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N • Cutting the ribbon

Syracuse University’s new hub for student entrepreneurs, Blackstone LaunchPad, had its grand opening Tuesday afternoon in Bird Library.

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O • Not so lit

Liberal columnist Joanna Orland discusses the stigma associated with medical marijuana and calls for increased accessibilty of the drug for veterans.

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P • Growing pains

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Medical marijuana was legalized in New York in 2014 and dispensaries opened in January, but some patients are still finding it hard to fill their prescriptions.

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S • Meshing in

SU’s Libi Mesh moved from Israel to the U.S. to pursue her tennis career. As the Orange’s season winds down, she finally feels comfortable balancing her life.

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Trump, Clinton win Frontrunners dominate state and Onondaga County in primary

SU junior dies at home Student dies at home in China after brief illness, SU announces

By Sara Swann Asst. news editor

A Syracuse University junior died over the weekend in his home country of China, the university announced Tuesday morning.

Hongming Cao, a junior economics major, who was a student in both the College of Arts and Sciences and the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, died following a brief illness, according to an email sent to the SU student body on Tuesday.

“I join Chancellor (Kent) Syverud and the entire Syracuse University community in extending our sincerest condolences to his family, friends, and all who knew him, during this difficult time,” said Rebecca Reed Kantrowitz, senior vice president and dean of student affairs, in the email. smswann@syr.edu

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(FROM LEFT) DONALD TRUMP AND HILLARY CLINTON both came to Syracuse before the New York primary on Tuesday to campaign for the presidential nomination of their respective political parties. moriah ratner staff photographer

By Rachel Sandler asst. news editor

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ormer Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and business mogul Donald Trump won easy victories in the New York state primaries on Tuesday, winning both the state and Onondaga County.

Trump won 45.6 percent of the vote in Onondaga County, according to The New York Times. Ohio Gov. John Kasich followed Trump in Onondaga County with 36.4 percent and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) came in last with 18 percent.

Clinton won 53 percent in Onondaga County, beating Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) by 6 percent.

Every candidate in both parties made campaign stops in Syracuse in the last few weeks before the primary, with Trump and Sanders drawing the largest crowds at the Nicholas J. Piro The number of Convention Center. delegates a Republican Both Trump and Clinton were presidential candidate expected to win the state, as polls needs to win the Republican nomination coming out of the state before the primary showed both candidates with massive leads.

Trump, who was projected as the winner right after the polls closed at 9 p.m. EST, earned 60 percent of the vote statewide, as of 11:15 p.m. EST, with 91 percent reporting statewide, according to The New York Times.

He is on track to win every county in New York, with the exception of Manhattan, where Kasich is ahead by 2 percent, as of 11:15 p.m. EST.

Kasich is still behind Trump by a large margin overall, with 25 percent of the vote statewide — 35 percent behind Trump, as of 11:15 p.m. EST. Cruz is even further behind with 15 percent of the vote as of 11:15 p.m. EST, according to The New York Times.

If Trump gets 50 percent of the vote statewide, he’ll receive all of New York’s 95 delegates. If he doesn’t, the other Republican candidates, Kasich and Cruz, need to pass a 20 percent threshold to get any delegates at all.

A Republican candidate needs 1,237 delegates to clinch the nomination. If no candidate wins 1,237 by the end of primary season in June, the GOP nominee is determined through a contested convention.

On the Democratic side, Clinton was projected the state winner at 9:40 p.m. EST, with about 32 percent of the state reporting, according to The New York Times. Clinton carried all of the counties in and around New York City, but struggled in most counties The number of in upstate New York, which went to delegates a Democratic Sanders. Onondaga County, Monroe presidential candidate County (where Rochester is located) needs to win the Democratic nomination and Erie County (where Buffalo is located) are the only counties that Clinton won in upstate New York.As of 11:15 p.m. EST, Sanders was 16 percent behind Clinton statewide.To win the Democratic nomination, a candidate needs 2,383 delegates.

The next primaries will be held on April 26 in Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island.

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Online program announced College partners with 2U to create online J.D. degree program

By Michael Burke Asst. news editor

Syracuse University’s College of Law has announced the creation of an online hybrid juris doctor degree program.

The program will be developed by the College of Law’s faculty in partnership with 2U, an educational technology company that partners with colleges and universities to offer online degree programs. The program is pending approval from New York state and the American Bar Association, according to an SU News release.

The program will feature live, face-to-face online courses and see online page 6

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WORK wednesday | nathan prior

ESSM works to make SU campus sustainable

By Danielle Bertolini staff writer

All of the lighting in the campus parking garages were in desperate need of an upgrade last year. So, the Energy Systems and Sustainability Management replaced the old lighting with LEDs. This implementation helped the university save 50 percent of its energy usage in that area, decreasing carbon emissions.

Nathan Prior is the director of ESSM and has been working there for 17 years, originally starting in the organization’s 24-hour offices.

As the director, he oversees the programs and helps tie everything together with campus facilities.

“The university is trying to be as energy conscious and sustainable as possible,” Prior said. “It’s looking toward the future.”

ESSM is broken up into divisions and strives to sustain and improve the campus through efforts in line with the university’s climate action plan. According to its website, ESSM “works throughout the entire University community to efficiently create and maintain comfortable, sustainable and high performance campus environments.”

“We look at different projects that will bring return value to the university not just on the energy side but also from the carbon emissions side,” Prior said.

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INSIDE N • Game time

The nonprofit Believe in Syracuse is planning the first Syracuse Olympics, which will feature local neighborhoods.

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S • Molloy’s ploy

SU men’s lacrosse goalie Evan Molloy has grown in the starting role after subbing in during a 17-7 loss in early April.

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ESSM has recently worked with professors to apply for a grant on the university’s behalf. The million dollar award would be used to improve ESSM’s infrastructure on campus and develop new course offerings for students. Prior emphasizes the university’s dedication to the academic side of sustainability.

Prior has seen both the campus and its technology change dramatically since he first started working with ESSM. Many of these changes have innovated the way ESSM implements its initiatives.

One of these improvements is the implementation of solar-thermal panels on South Campus — Prior’s

favorite project. The panels provide hot water to some of the South Campus three-bedroom apartments.

“We try to fit in energy conservation measures, different energy grants, even the design of the facilities,” Prior said. “It’s a kind of evolution.” dbertoli@syr.edu

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@SyracuseULib The ribbon’s been cut! We’re excited to announce the @LaunchPad_SYR opening as we support our student entrepreneurs!

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SU project releases report Students, faculty publish data on sexual crimes in Syrian civil war

By Arva Hassonjee staff writer

University officials and invited guests attended a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Blackstone LaunchPad entrepreneurship program on the ground floor of Bird Library on Tuesday afternoon.

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Entrepreneurship center in Bird opens to public

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necessary to assist in developing their business plans.

“We want to make sure that students understand entrepreneurship is a viable career option and help you

build out your career and adventures and that’s what this program is all about,” he said.

At the ceremony, Chancellor Kent Syverud delivered introduc-

An opening ceremony for Blackstone LaunchPad, the transparent cube on the ground floor of Bird Library, was held in the Peter Graham Scholarly Commons at Bird Library Tuesday afternoon.

The transparent, 625 square-foot room was constructed over Thanksgiving break last year after the university received a $900,000 grant from the Blackstone Charitable Fund. The room is now open to the public.

Erik Lisher, managing director in Blackstone’s Investor Relations and Business Development Group, said the program is designed to encourage young entrepreneurs to pursue CHANCELLOR KENT SYVERUD gave a short speech Tuesday their ideas, and to provide the frame- afternoon in Bird Library for the launch of Blackstone LaunchPad, work, the network and the support an entrepreneurship program. liam sheehan asst. photo editor

tory remarks after being introduced by Dean of Libraries David Seaman. Syverud said SU has a tradition of entrepreneurial spirit and teaching students to be innovative and creative.

“Innovation really has to be the pillar of our present and the future at Syracuse University,” he said.

SU is among five universities — along with Cornell University, New York University, the State University of New York at Albany and SUNY Buffalo — in New York state to take part in the Blackstone LaunchPad program. The initiative rolled out in those five universities is the largest expansion of the program to date and will be available to more than 100,000 students in New York state alone, Lisher said.

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election 2016

SU students use affidavit ballot to cast votes

By Annie Palmer development editor

Amid statewide protest over New York’s closed primary rules, the policy proved to be a headache for some Syracuse University students and city election officials on Tuesday.

At Ed Smith Elementary School — a polling place just off SU’s campus — a number of students were told to fill out affidavit ballots. These ballots are given to voters who don’t show up as being registered at a certain polling place and allow them to explain

why their vote should be counted.

Students whose address was in Lyons Hall or on Euclid Avenue, Livingston Avenue and other off-campus sites were able to vote at Ed Smith.

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The number of affidavit ballots collected at Ed Smith Elementary School by 7:50 p.m. Tuesday

Votes cast via affidavit ballots

aren’t guaranteed to count because it’s up to the discretion of the Board of Elections, and is often decided on a case by case basis, said Dustin Czarny, Democratic elections commissioner for the Onondaga County Board of Elections.

A few of the SU students who were handed an affidavit ballot were either independents or found that their registration information had fallen through the cracks somehow, said Lindsay Groves, a poll watcher at the elementary school. By 7:50 p.m., she said 17 affidavit ballots had been

collected, but not all of them were confirmed to be cast by SU students.

Voters can only participate in New York state’s primary unless they’re a registered Democrat or Republican.

A number of students showed up to the poll not knowing they had to be registered with a party by Oct. 9, 2015, Groves said in an email.

A national voting rights organization filed a lawsuit in New York Federal District Court today alleging that many New York voters’ registration information had changed see ballots page 8

The Syrian Accountability Project (SAP) began at the Syracuse University College of Law in 2011, shortly after the Syrian crisis began that March. Now, six years later, the SAP has released a “groundbreaking” report about sexual crimes committed on both sides of the conflict.

The report, entitled “Looking Through The Window Darkly: A Snapshot Analysis of Rape in Syria,” found that the 142 reported incidents affected at least 483 Syrian women and girls, according to an SU News release.

Corri Zoli, director of research for SU’s Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism, said the “real” authors of the SAP’s report are the juris doctor students.

From a historical context, Zoli, who is also a research assistant professor in SU’s Department of Political Science, said the SAP report is groundbreaking because the designation of rape as a crime under international law is still fairly new. On

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he United States Department of Veterans Affairs clearly hasn’t been listening to Snoop Dogg much lately.

Though medical marijuana is slowly gaining traction, there is one group in particular that is still fighting to be considered in the discussion: some veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder are looking to cannabis for treatment. However, VA hospitals are not allowed to prescribe the drug due to federal regulations.

This stigma may stem from the fact that weed smokers are synonymous with burnouts, which hinders any movement forward in an effort to serve those who have served us. In New York, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand spoke out on behalf of veterans earlier this year, advocating for the government to remove administrative barriers to medical marijuana research and allow the VA to use it as a valid form of treatment.

The VA recently responded to Gillibrand in a letter, remaining firm on its stance against medical marijuana due to its classification as a Schedule I controlled substance, categorizing it with the likes of heroin and cocaine due to a high potential for drug abuse.

The response may have been founded on claims that there is not enough research to back up the benefits of medical marijuana.

Like most new realms, the government wants numbers — numbers that will justify the prescription of medicinal cannabis. But these are numbers it doesn’t have, because apparently anecdotal evidence from people experiencing unquantifiable health benefits isn’t enough. To validate and destigmatize the form of treatment, there should be increased funding to study the drug. With more funding, will come more research and more results that will work to increase the acceptance of alternative medicines.

Though 23 states and Washington D.C. have legalized medical marijuana, only 13 of them recognize PTSD as an approved condition for treatment. Even so, most of the research that exists shows detrimental effects on users and abusers. This notion is interestingly juxtaposed with the reality that VA doctors are prescribing

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NOTHING LEFT UNSAID dozens of drugs to be taken by those affected by PTSD: the drugs to ward off the condition and then a series of other medicines to alleviate the side effects.

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There have been numerous attempts by scientists who hope to further investigate the relationship between PTSD and cannabis use among veterans. But unlike studies involving heroin or LSD, the proposals must pass through two separate organizations for approval. And even then, the VA seemingly doesn’t want its hospitals used to recruit subjects or its facilities to do these studies. And the course of politics eclipsing scientific advancement continues.

“Essentially the problem boils down to its current classification as a Schedule I drug. As such there has been an historically low level of research to support (or to refute) cannabis use, though this is changing,” said John Milton Torrens, professor of entrepreneurial practice in the Martin J. Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University, in an email. “The biggest opposition to (medical marijuana) comes from the pharmaceutical and alcohol industries.”

With the Schedule I drug classification being the biggest impediment to permitting research, the hoops to jump through to distribute Schedule I pharmaceuticals to patients is not an easy system to navigate. And so lots of time and money are spent on phases of studies that are nothing

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more than getting approval from higher institutions. Even once past it, nothing is guaranteed. When there is a change in classification, the ladder to the top will be shortened and the system, rejuvenated.

Whether medical marijuana works or not, no conclusions can be made because there is a system that makes it hard for comprehensive research to get done, maintaining a vicious cycle of seemingly ineffective drug prescriptions, accidental overdoses and a lack of healing for damaged brave souls.

So we are left without answers and the voices of passionate veterans are silenced, while the rhetoric of anti-weed know-it-all politicians is amplified.

The largest concern with prescribing medical marijuana to veterans is essentially that it will do more harm than good and ultimately won’t provide an effective cure veterans. This statement is one that is over thought. The potent drug cocktails that are being served to veterans are not the answer, and other options should be tested. To resist at least trying alternative forms of medicine in favor of what has been done and what is perceived to be right is a disservice to society, science and outstanding citizens in our community.

With marijuana there can be no accidental overdose or a diminished sense of belonging, but rather recovering veterans can integrate smoothly back into daily life once again. Meanwhile, 22 veterans continue to commit suicide every day, according to a VA study. This statistic is a warning sign that whatever the system dictates needs to be reevaluated. Any time veterans express that something works for them or something lessens the effects of serving our country, that sentiment should be paid close attention to by doctors, politicians and civilians alike.

Because mental illnesses are not always as visible as physical injuries, they have always faced more hardships in coming to the forefront of the public consciousness. If the VA were to move forward with recommending medical cannabis as treatment, PTSD would be the first mental illness to be addressed by the use of medical marijuana as a federallyrecognized antidote. In this way, the VA could pave the way for

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wider acceptance of other mental illnesses, as well as other mental illnesses, as well as depression, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder and bipolar disorder.

There has been progress in regard to medical marijuana legislation: the Senate Appropriations Committee passed an amendment last week that allows VA physicians to discuss medical marijuana as treatment with its patients in states where it is already legal to recommend it.

Essentially the problem boils down to its current classification as a Schedule I drug. As such there has been an historically low level of research to support (or to refute) cannabis use, though this is changing.

John Milton Torrens professor of entrepreneurial practice in su’s martin j. whitman school of management

This measure goes beyond acceptance and augmented access and is more in the interest of a patient’s health rather than the politics of it all.

What’s the point of championing cannabis if it’s not accepted on a

federal level, leaving only holes in the system as a disservice to veterans?

In Colorado, marijuana is legal both recreationally and medicinally, but PTSD is still not a valid reason for obtaining a prescription. And even states including Texas and Florida, which have two of the largest populations of veterans in the U.S., wouldn’t have access to the prescription.

“What’s important is to focus on states like Pennsylvania, California, Colorado, et cetera.

They have all passed legislation allocating money to research medical marijuana and its effects,” said Marcel Bonn-Miller, assistant professor of psychology in psychiatry at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. “It’s something that if we want science to keep up with policy, we need to do.”

Forward movement needs to be uniform across the board when medical marijuana is something people swear by. Cancer patients.

People with chronic back pain. HIV/ AIDs patients. Women with menstrual cramps. It works for them and serves as an alternative or even a supplement to the cornucopia of pills these patients may be taking.

Should we be able to make this treatment available federally for veterans would be the morally correct display of gratitude toward those who sacrificed so much for us.

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

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will also include in-person learning and oncampus courses, according to the release.

“This hybrid program will continue our tradition of innovation and excellence in legal education,” said William Banks, interim dean of the College of Law, in the release.

The program will allow the College of Law to expand its mission “to provide modern legal training for tomorrow’s lawyers and leaders, including those who cannot easily attend a fully residential program,” Banks added.

“This partnership will enable the College of Law to reach talented students nationwide and allow us to grant unprecfrom page 3

blackstone Interim Vice Chancellor and Provost Liz Liddy said representatives from Blackstone were seeking to install a LaunchPad room in a place that has the greatest foot traffic on campus — which turned out to be Bird Library.

Judy Mower, a member of SU’s Board of Trustees and chair of the Libraries Advisory Board, said housing Blackstone Launchpad in the library has a significant meaning.

“The LaunchPad sits here in Bird Library … because it is a crossroad of student life,” Mower said. “ … It is the building where everyone in the university community — from first-year (students) to professors — come together in their role as scholars.”

At the ceremony, an SU alumnus took the podium to speak about his entrepreneurial works. Patrick Ambron, CEO and co-founder of BrandYourself.com and a Class of 2009 graduate, said entrepreneurial programs such as Blackstone LaunchPad promote the exploration

edented access to Syracuse Law’s outstanding legal education,” SU Chancellor Kent Syverud said in the release.

Five other schools at SU have contracted 2U to create online degree programs, including the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, the Martin J. Whitman School of Management, the School of Information Studies, the College of Engineering and Computer Science and most recently, the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.

Andrew Hermalyn, 2U’s executive vice president and regional general manager who oversees the company’s relationship with SU, told The Daily Orange in February that 2U’s goal is “to help universities become the best digital versions of themselves.” mdburk01@syr.edu | @michaelburke47

of entrepreneurship.

Ambron said that before he started the company in New York City, he took advantage of Syracuse Student Sandbox, a similar support program facilitating student entrepreneurship, and spent three years in Syracuse after graduating from SU to develop his business strategy.

“Had we been in another environment without resources that the university and the programs like this gave us, there’s no doubt we would have flamed out before we really began,” he said.

Followed by the 30-minute ceremony, an orange ribbon was cut to celebrate the official opening of Blackstone LaunchPad. Inside the cubic room, a dozen of student entrepreneurial works were featured.

Also at the ceremony, Liddy; Ambron; and Wiley Cerilli, co-CEO and founder of Good Uncle — a food delivery startup — who attended SU’s School of Information Studies, handed out $60,000 worth of prizes to SU students who won the CompeteCNY business plan competition. ssugiyam@syr.edu | @SatoshiJournal

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Let the games begin Syracuse nonprofit to host first Syracuse Olympics for local neighborhoods

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eighborhoods in Syracuse will be participating in a city Olympics in August that will include bocce, volleyball, kickball and cornhole.

Believe in Syracuse, a nonprofit dedicated to promoting Syracuse, is hosting the daylong event, which will have food, a scavenger hunt and a short film contest in addition to the games.

Paul Colabufo, vice president of Believe in Syracuse and an organizer of Syracuse Olympics, said the Olympics are meant to show neighborhood pride. The event is scheduled to coincide with the summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

“If you think of the international Olympics, all the countries of the world field teams to show some pride,” Colabufo said.

“This is going to be the same thing but for Syracuse, but with each neighborhood fielding a team, and instead of competing for medals they are competing for volunteers to come beautify their neighborhoods.”

This is the first annual games, Colabufo said, and each year a different neighborhood will host. In an effort to show off each neighborhood, visitors can participate in a scavenger hunt, during which people will be led through different highlights and landmarks of the area, he added. This year’s Olympics will be held in Eastwood, New York.

There will be four prizes — one for each event — and each

winner will receive an estimated 40 volunteer hours, he said.

Colabufo said the planning team wanted the event to be as inclusive as possible, so people of any age and athletic ability are able to participate. Local leagues will help run the event and provide the equipment: Turbo Bocce for bocce, The Beach at Sharkey’s for volleyball and CNY Cornhole for cornhole. The kickball league is still in the works, he said.

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The number of professional athletes from Syracuse that will participate in an obstacle course at the city Olympics

Additionally, there will be food trucks and games for kids, Colabufo said.

About eight professional athletes from Syracuse teams will also participate in an obstacle course that will include jumping through hula hoops and tires, jumping over and crawling under hurdles and completing high and long jumps.

Colabufo said Believe in Syracuse has planned most of the foundation work, like obtaining permits and contacting the sports leagues. Now the nonprofit is working on spreading the

word and encouraging people to sign up as volunteers and to create teams.

The budget for the event has not yet been determined, Colabufo said, adding that the nonprofit could hold the Olympics for as little as $500 or up to $8,000. He said he expects to hit about $4,000-$5,000.

Katherine Bell, who is organizing the Olympics with Colabufo, said Believe in Syracuse also hopes to have a film competition at the Olympics, through which people from each neighborhood would create a short film about the neighborhood.

Bell said she is excited to see all the neighborhoods enjoying their home environment and participating in a semi-competitive atmosphere.

“I’m excited to see a bunch of different areas come together,” she said.

Bell added that she hopes this event will shed light on all the Syracuse neighborhoods and bring out participation in younger people.

Oscar Ocampo, the obstacle course organizer, said the event will be “phenomenal” for the city because it will provide an active way for people to interact with each other.

“It promotes social awareness. It brings people together. It brings out community. We are going out together, we are experiencing together, we are sharing those moments,” Ocampo said. hykim100@syr.edu

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syria the scholarly side, she said it is a breakthrough because of its vast implications regarding women’s rights generally and for women globally, as well as for international humanitarian law and post-conflict reconstruction.

Zoli said the sample size of 142 rape incidents is a large enough sample size for the study because it is a purposeful sample and a more qualitative study. Additionally, the researchers are trying to get a portrait of the criminal behaviors involving gender-based violence and rape that are occurring in and around the Syrian conflict, she said.

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The minimum number of women that were affected in the 142 reported rape incidents in Syria

David Crane, a professor of practice in the College of Law, supervises the students involved in the project in constructing a criminal case against the sparring parties in the Syrian civil war. Crane said a portion of the SAP is producing analytical tools similar to the latest white paper on rape in Syria. He said his team hopes that the aforementioned white paper will “bring a further understanding of the horrors that women and children undergo there in Syria.”

Peter Levrant, executive director of the SAP, said he administers two different divisions: the investigations wing and the registrar unit.

The project is revolutionary, Levrant said, because for the first time in legal history, a crime such as rape is being analyzed under three different legal standards. The first is the Rome Statute, which is what the International Criminal Court uses. The second is the Geneva Conventions, which Levrant said is “essentially humanitarian law and the basis of many criminal prosecutions.” And the third standard is the Syrian Penal Code, which is a domestic statute.

Levrant said the team “analyzes the unique crime, its trends, its frequency, the perpetrators, along with how and when the crimes occur.” He said the group distinguishes itself

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ballots without their knowledge, according to USA Today. The lawsuit also argued that unaffiliated voters should be allowed to participate in the election. A federal judge later denied the lawsuit Tuesday afternoon.

Czarny said he noticed a large push on social media for unaffiliated voters to go out to the polls and vote using affidavit ballots. On one hand, he said it shows enthusiasm from people who might not have voted in the past, but they also don’t

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from other organizations because it analyzse these factors from a strictly legal standpoint and not just an advocacy standpoint.

The SAP is primarily focused on exposing these tangible crimes that can be prosecuted at both the international and the domestic levels to the world, Levrant said. This way, whenever the conflict ends, these crimes cannot go by unprosecuted or unpunished.

Zachary Lucas, the SAP trends analyst on the registrar team, said starting this summer, he will take over as the executive director of the project.

Currently, Lucas said his team inspects each individual year from the Syrian Civil War, examines the documents — which include crimes such as extrajudicial killings or torture — and composes and transfers the data into graphs and charts to portray how these tracked crimes have changed over the course of the war.

The team’s analysis includes a classification of where the crimes are occurring and in which regions in the country. The investigation also includes a breakdown by the individual crime to show what crime is more prominent and how the levels of violence have been increasing and decreasing.

Lucas said the research, data and work product that has concluded at the SAP prepares a trial platform for an upcoming prosecutor after the conclusion of the war.

The people who work on the SAP, Lucas said, do so because they care about justice for the Syrian people and others impacted by this conflict.

The SAP begins with a crime-based matrix that catalogs violent cases of sexual abuse, said Molly White, the chief registrar.

“The significance of the research conducted for the rape white paper is that it reminds the public that there is more than physical weapon usage and physical violence striking against the Syrian people,” White said.

This report accentuates that sexual violence is extensive throughout the Syrian Conflict and that “rape is often used as a weapon of war,” she said.

White said the students in the College of Law are the “backbone for the Syrian Accountability Project.” She added that while they rely on Crane — the project leader — the law students are the ones who “create, edit and compile all the work product.” ahassonj@syr.edu

seem to know the election rules.

He said the Board of Elections dealt with a lot of unaffiliated voters and affidavit ballots throughout the day, which proved to be difficult. Some of them chose to come down to the office and file a court order to have their vote be counted.

“That thing has really been our day,” Czarny said. “It’s frustrating because we have a brisk amount of court orders.”

A spokesman for the state Board of Elections projected that many independent voters could try to vote for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) using affidavit ballots, “causing long lines and waits at poll sites,” according to The New York Post. The article also noted that about one-third of nonmajor party voters are millennials, which is also a “major constituency” for Sanders.

Czarny said he couldn’t say whether the influx of affidavit voters in Onondaga County were specifically Sanders supporters. Representatives from Syracuse for Sanders were not immediately available for comment.

As of 5:30 p.m., Election Inspector Kathleen Sauro said about 300 Democratic votes were cast, compared to 37 Republican votes.

Jin Zhang, a recent SU graduate, said he tried to register to vote in the primary and realized too late that he was listed as unaffiliated. He tried to vote using an affidavit ballot on Tuesday, but was told he could only fill it out if he was a registered Democrat. With no other option, Zhang left Ed Smith empty-handed.

“It was pretty confusing — the whole thing,” Zhang said. “… I wish I could have voted today.” apalme05@syr.edu | @annierpalmer

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GREEN CROSS Despite legalization, medical marijuana is still difficult to obtain in New York state

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ike many college students, Julia Mannino uses marijuana. But unlike many, she does so legally.

Since Mannino was diagnosed with epilepsy at age eight, her parents have looked into all different types of treatments for their daughter’s neurological disorder.

This past fall, after a year of visits with her doctor, Mannino received a medical marijuana card in the state of New Jersey. From there, she began receiving prescriptions so she could purchase marijuana from a dispensary.

“I struggled a lot last year, so my parents were willing to try anything,” said Mannino, a junior writing major at Syracuse University.

July 2014

Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed the Compassionate Care Act to legalize medical marijuana in New York.

April 2015

Despite having this card in New Jersey, Mannino is unable to use her prescription in her school’s state, New York. She said since New York is so strict about the marijuana usage, she is left to fend for her own.

Currently in New York state, there are only three medical conditions permitted to obtain a medical marijuana license: epilepsy, multiple scoliosis and cancer.

In addition, there are only five permitted marijuana producers and 20 allowed dispensaries.

THC, the main active ingredient of recreational marijuana, is known to cause relaxation in its users and effective in treating chronic pain. Another active ingredient found in medical marijuana is cannabidiol, or CBD. This ingredient is non-psychoactive and has been found to be effective in treating certain forms of

Applications to become a licensed medical marijuana grower and production facility opened.

August 2015

Five licensed medical marijuana manufacturers and dispensary locations were announced.

epilepsy, such as Dravet syndrome. The right combination of these two ingredients can lessen or even end the number of seizures a patient with epilepsy has a day.

When it comes to medical marijuana, there also are a limited number of oil strains, and no allowable smokable forms, said Julie Netherland, the director of the office of academic engagement for the Drug Policy Alliance.

Netherland said her group is trying to educate lawmakers about the importance of medical marijuana.

But even though the Compassionate Care Act legalizing medical marijuana was signed into law in June 2014, it took much longer — 18 months — before patients could fill their prescriptions.

The law allowed just five facilities in New York state to

January 2016

The first medical marijuana dispensaries started opening across New York state.

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February 2016

Etain Health, the first medical marijuana dispensary in Syracuse, opened on Erie Boulevard.

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okyo Police Club always reminds me of summer.

There’s something about the poppy lyrics, intermixed with the personal stories, that comes across as warm and intimate. Listening to them is like listening to a close friend tell a story — there’s both a sensation of familiarity but also one of newness.

The band’s last album, “Forcefield,” came out in 2014 and was met with generally favorable reviews. Most of their sound is solid, sure of itself and their latest EP, “Melon Collie and the Infinite Radness (Part 1)” is the same in that sense but with a pop element to it.

Both cool-titled and cool sounding, the EP kicks off with the song “Not My Girl,” which describes a relationship that hasn’t

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marijuana get licenses to grow marijuana, and licensees weren’t announced until August 2015. Each facility was allowed to open four dispensaries, with the first ones opening in January.

And some patients have had an even longer road. In order to obtain a medical marijuana card in New York, a patient must work with a licensed physician — licensing requires the physician to take a course and pass a test. Annette Simiele of Multiple Sclerosis Resources of Central New York, Inc. said that out of the over 80,000 physicians in New York, only 551 took the certification course to license medical marijuana cards.

What’s more, Simiele said, patients looking for medical marijuana cards are discouraged from “shopping” for physicians just because they are licensed. Instead, lawmakers prefer patients to be “established” with a

stood the test of time. Apparently, time has the appearance of moving slower if the brain is being challenged. So things like falling in love, moving across the country or going to school makes time seem to slow down.

“Time doesn’t mean much to me / If you’re not my girl,” lead singer David Monks softly croons. If only everyone’s heartbreak sounded so good.

“PCH” is actually about beaches and has the same pop feel, only toned down a bit. It’s a sleepier song, with more implied romance.

“Some things people say / put me in a spin,” the chorus goes. The drumbeat is what really sells it.

“The Ocean” may be one of the only melancholy sounding songs on the EP. Slow building, it picks up at the chorus, and about midway through suddenly throws in a rad guitar solo with a particularly poignant lyric: “I’ll go on pretending I don’t care / But of course I do.” It’s a really clever composition.

“Losing You” sounds vintage. That’s probably why it’s my favorite song off the EP — detailing the beginning of the end of relationship, cheerfully with an echoing chorus and the same upbeat vibe as the previous songs. It should be sad — breakups are trainwrecks — but instead the subject

matter just comes across as enjoyable.

Finally, “Please, Don’t Let Me Down” rounds out the whole EP with piercing guitar and sick drumming. “Maybe I should be more careful around you,” Monk muses, on the road to positive heartbreak yet again.

While the EP focuses mainly on breakups and the end of relationships it does so with relished cheer, making this EP another great addition to Tokyo Police Club’s discography and as melancholy as the title implies. And yeah, just like the title of the EP, it is infinitely rad.

physician before receiving a card.

“It’s a tough spot to be in, where you work so hard to get the legislation passed, and then your doctor says, ‘I’m not going to participate’ — you’re back at square one,” Simiele said.

Simiele explained perhaps a lack of knowledge among politicians could be contributing factors as to why legislation is so tight. As none of them have doctorate degrees, she said they don’t have the foresight to understand the concept. “(Lawmakers) don’t know the heartache that many of these people have,” Simiele said.

“Especially the parents who are watching their children suffer daily with two or three hundred seizures, when they know that a few drops of medical cannabis under this child’s tongue is going to allow them to be seizure free.”

Another possible explanation could be simple politics — she thinks politicians may believe the decision will come back and bite them in the butt come election season.

Either way, playing a waiting game is not something some patients can afford. Simiele said she has seen parents not even bother waiting for legislation, instead maving to states with looser laws like Colorado or California.

“They know the bureaucratic red tape — you just have sit on your hands,” she said.

“It’s a very slow process to get a law passed.

They didn’t want to see their family member suffer any longer. It’s been a struggle.”

Etain is one of three companies that opened dispensaries in the Syracuse area. Their dispensaries currently offer three strains of hemp oil, each one with varying degrees of THC and CBD, catered for different conditions.

Etain plans to offer options and forms of marijuana further down the line. But Steve Stallmer, a spokesperson for the company, said it’s not an easy process.

Stallmer said first, they need to get New York’s Department of Health on board.

Right now, Etain is just adapting to the cur-

rent legislation.

Netherland and her advocacy group are currently working to expand current legislation and allow greater access to medical marijuana for those who need it. However, this additional legislation could take months to pass. This can seem like an eternity for families like Mannino’s, who just want help for their daughter’s illness.

One of the major questions patients and advocates have is why legislation remains so strict despite popular support. Simiele said one reason could be the reputation surrounding marijuana.

“There is always that stigma when you hear the word, ‘marijuana.’ You think 1970s, you think of people that were uncapped and free-for-all,” she said. “That’s not what this is about. This is not about recreational use, or getting high. It’s about getting release from your illness.”

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Emera Riley is a sophomore magazine journalism major. Her column appears weekly in Pulp. You can email her at elril100@syr.edu or follow her on Twitter @emerariley.

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ZACH SCHOEM uses a keyboard passed down from his older brother to imitate the sound of many different instruments and make EDM music with his group, Not Sober. Schoem started playing music when he was nine and took trumpet lessons. He then learned to play the drums.

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A DUBSTEP FORWARD SU-based EDM group Not Sober strives to copyright its name and sell apparel

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lugged into his laptop, Zach Schoem’s miniature keyboard can mimic the sound of just about any instrument. It’s a hand-me-down that originally belonged to his older brother, an agent who represents DJs. The keyboard can’t be more than a foot long.

But it’s this compact plastic piano that gives life to all of the music from Not Sober, Schoem’s Syracuse University-based EDM group.

“It all starts here. All of our content, all of our thoughts,” said Schoem, a sophomore accounting major. “Now we can get every single idea we’ve had out just through this tiny thing.”

With his secondhand keyboard, Schoem is able to make use of second nature musical skills. He started playing the trumpet at age nine, and then moved onto the drums. Schoem said music has always been in his head.

But last semester Schoem was derailed from music, as an illness kept him from devoting much time to his passion. Originally a member of student EDM duo Blame Game, Schoem has since resorted to creating music with some old friends.

“It doesn’t take much for me to think of music,” Schoem said. “I could be in the shower or really anywhere. You can’t stop me from making music.”

John Carino and Alec Gillinder round out the Not Sober team. Gillinder, a sophomore

industrial design major, has been best friends with Schoem since childhood. They’ve been collaborating for years to produce all sorts of musical projects, whether it’s rock, atmospheric music or EDM. Schoem said it helps to have someone in his corner who is comfortable enough to give constructive feedback.

Schoem met Carino, a sophomore architecture major, at an SU summer program nearly three years ago. There, Schoem won an entrepreneurship contest for a practice guitar he came up with. He decided to not pursue selling his guitar idea, a decision he said he regrets.

Three years later, Schoem is determined to avoid making the same mistake again.

“I’m definitely taking my own advice,” Schoem said. “I have to jump on ‘Not Sober’ while no one has done anything.”

Not Sober is a musical venture, but as its slogan states, it’s “More Than Just Music.”

Schoem said he wants make a business out of it. He’s working with a lawyer on copyrighting the name. The strategy is to sell hats, shirts and other apparel branded with the title, with Carino doing much of the design work.

The idea is not to sell these products as merchandise for the musical act — Schoem said that would belittle their work. Instead, they hope to appeal to the college students, a group that Schoem said is notorious for being, for lack of better term, not sober. Schoem said they plan to feed off the irony of the brand’s message, selling Not Sober apparel to people

ZACH SCHOEM (RIGHT) is part of a newly-formed EDM group, which he runs with fellow SU sophomores John Carino and Alec Gillinder. evan jenkins staff photographer

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who are often not sober, such as patrons at EDM concerts. Carino likened Not Sober to the brand Supreme, asking if anyone even knew what Supreme really meant.

“Before anything, we should be having fun while working on the brand,” Schoem said. “That’s why it goes hand in hand.”

The onstage balance between Schoem

and Carino is just as important as the mix between finances and fun. They said with one mixing and the other hyping beind a DJ rig, they can provide a certain energy that is missing in shows and parties around campus.

Said Carino: “Syracuse is lacking an EDM scene, and we’re trying to bring that.” jtbloss@syr.edu

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Binghamton is coming off a 12-8 loss to No. 6 Albany on Saturday. The Bearcats clawed within two goals at the beginning of the third and fourth quarters before Albany finally pulled away.

Syracuse will face No. 13 UNC in the semifinal of the ACC tournament on April 29 in Kennesaw, Georgia, as either the second or fourth seed.

All-time series Syracuse leads 4-0 Last time they played The then-No. 7 Orange beat Binghamton, 10-8, on April 2, 2014, in the Carrier Dome. SU was coming off its first ACC win against then-No. 7 Notre Dame, 11-10, four days earlier and nearly suffered a letdown loss to the Bearcats on a Wednesday night.

Syracuse trailed Binghamton by one goal at the end of the first quarter and went into halftime with only a one-goal lead. But three straight goals in the third quarter pushed SU’s lead to three heading into the final frame. The Bearcats climbed back to within one with 7:22 left in the game only for a Kevin Rice tally to ice the game just 38 seconds remaining.

Binghamton held the advantage at the faceoff X, 12-10, and had eight different players each score at least a goal. Rice led Syracuse with two goals and two assists.

Derek Maltz, Dylan Donahue, Randy Staats and Nicky Galasso had two points each.

The Binghamton report The Bearcats started its season with four straight losses, to Colgate, Marist, Hobart and Delaware, losing by an average of four goals per game. Since then, Binghamton improved from the rocky start, but is still winless in six away games this season while going 4-1 at home.

Senior midfielder Zach Scaduto leads

the Bearcats offense with 23 goals and 33 points —both career highs. He’s scored at least three goals and taken at least seven shots in each of the team’s last three games.

Scaduto is in a starting role for the first time in his career and had previously started just one game over the last three seasons. He picked up three groundballs and had one caused turnover when Syracuse and Binghamton played in 2014.

Defensively, Garrett Waldron leads the way with 10 caused turnovers. The defender and Syracuse native played at West Genesee (New York) High School with Syracuse players Tim Barber, Dylan Donahue and Nick Mellen.

Tanner Cosens starts in goal for the Bearcats, saving 44.2 percent of shots and letting in 11.5 goals per game. Dan Mazurek is the team’s primary option at the faceoff X and is winning 53.8 percent of draws.

Binghamton’s best weapon is its ability to clear the ball. The Bearcats rank 12th in the nation with an 89.2 percent success rate on clears. It ranks in the bottom half of the America East in nearly every other statistical category.

How Binghamton beats Syracuse It’ll take a nearly perfect game from the Bearcats to take down the Orange. It’ll have to keep turnovers to a minimum, win the majority groundballs and capitalize on every opportunity. Binghamton played close with Albany, outshooting the Great Danes and nearly matching them in groundballs and turnovers, but failed on two clears in the fourth quarter on the way to the loss. The margin of error will be even smaller for the Bearcats on Wednesday though, with Syracuse faceoff specialist Ben Williams likely to control the X. Numbers to know 89.2 – Binghamton clears the ball with an 89.2 percent success rate, which is 12thbest in the country.

6 – The Bearcats have six losses in six games on the road this season. Their trip up Interstate 81 will mark the fifth time they face Syracuse in the Carrier Dome.

55-24 – Syracuse has outscored Binghamton 55-24 in the four games between the two squads.

Player to watch: Zach Scaduto.

Scaduto is Binghamton’s biggest offensive threat. He scores the most goals and only oneplayer on the team has more assists.

Scaduto is in the best stretch of his career, averaging 3.8 points per game over the last four games. The Bearcats are 3-2 when he scores at least three goals, but just 1-5 when he’s held to less than that. jrmettus@syr.edu

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molloy forefront of his team’s plans, but was refined too much behind closed doors to flop on the bigger stage.

“You get evaluated in practice, and when your turn comes to get into the game you’ve got to get it done,” assistant coach Lelan Rogers said. “Both Evan and Warren (Hill) have done an outstanding job so far.

“But you’re looking for someone that can spark us, can get us going.”

It wasn’t an easy path for Molloy to fuel his team’s flame, as he recalled entering his freshman season as one of nine goalies by the time he first slipped on an Orange jersey.

The list whittled down to six by the time the 2013 season opened, but SU was still one of the deepest goalie teams in the country.

Adjustments had to be made if Molloy was to ascend atop the depth chart. He knew he stood on the outside of the goalie competition as a rookie. But coaches took exception to the freshman literally standing on the outside, with his toes kissing the crease as he stood in goal.

“It’s kind of dangerous,” head coach John Desko said of Molloy’s style. “… We haven’t had great success with any of our goalies doing that.”

Molloy often vacated his safe-zone to try and cut off passes around the net. His teammates and coaches were taken aback. He was just leaning on his high school style of play, an ambitious strategy that worked against average players but immediately became the butt of team jokes as the freshman whizzed around the field.

He decided to retreat.

“It’s the same game, it’s just the ball’s further away,” Molloy said of staying in the crease.

“I just took a step back and kept playing.”

That’s what he’s done for the last four years, steadily moving closer to the starting spot as he inched away from the crease line.

After a gritty effort noted by Desko and Rogers in this season’s fall practice, Molloy still yielded the starting spot to Hill.

It was perhaps the most familiar spot Molloy’s been in at Syracuse, having been a backup for three years in high school. He’d only play a handful of minutes, if at all, and got used to not warming up before coming into the end of blowout games.

And in turn, he got used to not making the first save after coming in cold. It’s become a running joke in his family with a sour punchline. Sure enough, in the three games Molloy entered in the fourth quarter this year, the first shot on goal found the back of the net.

“I like getting warmed up obviously,” Molloy said, “but I don’t need a warmup. I can get thrown out there and start.”

But when he had the luxury of a warmup, it worked. He’s stopped not just the first shot, but the first two shots in each of his three starts this year.

It’s a celebrated progression within his family, but more notably by a Syracuse coaching staff who hasn’t unseated Molloy from his starting post. He’s done trying to prevent shots from outside the crease, and knows now he might benefit from some pregame practice.

He’s clearly a changed goalie, one who’s trying to make a name for himself in a program that his father holds the all-time saves record in. But don’t confuse Molloy for his dad, or even Hill, the former starter turned backup. Molloy knows it’s his turn.

“You can compare me to any other goalie but that won’t really help you,” Molloy said.

“I’m just there to worry about myself.

“I’m a good leader out there, and if you want to get away from the save department, I clear the ball well. But that’s just me. I wouldn’t compare myself to any other goalie.” cgrossma@syr.edu @connorgrossman

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(13-7, 7-7 Atlantic Coast), which begins the ACC tournament on Thursday. Her childhood was marred by the constant struggle of having to put her other endeavors on the backburner — whether it was the military, her studies or her friendships — in order to advance her tennis career.

But after deciding to live over 5,000 miles away from home and to join a tennis team for the first time in her life, she’s found the stability.

Mesh started off as a ballet dancer. When she was 8, her parents got a flier advertising the Haifa branch of the Israel Tennis Centers. After about two months of playing, the manager and coach of the tennis center told Mesh’s parents that she was gifted and that it was worth it to invest in her tennis career.

So they did. And Mesh’s dedication to tennis grew. But as she improved and started competing in more tournaments, she was also being forced to make hectic arrangements and sacrifices with other parts of her life.

There was a tournament in Ashkelon, about 100 miles away from Haifa, the day of Mesh’s math final as a 16 year old.

She won her afternoon game, drove back to Haifa to spend the night, woke up and took her exam before racing back down to Ashkelon to make it in time for the next game.

“It’s very hard. To also have to integrate school, and she was at a very good school, and all the competitions,” Alex Mesh, her father, said. “For us it was also very hard, it’s (a lot of) effort.”

Mesh put effort into her studies, but tennis came first and constantly traveling all over the country, and the world, for tournaments also made it harder for her social life. She only

attended about 50 percent of her classes, Alex said. While her classmates hung out outside of school, Mesh worked on her trade.

Some friends didn’t understand her routine, her friends from the tennis center did.

There, Mesh met Lee Levy, who was one year older than her. Levy was the best player at the center who would go on to become the best player in the country.

Mesh looked up to Levy and was determined to match her level. The two bonded playing tennis and traveling to different tournaments together, cheering each other on along the way.

“I was serving on the court and I saw her and she came onto the court and the coach was like, ‘Look at her, she’s the next Lee Levy,’” Levy said. “It was fun.”

I was so happy. It’s been a while since I was at home.

Those little things make you think about home.

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Mesh used Levy’s path as a blueprint. Her first thought was to become a fighter in the military, but it would have meant giving up tennis completely. So she joined the navy, just like Levy.

Two years ago Levy made the trek to the U.S., joining the tennis team at Rutgers.

When Mesh wasn’t practicing or doing navy

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5,626

Approximate number of miles from Haifa, Israel to Syracuse

work, she was picking Levy’s brain, asking her what she should to do to prepare for her trip to the U.S..

She told Mesh to speak as much English as possible, watch TV without subtitles and switch her phone to English.

Neither Levy nor Mesh had ever been part of an actual tennis team before, as they only competed as individuals in tournaments, and they figured it would take some time to get used to it. But that’s where their experiences diverged.

Levy was one of only two international players on a Rutgers team that returned most of its core. Mesh was on a Syracuse team that only returned three players and brought in five new international players, including herself.

“It helps because they understand the struggle of being foreign and coming here, studying in a different language and everything,” Mesh said of her SU teammates. “They know what I’m going through, I know what they’re going through, so we help each other.”

Mesh had always put her tennis career first, no matter what other areas she had to sacrifice. But in an individualistic sport, it’s the team she joined that’s made her comfortable halfway across the globe.

Although Mesh has gotten very comfortable in her short time at Syracuse, there’s still a part of her that longs for those connections from home. Her room holds a green pillow, scarf and hat, all bearing the logo of

Maccabi Haifa, her favorite soccer team. Her dad sends her videos from games he attends.

She could sit for hours and listen to Israeli music from her favorite artists, like Shlomo Artzi and Ivri Lider.

A few weeks ago she asked her parents to send her a package filled with Israeli snacks.

At first the package was sent back because Mesh was away when it was delivered and didn’t pick it up on time, but eventually the package found its way back to her.

It was filled with her favorites like: Bamba, a peanut-butter flavored snack with the shape and texture of a smaller Cheetos puff; Klik, little white and milk chocolate balls; and Kariot, which translates to “pillows,” which are little pillow shaped cereal pieces filled with nougat. There’s a similar cereal sold in the U.S. called Krave.

“But it’s not the same!” Mesh said.

“I was so happy, it’s been awhile since I was at home. Those little things make you think about home.”

But as of now, Syracuse is her home. Had you asked Mesh what her post-college plans were last semester, she would have said she was definitely going back to Israel. As her freshman year wraps up, she’s not as sure, but she feels like if she wanted to live in America permanently, she could.

“Ask me (again) next semester,” she said.

In Israel, Mesh honed her tennis skills and went through rigorous IDF trainings that prepared her for this voyage. She carries everything she learned from those experiences with her.

But in Syracuse she no longer struggles to balance the sport she loves with her personal self-growth. In Syracuse, she’s managed to finally find the balance in her life.

“I get the best of both worlds, I guess,” she said with a smile. tdlanger@syr.edu | @tomer_langer

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LIBI MESH served in the military in her native Israel and the amount of time she could spend practicing tennis was limited. In her first season at Syracuse, she has successfully blended in with the team. Mesh originally planned to return to Israel after graduating but after nearly one full season, she’s now unsure. courtesy of syracuse athletics

MESHING

Freshman Libi Mesh finds balance at Syracuse after moving from Israel

By Tomer Langer asst. copy editor

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ibi Mesh walked onto the bus with all the other draftees. As they found their seats they were told to sit with their legs together, their hands on their lap and remain silent for the entire ride.

The bus shuttled the draftees to basic training for the Israel Defense Forces. Every Israeli citizen must serve in IDF — women for two years, men for three — when they turn 18. And while some were nervous, Mesh was not. Her older brother had been a paratrooper, and she

was excited to contribute herself.

“Oh, this is going to be so cool,” Mesh remembered thinking as the bus pulled away.

Her wakeup call came at 4 a.m. The draftees went to sleep at 11 p.m. only to be dressed five hours later. On those same nights, she and other recruits would fall asleep during classes as their commander warned them that they’d run extra if they dozed off.

But the biggest difficulty for Mesh, who placed second in the Israeli under-18 championships in tennis, was being forced to scale back on the sport she loved. After usually practicing twice a day, four to five times a week, Mesh only

had time to practice once a day.

After two years of mandatory service, Mesh has traded in her olive and dark blue uniform for an orange and blue one. She enrolled at Syracuse this past fall and as a 21-year-old freshman and has achieved her dream of playing collegiate tennis in the United States.

“I’m getting a really good education in a very good school, I play tournaments in a very competitive level, I practice in a really high level with really good girls,” Mesh said. “I basically enjoy everything in one place.”

Most of all, Mesh has thrived at Syracuse see mesh page 15

men’s lacrosse

Evan Molloy’s evolution in net comes full-circle as starter

By Connor Grossman asst. web editor

EVAN MOLLOY has started SU’s last three games after subbing in for Warren Hill on April 2. logan reidsma senior staff photographer

Evan Molloy doesn’t mince his words. Without a drop of hesitation, he’ll tell you how coaches adore his leadership and peers admire his confidence. He knows what he’s good at, and laughs off the suggestion he couldn’t have possibly been ready for this moment.

It’s one of four years in the making as Syracuse’s backup goalie, which first culminated at the opening whistle against Hobart in his first career start on April 6. Then

again against Cornell the following week, and once more against North Carolina four days later.

“I’m not going to lie,” Molloy said. “It’s a great feeling to finally be playing out there. I don’t think that I ever lacked belief in myself.”

His words provide a steel backdrop to a career that’s otherwise filled with holes, namely on 60 starting lineups dating back to 2013 that were absent of his name.

But lineup No. 61 changed that, and Molloy’s presence in net for No. 8 Syracuse (7-4, 2-2 Atlantic Coast) has provided stabil-

ity for a turbulent SU team that next plays Binghamton (4-7, 2-2 America East) on Wednesday at 7 p.m. in the Carrier Dome.

The 6-foot-1 goalkeeper stymied the Tar Heels on Saturday and allowed only seven goals to the nation’s fourth-best offense, right on the heels of a deflating loss to the Big Red when he allowed the team to score double-digit goals for just the fifth time this season.

Molloy’s change in performance is emblematic of a skillset that’s hardly ever put him at the see molloy page 14