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Professors from underrepresented racial, ethnic groups detail how their identities affect teaching experiences at SU

By Colleen Ferguson and Cydney Lee the daily orange

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s Jill Hurst-Wahl delivered a lecture during her first week of teaching at Syracuse University, a student peeked into the room and walked away. The student later returned to join the lecture.

After the class ended, Hurst-Wahl discovered that when the student first

saw her at the front of the room, he assumed he was in the wrong place because he saw a black woman. He figured he must have stumbled into an “African studies course.” She was told by a staffer in the School of Information Studies, where she teaches, that the student had asked for directions.

“So here the student had judged the class based on me being (in front of) the classroom, had not bothered to look at the students to realize that he probably knew half the students in the

class,” she said.

That was in 2001.

Hurst-Wahl is currently the only black full-time faculty member in the iSchool. That hasn’t always been the case during her tenure, but black faculty have come and gone to pursue better opportunities elsewhere, she said.

“One of the things that you’ll hear from faculty anywhere – I don’t think it’s just this school – is ‘Well, that person went on to a better opportunity,’” see professors page 4

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SU aims to increase research spending to $200M by 2026

By Kennedy Rose news editor

Syracuse University aims to increase its research spending by 36% in eight years, according to a budget proposal presented at the University Senate’s final meeting of the semester on Wednesday.

SU hopes to spend $200 million on research by 2026, a senator on the Budget and Fiscal Affairs Com-

mittee said at the meeting. The university spent $147 million on research in 2018.

Thirty-three Signature Hires and 53 Cluster Hires are currently underway. SU plans to hire about 200 new faculty under the umbrella of those two hiring initiatives, which were announced over the last two years.

Both initiatives aim to strengthen the university’s research.

The Budget and Fiscal Affairs

There’s not a narrow path through that will make everything happen.

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Committee recommended “strongly” that SU’s expansion of faculty is matched by necessary staff, space and equipment support. The recommendation emphasized the necessity of those resources to attracting and retaining faculty who would be hired through the initiatives. SU’s doctoral conferrals and postdoctoral researcher numbers lag behind its peer institutions, according to a report presented by the committee.

The university’s endowment also increased to $1.38 billion in the last fiscal year, versus $1.2 billion in 2017.

SU spent $77.5 million on athletics in 2018, which accounted for more than 5% of SU’s expenditures.

Schools and colleges funded $19 million worth of athletic scholarships through the undergraduate blended student aid, which accounted for see senate page 4

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Sen. Rachel May talks gender in politics at SU

regional news Here is a round up of the biggest news happening in New York state right now.

UNLIKELY FORECLOSURE Professor Rob Arscott of the Martin J. Whitman School of Management said there is a low chance Destiny USA’s lenders will foreclose. Arscott said Pyramid Management Group, Destiny USA’s private developer, will likely extend its $430 million mortgage. source: syracuse.com

NONPROFITS MERGE Two Syracuse-based nonprofits announced that they’re merging.

Helio Health and Central New York Services, two behavioral health agencies, are merging and will keep the Helio Health name. They will have a $70 million annual budget and will employ 729 people. source: syracuse.com

SUSPECTED HAZING University at Buffalo student Sebastian Serafin-Bazan died Wednesday after a suspected hazing incident by the Sigma Pi fraternity, which has been suspended, according to authorities. Serafin-Bazan was an 18-year-old freshman from Port Chester. Buffalo police are awaiting autopsy results to determine if drugs or alcohol were involved. UB officials are also conducting an internal review. source: syracuse.com

RACHEL MAY, a Democratic New York state senator, spoke with Syracuse University’s chapter of the Leading Women of Tomorrow on Wednesday. May previously worked at SU. corey henry staff photographer

By Sarah Slavin copy chief

New York state Sen. Rachel May (D-Syracuse) spoke about her 2018 campaign, working in the Senate and her experiences as a woman in politics at a club meeting for the Syracuse University chapter of Leading Women of Tomorrow.

May was elected to the Senate in November, defeating Republican Janet Burman by more than 20

percentage points. Leading Women of Tomorrow held the conversation with May in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications on Wednesday night.

May kicked off the discussion by talking about herself and what made her decide to run for the Senate. May previously wanted other people to run, but once she had been asked by about 12 people to run, she started thinking about it, she said. Women are less likely to think they can run

for office, May added.

“Women have to be asked at least five times before they’re at least willing to consider running for office,” May said, “In my case, it was way more than five times.”

May said a barrier she faced while running for Senate was that she is an introvert. Through her involvement in Toastmasters International, an organization that helps people with public speaking, however, she has been able to improve her public

speaking, May said.

This year was the first year that a woman has been the majority leader in a house of the New York State Legislature, May said. She said that it’s the first time a woman has ever been “in the room” in New York. This is in reference to the “three men in the room,” that people usually refer to, which are the governor, the speaker of assembly and the senate majority leader, May said. see may page 4

on campus

Candidate for Slutzker Center director presents

By India Miraglia asst. news editor

Mustapha Jourdini, a candidate for director of Syracuse University’s Slutzker Center for International Services, spoke about his plan to improve the experiences of international students attending SU at a presentation on Wednesday.

The center’s former director, Pat Burak — who JOURDINI served in the position for more than 30 years — stepped down in June to take a fulltime teaching position in SU’s College of Arts and Sciences. George Athanas, an assistant director in the Office of Residence Life, is the center’s interim director.

Jourdini now works as director of the Office of International Student Programs and Services at Lamar University in Texas. About 30 people attended the presenta-

tion, which was held in the Martin J. Whitman School of Management. Jourdini was asked to prepare a presentation on the challenges, opportunities and priorities for creating a comprehensive international student experience at SU. “There is a genuine desire to create a culture that is supportive of international students,” Jourdini said.

As part of his presentation, Jourdini laid out a blueprint plan for the Slutzker Center. The center should be mission-driven, he said.

His blueprint included a communication plan that would provide student recruitments with information and make students feel safe and secure on campus.

Student integration, retention and success — a focus of Jourdini’s blueprint — should be a responsibility of every SU employee, he said.

“It has to be a collaborative effort,” he said. “We all have a piece in the puzzle.”

International students face challenges in the classroom, Jour-

dini said. The support students get from international centers at universities is “priceless,” he said.

He spoke about a professor he had as an undergraduate student in a class on William Shakespeare.

Jourdini graduated from Eastern Kentucky University with a bachelor’s and master’s degree in English, as well as a doctorate in education leadership and policy studies.

Jourdini took the class as a nonnative English speaker, and he was having doubts that he could complete the course. The class’ professor reassured him and pointed him to resources, Jourdini said. Professors like that had a huge influence on his college experience, he said.

“They took their time to help me succeed,” he said.

As part of the given prompt, Jourdini spoke about the challenges and opportunities to servicing the international student body on campus. Jourdini said the center does not have the budget to meet legal, social, cultural and educational program needs.

Acquiring adequate resources to help achieve the center’s goals should be made a priority, Jourdini said.

Jourdini also detailed his plans for helping to create a more inclusive SU campus. People should be culturally aware and show interest in a student’s home country, but without assuming or assigning stereotypical traits or ideas to the student, he said.

In some places he has worked, students were sent to international offices for issues that faculty or staff could have helped with, he said.

Jourdini has also held the positions of director of international recruitment and student success at Lesley University in Massachusetts and dean of student affairs at Al Akhawayn University in Morocco, among other positions.

“Integration, retention and success of international students will ultimately depend on our genuine desire to understand them and their needs and putting our resources in place to meet such needs,” Jourdini said. irmiragl@syr.edu | @IndyRow

ONONDAGA SWIMMERS Onondaga Lake could see 32,000 swimmers if a beach was created.

Swimming at Onondaga Lake has been prohibited since 1940, but the city has made an effort to clear out toxic chemicals over the past 20 years. source: syracuse.com

STATE TUITION Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) announced an executive order Wednesday that forces the state to immediately provide tuition to the families of military veterans killed in the line of duty. The legislation was previously held when it went to the New York state Assembly. source: syracuse.com

DRUNK DRIVING A New York State Assembly proposal would lower the legal blood alcohol content from .08 to .05 for a DUI. It would also lower the limit for aggravated driving while drunk from .18% to .12%.

The National Transportation Safety Board encourages the law’s passage, while the American Beverage Institute opposes it. source: cny central

ADMISSION PROMISES SUNY Oswego is replacing their rejection letters with admission promises — a letter that says the student is not accepted yet.

SUNY Oswego is currently unable to offer admission to more than 45 to 50% of their applicants, and cannot exceed 7,000 undergraduate students. source: cny central

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professors Hurst-Wahl said. “Why didn’t that opportunity emerge here?”

Of the 1,058 professors identified in SU’s 2017 Faculty Salary Report, 73% were white.

In interviews with The Daily Orange, faculty members across six SU schools and colleges who come from racially and ethnically underrepresented backgrounds said that their identities can impact their interactions with different groups on campus, particularly students.

Just under 57% of SU’s undergraduate student body is white, according to SU’s fall 2018 census. SU is considered a predominantly white institution because white people account for more than 50 percent of the student enrollment, according to M. Christopher Brown II and T. Elon Dancy II’s paper in the Encyclopedia of African American Education.

Incidents like what happened to Hurst-Wahl two decades ago aren’t a thing of the past. Santee Frazier, a professional writing instructor in the writing studies, rhetoric, and composition department of the College of Arts and Sciences, was sitting in a lecture hall less than three years ago as part of a consulting job when a student said there was no reason to talk about the Native American experience because “there are none of them around anymore.”

No other professors in the room corrected the student or said anything in response to that comment, which surprised Frazier. A citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, Frazier was one of only a few other Native American people in the room at the time, he said.

Frazier may be one of the only Native American professors his students have in their college careers, he said. Just one professor in SU’s 2017 faculty report identified as “American Indian.”

“A lot of people see me as ‘other’ sort of right away,” he said.

At the end of last semester, Frazier was moving items out of his office when a campus parking official threatened to call the Department of Public Safety on him, according to Frazier.

He and his wife, who is also Native American, were parked legally, Frazier said, but this official didn’t seem to believe that Frazier worked at SU. “One of the interesting things about discrimination is that you deny people’s experiences and feelings exist,” he said. “The only reason why she was doing that is that she felt like she could get away with it.”

On Sunday, Frazier said he has accepted a job as the director of the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and will from page 1

senate 2.7% of all undergraduate tuition aid.

A member of the Committee on Budget and Fiscal Affairs said there will be no changes to distribution of tuition under the current budget proposal, but the matter is still under consideration, and it will be brought up in the fall. Current distribution gives 75% of tuition to the college of instruction and 25% to the college of enrollment.

Senator Mark Rupert, a professor in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, presented findings from a committee created to update the SU first-year experience, including the mandatory five-week seminar SEM 100 that focuses on issues of diversity and inclusion.

There were multiple concerns raised by the committee about the first-year experience — including whether there should be a “universal” experience and concerns about the staffing of SEM 100. Committee members disagreed about the proposal, and a survey found that just more than 40 percent of the first-year experience committee was skeptical moving forward with the proposal, Rupert said.

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“People are ready for women to lead, for women to run for office, for women to be voices in the room,” she said.

May then opened up the room for a question and answer session, where audience members asked about her life as a state senator.

Another audience member asked how May is

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not be returning to SU next academic year.

Chris Uyehara has been at SU since 2006 as a professor in the food studies department at the David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics. Uyehara’s grandparents immigrated to Hawaii from Okinawa, a Japanese island. His background makes him a better teacher and helps him relate to international students, he said.

“I understand their culture, and I understand the hardships and what they have to do to get here, and so at that point I’m more compassionate,” Uyehara said. “I try to see, how can I educate these students more?”

Sekou Cooke, assistant professor in the School of Architecture, is the only black faculty member in the school. He’s “viscerally aware” at all times of his blackness at SU, Cooke said. Some semesters, he’ll look around and not see a single black student in his class.

Among all of the school’s current first- and second-year students, only a handful are black and none are black men, Cooke said.

One of the interesting things about discrimination is that you deny people’s experiences and feelings exist.

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Many responsibilities Cooke has at SU are “unwritten and implicit,” he said. Cooke is an adviser for two minority student groups in the architecture school, but he sees his role as being about identifying with students — making personal connections and showing empathy, he said.

“I understand what they’re going through, and I know that there aren’t very many other people on the faculty or staff that they can turn to for that kind of support, so a lot of that responsibility I take on myself,” he said.

Seyeon Lee, an assistant professor at the School of Design in the College of Visual and Performing Arts, said her Asian heritage helps her relate more with her students who share a similar background.

“Because I’m an Asian and I do understand the Asian culture, sometimes international students … feel a little more open to talking will be addressed.

USen also discussed the possibility of changing the name of the Committee for Diversity to the Committee on Race and Ethnicity, as well as changing its charge, which resulted in blowback from several senators.

The renamed committee would be charged with addressing issues of race and ethnicity, as well as associated intersectionalities related to traditionally underrepresented racial and ethnic groups, a member of the bylaws committee said.

Diane Lyden Murphy, dean of the David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics, said SU has worked for years on disability issues. She said renaming the Committee for Diversity would eliminate disability from its charge, which she said was unacceptable.

“This is against everything we’ve worked toward,” Murphy said.

The senator who presented the renaming motion said there should be a committee on “-isms,” and that the committee should not isolate different aspects of identity, as they intersect.

There is currently a committee on women’s concerns, as well as one on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered concerns, but no committee for concerns of people with disabilities. One senator asked where disability concerns will fall under the committee structure of USen. The same senator asked why the Commithelping to improve problems in Syracuse, such as poverty and race. One of the main reasons Syracuse has concentrated poverty is because the city has a law that prohibits landlords from rejecting Section 8 Housing Vouchers, May said.

Vouchers allow low-income families, the elderly and people with disabilities to rent houses that are subsidized by public housing agencies.

Towns surrounding Syracuse do not, so more individuals using the vouchers live in Syracuse,

to me about their concerns or problems or even language barrier because I kind of went through what they went through,” she said.

For some professors from underrepresented backgrounds, the cultural differences in their own education play out in the classroom as well.

The way that Texu Kim, an assistant teaching professor in the Setnor School of Music in VPA, learned music composition in South Korea is vastly different from how it’s taught in the United States. It took him some time to get used to the different teaching style when he came to the U.S. In South Korea, it was common for a good teacher to be very critical of students, but in the United States, the cultural expectation is for music teachers to balance encouragement with criticism, he said.

It took Kim time to strike a balance between the two, and he has to think about it every day still.

“I became capable to deal with different types of settings and expectations, and now I am figuring myself ... somewhere in between,” he said.

Like Kim, Frazier’s teaching approach in the classroom is different because of his experiences as a Native American person.

Frazier tries to not be punitive or corrective, which he said is because his ideas and perspectives weren’t always received in an academic environment. Instead, he tries to enable his students of color to both voice their own perspectives in his classes and also help students from less diverse backgrounds understand their classmates’ perspectives.

Frazier also finds that, as a Native American person, his perspectives on political and other issues are different from those of his fellow educators and community members. He consistently advocates for a native or indigenous perspective on issues but he added that his interactions with other faculty have been generally positive.

Frazier said a lot of the students of color who he has worked with feel that they’re not included in many of their classes. One of his students this semester is Native American, and he tries to give her and other students of color a space in his classroom to explore issues they’re interested in, and also to discuss their experiences and identity in an intellectual space.

SU does a “pretty good job in general,” but those issues can be hard to address because they are systemic and deep, Frazier said. He commended the university’s efforts with the firstyear forum SEM 100 and said that, for many of his students of color, they felt the conversations in the five-week seminar were effective.

Keith Alford, interim chief diversity officer, hopes to execute more programming that brings

students, faculty, staff administrators together around issues of diversity and inclusion.

“It’s about clearly embracing all that we can around what diversity and inclusion means, but it’s also talking about the ‘isms’ and how they play out, even in ways that we may not think about.”

Chris Eng, an assistant professor of English, said a more robust hiring process for faculty of color and faculty doing work in areas of racial justice are also necessary for community building among students and faculty.

Changing how SU approaches issues of diversity in this way could have a positive, trickledown effect across campus, he said.

“I’ve known students who’ve told me that they have experienced different types of microaggressions in the classroom due to race,” he said. “That’s why it’s also important to have more faculty of color … It’s not just about numbers, but it’s about the fact that they can provide the support for students.”

Herbert Ruffin, professor and chair of the African American studies department, said the university needs to be more consistent when providing a path to success for black and brown students because the existing support “comes and goes.” The university operates backward in terms of the allocation and incentivization of resources for black students, he added – SU classifies “diverse” as students possessing different qualities of race, gender, class, sexuality, and ability, but prioritizes the latter four categories over race.

“This is a tuition-driven school and it hinders, without the proper endowment, hinders us from doing creative things,” he said. “The groups that are traditional black and brown are usually last … in terms of what is being implemented in terms of the diversity initiative program. It’s sort of like putting the cart before the horse (and) that needs to be rectified.”

For a university to succeed in being diverse, the faculty doesn’t necessarily need to mirror the student body, said Ravi Dharwadkar, chair of the management department and professor in the Martin J. Whitman School of Management. But, faculty need to be properly trained in how to match what students are seeking out of their education in and out of the classroom, even if the students come from different backgrounds than their professors, he said.

“At the end of the day, students have to come first,” he said. “The more you can do for the students, the more the university will thrive in return.” cefergus@syr.edu | @ColleenEFergus2 cmlee100@syr.edu

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tee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered Concerns referred to transgender people as “transgendered.” The presenter said it was the language that was previously written.

The committee renaming motion was tabled until the fall semester. Later in the meeting, Senator Obi Afriyie, a graduate student, said he was disappointed in the Senate’s decision to table the discussion.

He said the parliamentary system — which governs how the University Senate, Student Association and other university governance systems operate — should not protect systems of oppression.

“When it comes to issues like this that are just problematic, we don’t have the time to wait a semester,” Afriyie said.

May said. New York passed legislation that outlawed discrimination based on source of income.

At the end of the night, May talked about what it’s like working in the state legislature without having much experience. The benefit of having people with less experience is that it brings more people to the table that have different perspectives, she said.

May also said that because she’s older and isn’t set on being reelected like most people,

she has the ability to take more brave stances on issues.

“There are a lot of people who think of politics as their career, and so the first thing in their minds is, ‘If I do, this will I get elected?’” she said. “If the first thing you’re thinking is, ‘Will I get elected?’ you’re going to make a lot of compromises and you are less likely to follow what your heart tells you.”

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f the goal of the plastic bag ban in New York is to reduce the amount of plastic we use, it’ll do its job. But, we need to consider the increased cost that consumers will have to face under the ban.

This past month, New York state lawmakers agreed to impose a ban on single-use plastic bags, becoming the second state in the country to do so. The ban appears to be a way to reduce the pollution of plastic bags on both land and water. This ban would also allow counties to opt into a 5 cent fee on paper bags.

Jomo Miller, a representative from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, but said in an email that a DEC report would answer all questions. The report said “Despite efforts by New York state to require recycling of these single-use plastic bags by certain stores, the problem persisted.”

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ALL POLITICS ARE HOPEFUL cent fee, which pays for the paper bags, assumes that everyone is privileged enough to afford that cost.

We can’t ignore that. Similar to how organic produce and natural products are more expensive, the use of paper bags will be the same.

Also, plastic bags are versatile and reusable for things on your first grocery trip.

This ban is shifting the burden of environmental solutions onto everyday people rather than the wealthy people or large corporations who have a much larger footprint on ecosystems.

The plastic bag ban was not designed to be a law that fixes the pollution issue, but rather one that begins to chip away at it. Plastic waste is a huge issue and should be dealt with. Instead of forcing people to pay for more expensive, paper

bags, corporations should make reusable bags more accessible to every consumer. That would make an impact.

As it stands right now, consumers may very well just choose to pay the 5 cent fee for paper bags.

In the case of the California plastic bag ban, consumers started to use plastic trash bags and paper bags, which create just as much of an environmental issue. While this ban takes away the option of a single-use plastic bag, it doesn’t discourage consumers from simply using paper bags once.

A plastic bag ban has good intentions, and this is an issue that needs our intention. But, the increased cost adds up. Plastic use and waste is too complex of an issue to just be answered with a ban.

Nick Turner is a senior political science and policy studies major. His column appears bi-weekly. He can be reached at nturner@syr.edu.

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Phi Sigma Pi to host diversity speaker

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t was approximately a year ago that an email from Chancellor Syverud hit every inbox on campus. In it, he publicly condemned a video displaying, “sexual assault, physical violence and grotesque hostility toward and mockery of people with physical, intellectual and other disabilities.”

The recording came as a shock to some, but for many others, it was the harsh reality of injustice still prevailing in a world of privilege. While this divisive content remains fresh for those coping with the bigotry, there were some positive initiatives that came from it as well. It provided a concrete example of why these issues can no longer be overlooked.

Syracuse University carried out many significant initiatives to address diversity and inclusion. These included hiring more counselors, conducting sessions

with faculty about addressing bias in the classroom and appointing Keith Alford as the interim chief diversity officer. Most importantly, it created an open environment for students, staff and administration to readily discuss the issues of racism, sexism, heterosexism and ableism, to name a few, both in and outside our campus.

As a result, our own organization, Phi Sigma Pi National Honor Fraternity, created a Diversity and Inclusion chair position. The sentiment and the desire to do better is strongly felt across the SU community. That’s why Phi Sigma Pi and the Student African American Society are working in partnership with the interim chief diversity officer to bring a cultural commentator to campus.

On April 22, Jay Smooth will be in the Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Smooth will

address racial diversity and inclusion, free speech versus hate speech and student engagement.

It’s important to host figures who can address issues of bigotry and broaden our perspectives of humanity. Discrimination is a pervasive social problem that won’t improve unless it’s talked out and worked through. These dialogues, like the one with Jay Smooth, we hope will catalyze real change.

Without action, there’s no change. Complacency will no longer be tolerated. It does not and will not have a place at SU. We’re extremely grateful for Alford’s support in bringing the Jay Smooth event to fruition. This is an example of what’s possible when students and administrators work together. We need to do better, and we will do better.

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HAYLEY BERMEL is a Syracuse local and sociology major at Syracuse University. She’s a manager at People’s Place and an active volunteer in the city of Syracuse. Her past involvement includes working with Swing Left and HOPE for Bereaved. alexandra moreo senior staff photographer

Hayley Bermel Syracuse local, sociology student advocates for hometown while at SU

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n the sixth grade, Hayley Bermel wrote a letter to the executive of Onondaga County when a local library was struggling to stay afloat. Her letter to Joanie Mahoney expressed how important public libraries were to the community — she loved to play games there.

Now a senior sociology major at Syracuse University, Bermel has continued to raise her voice to advocate for the city she loves.

“I like to think that in my time here at SU, I have made people question their place and their purpose of being here, not only at SU but in the city that I grew up in,” she said.

Bermel is a manager at People’s Place and has been involved with various local nonprofit and political organizations, including Swing Left, the Catholic Charities of Onondaga County and HOPE for Bereaved. Her campus involvement includes serving as a SEM 100

peer facilitator last fall and founding Merely Players, a Shakespeare troupe.

At first, Bermel had no desire to go to SU. Growing up in Syracuse, she viewed SU students as ignorant of the city itself. Her greatest concerns were seeing the university take advantage of her hometown’s weaknesses, while never giving back to the community beyond the hill.

But after learning more about SU’s sociology program, Bermel applied. She has since aimed to help bridge the gap between the university and the city of Syracuse. Her favorite part about the school, she said, is having the space and resources to better understand the world.

“I think that’s the purpose of the university to me, is to have a better understanding of your place in the world and where you can contribute,” she said.

One of her greatest inspirations on campus is Gretchen Purser, an associate sociology professor who now oversees her independent see bermel page 8

I like to think that in my time here at SU, I have made people question their place and their purpose of being here, not only at SU but in the city that I grew up in.

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have the ability, you have the responsibility,� and focuses his mentorship on students, of all ages, through business partnerships and beyond.

Vigliotti graduated from Henninger High School in 1992, going on to ohn Vigliotti grew up closer than three blocks away from the play football at Arkansas State University. Unfortunately, he rememoriginal Peppino’s Pizzeria, but he didn’t set foot in the res- bers only studying there for a year because he found himself feeling taurant until he was 18 years old. Unless he was at his uncle’s ostracized due to his heritage. pizza shop, the chances of him eating Vigliotti, his wife, Maria, and their three sons food outside of his home were fairly slim. In his currently live in the Sedgwick area. After leaving family of Italian immigrants, he said, no one ate Arkansas State, he studied at Central Connecticut meals out or got their food delivered.

State University for a year before moving back When his mother went away shopping, though, to Syracuse and buying Peppino’s. He and Maria He’s a Syracuse he would get dropped off at his uncle’s restaurant. started a family and married soon after. guy at heart.

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6-/ĂŹ %632)= “Ever since I was a child, eight years old or so, I “I’ve always been a big fan of Syracuse,â€? he said. grant middle school physical always kind of liked the idea of making pizza, mak“It’s a great place to raise a family.â€? education teacher and vigliotti’s ing something with your hands where then someVigliotti speaks to SCSD students regularly longtime friend body else is going to enjoy your work,â€? he said. and brings his experiences to the classrooms.

Five years after he first went inside Peppino’s, He said he can empathize with the alienation Vigliotti bought the restaurant for $5,000. It has and discomfort many first-generation children since been renamed as Peppino’s Neapolitan and serves homemade of immigrants experience — especially when their parents can’t speak Italian fare downtown, at the New York State Fairgrounds, as well as English well, because he went through that, too. at its original North Side location. Even with his responsibilities of “I let them know that I was in their seats,� he said. When he spoke to a managing three locations and nearly 80 employees, Vigliotti makes classroom of fourth and fifth graders earlier this month, he noticed signs time to visit students at Syracuse City School District schools, as he did of relief on some of the students’ faces as he said this. He encouraged the this past Friday. students to stay strong and put aside their cultural differences to better For the past two decades, Vigliotti has made continual efforts to con- foster community. tribute to the success of Syracuse’s youth. He lives by the saying, “if you see vigliotti page 8

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bermel study. Bermel’s current research focuses on the state of health care in the United States.

She has taken a few classes with Purser, starting with a course on urban poverty, during her freshman year, which surveyed the city of Syracuse. Purser said Bermel is one of the most driven and passionate students she’s ever had.

“She believed in me when I couldn’t believe in myself,” Bermel said. When she felt torn and upset, Purser was there for her.

Bermel’s favorite sports on campus — aside from a tucked in alcove with couches and computers in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affair’s sociology department — include Carnegie Library and People’s Place.

Last week, her Friday morning began with from page 7

vigliotti As a way to keep kids motivated, any school in the SCSD with perfect homeroom attendance gets put in a pool, and the winner gets a Peppino’s pizza party on Fridays.

In addition to this pool draw, he also sends free pizzas to Grant Middle School every Monday, said Erik Saroney, a physical education teacher at Grant and one of Vigliotti’s longtime friends.

At these pizza parties, students are getting award-winning pizza. Vigliotti has participated in various cooking competitions. In 2016, his PS2 pizza won second place in the traditional category of the International Pizza Challenge at the International Pizza Expo. He goes to seminars and watches a lot of videos to refine and improve his craft, he said.

“We’re committed to constantly improving and serving the best product as we can,” he said.

Vigliotti’s mission of uplifting and giving back to students extends to the basketball court, too. For more than 13 years, Peppino’s has sponsored an annual high school basketball tournament at the beginning of each season. The tournaments have grown to be “one of the premiere tournaments” in the area,

a trip to Wegman’s after getting a text saying the cafe was short of some supplies before her 9:30 a.m. shift. Her mom, Kim, drove her to the grocery store to help. As a commuter student, Bermel said her mom is always willing to lend a hand.

“She really is my hero,” Bermel said of her mom, before tearing up.

Bermel’s father passed away when she was eight years old. This inspired her involvement with HOPE for Bereaved, an organization that supports individuals grieving a loss.

Bermel said working with that organization has helped shape who she is. She volunteers by making brownies for luncheons, assisting with data entry and answering phones.

Kim is equally amazed by her daughter’s strength. Even as a young child, Kim said, Bermel was focused on the big picture.

Saroney said.

Saroney went to Henninger with Vigliotti, where the two played freshman basketball together. He coached at Henninger for 15 years and is now the head men’s basketball coach at Onondaga Community College, where he’s been for the last three years. He coached one of Vigliotti’s sons at both Henninger and OCC. The tournament, which began at Henninger and was originally sponsored by Brooklyn Pickle, has since grown to 16 games over the course of two days on OCC’s campus.

Saroney said that Vigliotti was instrumental in this expansion.

“He was willing to go above and beyond I think what anybody else would do in order to kind of make the tournament bigger,” Saroney said.

He added that, through Vigliotti’s sponsorship, each player gets some sort of gift at the tournament, and Peppino’s feeds every team, all staff and all referees.

Over the years, Saroney has watched Vigliotti stay true to his roots. The Peppino’s on the North Side, where Vigliotti’s office is, is still his home base. Saroney called him “a North Side kid.”

“He’s a Syracuse guy at heart,” Saroney said.

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“I’m very proud of her for not letting the things that have happened in our life hold her back,” Kim said.

For Bermel, there’s no such thing as free time. When she isn’t brewing a cup of coffee in the heart of campus or researching the nation’s health care system, she enjoys spending time in nature and people watching.

She’ll often sit on the steps of Hendricks Chapel or take the bus for a ride around the city to see people from different walks of life. She’s passionate about the community grid project and hopes to advocate for public transit projects in the future.

Bermel has not finalized her post-graduation plans, but she hope to work for a union someday.

Her goal is to further advocate for workers, especially in New York, who are being underserved.

“I want to be the person that says ‘OK,

what are you dealing with? What’s going on here, and how can we make sure you have your needs met?’ And I think that unions are a great place for that.”

Reflecting on her four years at SU, Bermel said she’ll not only miss the people — like her friends and favorite customers at People’s Place — but she’ll also miss having a space where questioning things is encouraged.

Bermel described herself as “annoying” as a kid, asking too many questions and reading deeply into things. For her, SU has fostered an atmosphere where she has felt inspired to push boundaries.

“I guess it’s just my perspective coming in feeling like SU wasn’t attainable for me, and now all of a sudden I’m leaving it,” she said. “I love SU with all my heart.” hrober03@syr.edu | @_haleyannn

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varello hole. Now, with Varello at the pinnacle of his season performance, he said Syracuse’s faceoff unit is “strong as it’s ever been.”

“I don’t really care if I’m playing — starting, first guy out,” Varello said. “I just care about helping our team win.”

Earlier in the season, Varello felt off.

The form he had grown accustomed to no longer was suitable. Varello called his brother, former Navy lacrosse player Joe Varello, in “crisis mode.”

Varello tried to not get too frantic, but his playing time dipped. Though his quickness is perhaps his biggest strength, he was struggling to get under the stick of the opponent.

When he beat them on the clamp, Desko said he struggled to make decisions. He’d win at the from page 12

defense player is like Byrne and prefers to take a few steps toward the goal before releasing its shot, Syracuse’s game plan is to get as many bodies possible to congest shooting lanes.

Against Florida on March 13, another game the Orange won by just one score, the Gators earned 14 free-position shots, including eight in the second half. SU stopped nine of them, the most they have prevented in a game this season.

The Orange also keep track of players’ dominant hands in relation to where the shot is on the eight-meter arc. If a player is a lefty and they’re on one of the left hash marks, they’ll likely shoot the ball. If they’re on an opposite hash, they’re more prone to pass, which is something Syracuse has to be aware of at all times.

“Most players maybe won’t take that shot they’re not sure of,” SU midfielder Sam Swart said. “We’re pretty smart about that on our team.”

One of the reasons SU is so adept at both scoring off free-position opportunities as

X — then he’d lose the ball.

Joe helped him calm down, Varello said.

Daily calls to his parents did the same. In practices at SU, Varello noticed Phaup’s grip: bent at the elbow, with his forearm parallel to the floor. At the time, Varello had a “hovering wrist” which he held at an angle in his stance. His arms were almost locked and his motion, which failed to make the best use of his speed, went downward instead of forward. When he was looking for a change, Varello noticed Phaup’s grip helped Phaup thrive.

“I decided to try it out,” Varello said.

Though a large part of the season for Varello was “trial and error,” he settled into his new grip and made small tweaks in his stance. The bend of his elbow forced him to use more of his arm muscles and the increase in explosion got him under the stick well as defending them is because it practices eight-meter shots every day during practice.

While other aspects of the game — like clears and rides — aren’t practiced frequently due to their time constraints, free-position shots are routine.

During games, Goldstock usually takes on the responsibility of moving around the defenders in front of her. If Goldstock doesn’t like the defense, she’ll move her teammates around accordingly. Nearly every free-position shot leads to attack and defenders jockeying for position.

“Asa will help us rearrange if we need based on the circumstance,” SU defender Sarah Cooper said. “If they’re putting players behind we know we need to get someone behind, and Asa’s the one telling us.”

Syracuse hasn’t found a way to reduce its penalty numbers. But so far this season, its recipe to stop free-position tries, and limit the damage, has been successful.

“Sometimes we do a great job then it comes down to Asa making some saves at the end,” Gait said. “We wanna get solid and get some stops, so we work at it.”

head of the opponent and win clamps.

In Varello’s past two games, he’s won 79% of his faceoffs and said he feels more comfortable than he has at any point of the season.

The speed finally had made its mark. Varello’s resurgence now allows a diversified approach at the X for Syracuse — a specialized player for every possible matchup.

Faceoffs remain a key point of Syracuse’s pregame strategy. Though it’s difficult to decipher the whistle on film — further complicating the scouting process for speed off the jump — SU focuses on the stick heads of its opponents’ top faceoff specialists. Ones with quicker hands tend to use a Nike CEO, a “popular head for face-off specialists,” according to lax.com. Those who rely more on their power, similar to Phaup, use a Dual 2 head because it allows players to “place your hand closer to the ball.”

Though the speed was hard to point out in film, Syracuse noticed UNC faceoff specialist Zachary Tucci used a Nike CEO stick head.

On the first three faceoffs of the game, Phaup’s methodical style wasn’t enough to counter the quick clamp of Tucci.

Varello quickly came in, and won his first opportunity. Then a second, a third, a fourth. When the ball was between two players, he created separation and scooped it cleanly. He ran away with the ball, found the wings and delivered passes without err. It was the best Desko’s ever seen Varello, Desko said.

“I’m always tweaking stuff throughout the year,” Varello said, “and now I feel like I found a sweet spot.”

And when Varello is in a rhythm, why stop him?

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out in the infield.

Even as the Orange added another in the seventh on a second Hansen double, they failed to convert again. As Acevedo came to the plate as the tying run, she grounded out, and a Kaiser line-out ended the game.

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The Orange finally posted a run in the fifth after an Alicia Hansen double, bringing the tying run to the plate with two runners on and two outs. Syracuse stranded both Bryce Holmgren and Hansen as Acevedo popped

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expanded Skladal’s role. Despite her slump at the plate, Skladal’s speed makes her reliable as a rotational outfielder for Syracuse (18-23, 7-8 Atlantic Coast).

“So often,” senior right fielder Bryce Holmgren said, “freshmen get in their own heads or get in their own way, and I just remind (Skladal) that this is the same game that she’s played her whole life. It might be on a bigger stage, but the game hasn’t changed.”

As a slap-hitter, Skladal tries to make up for her lack of power with her speed. She swings and leaves the batter’s box simultaneously to beat out soft hits in the infield. Eight of her 12 hits on the season have been infield singles or bunts.

But through February and March, the outfielder went 10 games without a hit. She later bounced back, though, with a three-game hitting streak and a 3-for-4 performance on April 6 in a 5-2 win over North Carolina State.

Last Friday against Duke, Skladal barreled an outside fastball and whacked it over the shortstop’s outstretched glove. The knock established a two-game hitting streak, which ended the next day.

Following Sunday’s 3-2 loss to Duke, some teammates frustratedly mimicked Skladal’s slap-hitting approach in a 20-minute team meeting in left field.

“Not letting failure get to you,” Skaladal said of the biggest challenge she’s faced this year.

“You still know you’re good, but you just have to accept that you’re not always going to be 100% on. You just have to work through that.”

Despite her struggles at the plate, Syracuse

needs Skladal now more than ever. An earlyseason leg injury to Neli Casares-Maher moved starting centerfielder Alicia Hansen to shortstop. Martin shifted from left to center, which displaced Lailoni Mayfield from third base to left. But an undisclosed injury to third baseman Hannah Dossett forced Mayfield back to third.

Then, last Friday, Martin exited with an apparent hand injury, moving Skladal from left to center for the final two games against the Blue Devils.

The flux in the outfield has demanded an extra focus on chemistry, Holmgren said. With every new outfield trio, each fielder has to learn how much ground their teammates can cover and when to call someone off a fly ball. Skladal is quieter and less experienced than Hansen and Martin, but she’s just as speedy, Holmgren said.

A lack of continuity in the outfield can lead to more mistakes, raising the importance of communication. Developing chemistry and comfortability between the outfielders is the next step to patching together a sustainable outfield.

“I think I just need to be a little louder in the next few games,” Skladal said after a recent practice.

Skladal hasn’t made an error all season.

Skladal played centerfield in travel ball and in high school, she said, so the position is familiar to her. In her most-recent game against Colgate, Skladal went 1-for-3 with two putouts in left field. She demonstrated her versatility, but also left two runners on base in her at-bats.

“Yes, I’ve had ups and downs, but I feel like I’ve gotten better as the season has gone.”

— Asst. Copy Editor Anthony Dabbundo contributed reporting to this story. dremerma@syr.edu

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DANNY VARELLO took the majority of faceoffs in Syracuse’s win over North Carolina last Saturday after Jakob Phaup struggled. Varello won 13-of-17 at the X, propelling SU’s 12-9 win. kaci wasilewski asst. digital editor

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HAPEL HILL, N.C. — Danny Varello can’t say it’s been easy. Syracuse repeated — again and again — it wouldn’t neglect the depth of its faceoff unit, and head coach John Desko said he would “ride the hot hand” of the “two-headed monster.” And then Jakob Phaup became a top-five faceoff specialist in the country. The “hot hand” most often was him. When Phaup is in a rhythm, why stop him?

“Yeah,” Varello said, “it’s been up and down.”

Danny Varello’s resurgence has fortified SU’s faceoff unit Varello, now in his second season as a major contributor in the Orange’s faceoff unit, has always exemplified a raw ability to succeed at the X. Phaup “envies” Varello’s quickness. In good moments and in bad, see varello page 10

Varello’s aware of what he needs to change and how to do it. Against North Carolina, Varello put it together for a 13-of-18 performance from the faceoff X after Phaup was pegged to be the forefront of the unit.

After making small changes to his grip of the stick, Varello is “happy where (he is).” He said “it’s good to give Jakob a nice backup every now and then,” but Saturday’s game proved the Orange aren’t steadfast on a clear frontrunner in the faceoff. Phaup got his opportunity early and didn’t deliver against North Carolina. Varello responded with 10-straight wins, gaining valuable possessions as SU fought back from an early

After Duke swept Syracuse in a doubleheader on Saturday to take the weekend series, SU head coach Shannon Doepking said the Orange lacked fight at the plate and didn’t make the necessary adjustments to the Blue Devils’ pitching staff.

On Wednesday, Syracuse’s offense went quiet again. Colgate (18-21, 3-6 Patriot) jumped out to an early lead on Peyton Schnackenberg, and SU (18-23, 7-8 Atlantic Coast) dropped its third-straight game, 4-2, to the Raiders. The medley of injuries of late have forced multiple players to shift around the field and the lineup.

Lailoni Mayfield, who has played the majority of the season at third base, shifted to center field in place of the injured Toni Martin. Jessica Skladal had started in center on Saturday, but she went back to her normal position in left field. Alex Acevedo played third base in place of the injured Hannah Dossett, sliding Anya Gonzalez to first. Despite all of the changes, the Orange mustered just two runs, leaving nine runners on base.

With Sophie Da ndola’s absence from the team, Syracuse’s pitching depth is also thin. The Orange turned to Schnackenberg, who lasted just 2.1 innings, allowing four earned runs and eight hits. Miranda Hearn shined in relief, completing the game without allowing another run, but the lead was too big for the lackluster SU offense to overcome.

As Hearn continued to record outs, the Orange did the same at the plate and on the basepaths. With runners on second and third, Syracuse appeared to score its first run on a sacrifice fly, but Acevedo was ruled out after leaving third base early. AJ Kaiser struck out, and SU ended the second scoreless. see colgate page 10

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Free position defense key for SU Skladal’s role growing after outfield injuries

By Eric Black

senior staff writer

Asa Goldstock banged her stick on the two goalposts, alternating twice before spinning the stick and stationing herself in front of the goal. It was late in the second half of Syracuse’s April 3 game against Virginia Tech, and the Hokies’ Mary Claire Byrne had just earned a free-position shot.

The whistle blew and Byrne quickly shuffled forward before the attack was met by a pair of SU defenders. A shot headed straight for the upper-left corner of the goal before Goldstock sprung up

and picked it off, her sixth save of the game.

The No. 5 Orange (14-3, 5-2 Atlantic Coast) went on to defeat Virginia Tech, 14-13, marking their fifth victory of the year by one goal.

Syracuse’s defense, which allowed seven free-position goals to the Hokies in a 15-14, double-overtime loss last season, held Virginia Tech to just two scores on seven free position opportunities.

Opponents are converting on just under 38% of their freeposition chances against SU’s defense, the second-lowest mark the Orange have allowed in program history. The efficient clip

has saved SU, which has faced an average of 5.8 free position attempts per game, from allowing teams to take advantage.

“We watch a lot of film, certainly put it on the scouting report,” SU head coach Gary Gait said. “Some players tend to have the outside rip, some want to carry it in every time.”

If a player likes to shoot from the outside instead of running in, like Syracuse’s leading scorer Emily Hawryschuk (57 goals, 21 from the free-position) tends to do, the Orange will rush to force a def lection or errant shot. If the see defense page 10

By Danny Emerman staff writer

In the bottom of the seventh inning against Duke on Saturday, with Gianna Carideo on first and no one out, Jessica Skladal wasted a chance to jolt a comeback.

Instead, Skladal’s slaphitting style SKLADAL failed her. She

couldn’t move the tying run into scoring position for the top of the lineup and struck out swinging on five pitches. Syracuse’s rally never sparked and it lost, 3-2, in game two of the doubleheader.

During the weekend’s threegame series against Duke, Skladal went 1-for-9 with four strikeouts to drop her batting average to .218, the worst mark of SU hitters with more than 50 at-bats. Meanwhile, several injuries have thinned Syracuse’s outfield depth and have

see skladal page 10