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Public offering The School of Information

Jump-start A summer program focused on

Shadow of a doubt Atheist students

Home cooking Syracuse gets the chance to solve

All-star lineup A handful of sports minds,

Studies launches its first massive open online course. Page 3

addressing classroom issues for international students will prove beneficial. Page 5

Student aims to end SU racial divide

By Debbie Truong ENTERPRISE EDITOR

As a child, Ronald Taylor was a sharp dresser. Not because he wanted to, but because he had to.

“Growing up, my mom said that I had to dress over,” he said, dressed in a gray blazer with faint blue lines and matching pants. An Oxford shirt peeks from underneath his jacket, and a black scarf is tucked firmly around his neck. He peers through a set of thick-rimmed glasses.

Even on regular school days, Taylor wouldn’t be caught in jeans and a T-shirt. He’d sport khakis, a buttonup and tie.

“You have to hold yourself at an even higher pedestal because people think lesser of you because you’re black and male,” Taylor’s

discuss their beliefs on campus. Page 9

its most recent problems against vulnerable DePaul. Page 20

including Daryl Gross and David Falk, gathered Tuesday for a discussion in Newhouse.

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Vice chancellor appoints interim dean of libraries

By Nicki Gorny

Triche’s family molds star guard’s development into consistent, reliable leader

By Ryne Gery

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K. Matthew Dames will assume the role of interim dean-designate of the Syracuse University Libraries on July 1.

Dames, who has served on the library’s senior leadership team since August 2008, will follow Suzanne Thorin in the position. Thorin announced in February she will step down. Her last day as dean and university librarian will be June 30, according to a Tuesday SU News release.

Dames is currently the interim associate dean for research, collections and scholarly communications at the library. He was also SU’s first copyright and information policy adviser – Thorin appointed him director of the library’s Copyright

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hree sets of eyes fixate on Brandon Triche. They follow his every move, studying his footwork and analyzing his mechanics at an otherwise deserted Melo Center on Sunday night.

His uncle Howard feeds him from the wing, while his oldest brother Melvin rebounds. His brother, Mike, charts everything with paper and pen from his spot on the baseline as the Syracuse guard fires away from the top of the key, where he starts to find his rhythm.

Catch. Shoot. Swish.

“Easy,” Melvin says as Triche loads another shot. “Easy like Sunday morning.”

Catch. Shoot. Swish.

“14-for-20,” Mike calls out after tallying up his total.

“Money time,” Melvin says from under the basket.

Three days before his final home game at Syracuse, Triche is fittingly with his brothers, trying to get back on track as his senior season winds down. They molded him from a young age, taking him to local parks and gyms to play the game they all loved.

Whether it was at Kirk Park, Archbold Gymnasium, the Jewish Community Center or simply the backyard of their Jamesville, N.Y., home, they pushed their younger brother to his limits.

Triche will suit up for the last time

in his hometown Wednesday at 6 p.m. when Syracuse takes on DePaul at the Carrier Dome.

The senior has been a mainstay in the Syracuse backcourt the last four years, starting all 136 games of his career. He’s developed from a role player as a freshman to the team’s leader as a senior – a season in which he’s second on the team in points with 14.2 per game, and assists with 3.7 per game.

“It just happened so fast,” Triche said. “You’re almost at a loss for words for how fast it went.”

On Sunday night at the Carmelo K. Anthony Basketball Center, his brothers and their uncle focus their

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CORRECTIONS In a March 5 article titled “Off-kilter: Concept album showcases local band’s talent through existential sound,” several songs on The Vanderbuilts’ new album were said to be sung by lead singer Sam Kogon. Not all songs were sung by him. Grennan Milliken sings the vocals for “Near and Far” and “Had a Hat” was sung by Dave Riddell.

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What are you most looking forward to during Spring Break?

“ ” “ ” “ ” Just not doing schoolwork and not having any responsibilities for a week.

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Dome stand Syracuse ends its home schedule against DePaul on Wednesday night. Check back Thursday for full coverage of Senior Night.

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I’m actually just going home for break, so I’m just excited to relax and see my family and my pets.

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I’m going home to California, so I’m really looking forward to going go the beach.

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B. Catching up with old friends.

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SU offers web course open to all

By Levi Stein STAFF WRITER

Twenty years after it started offering online courses, the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University has introduced its first massive open online course.

“The iSchool has been at the forefront of online education for two decades,” said Jeffrey Stanton, senior associate dean of the iSchool and professor teaching the online course. “2013 is literally the 20th anniversary of the offering of the first online course.”

The free course, called “Introduction to Data Science,” was made available to the first 500 interested students for the spring semester.

MOOCs are classes taught online to large numbers of students with minimal involvement by professors.

Students typically watch short video lectures and complete assignments that are graded electronically, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported Aug. 8.

Running exactly four weeks long, the course covers data science topics like binary representation, open source R statistical programming and the statistical topics of central tendency, variability and sampling, according to the class’ syllabus.

While the course is not for any school credit, a letter of completion signed by iSchool Dean Elizabeth Liddy will be provided to each student who completes the course satisfactorily, according to the syllabus.

While online courses have been offered for years, Stanton said MOOCs are relatively new, and are natural extensions of the innovation

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yuki mizuma | staff photographer LARRY FLYNT, Hustler Magazine publisher and free speech advocate, speaks on Tuesday night in Goldstein Auditorium. Flynt was paralyzed from the waist down when a man who was angry after Hustler published an interracial photo attempted to assassinate him.

Advocate discusses importance of First Amendment

By Sam Blum STAFF WRITER

Larry Flynt’s gold-plated wheelchair was the most obvious example of the consequences he has suffered for his beliefs and actions promoting the First Amendment.

Flynt, publisher of Hustler Magazine and a free speech advocate, was the victim of an assassination attempt outside of a courthouse in 1978. The man who later confessed to the crime was a white supremacist

Activist talks about trafficking, encourages students to volunteer

who was angry at Flynt for putting an interracial photo in Hustler. The shooting left him paralyzed from the waist down.

But Flynt said he doesn’t like to dwell on his unfortunate situation.

“I just make the best of it and I try to enjoy life. I love traveling and I love work,” Flynt said. “I could crawl up in the fetal position and suck my thumb, but I think a lot of people in the world are in a lot of worse shape than I’m in.”

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For Conor Grennan, a getaway trip led to a life-changing experience.

Grennan, founder and president of Next Generation Nepal, spoke Tuesday as part of the University Lectures Series, which was sponsored

by Hendricks Chapel and the College of Visual and Performing Arts. In his presentation, Grennan shared his story of how one trip led him

to reunite more than 300 families affected by human trafficking.

“I didn’t go to Nepal to save lost children,” he said. “I just wanted to travel.”

In 2011, Grennan published “Little Princes: One Man’s Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal,” a memoir of his experiences helping child victims of trafficking in Nepal. His organization, Next Generation Nepal, is dedicated to reuniting

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speak openly without fear of government prosecution.

Even though free speech might sometimes mean hearing things one doesn’t agree with, it is a necessary evil, Flynt said.

“Free speech is not the freedom for the thought that you love,” he said. “It’s the freedom for the thought that you hate the most.”

Flynt’s visit coincides with the 25th anniversary of the landmark

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Housing lottery opens for students

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Flynt, 70, discussed his life and First Amendment issues in front of a packed Goldstein Auditorium in the Schine Student Center on Tuesday evening. His talk was a part of the Tully Center for Free Speech’s 2013 Distinguished Speaker Series.

Flynt began his speech by noting that while most people will say they support free speech and understand what it entails, the majority of them will back off when they consider the downsides of allowing everyone to

Hundreds of computer cursors stood at the ready to competitively click for the one-person housing options on campus.

Monday marked the first day of room selection for the Syracuse University housing lottery. With all SU students required to live on campus for at least two years, many said they are anxiously awaiting their housing lottery results for next semester.

“I’m really concerned that I am not going to get my first choice in room,” said Madison Lieberman, an undeclared freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences. “I don’t totally understand the system or my number, just what upperclassmen have told me.”

Lieberman said her first choice is to live in Watson Hall, but she is concerned she might end up in a South Campus apartment because she thinks she has a

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SUITE PIE A look at the types of suites on campus.

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Media puts interests of corporations, government before American people

mericans are constantly fed messages via the mainstream media, forming their opinions and shaping their perceptions of the world accordingly.

Rarely, if ever, do they stop to think about who, exactly, is feeding them the information they accept as the truth.

Thirty years ago, 50 corporations controlled almost all of the mass media in the United States.

Today, this number has shrunk to six: Time Warner, Walt Disney, Viacom, News Corp., CBS Corporation and NBC Universal.

While corporate presence is a necessary reality for the media, the staggering concentration of such power is something to worry about, as it threatens the entire purpose of free press.

Our Founding Fathers blessed us with the

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the last free american First Amendment to protect free press as the voice of the people, a great equalizer to keep in check those in power.

Today, this voice lies almost entirely with a powerful few, stifling a crucial wide array of perspectives and protecting corporate interests instead of the interests of the American people.

The truth is being silenced in favor of public

relations for the rich and powerful, both in the corporate world and in government.

Many prominent journalists and government officials have admitted to this troubling fact – not surprisingly, only once they were off the payroll.

Just last year, legendary journalist and former CBS anchor Dan Rather warned about the erosion of quality journalism due to the political interests of these large corporations, which he said “have things they need from the power structure in Washington … and of course, people in Washington have things they want to be reported.

“To put it bluntly, very big business is in bed with very big government,” he said, “and has more to do with what the average person sees, hears and reads than most people know.”

Former Vice President Al Gore, who made headlines late last year for selling his news channel to Al Jazeera, expresses grave concern about the state of the media in his new book, “Title.” He writes: “The one-way, advertisingdominated conglomerate-controlled television medium has been suffocating the free flow of ideas necessary for genuine self-determination.”

He also likens this fact to a “slow-motion corporate coup d’état that threatens to destroy the integrity and functioning of American democracy.”

Once you understand who is behind mainstream media, its true nature becomes clear.

The “Big Six” media corporations are run by directors and owners that move back and forth between high-ranking positions in government, including Secretary of Defense and Secretary of Commerce.

These media directors and owners, along with heads of state, are also members of elite corporate think tanks, such as the Council on Foreign Relations and the Brookings Institution.

The corporations behind these organizations use their collective influence on the government to implement domestic and foreign policies that maximize profit.

Members of these organizations even include media stalwarts such as Barbara Walters, Tom Brokaw and Diane Sawyer, among others.

It is also not uncommon for media directors at these corporations to simultaneously serve as directors for the biggest war-profiteering corporations in the world.

At Walt Disney alone, directors simultaneously served at Boeing, the world’s second leading defense contractor, and Haliburton, the single biggest profiteer of the Iraq War. Much of the time, the corporate elite isn’t just dictating what messages you receive, they are delivering them to you themselves.

This is true whether it’s CNN’s Erin Burnett, married to one of the highest-ranking executives at Citigroup, or Bill Keller, the previous editor in chief of The New York Times and son of the former Chevron CEO. If you want the unadulterated truth and not just messages meant to manufacture public consent for corporate and government interests, you are going to have to do some searching.

And these days, the truth is hard to come by.

Nick Smith is a junior broadcast and digital journalism major. His column appears weekly.

He can been reached at nxsmith@syr.edu and followed on Twitter at @Nick_X_Smith.

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March marks start for indoor germination of many garden plants

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ith the cold and blustery weather of a Syracuse March, it’s sometimes hard to believe spring is within our reach.

Spring Break is almost here, and though the ground may be frozen, now is the time to welcome the coming season with the start of our own gardens.

Though it may be tough to look ahead, March is the time to begin indoor cultivation of the tiny seeds that will become our summer harvests.

College is not commonly related to growing your own food, and it may be hard for some of us living in residence halls or other small spaces. But if you have the room, it’s time to get those green thumbs back in action.

With a huge expanse of tips and information, the famous Farmers’ Almanac recommends that indoor germination of many seeds should start between March 2-17 – including delectable broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower, celery, peppers and tomatoes.

Though relocating these plants to the outdoors won’t be comprehensible until mid-April to May, it’s important to start some seeds now. Many vegetables need time and love before the ground is no longer frozen in order to germinate and sprout, becoming strong before they are assimilated into outside world.

Growing your own vegetables may seem daunting, and though it involves time and money, it’s worth the try. If you’re planning on staying in the area during the summer, keeping a small garden can be fun and rewarding by the first harvest.

Imagine all summer having your own bountiful harvest of local vegetables. You’ll have the advantage of knowing what was used to grow your food, with or without pesticides or fertilizers.

You can grow organically without a label from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and know your food hasn’t traveled thousands of miles, expending tons of fossil fuels, to make it to your plate. Best of all, in the long

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If you’re not staying in the area, many small plants can manage a short- to medium-length drive. Try germinating a couple of tomato seeds – decently hearty plants that could make it home in a car trip.

Even if you don’t have the room for a small garden, a number of these plants can survive indoors or on a patio. Tomatoes are another good example of this. Products like the Topsy-Turvy upside-down tomato grower have become popular due to tomatoes’ enthusiastic growing nature.

Growing your own food is not possible for everyone. If it seems near impossible, don’t fret. You may not have the time or space for gardening. Local farms are also approaching the beginning of their growing seasons, offering plenty of opportunities to purchase local fruits and vegetables.

It is important to remember that growing anything takes time, and farmers’ markets will start up again in full force, around the time seeds should be moved outdoors.

The time has come again – time for fruits and vegetables grown in the places we call home. Though growing seasons vary depending on climates, Syracuse crops can begin indoors this month, and in a couple months, you can reap the benefits from your own work.

Wherever you live, there are options for everyone this growing season. Find what works best for you, and happy eating.

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Summer program could prove beneficial International students studying at Syracuse University often have a difficult time overcoming language and cultural barriers in the classroom. A pre-fall semester, monthlong program to better acclimate these individuals to an American collegiate classroom experience would prove beneficial for both the university and international students.

These students must pass SU’s English-language testing requirements before they are admitted, but many still face challenges when communicating in class and participating in group-oriented assignments.

International students already arrive at the university a week early. But giving them the option to come a month early would allow them to work with professors to prepare for American university

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EDITORIAL by the daily orange editorial board classroom expectations and instruction style. It also gives students the chance to ask questions and better understand campus living before classes begin.

Though a month is likely not enough time for students to completely adjust to a new environment, it would be a more valuable and progressive jump-start than the shorter current orientation process.

Because this is a college environment, students should be aware of their own personal challenges.

Therefore, this program need not be mandatory, and students should take responsibility in having a successful college career. The program should, however, be an option to

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international students each year they are in enrolled at SU. Professors should be able to encourage struggling students to attend, and students would have several opportunities to seek assistance from this program.

To continue the potential progress made in the summer throughout the academic year, a fall-semester forum tailored toward students of non-English, foreign backgrounds could also be implemented to continue addressing campus and classroom issues as they arise.

As the number of international students at SU increases annually, the university must continue developing methods for ensuring their success. Students should also be invested in getting the most out of their American college experience.

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mom told him.

Taylor, a sophomore political science and public policy major, has taken the lessons he has learned about perception and racial stigmas and applied them to his experience at Syracuse University. He recently coordinated the “Healing the Scars” event, a panel discussion on diversity and race issues among students. A sit-in is expected to follow after Spring Break.

Campus self-segregation has tugged at Taylor’s mind since he first set foot on campus in 2011. Since his freshman year, he has witnessed little interaction between students across races and few forums for students to pose diversityrelated issues at SU. “Healing the Scars,” the Feb. 26 event aimed at addressing issues of inclusion and self-segregation, had been in the works since

“America in general is so polarized on race and polarized on stereotypes that we sort of bar ourselves on having those conversations on race, whatever the case is.”

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January. What started as a small discussion about diversity-related issues on campus evolved into an event that filled the lower level of Hendricks Chapel. The decision to host a larger event stemmed from racially charged backlash from a fight that spilled into the streets following a dance party in the Schine Student Center.

Eight students were arrested outside of Schine on Feb. 3 in relation to the dance party “Faded,” an event sponsored by the National Association of Latino Fraternal Organizations and the National Pan-Hellenic Council. Another student was arrested outside of the John C. Dillon Public Safety Building. The fight brought the significance of the diversity discussion to the forefront for Taylor.

Some online commenters on The Post-Standard and The Daily Orange’s websites blamed an increased number of minority students at SU for the violence and school’s lower national rankings. This helped spur Taylor’s efforts.

Taylor said he hates playing the race card and doesn’t “want to beat a dead horse.” He’s wary some might cast the “Healing the Scars” event and its subsequent conversations as dealing with a “black or Hispanic issue.” But the scope of this conversation exceeds that, he said.

“Nothing is ever a race issue because if someone feels the need to make a comment be known and they feel it’s because of their race, it’s because of a behavior or a function of society that they’ve seen happen.”

With help from Hendricks and the Office of Multicultural Affairs, planning for “Healing the Scars” took off. About 250 students filled the lower level of Hendricks during the event, their voices ringing against chapel walls.

“I don’t live in my past. I live in my present.

I’m equal to everyone because of the simple fact that I know who fought for my chance to be here right now,” one student said at the event.

Students cycled one after another, speaking into one of two microphones, airing thoughts on campus self-segregation, minority tokenization and racial stigmas.

Hendricks Dean Tiffany Steinwert, who worked closely with Taylor in coordinating the event, likened Taylor’s insistence on addressing pressing issues to a passage in the Hebrew Testament about a “voice crying out in the wilderness.”

“Ronald embodies that. Someone who continues to call out and say there’s more work to be done, and we can do that together,” Steinwert said.

For Taylor, who maintained a fixed, thoughtful expression through most of the night’s events, the panel was a culmination of personal observations and experiences, on campus and beyond.

Taylor was taught from a young age that stigmas about black men exist. To combat this, his mother urged him to “out-educate” his peers.

“Always stay a step ahead, always have that extra drive just because people will think less of you. I always had that internal dialogue — why do people think less?” he said. “It’s because of the society we live in. America in general is so polarized on race and polarized on stereotypes that we sort of bar ourselves on having those conversations on race, whatever the case is.”

A similar drive to “out-educate” followed Taylor to SU, where he has set a personal GPA goal of 3.8 for each semester. In classroom settings, Taylor said he has felt the stigma of black males being academically inferior superimposed on him. He has been complimented time and time again on his ability to “speak well,” as if he wasn’t expected to.

“Why is it that if my good white friend John over here speaks really well, he doesn’t get the same compliment?” Taylor said.

Scan Taylor’s resume and it’s clear he stays steps ahead. In addition to being a Coronat Scholar and Renee Crown University Honors student, Taylor belongs to the Black Celestial Choral Ensemble, Black Communications Society, Multicultural Empowerment Network, Redemption A Capella and the Creations Dance Company. Off campus, he has interned for a congresswoman and served on the Youth Advisory Board for the Tavis Smiley Foundation.

Taylor sets his personal expectations high so no one can say he’s unqualified to attend the university.

Despite his obligations, Taylor never missed a deadline in his freshman public affairs class, said his professor, William Coplin. Taylor was chosen to be one of the 18 undergraduate teaching assistants for the class the following semester.

Changing the way people think and their preconceived notions of one another is an ambitious undertaking for a sophomore college student, but Taylor is practiced in rallying a community behind a common cause. Prior to coordinating the “Healing the Scars” panel, he helped establish a mentoring program at Wilson Park Community Center, located in the housing projects neighboring the Brewster/Boland/ Brockway Complex.

Of the 150 public affairs students Coplin oversees, Taylor stands out because of his followthrough and relentless desire to do good.

“He’s at the top of the list.” dbtruong@syr.edu

DAMES FROM PAGE 1

and Information Policy Office in December.

In this position, Dames has been responsible for educating SU students and faculty about copyright, licensing and policy issues relevant to teaching and research, according to the release.

“Any time there’s a change in leadership, the new person is going to come in and assess what, if anything, needs to be changed.”

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In 2011, Dames became the first AfricanAmerican to earn a doctorate from SU’s School of Information Studies, according to the release. He also received the school’s doctoral prize that year for his research on U.S. copyright law.

Dames said his background in this area will help him with his new position.

The dean of libraries is responsible for managing the university’s access to scholarly resources, Dames said, and the contracts that regulate access to these resources have strong copyright policies. In addition, copyright issues pertain to the library’s ability to offer further access to resources through online

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of online courses.

“There are lots of different ways of doing a MOOC,” he said. “For example, a MOOC can be combined with a face-to-face class very easily.

This kind of hybrid is more of what SU is doing with this particular course.”

People use the online program to do homework, complete interactive exercises, practice quizzes and engage in Q-and-A forums, Stanton said.

MASSIVE ONLINE OPTIONS Several start-up companies are working with universities and professors to offer massive open online courses. Some companies that have started offering these courses include: • edK: a nonprofit company run by Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of California, Berkeley • Coursera: a for-profit company started by two Stanford University computer science professors • Khan Academy: a nonprofit organization founded by MIT and Harvard alumnus Salman Khan • Udemy: a for-profit company that lets anyone set up a course Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education

streaming and other non-traditional methods.

Dames said he has had a close working relationship with Thorin in his four years at the library, and hopes to continue expanding the foundation she has created. He said he will continue to work with her, as well as Vice Chancellor and Provost Eric Spina and library staff, to ensure a smooth transitional period.

“Any time there’s a change in leadership, the new person is going to come in and assess what, if anything, needs to be changed,” Dames said. “Part of what I will need to do, in conjunction with Dean Thorin and the provost, is to see what issues are going to continue past Dean Thorin’s term and how we are going to react to those issues.”

In addition, Dames’ appointment comes at a transitional period for libraries in general, when access to resources is no longer limited to physical buildings.

“We’re in an interesting time with respect to libraries, generally,” he said. “We’ll have to address questions like, ‘What is the meaning of a library — a university library — in the 21st century and how does this library evolve to meet the changing needs of all the constituents?’”

This is a task Dames is capable of, Spina said in the release.

“Dr. Dames is widely respected within the library and has contributed significantly to the University,” Spina said in the release.

“With his diverse educational background and professional experience, Kevin is wellpositioned to lead the library as it enters a period of transition.” nagorny@syr.edu @Nicki_Gorny

While online courses often cost money, one of the biggest advantages to MOOCs is that they are generally offered for free, he said.

Enrollment in the iSchool course was open to the public, and the response was very positive, said Christopher Sedore, associate vice chancellor for academic operations, in an email. The course maxed out at its 500-student capacity.

“There are many innovators among our faculty and students who bring experimentation and new pedagogical approaches every semester,” Sedore said. “MOOCs are yet another new form of learning and SU felt that it made sense to encourage some campus experimentation given the enthusiasm.”

Faculty and students saw it as an opportunity to extend SU’s reach into the world, he said.

While iSchool faculty members have been enthusiastic about introducing more MOOCs, online classes have been a hotly debated topic in the world of academia.

“Some pundits and entrepreneurs think that MOOCs are a new era for higher education with free education for anyone,” Sedore said.

“Others believe they offer nothing new and conflate access to information with learning.”

If this course runs successfully, Sedore said similar ones will likely be added in the near future.

Said Sedore: “Our experiments with online education will probably include a few more MOOCs and other kinds of new offerings as technology evolves.” ldstei01@syr.edu

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luke rafferty | asst. photo editor BOB DOUGHERTY, Syracuse common councilor, said the Syracuse Truce Project provides a program for former gang members to train for jobs and rehabilitate socially. Syracuse was one of nine cities that got federal funding for the program, receiving $300,000.

Leaving the streets City of Syracuse launches project to fight gun violence, provide escape for gang members

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fficials in the city of Syracuse recently launched the Syracuse Truce Project, a federally funded program targeted toward reducing gang-related shootings.

“Truce is an important step to address the serious gang violence that has plagued our city and our neighborhoods,” said Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner during the project’s press conference last Wednesday.

Syracuse crime statistics show about 65 percent of the city’s gun-related injuries in the last four years were caused by gang activity. This year has already seen three homicides by gun violence, all of which were gang-related, according to Syracuse Police Department statistics.

The goal of the program is to end the city’s gang-related violence, with SPD agreeing to help any of the city’s 1,472 gang members escape gang life, The Post-Standard reported Feb. 27.

The program is a combination of increased community outreach for gang members and a zero-tolerance policy regarding any type of gang-related gun violence.

“We’re giving you a very hard choice. You can cooperate with this program or we’re going to come down on you like a ton of bricks,” said Bob Dougherty, common councilor for District 3, which includes the Southside of Syracuse.

As one of nine cities participating in the program, Syracuse received $300,000 in federal funding for the project from the U.S. Department of Justice’s Violent Gang and Gun Crime Reduction Program, according to a Syracuse Truce news release.

“The whole idea is focused enforcement,” SPD Sgt. Tom Connellan said. “In the past, if there was a shooting, we’d go after the shooter.

Now we’re sending a message that it’s not just the shooter we’re going after anymore, it’s the whole group we’re coming after.”

Connellan added that gang members have already begun to call the Syracuse Truce hotline and make use of the opportunities the program provides.

The truce program is modeled after a similar program in Cincinnati, where the city saw a 41-percent reduction in group-related homicides after implementation, according to the release.

Along with the enhanced enforcement, the program provides social rehabilitation and reintegration by offering former gang members job training and social counseling programs, Dougherty said.

He added that it also provides services like alcohol and drug treatment, anger management and housing aid for gang members looking to change.

“I think the most important thing is trying to get people job-ready,” Dougherty said.

“You can’t just tell a gang member, ‘Don’t do this.’ What’s their alternative? You’ve got to get people and get them job ready.”

Connellan said he believes the success of the program will depend on whether gang members choose to become involved in the program.

“It’s going to be up to the gang members,” Connellan said. “This program has been extremely successful in other cities. If the law enforcement here holds up their end of the deal and these gang members take our offers, the program will be successful. We’re hoping that a lot of these people take our message seriously.” alng@syr.edu

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children taken by traffickers with their families.

Grennan said he didn’t know anything about Nepal when he first visited, and wasn’t even aware of the civil war taking place at the time.

After two weeks of trekking in the mountains of Nepal, he decided to volunteer at an orphanage.

The orphanage was the opposite of the images he had seen millions of times in commercials on television in the United States, he said.

Children were everywhere, constantly talking to him and asking questions, he said. But it didn’t take long before he got to know each one of the 16 boys and two girls at the orphanage.

Grennan thought he was volunteering in a traditional orphanage, until one day, a woman showed up, claiming two of her children were being kept there. Her claim was true.

The civil war in Nepal caused desperation

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bad lottery number.

In addition to location preferences, students also have to consider the price of their living arrangements. An open-double room in Watson costs $3,435 a semester, while a twoperson apartment on South Campus costs $4,475 a semester, according to SU’s housing website.

“Students are in complete control to accept a room or not,” said Eileen Simmons, director of Housing, Meal Plans and I.D. Card Services, in an email. “We strongly encourage students to discuss their housing budget with those responsible for their bill.”

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within rural villages, making some Nepalis trust strangers with their children so they can receive a better education and be safe from the threat of the government, he said. But instead of taking care of them, these strangers were selling the children into slavery.

“We found out that only about 40 percent of kids in orphanages in Nepal are actually orphans,” he said.

The revolution in April 2006 caused Grennan to flee the country, but the idea of reuniting the two children from the orphanage with their mother stayed with him, ultimately inspiring him to go back to Nepal.

He explained that government traffickers sold seven of the 18 children he had helped at the orphanage into slavery.

“I thought, ‘I can’t abandon those kids. If I don’t do this, it won’t get done and the consequences are real,’” he said.

When he returned to Nepal, Grennan found the original seven children, in addition to many

sive because they are fully furnished, include heat, utilities, private kitchens, baths shared by the occupants and do not close for the semester break, Simmons said.

“We hope the student has done their homework before selecting,” Simmons said. “We would do all we could to assist with a cheaper room if they have made a mistake.”

Gil Maher, a sophomore policy studies major, said he did not want to live on South Campus, but was reassigned to the location when he got a bad lottery number last year.

“I initially didn’t want to live on South, but when I saw my lottery number, I ended up doing what my roommate wanted,” Maher said. “The price wasn’t a factor in my decision and it turns out that I love it here.”

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others along the way, and reunited them with their families. Often times, he found the children starving and living in terrible conditions as domestic servants.

Grennan said he hopes to continue to inspire people to volunteer and tell their stories. Volunteering, he said, has the potential to change the world.

“People talk of volunteering and say, ‘Don’t do it for the wrong reason,’ when in fact, the reason doesn’t matter,” Grennan said. “What matters is that you help.”

Mary Panella, a junior psychology and policy studies major, said she connected with Grennan when he shared that he didn’t always want to volunteer.

“It’s amazing that he went in with such a different perception, and look at all the people he was able to help,” Panella said.

Smriti Sharma, a Nepali graduate student in environmental chemistry at the State University of New York College of Environmental Sci-

“We hope the student has done their homework before selecting. We would do all we could to assist with a cheaper room if they have made a mistake.”

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and 156 three-bedroom apartments on South Campus. In comparison, there are 398 twoperson rooms, 70 two-person suites and 27 three-person suites available through campus housing on Main Campus, according to SU’s housing website.

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Hustler Magazine, Inc. v. Falwell case, in which the Rev. Jerry Falwell sued Flynt in response to a cartoon depicting Falwell and his mother. The magazine won the case, which set a standard for preventing public figures from suing because of parodies.

But Flynt was still forced to pay Falwell $200,000 on a lesser charge.

“They awarded Falwell $200,000 in damages on infliction of emotional distress basically because I hurt his feelings,” he said.

In addition to the Falwell case, Flynt has been called into court many times regarding obscenity. In 1976, he was sentenced to more than 25 years in prison, but the case was turned over on a technicality.

“I’ve been blamed for every ill in society for the past 40 years,” Flynt quipped.

Paige Shepperly, a sophomore broadcast and

FIGHTING FOR THE FIRST

The Tully Center for Free Speech was founded in fall 2006 and is located in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. The center advocates for free speech and brings in noted speakers throughout the year. Each year, the center gives the Tully Award for Free Speech to a journalist who has exhibited courage in facing a free speech threat.

ence and Forestry, said she liked that Grennan seemed genuine.

“He wasn’t trying to make it all sound exotic,” she said. “He was being real.” antoribi@syr.edu

MORE TO LEARN March 19

“Our Vanishing Night: Light Pollution” Jim Richardson, photographer for National Geographic Magazine, will speak on his work, which includes photographing more than 25 stories around the world for the magazine.

April 4

“The fluidity of identity: Theatre and the Search for Self” Award-winning playwright David Henry Hwang will discuss how theater affects race perception, activism and stereotypes.

Source: http://lectures.syr.edu/current-lectures

Sal Salerno, an undeclared freshman in Arts and Sciences, said he is still trying to weigh the pros and cons of both locations. But with a lottery number in the high 8,000s, he said doesn’t think he has a great chance of getting his first choice of living arrangement.

“The averaging of your lottery numbers with your roommates is stupid,” Salerno said. “It makes it hard for me to find someone to room with me and also to get our first choice in room.”

The next round of the housing lottery, open to people who have not yet fulfilled their two-year housing requirement, begins March 27 at 3 p.m., according to SU’s website.

Salerno and other students will be hoping the odds are in their favor to get their ideal rooms.

“The process is pretty complicated, but if you look into it enough, it is comprehendible,” Salerno said. “I’m going to be on my A game to try and snag a quality place to live.” kbread@syr.edu

“Free speech is not the freedom for the thought that you love. It’s the freedom for the thought that you hate the most.”

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digital journalism major, said it was interesting to think about how much the idea of free speech actually entails.

“We each have our own personal interpretation of the First Amendment,” Shepperly said.

“There’s a lot of stuff that I don’t believe in what people say, and to realize that, in order to have free speech, you have to hear those kinds of things. It was eye opening.”

Near the end of the event, a Syracuse University professor asked Flynt about the potential negative effects of pornography in today’s society. Flynt responded by saying pornography is no different than some of the other more accepted forms of media.

“You can publish a photograph of a mutilated, decapitated body on the front of a newspaper and might even win a Pulitzer Prize,” Flynt said. “But if you let a picture of two people making love on a newspaper, you probably go to jail.” sblum@syr.edu

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SECULAR LIFESTYLES Students discuss secular life, ways to practice atheist beliefs on campus joshuah romero | staff photographer JOEY BADA$$, a rapper on the rise, played to a crowd of more than 300 students Tuesday night in the Schine Underground. Joey Bada$$ and his crew were part of University Union’s Bandersnatch Series.

Joey Bada$$ impresses SU crowd

By Robert Gaudio STAFF WRITER

The current rap scene in America is getting younger. The days of Dr. Dre and P. Diddy running the West and East coast scenes are far behind, and the new ebb of rap music seems to be toward young, independent “crews” and labels, groups like Odd Future, A$AP Mob and the Bruiser Brigade.

Joey Bada$$’ Pro Era Crew is no different.

Tuesday night, 300 students at Syracuse University experienced rapper Joey Bada$$ and his Pro Era crew as they played for a sold-out crowd in the Schine Underground for University Union’s Bandersnatch Music Series. Hailing from Brooklyn, N.Y., the rappers brought a loud and sweaty show.

In the Schine Underground, PA system speakers were piled high and DJ Fame, DJ for opening act Dizzy Wright, was hard at work in the booth.

In the beginning few minutes of the show, Fame tried to liven up the crowd by playing some slightly dated hits, spinning tracks like “The Motto” and “N****s In Paris.” But people milled lazily until the lights finally dimmed. After a highly dramatic entrance song and a few puffs from the smoke machine, Las Vegas native Dizzy Wright kicked the show off with a bang.

By the time Wright hit the stage, the crowd had grown to about 75 people. The speakers were soft, and after a few songs and shout-

outs to the sound booth, Wright and his hypeman, Moskie Moe, were in the groove.

Speeding through his modest repertoire, Wright could not seem to catch the interest of the slowly growing crowd, his biggest response coming only when he

“He’s bringing back the old school vibes, with a little bit of new school too.”

Morgan Craig

FRESHMAN IN THE BANDIER PROGRAM

shouted, “Where my weed smokers at?,” to which the crowd exploded into whoops and cheers.

Wright left the stage after half an hour without much of a sign-off, disappointed by his set.

“It’s frustrating, we came straight from the airport and sound-checked 25 minutes before. When we got up there, it was like (we) never even did it,” Wright said.

Still, Wright remained positive and ultimately did his job piquing the crowd’s interest for the opener.

Hailed as the new face of the New York rap scene, 18-year-old Bada$$’ sound is something to be reckoned with.

“He’s bringing back the old-school vibes with a little bit of new school. too,” said Morgan Craig, a freshman in the Bandier Program for Music

and the Entertainment Industries.

Bada$$ and his Pro Era Crew are scheduled to headline their first U.S. tour, the Beast Coast Tour, this spring. Bada$$ and his group seem to be blowing up faster than anyone could have imagined.

From the minute Bada$$ stepped on stage, it was clear he had brought a posse with him. Pro Era heavyweight CJ Fly filled in for the late Capital STEEZ as Bada$$’ hypeman. That, coupled with surprise appearances by Dirty Sanchez and Dyemond Lewis, created a crowd on stage.

Beginning his set with hits off of his freshman mixtape “1999,” Bada$$ looked like he had been on stage his whole life. His ceaseless verses coupled with bold hooks created a new take on the “rap show.”

After blowing through hits like “Waves,” “World Domination” and “Unorthodox,” Bada$$ called for the music to cut so he could pay respect to the fallen member of his Pro Era Crew.

“Rest in peace to Capital STEEZ” was shouted. After blasting one of STEEZ’s verses over the sound system, Bada$$ asked, “Can we get a moment of silence?,” to which everybody in attendance immediately obliged.

From that point on, the show never stopped. Song after song was torn through with smooth transitions in between, keeping the audience on their toes just enough to squash any boredom.

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n religion, there are a variety of different words and terms used to describe someone’s belief system – Christian, Muslim, Hindu.

In addition to religious terms, though, there is another set of terminology – secular terminology, such as atheism and agnosticism – that some feel warrant more discussion.

“Atheism is not a belief system. It’s a word we have to describe a lack of belief,” said Jeremiah Thompson, a member of the Secular Student Alliance and professional writing instructor at Syracuse University.

The emphasis on discussion is found across the board with secularists, as well as an emphasis on normalizing the notion of secularism.

While some secularists believe atheism gets a bad rap because of the stigma that goes along with it, many atheists and agnostics ensure they live their lives just as everyone else. They can still live a moral life without the existence of God in their lives.

“We live like everyone else,” said Matthew Davis, an officer in the SSA and a doctoral candidate in electrical engineering. “There’s nothing exotic to atheism.”

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There are many different terms that are important when discussing nonbelief.

Atheism is the lack of belief in a supernatural deity.

Agnosticism is the belief that the existence of God cannot be proven, and that we cannot truly know whether there is a God. Secular humanism is the belief that one can live a good, moral life without the existence of a belief in a supernatural deity.

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Students at SU who are either atheist, agnostic or secular can find a place to discuss and enjoy others’ company in the SU chapter of the SSA. While the club isn’t as active as it has been in past semesters, the discussion continues on the group’s Facebook page.

The goal of the group is to provide a place for students to voice questions about terminology and the lack of belief, or just a safe space to make jokes and share stories and ideas.

“SSA’s representation on campus as an accepted alternative to religious groups appears to be growing. Hendricks Chapel has been doing a good job of reaching out and including SSA members in round table discussions.”

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Many students, such as Justin Trimm, feel the SSA is a welcoming and positive environment, even just as a place to say whatever is on their minds.

“It can be a community for those who are non-believers and agnostics,” said Trimm, a senior writing and rhetorical studies major.

“Believers can also come and discuss, too.”

This open attitude is an important element to the SSA, as each person has had their own experiences defining who they are. Some students were brought up in religious households, while others never had religion play a large role in their lives in the first place.

Many students involved in the SSA feel they’ve always been atheist, but didn’t know about the terminology until much later in life.

Students in the group have different influences for their ideologies. Some look to science or scientists like Richard Dawkins for answers.

Some cite rationalism as an influence. Others enjoy authors like Christopher Hitchens. Others still, like Trimm, refer to atheistic comedians.

“My main influence has been comedians.

I grew up watching a lot of George Carlin, Bill Hicks, Tim Minchin,” Trimm said. “I would watch it and I remember thinking, ‘Yeah, I get that. I agree with the points they’re making in a hilarious way.’”

Hendricks Chapel has included the SSA in discussions and events in the past, such as the “Breaking Bread with the Secular Student Alliance” event in the fall of 2011.

The event came after an incident that included vandalism of the SSA’s chalk advertisements on the Quad.

“The Syracuse’s SSA has faced some discrimination in the past, including some hatefilled vandalism of SSA adverts that occurred just last year,” said Alex Weiss, a 2012 alumnus, in an email. “We chalked the quad one day to advertise one of our upcoming meetings. We came back the next day to find someone had chalked over the adverts with messages like ‘bullsh*t,’ ‘stupid,’ ‘idiots.’ Charming stuff.”

The vandalism inspired action on both students’ and Hendricks’ part to include more dialogue about secularism.

Since then, people have become more aware of the SSA’s existence and working to make that awareness positive.

“SSA’s representation on campus as an accepted alternative to religious groups appears to be growing. Hendricks Chapel has been doing a good job of reaching out and including SSA members in round table discussions,” Weiss said.

To many atheists and agnostics, their personal lack of faith is an individual preference, with each person using their own way to describe himself or herself.

“Secular members of society come from all walks of life. And almost everyone uses a different personal identifier,” Weiss said.

There is a range of secular belief and nonbelief. Some people don’t like to use labels, while others feel the terminology helps them understand where they are when it comes to their secularism.

While some people identify themselves as atheist, others call themselves agnostic, secular humanist or, in Amanda Lashua’s case, apatheist.

“I’m an apatheist, which means I subscribe to apatheism, which means I just don’t care,” said Lashua, a doctoral candidate in chemistry and member of the SSA. “It’s irrelevant to my life.”

Just as there are varying degrees of secular terms, there is also a variety of ways atheists and agnostics view religion. Some feel that organized religion is not a good thing, while others don’t care or think it has a positive existence.

A common belief in the group, though, is that the SSA’s voices need to be heard by both nonbelievers and believers alike.

An open dialogue between those who live a secular lifestyle and those who live a religious lifestyle is needed for a sense of equality to be established, said Ben Jones, a junior political science major and member of the SSA. Said Jones: “One thing, more than anything else, is that atheism needs to be at the table. We need to coexist.”

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While atheism and other secular ideologies are specifically related to the lack of or distance from religion, member and writing instructor Jeremiah Thompson feels that secularists are often involved in activist or political causes. Many people have made the connection of feminism to atheism, and feminist atheists, such as Amanda Marcotte, have been growing in online presence. It is also common for atheists to be involved with social or human rights issues, such as being advocates for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights.

Despite having a less-active semester, the SSA has been involved on campus with different events and speakers.

Last summer, the group traveled to the Reason Rally in Washington, D.C., the largest secular gathering in the country.

The SSA also brought Amanda Marcotte to campus, a blogger and journalist for Slate magazine. In addition to larger events, the group has also done small-scale events like tabling in the Schine Student Center – one time they jokingly sold candy apples for people’s “souls” – and going to Marshall Street and holding “Hug an atheist” signs to raise awareness.

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Boba Suite, Unique Tea House duke it out to see which bubble tea has better boba

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By Riddley Gemperlein-Schirm STAFF WRITER

t’s a battle of the boba, a tapioca smackdown.

The challengers: Boba Suite Tea House, located at 713 S. Crouse Ave., and Unique Tea

House, located at 171 Marshall St. I’m not making this competition stuff up. When we went to Unique Tea House, we had just come from Boba Suite and had a Boba Suite cup with us. A Unique Tea House employee told us, “We don’t allow Boba Suite

drinks in our seating area. They’ve already talked enough crap about us.”

This rivalry was fiercer than we thought.

Choosing between Boba Suite and Unique Tea House can be difficult. But as you will soon see, not all bubble tea is created equally.

To try and give as fair a review as possible, we ordered the same drinks at both Boba Suite and Unique Tea House: the Almond Milk Tea and Chocolate Smoothie. Both of these drinks were available hot or cold, but we opted for cold both times.

BOBA SUITE TEA HOUSE Walking into Boba Suite, the first thing that hit us was the smell of blueberry muffins. I was confused until we saw the shop sell muffins and cupcakes, including flavors like red velvet, in addition to drinks.

The cashier was friendly enough and the service was quick. We received our drinks in about four minutes.

One nice thing about Boba Suite is its diverse menu. There are traditional flavors, like Taro Milk Tea, as well as more unconventional ones, like Cappuccino Milk Tea. You can also add additional toppings besides the standard boba, including egg pudding, coffee and lychee jelly.

Our first drink, the Chocolate Smoothie, $3.25 for 16 ounces, wasn’t what we expected.

The “smoothie” was more of a Chocolate Milk Tea, and we couldn’t help but wonder if they got our order wrong. Whether it was a smoothie or milk tea, the chocolate flavor was weak.

The Almond Milk Tea, $3.25 for 16 ounces, was an even bigger disappointment. The almond flavor tasted artificial and was disappointing, however, it still managed to overpower the weak milk tea. I couldn’t taste the flavor of the milk tea at all. The drink was so unappetizing that we had a hard time finishing it.

UNIQUE TEA HOUSE Walking up the steps to Unique teahouse, I was hit by the smell of smoke. However, upon entering the teahouse, my eyes lit up with excitement.

Unique Tea House feels as if the staff is paying more homage to the traditional bubble teashop. Everything from the tables, which have an Asian motif, to the lantern lights makes the place seem more authentic.

Although the menu is slightly smaller at Unique Tea House, they still have plenty of tapioca drinks and smoothies. There are also more exotic options, like a Mung Bean Milk Shake and virgin cocktail drinks.

THE VERDICT Don’t waste your time and money going to Boba Suite. Unique Tea House has better drinks and a better atmosphere, despite

Despite the initial warning from the Unique Tea House employee, the service was very amiable. Our drinks were ready in less than two minutes, much quicker than Boba Suite.

The Chocolate Smoothie, $3.25 for a short, was everything Boba Suite’s version was not and more. The smoothie had a slushie texture, was rich in chocolate flavor and had plenty of boba at the bottom.

Our second drink, the Almond Black Tea with Milk, $3.95 for a regular, far exceeded Boba Suite’s version as well. I tasted the milk tea and almond flavors. The almond was pronounced without being overpowering and tasted pure.

The chocolate smoothie at Unique Tea House was far superior to the version offered at Boba Suite, with richer taste and better texture.

Unique Tea House having slightly higher prices. Unique Tea House by far offers the best boba for your buck. rsgemper@syr.edu

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Film showcases work of AIDS advocacy group

By Madina Toure STAFF WRITER

Watching a documentary on the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power group that began in the late 1980s, Diane Wiener became emotional as she recognized some of the individuals featured in the film.

A member of the coalition from 1987 to the mid-1990s, Wiener remembered participating in die-ins — members lying on their backs pretending to be dead — and zaps — members going to various locations to raise awareness about HIV and AIDS. She remembered one project in which panels were used to represent the names

of individuals who died from the disease.

“My whole life flashed before me,” said Wiener, who is now the director of Syracuse University’s Disability Cultural Center.

Documentary filmmaker Jim Hubbard’s feature, released in February 2012 on the work of ACT UP, was screened at an event sponsored by the department of history and the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Resource Center. It was shown Tuesday night in the Life Sciences Complex auditorium.

ACT UP is an advocacy group created in 1987 that practices non-violent direct action to raise awareness about the key issues of the AIDS crisis.

Hubbard showed a part of the documentary titled “United in Anger: A History of ACT UP” at SU’s Human Rights Festival two years ago.

Hubbard first filmed ACT UP in June 1987 at the Lesbian and Gay Pride Parade in New York City. Since 2001, Hubbard worked with film-

“I thought there was so much history and so many lessons, and I thought it was presented in a way that was easy to follow.”

Lauren Tang

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maker Sarah Schulman on the ACT UP Oral History Project, a collection of interviews with surviving members of ACT UP. “People with AIDS and people in the grassroots fighting with them were the true experts in the disease,” Hubbard said. “So the oral history gives people the opportunity to tell the story.”

The film touches on the progression of the AIDS activist movement. Using the oral histories of ACT UP members and archival footage, the documentary traces the work of the group, highlighting key events like the its first demonstration in March 1987 on Wall Street.

Following the screening, Hubbard answered audience questions about AIDS video activism, ACT UP’s leadership, the documentary’s style and purpose, as well as the structure of the HIV and AIDS movement.

Hubbard stressed that the group’s leadership was organic.

If someone had an idea, he said, they did not necessarily need unanimous support — they were still able to bring their ideas to fruition.

“One of the things that is said most often in the oral histories is people talked about how they never felt like they were in the center in ACT UP,” he said. “It was this de-centered organization.”

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Bada$$ finished up his set by debuting a new song. As the group began to leave, Bada$$ rushed to the microphone and asked the crowd if they wanted a freestyle before they left. The

Hubbard said his film comes directly out of the AIDS activist film movement of the late 1980s and early 1990s, and features personal reactions to it.

He added that members of the ACT UP movement were diverse, spanning gender, race and ethnicity, and the film had to reflect that.

“It was a community rising to the occasion and actually, several communities in coalition,” he said.

Wiener, director of the Disability Cultural Center, agreed.

“There is this misunderstanding that this is a privileged white guy group, and that’s not what it is,” she said.

Students in attendance were moved by the documentary. Growing up as a dancer outside of Chicago, Lauren Tang, a junior television, radio and film major, said many of her older teachers were in their 20s and 30s when HIV and AIDS took their friends and families’ lives.

“I thought there was so much history and so many lessons, and I thought it was presented in a way that was easy to follow, but you were still able to grasp the information that was provided,” Tang said.

Roger Hallas, associate professor of English and director of the LGBT Studies Program, organized the event. He has conducted research on AIDS activist media and was a member of the chapters in Philadelphia and London when he was in college.

Hallas said AIDS video activism is important because it preserves the work of those who fought the disease, and supported those who had the disease back in the 1980s and early 1990s.

The film provides an account of the AIDS epidemic through the eyes of the individuals who experienced it.

Hubbard said individuals cannot replicate their actions. Instead, they should look to these activists as a source of guidance.

Hallas agreed and said: “Archiving is so often about taking things that are in need of preservation and taking their circulation out of the world and keeping them safe so that future generations can have access to it.” matoure@syr.edu

crowd was happy to engage, and the whole Pro Era Crew spit for five minutes before finally leaving the stage.

UU’s pick to start off their Bandersnatch series won the crowd. As an 18-year-old, Bada$$ brought himself and his Pro Era crew into the spotlight of SU. ragaudio@syr.edu

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(11-18) DEPAUL AT 17SYRACUSE (22-7) MICHAEL COHEN

SYRACUSE 85, DEPAUL 69

Senior Night done right.

RYNE GERY

SYRACUSE 76, DEPAUL 60

Exiting Strugglesville.

CHRIS ISEMAN

SYRACUSE 82, DEPAUL 68

DePaul’s feeling a little blue.

STARTING LINEUP

BEAT WRITER PREDICTIONS

CARRIER DOME, 6 P.M., BIG EAST NETWORK

POINT GUARD

MICHAEL CARTERWILLIAMS 6-6 185 LB. 12.5 PPG, 7.9 APG

WORREL CLAHAR

5-11 186 LB. 7.1 PPG, 3.5 APG

BRANDON TRICHE

6-4 210 LB. 14.5 PPG, 3.7 APG

POWER FORWARD

CENTER

6-8 215 LB. 14.6 PPG, 7.3 RPG

6-8 208 LB. 16.5 PPG, 7.1 RPG

Fair continues to be Syracuse’s most stable option, but he’ll have a test in Melvin, who ranks ninth in the Big East in scoring, five spots ahead of Fair.

RAKEEM CHRISTMAS 6-9 242 LB. 5.6 PPG, 5.0 RPG

JERAMI GRANT

6-3 183 LB. 5.6 PPG, 1.6 APG

McKinney is another role player in DePaul’s backcourt, not contributing much statistically. Triche remains Syracuse’s second leading scorer, even with his recent slump.

CLEVELAND MELVIN

SMALL FORWARD

CHARLES MCKINNEY

Clahar is a point guard by title, but the offense primarily runs through other players. Carter-Williams, however, struggles against smaller guards, which Clahar is at just 5 feet, 11 inches.

C.J. FAIR

onic.

Postively dem

SHOOTING GUARD

6-8 203 LB. 4.7 PPG, 3.0 RPG

BRANDON YOUNG

6-4 199 LB. 16.8 PPG, 4.6 APG

Young ranks seventh in the Big East in scoring, but leaves DePaul with a small lineup.

Grant has thrived against the conference’s lesser teams, and could do the same against the Blue Demons, who lack a true small forward.

COACHES

DONNAVAN KIRK

6-9 223 LB. 6.7 PPG, 4.0 RPG

Christmas continues to struggle for Syracuse on the offensive end and on the glass. Kirk is one of the Big East’s most efficient players and best lowpost defenders. He shoots better than 50 percent and averages 1.75 blocks per game.

JIM BOEHEIM

912-311 37 SEASONS

OLIVER PURNELL

424-340 24 SEASONS

Purnell is a better coach than his time at DePaul would indicate, but even his experience pales in comparison to Boeheim’s nearly unmatchable resume.

FREE THROWS

Michael Carter-Williams is a finalist for the Oscar Robertson Trophy. However, the point guard has slipped to third in the nation with 7.9 assists per game. He is one of 14 finalists for the national player of the year award.

In seven games since playing the entirety of a loss to Pittsburgh on Feb. 2 and a win over Notre Dame on Feb. 4, small forward Jerami Grant has played more than 15 minutes just twice, and hasn’t played more than nine minutes since a Feb. 20 win over Providence.

STAT TO KNOW

C.J. Fair has scored in double figures in every game since a Dec. 17 win over Detroit, the same game in which coach Jim Boeheim collected his 900th win.

The forward is averaging 16.3 points per game in that stretch, and has raised his scoring average from 11.3 to 14.6.

BIG NUMBER

6

Consecutive wins for Syracuse against DePaul. SU leads the all-time series 9-4, but the Blue Demons handed the Orange its worst Big East loss, 108-69, in 2006.

Syracuse hosts lowly DePaul looking to stop losing streak

By Chris Iseman SPORTS EDITOR

Syracuse’s players sat in front of their lockers Saturday, trying to explain how the Orange lost three games in a row, two of them on its home court. The bad shooting and late-game defensive breakdowns emerged as primary causes, both of which lack a guaranteed solution.

Beneath the swirling questions and mounting concern regarding Syracuse’s postseason chances, some optimism shined through. All three losses came against ranked teams. The Orange has shown the ability to hit shots in big situations, even if it’s been sparse during this most recent stretch. There are still two games left for No. 17 Syracuse to correct its issues, beginning with Big East bottom-feeder DePaul on Wednesday at 6 p.m. in the Carrier Dome.

“We’ve proven we’re a good team. We’ve got to get through this and get to the next game and play better, that’s the bottom line,” head coach Jim Boeheim said following his team’s 58-53 loss to Louisville. “We have opportunities in the regular season to play better, and that’s what we’re going to focus on.”

The Orange’s inability to hit shots from the perimeter has dug it into early holes before, but lately, it hasn’t been able to claw back.

In its last three games, Syracuse shot 39.5 percent from the field and 29.8 percent from behind the arc. Right now, the Orange doesn’t have a consistent outside shooter.

Brandon Triche is only 1-of-13 from the 3-point line in his last three games. Michael

Carter-Williams is also hot and cold. Trevor Cooney has only one 3 in his last six games.

James Southerland is Syracuse’s most dangerous threat on the perimeter, but typically needs time to find a rhythm before he starts hitting 3s.

It all adds up to a bad formula for the Orange.

Still, Syracuse won 10 Big East games, including wins over formidable conference teams like Notre Dame, Cincinnati and Louisville. But Syracuse lost the confidence and swagger that, at one point, had the Orange sitting in first place in the Big East.

“I believe we can play good. When we do play our game, I think we can beat anybody,” CarterWilliams said. “All these games were close that we lost. We just need to be more productive down the stretch. We have a very good team when we play our game and play smart.”

Carter-Williams had one play he regretted Saturday. With Syracuse down three points with 39 seconds left, he pulled up for a 3-pointer from the left wing that was off the mark. As soon as CarterWilliams jumped, he said, he saw Southerland out of the corner of his eye. If he could have the play back, he said he would’ve passed it off.

For SU, this is the perfect time to host DePaul.

The Blue Demons are closing a dreadful season.

They’ve lost their last four games by at least 10 points, they’re last in the Big East in scoring defense (75 points per game), opposing field-goal percentage (46.1 percent) and 14th in 3-point field-goal percentage defense (30.1 percent).

But none of that matters if SU’s shots keep clanking off of the rim. If DePaul follows the

chase gaewski | photo editor JAMES SOUTHERLAND and the No. 17 Orange will look to end a three-game skid Wednesday night against DePaul. SU has lost to Georgetown, Marquette and Louisville. trend of SU’s recent opponents, it’ll play a zone defense and force Syracuse to shoot.

If the Orange stays patient and waits for good looks at the basket – which hasn’t been the case recently – hitting shots shouldn’t be as much of an issue. The last three games have given Syracuse a chance to see exactly what works and what doesn’t at the most critical time in the season.

“It’s a hard thing, but at the same time, you’ve just got to learn from your mistakes,” Southerland said. “All the mistakes we made, we don’t want to continue that, especially during tournament time. If you make that mistake, you might not have the chance to make it again.”

And if Syracuse continues to miss shots, it has to crash the boards to get put-back opportunities – another yearlong Achilles’ heel for the Orange.

That’s why Wednesday’s game against DePaul is so important for Syracuse. It’s the chance to beat up on a struggling team, ride that momentum into a road meeting with Georgetown to end the regular season, and eventually into the Big East and NCAA tournaments.

First, Syracuse has to correct its flaws. If they persist in the next few weeks, SU’s season could come to an early end.

“Lucky for us, we still have a chance to redeem ourselves,” Fair said. “This is not the tournament where you’re one and done.

We’ve just got to finish off these last few games strong and make a run for the Big East title and NCAA.” cjiseman@syr.edu @chris_iseman

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efforts on Triche’s stroke. He’s been mired in a slump during Syracuse’s three-game losing streak, a stretch in which he’s gone 10-for-34 from the field and 1-for-13 from 3-point range.

And he’s barely 24 hours removed from a gutwrenching, seven-turnover performance in his team’s latest loss to Louisville.

His family tries to help him through the latest “hurdle” he must overcome in his career, offering encouragement and pointers during the workout.

“He’s always been the baby, so we always looked over him to try and protect him, but also to push him,” Mike said. “It’s great to be handson, especially at this time in his career.”

••• The ball never stopped bouncing.

The familiar sound could be heard as early as 5 a.m. as the sun came up in the summer, and as late as 1 a.m., long after the sun had set.

The Triche brothers spent their childhood dribbling, shooting and playing games for hours on end in their backyard on Thompson Road.

Brandon, the youngest of the three, was often asleep during the late-night sessions. But sometimes, he’d awake to that familiar sound in the middle of the night.

“If he heard that ball bounce, he’d run right out there,” said his father, Melvin Sr.

“This year is a year that I kind of wanted a few years ago, but still a year where there’s ups and downs. I’m finally able to showcase my talent.”

Brandon Triche

SU GUARD

His obsession with the game started at a young age. By the time he was 3, Triche could make shots on a 10-foot rim. Soon, Triche would tag along to brother Melvin’s practices, and along with both brothers to the park whenever they went.

That’s where his game first developed.

Melvin, who is seven years older than Triche, was too big and strong for him to challenge.

So Mike, who is four years older, became his nemesis growing up. The sibling rivalry would bring out the worst in 9-year-old Triche when the pair matched up at “bulldog camp” at H.W. Smith School. Triche would lose his temper and resort to screaming at the referees when the game didn’t go his way.

“They ended up sitting me down and then

I started crying,” Triche said. “Just being so competitive and wanting to win all the time, I was just trying to do whatever I could.”

All of the beatdowns paid off as he got older.

By seventh grade, he started to beat Mike. By 10th grade, he was beating Melvin, too.

“We pushed him to be good, so whatever someone said, we already knew,” Mike said.

“We knew that he was going to be a high-level Division-I player.”

••• By middle school, Triche didn’t want to be viewed as the loose cannon who would go off at any moment. So, he bottled up his emotions – rarely showing as much as a facial expression.

The stoic approach, which is something his father stressed to him growing up, stuck with him for the rest of his career.

“You never want to let anybody see your pain,” Triche said. “Whether you’re hurt or you’re feeling great, you never want to let anybody see that.”

Triche has tried to break out of his shell and show his personality this season, beginning with his dance at Midnight Madness.

Still, Triche said he prefers to keep to himself. During his freshman year at SU, he would spend his weekends at home with his brothers, rather than check out parties.

Alshwan Hymes, his closest friend and high school teammate, said Triche was always known as a quiet guy in school. It’s something Bob McKenney quickly learned coaching him at Jamesville-DeWitt High School.

When McKenney drove Triche to camps, they’d engage in small talk for the first two minutes before riding in silence the rest of the way. The same scene played out between them at lunch or dinner through the years.

“It was like pulling teeth,” McKenney said.

“I was tired by the time we left to try to keep a conversation going.”

His parents and brothers have always seen the other sides of Triche. The jokester who’s good for a one-liner to get you laughing. The artist whose self-portrait – featuring him dunking in his No. 25 Jamesville-DeWitt uniform – is framed at home. And the writer who composed poems inspired by the motivational quotes in his countless recruiting letters.

“He came a long way from this little mad kid,” Melvin Sr. said. “He grew up into a nice young man – very seldom do I ever hear anything bad about him, and that makes me feel real good.”

••• Brandon Triche waited three years for this moment. He may have started every game, but he deferred to a host of SU stars throughout his career.

It was finally his turn to take over this season. This Syracuse team is his team.

“This year is a year that I kind of wanted a few years ago, but still a year where there’s ups and downs,” Triche said. “I’m finally able to showcase my talent.”

The ups have displayed his capability to carry the load. A 25-point, six-assist perfor-

Brandon Triche has started all 136 games in his time at Syracuse, which puts him second for most starts in program history behind former SU star Derrick Coleman. Here’s a look at the players who have started the most games for Syracuse and their career statistics: PLAYER

Derrick Coleman

Brandon Triche* Craig Forth Gerry McNamara Rony Seikaly Jason Hart

chase gaewski | photo editor BRANDON TRICHE will play his final game at the Carrier Dome on Wednesday at 6 p.m. against DePaul on Senior Night. Triche is hoping to put an end to a recent slump. mance in SU’s dismantling of Rutgers. A careerhigh 29 points at Seton Hall. A steady floor game against then-No. 1 Louisville, in which he scored 23 points and took over at point guard in the second half to calmly direct the SU offense in a hostile environment at the KFC Yum! Center – his father beaming with pride watching from the first row.

The lows have only highlighted his leading role on the team. When Triche struggles, Syracuse does too, as evidenced by the team’s current three-game slide.

It started with the setback against Georgetown in front of a record crowd. The senior went 1-for-7 from beyond the arc and finished with 10 points. Triche was a nonfactor in a three-point loss to Marquette, going 0-for-3 from long range.

His brothers were quick to point that out.

“They were just saying, ‘A lot of the games where you’re not key to the game or you’re not dominating the game in one aspect or another, are a lot of the games y’all lose,’” Triche said.

“That was eye-opening to me.”

The senior already knew it. But hearing it again from Mike and Melvin hit it home.

His forgettable, 2-for-11, seven-turnover performance against Louisville last Saturday served as another painful reminder.

“For us to win, he’s got to play well,” backcourt mate Michael Carter-Williams said.

“That’s a tough job to have.”

••• Back at the Melo Center on Sunday night, Triche lines up beyond the arc on the right wing. He hits 10 in a row, Mike calling out the number with each make. He stays hot, climbing to 18 consecutive makes before leaving one short.

Then, Triche gets on the foul line.

“Ten in a row,” his brothers say before he steps to the line.

“Blindfolded, Mr. Miyagi,” Melvin cracks, a nod to the brothers’ shared affinity for action movies growing up, but Triche coolly sinks free throw after free throw.

The workouts have become a part of Triche’s routine for two to three days a week in the past two months, Melvin said. Mike said they often start at 9 or 10 p.m., sometimes lasting three hours until 1 a.m.

“It was like we had to step in when we seen things going a little south,” Melvin said. “He’s been playing really well – it’s just certain things should look better than what it does.”

They create workouts with various drills, the routine laid out by Mike on the paper he uses to track the results. On this night, Triche took about 300 3-pointers. The results at each spot on the floor are documented in Mike’s notes on a folded piece of paper.

Above the sketched-out arc are three words – all variations on words Mike uses to describe Triche when he looks back on his accomplished basketball career, which included overcoming a torn ACL in high school and the ups and downs of Syracuse.

Resiliency – Toughness – Heart Triche has met each challenge with hard work – always trusting his brothers and always returning to the gym to get through it. And on Wednesday night, emotions may run high when his family watches Triche take the Dome floor one last time.

“It’s been sort of breathtaking,” Mike said. “It’s been extremely enjoyable to be able to go from working out together as kids to now as adults, and him getting ready for his last month at SU.” rjgery@syr.edu

AS IT STANDS

ELITE COMPANY YEARS

1986-90

2009-13 2001-05 2002-06 1984-88 1996-00

GAMES STARTED

POINTS PER GAME

136

10.5

140 135 135 133 131

15

4.7 15.5 12.6 11.4

15

113

Number of wins With 113 wins,

Brandon Triche is six wins shy of being the winningest player in Syracuse basketball history.

Former SU small forward

Kris Joseph

currently holds the record with 119 wins.

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Alyssa Murray went down hard in front of the goal post and clenched her right knee. The cut she made wasn’t different from any other, but this one tore her ACL. Murray had played her last game for West Babylon High School. After just committing to play lacrosse at Syracuse, tearing her ACL was a huge setback for Murray, but not for SU head coach Gary Gait.

“I continue to recruit kids that have knee injuries because the surgery is so good nowadays, they all recover and become the player that they really are,” Gait said.

Murray’s recovery took longer than she expected. She rehabbed the rest of her senior year and into her transition to Syracuse.

Though she worked with Orange trainers, remaining optimistic was hard. But she credits her father Ray for helping her persevere and instilling her with self-assurance.

“Confidence was her biggest thing,” Gait said.

“But she’s an extremely hard worker, and she developed her confidence as her leg got better.”

Murray’s father played lacrosse at Adelphi University. He helped give her and their home-

alyssa pooler | staff photographer ALYSSA MURRAY ranks eighth on Syracuse’s all-time scoring list despite tearing her ACL in high school. Murray has earned a spot on the Tewaaraton watch list this year. town of West Babylon, N.Y., its first taste of women’s lacrosse.

Murray was only 5 when her father’s friend helped start the West Babylon Community Youth Center girl’s lacrosse program. About a year later, Ray started coaching the team. Murray tagged along to watch her older sister play and opted to try, too.

“Halfway through the season, they just threw me a uniform, even though I was half the size as everyone,” Murray said. “They could

barely field the team every game.”

Murray’s father encouraged her to pursue lacrosse, despite being the youngest on the team. He took one of his old lacrosse sticks, chopped it in half and handed it to her. It was the perfect size for his tiny daughter.

Taking her to the backyard with her new stick, Ray challenged Murray to see how many times she could successfully throw and catch the ball. Murray caught the ball 15 times in a row. She had a natural knack for the game, something Gait needed her to realize while rehabbing.

But that was only a part of her recovery.

Katie Rowan, an assistant coach and former SU player, realizes how common ACL tears are in lacrosse, as well as the difficulty getting back to 100 percent.

“It really does take a toll on your legs and knees, specifically,” Rowan said. “There’s so much cutting on defense and offense.”

Murray was aware of this, yet resilient.

She knew her capabilities, but coming back and recognizing the speed of the game was challenging. Murray credits her teammates in helping her fall back into sync with the game and in 2010, becoming a starter.

“She had the skills and ability to be playing, so I put her in,” Gait said. “She’s a very solid player with great instincts and she’s one of our smartest players and was a great fit for our offense.”

Notching 24 goals and 24 assists in her first season, Murray did what Gait and her father knew she could. Along the way, she also impressed Rowan, who joined the coaching staff in 2012. After watching film of Murray, Rowan noted her explosion between her freshman and sophomore seasons.

In her sophomore season, Murray led the nation in points and goals. She ranked 10th in the nation in points per game with 4.57, and was named to the Big East AllTournament team.

Moving up the rankings her junior year to eighth on Syracuse’s all-time scoring list, Murray has remained consistent in the Orange’s (2-2) first four games of the season. She was recently named to the 2013 Tewaaraton watch list for player of the year as she continues to validate the confidence Gait had in her coming out of high school.

Said Gait: “Alyssa Murray is the perfect example of why I do that.” qsbronso@syr.edu

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Arcidiacono overcomes injury, stars for hometown Villanova

By Jacob Pramuk STAFF WRITER

Ryan Arcidiacono grew up surrounded by Villanova’s blue and white. His parents, Villanova graduates, bought him miniature Villanova basketballs as a child. His father Joe drove 25 miles, sometimes through snowfall, to watch the Wildcats in Philadelphia with his son.

Arcidiacono’s earliest memory of Villanova basketball came on a snowy January night in 2005, when he watched the Wildcats dismantle then-undefeated No. 2 Kansas 83-62 with a 3-point shooting barrage.

“That’s the only game I remember from before I was recruited,” Arcidiacono said.

“They pretty much killed them and Villanova’s fans rushed the court.”

Arcidiacono’s upbringing in nearby Langhorne, Pa., kept him around Villanova basketball throughout his youth. When it came time to choose a college basketball program, he made the obvious choice.

After medical uncertainty in his senior year of high school, the freshman point guard has recovered to dazzle Villanova crowds with sharp shooting of his own. Arcidiacono has had an upand-down freshman campaign, but has given his hometown crowd more to be excited about.

Arcidiacono committed to play for the Wild-

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cats and head coach Jay Wright in October of his junior year of high school. That year, he scored 20.4 points per game, along with 5.6 rebounds and five assists per contest.

In March, though, a pain in his back suddenly clouded his future.

Arcidiacono initially planned to play through the pain. He sought no medical attention and played basketball throughout the summer. He attended NBA basketball camps hosted

by Chris Paul and Deron Williams, giving little thought to the injury.

“It probably wasn’t the best decision on my part,” Arcidiacono said. “I tried to gut it out, and I thought I could just put it off until August or September.”

But the pain intensified enough that Arcidiacono saw a doctor in September.

The visit led to a December back surgery that kept him on the bench his entire senior season.

Arcidiacono was relieved he had solidified his college basketball plans before the injury.

Rather than dwell on the premature conclusion of his high school career, he worked on getting himself in shape for college.

“I didn’t really have any sleepless nights thinking about missing my senior year,” Arcidiacono said. “It was tough not to be out there with my teammates, but I really just started to focus

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“He’s kept his confidence.

He’s kept a great attitude.

I think his maturity has allowed him to gain from every positive experience and every negative experience.”

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on college.”

His work has paid off, and Arcidiacono hasn’t shown any effects of the injury that kept him away from basketball for a season.

He made an early splash by scoring 25 points, including four 3-pointers, in his second career game, an 80-68 win over Marshall.

But the challenges of college basketball caught up to him. Arcidiacono shot just 8-for37 from behind the arc during an ensuing 2-4 stretch for the Wildcats.

He’s gone through other rough patches this season, like a 2-for-9 3-point shooting stretch in late January and early February.

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Arcidiacono just kept shooting. Continuing to pull the trigger is the only way to emerge from a slump, he said.

“I just need to keep shooting and make the other team fear my shot,” he said. “But if my shot’s not falling on that night, I just need to be more creative and get my teammates involved.”

Arcidiacono’s maturity has allowed him to grow from his inconsistencies this season, coach Wright said.

“He’s kept his confidence. He’s kept a great attitude,” Wright said. “I think his maturity has allowed him to gain from every positive experience and every negative experience.”

Arcidiacono exhibited his resilience Jan. 26, when he found himself mired in a 1-for-7 3-point shooting slump, trailing then-No. 3 Syracuse by three points at home. He received a feed with less than five seconds left and drained a 3-pointer from the left corner.

The Wildcats prevailed in overtime in front of Arcidiacono’s blue-and-white-clad parents, family and friends. This time, the Villanova fans mobbed Arcidiacono for his 3-point heroics.

“People were grabbing me. One kid was trying to take off my jersey,” Arcidiacono told reporters after the game. “It was fun, but hopefully, people know we don’t need that anymore.”

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from Texas.”

Desko and Harris agreed Harris is most likely to match Mullins’ blend of up-close physicality and attack-chasing speed. When Harris shifted back from midfield Friday, he had little time to think. Instead, he reverted to basic instincts and his experience as a close defender from last season.

The 6-foot-2, 218-pound Harris looked forward to getting back in the trenches. He focused on tying up the hands of attacks, a natural role.

But footwork became an extra point of emphasis. He worried about tripping over the cage and giving up a late game-breaking goal.

“The adjustments are just probably guarding different guys,” Harris said. “The attackmen are usually a little quicker, a little shiftier than the midfielders, so if anybody was going to play down low, probably be working on their footwork a little more this weekend.”

On Monday, the Orange ran through a vast group of defenders, Harris said, but he expects the field of likely starters to narrow as the week progresses and the team learns more about Mullins’ health. For now, though, largely untested Sean Young remains in contention.

“The defense, especially at this level, is a lot about communication, and they do that very well,” Hamlin said. “Sean’s a box guy, he’s a Canadian guy, and he just plays really good team defense on top of his good 1-on-1 defense.”

Whichever player or combination of defenders is selected, Syracuse can lean on Megill and Hamlin. Megill can help on dodging attacks.

Plus, he and Hamlin are into their second season of regularly playing together.

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munication to carry it through, regardless of Mullins’ health.

Having already rotated frequently this season, SU and its defense are still difficult to scout, Desko said, forcing teams to spend extra hours pouring over scouting reports and preparing for the Orange’s varying personnel groups in practice.

Desko has yet to decide his defensive matchups for Saturday’s game with St. John’s, but he and the Orange will head to Chester, Pa., with several combinations of defensive sets and players in mind.

“You don’t have a choice,” Desko said. “If he’s unable to participate then, you know – we don’t ever go into a game with just plan A. There’s B and C in case something doesn’t work, so we’ve got to be prepared, and you don’t want players to adjust on the fly.” jmklinge@syr.edu @MrJacobK

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Syracuse appears to be back on track with its overtime heartstopper over the Cavaliers. But Brandon Mullins’ injury threatens to disbalance the defense.

SU opens Big East play against the Red Storm on Saturday. The Orange beat SJU 9-8 last season in Queens.

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SU explores options without Mullins

By Jacob Klinger ASST. SPORTS EDITOR

keegan barber | staff photographer MATT HARRIS and his teammates are preparing for Saturday’s game against St. John’s for the possibility that Brandon Mullins won’t play.

QUOTE OF THE DAY

“This is the all-volunteer army. We can’t make anyone play who doesn’t want to play.”

Syracuse is preparing for life without Brandon Mullins.

His ability to play atop the defense, as well in close around the crease is rare enough. Few do it as well as he does, and his raw athleticism is largely unmatched. Syracuse has other capable defenders, but none that can match Mullins’ skill set at such a high level.

“I mean, it’s going to affect everything,” fellow defender David Hamlin said. “As long as he’s out of the lineup, it’s going to affect every team to replace a guy like Mullins with just anybody.”

Mullins appeared to injure his

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left knee trying to change directions after missing a check on Chris LaPierre with about 6:45 left in the fourth quarter in Friday night’s 9-8 overtime victory against then-No. 6 Virginia.

He underwent an MRI on Monday night, but head coach John Desko has yet to hear from doctors.

Mullins was not available to the media Tuesday, as he was receiving treatment.

Matt Harris stepped into defense from long-stick midfield and helped shut out UVA the rest of the game. But Harris is just one of the options Desko is considering to fill the potential void. No. 10 Syracuse (2-1) already rotated Kyle Carey and short-stick

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defender Matt Pratt in with nearconstants Brian Megill and Hamlin.

Long-stick midfielders Joe Fazio and Peter Macartney may also be moved back, Desko said. Megill has moved up top in the past.

The Orange is going through practice as if Mullins won’t return this week. Whether a midfielder is converted or a less-experienced player steps to the fore, he must adjust in at least footwork and communication to replace the seemingly irreplaceable.

“Obviously, he’s probably a much better athlete than I am,” Harris said. “He’s a stud football player

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