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Beat writers break down the SU men’s lacrosse season so far and pick their team MVP, biggest surprise, biggest disappointment and X factor through nine games.

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Otto the dog is a 13-month-old yellow labrador retriever who is training in the Guiding Eyes for the Blind program to help the visually impaired.

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Republican presidential candidate and Ohio Gov. John Kasich visited Syracuse on Friday ahead of the April 19 New York state primary.

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Experts discredit and claim danger in practice promoted at SU

By Michael Burke Asst. news editor

avid Lehman can’t tolerate the sight of a keyboard. So five days a week inside his office at A-D Engineering, he chooses to work without one.

Using a keyboard, he fears, would be a constant reminder of the worst time of his life. Of a time that he dealt with severe depression. Of a time he spent worrying that he had seen his two children for the last time. Of a time he feared that he might be sent to prison for the remainder of his life.

It was 1993, and Lehman was separated from his children because of accusations that he had sexually abused his autistic, nonverbal son. The accusations were later proven unsubstantial because they were made through a widely discredited communication method that was, and still is, regularly practiced at Syracuse University.

The method is called facilitated communication (FC), a technique designed to enable communication for nonverbal people who suffer from disabilities such as autism, brain damage and cerebral palsy. The method consists of a “facilitator” — usually a third-party aid trained in FC — providing support by holding a “user’s” arm, finger or shoulder as the user points to letters or types out messages using a keyboard. In Lehman’s case, his son, Derek, had typed with the help of a facilitator that he had been sexually abused by his father.

But as cases like that arose — in which parents have been accused through FC of sexual abuse — so did skepticism about who actually controls the words typed through FC. That has prompted studies which have consistently indicated that the words originate not from the user but from the facilitator, usually subconsciously, like how one uses a Ouija board to “interact with the dead.”

Though severe, Lehman’s case — which was dropped 10 months after the accusations were made — was somewhat typical for parents of children who use FC. Just last month, charges were dropped in Canada against a father accused through FC of sexually abusing his 35-year-old, see communication page 8

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election 2016

Sanders to campaign in Syracuse ahead of NY primary

By Alexa Torrens news editor

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) will make a campaign stop in Syracuse on Tuesday afternoon ahead of the April 19 New York state primary.

Sanders will speak on Tuesday at 2 p.m. at the Nicholas J. Pirro

Convention Center at The Oncenter at 800 South State St. Doors will open for the event at 11 SANDERS a.m. Admission is free and public, but attendees are encouraged to RSVP on Sand-

ers’ campaign website.

Members of the Syracuse community marched through downtown Syracuse on Saturday in support of the senator, who is making his bid for the Democratic nomination against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Clinton also visited Syracuse on April 1 to discuss her debt-free college plans.

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What: Bernie Sanders’s Syracuse campaign stop Where: Nicholas J. Pirro Convention Center at The Oncenter at 800 South State St. in Syracuse When: Tuesday at 2 p.m.

How much: Free

While in Syracuse, Clinton made

a pit stop at Marshall Street’s Varsity Pizza.

Sanders’ visit to Syracuse also comes on the heels of Republican candidate and Ohio Gov. John Kasich’s Friday rally at Le Moyne College. Business mogul Donald Trump will also reportedly campaign in Syracuse on April 16. atorrens@syr.edu

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Lesley Kevin Pfeifer woke up on an October morning of his freshman year and realized he had drastically overslept. He arrived 10 minutes late for his audition for the OneWorld Dance troupe. To his surprise, he walked in to find himself one of only two men in a room full of nearly 30 women.

“I remember thinking, ‘Wait, is this a girls’ group?’” Pfeifer said.

Now the junior information, management and technology major is still dancing for OneWorld. The troupe is comprised of Syracuse University students and focuses on traditional African tribal and modern dances.

Pfeifer moved to the United States from Ghana three years ago to come to SU. While participating in the Summer Start program, he met other dancers already in OneWorld who encouraged him to join.

Back in Ghana, Pfeifer danced, but was not affiliated with a group. He and his friends would compete with each other and show off the moves they had been working on, he said.

“Dancing in general is just like an escape to happiness,” Pfeifer said. “I just do whatever I feel like.

When I was a kid, I always imitated Michael Jackson and other dancers, and that’s how I started loving

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the art of dance.”

Pfeifer explained that all the dancers have an equal role in choreographing the routines. If a dancer has an idea for a move or saw something in a YouTube video they liked, Pfeifer explained, it’s their job to bring it up to the group and show it off.

One of Pfeifer’s favorite memo-

ries with the group was when he was a freshman and the group’s president decided to have him wear just tights and no shirt for the very first performance. Pfeifer said although he originally didn’t want to wear the tights, he can look back on the experience and laugh.

Now about to enter his senior year, Pfeifer said he wants to join

the groups executive board in order to help promote African culture on campus.

He also said that after he graduates, he wants to continue dancing, as it’s a huge part of who he is.

Said Pfeifer: “I think dancing is something that will never leave us — it’s our food and water.” emmichae@syr.edu

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Partners in crime The D.O.’s interactive crime map shows a round-up of criminal activity that happened near Syracuse University last week.

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Week in news The D.O. News Department compiled a list of the biggest SU and Syracuse news stories from last week.

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Who’s in charge As Student Association elections are underway, read The D.O.’s series on the SU students running for president of SA. See Tuesday’s paper

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Position to appear on ballot Students can vote on creation of director of diversity affairs

By Alexa Torrens news editor

OHIO GOV. JOHN KASICH said at a Syracuse town hall event on Friday that he expects to secure the Republican nomination for president.

Kasich visited Syracuse in an effort to gain support ahead of the April 19 New York primary. logan reidsma senior staff photographer

election 2016

Kasich holds town hall event in Syracuse

By Michael Burke asst. news editor

Republican presidential candidate and Ohio Gov. John Kasich criticized the current political dynamic at a town hall event on Friday evening in Syracuse, saying that the next United States president will need to be a bipartisan leader.

“Before we’re Republicans and Democrats, we’re Americans,” he said. “I don’t know how we forgot that.”

A few hundred people packed into Le Moyne College’s Henninger Athletic Center for Kasich’s latest campaign stop, which came 11 days before the April 19 New York state presidential primary, to watch him lay out his policy views and tout his past

political accomplishments working with members of both parties.

Before we’re Republicans and Democrats, we’re Americans. I don’t know how we forgot that.

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The governor, who predicted Friday that he will secure the nomination at an open convention in July, also criticized the propos-

als that rival Republican candidates Sen. Ted Cruz (Texas) and business mogul Donald Trump have put forth, respectively, to monitor Muslim neighborhoods and keep Muslims from entering the U.S. In making his pitch to Syracuse voters, Kasich brought up his experience in the U.S. House of Representatives working with both Democrats and Republicans to pass legislation such as welfare reform and the Balanced Budget Act of 1997.

“I know that’s hard to believe,” he said. “It sounds like a fiction book, but we all worked together.”

Kasich, who served as chairman of the House Budget Committee from 1995 -2001, emphasized the “common-sense” regulations — an often-used phrase throughout his campaign — that he implemented in

passing the Balanced Budget Act and balancing Ohio’s budget as governor.

He’d do the same, he said, if he gets elected to the White House.

Currently, though, Kasich is trailing in delegates to both Cruz and Trump in the race to the nomination.

Those two candidates have grabbed headlines during the campaign season for their plans to combat terrorism by groups such as the Islamic State. Trump has said he would prevent Muslims from entering the country until “we figure out what’s going on,” and Cruz recently said he would have police patrol Muslim neighborhoods.

Kasich called the positions “absurd.”

“Our friends in the Arab world see

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election 2016

Community marches to support Bernie Sanders

By Rachel Sandler asst. news editor

Katerina Agretelis, a sophomore transmedia major at Syracuse University, walked over to an older man, tapped him on the shoulder and asked if she could borrow the megaphone he was holding. He handed it over.

With the megaphone in hand, Agretelis — dressed in a beanie, jeans and a “Bernie Sanders for President” T-shirt — walked past a line of about 80 Sanders supporters and started yelling.

“No more coal, no more oil,” she said through the megaphone. “Keep our carbon in the soil!”

Soon the group of Sanders supporters were walking down Washington Street in downtown Syracuse, chanting and following Agretelis, who was never old enough to vote in a presidential election before now.

Like many young voters, Sanders’s record on environmental issues, his distance from Wall Street and overall honesty, Agretelis said, is connecting with her.

“He gives me a lot of hope and a desire to vote,” she added.

The march was organized by Syracuse for Sanders, the local grassroots outfit supporting Sanders’s campaign in New York before the primary on April 19. About 80 Syracuse

community members — and about 10 SU students — participated in the march, which started on the corner of South Franklin and Walton streets and ended in front of the Chase building on South Salina Street. oon after the march ended, Sanders’s official campaign announced that he will be in Syracuse on Tuesday for a rally at the Oncenter.

FiveThirtyEight’s current forecast shows Sanders’s opponent for the Democratic nomination, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, with a 98 percent chance of winning the New York primary and every poll coming out of the state has Clinton ahead, according to FiveThirtyEight.

But despite the bleak polling, Rob Mossotti, an organizer for Syracuse for Sanders, said that if young people in upstate New York, such as those attending SU or Onondaga Community College, turn out to vote for Sanders, he has a chance of winning the Syracuse area if not the entire state.

“We’re depending on young voters, who demographically tend to support Sanders,” he said.

The march stopped in Clinton Square and in front of City Hall, where speakers and volunteers for Syracuse for Sanders criticized Clinton instead of targeting Republican candidates, such as Donald Trump

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Syracuse University students will be able to vote this week on whether they are in favor of the Student Association establishing a position for a student director of diversity affairs.

The option to vote in favor of the position will appear on MySlice on SA’s ballot for various positions, including president and vice president, comptroller and student assembly representatives. Voting will be open from April 11 to 14.

Ideas for what kind of role the see

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crime briefs Here is a round-up of criminal activity that happened near campus this week, according to police bulletins: OPEN CONTAINER A Syracuse University student, 19, was arrested on the charge of possession of an open container, according to a police bulletin. when: Sunday at 2:27 a.m. where: 1200 block of Madison Avenue HARASSMENT A Syracuse woman, 28, was arrested on the charges of harassment in the second degree and criminal mischief in the fourth degree, according to a police bulletin. when: Saturday at 6:30 a.m. where: 700 block of South Crouse Avenue A Syracuse woman, 19, was arrested on the charges of harassment in the second degree, menacing in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree, according to a police bulletin. when: Thursday at 11:05 p.m. where: 200 block of West Colvin Street ASSAULT A Syracuse woman, 21, was arrested on the charges of assault in the second degree, criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree and criminal mischief in the fourth degree, according to a police bulletin. when: Saturday at 6:30 a.m. where: 700 block of Irving Avenue

— Compiled by Michael Burke, asst. news editor, mdburk01@syr.edu

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DO Editorial Board endorses Evangelista, LaLonde for SA Eric Evangelista and Joyce LaLonde’s combined experience, knowledge and means of leadership prove the duo to be the most qualified to lead the 60th session of the Student Association at Syracuse University.

Evangelista, a junior history and political science dual major, and LaLonde, a junior policy studies and public relations dual major, have formed a comprehensive campaign on the basis of C.A.R.E., which stands for “Committed to collaboration, Anti-discriminatory, Ready for reform and Excited for excellence.” Proposals that have been explicitly outlined under the platform include increased access to mental health care and enhanced off-campus security, among other initiatives.

Evangelista’s thorough understanding of the bureaucracy of SA as its longest-serving member complemented by LaLonde’s extensive dedication to the university community and greater city of Syracuse provides a balanced approach to what can be realistically accomplished on the SU campus.

In comparison to rivaling platforms that are too idealistic to come to fruition or too narrow to affect a significant number of students, Evangelista and LaLonde’s diverse local involvement in different facets of city and student life allow them the capacity to accurately represent the voices of the collective undergraduate body.

LaLonde alone has been involved with research consulting for local homeless shelters, is on the board of directors for Nourish International and is spending her summer in Syracuse working on several ongoing projects, including the development of an improved relationship between the university’s undergraduate and gradu-

ate programs.

Running alongside Evangelista and LaLonde on the ballot are candidates who present valid student grievances, but lack essential knowledge of SA or significant issues facing the campus community.

And when Evangelista and LaLonde are undeniably prepared to discuss specific components of life at SU rather than provide a broad and ineffective response, it is clear that they are best prepared to take office.

This preparation may be partly rooted in the connections Evangelista and LaLonde have made among key players within the university administration, the Department of Public Safety and among student organizations over the course of their academic careers.

If the pair were to be elected, these relationships would carry significant weight considering these community members can provide valuable insight as the pair navigates SA decisions.

This commitment to collaboration is reflected in the pair’s own relationship.

Evangelista and LaLonde have delegated their areas of expertise to best mold their own leadership roles. This is demonstrated in how LaLonde’s focus is placed on big picture initiatives and Evangelista’s involvement within SA equips him to take an in-depth look at the finer details of campus life.

While the two haven’t known each other for very long, the power of the pair’s dynamic is apparent through their interactions as peers and as candidates — a leading force that has the strong, unanimous endorsement of The Daily Orange Editorial Board.

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SA leaders encourage student body to vote From Monday, April 11, to Thursday, April 14, students will have an opportunity to vote for the next President, Vice President and Comptroller of Student Association.

We encourage students to be critical of all candidates running for these leadership positions.

They’re not running for mere titles, nor are they just leading an organization. As President, Vice President and Comptroller of Student Association, they will be expected to speak on behalf of all 15,000 undergraduate students — and that includes you.

They’ll be invited to speak on your behalf when meeting with university leadership and members of administration. They’ll be asked to share their opinions on crucial decisions that affect the student population. They’ll potentially serve on future workgroups and task forces that aim to better the student experience for all.

In short, these elected officials are given incredible responsibilities and power.

So when you log on to MySlice this week and check off who you’re voting for, check yourself first!

Have you researched what these candidates stand for? Do their values align with yours? Do you sincerely believe in their ability to affect positive and necessary changes on this campus?

More importantly though, do you trust them to speak and act on your behalf?

If the answer is yes, then awesome. Go vote! If the answer is no, do your research, become an informed voter, and be able to confidently elect your new student leaders.

Sincerely, Aysha Seedat, Jane Hong and Phil Kramer SA President, Vice President and Comptroller, respectively 59th Session

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Objection to North Carolina, Mississippi ‘bathroom bills’ justified

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ew York state — including members of the Syracuse University community — is making it clear that LGBTQ rights are human rights in response to the recent passing of discriminatory laws in North Carolina and Mississippi.

The Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act (HB2), signed by North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory, prevents individuals from using public restrooms that do not correspond with their biological sex.

But the ignorance doesn’t stop there, considering the act also restricts cities from passing antidiscrimination bills that would ensure equality.

New York state Gov. Andrew Cuomo has since set restrictions on any non-essential, state-sponsored travel to North Carolina and Mississippi because they have passed legislation that infringes on the rights of these marginalized groups.

Cuomo deserves a round of applause. It’s inevitable for there to be differences in opinion between communities and individuals, but if it weren’t for the state of New York advocating for its citizens, injustice would be much more widespread. If something as senseless as bathroom restrictions can make it all the way through the general assembly, it just goes to show that injustice and discrimination are as alive as ever.

While North Carolina passed HB2 under the pretense of safety precautions, the state of Mississippi passed a similar bill on the

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grounds of religious beliefs.

Regardless of each state’s justification, the effect is the same: The bills are ultimately homophobic and transphobic. North Carolina House Speaker Tim Moore said to CNN that the bill had everything to do with privacy and safety, yet didn’t take into consideration that this bill clearly infringes on the privacy and safety of the LGBTQ community.

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LGBTQ, according to the Move ment Advancement Project

Sandra Lane, a professor of public health and anthropology at SU’s David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics, was recently invited to give a distinguished lecture this coming fall in honor of Walter Bo and Charles McCreight at Wake Forest University in North Carolina. Having already accepted the invitation prior to the passing of HB2, Lane sent a follow-up email declining, explaining that attending the lecture would be hypocritical of her.

While anything that happens in the restroom is no one’s business, it is made our concern when

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our transgender and gender nonconforming friends, classmates and family members are being punished for being themselves, for being human. All efforts to ban non-essential travel and to withdraw commerce from the state are reasonable reactions in the face of legislative discrimination.

It’s important that we all take notes from Lane’s actions and learn to be advocates for the LGBTQ individuals, because they are a part of the greater community as well. According to the Movement Advancement Project, 3.3 percent of adults in North Carolina identify as LGBTQ. Legislative leaders like McCrory can’t expect to create any sense of safety within the state if 246,363 of its individuals are being attacked.

“I think that it’s already hard for LGBTQ youth even in states that don’t have (discriminatory) laws. There are still elevated rates of suicide and depression and substance abuse because of the stress and shame and the feelings that there is no one out there for them,” said Lane, who is also a research professor in the department of obstetrics and gynecology at Upstate Medical University.

Not only is McCrory trying to micromanage the lives of the trans* community down to the last flush, but he is preventing the passing of any anti-discriminatory laws that protect these individuals. Unlike McCrory, Cuomo aims to create an environment that embraces all of New York’s citizens, regardless of gender identity

or sexual orientation.

“From Stonewall to marriage equality, our state has been a beacon of hope and equality for the LGBT community, and we will not stand idly by as misguided legislation replicates the discrimination of the past,” said Cuomo in a recent statement.

It’s hard enough to figure out who you are without your society telling you that who you know yourself to be is wrong.

Sandra Lane professor of public health and anthropology in the david b. falk college of sport and human dynamics at syracuse university

And state intervention from leaders like Cuomo is key, considering Lane said that discriminatory legislation may reinforce the pain that LGBTQ youth experience while growing up.

“It’s hard enough to figure out who you are without your society telling you that who you know yourself to be is wrong,” said Lane.

Lane is not the only advocate who has taken a stand against this anti-LGBTQ legislation. Across the state of North Carolina, campus communities enraged by the bill have held demonstrations in an effort to express their

disapproval. Students at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte held a protest and created a petition, while students at the Wilmington campus decided to form a peaceful sit-in in front of the university’s bathrooms.

This uprise of awareness and proactivity among North Carolina residents is a visual representation of the obvious mistake that was made in passing this bill. Although the bill is generally accepted by these lawmakers, the next generation of activists and politicians are the same students that are sitting in front of public restrooms now.

According to the Trevor Project, a national organization that provides crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to LGBTQ youth, about half of young transgender people have seriously thought about taking their lives, and one quarter report having made a suicide attempt.

Knowing these harsh facts puts into perspective who the bill is really trying to protect — certainly it isn’t the trans* lives that have been lost and the individuals who currently struggle with their sense of self and identity.

We cannot simplify human beings to their biological makeup, sexual orientation, physical appearance or a sign on a bathroom door and New York should be commended for standing its ground.

Ivana Pino is a freshman political science major. Her column appears weekly. She can be reached at ivpino@syr.edu.

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kasich have to work with us,” he said. “… If you want to find out what’s going on in a Muslim neighborhood, who do you think you ought to ask?

People in the neighborhood! What’s wrong with you?”

Kasich only briefly touched on the subject of college tuition costs, calling it a “problem” that will need to be dealt with.

Throughout his speech and during a Q&A session with those in attendance, Kasich faced a scoreboard that showed a time of 20:16, as in the year 2016. It also showed “John” and “Kasich” as the two team names, each with 45 underneath, as in the 45th president of the country.

But Kasich has currently won only 143 delegates, which puts him in fourth place in the Republican race, trailing behind not only Cruz and Trump, but also Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), who suspended his campaign last month. Kasich does not have a path to the 1,237 delegates needed to clinch the nomination, so his only hope to become the nominee is to win an open convention at the Republican National

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march and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas). The speakers focused on Clinton’s ties to Wall Street and the fossil fuel industry, which are both common complaints among Sanders supporters against Clinton, who campaigned in Syracuse last week at the F Shed to a crowd of about 600 people.

Quinn Leary and Brigitta Pupillo, both freshmen at SU, held a sign in rainbow marker that said, “Gays for Sanders.” Both of them cited Sanders’s record on LGBTQ issues — and Clinton’s past reluctance to support marriage equality in the 1990s — as the major reason for their passion and support for Sanders.

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He said Friday that he expects there will be a brokered convention, which would require that no candidate reach 1,237 delegates.

Republicans, he said, will then need to consider which candidate has the best chance to not only win the general election but also keep the party from “getting obliterated” in the other fall elections.

Polls show Kasich defeating Democrat front-runner and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in a general election by an average of 6.6 percentage points, according to Real Clear Politics average polling data.

But polls also show Kasich losing to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who is competing with Clinton for the Democratic nomination, by an average of 2.7 percentage points, according to RCP. Both Cruz and Trump are trailing both Democratic nominee-hopefuls in average polling, according to RCP. Said Kasich: “I believe I’ll be the Republican nominee for president, and then I’ll come back here and see you again.” mdburk01@syr.edu | @michaelburke47

“I’m afraid for the future of queer people,” Leary said. “There’s some f*cked up laws in North Carolina and other states right now, and Bernie has always supported LGBT rights.”

Sanders’s focus on social justice and refusal to bow to corporate interests appeals to Sedore, who said she’s still unsure if she would vote for Clinton if she got the Democratic nomination.She hopes Sanders runs as a third-party candidate in the general election.

“I f*ck with him,” she said. “He’s good for women, queer people, other marginalized people, people in general. Hillary has been very ‘eh’ about her policies, and I trust Bernie.” rsandler@syr.edu

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diversity director of diversity affairs would serve were thrown around at SA’s April 4 meeting when Vice President Jane Hong introduced the initiative for the position to the assembly. But ideally, Hong said, the person in the position would serve as a student representative to different diversity leadership councils at SU that right now only consist of faculty and staff.

“I think the ideal person for this job would be a leader who is passionate about diversity and inclusion on this campus,” Hong said at the April 4 meeting. “And whether that’s an assembly rep, who has been in this organization for years, or someone outside of it who wants their first year of experience in SA.” That person, she added, would be the “point person” who is known by the SU administration and other university leaders as the director of diversity affairs. The director of diversity affairs would focus “solely on diversity affairs as it pertains to our student body,” Hong said in an interview with The Daily Orange.

“Syracuse University is very unique in that we have this you know, very real culture of self-segregation, and so when we came into these respective positions I think we thought a lot about how we could better serve that community — the multicultural community — and how we could kind of try to bridge the gap in between all these different pockets we have on campus,” Hong said.

If the resolution for the position passes the student body after this week of elections, Hong said she would like to bring the initiative back to the assembly to start hashing out the details of the position and what it will actually look like.

She said she and SA President Aysha Seedat are going into the initiative with open minds because it ’s new territory for them, being that there has never been a position like a director of diversity affairs in SA. Hong said the idea to create the position is something she and Seedat thought of together, and added that her own participation on the Chancellor’s Workgroup on Diversity and Inclusion motivated the pair even more to set it into motion.

One of the long-term goals Hong said she would like to see with the initiative is the creation of a council or board of sorts that would have representatives from all of SU’s international and cultural organizations.

She compared the proposed council to the Student Affairs Advisory Board led

by Senior Vice President and Dean of the Division of Student Affairs Rebecca Reed Kantrowitz. The advisory board consists of about 25 student representatives who meet every other week to discuss different issues relating to students.

That council, she said, would help combat the lack of communication between different cultural groups on campus. She added that the council would also ensure that programming would be stronger and that there would not be duplicate outreach to people the groups want to bring to campus.

Overall, Hong said, the council would help create more unification with those different groups, which she said essentially have the same mission statement but are different in the cultures that they focus on.

“It’s something we’ve been talking about since we were elected last year, so to kind of see it come to fruition is really surreal for us, and we’re really excited hopefully for it to pass,” she said. atorrens@syr.edu

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“We are going to need a lot more partnerships in order to deal with this disease,” Donner said. “It cannot be done by one researcher. It will take many different people from many wo researchers from SUNY-ESF are part of a team different disciplines and angles in order to get a handle on it.” of scientists that was recently honored for a study It is important to try to eliminate white-nose syndrome, focused on improving the survival rates of bats.

Donner said, as bats play a critical role in the environment.

The team of researchers, which was led by the United “Bats provide an ecological service, free of charge,” she said.

States Department of Agriculture Forest Service, was In one night, a lactating female bat can eat its bodyweight presented with the Research Partnership Award at the 2016 in bugs. Without bats eating the pests, farmers would need to Wings Across the Americas Conservation Awards ceremony in spend larger sums on pesticides. This would result in a higher Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in March. cost of production, and thus a higher price for consumers, Jacqueline Frair, a wildlife ecologist Donner said. and associate director of the State UniverBats also play a role in the production WE ARE GOING TO NEED sity of New York College of Environmental of tequila. They are one of the main polA LOT MORE PARTNERSHIPS Science and Forestry’s Roosevelt Wild Life linators of Century Plants, which are used Station, and Ben Prom, a lab technician, IN ORDER TO DEAL WITH THIS in the production of tequila, according to were the two researchers from SUNY-ESF batcon.org.

DISEASE. IT CANNOT BE DONE that were involved with the project, which The research partnership aims to find focused on white-nose syndrome in bats. methods of helping the bats to cope with

BY ONE RESEARCHER. White-nose syndrome is named for the the disease. Through the partnership, sciDeahn Donner white tint that can be found on the nose entists can study microbes on bats’ wings landscape ecologist with the and wings of infected bats. The syndrome that may be useful in building immunorthern research station is caused by a fungus that originated in nity. Researchers also identify where Europe. In 2007, the fungus was found in a cave in New York land managers may improve habitats so migrating bats are state, and since then, it has spread across the U.S., said Deahn healthier and more resilient to the disease, according to a Donner, principle investigator for the research team and a release on SUNY-ESF’s website. project leader and landscape ecologist with the Northern Donner and her team are using an integrated disease manageResearch Station. ment (IDM) strategy that observes the host, environment and The fungus is found in the soil of caves, and since it is not pathogens, which is known as the IDM triangle. In order to sucnative to the U.S., Donner said, it quickly spreads. The syn- cessfully combat white-nose syndrome, researchers must focus drome disturbs bats from their rest, causing them to wake up on all three aspects and look at how they interact, Donner said. frequently. This becomes deadly when it occurs during hiber“We don’t know enough about bats, and they are very difnation. The bats wake up hungry and thirsty, but are unable ficult to study,” she said. “This is not something that can be to find food in the middle of winter, often leading to death by solved quickly.” starvation and dehydration, Donner said. tnwatson@syr.edu Text by Taylor Watson

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Here is a timeline of important events related to the history of facilitated communication at SU:

1988 Douglas Biklen, the former dean of SU’s School of Education, learned of FC in Australia from Rosemary Crossley.

1989 Biklen began to spread FC at Syracuse University and in the surrounding community following a meeting with parents and educators that lasted less than three hours.

1991 Faculty members expressed concerns about SU’s practice of FC at a meeting with then-Chancellor Buzz Shaw, who opted not to intervene.

1992 Biklen established the Facilitated Communication Institute, which has long served as the epicenter of FC in the United States.

1993 David Lehman was falsely accused through FC of sexually abusing his severely autistic, nonverbal son and was separated from his children for just less than a year.

2002 SU’s Communication Sciences and Disorders Department left the School of Education, where the institute is housed. Officials told Howard Shane, who received his Ph.D. in speech pathology at the department, that the move was made because the department did not want to be associated with the institute.

2010 The institute was renamed the Institute on Communication and Inclusion, even though its practices have remained largely the same.

2015 Anna Stubblefield, who was trained as a facilitator at SU’s institute, was convicted of sexual assault after using FC to have a nonverbal man with severe disabilities “consent” to sex.

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communication severely autistic daughter.

Even worse, there have been incidents in which experienced facilitators have used FC to have people with severe disabilities “consent” to sex or their own death, leading to cases of rape and murder in recent years.

And even when FC doesn’t lead to such consequences, experts say the practice of it on its own defrauds and delays the development of the people who use it, since they could be spending that time participating in other therapy that would likely be more helpful.

Despite that, the promotion and practice of FC is still the primary purpose of SU’s Institute on Communication and Inclusion, which is housed in the School of Education at Huntington Hall. The institute’s stance on the practice has remained relatively unchanged over the years, with officials maintaining it works.

It’s why many experts blame SU’s institute, considered the epicenter of FC in the United States, for perpetuating continued belief in a method that has, for the last 25 years, destroyed lives, taken at least one and misinformed thousands — issues that experts say will continue until the institute’s practice of FC ends.

“Syracuse should be completely ashamed of itself for allowing this to happen,” said Howard Shane, a speech pathologist at Boston Children’s Hospital who earned his Ph.D. at SU in 1975.

“They’ve never asked the fundamental question: Is this real?”

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Douglas Biklen was first introduced to facilitated communication by Rosemary Crossley, the original developer of FC, during a trip to Melbourne, Australia, in 1988.

Biklen, an SU professor at the time who later became dean of the School of Education, declined to be interviewed for this story. But in his book “Communication Unbound: How Facilitated Communications Is Challenging Traditional Views of Autism and Ability/ Disability,” he describes meeting two nonverbal children, Jonothan Solaris and David Armbruster, during his visit to Australia.

Through FC, Jonothan and David demonstrated linguistic capabilities that shocked Biklen and convinced him to make FC the cornerstone of his career.

“Jonothan’s easy grasp of the abstract concept ‘metaphorical’ and David’s facile sarcasm struck me as extraordinary,” wrote Biklen, who retired in 2014. “The content of their communication was ‘normal,’ not what one expects from children with autism.”

It contradicted just about everything Biklen knew about autism, he wrote. But rather than question who controlled the typing, he accepted the communication as valid and believed he had discovered something that disproved more than 50 years of research.

He chose not to quantitatively test the method himself because he believed running experiments on individuals would make them feel as if they were being presumed unable to communicate. He then brought the method to Syracuse shortly after a second visit to Australia in 1989 and, following a single meeting with parents and educators that lasted less than three hours, spread it throughout the community, according to his book.

In Syracuse, he encountered more nonverbal children who, through FC, were suddenly producing full sentences and displaying supposed knowledge that was not previously believed to be typical of people with such disabilities. One of those children was a girl named Mary, then a student at a Syracuse middle school.

“Mary, a student who often makes loud groaning noises and occasionally hits herself and gets up and down from her chair in the middle of a lesson is not yet producing open-ended communication consistently,” Biklen wrote in the book. “Yet in a seventh-grade science class, she was observed to be the first to respond to her science teacher’s request for the metric measure

of weight; she typed out GRAM.” In response to students such as Mary demonstrating such abilities, Biklen “often wondered if we might be cuing students to their selections of letters and words,” he wrote. But there is no indication he went further to investigate whether there was any substance to that uncertainty.

Instead, he continued to spread it without scientifically validating the method.

“Here you have a child who has never spoken a word in their life typing with the assistance of a verbal person,” said Jim Todd, a professor of psychology at Eastern Michigan University who learned of FC in 1990 and has since worked to debunk it. “… And you’re not assuming that the

chiatric illnesses.

The therapy cured Lehman’s depression, but he lost about six months of his memory as a result, a common side effect of the therapy.

To this day, he suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, which is why he doesn’t use a keyboard — it triggers the PTSD. At the time his case was dropped, Lehman was one in what was already a long list of parents who had been falsely accused of sexually abusing their children through FC. By 1995, there had been at least five dozen such cases, “the substantial majority” of which were unfounded, according to research conducted by Emory University professor Scott Lilienfeld.

Here you have a child who has never spoken a word in their life typing with the assistance of a verbal person. ... And you’re not assuming that the words are coming from the verbal person? It just seemed irrational to us.

Jim Todd psychology professor at eastern michigan university

words are coming from the verbal person? It just seemed irrational to us.”

It also seemed irrational to some officials at SU. When he first arrived at SU in 1991, thenChancellor Buzz Shaw met with a collection of faculty members who encouraged him to prohibit the practice of FC at the university, said Bruce Carter, an associate professor of psychology at SU who specializes in child development.

But Shaw believed fully in academic freedom and allowing faculty members to pursue what they desired, Carter said.

The following year, Biklen founded SU’s Facilitated Communication Institute — now known as the Institute on Communication and Inclusion — the first of its kind in the U.S. “Biklen brought (FC) to this country and he had a reputation. And Syracuse is a reputable university,” said Shane, the Boston Children’s Hospital speech pathologist. “And so that gave it the legitimacy it needed. And if it wasn’t for that, I don’t think it would’ve spread like it did.”

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The year after Biklen launched the institute at SU, David Lehman returned home from work on March 12, 1993. That’s when local police approached him in his Newmarket, Ontario, driveway to arrest him on the sexual abuse charges.

He spent a few nights at a local jail before being released on bail, and his two children — Derek and his daughter — were removed from his custody by child protection services.

As the case dragged out for months, Lehman began to neglect his health and struggled to remain productive at work. He would spend twice as long at the office on a daily basis, just to get an adequate amount of work finished.

“It weighed so heavily on my mind that I struggled to function as an engineer,” he said. “I mean, imagine trying to function with that on your mind. There’s a constant terror.”

Lehman also battled depression throughout the ordeal, needing to be taken to the hospital three separate times over concerns that he might commit suicide. The depression lasted even after

I do have an issue with the advocacy and promotion of FC in the absence of strong data that it actually works.

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the case was dropped, and he ultimately opted to receive electroconvulsive therapy, a controversial method in which patients are electrically induced with seizures in an effort to relieve psy-

The nature and the quantity of cases such as Lehman’s prompted studies that seemed to debunk FC, but FC continued, and the cases have continued to pop up in the 21st century.

In late 2007, for instance, it was Julian and Tali Wendrow who had their worlds flipped upside down in West Bloomfield, Michigan.

They were jointly accused through FC of sexually abusing their nonverbal daughter, Aislinn, who was in high school at the time.

Julian and Tali were immediately separated from Aislinn and their son, Ian. The children were sent to a foster home, with Julian going to jail and Tali to her mother’s home, where she was kept on house arrest. Tali said Julian spent much of his time in jail in solitary confinement, where he was kept in his cell for 23 hours per day and was never allowed outside.

Tali, meanwhile, was forced to take time off work without pay. The only time she was allowed to leave her mother’s house was to go to the doctor, but that required that her doctor first send a letter to the jail confirming she had an appointment.

She ended up canceling most of them.

“Can you imagine that? Calling the doctor and saying, ‘Can you please send a letter to the jail that I have an appointment?’” she said. “It’s humiliating.”

Like Lehman, Tali experienced fear that she might have seen her children for the final time.

But some of the worst fallout came after the case was dropped three months later, and the family was reunited.

When she returned to her job at the county’s attorney’s office, she said she was let go without an explanation. To this day, she still hasn’t held beyond a part-time job and is looking for full-time work.

“Having that accusation out there ruins your reputation,” Tali said.

And it wasn’t until last year — eight years after the original accusation was made — that the Wendrow family won a civil case against the prosecutors in the original criminal case.

That was when Tali said she felt like the “dust finally settled.”

“But after the dust settles, you still have to brush yourself and move on. The whole thing threw everything off,” she said. “... I look back and say, ‘Eight years, wow.’ People go through high school and college in eight years.”

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When Anna Stubblefield had sex in 2011 with a nonverbal man who has cerebral palsy, she didn’t think she was doing anything wrong, even though she was ultimately found guilty of aggravated sexual assault.

That’s because, experts say, she was adhering to FC instructions emphasized at SU’s Institute on Communication and Inclusion.

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at Rutgers University, received certification as a facilitator from the institute, where she was taught to always presume competence in FC users. Stubblefield thus presumed the man, identified publicly as D.J., was able to consent to sex, and claimed in court in 2015 that her sexual relations with him weren’t rape because he “consented” to them through FC. But psychologists determined D.J. mentally incompetent and unable to consent to sexual acts. The judge in the trial ruled that FC failed New Jersey’s test for scientific evidence and a jury found Stubblefield guilty of two counts of aggravated sexual assault in the first degree.

Stubblefield was ultimately sentenced to 12 years in prison, where she remains today.

Though the instances of unsubstantial sexual abuse allegations are the most documented, there are other serious consequences that have resulted from the practice of FC, like Stubblefield’s case.

After the case gained national attention when it was featured in an October 2015 New York Times Magazine piece, SU’s Institute on Communication and Inclusion released a statement reminding those who practice FC to follow the institute’s “best practice” — which include gradually lessening physical support and making sure that the user’s eyes stay on the keyboard.

But the statement didn’t mention that Stubblefield was trained at SU. The importance of presuming competence in all people, regardless of their disabilities, was what Stubblefield did with D.J. and was a cornerstone of Biklen’s philosophy when he established the institute.

“For me, the idea of presuming competence … is the most optimistic and appropriate way to go through the world,” said Christine Ashby, the current director of the institute, in a March interview.

Experts such as Howard Shane, the Boston Children’s Hospital speech pathologist, and Jim Todd, the Eastern Michigan psychology professor, thus point out that the Stubblefield ordeal likely never would have occurred if not for SU’s practice of FC. But they also go a step further, arguing that SU is at the root of all issues that have arisen as a result of FC. There was also the case of Gigi Jordan, a New York woman who in 2010 killed her 8-year-old autistic son by force-feeding him painkillers and other pills. Jordan, who was convicted of first-degree manslaughter, testified that her son wanted to die because he had been abused by his father, something Jordan said her son told her through FC. And then there are the hundreds of people who practice FC but don’t type out accusations of abuse. Who aren’t sexually assaulted like D.J. was. Who aren’t killed like Jordan’s son was. But they and their families are being misled, experts say, when FC advocates presume competence in their ability to communicate when evidence suggests they might

not be able to.

“You’re claiming something about them that isn’t true, and then you’re superimposing onto them a personality that they don’t have and superimposing onto them words they haven’t spoken,” Todd said. “... It’s not criminal in the technical

American Speech-Language-Hearing Association and the American Psychiatric Association.

Over the years, though, proponents of facilitated communication have largely dismissed the results of the studies, arguing that FC users, of which there are hundreds, are not able to produce correct answers in testing situations because they become afraid.

“A double-blind test is a very stressful situation,” said Ashby, the current director of SU’s institute. “... Because you’re starting from the presumption that it’s not them.”

But FC critics have zero tolerance for such arguments. There is no research suggesting that the people who use FC become especially flustered or scared in those situations, experts said.

“The FC users are supposedly suddenly able to communicate for the first time, but they all become too nervous to identify a simple object when asked? It’s patently ridiculous,” said Todd, the Eastern Michigan psychology professor who has a Ph.D. in developmental psychology. “And these folks say there are hundreds of people using this with success, and out of hundreds they can’t find one person who is confident enough to show it works? It defies all credibility.”

Experts largely attribute the continued existence of FC to vulnerable parents and families who will do just about anything to attempt to communicate with their loved ones. Especially if they’re told by professionals such as Biklen, Ashby and others that the practice works.

“They don’t stop to think about that,” Todd said of such professionals. “They just say, ‘We’re just going to throw it out there and hope and pretend it works.’”

“I do have an issue with the advocacy and promotion of FC in the absence of strong data that it actually works,” added Carter, the SU associate professor of psychology. “Because I don’t like the idea of giving people false hope. I find that troubling.”

It weighed so heavily on my mind that I struggled to function as an engineer.

David Lehman accused in 1993 through fc of sexual abuse

sense, but it’s criminal in the ethical sense.”

To Shane, all that’s problematic with FC can be traced back to a single culprit.

“Who’s responsible? You tell me,” he said.

“Had Syracuse in the 1990s listened to the research that showed that this is all nonsense, all of this would have been avoided.”

Since the early 1990s, there have been about 40 experimental studies which have strongly indicated that authorship in facilitated communication belongs to the facilitator, rather than the user.

One of the earliest such studies came in August 1992 at the Oswald D. Heck Developmental Center in Schenectady, New York. Twelve individuals living at the center who used FC and their respective facilitators were used in the study, which involved displaying pictures of everyday objects and asking the users to type out the name of the object.

In some scenarios, only the user was shown the picture. In others, both the facilitator and the user were shown a picture, with each being unable to see what the other was shown. Sometimes they were shown the same picture, while other times they were shown different ones.

This is considered the “double-blind” model of testing and the results were telling: The 12 users were unable to produce correct answers without the facilitator being shown the same picture as them.

When the facilitator and user were shown the same picture, 10 of the 12 users were able to produce correct answers. But when the facilitator and the user were shown different pictures, the only “correct” answers typed were for the pictures shown to the facilitator, never for the pictures shown to the user.

For example, if the user was shown a picture of a toothbrush and the facilitator a shirt, the word “shirt” was frequently typed out and “toothbrush” was never answered.

A number of studies have since been performed following the double-blind model — most recently in 2014 by researchers in Finland — and each has come away with similar findings.

The studies have led to several professional organizations taking stances against FC, including the American Psychological Association, the

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The current Institute on Communication and Inclusion (ICI) is a multi-office room at 370 Huntington Hall, down a skinny hallway in the corner of the building’s west wing.

In many ways, the institute is the same as it’s always been, despite changing its name from the Facilitated Communication Institute in 2010 to represent “a broadened focus,” according to its website. Research and training for FC is constantly being done, and includes training sessions for the general public, monthly discussion sessions and training workshops. The best practices outlined on the institute’s website are largely the same as the ones outlined in Biklen’s book. The specific FC method itself, Todd said, also hasn’t changed.

“I’ve seen it in court,” he said. “I’ve gone to the workshops. It’s no different than it was back then.”

What has changed is the level of support for the institute, both in Syracuse and from some

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Here are five cases of caregivers in the United States who, through FC, were accused of sexual abuse and were found to be innocent. These are a few of what experts say are countless cases of such unsubstantial accusations.

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other organizations that have promoted FC. The University of New Hampshire’s Institute on Disability, long considered another FC leader, recently disbanded its practice of FC, said Matt Gianino, director of communications at that institute, in an email.

SU’s Communication Sciences and Disorders Department, meanwhile, left the School of Education — where the ICI is housed — in 2002.

Publicly, SU said the move was influenced by “multiple factors.”

But Shane, who earned his Ph.D. in speech pathology in SU’s CSD department, said he was told by “high-level people in the department” that the move was because the department didn’t want to be associated with the institute.

Shane wished not to identify those people.

Carter added that he heard “rumblings” that CSD faculty members felt as though their research was being devalued by them belonging to the same school as the institute.

Linda Milosky, chair of the CSD department, said in an email that the department “does not engage in research or provide clinical services involving Facilitated Communication” but declined to be interviewed.

And though former SU Chancellor Nancy Cantor frequently and publicly supported FC — in a 2007 speech she seemed to correlate the effects FC has on autistic people to the freeing of slaves — it is unclear whether current Chancellor Kent Syverud has endorsed the method. University officials deferred comment to Ashby to speak on the university’s behalf for this story.

But Todd theorizes that SU’s institute will continue to exist as it currently does until a lawsuit accusing the institute of educational malpractice is won.

Currently, there’s no real precedent of educational malpractice, said SU College of Law professor Peter Bell. He added that for such a lawsuit to be won, it would need to be proven that “no reasonable instructor in that field would use that technique.”

“It wouldn’t be impossible,” he said. “It’s just going to be really hard.”

Todd acknowledges that. After all, there has already been one such lawsuit filed against SU. Mark Storch of Red Hook, New York, filed a lawsuit in 1994 accusing the university and Biklen of fraud after Storch was falsely accused through FC of sexually abusing his daughter. The lawsuit was dismissed in 1995.

But many experts continue to hold out hope that the practice of FC will one end. A hope they’ve held for roughly 25 years. A hope that, over those years, has largely turned into disappointment.

“It’s deeply frustrating to be dealing with the same issues here in 2016 that we were dealing with in 1991 and 1992,” Todd said. “The scientists have done their due diligence.

“But we plug along and hope that we can help people not come to harm.”

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Location: Red Hook, New York Year: 1991 Caregiver name(s): Mark Storch

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1 1. OTTO is a 13-month-old yellow lab who lives with junior Kyle Rand and his family in Connecticut. Otto is one of about 400 dogs currently in training to be a service dog with Guiding Eyes to help assist the visually impaired. The program trains in the Carrier Dome once a month. 2. Otto was seperated from his littermates when he was eight weeks old, when he went to live with the Rand family. But this weekend, he was reunited with his littermate Oliver. 3. Otto the dog is named after the SU mascot, Otto the Orange. He’s been featured on Otto’s Instagram account, but first got to meet his namesake at the Guiding Eyes event in the Dome. xixi zhou contributing photographer

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hey say a dog is a man’s best friend.

They’re playmates, loyal companions and something to cuddle with after a long day.

But for some people, their dogs help them navigate through life — literally.

Meet Otto. He’s not the Syracuse University mascot, but the Orange is his namesake. This Otto is a 13-month-old yellow lab currently training to become a guide dog for Guiding Eyes for the Blind.

Since he was 8 weeks old, Otto has lived with junior information management and technology major Kyle Rand and his family in Connecticut.

These volunteer puppy raisers have been training him in basic obedience and house manners, and exposing him to the world he’ll see as a guide dog.

Otto is one of many puppies currently training with Guiding Eyes. At any given time, there are about 400 dogs preparing for training with puppy raisers.

On Thursday, the puppies-in-training traveled with their raisers to the Carrier Dome, where they had the opportunity to walk around and greet other people and dogs.

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This was Otto’s first visit to Syracuse, where he was able to meet his littermate, Oliver. Though Otto the puppy has been featured on his namesake’s Instagram multiple times, he also got to meet the SU mascot, who stopped by the Dome to pose for pictures with the dogs.

helping paws Guiding Eyes for the Blind is a nonprofit organization based in Yorktown Heights, New York. It raises and provides dogs to aid the visually impaired. Dogs that won’t serve well as guide dogs often become companion animals for people with autism.

Guiding Eyes has used the Dome once a month since January for training. Working in the Dome allows dogs to experience the expansive space and get used to an environment they may work in.

Mary Oonk, co-regional coordinator for the Central New York Region of Guiding Eyes, said she’s grateful for the opportunity to work in an

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environment like the Dome because it helps create a reference library for the dogs.

“When they become working guide dogs it’s helpful because they have that ‘been there, done that type of thing,’ so they can be confident in guiding their partner through a building like the Carrier Dome in the future,” Oonk said.

This is only one of many hypothetical situations a guide dog experiences during its 18-month training with the puppy raisers before leaving its family and heading off to formal training with Guiding Eyes for the Blind.

This time is often very emotional for the raisers, and it’s something the Rand family has experienced after raising two other dogs before Otto.

Rand said while the process is tiring and a big commitment, it’s a gratifying experience.

“Sometimes it’s just the simplest thing, like cuddling a small adorable puppy,” Rand said. “It can be loud at night, but what they cause in frustration sometimes, they make up for with how loveable they are.”

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Dolce Vita is located near the Syracuse Stage and is right across the street from a stop on the Connective Corridor bus route. The crust of its pizza is crispy and thin, and the whole pie is covered in a spicy cajun sauce. The gyoza, similar to Chinese pan fried dumpings, were light and not too dense.

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hen I first heard about Dolce Vita and its selling point — offering Italian, Chinese and Jamaican food in the same restaurant — I was confused. How would those three even go together? I just had to go and see what it was all about.

Dolce Vita is in an easily accessible spot for students. It sits right near Syracuse Stage, a stop on the Connective Corridor bus line. After getting off the bus, all that’s required is crossing the street.

The storefront is painted olive green, and has a nicely framed mahogany door. Small awnings bear the restaurant’s name and titles “bar and kitchen” and “world bistro.” Given its placement next to slightly less attractive restaurant Franco’s Pizzeria and Deli, it’s evident the restaurant has been renovated to increase curb appeal, and I commend these efforts. It really does look nice.

The inside looks even nicer. Half of the floor space is dedicated to the bar, and the other half to restaurant tables. The bar area was nice and open, and had a dark and elegant feel that definitely would attract a

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otto dog can have one without financial burden.

Kari Young has been involved in the program since January of 1999. Since then, she’s received six guide dogs from Guiding Eyes.

Both Young and her sister are visually impaired and have dogs that graduated from Guiding Eyes. Young said joining the group was one of the best decisions she’s made.

Dolce Vita serves a mix of Italian, Chinese and Jamaican

more mature crowd — not college students.

It feels like the more laid-back, less posh, younger sister of Phoebe’s Restaurant and Coffee Lounge just across the street.

I was most impressed by the ceiling, which was decorated with ornamented black tiles and LED Christmas lights. There was a stage in the corner, which Dolce Vita uses to host performers, especially for its Jazz Nights on Wednesdays featuring local musicians. The walls are painted red and are decorated with an eclectic selection of art, perhaps as eclectic as the menu itself.

Dolce Vita heavily advertises its world menu. Put together, these three types of food are really odd combinations, especially since there is little to no commonality in the spices typically used in preparing these cuisines.

Looking at the menu in person, I found this to be somewhat true. The appetizer selection offered some traditional favorites, like chicken wings, crab cakes and sliders. I admit that I was expecting fewer of these distinctly American dishes. However, there were also options for gyoza, the Japanese version of a Chinese pot sticker; calamari, Italian fried squid; and Artisan pizza. The pizza comes in several varieties

including margarita, barbecue chicken and for the ultimate combination, Cajun.

Dolce Vita also served a varied selection of burgers, salads and sandwiches as well as a pesto dish. Again, it’s not entirely what I was expecting. So in order to truly experience Dolce Vita’s specialty, I ordered the gyoza, Cajun pizza and a side of the Cajun seasoned fries.

Having a guide dog became her motivation.

“I found myself not wanting to do anything,” Young said. “I didn’t trust myself with a cane, and I decided I didn’t want to live like that so I knew a big change was in order.”

In order to receive each guide dog, Young had to undergo three weeks of training. She’d start a training day around 6 a.m. and would end around 9 p.m. each day. During those hours, Young, along with others, would practice obedience as well as street training with their dogs.

In her free time, Young would teach her dogs commands such as how to work an elevator or even how to find her car.

“Some people look at their dogs as just being a tool but to me, my dog is a person, too,” Young said. “He has feelings, and he was trained for a purpose. If I don’t utilize the gift he’s been given, that doesn’t say much for me.”

Guide dogs are paired with owners based on characteristics such as personality and walking pace. From the moment of pairing,

on the menu Gyoza Cajun seasoned fries Cajun Pizza

The gyoza bore a striking resemblance to Chinese pan fried dumplings that grace the take-out orders of Americans everywhere. However, the dough was much lighter, it was fried much crispier and the filling was less dense than the typical dumpling.

I prefer the gyoza style of dumplings, but let’s be real, all dumplings are delicious.

I also really enjoyed the pizza. The crust was so light and crispy — it almost broke to bits in your hands. Usually, crusts that are too crispy end up having the consistency of cardboard, but the fact that this crust was so thin really made the difference.

The pizza was decorated in a creamy and spicy Cajun sauce. It hit my sinuses right away, but not too hard. Since it was on the hotter side of medium, the sauce was just spicy enough for me, though it’s definitely not a taste for everyone. There were also cheese and small chicken bits scattered on top, which paired well with the spicy sauce.

However, the pizza itself was difficult to eat simply because it was messy. As happens with thin-crust pizza, the toppings slid right off the slice. It didn’t help that the pie was fresh out of the oven. But it was still delicious, even when I had to eat some of it off my plate with a fork.

Finally, the Cajun fries were spiced well — definitely not a hot spicy — but enough to give them the slightest kick that traditionally-cooked fries lack. I was a fan, though I did encounter one or two that tasted a little over-cooked.

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owners and dogs spend all of their time together until a dog reaches retirement.

The need for immediate and complete trust is something Young said is the hardest part of the program.

“One wrong step and someone could get run over by a car, and I have to trust that when we’re crossing the street … and there’s something there, he won’t go,” Young said.

“My life is in his two eyes and his four paws.” dmatuson@syr.edu

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grossman Biggest surprise: Nick Mellen The speedy freshman defender got on opposing coach’s radars early in the season, when he was integral in shutting out Albany’s elite attack Connor Fields for the first time in his young career. He boomed out of the gates with seven caused turnovers in his first three games, but has since cooled off. Regardless, he remains a young anchor on SU’s back line.

Biggest disappointment: Penalty overload In all four of SU’s one-goal contests this year, the team has committed an average of 4.5 penalties. Seven flags against UVA allowed the Cavaliers to score four man-up goals and blast the worst man-down defense in the ACC. The Blue Jays capitalized on two late man-up situations to push its game to overtime. Brandon Mullins was flagged in the last two minutes against Duke, and

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FACE DOWN

60.8%

Ben Williams has won 60.8 percent of his faceoffs this season, slightly lower than his percentage last season.

Biggest X factor: Whoever emerges at goalkeeper Last year the Orange kept Bobby Wardwell in cage for nearly every minute. This year was largely the same for Hill, Wardwell’s backup last year, until head coach John Desko unseated Hill with Evan Molloy against Notre Dame. Whoever emerges in this selfcreated competition stands to be the key as an unstable defense looks for its backbone.

Biggest X factor: Whoever is in goal

mettus falls on Williams’s shoulders.

Biggest surprise: Sergio Salcido Through Salcido’s first few years with SU, head coach John Desko questioned whether or not he’d ever see the field. Salcido had just five points through 27 games in his first two seasons with the Orange. But this year, in a midfield that had a lot to replace, Salcido has risen to second on the team with 27 points in his first year as a starter.

Biggest disappointment: Ben Williams Williams is revered by opposing players and coaches as one of the top faceoff men in the country. And his performance this year is a disappointment only considering last year’s second-best-in-the-nation mark of 67.4 faceoff winning percentage.

He’s down to 60.8 this season, which is 16th in the country.

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schwedelson His ability to dodge to get to the cage has stood out most in a player previously known exclusively for his hard shot.

Biggest disappointment: Warren Hill Hill entered the season as the clear-cut starting goalie but nine games into the season, his status going forward is as murky as ever. The goalie that led the Iroquois Nation to its firstever bronze medal in an outdoor international competition hasn’t shown up in the past few weeks. Syracuse’s defensive downfall — 16 goals allowed to Duke and 17 to Notre Dame — can’t entirely be pinned on Hill’s shoulders, but he certainly hasn’t played up to the level he could.

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a Warren Hill chest save on a Myles Jones rocket is the only thing that prevented SU’s meltdown from consummating in regulation. A more inexperienced SU team needs to balance aggressive and intelligent play.

Points Sergio Salcido has tallied this season, 22 more than he had in the first two years of his career at SU.

Biggest X factor: Ben Williams The faceoff X has been a testy spot over the years for John Desko and his coaching staff.

And now that Syracuse has one it can usually rely on, the Orange tends to have the possession advantage. But in overtime losses to Johns Hopkins and Duke, Williams withered and Syracuse never even touched the ball.

Warren Hill or Evan Molloy? That’s the question and a big one at that. Hill started the first eight games but after three losses in a row was pulled in favor of Molloy. Both have had highs and lows during their performances, but stability and adequate play in goal is key.

Goalie: BSyracuse’s goalies have been up and down this season. Hill started the first eight games before Molloy took over. Hill was pulled during the Orange’s 10-goal loss to No. 2 Notre Dame in which the defense consistently left him out to dry. Hill ranks 58th and 59th in the country in saves per game and save percentage, respectively.

Defense: BFreshman defender Nick Mellen has been the standout on a defense that has struggled at times. Defender Brandon Mullins leads the team with seven penalties, and the man-down unit’s 55.2 percent success rate

evaluate Molloy. But after entering the season as the unquestioned starter, Hill hasn’t fulfilled expectations.

Defense: BWhat was supposed to be the backbone of this Syracuse team hasn’t lived up to its preseason billing. The Orange’s most experienced unit has allowed 9.67 goals per game, which ranks 29th in the country behind Colgate, Wagner and Canisius. SU’s recent stretch against some of the top teams in the country has inflated its numbers but if the Orange can’t stop multifaceted offenses, that spells trouble for May.

Midfield: B+ I’m not sure anyone would have expected Nick Mariano to be Syracuse’s leading goal scorer this season, but the UMass transfer has given SU life time and again. Sergio Salcido has also stepped up and so has Derek DeJoe.

Attack: AAfter having to replace Kevin Rice and Randy Staats, the emergence of Jordan Evans and whoever the third attack would be was a serious question at the beginning of the season.

But Evans has scored seven goals in the past two games, and Barber has shuffled in nicely after starting the year at midfield.

Face off: B Goalie: B After Hill started the first eight games, Evan Molloy stepped in against Hobart for his first career start and made seven saves on 13 shots. The situation going forward is still fluid and now Desko has a full game to

If Williams wins the faceoff at the start of each overtime against Johns Hopkins and Duke, this grade could be a lot different. But the plays in crucial spots are what determine games, seasons and legacies.

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Goalie: C Saves can be a skewed statistic that doesn’t account for the lack of chances a goalkeeper might have on a team that dominates possession time, much like Syracuse. But the Orange boasts the worst save percentage in the ACC, and while close losses have arguably fallen more so on the defense’s shoulders, it doesn’t help when Hill and Molloy are easy targets to attack.

Defense: BThe defense is primarily sunk for its inability to execute in man-down situations. Otherwise, fifth-year defender Mullins is leading the team in caused turnovers as the physical and vocal leader on the backline. He’s complemented by Mellen and Jay McDermott that rounds out a multi-faceted counterattack.

Midfield: A Perhaps the biggest concern amid the turnover from last year was how an offense-first midfield line would be replaced. Transfer Nick Mariano has helped alleviate that

is a lowly 58th best in the nation. Mullins has been the vocal leader, but his penalties have cost a defense that’s contributed to the Orange’s switch in goal.

STINGING CORNERS

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Derek DeJoe has made 38.7 percent of his shots this season, his highest percentage of his career.

Midfield: ASU had the tough task of replacing its entire starting midfield lineup coming into this season. Derek DeJoe was a man-up specialist for the first three years of his career, and Salcido played sparingly before. Nick Mariano is playing midfield for the first time in his career after transferring from Massachusetts. All things considered, the trio is playing about as well as could have been expected.

concern with a team-leading 18 goals, and first-time starter Sergio Salcido has quietly netted a career-high 16 goals.

Attack: AThe offense was going to be a little shorthanded with Dylan Donahue transitioning to play creator instead of finisher. He’s unlikely to lead the team in goals for a third straight year, but boasts the second-most assists in the conference as a tribute to his refined playing style. He’s pulled the strings on an offense that’s showed its breadth with six double-digit goal scorers.

Face off: A Williams isn’t winning as many times at the X as he did last year. He’s still shouldered a load larger than most other faceoff men in the country, and SU should be thankful it can still rest on him to deliver several possessions it wouldn’t have otherwise. He’s been challenged this year by the country’s better faceoff units.

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Attack: B+ Syracuse’s current attack of Dylan Donahue, Tim Barber and Jordan Evans has accounted for almost half of the team’s points this season. Donahue leads the way with 37 points and has been the facilitator of the offense. Though Nick Piroli, who initially started, got hurt following the first game, midfielder Barber has excelled as a replacement at attack. This was supposed to be the breakout season for the former No. 1 recruit in Evans, but it has been relatively disappointing. Though he’s scored seven goals in the last two games, his 20 points are still just fifth best on the team.

Face off: B Against Johns Hopkins and Duke, the game came down to faceoffs and who could win them late in the game. Unfortunately for Syracuse, it could not and lost both of those matches in overtime. The team has relied far too heavily on the faceoff unit, and Williams to make up for other deficiencies on the field.

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SU extends win streak to 4 games against Cardinals

By Jake Falk staff writer

No. 32 Syracuse (12-6, 6-6 Atlantic Coast) beat Louisville (8-14, 0-11 Atlantic Coast), 4-3, at the Bass-Rudd Tennis Center in Louisville, Kentucky, on Sunday.

Like its last game against Pittsburgh, Syracuse got the first point by winning two of three doubles matches. Gabriella Knutson and Valeria Salazar won their game, 6-2. Nicole Mitchell and Maria Tritou won their game, 6-4. Dina Hegab and Anna Shkudun lost their match, 5-4, before it could be completed.

Salazar paced Syracuse by winning her singles match in back-to-back sets by scores of 6-2 and 6-3. However, Knutson, who has been one of Syracuse’s most successful players in the last month, lost

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tritou which she attributed to her strength from practicing often and hard.

That, mixed with her height, has made her tough competition for opponents. Tritou is often slated at No. 4 singles. Though she is 8-8 there (and 1-0 in No. 3 singles), she has rarely been easily defeated. Most sets are dragged out and long.

“I am playing stronger,” Tritou said. “I feel much better in my physical condition.”

The one thing that Tritou cites as a piece of her game that remains unchanged is her style, saying, “In tennis, you learn how to play and then practice other things.”

Tritou left everything behind when moving to Holland. Because of her decision to move, she went to all her matches alone. No coach. No family on the sideline rooting her on. Just her, her tennis bag and her racket.

“The only thing I was doing was practice,” she said. “I’m really glad my parents

her match in two sets, 6-4 and 7-5. Tritou lost her match in two identical sets of 6-4 and 6-4. Hegab lost her match in two sets, 6-4 and 6-3.

With two of the team’s best performers losing, Syracuse found a way to win with individual victories from Libi Mesh, who helped Syracuse beat Wake Forest, and Shkudun, who won last week for the first time in almost a month.

Mesh won the last two games in her match, 6-4 and 6-3, after losing the first set, 7-6.

With Syracuse tied, 3-3, against Louisville, Shkudun was able to seal the win with another three-set game. She won the final two sets 7-5 and 6-3 after also losing her first set, 6-4.

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After tossing four shutout innings, Cater didn’t record an out in the fifth, allowing four runs. O’Hara relieved the senior and allowed just one hit in the final three frames. She struck out seven and notched her third save of the year.

Thanks to the sixth inning rally, Cater

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O’Hara hit her fifth home run of the year, a solo shot to right field in the fifth.

Since getting swept by No. 10 Florida State, the Orange has won seven of its last 10.

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Men’s lacrosse beat writers evaluate SU with analysis, superlatives CONNOR GROSSMAN

JON METTUS

asst. web editor

Syracuse was in a precarious spot entering the season. Two-of-three starting attacks from last year? Gone. Entire starting midfield? Gone.

Goalkeeper? Gone. “Transition” was the buzzword of the preseason, and now nine games into the season, the sample size is substantial enough to evaluate how SU (6-3, 1-2 Atlantic Coast) sunk to the middle of the pack in the ACC.

Team MVP: Ben Williams The elite faceoff specialist wins this award purely on his indispensability. Williams is the single biggest reason SU is able to play remotely close the level it did last year, as he’s once again lifted the team to the highest faceoff percentage in the conference. Syracuse continues to dominate the possession game, but doesn’t convert on as many opportunities with the less seasoned crop of goal scorers.

Without Williams, a slightly deflated offense wouldn’t be able to keep pace with the amount of scoring chances other teams would have.

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PAUL SCHWEDELSON

digital editor

asst. sports editor

Syracuse was ranked No. 5 coming into the season, but had plenty of questions to answer regarding the replacement of two attacks, an entire starting midfield and a goalie. Then tack on the addition of a freshman starting on defense. Nine games into the season the Orange (6-3, 1-2 Atlantic Coast) has lost three of its last four games and dropped down to No. 9 in the rankings. Here’s how SU looks midway through the season.

Team MVP: Ben Williams Williams is Syracuse’s most valuable player, and that value cannot be overstated. No one touches the ball more than he does, and he’s the difference between whether SU gets possession or not. Williams’ dominance can allow the Orange to run away with games or stay close in contests that it’s getting outmatched in every other aspect of the field. When Syracuse plays one-goal games like it already has four times this year, winning the final faceoffs are the difference between a win and a loss. That

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tennis

Syracuse’s season can be viewed in two portions so far. The Orange looked like one of the best teams in the nation off when it started 5-0 but then hit the skids with three straight losses. A win against Hobart ended that but where SU goes from here will determine how this season will be remembered.

Team MVP: Dylan Donahue Donahue is among the best players in the country and the quarterback of Syracuse’s offense. He’s taken on more ball-carrying this season and has thrived in the role. His 37 points lead the Orange and without him, SU would be in a much worse spot.

Biggest surprise: Derek DeJoe DeJoe started the season on the second-line midfield and became a starter after Tim Barber shifted to attack. Entering this season, DeJoe had scored just 13 goals in three seasons. So far this year, he’s scored 12 in nine games while not even being a part of the man-up unit anymore.

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Tritou improves as singles player Syracuse wins rubber match against Virginia

By Charlie DiSturco staff writer

Maria Tritou ran to the right corner of the court and set her feet.

Her right hand gripped the racket ever so tightly. Her left hand was held out as if she was ready to strike a Heisman pose. She reached back and swung with force, hitting the ball past her opponent.

A few plays later, a long rally ensued in which Tritou added a mixture of forehands and back-

hands before her opponent hit the ball out of bounds.

“Point!” Tritou yelled out, as she began to walk to the center of the court to shake hands with her opponent. Another point. Another game. Another win in singles.

Tritou’s game has strengthened over the past few years, and it’s culminated in a 9-8 singles record as a freshman at Syracuse this season. When she was 15, Tritou moved from Greece to Holland. She was alone, leaving her

family back home with one goal: to improve her tennis game and compete at a top level.

“On my island, Rhodes, nobody else plays tennis,” Tritou said. “So if I wanted to play at a high level, I had to go away and play tennis or stay home, study and just try to get into a university.”

The 6-foot freshman has seen improvements in her game with her ground strokes. Her backhand has become more of a power move, see tritou page 14

By Matthew Gutierrez staff writer

Syracuse won the rubber game of its weekend series at Virginia on Sunday, downing the Cavaliers 8-4 in Cha rlottessyracuse 8 ville, Virginvirginia 4 ia. SU (19-17, 6-8 Atlantic Coast) and UVA (13-27, 3-9) split Saturday’s doubleheader.

A second-inning rally put the

Orange in front 6-0. Two Virginia errors and six Syracuse singles led to the breakout inning in which Syracuse batted around the order.

Eight SU batters recorded at least one hit in the game. In all, SU banged out 13 hits. Sammy Fernandez, Maddi Doane, Sydney O’Hara, Alicia Hansen and Danielle Chitkowski each had multihit games. see virginia page 14