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In celebration of National Beer Day, Pulp takes a road trip to four central New York breweries to test their signature drinks and weigh the hops and malt.

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The president of the NAACP spoke at Syracuse University on Wednesday in an event titled “Black Convocation: State of the Black Youth.”

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S • Beyond this season

Syracuse’s 2012 recruiting class fulfilled its potential, but the Orange needs to carry the momentum of its NCAA tournament run past just this year.

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A SOBERING REALITY

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Ice melts inside Tennity

By Michael Burke asst. news editor

The ice at the Tennity Ice Skating Pavilion on South Campus recently melted and was removed from the rink this week.

Officials learned Friday that a heat exchanger, which keeps the ice frozen, was broken. At that point, the ice was melting and “there was nothing we could do about it,” said Jordan Peters, assistant director at Tennity.

Tennity employees spent this week removing the ice, which was mostly water by Wednesday, from the rink, which is now just a concrete floor, Peters said.

The ice won’t be reinstalled until the heat exchanger is fixed, which Peters said is unlikely to happen before the end of the semester.

Syracuse University’s Physical Plant department will be responsible for repairing the equipment. mdburk01@syr.edu

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International students compare home drinking cultures to US Editor’s Note: Over the past month, The Daily Orange has collaborated with the Department of Newspaper and Online Journalism at Syracuse University on a series of stories relating to alcohol culture on the SU campus. Multiple stories will appear in The D.O. in the coming days.

By Kirsty Fraser and Nisha Stickles the daily orange

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ocked out of his freshman dorm at 2 a.m. on a Saturday, Piotr Jankowski was very drunk.

Barefoot and missing his student ID and phone, he started to fling rocks at his friend’s window in hopes of getting his attention. A Department of Public Safety patrol car idling nearby saw him in the act, and moments later Jankowski was being chased down by an officer.

Although he was not caught, Jankowski reflects on that night as one of his craziest drinking experiences in the United States. As a senior architecture major from Poland, he once thought that in the U.S., college drinking was unruly, but it wasn’t long before he adopted his Ameri-

can peers’ behavior.

Jankowski is one of 1,836 international undergraduate students at Syracuse University who has felt the hangover of the

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Percentage of college students ages 18 to 22 who drank alcohol within the past month

The number of countries in the world that have no formal law concerning the legal drinking age

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prevalent college drinki ng culture.

Coming from all across the world, these students differ in their cultural backgrounds and assimilation into the university’s community. Yet, in interviews with eight international students, they share a common belief about the U.S. college drinking scene: American students binge drink recklessly and too often rely on getting “blackout drunk” to have fun.

UNDERAGE AND UNDER THE INFLUENCE

“Underage drinking is a big deal here ... I find it ridiculous that most people can serve in the army and smoke cigarettes, but are not allowed to drink until they are 21,” said Alisa Sokolova, a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences who is from Moscow. “Those who want to drink will drink anyway.”

Of the countries that legalize alcohol consumption, the U.S. is one of 12 countries with the highest legal drinking age of 21, according to ProCon.org. Excessive drinking is one of the leading issues targeting its youth, and this can be felt nowhere more than on college campuses.

When the law is disobeyed so frequently and on such a large scale, many are quick to question its effectiveness.

The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) reports that almost 60 percent of college students ages 18 to 22 drank alcohol in the past month.

Almost two out of three of them engaged in binge drinking during that same time frame.

The national drinking age aims to protect the American youth, but some SU students think this restriction may result in see international page 8

Kasich to campaign in Syracuse

By Sara Swann asst. news editor

Ohio Gov. John Kasich will be coming to Syracuse for a town hall meeting on Friday as part of his presidential campaign.

The event will take place in Le Moyne College’s Grewen Hall, which is located KASICH at 1419 Salt Springs Road in Syracuse. It will start at 6 p.m. and is set to last until 7:30 p.m., according to the event’s website.

Doors will open for the event at 5 p.m.

The event is free and open to the public.

In the most recent primary in Wisconsin, Kasich gained 14.1 percent of the vote and received zero delegates.

In total, Kasich has 143 delegates. In order to win the Republican nomination for president, the GOP candidates need 1,237 delegates in total. smswann@syr.edu

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THIRSTY thursday | ballast point’s the commodore american stout

Ballast Point beer has weak taste, bold scent

By Max Darrow staff writer

The cold and snowy weather made my choice for this week’s review pretty easy: Ballast Point’s The Commodore American Stout. Stouts and porters usually are full-bodied beers that fare pretty well on a winter night.

The bottle has a very artistic label, with a special touch of f lare that helps it stand out on the shelf. The first thing you see is a skeleton pirate, dressed in purple and smoking a pipe on the ocean. Honestly, it’s a pretty cool design.

When you pour The Commodore, it looks as dark a brown as possible — almost black — and leaves a sizeable tan head. This is a dark beer, absolutely no question about it.

Unlike a lot of beers I’ve reviewed, The Commodore is extremely potent. It offers very strong coffee notes and chocolate notes, as well as a bit of sweetness and nuttiness. Before taking a sip, it felt like I was hit in the face with the smell — it’s that strong.

When I took a sip, I was a bit surprised. It didn’t feel like the thick, fuller-bodied stout I was expecting. It had a watery and carbonated start, but eventually felt like it thickened from the tip of the tongue to the finish.

The Commodore has a mix of strong dark chocolate, nutty and coffee flavors. The biggest thing I noticed was how dry my mouth felt after taking a few sips. It has a very roasted feel to it, almost like a burnt flavor, that’ll linger a few moments after a sip.

As mentioned earlier, The Commodore is a great beer for a cold night. It’s high in alcohol content, weighing in at 6.5 percent ABV, and it’ll warm you up. You won’t want to drink a lot of it either, as it’s really filling.

I wouldn’t order this on its own, but I’d happily enjoy a pint alongside a rack of ribs or with another smoky barbecue dish.

This is a classier beer than most you’ll see on a college campus, but it isn’t priced like one.

You can find a six-pack for around $11, which compares pretty well to any standard six-pack.

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A professor at the University of Vermont is working with a team of students and other professors to create printable solar panels.

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Syracuse snapped its threegame losing streak in its 13-6 win over Hobart on Wednesday.

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@CuseNAACP ”Unless black lives matter, all lives will never matter” -@CornellWBrooks #blackconvo

Communication Read about facilitated communication, a scientifically discredited technique that is still practiced at Syracuse University.

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SU names Greek life director Laura Sanders will lead Office of Fraternity and Sorority Affairs

By Rachel Sandler asst. news editor

CORNELL BROOKS, president and CEO of the NAACP, spoke in the Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications on Wednesday about voting rights and activism in the scope of college students. liam sheehan asst. photo editor

NAACP president speaks on college activism

By Stacy Fernandez staff writer

NAACP President and CEO Cornell Brooks thinks that over and over again, humans are being reduced to hashtags.

Brooks spoke at Syracuse University’s annual Black Convocation: State of the Black Youth on Wednesday in the Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. The event was co-sponsored by SU’s chapters of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ).

The purpose of the Black Convocation, NABJ President Cherokee Hubbert said, “is to formally unite us to discuss the state of our union, more specifically, today, our youth.”

Brooks’ lecture centered largely around social justice and racial issues in the United States, and how young people can help the country make progress on those issues.

Jakia Warren, the criminal justice chair of SU’s chapter of the NAACP, introduced Brooks as the keynote speaker for the night.

Brooks earned a degree in political science from Jackson State University and a Master of Divinity from Boston University’s School of Theology, with a concentration in social ethics and systematic theology. Brooks also earned a Juris Doctorate from Yale Law School.

Brooks said he was delighted to be at SU, where he said so many people were wide-awake — unlike in some of his sermons from when he was a young preacher.

He began his speech by explaining that it is difficult for him to be

responsible for giving speeches on criminal justice when there are deaths such as that of Eric Garner, an unarmed black man who was killed in New York City in July 2014 after a police officer put him in a chokehold. Brooks added that the nation’s system of mass incarceration is slavery by another name.

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The number of years the NAACP has existed. It formed on Feb. 12, 1909, in Baltimore.

The U.S., Brooks said, is at a peculiar moment in history, a point of challenge and conflict in which there are activists in the streets, on college campuses and on the steps of Congress. He said the nation is

in an impatient frame of mind.

“We find ourselves at a moment where we’re not inclined to wait for justice. We’re not inclined to wait for the promises of the Constitution to be delivered to a millennial generation on a baby boomer time frame,” Brooks said.

The nation’s false dichotomy, Brooks said, is reflected by people who say that one can’t say “black lives matter.” Those people, Brooks said, say you can only say “all lives matter,” without realizing that unless black lives matter, all lives will never matter.

At one point in his lecture, Brooks mentioned selfies, saying that older and younger generations are fascinated by holding their phones at an arm’s length and taking a picture of themselves.

“What would happen if we held see naacp page 6

How bar scene at SU has changed in recent years

After an extensive search process, the Division of Student Affairs has appointed Laura Sanders as the director of the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Affairs at Syracuse University.

Before her appointment, SANDERS Sanders worked at Wells College in Aurora, New York, as an assistant director of communications and marketing, and, before that, the director of alumnae and alumni relations. She was also the assistant dean of students at Cornell University before that.

“As someone who greatly valued my own Greek experience, I look forward to supporting the many students involved in Greek life at Syracuse University,” Sanders said in an SU News release. “I feel passionately about meeting students where they are, helping them learn new things about themselves and the world, and working with them to make their community one in which they are proud.”

Eddie Banks-Crosson, who previously served as director of the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Affairs, left SU in August 2015. rsandler@syr.edu

national news Here is a round-up of the biggest news stories happening in the nation right now:

U.S. SONY WINS A New York state judge ruled on Wednesday to deny Kesha’s emergency request to get out of her contract with Sony. Kesha claimed that her producer at Sony, Dr. Luke, allegedly raped her while she was working with him. source: usa today

A SOBERING REALITY Editor’s Note: Over the past month, The Daily Orange has collaborated with the Department of Newspaper and Online Journalism at Syracuse University on a series of stories relating to alcohol culture on the SU campus. Multiple stories will appear in The D.O. in the coming days.

By Delaney Vanwey, Hana Maeda, Susie Heller and Madeleine Buckley the daily orange

On the night Syracuse University won the 2003 national basketball championship, Marshall Street flooded with students. Meredith Tornabene, a Class of 2005 alumna, remembers wall-to-wall people, as well as students getting naked, flipping cars and lighting shirts on fire.

“It was never-ending choruses of ‘Let’s go Orange,’” she said. “It was so interesting because everyone knew (Marshall Street) was where to go.”

Dirk Oudermool recalls the ceiling being torn down inside of Darwin’s Restaurant and Bar that night. In 2006, Oudermool, the bar’s owner, announced that Darwin’s had closed after failing to renew its lease on Marshall Street.

Along with Konrad’s Sports Bar and Maggie’s Tavern, Darwin’s is

among several bars that have closed on Marshall Street. Bars in this area started to decline after the Syracuse Police Department began Operation Prevent in the early 2000s to cut down on underage drinking.

The program, a collaboration between state police, city police and SU’s Department of Public Safety, led a series of raids on bars that resulted in heavy fines and hundreds of citations for underage drinking. see bars page 6

MORE OVERSIGHT The U.S. government is close to issuing a rule that would close a loophole allowing banks and other financial institutions to shield the identities of those who own shell companies. The rule is in response to a massive data leak from a Panamanian law firm that linked major leaders to offshore accounts. source: the new york times

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‘Dark Web’ misconceptions should be reconsidered for benefits

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hen you hear the name “Dark Web,” your first impression probably isn’t a rosy one. It sounds like something concocted by a supervillain in their attempt to take over the world. And it’s this ominous connotation that surely contributes to its reputation as the online meeting place of evil.

As a recent poll released by the Center for International Governance Innovation suggests, the Dark Web is not very popular.

A whopping seven out of 10 people polled think it should be shut down. And while certain parts of the Dark Web are despicable, many people fail to consider that it’s just like anything else in this world: It can be used for good or bad.

As reported by Wired, the poll conducted by the CIGI told participants that the Dark Web is a place where “journalists, human rights activists, dissidents and whistleblowers can use these services to rally against repression … and shed light upon corruption,” while “hackers, illegal marketplaces, and child abuse sites can also use these services to hide from law enforcement.”

The Dark Web is a publicly visible section of the internet in which IP addresses are

hidden and therefore anonymous.

That’s a fairly good description, but here’s how it works: The Dark Web is a series of websites that are publicly available. If you’re reading this online, you can be on a dark website in a matter of minutes, but what makes it different from the light web is that the server that hosts the website is anonymous. The location of the server is hidden by software called

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STUFF THAT WOULD BLOW CAVEMEN’S MINDS Tor and the user has to have the software as well in order to find a website that’s run through the program. Using Tor essentially encodes the IP address of both the website and user.

There is also a false perception that the Dark Web and the Deep Web are the same thing. The Deep Web is all of the websites that don’t show up on a search engine. While the Dark Web is included in this, the deep web consists of 90 percent of the internet.

Obviously, anonymity comes with positives and negatives, but does one outweigh the other? Sounds like a perfect question for a pros and cons list.

Cons Provides a place to watch and post child pornography As referenced in the poll’s question of whether or not it should be shut down, the worst of humanity has found a place on the Dark Web. It enables people to watch or upload child porn without the repercussions of doing so on the normal internet.

Thankfully, the FBI is still able to trace them. In January 2016, the FBI caught 1,500 visitors to a child porn site they had secretly set up. The Dark Web may be anonymous, but it’s not impossible to track down people who use it.

Enables the buying and selling of guns by terrorists While there is some speculation that Islamic State group terrorists used guns obtained

from the Dark Web in the Paris attacks, it’s inconclusive. Regardless, there are a lot of firearms to choose from on the Dark Web. Vocativ, a media and technology website, found 281 listings of guns and ammunition on the Dark Web. These postings included AK-47s, sniper rifles and submachine guns for sale. To be fair, it’s hard to say this a huge deal when the requirements to buy a gun in a state like Alaska is basically as easy as it is to download Tor.

Advertisers can’t sell your information This a prevalent topic of discussion right now, as advertisers and online websites are currently selling user’s information without any restrictions. Due to the anonymity of the process, that doesn’t happen on the Dark Web because the websites don’t really know who you are.

That’s a refreshing thought: The capitalization of information doesn’t exist on the Dark Web.

Allows people to buy and purchase recreational drugs Compared to the two cons above, this isn’t that bad. Still, the Silk Road has been a notorious part of the Dark Web and is arguably a major revenue source for drug cartels.

It makes academic research free There is a major problem in academia right now over the cost of research papers. It is vital information for researchers and professors, yet the costs make it difficult to access. A few services have popped up on the Dark Web that bypass the research paper’s paywall and allow the user to read it for free.

While illegal, this service has support in the academic community for spreading the work of the researcher.

Pros Allows for freedom of expression in places where it’s illegal This isn’t as big of a concern in the United States, but in dictatorial countries, the Dark Web is one of the few forums for freedom of expression.

Considering that free speech is a staple of democracy, I would say that’s pretty important for people in autocratic countries to have access to it. China, for example, is a place where citizens can use the Dark Web to communicate freely without fear of government accusations of treason and the threat of getting locked up. This allows them to somewhat publicly post about atrocities that may never see the light of day otherwise.

Information is a vitally important part of fair and balanced society. The first amendment right to freely express one’s self is something we may take for granted, but there is no denying the value it holds.

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The Dark Web has its flaws, but it shouldn’t be entirely shunned. It’s a fascinating glimpse into what an anarchical society would look like.

Without it, WikiLeaks would have never happened. Regardless of how one feels about it, the scandal has changed the world and few things can have as widespread an impact.

The Dark Web is a double-edged sword, but it’s one that is freely wielded by the public with minimal intrusion from governments — a fact that is both terrifying and encouraging.

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

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or millennial voters, it appears that being proHillary has become synonymous with being anti-Bernie — a phenomenon that is ironically anti-Democratic.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was interrupted at a speaking engagement last week at the State University of New York at Purchase by hecklers shouting “she wins, we lose.” The vocal critics were there in support of Sen. Bernie Sanders, Clinton’s opponent for the Democratic nomination. While the race is tight and the New York state primaries are just around the corner on April 19, this dichotomy needs to simmer down.

As seen so close to home, each Democratic candidates’ ethos resonates with one of the two types of millennial voters: Sanders, the revolutionary idealist, and Clinton, the pragmatic negotiator. So, there comes a dilemma — a worrisome split in a powerful Democratic voting base. But to not lose sight of the overall goal of retaining power in the White House, liberals should address this support gap at a time when Republicans are grappling to choose their own candidate and there are campus rumors of local Donald Trump rally taking place next week.

A recent CBS News poll conducted in New York pegs Clinton as the winner of the state’s primary with a 10-point lead. With a race so close, emotions can run high. But it has never made sense to me why voters in the same party would foster hatred and hostility among members using the same identifier to express political alliance. And while advocating for your candidate is very welcome in this oh-so-democratic society, it is important that ideals serve to unite a party rather than divide it.

So, this expression, while theoretically respectable, is one that if continued, will add to the possibility of the Trumps and Cruzs of the world coming into power to lead the United States to a terrifying fate. To make sure that doesn’t happen, we must respectfully appreciate the upsides of both Democratic candidates to not deter ourselves and fellow voters from supporting our party.

The Pew Research Center found in 2014 that half of millenni-

als identify as politically independent, but more often than not end up voting for the Democratic candidate. This trend is an important one and with the seemingly schismatic nature of the Democratic Party in this election, it seems that those who “feel the Bern” will vote for Clinton if that is what it comes down to, and vice versa.

While party loyalty was a sure thing in previous elections, if there’s anything that can be taken away from the past few months, it is that nothing is certain. Case in point: Donald Trump is a presidential candidate and winning.

The results of this election and its related outcomes will have a drastic impact on millennials as we enter adulthood without our parents helping us in the voting booth on election day and thereafter.

“How you vote when you’re young often carries over into life,” said Michael Kazin, co-editor of Dissent magazine, a political and cultural publication. “The idea that politics doesn’t matter and isn’t relevant to life is naive and wrong.

You may not care about politics, but politics cares about you.”

There are fundamental rights at stake in the 2016 election. Millennials have grown up being able to choose what we do with our bodies. Women are allowed to get abortions and access contraceptives. We fight for our ability to protect personal privacy. It is becoming status quo to openly talk about mental health and wellbeing. The discussion surrounding immigration is now met with a more positive connotation. We have the freedom to be.

We do not realize what the world would look like without these liberties and definitely should not want to find out.

“There would be no more defining choice for young people and their future, than the choice given in November,” said Lauren Stiller Rikleen, author of “You Raised Us — Now Work With Us: Millennials, Career Success, and Building Strong Workplace Teams.”

“If millennials do not ultimately

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become engaged in the upcoming election, they are doing a disservice not just to their generation, but to the country,” she added.

This is why it’s important to care, to have an opinion, to vote in the primary. These decisions count and every vote matters. People often look to the human aspects of candidates: the personality, the honesty, the revolutionary nature, when deciding whose name they punch on the ballot. In this election, maybe more so than in others, the policies the candidate will support and the work they will get done, are factors that are central to the decision to be made.

It’s this passion of millennial voters that has made it clear that they would rather identify with a person, rather than a party — to align themselves with the candidate who is as anti-establishment as they are.

Political expression and freedom are one of the foremost pillars of our nation, even the first amendment of the Constitution is plastered across the side of Newhouse III. But when Clinton came to the Syracuse University hill last week, as she interacted with community members at Varsity Pizza on Marshall Street, she was met with boos and cheers of “Bernie.”

“One other thing to remember about young people: They are much less interested in and committed to political parties, in general, than older people.” said Kristi Andersen, professor of political science in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, in an email.

So while millennials rarely opt for a label when it comes to political association and intend to have a conflicting ideology on what the president should strive to do, they shouldn’t be creating a battle between Sanders and Clinton. The focus should remain on the war to overcome the party that will take history backwards.

And in standing together, young voters will channel the power that they feel the establishment deprives them of to make America great again.

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

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Extended hours trial should be considered As an institution working to build a stronger academic reputation, Syracuse University should consider a pilot program to determine whether or not campus library hours should be extended.

Boston College, an SU peer institution, recently rolled out a trial program that allows the first floor of its primary campus library to remain open all night on Fridays and Saturdays to make for a 24-hour, seven-daysa-week operation. The threeweekend initiative will gauge student demand for the extended hours to be taken into consideration for the 2016-17 academic year, according to The Heights, the independent student newspaper of Boston College.

Meanwhile, SU’s Bird Library closes at 10 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays to open at 10 a.m. on Saturday and Sunday mornings, despite a 24-hour weekday schedule. And while 10 p.m. is arguably too early to shut down an entire student resource facility, the implementation of a trial program to measure afterhours use of the library should be evaluated.

Some students may not have access to a productive space in which they are able to

concentrate in their current living situation. By limiting library services and staffing during weekend hours, which Bird Library does already, to provide a workspace for students during the pilot period, SU could make an informed decision by gathering data on the feasibility of extending hours.

Based on this information, if the university were to find that keeping the library open 24-hours a day on the weekends would not be financially sound, SU could move forward with finding a middle ground to consider extending hours accordingly or opting to open earlier.

And because limited hours for university services and facilities, including dining halls, are not an unpopular grievance at SU, the assessment of library hours could pose as progress for what could be transformative changes for student life.

It’s easy to say that operational costs may outweigh demand.

But rather then maintaining a guessing game, SU should move forward to effectively collect data to rule out all assumptions and provide a definite variable for student interest.

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While Tornabene was never part of a raid, she knew peers who were. She said that nothing had been done before to stop the underage drinking. “(The police) walked in, locked doors and just checked IDs,” she said. “These places had rules,

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but they were breaking them to make money.”

Tornabene said there were many rumors surrounding the closing of Konrad’s, but most people said they had been breaking these rules.

That did not make regulars feel better, though.

“That was a sad day,” she said. “People left flowers on Marshall Street. People got very upset.”

Tornabene said that time period contributed to the end of the bar scene on Marshall Street.

Jerry Dellas, president of Crouse-Marshall Business Association, said something similar.

“Nobody wants to come up and open up a bar on campus anymore,” Dellas said. “If they do, they’re gonna have a tough time.”

Dellas said there were eight or nine bars in the area around Marshall Street in the 1990s. Now there are five — Faegan’s Cafe & Pub, Orange Crate Brewing Co., DJ’s on the Hill, Chuck’s Cafe and Harry’s Bar. Konrad’s, which operated from 2000 to 2004, and Maggie’s Tavern, which operated from 1992 to 2009, were both closed due to raids. The New York State Liquor Authority suspended both establishments’ liquor licenses.

While Darwin’s did not close because of Operation Prevent directly, Oudermool said the changing attitude toward bars and alcohol on the Hill were important factors in his decision to not sign a long-term lease.

“I think, in retrospect, I’m glad today that I got out because the environment on the Hill today has gone more and more against bars and restaurants,” he said. “And I believe today most

of them up there are struggling, and it’s too bad.”

The most recent Operation Prevent raid in the university area occurred on March 20, 2015. Both DJ’s and Orange Crate were investigated, as well as Clinton Street Pub in downtown Syracuse. But only six arrests occurred, and six fake IDs were confiscated across all three establishments, according to a Feb. 2 Syracuse.com article.

The number of fake IDs confiscated by these raids used to be much higher. In October 2007, raids on Lucy’s Retired Surfers Bar, which is now Orange Crate, and Chuck’s resulted in almost 100 tickets for underage drinking. Officers confiscated 53 fake IDs from a raid on Maggie’s Tavern in April 2009.

Jack Keller, who served as co-chair of the Syracuse Area College Community Coalition from 2001 to 2003, said Operation Prevent taught bars to be more careful when training employees to check IDs at both the bar and door. The coalition worked with Operation Prevent in an effort to address underage drinking.

He said both the coalition and Operation Prevent were effective in discouraging underage drinking.

In addition to the raids, Oudermool said drinking at bars is just not as popular as it used to be. Now, he said, people want to drink at home, which is hard on some businesses.

“Today, those that are in the restaurant business must be focused on food, and food is very difficult to make a profit on so the whole industry has changed,” Oudermool said. “I would not even consider going into a business similar to what Darwin’s was. It’s passé, it’s gone.”

Dellas, who is also a co-owner of Faegan’s and Varsity Pizza, said Faegan’s liquor sales used to be its main source of profit, but now business is 75 to 80 percent food sales.

He said that many of the old bars could not keep up sales because they did not offer food. Having four or five bars in the area is more feasible, Dellas said.

“I don’t think it’ll be smart to have any more bars come up there because they all fight for the same business,” he said.

While the trends were overwhelmingly against keeping the bar open, Oudermool said the decision was still difficult.

“It was not an easy thing to walk away from because of the fond memories that we had and the wonderful, young people that we met, but it was time to move on and we did,” he said. dovanwey@syr.edu shheller@syr.edu mcbuck01@syr.edu hmaeda@syr.edu

1. Community members wait outside of South Crouse Avenue’s Orange Crate Brewing Company, which replaced Lucy’s Retired Surfers Bar. 2. Liquor sales at Faegan’s Cafe & Pub used to be the bar’s main source of profit, but business is now 75 to 80 percent food sales, said Faegan’s co-owner Jerry Dellas.

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naacp a cellphone of conscious at arm’s length and we took a selfie of social justice?” Brooks said. “What would we find?”

Brooks also touched on discrimination in voting rights, highlighting that a series of laws have been passed in states such as Texas, Alabama and North Carolina that make it harder for people of color and millennials to vote. New restrictions for valid IDs have been established and voting polls have been removed from college campuses, he said.

In 2014, the number of young voters dipped to the lowest level ever, but Brooks said 2016 has to be the year in which youth return to the polls.

“It’s not enough to protest in the street if you leave the polling place absent and vacant and abandoned,” Brooks said. “We gotta move from protests to the polls. We have to move from holding signs to holding ballots. We gotta move from holding local officials accountable to holding elected officials accountable.”

Activism on college campuses has been very powerful, Brooks said, especially since the millennial generation has eclipsed the baby boomer generation in size.

Brooks said millennials are in a revolution of their own making, and added that he isn’t asking them to join the NAACP, but rather to lead it. sfern100@syr.edu

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The team of students and professors that physics professor Matthew White has led in the creation of printable solar technology has made significant strides in solar energy. This direction of solar energy has been researched and worked on for about 30 years, White said. courtesy of matthew white

University of Vermont professor researches possibility of printable solar cells

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professor at the University of Vermont is well on his way to creating solar technology that’s cheap, stable, highly efficient and as easy to implement as it is to click “Print.”

Matthew White, a professor of physics at the University of Vermont, has dedicated 12 years of scientific research toward the innovation of tiny, individual solar cells that will not only be cost and energy-effective, but also — in the end — printable.

The concept is rooted in two basic ideas, White said. The first: Colored inks are good candidates with which to create solar cells, since they’re extremely inexpensive, relatively stable and able to absorb light. The second: Newspaper printers, which use colored inks to create their final product, can print a large area very quickly and for very little money. Combine the two and you have printable solar cells.

“The long-term goal is to come up with a way to make solar energy from materials that are extremely cheap, not only in and of themselves, but easy to process so that you can make really large-scale power generation from the sun without having it be extremely expensive,” White said.

The search for the perfect material has been difficult, though. White said he and his team have spent plenty of time testing and analyzing a mul-

titude of possibilities to ensure the chosen base meets the desired traits.

“We want materials that are also high efficiency and also very stable if you expose them to air and water — which is pretty much everywhere — and materials that are very cheap,” White said.

“We’ve been looking at materials that meet all three of those criteria.”

He added that some prospective materials include the magenta color in inkjet printers, pink hair dye and the blue dye in denim jeans.

12 The number of years White has dedicated to scientific research on solar cells

White said he and his team couldn’t just search for a base material at random — if they did that, they would be “stumbling in the dark forever.” Rather, they analyzed both materials they had a hunch about and materials toward which they were skeptical to make sure all bases were covered.

They began with pigmented options, since hue is a sign of light absorption.

“If you’re looking for materials that absorb sunlight, color is a real obvious one,” White said.

Less obvious, though, was the possibility of quinacridone — or the organic molecule found in

pink hair dye and other pigmented products — as a successful material, White said. Either way, he’s glad his team tried it out.

“Some of the materials are shocking how well they work,” White said, “Just based on your intuition you would discard them and not try them any further, so there’s a certain advantage to saying, ‘Well let’s try it anyway.’”

Quinacridone molecules are hydrogen-bound, White said, allowing molecules to stack closely together and thus improve both performance and stability. He added that the material is cheap, too — just 25 cents a kilogram.

When all is said and done, White’s individual solar cells will revolutionize the way society uses and renews energy.

“These things are incredibly lightweight, incredibly thin. And you can stick them to almost anything,” he said. “You could use them just by themselves, if you were backpacking and wanted to carry solar cells with you. They weigh nothing.”

Or, he added, they could be rolled out to cover the top of an airplane and only add a few grams of weight.

Although White and his team weren’t the first to explore this avenue of solar energy, they’ve made strides in the right direction.

“People have been working on driving this direction for … 30 years or so, but I and some of the people I’ve been working with have been able to make some pretty significant impacts over the last couple years,” White said. brkenned@syr.edu

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Marshall Street bar implements device to detect fake IDs A SOBERING REALITY Editor’s Note: Over the past month, The Daily Orange has collaborated with the Department of Newspaper and Online Journalism at Syracuse University on a series of stories relating to alcohol culture on the SU campus. Multiple stories will appear in The D.O. in the coming days.

By Tyler Zschach and Ryan Raigrodski the daily orange

In an effort to combat the mass of underage drinkers, a bar on Marshall Street has upgraded its technology with a device designed to detect fake IDs right at the barroom door.

The scanners can pick out a fraudulent ID much better than the naked eye, bar employees at DJ’s On The Hill said.

“This is an awesome tool,” said Juan Ortiz, a veteran bouncer who works for DJ’s.

When somebody attempts to get into the DJ’s bar, the bouncer will run the ID through a scanner and it will immediately notify him of whether the card is an official government-issued ID, Ortiz said.

The scanner reveals specific details on the person’s ID that make it easier for the bouncer to identify whether that individual is 21, Ortiz said. He added that the scanner provides DJ’s with an upgrade over the tech-

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international students being unprepared to deal with the pressures of the college drinking culture.

“Many Americans in freshman year don’t know how to drink. Whenever you went to the bathroom Friday or Saturday night, you would find people throwing up,” Sokolova said about her experiences at SU. Countless freshmen arrive on campuses to find themselves surrounded by kegs of beer and bowls of jungle juice, a powerful concoction of hard liquors with Kool Aid or juice.

Many students choose to embrace this college drinking scene. No longer restrained by their parents’ watchful eye, they often go overboard with their newfound freedom.

In 2014, there were 1,751 cases of liquor violations on SU’s campus, according to a DPS annual report, signaling that the university is no stranger to the effects of college parties.

Binge drinking is characterized by a “pattern of alcohol consumption that brings the blood alcohol concentration (BAC) level to 0.08 percent or more,” according to the NIAAA. This level is usually reached after four or more drinks for women within two hours, and five or more for men within the same time period.

College parties supply a copious amount of alcohol, making it easy for students to unknowingly reach the quota for binge drinking.

“In Syracuse, alcohol is such a big thing for freshman Americans. Where their hometown is, the students didn’t have access to alcohol, so they got excited when they got to alcohol,” said junior Zeena Saifi, who is from Amman, Jordan.

“For us it isn’t like that because we went through that excitement when we were younger,” Saifi said. “It’s not like we went wild like kids here, but we were exposed to it at a much earlier age.”

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“People judge you by how much you can drink ... it’s you drank 10 beer cans — not you were really drunk,” Jankowski said. “People think that’s a way to express their masculinity and toughness. It’s all about the competition.”

All the international students interviewed commented on Americans’ use of alcohol as reckless entertainment. Beer pong, flip cup, thumper — these games help encourage

nology some other Marshall Street area bars use to determine whether an ID is fake.

A fake ID will pop up on a digital screen on the scanner as expired, Ortiz said.

“And then I will say, ‘Listen, guy, I’m sorry but you can’t come in today,’” he added.

Vendors of alcoholic drinks have begun installing the scanners at the same time as more students are trying to slip into the bars with phony IDs, said Department of Public Safety Associate Chief John Sardino.

Use of the scanners has also grown as New York state Gov. Andrew Cuomo launched a statewide initiative to reduce the number of fake IDs. “Definitely, there’s a lot of fake IDs nowadays,” said Ortiz, who also has worked at several other local bars. He added that they are hard to spot with the naked eye.

When Ortiz worked at Chuck’s Cafe on South Crouse Avenue, “blue light” technology was used, which he said made bar lines even longer.

“We’d look at the ID (with) this little blue light,” he said, “and the blue light would let us know if it’s fake or not. But that takes time.”

More students are now purchasing their fake IDs online than ever before because of how simple the process has become, Sardino said.

“Now, you are submitting the picture you want to a company online and waiting a week for it to get shipped to you and be delivered via the mail,” Sardino said. “They are really authentic and you really have to take a good look at them to be able to tell it’s not real.”

Some local communities, acting in response to Cuomo’s demands, have begun to more strictly enforce the drinking age laws.

More than 133 arrests have been made related to underage drinking, and 63 fake IDs have been confiscated since Cuomo’s announcement, according to a report by WICZ, a Fox affiliate in Binghamton, New York.

Although the state as a whole seems to be stricter on fake IDs than in the past, DPS seems to emphasize a more reparative process, Sardino said.

students’ extreme drinking. The games’ competitiveness results in heavy consumption of alcohol as a consequence of losing.

“In Poland, you don’t treat drinking as a form of entertainment. It’s a way of getting in the mood,” Jankowski said. “It’s a way to facilitate conversation and interaction.

“There’s no pressure or competitiveness drinking in Poland ... it’s more of a request than a task.”

The pressure to drink goes beyond participating in a game for fun. College party culture orients itself on aggressive drinking: shot­-gunning beers and downing shots. The objective of the night is not to get a slight buzz.

It is to black out.

Blackout drunk refers to a state of temporary amnesia during heavy episodic drinking. The drinker is unable to form long-­term memory while maintaining other skills, such as talking or driving.

Conover said. “When I go home to Panama I cannot be sh*tfaced. My mom would immediately get a phone call from someone who told a friend, who would then tell their mother and then tell mine. Panama is so small. I can’t behave the same way here and there.”

6.2% The United States is one of 12 countries out of 193 that has a drinking age of 21, the highest legal drinking age.

On average, women reach a blood alcohol content (BAC) of 0.08 by drinking four drinks in two hours.

On average, men reach the same BAC with five drinks in the span of two hours.

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The number of cases of liquor violations on Syracuse University’s campus in 2014

The first thing that Panamanian Nicole Conover, a junior retail management major, noticed when she came to the U.S. was her peers’ tendency to drink to black out.

“At first I thought the girls were crazy,”

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Number of fake IDs confiscated in Maggie’s Tavern in April 2009

While DPS officers could issue a uniform traffic ticket for a fake, they instead usually confiscate the ID and refer that student to the Office of Student Rights and Responsibilities, he said.

Students who have been caught with a fake ID for the first time may have to go through some type of educational or alcohol program, Sardino said, or they may be required to provide written documentation about their experience.

While DJ’s has taken to the new scanner technology, many other bars in the Marshall Street area have not picked up new technology in the ongoing effort to combat underage drinking.

WINE AND DINE

International students don’t always enjoy the steamy frat basements. While Americans tend to favor larger and wilder parties, international students — especially those from Europe — prefer to drink within their close-­ knit circles, the interviewed students said.

This often leads to a more formal shirt-­ and-­t ie affair.

Yulia Safiulina, a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences from Moscow, said she noticed a trend of her peers drinking in more formal settings, in comparison to that of American students.

“In Russia, they pretend to be fancy. They buy cognac and sit and talk. Here it’s more about getting drunk,” Safiulina said. “We tend to drink more expensive, fancier liquor. People here have more money, but buy lots of cheap beer.”

Diminov Boestami, a sophomore in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, is originally from Jakarta, Indonesia, but grew up in Australia. He said he notices a striking difference between what he is able to drink there and the beer that sloshes out of red Solo cups in the U.S. “In the U.S., drinking is associated with ‘raising hell.’ Back home it’s more casual, you go out for a drink with your friends and then you go home,” Boestami said.

As drinking is seen as a social activity, international students have to be coherent when socializing with their friends.

“You want to get drunk, yes, but not to the point where you want to lose consciousness.

It’s not perceived as something honorable,” Jankowski said. “Blacking out is not intentional. It happens if I did not control food intake and alcohol intake.”

Most of the international students interviewed commented on the prevalence of beer during nights out in the American college-­ drinking scene. In their home countries, they are more likely to opt for wine or hard alcohol.

In Jordan, Saifi said a licorice liquor called arak is commonly served at Arabic restaurants to complement food and wine.

The change in procedure in the area has been gradual. Chuck’s still relies on the blue light technology and the naked eye, Ortiz said. Faegan’s Cafe & Pub, also located on South Crouse Avenue, is entirely dependent on the judgment of the bouncer to detect IDs, said Colin Santacroce, who has worked as a bouncer at Faegan’s since August.

Santacroce said he and the bouncers he works with try to notice trends to help make catching fake IDs with the naked eye easier.

“Oftentimes, these kids are ordering them in bunches for a discount,” Santacroce said.

“So we will sporadically see a big cluster of one state faked and we look for trends like that.”

Mike Polin, a former bartender at DJ’s and Chuck’s, questions the incentive of the bars in the area to enforce ID laws.

“Bars obviously have to seem like they are checking IDs, but everyone that works there knows that if they weed out all of the underage kids, they lose on the bottom line,” Polin said.

“So scanners are supposed to be foolproof, but that also means that the bar using it actually intends to weed out every underage person.”

The scanners represent a new strategy to play what is still the same game, Polin said.

“It’s like trench warfare,” he said. “One side might push a few feet forward but in the scheme of things, can you really say anything is different?” tmzschac@syr.edu rlraigro@syr.edu

For international students, they learned to drink around the entertainment for the night. Alcohol is not treated as a spectacle.

In the U.S., drinking is associated with ‘raising hell.’ Back home it’s more casual, you go out for a drink with your friends and then you go home. diminov boestami sophomore in the s.i. newhouse school of public communications

Once they get to an American college, these social expectations are often disregarded.

Some are deterred from the college drinking culture, such as sophomore Maitrayi Subhedar from Mumbai, India. During her time at SU, Subhedar’s attitude toward her alcohol consumption has changed.

“Looking at how terribly people handle their alcohol here and the consequences makes me not want to drink,” Subhedar said.

Saifi has a different take, saying she has enjoyed drinking like an American.

“Even though we used to drink back home, we were still young,” she said. “I wouldn’t feel comfortable going home because I was afraid of my parents seeing me drunk. I don’t think I explored drinking that much because I was afraid.”

“When I came here I did (drink). I learned what my limits are and how to drink,” Saifi added. “If I want to go all out, I still know how to not make a fool of myself.”

SU senior Al Fashola is a resident of London, but originally hails from Nigeria. Fashola joined a fraternity at SU and adopted his peers’ typical behavior of drinking five or six times a week, but he said he still knows himself.

“I’m pretty responsible and when I get drunk, I’m just a happy person. I don’t really do stupid things,” Fashola said. “It has to do with your personality and behavior. You don’t have to get destructive. Just have fun.” kifraser@syr.edu nstickle@syr.edu

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HOPS: Hops are a flower that give beer a bitter, acidic taste and help preserve the drink. There are many different types of hops.

Behind the scenes of central New York breweries Text by Max Darrow staff writer

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hursday marks a very special day for beer drinkers throughout America, so let me be the first person to tell you why: it’s National Beer Day. To celebrate the holiday, I took a tour of four breweries in central New York to experience the huge variety of beers the region has to offer.

MIDDLE AGES BREWING COMPANY SYRACUSE PALE ALE We began the day at the Middle Ages Brewing Company in Syracuse, where we were greeted by its vice president, Isaac Rubenstein.

The top selling beer at Middle Ages is one you’ve probably seen a lot of on campus — the Syracuse Pale Ale. Pints are available at Faegan’s, and a six-pack costs $10 at Tops and many of the various corner stores on and off campus.

Syracuse Pale Ale is based off of an old English pale ale, made with four kinds of malt alongside pearl and cascade hops. It has a strong head and golden color. To

me it smelled a bit floral and a bit malty, but not overpowering.

From the smell, I wasn’t quite sure of what it would taste like.

I could definitely see why this is Middle Ages’ best seller. It was a smooth ride from the start to the finish. Opening with toasty and buttery notes and finishing with a slightly dry feel, the Syracuse Pale Ale is extremely easy to drink.

“It’s a very easy drinking pale ale, so it appeals to a wide range of people,” Rubenstein said. “It’s accessible, it’s thirst quenching, yet it’s flavorful. It’s not super hoppy like all these new IPAs,

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IPA: IPA stands for India Pale Ale and is a hoppy style of beer.

They tend to have higher ABVs.

MALT: Malt is the dried, barley that is essential to the creation of beer. It’s sugars are fermented by yeast to create alcohol.

HEAD: Head is the frothy foam on top a beer formed by gas bubbles rising to the surface.

ABV: ABV stands for alcohol by volume and indicates how strong the beer is.

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GOOD NATURE BREWING COMPANY GOOD NATURE BLONDE ALE

which we do also make. But it does have a little bit of hop character to it.”

The last brewery we went to is a 50-minute drive from Syracuse, but is 100 percent worth the drive if you get the chance. The Good Nature Brewing Company is located in downtown Hamilton, within walking distance from the Colgate University campus. Known as “Hamilton’s living room,” this cozy nook has an incredible selection of beers and an extremely friendly staff.

“This is just really a great place to go.

Everyone here knows you and it’s a great experience,” Colgate University senior Gary Mucci, a customer at Good Nature, said. “If you come Tuesdays, Tap Room Tuesdays, you can see all sorts of people. You can come for just one beer and hang out — it’s really a great time.”

Tap Room manager Brandon Frederick walked me through two flights of beers, including both seasonal and popular brews.

“The Blonde and the Brown (ales) are definitely our flagship beers,” Frederick said. “They’re the ones that are out in most retail locations for sale, whether you go into a bottle shop … or finding it on draft at your local bar.”

I decided to taste the flagship Good Nature Blonde Ale, which can be found in Syracuse. It’s lighter in color — kind of a light caramel — and had a relatively thin head with a buttery aroma.

It’s immediately refreshing and offers a crisp finish. It really has a simple taste for virtually anybody’s palate — it’s malty and tastes like buttery bread and crackers. It’s not bitter, which makes sense because of its low IBU rating, and is a malt forward beer.

Because of its simple yet great taste, the Blonde Ale will complement many foods well.

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SYRACUSE SUDS FACTORY IRISH RED AND WINTER WHEAT The next stop of the day was the Syracuse Suds Factory. Established in 1993, this popular destination in Armory Square is the longest running brewpub in Syracuse, general manager Patty Sheridan said.

I had the chance to taste two of its popular seasonal beers: the Irish Red and Winter Wheat. They both were very tasty, so I’ll be reviewing my favorite of the two — the Irish Red. On the pour, it has a thick head and offers a vibrant reddish-brown color. It doesn’t look too carbonated, so I figured it would have a similar feel to a brown ale.

The Irish Red has an easy aroma — nothing really stood out with the exception of a mild sweetness.

The Irish Red is sweet, smooth and light enough to have a few. It’s not a thick-bodied ale, so it was pretty easy from start to finish.

One of the cool things about this beer — it has an apple and berries taste, right when it hits your tongue. It is fruity and sweet, and would go well with a variety of foods.

EMPIRE BREWING COMPANY SLO-MO IPA Another popular Armory Square brewpub — the Empire Brewing Company — introduced us to our first IPA of the day: Slo-Mo, 6.5 percent ABV. One of the managers explained why

he and the brewmaster think it’s going to become the brewpub’s best selling beer very soon.

“It’s our American IPA, and I think it’ll be our best seller in the future down the road just because the popularity of IPAs right now in the market is huge,” manager Steve Bode said.

The Slo-Mo has a golden color to it, with a bit of cloudiness to accompany the thick and foamy head. Once I got to smell it, I knew this IPA might taste a bit different than a typical one. I got a lot of citrus notes and only a hint of pine, when usually it’s the other way around.

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That citrus smell matched the taste.

When it hits your tongue, you might pucker up a bit, but it tastes very good if you like citrus fruits. The finish is long, bitter and sour, which is pretty common when drinking an IPA. To me, my mouth felt and tasted the same way it does when I eat a grapefruit.

“There’s great flavors in it, and even people that don’t really like hoppy beers do tend to like it, just because it has a big citrusy, sort of flavor to it,” Bode said. “It’s different than the other IPAs out there.”

The combination of its bold flavor and fair price — $5 for a pint — I can see why it may become the best selling beer at Empire.

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Twenty-eight masters of fine arts students will be showcasing their work at the Syracuse University Art Galleries in an exhibit called “MFA 2016: None the Wiser.” The exhibit, which features a variety of mediums such as film, virtual reality and print, has been in the works since October.

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COME TOGETHER Graduate students blend mediums in interdisciplinary artwork showcase

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fter three years of work, pieces of art from masters of fine arts students are coming together in a collection of print, photography, film and even virtual reality.

Though these mediums seem very different, they will all be housed together in the annual MFA exhibition at the Syracuse University Art Galleries. The show, titled “MFA 2016: None the Wiser,” will have a soft opening Thursday and an opening reception on April 14. The exhibit runs through May 15.

The collection of works from 28 graduate students from the College of Visual and Performing Arts is housed in the Shaffer Art Building.

With such broad themes and mediums, it’s not a competition — it’s simply a showcase of the work the MFA students have turned out. Besides space, there’s no limit to what students can create, said collection and exhibition coordinator Emily Dittman.

“Anyone who comes to see the masters of art exhibition is really just seeing what emerging artists are practicing,” Dittman said.

This display comes after months — and for some, years — of planning. Dittman, along with SUArt Galleries Assistant Director Andrew Saluti, started getting project proposals from MFA students in October so they could prepare.

From there, students and organizers had studio visits and email conversations to make sure they were on track for this display.

Jacob Riddle, a transmedia graduate student, started working on his project two years ago. In it, he looks at the difference between “virtual and

actual,” and breaks it down into a display of virtual reality and photographs.

Though he started planning a while ago, Riddle didn’t finalize his project until he could set it up in the gallery.

“I consistently am conscious of how I set up my work and not just the work itself,” Riddle said. “I wasn’t sure of what pieces I would include in the exhibit until after I knew the exact space I would be in.”

For graduate printmaking student Brent Erickson, preparing this project in advance wasn’t easy.

He spent this semester doing a residency in Los Angeles, where he didn’t have access to a printmaking studio.

“I had to be creative in how I’d represent printmaking without making prints,” Erickson said.

He focused on the repetitive aspect of prints, displaying that through paper folding, video loops and repetitive drawings.

Meanwhile, MFA film student Alessia Cecchet took a less physical approach to her project.

She created a film about an “Onikuma,” a bearlike creature found in Japanese mythology. She’s screening the film on the wall from one projector.

Meanwhile, from a separate projector, it’ll be screened on the sculpture of a horse head covered in crochet.

Stefan Zoller’s exhibit uses a medium viewers are more familiar with like paint, and presents it in a new way. Instead of just laying down acrylics on a canvas, he paints bridges and other lined structures. Zoller often uses tape, which he lifts away to define those lines.

Zoller said though it’s titled “Pulled Loose,” his

work has the theme of “the presence of absence” — the feeling of lost loved ones. He derives this idea from the absence of his grandfather, whose architectural drawings inspire his work.

“For me these works are kind of a way of communicating with him,” Zoller said. “It’s the imprint of him that’s left, and I needed to do something with it.”

Even though the exhibit comes when these MFA students are graduating, it’s not the end of their research and work in the topics and mediums they explored.

“This is our thesis, but it’s not necessarily a bookend to our work,” Erickson said. “It’s more of a refinement of ideas and research we’ve been doing for three years.”

SU students will fill the SUArt galleries in more ways than just the MFA exhibit. There will also be two additional exhibits presented and curated by graduate and undergraduate students — “[Re] Framed: An Object’s Journey Into the Collections” and “Women, War, and a Changing World: Alan Dunn’s New Yorker Cartoons.”

Both of these exhibits will also open on Thursday, and can be found in the SUArt study galleries.

Despite all these displays going on at one time, Cecchet said there’s still a connection between them.

“There is a big dialog between all the installations going on,” she said. “The viewer is required to come in and look at all exhibits and interpret the story between them.” kjkrawcz@syr.edu – Asst. Feature editors Lizzie Michael and Alex Archambault contributed reporting to this article.

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Dewes thrives in 9th spot of Syracuse’s batting order

By Matthew Gutierrez staff writer

Alyssa Dewes, Syracuse’s ninth batter in the order, is breaking the stigma of being the worst hitter on the team.

Out of the nine spot, the junior outfielder leads the Orange in batting average (.351), slugging percentage (.649) and onbase percentage (.406). She’s five for her last 12 and has Syracuse (17-16, 4-7 Atlantic Coast) set for its upcoming weekend series at Virginia (12-25, 2-7).

“I’m comfortable being there, I’m happy being there,” Dewes said of the nine hole.

“Sometimes when you get moved around in the order, you get nervous. I’m just more confident, more comfortable there.”

Before she became the everyday ninth batter on March 12, Dewes moved around the order fairly often. From Feb. 12 to March 5, she hit in the five, six, seven, eight and nine spots.

Head coach Mike Bosch tried Dewes higher up in the lineup to give her more atbats, but the offense wasn’t working as well.

When not hitting ninth, Dewes is hitless in 10 at-bats. In the ninth spot, where she gets better pitches to drive, she has all of her 20 hits. In 47 at-bats there, she’s hitting .426.

Bosch has since penciled Dewes in the nine hole, where Dewes has been a model of consistency. With the exception of one 0-for-8 stretch, she hasn’t gone more than three consecutive games without a hit.

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hobart second and third quarters.

But Syracuse did what it’s struggled most to do this year: Hold on. Largely in part to its key cogs turning as smoothly as they have all year. Jordan Evans dropped in four goals to give him seven in the last two weeks, as he’s finally assuming the goal-scoring attack role SU imagined for him when Kevin Rice and Randy Staats exited last year. Ben Williams won 13-of21 faceoffs, and even made a few runs at the goal after winning the draw, an otherwise-fabled plan laid out for him in the preseason.

Anytime you have three losses, your next win is pretty big … It was almost a blessing that we had a game quick, early in the week. It was nice after that kind of loss to get back out there.

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The rest of Syracuse’s offense filled in the blanks, and the defense held up long enough for the final horn to blare, leaving no chance at another fourth-quarter casualty.

“It would’ve been a tough loss today,” Desko added after applauding Hobart’s mid-game comeback.

Evans was the sparkplug all game for Syracuse’s offense. He perfectly timed a cut through the Statesmen perimeter to snag a feed from Ryan Simmons, and put Syracuse up early, and for good. Just over a minute later he charged behind the left

“She gets in the confidence and she takes her hacks,” assistant coach Alisa Goler said.

“When we saw her in the fall, she didn’t necessarily look like she always was just gearin’ to go. I think now when she gets up there, she feels like when she takes a hack at the ball she’s going to have a good chance.”

Dewes’ 1.055 OPS (on-base percentage + slugging) also leads the team. She’s hit three home runs, four doubles and three triples on the year. She’s also tied for second on the team in stolen bases, with four.

“I like her speed, she’s thrived there,” Bosch said. “Honestly, if she gets on base, we know we have people if we flip the lineup over, that will be able to drive her in.”

As a freshman in 2014, Dewes hit .307 with four home runs. Last year she hit .220 with two home runs. This year, though, she’s been more comfortable out of the nine spot.

“From a mental standpoint, she’s just a — I hate to say it — much happier kid this year,” Bosch said. “She just feels more relaxed at the plate.”

Bosch and Goler also credit Dewes’ has quick bat speed for her success at the plate.

This leads to high bat-exit speeds and hard hits off the bat. Her ability to stretch singles into doubles and doubles into triples has also helped her produce from the the last spot in the batting order.

“For Dewes, that’s just her niche,” Goler said. “She owns it.” mguti100@syr.edu

side of the crease and slotted one in by himself to cap off a three-goal ambush in a 73-second span.

He’s been the lifeblood of the Orange offense the last two weeks, perhaps more so than ever showing signs he could fill the prolific attack role laid out for him three years ago when he committed to Syracuse as the country’s top recruit. He’s been held back his first two years by more seasoned offensive players, but now on a more youthful Orange team, Evans’ finally answered the call to do more.

“It definitely helps my confidence a lot,” Evans said of his goal-scoring spurt. “I think I’ve been taking advantage of my shots, and they’ve been falling for me.

“That’s kind of allowed me … to try to spark the offense when it needs to get going.”

He teamed up with Dylan Donahue for his third goal to stretch the lead out, 6-2, and Donahue added a couple goals of his own to tack onto his assist. While primarily filling the role of distributor this year with a career-high 22 assists, Wednesday he moonlighted the scoring role he held last year while Sergio Salcido racked up most of the team’s assists.

Eight players tallied a point in the seven-goal win, illuminating a spreadout offense that features six players with double-digit goals while still averaging 13 goals per game as a team.

“It’s awesome,” Nick Mariano, the team’s goal-scoring leader, said about Syracuse’s offensive depth. “We don’t have to rely on one guy. It doesn’t matter who’s out there. We just play with our offense and find the open guys.”

Nearly everything went according to plan against the Statesmen, much like it did for the first three quarters against the Blue Devils and Blue Jays. Though this time, Syracuse never let go of its hold on the lead, and affirmed promise in a season that showed so much of it in the first five weeks. cgrossma@syr.edu | @ConnorGrossman

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Amid tourney run, perspective on what’s most important was lost

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ou really could twist the narrative of Syracuse women’s basketball’s run into whatever you want.

Theoretically, this run could be about the amount of coverage the women’s team received, especially as it compares to a men’s team that often dominates the headlines.

It could be about that if you wanted it to be.

This run could be about the women’s team becoming a top program after many years of playing second-fiddle to a men’s team with a history of success.

That’s the narrative you could focus on.

It could be about Syracuse University not doing enough to create an atmosphere for equality in athletics. It could be about women’s rights.

It could be about the Syracuse men’s team. It could be about the team’s poor attendance.

We all love a good storyline, even if it’s one that we make to overshadow what the real storyline should be. This historic NCAA tournament run for the women has been connected to every end of the spectrum. But in reality, what it’s really about is a team that dominated the postseason all the way to national title game. Because the politics attached to this run are just politics — hype

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schwedelson had never reached the second weekend of the NCAA tournament in three tries.

In their final season, their last shot to leave a mark on the school no one expected to crash the national landscape of women’s basketball, they reached the sport’s final day.

Syracuse’s (30-9, 13-3 Atlantic Coast) improbable run to the title game was spearheaded by the 2012 No. 6 recruiting class. Now, four years later, they leave as the most accomplished class in program history. For three years, the Orange broke program records, but hardly fulfilled the expectations of a group put in the top tier of recruiting classes. All of the inconsistencies over the years, the injuries to a star player and the inability to beat ranked teams can be thrown out the window.

All of the expectations for that class are now validated.

“I think we showed people what kind of class we were,” Fondren said. “Most people probably didn’t think we would affect the program. We just wanted to come in and make a difference.”

Before 2014, Syracuse had never won an NCAA tournament game. Over the past three seasons, it’s won seven, including five

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mettus chance to think about cutting down nets until this year.

The Huskies did what it has done to every team in recent memory and trounced SU, winning 82-51. But the score didn’t much matter.

What mattered is that Syracuse was there.

In 10 years, Syracuse head coach Quentin Hillsman has a taken a down-in-the-dumps program to the national title game. With this year’s improbable tournament run, he put Syracuse women’s basketball on the map.

From here, anything is possible. Syracuse could continue to rise into the women’s college basketball elite or fall back down to the middle of the pack squad it had been, struggling to find signature wins over ranked teams.

“I want to do that. I want to be bad for basketball one day,” Hillsman said. “I want to be really bad for basketball. I want you all to say ‘He’s really bad for basketball.’ Because I tell you right now, if winning every game is bad for basketball, then let me be that, please.”

Army head coach Dave Magarity cut himself short of saying Syracuse was “legitimately” a Top 10 team after the Black Knights’ blowout

and hyperbole, un- or under-researched ideas. Distortions of the truth. There are a lot of contexts that you could view the NCAA women’s tournament run, but I choose to stick to just how impressive it truly was.

A dream scenario for Orange basketball fans ended on Tuesday night. Two teams from one city both playing in the Final Four — only the ninth time in college basketball history that it’s happened. The men’s team lost on Saturday night in Houston to North Carolina in the Final Four. The women’s team lost in the national title to powerhouse Connecticut.

It was an unprecedented amount of success.

Both the women’s team and men’s team shared gamedays for the Sweet 16 and Elite Eight. Both attended the same pep rally to send them off.

Because both teams won, their success was, in a very tangible yet unfair way, connected.

It gave us an opportunity to criticize the media for prioritizing men’s coverage over the women. An unfair criticism, of course, partly

because the women’s team both receives local coverage (I covered the team for two years and saw a good amount of others doing the same).

But also because the men’s team has a stronger base of success. It has more people interested in attending its games. Media, like any business, is a supply and demand game. If there’s less readership, then there’s less coverage.

This then gave us an opportunity to make a point of showing the disparity of attendance between the two teams. Another misleading criticism. Yes, the attendance was atrocious, but without an established history of success, it’s hard to expect good crowds.

At almost every school around the country, you’ll find higher attendance at men’s games.

I’m not going to get into why, but it’s an issue that isn’t limited to the Salt City.

I covered the men’s team this season. And the story of their Final Four run was about how unexpected and special it was. How two seniors in Trevor Cooney and Michael Gbininje got to define their legacy over a historic two-week stretch. How Jim Boeheim defied the odds of suspension and criticism to confirm his place among the coaching greats.

But the story surrounding the women’s

tournament just didn’t seem to be about what was on the court. It was about comparisons and shortcomings. The run was put into peripheral contexts, unrelated to the fact that the team was one of the best in the country. That it lost one game since Jan. 26.

Syracuse went on a 16-0 run against the Huskies to give life to a game that had lost it. In that moment, it was just about the basketball. Syracuse’s ability to press and turn defense into easy offense. Its star power in Brianna Butler, Alexis Peterson and Brittney Sykes was what was on display.

That was the narrative. Not SU attendance, coverage or its inability to recruit Syracuse native and UConn star Breanna Stewart.

But then the Huskies went back on their blistering pace. The Huskies captured its fourth-straight NCAA championship. SU was denied its first. A magical run was over.

It’s a run that should be appreciated for how spectacular and improbable it was. In all likelihood, that’s what it will be remembered for.

But in the moment, the fleeting narratives threatened to steal the spotlight from a team that deserved better.

in the past month. This season’s 30 wins marked a program record. SU also reached its first-ever Sweet 16, Elite Eight, Final Four and national championship game.

The accomplishments are a reflection of the entire team, but after back-to-back blowout losses to No. 2 Notre Dame and No. 7 Louisville in late January, the season was at a crossroads. The legacy of Sykes, Butler, Fondren and Ford hung in the balance.

And that’s when their legacies started to take shape, when their older teammates could only watch from the stands and their younger ones searched for a standard to look up to. That’s when Syracuse won 16 of its next 17 before falling in the national championship game to one of the greatest dynasties in the sport’s history.

“They’ve been through some trials and tribulations and then they brought it all together and it culminated in this magical season and it truly was a magical season for those kids,” assistant coach Tammi Reiss said. “That’s a credit to them. They got the monkey off their back.”

The run might not have happened without junior point guard Alexis Peterson dazzling her way past defenders and to the basket.

It might not have happened without junior

center Briana Day fighting around, over and through opposing players for rebounds.

But to push Syracuse to the second weekend of the tournament for the first time, Sykes led the team in scoring with 24 points, the best performance of her career given the stakes, as she turned in a vintage performance reminiscent of her play before her two ACL tears.

Against No. 1 seed South Carolina, Butler knocked down the key shots. A jumper with five minutes to play tied it up. A 3-pointer with three minutes to play gave Syracuse the lead by one. Another 3 with a minute left pushed the Orange’s cushion to six.

“These two players will give us the ability to compete with anyone in the country,” Hillsman said in November 2011 of Butler and Sykes, the two McDonald’s All-Americans ranked No. 14 and No. 31, respectively by ESPN Hoopgurlz (Fondren was ranked No. 74).

When the class came in, they set a goal of reaching four straight NCAA tournaments.

Another record completed. But as freshmen, with Butler, Sykes and Fondren starting, they fell short of the second round.

As sophomores, Sykes tore her ACL in SU’s first-ever tournament win before losing to Kentucky in the Round of 32.

As juniors, Sykes missed nearly the

entire season and the entire postseason after re-tearing her ACL just three games after returning.

Entering their last year, they had one final shot. One last chance with the full arsenal Hillsman crafted four years prior.

He said there was no pressure on them because they always had the talent.

“They just did what they could do,” Hillsman said. “They came in and every year it was one more step to get better.”

It wasn’t until their senior year that the on-court results matched the projections.

In five NCAA tournament wins, the quartet combined for 39.6 points per game and 16.2 rebounds per game.

This was the type of production Hillsman could have envisioned in this class. It’s what dangled in front of his eyes when Sykes returned from injuries. It’s what his 10 years as Syracuse’s head coach all led up to.

“You’re supposed to win when you have the best players,” Reiss said. “It’s what’s supposed to happen.”

And finally, four years later, it did.

loss to the Orange in the opening round of the NCAA tournament, amending it to “could be.”

Was the Orange on the same level as No. 1 seeds Connecticut, Baylor, Notre Dame and South Carolina? “Maybe not in those four … but that second wave.”

That was before Syracuse made it into the Sweet 16 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

Before the Orange took down a powerhouse in South Carolina and one of the most historic programs in Tennessee.

That was before Syracuse manhandled Washington on its way to the national championship game. Before the program’s profile rose as high as it is now.

Syracuse’s nine-game win streak to end the regular season and appearance in the ACC title game was a surprise. Its run through the NCAA tournament was even more improbable.

In the season-ending coaches poll on Wednesday, Syracuse improved more than any other team going from No. 12, where Magarity had SU, to No. 3 — ahead of Baylor, South Carolina, Notre Dame and teams Magarity said SU did not belong with.

“It’s only the beginning,” guard Brittney Sykes said. “We’ve been building these four

years, and you want to get to this level and you want to get back here. So we’re just going to keep building … We’re going to get back to the national championship game and try to win it again.”

The senior class that was ranked the No. 6 recruiting class in the nation is now leaving, except for Sykes, who has the ability to return because of her medical redshirt year.

This year’s success, though, opens up new recruiting avenues. Syracuse had recruits in Indianapolis for the Final Four, guard Cornelia Fondren said. You can tell a potential player that you’re a national contender and she can win a championship with you.

Five years ago, North Syracuse native Breanna Stewart, the then-No. 1-ranked recruit in the country, could have picked SU, a program ingrained in her childhood but that had never won an NCAA tournament game and where a national championship seemed like the pipe dream of an over ambitious head coach.

Then there was UConn, with prestige and national titles to spare. Stewart wanted to be the best and Syracuse wasn’t the place for that.

“We’re going to get her,” Hillsman said of the next player like Stewart to come out of the area.

“Next one comes, we’re getting her. … We won’t lose another one. Don’t worry about that.”

A bold statement supported by UConn head coach Geno Auriemma. He said he’s glad Syracuse’s current meteoric rise didn’t happen five years ago. A player like Stewart, who is the first to earn the Final Four’s most outstanding player four years in a row, can be program-changing.

Instead of just going after the most talented players, the team can find ones that fit into SU’s scheme of full court pressure defense and a barrage of 3s. It’s easier for players to buy in now that there’s proof that it works.

Getting to the national championship game once was the easy part. The harder task is not becoming a one-and-done that Hillsman talks to his own players so much about.

“It’s what you do after you get home,” Auriemma said. “What happens next year, the year after, the year after and the year after. Is this a one-time deal, or is this the beginning of something that’s going to last a long time at Syracuse? And really nobody has the answer to that, but certainly they’ve put themselves in a position where anything’s possible now.”

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Paul Schwedelson is an Asst. Sports Editor at The Daily Orange where his column appears occasionally. He can be reached at pmschwed@syr.edu or @pschweds.

Jon Mettus is the Digital Editor at The Daily Orange, where his column appears occasionally. He can be reached at jrmettus@syr.edu or @jmettus.

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Molloy’s key saves propel Orange past Hobart in 1st start

By Jon Mettus digital editor

GENEVA, N.Y. — Evan Molloy bobbed his head up and down while strutting out from the goal crease to the 30-yard line. He turned to his teammates on the sideline to his right and waved his arms up and down, a gesture meant

TALE OF TWO GOALIES In Evan Molloy’s first start of the season and fourth overall experience, the redshirt junior played well in place of Warren Hill, who has struggled so far this season.

53.8 The percentage of shots Molloy saved Wednesday night against Hobart. The Statesmen scored six goals.

42.6 The percentage of shots Hill has stopped so far this season. Opponents average a little more than 10 goals per game against the senior.

for him as much as it was for his teammates.

By Molloy’s estimation he had let in six goals in a row. It was only four, but Hobart had cut Syracuse’s lead down to one goal and had a prime scoring opportunity in front of the net.

Molloy slid to his knees and stonewalled Hobart’s Sean Donnelly.

“We really needed that save,” Molloy said. “… (The defense) kind of broke down there and they needed me.”

In his first career start, Molloy rallied from a mid-game slump to come up big for the Orange.

He made three difficult saves in a row to halt the Statesmen’s scoring run and maintain SU’s lead. The redshirt junior got the nod over Warren Hill, who had started the first eight games of the season, and made seven saves while conceding six goals en route to a 13-6 Syracuse (6-3, 1-2 Atlantic Coast) win over Hobart (5-5, 1-1 Northeast) at Boswell Field on Wednesday night.

Molloy’s complete game totaled more minutes than he had previously compiled through two and a half years.

“Those were saves that they needed at a very good time and that did provide them a little bit of momentum,” Hobart head coach Greg Raymond said. “… Those saves definitely helped the outcome of this game.”

Prior to the game, Syracuse head coach John Desko watched Molloy warming up and thought he looked “fairly relaxed” considering it was his first start. The goalie assumed he’d be nervous, but the nerves never kicked in.

Molloy was thrust into the spotlight during the Orange’s loss to Notre Dame on Saturday. He replaced Hill in goal during SU’s third straight loss and had five saves and allowed three goals in 11-plus minutes. Hill let in 14 goals and had four saves in 48-plus minutes.

After the game, Desko said Hill wasn’t to

EVAN MOLLOY played more minutes Wednesday night than he had in his career. The redshirt junior made seven saves. courtesy of syracuse athletic communications

blame for the loss, but gave Molloy the start on Wednesday.

Molloy made two stops in a goalless first quarter before the Statesmen scored twice in the second quarter and snuck in a third goal with 16 seconds left in the first half.

Hobart picked up where they left of when the third started. Three goals in a row without a save by Molloy had the score cut to 7-6.

The third of four goals squeezed through Molloy’s legs and barely rolled across the goal line before he could rake it back.

He threw his hands up at the referees and punched the air with his right hand in frustration.

A team that had blown leads late in two of its last three games looked like it could do it again.

“You get kind of deflated there when a

team goes on a run like that,” Molloy said.

But then he made the sliding stop on the one-on-one. When Syracuse went man-down on Hobart’s next possession, Molloy stepped forward in the crease to send away an open angled shot from midfielder Mark Darden.

The stops piled up and so too did the goals for Syracuse on offense. Molloy was able to dig the Orange out of its most vulnerable position in the game and kick start the resurgence on the other end.

“He did well other than that in that run that they had,” Desko said. “And shortly afterward he made a couple big saves — and they would have been goals — and really kind of help us fight through it.” jrmettus@syr.edu | @jmettus

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Wall ball Syracuse goalie Evan Molloy made seven saves against Hobart in his first career start. SU won 13-6 on Wednesday night.

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Dewes and don’ts Alyssa Dewes has been more comfortable batting out of the nine spot of Syracuse’s order rather than moving around.

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Obokoh to transfer from SU

By Paul Schwedelson asst. sports editor

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Syracuse center Chinonso Obokoh will transfer from SU, according to Syracuse.com. He will have one year left of eligibility after graduating in May one year ahead of his class.

As a grad transfer, Obokoh would not have to sit out a year after transferring. He didn’t appear in OBOKOH any games during his freshman season and has played sparingly over the past two. A year of eligibility was taken away from him as a freshman so after playing in just two seasons, he only has one left.

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1. BRIANNA BUTLER did what SU head coach Quentin Hillsman always urged her to do: Shoot 3-pointers. Butler finished her career with 373 3-pointers, the most all-time for active players until Tuesday. 2. QUENTIN HILLSMAN pushed his pressing, 3-point-jacking squad to many first-evers, including the national championship appearance. evan jenkins staff photographer

Tourney run validates SU must carry success of 2016 tournament run class’ expectations

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NDIANAPOLIS — Ever since signing on the dotted line, stepping onto campus and pulling a Syracuse jersey over their heads for the first time, the members of the Orange’s 2012 recruiting class had a reputation to live up to.

Brianna Butler. Brittney Sykes. Cornelia Fondren. Taylor Ford. On their own they were heralded recruits from Pennsylvania, New Jersey,

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Tennessee and New York, respectively. But together they arrived as the best batch of incoming freshmen the program had ever seen. One that had the potential to push the program over the top but

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NDIANAPOLIS — The meeting of Syracuse and Connecticut in the national championship game was a collision of two teams that are worlds apart.

Connecticut, one of college sports’ greatest dynasties, won its fourth national championship in a row and has gone undefeated in 11 title game appearances. A team so good that critics label it as bad for

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the game.

The other, Syracuse, was an upstart. An NCAA tournament newbie that had never hosted a tournament game, never made it past the second round and never even had the

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The percentage of Chinonso Obokoh’s points from the 201516 season he scored on Dec. 22 against Montana State.

Obokoh appeared in 11 games this past season, scored 12 points and recorded 18 rebounds. The best game of his career came on Dec. 22, 2015, against Montana State when he scored 11 points and grabbed six rebounds in 12 minutes of play.

The departure of Obokoh marks the third SU player to leave the team with eligibility remaining since the season ended. Obokoh joins point guard Kaleb Joseph and walk-on guard Christian White.

Entering the 2016-17 season, SU returns centers Dajuan Coleman, a senior, and sophomore transfer Paschal Chukwu along with top rebounder senior Tyler Roberson. pmschwed@syr.edu | @pschweds

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Orange ends 3-game losing streak with 13-6 win over Hobart

By Connor Grossman asst. web editor

GENEVA, N.Y. — For the first time in nearly a month, the final horn blanketed Syracuse with relief. It didn’t syracuse 13 stop a hobart 6 fruitless comeback attempt. It didn’t pierce a blown fourth-quarter

lead. It ended the game, with the scoreboard favoring the visitors.

The last three games dampened a perfect start to the Orange’s season. It started with two Johns Hopkins goals in the final minutes of the fourth quarter three weeks ago, prefacing an eventual overtime loss. Then Deemer Class bullied Syracuse for seven goals, leading Duke’s five-goal fourth

quarter before finishing the job quickly in overtime.

Last Saturday in the Carrier Dome, SU’s defense killed any chance its offense had of outpacing then-No. 2 Notre Dame in front of an alumni-filled crowd celebrating the program’s 100th year. But Wednesday night provided the quick turnaround the Orange needed to push its season

the right direction.

“Anytime you have three losses,” head coach John Desko said, “your next win is pretty big … It was almost a blessing that we had a game quick, early in the week.

“It was nice after that kind of loss to get back out there.”

No. 9 Syracuse (6-3, 1-2 Atlantic Coast) handled Hobart (5-5, 1-1 Northeast) in a 13-6 win on

Wednesday night at Boswell Field, the Orange’s first win since beating St. John’s, 15-4, on March 12.

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