.edu

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THE TURNAROUND

QUENTIN HILLSMAN and SU were blown out twice in late January by Notre Dame and Louisville, but the losses were used to propel the Orange rather than hold it back. Since the two losses, Hillsman’s squad has won 15-of-16 games and heads into its Final Four matchup with Washington on a roll. logan reidsma senior staff photographer

What fueled Syracuse’s historic run to the Final Four

By Paul Schwedelson asst. sports editor

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atching the film made Brittney Sykes sick as she was reminded of the wakeup call the game served as. Moments when it could have turned around but never did. A season off to a solid start came to a screeching halt.

A 28-point road loss to No. 3 Notre Dame was bad enough. Then an 18-point loss at home to No. 14 Louisville four days later put Syracuse’s longterm goals on hold. In the locker room, Orange head coach Quentin Hillsman told his team it needed to make a decision. Would it reach those goals or not?

“It was the turning point of our program,” Sykes said.

Since those two losses, Syracuse (29-7, 13-3

Atlantic Coast) has won 15 of its last 16 games. The Orange received a double-bye in the ACC tournament and then hosted the first two rounds of the NCAA tournament for the first time. And then it reached its first Sweet 16. And then its first Elite Eight. And now its first Final Four.

No. 4 seed SU will take on No. 7 seed Washington (26-10, 11-7 Pacific-12) on Sunday at 8:30 p.m. in the national semifinals in Indianapolis. Syracuse’s current hot streak, the one that’s carried it far from the team that UND and UofL blew out, started after those two awful losses on Jan. 21 and 25, respectively.

“I started to question, ‘Does this team have the character, the fight in them? … And how are they going to respond after this?’” assistant coach Tammi Reiss said. “Collectively I think they went home and said, ‘This isn’t us. This isn’t who we

want to be.’”

Hillsman took the blame for not getting his team ready to play after the loss to Louisville in which SU fell behind by 29 in the second quarter.

But he also said he wouldn’t take on a role as a victim. Hillsman compared his team to a wounded lion, something that would be dangerous once it recovers. Even though SU was going through a bad stretch, he vowed to put a better product on the floor.

When Syracuse fell behind 10-2 at N.C. State on Feb. 14, the Orange could have crumbled again.

But Sykes pointed to the situation as one tangibly affected by the losses to Notre Dame and Louisville. This time, SU fought back and squeaked out a three-point win.

“We got nine (regular season games) left,” see turnaround page 12

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Opponent preview: What to know about North Carolina senior staff writer

Syracuse (23-13, 9-9 Atlantic Coast) will face off against its second straight conference opponent, when it plays North up next Carolina VS North Carolina (32- 6, at NGR Stadium 14 - 4) Saturday, 8:49 p.m. in the Final Four on Saturday at 8:49 p.m.

in Houston at NGR Stadium. The Tar Heels haven’t lost a game since Feb. 27, a stretch that includes a win over Syracuse on Feb. 29.

The matchup guarantees an ACC team will have an opportunity to play for the national championship. Syracuse is playing in its first Final Four since 2013 and hasn’t won a championship since 2003. UNC’s 19 Final Fours is the most of any school, and it will be its first since 2009.

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Syracuse and North Carolina both come into their matchup sporting winning streaks.

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know about the Tar Heels.

All-Time Series Saturday will mark the 12th alltime meeting between the two schools. Syracuse is 4-7 and has lost the last three meetings.

Last Time They Played

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Syracuse held ACC-leading UNC close at the Dean Dome on Feb. 29, before eventually falling 75-70.

Four players scored in double-

figures for the Orange, led by 17 points from Michael Gbinije. The Orange had a chance to tie with 10 seconds to play, but instead of taking a 3 to tie, Gbinije drove to the basket and lost the handle. That spelled the end of SU’s upset bid.

The Tar Heels had 19 offensive rebounds compared to 21 on the defensive end but scored just 16 second-chance points because of it. Syracuse shot just 5-of-20 see unc page 12