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The Carnegie Library Reading Room is set to reopen on Jan. 13 with newly restored feature new players and new students. Maybe some more new students too.

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Camino Real and Las Delicias are two of the restaurants run

by Latinx chefs in Syracuse that serve authentic food from Mexico and the Dominican Republic.

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Facilitiators for the first-year course SEM 100 discuss changes to the course, which centers around the memoir “Lab Girl” by geobiologist Hope Jahren.

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Syverud implies Commencement 2020 will be held on Quad

By Sam Ogozalek

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Chancellor Kent Syverud Wednesday implied that Commencement 2020 will be held on the Quad.

Commencement is typically held in the Carrier Dome, but the stadium will be closed while its roof is replaced as part of a $118 million renovation project.

“Many people have been working hard on this all summer. Their strong advice to me is that Commencement

2020 be on the Shaw Quadrangle,” Syverud said during the University Senate’s first meeting of the semester.

The chancellor said a message about graduation plans will be sent to campus community members Thursday.

The Quad is a grassy area bordered by Hendricks Chapel, Link Hall, Carnegie Library, Hinds Hall and Huntington Beard Crouse Hall.

It’s named after former Chancellor Kenneth “Buzz” Shaw.

“We’ve explored many alternative

options and prioritized in choosing Shaw the experience and tradition of accessibility,” Syverud said.

His remarks offered the first public indication on where Commencement could be held on May 10.

Syverud announced in April of this year that the Carrier Dome would be vacated by March 1 of next year, as its air-supported roof is replaced with a fixed, steel structure.

Some parents in recent months took to social media to express frustration with that timeline.

An administrator of a Facebook group for Class of 2020 parents shared a letter online last Saturday addressed to Syverud and Board of Trustees Chair Kathleen Walters that said students and families were “dismayed” by the thought of Commencement not being held in the stadium. The letter encouraged the university to delay construction on the Carrier Dome until after Commencement weekend.

“Parents who worked hard to make this SU education possible,

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alumni, family and friends looking forward to this big day, are saddened by the lack of consideration given to our Class and to our concern as a whole,” read the letter.

Syverud at the meeting said he had heard from “a lot of people” about graduation since April.

“I know people are worried about having a wonderful Commencement experience,” he said.

— Editor-in-chief Haley Robertson contributed reporting to this story. sfogozal@syr.edu

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Faculty subject to background checks

By Sam Ogozalek

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Faculty hired at Syracuse University will soon have to undergo mandatory criminal background checks.

Provost Michele Wheatly announced the policy change Wednesday during her report to the University Senate during its first meeting of the fall semester.

Chancellor Kent Syverud also spoke to senators about a range of issues, including Invest Syracuse fundraising and the university’s budget.

Here are three takeaways from their reports to the Senate:

Criminal background checks

The current Martin J. Whitman School of Management building opened in 2005 and cost $39 million. The school was formerly located in Crouse-Hinds Hall, a $6 million building still standing today. corey henry photo editor

A century after Whitman opened, the school plans for more growth

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ean Eugene Anderson stood at the podium, looked down at his notes and checked his watch early Monday morning. It was seven minutes before he was to speak.

On the wall next to Anderson hung signs promising integrity, inclusion, collaboration, innovation and excellence — five core values established to guide the Martin J. Whitman School of Management’s future. On the opposite wall was a list of corporate donors who have funded the school’s growth.

Anderson, entering his third year as dean, shared his vision for Whitman’s future with students and faculty members at the “Whitman 100” ceremony Monday morning.

A century ago that morning, Whitman’s past began when an English professor founded Syracuse University’s School of Business Administration. It was a part of the first-wave of management schools, established in a then-bustling manufacturing city. see whitman page 4

Background checks have been required only for staff hires at SU for years. But that’s now changing.

Starting this fall, faculty candidates will need to submit to background checks, Wheatly said. People applying for faculty positions with a start date of Jan. 1, 2020 will be affected. The Academic Affairs Office will oversee the background check process.

“Eventually, we will move toward background checks for existing faculty,” she said. Wheatly did not exactly detail how or when that will take place.

Staff background checks have been required since October 2016, she said.

The faculty policy change was first discussed during an April Senate meeting. The Senate’s Committee on Academic Freedom, Tenure and Professional Ethics presented the proposal.

Wheatly said Wednesday that many of the committee’s recommendations are included in the new background check policy.

Senator Margaret Susan Thompson asked Wheatly if SU will consider see senate page 4

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Faculty hires SU has hired dozens of faculty members through its Signature Hires and Cluster Hires Initiatives.

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SU to improve snow, ice removal

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Talking art MARGIE HUGHTO held an artist talk with community members at the Shaffer Art Building on Thursday afternoon. Hughto, an artist since the 1970s, has artwork across the country including a ceramic painting located in a subway shop in Buffalo, New York. SUArt Galleries hosted the event, open to SU community members and the general public. corey henry photo editor

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Facilitators detail changes to SEM 100 course

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In fall 2018, Amanda Paule was a student in SEM 100, Syracuse University’s mandatory fiveweek course for first-year and transfer students. This fall, she’s a course facilitator.

She found that few students in her class finished reading the course’s assigned memoir over the summer.

The mandatory seminar was first implemented in fall 2018 with the goal of sparking discus-

sions about diversity and inclusion on campus. The course’s five sessions, which began in September, are centered on a selected reading that addresses these themes.

This year’s freshman and transfer students are required to read “Lab Girl” by Hope Jahren, a geobiologist who now works at the University of Oslo in Norway. Students last year read “Born a Crime”

by Trevor Noah, who is the host of “The Daily Show.”

In “Lab Girl,” Jahren recounts

her experience with the effects and stigma of a manic-depressive disorder, as well as gender exclusion in the STEM field. She also writes about how her identities as a parent, a scientist and a woman determine how people perceive her.

Paule said many students in her SEM 100 class didn’t read the book, and those students didn’t find the sessions productive. She doesn’t think the book was as engaging to students who read “Born a Crime.”

“Now there is more focused dis-

cussion through the themes of the book and Hope Jahren’s life,” Paule said. “Yet there seems to be less student interest in the book. I feel like students last year were really interested in Trevor Noah.”

After the conclusion of the SEM 100 sessions last year, more than a dozen first-year students and peer facilitators told The Daily Orange that the class did not accomplish its goal of starting conversations about identity and inclusion.

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Blackstone LaunchPad has helped 600 ventures

By Kate Minutillo

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Syracuse University’s Blackstone LaunchPad has raised $18.6 million from investors and worked on more than 600 venture ideas since opening three years ago.

The LaunchPad opened in April 2016 after receiving a grant from the Blackstone Charitable Foundation. Located in Bird Library, the organization helps students develop and test their entrepreneurial ideas. It has worked with more than 3,000 people since its creation.

The entire $18.6 million given by investors went directly to startup ideas created by students, said Linda Hartsock, the program’s executive

director, in an emailed statement.

“We work with student ventures to prepare them to become investment-ready, and to work with investors to raise capital to launch their ideas, so this is a great measure of their success,” she said.

More than $3 million of the $18.6 million was won through competitions, according to a handout from SU Libraries.

Through the LaunchPad, students have created a clean-energy company, virtual reality technology and software. One company, WAYV, provides college campuses with pop-up retail brand experiences.

The LaunchPad encourages students from all programs to bring

diverse skillsets to the LaunchPad, Hartsock said. It works with participants from 112 countries, and 50% of participants are women, she added.

“Having this cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural team perspective to approach problems and solutions and ideas makes it,” Hartsock said.

“It’s why students like to come here.”

This fall, participants at the LaunchPad will have the opportunity to pitch their business ideas and compete to win money as part of two competitions. The money won by the students goes directly to support their business endeavors. More than $3 million dollars has been won in competitions.

In September, the LaunchPad

will also host a Blackstone LaunchPad Startup Weekend, a new networking event where all SU students can have the opportunity to pitch ideas and win $1,000 in cash prizes.

Emily Pearson, a junior environmental and interior design major and a Global Media Fellow, said she was drawn to the collaborative nature of the LaunchPad and enjoys spending time with likeminded individuals who share a similar go-getter personality.

“People come in here and they have a vision of what they want to do with their life and they’re very supportive of each other,” Pearson said. “Being around very ambitious see blackstone page 4

Syracuse University’s Campus Facilities Administration and Services has developed a plan to increase campus safety and accessibility during winter months that will take effect this year.

The department has planned longer snow and ice clearance hours during winter; individualized snow and ice removal assistance; and more heated sidewalks on campus. This winter, the university’s snow removal crews will begin their shifts at 2 a.m. to ensure campus roads and sidewalks are properly cleared and salted.

CFAS is responsible for maintaining the grounds, buildings, parking lots and other facilities on campus, according to the CFAS website.

Snow and ice buildup on and around campus often creates hazardous situations for commuters, said Lark Allen, an SU graduate student and lifelong Syracuse resident. Each day, Allen walks to SU from the Westcott neighborhood, which takes about 20 minutes in ideal weather, she said.

During the winter, her commute time increases to at least 30 minutes.

“I have to make sure I’m super bundled up, and I have to leave way earlier, too,” Allen said. “I really have to plan ahead for that kind of thing.”

Allen doesn’t alter her route during the winter. The delays come from walking slowly to avoid slipping on black ice, which has happened to her before on busier streets like Euclid Avenue. Allen said Syracuse streets often feel like an “ice rink.”

Students are not the only ones who deal with messy winter commutes. Jodi Upton, a professor at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and a senator on University Senate’s Committee on Student Life, walks about a mile during her commute to SU. The committee works to maintain an equitable environment for SU students across a variety of areas, including physical campus access. While the Senate didn’t directly vote on the measure, Upton said the winter accessibility project was “a collective idea” among various campus organizations.

Upton said that the new accommodations will help make SU more accessible during the winter. She identified a need for cooperation between SU and off-campus agencies for even further improvements.

She suggested recruiting student volunteers or other organizations to work with city officials, landlords and homeowners to make sure the city streets and sidewalks around SU are free of snow and ice.

“To me, if we’re going to deal with accessibility, we need to make sure that partnership is around, too,” Upton said.

The enhanced on-campus winter accommodations will help make SU’s campus more easily accessible and reduce the risk of injury when the campus is crowded during the wintertime, Allen said. smidani@syr.edu

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whitman Since then, enrollment rises and declines, corporate ties and alumni relations have defined the school, current and former administrators and faculty said. Over the past 100 years, a post-war influx of students, probation period and time of recovery forced the school to expand, adapt and evolve.

Anderson spent the last three years working to develop the “Roadmap to Whitman’s Second Century.” The school has set nine goals to transform its national presence.

Some of these priorities have also shaped the school’s past.

Several times, corporate connections paved the way to adapt Whitman’s curriculum to meet the needs of larger corporations.

When many of these companies moved to bigger cities, so did Whitman’s alumni base and curriculum focus.

Administrators have used meetings with alumni across the country in conferences, advisory boards and meetings to shape the curriculum and prepare students for corporate jobs.

It was these decisions that have created a connection between Whitman and corporate hubs of the Northeast rather than Syracuse itself. But it was also these decisions that have driven the school to how faculty, deans and administrators see it now. A school that is “student-centered” with alumni who bring a “family brand.”

Anderson stood on stage Monday morning and tried to encapsulate that. He planned his speech the week before. About 100 students, staff

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and faculty members stood to the side as he began.

“I want to welcome you all to this celebration,” Anderson said. “Whitman’s 100th anniversary.”

••• For its first 65 years, the School of Business Administration adapted with the city. It expanded its faculty as manufacturing companies trickled into Syracuse after World War II. It offered night classes for students working downtown and launched a doctoral program in 1965.

Through that stretch, one thing stayed the same: the school’s resources were scattered across campus. Slocum Hall, Sims Hall and several other buildings served as the school’s homes.

As the school’s population grew — a trend that first began after WWII — so did its corporate endowments. Applications for admission grew by 18% from 1978 to 1979, according to the school’s annual report from 1980.

That year, administrators began to plan.

They needed a singular building to fit the school’s growing population, and they needed the money to pay for it.

In 1983, Crouse-Hinds Hall opened as a $6 million building meant to consolidate the school’s resources into one building.

“Through the years, the school has forged a relationship so strong with local businesses our students are actively courted for internships and even employment,” an excerpt from the 1984-85 guide reads.

But soon, those companies moved elsewhere, and management alumni soon followed.

••• Anderson moved from Miami to Syracuse

in 2017 because he saw Whitman was at a turning point.

Chancellor Kent Syverud, entering his third year as chancellor, had begun to roll out his Fast Forward Syracuse initiative, intended to drive SU’s academic and physical growth moving forward.

“Look at what you can possibly do here” was the message pitched to Anderson while he applied for the job. Ultimately, he took the job because of Whitman’s most recent turning point — a trajectory that few schools had, he said.

Growth and change were nothing new to the school. Opportunities in the private sector, once centered in Syracuse, defined the school for decades. At the end of the 1980s, however, most manufacturing jobs and corporate partners that the management school relied on began to leave for larger cities — many of the same ones that funded Crouse-Hinds Hall.

The school’s resources were spread thin.

Undergraduate and graduate programs only had assistant deans. As a result, an accreditation organization put the school on probation, meaning its accreditation was at risk. Local media outlets found out and had a “field day,” said Peter Koveos, interim dean at the time. He now acts as the school’s finance department chair.

School administrators dug themselves out of that hole through alumni connections, Koveos said. Advisory boards lobbied SU to spread more resources to the management school. The solution worked, but not without a change to the school’s landscape.

It became more global and entrepreneurshipbased heading into the 21st century. The school

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the severity of the crime a candidate was convicted of when conducting a background check.

The provost said that convictions will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis for each candidate. SU will consider what a given crime was and when it occurred, among other things.

“The procedure that we use is intentionally designed to not discriminate against any existing faculty member or faculty candidate about their intellectual thoughts,” she also said.

The SEM 100 activities students participate in have not changed significantly from last year’s activities, with the main changes resulting from the new book selection. Facilitators begin each class with a passage from “Lab Girl” before providing their own comments, and students share how their life relates to the memoir.

Rachel Skipper, a SEM 100 facilitator and assistant director of undergraduate recruitment in the College of Arts and Sciences, was a neuroscientist prior to working at SU. “The parallel between the two (memoirs) is that ‘Lab Girl’ does focus on what it’s like to be a female scientist in the same way someone of a minority ethnic background feels in some way outcasted or (is) perceived differently,” Skipper said.

The main goal of SEM 100, as outlined in facilitator guides, the class syllabus and a letter sent over the summer to firstyear students, is to “introduce students to the communication skills, campus resources and nuanced understanding of identity necessary to integrate into the SU community.”

An optional section accompanying the activity guidelines asks facilitators to inform students that they can raise their hand if they would like to discuss a topic at the end of the activity. Those guidelines were added in response to feedback last year which concluded the former guidelines glossed over a lot of important talks about identity, Paule said.

The makeup of students in a class determines the type of discussion students will have based on their experiences, Paule said. One question asked if a student has considered not attending an event due to their ability status. She said her students had trouble seeing the validity of a question if no one in the room identified with it.

“Experiences that aren’t represented in the makeup of the class can easily be glossed over,” Paule said.

Skipper said “Born a Crime” was more approachable to students because Noah is a well-known comedian and Jahren does not have the same personality associated with her name. Paule and Skipper both said their students gave them positive feedback and seemed to retain and resonate with the class material.

Students would be more likely to participate in the class if the shared assignment was to watch a movie instead of reading a book, Paule said.

“There is something to a collective reading experience, but to carry that out on a mass scale clearly is not effective,” Paule said.

people can only make you more ambitious.”

Nick Barba, a senior entrepreneurship major and Global Media Fellow, said presenting ideas at competitions has helped build his character and challenged him to improve his problem-solving skills.

The most important aspect of the LaunchPad is that it’s not a program just for business students, but a community with people from all backgrounds and with differ-

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Fundraising, budget

The university raised more than $163 million last year, Syverud told the Senate.

“That’s the most funds ever raised over one year in our history,” he said.

As of June 30, Syverud said $31 million was raised for Invest Syracuse’s “tuition rebase and cost reduction goals.” SU also surpassed its two-year Invest Syracuse goal of raising $40 million for financial aid to support socioeconomic diversity.

Invest Syracuse is a five-year, $100 million fundraising plan that the university launched in 2017. The initiative includes a $3,300 undergraduate tuition premium, which took effect last fall. Members of the Class of 2022 will pay more than $13,000 in tuition premium fees if it takes them four years to graduate.

When first launched, SU officials said Invest Syracuse would collect $30 million in “administrative spending” cuts, $30 million in tuition premium money and $40 million in fundraising.

As of the end of the last fiscal year, SU was running a balanced budget, Syverud said.

‘Ideologically uniform’

Syverud spoke at length about free speech on college campuses and how he thinks SU must prepare for a “challenging election year” in 2020.

“If our students are going to learn or going to seek knowledge and to grow, I think they need to be exposed to a true range of views,” Syverud said.

“That exposure is very difficult to achieve at a university or in a department where the faculty are too ideologically uniform,” he said.

Syverud said he thinks SU needs to be “more attentive to this issue.” There are members of the Board of Trustees who support him on this topic, he said. He did not name who.

Senator Mark Rupert asked Syverud if he was suggesting affirmative action for conservative scholars.

The chancellor said no, but SU has to make sure it’s seeking a full range of perspectives because, if not, the space for free speech may shrink. sfogozal@syr.edu | @SamOgozalek

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no longer looked to neighboring companies for most of its jobs. Its leaders looked for donors and alumni, ones scattered around the Northeast.

“There was a lot of opportunities then for students to stay in Syracuse for that initial job,” Stith said of his time as a graduate student in the 1970s. “But that environment changed and started looking globally.”

••• In 2003, the school was running out of space and needed to expand. Administrators planned for a new building that would cost $39 million.

As in the past, they turned to their large alumni base. That year, SU renamed the management school after Martin Whitman, an SU alumnus.

The new building, located at 721 University Ave., cost a total of $39 million. Whitman was a benefactor of the project, but the amount of his donation was never disclosed.

Many of the problems that Whitman faces today echo what those of decades prior. Facing rowing enrollment numbera, the school is once again running out of room.

Other concerns are new. The world is becoming more digitized, requiring an emphasis on business analytics. Administrators want to collaborate more with other colleges across SU as professions become more interdisciplinary, Anderson said.

Koveos said he expects the relationship between faculty and students and the outside world to stay the same.

“Of course, with technology and a lot of other factors that come in, so who knows the university of tomorrow, ten years from now,” he said. gkstern@syr.edu | @gabestern326

ent skill sets, he said.

David Seaman, the LaunchPad’s principal investigator, said students can utilize the LaunchPad to pursue their own business idea or use their skills to work with other students.

He said it’s a supportive community where students are proud of one another’s success.

“We’ve understood the real value of having a central hub in a place that is of service to everybody, which the library always is, in addition to the value of having that community grow up around it,” Seaman said. kjminuti@syr.edu

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n Aug. 28, New York enact ed legislation decriminalizing the possession of marijuana. The new laws expand the state’s initial decriminalization of the substance, which took effect more than forty years ago.

While the legislation has been deemed long overdue by its advocates, it stops short of complete legalization — an essential step to ensuring that victimless offenses are no longer seen as punishable in the eyes of the law.

Legislation decriminalizing marijuana was first introduced in New York in 1977. Possession of 25 grams of marijuana or less would get you a $100 fine, but public possession of marijuana remained a misdemeanor that could get you arrested.

The legislation makes the possession of less than two ounces of marijuana a violation rather than a crime, and lowers the fine for possession from $100 to $50. Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who was instrumental in getting the legislation passed, said in an official statement that the measures mark the “start of a new chapter in the criminal justice system.”

But the new legislation just makes simple numerical tweaks to pre-existing measures, softening the blow of the punishments rather than fundamentally altering the law.

“Even with the changes to criminal law, because violations continue to be arrestable offenses, police officers can still detain people, and district attorneys can still prosecute people for marijuana offenses,” said Erin George, the Civil Rights Campaigns director at Citizen Action of New York.

The biggest change the new legislation makes is automatically expunging past convictions for News Editor Editorial Editor Feature Editor Sports Editor Presentation Director Photo Editor Illustration Editor Copy Chief Digital Copy Chief Co-Digital Editor Co-Digital Editor Video Editor Asst. News Editor Asst. News Editor Asst. News Editor Asst. Editorial Editor Asst. Feature Editor Asst. Feature Editor Asst. Sports Editor

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THE PERSPECTIVE marijuana possession of 25 grams or less, but even this tampers with old statutes more than it initiates new ones.

“It expunges records for past lowlevel marijuana convictions — but exactly how that process will work is not totally clear yet,” George said.

What the recent minimal changes ignore is the need for structural reform on the issue of marijuana. Cutting the possession penalty in half and upping the number of ounces allowed before it can be considered a crime speaks nothing to the fundamental issues of racial disparity among marijuana arrests, and the fact that so-called marijuana ‘crimes’ are victimless to begin with.

“Marijuana decriminalization in New York State has historically failed to address the racist ‘War on Drugs,” George said.

“In the last 20 years alone, more than 900,000 New Yorkers have been arrested for marijuana possession and 80% of all marijuana arrests statewide were targeted at Black and Latinx New Yorkers — despite the fact that white people use marijuana at similar rates,” George said. “The decriminalization bill signed into law this year also falls short of what is needed.”

Data from the American Civil Liberties Union show that, although white people and black people use marijuana at similar rates, black Americans are almost four times as likely to be arrested.

That disparity remains true in New York — just in the city of Asst. Sports Editor Danny Emerman Asst. Photo Editor Elizabeth Billman Asst. Photo Editor Dan Lyon Asst. Illustration Editor Cassianne Cavallaro Design Editor Isabelle Ann Collins Design Editor Nabeeha Anwar Design Editor Katie Getman Design Editor Emily Steinberger Asst. Copy Editor Richard J Chang Asst. Copy Editor Christopher Cicchiello Asst. Copy Editor Andrew Crane Asst. Copy Editor Gillian Follett Asst. Copy Editor Adam Hillman Asst. Copy Editor Mandy Kraynak Asst. Video Editor Casey Tissue Asst. Video Editor Camryn Werbinski Asst. Digital Editor Izzy Bartling Asst. Digital Editor Arabdho Majumder Asst. Digital Editor Natalie Rubio-Licht

Syracuse, from 2017 to 2018, 2,637 men were arrested for marijuana use, nearly 80% of whom were black. While Cuomo’s new measures ease punishments across the board, they do nothing to address significant racial disparities in marijuana arrests, which will continue even when the penalties are $50 instead of $100.

The real question at hand here is whether marijuana use should even be a crime in the first place.

Its status a crime implies that there should be a victim. This, however, is not the case with marijuana use — it is a substance that individuals personally use, and, while it is accompanied by some health risks, its consumption doesn’t pose a threat.

New York should commit to a full legalization of marijuana, as so many other states have, in the interest of expanding individual freedom in a country that so prides itself on liberty. Criminalizing what someone can and cannot do with their own body is not freedom — it is suppression, and it is a suppression that has adversely affected less privileged members of society.

It is noble that Governor Cuomo did something to try to expand marijuana’s decriminalization in New York, but its impacts are far too minimal, and its introduction far too late. The time is long overdue to stop the costly, racist and oppressive war against recreational marijuana use.

Nicholas Cassol is a freshman newspaper and online journalism major. His column appears bi-weekly. He can be reached at nrcassol@syr.edu.

He can be followed on Twitter at @CassolNick.

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ELEPH A NT IN New York THE ROOM decriminalized marijuana in August, downgrading the penalty for unlawful pot possession from a misdemeanor to a fine.

Supporters of the change say it’s a step in the right direction, but decriminalization is actually the wrong choice. It sets the stage for future legalization, and with that, increased health problems in New York.

This new law also expunges the criminal records of people charged with marijuana possession. The shift from misdemeanor to violation means that a person caught with marijuana will be much less likely to face any big charges for possession.

Although marijuana may not be as addictive as other drugs, it still poses health risks that decriminalization and legalization exacerbate.

Public health professor Dessa Bergen-Cico, an expert in addictive disorders and public health professor at Syracuse University’s David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics, said very few people actually become addicted to marijuana.

Studies from the National Institute on Drug Abuse show that only about 9% of adults and 17% of teens become addicted to marijuana.

Cannabis, therefore, has a much lower addictive potential than other illegal drugs.

“It operates differently on the central nervous system than

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drugs that have higher addictive potentials, such as stimulants and depressants,” Bergen-Cico said.

But marijuana doesn’t need to be addictive to pose risks.

According to the American Medical Association, people who used cannabis had an increased number of calls to poison control, more emergency hospital visits and an increased number of deaths due to impaired driving from marijuana.

Short term effects of marijuana consumption include memory problems, hallucinations, paranoia, lowered reaction time and increased risk of strokes and heart attacks.

Although some people make the argument that marijuana is much safer than many other illegal drugs, this does not mean it is a safe drug.

In 2015, synthetic marijuana use caused a surge in emergency room visits in Syracuse. Patients who’d consumed synthetic weed — often called spice or spike — overwhelmed emergency rooms across the city. Syracuse dealt with more spike-related hospitalization than most states reported overall that month.

Although marijuana itself may not be extremely addictive, it does tend to have recurring negative impacts. Decriminalizing marijuana — and potentially legalizing it in the future — could have consequences. There is real danger to minimize the risk.

By decriminalizing marijuana, New York is downplaying the consequences of using a drug whose full effects are still unknown and opening its residents up to potential health risks.

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rancisco Rodriguez said he remembers eating empanadas and fried plantains while growing up in the Dominican Republic. Now, he owns Las Delicias, a restaurant on Westcott Street where people can enjoy the same dishes.

After growing up in the Dominican Republic, Rodriguez moved to Puerto Rico. Las Delicias serves Dominican and Puerto Rican dishes, like the ones he had when he lived in these places.

One dish — mofongo — is a Puerto Rican meal made with fried pork and mashed plantains. The staples are mixed together in the “shape of the Carrier Dome,” said Yaralis Carrasquillo, who works at the family-owned business.

Carrasquillo, thinks people come back not only for the food but also for how the staff interacts with their customers and each other. On any given day, bachata music will be blasting as servers are dancing and serving spoonful of rice and beans, said employee Rayauna Beverly.

Despite a sizeable Latinx population in the city, he said people within the community stick together.

“I feel very special, everybody loves the Spanish food and everybody comes to the restaurant for the vibes,” Carrasquillo said.

Beverly said since working there, her hardest learning curve was communicating with the customers, since a portion of them may only speak Spanish. Despite the language barrier, she often catches herself laughing with customers and connecting.

She added that the food at Las Delicias is so authentic because the cooks are making the food they grew up eating.

“It’s in the body, it’s in the heart,” Beverly said, “they know how to cook the food.”

James Haywood Rolling Jr., director of diversity, equity and inclusion at Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts, has come to Las Delicias for years. He said growing up in Brooklyn, he was surrounded by foods similar to the ones sold in the restaurant.

Rodriguez said he likes living in Syracuse, even though he had no idea he would end up here.

“I’m happy here. I got my wife, I got my kids, you know,” he said. pulp@dailyorange.com

(TOP) ELIUDIS “CUBA” LAMOTHE AND FRANCISCO RODRIGUEZ work together at Las Delcias as chef and owner, respectively. MIDDLE The restaurant serves dishes like mofongo, comprised of plantains and fried pork smashed together in a dome shape, along with staples like rice and beans. By the piece, chicken is served for $3, a price employee Yaralis Carrasquillo said is reasonable for customers.

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oberto Lazaro said his love of cooking started back in Mexico when he watched his mom prepare dishes. As he got older, his mother encouraged him to start helping in the kitchen and he fell in love.

At Camino Real Mexican Restaurant II, he serves traditional Mexican food that he learned to cook in Acapulco, Mexico. When people sit at Camino Real, with its warm orange walls, flowers and dark wood chairs, they can be heard telling employees how much they love the place.

Roberto said that some customers come in the restaurant and say, “thank you, I love your food.” His wife and general manager, Katie, added that others ask to go to the back and meet the chefs.

“His love is in the kitchen,” Katie said about Roberto and the other chefs. “They make the food with love.”

The restaurant offers dishes like fajitas, tacos and chicken tamales. Katie said she loves working in restaurants and meeting new people and likes being able to encourage

people to try new dishes. Tuesday’s special was pollo asado, a chicken breast with sautéed onion, smothered in cheese sauce with rice, beans and tortillas on the side.

There are few authentic Mexican restaurants in Syracuse.

Now running the business near Syracuse Hancock International Airport, the Lazaros are far from where they started, in South Carolina. Misael Rivas, owner of Cantina Real, offered them the opportunity to run the restaurant in 2018. Katie said that she has been working in restaurants since 2002, so she “jumped on (the opportunity) and went with it.”

“We’ve got a lot of Hispanic people come in too. We have a good thing going around here. We don’t plan on going anywhere,” Katie said.

Roberto and Katie said that they feel welcomed by the local Latinx community, with Katie adding that she loved meeting people who just flew in from the airport.

“You know, we love it, and I love it. It just makes my job that much more appreciative,” she said.

When Katie asked Roberto if he liked working with her, he only had one response.

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(TOP) ROBERTO AND KATIE LAZARO moved from South Carolina in 2018 when the restaurant opened up in Syracuse. (MIDDLE) Jesús Rivas, a worker at Camino Real Mexican Restaurant II, stands over a plate of steaming fajitas. (BOTTOM) The restaurant serves dishes such as fajitas, tacos and chicken tamales, but also features specials like pollo asado.

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6 games into season, Orange still employ 2-goalie system

By Andrew Crane asst. copy editor

For the first time all game, Sarah Sinck broke out of the Syracuse huddle and jogged toward the cage, adjusting her pads before the fourth quarter of a Sept. 13 game against St. Joseph’s.

Sinck began to direct SU’s defenders. Over on the sideline, fellow goalie Syd Taylor took off her helmet and watched.

During ensuing timeouts, Taylor handed out water bottles from a crate. The goalkeeper who started the first three quarters picked up spirits as the Orange went to overtime. Taylor had allowed just one goal, but for the third time in six games, SU head coach Ange Bradley switched her goalie.

Taylor hadn’t played poorly in No. 19 Syracuse’s (5-1) 2-1 win over then-No. 14 St. Joseph’s, Bradley said. Neither did she or Sinck in the season-opener against Vermont. Taylor, a sophomore, only conceded a goal after a penalty corner insertion pass was redirected to the right post, one Taylor had no chance at lunging across to cover. But at halftime, St. Joseph’s changed its attack to press more, sparking a switch.

As Syracuse’s season progresses into conference play, Bradley hasn’t stuck with a consistent starting goalie. If one starts and plays poorly, Bradley turns to the other. Sometimes, even if they play well, like against St. Joseph’s, she’ll replace them anyway. If an opponent’s attacking style adjusts, Bradley’s keeper will too.

“I’ve made switches in the second quarter, third quarter,” Bradley said. “I think they’re both very capable and I’m really pleased about that.”

Until last March, the starting job was Taylor’s, and for good reason: She was the only goalie on Syracuse’s roster. Both goalies ahead of her on the depth chart — Emma Likly and Borg van der Velde — had left the team, and Taylor was the only one to play the position in spring training.

Despite only being 5-foot-4, Taylor has developed a style tailored to her. Instead of remaining in the cage and using leg kicks to turn shots away, she steps out to cut off angles and dives more often. “I’ve always been very short,” Taylor joked.

But then Sinck, an Eindhoven, Netherlands native, signed to play for Bradley and Taylor had competition. A given starting spot in the spring turned into an uncertain one for the fall. At 5-foot-9, Sinck could afford to stay put in cage on attacks and turn aside shots with her pads.

Overseas, Sinck suited up for a U-18 Netherlands roster that won the 2018 Girls’ EuroHockey Youth Championships. In her lone tournament appearance, she posted a shutout in 31 minutes against France.

When she reached out to Syracuse last December, Sinck said she wasn’t worried about playing a more-physical version of field hockey. Taylor immediately jumped in on helping with Sinck’s main transition: the goalie language passed down through the years.

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playing time, and help her in a way that Borg helped me,” Taylor said.

Before the St. Joseph’s game, Sinck and Taylor alternated in goal as assistant coaches fired different types of shots toward them in pregame warmups. As other Syracuse players worked on quick passes and ball control in between cones, Taylor dropped her right foot behind the line before jumping out and defending a shot. .

“With the technical aspects of being able to have a spring to really develop and fine-tune some of the other things about Sinck, we really

don’t have that time right now,” Bradley said.

“With Syd, there’s been a lot of growth, a lot of maturity in her understanding of the game.”

The pair of goalies walked toward a group of sheds situated underneath the J.S. Coyne Stadium bleachers and left their goalie equipment after the win against St. Joseph’s. Taylor and Sinck returned in orange warm-up shirts and laughed as they joined the stretching circle back on the field. The fact they had again split time didn’t leave the field. arcrane@syr.edu | @CraneAndrew

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Roller hockey club sees opportunity to excel in new rink at SU

By Joey Pagano staff writer

In 2017, Syracuse University’s club roller hockey team nearly vanished, and would’ve gone extinct without former captain Ryan Dunn’s leadership. But now, the team is developing more than its members ever could have imagined.

Last season, the team qualified for nationals.

Previously, on-campus construction had made it difficult to practice regularly. Now, they’ll be able to practice at the rink in the new Barnes Center at The Arch, senior Anthony Bellman said. The new rink not only allows the team to have a home base, but also provides them with an advantage in recruiting new members.

“We are really excited to have a rink that we can call ours,” junior roller hockey player Jamie Kreinces said in an email. from page 12

miesch ACC) to compete for a starting job that’s still up for grabs.

So far, Miesch has started four games and redshirt junior Jake Leahy has started two.

And while Leahy has been with the program for longer and reaps the benefits of continuity with the coaching staff and returning players, Miesch is older, has more game experience and appears to have a slight edge over Leahy thus far after starting SU’s last two games.

“A shutout against Louisville and his first Syracuse win last night,” SU head coach Ian McIntyre said on Tuesday. “I’m delighted for him.”

McIntyre said on Wednesday that no one has won the job yet, and added that while Miesch has played well in the last two games, Leahy has every chance to prove himself in training.

“All those little things like a new apartment, new city, you have to push them away and focus on the game,” Miesch said.

Last summer, Miesch was on professional team Ville FC, a second division team in Switzerland. He didn’t play in a game because he was the backup.

Miesch had to make a choice. He could stay in the professional environment, where the pressure is higher and most of his teammates are playing for their livelihood and families.

He could hope to earn his spot and playing time in Switzerland. Or Miesch could take Breitenmoser’s advice and come to the U.S.

Other teams have had an on-site roller rink to practice on, Bellman said, but for nearly two decades, SU’s teams have had to practice either in a basketball gym or travel to Black Mamba Skate Park, which is located in Shoppingtown Mall in DeWitt.

This forced them to try to find transportation to practices and use a rink in the mall. It wasn’t the most conducive way to get the most of practice, said Marc Orlin, president and the team captain. The Arch gives the team a place to practice on-campus, and to potentially host other teams for scrimmages.

In the past, it visited teams like Endicott and Oswego for scrimmages. The regular season, however, is comprised of away tournaments — for which the team traveled to Boston, Providence, Long Island, Pittsburgh and Philadelphia last year for three- or four-game tournaments.

The team hopes to have the same intense The problem was most of the Division I programs had already filled their starting goalkeeper spot. Also, Miesch wasn’t sure if he’d even be eligible. Though he hadn’t appeared in matches, he’d spent two years in the German fourth division and was now with Ville.

“I hadn’t really played a game pro, but I was in a professional environment,” Miesch said. “There is a lot of rules the NCAA wants to know. I finished high school later than most people (at age 21) so you have to explain.”

In two weeks, Miesch had to find out if he’d be allowed to play college soccer. With help from UniExperts — a German company that Miesch said specializes in helping European athletes check with NCAA compliance — the then-22-year-old was cleared and joined Stony Brook for the start of their preseason.

As the No. 1 keeper at Stony Brook, Miesch earned the 2018 America East Rookie of the Year award. But the America East isn’t the conference he wanted to be playing in.

“If you still have that goal of going somewhere, namely the MLS, then the ACC is the place to be,” Miesch said. “You can tell that athletics actually play a big role here. Practice is a little more structured, the people really have bigger ambitions.”

He entered the transfer portal this spring, making him eligible for contact by all Division I coaches. McIntyre was one of the first coaches to call. After one conversation with the nine-year SU head coach, Miesch wanted to visit Syracuse. After his visit and his first in-person conversation with McIntyre, he committed.

work ethic and resiliency that carried it to nationals last year, said Kreinces, who’s going on his third season with the team.

“I think our success can be attributed to how well the team meshed together,” Kreinces said, adding that the growth of this team is metaphorical for how roller hockey is growing overall as a sport.

With the new rink as a key chip in their recruiting pitch, SU added some talent to its roster in the offseason. Kreinces called the freshman class “the best in a long time.”

“Somehow, we’ve managed to add a couple of more very skilled players this summer, and we’re looking forward to competing,” he said.

And with the new rink comes optimism.

Now that last season’s struggles to find places to practice are in hindsight and it can practice on a regular basis, SU will be prepared for the obstacles it encounters.

Miesch appeared in two games this summer for Florida’s Treasure Coast Tritons in the United Soccer League, a developmental soccer league. When he arrived at SU on Aug. 10, the Orange had a lot of new faces. Miesch is the oldest of them all at 24 years old.

Kyle Gruno, his teammate both now with SU and this summer, helped ease the transition. Instead of a professional environment, where players leave training to go home to their families, Miesch was a part of a team that lived together and spent hours together outside of practice daily.

“There’s a lot more pressure on you in professional life,” Miesch said. “It’s way more intense, you don’t really get second chances.”

On Tuesday against Cornell, a goalkeeping error from Miesch cost the Orange a score. McIntyre said that his teammates “got in his way” but the sophomore goalie came out to catch the ball through traffic on a free kick later in the half. He dropped the ball, and the Big Red turned that into a goal.

Miesch admitted postgame he probably should’ve punched the ball away instead of catching it. But in the second half, he was aggressive, coming off his line to claim free kicks and corners.

After the game, he put his arm around German freshman Noah Singelmann after Singelmann had scored the game-winning goal and made a comment in German.

“He’s a mature, veteran player,” McIntyre said. “I know he’s new for us, but he’s got plenty of experience under his belt. We needed him.” amdabbun@syr.edu

Though last year’s roller hockey team qualified for nationals, SU went 0-4 once it got there. Bellman blamed the team’s postseason underachievement on the lack of a consistent practice facility and subsequent sub-par practices.

But the club is only going to grow. The team culture has evolved over the past few years because of Dunn and the strong foundation he built, Bellman said, adding that he and his current teammates have been working to make sure it doesn’t near extinction again.

And the Arch a major part of the club’s future.

“The new rink is going to be a game-changer,” Kreinces said. “Being able to practice on-campus is a huge benefit to the team and will help us prepare for tournaments during the season.” gfpagano@syr.edu

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Director John Wildhack publicly opposed compensating college athletes.

Wildhack defended amateurism and expressed concern on how paying college athletes could impact Olympic sports, which typically generate less revenue than football and basketball.

Like Wildhack, SU men’s basketball head coach Jim Boeheim supports the status quo.

Last year at the Atlantic Coast Conference media day, Boeheim said, “I don’t think we should ever compensate players.” Boeheim instead pointed to meal stipends and athletic scholarships as adequate forms of payment.

But he favored allowing players to profit off their likeness.

“Jim Boeheim makes a lot of money,” Parker said of Boeheim’s $2.6 million dollar salary in 2017. “Let’s see him live with the daily compensation of the scholarship.”

In 2018, Boeheim rejected the comparison of coaches’ salaries to their players.

“Everybody says, ‘The coach makes this and the players [don’t make anything]’,” Boeheim said.

Parker’s interest in college athlete compensation stems from his experience at Penn State in the late 1980s, he said. Parker met many football players and learned about their struggles with money during college.

“There’s more than enough resources to go around,” Parker said. dremerma@syr.edu

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After 2 ACL tears, Marisa Fischetti is now key cog for SU

By Tim Nolan staff writer

Marisa Fischetti had spent the last nine months waiting to prove to herself and everyone else that her injury was finally behind her.

On Sept. 23, 2017, Fischetti netted the equalizer in the 53rd minute against Long Island SC. It was her first goal as a member of the U.S. Development Academy’s FC Fury NY – the culmination of a grueling return to the field following a left ACL injury in the fall of 2016. One year later, in 2018, Fischetti would have to do it all over again, this time with her right knee.

Now a redshirt freshman forward for Syracuse (2-4-1), Fischetti has overcome an ACL tear in both of her knees. Physical limitations and internal doubts have made this comeback more difficult than the first, but Fischetti now finds herself second on the team in shots on goal and starting five matches.

“It was definitely hard,” Fischetti said, “I was finally feeling 100% after my first ACL when I came here before preseason last year.”

Fischetti first tore her right ACL late in her junior season at Massapequa (New York) High School. The injury came right before the state playoffs, in which the Chiefs failed to capture their fourth-straight state title.

Fischetti’s rehab consisted of three days a week at physical therapy sessions. She started on an anti-gravity treadmill to alleviate the impact on her knee and then worked her way to a regular treadmill. Her physical therapist emphasized plyometrics and cardio instead of weight training. Six months after the surgery, Fischetti’s surgeon was disappointed in the lack of strength in her knee, Fischetti said.

Once she was cleared to play, she opted to play for FC Fury. Since the Fury were an U.S. Development Academy club – which disallows playing for any other team while on the roster – she was forced to forgo her senior year at Massapequa. Massapequa went 53-4-5 in her three years there.

As a true freshman at SU, Fischetti started in the Orange’s first preseason match against Rutgers. She felt no limitations in the first half, but 20 seconds into the second half, an awkward cut in the turf sent an all-too-familiar pain cutting through her leg.

“Just the way I started freshman year of college was really difficult for me,” Fischetti said, “I was really down first semester last year.”

With her season over before it started, Fischetti missed the first two weeks of school.

When she returned, she completely committed to rehab and school, she said.

This time, the rehab went from three days to five or six. The anti-gravity treadmill became a regular treadmill just three months after surgery. This time around, she was doing 225-pound squats with bands on her legs and from page 12

leahy for Syracuse FC. All of the sacrifices Leahy’s family made to ensure he’d develop into a Division I collegiate goalkeeper from daily road trips to top goalkeeping coaches led to this.

Now finally healthy, he’s still waiting for that chance. Head coach Ian McIntyre is giving Leahy, as well as teammate and current positional rival Christian Miesch, an opportunity to compete for the starting job as Syracuse’s (2-1-3, 0-0-1 Atlantic Coast) first-choice goalkeeper.

“This guy has been through it all,” senior and teammate John-Austin Ricks said. “He came in injured, came back, got injured again.

The adversity this guy has overcome is unbelievable. We want him to be out there every second because he’s been through so much.”

When Leahy began training with the New York Red Bulls youth academy at 13 years old, his schedule wasn’t like an average middle schooler. To make 8:00 p.m. training sessions in Florham Park, New Jersey, Leahy’s mom, Diane, would drive him about 70 miles north from their home in Brick.

Leahy would do homework, eat dinner and study in the car en route to training. When the session was over, Dan, who worked at Teterboro Airport at the time, stopped by after work to see Leahy train and drive him home back to Brick.

Three days a week, Leahy trained with

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400-yard lunges with weighted vests.

For her rehab, Fischetti chose Troy Gerlt, the men’s lacrosse team’s trainer, over Meagan Bevins, the women’s soccer teams’ own trainer. Gerlt is known for rehabbing knee injuries, Fischetti said, and she hoped he could help her come out stronger. She worked with Gerlt all fall and spring, and her diligence didn’t go unnoticed by teammates.

“She never took a day off,” senior forward Sydney Brackett said. “She was very calculated in what she was doing and why she was doing it … she always showed up with a smile on her face.”

Last February, a new wave of self-doubt in her abilities came flooding back. The Orange had hired Nicky Adams to be their new head coach, and a whole new staff followed. The coach that’d recruited her — Phil Wheddon — was gone, and Fischetti had no college stats to prove she could still play at a high level.

Adams sensed a lack of self-confidence, not just in Fischetti but in the team as a whole fol-

lowing a 3-15 campaign. Fischetti even admitted her worries to her new manager, saying she was “a little intimidated, scared, afraid that I can’t prove myself.” Having suffered a seasonending injury herself in 2000 at Texas A&M, Adams could relate.

“I think any time you come back from an injury there’s self-doubt,” Adams said, “‘How hard can I go? Will I be the same player? Can I improve?’ And it’s just about putting them in situations where they gain confidence.”

Fischetti continued to work through the summer, getting her speed and agility back as close to they were before her injuries. She also worked with a soccer trainer to retune technical skills like shooting and passing.

The forward entered the 2019 season donning a knee brace, and has started every match but the season-opener at the top of Nicky Adams’ 4-3-3 base formation. As injuries to teammates piled up, she went from a fixture in the starting lineup to a premier offensive

threat, recording five shots on goal in six matches. Yet she said she lacked the self-confidence she once had. Something was still off.

So Fischetti asked Bevins if she could take off her knee brace: a light, flexible wrap holding years of pain, doubt and hard work. The trainer agreed.

“I felt a lot more confidence, I felt stronger,” Fischetti said, “When I go into a tackle I don’t even think about it anymore because that’s how I get hurt so I try not to focus on it.”

Fischetti has played the last two matches without a knee brace. She recorded a career-high three shots on goal in a 0-0 draw with Fordham on Sept. 15, followed by texts and calls from a number of teammates who’ve noticed her looking “faster and more confident.”

“We’re really proud of her,” Brackett said. “We’re proud of her comeback and we can’t wait to see what she does in ACCs.”

goalkeeping coach Andrew Sparkes, who now coaches the goalies with Southampton F.C. in the English Premier League. Leahy and his dad wouldn’t get home until almost 11 p.m. on school nights. He spent most of his weekends training in Newark, a drive that sometimes took 90 minutes.

“It’s a whirlwind,” Dan said. “It was a very big commitment for the whole family.”

Once Leahy signed with Syracuse in February of 2016 — his senior year of high school — the 6-foot-4 goalkeeper suffered the first of two major shoulder injuries.

“The position he plays, there was a specialized surgery that needed to be done,” Dan said.

“That first doctor did a very good job, but it required something a little more sturdy.”

Only that wasn’t the last surgery he’d receive. He sat and waited behind Hendrik Hilpert, a four-year starter at SU. The spring of 2017, now a freshman, his shoulder separated again. One doctor’s opinion wasn’t enough to satisfy Leahy or his family, but the second opinion provided a chance for Leahy to finally get the specialized surgery required.

At the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City, Leahy went under the surgeon’s knife for a Latarjet procedure, Dan said, often used for rugby players with shoulder injuries.

“They moved one of the tendons over the top of the shoulder joint to hold it in place,” Dan said.

He was ready to start round two of reha-

bilitation, which Leahy described as “dull.”

Once he was cleared to begin the training, he trained three times a day, five days a week in Manley Field House.

“You do really low-weight exercises, it’s mind-numbing,” Leahy said. “You go in and it’s just plugging away. Resistance bands, two pounds, dull exercises.”

After his redshirt season with the first injury, Leahy still wasn’t healthy for his freshman season to backup Hilpert again. The summer of 2018 was Leahy’s first game action since high school. He walked out onto the pitch at Chuck Wilbur Field for Syracuse FC — a team in the National Premier Soccer League that multiple SU players participated in to stay fit and practice during the offseason.

Leahy played with former teammates Lukas Rubio and Djimon Johnson along with his roommate, Ricks. He said McIntyre often came to games to watch and support his players.

“Going through that really made me evaluate what I really wanted to do,” Leahy said. “Spending that much time out, I could have said, ‘Screw it, soccer is not for me,’ but that time out made me want it more than ever.”

Two years of his collegiate life lost in rehabilitation, Leahy was finally healthy for his junior season. But he’d only play if Hilpert got hurt. Hilpert never did. So Leahy had spent three years at Syracuse without seeing a min-

ute of regular game action.

“After his surgery was a turning point,” Ricks said. “He saw it as the next chapter. His attitude changed a lot. He was in there three times a day doing everything he possibly could.”

Last spring, with Hilpert graduating, the starting job should have been his. He was the only experienced returner, but Leahy said that in March he heard McIntyre might be bringing in keeper competition. Enter Miesch, who arrived in Syracuse in August and now is competing for the job.

Leahy didn’t start the season opener at then-No. 13 Georgetown, but took the field for the Orange’s home-opener three days later against Binghamton.

What started perilously — the Orange conceded the first goal — ended in victory. For the first time, Leahy was the No. 1 keeper. Even if the job is still up in the air going forward, and Miesch has started the last two games, Leahy said it’s “his job to lose.”

And if he’s not the starter at Syracuse, Leahy said he’ll graduate in May. Whether it’s at Syracuse or elsewhere for graduate school, he’s still got multiple years of eligibility left.

“It’s waiting, waiting, waiting, and when you finally get your chance, it’s the best thing in the world,” Leahy said. “I’m not really satisfied until I’m the starting goalkeeper here.”

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Christian Miesch came to the U.S. for new opportunity

Jake Leahy still hoping to start in 4th year at SU

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By Anthony Dabbundo

hristian Miesch sought out each of his fellow starters during pregame warmups before Tuesday night’s game with Cornell.

He wandered around the sideline near Syracuse’s bench, hugging them each of his new teammates individually. Minutes into the game, as Syracuse pressed Cornell high up the pitch, Miesch yelled out orders to junior defender Sondre Norheim.

“Drop back, drop back,” Miesch shouted from in front of the net.

Miesch, 24, is new to Syracuse, new to the Atlantic Coast Conference and new to the United States. Growing up in Switzerland, Miesch played in the lower divisions of organized soccer and never had the US on his radar. But after his Swiss friend and former SU player Jan Breitenmoser introduced the idea of collegiate soccer to Miesch, he spent a year with Stony Brook, then transferred to Syracuse (2-1-3, 0-0-1

an Leahy still remembers the day his son, Jake Leahy, called him one Sunday. In the spring of 2017, his freshman year at Syracuse, Leahy told his dad he had injured his shoulder. Again.

Two days later, Leahy met with a Syracuse orthopedic specialist about a year removed from a prior shoulder surgery. The doctor said that almost a year of training and rehabilitation were wasted. He even said Leahy might never play soccer again.

But that wasn’t an answer Leahy and his father were willing to accept. They sought a second opinion from a different doctor two days later, then Thursday. That doctor recommended a special procedure, but Leahy would be sidelined for another year.

Leahy came to Syracuse hoping for a chance to start in net, but injuries caused his first competitive game action in over two years to come in 2018

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Sen. Kevin Parker details proposal to pay college athletes

By Danny Emerman asst. sports editor

A New York state senator introduced legislation this week that would require college athletic departments in the state to give a 15% share of annual revenue to college athletes. The revenue would be equally divided between all athletes.

Sen. Kevin S. Parker (D-N.Y.) of the 21st District of New York in

Brooklyn proposed a bill that would give college athletes the right to profit from their names, images and likenesses. If passed, the bill would make New York the first state to require colleges to pay college athletes directly. ESPN first reported on the legislation Wednesday.

Parker told The Daily Orange on Wednesday that he wanted to propose the bill as the college fall sports season is underway. The state

legislature won’t be back in session until January.

“It’s about equity,” Parker told ESPN. “These young people are adding their skill, talent and labor to these universities.

Parker modeled the bill after California’s Fair Pay to Play Act, which passed unanimously through the state’s Assembly and Senate earlier this month. That bill would allow college athletes to accept endorse-

ment money. Several other states, including Maryland, Colorado and Washington, have mulled similar laws related to college athlete compensation, according to ESPN. Last week, the NCAA Board of Governors released a statement condemning the California bill, saying it would “erase the critical distinction between college and professional athletics” and give schools in California an unfair

competitive advantage.

Sarah Scalese, senior associate vice president for communications at Syracuse University, said it would be “premature” for the university to comment because SU hasn’t yet reviewed the specifics of the proposal. The NCAA could not be reached for comment on Wednesday’s proposed bill. Last year on a Bloomberg Podcast, Syracuse Athletic see pay page 9