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SU professor Cliff Davidson is set to run his 100th marathon on Oct. 13.

Davidson’s marathon ventures have led him to run with the governor of Iowa and places like South Korea.

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Several schools in Syracuse are undergoing renovations as part of a $300 million investment plan.

The project prioritizes schools most in need of resources.

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Lysianne Proulx struggled with a hip injury last season for SU women’s soccer. Because of the stress of the injury, her dad said, “that was not my daughter.”

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University considers ride-hailing services

By Alex Rouhandeh staff writer

As colleges across the country are turning to ride-hailing services for campus transportation, Syracuse University is evaluating the potential of implementing a partnership of its own.

Ride-hailing services, such as Uber and Lyft, began operating in Syracuse in 2017. The university has looked into possible ride sharing options in the future, said Christine Weber, public information officer for the Department of Public Safety, in an email.

SU currently partners with transportation company Centro to provide bussing throughout campus and the City of Syracuse.

The university announced in September that it would be purchasing four trolleys as part of its transportation services.

There has been a decrease in usage of university-provided transportation services, especially during late-night and weekend hours since the introduction of ride-hailing services, see shuttles page 4

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Council discusses deer culling

RASHAD JR. (LEFT) AND DEVON WILLIAMS pose for a photo after playing in the yard outside their home where a code inspector found lead in the soil earlier this year.

Room for hope

By Marnie Muñoz

contributing writer

The Syracuse Common Council finalized the city’s plan to drastically reduce its deer population with government-contracted sharpshooters during Wednesday’s meeting.

Mayor Ben Walsh’s deer and tick management advisory group presented a comprehensive management plan to the council earlier this year. In the report, the group proposed an official “trap and kill” method as the most efficient way to reduce the overwhelming amount of deer in residential areas.

Deer in Syracuse cause the most damage through auto accidents and spreading ticks, according to a report the advisory group released in June. The animals can affect forest ecosystems, water runoff excess and invasive plant life — which may damage residential properties.

The report estimated that there see deer page 4

Photo story by Jessica Ruiz contributing photographer

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arlene Medley, 39, is a single mother of nine. Last year, she took her 3-year-old twins to a clinic in Syracuse for a yearly check-up.

She found out that they both had high levels of lead in their blood.

Rashad Jr. Williams had bloodlead levels of 20 to 22 micrograms per deciliter. His brother Devon Williams was at 12 to 16.

New state regulations lowered the standard for elevated lead levels in children’s blood from 10 to 5 micrograms per deciliter. Counties

are required to inspect the house of any child whose levels are above that threshold.

Effects of lead poisoning can include developmental delays, behavior problems and weight loss.

Medley recognizes these symptoms in her sons.

Lead has been found all over their home: in the paint on the walls, in dust on toys and in soil outside her home where her children play.

“I’m watching my kids suffer,” she said.

Nearly 500 Syracuse children tested in 2018 were found to have elevated lead-blood levels, according to the county health departsee the photo story on page

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ment. More children may be considered to have elevated levels under the new standard.

During the summer, her twin boys were sick with the Coxsackievirus. The virus was misdiagnosed six times by different doctors. When the doctor eventually diagnosed them, the wounds inside their mouths were already healing. These are the rashes depicted in the photos.

The last time Rashad Jr. was tested, he had a blood-lead level of 9 micrograms per deciliter. Devon had a level of 8. Medley hopes the levels will drop further the next time they are tested.

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GROCERY STORE Developer Devin Dal Pos proposed the construction of a 53,000 square-foot grocery store for 547 E. Genesee Street in the town of Fayetteville. The lot was previously the location of the O’Brien and Gere manufacturing building. Dal Pos also proposed constructing a memory care facility and a smaller, 3,500-square foot building. source: syracuse.com MASTER DEVELOPER Blueprint 15, a nonprofit organization aiming to revitalize the city’s East Adams Street neighborhood, selected a master developer for the project with the Syracuse Housing Authority. McCormack Baron Salazar will oversee the project, which would tear down the Pioneer Homes, McKinney Manor and Central Village public housing complexes. source: syracuse.com FEDERAL GRANT

Significant songs COLLEEN KATTAU, a professor of Spanish at SUNY Cortland and bilingual singer-songwriter, held a performance and lecture featuring songs from female folk artists and nueva canción genre. Kattau, who received a doctorate in Spanish language and culture from SU, talked about the context of how the songs were presented and their lyrical content. corey henry photo editor

Onondaga County will receive $4 million from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to provide mental health services to county youth. The funding will be distributed over a four-year period and will directed toward at-risk youth ages 16 to 21. source: syracuse.com

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RECORD TEMPERATURES

By Matti Gellman

Upstate New York saw record-high temperatures on Oct.1, with cities experiencing 80 degree heat. It was 88 degrees in Syracuse, breaking the hottest temperature records for both Oct. 1 and the month of October. The records were last broken in 1927 and 1963, respectively. source: syracuse.com

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Several schools in the Syracuse City School District have been renovated as part of a state- funded project managed by the city.

A total of $300 million will be invested in city schools, Syracuse Mayor Ben Walsh said at a media roundtable in September. About half of that sum has already been invested, he said. The district is renovating a total of 15 schools.

“We’re taking care of some punch list items on a handful of our schools and we have some work to do,” Walsh said. “Big picture, I think that sends a strong message on the value that we put on educating our young people.”

The Joint Schools Construction Board, run by SCSD and the city, is managing the investments. The current renovations are part of the board’s Comprehensive Plan, which is in its second phase.

Temperature provisions and a new fence were installed in Bellevue Elementary School before the start of the school year. The school’s roof was also removed and replaced. Frazer Middle School received renovated masonry and data wiring, and its pool was removed. Edward Smith Elementary School’s first f loor hallway remains under construction. The total cost of these renovations is estimated at about $66 million, according to JSCB reports.

Since 2006, the board has overseen renovations to Fowler High School, H.W. Smith School, Dr. Weeks Elementary School and the Institute of Technology at Syracuse Central. Those projects were part of the project’s first phase.

The plan’s second phase was authorized 2013, when the New York state legislation was amended to allow JSCB to allocate up to $300 million for school construction.

Corcoran High School, Danforth Middle School and Edward Smith K-8 School were among the 15 schools deemed eligible for reconstruction under the legislation.

The project prioritizes schools most in need of resources to improve the quality of education district-wide. The particular needs

of each of the eligible schools were detailed in a JSCB presentation.

Bellevue needs a new roof and plumbing systems. Danforth needs new electrical and mechanical systems. Ed Smith needs interior repairs and new windows.

The second phase of the project is scheduled to be completed by 2022, according to the JSCB. Jaime Alicea, superintendent of SCSD, said in a statement that the project is being carried out in multiple phases because the district has never renovated so many schools at once.

Based on annual visual inspections conducted in 2014, the costs needed to repair the 15 eligible schools amounts to more than see renovations page 4

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SU professors to write book on social media

By Meilin Quinn staff writer

Three Syracuse University professors are writing a textbook about the ways politics and social media intersect.

Professors Regina Luttrell and Jon Glass, of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, and professor Lu Xiao, of the School of Information Studies, are authors and editors of “American Democracy: Influence, Activism and Misinformation in the Social Era.” The

textbook, geared toward political communications classes, is set to be published in spring 2021.

The textbook will consist of essays written by researchers from across the country and explore topics from online activism to the spread of misinformation through social media. Luttrell, Glass and Xiao will all write separate chapters.

“It is about the empowerment that social media has brought to the everyday person,” Glass said, “and how we are using that within our political system.”

The textbook comes after the

three professors organized the lecture series Social Media and Democracy in 2018. The series was so well received that the professors decided to expand on its ideas in the textbook, Luttrell said.

Luttrell’s chapter will examine social media and the women’s movement. Social media has assisted in the revitalization of the women’s movement. The 2017 Women’s March was a catalyst, she said.

“All of a sudden, it was happening,” Luttrell said. “You couldn’t turn on the television without seeing the March. It was all over

the world.”

Glass’ chapter will be about social media’s impact at the local level. He said social media has become a vehicle for causes to promote their message and organize.

“It’s definitely been one of the major changes within the societal communication of how people gather,” Glass said.

Social media has significantly shifted the way politics are promoted, consumed and engaged with, Glass said. He called it a “game changer” for how information is see book page 4

SEWAGE BOSS The former boss of a sewage treatment plant was sentenced on Tuesday after letting raw sewage flow into Lake Ontario. Gary Hallinan, 61, will serve two years of probation and pay a $1,000 fine as well as 200 hours of community service. Hallinan admitted to dumping the sewage in May. source: syracuse.com SYRACUSE ARREST Robert Walker, 50, of Syracuse, was arrested on multiple charges, including criminal possession of a weapon, after a shots fired incident. No one was shot during the incident, which occurred last week around South Salina Street and Warner Avenue. For hours, police surrounded a home that they thought he was inside of. Walker turned himself in, police say. source: local syr PUBLIC HEARING Onondaga County legislators will hold a public hearing for the county’s proposed 2020 budget on Thursday at 6 p.m. County Executive Ryan McMahon’s proposed a $1.3 billion budget. The hearing will be held in the legislature. source: syracuse.com

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shuttles said Jennifer Horvath, communications director for Business, Finance, and Administrative Services, in an email. But there has been little to no impact from this change from a financial standpoint, she said.

Schools in central New York have already established partnerships with ride-hailing companies. Both Cornell University and Ithaca College have partnerships with Zimride, a company that matches passengers and drivers for colleges and businesses. Over 4.5 million traveled miles have been saved through the partnership, as well as over 3.45 million pounds of carbon emissions, according to Cornell’s Zimride website.

Harvard University, Northeastern University, University of Florida, University of Southern California and The Ohio State University all have partnerships with ridehailing companies, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education.

Northwestern University recently abandoned its in-house Safe Ride service in favor of a partnership with ride-hailing company Via, The Daily Northwestern reported. Students are expected to see a 38% increase in the number of hours drivers are available, Metro reported.

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being questioned.

While they have finished the textbook’s abstract, the textbook is still in its early stages, Glass said. The authors will be contributing their essays over the next six months, and the editing process will unfold from there.

Among the academics contributing, an essay to the textbook is written by Biko Gray, professor of religion at SU. His chapter will look into the effectiveness of social media in promoting and organizing the Black Lives Matter movement, as well as how law enforcement reacts to online from page 1

deer

are 50 deer per square mile in the city’s Eastside, where Syracuse University is located.

The plan is set to be implemented soon.

The council will vote on a number of measures regarding the plan next Wednesday.

The Department of Parks, Recreation and Youth Programs will file a permit with the New York Department of Environmental Conservation for workers to begin culling, or killing, the deer this fall.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture will then contract sharpshooters using professional equipment such as high-level motion detectors, said Julie LaFave, commissioner for the Department of Parks, Recreation and Youth Programs.

The process will take place at predetermined locations at least 500 feet from public roadways and will begin at dusk during the winter months, LaFave said. Councilor Joseph Carni, of the 1st district, expressed support for the measure.

“This is something we should have done years ago,” Carni said.

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physics and Spanish language, literature and culture, said ride-hailing services allow her to go more places, especially since she doesn’t have a car.

“When we didn’t have Uber, we only really had either the buses or taxis, and sometimes I didn’t have time to be able to take the bus,” she said. “If I took the taxi it was quite expensive.”

According to a 2019 study by the Pew Research Center, 36% of U.S. adults say they have used ride-hailing services, up from 15% in 2015. Among people 18 to 29 years old, 51% said they have used ridehailing services.

Six SU residence halls made the list of top 10 Uber destinations in Syracuse in 2018.

Day Hall was No. 2 on the list, followed by Flint Hall, Lawrinson Hall and the Brewster/Boland/Brockway Complex. Sadler Hall landed at No. 7 on the list, and the Sheraton Syracuse University Hotel, which houses some students, was at No. 9.

SU’s four trolleys will debut on campus in November as a replacement for the routes covered by Birnie Bus. The university’s contract with Birnie. The routes include the Quad Shuttle, the Warehouse Express, the Late Night Orange Express and the Euclid Shuttle.

Sophia Thurman, a senior policy studies major, lives on South Campus and regumovements, he said.

“What I’m really interested in is how hashtags begin to proliferate, and how activists begin to use social media as a tool for organizing,” Gray said. “And how the very use of social media brought more attention from the state to try to counteract the organizing efforts of the Black Lives Matter movement.”

Luttrell said social media has become an equalizer. Anyone with an internet connection can use Facebook or Twitter to have a voice, she said.

“You can have a say in whatever the democratic process is to you,” Luttrell said. mpquinn@syr.edu

Operations may take place in residential areas, a matter of concern for some councilors.

Councilor Latoya Allen, of the 4th district, and Council President Helen Hudson stressed the importance of informing city residents beforehand for their safety, given the nighttime hours of operation.

“If you come out there at dusk, this seems like a problem,” Allen said.

Other council members said it was important for discretion about the sharpshooting locations. Councilor Joe Driscoll, of the 5th district, cited possible interference from animal rights activists. He also pointed to the location approval process in place for shooters to approach an area.

“It’s not like someone on Brookford (Road) is going to open their back window and be surprised by seeing sharpshooters in their backyard,” he said.

The taskforce would work in coordination with the police department, LaFave told the council.

Public outreach is still critical to the operation’s success. The Department of Parks and Recreation will likely send a press release communicating the activities to affected residents beforehand, she said.

Syracuse University currently partners with transportation company Centro to provide bussing throughout campus and the city of Syracuse. corey henry photo editor

larly uses campus shuttle services. She’s had a generally positive experience with campus transportation and shuttles, she said.

“I haven’t had too many incidences of

them not following their schedule, but when it does happen, I have had to take an Uber to class to avoid being late,” Thurman said.

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Danforth Middle School and Westside Academy at Blodgett, also slated for renovations, are among New York state’s lowest 5% of public schools in terms of performance.

The schools were at risk of being turned over to an independent receiver for failing to meet state performance requirements last year. The JSCB allocated $5.5 million this fall for their renovation, which placed a greater emphasis on interdisciplinary and expeditionary learning within the curriculum. “(Our schools) have shown demonstrable improvement and are making progress on the rest of the renovations,” Alicea said.

renovations $600 million. Total repairs to schools within SCSD are estimated to cost close to $900 million, according to JSCB documents.

The JSCB approved an $18.2 million contract in August to renovate Fowler’s stadium field and tennis courts, said Michael Henesey, SCSD’s administrator of communications.

Fowler was promised a field in 1997, but the project fell apart due to financial difficulties.

“It’s about time these kids get a field,” said Samantha Lopez, mother of a Fowler High School student. “I know other schools in this city that have them, so tell

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The Syracuse Common Council will vote next Wednesday on the final details of the city’s plan to combat an overpopulation of deer and ticks. daily orange file photo

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Stop charging for essential services New campus security measures show promise A s the midpoint of the fall semester at Syracuse University approaches, the student experience is under pressure. Students complain about unreliable Wi-Fi and 4 a.m. fire alarms, but a considerable number of these criticisms specifically revolve around services that students are obligated to pay for, such as on-campus parking and laundry.

SU should follow in the footsteps of many of its fellow academic institutions and make basic and necessary amenities and services free to students.

It’s outrageous that we have to pay for laundry since tuition is so expensive to start with Ana Baez flint hall resident assistant

In recent years, many students, especially upperclassmen, have argued for free on-campus parking. An academic year parking pass can cost between $431 and $853.

With students living as far from main campus as the Westcott neighborhood and the costs of a parking pass so high, the student body arguing for free parking isn’t outrageous by any means. It’s logical. Free parking would help students allocate the limited funds they do have

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toward other things necessary to comfortably exist as a full-time student on a college campus.

Another popular complaint about SU’s housing experience is the cost of laundry services.

Each on-campus residence hall has multiple washers and dryers for students to use. It costs $1.50 per load to use a washer and $1.25 per load for dryers.

Students can pay with coins or with money loaded onto their SUpercard Plus accounts.

The cost to use these services may seem minimal, but most students have to do laundry at least once a week, and with almost 30 weeks spent on campus each year, the change adds up.

“Their goal is to make money,” said freshman Danny Cavalier.

But does Syracuse really need your five quarters after they’ve already charged you up to $74,799 to attend school here?

“It’s outrageous that we have to pay for laundry since tuition is so expensive to start with,” said Ana Baez, a Flint Hall resident assistant.

It is necessary for students to have clean clothes.

According to the Office of Admissions, the 2019-2020 cost of attendance for students enrolled prior to fall 2018 includes a $16,272 direct cost for housing and meals. If laundry services are found within

the on-campus residence halls themselves — an essential component of living in campus housing— then they should be included in this portion of a student’s annual tuition.

Multiple colleges and universities across the country have shifted to a free laundry system for students. Ohio State University, University of Albany, University of Buffalo and Columbia University, among others, have realized that laundry isn’t an extra cost students should have to incur, but an integral part of their living on campus.

Syracuse University takes pride in explaining to donors, perspective students and families that students’ wellbeing is the administration’s number one priority. Syracuse University does offer its students great academic and social services like tutoring, academic planning, counseling, gym access and even pet therapy, to name a few. These services help students succeed and improve well-being, but there are also expenses that currently just burden students. SU can do better to recognize which services are essential to their students’ living on campus and reevaluate if they really need to be charging students for that.

Christian Andreoli is a freshman history major. His column appears bi-weekly. He can be reached at ctandreo@syr.edu.

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Commencement backup plan not ideal

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yracuse University released its alternative weather plans for the 2020 Commencement ceremony. This potential alternative would entail moving all ceremonies to the Manley Field House arena, located just off South Campus. Due to the limited size of the facility, commencement would be split into two separate ceremonies.

The school’s split from convention is largely unavoidable, so it is up to the university to ensure that students still receive a sentimental departure.

The alternative arrangements are not ideal. Division is the last thing that students and families want to experience on a day symbolizing the growth and accomplishment of an entire class.

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Plans for the 2020 Commencement have already been met with disappointment stemming from students and families that are upset with the ceremony’s relocation from the Carrier Dome to the Quad.

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ceremonies indoors.

Because weather alternative plans would entail divided graduation ceremonies, SU should make it a priority to celebrate the unity of the graduating class in a way comparable to traditional commencement. This might involve an occasion separate from the graduation itself where students are able to come together as an entire class to celebrate their achievements and departure from SU. However it materializes, it’s important that a divided ceremony doesn’t detract from the collective accomplishment of the class of 2020.

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his week the Department of Public Safety released SU’s annual security report, federally mandated by the Jeanne Clery Act since 1990. The report lists the last three years NICK of crime staROBERTSON tistics from SU LEFT OF THE as well as the ISSUES campus’ safety procedures and policies. Crime decreases may be proof that changes to DPS and security measures on and around campus are increasing student safety.

In this year’s report, crime decreased overall across campus, with the biggest drop coming from disciplinary action due to liquor law violations, a 35% decrease last year.

Sex crimes and crimes that violate the Violence Against Women Act also saw a drop of 30% in 2018.

Actions taken by DPS in the last school year have likely had a positive effect on the safety of the student body, as the report shows.

These statistics show promise for the future of student safety at SU, and continued policy reform by DPS and the university should further this improvement, to continue the trend into this school year.

After an assault on Ackerman Ave. last February, which the SU

Student Association described as “racially charged”, SA voted to review DPS through a third party.

In response to this incident, DPS expanded late-night shuttles on campus, and made other policy changes. DPS also increased transparency into their actions and jurisdiction, in response to a student forum held the same month.

So far this year, DPS has continued policy reform, planning to add security cameras in the Euclid area and further expanding late-night escorts. Other security measures have also been added this year, including the use of Wildfire, a crowd-sourced public safety app that collects tips and notes from students and can push notifications to users of important safety information.

Certain crimes, such as burglary, did increase in the last year, however, showing that current reforms are not enough to curb crime at SU. In 2018, burglary instances increased by 36% to a total of 38 instances compared to 2017.

Nick Robertson is a freshman political science and broadcast and digital journalism major. His column appears bi-weekly. He can be reached at njrobert@syr.edu.

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Room for hope 1. Azari (left), Devon, Teoonna and Rashad Jr. Williams, four of Darlene Medley’s nine children, pose for a photo in front of their home in North Syracuse. Lead was found in the home late last year.

2. Rashad Jr. had blood-lead levels of 20 to 22 micrograms per deciliter last year. Any amount of lead in the blood is considered dangerous. The last time he was tested, he had a level of nine.

3. During the summer, Darlene’s twin boys Rashad (left) and Devon, were sick with the Coxsackievirus, which was misdiagnosed six times by different doctors. These are the rashes that are depicted in the photos.

4. Darlene tried to prepare supper every day for her children in her home. She is rushing to get food on the table because she was called into work on her day off. Her nine children range in age from three to 22 years old.

5. Though lead poisoning has affected Devon (pictured) and Rashad in many ways, it doesn’t stop them from having smiles on their faces.

Darlene hopes their blood-lead levels will drop lower the next time they’re tested. jessica ruiz contributing photographer

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ROUTE will run his 100th marathon on Oct. 13. He’s completed his last 99 marathons over the past 19 years. Once he hit his 75th, he knew all he needed to do was keep running at the same rate to reach 100. corey henry photo editor

SU professor to run his 100th marathon this month

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n his run around Syracuse’s Eastside, Cliff Davidson, an environmental engineering professor at Syracuse University, identifies the houses of colleagues and students. He waves at bus drivers and greets people in their yards. He points out the peach tree he’s picked from and the areas that have the most deer.

Davidson approaches hills with a smile, welcoming the challenge and view of the city.

At the top, he says he can gauge the clarity of the air by how many water towers he can see on the horizon. He likes running in Syracuse, even in the winter.

For the last seven years, Davidson has run this nearly seven-mile route almost every other day as part of his training for 99 marathons in less than 19 years. On Oct. 13,

Story by Austin Lamb contributing writer

Davidson will run his 100th marathon — the Empire State Marathon in Syracuse, for the third time in his career.

“He’s just full of energy, just keeps going like the Energizer Bunny,” said Davidson’s neighbor Sam Clemence, a retired triathlete who’s run with Davidson on occasion.

Davidson didn’t grow up expecting to be a marathoner. He ran track and cross country at Carnegie Mellon University and continued running recreational five-kilometer and 10-kilometer races afterward. It wasn’t until he was 50 years old that some friends convinced him to do his first marathon.

Davidson said he was apprehensive

at first, but after the race, he realized how much he enjoys marathons.

The possibility of completing 100 marathons didn’t appear realistic to Davidson until he was at his 75th and realized that all he needed to do was to keep running at the same rate.

“He’s very determined in everything he does,” said his wife, Megan.

Davidson moved to Syracuse in 2010.

After about a year, he settled on the 10K route that he now runs every other day, structured around the roads that are snow-plowed first.

Davidson runs anytime from dawn to dusk, occasionally leaving in the middle of the work day to run. He often doesn’t plan his runs until five minutes before, but said there hasn’t been a day when he doesn’t feel like running. see marathon page 12

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Bandier student opener talks London upbringing, music

By Diana Riojas

Now, the DJ talks about his musical progression and influences:

Opening for Bandersnatch 2019 is Syracuse University’s very own Khari Brandes, professionally known as Troyce Pitones — a DJ and junior is the Bandier program.

Born in San Diego, CA, Pitones moved to London at 9-years-old and grew up with a mother in the book-publishing industry and his father playing bass in a reggae band. Pitones said his international upbringing, along with his mother’s Caribbean heritage exposed him to genres like hip-hop and housemusic, among others.

The Daily Orange: How would

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you describe your music style? What were the genres that shaped you?

Troyce Pitones: I think growing up in London, I feel like where you grow up dictates what your ears are tuned to. London has a very international sound. It draws from dance music from Chicago, hip-hop from Atlanta and Chicago as well. There’s lots of Caribbean influences and African influences. So it’s all mixed under one umbrella. I would say that just growing up in a place like London, it embeds in you those kinds of rhythms

from different places.

Once I took my gap year, my horizons broadened. I was going to the clubs and experiencing more of those different kinds of music like trap music and grime.

D.O.: What did you do in your gap year, how did that time influence you?

T.P.: I mostly did it just to mentally prepare myself for college.

I think it helped me a lot because I grew up a lot in that year. I definitely wanted to have more time to spend on just music, so it gave me a really good chance to get better at producing. I turned 18 at the beginning of my gap year in

London, I was able to start doing club gigs, which is really a great learning experience.

It helped me get a lot better as a DJ. You can only be so good when you don’t have an audience. I feel going into a club, humbled me because it was like starting from the bottom. It made me a lot better at music discovery because you have to play to your room.

D.O.: How would you describe the

Syracuse music scene? And how has it influenced you?

T.P.: The Syracuse music scene is really interesting. It’s quite small, but high quality. It’s been cool to see

the house show culture, and to see artists like Clairo and Claud come through Syracuse was really cool.

It’s been inspiring to see people being involved in the scene here and then go on.

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form in particular at Bandersnatch?

T.P.: I’ve been listening to “BOP”

by DaBaby. I’m excited to play that because I already know how I’m going to transition into it. And the rest I’ll keep as a surprise.

This Q&A has been edited for brevity and clarity. ddriojas@syr.edu @TheDianaRiojas

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SU’s first geek art CONfluence to feature artists, faculty

By Joey Pagano staff writer

Saturday afternoon, Syracuse University will host its first ever Geek Art CONfluence, a oneday celebration of geek culture.

The convention will showcase artists and comics from local universities and some members involved in SU’s student organizations. The panels will discuss the influence, history and identity of geek culture, along with values of the culture. The event will be held at the SUArt Galleries in the Shaffer Art Building on Oct. 5 from 1 to 5 p.m.

Chris Wildrick, the SU professor who organized this event, added that the CONfluence will aim to emphasize the artistry found in from page 11

marathon Runs are often a time when Davidson can daydream and relax. But he also finds that his mind is more focused. He’ll often think of exam questions for his upcoming tests. If he’s stuck on a problem, he’ll go out for a run and, often, will arrive at a solution regarding exams, research group meeting and homework assignments among others, he said.

Davidson only changes his route for errands — like stopping by Lowe’s to order extra research equipment.

“If you want to be able to think about research questions while you’re running, you don’t want to think about ‘Which street should I take?’ It’s important to have the route down to memory and to not have to switch,” he said.

For Davidson, marathons aren’t about the competition anymore. What keeps him up the night before a race isn’t nervousness, but excitement. He said he looks forward to meeting new people and talking with them during a race, especially when he can talk with other professors.

“I just do it for the fun,” he said. “I’m not trying to get trophies and that kind of stuff.”

geek culture, such as creating costumes.

“I’m especially interested in the creativity, skill and vision that fans have, and the amazing products and activities they engage in,” Wildrick said in an email.

Benjamin Judkins, a professor at Cornell University, will be hosting the “Jedi Knight Identity” panel. He said in an email there will be two sessions that will feature student papers and research, while the other two will focus on faculty. He added that the entire event combines a “mini-comicon” with cosplayers and artists, and broadly examines different approaches in popular and geek culture.

In Judkins’ panel he will discuss the values in the hyper-real martial arts, he said. He will focus on the Lightsaber Combat Community Davidson, whose job requires him to attend conferences around the world, said he prefers not to travel just for a marathon,n so will often schedule races nearby his destinations.

In his almost two decades, he’s admired views from Lake Tahoe, run with the governor of Iowa and his security detail, and flown to South Korea for a race. He’s endured a 7,000-foot altitude in New Mexico and smog in Taiwan.

Davidson likes teaching and devoting time to a green roof downtown. He doesn’t want to become addicted like some runners he’s met who’ve run hundreds of marathons. He doesn’t want his life to become consumed by running.

“Running is always something I look forward to,” he said. “It kind of keeps me in goodspirits.”

Davidson’s only goal for No. 100 is to wear the shirt his wife bought him that says “My 100th Marathon.” Once the hundredth is behind him, Davidson plans to continue running marathons until he can’t anymore.

“My primary care physician said that’s the way to do it,” he said. “Just keep running until you can’t do it anymore.” aclamb@syr.edu

in relation to real combat practices that draw from fictional pieces. For example, he said the practice of martial arts and the construction of identity ties together.

This also expands to a professional level, he said, because art is involved in the making of video games, table games, movies, TV shows and comic books. Because of this, visitors will learn new ways to appreciate the work they’ve seen before.

But video games are different than other arts, said Erin Elliott, the president of SU’s Game Club, in an email. She added that video games allow participants to engage with another world in ways other art forms cannot.

Also, other art can be analyzed through artistic design, Elliot said, and in video games, story design and music form, can all be analyzed.

Judkins said the event has something for everyone.

“It’s a nice example of not just interdisciplinary discussions,” he said, “but really trying to push the bounds of engagement between theory and practice on a subject that everyone loves.”

Elliott added that geek culture gives students the chance to connect with people with the same interests and has introduced her to different kinds of people from different backgrounds.

“I think to me there’s two main things about geek culture that makes it special: acceptance and debate,” she said. “Sure, there’s some prejudice, but at its core I’ve found geeks to be the most accepting people who don’t judge based on first impressions.” gfpagano@syr.edu

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Verdict is in Syracuse Stage show sparks political conversation with “Twelve Angry Men”

By Christopher Cicchiello and Arabdho Majumder the daily orange

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hirteen actors, a stifling hot room, a knife and many discussions regarding race. These components bring to life a 1954 courtroom drama that is eerily reminiscent of the so-called Trumpian rhetoric heard today, said actor Seth Andrew Bridges.

“I don’t think we could have known how presentday it feels inside that 1957 lens,” director James Still said.

Syracuse Stage will present the Reginald Rose teleplay classic courtroom drama “Twelve Angry Men,” from Oct. 9-27. The director said that the company previously held productions in Indiana that shocked audience members with its compelling narrative and timely debates.

“When we played for four weeks in Indianapolis, we had talkbacks and audience members would say this has to have been updated,” Bridges said. “They were in disbelief that there was no additional massaging or rewrites on our end.”

The play depicts the follow-up to the closing arguments in a 1957 murder case in New York. A guilty verdict would mean the death penalty for an inner-city teenager, and together the 12 jurors, must decide a verdict. What begins as an open-shut case for 11 jurors soon spirals into doubt and speculation as only a single juror votes “not guilty.”

As he begins to sway the opinion in the room, the deliberation becomes less about the murder trial, and more about personal experiences and prejudices as the dozen men hold the fate of the accused.

“In terms of why now, we don’t really have anything to do with the programming, but I think it’s a 60-year-old piece and still very prescient,” Bridges said. “And there’s lines in the show that every night get a huge reaction from people because they sound

like they could have been said yesterday.”

Bridges gave an example of one those lines, “I’m sick and tired of the facts, you can twist them any way you like.” For both Bridges and Still, lines like these were what drew them to the work that shows “how far we have not come,” Bridges said.

The actors have their own recovery methods after delivering these lines. One actor whose character is known for angry monologues, relaxes by eating ice cream and watching cartoons, Bridges said.

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The play is designed to make the audience feel as if they were in the room with the dozen jurors. Without spoiling anything, Still added that there are elements of the set that invite an audience to consider differing points of views that each of the jurors hold.

“What’s exciting about our production is that it’s so focused on story and so focused on the actors who tell the story...I wanted the story to be told with rigor, urgency and with aggression,” Still said.

The universality of the play’s themes has meant that the play has been able to be enjoyed all around the world. The play has been adapted for the regions it’s performed in, including Lebanon, Russia and South Korea, Still said.

With this production, as with most others keeping to the original script, the cast is predominantly white. Still explained that in the ’50s, although women and minorities were permitted to participate in jury duty, they were often struck down in

favor of white men.

While the play remains true to the original script, save a few ad-libbed moments, the production will not be featuring the traditional intermission. Instead, the performance runs through the hour and 40-minute run-time with no break for audience or actors. For Bridges, this is his first time being involved in a play without an intermission or even the ability to be offstage for a moment.

In a play where no one leaves the stage, Still told his actors that any given moment, someone in the audience will be watching them when they are not talking.

Bridges embodies the role of Juror One, whose character is largely mediatory as the foreman of the group. Despite auditioning for a few roles, Bridges is especially content with the complexities of his character, who audience members soon find out is a high school football coach.

“One of the things I enjoy in the play is he starts out very reluctant, uneasy and ill-equipped to wrangle these 11 very opinionated people” Bridges said.

Last season, Bridges was part of the production of “Noises Off,” which was a highly physical comedy requiring him to do all sorts of stunts including falling down a flight of stairs. Yet, this play has proved “more taxing” for Bridges, he said.

One of the interesting dynamics of the play is Still had to cast 12 equally important roles in the play. And similar to the plotline, these actors did not previously know each other or Still, he said.

Still does not believe that directors can orchestrate an audience response, but he hopes that the play brings up questions of “civil duty and the art of listening,” as well as “rattle the audience.”

“Ultimately it is a hopeful story, it’s also a great example of a compassionate and resilient voice being able to change the hearts and minds of a room of people who disagree with him,” Bridges said. cmcicchi@syr.edu armajumd@syr.edu

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Meet the captain of SU’s club frisbee team

By Sophie Levine

contributing writer

When one thinks about playing frisbee, they might imagine throwing a disc on the beach or hurling one to their dog. To senior Megan Kirby, however, playing frisbee is more than just a casual toss of a plastic circle. Ultimate Frisbee means everything to her and her family.

She started playing in elementary school because her father, Tom Kirby, played in college at SUNY Oswego and SUNY Albany.

Now, at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Kirby has used her lifelong experience with the game to become a captain for Fox Force Seven, an all-girls club team at Syracuse.

“She’s been playing ultimate forever. She has the community aspect embedded in her life,” said Caroline Noone, Kirby’s co-captain.

“She really has the knowledge and experience of the game and really understands the fundamentals of what frisbee means.”

By the time Kirby entered middle school, she was already involved in women’s leagues around the Albany area. When Kirby entered high school, she played in a small league that local high schools participated in. What made this league so special, though, was that Kirby’s father was the coach of the team — they had always bonded through the sport. During her junior year, she got more serious about ultimate, joining a club team.

Kirby knew she didn’t want her ultimate frisbee career to end when she walked across the stage at her high school graduation.

SUNY-ESF was on her radar because of its environmental science major, but she wasn’t sure if she’d be able to continue playing ultimate at a smaller school — there’s no ultimate club at ESF. One time, when Kirby travelled to a club tournament, she met an active ESF student who played on Syracuse’s team. Kirby realized her dream of playing college ultimate frisbee in college was realistic. Now, Kirby is the only ESF student on the team. However, she blends right in on the team, her teammates said.

“A lot of times we actually forget that she goes to ESF… the two communities are so close and we all do such similar things that I don’t even remember that she’s in ESF,” said sophomore teammate Daria Latvis.

Although Kirby has found her niche at Syracuse, her biological family is not too far away. Her father tries to come to as many of her games as he can. When he does come, he sometimes helps coach the team and give pointers. Kirby’s brother now plays ultimate frisbee as well.

“If we have any tournaments around her house when we travel, we always stay at her house and her dad is so nice and her family is so welcoming,” Latvis said.

Kirby, now a captain of the Fox Force Seven, is focused on improving on last year’s 8-9 record in the spring season. Kirby’s goal is to play well enough in local and state tournaments during the regular season to make the regional postseason tournament.

To achieve this, Kirby helps lead her teammates through drills at practice three times per week. Her teammates also turn to her when they need a boost, whether they’re losing on the scoreboard or dealing with issues off the field, Kirby’s teammates said. Even Noone, Kirby’s co-captain, counts on Kirby’s leadership to make sure the team succeeds.

“With everything she does, she’s very encouraging. She never puts you down and she also just pulls you aside a lot and privately tells you how to improve your skills or your throws,” Latvis said.

For Kirby, frisbee’s more than just a beach game. Through helping her Fox Force Seven teammates improve and connecting with her dad, Kirby has kept ultimate frisbee as an important aspect of her life. srlevine@syr.edu

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proulx Vincent Tuffier, Proulx has started every game for Syracuse (2-6-2, 0-2-1 Atlantic Coast) this season and asserted herself as one of the top goalies in the ACC. She’s made the most saves (55) of any goalie in the conference while remaining third in save percentage (.833).

“I’m kind of happy that I got the injury because I just feel like I learned so much more, that life is not just all about soccer,” Proulx said. “I feel like I’m just a totally different person than I was before.”

In her first two years at Syracuse preinjury, Proulx said she went a full month at times without calling her parents.

They texted her, “Is it ok, everything’s fine?”

“Yes, no problem,” she replied. Proulx had been independent from the time she switched schools in third grade to Collège Français to allow her to play more soccer. At the private school in French-speaking Quebec, she took classes in the mornings and played soccer in the afternoons.

Once she was injured and her recovery was stunted, Proulx started calling home more often, usually two or three times a week. She vented her frustration at people telling her that it would only take time. Proulx waited on the sidelines, hoping to recover, but she never felt better. She was convinced it was something more than a fracture.

“Not being able to do what I loved the most, or the reason that I came here, I just completely got lost,” Proulx said. “And it really brought me down.”

She bonded last year with fellow injured teammates — Kailee Coonan, Molly Nethercott and Ally Wakeman, among others — but she needed something more to fill the gap losing soccer had given her, Proulx said.

“I’ve never been away from soccer, and for that long...” Proulx said. “So I just didn’t really know how to approach it or what to do.”

Proulx borrowed her mother’s Canon camera in the spring. She’d dabbled with photography two years ago on a trip to New York. Proulx started taking photos again in Chicago when she went for a goalie camp at the start of the spring semester. Then, over spring break, she went to Disneyland with her family and her dad estimates she took 6,000 photos.

“This is where I saw my daughter like she was before,” Jean-Pierre said.

In mid-May, Proulx was introduced to Tuffier. In their first meeting, the two sat down to examine Proulx’s medical history to figure out what caused the injury and how they could effectively rehab her hip movement. He ran biomechanical tests, such as having Proulx crawl on all four limbs.

Tuffier made it clear from the start she couldn’t compare her current self to her pre-injury self. Mentally, she had new fears. Physically, scar tissue and her muscles were not the same.

“It was easy to see that she was ready to follow my lead and I told her, if it was not the case, we won’t work together,” Tuffier said.

“But it was nice. It was a great encounter during my summer with Lysianne.”

Proulx’s injury occurred on an attempted kick, not a collision or an interaction

with another player. The injury didn’t come from luck, making it even tougher to play like her old self, Tuffier said. It’s a simple motion that she’d need to make many times in the future.

Tuffier didn’t try to change Proulx’s technique. In his limited two months with Proulx, he focused on injury prevention, improving her hips to be mobile enough for those movements. His training ideology centers around short, 20-minute workouts preceded by a warm up to keep Proulx loose, similar to new Syracuse head coach Nicky Adams’ practice strategies.

Tuffier narrowed a large part of the injury down to travel and the amount of work the Syracuse goalie faced on a 15-loss team. Proulx didn’t have a proper routine to shake out the stiffness from sitting down on flights and bus rides for long periods of time. He gave her stretches to keep her hips free after travel. He also recommended she do dynamic stretching in the middle of the game when play is at the other end.

Proulx knew Syracuse would test her at the start of the season on push-ups, sit-ups, pull-ups, bench press, a ten-meter sprint, high jump and long jump. But she’s pushed through.

Proulx still can’t sleep on her sides.

Tuffier said she will never be the same goalkeeper she was before. But Proulx’s become SU’s clear-cut No. 1 goalie for the first time in her life.

“Just being able to finally kind of let loose,” Proulx said. “It feels very good.” armajumder@syr.edu | @armajumder

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trivia often bragged about their trivia success in 2019.

McDonald, a junior, said it’s “not really much of a surprise” that his class has been the first to enjoy many of their pre-match meals this season. McIntyre admits that veterans typically have an advantage in trivia.

Jake Leahy, Massimo Ferrin and John-Austin Ricks admitted that while they watch soccer themselves, their teammates “live for it.”

“We’ve got a very diverse locker room, players from all across this country and other countries,” said McIntyre, a Liverpool supporter. “The common thread is football. It’s part of our routine to have a few soccer questions, maybe it’s just putting up with me.”

Team allegiances for most of Syracuse’s players come from their connections. Miesch’s youth soccer coach always wore a Juventus jersey and Miesch was on an extended trial with the Manchester City youth academy in his teens. They are now his two favorite teams.

Leahy idolized former Manchester City goalkeeper Joe Hart and became a fan because of him. He also supports the MLS New York Red Bulls after he spent his youth in the training academy. Ferrin grew up in Canada but his Italian roots have left him a supporter of AC Milan.

Same for Triantafillou, who’s from Canada, but supports the Greek team Olympiakos.

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underclassmen better with the two of them.”

After qualifying for its first NCAA tournament in program history, Syracuse (4-5, 1-1 Atlantic Coast) has been a team in transition this season. Eight players from last year’s team graduated or transferred, thrusting underclassmen players like Markova, sophomore Elena Karakasi and freshmen Lauren Woodford into prominent roles.

Since dropping their first four games of the season — with two losses coming to top10 teams — the Orange have won four out of their last five matches. SU head coach Leonid Yelin said the Orange’s slow start may have been due to new players growing into new roles. In their recent successful stretch, the team has replicated their techniques from practice into games.

“We didn’t do anything different,” Yelin said. “We are such a young team and every day we are learning and every day we are getting better.”

Since the losing streak, Syracuse has cleaned up its play from the service line. Led

Syracuse’s senior class struggles most with pregame trivia while the Orange’s junior and freshman squads usually win. gavin liddell staff photographer

watch morning European matches before practice in their apartments or the locker room.

“If we have a training session in the morning, and there’s a big game on, it’s about a guarantee that no one will be early to practice,” Leahy said.

Senior transfer Matt Orr is one of those superfans. An avid Liverpool supporter, Orr has aided 2019’s seniors in pregame trivia, multiple players said, though the seniors

have struggled recently.

Ricks sometimes gets teased when he doesn’t know an answer. And Ferrin still refuses to give McDonald and the juniors credit, claiming that no team has consistently won this year.

“It’s fun to get the guys laughing, I’m pretty terrible,” Leahy said. “These guys know way more than I will ever know.”

by Markova, the Orange have averaged 5.2 aces in losses, compared to 6.75 in victories.

Yelin believes the chemistry Markova built with her teammates in the spring, combined with her 6-foot-4 frame, have allowed Markova to excel.

“Marina, she’s a monster,” Williams said.

“The trajectory she hits her serve is, even when I’m standing back there passing it [in practice] I don’t want to touch it because she hits it so hard and at a tough angle.”

While Markova’s emergence alongside sophomore Polina Shemanova, the reigning ACC freshman of the year, have not come as a shock to Williams, Karakasi’s development in her second season has been the biggest surprise, Williams said. After Jalissa Trotter graduated and expected starter Dana Valelly departed the team, SU turned to Karakasi.

“It’s unbelievable, I can’t say how much (Karakasi’s) improved since last year,” Williams said. “Not only technically, but mentally and emotionally as a player I think she’s developed in the sense that she controls the court, she’s jumping way higher, people are afraid to hit around her and she’s a threat in the front row now.”

In SU’s win against Kansas, its first of the season, Karakasi recorded 34 of the Orange’s 38 assists. Against Clemson on Sunday, Karakasi led Syracuse with another 34 assists, and her attack in the fifth set forced a Clemson error and sealed the 3-2 win.

When Karakasi rotates out, Woodford often enters. The freshman graduated a year early from Spring Lake Park (Minnesota) High School to join the Orange and has featured in 23 of a possible 33 sets in 2019.

Because of Woodford’s age, Yelin was unsure if she would be able to make the transition to collegiate volleyball this year. But he said she’s “mature for her age.”

Along with Karakasi, Markova and Woodford, Syracuse has also relied on freshmen middle blockers Abigail Casiano and Izzy Plummer. With aspirations for a second consecutive NCAA tournament berth, Syracuse will continue to lean on the underclassmen.

“I think that this class is special, they’re really hard workers and come to the gym every day wanting to get better,” senior Aliah Bowllan said. “As an upperclassman, I don’t think you can ask for any more.”

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Flying frisbees Megan Kirby is the captain of SU’s all-female club frisbee team and the team’s only SUNY-ESF student.

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Returning to form After a season-ending hip injury in 2018, Lysianne Proulx has found her stride

LYSIANNE PROULX suffered a hip injury during the 2018 season when the then-sophomore split time with graduate transfer Jordan Harris. For the first time at Syracuse, the now-recovered Proulx is a starter. elizabeth billman asst. photo editor

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Not being able to do what I loved the most, the reason that I came here, I just completely got lost. And it really brought me down.

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ysianne Proulx still wasn’t feeling better two months after fracturing her hip. She felt spasms while sitting down, sometimes with sharp pain. Proulx couldn’t sleep on her sides and had trouble falling asleep because she was constantly thinking about her injury.

Two doctors first told Proulx it was a minor fracture. They said time would heal it. But as the months flew by, the pain remained. It wasn’t getting better, and Proulx’s father, Jean-Pierre, said

SU bonds over pre-match trivia asst. sports editor

Four hours before each Syracuse match, the Orange convenes for its pregame meal. Head coach Ian McIntyre may mention their upcoming game, but before his team eats, McIntyre splits his team into four groups, one for each grade.

The Orange engage in a trivia match, testing the team’s knowledge of soccer. Many of the questions revolve around the English Premier League and other professional soccer teams, while McIntyre will occasionally mix in pop culture references.

The winning team eats first. The

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she lost her smile.

“When your day-to-day passion, you’re not able to do it anymore, it becomes mental,” Jean-Pierre said. “It becomes to play in your head, more often Lysianne was calling me in Montreal, and more often, we saw a Lysianne that was not my daughter.”

Proulx went to a hip specialist in February, who also found nothing on MRIs and X-rays. But that specialist performed surgery anyway, fixing the muscle tears and avulsion on her medial crest.

Following a summer of working out with a goalkeeper coach and manual therapist

one who finishes last has to wait until everyone is finished to indulge.

McIntyre brought pregame trivia with him to Syracuse when he became head coach in 2010 and has continued it into his 10th season.

With a team of players from nine different countries who support dozens of different domestic and international soccer teams, much of Syracuse’s intra-team trash talk and banter centers around weekly trivia, FIFA video games and professional results. Entering the heart of their conference schedule, Syracuse (3-2-4, 0-1-2 Atlantic Coast) bonds over its differing levels of soccer knowledge and love of professional soccer.

“I think it’s especially beneficial for us because we do it on game days,” sophomore Christian Miesch said. “The game days are already pretty intense, everyone is focused on themselves. But then we have the trivia which takes some pressure off.”

While the freshmen have the largest trivia team, the group’s size makes communication difficult in the competition. Other than one upset from the freshman team, the juniors have won all but one time as of Sept. 18, Simon Triantafillou said.

The four-man junior class of Dylan McDonald, Triantafillou, Nikolas Steiner and Sondre Norheim have see trivia page 14

Underclassmen aid recent Orange rebound

By Alex Hamer staff writer

Early in the third set against Northeastern on Sept. 20, freshman Marina Markova uncorked a serve. Markova’s serve flew by every Northeastern player, good for her fourth ace of the day as Syracuse comfortably handled Northeastern in straight sets.

Normally after a Markova ace, assistant coach Derryk Williams turns to his fellow coaches as they all share a collective look of amazement, Williams said. This time,

Williams peered over at the Northeastern coaches.

Markova’s serving ability was the first thing players and coaches noticed when she joined the program in January. This season, she’s led all SU players with 20 aces, which amounts to 0.61 aces per set — eighth best in the nation.

“The future for (Markova) is unreal,” Williams said. “And I think this team is going to build around her as much as it’s built around Polina (Shemanova) in the past, and we’re only going to get see underclassmen page 14