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N • Celebration of life

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P • Home again

Syracuse University community comes together to celebrate the lives lost in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 as part of Remembrance Week.

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An anthropology professor returns to the post-war country of Bosnia she once left behind to study elder care, as part of a Fulbright program.

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S • Full circle

Syracuse men’s soccer’s offense stalled in the middle of the season, but now it’s back to early season form with goals coming from its freshmen and transfers.

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Remembrance Week 2016 PART 3 OF 4

JAMIE WEISS, one of the 35 Remembrance Scholars this year, represents Alexander Lowenstein, who was killed in the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing on Dec. 21, 1988. Jamie’s mother also attended Syracuse University during the late 1980s and knew Lowenstein. ally moreo asst. photo editor

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amie Weiss’ mother, Tara, was not a close friend of Alexander Lowenstein’s when they both attended Syracuse University in the late 1980s.

The two usually just said hello to each other on campus in passing.

But that was enough for Jamie Weiss to feel connected to Alex, who was one of the 35 SU students, along with 235 others, who died in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland on Dec. 21, 1988.

In honor of preserving the memories of the students who died in the bombing, such as Alex, SU estab-

Carrying the spirit Scholar reflects on connections with Pan Am Flight 103 victim

By Anna Merod staff writer

lished the Remembrance Scholars program, which picks 35 current students each year to individually represent the victims. Now, Weiss, a senior broadcast journalism major, continues to build her connection with Alex by representing him as a Remembrance Scholar.

“These victims were people,” Weiss said. “They weren’t just names in a textbook.”

When Tara found out her daughter would represent Alex as a Remembrance Scholar, she said in an email that it felt “bittersweet.” see remembrance page 4

university politics

Committee examining faculty salary data lacks timeline

By Michael Burke asst. news editor

There is neither a timeline nor any concrete plans currently for the creation of a University Senate subcommittee that would review and potentially share information on Syracuse University faculty salary data.

The committee will be headed

by Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs LaVonda Reed. She and others in SU’s administration are working closely with the University Senate, Reed said, to put together a group that will review faculty data and determine how that data will be disseminated.

“That’s basically where we are right now,” Reed said.

what is the committee z report?

The Committee Z Report is a public record of the average faculty salary in each Syracuse University college. Since 2014, SU has declined to provide the data used in compiling the report.

It is unclear, however, whether the data will be as specific as the data formerly used in compiling the Committee Z Report, a public record of the average faculty member’s salary in each of SU’s schools and colleges.

After 50 consecutive years of sharing that data, SU has declined to do so since 2014 due to legal con-

cerns related to an antitrust lawsuit brought against law schools for sharing faculty salary data, meaning there have been no Committee Z Reports since then. The report compares faculty salaries by college, gender in each college, percent changes in salaries per year and other factors. see committee

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WORK wednesday | linda dickerson hartsock

Center director links students, businesses

By Saniya More staff writer

LaunchPad executive director connects aspiring Entrepreneurs to global businesses.

Some of Linda Dickerson Hartsock’s mentees call her “Mom.” She is the executive director of the Blackstone LaunchPad at Syracuse University, a space that connects the university with the global Blackstone network.

The LaunchPad has acted as a support system for aspiring entrepreneurs since it opened in April this year, and has engaged more than 900 students in the community across different majors and from over 41 countries. It is located within a 625-square-foot glass cube on the first floor of Bird Library.

As executive director, Hartsock works on designing and delivering academic programs, as well as mentoring student ventures.

“It makes for a very rich and stimulating job because I get to work with some of the brightest, most passionate future leaders on the SU campus,” Hartsock said.

Hartsock first worked as a faculty member at Marist College,

and later ran the Hudson Valley’s regional planning policy and economic development group. 15 years ago, Hartsock joined the economic development team in Upstate New York as a senior member.

The mother of three credits her ability to balance life between her family and her career to her nurturing and motherly nature.

This year, Hartsock worked with Thrive, a team of students that developed a renewable energy kit for disaster relief. The team plans to use the kit as a teaching tool in communities that have been affected by natural disasters in order to empower them and give them access to technology.

For Hartsock, working with creative individuals to build community has always been her goal in life. Through “a combination of entrepreneurship technology, community revitalization and creative industries,” Hartsock turns students into entrepreneurs.

“To be able to do this with the next generation of civic leaders who are going to be carrying forward that mission, it’s just richly satisfying,” she said. ssmore@syr.edu

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Syracuse residents and Common Councilors express their concerns about the possibility of new flood insurance being required.

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S • Above the field

Syracuse field hockey head coach Ange Bradley has been SU’s head coach for 10 years.

She has brought the program to new heights.

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A look into why some victims of the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing don’t have items in their archives.

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city

Capital project approved School buildings in Jamesville-DeWitt will be renovated in the project

By Deniz Sahinturk staff writer

In remembrance SU students surprised the brothers of Phi Kappa Psi with a candelight vigil to honor the late Vinny Maugeri. He died last Thursday from injuries he suffered in a car accident on Oct. 14. Students walked to the fraternity house from Bird Library with candles and placed them on a poster that read “All in for Vin” — the same phrase that inspired a hashtag after the accident. jacob greenfeld asst. photo editor

remembrance week 2016

Students celebrate Pan Am victims’ lives

By Sam Ogozalek staff writer

Tuesday night was about celebrating the lives of the those lost in tragedy, specifically the victims of the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing.

About 70 members of the Syracuse University community came together Tuesday at 7 p.m. in Hendricks Chapel to honor the 35 SU students who died in the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing. In addition to the SU students, 224 people aboard the plane — plus 11 people on the

ground — died in the Dec. 21, 1988 bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland.

The event, titled “A Celebration of Life,” was hosted by the SU Remembrance Scholars as part of Syracuse University’s 2016 Remembrance Week.

SU holds an annual week of events devoted toward the memory of the Pan Am Flight 103 tragedy and the 35 SU students who died in the attack.

“A Celebration of Life” focuses on those who died in 1988, unlike other events in this year’s Remembrance Week, which are based upon educat-

ing students on social issues arising from the bombing, said Patricia Terhune, a 2016-17 Remembrance Scholar. She was one of the main organizers of Tuesday’s event.

“I do think it’s very important to celebrate them as well because they’re not just … victims, these are people,” said Terhune, a senior television, radio and film and policy studies dual major. “They are just as multifaceted, just as fun, just as loving, just as caring as everybody that you get to interact with on a daily basis.”

Students performed songs, read

poetry written by the SU students who were on board Pan Am Flight 103, danced and remembered the lives lost nearly 30 years ago.

Samantha Steinert, an SU Remembrance Scholar and senior public health major on a pre-med track, read selections of poetry written by Julianne Kelly, the Pan Am Flight 103 victim Steinert represents and memorializes as part of the scholarship program.

“I don’t want to study media management or write papers on see pan

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remembrance week 2016

Scholar discusses Israeli-Palestinian conflict

By Jordan Muller staff writer

Mohammed Dajani, leader of the Palestinian Wasatia movement, said he believes understanding the other side is to see the human side of conflict.

Dajani, the founder of the Wasatia movement and professor of political science at al-Quds University in Jerusalem, spoke about his experiences as a scholar and Palestinian peace activist on Monday in Maxwell

Auditorium. The event was hosted

by LIME at Syracuse University, an Israeli-Palestinian dialogue group.

Born in Palestine in 1946, Dajani and his family were forced to leave their belongings behind and migrate out of Jerusalem when Israel was established as a state in 1948.

His childhood experiences in the Palestinian exodus out of Israel shaped his hostile attitude toward Israelis that carried with him for much of his life. Dajani’s animosity

toward Israelis was so intense that he refused to talk to the Hebrew professor in the office next to him when he was an Arabic teacher at the University of South Carolina.

Dajani’s attitude was changed by two experiences he had when he returned to Jerusalem to visit his dying father in 1993, he said.

When visiting his father in an Israeli hospital, Dajani said the Israeli doctors’ treatment of his Palestinian father surprised him.

“They treated him like a human, not like a Palestinian,” Dajani added.

A few years after his father died, Dajani and his family were returning from a visit to Tel Aviv when his mother suffered an asthma attack. Dajani and his brother tried to drive back to a Palestinian hospital in Jerusalem, but as her condition worsened, they drove into the Israeli checkpoint at Ben Gurion Airport against their fears

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Residents of the Jamesville-DeWitt Central School District recently approved a comprehensive capital project aimed at improving the facilities of district buildings.

The project is estimated to cost $12.1 million dollars and was approved by voters with a 352-47 vote, according to the school district’s website.

The Board of Education drafted the plans of the project based on the results of a survey of the district buildings conducted in 2015 by architects and engineers. The board also has had discussions with staff members before drafting the project.

The project will cover renovations made to the middle school, high school and Tecumseh, Jamesville and Moses Dewitt Elementary Schools.

Auditorium renovations, common space renovations of the high school and middle school, as well as heating, ventilation, air conditioning, electrical, fire alarm and smoke detection upgrades

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remembrance “I thought of Alex’s family and how their lives were forever altered. … 28 years later and the hurt is still there,” Tara said. “Jamie representing Alex is a very meaningful honor, and not just because I went to Syracuse with Alex, but because Jamie really is the perfect match to represent him.”

On the Friday afternoon before Remembrance Week started, Weiss looked through some of Alex’s personal belongings donated by his parents that are now kept in the SU Archives dedicated to those lost in the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing.

As she saw his Zeta Psi fraternity beer stein, she quickly noticed the mug’s imprint of Alex’s expected graduation year: 1989.

The same year her mother graduated SU. Weiss’ mother was also in Greek life at SU as a sister of Sigma Delta Tau. “These students are our parents’ age,” Weiss said. “These could have been our parents, which is so weird to think about.”

As Weiss flipped through other photos of Alex from the archives, she couldn’t help but think of her own trip abroad to London this past spring. She stumbled

upon one photo of Alex posing in front of the prehistoric Stonehenge monument in England, as he stoically stood wearing sunglasses with his hands in his pockets and the monument to his right.

“Makes me feel nostalgic about my semester abroad,” she said as she continued to browse through his photos.

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.

Soon enough, Weiss pulled out her iPhone to compare a photo of herself standing in a similar fashion with the Stonehenge monument to her right, as well. The only main difference was Weiss stood a bit farther away than Alex from the infamous rocks.

Other photos from the archives showed Alex on the beach. Weiss said she learned from speaking with his family and friends that he was a big surfer. As she looked through more photos of Alex, she laughed and added now, “I can tell.”

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in all buildings are included in the project, according the district’s website. The Transportation Center will also be renovated as part of the project.

Of the project, 71.9 percent will be generated from state building aid, according to district officials.

“The Jamesville-Dewitt school district has a lot of community support, which is good for kids and teachers,” said Kelly Chandler-Olcott, associate dean for research in the School of Education at Syracuse University, regarding the majority of the votes being in favor of the project.

Mario Perez, an assistant professor in the School of Education, said it is critical for school districts such as Jamesville-Dewitt critical to have the support of the community.

But whether the project will lead to the students having a better learning experience in those schools would depend on what the extent of what the project covers, he added.

“For example, they’re making electrical upgrades, but are they going to have faster internet access in the buildings?” Perez said.

The kind of renovations that would be taking place at the Jamesville-DeWitt Central School District, he said, were important but not as necessary for learning as elements such as teacher quality and availability of resources.

Chandler-Olcott added that there are school funding and resource inequities rooted in the historically segregated residential and housing patterns, which she said are one of the biggest educational problems faced in this region. The issue, she said, is not going be addressed by the Jamesville-DeWitt project.

Chandler-Olcott offered this point of view not critiquing Jamesville-DeWitt Central School District’s leadership, but saying the district appeared to be making responsible choices for its student population, she said.

“But that won’t address the opportunity and achievement gaps between them and other high-needs districts in the region such as SCSD or Solvay Union Free School District, which is, to me, the far more compelling educational issue of our time,” Chandler-Olcott said.

Perez said the Jamesville-DeWitt capital project was a start in addressing the larger issues facing the school districts in and around Syracuse.

political analysis. I want to study art history, and write urban short stories,” Steinert said, reading from a poem written by Kelly during her time studying abroad in London.

Chang Lee, a graduate student studying the pipe organ, played a rendition of French organist and composer Louis Vierne’s Symphonie No. 3, Op. 28.

Though the event was focused on the 35 SU students, tribute was paid to all victims of the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing, and to anyone who has experienced loss, Terhune said.

Soleil Young, a Remembrance Scholar and senior biology and anthropology double major, read poems written by her mother, Harriet Brown, who is an associate professor of magazine journalism in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, that reflected Terhune’s point on loss.

Brown wrote the pieces after traumatic experiences in her life, including the deaths of her grandparents and a miscarriage.

“When spring came, I came alive again. The air was finely gentle, and I breathed deeply of sweet lilac ... and some faint scent I couldn’t find or name,” Young said, reading one of her mother’s poems. “It wafted through the house like light, forgotten in our winter of darkness.”

Dylan Carroll, a senior English and textual studies major, sung Bob Marley and the Wailers’ “Three Little Birds.” Harryhausen, a local rock and roll group, performed an acoustic set that included original songs.

“It was beautiful,” said Marisa TorelliPedevska, a junior television, radio and film major after the event. “I loved … (how they used) things written by the Pan Am victims themselves. I thought it was really beautiful.”

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Alex’s family also donated his belongings that were discovered at the site of the Pan Am Flight 103 crash to the SU Archives. One of the items discovered in the crash was a bright orange waterproof Hanimex Amphibian camera.

Some of Joe Reichling’s fondest memories of Alex were on the beaches of Montauk, where both of their families often stayed.

Reichling met Alex his freshman year at SU through a mutual friend and was roommates with Alex their sophomore year.

The first time Reichling ever successfully caught a wave on a surfboard was when he was with Alex, which was an “immensely powerful” moment the two shared, he said.

“Alex was so happy I got to have that experience,” Reichling said.

He also remembered sharing laughs with Alex, adding that he was a very deep and creative person, too. And when it came to the water, Alex was always in his element.

Even when a storm approached Montauk, Reichling said he remembered Alex would be the only one still surfing, despite the “super rough” weather.

“I remember thinking, how courageous,” he added.

Weiss continued to flip through photos

of Alex. Some were headshots of him for his fraternity, others were photos of him and his friends posing at various landmarks during his semester abroad in London just before his passing.

And then, Weiss noted and pointed, there is the popular photo of Alex shouting on top of a small cliff facing a beach. In it, he is flinging his arms wide, straight into the sky as his pink jacket flies back, revealing his bare chest. The sky is gray in the photo, making his colorful jacket, bright blue swim trunks and personality jump out even more.

Alex stood out to Weiss, she said, not only for the mutual friends and experiences he shared with her mother, but also because of the warm, happy persona he exuded.

In an act of moving forward in Alex’s memory, Weiss was told by Alex’s fraternity brothers to travel and seize adventures when possible, which she said she took to heart during her semester in London.

“He was just such a happy guy. He loved life, and I at least like to think I exude that.

I like to think I’m a bubbly person,” Weiss said. “I like to think I have a positive outlook on life, so I try to channel that.” almerod@syr.edu | @AnnaMerod

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committee z The annual report was long distributed

by SU’s American Association of University Professors chapter, which represents and protects the rights of faculty members.

Bruce Carter, chair of the University Senate’s Committee on Budget and Fiscal Affairs, said he was told by SU Chancellor Kent Syverud that the data that ends up being disseminated by the new committee

SOLEIL YOUNG, one of the Remembrance Scholars and a senior biology and anthropology dual major, read a poem about loss written by her mother. The poem discussed traumatic life experiences she has faced. hieu nguyen staff photographer

likely won’t have that same level of specificity nor the amount of detail that “you would want.”

“I wasn’t sure if he was talking about the budget committee or me personally, but it’s true for both,” Carter said.

He added that the Committee Z Reports were a valuable tool for faculty, as it allowed them to be aware of things such as gender pay inequities and pay inequities across ranks in different departments as well as across schools and colleges.

Reed said there is currently no timeline for the creation of the new committee or for the selection of the members on the committee.

She added that administrators are still working closely with the University Senate on determining “all the details” of the committee.

“We’re not doing it hastily or anything like that, and that’s why we’re working really closely with the Senate to do it in a way that’s reasonable, responsible and inclusive,” Reed said. mdburk01@syr.edu | @michaelburke47

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Everything was blue Liberal columnist Cole Jermyn compares New York state’s political climate and the presidential election.

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Cornell’s drought efforts don’t add up

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hen it comes to combatting drought, the first thoughts that come to mind are probably to take shorter showers, water the lawn a little less or maybe even rethink the way the dishes are done. But water conservation is not that black and white.

Cornell University recently went back to using reusable dishes in dining centers after the school switched to disposable dishes and utensils in an effort to reduce water usage in the face of a Level 3, or “Extreme Drought,” in Ithaca. The decision to revert came after Cornell’s Drought Incident Management Team decided the water saved on campus could now balance out water usage in dining halls.

While Cornell, a Syracuse University peer institution, initially made the intuitive push to eliminate dish washing, the backtracking on behalf of the university brings an important criticism to light: Campus administrators cannot look simply at the cost-benefit analysis of sustainability through such a narrow scope. In Cornell’s case, there was a failure to properly acknowledge that switching to disposables just displaces the water burden to other areas also experiencing drought.

In an ideal world, sustainability strategies at universities would be more comprehensive and focus on looking at the entire production cycle of a commodity to fully assess a school’s water footprint. But when university-led conservation efforts leave gaps in sustainability, students can fill them in by contemplating their own consumption habits.

The main issue here is that disposables themselves have water costs attached to them — in both production and breakdown.

Not only is water needed to make plastic cutlery and cups,

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GO GREEN AND KEEP IT CLEAN but making one pack of 22 paper plates requires about 12 gallons of water, according to Rodale’s Organic Life magazine.

A 2012 report by Environment America also found paper pulping mills discharged 539,000 pounds of carcinogenic chemicals into waterways, more than one-third the total amount of cancer-causing chemicals released nationwide.

While many cafes have seating areas, these locations are often used as a ‘grab and go’ location. So they need something disposable.

Lynne Mowers secretary to the director, su food services

Yes, Ithaca is 8.22 inches behind an average year. Yes, there is a projected 0.5 million-gallon water usage increase citywide sparked by students returning to campus. But in light of global irregular water cycles, preserving water should be a priority among institutions of higher education.

Even at SU, there still is a tugof-war between disposables and reusables. Lynne Mowers, secretary to the director of SU Food Services, touched on SU’s use of disposables in some campus dining centers and explained that they have their benefits, too.

“SU Food Services uses disposable utensils in our cafés for a variety of reasons,” Mowers said.

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“While many cafes have seating areas, these locations are often used as a ‘grab and go’ location by customers. They want to get something and take it with them, so they need something disposable.”

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The number of gallons of water it takes to make a pack of paper plates, according to Rodale’s Organic Life magazine

In light of excessive resource use, sticking with the mindset that students “need something disposable” feeds into business as usual. Choosing between reusable dishes and disposables may have been a difficult decision for Cornell to make, but it doesn’t have to be in the lives of students at SU. Little, habitual changes, like bringing washable utensils, cloth napkins, Tupperware and even plates from home, are a start for lowering the campus water footprint. And when SU Food Services already has such an encouraging water bottle refill program and actively promotes sustainability on its website, we shouldn’t stop there in pushing the limits for eco-friendly dining practices on the Hill.

When it comes to sustainability, SU as a campus has to think outside the box. There may be no right answer when it comes to specific methods of conservation, but it’s undeniable that students should be more mindful about water consumption beyond the local community.

Victoria Chen is a senior international relations major, and an environment and society minor.

Her column appears weekly. She can be reached at vlchen@syr.edu.

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SU faculty salary data should be made available The Committee Z report was an important public record of SU faculty salary that broke down faculty salary by college, gender in each college and percent change. And its two-year absence so far has done the university community a disservice.

The local American Association of University Professors chapter, which distributes the report, was denied in its request for the data for the 2013-14 school year. And SU failed to provide data again in 2014-15.

At the time, Chancellor Kent Syverud was just settling into SU and the national antitrust lawsuit against law schools releasing faculty data made benching the Committee Z report justifiable. But now that two years have passed without any action, the reasons for the lack of cooperation on SU’s behalf are running out.

The current standing of Committee Z update is essentially unknown. Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs Lavonda Reed is set to head a subcommittee and will work with other University Senate members to review and possibly share faculty salary numbers. Still, there is no timeline or concrete plan for the committee to determine whether and how gathered data will be distributed.

And apart from inaction marking a theme across the

past few years, reasons for declining A AUP’s requests remain unclear.

For a university that claims transparency as one of its goals, withholding faculty salaries seems counterproductive and dishonest since failing to produce a report hurts the community. SU’s faculty salary information is now outdated, making it difficult to gauge exactly how SU compares to peer institutions when crucial data is missing from the analysis.

Looking inward, now it’s also harder to examine professor salaries at SU across colleges. And because Committee Z no longer exists, the only thing that is easier is jumping to conclusions about SU’s motivations for withholding salaries. So while SU strives to be “One University,” the lack of a college-by-college breakdown from Committee Z will likely only drive schools apart with speculation.

When SU had initially agreed to move forward with releasing the data for the 2014-2015 school year, the consensus was that reinstating Committee Z indicated openness from Syverud and that the university taking positive steps If SU wants to hold itself to the standard of peer institutions and true to its own values, the university will need to bring back Committee Z.

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City residents and Common Council concerned about new flood insurance illustration by delaney kuric head illustrator

By Aline Martins staff writer

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esidents in the city of Syracuse and the Syracuse Common Council are concerned the imposition of flood insurance payment would be detrimental to a city where poverty is so prevalent.

The payment is being imposed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

More than 800 property owners in Syracuse will have to pay a flood insurance fee in two weeks as the federal agency added a new flood zone.

“FEMA comes into town and imposes these taxes on us without even a consideration of the economic hardship it provides the people,” Councilor Joe Nicoletti said.

“My god, if you look at the people most affected, they are the people who need our help the most.”

In Syracuse, more than 30 percent of residents live in poverty, according to the U.S. Census. This makes it one of the most impoverished cities in America.

In the South Side neighborhoods most affected by FEMA’s new flood map, the number is more than 70 percent, according to City-Data.com.

The flood zone issue is not just an issue of legislation or bureaucracy. Rather, Syr-

acuse residents and Common Councilors say it is an issue of poverty.

On Monday, the Common Council voted in a resolution to urge the governor and state legislators to allow the city to grant tax exemptions to low-income people affected by the new FEMA flood zone insurance mandate.

30 The percentage of residents in Syracuse’s South Side neighborhood who live in poverty, according to City-Data.com

The percentage of Syracuse residents who live in poverty, according to the U.S. Census

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The council has been working with FEMA to designate the new flood zone for more than 10 years, but various councilors said FEMA did not give them adequate notice before deciding to inforce new insurance rates.

“At least come into our city and give us a heads up of what you’re going to do,” Councilor Helen Hudson said. “Don’t just slap it

in our faces and then strong-arm us.”

Common Council President Van Robinson and Councilors Nicoletti, Jean Kessner, Susan Boyle and Nader Maroun said the problem is people will not be able to afford the insurance premiums and eventually may need to leave their homes.

This is a sentiment echoed in the community. Joanne Stevens, a retired South Side resident whose home is now in a FEMAdesignated flood zone, said she doesn’t know what she is going to do come Nov. 2, when she has to pay the new insurance premiums.

“I’m between a rock and a hard place,” Stevens said. “When you’re faced with that, what do you do?”

She said she doesn’t even know how much the flood insurance will cost her yet, but she has heard of other residents who are paying several hundred dollars a year. She is worried her neighbors will need to leave their homes since they won’t be able to pay the new rates.

“After so many months they’re going to come in and seize your house,” Stevens said. “I feel like they want us out anyway.”

There are more than 739 vacant homes in Syracuse, according to Syracuse United Neighbors. This number may increase when people have to start paying this insurance, Stevens said.

Louise Pointdexter, a retired Syracuse resident whose home is in the flood zone, said because she no longer has a mortgage on the house, she doesn’t need to purchase the insurance. But, she noted, most people in her neighborhood will need to pay the new premiums.

“Most people are barely paying their mortgages,” Pointdexter said. “I wish they had a choice, like I’ve got a choice.

But they don’t have a choice.”

Pat Clayton, a Syracuse resident, said her house is not in the flood zone, but she is worried for her neighbors.

“How can you make somebody buy something they can’t afford?” Clayton said.

“We do things based on what we can afford.”

Stevens, Pointdexter and Clayton all said the new tax insurance cuts the city council is trying to pass will not be enough to solve the issue, since the new premiums come into effect earlier than the tax cuts would and also since the root cause of the potential flooding is not being addressed.

“I really would like the solution to be that I don’t have to pay flood insurance,” Stevens said. “Why don’t you take care of the problem where it starts? I would much rather take my money and clean up clean up Onondaga Creek.” amarti22@syr.edu

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Grant provides funds for wetland restoration project

By Madeline Davison contributing writer

Over the last three years, faculty at Syracuse University have partnered with colleagues at Clarkson University in Potsdam, New York to study the outcomes of wetland restoration efforts along the St. Lawrence River in northern New York.

Their work — titled “Wetlands for Wildlife: Understanding Drivers of Public-Private Partnership Restoration Success” and funded by a grant from the Graham Sustainability Institute at the University of Michigan — explores the effectiveness of public-private partnerships in which the government works with landowners to restore or create wetlands on private property.

The researchers were divided into several teams, each investigating a different aspect of the wetland restoration program. A team of David Chandler, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at SU, and Michael Twiss, a limnologist at Clarkson University, studied the differences between natural and restored or constructed wetlands in terms of hydrology, which explores the patterns of water flow and water quality.

Chandler and Twiss, along with Kyotaek Hwang, a doctoral student in the department of civil and environmental engineering at SU, discovered that restored wetlands experience a greater seasonal variation in water level. The water in restored wetlands tends to have a higher concentration of solutes and a higher pH than water in natural wetlands, according to a report provided by Tom Langen of Clarkson University, who was also one of the principal investigators of the study.

Hwang said these differences in water quality had little to do with whether a wetland was reconstructed or natural, and more to do with where the wetland was located. According to the report, this disparity may have something to do with the desirability of these wetlands’ locations.

Farmers avoid using land that has acidic soil, Hwang said, so wetlands located in areas of acidic soil were likely to be left alone and remain more natural. The wetlands in areas with more alkaline, nutrient-dense soil were more often converted into farmland and then later reconstructed.

A second group, led by Langen, investigated

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conflict that the Israelis would refuse to help them.

Instead of turning them away, Dajani said Israeli security forces quickly vacated the gates and quickly treated his mother.

“I was watching my enemy help my mother live for over two hours,” Dajani said. “It was an experience that helped me see the good in the other.”

Dajani began to educate himself on Jewish culture and question his beliefs that Palestinians were always correct.

Soon after, he began to working with Israeli and Palestinian religious leaders to come up with conflict-resolution plans in the wake of continuing Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Dajani said the meetings between leaders were becoming hopeless because neither side wanted to compromise.

During those meetings, Dajani said he realized both sides’ “big dream” to live in a world without the other would not be possible unless one side killed everyone on the other. Instead, Dajani pushed religious leaders to accept the “small hope” that they

the impact of reconstructed wetlands on biodiversity, or the variety of different plant and animal species that inhabit a particular location.

Langen’s team found, according to the biodiversity indicators they studied, that reconstructed wetlands provide a healthy environment for a wide array of flora and fauna and serve as a useful tool to protect threatened or endangered species and prevent plentiful ones from becoming endangered.

Rick Welsh, chair of the department of public health, food studies and nutrition at SU’s David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics and also a co-principal investigator for this study, headed yet another team of researchers. Welsh surveyed participants in the wildlife restoration projects, gathering information about their demographics, their motives for participation and their attitudes toward the projects after completion.

Langen said Welsh’s team found the landowners they surveyed tended to be older, often near retirement, and that they were frequently concerned with “heritage … (and) leaving something natural … to (their) descendants.” He also said the landowners were usually satisfied with the decision to reconstruct wetlands on their property.

A final segment of the study, led by co-principal investigator Martin Heintzelman, an associate professor of economics and financial studies at Clarkson University, investigated the economic impacts of the wetland restoration projects in terms of their effects on property value — both for the participants and for their neighbors.

This group concluded, according to the findings report, that “wetland acreage has a positive and statistically significant effect on property values” in the region. The report states it does not seem to matter whether the wetlands were natural or restored — landowners seem to value the benefits provided by wetlands of any kind.

Langen said the next step for the researchers is to study similar wetland restoration projects in other regions, such as the Hudson River Valley, and study what happens to the restored wetlands once the original owner passes away or sells the property.

“Long term, if these programs are going to be sustainable, you have to have people who are interested in sustaining them,” Langen said. mgsd09@gmail.com

could live together in peace.

Dajani founded the Wasatia movement in 2007 to represent the moderate Palestinians. He said Palestinians need to be open to thinking about the conflict from an Israeli point of view to achieve the peace.

In 2014, Dajani traveled with 27 students from al-Quds University to the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland. He said many of his students were not aware of the true history of the Holocaust because Palestinian textbooks do not teach students what really happened. Some Palestinian textbooks even taught students that Germans were the victims of Jewish violence.

“Palestinians look at the Holocaust only in small pictures,” Dajani said. “As an educator, I was trying to bridge the gap between the small picture and the real picture.”

Dajani’s trip to Auschwitz was widely politicized, with many Palestinians calling Dajani a traitor to his country. Dajani said the trip’s goals were misinterpreted and politicized out of context.

“To the students, it was an educational experience,” Dajani said. “I try to take the politics out and leave the education in.” jmulle01@syr.edu

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SU professor travels to postwar Bosnia to study elder care

AZRA HROMADŽIC left Bosnia in search of higher education and would eventually become an anthropology professor at SU. She plans to travel back to Bosnia next semester to study elder care and the country’s privatized nursing homes.

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zra Hromadžić graduated from high school in war-torn Bosnia with no options for higher education. She was the valedictorian, but she felt hopeless.

“I remember I wanted to burn my high school diploma because I didn’t know what to do with it,” she said.

The Syracuse University professor will return to her homeland — now in a post-war state — next semester to study elder care as part of the Core Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program, which she won earlier this year. The program gives money to professionals for research and teaching.

Hromadžić has spent the last decade studying youth citizenship in Bosnia, which led to the publication of her first ethnographic research book in 2015.

Hromadžić said she plans to return to Bosnia to focus on an issue talked about much less: the country’s lagging public health services for the nation’s aging.

Anthropology was not Hromadžić’s initial passion,

nor was staying in Bosnia. After high school graduation, she worked as a translator for a local school and applied for a U.S. visa, hoping to find a future at an American university. But she said she thought “nothing of it,” until a student visa came in the mail.

Hromadžić would go on to study at a small community college in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, where she dabbled in biology and business. Her professors soon encouraged her to transfer to a better institution. She chose the University of Pennsylvania.

When she was forced to take it as an introductory class at the university, Hromadžić’s love of anthropology began. She said the subject helped her learn about the “everyday struggles of ordinary people.” “(Anthropology) allows me to theorize about violence and reconciliation,” she said. “How do people make sense of life after suffering such extreme forms of violence?

How do people carry on after losing everything forever?”

These were some of the same questions Hromadžić asked herself when growing up while Bosnia was under siege, which led her to focus on her home country. By this

point, Bosnia had moved into the reconstruction period after the war, which began in 1992, when the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina declared independence from socialist Yugoslavia. The war lasted until 1995.

While doing primary research, Hromadžić said she found herself “puzzled and confused” by how other anthropologists were portraying the region.

“It clashed directly with my personal experiences,” she said.

She decided to focus her dissertation work on her country and Bosnian young adults in particular because she said “they could have been my children.”

She began to study high schools, which had been ethnically segregated during the war and were now reuniting. Returning summer after summer, she studied the ethnic divisions among the youth, many of whom had barely known a life without war.

More than 10 years of work would eventually turn into her first book, “Citizens of an Empty Nation: Youth and State-Making in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina,” see hromadŽic page 10

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Original Halloween costume ideas for those pressed for time

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t’s Oct. 26, or somewhere there about — time, what a concept.

Midterms just blew your mind.

You’ve only eaten stale fruit loops and waffles for 12 days straight. In a sugar fever, you realize: hot diggity dog, you don’t have a Halloween costume. Luckily, I’m here for you and prepared for a situation like this. And

IAN MCCOURT

A REAL STANDUP GUY you will owe me a favor. And I will never forget that. But for now, bask in my brilliant creative mind and plagiarize my costume ideas please.

A Cat/A Bunny

A Sea Urchin

Dylan

Show your friends that you know how to think creatively: buy some ears at your local party store, draw on some whiskers, and then bark because you don’t know who you are anymore.

What you’ll need: fake ears, face-paint, and a collar so you can be picked out of a crowd.

Because you want to be unique, yet not let anyone tell you how unique you are: they just know because they can’t get within a 4-foot radius of you.

What you’ll need: PVC Pipe, needles, a dope playlist to listen to in the corner.

Just dress like Bob Dylan, only every time someone asks who you are, remind them that you are “NOBEL PRIZE WINNER Bob Dylan.” You are Bob Dylan and you won a Nobel Prize. That is all there is, and all there ever will be.

NOBEL PRIZE WINNER Bob

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hromadž ic which has gone on to be a supplement to other academic research, said Edin Hajdarpasic, an assistant professor of history at Loyola University Chicago, in an email.

After her book was published, Hromadžić decided to move on from her study of youth citizenship after hearing about a “mushrooming” of private nursing homes in Bosnia from many of the country’s refugees living in Syracuse.

With so many families living without pension, Hromadžić hopes to learn who is using and funding these private nursing

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homes. She also said she relates more to the elderly. Currently, there are low budgets for public elder services and many private — and expensive — nursing homes.

“Elders are on the same schedule as me,” she joked. “Young people go out too much.”

Many of the elders living in post-war Bosnia still remember a time when the socialist state used to provide for them, Hromadžić said. In her research, she said she hopes to look at the transition between “war to peace, from socialism to post-socialism.”

“She is trying to look at how different segments of society deal with peace and how they are divided by different ethnic groups,” said Mary Lovely, one of Hromadžić’s colleagues and an economics professor at SU. Though she has already surveyed a number of elderly residents, Hromadžić plans on spending time observing them in their natural environment. Though she has traveled back to her motherland many times before, the trip next semester will be her one of her longest visits yet.

“People have to get used to you,” she said. “It’s not unusual to come back with

hundreds and hundreds of pages of notes.”

Though elder care is her focus, Hromadžić couldn’t give up working with young people next semester. She plans to teach an anthropology course at a local Bosnian university, the University of Bihac.

Hromadžić will face several obstacles in teaching in Bosnia. She has never attended a Bosnian university, and said the learning styles in American and Bosnian universities are quite different. She said her goal is to offer students a “hybrid of both countries’ teaching.”

Jesse Nichols, an SU alumnus, said Hromadžić has a very interactive, textheavy teaching style. He said she is engaging and interesting due to her first-hand experience of the Bosnian war and her ability to draw listeners in.

“Even if you don’t raise your hand, she will call on you,” Nichols said. “She makes you passionate about the subject. She is really unique.”

In addition to adapting her Americanized teaching style for Bosnian students, Hromadžić must combat the different outlook Bosnian students have on their future.

With a youth unemployment rate of 63 percent, Bosnian students are cynical of their future, Hromadžić said.

Though she calls the situation “challenging,” Hromadžić wants her research to lead to more than just a publication, though that is one of her goals. She hopes to bridge the gap between Syracuse and Bosnia and serve as a mentor to her young students, pushing them to consider higher education as an option.

As the January date for her trip approaches, Hromadžić has begun looking for an apartment for her and her family and contacting social workers to interview.

But, she said “over-preparing is so American” and will go where her teaching and research takes her.

Though she may be leaving her job for an entire semester to travel across the world and try to relate and connect with strangers, Hromadžić isn’t worried.

“It’s not a distant place to me because I was born there, I grew up there, I go there so much,” she said. “It’s mine.”

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Julian Assange

What you’ll need: Black suit coat, white collared shirt, a Nobel Prize.

Peace Prize and you get to hang out with Nobel Prize Winner Bob Dylan. Talk about a photo op.

What you’ll need: A mastered understanding of Buddhist thought and principle, the ability to float, red sweater.

Zen Bone

The bear from “The Revenant”

Everyone knows America’s 2nd Presidential Debate Sweetheart, Ken Bone. But no one knows America’s “No Need For Debate” Zen Bone. Find your red sweater and your Nirvana with this costume and transcend into enlightenment. Maybe you’ll win yourself a Nobel

You’re really just another animal costume, but since this CGI dude won Leo an Oscar this year, bear costumes are in. I’m kind of bummed “Sea Urchin” wasn’t cool enough for you, though.

What you’ll need: A bear costume…What, does everything I write have to be funny?

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Dress as Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks, because everyone will be thinking, “Why is that guy dressed as Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks?” Everyone loves mystery.

What you’ll need: high speed Internet connection, asylum granted from Ecuador, hair as white as Anderson Cooper or a yeti.

Ian McCourt is a senior television, radio and film major . You can follow Ian on twitter @OrderInMcCourt or reach him at iwmccour@syr.edu.

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ERIC LIBASSI creates music in a studio set up by one of his brothers in his fraternity house. Originally from Boston, LiBassi is a fan of classic rap, which he said has more substance than modern “turn up music.” Some of his influences include Lupe Fiasco and J. Cole. nalae white staff photographer

OLD SCHOOL, NEW RAP Sophomore creates 2000s hip-hop style rap with his brother under name ‘LiBOSSi’

By Leah Meyers staff writer

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ric LiBassi was 12 when he and his older brother Jake LiBassi recorded their first song together. They did a remix of “A Milli” by Lil Wayne.

“But it was definitely a joke,” Jake said.

At just 7 or 8 years old, Eric was already listening to the music his older brother was listening to, which he admits now may have been too aggressive for such a young kid. But he was introduced to artists like Lil Wayne and Kid Cudi, and from there developed his own taste and individual ear.

Now, LiBassi, performing under the stage name “LiBOSSi,” is pursing his personal musical interests. He recently played at Spark Contemporary Art Space, with other musicians including DJs, singers and students in the Bandier Program for Music and the Entertainment Industries.

LiBassi, an undeclared sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences, classifies his music as old-school rap and hip-hop, but not

in a Run D.M.C. type of way.

Although LiBassi recognizes current-day rap, a style he has labeled “turn-up music,” can be fun to listen to at parties, he likes how rap music 10 years ago had more substance and he wants to bring that back again.

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The number of plays Eric LiBassi’s song “Small Hearts” has on SoundCloud

“If I wasn’t here and I wasn’t going to parties, I just wouldn’t hear (“turn-up music”).

It’s really corny, and I hope it’s not around in five years,” LiBassi said.

Instead, he’s more interested in the music that was made around 2008, and would compare his sound to that of Lupe Fiasco, Joey Badass and J. Cole. The rap-

per enjoys listening to whole projects as opposed to individual songs and that is what he currently working on: a project of 10-12 songs.

LiBassi finds a lot of his inspiration in his family and where he grew up, in the city of Boston. He said the area where he was raised isn’t the nicest area, so his mother put him in a private school, which was a very different experience for him. The project is going to also include interludes and skits, along with a voice-over of his mom yelling at him when he gets in trouble.

All throughout high school, LiBassi took drum lessons and began writing music around the same time. When he transitioned from a public middle school to private high school, he kept writing but didn’t share his music with anyone, thinking his new friends wouldn’t be able to relate.

When he started at Syracuse University, LiBassi became more persistent with making music. He started out using voice memos in his dorm room, and then that turned into recording random music just for fun. From just messing around, he cultivated a couple of song ideas, got a microphone and began recording songs in his room.

When he’s home in Boston, he records in his basement, which he and his brother have

transformed into a small studio. His brother Jake, an SU alumnus, is learning how to be a music engineer and has been willingly helping his brother with his music, along with working on music of his own. They hope to release a collaborative project — Jake’s beats with Eric’s vocals — once Eric releases the project he’s working on.

“He’s my best friend. But music has definitely pulled us closer. There’s nothing that I love more than sharing/creating music with people are just as passionate about it as me,” Jake said. “And he sees music from a different perspective, which makes it a much more interesting experience.”

This year, Eric LiBassi’s fraternity brother, Jesse Segaul, has set up a recording studio in his house. Segaul, a junior television, radio and film major, lives below LiBassi and has been housing his recording equipment.

“I think I have a pretty good ear and I have an idea of what he is trying to do, so I help out with writing and ways he can make his sound unique,” Segaul said.

LiBassi’s project will not be released until it can be recorded in a better studio. Until then, his song “Small Hearts,” is making his way onto the radar with more than 14,000 plays on SoundCloud. lmeyers@syr.edu

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Lack of corner-kick goals has hurt Syracuse in 2016

By Byron Tollefson asst. web editor

Syracuse and Notre Dame were deadlocked in the 109th minute. Eva Gordon raced down the sideline before a Fighting Irish defender knocked the ball out. Syracuse had a corner kick opportunity to try and give the Orange its first ACC win.

Defender Jessica Vigna stepped up to take the corner kick for SU. She crossed the ball into the box, but no SU players were there. SU’s targets in the box positioned themselves about 15 yards from the net, and the ball sailed in front of them and rolled out of bounds. Vigna threw her hands up in

disgust and hustled back to her position as the Orange went on to tie, 1-1, on Sept. 18.

Out of the 72 corners SU (8-7-3, 1-6-2 Atlantic Coast) has taken in the 2016 season, just three have resulted in goals. Syracuse has struggled to finish set pieces throughout the year. The Orange lost three straight ACC matches from Sep. 22 to Oct. 2 without a single goal — vital losses in SU’s now defunct playoff chase. Syracuse could have edged itself closer to playoff contention by executing more on its corners.

“Set pieces are fantastic scoring opportunities,” Syracuse head coach Phil Wheddon said. “It’s clear we need to be a lot more dangerous on those.”

On most corner kicks, Syracuse’s tar-

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gets positioned themselves just inside the 18-yard box. When the ball was crossed, the targets would crash toward the net, hoping to gain momentum on a header.

Despite SU generally placing its crosses on target, it hasn’t worked. Wheddon said that in the ACC, which he calls the “most physical conference in the country,” Syracuse’s strategy is less effective.

“Our service in the box this year has been much better than in the past,” Wheddon said. “But teams scout us, they know who our targets are and they put their best defenders on those targets.”

Senior Maddie Iozzi and juniors Vigna and Alana O’Neill are the Orange’s designated corner kick takers. Iozzi noted defenders typically clear the ball once it gets into the box.

“Our best chance of scoring has been off of scrappy goals,” Iozzi said. “Our headers have been off frame and we need to get on the end of it.”

The trend is consistent throughout the ACC. No. 6 Duke hasn’t scored off a corner kick despite 80 attempts this season. Virginia Tech has compiled 103 corners and hasn’t scored. No. 7 Virginia has scored five on 115 corners. Facing Pittsburgh on Oct. 16, SU hadn’t scored off a corner kick in nearly a month. Wheddon decided to change things up. His targets in the box lined up significantly closer to the goal, inside the 6-yard box. The target players were expected to win balls in the air without a running start.

“It’s just trying to give the opponent something they haven’t seen,” Wheddon said. “We’re always trying to manipulate things to have different runs in the box. We

tried to change things up.”

Unlike previous games, Syracuse’s targets stayed in position and bodied Pittsburgh’s defenders off. As a result, they were getting their heads on the ball. The next game, against Wake Forest, a Demon Deacon defender cleared the ball out of bounds. Iozzi stepped up to take the corner kick for the Orange.

Stephanie Skilton, Alex Lamontagne and Sydney Brackett positioned themselves close to the net. As Iozzi’s cross came in perfectly, Skilton muscled off her defender, leaped into the air, and headed the ball into the top right corner of the net. SU took a 1-0 lead.

“Set pieces decide games,” Wheddon said.

But the goal came too late because the only game left for Syracuse is one without playoff implications. brtollef@syr.edu

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Syracuse scoring resurgence puts Orange back in form

By Matthew Gutierrez asst. copy editor

Two days before Syracuse’s season opener, Ian McIntyre hinted at what has spurred a late-season offensive revival.

“We’re certainly unproven,” the head coach said on Aug. 24, “but we’ve got some fresh blood.”

Over the past few games, that fresh blood has come in the form of a senior transfer and a pair of freshmen who, as of two weeks ago, had not scored all year. The attack mirrors Syracuse’s early-season charge, when the Orange scored 16 goals in the first seven games.

Three of Syracuse’s first seven game winners came from players who had not played significant minutes at SU. The same newcomer strike that kindled No. 6 Syracuse’s (10-3-2, 3-2-2 Atlantic Coast) best start in history has lifted the Orange out of its worst stretch in five years.

“What a perfect time,” freshman midfielder Mo Adams said of the resurgence.

“We’d rather have the four-winless streak back then than now.”

Against Loyola Marymount on Aug. 28,

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bradley memory she said she wants to get rid of.

When SU interviewed Bradley for the job, the latter referred to the program as “a sleeping giant,” said Gloria Nantulya, a senior on Bradley’s first SU team in 2007.

Her approach to revamping the Orange’s program was “how you do one thing is how you do all things.”

But the players Bradley inherited at Syracuse “had no level of physiology and fitness,” she said. Bradley implemented a system in her first offseason that emphasized interval training. Three times a week the Orange ran a combination of 800-, 400- and 200-meter sprints to reach up to 3.5 miles per day.

Bradley tracked each player’s progress.

“We’re going to run,” Nantulya recalled Bradley saying before pausing. “A lot.”

At first, players failed to meet the goals Bradley set. But just before spring break, she gave the team a workout routine and several players thought it was too easy.

It was the same one she had given them on the first day of training in January.

The fundamentals went beyond condition-

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roundtable Etta-Tawo’s early-season tear. That time finally came in Week 5 against Notre Dame and Ishmael’s numbers have steadily gone up since that five-catch, 67-yard day — excluding the following game at Wake Forest played in a hurricane where Eric Dungey missed an open Ishmael in the end zone. As more defensive attention goes to Etta-Tawo, space opens up for Ishmael and the other receivers. And as the running game continues to struggle, Ishmael has benefited from screens and short comeback routes that act as runs.

2. Does the bye week come at a good time for Syracuse?

T.L.: I’d lean toward no. It’s true that SU’s been very banged up and can use this extra week to rest up and heal some players. But the Orange is coming off two pretty big wins this year and there has to be some good feelings in the locker room right now., All that considered though, I’d still want the bye one week later. Even with the bye this week and

Johannes Pieles scored twice to push the Orange to a 2-1 victory. The freshman’s double-overtime goal came off of a corner kick in the season’s first weekend. Sophomore Jonathan Hagman assisted on the first goal.

The next Sunday, Hagman, who hardly played as a freshman, stroked a 105th-minute game-winner over St. John’s. He followed it up with a game-winner against Boston College and an insurance goal at Cornell on Sept. 20.

Pieles returned to the mix Sept. 13 in a 1-0 win over Hofstra. In the 88th minute of a game that appeared as if it were headed to overtime, Pieles emerged from chaos in front of the goal and headed the ball into the net.

He racked up three goals in his first six games.

Then Syracuse’s offense stalled.

The Orange scored only two goals in the next four games amid SU’s longest winless streak since 2011. Some of Syracuse’s top threats haven’t scored in weeks. Nanco has not found

the net since Sept. 9 (a 10-game span), Lassiter since Sept. 16 and Robinson since Sept. 23.

(The played two games with the United States Under-20 Men’s National Team.)

“I think chemistry through the attacking guys and all that,” SU associate head coach Jukka Masalin said two weeks ago, “that needs to be more.

“We’ve had loads of chances against the best teams in the country so I don’t think we have to be in any way ashamed of what we’ve done. It’s going to come. It’s going to be a little bit of a ketchup bottle effect at one point.”

Syracuse revived itself at Hartford, which speaks to how critical these last three goals — all from first-year players — have proved to be.

Sergio Camargo, a Coastal Carolina senior transfer, broke the slide with his firstever goal at Syracuse. It propelled SU to a 1-0 win over then-No. 15 Virginia Tech.

Syracuse fed off Camargo’s score at Hartford and pounded the Hawks’ defense.

The Orange came out in a 4-5-1, not its usual 3-5-2, to better match Hartford. The new formation created opportunities for the offense,

which notched 10 corner kicks in the first half.

While Kamal Miller and Robinson anchored the left side, John-Austin Ricks played on the right — where the freshman floated his header into the net for his first-ever goal.

Later came Adams’ first-ever goal, a missile into the top left of the net from more than 30 yards out on just his third shot of the season. It gave SU a 2-0 advantage it held for its second straight win and 10th overall.

“At Hartford we had maybe the best performance in a half we’ve ever had here,” said McIntyre, in his seventh season.

Syracuse needs all of the scoring it can get. Its next opponent, No. 2 Wake Forest, boasts one of the nation’s top defenses. The Demon Deacons rank second nationally in goals-against per game (.43) and sixth in shutout percentage (.63).

With a win, Syracuse can salvage its midseason hiccup, take third place in the ACC Atlantic Division and get a first-round bye in the ACC tournament — a seemingly distant feat just a couple of weeks ago.

ing. Bradley taught her players to say, “please,” “thank you,” “I’m sorry,” and “you’re welcome.”

The manners people learned in kindergarten were brought back up in order to build cohesion.

Bradley majored in physical education and minored in psychology at Delaware.

For one of her behavioral psychology classes, she studied how rats responded to certain stimuli in order to accomplish desired results. She learned that behaviors are dictated by a combination of frustration, desperation and inspiration.

“Probably the most important thing in coaching is understanding people and what moves them and their spirit,” Bradley said. “… Everyone thinks coaching is all about inspiration, but an opponent gives desperation and frustration.”

Every Tuesday practice over the past 10 years has been known as “Competition Tuesday.” The Orange typically plays on Sunday, has Monday off and then Bradley holds the toughest practice of the week the following day.

The rules are simple. Every drill is a competition. If you lose, you run.

“We dreaded it,” said Shannon Taylor, who played three seasons at Richmond before transferring to Syracuse with Bradley.

The Orange bought in quickly. SU won 10 of its first 12 games in 2007. It went 12-7, finishing with a .632 winning percentage, its highest since 2001.

Syracuse hosted the Big East tournament in Bradley’s first year, but lost, 2-0, to Connecticut in the semifinals. The championship was also played at J.S. Coyne Stadium. Bradley made her team watch it. UConn won the final and SU’s players watched the Huskies celebrate.

“I said to the kids, ‘That’s going to be us next year celebrating the Big East championship on Connecticut’s field,’” Bradley said. “‘Picture it.

Three hundred and sixty-four days away.’”

Nearly every practice that offseason, Bradley mentioned Connecticut. Every time Syracuse players looked tired, like they were going to give up or made a mistake, Bradley yelled, Taylor said.

“Remember seeing UConn celebrate!”

The Orange won the 2008 Big East championship against the Huskies on their home field. In Bradley’s second year, SU reached the final four. Syracuse has reached the NCAA tournament every year since.

After reaching the final four in 2008, Syracuse didn’t return until 2012. In the past four years, the Orange has made it to the sport’s final weekend three times.

“When I came in, I knew Syracuse was a good program,” said Alyssa Manley, who played at SU from 2012-15. “Since then, we’ve been able to make it a great program.”

After the Orange lost to North Carolina in last year’s ACC title game in Charlottesville, Virginia, Bradley again had her team watch its opponent celebrate. She knew that two weekends later, there was a bigger championship that would be on the line.

On the bus ride back from Virginia, SU stopped at a rest stop and Bradley addressed the team. Senior Liz Sack expected Bradley to yell at the team and harp on the loss.

One player was particularly distraught after missing a key shot in overtime. Bradley took advantage of the teachable moment.

“I want to thank you for missing that,’” Bradley recalled, “‘because without that, we wouldn’t be able to learn the lessons we were able to learn to make our final step to glory.’”

Two weeks later, the Orange beat the Tar Heels for its first national title in program history.

SU has already lost two games this season, but if there’s anything Bradley’s proven in the past 10 years, it’s that her teams will learn.

the recent success, it’ll be hard for SU to beat Clemson. Getting a bye before Clemson is like a college student finally getting eight-plus hours of sleep the week before you have five midterms. I’d much rather struggle through one more week and get the extra rest after something that difficult, not before it.

C.L.: I think SU went just about as far as it can go without having a bye week for this roster to stick together. Injuries have piled up, but the roster really needs to get healthier and this week could help, even if it’s only a little. The last few weeks, Boston College and Virginia Tech battered Eric Dungey, who survived the beatings. Getting him to 100 percent along with a few of its other players will be so important moving forward. The whole team looks as if it has slowed down a bit, so maybe a one-week break can help speed it back up.

J.M.: I think Syracuse could’ve used the bye week a few weeks earlier. When you look at all the injuries they’ve had — from losing two starting defensive backs and (probably, not definite yet) two starting offensive linemen for the season to then Cordell Hudson

and Devin Butler missing the last two weeks and Cody Conway working his way back onto the field recently — it’s clear the Orange is and has been banged up. Babers said it himself on Saturday after the game: “We’ve got a lot of healing to do. The first eight games without the bye have been rough.” If there’s an upside to having the bye so late, it gives Babers and his staff an extra week to craft a game plan for Clemson and might refresh the team for a crucial final stretch.

With those inconsistencies, SU should come in and at least be competitive.

C.L.: Hoo boy. Just keep it close. Death Valley is a hellish place to play (see what I did there) and Clemson’s a really talented team to boot. I think SU can keep it within two scores but asking much more would be tough.

What SU can do and what SU will do are two different things, though. DeShaun Watson can sling the rock and given that SU’s secondary has eroded from injuries, I’m not sure it’ll be able to keep up with such a diverse attack.

J.M.: As long as Syracuse keeps the game against Clemson competitive heading into the fourth quarter it’ll be a success. We’re talking a one- or two-score game at that point. Sometimes final scores don’t accurately represent the tale of the game. This is yet another chance for SU and Dino Babers to get some recognition against a talented team.

The week off leaves plenty of time for Kumbaya meetings. Maybe, just maybe, Syracuse can shock the college football world again.

But it’s not win or bust. A good showing against Clemson could really set Syracuse up nicely for the final three games of the season.

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3. What’s considered a successful game against Clemson?

T.L.: Don’t get blown out and maintain some sort of competitiveness. Something like last year’s game (when Clemson came into the Dome and won by 10) would be perfect. Now, granted that game was at home but at the same time Zack Mahoney was the starting quarterback, it was a much weaker team with a much poorer offense. Clemson’s played really well at times (like when it beat Louisville) and has also needed help at times (when it needed a missed 33-yard field goal and overtime to beat North Carolina State).

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Orange’s penalty kill helps SU despite winless streak

By Nick Alvarez staff writer

Syracuse led 2-0, but a hooking penalty on SU forward Morgan Blank gave Colgate a player advantage in the first period. Thirty-one seconds later, a precise string of passes led to Raiders defender Lauren Wildfang shooting the puck through the legs of Syracuse goalie Abbey Miller.

It was the second of Colgate’s six power plays in the game. SU held the Raiders without a shot on two of the power-play chances.

But still, two of Colgate’s three goals came with an extra player on the ice in an eventual 3-2 win over the Orange.

In a season marred by tough losses and poor offensive play, the SU penalty kill unit has been good. Just not good enough.

Six games into its season, the Orange (0-42), has accumulated 46 penalties, averaging more than seven per game. Fortunately for SU, even though its penalty kill unit has been on the ice for 74 minutes, it has allowed only six goals. With a penalty-kill rate of 86 percent, the special teams unit for Syracuse has fared well.

According to SU head coach Paul Flanagan, the success of SU’s penalty kill is dependent on its blocking, especially against tougher opponents.

Opponents have consistently outplayed SU. The Orange opened its season against now 10th-ranked Bemidji State. Both Colgate and Bemidji have given up only one power-play goal, thanks in part to a struggling Orange offense.

That results in each team touting an impressive 96 percent penalty-kill rate, leading the Raiders

and the Beavers to a combined record of 9-3-2.

In practice, Syracuse mimics blocking by substituting pucks with rolls of tape. The tape allows them to practice their positioning and technique in game simulations with less risk of injury.

The penalty-kill unit comprises forwards Stephanie Grossi (five blocks) and Emily Costales (nine), and two of the following defenders: Dakota Derrer (19), Megan Quinn (10), Allie Munroe (11) and Larissa Martyniuk (10).

The unit accounts for 68 percent of the team’s blocks, and according to Quinn, everyone is willing to sacrifice their bodies.

“You cringe sometimes when Steph Grossi or some of your better offensive players block shots,” Flanagan said, “but they’re out there a lot.”

Miller acts as a conductor of the defense, calling out the movements of forwards and alerting defenders when their assigned player finds open space.

“We are getting our sticks in the passing lanes.” Miller said. “I talk to them, be their eyes since I can see the whole ice.”

In addition to practice reps, SU assistant coach Brendon Knight aids the unit by scouting SU’s opponents’ power play units and analyzing certain strategies.

Syracuse has put an emphasis on the penalty kill because it’s had to. But so far this season, reviewing scouting reports and blocking rolls of tape haven’t been enough against top opponents as the Orange’s winless streak sits at six games — one loss away from worst start in program history. nialvare@syr.edu

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WIN’ Ange Bradley has turned SU field hockey around after 10 years with the program

By Paul Schwedelson sports editor

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nge Bradley needed a map to find Syracuse. The only time she had heard of the school was in regard to its basketball team.

She was finishing the 2006 season as Richmond’s head coach when she got a call from then-SU Director of Athletics Daryl Gross.

“Come win a national championship at Syracuse,” Bradley recalled Gross saying.

“I was like, ‘Oh, OK,’” Bradley said.

Nine years into her tenure, Bradley made good on what Gross predicted, winning SU’s first national title in program history in 2015. The No. 2 Orange (13-2, 4-2 Atlantic Coast) will wrap up its regular season on Sunday and then gear up for its title defense in the postseason. And the team wouldn’t be in that position if not for the foundation Bradley has built over the past 10 years.

Under 27-year head coach Kathleen Parker, the Orange reached the NCAA tournament only three times since moving to Division I in 1982. After her contract wasn’t extended following the 2006 season, Bradley brought Syracuse to the tournament in each of the last eight seasons and is on track for another berth, currently ranked No. 2 in the country.

“We needed to learn how to win,” Bradley said.

It’s a process Bradley was used to. She went from having just seven players in her first year at Goucher College to a 15-4-1 record by Year 4. She was an assistant at Maryland when the Terrapins won the 1999 national title. She turned Richmond, “a team of mediocrity,” into one that went 42-0 in conference games in her last five seasons.

Because she started at Syracuse right away, Bradley didn’t have time to find permanent housing. Her first few months in Syracuse, she lived in brick graduate student housing building on South Campus. She remembers her neighbors “doing what normal students do” at 2 a.m. on weekends. It’s a see bradley page 14

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Roundtable: Beat writers discuss Ishmael, bye, Clemson

By The Daily Orange Sports Staff

Syracuse (4-4, 2-2 Atlantic Coast) is coming off back-to-back wins over No. 25 Virginia Tech and Boston College. The Orange takes its bye week before heading to No. 3 Clemson on Nov. 5.

Beat writers Tomer Langer, Chris Libonati and Jon Mettus discuss Steve Ishmael, the bye week and the looming matchup against

one of the nation’s top teams.

1. Is Steve Ishmael’s resurgence for real and why?

Tomer Langer: Calling it a “resurgence” isn’t totally fair to Ishmael. It’s not like his talent level took a major nosedive.

It just so happened that for the first half of the season, Amba Etta-Tawo was putting up ridiculous numbers across from him

and the SU offense just featured quick half-field reads at times to feed him the ball. Defenses have started limiting what Etta-Tawo could do, especially early (even against BC, 93 of his 144 yards came after halftime). With Eric Dungey spreading the ball out more, I think we’re seeing that Ishmael is just as talented and dependable as everyone thought he’d be.

Chris Libonati: Yeah, I think it is. His last two games were solid. They accounted for nearly 40 percent of his receiving yards this season, but his resurgence really started against Notre Dame when Ishmael had five catches for 67 yards. Since then, he’s had five or more catches and more than 50 yards in each game. In those games, he’s averaging six catches and 82 yards. If he can keep

pace, Ishmael can get to nearly 800 yards, a solid total considering he had just 171 yards in the first four games. He’s also a skilled wide receiver who just needs to get looks, which should happen with teams rolling coverage to Amba Etta-Tawo.

Jon Mettus: We knew it was going to happen at some point when teams finally adjusted to Amba see roundtable page 14