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N • On the issues

P • The grand tour

Steve Williams, who is running for Congress in New York state’s 24th Congressional District, of which Syracuse is a part, discusses college-related issues.

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Syracuse native Michael Heagerty, an owner of a local tour company, intertwines storytelling and history through his walking tours.

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S • Losing his way

Greg Robinson was hired by then-athletic director Daryl Gross to be Syracuse’s head football coach, and won only 10 games in the four seasons he was at the helm of SU. Page 16

Remembrance Week 2015

Lasting connection PART 2 OF 4

Officials discuss findings Filmmaker discovers suspect for Pan Am Flight 103 bombing

By Sara Swann asst. news editor

New efforts in the investigation of the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing are being made after Ken Dornstein, whose brother died on the flight, directed a three-part documentary on PBS revealing additional information about possible suspects.

Dornstein, a filmmaker, conducted an investigation and found Musbah Eter, who was convicted in a 1986 nightclub bombing in Germany. Eter told Dornstein that Libyan official Abu Agila Mas’ud had armed the bomb that exploded on Pan Am Flight 103, according to a USA Today article.

An arrow on a sundial at Lockerbie Academy in Scotland points west to Syracuse, where 35 victims of the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing attended Syracuse University. The academy will honor the victims of the tragedy this week. margaret lin staff photographer

Scholarship highlights bond between Lockerbie Academy, SU

By Clare Ramirez staff writer

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OCKERBIE, SCOTLAND — A small memorial cairn, made up of a pile of stones, sits in front of Lockerbie Academy, this town’s only high school. It’s a miniature version of the cairn in Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia, comprised of 270 blocks of Scottish sandstone to commemorate the lives lost in the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing.

Above the cairn is a sundial that contains the names of the three victims who attended Lockerbie Academy at the time of the disaster. Stemming from the sundial is an arrow pointing west with the words, “Syracuse, 3,238 miles.”

Despite being separated by an entire ocean, Lockerbie Academy and Syracuse University are linked by a tragedy that affected each institution differently. The connection between the two — a Scottish high school with about 700 students and an American university with more than 20,000 students — lives on 27 years after the bombing through the Lockerbie

Scholarship, which celebrates its 25th year this fall.

“It’s not just a unique opportunity in the school. It’s a unique opportunity in Scotland,” said Brian Asher, the rector of Lockerbie Academy. “I think it’s probably unique in the U.K. I don’t know of another link where at the end of their sixth year, students get the chance to go to America and study.”

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.

Evidence of the link between Lockerbie Academy and SU is present all around the high school. The library contains archives related to SU and former scholars.

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I don’t think closure actually exists in the real world.

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former pan am flight 103 bombing investigator

Mas’ud is currently in a Libyan prison, according to Dornstein’s discoveries, after he was convicted of making bombs for the Moammar Gadhafi government in order to booby-trap the cars of opposition members in 2011, according to USA Today.

Dornstein also discovered the possible involvement of Abdullah Senussi, Gadhafi’s intelligence chief, who met Abdelbaset Ali Modmed Al Megrahi — who was convicted in 2001 in front of a special court in the Netherlands of the bombing and died in 2012 — at the airport upon his return to Libya from prison, according to see investigation page 4

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TATTOO tuesday | briana exom

Senior’s llama tattoo represents trip to Peru

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By Lizzie Michael staff writer

When Briana “Bri” Exom traveled to Máncora, Peru two summers ago, she didn’t go with her family; she didn’t go with her friends; in fact, she didn’t go with anyone at all.

Exom, now a senior fashion design major, decided to go on the solo trip completely on a whim.

After a week and a half in Peru, she returned home with no souvenirs other than a small, minimalist tattoo of a llama on the back of her right shoulder.

Although she felt anxious before she left, Exom said she didn’t fully grasp the intensity of her trip until after she landed alone at a small, one-lane airport.

“I wasn’t like, ‘Oh Bri, what have you got yourself into?’” Exom said.

“I just thought, ‘OK, you’re here Bri. You said you wanted to do this trip, so here we go.’”

She quickly made friends with 13 other travelers from countries all over the world.

Exom’s last day in Máncora was the Peruvian Independence Day. Exom said a man from her group

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announced he was going to get a llama tattoo to commemorate the trip. One-by-one, Exom’s entire group got on board with the idea until she was the last one left.

“I was like, ‘F*ck it, I’ll do it!’”

Exom said. “When I got back I was like, ‘Aw man, how am I going to explain this to everyone?’”

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Three things What do you need to know about Monday night’s SA meeting? The D.O. lists the three things you need to know.

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@SyracuseULib .@Blackstone is bringing its landmark #blackstonelaunchpad campus-based entrepreneurship program to Bird Library.

In protection New York state Gov. Andrew Cuomo has introduced regulations to protect transgender New Yorkers from unlawful discrimination.

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University to create program Grant will help create entreprenuership space in Bird Library

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It’s a party The Syracuse University Student Association hosted “SA Extravaganza” on Monday in the Schine Student Center. The goal of the event was to provide students the opportunity to communicate with SA cabinet members, who briefed students on their initiatives, such as bringing a ride-hailing service like Uber to the city of Syracuse. For full SA coverage, see dailyorange.com

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Congressional candidate discusses campaign

By Ali Linan asst. copy editor

Congressional candidate Steve Williams plans to fight for job growth, increasing it for those already in the work force as well as those coming into it — such as Syracuse University graduates.

Williams, a former JAG Corps officer for the U.S. Navy and a Syracuse lawyer, said he believes that it is his experience and drive of being a “fighter” that will allow him to increase the job market, combat student debt and improve campus safety. Williams announced on Oct. 19 that he is vying for the Democratic nomination for New York state’s 24th Congressional District in the 2016 election.

“I want to oppose policies that take jobs to other countries … 20 years ago there were countless high paying jobs (in central New York), and now the jobs have gone,” Williams said.

Williams joined SU professor Eric Kingson and SU alumna Colleen Deacon, as they campaign

against Rep. John Katko (R-NY) for the seat in Congress.

Williams, 52, said he plans on fighting the Trade Policy and Programs, a free trade agreement that opens new export opportunities for American businesses, farmers and ranchers, according to the U.S. Department of State website.

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JOHN KATKO (R) U.S. Representative of New York’s 24th Congressional District STEVE WILLIAMS (D) Former U.S. Navy officer and Syracuse lawyer ERIC KINGSON (D) Syracuse University social work professor COLLEEN DEACON (D) Former congressional aide to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY)

The congressional candidate said he believes that polices like this are

taking American jobs by creating a situation for more jobs overseas.

The lawyer has a track record of fighting for the needs of sailors as well as winning big cases in Syracuse over fair wages and pension funds.

However, looking back, Williams identifies one of his big struggles in life was finding a way to pay for college. He worked throughout his college career, which began at a community college for a year before moving to a state school and law school.

“I was $100,000 in debt after law school … I’ve lived through student debt … My monthly payments were $1,700 a month, which is probably equivalent to $3,400 a month now,” he said.

Williams noted that now it is virtually impossible for a student to work their way through college without incurring debt.

As a father of four who is now working to put his children through college, he said that he agrees with many of the strategies Hillary Clinton has planned to combat student

debt. If elected, he will start by cutting interest rates, as well as allow those that have already graduated college the ability to refinance, where they will be able to finance their loans again but at a lower interest rate.

In addition, Williams said he wants to place a cap on the loan payments so that they are not higher than 10 percent of the person’s income. Lastly, he said he wants to work to get Pell Grants to be used for more than tuition.

When it comes to campus safety, Williams said it is a “huge issue” in which everything that can be done to minimize assault on college campuses, be it sexual or physical, should be done, starting with support.

He said he believes the state is making moves “in the right direction” by working to change the culture.

New York state adopted “Enough is Enough” legislation over the summer that changed the definition of consent and transformed other sexual assault policies for all schools in the state. avlinan@syr.edu

Syracuse University has been named the recipient of a grant that will establish a new entrepreneurship program at the university.

The grant comes after IDEA, a popular entrepreneurship program at the university, was said to be transitioning into a larger program as part of the restructure of entrepreneurship initiatives at SU. The university will receive $900,000 from the grant, which is given out by the Blackstone Charitable Foundation, according to an SU News release.

SU being awarded the grant came as the foundation announced the largest expansion of its campus entrepreneurship program, Blackstone LaunchPad, to five New York state schools. see blackstone page 4

student association JOINT COUNCIL Student Association President Aysha Seedat is looking to create a joint council between SA and the other student governing bodies at Syracuse University and the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry.

At SA’s meeting Monday night in Maxwell Auditorium, Seedat said she is currently in the process of setting up a meeting with the presidents of SU’s Graduate Student Organization and Student Bar Association, as well as SUNY-ESF’s Graduate Student Association and Undergraduate Student Association.

Seedat said the goal of the council would be to improve communication between each organization and graduate and undergraduate students at both universities.

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investigation USA Today.

“This is a fascinating breakthrough in information gleamed from the video by Ken Dornstein that shows direct connections that our investigators had suspected for a long time but couldn’t prove,” said Frank Duggan, president of Victims of Pan Am Flight 103. “But now there’s proof.”

Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland on Dec. 21, 1988. The explosion killed all 259 people aboard — including 35 Syracuse University students who were traveling from London to New York City after completing a study abroad program — and 11 people on the ground.

Richard Marquise, a now-retired FBI agent

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who worked on the Pan Am Flight 103 investigation at its inception, said Dornstein found out information through his own investigation that the FBI and Scottish government did not even know.

Marquise said Scottish officials have requested to go to Libya to interview Senussi, but said he is not sure if that will work considering the current state of Libya’s government, which he called chaotic.

The country has struggled to stabilize after Gadhafi’s 42-year long rule, according to a report from BBC. Since the end of his rule in 2011, conf licts between two rival governments have arisen since the central government collapsed.

He added that Mas’ud is not recognized by Libya as a citizen — the country’s officials said

he does not exist — so Scottish officials have not been able to track him down.

Marquise said when the investigation began in 1991, the FBI collected enough evidence to indict two people.

“If this investigation could have been done in the United States, we would’ve had a whole range of other resources,” Marquise said. “…

But the early days were literally looking for a needle in a haystack.”

At the beginning of the investigation, the challenge was narrowing the number of suspects for the bombing, Marquise said, but now the investigation is a matter of trying to indict someone from a much smaller pool of suspects.

Even if the American or Scottish governments were able to find whoever is responsible for the bombing, Marquise said he isn’t sure if the dis-

covery will bring closure to the victims’ families.

“Everybody uses that word ‘closure,’ … but I don’t know if you ever really get closure because birthdays come around, anniversaries come around and Christmas comes around,” Marquise said. “I don’t think closure actually exists in the real world.”

Marquise added that he would like to see more justice for the victims’ families.

Duggan, the president of Victims of Pan Am Flight 103, said he thinks it is amazing that after 27 years, the Pan Am Flight 103 is “back on the front page.” However, he said he would like to think of it as more of a measure of justice than closure.

“I hate that word — there’s never going to be closure,” Duggan said. “But at least (the victims’ families) know more now than before.”

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library of various archive materials and SU memorabilia and holding a possible Skype session with Lockerbie Scholars.

The academy will also hold its own rose-laying ceremony, in which the Head Boy and Head Girl will lay roses at the memorial cairn in front of the school grounds.

“If we can get this established and keep it going year after year, it will be a poignant way of educating all our students over the years in the heritage we share,” said Asher, who credits the planning of the week to Janet Rogerson, the mother of Joanna Barrie. “Tragic though it may be, it has been a catalyst for so much good between our communities.”

The current Head Boy is Callum Kingstree, a sixth-year student at Lockerbie Academy who plans to apply for the scholarship. Kingstree said he always liked seeing photos and videos of what happened during the Remembrance Week events at SU, adding that it feels special for him to be able to take part of the inaugural ceremony at his own school.

For sixth-year student Abbie Carruthers, stories of the disaster are close to heart, even though she wasn’t alive at the time. Her mother, who studied at the academy in 1988, was in the same class as one of the boys who was killed in the bombing.

Carruthers, who is also planning to apply for the scholarship, said it would be an incredible opportunity to remember the past while looking forward.

“Syracuse has always been at the very front of school life, and it’s always kind of been motiva-

tional to do it,” Carruthers said. “If you ask anybody in the community, they would 110 percent emphasize how important this scholarship is.”

Kerry Currie, who recently began working at the academy as a principal teacher, is an alumna of both Lockerbie Academy and the scholarship.

She attended SU in the academic year 1996-97.

Though she has only been working at the academy since August, Currie has been a part of the panel that interviews students who are applying for the scholarship for longer than that.

“Being part of that and seeing the applications, seeing the young people and the way they interview and how much they want the scholarship, I see they have got an understanding of why it’s so important and how it came about,” Currie said. “They’ve always got good ideas about how they’re going to continue to inform people about what the scholarship means.”

Currie’s involvement is precisely what Asher, the rector of Lockerbie Academy, is trying to encourage. In the past, he said, there wasn’t enough effort in getting former scholars back on board.

Going forward, Asher wants to utilize those who have been to SU as a resource and continue the growth of the scholarship.

“The motto for the Remembrance Week, for all of this, is to think back and act forward,” Asher said. “That’s what the scholarship’s all about. It’s about giving young people chances that they otherwise would never have had.

“We can never escape the past, but we can shape the future.”

Orange in September that IDEA was being transitioned into a larger program. Ross added in September that a new space on campus is being planned to support entrepreneurship programs for students.

It appears that physical space will be in Bird Library.

Later this year, SU will open a new space in Bird for the Blackstone LaunchPad program “in order to help align entrepreneurial efforts of students, while connecting them with mentors and collaborators.”

Students receive training seminars, mentors and other resources as part of the LaunchPad program. The push to bring the program to campus was led by a steering committee that featured representatives from across the university.

Interim Vice Chancellor and Provost Liz Liddy, who was at the announcement of the grant along with three other SU representatives, said the program will allow for better networking and collaboration among students.

“The program will allow for the richest of exchanges of innovative ideas across our full student population and bring entrepreneurship into the greater community,” she said in an SU News release.

Rep. John Katko (R-NY) said he was “pleased” that SU was awarded the grant.

“This program will give young people the resources and training that they need to grow their ideas into profitable endeavors,” he said in a release. “The training of our next generation of entrepreneurs on Syracuse’s campus will both complement the budding technology and research hubs right here in Central New York and help to stimulate economic growth.”

The Blackstone LaunchPad initiative will be open to students of any major. Spread across the five New York state campuses, the program could generate about 6,000 jobs across the state over the next five years, according to a Blackstone Charitable Foundation release.

academy Pictures of the SU campus, current Lockerbie Scholars and even the 35 Remembrance Scholars adorn a bulletin board dedicated to information about the scholarship.

The Remembrance Scholars and Lockerbie Scholars represent SU students who died on Pan Am Flight 103, which exploded over Lockerbie on Dec. 21, 1988. SU recognizes the bombing every year with Remembrance Week, which began Sunday night. This year, Lockerbie Academy is recognizing Remembrance Week as well during the same time frame.

The current Lockerbie Scholars, Joanna Barrie and Ellen Boomer, each have their own section in the school bulletin in which they talk about their SU experiences and share photos.

Inside the academy’s assembly hall is a section dedicated to SU and the memory of Pan Am Flight 103. Among the memorabilia is a folded American flag imported from the United States. A large board in the center of the wall lists the names and years of every Lockerbie student who has made the journey to SU. Asher said he knew something new needed to happen this year at Lockerbie Academy to mark the scholarship’s 25th anniversary. The result was the creation of the academy’s own Remembrance Week, which is being held simultaneously with SU’s Remembrance Week.

Events for the week include cutting out paper doves on which students can write their hopes and dreams, setting up a display in the

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blackstone Besides SU, Cornell University, New York University, the University at Albany and the University at Buffalo will receive parts of the three-year, $4.5 million grant.

“Syracuse University has a proud entrepreneurial spirit. It is a pillar of our present and of our future endeavors,” Chancellor Kent Syverud said in the release. “The Blackstone LaunchPad program will allow us to align all our entrepreneurial efforts within our schools and colleges. Additionally, the grant will help us further develop innovative opportunities for our students, and help us enhance the entrepreneurial efforts in Central New York.”

J.D. Ross, communications director for the School of Information Studies, said in an email that Blackstone LaunchPad was the program he was referring to when he told The Daily

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Student safety Should the Syracuse Police Department play a greater role in protecting students? Share your opinion on the online poll.

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University, city share safety obligation It is a shared responsibility between Syracuse University and the city of Syracuse to ensure the safety of the student body.

Many SU students choose to live in local, non-university-affiliated housing after fulfilling their twoyear on-campus housing requirement. With the move off campus comes an increased risk of being a victim of a crime, and increased efforts on behalf of both the Department of Public Safety and the city of Syracuse can help minimize these threats to students.

Three SU students reported being victims of off-campus crimes this past weekend. An SU student reported an attempted strong arm robbery on the 700 block of Lancaster Ave. on Friday night and two students reported off-campus sexual offenses early Sunday morning, police said.

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crimes, DPS has the capacity to make strides in student safety, but for students living off campus or walking off campus, the city and SPD must play a greater, more collaborative role.

Efforts to make sure every street surrounding the university is well lit would be a good move to lessen off-campus crime. Well-lit areas make students and other local residents feel safe and could be an effective measure to discourage attacks that primarily take place in poorly lit areas. Since these areas aren’t part of the university, it would fall to the city to take action and improve street lighting.

While local departments should take steps to create a more secure vicinity surrounding the SU campus, students also have a responsibility to know when to reach out to these resources to ensure a safe means of getting home.

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Students are in no way at fault in any situation in which they are attacked; however, the student body should take advantage of the programs, mobile applications and ride services that are put in place to ensure their own safety. These include DPS escort services, the LiveSafe mobile app and Shuttle-UHome, which transports members of the university community who reside off campus within a designated geographic zone.

Once students move out of their dorm or South Campus apartment, they need to be aware of the fact that they are living in the city of Syracuse, not on campus. But regardless of whether students are walking to the Brewster, Boland and Brockway complex or to their home on Euclid Avenue, all students must be able to get home safely with the support of local safety forces.

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aise your hand if you’ve ever felt personally victimized by Yik Yak. Well, you’re not alone.

Seventy-two women’s and civil rights groups announced a campaign last week to rally the federal government to pressure colleges to protect students from harassment through anonymous social-media applications like Yik Yak. For better or for worse, Yik Yak has gone viral on college campuses since its launch in 2013. Essentially, the app

allows users to access a feed similar to Twitter that accepts anonymous posts from anyone within a set geographical radius. Users post locally relevant thoughts and observations for each other to “upvote” and “downvote.”

Co-Founder Tyler Droll describes the app as a virtual town bulletin board —

if only it were as wholesome.

Anonymous social media users say the darndest things. On college campuses’, Yik Yakers ruthlessly post racist comments, reinforce nasty stereotypes about fraternities and sororities and spread rumors about individuals by name for everyone in the area to see. Anonymity isn’t known to bring out the best in people.

Universities would do well to prohibit Yik Yak. Many colleges’ decisions to ban the app from campuses

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should not be considered censorship.

Prohibiting the app sends a symbolic message to students that bullying still isn’t cool — even for 20-somethings.

Some posts on the social network pose real dangers to campus communities across the country. The student senate at College of Idaho decided to ban Yik Yak after seven students felt personally threatened. At San Jose State and University of North Carolina, bomb threats and racists posts led students to petition for a ban. At Kenyon College, anonymous accounts used the app to threaten women who worked at the campus women’s center.

Some colleges have banned the app and requested that Yik Yak restrict access to the app on school grounds. In the past, Yik Yak has instituted “geo-fences” which disable its use at some high schools and middle schools. Still, it should be noted that colleges cannot truly enforce a complete ban of the app since it is available in the app store and students are not inhibited by “geo-fences” when off campus.

The app has been a matter of controversy at Syracuse University, too. After a particularly disturbing racist post via the app, Olivia Johnson, SU’s NAACP chapter president, wrote that Yik Yak “creates a hostile environment for students of color and only increases tensions between minorities and white students.”

Despite some agitation over the app, Yik Yak has not become such a pervasive or dangerous issue as to require urgent action. Still, SU would likely not regret publically renouncing the app or taking preventative action to limit its use.

Some people see banning the app as a suppression of free speech. They feel uncomfortable with the idea of censoring conversation by eliminating a platform for communication.

Critics believe, legitimately, that colleges would do better to target the root of negativity itself, rather than the means of expression.

In a perfect world, we would cure every insensitive mind. However, in real life, it isn’t that easy. One does not simply fix ingrained prejudice, stop threats of violence and cleanse graphic minds. Rome wasn’t built in a day.

In the meantime, as we wait for young people to grow up and become more empathetic, society could do without a platform for comments too indecent to attach a name to.

The app contributes more to hurting feelings than to facilitating social commentary. At the end of the day, if we want less prejudice and harassment, then we should decrease the number of outlets available to broadcast it.

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MISSION ENDURES SU faculty discuss President Barack Obama’s decision to keep US troops in Afghanistan

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n a major reversal on his commitment to end the almost 14-year-old war in Afghanistan, President Barack Obama announced some United States troops will stay in the country until the end of his term in January 2017.

In a statement made on Oct. 17, the president said about 9,800 American troops will engage in non-combat duties for much of 2016 and 5,500 of them will remain into 2017, characterizing the plan as a “modest but meaningful extension of our presence,” according to The New York Times.

The Daily Orange spoke to Christopher Ferrero, a post-doctoral fellow in the political science department in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs; Robert Murrett, deputy director of Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism; and William Banks, interim dean of the College of Law about Obama’s change of the Afghan strategy.

The Daily Orange: What was your reaction when you heard the announcement?

Christopher Ferrero: I was glad. I think it’s the common sense thing to do. The Afghan government wants us there. We are making progress against the Taliban; that does not mean that the threat has been eradicated … We do not sustain any strategic damage from maintaining 5,000 to 10,000 troops there. We could sustain strategic damage by withdrawing.

Robert Murrett: I was not surprised because of all of the discussions that have been taking place since the previous announcement that the president made this past spring … relative to the phase of withdrawal from Afghanistan because of the changing circumstances and the ongoing discussions we’ve had with the president of Afghanistan who, in relative terms, has been doing well and also because of the concerns relative to the recent activity by the Taliban. And moreover, (there’s) a broader concern which is voiced by the president and others in the administration about the need to have a longer presence not just in Afghanistan but also other parts of the region because of gains made by insurgents.

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA addresses the soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines at Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan in 2012. Obama announced earlier this month that he is keeping troops in Afghanistan, reversing a prior decision. courtesy of sgt. christian palermo

The D.O.: Are those numbers of troops specified by the president sufficient to accomplish the goal?

William Banks: It’s a hard question to answer because it’s impossible to know the dynamic of the conflict over the next year and a half. A couple of military assessments that I have seen in the light of his announcement suggested that number — 5,500 — would be the minimum that could protect the Afghan force but it may not be sufficient if the Taliban strength continues to increase or if counterterrorism operations that they have to conduct there grow larger and more complex.

The D.O.: Obama has about 15 months remain-

ing in the Oval Office. What do you think the president can achieve in Afghanistan in the meantime?

R.M.: I think the president can do successfully for the next 15 months or so of his administration, along with the others, is to maintain the sufficient level of assistance to the Afghan government, to the Afghan army and the Afghan national police in ways to provide a sufficient level of security and the path toward a longterm stability in Afghanistan with a central government that has a control of the most of the country.

The D.O.: What do you think of the future of

Afghanistan?

C.F.: Afghanistan does not have to become a model democracy for it to be a modest success. As other regions of the Middle East descend into chaos and function as terrorist sanctuaries, I do believe that there is a value in maintaining the interest in the presence in Afghanistan if only to deny sanctuary to hostile forces whether they emanate from the east, which would be Pakistan, the north, which could be Russia and the west, which could be Iran or even Salafi-Jihadists associated with ISIL and al-Qaeda. ssugiyam@syr.edu

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An area of Lockerbie, Scotland, as seen on Oct. 16, that was impacted by debris from the Pan Am Flight 103 disaster.

Most of the houses in this area were rebuilt after the disaster.

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STEPHEN ARMSTRONG, a 2000-01 Lockerbie Scholar, walks by the Sherwood Crescent memorial in Lockerbie, Scotland, on Oct. 16. The memorial marks where the wings of Pan Am Flight 103 created a crater and started a huge fire upon impact.

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An outside view of Lockerbie Academy in Lockerbie, Scotland on Oct. 16.

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A bulletin board with updated information about the current year’s Lockerbie Scholars in a hallway in Lockerbie Academy in Lockerbie, Scotland on Oct. 16. Lockerbie Scholars get to study for a year at Syracuse University.

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A plaque in Lockerbie honors the victims of the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing. The bombing killed 270 people, including 35 Syracuse University students who were returning to the U.S. from a semester abroad.

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A Convocation for Remembrance Scholars pamphlet and Remembrance Scholar pin from the year 2000 in the Tundergarth Memorial Room in Lockerbie, Scotland, on Oct. 16.

Text by Clare Ramirez staff writer

Photos by Margaret Lin staff photographer

LOCKERBIE, SCOTLAND – Throughout Lockerbie and the surrounding areas are memorials dedicated to the Pan Am Flight 103 disaster. Both locals and visitors ensure the sites are well maintained, always contain fresh flowers and are kept free of trash. Here are some of the town’s main memorials:

Garden of Remembrance

Located at the back end of Dryfesdale Cemetery is the Garden of Remembrance, one of the most well-known memorials dedicated to Pan Am Flight 103. Flower gardens greet visitors as they make their way to a granite memorial with two benches on each side. The names of all 270 victims are engraved on the memorial, where visitors constantly leave flowers and letters.

Plaques, stones and installations dedicated to victims were placed throughout the garden by family and friends.

Sherwood Crescent

The 11 locals who were killed in the disaster were in Sherwood Crescent, a residential area in Lockerbie, where the wings created a crater and started a large fire upon impact. New houses have since been built, but a specific area was left untouched for a memorial site. Slightly hidden from plain sight, the memorial can only be accessed by a small opening next to the road. At the end of a clear lawn stand a tree, a wooden bench and a stone marker that signifies the crater left by the plane’s wings.

Rosebank

A piece of the plane’s rear fuselage landed in Rosebank, another residential area, but miraculously, none of the residents in the area were killed. The house near the site is where most of the bodies fell, including some of the SU students. The memorial is a rectangular piece of stone with a plaque that reads, “In Remembrance of all victims of Lockerbie Air Disaster who died here on 21st December 1988.”

Lockerbie Air Disaster Memorial Window

Located in the town centre is the Lockerbie Town Hall, one of the most striking buildings in Lockerbie. In the council chambers is a stained glass memorial window dedicated to Pan Am Flight 103. The window’s six panels — three small and three large — depict the flags of the 21 countries where the victims were from. The window is best viewed at night, when the sun has gone down and light from inside the building shines on the stained glass.

The Memorial Room at Tundergarth Church

The nose cone of Pan Am Flight 103 crashed in a sheep pasture across Tundergarth Church, where the Tundergarth Memorial Room is located. Inside is the Book of Remembrance, which lists the victims’ names, ages and nationalities. A wall plaque reads, “There are three things that last: faith, hope and love.

And the greatest of these is love.” There is also a Visitor Book where those who come to the room can write down their thoughts and reflections. Some are family members who come to remember their loved ones, while others are visitors from countries such as the United States, Libya and Thailand.

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By Stacy Fernandez staff writer

MICHAEL HEAGARTY’S goal for NOexcuses Tours is to do more than just inform. He said he hopes to boost the optimism about the city of Syracuse. He shares the city’s history and the stories behind the Salt City through his tours. lukas halloran staff photographer

Syracuse native starts NOexcuses Tours to show off city sights

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bearded man in a mud-brown peacoat and a top hat led the small, rapt group through the dark streets of Syracuse on Sunday night. Brandishing an old-fashioned lantern, Michael Heagerty weaved history and ghost stories together to tell a rich tale about the city they walked.

“Follow the lantern,” he said.

Heagerty is the founder of the tour company NOexcuses Tours, which brings visitors and locals on excursions around the city of Syracuse. With the tours, he said he hopes to spread knowledge and optimism about the city. On this particular Sunday, he was leading his first-ever “Haunted Pub Tour.”

“My version was never ‘Let’s give a tour,’” he said. “It was ‘Let’s change some minds.’”

For Haegerty, giving tours is a way to restore pride in locals and generate interest in new visitors. He said the people of Syracuse have been trained to think negatively about the city, which is what he hopes to reverse.

To achieve this, Haegerty combines the his-

tory of Syracuse with the often-unknown stories behind the facts. He focuses particularly on innovation and inventions in the area, he said, because the world has not given Syracuse enough credit for its contributions.

“It’s all about the story,” he said. “I’m the teller of the tales of the city.”

It’s all about the story. I’m the teller of the tales of the city.

Michael Heagerty founder of noexcuses tours

Haegerty first began telling stories about Syracuse when he was working at Kitty Hoynes, an Irish pub in Armory Square. The restaurant, a destination for many of the city’s visitors, is owned by his family. He said whenever a customer needed advice on where to go and what to do in the city, his coworkers would turn to him for the answer, which he could always provide.

Deciding to transform this knowledge of the city into something greater, Haegerty launched

NOexcuses in the spring of 2014 after doing a test tour, for which he said he received only positive feedback, and has been working on making it his full-time job ever since.

Haegerty’s tours span across Syracuse in both location and content. Currently, he is offering weekly visits to Armory Square, the Hawley-Green neighborhood and Tipperary Hill.

He also does numerous custom tours for events, like the “Haunted Pub Tour” for the New York State Funders Conference. Haegerty, who is on the planning board for the Funders Conference, said he half-jokingly threw out the idea of doing the “Haunted Pub Tour,” but the committee ran with it and it quickly sold out.

When that happened, Haegerty said he had only a few days to make the tour a reality.

During the planning period, he said it is easy to verify history and facts, but he always tries to tell a story.

On the “Haunted Pub Tour,” Haegerty told the tales of the darker side of Syracuse history and innovation. His voice was impassioned by his love for the city, but tempered by the somber topics.

One of those topics includes the Split Rock see tours page 12

Four friends from different backgrounds came together to create their first artistic endeavor: making T-shirts.

Syracuse University alumnus Travis Adenau and his partners Jimmy Becker, Dan Mabie and Zachary Field knew each other throughout high school, when they started the beginning phases of their business.

One year ago, after graduating from college, the boys officially founded their Syracuse-based company, Overcast Clothing.

Currently the only apparel on the company website are T-shirts — which are printed on material that is 100 percent organic cotton made in the United States.

They also sell handcrafted cups and have featured prints.

While none of the owners have a background in business, they have been able to get the necessary help through the Couri Hatchery incubator at Syracuse University,

Everybody brings something unique to the table, and that ends up for a very cool collection.

Travis Adenau co-founder of overcast clothing

which is a mentorship program that helps to promote and support student entrepreneurship.

In high school, they started off by screen printing and using a process that would create digital transfer of their designs.

“That’s actually kind of what got me interested in art,” Adenau said.

They decided that all four of them should meet up and combine their economic and creative resources to build a brand.

Adenau said that when the group was deciding which shirt they wanted see overcast

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tours Quarry, the site where 53 men died from a TNT explosion a few miles outside Syracuse in July 1918. He told the story of Gustav, a German immigrant working at the Quarry, whose coat, timepiece and glasses all survived the fire.

As he told the tale, Haegerty gestured to his own coats and pockets, indicating where Gustav would have kept his belongings. He then pointed toward the horizon in the direction where he said Split Rock Quarry lay, silent and unused.

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overcast clothing to use, they bought a huge amount of samples, covered up all of the tags and numbered them.

They then proceeded to each try on every shirt and rate them. The organic cotton one came out on top almost unanimously, as sustainability is an important value to the co-owners.

While the material of the shirts happened somewhat randomly, producing them in America was a deliberate decision.

Everyone involved in the company is an artist, and they each make graphics or some form of art.

For a while they would have weekly meetings focused only on designs.

Each person would start with an idea and work on it in together.

“We all have very different artistic practices,” Adenau said.

He also connected the story of the explosion to the invention of the time clock by a watchmaker in Auburn, New York.

This was significant to the story because the time clocks of the workers killed in the accident are all preserved in the Onondaga Historical Association.

Haegerty said he wondered at first what he could possibly teach those who have been here for 45 years, but stories like Split Rock Quarry keep locals interested on the tours.

“I guarantee that you will learn something new,” Haegerty said. “You will have an experience you will want to tell someone else about.”

The underlying goal, he said, is to get people

talking about the tours and spreading positive facts about Syracuse.

Now, Haegerty said he has a strong relationship with the local community. These relationships allow him to take tours places others cannot, like the basement of The Mission Restaurant, which was part of the Underground Railroad.

“Inch-by-inch, I’m becoming the unofficial spokesperson for Syracuse,” he said.

While Haegerty said he thinks locals can give Syracuse a bad reputation, he also believes most Syracuse University students do not try hard enough to get to know the city.

Part of this, he said, is that they are not

exposed to it properly. He said Citrus in the City is poorly planned because it takes freshman to an area of the city surrounded by bars, which they won’t be able to get into for most of their time in Syracuse.

For Haegerty, students are very important to the growth of the city.

He said he would love to give tours to freshmen and their parents, but any presence among the student body would help improve the reputation of Syracuse here and in student’s hometowns.

Said Haegerty: “There are no excuses for not getting to know your city.”

The website features a range of designs from graphic to more realistic styles.

“The diversity definitely comes from the fact that we come from different backgrounds,” Adenau said. “Everybody brings something unique to the table, and that ends up for a very cool collection.”

While Adenau has a background in animation, Mabie’s background is in architecture, so he is trained in more traditional skills like watercolor, and Becker is trained in glassware.

In addition to selling clothing, Overcast sells repurposed glassware that Becker creates for the brand.

His glass background is incorporated into the business through the cups that he makes out of recycled bottles.

The vision of the recycled glassware markets the idea of repurposing restaurants’ used bottles

into cups and selling them back to the restaurants.

Overcast has an advantage over companies that do this because they have added more craftsmanship with the flame polish that they use to create a smooth lip, like the rim of a cup or mug, and make the glass more durable.

“We already have a commission with local restaurants making cups, and it would be nice if we could grow that,” Becker said.

Becker also sees the glassware as an opportunity for expansion.

He said he hopes to be able to make a more diverse set of products by also making cups out of wine bottles and putting their own designs in the cups.

Screen-printing on glasses is something that Becker hopes to expand to in the future because it is a very diverse technique.

Currently, the group is focusing on obtaining licensing agreements.

“We have a lot of artist friends who make really cool stuff and we want to have a much greater diversity of designs,” Adenau said.

They want to be able to set up legal agreements so they can give any artist involved a good cut of the money made off of their designs.

Adenau said they want to do it better than other companies where artists get a one-time cut and a couple hundred dollars and then end up printing the designs forever.

They want to give artists a flat percentage of every T-shirt sale, so they are more invested in the brand.

“Right now, our goal really is to work with more of the people that we respect. I just want to do more work that is gratifying for business that want beautiful things designed and people who are following their dreams as well,” Adenau said.

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alloweekend is creeping up, and, if you’re like most of us, you still have no idea what you’re going to go as. You want to be original — cats, nerds, cowboys/girls and bunnies are all overdone — but you don’t have the time to make something elaborate, or the money to buy a costume from the party store. Here are some simple and easy ideas of what you can make just by stopping by the bookstore or CVS:

1. for the “i-actually-want-to-lookcute-on-halloween” costume You always want your friends to be blown away by how creative your costume is and take pride in the fact that you look cute while doing it. Pick up a pack of those mini pom-pom balls you used for arts and crafts in elementary school and glue them to a form-fitting tank top. Pair it with a red skirt and a pair of converse and you’ll be looking as bubbly as your bubble gum.

2. for the scream queen For you, the more dark and demented your costume, the better.

For those who dabbled in the dark side, this skeleton look can be executed by wearing black (tight-fitting separates or a jumpsuit, if you have one) and create the skeletal details with either paint or, if you don’t want to put paint on your clothes, cut the design out of thick construction paper and use double-sided tape or glue to stick to your clothes. You’ll be sure to scare more than a few people with how good your outfit is.

3. for the jokester We all know the “Saturday Night Live” skit with comedic legends Justin Timberlake and Andy Samberg “Dick in a Box.” This costume takes the skit and brings it to life. All you need is a box, some wrapping paper, a bow, a blazer or a suit jacket, a belt or something to keep the box around your waist. You’ll by far be the life of the party, and if they’re laughing, trust me, they’re laughing at your costume, not you.

4. for the lazy bum If you really don’t have the time or don’t want to have to put the effort into making a really elaborate costume, this is the costume for you. As long as your friends are familiar with computers, or have a sense of humor, they’ll be laughing at your look. All you need are a white t-shirt and a black Sharpie. Just lay your shirt flat and write “Error 404: Costume Not Found.”

Across the chest of your shirt. Just make sure to put a piece of cardboard or some other thicker material in-between the two sides of the shirt so that the Sharpie doesn’t bleed through.

No matter what look you want to go for this Halloween, there is a costume out there that you can make with as little, or a lot, of effort, time and money you want.

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Callahan brings fiery personality to Syracuse

By Connor Grossman asst. sports editor

Liam Callahan doesn’t sit with his teammates before a game. He collects his thoughts outside Syracuse’s locker room, bumping alternative rock or hip-hop into his ears.

He envisions how the game will unfold. He sees himself charging up the sideline and assisting on a goal. If he’s feeling good, he might score instead. He remains solitary until the team encircles him on the field before the game.

He channels his anger and shatters his meditation. The self-proclaimed movie buff doesn’t draw upon anything off the silver screen, instead leaning back on the same “magic words” to fire up the huddle.

“Just ‘F this, F that, F them, F this,’” forward Ben Polk recalled.

Head coach Ian McIntyre likens Callahan to a grumpy uncle, while Polk assesses his teammate as a “bipolar time bomb.”

“I’m a little bit more of not the happiest guy on the team,” Callahan said. “I’m here to do a job.”

His teammates appreciate his radiating intensity, acknowledging that Callahan sets the right standard and tone before each game. He doesn’t lead No. 15 Syracuse (10-42, 3-3-1 Atlantic Coast) in any categories on the score sheet, but his outward demands for success led the redshirt junior to be tabbed a captain.

Callahan has a critical eye for the morale of the team, and he surveys his peers in the pregame huddle like a doctor mulling over a

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robinson just weeks into his new job, fired Pasqualoni.

Gross set out to find a defensive-minded head coach and found that in Robinson, a defensive coordinator with two Super Bowl rings and four Rose Bowl championships.

“At the end of the day, Greg Robinson is the perfect choice for Syracuse University,” Gross said in a press conference announcing his hiring.

Robinson brought a West Coast offense, new defensive schemes and a wave of excitement with him to Syracuse. Ticket sales rose and his first game attracted 45,418 fans to the Carrier Dome — the largest home opening crowd since 1999.

But Robinson didn’t live up to the hype. His first year ended with a 1-10 record. The Orange was third worst in nation in offensive yards and fourth worst in offensive touchdowns.

After the season, Robinson said he’d critique every aspect of the team. “I’m going to do whatever I need to do to keep our program going in the direction it needs to go,” he said.

Robinson’s second season was his best. Syracuse snapped an 11-game losing streak that spanned 371 days. It won three games in a row and had bowl aspirations five weeks into the season. As the season carried on, the Orange didn’t win games, and those hopes dissipated.

“We definitely have to win these fans back over,” former defensive end Jameel McClain said after the season. “Everybody knows it. We lost the games and put ourselves in this position. We have to win to get them back.”

When the team lost the first two games of

patient’s prescription. Sensing the Orange was worn down before a midweek game against Bowling Green on Oct. 13, Callahan got a little more demonstrative during his ritual.

“There’s time where I think it’s important he channels that aggression,” McIntyre said.

“Controlled aggression is very productive; uncontrolled aggression isn’t.

“I like players with fire in his belly.”

A crafty, yet deliberate soccer player at his core, Callahan’s fiery personality began to complement his skillset at 4 years old. He wore a jersey that drooped to his ankles and sat on the bench with his 12-year-old brother’s team.

He wasn’t handed the ball or babied when competing with the older kids, his mother, Ginny Callahan, said. He’s always been pushed, and reveled in that atmosphere.

As an attendee of a University at Buffalo soccer camp, then-head coach John Astudillo told Ginny that the 7-year-old Callahan had better vision on the field than some of his collegiate players. But when coaches told him to start having more fun, he fired back saying he wants to play the game and beat everyone.

“He’s been competitive since he could walk,” Ginny Callahan said. “He doesn’t tolerate a lot of mistakes by other people.”

His forceful reactions during games are usually reserved for referees, though, as he remains mostly reactionless to the play of his teammates.

McIntyre has since pulled Callahan aside to reshape the focus his aggression, reminding him SU lost the game Callahan was carded in and barely escaped with a 1-0 overtime win in

the next game he was forced to sit out.

“Sometimes he’s good, sometimes he’s not good. Its just one of them,” Polk said. “If he’s going to get a Chipotle, it’s a good day. Other times you should probably let him deal with himself.”

While trying mostly to police himself during games, Callahan embodies more of a “team dad” persona on the practice field.

He doesn’t like to openly acknowledge it, but paternal instincts kick in when he feels joking around has diminished a teammate’s effort.

the 2007 season, Daryl Gross told The Daily Orange, “You just need to be patient with it.”

Colleagues had told him it takes five years to rebuild a football program.

After another loss dropped SU to its worst start since 1986, its biggest win under Robinson finally came. The Orange shocked thenNo. 18 Louisville on the road. Gross walked into the locker room with his arm around

third offensive coordinator in four years. Students sold T-shirts, which said, “Greg Robinson Farewell Tour” and high school coaches were telling players not to go to Syracuse due to speculation about a turbulent head coach situation.

Only 27,549 fans came to SU’s loss to Pittsburgh on Sept. 27 — the smallest Carrier Dome crowd in 22 years.

The significant progress that Gross had hoped for and demanded never came. On Nov. 16, 2008, Robinson was fired with two games still left in the season — his year highlighted by an embarrassing 42-28 loss to Akron and punctuated at the end with a 30-10 loss at No. 16 Cincinnati.

Three days after the final game, Robinson stood in the Iocolano-Petty Football Complex wondering what could have been.

Maybe if he had pushed administration to keep SU’s offer to Colt Brennan, the quarterback would’ve set a Division I record for touchdown passes at Syracuse instead of Hawaii.

Maybe if Robinson’s team didn’t have to face the eighth-toughest schedule without future NFL wide receivers Mike Williams and Taj Smith the on-field product would’ve been good enough for Robinson to keep his job.

“I’d like that last year. It’s just a work in progress,” Robinson said at his farewell press conference. “… It’s right there. I think I can. I do. I can show you.”

In four years, all Robinson showed was an inability to win games. And regardless of what he thought he could do, in reality, he nose-dived the Orange into its worst period in history.

We definitely have to win these fans back over. Everybody knows it. We lost the games and put ourselves in this position. We have to win to get them back.

Jameel McClain former su defensive end

Robinson and the team celebrated.

Syracuse would win just one more game that season.

“I think my record can show that I’m a good football coach,” Robinson said after a 41-10 drubbing from South Florida, which dropped his personal record to 7-26. “Do I make every decision that’s perfect? I can’t tell you that.”

At the end of the year, Gross announced Robinson would be back for another season.

The condition was that Robinson needed to make significant progress.

By the start of 2008, Robinson was on his

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Greg Robinson coached Syracuse to 10 wins in 4 seasons to complete worst stretch in Orange history

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THE DARK DAYS OF SYRACUSE FOOTBALL PART 2

By Jon Mettus asst. web editor

Editor’s note: Syracuse football has six 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 in part two of this series.

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reg Robinson stood in front of a Syracuse backdrop for the last time. His usual SU attire was replaced by a brown, plaid button-down shirt and on the podium in front of him lay a piece of paper with the synopsis of a children’s book.

“I’m going to read a little story. It’s called ‘The Little Engine That Could,’” Robinson said. It was a metaphor for his time as the Syracuse head football coach.

Two weeks earlier, Robinson was fired four years into his five-year contract with the Orange. Two games were left in the season at the time, but he finished out the year. Now, he was addressing the media for the last time.

“Well, you know what? I still think I can,” he said, appearing to tear up. “I do.”

Robinson was supposed to revitalize a declining Syracuse team, but instead guided it to rock bottom. With his first season came the worst record in Syracuse history and it hardly got better.

In his four years, spanning from 2005 to 2008, the Orange went 10-37 and 3-25 in the Big East. The five wins from his first two seasons have been vacated because of NCAA violations. Robinson oversaw the only two double-digit losing seasons in SU history and the lowest attendance in decades.

He arrived to usher in a new era of SU football, but left behind a program in pieces instead.

“Greg Robinson did everything he could to try to win football games,” former Syracuse linebacker Jake Flaherty said.

Paul Pasqualoni was the head coach for the 14 years prior to Robinson. His teams finished with a losing record just once and regularly competed in the Top 25.

Coming off three straight years without a winning season, then-Chancellor Nancy Cantor said Pasqualoni’s job was safe. But when SU lost 51-14 to Georgia Tech in the Champs Sports Bowl, newly appointed athletic director Daryl Gross, see robinson page 14

1. GREG ROBINSON was fired with two games left in the 2008 season.

2. ROBINSON coached for four seasons at Syracuse but won just 10 games. daily orange file photos

recruiting

Chris Clark: Syracuse pulled my offer and I wanted to go there

By Matt Schneidman asst. sports editor

Former five-star tight end Chris Clark, who is no longer transferring to Syracuse, told The Daily Orange Monday night that SU pulled his offer and that he wanted to join the team.

“Like it makes no sense to me whatsoever ... that they pulled my offer,”

Clark said via Twitter direct message.

He said that Scott Shafer had the discussion with him and the head coach said, “(Syracuse) wasn’t the best fit.” Clark also added that the offer was pulled before Syracuse played Pittsburgh on Saturday, a game he was planning to attend.

Clark chose Syracuse over the Panthers on Oct. 15.

The former UCLA signee com-

My whole thing though ... is it’s not fair for people to say negative things to me. I wanted to go to ‘Cuse.

Chris Clark former su commit

mitted to Syracuse after playing one game for the Bruins this season. Monday morning, Rivals.com reported that Clark and Syracuse were parting ways. He verbally committed to North Carolina and Michigan before signing with UCLA then transferring to Syracuse.

Clark was the No. 1 tight end in the Class of 2015. On Monday night, he sent out a tweet saying, “People

can talk and say all these negative things when they don’t even know all the facts.”

“My whole thing though ... is it’s not fair for people to say negative things to me,” Clark said. “I wanted to go to ‘Cuse.”

Syracuse coaches are unable to comment due to NCAA rules. mcschnei@syr.edu @matt_schmeidman