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N • For the honor

Syracuse University honored Sgt. William Shemin, an alumnus who was awarded the Medal of Honor in June, during a ceremony on Friday.

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O • A tale of two nations Conservative columnist Victoria Razzi sees the election of Canada’s new prime minister as a chance to strengthen relations between the U.S. and Canada.

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Professor recalls quiet Tao

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P • Poetic justice

The four poets who are performing at the LGBT Resource Center’s live poetry event discuss slam poetry and their views on coming out on a college campus.

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S • Get it together

Syracuse football lost another game on Saturday against Pittsburgh because of late defensive lapses.

It’s becoming a concerning trend in SU’s four-straight losses.

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Hou seen as bright, motivated

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While Yifan Tao was quiet, he was a good student, a professor said.

Tao, a 23-year-old graduate student in the College of Engineering and Computer Science at Syracuse University, died early Thursday morning in a car accident. He was studying mechanical and aerospace engineering and was expected to graduate in 2017, according to an SU News release.

Jacques Lewalle, an associate professor of mechanical engineering in the College of Engineering and Computer Science, had Tao in his class this semester. He said although he did not get to know him well this semester, Tao was a good student and did not draw his attention. “(He was) in the quiet half of 40-plus students,” Lewalle said in an email.

Multiple sources declined comment and the Chinese Students and Scholars Association would not allow one of Tao’s close friends to talk to the media.

The crash occurred on East Seneca Turnpike in front of the Clark Reservation State Park in the Town of DeWitt, according to a release from the Onondaga County Sheriff’s Office.

The Dodge Charger struck a tree on the north side of the road. Tao, along with another 23-year-old SU graduate student, Chengye Hou, were pronounced dead at the scene.

Jiarui Chen, the third passenger in the vehicle and an SU student, was the only one to survive the crash, according to the release.

“I join Chancellor (Kent) Syverud and the entire University community in extending our heartfelt sympathies during this painful time,” said Rebecca Reed Kantrowitz, senior vice president and dean of student affairs, in an SU News release.

There are two red-and-gold Chinese good-luck charms hanging on the wall in Kathleen Joyce’s office.

The good-luck charms were given to Joyce, the assistant dean of student recruitment in the College of Engineering and Computer Science, by Chengye Hou, who was killed early Thursday morning in a car accident on East Seneca Turnpike in front of the Clark Reservation State Park, according to a release from the Onondaga County Sheriff’s Office.

“He was just such a bright spirit, a bright life,” Joyce said of the 23-year-old mechanical engineering graduate student.

Yifan Tao, who was also a 23-year-old graduate student at SU, died in the accident as well. The third passenger, 22-year-old SU student Jiarui Chen, survived the crash with non-life-threatening injuries. Hou was driving eastbound on East Seneca Turnpike when the car crossed the westbound land and struck a tree on the side of the road, according to a release by the Onondaga County Sheriff’s Office.

After coming to the U.S., Hou attended Onondaga Community College for two years, where he studied engineering science, Joyce said.

He then completed two bachelor’s degrees in mechanical engineering and math at SU last May, she said.

Hou was pursuing a master’s degree in mechanical and aerospace engineering and was expected to graduate in 2017, according to an SU News release.

Before getting accepted into SU’s graduate program, Joyce mainly worked with Hou by helping him edit his personal statement for the application. She said it was through this process that she really got to know him.

“He was such a hard worker

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(FROM LEFT) MEGAN NOBLE AND KATHARINE GRANT were Lockerbie Scholars in the 2014-15 and 1990-91 academic years, respectively. The scholarship is now in its 25th year. margaret lin staff photographer

Year after year

Former Lockerbie Scholars reflect on time at SU

By Clare Ramirez staff writer

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DINBURGH, SCOTLAND — Back on the Syracuse University campus for the first time since 1996, Katharine Grant stood earlier this month at the Wall of Remembrance, a symbol of solace and heartbreak.

She recalled how she used to sit in front of this very wall when she was homesick, longing to be back in Scotland. She would stay in front of the memorial, looking down toward University Avenue. It would remind her of the hills from the view of her house looking toward the town of Lockerbie, Scotland.

“I would sit at the wall and think, ‘I know what Lockerbie looks like. I’m homesick and I’m mentally there,’” she said. “For me it was real. It was only two years after.”

In 1990, Grant received the Lockerbie Scholarship, which celebrates its 25th year this fall. Each year, two sixth-year students of Lockerbie Academy, the town’s high school, are awarded the scholarship and given the opportunity to study at SU for a full academic term after graduation. In addition to the Remembrance Scholars, the Lockerbie Scholars help

remember the lives lost in Pan Am Flight 103.

She went over to the wall and placed her hand on one of the victim’s names. That was the hardest part, Grant said.

She was able to come to SU because people had died.

The connection between Lockerbie and Syracuse was formed after 35 SU students died when Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over the town on Dec. 21, 1988. Each year, the university commemorates those students’ lives with Remembrance Week, which runs through Saturday.

Unlike today’s students, who can speak to former scholars and hear stories about their time at SU, Grant applied to the scholarship blindly. The only required item was a personal statement. Having come from a family of travelers, Grant said some part of herself knew she also wanted to travel, in addition to the privilege of representing Lockerbie abroad.

What fascinated her was that very few people in her classes asked what she was there for, or what she was going to do when she got back home to Lockerbie.

“They probably felt like they couldn’t ask me in a way, for fear of me bursting into tears, but you could easily ask the Lockerbie Scholars in this day and age,” she said. see lockerbie page 4

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MEET monday | sara adam

Sophomore runs own jewelry-based business

By Molly Berger staff writer

Sara Adam was looking for a necklace that she could wear in different ways, but when she couldn’t find something she liked in stores she crafted her own.

“I couldn’t find one anywhere and didn’t know if they even existed so I just decided to make my own,” Adam said.

Now, the sophomore is independently running her own jewelry company, Beachside Beads.

Beachside Beads took off soon after she got the name out with an Instagram page. When the school year started at Syracuse, Adam started making some necklaces with Syracuse colors.

She also customizes the necklaces, allowing her customers to choose their color scheme. Adam adds her signature by adding two turquoise beads to the piece.

“Turquoise is my favorite color and it kind of ties it back to the beach theme,” Adam said.

Adam, an information management technology major, receives

some help making the necklaces from a few interns. She pays them five dollars for each necklace they make and after they make five necklaces they get a free one.

Adam runs her business through Instagram, but she is working on making a website.

“I love crafting. I love do-it-yourself kind of projects. I’m always making something.” Adam said.

Adam makes long necklaces that can be worn multiple different ways.

The necklace can be wrapped around the wrist or neck a few times and be transformed into a bracelet or choker.

She is still figuring out what else she can add to her company.

“I love it when I see my customers on Marshall Street walking to class or something wearing one of the necklaces. It’s really exciting to see,” Adam said. “I take a picture and usually post it on Instagram.”

To learn more about Beachside Beads, check out Adam’s Instagram page @beachsidebeads or email her at sgadam@syr.edu. moberger@syr.edu

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@SyracuseVMA Hometown Hero celebration honors @Cuse alumnus and Medal of Honor recipient Sgt William Shemin ’24.

The academy The Lockerbie Academy and Syracuse University share a strong connection, despite being more than 3,000 miles apart.

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Panel talks STEM field problems

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CHANCELLOR KENT SYVERUD unveils a plaque of Sgt. William Shemin, a Syracuse University alumnus who was awarded the Medal of Honor

by President Barack Obama in June. Shemin was originally denied the honor because of his Jewish faith. logan reidsma photo editor

SU honors Medal of Honor-winning alumnus

By Sara Swann asst. news editor

Syracuse University honored the late Sgt. William Shemin on Friday with a plaque commemorating him as the first SU alumnus to receive the Medal of Honor.

SU and the Office of Veteran and Military Affairs held a ceremony in OVMA Friday. The bronze plaque, unveiled by Chancellor Kent Syverud and members of the Shemin family, recognized Shemin for receiving the nation’s highest

award for combat valor. The plaque will be displayed on the SU campus, said Ron Novak, executive director of the Institute for Veterans and Military Families.

Novak gave background about Shemin, his efforts during World War I and his family’s extensive connections to SU. Shemin, who graduated from SU in 1924, was the first in his family to attend the university. Nearly 15 of Shemin’s family members over the span of four generations have attended the university since then.

Will Cass, Shemin’s grandson, who graduated in 2008, said during the ceremony that in the past 100 years, there have only been three decades when someone in the Shemin family has not attended SU. Cass, along with two other members of Shemin’s family and Syverud, helped reveal the plaque permanently memorializing Shemin.

Originally, Shemin was denied the Medal of Honor because of his Jewish faith. However, his daughter, Elsie Shemin-Roth, worked for 13 years to “right this wrong,” Novack

said during the ceremony.

Shemin-Roth eventually was able to get legislation passed in Congress, giving her father and other deserving members of WWI the recognition they were denied while they were living.

President Barack Obama presented the Medal of Honor posthumously to Shemin on June 2.

Shemin-Roth attended the ceremony at the White House to receive the award on her father’s behalf.

After unveiling the plaque, the chancellor spoke briefly about what the see shemin page 6

Remembrance Week to honor bombing victims

By Satoshi Sugiyama staff writer

Jacqueline Reilly wants Syracuse University students to learn about the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing through upcoming Remembrance Week events.

“These are students of ours and not remembering and not caring about it is basically saying their lives didn’t matter, which isn’t true. Their

lives matter very much so,” said Reilly, a senior graphic design major.

Reilly is among 35 SU seniors chosen as Remembrance Scholars to represent the 35 SU students who died in the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing. This year marks the 27th anniversary of the bombing, which killed a total of 270 people. This year’s Remembrance Scholars organized a series of events for Remembrance Week running from Sunday

through Saturday.

What is Remembrance Week?

Remembrance Week is a weeklong series of events organized by Remembrance Scholars to commemorate the lives lost in the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing.

On Dec. 21, 1988, an explosive detonated on Pan Am Flight 103,

killing all 259 people on board, including 35 SU students who were traveling from London to New York City after completing a study abroad program. The debris from the plane fell onto the small town of Lockerbie, Scotland, where 11 people were killed.

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A panel featuring four Syracuse University deans focused on the need to incorporate STEM fields at an Orange Central panel on Friday.

Members of the SU community attended the “STEMing the Gap in Higher Education” panel on Friday in the Life Sciences Complex to discuss the campus- and nationwide issues and advancements of the STEM fields. The panel members discussed the nation’s need to incorporate and re-envision STEM fields in the education sector in order to become more competitive with the global market, and what SU is doing to aid in that mission. A question-and-answer session with audience members followed the panel.

Representing both the STEM fields and the education sector, the four deans on the panel included: Teresa Dahlberg, dean of the College of Engineering and Computer see stem page 6

crime briefs Here is a round-up of criminal activity that happened near the Syracuse University campus this week, according to police bulletins: OBSTRUCTING GOVERNMENTAL ADMINISTRATION A Liverpool man, 22, was arrested and charged with obstructing governmental administration in the second degree, according to a police bulletin. when: Saturday at 1 a.m. where: 700 block of Ackerman Ave. FAILURE TO DISPLAY A TAXI LICENSE An Elmira man, 51, was charged with failure to display a ground transportation license, according to a police bulletin. According to a separate appearance ticket, the man knew he did not have a taxi license, but still tried to offer transportation. when: Monday at 11:09 a.m. where: 700 block of S. Crouse Ave.

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Clinton Foundation president talks higher ed Scholars discuss SU experience

By Lydia Wilson staff writer

Donna Shalala’s illustrious career in higher education and government leadership all started with a college boyfriend.

“I came to Syracuse because I was following my boyfriend,” Shalala said. “He hated it and I loved it, so I stuck around and got a PhD. He went off to do other things, never to be heard from again.”

Shalala’s passion for social sciences and diversity standards was instilled in part during her time at Syracuse University, where she earned her doctorate from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs in 1970.

Shalala, the president of the Clinton Foundation and the longest-serving United States Secretary of Health and Human Services under former President Bill Clinton, returned to SU to speak at Maxwell Auditorium on Friday afternoon. More than 200 people crowded even the floor and aisles of the auditorium to hear her Tanner Series lecture entitled “Ethical Leadership In Higher Education: Who Wants This Job Anymore?”

Chancellor Kent Syverud spoke to

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lockerbie Grant’s year at SU broadened her mind, after living in such small a town as Lockerbie. Upon returning to the United Kingdom, she continued her studies at Strathclyde University in Glasgow.

Grant is now an occupational therapist for the National Health Service and keeps in touch with her best friend from SU and sees her when she visits the United States.

The Lockerbie Scholars today, Grant said, have the responsibility of reminding people of the connection between SU and Lockerbie, two communities that have forged something stronger than what happened to each of them. She said she believes the scholars must positively continue the representation that started 25 years ago.

“It was very interesting to hear (today’s scholars) speak about how it was a privilege to go, and how they want to educate people at Syracuse about Lockerbie and the scholarship’s connection and what it represents,” Grant said. “It’s fascinating that they can do it so passionately, having no personal knowledge of what actually happened.”

••• When she came to Syracuse, Megan Noble was surprised when she met only one person who knew about Pan Am Flight 103; everybody in Lockerbie and the surrounding areas knew about the flight.

welcome Shalala back to “her school,” saying no higher education leader has been more helpful to SU than Shalala, who has also served as president of Hunter College, chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and president of the University of Miami.

“If the question is ‘who wants this job anymore,’ I do because I’m at Syracuse and we have alumni like [Donna Shalala],” Syverud said.

Shalala said she left the Maxwell School determined to be a journalist but found that no one was hiring.

Her first experiences working in higher education came when she spent time working at Columbia University before hearing of a presidency opening at Hunter College.

“I interviewed for it, had not a clue what I was doing, and I got my first college presidency,” Shalala said.

She served as president of Hunter College from 1980-88, before leading the University of Wisconsin-Madison as chancellor for five years.

Shalala discussed her efforts in student diversity standards during her time at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, particularly in regards to Native American students who weren’t thriving at the

school despite having the support system the university provided for underserved students.

A breakthrough came when university officials realized Native Americans often culturally don’t want to ask for help when they need it, Shalala said.

Officials hired a Native American counselor and dean with whom the students could develop close relationships.

Shalala said many universities may try to increase diversity by providing scholarships or general support groups, but that this is not enough.

Support needs to be deepened, she said, and faculty members have to change their attitudes in the classroom to learn how to work with multiethnic populations.

“You can’t give the old lecture that’s so ethnocentric and assume that everybody in the classroom — even if they were born in the United States — is hearing it the same way,” Shalala said. “It’s not as easy as it was. Higher education just is not all white male anymore, thank god.”

Shalala also discussed the importance of making long-term investments in the careers of diverse faculty

members who can advance the school.

“You can’t have a world-class university without having diversity because those different points of view enhance the quality of the institution,” she said.

In her time as the president of the University of Miami from 2001-14, Shalala said she faced an underappreciated institution that needed a tough strategy of excellence.

She said she created a fundraising campaign, raised $1 billion, hired the right people, stuck to a disciplined plan and quickly moved the school into the top ranks.

Shalala said one of the biggest problems then and now that is facing higher education is the overregulation of universities.

She said she’s seen the most major universities’ budgets affected by major compliance rules such as those of the NCAA. She said with her experience in both government and in higher education, more problems can be solved and changes can be made if people who approach leadership are able to re-conceptualize and rethink rather than “throwing on another regulation.”

“That just shows you the magnitude of how much it affected us as a small town in comparison to how much it’s affected the wider population at Syracuse,” she said.

Noble was a Lockerbie Scholar during the 2014-15 school year. She lived in Sadler Hall, met friends she ordered Sliders with late at night and took courses in scuba diving and American Sign Language.

The opportunity to have experiences like these and to represent her town was Noble’s motivation to apply for the Lockerbie Scholarship.

“I’m here to represent these people,” she said. “I’m here to do a good job for my school, for Lockerbie and for Syracuse.”

Every year, Lockerbie Scholars decide which of the Pan Am Flight 103 victims they want to represent.

Noble was the first to go in a different direction and represent Andrew McClune, a former Lockerbie Scholar who died while he was at Syracuse. Noble said she chose McClune because while researching the scholarship and the bombing, she realized the two had a lot in common.

While at SU, Noble was able to meet McClune’s mother, who was happy that another scholar was doing something to remember her son. When Remembrance Week came around, McClune’s mother sent Noble a copy of his speech during the rose-laying ceremony, which served as inspiration for her own speech during the event.

“He made it quite clear the irony of the fact that the bombing was

meant to destroy everything and destroy all of our relationships,” she said. “When it actually made us so much stronger and we’ve built all these wonderful bridges as a result.”

At the end of Remembrance Week last year, Noble also met the families of the victims, which she said was not as intimidating as she expected. She said she was surprised how interested they were to learn about her, what she wants to do in the future and how she was enjoying Syracuse.

“There were a few tears, obviously, because it’s such a horrible and delicate subject. There are going to be high emotions all the time,” she said. “But it wasn’t awkward talking to them about the people they lost. It was more like talking about old friends.”

Noble is now in her first year at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, and she said she’s starting to realize that she’s not going back to SU. As part of her nursing studies, Noble will begin medical placement in December. Receiving the scholarship allowed her to become more confident and independent, she said, and has given her the ability to relate to others more.

“None of us, the scholars, would have ever done anything like any of us did in Syracuse,” she said. “Sometimes I think people forget that, especially those over in Syracuse.

You don’t realize what this actually means to us.”

Twenty-five years have passed, and in that time, the Lockerbie Scholarship has grown. Interviews were added to the application process. Certain courses are no longer required for scholars, though now they are automatically placed in the Honors Program. The students who leave Lockerbie today do so after graduating from the academy, as opposed to the first few who went in place of their sixth year in high school.

Amid all this growth is the constant idea of acting forward.

Noble said she believes the scholarship allows people to look back on the joint history of Lockerbie and Syracuse, and that by acting as a bridge between the two institutions, it will keep future generations educated about Pan Am Flight 103.

“It’s quite ironic and horrible and beautiful that all these people had to die for something so wonderful to come out of it and give all of us these amazing opportunities,” she said. “They set us up for life. Really, they do.”

For Grant, acting forward encompasses “the kindness of strangers” that has stayed with her throughout the years. By the end of her year at SU, people who were once strangers to her were far from it. It’s that kindness and the impact of it that Grant continues to pass on today.

“I was there for a very dark reason, and they wanted to shine light into a dark part of my experience,” she said. “Look back, act forward, pay it forward, pass it on.”

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EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND — In its 25 years, the Lockerbie Scholarship has changed and affected the lives of the students from the small town in Scotland. Here is what other scholars had to say about the experience:

Kerry Currie Lockerbie Scholar 1996-97 “I’d been once abroad for an exchange trip with my peer group.

So going to Syracuse was the first time away proper, and you couldn’t really get much farther away from home ... You go out there. You definitely come back feeling more confident and not scared to try new things and open-minded to see the bigger world out there.”

David Thomson Lockerbie Scholar 1996-97 “The scholarship gives you a first taste of the immigrant experience, the American experience. America is a country of immigrants, and that open welcome to immigrants has historically been one of the things that makes America great.

What better response can there be to terrorism than to use a tragedy to create bonds and hope between people?”

Stephen Armstrong Lockerbie Scholar 2000-01 “We’re a part of an ever-growing community of scholars … One of the legacies that every set of Lockerbie Scholars passes on to the next set is what we call ‘The Rough Guide to Syracuse.’ It’s like a book that we update every year, giving the next set of scholars tips and hints about what we need to do and what to be aware of coming to Syracuse. We all update it.

It’s all our testimonials in there.”

Kirsty Lidden Lockerbie Scholar 2008-09 “Syracuse — it’s a home away from home. I could now go back there and I’d have friends all over the states that were in my year. I went to (university) in Edinburgh when I got back, and study abroad seemed to be a big thing in Syracuse, where everybody came to Europe during their third year. People that had me stay there at Syracuse stayed with me here, and it was really nice to be able to return the hospitality that they had given to me.”

—Compiled by Clare Ramirez, staff writer, clramire@syr.edu

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Fans unite Is the ‘Cuse Fan Council the answer to increasing football game attendance? Share your thoughts on the online poll.

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Council shows interest in fan feedback Syracuse Athletics’ creation of the ’Cuse Fan Council is a thoughtful approach to tackling issues that directly affect the game experience.

SU Athletics announced Wednesday it would open up applications for the council, which was created to foster dialogue between Orange fans, alumni, donors, current students and the Department of Athletics. According to Syracuse. com, the group will be led by Deputy Director of Athletics John Cunningham, who named low attendance at football games one of the areas he thinks the council can help solve.

The council is a progressive approach in creating a direct relationship and line of communication with game attendees to improve the overall fan experience. However, SU Athletics must acknowledge that efforts to increase football attendance will likely not be met with successful results unless the football team starts winning more games.

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But this doesn’t mean the council is a wasted effort.

With the group set to discuss different issues including ticket sales and other subjects relating to intercollegiate athletics events, according to cuse.com, its creation was a smart move on behalf of the athletics department.

The fact that Cunningham is leading the council sends the clear message that his appointment was a conscious decision on behalf of athletic director Mark Coyle, considering Coyle and Cunningham have worked together previously at Boise State University on a similar initiative.

The entire concept of the council highlights Coyle’s efforts to improve the athletics program in the best interest of the everyday fan, as the group provides a space in which feedback has the potential to make meaningful improvements for game attendees. This outreach also marks a change in direction from

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past athletic directors in that Coyle is actively engaging fans for their opinions, rather than solely working behind the scenes.

It is important to note that these improvements have the potential to generate increased attendance in the long run, as season-ticket holders may be more inclined to attend more games throughout the season after having a positive experience.

However, for the council to reach its full potential, its members must come from diverse perspectives, including student fans, off-campus fans and long-time season-ticket holders.

Though the ’Cuse Fan Council poses an opportunity to organize tangible change for the current conditions of the game experience, SU Athletics must recognize its limitations. There are certain realities that the council cannot change, and the outcome of a game is one of them.

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Canada PM, 2016 president must repair US-Canada relationship

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anada has finally elected a new prime minister after three long months.

The country had been run by arguably one of the most conservative leaders in the nation’s history, Stephen Harper, until last week.

During his time in office, Harper and President Barack Obama had many political differences, which created some tension between the United States and Canada.

The new prime minister is Justin Trudeau, who is the opposite of Harper in many ways. The two differ in opinions on climate change, immigration and whether relations with the U.S. should hinge on the future of the Keystone XL oil pipeline, according to the Associated Press.

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CANDIDLY CONSERVATIVE Trudeau’s promise to alleviate tensions between the U.S. and Canada is a step in the right direction. However, they could be short-lived if the U.S. doesn’t hold up its end of the bargain.

With the U.S. on the cusp of the next presidential election, disputes could flare up again. But regardless of if the 2016 election shifts the White House on the political spectrum, the new commander in chief should do their part to preserve positive relations with our neighbors to the north.

If the next elected president is Republican, there is potential for a

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poor relationship to emerge between the U.S. and Trudeau’s liberal policies. Because this dynamic would leave the countries right where they started, the next U.S. leader must learn from the mistakes of Harper and Obama’s relationship. They must work to maintain a positive, collaborative relationship between the two countries absent of polarization despite differing views.

With a new leader for both countries and new ideas, old policies will resurface for further debate and discussion.

The Keystone XL pipeline is one of these issues. Under Harper, arrogance was a major reason why the pipeline failed to gain the support of the Obama administration. Harper called the

pipeline a “no-brainer” in 2011 and cited the “peculiar politics” of the U.S. as a reason for the failure of the project.

This can be reversed under Trudeau when it comes to shared legislation between the two countries.

According to Fortune magazine, Trudeau has argued that the main problem with the policy was not the pipeline itself, but was rooted in the way in which the former Canadian prime minister approached the matter.

The two nations also have common, ecosystems which, in order to be preserved, need to be equally protected by both countries. The current U.S. administration felt that by Canada supporting the pipeline, it was largely neglecting its responsibility to keep the shared environment clean.

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In order to rectify the ill feelings this has spurred, Trudeau has said while he and his party still support the pipeline, they do not share Harper’s belief that they have to choose between the economy and the environment.

If the leaders of these two countries are not on collaborative terms, the overall relationship between the countries will suffer as well. They do not by any means need to be united on every front, but a productive relationship still needs to exist for the common good, and will ultimately strengthen both countries.

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Science; Joanna Masingila, dean of the School of Education; Karin Ruhlandt, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences; and Jeffrey Stanton, interim dean of the School of Information Studies.

The panel, which was moderated by Alland Leandre, the founder, president and CEO of Vyalex Management Solutions and an SU alumnus, began with a moment of silence for Chengye Hou and Yifan Tao, two graduate students in the College of Engineering and Computer Science, who died early Thursday morning.

Leandre addressed issues concerning STEM, including one about the lack of women and other underrepresented populations in STEM fields, and ways to battle the “leaky pipeline” — the phenomenon of attracting but not keeping students, particularly women and minority groups in the STEM fields.

Ruhlandt and Masingila brought up programs on campus that support women in STEM fields, such as Women Igniting the Spirit of Entrepreneurship (WISE) and SU ADVANCE, as well as on-campus programs that support students of color, underrepresented students and first-generation college students, such as Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) and the Collegiate Science and Technology Entry Program (CSTEP).

Dahlberg said one way to slow the “leaky

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shemin recognition meant for the university.

“We are in an age of hubris and exaggeration and so it’s a particular joy to be able to say this with no exaggeration at all today,” Syverud said. “And that is that we are honoring one of the greatest American heroes, SU alumnus William Shemin.”

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and such a motivated young man and really someone who would just make the most of any opportunity,” Joyce said. “… He lived life to the fullest. He lived boldly.”

Fred Carranti, Hou’s faculty adviser in the College of Engineering and Computer Science, said with a laugh that Hou was always in his office trying to talk Carranti into letting him do more.

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remembrance Scholars to study at SU for a full year.

Throughout the week, pen-and-ink drawings of the students, along with photos of the “Dark Elegy” sculptures, will be exhibited in Panasci Lounge on the third floor of the Schine Student Center. A remembrance dove sculpture will be showcased in the atrium of the Martin J. Whitman School of Management.

Thirty-five empty chairs representing where each student sat on the flight will be placed on the Quad in front of Hendricks Chapel. In addition, a “Wall of Hopes and Dreams” will be displayed at the Huntington Beard Crouse Hall plaza for people to write their dreams on the wall. At night, blue lights will be shined onto the Hall of Languages.

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pipeline” effect in both education and the workforce is through networking.

In addition, Leandre cited a study that showed getting involved early in K-12 education is key. He said efforts should be made to expose K-12 students to great opportunities that the STEM disciplines can afford.

What is STEM? STEM is an acronym for Science, Technology, Engineering and Math education.

He added that the IT Girl initiative at SU engages female high school students interested in science, technology, engineering and math by allowing them to come to the university and participate in various workshops geared toward building career interest in STEM fields.

Panelists agreed that these initiatives do not come easily.

Ruhlandt commented on the high expectations that the STEM programs at the university has.

“We’re actually asking quite a lot from our junior faculty members,” Ruhlandt said. “We want them to be amazing in the classroom, and engage our students, and bring in those difficult-to-get grants.”

She said there is a need for mentors to train faculty, staff and students, because student experience is a major focus of these STEM programs. She added that engaged instruction and working one-on-one with students is

“absolutely critical” to continuing the growth in STEM fields.

Stanton said the way to get students more excited is to pay them. He said grants for programs and scholarships should be increased so that there is viable incentive for undergraduate students to get involved in and stay in STEM fields.

Dahlberg said this proposal could be difficult due to the lack of funds available for STEM initiatives.

“It’s not a lack of good ideas; it’s a lack of

how to really bring about change given limited funds,” she said.

After the panel ended, those in attendance discussed a variety of topics highlighted during the event.

John Tillotson, an associate professor of science education, said the critical part about getting students engaged is that students, faculty and staff need to work together to advance the strategic plan of STEM on SU’s campus.

Syverud said the plaque will ensure that future generations of SU students will be inspired by Shemin’s efforts and will be reminded of what he did. He added that he likes to think that Shemin’s humble and hard-working spirit is what SU embodies at its best.

He added that Shemin-Roth’s tenacity and persistence should also inspire SU students.

Mike Haynie, SU’s vice chancellor for veteran and military affairs, outlined the

importance of Shemin being recognized, since this is the second year of the World War I centennial commemoration.

“One of the ways that we honor those who have served and sacrificed in the past — particularly those who are no longer with us — is by remembering them as they lived and by telling and retelling their stories,” Haynie said.

He added that SU is at its best when it tells stories of Americans like Shemin and remem-

ber veterans in a positive light.

“To me this gratification is more than simply a symbol or an artifact representing facts.

It is a monument that represents the means to connect future generations of Americans,” Haynie said.

At the end of the ceremony, Haynie presented the three Shemin family members with a framed picture of the first group of student veterans at SU.

Carranti added that since Hou was so energetic and eager to do more, he often had to “rein him in.”

Carranti said Hou took three of his classes during his time at SU, but he really got to know him and develop a mutual respect for him through his frequent office visits.

One visit, Carranti said, was shortly after commencement in May. Hou’s parents were visiting, so Hou introduced Carranti to them.

Although Hou’s parents do not speak English, Carranti said he was very happy to meet them.

“I think I finally understood him at that

point,” Carranti said recalling that moment. “His motivation for pursuing two degrees and working so hard was because he was his parents’ hopes and dreams. And he wanted to live up to that.”

Carranti added that Hou was always trying to do more and that he wanted to have a lot of credentials.

While at SU, Joyce said Hou founded and was vice president of the International Student Investment Group, headquartered in New York City. He also founded his own 3-D printer company. In addition, Hou helped tutor other

Chinese students with English.

Joyce, the assistant dean of student recruitment in the College of Engineering and Computer Science, added that one of Hou’s goals for the future was to be an entrepreneur and start his own business.

Carranti said Hou always worked hard, but he always succeeded in what he did.

“We started off kind of butting heads, but by the time he graduated, we were hugging,” Carranti said. “I had a lot of respect for him.”

On Monday, part one of a three-part series PBS documentary, “My Brother’s Bomber,” will be screened at Slocum Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. The director of the documentary, Ken Dornstein, lost his brother in the bombing.

On Tuesday, a panel discussion on terrorism in the Internet Age will be held in Hall of Languages Room 500 at 7 p.m. William Banks, interim dean of the College of Law; University Professor Sean O’Keefe; and Bryan Semaan, assistant professor in the School of Information Studies, will lead the discussion. “(The panel) we wanted to do just because we are obviously commemorating a terrorist attack over two decades ago, but we wanted to contextualize the terrorism in the modern days,” said Virginia Giannini, a Remembrance Scholar and an international relations and

public relations dual major.

Wednesday will be dedicated to community service. In recognition of Remembrance Week, 10 percent of every sale on Wednesday at Insomnia Cookies on Marshall Street will be donated to the Ronald McDonald House in Syracuse. The Remembrance and Lockerbie Scholars will also be making peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for the Samaritan Center in Schine at 12 p.m.

“A Celebration of Life” performance will take place in Panasci Lounge on Thursday starting at 7 p.m. SU students will present performances and remembrance to celebrate the lives of those lost in the bombing.

The annual Rose Laying Ceremony, a symbolic event of Remembrance Week, will be held on Friday at the Wall of Remembrance in front of the Hall of Languages at 2:03 p.m. —

the exact time when the bomb went off in the skies of Lockerbie.

Each Remembrance and Lockerbie Scholar will make a short speech and lay a rose on the Wall of Remembrance to pay a tribute to the SU students who died in the bombing. The Remembrance Convocation will take place subsequently in Hendricks Chapel at 3:30 p.m.

The Remembrance Scholars will hold a private meeting to meet the family members of the students on Saturday.

Reilly, a Remembrance Scholar, added that the Remembrance Scholars have introduced a Snapchat geofilter for Remembrance Week. The geofilter, which launched on Saturday, features a white ribbon with “Remembrance Week” written on it and a white dove above the ribbon.

Four Syracuse University deans took part in a panel on Friday about STEM issues and advancements in higher education.

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WILD HORSES SUNY-ESF graduate student spends summer studying horses in Bulgaria

RACHELLE MCKNIGHT, a third-year graduate student at SUNY-ESF, conducted research on the Konik horses in the mountains of Nanovista, Bulgaria over the summer. McKnight spent six hours a day on the 2,000-acre ridge where the horses she studied roamed.

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he sun has yet to rise, and the stillness of the early morning provides a mystic aura as farmers begin to bring their cows and sheep onto the landscape.

For Rachelle McKnight, another day of research in the mountainsides of Bulgaria has begun.

McKnight, a third-year graduate student earning her master’s degree in landscape architecture at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, spent this summer in Nanovitsa, Bulgaria, a small town in the eastern Rhodope Mountains. There, she worked with the ReWilding Europe program to conduct a home range and habitat survey of the region’s Konik horses.

Prior to her studies at SUNY-ESF, McKnight earned a bachelor’s degree in anthropology with a double minor in horticulture and fine

arts from Western Kentucky University. She chose to study landscape architecture to combine her love for design and horticulture.

“My whole life, I’ve had horses, ridden horses and been around horses. I thought it’d be really interesting,” said McKnight, a Kentucky native, of the chance to study Koniks.

Each day, McKnight spent six hours on the 2,000-acre ridge where the horses roamed. The previously abandoned land had been repopulated with wild horses by ReWilding Europe in an effort to restore a natural balance and promote biodiversity. McKnight’s role was to identify vegetation and take note of how the horses used the landscape, where they spent most of their time and where they found shelter.

A typical morning began at 4:30 when McKnight would make the one-hour drive from her apartment to the ridge.

“It got so hot so early, but it was so beautiful as we drove up to the ridge,” McKnight said of

her early mornings.

As a time-saving mechanism, she would often sleep in a tent on the ridge. This was not without repercussions. She said the horses would often break into her tent, steal her sleeping bag and scatter her belongings. She was surprised at how curious the horses were about people, she said, and that the horses wanted to be around people all the time.

“Every time we would go to get into the car, they would surround it and start licking the windows; they were troublemakers for sure,” she said.

The opportunity to be a student researcher in Bulgaria arose when McKnight received funding from the Fink Career Fellowship, and she jumped on board. The fellowship provides financial support for SUNY-ESF students to attend conferences and internships, and the use of the funding is entirely up to the student, said Casey Duffy, a career advisor at SUNY-ESF.

McKnight said she misses the horses, but what she took away from her experience in Bulgaria is the significant work the Bulgarian people are doing to move forward from the country’s communist history. She added that it was inspiring to see Bulgaria “value the beauty of the landscape and their culture.”

She captured the country’s natural beauty in a series of sketches and videos by using skills she picked up in a multimedia course in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications last spring.

McKnight’s data collection includes the identification of 211 plants, and she has since returned to the United States. She is now interpreting the greater vegetation composition of the land along with how the horses are using the landscape and producing maps and booklets that will serve as resources to students who replicate her research in the future. tnwatson@syr.edu

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Theater produces racy play

By Joy White contributing writer

In the first few minutes of the “The Underpants,” those in the front row took a bucket of confetti directly to the face. Things only escalated from there.

Syracuse Stage opened Steve Martin’s “The Underpants” on Oct. 23.

Originally adapted from a 1910 German farce, the play tells the story of a sexually frustrated, married woman, Louise Maske, whose panties accidentally fall down around her ankles at a parade for the king. The show will be at Syracuse Stage through Nov. 8.

Known for directing the hits “Hairspray” and “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” director Bill Fennelly slips back into Syracuse Stage for a third time. His concept for the play captures the duality of a “wild comedy linked with realness,” Fennelly said.

Comparing the mundane reality of these middle-class characters to the classic sitcom “The Honeymooners,” Fennelly attempted to balance the reality of marriage with the German, hyper-theatrical style of the play.

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Rhyme for a reason Dear Straight People poets discuss slam event on Tuesday

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he first stanza of the poem “Dear Straight People,” by Denice Frohman reads: “Dear Straight People,/ Who do you think you are?/ Do you have to make it so obvious that I make you uncomfortable?/ Why do I make you uncomfortable?/ Do you know that makes me uncomfortable?”

Dear Straight People, a poetry slam hosted by the LGBT Resource Center for National Coming Out Month, will take place Tuesday at 7 p.m. at Hendricks Chapel.

Four poets will perform a piece in response to the idea of “Dear Straight People.” The poets

include Alix Olson, Kit Yan, Yazmin Watkins and Danez Smith. They will perform their original poems as well.

Jesica Norman, a graduate assistant at the LGBT Resource Center, said she hopes Dear Straight People and National Coming Out Month will help contribute to a safe community for LGBTQ individuals in what can be a hostile society.

Norman said she hopes that straight people will leave the poetry slam more open-minded, and more willing to address the microaggressions and hurtful behaviors that they witness in their communities.

Here’s a rundown of the four poets — who represent students, full-time poets and actors

— and their thoughts on the event and on coming out in college: Alix Olson Olson began touring as a spoken word poet in 2000. Now, she’s a candidate for a doctoral degree in political science and teacher at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. She describes her studies as the intersection between political theory, feminist theory and queer theory.

Olson struggled writing her poem for the Dear Straight People event, mostly, she said, because it was difficult to peg straight people into a single group that could be addressed all together.

“In 2015, I think that it’s challenging to see poetry

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Steve Martin’s “The Underpants” Where: Syracuse Stage/SU Drama Complex When: Through Nov. 8, times vary How much: $30-$50

Fennelly used the lighting to accentuate the split between the two main aspects of the play. At the end of each act, lights went purple, German music played and the beer hall girls danced around stage moving the props for the next scene.

“Changing the lighting showed the clear distinction of the abstract, clown version of the world. When lights transformed back to normal, it showed a transition back into the normal world,” said McKenna Batterson, a sophomore musical theater major.

From tip to end, “The Underpants” bursts with sexual innuendo, suggestive puns and physical comedy. Every actor speaks in either a thick German or Italian accent. Each performer put exaggerated spin on each of their character’s movements.

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poetry slam think about straight people as a population,” Olison said. “I had to think really hard and really long, and I found this poem an incredibly difficult challenge to be tasked with because I’m not really sure what straight people are and what straight people means.”

While Olson said she values the individual significance of coming out, her studies have pushed her to challenge the LGBTQ perspective on coming out in a society where people are oppressed for all kinds of other reasons — be them race, class or gender.

“To me, coming out can’t be just about being celebrated as a gay person,” Olison said.

“For me, it needs to be about understanding oneself in positions of power and privilege — allyship and solidarity with others who have also experienced exclusion.”

Danez Smith

Smith is currently a candidate for an MFA in

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syracuse stage when combined with sexy wit.

“The innuendo paired with the physical comedy helped jokes from falling flat. Movement-based comedy mixed with wit is always very strong,” Batterson said.

Marianna McClellan, who portrays Louise, played another sexually inhibited woman in her last role at Syracuse Stage in “In the Next Room.” She said the primary difference

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creative writing at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor.

Smith said he had difficulty writing his poem for Dear Straight People because he said he believes that straight people are accountable for respecting LGBTQ individuals and understanding LGBTQ issues, especially given the highly accessible resources on the topic.

Smith came out by accident after his mom picked him up from a party at a camp he was a counselor at. At the camp, a kid came out and all the junior high kids responded in a positive way, Smith said.

“I got tipsy for the first time, and my mom came to pick me up and I told her about the kid,” Smith said. “She asked, ‘How do you feel about that?’ I was like, ‘Oh I’m bisexual so it doesn’t matter.’ She yelled; it was scary. Then, the next morning she got me a book about being an LGBTQ teen. My mom is definitely a huge ally now.”

For his Dear Straight People poem, as opposed to drawing from his own personal experiences, Smith ended up asking his Facebook friends what they would want to

tell straight people. He said poetry is a useful way to bring people together because it’s small and compact, “like a very small, very fast motorcycle.”

undergraduate, and said the program and its retreats helped mold her into the woman she is today. She said she hopes to meet some Posse Scholars at SU during the event.

Yazmin Watkins

Kit Yan

Watkins is a full-time actor and poet, and volunteers weekly to teach poetry to incarcerated youth.

Watkins came out her sophomore year at Dickinson College, and said her undergraduate academic experience made her coming out process a piece in a greater puzzle shaping her identity.

“Navigating my sexuality and identity, particularly on a college campus, was so important — at the time, I was reading ‘The Color Purple’ and taking black feminist thought classes — and all of those things gave me that opportunity to feel welcome and to celebrate our existence, particularly in a safe space,” Watkins said.

Watkins said she is excited to perform at SU because it hosts The Posse Foundation program. Watkins was a Posse Scholar as an

Yan is a Brooklyn-based slam poet from Hawaii. He’s been featured on HBO’s “Asian Aloud,” PBS’ “Searching for Asian America” and Myx TV. Yan said she recognizes that coming out is different for everyone depending on their culture, and that some people’s life circumstances make it more difficult if not impossible for them to come out at all.

“The common narrative of coming out is a white American version of it, and for other folks of color and Asian-Americans, the coming out process can look very different,” Yan said. “The family unit is very important to many Asian cultures and a coming out process that incorporates that is something to think about, and for some folks, coming out may not be an option because of safety.”

between those roles largely had to do with physical comedy displayed by every character in “The Underpants.”

“All impulses you had to extend to a place of ridiculousness,” McClellan said.

Former Cirque du Soleil clown, Daniel Passer, played Versati, an Italian poet who becomes infatuated with Louise. Attempting to break the barrier between the audience and himself, Passer said he calculated each of his movements to find what worked. Every entrance is an introduction and every exit

is his signature, a sharp pivot with arms clenched tightly in a running position out the stage door.

A man walking with a top hat over his lap sees the beer hall girls prancing around, and the hat begins to rise up like the flags beside him. This type of comedy got roars from the audience, but was completely lacking subtlety.

This style of jokes faired well with the mostly forty-and-older crowd that packed the theater.

When adapting this play, actor and comedy, Steve Martin aimed to deny the norm of a

punch line. Instead, “The Underpants” just keeps coming with every dirty gesture and sexual insinuation possible.

Yet, although the jokes landed fairly timely, it was rare to laugh out loud. Perhaps living a generation already saturated with sex, the show’s often clever but obvious humor loses its shock value with millennials.

If you are looking for a raunchy, good time, “The Underpants” delivers laughs and possibly your new Tinder bio.

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RED BOWL CAFÉ’s menu offers a range of Asian foods including bento boxes, noodle dishes and chicken teriyaki, pictured above. The chicken dish is cooked in a sweet glaze and topped off with scallions and sesame seeds. The prices at Red Bowl Café range from $9–$20.

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Recently opened Marshall Street Asian food joint Red Bowl Café offers savory cuisine

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f you haven’t been offered a free sample of Red Bowl Café yet, then I strongly recommend taking a walk past the new Marshall Street establishment. The Asian fusion café is brand new and specializes in a variety of Korean and Japanese style dishes. Located at 121 Marshall St., Red Bowl Café opened on Oct. 17, replacing what used to be Sliders.

Although it appears to have limited space, the Red Bowl Café has plenty of tables and stools for seating. The stools are very comfortable and have red cushions attached to them.

Overall, the small restaurant has almost a chic and trendy atmosphere — the walls are painted black with red curtains hanging around the restaurant. A big, red chandelier hovers over the register as a nice addition to the red and black décor. Lounge-style music is played, adding to the laid-back vibes.

Allan Bae, the owner, (cant find this person

online to verify he exists, anywhere) opened Red Bowl Café to provide college students and faculty with quick and easy food with an upscale twist. The restaurant is focused on satisfying its customers with good quality food that can be served to them fast. In fact, when I went to Red Bowl Café this past weekend, my food was served to me within five minutes of being seated.

The prices range from $9–$20. Bae said that the prices at Red Bowl are higher than other restaurants on Marshall Street, but that the quality and taste of their food makes up for it.

I tried a few dishes from the menu and liked the beef bento box most. It was presented beautifully. It came with beef teriyaki, fresh salad, deep fried sweet potatoes, a housemade, deep fried spring roll and white rice. I could tell that the spring roll was homemade because of its fresh taste, unlike the processed taste of most spring rolls.

The Korean barbeque flavor cooked in the salty kalbi beef was a succulent combination

of sweet and savory. To top it off, the beef was sprinkled with scallions and sweet onions, adding more flavors to the dish. The house ginger dressing on the salad was a bit heavy.

The homemade dressing did taste very fresh but was too rich and creamy for my liking. The bento box had a fairly large portion of food and was finished with fresh strawberries and served with a side of sweet and sour sauce.

I also tried the Red Bowl noodle dish. This is a pork noodle soup with hot spices, minced pork, spring onions, vegetable mix and scallions. The soup is topped with a hard-boiled egg and the “house secret” paste sauce. The meat-based paste adds a spicy kick to the soup, giving the broth more flavor.

This provided a medium heat that set my lips tingling. The Red Bowl noodle dish comes with house made hot pepper chili oil on the side. This soup, along with any other bowl, can be served with your choice of the following noodles: ramen, udon, flat noodles or soba.

The last dish I tried was the chicken teriya-

ki entrée. The shredded pieces of chicken are cooked in a sweet teriyaki glaze and topped with sesame seeds and scallions. The chicken was moist enough and plentiful but was cut in very small pieces. The taste, however, was exceptional and if you like chicken teriyaki then I highly recommend ordering this dish.

Overall, Red Bowl Café seems like a pretty standard noodle house. They do offer vegetarian options, like the miso-based vegetable soup and the veggie bento box. Bae said he believes in using as many fresh ingredients as he can get. The chef does not cook with any chemicals and only uses gluten-free oil.

Next time you’re walking down Marshall Street, don’t forget to stop by the Red Bowl Café. You’ll most likely be handed a free chicken teriyaki sample by one of the employees standing outside. This, along with the sweet smell of Korean barbecue, should definitely lure you in to trying the café and I highly recommend it. caweinst@syr.edu

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in the air and pumped his fist. After waiting nearly the entire game for his team to score on Thursday against Miami, Syracuse had converted on a hustle play to give itself a 1-0 lead midway through the first half.

The Orange’s (7-10-1, 3-6 Atlantic Coast) offensive pressure was the key component in its 1-0 win against Wake Forest (4-12-2, 1-8) on Sunday at SU Soccer Stadium.

It was the third consecutive win for the Orange, the longest winning streak of the season. It’s the first the time in program history that SU has beaten three ACC teams in a row.

The win gave Syracuse its third conference win of the season, one more than last year with one game left on the schedule.

Throughout the game, Wheddon consistently yelled “play it wide” at his team. Every time an Orange player found herself with the ball in the middle of the field, she turned and passed it toward the sideline to try and spread out the Demon Deacon defense.

“Their strength is their midfield,” Wheddon said. “They have some exceptional midfielders. We wanted to bypass their midfield.”

Wheddon also pointed out that his players make the most dynamic runs when the ball is

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The ball rolled toward Wake Forest goalkeeper Lindsay Preston and behind all of the Demon Deacons defenders. While most of them stopped running – expecting Preston to easily pick up the ball – Syracuse forward Sheridan Street never did.

Street won the ball, took a quick dribble to the right and fired the ball behind the WFU goalie and into the net.

“That’s a big part of our team and our team chemistry,” Street said. “We really want to work hard on getting to the 50-50 balls and scrap.”

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That offensive pressure helped the Orange largely keep the ball on the Wake Forest side of the field. Overall, Syracuse had 11 shots on the game, with seven of those coming in the first half.

Even though SU only scored one goal, it had many chances for more. In the first half, senior forward Maya Pitts got the ball on the right side and rifled a left-footed shot toward the back left corner that Preston barely punched out.

In the second half, SU appeared to score its second goal of the game when the ball went under Preston and barely crossed the back line. But the referee ruled that one of the Orange players committed a foul.

“We said at halftime that we needed to get another goal,” Wheddon said. “…I thought we battled hard...created some good opportunities.”

Overall, Wake Forest received four yellow cards on Sunday. But despite the physicality, Syracuse’s offense was able to create chances – and capitalize on one – that it hasn’t always been able to.

“I think (our offense) has been fantastic,” Wheddon said. “I’m proud of our team.”

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The coaching staff says this team competes hard every week. The games haven’t been blowouts — losses to UVA and Pitt have come by a combined nine points — and a play here or there could put Syracuse at 5-2.

“I feel like we’re close, you know,” sophomore linebacker Zaire Franklin said. “The game’s always there, the game’s always in reach.”

But it comes down to results and this team hasn’t gotten them.

After the Cavaliers went 9-of-16 on third downs, Shafer said on Thursday that Syracuse has struggled because it couldn’t get off the field on defense. Even with that as a focus, the Panthers converted on 9-of-17.

At this point in the season, new players aren’t young anymore and the coaching staff is upfront about that. Shafer added on Thursday the fundamentals could use improvement and oftentimes it’s been the fundamentals that have cost the Orange when it had opportunities to make stops.

When the fourth quarter started on Saturday with Syracuse leading by four, nearly every player on the Panthers’ sideline began dancing, jumping up and down. On the opposite sideline, Syracuse players stood still. Fans booed Pitt’s antics but when Pittsburgh’s Chris Blewitt hit a 25-yard, game-winning field goal, it was clear which team was ready for the final stretch.

“You have to win games in the fourth quarter,” Pittsburgh head coach Pat Narduzzi said.

The Orange’s recent stretch has brought back reminders of last season when it lost nine of its last 10.

SU still can win three of its last five to become bowl eligible, but its fourth-quarter defense isn’t doing it any favors.

“We just have to learn how to win these types of games,” Franklin said.

So far, Syracuse has learned how to lose them.

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Ollison ran for 103 yards and added two touchdowns to lead Pittsburgh in its 23-20 win against Syracuse. Other than kicker Chris Blewitt, Ollison was the only Panther to score against the Orange on Saturday and proved to be reliable in the red zone. The win made Pittsburgh bowl eligible for the eighth-straight season.

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We gotta just play better, especially in crunch time and things like that. Like I said before, we need to step up and make that play.

On the crucial fake punt Pittsburgh ran on its clock-eating, final drive, Womack eschewed his assignment, linebacker Matt Galambos, and ran to punter Ryan Winslow.

The punter saw Womack bite and lobbed the ball to Galambos, who picked up the first down. A Chris Blewitt kick finished off the Orange as time expired.

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Zaire Franklin thought a holding penalty was called after he sacked Pittsburgh’s Nate Peterman midway through the second quarter. The Carrier Dome crowd was so loud he couldn’t hear the referee. But moments later, teammates told Franklin it was him who was flagged for targeting.

If the play stood — targeting is automatically reviewed — Franklin would have been ejected.

“To be honest, I was terrified,” Franklin said after Syracuse’s 23-20 loss to No. 25 Pitt.

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said. “… With Donovan, they could call whatever they wanted sometimes and he would make a play … He just did things that, to be honest, I couldn’t do and that most people couldn’t do.”

The same could be said for Vick, whose skill set was similar to McNabb’s and would have fit well into Syracuse’s offensive scheme of dropback passes and rollouts, Johnson said.

But Vick’s decision to stay close to home was in part because he wanted to make his own name, Reamon said.

“We always heard he just didn’t want to be the next Donovan McNabb,” Johnson said.

“He wanted to separate himself and be his own man.”

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Michael Vick and Virginia Tech dealt SU its biggest loss since 1912 on Oct. 16, 1999

So SU instead turned to its other options.

Williams had sat two seasons behind McNabb with the plan of learning the offense.

In 1999, he was set to become the starter, but a compound fracture and dislocation in

“… I would have been crushed if I was kicked out of the game on that type of play. But thankfully the officials made a good call.”

The penalty was reversed, the Orange’s captain remained in the game and Pitt faced a second-and-18. But on the next play, Panthers (6-1, 4-0 Atlantic Coast) running back Chris James scampered for 17 yards, essentially nullifying SU’s (3-4, 1-2) momentum and any effect Franklin’s sack had on the rest of the game.

The sequence was emblematic of Franklin’s entire performance on Saturday.

He finished with 11 total tackles, three for

a loss, two sacks — all career highs — and a forced fumble. But when the game hung in the balance in the fourth quarter, Franklin couldn’t do enough to help make the one stop his team needed.

“We just got to play better, especially in crunch time,” Franklin said. “We need to step up and make that play.”

After Franklin’s sack turned legal, he only recorded two more tackles prior to Pitt’s final drive. Before, he filled up his stat line, playing key roles in both run and pass defense.

On the Panthers’ first possession, he busted through the line of scrimmage and forced

Peterman to fumble when he piled on top of him. Three plays later, with Pittsburgh creeping toward the end zone at SU’s 15-yard line, Franklin assisted on a key third-and-4 stop.

Running back Qadree Ollison bounced to the outside but Franklin and safety Antwan Cordy didn’t allow him to turn the corner and Pitt was held to just a field goal.

While the defense’s late collapse determined the outcome of the game, Franklin’s performance early kept Pittsburgh at bay before it was able to send Syracuse to a fourth consecutive loss.

his left hand suffered with just two weeks remaining in fall camp opened the door for Nunes, who worked his way up the depth chart next to Williams, where the two ended up sharing snaps.

“It was his two series to my one for the first couple games,” Williams said.

Syracuse opened the season 5-1 and shot up the polls to a No. 16 ranking. On Oct. 16, Syracuse rolled into Blacksburg, Virginia to face Vick and a No. 4-ranked undefeated Virginia Tech team. After watching from the sidelines as McNabb lead the comeback one year prior, it was Nunes’ and Williams’ time to step under the lights against the Hokies.

But Vick ran circles around Syracuse.

“Michael Vick literally put on a show,” Williams said. “It was the Michael Vick experience. He did some things to our defense that I don’t think anybody else could have conceived.”

The 62-point shutout was SU’s worst loss since 1912.

The Orange went on to drop three of its last four and limped into postseason play.

“It was the worst loss I’ve ever experienced of any sport of my entire life,” Johnson said. “And the way they dominated was just awful. We lost our mojo for most of the rest of the year.”

Syracuse and then-head coach Paul Pasqualoni continued to use the two-quarterback

system, alternating Nunes and Williams driveto-drive and electing to go with the hot hand.

SU’s Music City Bowl win was a step down from the two consecutive BCS bowls the Orange made in the two seasons prior.

“Obviously we had bigger goals,” Nunes said.

The skill Syracuse had in McNabb and the skill it tried to recreate with Nunes and Williams was just as similarly what the Orange recruited in Vick, and the success he and the Hokies were enjoying 569 miles away was undeniable.

The near SU commit went on to lead Virginia Tech to an undefeated regular season, a No. 2 national ranking and a berth in the BCS Championship game against Florida State.

Vick finished third in the Heisman voting and led the nation in passing efficiency as a redshirt freshman.

In 2001, he would be drafted number one overall by the Atlanta Falcons.

Sixteen years later, Johnson said he wishes he didn’t think about it. But he can’t help it. The thought of Vick slicing through defenses in the Dome and vaulting Syracuse into national contenders makes him wonder what could have been.

“I think … we all do that every now and again,” he said. “Just because he was such a dominant player … I don’t know if we would have won it all but just to have Vick back there, oh my goodness … it would have been very interesting to see that.”

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“It’s one of those things where you’re pressing,” Williams said, “you put the pressure on yourself to do well and sometimes you don’t perform as well as you should because sometimes you are looking over your shoulders.”

While McNabb did it all on the field — throw long, short and run — Syracuse set up different game plans for Nunes and Williams, who both had different strengths.

Williams said he had the stronger arm and was called upon when Syracuse wanted to air it out down the field. Nunes on the other hand, according to Williams, was more agile, swift and creative. He got the nod for high-percentage passes.

And all the while, Vick continued his march through college football, picking up highlight reel plays and setting conference records.

“It was more or less like both of our skills combined had to be McNabb,” Williams said.

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Syracuse drops elite status in 1999 after Michael Vick chooses Va. Tech THE DARK DAYS OF SYRACUSE FOOTBALL PART 1

By Matt Alexander staff writer

Syracuse football has 6 wins in its last 19 games. Facing the struggles of the present, The Daily Orange took a look back at some of hard times of the past.

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4 1. MADEI WILLIAMS (17) shared the quarterback position with Troy Nunes in 1999.

2. DONOVAN MCNABB (5) was supposed to have an understudy in Michael Vick, but Vick chose Virginia Tech.

3. MICHAEL VICK (7) chose Virginia Tech rather than Syracuse, turning the quarterback spot into a two-man job.

4. TROY NUNES (11) combined his skill set with Williams for SU in an attempt to make up for the absence of McNabb and Vick.

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he decision that would alter the future of Syracuse football came from a man by the name of Michael Vick.

In the mid- to late ‘90s, while former SU quarterback Donovan McNabb was leading the Orange to Big East Championships, BCS bowl games and a 35-14 record, Vick was making waves and turning heads in his home state of Virginia with Syracuse in pursuit of his talents.

He was the speedy quarterback with the moves of a running back and a cannon for an arm, the freak of nature who complied 4,846 yards and 43 touchdowns passing and another 1,048 yards and 18 touchdowns on the ground during his high school career.

“The flip of the wrist that you all see and everybody talks about, I saw it in the ninth grade,” Tommy Reamon, Vick’s high school coach, said. “And I said right then that he was special.”

Back in Syracuse, McNabb, the most successful quarterback in Syracuse history, had tallied a total of 35 wins in his four seasons and was the second pick in the 1999 NFL Draft.

He had also recruited Vick to be

his heir-apparent in orange.

Vick, who had narrowed his list of potential colleges down to Syracuse and Virginia Tech, elected to stay home with the Hokies. The Orange rode a combination of Madei Williams and Troy Nunes at quarterback to a 7-5 record and a victory in the Music City Bowl in 1999.

But a 62-0 drubbing at the hands of Vick and Virginia Tech that November rekindled thoughts of what could have been. Vick’s decision left Syracuse with two capable quarterbacks, but without a true successor to McNabb.

We just didn’t have that powerful star position where he could change the game or change the outcome of a game for you.

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“We just didn’t have that powerful star position where he could change the game or change the outcome of a game for you,” said former Syracuse fullback Kyle Johnson.

The date was Nov. 14, 1998. Vick was a freshman redshirting at Virginia Tech, as was Nunes for Syracuse. Williams was the backup to McNabb, and all three watched as the senior’s last-second throw across his body from the 14-yard line to tight end Stephen Brominski led Syracuse to a 28-26 victory over the No. 16 Hokies in the Carrier Dome.

“He doesn’t come along, in college football at least, very often,” Nunes

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wice in the span of a week, Syracuse earning its fourth victory came down to its fourth-quarter defense.

Twice on the final drive of regulation, it crumbled.

Virginia drove 88 yards in 18 plays to force overtime.

Pittsburgh went 89 yards in 19 plays for the win.

Make that four straight losses

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during which the Orange either led or was within one score in the fourth quarter. And in the last four fourth quarters, SU has allowed 44 points.

“One more tackle, one more better fit,” SU head coach Scott Shafer said. “Simple as that. That’s what the

game is.”

The first half of the Orange’s schedule was where it was supposed to load up on wins. Instead, the wheels have started to come off for SU, which now sits at 3-4 and about to face two perennial powerhouses in the next three games. Virginia and No. 23 Pittsburgh are not No. 17 Florida State and No. 3 Clemson.

And with several chances to collect

wins early on, SU has failed.

When Syracuse got off to its first 3-0 start since 1991, Shafer said to give his young team credit. Now, with more games under its belt, the defense that featured eight new starters at the beginning of the year has faltered week after week, most recently against Pittsburgh.

“I thought it was a very good football game,” Shafer said. “Nip-

and-tuck playing a good, tough, hard-nosed brand of football on both sides.”

While Shafer likes hard-nosed defense, it’s a successful one that’s able to make a fourth-quarter stop when it needs to. It doesn’t commit a facemask penalty on a third-and-15, and it doesn’t allow a converted fake punt on what eventually becomes

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