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Several groups in the Syracuse area are sponsoring buses that will take people to Washington, D.C., for Saturday's Women's March on Washington.

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Student protesters will be participating in the Women’s March on Washington this Saturday in protest of the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump.

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S • Lock down

Tyler Roberson wasn't seeing the court much in nonconference play.

But his stellar defense has led to increased minutes and a larger role in ACC play.

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'An obvious divide'

crime

Murder suspect in court

By Michael Burke news editor

DONALD TRUMP, who will be sworn in Friday as president of the United States, visited Syracuse in April. His supporters in central New York are indicative of the voters that launched him to victory. jensen stidham contributing photographer

Voters in rural areas propelled Donald Trump to presidency Experts said voters in those rural regions were drawn to news editor Trump because of his rhetoric on jobs, and that in many cases, their support for Trump also stemmed from a disdain for Hillary hen Bob Czaplicki was growing up in Solvay, New York, Clinton and President Barack Obama’s outgoing administration. decades ago, the local factories had so many workers Nationally, Trump claimed 62 percent of the vote in small that police had to direct traffic on the town’s main street towns and rural America, according to the Pew Research Center. at the end of every workday, he said.

In central New York, he won all of the counties that are domi“Now you could throw a bowling ball down the street and nated by rural towns, taking 57.8 percent of the vote in Oneida you’re lucky if you hit anybody or anything,” Czaplicki said.

County, 54.4 percent of the vote in Madison County and 58.6 Czaplicki, who has lived in central New York all his life, said percent of the vote in Oswego County. he’s witnessed the steady decline of the According to a November 2016 ecoregion’s economy and its deindustrialnomic profile report by the Office of the ization over the years. It’s part of what New York State Comptroller, central led him to vote for President-elect DonNew York’s economy is still recovering ald Trump in November’s presidential It’s not like people out in the from the recession and the unemployelection. ment rate in most of the region is above country are being left alone Trump will be inaugurated on Friday the state’s overall rate. in Washington, D.C., becoming the 45th Aaron Renn, a senior fellow at the Manand then suddenly decided president of the United States. He was hattan Institute, said voters in rural areas (to support Trump). propelled to the presidency largely by likely grew frustrated with legislation and voters in the country’s rural, economipoliticians that threatened industries at Aaron Renn cally-depressed regions that are similar the heart of those regions, such as fracking senior fellow at the manhattan institute in nature to parts of central New York. and industrial agriculture.

Though Trump didn’t win New York state “It’s not like people out in the country in the election, experts say central New are being left alone and then suddenly York is representative of the parts of the country that Trump was decided (to support Trump),” Renn said. most successful in.

Czaplicki, who is the GOP chair for the town of Geddes in “The rural voters … have been Republican for a long time, Onondaga County, said he hasn’t personally experienced ecobut what happened in this election was that was exaggerated, as nomic hardship over the years but has witnessed it in his comwas the Democratic voting in the cities,” said Kristi Andersen, a munity and among friends. professor emeritus of political science in Syracuse University’s The economic stagnation was most notable, he said, when his chilMaxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. “So there was dren were met with difficulties as they searched for jobs of their own. more of an obvious divide.” see rural page 6

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One of the men charged with murdering Syracuse University student Xiaopeng “Pippen” Yuan will appear in court Thursday in relation to a tampering charge.

Cameron Isaac, 23, has a pretrial hearing at 10 a.m. in Syracuse City Court for a charge of tampering with a witness in the fourth degree, which he received after asking a witness not to testify against him in the murder trial. Tampering with a witness in the fourth degree is a Class A misdemeanor.

Isaac will also report for a drug paraphernalia charge at the same time on Thursday. Neither of his lawyers — Charles Keller and Lance Cimino — returned phone calls Wednesday.

Isaac and Ninimbe Mitchell, 20, were each arrested two months ago and charged with murder in the second degree, robbery in the first degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree.

Yuan, 23, of China, was found dead behind the Springfield Garden Apartments located on Caton Drive on Sept. 30. Authorities believe the two suspects arranged to meet him at the apartments for a drug transaction.

Isaac and Mitchell are being held in the Onondaga County Justice Center without bail. mdburk01@syr.edu

university senate

Advisory board announced

By Jacob Gedetsis enterprise editor

Vice Chancellor and Provost Michele Wheatly announced Wednesday that a Campus Facilities Advisory Board will be formed, partly because of the campus-wide controversy that the $6 million University Place promenade caused last spring and during the summer.

The board, announced at the first University Senate meeting of the semester, will assess all academic and non-academic investments within the Campus Framework plan. The meeting also included a discussion on the university's position on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy. see senate page 6

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THIRSTY thursday | champagne cocktails

Repurpose leftover New Year’s champagne

By Aline Martins staff writer

We’re now well into 2017. But before ringing in the New Year, you may have bought a few bottles of champagne in anticipation. Champagne originated among fifth century French royals and has had a reputation as a “celebratory extravagance” for centuries, according to an article in the Bloomberg Review. It should come as no surprise that the tradition to celebrate the New Year with a bottle of bubbly lives on.

In fact, 25 percent of champagne bottles sold in the U.S. are purchased in the week between Christmas and New Year’s, as reported by the International Business Times.

That is a lot of Champagne.

This begs the question: Is all champagne purchased for New Year’s Eve actually consumed when the clock strikes midnight? If not, here’s a solution for all those leftover bottles.

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Cocktail 1: Winter Champagne Cocktail

It tastes like what I imagine living in the roaring ‘20s was like — class in a glass. It’s slightly bitter with the characteristic dryness of a Brut, a hint of sweetness and a very light ending note of lemon. It’s refreshing, but not refreshing enough where you feel like you should be on a beach in the Bahamas.

Essentially, this is a way to elevate your Champagne to something you would serve at a fancy cocktail party — or a speakeasy.

You will need: 1 sugar cube or 1 teaspoon of granulated sugar, 3-5 dashes of bitters, 4 ounces of

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Winter champagne cocktail takes one sugar cube, three dashes of bitters, four ounces of champagne and a lemon spiral to create a slightly bitter, but dry taste with a sweet kick. aline martins staff writer

Champagne and a long spiral of lemon zest Place the sugar in the bottom of your champagne flute. Combine evenly with bitters. Add in a splash of champagne. Stir to combine. Finish off with remaining champagne, and garnish with lemon zest.

Cocktail 2: Winter Jack Mimosa

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“Winter” in the name of the drink because this cocktail warms you from the inside out. It has a similar effect to drinking your favorite warm apple cider next to a fireplace.

It is not the prettiest drink on earth, I must admit. But what this cocktail lacks in looks, it makes up for in taste. Each time you take a sip, you get the spices from the Winter Jack, the slightly tart sweetness from the

apple cider, and the sparkle from the champagne. This is a winter-y rendition of a slightly boozier mimosa.

You will need: 1 ounce of Jack Daniels Winter Jack Tennessee Cider, 1 ounce of apple cider and 2 ounces of Champagne.

Combine the Jack Daniels with the apple cider and top glass with champagne.

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Student debt Former students at for-profit colleges could receive loan discharges from the DOE. See page 6

NEWS

"So Fresh, So Clean" A course on the hip-hop group OutKast is being offered at Armstrong State University.

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Trump's inauguration Donald Trump will be sworn in as the 45th president of the United States on Friday.

See Saturday's paper

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news to know Here is a round-up of the biggest news happening around the world right now.

U.S. HOSPITALIZED Former United States President George H.W. Bush and First Lady Barbara Bush were hospitalized Wednesday in Houston. George is being treated in the intensive care unit for pneumonia while Barbara was admitted to a hospital as a precaution for suffering fatigue and coughs. source: the houston chronicle

ENVIRONMENTAL STUDY The U.S. Army will conduct a $3.8 billion environmental study on the Dakota Access Pipeline’s crossing of the Missouri River in North Dakota. The study could take more than a year, and the pipeline cannot be built while the study is taking place. source: the chicago tribune

POLITICS

First meeting MICHELE WHEATLY, vice chancellor and provost, addressed members of the University Senate during the Senate's first meeting of the semester Wednesday. Wheatly told senators that a Campus Facilities Advisory Board will be created to oversee acadmic and non-academic investments in the Campus Framework plan.

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WON’T GO ANYWHERE President Barack Obama held his final press conference as president on Wednesday. Even though President-elect Donald Trump will be taking over the Oval Office on Friday, Obama said he won’t be hesitant of speaking up to defend America’s “core values.” source: the new york times

Officials weigh in on preferred name policy

By Delaney Van Wey asst. news editor

A new feature on MySlice may seem small, but it represents years of policy-making and a step forward towards a more inclusive Syracuse University campus.

Starting this semester, SU students have been able to submit a preferred or chosen name to the university, which will then appear as their name in their email display names, on class rosters and on the Blackboard Learning Management System. Officials involved with the process said it was only the first part of what will potentially be a series of related changes in self-identification on campus.

“I hope that it makes us a more inclusive space for folks, people

who again, maybe identify differently or have identities or experiences that are outside of the norm or mainstream,” said Tiffany Gray, the director of the LGBT Resource Center.

This is a first phase, it’s a good thing to do, but there’s more work to be done.

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Gray spearheaded the preferred name policy along with

Sam Scozzafava, vice president for information technology and chief information officer at SU. Gray said the idea to allow students to choose their own names is not a new one and had been discussed by her predecessor for some time.

Gray also said this is only the start of the policy’s potential. She said possible changes could include a choice of pronouns and non-binary gender choices on MySlice, as well as displaying preferred names in the directory, which is not part of the current policy.

“This is a first phase — it’s a good thing to do, but there’s more work to be done,” Gray said. “And I think we need to continue to do this for our students.”

Scozzafava said in an email

that preferred gender and pronoun options are both future possibilities and that the university may increase “the places across its systems” where a preferred name is displayed.

When Gray became director of the LGBT Resource Center in the fall of 2015, Scozzafava called her to get her on board with the potential policy, she said. She immediately joined Scozzafava in talks with other departments on campus, including the Office of Human Resources and the Registrar’s Office, Gray said.

After three semesters of conversation and fine-tuning, Gray was notified that the policy was ready to be rolled out. While Gray said the process was longer than she would see policy page 6

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Local groups to march in protest of Trump

By Laritza Salazar staff writer

As President-elect Donald Trump is formally sworn into office on Friday, several groups from central New York and the Syracuse area will be heading to Washington, D.C., in support of those who feel threatened by Trump’s presidency.

The Women’s March on Washington-CNY Section, Women Together Inspiring Entrepreneurial Success and College Democrats of Syracuse University are among the organizations that are planning on either protesting Trump or advocating for certain rights over

the inauguration weekend.

Tracy Higginbotham, the founder and president of Women TIES, said the protests are not to take from or add attention to Trump, but instead highlight the voices of women, adding that she believes women’s voices need to be heard now more than ever.

“The point of this is to walk in solidarity with thousands of other women to make sure the new administration remembers that women make up 52 percent of the population and our rights are important,” Higginbotham said.

“We cannot have our government go back on rights that have been

given already and that includes women’s rights, LGBT rights, disability rights and so much more.”

Higginbotham has long been involved in advocating for women’s rights and empowerment. Her company works in helping women build their professional careers and bridging both the pay and gender gap across all industries.

Women TIES has specifically reached out to women in central New York to join the Women’s March on Washington, which will take place Saturday. So far more than 100 people have registered to attend the Women’s March on Washington through Women

TIES, Higginbotham said. The group will depart from Syracuse Friday morning.

Another group, the Women’s March on Washington-CNY Section, has also sought out participants to join the Women’s March on Washington. Silvia Macor, one of the event organizers for the Women’s March on WashingtonCNY Section, said the organization expects at least three full buses to head to the nation’s capital on Friday.

The buses will depart from the ShoppingTown Mall in DeWitt, New York. Both the Women’s see protest page 6

FORGOT TO PAY Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-S.C.), who is nominated to head the Office of Management and Budget, acknowledged he did not pay more than $15,000 in payroll taxes on a household employee for the years 2000-2004. He admitted his failure in an inquiry from the Senate Budget Committee. source: the washington times

WORLD MULTIPLE EARTHQUAKES Four earthquakes hit Italy on Wednesday, leaving one dead and rattling residents who experienced a series of catastrophic earthquakes last year. All of Wednesday’s earthquakes scaled more than five in magnitude. source: agence france-presse

RED WARNING The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs pressed the United States Wednesday not to accept a delegation from Taiwan to attend President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration. Trump hinted he may reconsider the long-standing “One China" policy, which claims Taiwan is part of China and should not have diplomatic relations. source: reuters

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BUSINESS

BEATING EXPECTATION Netflix attracted more than 7 million new subscribers during the fourth quarter in the United States and around the world, beating a market prediction of about 5 million subscribers. The stock surged by over 8 percent following the news. source: business insider

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environment

Obama tried to be an environmental hero, but was deterred by gridlock

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housands of species are going extinct at a faster rate than that of the dinosaurs. Sea levels are rising.

Due to increasing storms of similar levels to Hurricane Katrina, the United States will spend billions of dollars in damages from natural disasters every year.

All of this is directly linked to widely unregulated, harmful practices committed by corporations. Looking back over the course of his time in office as the country approaches Inauguration Day, President Barack Obama made it one of his administration’s missions to stop this cycle of havoc.

Over the last eight years, Obama fought the influence of big companies on Capitol Hill to accomplish groundbreaking legislation. In what is considered to be his most immediate influential action on climate change, Obama used the 1906 Antiquities Act a total of 29 times — more than any other president. This law allows the president to declare federal lands as national monuments, protecting them from potential harm and environmental degradation.

In an effort to stop the poisoning of marine life, Obama signed a law banning poisonous and insoluble microbeads in skin products and toothpaste. His other accomplishments included launching and proposing clean water initiatives, initiating an agreement among automotive

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THAT’S NOT FOG corporations to increase gas milage and signing the Paris Agreement, which requires nations to cut carbon emissions by 2100, limiting global warming to 2 degrees Celsius.

It’s even more impressive that most of this change began during the political gridlock of his second term. What is clear is that Obama fought to save our planet, and what is unclear is why the Republican Party fought him on this.

“I cannot say what’s behind the Democratic-Republican split regarding the environment,” said Peter Castro, an associate professor of anthropology at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. “In some ways I perceive it mainly as a phenomenon whipped up by the news media, with the parties going along with it as a way of mobilizing supporters.”

In the midst of the most polarized government the U.S. has ever seen, Obama persevered against the corporate big dogs.

Despite Pew Research’s study that 74 percent of Americans support environmental justice, Republicans and their friends on Wall Street sought their own best interest and opposed the president’s efforts.

Castro added that the Republican opposition to environmental issues such as climate change and sustainability “is supposed to be a reflection of business interests.”

Obama’s two biggest environmental deals that shook up the business world are the Paris Agreement and the Clean Air Act. These legal initiatives force corporations to transition into a sustainable future, which created conflict since the corporations have to fit this change into their budget, and going green means change.

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The number of times Obama has used the 1906 Antiquities Act, which allows the president to declare federal lands as national monuments source: national parks conservation association

But the president was right to enforce these laws, because his duty is to help and protect the American people. Due to the gridlock during Obama’s administration, future generations will be forced to deal with climate-induced illnesses, global warming refugees and natural

disasters far beyond repair.

Although Obama’s heart was in the right place, his efforts have not been fully realized. It is the inconvenient truth that Obama’s legacy would have made an impact if it were made 60 years ago. His Clean Power Plan will not be in full action until 2030, and the Paris Agreement does not require nations to make complete change for another 83 years. This is pointless, considering carbon emissions released in the air 50 years ago are only taking effect now. That means that every carbon molecule that has been released since is still in the atmosphere, yet to affect Earth. Our planet is changing at a faster rate than we can adjust to, and the personal interests of our government have restricted Obama’s endeavors.

Obama has set the tone for the change that needs to be made. Although the Electoral College failed us in November, Obama utilized the gray area in the U.S. Constitution for the better. Now, we must fight back against President-elect Donald Trump’s anti-environment administration to continue Obama’s legacy.

Lydia Niles-Steger is a freshman public relations major with minors in environment and society and political science. Her column appears weekly. She can be reached at lnilesst@syr.edu or followed on Twitter @Lydia__Niles.

gender and sexuality

Women’s March on Washington transcends anti-woman Trump

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he weather outside may be frightful, but it doesn’t hold a candle to President-elect Donald Trump’s impending presidency.

He’s called us bimbos. Pigs. Dogs. “A young and beautiful piece of ass.” Gold diggers. He’s said that intelligence and beauty are mutually exclusive attributes.

We’ve been rated for how desirable our bodies are, how desperately men would want to have sex with us. He’s told us that breastfeeding is disgusting, and that “it must be a pretty picture” to see women on their knees. He’s argued that sexual assault is the result of cohabitation, and that women who have had abortions ought to be legally punished.

He blamed campaign opponent Hillary Clinton for her inability to “satisfy” her husband, former President Bill Clinton, leading to his infidelities. He said Clinton had neither the “look” nor the “stamina” fit for the presidency. He openly joked about “grabbing women by the p*ssy.”

And on Friday, this man will become the 45th president of the United States.

Following Trump’s unprecedented

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FEMINIST FATALE election victory, women around the nation and the world were left in resounding shock and dismay, wondering how a man who has so heinously belittled and degraded women could be fit to lead a country boasting a 50 percent female population.

The desire to take action spread like wildfire, birthing the 2017 Women’s March on Washington. On Saturday, the day after Trump takes the oath of office, a group of about 200,000 women will march from the Lincoln Memorial to the front lawn of the White House. Their aim is to fulfill the campaign’s mission statement “to come together in solidarity to express to the new administration and Congress that women’s rights are human rights and our power cannot be ignored.”

The march is a peaceful assembly of women across the nation advocating for the protection of women’s reproductive, political and social rights. It is not an anti-

Trump rally. Rather, it’s a collective and unified force demanding that the federal government works to serve all citizens’ needs — not just the ones without uteruses.

“The Women’s March is more than an anti-Trump march. It will send the message that we are watching and we will be vigilant and active,” said Silvia Gianelli Macor, who organized the woman conducting the central New York chapter of the march, in a Facebook message.

“We need to let them know that they are accountable to all Americans, not just their supporters.”

What began as a small Facebook group created by a handful of women and a dream has resulted in a global phenomenon composed of 370 marches across 39 countries and supported by more than 694,000 women around the world. More than 160 people affiliated with the march’s central New York chapter will attend the march, according to the group’s Facebook page.

From birth control and Planned Parenthood funding to sexual assault prevention and equal pay, the march serves as a moment to reflect on the history

of women’s rights advocacy in the U.S., as well as looking forward in pursuit of intersectional gender equality of the sexes.

Civil rights activists Dolores Huerta and Harry Belafonte will join legendary feminist activist Gloria Steinem as honorary co-chairs of the event, which will also feature appearances from celebrities such as Scarlett Johansson, Uzo Aduba, Julianne Moore, Cher, Katy Perry and Zendaya, among others.

To put the significance of the march into perspective, the last time a group of women this large led a march on D.C., President Woodrow Wilson was entering into power in 1913 and women were rallying for their right to vote, according to USA Today.

More than a century later, as we enter a new wave of politics and feminist activism, it’s important that we hold politicians accountable for their actions and words.

Trump may see us as merely dogs, but we’ve got enough bark and bite to defend ourselves these next four years.

Kelsey Thompson is a sophomore magazine journalism major.

Her column appears weekly.

She can be reached at katho101@syr.edu.

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Academic integrity policy updates pave way for efficiency Syracuse University’s recent revisions last for an entire semester. Students, whose to its Academic Integrity Policy will professional futures often rely on their improve the process of dealing with collegiate career, should not be forced to academic integrity and plagiarism in wait to find out whether they will be able to regard to efficiency, transparency and continue their academic experience at SU. fairness to students.

Additionally, students who are involved in Under the updated policy, an academic an academic integrity violation case that integrity hearing is no longer the only lasts for months may not be inclined to method to resolve academic integrity take the process seriously if it takes that violation cases. The revisions include long to resolve. the provision of more power to faculty It is also important that the updated in grade-related policy allows schools sanctions, the and colleges to have the establishment of final call on academic academic integrity integrity violation cases, panels and the considering schools placement of appeals and colleges operate processes and independently from • More faculty authority in final decisions on one another in terms grade-related sanctions plagiarism cases with of academics. This • Creation of academic the student’s home designation will also integrity panels • Designation of appeals school or college. benefit students who processes to schools and colleges Several SU may be misunderstood • Placement of plagiarism cases community members when it comes to with schools and colleges affiliated with the plagiarism or other policy’s updates potential academic said the new policy integrity violations by is meant to increase giving them a stronger transparency regarding academic voice in the appeal process. integrity expectations and to expedite The new policy calls for the the process of resolving academic elimination of a necessary hearing for integrity violations. each academic integrity violation case These objectives are admirable and which streamlines the process for all serviceable to students, who are most parties involved. But through all of the directly affected by academic integrity changes, the best interests of students violation cases. Under the previous whose futures may depend on the success Academic Integrity Policy, the process to of the Academic Integrity Policy were resolve cases of violations could sometimes rightfully kept the forefront.

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rappling with uncertainty, soon-to-be graduates could be feeling the bind as May approaches.

How seniors make the “most” of their remaining four months at school is something of a balance, as they juggle coursework with exploring job options and maximizing their social lives before leaving campus.

The cornerstones of the final semester of college can be broken down into three categories: peers, professors and projections. It’s an equilibrium we all can reach.

Establishing lasting ties with other students or co-workers is something any student can stand behind. That said, where and how these connections come to

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fruition is something else entirely.

Continued nights spent at Chuck’s Cafe or traveling off-campus is, most won’t deny, a fun time.

But using other students around you as a resource may serve one better in the long run.

Classmates and friends are in a similar boat, lest they forget, and engaging each other may lead one down a completely new direction.

Not knowing someone formally is no reason to not strike up a conversation.

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relationships with a faculty member also provides insight into a field a student may wish to go into. It is never too late to get in touch with professors to ask for advice or feedback. Many students may feel the need to stay in their lane of study, but history doesn’t need to be an indicator of what students can or may want to do in the future.

It’s Baldwinian to suggest seniors are trapped in the history of their choice of major. Seeking the counsel of professors outside an individual department may serve more than expected. Those formative relationships may even transcend being on campus.

Even down the road, faculty members can be guides as each

student wades into the ambiguity of next year. This ambiguity — where we project ourselves moving forward — may equate differently for everyone. The job market is expected to fall flat this spring, according to the National Association of Colleges and Employers’ 2017 Outlook Survey, which places continued pressure on graduates to secure post-school positions.

But the idea of a given major resulting in a particular job is not how the career market exclusively operates these days. According to a recent CareerBuilder survey, 55 percent of survey respondents in the beginning of 2017 remarked they would train workers who do not have experience in a given

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area. Graduates wanting to have studied something different may find a given degree does not immediately need to line up with an area or sector of interest.

Walking the line of embracing the resources available at SU now and keeping an eye on the looming dénouement of May is no small task. Moving on means having the drive to find what’s out there. As Nobel Prize laureate William Faulkner coined: “You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”

Brendan Germain is a senior television, radio and film major and French minor. His column appears weekly. He can be reached at bngermai@syr.edu.

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Ex-students at for-profit colleges seek loan discharges

By Madeleine Davison staff writer

With Donald Trump's presidency on the horizon, the U.S. Department of Education has worked in recent months to discharge the federal loans of students who attended for-profit colleges that have closed.

Over the last four years, several major for-profit college chains have closed or been shut down by the DOE, largely due to the use of misinformation in advertising.

Corinthian Colleges closed on April 15 after the DOE threatened to fine the company for using inflated job placement data to recruit students, according to NBC News.

The American Career Institute closed in 2013 because of financial problems and later admitted to having used falsified success rates and accepting unqualified applicants in a consent judgement reached in June 2016, according to the Boston Globe.

ITT Technical Institutes, another forprofit college, closed in September 2016 following the DOE’s decision to ban it from accepting students who benefit from federal

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rural “Before, you could literally graduate from high school on a Saturday and go to work in a factory ... and be making $50,000, $60,000 a year,” he said. “A lot of college graduates would be happy making that today.”

Czaplicki said he supported Trump because he believes the president-elect will bring jobs back to rural America, but he added that his vote for Trump was as much of an anti-Clinton vote as it was a pro-Trump vote. Czaplicki called Clinton a “criminal” and said he likely would have voted for any of the other Republican candidates had someone else clinched the nomination.

Steven Schier, a professor of political science at Carleton College, said Clinton struggled in rural areas because she didn’t do enough to appeal to voters. She didn’t campaign often in rural America and didn’t address concerns of rural America, he said.

financial aid, per the Los Angeles Times. “(Students at those schools) lost their grants. … They lost their time, they got humiliated and we’re never going to make those folks whole,” said David Halperin, who advocates against fraudulent for-profit institutions through various platforms, including his website Republic Report.

Many for-profit institutions attract lowincome students who qualify for substantial federal student aid, with some for-profits deriving well over 80 percent of their revenue from federal funding, according to The Boston Globe. This means that students at for-profit schools often suffer when the schools shut down, said Tariq Habash, a policy associate at The Century Foundation, a left-leaning, nonpartisan think tank.

“Many of these student loan borrowers are living in poverty,” Habash said. “(When their claims are not processed quickly by the DOE) they’re hurt pretty badly in a situation where they are likely already struggling because an institution preyed upon them.”

In response to the recent wave of school closures, the DOE has created new protocols “So she opened herself for an unpleasant surprise on election night,” he said.

But some rural voters might not have considered voting for Clinton even if she had campaigned harder. William Tassone, the GOP chair for the town of Salina, said he was “scared to death” of the country’s politics remaining similar to what they have been during the Obama administration.

Tassone said he thinks the U.S. needs change, saying the country has taken a “terrible, terrible beating” in the jobs sector.

Tassone also said Trump has already set a positive tone by striking deals with Carrier, Ford and General Motors to create jobs in the U.S., though some experts have downplayed the significance of those deals.

Tassone said he doesn’t expect changes overnight but believes a Trump presidency will help central New York's economy.

“If he has a good presidency and things start to happen positively, then it’ll have an effect,” Tassone said. mdburk01@syr.edu | @michaelburke47

TRUMP, President-elect of the United States, received 62 percent of the vote in the country's rural areas.

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policy have liked, both she and Scozzafava said the wait was worth the time.

“The length of time between suggestion and implementation was largely the result of our intentional effort to be collaborative and inclusive toward bringing many voices to the table to determine the best way for Syracuse to implement this new self-service,” Scozzafava said in an email.

The main sticking point was the feasibility of the policy and how it would work logistically, Gray said.

Student Association was also vocally supportive of the policy from the beginning.

Keelan Erhard, the co-chair of the Student Life Committee in Student Association, said he had heard of other universities allowing students to choose preferred names

before learning that Gray and her team were already pursuing a similar policy idea.

“I think it’s important just making sure trans* people feel more included on this campus and feel more safe,” Erhard said.

“And that’s really why I wanted to see the university go forward with this.”

Erhard, a senior entrepreneurship and emerging enterprises and retail management double major, said he knows of international students who plan on utilizing the feature. Both he and Gray said they are another large community on campus who could benefit from informing professors about name changes ahead of class.

Ultimately, Gray said she hope policies like this will help make the university a more inclusive place for people of all different backgrounds.

“A preferred name isn’t necessarily a preference — it’s who someone is,” Gray said. dovanwey@syr.edu

to streamline the application procedures for borrower-defense discharges, Habash said.

“We are evaluating claims as quickly as possible,” Jim Bradshaw, a DOE spokesman, said in an email.

The DOE has also been reaching out to students who might be eligible for student loan discharges, according to its website.

Students whose schools close before they are able to complete their degrees are eligible for a closed-school discharge, which allows them to either transfer their credits or have their loans forgiven, Habash said.

Students whose schools are found by the DOE to have engaged in misconduct or fraud may also be eligible for a borrower-defense loan discharge, which is done through bankruptcy, Habash said.

As of Jan. 13, the DOE hds approved over 28,000 total claims by students of Corinthian Colleges, and more than 6,300 claims by students of ITT Technical Institute. Additionally, a June 2016 court ruling against ACI opened the door for the DOE to issue a blanket borrower-defense discharge for any of the 4,500 former ACI students whose

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senate Wheatly will co-chair the board with Vice President and Chief Campus Facilities Officer Pete Sala. Professor Catheryn Newton, special adviser to the chancellor and provost for faculty engagement, will serve as the lead faculty adviser to the board. Other board members will be announced this week.

what is usen?

The University Senate is the academic governing body of the university and is made up of faculty, students, staff and administration members. The majority of the work is done in 17 standing committees, which report to the full senate at least once a year.

“This board will be charged with developing best practices for all the campus engagement, decision-making and communication in regards to renovation, new construction and best use of facilities,” Wheatly said.

Wheatly said the new committee was created in response to the Senate and its requests for more transparency and communication about the infrastructure on campus, specifically renovations. She said the administration can do a better job at collaborating with the rest of campus, and that the board will hopefully create “a flow of information so we get broader input on some of our decisions” regarding facility renovations.

The Senate meeting opened with discussion on a hotly-debated resolution presented to the Senate by the Graduate Student Organization. The resolution called for Syracuse University Chancellor Kent Syverud to clarify the university’s stance on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals and undocumented students.

Syverud has previously voiced his support for the program, including on Tuesday in his address to the community. The

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protest March on Washington-CNY Section and Women TIES have sold-out buses. Macor said she believes that the march signifies more than anti-Trump rhetoric.

“It will send the message that we are watching, and we will be vigilant and active,” Mactor said. “I am not surprised by the interest in the march. Many of us who lived through the women’s movement of the ‘70s and ‘80s knew that our hardfought progress was in jeopardy."

While the tickets for these groups have sold out, SU students will have the opportunity to participate in joining those in either opposition of the inauguration or in solidarity with certain social groups. The SU College Democrats are offering 25 free tickets for a bus that will take students to

loans have not already been discharged.

“You can see that the people working on this issue have done an enormous amount of work in the last few months,” Halperin said.

Still, some advocates have been pressuring the DOE to work even faster, fearing that the next administration may not prioritize debt relief efforts for students affected by school closures and fraud.

“The Department of Education has been heavily criticized by some of the student groups that we work with for going so slow on the debt relief,” Halperin said.

Both Halperin and Habash said Trump's position on the issue of fraudulent institutions and debt relief is hard to predict.

But despite the ambiguities in Trump’s educational policy, Habash said he does not think there is hard evidence that the next administration won't be open to pursuing debt relief for defrauded students.

“I would strongly encourage advocates to continue to pressure the next administration as they have this administration in expediting the processes,” Habash said. mdavison@syr.edu

chancellor added SU as a signatory to a formal written commitment supporting DACA on Nov. 17. The program, which was started by United States President Barack Obama, allows some undocumented immigrants living in the U.S. who entered the country as minors to avoid deportation.

Some members of the Senate argued that the resolution was too vague and simply called for the chancellor to speak to the SU community. GSO representatives responded and asked for specific clarifications regarding the role of DPS in potential deportations and, if a student is deported, what resources would be available to them to finish their degrees. The resolution passed and Syverud said he expects to respond “quickly.”

Wheatly also provided a short update on the Faculty Salary Review Committee, which plans to release faculty salary data and analysis. Robert Van Gulick, a philosophy professor, pushed Wheatly on the issue, and asked if the public would ever get the information that was provided by Committee Z. Committee Z provided public records that compared average faculty salaries across gender, schools and colleges and other factors.

Van Gulick wanted that information to be more widely available beyond the committee.

In response, Wheatly said senators should let that committee do its work and report back to the central administration, something that was met with groans from the Senate. Van Gulick continued to question Wheatly, pointing out that Committee Z has been around for 50-plus years, and that he didn’t understand why the detailed information isn’t still available.

Syverud interjected from his seat on the right side of the stage and said the committee is being charged with figuring out what to do with salary data.

“It’s not just to look at the data, it’s what to do to replace that (Committee Z) data and transparency and communication going forward.” Syverud said. “…The answer is that the jury is still out until this committee does its work.” jagedets@syr.edu

Washington for the march.

The tickets will be distributed in the Office of Student Activities at Schine Student Center starting at 9 a.m. on a first come, first serve basis. The bus leaves Saturday morning at 2 a.m. and is scheduled to return to Syracuse at 5 p.m., according to a university email.

Lyla Rose-Barwick, a junior television, radio and film major, helped coordinate the event. The anger many feel about the results of the election, she said, should not silence those who oppose the Trump presidency.

“Many people do not quite believe in the point of protesting. I have had many friends exclaim, ‘Why are you protesting?

That’s not going to change the results of the election,’” Rose-Barwick, who is also an executive board member of the College Democrats, said. “Protesting is not about trying to stop what has already happened.

We are realists." lcsalaza@syr.edu

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Armstrong State University offers hip-hop course on OutKast

By Deniz Sahinturk staff writer

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ip-hop enthusiasts at Armstrong State University in Savannah, Georgia, will be able to further indulge with an upper level English course about the rap group OutKast.

The class, "OutKast and the Rise of the Hip-Hop South,” is being offered this semester. Regina Bradley, a languages, literature and philosophy professor who also was a Nasir Jones fellow at Harvard University’s Hiphop Archive and Research Institute, is teaching the course.

“I wanted to teach this course as an effort to expand conversations about hip-hop outside of the familiar East Coast and West Coast experiences,” Bradley said. “It is way past time for hip-hop studies and culture to recognize the significance of Southern hip-hop artists.”

As the course is an upper-class seminar, Bradley said, the students will be expected to write a 12- to 15-page original research article. She also said the students will participate in daily listening exercises and submit an annotated playlist that represents their definition of the hip-hop South.

“It is important for students to stretch and challenge their ideas about popular cul-

ture as sites of inquiry," she said. "Specifically, it is important to introduce OutKast as worthy of academic analysis."

It is important for students to stretch and challenge their ideas about popular culture as sites of inquiry.

Regina Bradley languages, literature and philosophy professor at armstrong state university

Bradley also said she was honored and excited to teach this course as a Southerner and hip-hop fan. She added that she hoped the students will develop a critical listening ear and find new ways to think about music and popular culture as sites of analysis.

Elizabeth Howells, the head of the languages, literature and philosophy department at Armstrong State, said she thought the course was important because of Brad-

ley’s approach to teaching it.

Howells said Bradley saw OutKast in terms of a larger trajectory of AfricanAmerican literature and suggested that people think more broadly about the art forms that flesh out the African-American literary tradition.

The course is not a course on music, Howells said, but a course on art and discourse that situates this art in a literary tradition.

“If we see slave narratives as early forms of the tradition, where are we today? How are voices being heard and expressed? What does that look like? So I think the students will be encouraged to think interdisciplinarily,” she said.

Howells said that in today's world, especially with larger movements like Black Lives Matter, this kind of broader thinking is necessary to make English relevant and keep citizens informed.

“There has been an incredible outpouring of positive press about the course and also some comments about 'Why offer such a thing in a university?' " Howells said. "But a course like this in a place like a university is going to allow students to have the insight and be given the tools to have the difficult conversations we should all be having in this nation at this time.” dsahintu@syr.edu

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Vegan cafe gives proceeds

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FROM THE GROUND UP Student protesters are hitting the road on inauguration weekend

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1. NEDDA SARSHAR was a leader of a large protest at Syracuse University after the 2016 election. 2. FARRELL BRENNER will be at the National LGBTQ Task Force’s Creating Change Conference this weekend, mainly because she sees the value of classic protests. 3. ALEXIS RINCK is looking forward to connecting with like-minded people at the Women’s March on Washington.

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edda Sarshar knew from the beginning that a Donald Trump administration would put domestic human rights at-risk.

“There needs to be a resistance and a pushback from the ground up,” Sarshar said. “I could not be content with other people planning it. I needed to be active and engaged in planning it, too.”

So she did. She pushed from the ground up.

President-elect Trump will be sworn into America’s highest office on Friday, but anti-Trump activists are making sure his transition won’t be easy. They aren’t going down without a fight.

Sarshar is one leading activist at SU, a senior

I think (the election) was a wake-up call to realize that social justice is not trendy...

It’s not something that you put on your resume. It’s actually what I want to be dedicating my life to.

Nedda Sarshar senior writing and rhetoric, citizenship and civic engagement and policy studies triple major

writing and rhetoric, citizenship and civic engagement and policy studies triple major.

She is a member of the Syracuse University and State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry Coalition for Justice — the group responsible for the Nov. 16 1,000-person walkout. The walkout called for the two schools to become sanctuary campuses.

This weekend, the group will follow up on its campus protests. Several members are making the trip to Washington, D.C. to participate in the Women’s March on Washington this Saturday. Others will march in solidarity in Syracuse and other cities.

The Women’s March on Washington boasts about 210,000 participants and 255,000 people interested on its Facebook page as of Wednesday night. And while organizers have said the march is not explicitly anti-Trump, the causes championed — women’s rights see protesters page 10

Strong Hearts Cafe on Monday had its busiest day yet since opening up shop on E. Genesee Street in 2008. That’s more than 3,000 days in operation.

Then the vegan eating establishment gave away half of the proceeds from the day’s sales.

It’s all part of the cafe’s new social justice charity program.

Each month this year, Strong Hearts will donate 50 percent of one particular day’s proceeds to a certain local nonprofit they believe make the community a better place. January’s recipient was Vera House, Inc., a central New York-based organization that since the 1970s has aimed to put an end to and aid victims of sexual and domestic violence.

Strong Hearts co-owners Nick Ryan and Joel Capolongo announced the plan in a Facebook post on New Year’s Day, saying they’ll partner with organizations that “embody the ideals of tolerance, compassion, equality, respect, humanity, community and love.” For them, the lost profits are a small price to pay in an effort to help the community that has given their business a home.

“For eight and half years we’ve been working to get to the point where we feel stable enough to devote time to doing a day like this,” Ryan said.

Selfless efforts like these aren’t anything new to Ryan and Capolongo. In fact, they’re what brought the two business partners together in the first place.

Capolongo joined the Animal Defense League shortly after graduating from high school and led the charge against furriers and animal experimentation in Syracuse. His passion for animal rights then took him around the world — he started an ADL chapter in Atlanta, worked in Los Angeles and spent time in Australian and Antarctic waters combating illegal Japanese whalers with an organization called Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.

Ryan became involved with the Syracuse Animal Rights Organization in 2003 while he attended Syracuse University.

Somewhere along the line, he met Capolongo, who moved back to Syracuse to be with family. They both had been vegans for years, and decided to open up Strong Hearts together.

Even as businessmen, Ryan said the goal has always been just as much about making a difference as it is about making money. He and Capolongo realized because of 2016 and its political results that many Americans are “experiencing a wide range of emotions.” And so, enter their social justice charity program.

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Despite praise, ‘La La Land’ doesn’t deserve to win Best Picture

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ollywood loves Hollywood, Hollywood loves “La La Land” and like most Newhouse television, radio and film snobs, I do, too. Maybe I’m even listening to Ryan Gosling sing me “City of Stars” while I write this to get in the creative mood.

But, as I’m sure you saw the title of the article, I’m not going to continue giving this film a bigger head than it already has: “La La Land” shouldn’t actually win Best Picture.

“Moonlight” should.

The film is beautiful romanticism served up with a healthy dose of reality: It takes a lot of sacrifice — and musical numbers — to reach your goals, and even when you achieve them, nothing is perfect. Probably because you’re not Ryan Gosling or Emma Stone, but I digress. Add to that nostalgia for old Hollywood in every scene, the chemistry of Gosling and Stone, and director Damien Chazelle’s — he’s only 31, people — confident and jazzy tone, and you’ve got a universal pleaser on your hands.

At last week’s Golden Globe Awards, “La La Land” took away a record seven out of seven awards, including Best Musical or Comedy.

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strong hearts just popped into our head, but something really that has been building since we’ve known each other,” Ryan said. “We both met doing activism, we’ve both always been involved in making the world a better place, so it always made sense to do something like this.”

Ryan said the turnout on Martin Luther King Jr. Day was exactly what he had expected. By getting to know their customers over the years, he had a feeling they, too, would be people that could get behind a worthy cause. To see it actually happen, though, was very humbling and encourag-

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tially, the British Oscars — announced that the film was up for a whopping 11 nominations.

Then there’s the SAG awards, the Critic’s Choice, the People’s Choice and every other more “minor” award show that point to “La La Land” being a dead-set winner for granddaddy of film honors, the Academy Award for Best Picture, a.k.a., what we annually sit through three hours of rich celebs patting each other on the back on TV just to find out the winner.

Is being too predictable of a win a reason to not win? Like I previously stated, Hollywood loves Hollywood. Even “Deadpool,” the hardR Marvel escapade with a very self-aware script — i.e., lots of breaking the fourth wall to make jokes about the filmmakers and their budget — was adored by critics.

Three of the past five winning films have been about show business: “Birdman,” “Argo,” and “The Artist.” Did anyone else who watched the Golden Globes catch on to every time Chazelle said that this film was a tough sell to

studios? Sure, the musical elements may have been a tough pitch to a studio executive, but the draw of Gosling and Stone’s respective star power, Chazelle’s buzz from his previous film, “Whiplash,” and the “for dreamers” plot seems like a no-brainer for success.

Enter Barry Jenkin’s “Moonlight.” An unknown director, miniscule budget and a plot concerning the masculinity and life struggles of a gay black man growing up in drug-filled Miami — for Hollywood, that is the tough sell.

“Moonlight” and “La La Land” essentially duke it out for the top spot on nearly every critic’s “Best of 2016” list, and while the latter came away with the Golden Globe for Best Musical or Comedy, the former snagged Best Drama.

The Oscars don’t divvy up Best Picture by genre like the Globes do, so while nominations haven’t officially been announced yet, the hot gossip around Tinsel Town is pinning these two against each other as the main contenders.

Does any of this matter, you say? It’s just an award, you say? Our culture affects our media, and our media affects our culture. This giveand-take has been especially prominent in the year we miraculously survived: 2016. With tensions in America, both racial and political, at a

high, more people than ever turn to the movies as a sense of escapism. They provide us with windows into lives that are not our own, so that we may empathize and see ourselves in others that we otherwise wouldn’t think to due to our own close-mindedness.

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The number of Critics’ Choice and Golden Globe awards ‘La La Land’ has won

For “Moonlight” to win Best Picture would encourage more difficult stories such as the one told in it to be brought to light on the silver screen. Following last year’s Oscars whose lasting impression was summed up with the hashtag #OscarsSoWhite, Hollywood is taking a step in the right direction by diversifying. While “La La Land” may be the easier pill to swallow, “Moonlight” is the more vital one.

Lilly Stuecklen is a junior television, radio and film major. Her column appears weekly in Pulp. She can be reached at lsstueck@syr.edu.

ing, Ryan said.

Vera House, as expected, was very appreciative of the donation, Ryan said.

They’ll receive a bit more, too, when Strong Hearts on the Hill — the café’s second location in Marshall Square Mall — will have its own day with proceeds going to Vera House this Saturday, Jan. 21.

Strong Hearts hasn’t officially decided where the money will go in February, but that they’ve had productive conversations with a few different parties. Wherever it ends up going, Ryan was confident the program will continue to be a success as the months go by.

“It benefits us, it benefits them, and it benefits the community above all,” he said. jtbloss@syr.edu | @jtbloss

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protesters along with brown, queer and immigrant rights — run opposite of Trump’s platform.

Alexis Rinck, a political science and sociology dual major, is heading down to D.C. with fellow Coalition for Justice member Amy Quichiz.

Rinck anticipates the women’s march will be as exhilarating as the walkout, which she described as both “terrifying” and “comforting.”

“I don’t really know what’s going to happen, how people are going to react, what it’s going to look like,” Rinck said of the march. “(But) I kind of expect to feel that same sort of feeling of comfort of, ‘OK, here’s people that care. Here’s people that are equally or more engaged about this as I am.’”

While Rinck is “not very happy” about the reasons for protesting, she does see the positive side. Rinck said she is looking forward to connecting and bonding with like-minded people in a way that she would not have been able to before.

Kristi Andersen, a professor emeritus of political science at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, compared anti-Trump sentiment to post-election protests of the past. The closest response she has seen was national dissatisfaction with the electoral process that made George W. Bush president in 2000.

“But they weren’t questioning the legitimacy of George W. Bush in the same way,” Andersen said. “Much of the protests are saying that Trump is simply not qualified or fit — temperamentally prepared — to be president.”

Trump has compelled people to go beyond their social circles in an unprecedented way, she added.

“There’s a necessity to do more than just talk to your friends and post on Facebook,” Andersen said. “That there are ways in which we need to stand together and say, ‘OK, we don’t accept a lot of the presumptions of your incoming administration and your behavior.’”

Katie Oran, a junior environmental

communications major at SUNY-ESF, also sees inaugural protests as a touchstone for student-led activism.The nearly unheard of wave of anti-presidential dissent can help set the tone for resistance to Trump for the next four years, she said.

“The policies that he’s planning to enact will not fly by under the radar,” Oran said.

“People are taking notice. People will be taking notice. And there will be a public outcry.”

But there is more to protesting than being passionate and raising your voice, Oran added — especially now, advocates must show how much they will risk for justice.

“We have to put our bodies on the line and say that we’re not only just talk when we see our community members being targeted (as) victims of hateful rhetoric and hateful violence,” Oran said.

During inauguration weekend, Farrell Brenner, a senior women’s and gender studies and citizenship and civic engagement dual major, will be attending the National LGBTQ Task Force’s Creating Change Conference in Philadelphia. She said there is still a place for good old-fashioned protests.

“Other people can control what they see online — they can easily ignore things, they can mute you, they can block you, depending on the platform,” Brenner said. “But when it’s in-person? You can’t ignore it. When people are blocking the streets, that’s inconvenient. You can’t scroll past that.”

Looking ahead to the next four or eight years, Sarshar plans to “stay woke.” For her, that means “never letting (herself) become comfortable with a rhetoric that normalizes racism, xenophobia, homophobia, and other forms of oppression.” This also involves taking Trump seriously and not waiting to see what happens.

To her, that’s not OK. “I think (the election) was my wake-up call to realize that social justice is not trendy,” Sarshar said. “It’s not something that you put on your resume. It’s actually what I want to be dedicating my life to.” ccolvin@syr.edu | @fkacaro

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weekend bar Looking for something to do other than the Salt City Winter Antique Show?

Here are some other events happening around Syracuse this week.

ART IN THE LOBBY: NATURE’S LANDSCAPES Oil paintings by local artist Diane Sokolowski will be on display. when: Thursday at 9 a.m. where: Liverpool Public Library

A CELEBRATION OF NEEDLE ARTS EXHIBIT The exhibit will showcase quilts, embroidery, cross stitches, beaded work and samplers from the Madison County Historical Society’s collection. when: Thursday at 10 a.m. where: Madison County Historical Society

MAKE ME A SONG Redhouse is hosting Make Me A Song: The Music of William Finn. when: Thursday at 7 p.m. where: Redhouse Arts Center

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Vendors gather at fairgrounds for annual weekend antique show

By Hana Maeda

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his weekend the New York State Fairgrounds will experience a surge of nostalgia. Rare books, vintage toys, oil paintings and other items will clutter a thousand-square foot floor space for the biggest indoor antique show in New York — a welcome escape from the winter blues.

With over 275 selected dealers, the Salt City Winter Antiques Show will exhibit a variety of fine antiques on Saturday and Sunday, including the largest collection of cut glass in the United States.

Visitors can find antiques that span from pre-Columbian to mid-century modern times to the 60s and 70s. Several of the jewelry booths will feature weird, unusual, one-of-a-kind jewelry that won’t be found in stores, said Stephen Allman, promoter of the Salt City Winter Antiques Show.

While the event is an entertaining experience for visitors to purchase antiques, Allman said the show serves as an educational purpose as well.

“You wander through there and there’s things from different time periods, and the dealers are generally very knowledgeable about what they have,” Allman said. “You can learn about the things you have by looking at the things they’re selling.”

This year in particular sees the return of an exhibitor from past shows who will sell major collections of vintage quilts that can be used as wall hangings.

The antique show makes its home in a

large venue, located inside the Americraft Center of Progress Building on the New York State Fairgrounds. Allman said a featured restaurant makes the event a perfect family outing. Children under age 12 receive free admission. Adult tickets cost $7, while the $8 VIP ticket allows admission for both days: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday.

With exhibitors from all over the East Coast, as well as Cleveland and Buffalo, New York, Allman cites the appeal of the antique show to its ideal location.

“Syracuse and central New York, for my whole career, has been a hot bed for antiques — it’s not called CNY for nothing” said Allman. “It really is a meeting place, and the location of the New York State Fairgrounds is pretty much the number one location for any current trade show in the state.”

And when it comes to curating exhibitors and antique items for the show, Allman looks at “quality, price and variety.”

One of the show’s exhibitors, Michael Coomes of Judy’s Corner Antiques, sells everything from antique furniture to jewelry to novelty-type items — one such being the whirligig, a toy that simply spins around.

Coomes, who has sold antiques for more than 10 years, said he especially enjoys the interactions and connections he makes with visitors.

“What’s fun is you’re selling your customer quality product,” Coomes said. “You want to sell them product that they like, so when they like you and they like your product, they come back.”

Coomes said his love of history attracted

him to the antique show business.

“History is one of my favorite things and when you’re dealing with old items, it’s history,” Coomes said. “You wonder the value of it. You enjoy history around it.”

Another exhibitor, Harry Krenitsky of Way We Were Antiques, has been selling antique jewelry, tabletops, glassware and China at the Salt City Antique Show for 30 years. Krenitsky finds the sentimental value of antique items most appealing about this show.

“I think most people come out of there with positive feelings. Nostalgia is like a homesickness,” Krenitsky said. “So they’ll see things that they’ll jog a memory from their childhood and sometimes they want to incorporate it in their own households if they don’t already have it.”

Allman, who describes the show as “going to a mall for antiques,” hopes the show will inspire others to decorate their own homes with antique items.

“From a purely practical standpoint — if you’re looking for utilitarian items for your home or even your dorm room — if you buy an antique, it holds it value,” said Allman.

“If you buy a little table to put by your bed, that’s going to hold its value. It’s not going to be junk when you walk out the door.”

The show, which has been running for the past 38 years, is one of the most popular antique shows in the area with over 4,500 in attendance last year. This year, with the warmer than usual weather in Syracuse, Allman jokes that the turnout will be “a little too much.” hmaeda@syr.edu

Sean Kirst, award-winning author and journalist, will discuss his new CNY-themed book, which explores the unique history of the central New York community. when: Thursday, noon–1 p.m. where: Erie Canal Museum

HISTORY OF ONONDAGA LAKE FILM PREMIERE This film details the history of the Onondaga Lake and its effect over the course of several centuries, on both Syracuse and the American way of life. when: Friday at 7:30 p.m. where: Palace Theatre

ART EXHIBIT: WORKS BY NIVES MARZOCCHI A multimedia art exhibit with mediums that span from acrylics to sculptures in bronze. when: Saturday at 9 a.m. where: Onondaga County Public Library Paine Branch

PAINT, DRINK AND BE MERRY WITH CNY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS Paint a picture, drink some wine and eat some snacks at this charity event to raise money for the SPCA. when: Saturday at 6-8:30 p.m. where: CNYSPCA

DRIFTWOOD AT THE WESTCOTT THEATER The band mashes up folk, country and rock to create their sound and is visiting Syracuse as part of a tour promoting their recently released album, “City Lights.” when: Sunday at 7 p.m. where: Westcott Theater

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men’s basketball

Tyler Roberson thrives defensively, earns more minutes

By Paul Schwedelson senior staff writer

Five years, three schools and two NCAA Tournaments have provided Andrew White with his fair share of highlight memories. Still, the senior swingman said playing defense in the same frontcourt as Tyler Roberson has been one of his most exciting experiences.

On Jan. 7 against Pittsburgh, Roberson blocked a career-high six shots, including three within a three-minute, 31-second stretch as part of a 30-2 Syracuse run. It sparked the Orange’s second straight conference win, then seen as a potential turning point in an inconsistent season.

“It’s been fun back there,” White said after the game. “You want to get in. (There was) one stretch where it seemed like every time they came in (the paint), it was getting pinned on the backboard.”

Syracuse (11-8, 3-3 Atlantic Coast) has received its best contributions on the defensive end this season from Roberson. Players plugged into the 2-3 zone should move as

one unit, and Roberson’s athleticism and advanced understanding of the system make him a valuable piece. In five games against major-conference, non-ACC opponents, Roberson averaged only 12 minutes.

But because of his defensive awareness, the senior forward has since wormed back into the rotation as the first sub off the bench.

He’s played 27.7 minutes per contest in conference games, and he’ll likely be tasked with providing a similar defensive boost when Syracuse plays No. 15 Notre Dame (162, 5-0) on Saturday at noon.

In six ACC games, Roberson has averaged a team-high 8.3 rebounds. He corrals 17.1 percent of the available defensive rebounds when he’s on the floor, the conference’s 24th-best rate, per Kenpom.com as of Wednesday night.

“Just try to cover my spots is all,” Roberson said. “And if a teammate needs help or something breaks down, then I help out.

I just try to fly around and cover my spots.

That’s all you really can do. Try to make blocks and steals if you get the opportunity.”

Syracuse’s rotation heavily features four

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players in their first year at the school and a sophomore. The struggles to acclimate to a new system showed when the Orange allowed 93 points to St. John’s on Dec. 21 and 96 to Boston College on Jan. 1. Syracuse head coach Jim Boeheim said he was surprised by how long it took graduate transfers White and John Gillon to learn his 2-3 zone.

Roberson’s ability to collapse down low, close out on the perimeter and, perhaps most of all, use his experience in the zone became strong arguments for him to receive regular playing time. And he has done that as one of the few players in Boeheim’s current six-man rotation. Gillon described Roberson as “the key” to SU’s half-court defense, and freshman forward Taurean Thompson noted his skill of trapping opponents in the corners. Roberson’s increased minutes manifested immediate results. In ACC games only, SU ranks fifth in the league allowing 73 points per game.

“He’s quick off his feet,” Thompson said.

“He’s a good rebounder, great with blocks and he’s probably one of the best defensive guys when it comes to rotations. He mastered it.”

On Jan. 14 against Boston College, the 6-foot-8 Roberson rushed to the perimeter along the left sideline with point guard Frank Howard to trap BC’s Ky Bowman. The

Eagles sharpshooter pivoted in between the two Orange defenders and wildly launched a cross-court pass to no one in particular.

It sailed to Syracuse’s bench, where players stood up and cheered.

“He’s probably overlooked a little bit because it’s not points,” Gillon said. “But his presence back there is just crazy. You can’t shoot over him, his vertical’s too high. He’s so active, he can move, he’s strong so just those little things. It just helps us.”

The possession after forcing Bowman into the turnover, Roberson teased some offense.

He finished an easy layup to extend Syracuse’s first-half lead to four. On Monday, after subbing in against No. 9 North Carolina, Roberson scored six points in just over two minutes.

But Roberson plays because of his defense. Flashes are just that. He’s often failed to convert around the rim, and his only consistent offensive contribution is crashing the glass.

“When we need to score points,” Boeheim said, “we put (Thompson) in.”

Yet Thompson’s flaw is Roberson’s strength, so Boeheim situationally mixes and matches.

And when the coach needs defense, he goes to the four-year veteran who brings experience no other forward on the roster can replicate.

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better job of screening to get him open.”

That’s at least one possible solution.

Another is for White to moonlight as the basketball player he once was. The one who funneled his offense strictly through midrange shots, unable to muster the strength to be a reliable 3-point shooter in his early high school years.

If White can so much as tease another dimension to his game, whether it be midrange or beneath the hoop, it can only help him find success behind the arc. Even more than he’s already found.

white on offense away from the 3-point line. Even if UND can’t do that, it still might be fine. The Fighting Irish boast the second-best 3-point defense in the ACC during conference play.

It’s White that might be in trouble. And in that case, so is the Orange.

“Teams are going to guard him,” Tyler Lydon said of White. “He shoots the ball really well, and yeah, there’s going to be times where he’s not getting open looks. We just have to do a

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PREGAME PLAYBOOK they said it

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women’s basketball

SU searches for more consistency on the road

By Tomer Langer sports editor

Syracuse trailed for much of the game at Georgia Tech last Sunday afternoon until, with about five minutes left in the fourth quarter, Alexis Peterson tied it.

After clawing all the way back, head coach Quentin Hillsman expected his team to finish the game off. Syracuse ended up losing by nine.

“If we just give it another 20 percent, 25 percent more, I think we win the game,” Hillsman said. “That was a game that I was very disappointed in our effort.”

Syracuse (13-6, 4-2 Atlantic Coast) has a sparkling 9-0 record at the Carrier Dome this season. But the Orange has almost as many losses on the road this year (six) as it had total losses all of last year (eight). SU needs to rectify its woes outside of the Dome when it goes to Tallahassee, Florida, to play No. 7 Florida State (17-2, 5-1) on Thursday night.

Sunday wasn’t the first time coaches have noticed a less-than-stellar effort from the Orange. Hillsman said his team just came out flat during a 108-84 loss to DePaul on Nov. 27 at a neutral site in Florida.

Assistant coach Tammi Reiss has likened the issues to a lack of effort, specifically on the defensive end and on the boards.

“We love offense,” Reiss said sarcastically. “We don’t want to guard anybody, and we don’t want to rebound.

“And that’s what our program’s about.

Defending, turning people over and second chance points. And we’re not doing that.”

The Orange allows 56.3 points per game at home, but gives up 77.7 points on the road. Part of that massive disparity is thanks to early-season games against weaker opponents, such as giving up only 30 points to Coppin State on Dec. 7.

But the outliers don’t account for the

more than 20-point difference. The Orange hadn’t given up more than 100 points in a game in either of the last two seasons. SU has done it twice this year.

“It’s all about the kind of energy we come on the court with,” senior forward Isabella Slim said. “(Sometimes) we come on the court with a lot of energy and it just goes well and just goes in a positive spiral, and sometimes it just goes the other way around.”

If we just give it another 20 percent, 25 percent more, I think we win the game … That was a game that I was very disappointed in our effort.

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Reiss thinks that it’s an issue of having the proper mindset for playing on the road, making the trip an easy experience and feeding off the “chirping” opposing fans. Hillsman, though, pointed to the fact that it’s simply harder to win games away from home.

Still, he’s disappointed that his team hasn’t finished close away games down the stretch.

It’s something he knows his team will have to change going forward in order to find consistency no matter where the game is played.

“That’s what we’re trying to do,” Reiss said. “Give that same effort we give at home, on the road.” tdlanger@syr.edu | @tomer_langer

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Three former SU All-Americans were named to the U.S. women’s lacrosse national team.

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DRIVER’S SEAT 3-point specialist Andrew White wants to diversify his offensive game ANDREW’S ARC As Syracuse’s leading scorer, Andrew White has lived behind the 3-point line

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Blocks for Tyler Roberson against Pittsburgh on Jan. 7, a career-high

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OPPONENTS

By Connor Grossman senior staff writer

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HAPEL HILL, N.C. — There’s no questioning where Andrew White’s refuge is on the basketball court. The hardwood behind the 3-point line has been his safe haven, where he’s harbored most of the success in his career and carried Syracuse at times this year.

White’s a 3-point shooter like Jim Boeheim is a basketball coach. The label is permanently affixed. He’s attempted 63 percent of his field goals from behind the arc, while the rest of SU has shot just 33 percent of its field goal tries from 3. Until opponents try to make White into something else, as did North Carolina on Monday night, White’s a 3-point shooter.

That “something else” is far more unreliable.

Forcing White into driving or cutting situations has resulted in far less production, and even a spike in turnovers.

“He had at least four really good opportunities to get to the basket,” Boeheim said after losing to UNC on Monday, “and nothing happened.”

“He’s making his 3s. He’s doing what he has to do there. But he’s got to get something in those areas (around the basket). I think that’s important.”

It’s fair to say White has done almost everything the Orange has asked of him: score and play.

His 15.8 points and 34.7 minutes per game are both team highs. But even his 15 points in Syracuse’s 85-68 loss to the Tar Heels left something to be desired. Fifteen points was the product of five 3s. White has struggled to showcase another dimension to his offensive game, and Syracuse (11-8, 3-3 Atlantic Coast) will have little chance at upsetting No. 15 Notre Dame (16-2, 5-0) on the road Saturday if he can’t do more than hoist 3s.

The Tar Heels frustrated White early by stuffing the passing lanes and forcing White to create his own shot, if he was going to get one at all.

UNC’s Justin Jackson, standing an inch taller

than the 6-foot-7 White, never really yielded enough space for White to step back and shoot cleanly. The early returns were exactly what North Carolina hoped for, a three-point first half for SU’s best shooter.

“That’s what I’m going to see for the rest of ACC play,” White said. “… I need to do more with the ball in (my) hands. I need to make more plays and kind of be more assertive.”

Given how White tends to score early in games before tapering off in the second half, it’s even more impressive how Jackson and the Tar Heels neutralized the veteran guard. His lone 3 in the first half came after more than 15 minutes of play. Up to that point, White’s efforts to get involved had fallen flat, highlighted by a 90-second span when White missed a 3, fired an outlet pass into the seats and missed a layup on three successive possessions.

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