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One year after the #MeToo movement swept across the United States, student-led activism is changing the way sexual assault is reported on campuses. Page 9

Marissa Evans, a reporter at the Texas Tribune, discussed health journalism in a lecture at SU’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. Page 3

Detention center prepares for new law By Madeleine Davison staff writer

See how crime at SU stacks up in recent years the daily orange

he number of reported rapes and stalking incidents at Syracuse University generally stayed the same between 2016 and 2017, according to crime statistics released by its Department of Public Safety on Monday. The number of liquor and drug law violations

decreased in the same time period, according to SU’s annual security report. SU, along with all colleges and universities that receive federal money, is required to release the report annually by Oct. 1 as part of the Jeanne Clery Act. The number of reported rapes at SU more than doubled from five to 13 between 2014 and 2017, the report showed. Check out the accompanying graphics to see how SU’s report compared through 2014-17.

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As a legally binding deadline approaches, Hillbrook Juvenile Detention Center must prepare for one of its biggest challenges yet: admitting older teens facing felony charges. The center on Velasko Road in Syracuse is facing a balancing act. It must hire enough qualified workers to meet state law requirements while efficiently caring for an ever-shifting population of young residents. Raise the Age, a law signed by New York state Gov. Andrew Cuomo in April 2017, reclassifies 16- and 17-year-olds as minors in the state’s criminal justice system and prohibits them from being housed in county jails. Starting Monday, juvenile detention facilities like Hillbrook will accept some 16-year-olds awaiting trial on felony charges, said Damian Pratt, Hillbrook’s director of juvenile justice and detention services, at an Onondaga County Legislature committee meeting. In October 2019, the facility will also start admitting 17-year-olds. In the coming months, Hillbrook needs to fill at least 15 new positions,

Pratt said. In calculating the number of new hires, Hillbrook must account for frequent changes in the number of residents as teens are admitted for pre-trial detention and depart after their trials, according to county legislature minutes. The number of 16- and 17-year-olds arrested on felony charges decreased by 27 percent between 2013 and 2017. Casey Jordan, a Republican legislator from Clay, said in an interview before the meeting that he’s worried Hillbrook might overestimate its future population and overhire, wasting taxpayer dollars. “You don’t want to have staff to address the maximum number of children that would be there – you want to have optimal staffing,” Jordan said. Pratt said that hiring part-time staff allows Hillbrook to handle resident spike, and that he would prefer to hire more employees than he needs. At last week’s meeting, one county legislator raised concerns that new personnel won’t be equipped to deal with one of the county’s most vulnerable populations. State law requires that direct care staff and see hillbrook page 4

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With the new Raise the Age law, Hillbrook Detention Center is preparing to accept 16 and 17 year olds. dan lyon staff photographer

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SU works to make technology platforms more accessible By Sajida Ayyup

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A campus-wide review of digital accessibility at Syracuse University will take place in the upcoming weeks, six months after SU announced its plans to review disability services on campus. The Information and Communication Technology Accessibility Policy, published on Jan. 1, aims to

reduce digital barriers on platforms like MySlice, Blackboard and university webpages. Chancellor Kent Syverud announced in early August that the disability services audit was moving “slowly” because the external reviewers SU hired can’t work as fast as expected. Christopher Finkle, communications manager for SU’s Information Technology Services, said ITS is

helping the university implement the policy by conducting workshops for faculty and staff to make their content accessible. It’s possible to convert the text to voice a Microsoft Word document, but a PDF can run the risk of inaccessibility depending how it is made, Finkle said. A plugin for Adobe Acrobat called CommonLook helps make PDFs more accessible, he said. ITS can determine the accessibil-

ity of a document and point that out to an instructor so that they can change something about it or convert it to a more accessible format, Finkle added. “Your content as a writer or an instructor is not going to be available to everybody who would like to see it,” Finkle said. “We’re about getting people to understand that (with) something like 10 percent of your students or readers, you run into issues.”

Diane Wiener, director of SU’s Disability Cultural Center, said the university-wide review has not happened yet. The university is calling third-party evaluators to analyze the ICT policy, but the project is ongoing. Wiener said the review will be about every single aspect of campus life related to disability and access — an access broadly defined but specifically related to disability justice, see accessibility page 4

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Counseling update Counseling Center Director Cory Wallack discusses the impact of SU’s recent investments. See Thursday’s paper

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Kavanaugh walkout Protesters are planning to walkout of classes to protest Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination. See Thursday’s paper

Diversity discussions SU’s interim chief diversity officer sits down for an interview with student media. See Thursday’s paper

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news briefs Here is a roundup of what happened across New York state this week. NEW COUNTY EXECUTIVE Onondaga County Chairman Ryan McMahon was voted to be county executive. Legislators held the vote on Tuesday after the announcement of resignation of current executive Joanie Mahoney. Mahoney will resign when the budget is finalized in the middle of her term. source: syracuse.com

FUGITIVE ON THE RUN An “armed and dangerous” fugitive is currently on the run from U.S. Marshals of New York and the New Jersey Regional Fugitive Task Force. The fugitive, Deshawnte Waller, is wanted for violating parole and failing to register as a sex offender in the state of Georgia. He was involved in a car crash between Syracuse University and Le Moyne College, and authorities are still looking for him. source: cnycentral

RECORD-BREAKING HEAT Last month was the tenth warmest September in Syracuse on record. Twenty out of 30 days were above normal temperatures. Eleven days reached 80 degrees Fahrenheit or above, and two days reached 90 degrees Fahrenheit or above. Though being exceptionally warm, it was only the 50th wettest September on record. source: localsyr

MEN ARRESTED FOR SHOOTING Two people were arrested for several shooting incidents that occured Sunday night in Utica. One person was shot and a different person’s home was shot, during three separate events that night. Jonathan Padilla, 23, and Victor Merced-Almonte, 21, were charged with felony second-degree criminal possession of a weapon. source: wktv

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Helping hounds THABY (TOP), BELLAMERE (BOTTOM LEFT) AND HARA (BOTTOM RIGHT), therapy dogs who came to Bird Library on Tuesday, play with and comfort Syracuse University students. The dogs were brought to SU as part of the third annual Mental Health Awareness Week, funded in part by Student Association. Several other events are scheduled this week. madeline foreman staff photographer

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Investigative journalist talks maternal death By Jishnu Nair staff writer

Texas Tribune journalist Marissa Evans spoke about her investigation of maternal mortality in Texas at Syracuse University on Tuesday. Evans’ story, “Dangerous Deliveries,” is a look into maternal mortality — the deaths of women in childbirth — and how the state government is contributing to a high mortality rate. The story she wrote for The Tribune resulted in a special state legislature session to discuss the issue. Evans and her team won an Online Journalism Award for explanatory reporting from a small newsroom.

A man shot in Albany on Saturday has died, marking the city’s thirteenth homicide in 2018. Joseph Davis, 42, was shot several times in the chest outside a nightclub, and died on Tuesday. Two bystanders were also shot. Police arrested and charged Shaquille Owens for his alleged involvement in the shooting.

“We are so excited about the award and the potential that this piece has to impact many, even outside of Texas,” Evans said. About 30 people attended the healthcare writer’s presentation in the Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. Evans said the Texas Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Task Force released a report in July 2016 stating the number of women who died in childbirth had doubled. She and Chris Essig, a data journalist and graphic designer for The Tribune, pored over state data, spoke to women who received inadequate postpartum care and

attended the funeral of Michelle Zavala, who died just nine days after giving birth. The story nearly died before publication when state lawmakers dropped a bombshell: Texas would change the way it counted maternal mortality deaths. Evans said she wanted the story out by Christmas, but the latest development threw off her schedule entirely. “I spent most of Christmas break broken-hearted,” Evans said. The Tribune ran a list of resources for pregnant women that is still being updated by the media outlet’s staff as a follow-up to Evans’ story. After her presentation, Evans took questions from professors,

students and staff in the audience. One professor asked Evans how she worked with her editors on the maternal mortality investigation. “This was my first long-form kind of story,” Evans said. “My editors helped me handle the stress well. Plus, I wrote them memos to keep them posted on where I was, so that helped.” Evans is the first speaker to come to Newhouse through the Pulitzer Center Campus Consortium. The Campus Consortium is a network of partnerships between the Pulitzer Center and communications schools. Newhouse’s partnership with the consortium began this year. jinair@syr.edu

FIRES DESTROY HOMES Two fires burned down the homes of more than 70 people on Sunday morning, according to the Red Cross and City of Albany. The fires destroyed 12 buildings, which housed 77 people total. The two fires burned within an hour of each other. Public and nonprofit organizations will help the people who lost their homes. source: cbs6 albany

DUNKIN’ HELPS HOMELESS On Sunday night, a Syracuse Dunkin’ employee dumped a pitcher of water on a homeless man’s head. On Tuesday, the owners of that Dunkin’ said they would serve lunch to homeless people this Saturday, as part of “Sandwich Saturday,” a program by We Rise Above the Streets. source: syracuse.com

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accessibility inclusion, identity and culture. An Office of Civil Rights complaint was filed against the university because of an alleged inaccessible website, she said. She said she believes SU put together a team of people to create a strategic plan to address the issue — any accessibility concerns are being addressed immediately, she said. If somebody’s ordering new software or hardware, it must be accessible, Wiener said. “We shouldn’t have to retrofit things. If we buy a product and we find out there’s some concern with it, we have to work with the company to make sure that they mitigate it and address it immediately,” she said. “The law is a baseline, it’s not about the bare minimum. We want to be better

These measures are meant in part to protect youth from physical and sexual abuse. Nearly 8 percent of detained youth say they’ve been sexually abused by facility staff, according to a 2012 Bureau of Justice statistics report. “I can’t recall a finding of abuse or neglect at any point,” said Pratt, who has worked at Hillbrook since 2016, although “allegations have been made in the past.” Pratt said new employees are trained on the provisions of the Prison Rape Elimination Act, and new residents are told what their rights are and how to report abuse. New employees, he said, are never alone with residents until they have completed several months of training. Hillbrook will begin to require that at least two staff be present in each area of the facility during waking hours, according to legislature meeting minutes. After hearing what Pratt said in the meeting and touring the facility, Democratic legislator Chris Ryan of Syracuse said he thinks Onondaga County is “ahead of the curve” in preparing for Raise the Age. “I’m confident that (Hillbrook will) get the people that they need,” Ryan said after the meeting. “I’m very, very pleased to hear that their facility is going to be ready to accept the additional (residents).” mdavison@syr.edu

than that and we are.” Priya Penner, a junior in the Martin J. Whitman School of Management and president of the Disability Student Union, said that the DSU has been trying to continue conversations about accessibility among students. She added that the Theta Tau controversy, where a video was released that showed people miming the sexual assault of a person with disabilities, shifted campus-wide discussions toward disability rights. “I’ve heard that (SU has) been trying to make it more accessible and that’s great, but you shouldn’t have bought a program that was inaccessible in the first place,” she said. “It’s great that they’re making strides to make this campus more accessible, and have more accessible forums, but I think that’s one very small step in the grand scheme of things.” skkunjum@syr.edu

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SU recently banned straws from five of its residential halls, and while that’s a step in the right direction, it’s not very effective. SU’s Food Services has decided to opt for a more sustainable paper straw alternative. Considering an anti-plastic straw sentiment that has spread across social platforms of late, this isn’t surprising.

Offering paper straws allows us to be more sustainable while also ensuring our campus community members have access to straws for their beverages. Mark Tewksbury assistant director of concessions and merchandise services

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ENVIRONMENT COLUMNIST director of Concessions and Merchandise Services, said the popularity of the topic influenced the decision. “Recent trends gave us the idea to remove plastic straws from our dining centers,” Tewksbury said. “Offering paper straws allows us to be more sustainable while also ensuring our campus community members have access to straws for their beverages.” Of the 500 million straws that are disposed of daily in the United States, most end up in landfills or oceans where they break down into microscopic pieces, called microplastics. These microplastics layer the oceans’ surfaces and are ingested by aquatic life and, eventually, humans. These plastics are harmful, wasteful and ultimately unnecessary. The promotion of steel, paper, glass and bamboo straw alternatives is a great and environ-

mentally-friendly transition. However, in comparison to straws, waste from other plastic products such as shopping bags, balloons, toothbrushes, tampons and fishing nets have more damaging effects. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, the world’s largest collection of floating trash, is made up of 79,000 metric tons of plastic – most of which is abandoned fishing gear. Microplastics only amount to about eight percent of the total trash pile. We should focus on alleviating other sources of plastic pollution. SU simply following the trend of banning plastic straws discourages individual thought regarding our environmental footprint. So, in some ways, the ban may be do more harm than good against the environment. People might begin to simply focus on trends, ignoring the necessity of innovation and the promotion of new concepts to deal with more serious, dangerous environmental issues.

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ur wonderful and most historic football team, under the fantastic leadership of coach Dino Babers, is on the path of success for the Syracuse University family. With this success, the incredible power of television broadcasting, and its ability to reach the audiences of the world in presenting the Syracuse football story is amazing. The television networks provide, at halftime, the promotion opportunity of a lifetime for the competing universities to present a most compelling and magnificent 30-second commercial designed to tell the university’s story. The Syracuse University vs. Clemson University football game this past Saturday was broadcast at high noon — Primetime, lead off game for the American Broadcasting Company/

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ESPN for millions of viewers all over the world. I watched the game, “bled Orange” and held my breath hoping for victory. At halftime, feeling very positive, my next television agenda item was to see the halftime television promotional spot for our most outstanding university. Yes, the airing of the 30 seconds that would tell the Syracuse University story, and the greatness of our university. Once the television spot was aired at halftime, I said to myself, “what an embarrassment for a university that is number one in the world for developing the greatest mass communication professionals in the business.” The S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, where I spent nearly four decades serving as a professor, and teaching the art

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’m not being extra. In today’s world, with everything that is going on, we need to be more aware. Women of color have been having their voices ignored since the very foundation of this country. It happens on major levels (cough cough Kavanaugh) every day. But fam, it happens on even the smallest of levels that we aren’t even fully cognizant of. We say phrases and make taglines that seem completely harmless without giving respect to the accomplishments of the strong women, especially of color, who have earned them. The Daily Orange released a video entitled “Student Association presidents outline mental health Initiatives.” This probably doesn’t seem like a big deal. And to most, it’s not. The initiative is awesome, I encourage you all to check it out. Both Student Association President Ghufran Salih and Vice President Kyle Rosenblum, are amazing student leaders, on top of being world class people. The problem lies in the title “Student Association presidents.” This is the first instance in SA’s long history, or the first that this fifth-year grad student can recall, where the President is a woman of color, and the Vice President is a white male. We’ve had such strong

women as VP. From the legendary Danielle Lopez, to the incomparable Joyce LaLonde. Their roles as VP were always mentioned. It did not inhibit the work they accomplished, or diminish the recognition they received, but it was always mentioned, as if to put an asterisk with their accomplishments. Luckily they were two stars whose lights could not be put out by ignorant phrasing. This is not always the case for women busting their asses in a patriarchal society. I challenge you all to ask yourselves, if Ghufran was VP and Kyle was President would the title be the same? Straight up we all need to be more aware. Me included; I say patronizing phrases I have been conditioned to say all the time without being aware of their true historical meaning. However, an esteemed news outlet like the D.O. should do better, they should be better. We always talk about empowering, and listening to women of color as if they are not there. Well our wish has come true. Salih, an intelligent, passionate woman of color was elected by the student body to be President of our institution. Let’s give her, and all women, the respect they deserve.

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MOVEMENTS , a senior selected studies in education student at Syracuse University, has been involved with It’s On Us since her freshman year. The social movement aims to raise public awareness about sexual assault on college campuses. kai nguyen staff photographer

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hen Emily Durand first travelled from Mississippi to Syracuse University for her freshman year in 2015, she had never taken a sex education class. Her health education teachers had never even explained to her what periods were. But after arriving at SU and discovering It’s On Us — a social movement created to raise public awareness surrounding sexual assault on college campuses — Durand learned what sexual violence and consent were. And then, she realized she had been sexually assaulted by her current partner during their four-year relationship. “I didn’t have anything, and I didn’t know what consent really meant,” Durand said. “I didn’t know what sexual assault or rape or coercion looked like.” In the past year since the #MeToo movement

first went viral, individuals and institutions across industries have grappled with the pervasiveness of sexual assault in American culture and the changing dynamics on how to combat it. At universities across the United States, #MeToo has inspired institutional changes and a fierce outpouring of student-led activism to make student voices — and experiences — heard. “It creates pressure on institutions,” said Kyle Rosenblum, SU’s Student Association vice president. “A social movement that’s saying this is a problem and we need to address it — for institutions that are failing to do so, there’s going to be a lot of backlash on them.” During the SA election season this past April, then-candidates Ghufran Salih and Rosenblum designed a five-pillar campaign platform that included the creation of a sexual assault report resource. Now, as president and vice president of the 2018-19 academic year, Salih and Rosenblum said they are more committed than ever to help see #metoo page 8

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Netflix co-founder gives advice Orange After Dark fall schedule released By Matthew Gutierrez senior staff writer

Nearly two decades ago, the leadership team of a small DVD company filed into a large conference room at Blockbuster’s headquarters in Dallas. They came to pitch their 100-employee company and an idea they thought would disrupt how people watch movies. The company, now known as Netflix, asked for $50 million from Blockbuster, then an industry giant with about 9,000 stores. Blockbuster said no. Marc Randolph, one of its cofounders at the meeting, was wear-

ing flip-flops, a T-shirt and shorts, because he and his colleagues had been on a retreat in Santa Barbara, California. The day before the meeting, Blockbuster called and asked to meet with Netflix executives in Dallas. Randolph and a few colleagues hopped on a charter flight and pitched their fledgling idea. Blockbuster executives stared blankly at them, Randolph recalled. On the flight back to California, Randolph slouched in his chair and sighed. “Now we’re going to have to kick their ass,” he recalled thinking on the plane. On Tuesday afternoon in Syra-

cuse, the former Netflix CEO urged an audience of several hundred that “anyone can innovate and dream big,” as the keynote speaker at the 2018 Upstate Unleashed Conference & Venture Ecosystem Awards. The sold-out conference was hosted by Upstate Venture Connect (UVC), a non-profit organization focused on creating opportunities for entrepreneurs and startups to succeed. Netflix’s soaring subscription growth helped it generate $11.6 billion revenue last year. Randolph served as its CEO until his retired in 2004. He graduated from Hamilton see netflix page 8

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Autumn brings more than a few on-theme events to anticipate: trees turning the warm colors of auburn, gold and brown; a cup of hot chocolate in your hand; cozy sweaters paired with thick socks and Orange After Dark’s fall schedule of events. Orange After Dark (OAD) is an organization at Syracuse University that plans events to help foster a more open and inclusive environment. OAD is hosting a several

events this semester including Pancake Breakfast Stressbuster and Fright Night at the Fair, in addition to a few new events members of the OAD staff are eager to debut. Courtney Jones, the Associate Director at the Office of Student Activities, said that while they’re always trying new things, this semester will include some past favorites. “We’re going rock climbing again. We did that for the first time last semester, and it was such a big hit that we’re going again,” Jones see oad page 8

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#metoo create administrative change in the way SU officials research, investigate and handle alleged assaults on campus. The inspiration for their proposed sexual assault report came from the mental health report compiled by former SA President Eric Evangelista and Vice President Joyce LaLonde in spring 2017. The report helped encourage SU administrative officials to allocate more funding and resources into SU’s Counseling Center as part of the Invest Syracuse initiative. Salih and Rosenblum said they hope a sexual assault report will yield similar results in increasing the number of sexual assault and relationship violence programs and resources available to students in need. “A lot of light was being shed on the resources and the lack thereof of resources and followup from the university to victims of sexual assault and relationship violence,” Salih said. But changing the culture surrounding sexual assault requires more than just administrative efforts, Durand said. Serving as It’s On Us’ at-large adviser, Durand works in close capacity with regional advisers outside of SU to build up their campus chapters according to national standards. She said the benefits of It’s On Us and its appeal to students resides largely in its peer-to-peer organizational framework. “Having it come from students rather than the administration — especially in a time right now where I think there’s not as much trust in from page 7

netflix College, which is about an hour outside of Syracuse, in 1980 with a degree in geology. Randolph said his fondest memories of upstate New York include the outdoors. After class, he said he’d hike the Adirondack Mountains or spend hours rock climbing in Little Falls. He founded several companies before he and fellow Netflix co-founder settled on their big hit. One morning, Reed Hastings heard about a new technology, now known as the DVD. He and Randolph walked into a used music store, bought a pink envelope and put a CD inside it. They sent it to Hasting’s house. The next morning, Randolph said, Hastings held up the envelope. That’s when they realized they had a real idea worth pursuing: a DVD delivery service. The path to what we now know as Netflix did not come without turbulence. Randolph said when he told his wife about the idea for Netflix,

our administration — I do think it’s important because people like hearing things from their peers,” Durand said. “We work closely with the administration, but ultimately our educational tactics are peer-to-peer.” Working alongside SU’s Office of Health Promotion, It’s On Us not only provides educational resources for students regarding sexual assault, safe sex practices and consent, but also gives students opportunities to talk about the impact sexual assault and violence have had on their own lives. One of their programs, Cookies and Consent, encourages students to come and talk about a variety of issues, such as the #MeToo movement and sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Durand said that sometimes, for victims of sexual assault, talking to a therapist isn’t the most proactive solution. By providing students with peer-led resources, she hopes they are better able to find a validating support system within their respective communities. “I’ve been mostly unplugged from (the Kavanaugh hearing), and that’s how I’ve been practicing self-care,” Durand said. “I still know the headlines and everything, and I still have a general idea, but I’m not able to engage with the discourse on Facebook right now. I view self-care as an act of resistance in itself.” According to the 2017 Annual Security Report conducted by the Department of Public Safety, 13 reported rape cases occurred on campus, along with six incidents of forcible fondling. But those are only the number of reported incidents. With Salih and Rosenblum’s proshe looked at him and said: “That’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard.” Blockbuster rejected it. They built a website in six long months. On the first day, Randolph said it crashed 12 minutes in. But he and Hastings believed deeply in what they had dreamt, and the pair rebooted the site within hours, ending Netflix day one with 130 orders. Soon, they walked away from their buy-and-sell DVD business model for one focused on rental. While Randolph advised others remember to give themselves a break — he always made sure to have dinner with his wife every Tuesday at 5 p.m., for example — he took a page from Nike’s playbook, urging his audience at the Oncenter Convention Center to “just do it.” “Everybody has an idea,” Randolph said. “I’ve never met a college student who doesn’t have a dream. But they all have these crazy things they think they need: an MBA, money, blah, blah, blah. Just start. Try something. Take the idea out of your head and start it.” mguti100@syr.edu | @Matthewgut21

posed sexual assault report, they hope students will feel more comfortable not only reporting sexual assault and domestic violence cases on campus, but also that administrators will help implement administrative changes in how investigations are conducted. Ryan Golden, an SA student assembly member and opinion columnist for The Daily Orange, reaffirmed that support for sexual assault victims is a core focus of Salih and Rosenblum’s administration. When running for student assembly representative last spring, Golden campaigned on bringing the sexual assault reporting app, Callisto, to campus. An attempt to implement the app at SU failed during the 2016-17 academic year due to web security concerns. But after speaking with members of SU’s Information Technology Services Center and other universities who have successfully adopted the program, Golden said he believes the app has the potential to create real, proactive change in how students and administrators alike approach sexual assault. “It’s created by people who have been through sexual assault, so it’s traumainformed, which is an important aspect to sexual assault reporting,” Golden said. “I think that what we would see is people feeling more comfortable reporting, and then hopefully later on, less people would have to report.” The program also allows students to document when sexual assaults occur before reporting the incident to campus from page 7

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said. “I think that it’s really fun to go to the local rock gym and take advantage of the cool opportunity there.” Inspired by their Pancake Breakfast Stressbuster event, OAD will also be having their first Midterm Stressbuster. It will be in the Panasci Lounge in Schine Student Center at 10 p.m. on Oct. 13 “I’m hoping people will stop by just to chill out a little bit, take a small break from studying,” said Jones. “It’s not meant to take up your whole night. We want you to get back to studying if that’s what you need to do, but definitely stop in and hang out and just relax a little bit.” Allison Scherger, a freshman student in Newhouse, said OAD events have made her “feel more included and less scared.”. “It was just all of these activities that I would’ve done in high school or even as a kid,” Scherger said. “I thought that the second I got

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officials, timestamping each entry to protect students from issues related to delayed assault reports. “I think right now, what we’re seeing with the Kavanaugh hearings are issues of waiting too long to report,” he said. “(Callisto) will recognize that it happened years ago or months ago, and I’m reporting it now because I feel comfortable.” Most importantly, Golden said that the app would allow sexual assault victims to advocate on behalf of themselves, in their own words and on their own terms. The numbers of sexual assault reports aren’t just numbers, Durand said. They’re people. “I was personally in a really toxic relationship for four years. I was sexually assaulted, and I realized what was going on with me in that situation when I came here,” she said. Four years later, Durand is no longer in a sexually abusive relationship. What she is, she said, is this: she is a School of Education marshal, a member of the Kappa Delta Pi honor society and is on track to graduate with a degree in selected studies in education. The life she has found in It’s On Us, she said, has given her so much more than what she started with four years ago. As Durand sets her sights on life after graduation, the institution she refers to as “her baby” is preparing to enter a new chapter in its own life, as well: It’s On Us has officially been confirmed as a Registered Student Organization. “It literally changed my life,” she said. “I was able to be empowered enough to have the privilege of leaving that situation.” katho101@syr.edu | @writtenbykelsey

to college, I wouldn’t have anything like that anymore, so it definitely served as a reminder that Syracuse is still a fun place that will give me a great education but also allow me to have fun and enjoy my final teenage years.” For students who like to dress up and dance the night away, OAD will host their first End of Year Formal on Nov. 30 at 10 p.m. at the Sheraton Syracuse University Hotel & Conference Center. Jones said the inspiration for this year’s formal came from other organizations hosting similar events, as well as gives students who are new to campus. The OAD Late Night Movie series, held in the Gifford Auditorium every Friday and Saturday at 11 p.m., will feature “Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again,” on Friday, Oct. 12 and Saturday, Oct. 13. “Our hope and goal is to help students meet new people and make new friends as well as give them something to do at night on the weekends,” Jones said. icbartli@syr.edu

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In an industry dominated by men, Alto Cinco owner Johanna Yorke is making waves By Sandhya Iyer

ohanna Yorke has always thought being a good cook is in her blood — her parents were both great cooks, and her grandfather was a chef. Yorke found inspiration for the name of her first restaurant in her mother, who used to work at a Spanish-speaking clinic. She would give high-fives to the young children, to which they responded with in Spanish: “Alto cinco!” The name stuck. But it wasn’t until a month after Yorke opened Alto Cinco that she learned her late grandfather used to own a restaurant too — The Alto House. Through all the tough times in Yorke’s career, including financial hardships and working in a men-dominated industry, she said her connection with her grandfather kept her going. To Yorke, the idea that some other force was at work helped. This Friday marks one year since the #MeToo movement swept across the United States. Women who own, operate and work in central New Yorkbased restaurants are still trying to change age-old stereotypes and rise above the gender bias that exists in the men-dominated industry. Ciara “Miggy” Migliaccio, assistant kitchen manager at Alto Cinco, said in most of the kitchens she’s worked in, she’s been the only woman on the line. Beyond making inappropriate or derogatory remarks, Migliaccio said her male counterparts would pick up the heavier things in front of her, thinking that she couldn’t carry them herself. “Nobody wanted to give me a shot in the kitchen, being a female,” she said. At the beginning of her career in the early

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1990s, Yorke said when she would walk into a professional kitchen, the calendars hanging on the walls would be nearly pornographic. She was shocked that they were hung up in the kitchen, out in the open. Being patronized for her appearance, standing on the receiving end of sexual remarks — it was apparent to Yorke she was alone. But both Migliaccio and Yorke said the visible gender bias in the restaurant industry has improved over the years.

I think the best thing we can do ... is excercise your voice when you’re around something you don’t condone. owner of alto cinco

“I don’t feel like there’s the same blatant sexism as when I started … now that kitchens aren’t as male-dominated,” Yorke said. “... When I started 20 years ago, you were a minority.” At previous jobs, Migliaccio said there were many men on the line who were, in a way, immature and whom she found difficult to “click with.” But at Alto Cinco, even though there are more men than women in the kitchen, “the gentlemen there are actually gentlemen,” she said. Migliaccio also credits working for a strong, independent woman as changing the game for

her — Yorke is a mentor for her both inside and out of the kitchen. “It can get tough,” Migliaccio said. “But there’s a willpower to want to rise above it and make a name for other females out there.” Sometimes even today, when Yorke discusses Alto and Otro Cinco in social settings, if she’s accompanied by a man, people will often assume the man is the owner of the restaurants. Yorke said that kind of response doesn’t bother her anymore — she’s aware of her success and doesn’t feel the need to outwardly take credit for it. “I just look back and I think of the first handful of people that I hired, and that type of experience had nothing to do with male and female. Just really good people,” Yorke said. She just celebrated the 23rd anniversary of Alto Cinco. Maria Norris, a senior film student at SU who works the counter at Alto Cinco, has been employed at several restaurants in the Syracuse area. With any restaurant, even one that’s run by woman leadership, there is still a sexist culture that needs to change, she said. But unlike the other restaurants she’s worked at, Alto Cinco has separate documentation for sexual harassment policy, Norris said. The document states the restaurant’s no-tolerance policy for sexual harassment and also how to go about reporting any instances that occur. “I think the best thing we can do, male and female, is exercise your voice when you’re around something you don’t condone,” Yorke said. “You’ve got to say something. And I think that’s the biggest part of #MeToo that’s empowering.” ssiyer@sy.edu

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Chiara Gutsche sprinted into the penalty circle, hoping she’d get a pass. Kira Wimbert had run in behind the Vermont defense. Wimbert corralled the ball and turned. She slid the ball across face of goal towards Gutsche, but it appeared out of her reach. But Gutsche lunged forward, leaving her feet and barely managing to get her stick on the ball. She finished into the open net and immediately turned to hug Wimbert. The goal was Gutsche’s first of the season. Eight days later, Gutsche scored her second and third goals in an overtime win at Stanford. The third goal meant that she had already scored more as a sophomore than she did her entire freshman year, in the third game of the season. Gutsche leads Syracuse in scoring this season with six goals in 10 games. She’s started every game, after coming off the bench for most of her freshman season. No. 11 Syracuse (6-4, 0-3 Atlantic Coast) won two games from page 12

scholarships wanted, he found his way to Canisius College in 2003. “It dawned on me quite quickly that this is a fantastic route for people like me who were aspiring athletes,” Stanbra said. He helped his brother find his way to the U.S. Then a few friends. He recognized his knowledge about a relatively untapped market and began writing a business plan in his freshman year. The next year, he transferred to South Carolina Upstate and was randomly assigned Krohn as his roommate, who also self-found his way to the U.S. Krohn acknowledged the Norwegian market hadn’t been touched. Since English proficiency and financial grants are all at a higher level in Scandinavia than many other European countries, Krohn said, attending a U.S. college is a seamless transition in Scandinavian countries. As they developed the idea, they employed the help of USC Upstate business Professor Jeff Smith, then a first-year teacher of entrepreneurship. Immediately intrigued by the idea, Smith found an office on the third floor of the administrative building for them to work. “They created a potential industry,” Smith said. Stanbra and Krohn’s first financial statement listed just a cell phone and a laptop. They established themselves as middlemen while they determined, with Smith’s help, the direction of the business. Stanbra admitted they made early mistakes — including funneling 50 percent of their money into Google ads. But it helped them create an understanding of what they had. This is a personal business: They’re asking someone’s son or daughter to move 3,000 miles away, Stanbra said, and they should be trusted to do it. “You can’t sell that through an ad or a poster,” Stanbra said. The 10 to 12 month process with a certain player is often initiated by an email, and then a CSUSA employee matches up with a client and forms a checklist: taking SATs, acquiring stufrom page 12

linebackers rest of the secondary failed to help the run defense. But Bellamy’s first touchdown was a missed gap assignment. Whitner and Guthrie lined up in the midfield next to Antwan Cordy, playing nickelback. The Broncos set a wide receiver in motion to sweep to the right side. Guthrie slid towards his assignment. Whitner was supposed to remain in the middle of Guthrie and Cordy to prevent a run up the middle. But Bellamy faked towards his left before cutting back to his right — Whitner fell for the fake and for just a moment, moved to his right, past Cordy, shifting him off balance enough to give him no time to backtrack, as Bellamy ran right up the

this year because of Gutsche’s goal scoring and forced overtime in two others. Since she’s settled in to playing in the United States, she’s become the focal point of the SU offense along with senior back Roos Weers. “Through the summer, she’s just learned a little bit more professional to the game and having fun, and playing free,” head coach Ange Bradley said. “She got herself in great physical conditioning.” As a freshman, Gutsche came off the bench for the first eight games of the season. She said she needed the transition period to adjust to the differences in U.S. field hockey. Gutsche hails from Falkensee, Germany, one of three SU players from Germany. In her first start, against Rutgers on Sept. 17 of last year, Gutsche scored her first collegiate goal. She earned a few starts after that, but scored one more goal the rest of the season. “I had to figure out how things worked,” Gutsche said. “It took me time to adjust to everything.” Bradley said she noticed a difference this summer when Gutsche returned for preseason. She was in better shape and prepared

to lead the line for the Orange in attack. When Gutsche runs behinds the defense, it helps SU’s offense that sometimes struggles in nonpenalty corner situations. One of SU’s most important goals came off the stick of Gutsche against Pacific. The Orange had trailed 2-0, until Weers scored to halve the deficit. With minutes left, Syracuse scrambled to find an equalizer. That’s when Weers rocketed a pass from outside the circle into the area. Gutsche, who Bradley said is seemingly always in the right place at the right time, got a stick on it and deflected the ball into the goal. Syracuse tied it up and went on to win, 3-2. “She’s always laying it out on the ground,” Bradley said. “She’s smart. She knows how to get herself into position.” On Sep. 23, Syracuse again found itself behind, against Penn. Yet when Laura Graziosi launched a pass in from 25 yards out, Gutsche again was in the right place to corral the ball and score. Gutsche uses her speed and knowledge of the game to find herself in the right positions to score more often than not,

teammate Carolin Hoffmann said. Gutsche and Hoffmann had met previously, playing for the national team in Germany, but weren’t close friends. When they both arrived from Germany, they bonded over adjusting to the differences in play style in America. Gutsche’s stick handling is a key feature from her European background, Bradley said. She’s able to weave through defenders in tight spaces, especially inside the penalty circle. Her stick handling helps win SU penalty corners, where she’s also a part of the set plays. Against Bucknell, the play was drawn up for Gutsche. The ball was passed to Tess Queen, who laid it off to Weers. Instead of shooting, Weers found Gutsche in close. She elevated the ball and scored. Now that Gutsche is more adapted to Syracuse, the goals keep flowing. And Bradley thinks there’s no reason it won’t continue. “She’s learning the system,” Bradley said. “And when she has that confidence 100 percent of the time I think she can be a dominant player in this league.”

dent visas, contacting schools, applying and determining scholarship eligibility. To contact clients, the two traveled to Denmark and other Scandinavian countries, presenting 20 times in five days. They slept some nights in Krohn’s mother’s car, Stanbra said, and others in a tent. They formed relationships with coaches at all levels. Some, like McIntyre and Masalin, they met in their early days of coaching, during the SU duo’s time together at Hartwick. Now, they have a network of “thousands” of coaches. Looking back at the the business plan he helped the two put together, Smith immediately highlighted the executive statement. It’s the first page of the business plan, but Smith always instructs it to be written last. Make it quick — under two pages — and to the point, he said. He singled out the first line: “College Scholarships USA will be a market leader in recruiting and placing talented student athletes in US colleges and universities.” “Boom,” Smith said.

One year, Masalin made three trips to Oslo over a four-month period. Other years, when SU doesn’t have a specific need, are quiet. “It doesn’t matter if I have a five-star right back,” Kumlin said. “If Jukka and Ian (don’t) need that, then I need to go somewhere else.” But when SU needed a center back, Krohn recommended Norheim. When Kumlin left Blue Chip, another recruiting company, to head CSUSA’s expansion to the Swedish market in 2014, his idea for a Scandinavian showcase attracted the likes of Hagman. Kumlin had seen Hagman play for AIKStroudsburg. As team captain, his touch on the ball, passing ability and leadership immediately stood out. Kumlin said Akron and Duke “wanted Hagman bad,” but Kumlin contacted Syracuse first, thinking Hagman would be a good fit. When Hagman and Masalin first spoke, both were hooked. Soerlie first came to the U.S. through College Scholarships USA to attend Gardner-Webb. He admitted “Syracuse” and “Gardner-Webb” didn’t trigger a difference in his mind at the time. After his freshman year, he told his parents that if he played well the next season, he’d transfer. After the season, he called Krohn. Recently, Masalin said the “transfer market”

has exploded, and four-year players are rare. The Orange take advantage of this, though. The NCAA has blackout periods in recruiting, but there aren’t restrictions for schools like Syracuse contacting College Scholarships USA. The company can do recruiting of its own, gathering data from players they feel are fit for U.S. colleges. CSUSA settles the logistics, so when the recruiting gates open, the Orange are ready to pounce. SU attracted Soerlie via transfer, and he’s started four of his first five games for the Orange. With no American equivalent to recruit transfers, schools like Syracuse have the advantage. College Scholarships USA has grown from a staff of just Stanbra and Krohn to 16 full-time members. Its first class sent out 38 students in 2009, Stanbra said, and the most recent one sent 275. Next year, the company expects to help 350 to 400 international players get to U.S. colleges. Already benefiting more than any other team in the ACC, the Orange are in a position of power. “You get the players’ videos. You get to know them, talk to them,” Masalin said. “If you feel like it’s a good fit, you’re going to go on with it.”

Syracuse is among the most intimate of the relationships that the company has formed over the years. Krohn and Masalin have had a consistent stream of contact throughout the years, and the two have conversed about players when they come up. Kumlin estimates that he speaks to Masalin about three or four times a year, and Masalin said he checks in with Krohn a couple of times a month. Krohn contacts Masalin whenever he finds a player fit for Syracuse, Kumlin said, and Masalin trusts Krohn enough that Masalin visits the player in person. “He’s going to come to me and say, why don’t you have a look at this guy?” Masalin said. In 2012, Stanbra accompanied Masalin as he scouted striker Emil Ekblom. Sensing the height of the moment, Ekblom missed badly a golden chance on a penalty kick. Most are obsessed with results, Stanbra said, but he was impressed by how good a “soccer analyst” Masalin was by looking past the mistake. Ekblom came to SU the same year as Alseth, and the two scored a combined 74 points in their time with the Orange — Ekblom scored 42 in two years before he left to pursue a professional contract in Norway. middle for an easy score. Their play improved against Wagner and Florida State. After rushing for 271 yards the week prior, Wagner running back Ryan Fulse managed just 47 yards on 21 carries, and the entire team averaged just 1.0 ypc. “Against Western Michigan, our base personnel, three-linebacker group, really didn’t get that many reps,” Armstrong said. “Being able to really dial it in in Wagner and have a group on the field to get more reps together was really beneficial.” Against Florida State, it was much of the same. Deondre Francois struggled amidst the pressure of the front seven. Linebackers blitzed, opening up paths for the defensive line to sack Francois. SU recorded four sacks against FSU, and hit Francois a plethora of times.

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In 2017, Seminoles running back Cam Akers ran for 199 yards against Syracuse. This season, he netted just 52. Guthrie was named to Pro Football Focus’ All-ACC Team of Week 3. But against then-No. 3 Clemson, when the linebackers had to have their best game of the season, they had their worst. The trio missed gap assignments, failed to generate substantial hits, couldn’t take down runners at the point of attack and at some points, simply couldn’t catch them. With a 23-13 lead, SU was struggling to slow down Clemson running back Travis Etienne. On second down and 10, Clemson handed the ball off to Etienne, who sprinted straight through a gap between the right guard and center, where Guthrie was waiting for him. Etienne hesitated to his left, fooling Guthrie,

and juked back to his right, where Guthrie dove at his feet, unable to make the tackle, before Etienne did the same to safety Andre Cisco and scored on a 26-yard touchdown. Clemson decimated the Orange on the ground, running for 293 yards, with Etienne accounting for 203 and three touchdowns. The linebackers failed to make contact with opposing backs for much of the game, and when they did they were either overpowered or outran. They may have been somewhat successful against SU’s first four opponents, but against a powerhouse, they failed. “They just kept handing him (Etienne) the ball,” SU head coach Dino Babers said. “We knew what they were gonna do, but we couldn’t slow him down.” mdliberm@syr.edu

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‘A fantastic route’ By Michael McCleary asst. sports editor

town 243 miles north of Oslo, Norway, opened a new realm of Syracuse men’s soccer recruiting. In 2012, Ian McIntyre spent time in Trondheim, Norway, making home visits and sitting on sidelines in frigid cold temperatures that dropped near -4 degrees Fahrenheit. “Those guys are far tougher than we are,” McIntyre joked of the cold. Between tiny airports and a cross-country trip in his car, McIntyre spent “the coldest night of my life” alongside Kim Moe Krohn, watching Oyvind Alseth train at 11 p.m. Alseth, part of a 2013 class which included SU’s first two Norwegian players ever, had worked with Krohn to help find a way to a United States college. Krohn is the co-founder of College Scholarships USA, an Oslo and United Kingdom-based company predicated on finding Scandinavian and U.K.-based recruits a path to U.S. colleges. The company has grown tremendously since its birth in 2007 as a U.K.-based service established by former college roommates Krohn and Stewart Stanbra. It has since provided SU some of its top talent over the last five years. SU’s current team features four players that found their way through the service: Jonathan Hagman (Sweden), Severin Soerlie (Norway), Sondre Norheim (Norway) and Petter Stangeland (Norway). They’ve accounted for 15 of the Orange’s 47 points, including a three-goal performance from Hagman on Monday. CSUSA has helped 16 players find homes at ACC schools, 11 of them currently enrolled. Syracuse tops the list in both categories, receiving six players total from the agency, which doubles Virginia Tech’s second-place total of three. “I think we are always in a position to get their best players,” SU assistant coach Jukka Masalin said. While U.S. soccer culture was once thought of as inferior, Emil Kumlin said, the improvement of the talent level in college soccer is consistent with the progress Major League Soccer has made. It’s now seen as an attractive path for top international soccer players — continuing education while competing in high-level college soccer. Nicolay Netskar, a sports consultant at College Scholarships USA and a former client, said when he began playing at Buffalo, he was the only one from any of the three clubs he played for in Norway to attend a U.S. college. Now, there are four to six. “People have maybe opened their eyes a little bit for soccer in the states,” he said.

College Scholarships USA helps Syracuse find Scandinavian recruits

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football

Big runs hurt SU defense By Matt Liberman staff writer

Kielan Whitner breezed into the backfield behind his defensive line. Clemson’s offensive line shifted left to open up space for running back Adam Choice, but no one picked up Whitner, who planted himself to meet Choice head-on. Choice ran through an A-gap, between the center and left guard, and met Whitner head-on. Whitner wrapped Choice just one yard beyond the line of scrimmage, but as Whitner planted his feet into the ground, they just kept sliding forward. Choice propelled his way for the first down, carrying Whitner on his back. “We’ve gotta fit up on tackles better,” defensive lineman Kendall Coleman said. “Make sure that we’re wrapping guys up. Can’t let them get yards after contact.” It has been a shaky season for Syracuse’s (4-1, 1-1 Atlantic Coast) linebacking core of Whitner, Ryan Guthrie and Andrew Armstrong. Although all are veterans, the three have never played together in the same group before this season. They’re attempting to fill the void of recent SU greats: Zaire Franklin and Parris Bennett, both of whom earned All-ACC honors. Through five games, they’ve played well in the passing game but have struggled against the run and haven’t proven the ability to tackle in open space. The team has only given up 250 yards of passing once, in a game when Western Michigan was forced to pass because of an early deficit. Against the run, SU has given up less than 4.5 yards per carry against every opponent except Wagner. Whitner, Guthrie and Armstrong rank first, third and fourth on the team in tackles, respectively, but have often missed crucial tackles. Early against Western Michigan, the linebackers brought strong pressure against the quarterback but couldn’t contain the run. LeVante Bellamy and the Broncos torched the Orange on the ground for 242 yards and 8.6 yards per carry. Bellamy accounted for 120 of those with 10.9 yards per carry and two touchdowns. On Bellamy’s 64-yard touchdown run, Whitner and Guthrie were in a great position as the only two linebackers on the field, but the

Fifteen years ago, Stanbra like most young soccer players in the United Kingdom, looked for a path to professional soccer through the club system. In the U.K., like many countries outside of the United States, there is typically a split between people pursuing athletics and people seeking an education at a university. Stanbra said he had grown used to the mindset that when you didn’t go pro, your career was over. When it dawned on him quickly that he “wasn’t quite good enough,” he remembered an older player on his club team had found his way to a U.S. college. In the early days of the internet, Stanbra searched the web to discover what options he had. Though unsure of what he

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men’s basketball recruiting

John Bol Ajak, 6-foot-10 center, commits to Syracuse By Anthony Dabbundo staff writer

Syracuse added a second player to its incoming Class of 2019 on Tuesday. John Bol Ajak committed to Syracuse, according to Prep Circuit. Ajak posted an Instagram photo of him in an Orange jersey, announcing his commitment to SU.

The 6-foot-10, 205-pound forward hails from Paoli, Pennsylvania, and attended Church Farm School before transferring to Westtown School for his upcoming senior year. Ajak is rated as a three-star recruit, according to 247 Sports. He’s ranked No. 371 in the nation, and the No. 61 center. With Paschal Chukwu graduating after the 2018-

19 season, the Orange will have minutes to fill at the center position. He said during the summer that he had remained in close contact with Syracuse assistant coach Adrian Autry. Ajak said back on July 12 that Autry was regularly checking in on him after what he called a “bad spring.” SU head coach Jim Boeheim

also made contact with Ajak throughout the summer. “They’ve been really honest with me,” Ajak said in July. “They told me to continue to be aggressive, finish at the rim and be a good teammate.” Ajak played AAU basketball for Team Final over the summer, where his play improved. He said then that Syracuse was near the top of his list.

“Syracuse is an awesome school,” Ajak said in July. “I love everything about it, the coaches, the style of play.” Ajak took an unofficial visit to Syracuse for a game last year, then made an official visit to campus last weekend. Ajak had multiple Division I offers, including major interest from George Washington and St. Joseph’s. amdabbun@syr.edu