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P • Taking refuge

As part of the Trans* Day of Liberation, activist Julia Serano spoke on issues of gender entitlement in the transgender community.

S • A fun ride

An SU student raised money for Myanmar refugees, hoping to improve their health care options. Page 9

MINIMUM

CHANGE

SU put together arguably its best season ever, winning its first NCAA tournament game in program history.

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ACROSS THE MAP

city

Here’s a look at how New York compares to other large states in the amount of grant dollars spent per fulltime undergraduate student.

$1,077

Miner announces funding for additional personnel in early budget release

$35000

$1,061

Police, fire classes to be added

$1,024

By Jacob Pramuk asst. news editor

$25000

Average cost of tuition at a 4-year private university

$817

$875

source: cuny study

THEN AND NOW

$15000

The number of students in New York receiving financial aid through TAP increased during the last few years. source: office of the state comptroller

Maximum TAP grant that can be awarded

2001-2002

309,540

2012-2013

384,000

$5000

2001-2002

2013-2014

source: NCES

students receiving tap aid graphic illustration by jon mettus design editor

Tuition Assistance Program sees first funding increase since 2001

By Brett Samuels asst. news editor

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n 1974, the average cost of tuition, room and board at a public university was $1,563. At a private university, those costs averaged $3,403, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.

That same year, New York state

established the Tuition Assistance Program, a need-based grant that was created to help students afford college and pursue higher education.

Now, 40 years after its inception, TAP is still used by students statewide. However, Julia White, a project coordinator for the New York Public Interest Research Group, said it’s time to give TAP a face-lift.

TIME FLIES

She said the program badly needs updates, as it no longer serves its original purpose.

“It was created to help students and it’s no longer doing that,” White said. “Higher education is expensive, and this program was created so any New Yorker could pursue higher education if they wanted to.

It’s terribly outdated at this point

in time.”

TAP hadn’t been updated since 2001, but that finally changed when the most recent state budget was adopted. Before the budget was adopted on Monday, a student could receive a maximum $5,000 grant through TAP. Under the new budget, the maximum grant has been

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Nov. 4, 2008

Until this year, the TAP program hadn’t been updated since 2001. Here are some key moments that took place in the world since then.

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KIEV, UKRAINE SEES ITS WORST DAY OF VIOLENCE AFTER ALMOST 70 YEARS WHEN PRESIDENT YANUKOVYCH BACKED OUT OF TRADING WITH THE EUROPEAN UNION.

BARACK OBAMA WON THE UNITED STATES PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, BECOMING THE FIRST AFRICANAMERICAN ELECTED U.S. PRESIDENT.

Sept. 11, 2001

August 2005

April 29, 2011

TERRORISTS HIJACKED FOUR PASSENGER AIRLINERS, CRASHING THEM INTO THE WORLD TRADE CENTER, THE PENTAGON AND A FIELD IN PENNSYLVANIA.

HURRICANE KATRINA DEVASTATED THE GULF COAST, KILLING 1,833 PEOPLE IN THE COURSE OF THE STORM.

PRINCE WILLIAM AND KATE MIDDLETON’S WEDDING TOOK PLACE AT WESTMINSTER ABBEY IN LONDON.

Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner will include funding in the city’s 2014–15 budget for the first new police and fire department classes since 2011, she announced Monday.

“Keeping our community safe and keeping Syracuse’s fiscal house in order are the top priorities of this administration,” Miner said in a release. “Now is the right time to infuse our fire and police departments with new talent. I look forward to welcoming these men and women into service for the people of the City of Syracuse.”

The city hired its most diverse classes ever in 2011, with “record” numbers of female and minority candidates, according to the mayor’s office. The department certified 34 officers in 2011, according to its 2012 annual report.

The report lists that 90.6 percent of the department’s “sworn personnel” were white in 2012, with Black and Hispanic employees representing 7 and 1.9 percent of the department, respectively. In addition, men made up 87.8 percent of the Syracuse Police Department personnel in 2012.

The mayor’s office said Miner will seek to hire diverse candidates in the upcoming class.

Miner announced the funding for new classes before unveiling the rest of the city’s 2014–15 budget. The full budget will be released Tuesday.

Sgt. Gary Bulinski of SPD did not immediately return a call about the funding. Syracuse University Department of Public Safety Chief Tony Callisto also did not immediately return a call.

Syracuse councilor-at-large Pamela Hunter, chair of the Public Safety Committee, did not immediately respond to an email about the funding. jspramuk@syr.edu

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TATTOO tuesday | sarah bogden

Student’s ink reflects family bonds staff writer

Sarah Bogden began her tattoo journey as a way to reflect her values without relying on the fleeting nature of worldly possessions.

The junior television, radio and film major’s first tattoo spans across her foot and reads, “It’s a wonderful life.” She got the ink to honor her grandpa who passed away, and with whom she used to watch the classic holiday film every year around Christmastime.

Bogden got her next ink after her parents divorced, when she moved down to Florida in August 2013 with her mother and two sisters, Jessica and Kaley.

She had always played with the idea of getting a double infinity symbol with their four names inside, but instead opted for a simpler piece — the Roman numeral four.

“We were out to dinner at this really shaggy place called Dune Dog,” Bogden said. “I was like, ‘I really wanna get this tattoo,’ and my mom suggested we go check it out and see what the artist says.”

Together, they strolled over to the Ink Addiction Tattoos in Jupiter, Fla. The Roman numeral represents

N • Back at it Former SA Vice President Duane Ford was elected as a student representative on the Board of Trustees. Page 7

O • Underachievement

By Naomi C. Falk

unlocked

Generation Y columnist Kate Beckman discusses why millennials need to stop following the underachiever trend in pop culture. Page 5

P • Rolling up her sleeves

Abroad columnist Maggie Cregan prolongs her stay in France by volunteering on farms near the countryside. Page 9

P • Up the creek

After a hiatus, country group Nickel Creek experiments with pop while still staying true to its bluegrass sound. Page 11

SARAH BOGDEN, a junior television, radio and film major, has the Roman numeral IV behind her ear. shira stoll staff photographer

the four women — mother, sisters and Bogden — and the new chapter that opened up with their lives when they moved to Florida.

“We were always a team,” she said. “I really am best friends with my mom.”

Bogden said that her affiliation with tattoo culture has strengthened over the years. She already has plans to get an “Om” sign in the center of her back after she receives her yoga certification.

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She also believes her collection of ink will grow as she finds her way through life, permanently displaying the different paths she’s taken and the understanding she’s gained, she said.

Said Bogden: “When you’re younger, you’re so scared to brand yourself. Now that I’m older, I’m so much more confident in myself.

I understand that’s why people get tattoos.” ncfalk@syr.edu

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Syracuse University takes steps toward addressing concerns on academic integrity and massive open online courses.

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20-40 percent The range of percentage of college students who use hookahs, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

20 percent Portion of murders targeting transgender people out of all murders, according to the Transgender Law and Policy Institute.

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City tightens merchant licensing for convicted criminals

By Joshua Dermer staff writer

In 2003, Brett Katz served eight months in jail for destruction of property.

“I went through a tough time in college, and I had messed up,” Katz said. “I came out of jail and realized I had done the wrong thing in my life.”

After receiving a master’s degree in psychology, Katz, now 35, owns a business in Syracuse, Prestige Contracting LLC, which he started in 2006.

Last week, the Syracuse Common Council unanimously voted to tighten merchant licensing, enabling a stricter process for business applicants convicted of felony or misdemeanor crimes.

Katz turned his life around when he opened up his business. With the passing of this ordinance, others may not have the same opportunity.

Bars, drug stores, restaurants and smoking establishments are required to get a certificate of use.

With the city ordinance, the certificate now comes with more restrictions for running a business.

“We were using a certificate of use and I think that some of the unscrupulous owners have figured out ways around these things,” said Bob Dougherty, Syracuse Common Councilor. “The main thing is that neighborhood groups and police wanted a stronger, more comprehensive way to deal with all merchants in the city.”

Compliance monitoring, which was formerly done through the finance department, is now the responsibility of the code enforcement division. The division will conduct criminal background checks

A glass hookah is placed on display at the Exscape Smoke Shop on Marshall Street. The Syracuse Common Council passed an ordinance that requires businesses to apply for a certificate of use in order to operate, which now includes hookah bars. sage adrian cruz contributing photographer

prior to issuing a certificate of use, according to a press release from Mayor Stephanie Miner’s office.

The new amendment outlines rules for business ownership. Indi-

viduals convicted with misdemeanor crimes will not be permitted to open an establishment for two years, while individuals convicted with felony crimes will have to wait five years.

The restrictions are designed to ensure the health, safety and welfare of the public, according to the ordinance.

The Common Council worked to refine conditions of the certificate of use with

the guidance of the Center for Community Alternatives, Dougherty said.

“The CCA didn’t want to see people being precluded from getting a license see ordinance page 8

crime briefs

Activist addresses trans* liberation movement

• A 55-year-old Liverpool man was ticketed for failing to display his taxi license on the 800 block of Walnut Ave. on Saturday at 9:30 p.m.

By Anjali Alwis

• A 22-year-old man was arrested for petty larceny at Lord & Taylor in Destiny USA on Friday at 5:16 p.m.

The man is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences.

• A 21-year-old man was arrested for petty larceny at Lord & Taylor in Destiny USA on Friday at 5:16 p.m.

The man is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences.

• A 21-year-old junior in the College of Arts and Sciences was arrested for criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventhdegree on the 500 block of Slocum Ave. on Thursday at 11:25 a.m.

- Compiled by Alex Ptachick, staff writer, acptachi@syr.edu

contributing writer

In 1979, there wasn’t a commonly used word to describe a boy who wanted to be a girl.

But that’s exactly who Julia Serano was.

Serano used her own experiences as a transgender woman to talk about how the transgender community has evolved since her adolescence, and where she hopes the trans* liberation movement will go in the future.

She shared her wisdom as the keynote speaker for the third annual Trans* Day of Liberation. The LGBT Resource Center at Syracuse University hosted the event in Watson Theater on Monday night. Serano, a transgender activist and writer, spoke about trans* activism and referred to excerpts from her new book, “Excluded: Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclu-

sive.” A question-and-answer session followed her speech.

Topics within Serano’s speech included raising awareness about the struggles and achievements of the trans* community, and furthering the trans* liberation movement — an effort to improve the treatment of transgender people.

“Sometimes you can be really shocked at how much progress happens over a short period of time,” Serano said, but later clarified, “Binary gender norms haven’t budged all that much in all these years.”

The most well-known day for the trans* community is the annual Transgender Day of Remembrance.

TDOR is held to memorialize and honor trans* people that have been murdered in the past year for being transgender, said Abby Fite, an administrative specialist in the LGBT Resource Center.

“It is a chance to give tribute to

JULIA SERANO discusses efforts to help advance the rights of the transgender community. michael liu contributing photographer

people and draw attention to trans* people that are targeted, and at a higher risk of being victimized,” Fite said.

The Trans* Day of Liberation was started three years ago at SU

to highlight the progression of the trans* community, namely the rise of the liberation movement.

“Mainstream discourse is focused see trans* page 8

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increased by $165.

A coalition of organizations have been advocating on the local and state level to reform TAP both financially and logistically, said Sue Mead, director of the New York State Financial Aid Administrators Association. She added that the coalition had hoped the state budget would increase the maximum award even more, but said the added money is a step in the right direction.

“The coalition was asking for a maximum award of $6,500, but anything was better than nothing,” Mead said.

Jeniea Howard, a junior policy studies major at SU and member of NYPIRG, said TAP is critical because it makes higher education more accessible and affordable. Howard said she personally receives TAP, and it’s especially useful because students don’t have to pay it back.

“It’s very important for it to be updated, especially with increasing tuition prices,” she said.

On March 21, SU announced that tuition prices for the 2014–15 academic year would increase by 3.6 percent. Tuition across the country has been steadily climbing for the last decade, and Mead said these changes need to be taken into account when assessing TAP reforms.

“Students we have today in colleges are different from students in college 40 years ago,” Mead said.

While TAP had been stagnant for a long time, Mead said much activity has recently pushed for changes in both the program’s funding and logistics. For example, members of NYPIRG attended a rally at New York City Hall March 25 to unveil their platform for TAP reform.

That platform not only called for an increase in funding, but also an expansion of students eligible

for TAP. Currently, graduate students, undocumented students and students who have defaulted on student loans are among those who are ineligible to receive assistance through the program.

Farouk Abdallah, a campus program director at NYPIRG, said the group is also focused on getting the program changed so those students can receive aid through TAP. However, Mead said making changes to the TAP policy can be a slow and political process.

“There’s a lot of lobbying and a lot of politics that goes on and no matter how hard you work, it might not change right away,” she said.

Mead and White both expressed interest in creating a system that would periodically review the effectiveness of the program, preventing it from staying the same like it did for the last 13 years. White said TAP has lost usefulness partly because a review system doesn’t currently exist.

“If you create a program that’s supposed to help individuals, there should be a system in place to check on its effectiveness,” she said.

Despite TAP’s current flaws and the limited aid increase in this year’s state budget, most people agree that the program can be beneficial. Abdallah said an efficient TAP program will benefit both New York state and the economy as a whole.

“Someone with a four-year degree makes more than someone without one,” he said. “Just go by the numbers and it’s pretty crystal clear.”

In the long run, Mead said an effective TAP system is vital for students to have the ability to pursue higher education without the fear of going into debt.

Said Mead: “As we progress, this is a nation of students who will be in massive student loan debt. So to minimize the debt they’ll incur and to give money without borrowing is to the benefit of students of New York.” blsamuel@syr.edu

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Millennials should not be proud of underachieving

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f you’ve ever posted a BuzzFeed list on social media about not having your life together and captioning it: “This is me,” stop.

The pop-culture millennials don’t have a clue. They’re the ones who can’t do their own taxes, the ones who talk too loudly about their sex lives and the ones who mysteriously pay rent without an actual job. In a way, they’re similar to us. They like Netflix, partying and commiserating with friends. Except the pop-culture millennials are exaggerated, more entertaining versions of our generation — not a mold to follow.

We see the charmingly clueless 20-something portrayed on TV shows like “Girls.” We see them reflected in every single “20-something” list article on BuzzFeed. We even see it in the celebrities who are considered “just like us.”

The train-wreck millennials we see everywhere portrayed in the media are entertaining. But entertainment is all we should consider it.

If you look up the tag “20-somethings” on BuzzFeed, though, that’s how all the list articles portray a millennial. In an April 1 BuzzFeed article called “55 questions everyone asks after college” the questions range from “should I get out of bed?” to “should I do laundry or just buy more underwear?” This lazy “I give up” mentality is the theme among all the 20-something articles, and extends into all facets of pop culture.

For example, Lena Dunham’s character in “Girls” is a personified BuzzFeed list. But despite having all of the classic millennial traits, she still manages to afford to live and party in Brooklyn, even when she barely has a real job. Although TV isn’t an accurate representation of real life, it pushes a mentality that acting professional and put-together isn’t important because you’ll still be OK if you’re not.

And our other culture appointedidol, “real, down-to-earth” Jennifer Lawrence is not who we should aspire to be. One of her most famous pictures News Editor Annie Palmer Editorial Editor Alfred Ng Sports Editor Stephen Bailey Feature Editor Lara Sorokanich Presentation Director Lizzie Hart Photo Editor Margaret Lin Art Director Natalie Riess Copy Chief Audrey Hart Development Editor Maddy Berner Social Media Producer Meredith Newman Video Editor Luke Rafferty

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was of her flipping off the camera after she won an Oscar last year. Millennial media called her “bad-ass” and empowered, catapulting her into the person we should aspire to be. But those same outlets also write articles about what not to post online, and that includes crude hand gestures. If we actually acted like Jennifer Lawrence, with a bold “I don’t care what anyone thinks” attitude, we wouldn’t be seen as fearless. We would just be seen as rude.

In the real world — beyond the world of HBO and BuzzFeed — millennials can’t act that way. If we want to be hired for an actual job, we can’t make off-color jokes and have a general air of awkward. If we expect to even find a job, we can’t sit around watching Netflix and complaining about how hard it is to find a job.

That’s the problem I have with the media portrayal of the “I’m in my 20’s and I’m a mess, but I’m still making it” millennial. The average person graduating college or trying to find an internship can’t joke about date rape during a job interview — as Lena Dunham did in the second episode of “Girls”— or have no knowledge of how the world really works.

If we want to distinguish ourselves, we need to be more confident, more tactful and less awkward.

No one wants to watch a show or read an article about someone who is always on time, never hung over at work and successful for his or her age, but we should be careful not to make lazy the new cool.

So the next time you feel like saying “I literally can’t,” remember that you can.

Kate Beckman is a freshman magazine journalism major. Her column appears weekly. She can be reached at kebeckma@syr.edu and followed on Twitter @Kate_Beckman.

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Zimride shows potential for student use The Zimride program coming to Syracuse University is a beneficial addition to the campus as it provides more transportation options for students, reduces the community’s carbon footprint and increases parking space.

Zimride, a ride-sharing program used on more than 100 campuses across the country including Cornell University and Stanford University, came to SU in late March.

So far, 20 students have signed up for the program.

In 2011, SU attempted to implement its own online carpooling service, along with a rideshare board placed in the Schine Student Center. Students could post where they needed to go, either online or on the board, in the hopes that another student with a car could pick them up.

SU’s own service failed in 2011, because it was “not efficient,”

according to a March 31 press release from the school. While that service never took off, it is positive that SU is making another attempt at implementing a rideshare program on campus.

With many undergraduates without a car — including the majority of the freshman class living on campus, which SU prohibits from having a car— there is a significant need for this kind of service.

Unlike the SU-provided service, Zimride provides profiles of the drivers, showing information including the driver’s car, his or her usual driving speed, average music volume and smoking preferences. It also allows potential passengers to get in contact with the driver to improve trust between the two groups.

This program would be helpful for students in multiple situations, from short trips to the grocery store to long interstate drives back

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It helps that SU decided to reach out to a third party company to take charge of this initiative, because SU was unable to create an organized system itself. Because Zimride is a reputable rideshare service, students will be more inclined to use it. Zimride also has much better resources to carry out this service, as indicated by the 125 other campuses that already utilize the program.

Students need a rideshare program. It is positive that the university outsourced the program when it determined it was not able to sustain its own.

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tweet it out Here’s a look at what some people were saying during Monday’s meeting.

@PhilPorter13 “Interesting atmosphere here in Maxwell tonight for @SAatSU assembly. Get comfortable everybody!”

@ayshaseedat “Big thanks to @SUAmbulance for sitting through our three hour long meeting! @SAatSU enjoyed your presence :)”

@SAatSU “Tonight we have Board of Trustees, BEM and JRB Elections. Stay tuned to see what happens!”

@SAatSU “Congratulations to Duane Ford, former SA-Vice President on getting elected to be the new Board of Trustees liaison.”

@AlexandraDeanne “Proud to see @JessBrosofsky running for BEM! #ElectHer”

@SAatSU “@benjones422, former AdOp chair and now Speaker of the Assembly, goes up for the board and gets elected.”

PATRICK DOUGLAS, Student Association comptroller, presents funding bills to the assembly and other attendees at Monday’s meeting.

The bills detail the Finance Board’s recommendation for each student organization’s funding. doris huang contributing photographer

Assembly elects Ford as Board of Trustees representative

By Jessica Iannetta staff writer

After nearly two hours of deliberation, the Student Association assembly voted to elect Duane Ford to fill the open student representative spot on the Board of Trustees.

Ford, a former SA vice president and SA presidential candidate, will join SA President Boris Gresely as the student representatives on the Board of Trustees.

“I think there’s a lot of issues that need to be addressed, and at some point they do go above the SA level,” Ford said. “(The Board of Trustees) is the highest board we have at this university, and it’s important that those issues are being brought to that level.”

The highly contested election saw five students submit petitions for the open seat. Besides Ford, former SA presidential candidate Ivan Rosales; Parliamentarian Stephen Thomas; College of Arts and Sciences Assembly Representative Eric Evangelista; and SU Ambulance President Matthew Feibert all ran for the position.

The assembly voted on the candidates in two stages. After an initial round of questioning, the assembly voted on whether each individual candidate was qualified for the position, with-

out comparing the candidates to each other.

Rosales, Evangelista and Thomas were ultimately voted as not qualified for the position.

Assembly members expressed concern that Thomas had turned in his letter of intent four days after the deadline, though Board of Elections and Membership Chair Adrianna Kam noted that there was some initial confusion as to the due date.

In Evangelista’s case, assembly members were concerned that he was only a freshman and that some of his goals were unrealistic.

But it was Rosales’ candidacy that caused the most amount of debate among the assembly. Last year, Rosales sent an anonymous email to The Daily Orange and then-President Allie Curtis revealing that a SA cabinet member was no longer enrolled as a student, a violation of organization codes. This incident caused many assembly members to voice doubt as to whether Rosales could be trusted with the confidential information he would have as a member of the Board of Trustees.

After the first round of ballots, assembly member Dan Hernandez made a motion to reconsider Rosales’ candidacy. Hernandez said he thought all the candidates should have made it through the first round and that many assembly members voted based on their personal opinion of the candidates or weren’t thinking

about the qualifications for the position.

While other assembly members agreed that Rosales’ past actions should not be held against him, Hernandez’s motion ultimately failed and the assembly proceeded to the second round of ballots, where representatives voted for either Ford or Feibert.

Budgets

In the first budget meeting of Gresely’s tenure, the assembly voted to fully-fund, partially-fund or deny funding for registered student organizations based on Finance Board recommendations.

Comptroller Patrick Douglas presented the funding bills to the assembly. The assembly cannot change the amount of funding an organization is granted but can vote to have the Finance Board re-evaluate funding decisions.

Organizations that were either partially funded or not funded can appeal the decision, but risk forfeiting any amount they were previously granted. The appeals process starts Tuesday and runs through Thursday.

The assembly voted to send two bills back to the board for further review. Speaker Ben Jones motioned to set aside the bill for SA’s operating budget in order to give assembly members more time to examine the budget.

The assembly also voted to review a bill

regarding CitrusTV’s operating budget. CitrusTV requested $101, 251.28 and only received $54, 488.51. Kelvin Read, CitrusTV general manager and Daily Orange staff writer, spoke up at the meeting to explain why CitrusTV needs additional funding.

The majority of the funding that was denied — about $23,000 — was slated to fund a new set of lights for the studio, he said. The current lights are very old and last semester one burst into flames and started smoking, Read said. The new lights would not only be safer but would save energy because they are LED, he said.

Other business discussed: • Jessica Brosofsky, a freshman Arts and Sci-

ences representative, was elected to join the BEM. • Amanda DeNardo, a junior Arts and Sciences representative, was elected to join the Judicial Review Board. In her new capacity, DeNardo will give up her vote in the assembly.

Speaker Ben Jones was elected to fill her spot on the Board of Administrative Operations.

• Charles Mastoloni, a freshman political science major and Daily Orange staff writer, was elected to join the assembly as an Arts and Sciences representative. jliannet@syr.edu | @JessicaIannetta

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trans* on challenges and deficits of the trans* community,” Fite said. “Essentially, things that are hard, which is a very limited view. We implemented this event to celebrate the successes of the trans* community.”

Sophia Bravo, a sophomore, television, radio and film major who identifies as gender queer, said one of the largest problems with inclusion in feminist and LGBT movements is the insistence on the gender binary, or the duality of gender.

“It is not evil,” Bravo said about the gender binary. “But rather, used as a litmus test of who is considered a woman or man. Who is privileged to feminist space and who isn’t? Who is privileged to queer space and who isn’t?”

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ordinance operated business just because they had a conviction, what they really wanted to do is refine what kind of conditions and convictions and how many years passed would preclude you from getting a license,” Dougherty said.

Misty Smith, owner of Haha Hookahs on 701 S. Crouse Ave., said she is surprised the ordinance passed.

“Our prison system is supposed to be a reform system and this is bewildering and I can’t believe that something like this passed,” Smith said. “We go and do things like this and there are people out there who may have

Serano promoted the idea that the problems commonly associated with the gender binary — disregard for specific groups of people and oversimplification of gender identity — do not stem from the idea of two genders, but rather with gender entitlement.

“Society expects people to behave in certain ways and punishes them if they do not,” she said.

Beyond just what society expects of the trans* community, Serano addressed how the community is fractured, pointing out that as the trans * community has grown, differences have begun to surface.

“When we expect all members to act or behave in a specific way in order to be a bona fide member of a community, what we are actually doing is creating stereotypes,” she said.

Serano promoted the idea that the trans* liberation movement should not be viewed as just a movement just for trans* people, but as a movement that allows anyone to color out of the lines of gender.

She then closed with an original spoken word piece, saying, “My gender is a work of nonfiction.” acalwis@syr.edu

messed up and did something stupid, so where do they go from there?”

Smith said she thinks the ordinance is discriminatory. She added that she believes it infringes on “people’s rights to live.”

Katz, the Syracuse resident, said strengthening a certificate of use could help, but said the issuance methods should focus on the psychological state of the prospective business owner.

“I don’t know if a broad sweeping law would be better than something like individual assessment. You should have an assessment on the person to get an idea of what the business is and where it’s going,” Katz said. “You don’t want it to be too broad but you need standardization.” jbdermer@syr.edu

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hen Darcy Cherlin walked through the Thailand jungle with a group of Karen refugees during her winter break, the only thing in sight was the vast green jungle and a few houses made of simple bamboo and cement.

She spent four weeks in Thailand to better understand the issues the Karen faced there, so she could better understand the refugees she’s been working with in Syracuse, N.Y. Seven hundred Karen refugees reside in the North Side of Syracuse, but they still don’t have the medical care they need.

Cherlin, a senior anthropology major, and Alison Joy, a senior Italian and television, radio and film dual major, organized a fundraiser for the Karen refugees on Saturday night at Funk ‘n Waffles to raise money for internally displaced Karen in Thailand. People could also donate clothing instead of money to help Karen refugees in the Syracuse area.

Improvisational comedy group Best Restaurant In Town opened up the event (FROM LEFT) TIM SIMON AND KEITH CARAM perform as part and musicians Jeff York and Zeke Leonard followed. of Best Restaurant In Town.

“We have a very large refugee community here, and it’s hard enough trying to adapt to a completely new country and new circumstances,” Joy said. “It’s the least we can do to collect clothing, towels and sheets for them.”

The Karen are an ethnic group from Burma, current-day Myanmar. Persecuted by the Burmese military regime, they were forced to flee the country to the border of Thailand in order to escape rape, torture and forced labor.

The ethnic group lives in nine camps in the jungles of Thailand as “internally

(FROM LEFT) ALISON JOY AND DARCY CHERLIN organized a fundraiser concert and comedy show at Funk ‘n Waffles to benefit refugees.

displaced” peoples — they haven’t been granted refugee status, so they are permitted to live in certain areas, but need permits to travel elsewhere. Others have resettled in other countries, including Australia, Canada and the United States.

Cherlin first became interested in the Karen during her freshman year, when she learned about them in one of her anthropology classes. Her interest continued to grow when she began tutoring Karen refugees in Syracuse. Later, for her Renèe Crown University Honors Program capstone project, Cherlin studied see refugees page 12

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For some students, that means securing internships and summer jobs back in the U.S. For others, including me, that means finding

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FOOTLOOSE AND FANCY FREE IN FRANCE ways to travel and volunteer in Europe until the day our visas expire.

I chose to study abroad during my sophomore year partially in order to spend a few weeks of the summer exploring France before the pressures of interning and networking set in for real after junior year.

Accordingly, I’ve been spending the past few weeks finding programs and

volunteer opportunities to fill up the nearly two months between the end of the semester and my flight home.

One popular low-cost summer experience with abroad students is farming with World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms. Through WWOOF, the young and restless

(and broke) can exchange labor for meals and a place to stay. This labor can involve anything from building fences to selling produce at markets, and the farms can have everything from fruits and vegetables, to llamas and beehives.

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After a seven-year hiatus, bluegrass darling Nickel Creek has gotten the band back together just in time for their 25th anniversary. Their sixth album, “A Dotted Line,” marks a triumphant return to the classic mountain music that put them on the map.

Nickel Creek landed on the mainstream country music scene in 2000 with their self-titled album.

Their music was what country purists had been looking for during a time when country radio had started to sound closer to pop.

It was surprising, then, when they released an album in 2005, titled “Why Should the Fire Die?” The record features their signature bluegrass instrumentation — Chris Thile on mandolin, Sara Watkins on violin and Sean Watkins on acoustic guitar — but the music was much more influenced by rock and pop than previous releases.

Despite the album’s poppy sound, Nickel Creek managed to hold on to the fans who loved them for their bluegrass musicianship while scooping up fans of more progressive indie music as well. Their Farewell (For Now) Tour in 2007 featured guest appearances from the likes of Fiona Apple and Béla Fleck, among others, and a cover of Britney Spears’ “Toxic.”

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apart is their fearless experimentation with various genres and styles. “A Dotted Line” does not suffer from its lack of surprises. The trio still manages to create radio-friendly tunes by marrying pop and bluegrass. It just doesn’t sound like they’re trying too hard to push the envelope. Instead, “A Dotted Line” sounds like three extraordinary musicians having a blast playing their instruments together again.

“Elephant in the Corn,” one of two instrumental tracks on the album, is the best example of this radiating joy. Even after the music has been captured by microphones, mixed, mastered, downloaded to a computer and transmitted through a wire to your ears, it can’t diminish the energy, chemistry and jubilation these three exude in their playing.

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Nickel Creek sticks to blueprint of rock-infused mountain music While “A Dotted Line” is a return to form, generally speaking, Sara Watkins exhibits real growth in her vocal delivery. She sings with a little bit of grit where there was once only timid purity.

On the lead single, “Destination,” Sara Watkins sings about deciding to leave an indecisive man behind to pursue her own dreams. The track works perfectly as a single; it’s the best example of the group’s ability to blend pop, rock and bluegrass into something catchy.

Sean Watkins wrote more of his signature

in sync If you like this album, check out these tracks:

1. “Dark Days” by Punch Brothers 2. “You and Me” by Sara Watkins 3. “I’ll Fly Away” by Gillian Welch & Alison Krauss 4. “I Will Wait” by Mumford & Sons 5. “Earthbound” by Rodney Crowell

understated, acoustic guitar-driven tracks for the album. The most compelling track is “21st of May,” a classic country tune written from the perspective of Harold Camping, a Bay Area pastor who predicted the rapture would take place on May 21, 2011.

Thile is still writing some of the most poignant lyrics out of the group, and certainly out of the mainstream country music pool at large.

The best track on the record is “Love of Mine,” a delicate ballad that Thile sweetly sings to love itself. It’s a song about the realization that sometimes we fall in love with the feeling rather than the actual person.

“Now I’m stuck here trying to not remember, for all these pretty words, it wasn’t her but love that I adored. It’s my love I adored,” Thile sings.

Songs like “Love of Mine” are what set Nickel Creek apart from most artists on country radio, and it’s part of why they’re considered to go beyond the bluegrass and country music genres.

Nickel Creek brings depth to their music by exploring real human emotion. Rather than writing a typical “I love her and I lost her” song, Thile wrote about the nature of love itself. That complexity is indicative of an indie or rock influence just as much as their progressive music is.

It’s OK that “A Dotted Line” isn’t riddled with special effects. It’s OK that not every song sounds like rock ‘n roll with bluegrass instruments. It’s an album that doesn’t try too hard, but succeeds anyway. A return to form that’s only appropriate and welcome after all this time.

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cregan For me, finding a farm to live on for part of the summer involved asking myself a lot of questions like, “what exactly is a dry toilet?” and “would I get along with a donkey?”

Ultimately, I decided to take the plunge, and recently arranged to spend about two weeks on a fruit and vegetable farm in Aquitaine with chickens, horses, a cat, a dog, a pig and some fellow travelers.

Students willing to go a little farther off the beaten path can also find opportunities outside organizations like WWOOF. For example, I Googled “volunteer opportunities in France” on a whim and five search results pages later, I found a bed and breakfast in Allier in Central France where I can stay for next to nothing in exchange for working in the garden and around the house.

And for those not completely burned out with academia by the end of the semester, many universities — both American and French — run brief summer programs abroad.

These programs offer a chance to repeat a curtailed version of the study abroad experience in a new city — or even a new country.

Grabbing at alternative summer opportunities enables students to experience Europe on their own terms. Programs like Syracuse University Abroad help ease students into life in a new country, but after a semester of transitioning, the summer offers students a window of time to travel alone, explore new

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parts of their chosen country and maybe even learn how to clean out a chicken coop.

For me, testing my independence abroad was one major motivation to stick around in Europe after the semester ends.

Exploring during the summer is also a chance to meet new people. It can be hard to maintain relationships with French students while taking a full course load and traveling on weekends. Volunteering abroad allows you to meet people other than students and get to know the country of your choice outside the classroom context.

Making summer plans that involve everything from studying in Paris to farming in Aquitaine makes it harder than ever to focus on the end-of-semester cramming. At the same time, it can make me even more nostalgic for the comforts of home (my family, my dog, my Ford, my brand of coffee) that I won’t be able to see for an added few weeks after the semester ends.

Like college in general, studying abroad represents a small window of time when students have the independence to fend for themselves without the adult responsibilities of mortgages and real jobs. It’s not every day you get to camp out at an organic farm in France. So, until my visa expires, I’ll be making the most of it.

Maggie Cregan is a sophomore history and magazine journalism major. From Cleveland to Syracuse to Strasbourg, she enjoys rocking out and getting hopelessly lost. If you want to talk to her about this column, or are Keith Richards, reach her at mmcregan@syr.edu and follow her on Twitter at @MaggieCregan_SU.

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refugees how the Karen are accessing health care in the U.S., Australia and Thailand.

With honors program funding, Cherlin spent six months abroad in Australia during the spring semester of her junior year, where she worked closely with Karen refugees. On a return trip over winter break, she was able to travel from Australia to Thailand with refugees, and meet displaced Karen in the Thailand jungle.

“She was living with Karen refugees in a jungle village for more than a month, traveling around with them to hospitals and medical facilities,” Joy said.

During her time abroad, Cherlin became aware of the difficulties the Karen faced trying to get medical care, and of how a little money can make a big difference in their community.

While traveling to Palau on the border of Thailand and Myanmar, she witnessed a motorcycle crash. Her group pulled over and helped two women who had been hurt get to the nearest Thailand hospital, which was hours away.

Cherlin was worried for one of the women, who needed surgery but didn’t have any health insurance. To her surprise, after a successful surgery, the woman’s bill was a mere $300. She couldn’t believe how inexpensive it was.

“A little money here goes a long way there, and I can definitely raise some money,” she said.

Cherlin explained that the U.S. government usually resettles Karen refugees in cities where the cost of living is low, like Syracuse.

But with few resources, adjusting to life in Syracuse can be difficult.

The language barrier is one of the biggest obstacles the Karen face, Cherlin said. Not only does that limit their ability to get valuable employment, but she also said it is extremely difficult for them to seek medical help.

Unable to speak English, many Karen have trouble making appointments, Cherlin said. At the hospitals they have interpreters, but oftentimes don’t know medical terms or how to read prescriptions. She added that they also don’t have the transportation they need to get to local hospitals, and often walk miles vin the harsh winters to get to one.

DARCY CHERLIN spent six months in Australia during her junior year working closely with Karen refugees, beoming aware of their difficulties.

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Although clothing and monetary donations are always helpful, the refugee center in Syracuse, a branch of the Catholic Charities of Onondaga County, needs more engagement from the community, Cherlin said.

“One of the women I worked with goes to Minnesota where other refugees are and they’re doing really well,” Cherlin said. “When she comes here she says they aren’t doing as well. They have very limited resources here.”

Cherlin is also working with the refugee center in Syracuse to connect professionals to the Karen people. She worked to have a doctor speak to the Karen about kidney function and disease. She is also having someone from the Syracuse University Counseling Center talk to them about depression, which she said is often a common problem among refugees.

Cherlin and Joy both agreed they would be satisfied if all they did was raise awareness about the Karen. At the benefit show on Saturday, they were able to raise money to help fund a lens transplant for a man in Palau and to donate to the Karen refugees in Thailand, Cherlin said.

Said Joy: “I am continually amazed at what you can accomplish at this university if you just vocalize your idea. Everyone wants to help in whatever small way they can.” jdelaney@syr.edu

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season in review point guard Rachel Coffey said. “I think they’re all ready.”

Had Syracuse lost three or four games in its 13-game nonconference schedule, Hillsman said he still would’ve declared it a great stretch.

Even better, the Orange lost just two before the start of ACC play.

On Nov. 30, sophomore Brianna Butler dropped 29 points to lead SU to an upset of No. 12 Texas A&M, highlighting a nonconference slate that shot Syracuse up to a program-high No. 20 ranking in the Associated Press Top 25 poll and preparing SU for its rigorous ACC schedule.

“When you’re not playing good enough competition,” Hillsman said, “you kind of get a false sense of reality of how good you are, and I didn’t want our kids to have that.”

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The Orange’s first go-round in the ACC had its highs and lows.

It took three tries to notch the first conference win. Duke coasted to a 33-point win.

Notre Dame, which still hasn’t lost, blew out the Orange by 37. And only one of SU’s six ACC losses was by a single-digit margin.

“We just have to use those games as incentive to get better,” Butler said. “Look at what we did wrong, and try to improve on that for next year.”

But after a 1-3 start to conference play, SU rattled off two separate four-game winning streaks — one of which included an upset of No. 6 North Carolina — to earn the fifth seed in the ACC tournament before advancing to the second round.

In the first round of the NCAA tournament, the Orange faced its biggest obstacle of the year in watching Sykes, SU’s leading scorer, hit the hardwood with her torn ACL and meniscus in the second half against Chattanooga — and then having to continue the game.

SU collected itself and prevailed by six points, and in the next round fought Kentucky down to the wire before ultimately falling short.

“We knew with her being out, we had to come together,” Coffey said, “and I think we really played team basketball.”

In addition to losing two starters in Coffey and center Shakeya Leary, as well as reserve guard La’Shay Taft, the Orange may very well have to begin next season without Sykes.

Sykes has yet to undergo surgery on her right knee, so a timetable for her return is uncertain.

“It’s tough to say,” Hillsman said. “Some people take longer, then you got Adrian Peterson. I’m not going to bring her back until she’s ready to play.”

At the beginning of next year, the annual questions will resurface about how the Orange will move on, this time from another historic season.

Sykes has her answer already.

“Everybody was trying to figure out what we were going to do when we lost Kayla, Lacie and Carmen. Same thing,” Sykes said. “For any team, they should have full confidence that they’re going to come back great and I believe in my team.

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cornell Salcido — looking to carry its improved play into the Orange’s road bout with No. 6 Cornell (9-1, 3-1 Ivy League) at 7 p.m. Tuesday.

SU head coach John Desko has utilized Macartney on the wing all season, and inserted Schoonmaker alongside him a few weeks ago.

They both bring physicality and high lacrosse IQ to the circle, and are shaping into a reliable pair at just the right time.

“Every possession is huge for us,” Schoonmaker said. “We have a pretty effective offense, so if we can get the ball as the wings it’s just an extra possession and an extra goal for us.”

The aftermath of a faceoff is, at times, a free-forall, and Schoonmaker and Macartney each smiled when talking about playing physical in the circle.

Macartney said he loves mixing it up, alluding to his past experience as a left wing in hockey. The broad-shouldered Schoonmaker didn’t liken his aggressive play to his one year of competitive football as a freshman at Lincoln (Ore.) High School, but was equally excited at the thought of going toe-to-toe for a contested ground ball.

“It’s fun to get in there, get a little physical and make your presence known,” Schoonmaker said.

But there is also a technical side of wing play that requires chemistry and communication, which Schoonmaker and Macartney certainly don’t lack. They’re both from out West, are also roommates and collectively zeroed in on the

Orange’s wing play after it fell short in a 21-7 loss to Duke on March 23.

In SU’s next game against Notre Dame, a combined effort from Daddio and the wings resulted in 15-of-24 wins at the X. Macartney scooped up a team-high six ground balls, and Schoonmaker collected three in the fourth quarter to help the Orange to the 11-10 win, its first ACC victory of the season.

“My wings helped me a lot,” Daddio said after the win. “I wasn’t winning them clean but I was staying down on the ball and fighting and Macartney, (Schoonmaker) and all the other wings were a big help, so it came together.”

Desko said on Monday that while the wings have improved, he wishes they had a better outing in the team’s 10-8 win over Binghamton on Wednesday.

But if the unit reverts back to the way it played against the Fighting Irish, it could help the team to a big nonconference win in Ithaca.

Cornell suffered its first loss of the season to Harvard on Saturday, and secured just 7-of27 faceoffs while collecting 18-of-27 ground balls in the second half in which the Big Red only attempted six shots. Cornell’s struggle for possession is the same problem Syracuse has toiled with all year, and SU’s wing play will be as pivotal as it’s been all season.

Said Macartney: “When we can get into a groove, winning faceoffs and us getting ground balls, we can take the other team out of it.

“That’s when we can really affect the game.” jcdoug01@syr.edu | @dougherty_jesse

A Syracuse wing (right) scraps with a Duke midfielder for position during a faceoff. The Orange strugggled mightily at the X at Duke, but Syracuse has developed stronger chemistry lately between the faceoff specialists and wings. logan reidsma staff photographer

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rivalry 3-1 Ivy League) 62-35-1 all time, including a 13-12 upset of Cornell at the Carrier Dome last season.

This time, Cornell looks to bounce back from that loss and its loss to Harvard on Saturday — its first of the season — which some SU players attended.

“We really look forward to this game every year,” SU head coach John Desko said. “To have a chance to go down and beat Cornell will only help our cause.”

On April 10 of last season, the secondranked Big Red took the hour-long trip up Interstate 81 for a showdown with the No. 7 Orange, having beaten SU by six goals in 2012.

Led by senior attack Rob Pannell — who would go on to win last year’s Tewaaraton

Award — and midfielder Connor Buczek, Cornell built a three-goal lead in the second half.

But behind a 4-2 fourth quarter, Syracuse managed to steal the game and come away with the win.

“They’re definitely going to be unhappy with their loss and they remember what happened last year,” Maltz said. “It was great to come out on top with a ‘W,’ but we know that they’re going to come ready to play.”

Buczek, who Maltz dubbed the top midfielder in college lacrosse today, returns this year and heads an experienced Cornell offense that ranks second in the NCAA and will be looking to get back on track against the Orange.

Said SU goalie Dominic Lamolinara: “It’s just going to be that same old upstate rivalry.

We want to be that upstate, great team.” pmdabbra@syr.edu | @PhilDAbb

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SU reflects on historic year complete with 1st NCAA tournament win

By Phil D’Abbraccio asst. copy editor

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t didn’t matter that Brittney Sykes has been relegated to crutches for the time being. Or that Brianna Butler missed 14 shots as Syracuse’s season ended at the hands of Kentucky. Or even that Rachel Coffey will not don an Orange uniform again.

Syracuse set a goal for itself at media day in October: to finish in the Atlantic Coast Conference’s top five, and the Orange nailed it.

Despite the heartbreak that usually accompanies the end of each season, it didn’t take long for head coach Quentin Hillsman and his players to sit back, take a wide glance at their year and smile as they reflected on what they achieved and what’s to come.

“We kind of knew who the powerhouse teams were in the ACC and we wanted to be one of them,” Sykes, a sophomore, said. “To finish fifth is a statement in its own and shows that we are a force to be reckoned with.”

Syracuse (23-10, 10-6 ACC) placed fifth in the ACC, won a game in the con-

ference tournament and won an NCAA tournament game for the first time in program history. The Orange earned a No. 6 seed and defeated Chattanooga — even while losing Sykes to a torn ACL and meniscus — before falling to third-seeded Kentucky in the second round.

This Syracuse team scored more than any other in Hillsman’s eight-year tenure, and hit its goal of double-digit ACC wins.

“I think everything we set out to accomplish, we did,” Hillsman said. “All the things that we’ve done this season, that our players have accomplished, have been tremendous.”

In 2012–13, Syracuse finished 24-8 with the best winning percentage in school history. Much of that success came from the dominance of center Kayla Alexander, who left SU as the program’s leading scorer, as well as starting guard Elashier Hall and Carmen Tyson-Thomas.

Still, the Orange went on to make program history this season and is poised to build on that success next year.

“They are young, and they’ve been through so much already,” senior

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Syracuse wings prepare for Cornell Orange, Big Red to play for 99th time in rivalry

By Jesse Dougherty asst. sports editor

As Syracuse’s faceoff play has swelled and swooned this season, Chris Daddio has been placed under a microscope.

When the team is successful at the faceoff X and turns possessions up next into goals, the senior VS Cornell specialist @ Schoellkopf Field is praised.

Tuesday, 7 p.m.

When the Orange fails — which has been the case for much of the season and the

source of SU’s three-game losing streak to start conference play —

It’s fun to get in there, get a little physical and make your presence known.

Henry Schoonmaker su midfielder

Daddio takes the brunt of the blame.

But he isn’t the only player taking to the circle for each draw.

“Everyone likes to look at (Daddio) when we struggle,” said redshirt junior long-stick midfielder Peter Macartney. “But we look at it as a group effort to win each faceoff. Us wings have a big responsibility and have to do our part, too.”

No. 7 Syracuse (6-3, 1-3 Atlantic Coast) has bettered its play at the faceoff X in recent games, and stronger wing play is at the center of that.

Macartney and redshirt junior midfielder Henry Schoonmaker have headed a group — also including freshman long-stick midfielder Scott Firman, junior midfielder Mike Messina and freshman midfielder Sergio

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By Phil D’Abbraccio asst. copy editor

Despite the alternative of practicing within the dry, covered confines of Manley Field House on Monday, Syracuse ventured into the wet, miserable outdoors.

The Orange will face a similar setting Tuesday night, with much more on the line.

“Saturday, I think there was a combination of snow, rain and hail,” senior Derek Maltz said. “The weather hasn’t been too good, but we’ve toughed it

out. The energy’s remained high all week, so we’re ready.

“To be able to go to Cornell and to come out with a win would be huge, not only for the program but I think our season, as well.”

No. 7 Syracuse and No. 6 Cornell will square off for the 99th time Tuesday at 7 p.m. on Schoellkopf Field, and write another chapter of the longtime Central New York rivalry that dates back to 1920. The Orange (6-3, 1-3 Atlantic Coast) has the upper hand on the Big Red (9-1, see rivalry page 15