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Holden Observatory will host classes again in 2015 By Elissa Candiotti contributing writer
SARA MILESKI (CENTER), a 2014 Remembrance Scholar, holds a candle at the Candlelight Vigil Monday night at the Wall of Remembrance. Mileski’s mother lost a floormate in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, providing inspiration for Mileski. frankie prijatel asst. photo editor
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Scholar creates paper silhouette to honor, remember mother’s friend By Meredith Newman managing editor
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s she places the last piece of tape on the blackpaper silhouette and sticks it to the wall, Sara Mileski takes a step back in the lounge in Marion Hall and lets out a sigh of relief. “I love it so much,” Sara says, as she uses her gray Syra-
cuse sweatshirt to wipe the tears and sniffles. This black silhouette is more than a 6-foot piece of thin paper—it carries a certain type of weight to Sara. This black silhouette represents the main character of stories told by her mother, Jennifer Mileski, and her college friends. This black silhouette represents someone’s brother, son and friend. The black silhouette represents Jason Coker: one of the 35 Syracuse University students who lost their lives on Dec. 21, 1988 in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. Twenty-six years ago, Coker was a Marion 3 floormate and good friend to Jennifer Mileski. Now, after all of these years, Jason is still a part of Jennifer’s life, as her daughter Sara represents him as a Remembrance Scholar. Every year, 35 seniors are chosen to represent the students who were killed. The scholars are also responsible for planning Remembrance Week — which takes place this week — to honor the victims of the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing. This year, Sara and fellow Remembrance Scholars created silhouettes of the 35 students and placed them throughout campus in locations where the victims would have most likely see remembrance page 5
Holden Observatory, the second building ever constructed on the Syracuse University campus, will reopen in January 2015 with improved facilities to help students learn about astronomy. The observatory will host astronomy recitation classes of 21 students and a professor, said Christopher Danek, assistant director of Academic Facilities. The observatory will also provide free access to elementary and high school students, staff, faculty and administrators at SU, he said. The observatory, which was built in 1887, is located near Eggers Hall and White Hall. The money to refurbish the observatory was donated by Marvin Druger, a professor emeritus of biology and science education, in honor of his wife Patricia Meyers Druger, a former College of Arts and Sciences administrator who died in January. “This will be a wonderful place to learn about the universe and think about life on our planet,” Druger said. “After construction is complete, students will learn astronomy in a much more appropriate, exciting setting.” The proposal to restore the observatory, referred to as “The Pat Project,” has been set in motion with construction that began last week. To introduce the revamped observatory, there will be a dedication ceremony, Druger said. The observatory will be home to the Patricia Meyers Druger Astronomy Learning Center, made possible by donations from Druger. Upon entering the renovated building, students, professors and visitors will encounter a photograph and a plaque that honor Patricia Druger. His wife, who was an administrator in the biology department and a member see holden page 10
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Dark lager strays from typical lighter flavors By Hannah Redfield staff writer
One of my favorite memories took place in London when my mom and dad came to visit while I was studying abroad. A day spent doing all the classic touristy things wiped us out, and all we could think to do was take a seat at the nearest pub. We grabbed three beers and drank them outside as the mid-April sun warmed our backs. For whatever reason, the malt-like, rich taste of the Dixie Blackened Voodoo Lager brought back memories of this day with my parents. It could be the almost creamy texture that is reminiscent of London Pride, London’s locally brewed beer, that reminded me of this snapshot in time. Or maybe my beer that day on Baker Street was the same rich, amber color of this beer. The Dixie Blackened Voodoo Lager is a decidedly enjoyable brew that strays from the normal lager flavor profile. Many pale lagers
typically exemplify light, crisp and clean flavors; Miller Light, Pilsner Urquell and Landshark Lager are all examples of pale lagers. On the other hand, this darkened lager utilizes an all-malt brewing process that makes it taste rich and earthy. The viscosity in this beer is also higher than a classic lager. It sits somewhat heavily in your mouth and has a cream-like texture. Although dark for a classic lager, it is a medium bodied beer overall. Once you get past the foamy, cream-colored head that forms when pouring the beer into a glass, a faintly bitter aftertaste tickles your tongue. Slight hints of honey or brown sugar are also apparent in this smooth beer. I’m not sure whether I enjoyed this beer for its flavor profile or for the nostalgia it brought up, but either way, I thoroughly enjoyed this unusual beer and would recommend it to anyone looking to mix up his or her refrigerator line-up. hwredfie@syr.edu
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Meetings to discuss survey By Brett Samuels asst. news editor
Showing off SAMIHA RAHMAN, a freshman member of Syracuse Orange Bhangra, performs on Wednesday night in the Slocum Hall Auditorium for an open mic night to honor the victims of Pan Am Flight 103 as part of Remembrance Week. During the event, students also recited poetry and performed music. Other performers at the event included The Mandarins and Black Reign Step Team. luke rafferty staff photographer
Members of the Campus Master Plan Advisory Group and a design firm partnering with the university will host a meeting on Tuesday to answer questions about the master plan. Sasaki Associates, a Massachusetts-based architecture and design firm, will join members of the advisory group in Hendricks Chapel to discuss findings from a survey that was sent to Syracuse University students, faculty and staff. More than 3,000 people participated in the survey, according to an SU News release. The meetings will serve as “an opportunity to learn about the findings and how people use and move through campus and the surrounding neighborhood,” according to the release. Times for the meetings are noon–1 p.m. and 4–5 p.m. on Tuesday. The purpose of the Campus Master Plan is to shape, guide and manage the campus environment and its physical form. blsamuel@syr.edu
SU community to take part in apple crunch day By Conor Ried contributing writer
Syracuse men’s basketball coach Jim Boeheim will join other university students, staff and faculty to crunch down on an apple on Friday as part of Big Apple Crunch Day. This is the second time SU will be participating in the event, which promotes healthy eating. Grow NYC, Food Day, the Mayor’s Office of Food Policy
and American Farmland Trust are all sponsoring Big Apple Crunch Day. The university will be joining several other schools including the State University of New York at Albany, Colgate University and Stony Brook University, and many other organizations including businesses. The goal of the day is to set the record of over a million “apple crunches,” according to an SU news release. Boeheim will be participating in
the event at the Schine Student Center at noon. Students can also take an apple from any dining hall and take a crunch. Participants are encouraged to share their experience with Big Apple Crunch Day by using the hashtags #NYCampusCrunch and #SUapplecrunch, which is how organizations will keep track of the number of apples eaten. John Maleri, project coordinator for Food Day, said the event is a way
to engage people in living a healthier lifestyle. “Food Day and Big Apple Crunch are important because they inspire Americans to change their diets,” he said. “It also helps to support local farmers as it encourages universities and other organizations to go to local apple farms to get their apples.” Amanda Gentile, an administrator at Grow NYC, said another goal see apple page 10
Students report off-campus burglaries Wednesday By Justin Mattingly asst. news editor
Two burglaries on Ostrom Avenue were reported to the Department of Public Safety on Wednesday. Three Syracuse University students reported a burglary at their residence on the 700 block of Ostrom Avenue on Wednesday around 11:31 a.m., DPS said.
The students reported hearing a noise in their house, located between Clarendon Street and Euclid Avenue, and found a man inside the house. The students said the man was looking for someone who did not live there. When confronted, the man ran out of the house. There was nothing reported taken from the house, DPS said. The man was described as 35–45
years old, approximately 6 feet tall and was wearing a navy blue hooded sweatshirt and gray sweatpants. He was last seen heading north on Ostrom Avenue, according to DPS. In addition, an SU student reported a burglary inside his residence on the 200 block of Ostrom Avenue on Wednesday around 12:13 p.m. The student said that after entering his house, he encountered
a man inside his residence, DPS said. The man left the student’s house, located between Madison Street and Harrison Street, after being confronted. The man was described as 30–40 years old, approximately 5 feet, 10 inches tall and was wearing a black hooded sweatshirt, a green T-shirt and light colored pants. jmatting@syr.edu
do roundup Here is a roundup of the top stories published in The Daily Orange this week: news Biden visits Syracuse Vice President Joe Biden, an SU College of Law alumnus, spoke at a hangar near Syracuse Hancock International Airport on Monday to rally support for U.S. Rep. Dan Maffei. pulp vpa hosts alumni gallery Twenty-one paintings by Syracuse University alumni are featured in an exhibit called “Painting Alumni Retrospective” at the 914Works gallery. sports Net goal Paul Flanagan came to Syracuse seven years ago and only had an ice rink to work with. Now he’s built up the women’s hockey program, but he’s still looking for more. See dailyorange.com for ourfull list of stories.
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remembrance hung out. The goal, she said, is for the silhouettes to serve as physical reminders of the victims. “They walked the same sidewalks I walked,” Sara said. “They went to the same places I go to. They’re from places my friends are from. I share so much with them because I’m ‘Cuse. Because I’m Orange. And they were. It’s hard to put into words. It’s really indescribable. We are living what they lived.” ••• Jason’s black silhouette in Marion casually leans on his twin brother Eric’s black silhouette. The silhouettes are close, with Jason’s left arm leaning on Eric’s right shoulder. The silhouettes are capturing a moment, Sara said, influenced from the stories she’s heard about the Coker brothers. Eric is visiting from the University of Rochester and Jason is showing him off to everyone on Marion 3. Jason has just finished telling a joke to his Marion 3 floormates and, as per usual, laughter fills the floor. Both Cokers died in the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland. They were originally from Mendham, New Jersey and were travelling home from studying abroad in London. Jason was a junior in the S.I. Newhouse
School of Public Communications and hoped to work in either television or at a newspaper. Sara’s mother, Jennifer, lived on Marion 3 during her freshman and sophomore year. She lived in the same room, and met Jason during her sophomore year. He was a freshman at the time. The floor had incredible chemistry, Jennifer said. Everyone got along, and to this day, many of the floormates are still close. There aren’t one or two memories that stick out of her days on Marion 3. Instead, she remembers the simpler things like hanging out in each other’s rooms where they just relaxed and laughed throughout the night. Doors were always open on the floor and people were always having fun, said Jeanne Lehane, a Marion 3 floormate of Jason’s and a 1989 alumna. A majority of the floormates still stay in touch, she added. Many of whom ended up married or life-long friends. Like Jennifer, Jeanne said she doesn’t have one specific memory of Jason — but instead remembers his “jokester personality.” “He was smart. His jokes were always so smart,” Jeanne said. “He was also very aware, very aware of things going on in the world.” Among the fogginess of the day that is Dec. 21, 1988, Jennifer remembers exactly where she was when she found out about Jason. It was later in the night and Jennifer and her roommates, who all previously lived on Marion 3, sat
together in the living room in their off-campus apartment and watched the news. The list of the 270 names scrolled down the screen. Jennifer’s friends knew up to six names on the list. She recognized two — Jason and Eric. “It was awful,” Jennifer said. “When you think about it, it was just a bunch (of) 20-, 21-year-olds dealing with this. It was surreal.” ••• After taking a step back from the wall, Sara adjusts Jason’s silhouette. She smoothes it out, straightens up and adds a couple of pieces of tape — just for precautionary measures. “All right Jason, let’s make sure this is perfect,” she says. Sara’s found that she’s been talking to him a lot leading up to Remembrance Week. She can’t pinpoint an age when she first learned about Jason and the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing — both have always been a part of her life from a very early age. But she first learned about Remembrance Scholars when she saw portraits of the victims in the Schine Student Center around this time during her freshman year. From that moment, becoming a scholar and representing Jason was always her goal. “I wanted to represent him because I had people who loved him right behind me,” she said. “I’m not the only one representing him. It’s my mom. It’s her friends.” With Sara applying for the scholarship — and
now representing Jason — Jennifer said all of the raw emotions from her senior year are coming back to the surface. “That’s why it’s been really heart-wrenching. I can’t even describe it,” Jennifer said, struggling to find words. “This reconnection has been made to the incident.” Jennifer and a close college friend visited Sara during Homecoming Weekend. They told Sara even more stories of their time living in Marion 3. And even though the stories are more than 26 years old, tears filled all of their eyes. “Her perspective is changing as a parent, but also because he didn’t get to do what she did. My mom has followed her passion, she’s an amazing teacher. She loves what she does. She created a home, she has daughters. He didn’t get to do that. He didn’t get to live up to his potential,” Sara said. On Friday, Jennifer will come back to campus to see the Rose Laying Ceremony for the first time. During the ceremony, each scholar places a rose on the Wall of Remembrance. Jennifer plans on stopping by Marion this weekend. She’ll walk through the third floor, but isn’t sure if she’ll peek into her old room. She said she doesn’t want to be an “intruder” to the students living there now. But she will visit the first floor lounge to reunite with an old friend. mhnewman@syr.edu | @MerNewman93
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Sexual assault services have improved, but gaps remain The Campaign for an Advocacy Center’s primary goal is the best possible support for survivors of sexual and relationship violence. We seek to avoid confusing those who need these services, even while we criticize the process by which the changes were made, and address the remaining gaps in services. We assert that confusion persists about services because the administration has been continually modifying them since September 2013, when the Advocacy Center’s confidentiality status was changed by the administration. Administrators have failed to effectively communicate the nature of many of these changes. For instance, stickers on many bathroom stalls still advertise the long-renamed R.A.P.E. Center. Though the initial restructuring of services overlooked many important needs, we believe that, in response to the groundswell of community involvement and concern, the university has since improved the new support services. Specific examples include the increase in staff for the Sexual and Relationship Violence Response Team from two to five; the SRVRT’s policy for meeting with students at an alternate location (eg. at a dorm) if one does not wish to meet in the Counseling Center; and the availability of advocacy services through the SRVRT, which include accompanying victims to offices on-campus, as well as off-campus appointments. We are concerned, however, about the level of awareness about the services on campus and in the community and urge the university to do more to inform everyone of their options.
One important component that remains lost, however, is a dedicated center — a safe space and resource center that also serves as a powerful symbol of the university’s solidarity with all who have been impacted by sexual and relationship violence and against rape culture. We will continue to mourn the loss of this space and work to restore it. We encourage everyone to read the Workgroup on Sexual Assault Prevention, Education and Advocacy’s update in Thursday’s Daily Orange. Additionally, we urge anyone who needs privileged, confidential support services right now or in the future to reach out to either the Sexual and Relationship Violence Response Team at (315) 443-4715 or Vera House at (315) 468-3260. In closing, we encourage everyone to come to the listening meeting on Monday, Oct. 27, from 4–5:30 p.m. in 304 Schine to share concerns about the shift in services and the general campus climate on sexual assault and consent. On behalf of The Campaign for an Advocacy Center at SU, Farrell Brenner, ‘17, citizenship & civic engagement and women’s & gender studies majors; Becca Shaw Glaser, creative writing MFA ‘15; Brittany Moore, ‘15, student engagement chair, student association; Patrick Neary, GSO president, PhD candidate, mathematics; Derek Ford, PhD candidate, cultural foundations of education; Erin Carhart, Alumna ‘14 B.A. policy studies and women’s and gender studies
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Bike lanes need safety improvements The addition of bike lanes along Waverly and Comstock avenues could be beneficial for Syracuse University students, but the city of Syracuse needs to address the safety concerns that could arise from the bike lanes’ current state. Syracuse announced on Oct. 14 that it would be temporarily reducing Comstock and Waverly to two driving lanes early this week in order to make changes that would increase parking space and pedestrian and cyclist safety. Though this is a city project, this is an area heavily trafficked by students. The bike lane now in place only has striping, and needs to be better distinguished from the road to improve student safety.
Until recently, the areas surrounding SU have not had the infrastructure for street biking. Because of this, students and locals may not be accustomed to sharing the road with bikers. For this reason, the city of Syracuse should take extra precautions to ensure the bike lanes are clearly marked and will not be encroached upon by drivers. The bike lane on University Avenue is an excellent example of how cycling lanes should be discernible from traffic lanes. It is separated by a median and painted green. It would likely not be possible for the city to place dividers on Waverly and Comstock. But if it had not planned on doing so already, it should paint
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the bike lanes green or with reflective paint to help make the lane more visible among traffic and at night. The city of Syracuse should communicate with the university to figure out the best way to guarantee student and driver safety. A visible bike lane is an important aspect in that. Drivers, SU or non-SU affiliated, should not have to struggle with noticing the difference between a road and a bike lane. The city of Syracuse is ultimately in control of what it does with the bike lanes, but it should better mark the bike lanes compared to traffic. This city project has potential to benefit SU students, but moving forward, it should better take into account the safety of students.
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ince Ebola’s emergence as an international crisis, Republicans have blamed President Barack Obama every step of the way. And now that another case has developed inside our borders, criticism and panic has only heightened. “Fox and Friends Weekend” host Tucker Carlson called it “crazy” that Obama has not banned flights from Ebola-stricken countries, while Sen. John McCain (R- Arizona) went as far as to say that Obama promised “there would never be a case of Ebola in the United States” on CNN’s “State of the Union.” But fact checkers have searched statements from the president and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and found no such promise. Obama is not responsible for Ebola’s spread to and inside of the United States. His decision not to impose flight bans is a well-informed one and continued demands for bans
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only increase panic. Republican lawmakers all the way up to House Speaker John Boehner have joined in on a common mantra: ban flights from West Africa. But their proposal is completely unfounded. Even with a flight ban in place, travelers could easily transfer to flights in restriction-free countries. Instead of fighting Ebola, all this scrambling around the world would lead to cases more widely spread. An Oct. 17 New York Times article made it clear that experts oppose flight bans. Many health experts reaffirmed that this would cut off the hardest-hit nations from outside support, leaving them to fight Ebola
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with inadequate resources. Those demanding flight bans also seem unaware that American-based airlines stopped flying to highly affected countries two months ago to protect their own employees. There are no direct flights coming to America from the most deeply affected areas. Rep. Dennis Ross (R-Florida) was unaware of this fact in a Friday MSNBC appearance about his flight-banning bill and insisted that “there are some flights.” Before Congress reconvenes in November and is flooded with banter over flight bans, Republicans need to do some research. Obama acknowledged the impossibility of “seal(ing) off an entire region of the world” on Saturday during his weekly address, and made his decisions accordingly. Republicans also peg Obama directly responsible for Ebola cases
that have arrived and developed in America. But these infections resulted from lapses in everyday medical operations, not failures by top federal officials. It would be impossible for the president to directly oversee all medical procedures. These duties fall to the CDC and specific hospital staffs who have the expertise to handle such situations. Ebola is nowhere close to being an epidemic in America. And because of our health advances, it will never reach that point here. But that has not stopped Obama from taking the matter seriously. He has spoken several times regarding Ebola efforts both in America and overseas and even dropped campaign plans to coordinate Ebola plans instead. On Friday he appointed Ron Klain to oversee and manage Ebola response. And on Tuesday, the Obama administration announced that passengers
from West Africa would only be able to fly to the U.S. through the airports with screening procedures. If Obama is not speaking out more, it is because he is trying not to add to panic. Forty percent of Americans believe they are at risk for Ebola, according to a poll by the Harvard School of Public Health. Hysteria is America’s actual epidemic. Republicans’ nonstop criticism of how Obama is handling Ebola makes citizens believe the situation is out of control, which is just not true. Obama is not only handling the crisis quite well, he is handling the hysteria. In the president’s own words, “This is a serious disease, but we can’t give in to hysteria or fear.” Kathryn Krawczyk is a freshman magazine journalism major. Her column appears weekly. She can be reached at kjkrawczyk@syr.edu and followed on Twitter @KathrynKrawczyk.
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Ask the experts: Court allows Texas voter ID law By Thomas Beckley-Forest staff writer
The Supreme Court issued a court order on Saturday that allowed a Texas law requiring voters to be able to present a photo ID such as driver’s license, gun license, a military ID or a passport to vote in person. This law and others like it, such as one in Wisconsin, have been criticized for disenfranchising members of certain demographics. The Daily Orange spoke with political science professors Thomas Keck, Kristi Andersen and Shana Gadarian about the Court’s decision. The Daily Orange: What does the Supreme Court’s decision mean? Thomas Keck: They did not hear arguments in the case, they did not issue a decision in the case, so that’s one important thing to clarify. There’s been several of these cases in the past few weeks and the Supreme Court has been issuing these preliminary holdings where what the justices seem to be saying is that they don’t want a change an election law in the weeks leading up to an election, because poll workers won’t be ready and so forth. Kristi Andersen: The Supreme Court is not really saying that the law itself is OK. It’s saying that the law needs to stay in place through the election. The D.O.: Do you think that the Court placing a hold on the voter photo ID case is a sign that it is going to rule in favor of keeping it? K.A.: They’re going to have to deal with a very
compelling argument. The opinion by the district court judge Gonzalez Ramos is very convincing. There are also a lot of articles on Justice (Ruth Bader) Ginsburg’s dissent that basically explain why she believes that this voter restriction law should not have been allowed to stand. T.K.: Especially since the 2010 election, which saw a big Republican wave recapture Congress and many state legislatures, lots of states have enacted restrictions on voting rights. The Republicans say it’s to prevent voter fraud, the Democrats say it’s for voter suppression. If you look at it, these laws are blatantly partisan, whether you think they’re good or bad. Every Republican votes for them, every Democrat votes against them; it’s quite extreme. The troubling thing with the courts getting involved is that you see Republican justices always upholding the laws and Democratic justices striking them down, which is not exactly how our court system is supposed to work. The D.O.: Civil rights advocates and liberals have criticized these types of laws as restricting certain groups’ ability to vote, such as ethnic minorities. How valid is this criticism? K.A.: The Republicans initially began to pass these laws on the grounds that they would prevent voter fraud, but I think it’s been proven to most people’s satisfaction that in-person voter fraud exists at such a small level that you don’t introduce legislation just to prevent it. There have actually been instances where Republicans in various places have said things like “This is going to help us.” So I think the intention is there.
Shana Gadarian: The effects tend to be concentrated on groups that have lower income, African-Americans, Latinos and so on, that tend to vote on the whole Democratic. Another concern is that these laws are trying to fix a problem that doesn’t really exist. The D.O.: So how might that affect voter turnout? K.A.: In the 2012 election, when some of these laws were on the books, there were suggestions that they had the opposite effect of what they were intended to do, because the people the laws targeted, such as minorities, turned out at even higher rates because they were angry. It’s hard to say what the effect will be. S.G.: I don’t think that these laws are going to disenfranchise people by making it too hard to vote, but they will add confusion and they give this power to the election folks to decide whether people are allowed to vote, and that concerns me, because party power becomes skewed. tjbeckle@syr.edu
accepted forms of id — A driver’s license or personal ID card — A birth certificate — U.S. citizenship papers — U.S. passport — A copy of a current utility bill, bank statement, government check or paycheck with the voter’s name and voting address
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rom their first day of biology classes at Emory University, freshmen Rostam Zafari and Brian Goldstone have defied expectations. During class, Professor Rachelle Spell jokingly issued the class a challenge she didn’t expect anyone to fulfill: find a better way to test for Ebola. But Zafari and Goldstone did just that and came up with the idea for Rapid Ebola Detection Strips. Now, Zafari and Goldstone’s work with REDS is rapidly moving forward. On Oct. 12 their Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign reached its fundraising goal of $14,500. Next week they’ll get into a lab to run tests and work on optimizing REDS to conditions in West Africa. They hope to have a viable prototype by late December and be ready to ship the kits by January. Their project uses strips to test for Ebola, similar to strips that are currently used to test blood
sugar for diagnosing urinary tract infections. Existing Ebola tests usually require expensive machinery and necessitate patients being moved from rural areas into urban hospitals, a practice that perversely spreads the disease further. Zafari and Goldstone met the first day of classes and bonded over their shared hobby of wrestling. “We started out as wrestling partners and then we became business partners,” Zafari said. He said that his and Goldstone’s natural competitiveness as wrestlers led them to take Spell’s challenge to heart. But Zafari had other reasons for taking the challenge seriously. One of his best friends, Abraham Pishevar, had recently died in a plane crash on the day Pishevar was to begin classes as a freshman at Case Western Reserve University. “He was one of my closest friends,” Zafari said. “We both wrestled, we’re both Iranian-American, we had very close connections.” He described his friend as an “absolutely inspiring” and “selfless” student who was committed to social justice and wanted to help people through the medical
field. The loss, he said, was “absolutely tragic and arbitrary and unnecessary, but that’s kind of what helped me fuel this project.” Zafari said the death of his friend put him in a frame of mind to take his professor’s challenge very seriously. “I was not in a good space, and had a lot of energy and anger that I wanted to funnel to something similar to death, because that’s what I was pissed off at the time, and Ebola now is killing so many people that I kind of saw that as death itself,” he said. He channeled his anger and grief at his own loss into an attempt to keep others from dying and is working on REDS as a way to honor his friend. “Everything REDS does is in honor and memory of Abraham Pishevar,” he said. The strips used in their project would be quicker than existing tests, as well. Though Zafari and Goldstone will not be sure until they begin testing REDS in the lab next week, they hope the tests could yield results in an hour or less. The biggest challenge, Zafari said, is opti-
mizing the strips’ accuracy. In addition, they want to make REDS affordable as possible — they hope to make each kit, which would contain 25–50 strips, around 10 dollars. Zafari said the medical community has not come up with a test like REDS yet because Ebola has been seen as a West African problem, not a humanitarian problem. “Since 1970 there (have) been five outbreaks. This could’ve been addressed and the outbreaks could’ve been prevented happening if earlier actions were taken, if Ebola was taken seriously sooner,” he said. As laboratory testing begins next week, Zafari and Goldstone will work on making their vision of quick, portable and affordable Ebola test strips a reality. Zafari stressed that he and Goldstone both believe in responding to the humanitarian crises of Ebola in whatever way they can. They’re committed to raising awareness of the disease, he said, regardless of how the tests turn out. mmcregan@syr.edu
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holden of the Writing Program at SU, was always intrigued by astronomy, Druger said. “I made the donation because I love her dearly and I want her memory to be preserved,” Druger said. The observatory will also house a variety of astronomical instruments such as three new display monitors and web-based cameras that connect to telescopes on the front lawn of the observatory to improve the teaching experience, Druger said. With the new upgrades, Danek, the assistant director of academic facilities, said he hopes the facility will create a more hands-on learning experience for students. “We are making sure the facility reflects the best that the university has to provide and the best educational experience,” he said. Druger said Chancellor Kent Syverud and his wife, Ruth Chen, have shown immense support of the new renovation, believing that
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apple of Food Day and Big Apple Crunch Day is to promote a “greener planet.” The name Big Apple Crunch was chosen because of references to New York City as the Big Apple. This will be the fourth year of Big Apple Crunch as the event began in 2011. The event has continued to expand every year and last year, around one million New Yorkers ate an
the motivational learning environment is a new tool to enhance professors’ ability to teach and engage students. Along with improving the learning experience, Holden Observatory will have a different interior design compared to other buildings on campus, including a bathroom with “astronomical beauty,” Druger said. Thomas Vo, an astronomy teaching assistant and graduate student in the physics program, said in an email that teaching in the observatory will make a big difference for students. “Holden Observatory is a direct connection to the past and its rustic feel gives a real sense of history,” Vo said. “I think it’s way cooler to be teaching in an observatory that has such a vintage feel to it.” Druger said he has high hopes that the “motivational learning environment” will revive the observatory’s original purpose of improving the professors’ and students’ experiences. “Students and professors will be proud of this beautiful, unique facility and student learning will be more effective,” Druger said. “It will be a centerpiece at Syracuse University.” emcandio@syr.edu
apple as part of the event, according to the event website. While some students were unfamiliar with Big Apple Crunch Day, others said they are very excited and interested in the event. Meghan Dare, a freshman in Martin J. Whitman School of Management, said she is excited to take part in the event and thinks that is a very easy and simple way to raise awareness. She said she would definitely get her roommate to do it as well, along with her friends. clried@syr.edu
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Halloween came early this year. Fans wearing costumes watched world famous electronic dance music artist Skrillex perform at The F-Shed at the Market on Wednesday night. When Skrillex first came onto the stage, he took photos of the crowd and high-fived all of the crewmembers in the pit before starting his set. The DJ’s enthusiasm was unwavering as he jumped around the stage. His contagious energy reached the audience, where people were crowd-surfing and dancing nonstop. “Come on, Cuse,” he repeatedly said to the crowd. Skrillex played his hits “Bangarang” and “Recess,” which made the concertgoers go crazy. Syracuse was his 17th stop on his fall tour featuring the opening acts DJ Valentino Khan, Nadastrom and Big Gigantic. For complete coverage of the concert, see dailyorange.com.
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be there or be square Award-winning country duo Thompson Square to perform concert at Destiny USA By Abby Maddigan staff writer
or country music lovers, or maybe those who just want a shot at riding the mechanical bull, this weekend provides the perfect opportunity. The country music duo Thompson Square will be coming to Syracuse this Saturday to perform at Toby Keith’s I Love This Bar & Grill at Destiny USA as part of its Just Feels Good tour. “We’re ecstatic to bring Thompson Square to Toby Keith’s in Syracuse,” said John Thomas, vice president of marketing and entertainment of Toby Keith’s I Love This Bar & Grill. “The college scene is vibrant with Syracuse University having tons of country music supporters. It’ll be a magical night.” The doors will open at 9 p.m. Saturday evening and Thompson Square is scheduled to play at 10 p.m. Thompson Square is comprised of husband and wife Keifer and Shawna Thompson, who signed to Stoney Creek Records in January 2010. The two singer-songwriters met at a singing competition in Nashville, Tennessee. They have since produced several hit singles, including their song “Are You Gonna Kiss Me Or Not,” which was a No. 1 double-platinum-selling single. The couple has two albums, “Thompson Square” and “Just Feels Good,” and has earned American Country Awards and CMT Music Awards, among others. Besides singing and songwriting, Thompson Square is known for its long-lasting relationship. Keifer and Shawna Thompson have been married for 13 years, a fact that may be observed by listening closely to their lyrics. The husband and wife manage to balance their marriage and music career, having been
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the only established married duo in country music to receive the CMA Vocal Duo of the Year honors. According to a press release, Thompson Square plans on entertaining the crowd with plenty of its hits at Saturday’s performance, including “If I Didn’t Have You” and “I Got You.” A night out at the famous Toby Keith’s I Love This Bar & Grill can be fun for any country music lover, even those unfamiliar with Thompson Square.
up next Here’s a look at what is up and coming at Toby Keith’s I Love This Bar and Grill: — Line Dancing every Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. Halloween Costume Contest on Oct. 31 at 9 p.m. — Grit N Grace on Nov. 7 at 9:30 p.m. — TJ Sacco with Brianna Jessie on Nov. 8 at 9:30 p.m. — Craig Campbell on Nov. 14 at 10 p.m. — Custom Taylor Band on Nov. 15 at 9:30 p.m. — Taylor Maid Nov. 22 at 9:30 p.m.
What started out in Mesa, Arizona, Toby Keith’s I Love This Bar and Grill has spread country-wide, bringing big name artists and concerts to its themed venues. In the past, Chris Cagle, Rodney Atkins and other major artists have performed on the stage. The restaurant specializes in southern comfort, country-themed food, and features a large bar. Toby Keith’s I Love This Bar & Grill is open until midnight, Sunday through Tuesday, until 1 a.m. on Wednesdays and until 2 a.m. Thursday through Saturday. Besides concerts, the bar offers live music and entertainment most nights of the week. ammaddig@syr.edu
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Students aim to finish Mural on the Mount by Nov. 2 By Alexa Diaz staff writer
A picture is worth a thousand words. But, for students at Syracuse University, a mural is worth even more. Madelyn Minicozzi, one the 13 Fast Forward grant recipients, created the Mural on the Mount project as a lasting statement to unite and inspire all generations of SU students. Her winning idea of turning the Mount stairs, which lead to Flint and Day halls, into an art installation features a collection of artwork from 54 independent students and organizations, which have begun the process of painting the steps. The contributors have been painting on average six hours every Sunday for the past four weeks to meet their final deadline of Nov. 2 for Family Weekend. “It’s important because it is very informative. There are so many things that I noticed I missed my freshman year because there is so much on campus. I hope this really helps students see all of the different organizations,” said Minicozzi, a sophomore industrial and interaction design major. “It is better than seeing something halfway through the year and thinking, ‘Oh, I could have done that.’” Although the deadline is approaching fast, Minicozzi hopes the art project will grow as a living art installation on campus. “My goal for the Mount steps is not for it to be done on Nov. 2, but for people to contribute to it in the future,” she said. “I want it to be a landmark. I want it to keep evolving.” Minicozzi said her idea for the Mount project sparked from her own experience living in Flint Hall her freshman year and from her functional sculpture professor, Jude Lewis. As an associate professor of art, design and trans-media, Lewis taught her that things do not always have to look like their function. “I thought, ‘How can I take this negative experience of walking up the Mount, which nobody likes to do, and make it something fun
and interesting?’” Minicozzi said. During the summer, Minicozzi created a website for students and organizations to submit their designs. When classes started, Minicozzi went through the submissions and had a goal of choosing 45 designs to decorate the Mount stairs. After looking through the submissions she received, Minicozzi found “that cutting someone from the stairs is like cutting them from the university” and ended with a total of 54 designs. Daniela Lisa is the social chair of Nourish International and is one of the people working on the mural. Lisa, a sophomore marketing and finance student, said choosing a final design was a collaborative effort of the group, as the club wanted to illustrate what they stand for as an organization — working on sustainable projects in developing countries. “Because we go abroad to do sustainable development, we decided to do the country we have a partnership with,” Lisa said. “We did an outline of Uganda, and in the district that we actually go, we put a heart around it to show that is where our heart is as well.” Tina Mastrull, a senior illustration major and a drum major in the SU marching band, is painting on behalf of the band. She said the mural is a lasting way for incoming students to become aware of the opportunity to join the band when they come to campus. “We are trying to leave a general impression of who we are and get people’s attention,” Mastrull said. “Hopefully this can be an indirect way of recruiting people and having students become interested in us and maybe joining us.” For Indigenous Students at Syracuse University, the mural acts as a platform for students to become more aware of Native American presence on campus and in the community. “Nobody here actually knows who is Native American and who is not, and no one wants to ask,” said Kristen Pyke, a senior psychology major and president of the club. “To have this on campus and be more encompassed lets other students know that we are actually here.”
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Allegations change BGSU receiver’s views on life, football By Connor Grossman staff writer
Roger Lewis’ life flashed before his eyes as he reached his hands out to wrestle in a pass in the back-right corner of the end zone. His teammates pounded him on the head, celebrating his game-winning touchdown for Bowling Green with nine seconds remaining against Indiana. There was something Lewis’ teammates didn’t immediately see. “Roger started crying after he made that catch and we were saying, ‘Why is Roger crying?’” sophomore wide receiver Ronnie Moore said. “Roger told us he’s waited so long for this moment in his journey and now it’s finally here.” With a redefined perspective on life, he’s in the midst of one of the best football seasons he’s ever had. His 706 receiving yards through eight games are best on the Falcons by 215 yards and 13th most in Division I. The tears are remnants of a turbulent past for Lewis, who was arrested and charged with
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football, basketball and soccer. His size wasn’t the only thing that attracted football coaches. Soccer helped Davis be lighter on his feet and quicker than most people his size. His speed helps him get to the second level to block linebackers and makes it harder for linemen
two counts of rape the day before National Signing Day in his senior year of high school. Lewis allegedly raped a fellow classmate on a couch in the basement of a friend’s house on Dec. 2, 2011, according to The Columbus Dispatch. He and the classmate had had a sexual relationship since they were freshmen at Pickerington (Ohio) Central High School, according to The Dispatch. Another count of rape originated from an incident on Jan. 6, 2012 when Lewis allegedly raped the same classmate in the backseat of her car parked in front of a partially built housing development. Lewis claimed the woman was jealous he was dating another girl and that was why she came forth with allegations, according to The Dispatch. Lewis was acquitted of the first count of rape in February 2013 and the second count was dropped in exchange for a guilty plea in falsification of statements he made to police, according to The Dispatch. He received three years of probation, was banned from his senior prom and walking at graduation. Those consequences pale in comparison
to the 22 years of prison Lewis faced if convicted. “More than anything,” Lewis said, “(The trial) showed me that something that I love so much could be taken away from me.” He attended Jireh (North Carolina) Prep for one season to realign his Division I dreams, and rejuvenate his passion for football. That meant rediscovering why he wanted to achieve his football dreams so badly in the first place — his mother, Tina Thomas. When he was growing up, she badgered her son to go outside and run routes outside when he had down time. During Lewis’ trial, she believed he would eventually play football again and gave him no breaks. Using her as his prime motivation, Lewis’ 900 receiving yards and 13 touchdowns at Jireh Prep were good enough to start garnering interest from Division I programs again. Bowling Green had shown interest in Lewis out of high school, but he intended to sign elsewhere. When BGSU coaches came around the second time, their pitches were more interesting to him. The Falcons’ wide receivers coach, Sean Lewis,
said that Lewis was someone worthy of a second chance based off their initial conversations. “I could tell that he had obviously learned from this experience,” Sean Lewis said. “He had matured and handled everything the right way.” On the first day of camp in January, Sean Lewis had to kick his freshman receiver out of his office because he wouldn’t stop studying film. His preparation culminated as he stepped to the line of scrimmage with Bowling Green down 42-39 to Indiana with 12 seconds remaining. “I said to myself, ‘I know this is where I’ve got to make my mark,’” he said of seeing the play call. James Knapke’s lob pass hung in the air for nearly three seconds before Lewis juggled it between his hands, just as he was planting his feet. The official shot his arms up to signal a touchdown and tears ran over Lewis’ ear-to-ear smile that his teammates and coaches talk about. “It’s emotional to me to know that the game of football could have been taken away from me,” Lewis said. “But that’s how much I love the game.”
to get around the edge on him when he’s playing tackle, Clemson center Ryan Norton said. “Soccer’s more of a just pal around with the buddies kind of thing,” Davis said. “We play to just have fun, but it helps.” A large part of playing offensive line is to mirror someone’s feet and try to stay in front of him, Davis said, adding that his footwork is similar to defending in soccer.
Fittingly, defense was an area Davis used to excel in on the soccer field. “If you came within a distance with him, you were not going to succeed,” said Jamie Counterman, Davis’ high school soccer coach. “You had to definitely pass the ball. It was the only way you could get around him. If you tried to take him one-on-one, he would stop you.” Davis still finds time to play soccer at Clemson.
He plays intramurals nearly every semester. For Clemson football this year, Davis has started every game, sometimes playing as many as three different positions. That versatility combined with his speed, Swinney said, gives him a chance to play pro football. Said Davis: “I always knew my thing was going to be football.”
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Shafer discusses recurring red-zone issues ahead of Clemson By Phil D’Abbraccio asst. sports editor
Syracuse leads the Atlantic Coast Conference with 12 red-zone field goals. The Orange also has more touchdown-less red-zone trips than any other team in conference. SU has only reached the end zone 10 times out of its 27 chances in the red zone — a touchdown percentage of 37.04, third worst in the Football Bowl Subdivision. Efficiency in the red zone will be amplified this weekend when Syracuse (3-4, 1-2 ACC) hits the road to take on No. 21 Clemson (5-2, 4-1) on Saturday at 7 p.m. The Tigers boast the best red-zone defense in the ACC, holding opponents to points on 66.7 percent of red-zone possessions, and a high-flying offense that isn’t easy to keep up with. “It’s not frustration. It’s just, ‘Go to work,’” SU head coach Scott Shafer said on the ACC coaches’ teleconference Wednesday morning. “You’re trying to come up with more touchdowns rather than field goals. “So you go to work, you put your head down and be diligent about the process and you move forward. You try to turn that tide in the second half of the season.”
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Fortunately for SU, Cole Murphy’s emergence as a reliable starting kicker over the struggling Ryan Norton has allowed the Orange to come away with points in the red zone 81 percent of the time. Still, penalties and poor execution inside the 20-yard line have been inescapable demons for Syracuse throughout the entire season.
You make a bowl game if you win enough games and that’s what we’re going to bust our ass to do.
“Go to work and just keep pounding until you get to the point where you feel good that you’re turning field-goal opportunities into touchdowns. Simple as that.” Shafer was then asked if he thinks his team can reach a bowl game without improving its severely below-average red-zone touchdown percentage. “That’s not a very good question,” Shafer responded. “You make a bowl game if you win enough games and that’s what we’re going to bust our ass to do.”
“I think if you sit there and overthink things that are uncontrollable, that’s when you get in trouble and you create anxiety,” Shafer said. “We’d rather be stressed about practice and the things that we can (control) and get better at them and work on that stress as opposed to having some sort of mental anxiety that you have no control over.
Swinney previews SU matchup Syracuse coaches and players spoke about the Death Valley environment at length on Tuesday. Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney didn’t waste much time alluding to that topic, as well as the overall matchup with the Orange, during the coaches teleconference. “It’s homecoming here at Clemson, always a special time,” Swinney said. “Syracuse is coming in and this is a team that I think just played their best game and seems to be really getting a lot of confidence.” The game will be another top-flight matchup for SU, as Clemson caps off a stretch of three ranked opponents in a stretch of five
pocket, ran to the right corner flag and simply saluted toward the field while Emil Ekblom, Syla and Buescher joined him. On Alseth’s second goal, the celebration got a little more creative. “I’ve had too many celebrations on my mind these past couple weeks, couldn’t figure which
one to chose the one time I finally score,” Alseth said of his reaction after the first goal. “But the selfie one (on the second goal) was pre-planned with Julian and Juuso (Pasanen). We Europeans, we had that one figured out.” In the last five games, SU has conceded five goals compared to just one through its first 10. But
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weeks for the Orange. Swinney complimented SU freshman quarterback AJ Long, who is coming off his first college win and first rushing touchdown in the SU’s 30-7 victory at WFU on Saturday. “He’s a good thrower on the run, he’s made some plays for them running out of the pocket. Has kind of a coolness to him and a poise that you don’t really see in a lot of freshmen,” Swinney said. “He’s very competitive and the more I watched him the more impressed I was with him.” On the defensive side, Swinney said he thinks Syracuse is better than it was last season. He added that the Orange’s tendencies are similar, but the personnel is enhanced. He mentioned SU linebacker Cameron Lynch as one of the top pass rushers in the ACC and name-dropped safety Darius Kelly as a “really good player.” SU is aggressive in its blitzing schemes, Swinney said, and can bring pressure from anywhere. “This is a team that plays with great effort and again with an aggressive mentality and,” Swinney said. “From a play-calling standpoint, forces the issue and makes you really be dialed in.” pmdabbra@syr.edu | @PhilDAbb
it’s also received a spark from Alseth that could take some pressure off the forwards to score. “Coach has been complaining a lot that I haven’t been scoring,” Alseth said. “I’m told by my teammates all the time and it was good to finally get it out of the way and get my first two goals.” mcschnei@syr.edu | @matt_schneidman
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pregame playbook beat writer predictions PHIL D’ABBRACIO clemson: 35 syracuse: 17
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JESSE DOUGHERTY clemson: 24 syracuse: 17
Copycats This one doesn’t boil down to anything Clemson does. Just recurring red-zone issues and a bad late turnover that leaves the Orange 0-1 in games in South Carolina.
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Clawed to death Even in Clemson’s red zone, Syracuse’s offense is the prey. Death Valley gets the first shot at the Orange’s jugular before the Tigers finish the kill.
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The freshman wide receiver has come on strong for Syracuse in the past two games. Against Florida State he had two touchdowns and 93 receiving yards. He had a careerhigh six receptions against Wake Forest and totaled 72 yards, proving a viable option for fellow freshman AJ Long.
Beasley has been a top defensive end for one of the top defensive teams in the country. He’s accumulated 10.5 tackles for a loss which accounts for 76 total yards. He should be a headache for Long throughout the game, and it will be left tackle Sean Hickey’s responsibility to keep him out of the backfield.
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Big orange litterbox AJ Long doesn’t get enough time, Syracuse doesn’t get enough of the ball and ends up with not enough points.
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ishmael Orange, making use of the speed and height that he has. Neither are outstanding, but he’s fine-tuned his game and featured in the Orange’s offense in a way that most freshmen simply don’t. In high school, he skipped his senior prom and a senior “Grad Bash” trip to Universal Studios in Orlando to stay home and work out. Jeff Bertani, his coach at North Miami Beach (Florida) High School coach, said he saw a kid who wasn’t into video games or particularly distracted by girls — just really into football. “It almost comes off arrogant sometimes because it was, ‘I’m ready to go to the next stage of my life, I’m ready to do this and make a name for myself and all that kind of stuff,’” Bertani, said. “But it’s just him, that’s just how he is.” In Syracuse’s last three games, Ishmael has caught five of the team’s nine catches of more than 15 yards. He has two of the team’s four receiving touchdowns this season and has caught both of Long’s passing touchdowns, both against then-No. 1 Florida State. “A lot of guys are fast, but don’t know how to use their speed,” junior free safety Durell Eskridge said. “He has decent speed but you would think he’s a 4.3 guy the way he gets on top of you and makes you miss.” When Ishmael was coming out of eighth grade, a Pop Warner coach told Bertani he wouldn’t have much use for him. Bertani thought he might be too thin and too short. But as a freshman, Ishmael got downfield, jumped to passes at their highest point and caught them. Four years later his accelerating success
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downfield is somewhat a product of being targeted more in one-on-one matchups, Lester said. But he’s also dropped his shoulders and sunken lower into his stance, making it harder for opposing defensive backs to hold him up at the line of scrimmage. When he lines up against Clemson — either as an X or a Z receiver, in the slot or on the line — he won’t have time to be held up. The Tigers’ pass rush is too good. Earlier in the season, he couldn’t. He had to get off the line first. In high school, nobody bothered to press cover him, Bertani said. Lester remembers one play against Notre Dame when Ishmael was “manhandled” at the line by a Notre Dame defender. But two weeks later he burned FSU for a pair of touchdown catches. The questions to senior receiver Jarrod West — “J-West are you going to watch film today, J-West how do you get open on that route, J-West how do you do this?” — kept coming. Ishmael had quizzed West about what led to the senior’s 51-yard reception against Maryland down to the grab of his defender’s shoulder pad. West laughs when he thinks about the amount of questions he’s fielded from Ishmael. Since he arrived on campus, they haven’t really stopped — through extra routes with quarterbacks after practice, sessions with the ball machine or ladder circuits all by himself. On Saturday night SU will be playing in front of 81,000 mostly hostile fans and against the nation’s 17th-best pass defense. And the Orange will be looking for Ishmael. Said fellow freshman receiver Jamal Custis: “He saw a chance to play early and he wasn’t going to let nothing stop him.” jmklinge@syr.edu | @Jacob_Klinger_
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DEAD ZONE Syracuse faces tough test in program’s 1st-ever trip to state of South Carolina
STEVE ISHMAEL has accounted for five of SU’s nine receptions for over 15 yards in its past three games. Often staying after practice to work and asking questions to coaches and teammates, Ishmael has emerged as a top threat in his first year. margaret lin photo editor
Stingy Clemson front OT Davis uses soccer adds to Ishmael’s role skills to excel for Tigers By Jacob Klinger asst. sports editor
Looking out through the small window in his Manley Field House office game planning for Wake Forest, Tim Lester saw Steve Ishmael and, behind him, a Department of Public Safety officer. “I was like, ‘Oh my God, what happened to Ish?’” Lester said. Ishmael wanted to take a shower. The DPS officer said he wanted to make sure Ishmael was allowed to enter the building. Lester said he could, but also asked the wide receiver what he was doing at 11:30 p.m. He was working out on SU’s practice field. It was just a late end to another one of his after-practice drill sessions. Those, along with a near-constant stream of questions he fires at his coaches and veteran receivers, have thrust Ishmael onto the field for Syracuse (3-4, 1-2 Atlantic Coast) and into focus as the Orange takes on No. 21 Clemson (5-2, 4-1 ACC) at 7 p.m. on Saturday.
With the Tigers set to blitz freshman quarterback AJ Long with one of the nation’s top pass rushes, Ishmael will have to continue his acceleration as one of SU’s few deep threats.
SU POINTS LEADERS Terrel Hunt............................36 Cole Murphy..........................33 Ryan Norton...........................21 Steve Ishmael...................12 Durell Eskridge........................6 Brisly Estime............................6 Prince-Tyson Gullley...............6 Marqez Hodge.........................6 Adonis Ameen-Moore.............6 Kendall Moore.........................6 Micah Robinson.......................6 Robert Welsh...........................6 AJ Long....................................6 Cameron Lynch.......................2 source: cuse.com
“If our offensive line can hold them for two and a half, three seconds, I wouldn’t be surprised if Steve can get deep on people,” Long said. He’s provided many of the highlights of the season for the see ishmael page 18
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Kalon Davis’ 6-foot-5, 340-pound frame is more suited for the gridiron than the soccer pitch. “The first time he walked on the field I was like, ‘What the crap? Who is this guy?’” said Tyler Bernstein, who has played against Davis in intramural soccer leagues at Clemson. “It was so surprising to see someone that huge coming to play soccer.” Davis has been playing soccer since he was 3, but will be starting at right tackle for No. 21 Clemson (5-2, 4-1 Atlantic Coast) when it hosts Syracuse (3-4, 1-2) on Saturday at 7 p.m. in Death Valley. The redshirt senior didn’t start playing football until high school, but has used his soccer to become a versatile starter on Clemson’s offensive line this season. “He’s played everywhere,” Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney said. “He’s played left guard, right guard, right tackle, left tackle ... He could play center if he could snap it.” Davis’ mother, Loresia Davis said
she didn’t want him playing football as a child because it was too dangerous. That led him to soccer at a young age and the sport became his passion. It’s paid off and he’ll be a big part of stopping a Syracuse defensive line that scored two touchdowns against Wake Forest last week. In middle school he fell and broke his wrist during a soccer game, but only sat out for a few minutes before going back into the game. He didn’t tell his parents hurt until a few days later, when they took him to the doctor they found out it was broken. Around the same time he started becoming bigger than his peers. Football coaches took notice and encouraged him to play. “I think he even went out for the team and made it but he didn’t play,” Loresia said. He wasn’t interested. But in eighth grade, he made a deal with the coach at Chester Senior (South Carolina) High School to play football once he entered ninth grade. He liked it right away and became a three-sport athlete, playing
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SU’s Alseth looks to keep scoring By Matt Schneidman asst. copy editor
Oyvind Alseth had to wait almost 2,528 minutes for his first career goal in a Syracuse uniform. Once the sophomore got it in his 33rd career game on Tuesday, though, it didn’t even take eight minutes for him to up next get a second. @ N.C. State “I honestly @ Dail Soccer Field don’t know Saturday, 7 p.m. what was going on out there,” Alseth said. “I guess I was just feeling it.” Against Bucknell on Tuesday, Alseth scored the first two goals of his career and added an assist, helping SU pull away in the second half for a 4-1 win. He hasn’t seen his name on the score sheet often, but the right winger will look to continue his rare offensive form when the Orange (13-2, 4-2 Atlantic Coast) faces North Carolina State (6-5-3, 1-32) at Dail Soccer Field in Raleigh, North Carolina at 7 p.m. on Saturday.
But the selfie one (on the second goal) was pre-planned with Julian (Buescher) and Juuso (Pasanen). Oyvind Alseth su winger
The Orange has scored 14 goals in its last five games after tallying just 15 in its first 10, and Alseth’s newfound finishing touch gives SU yet another viable scoring option going forward. “We try to get the wings to drive forward and help the strikers score goals,” forward Chris Nanco said. Twelve minutes into the second half against the Bison, Alseth nearly scored off a cross from Julian Buescher but came up empty. Sixteen seconds later, Korab Syla sent a cross to Alseth in the same spot at the far post. He won the header again, but this time, the ball was directed to the right post and it snuck past Fox. “He’s got the quality going forward, strikes a great ball, but to score with his head was nice as well,” head coach Ian see n.c.
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