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Syracuse University’s Student Association kicked off events, which included a dunk tank, for its Mental Health Awareness Week on Monday.

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SU’s new marching band director, Timothy Diem, brings his previous experiences to the program and collaborates with students and faculty.

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Syracuse grounds crews work year-round to ensure soccer teams are able to play home games on a grass field despite being the local cold, snowy climate.

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SHIFT IN FOCUS $100 35 million $30 $40 million million $30

Total amount Syracuse University will invest in academics via Invest Syracuse

$3,300 Amount of the tuition premium that will be implemented as part of Invest Syracuse

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Approximate percentage of undergraduate students who don’t receive financial aid

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How Invest Syracuse will be funded New scholarship fundraising Administrative cuts Tuition hikes

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JANUARY 2017 - SU appoints Amir Rahnamay-Azar as its next chief financial officer

Approximate percentage of undergraduates who are international students, as of the 2016-17 academic year

MAY 2017 - In an email to the campus community, Syverud says the university needs a long-term plan to fund the Academic Strategic Plan

JANUARY 2017 - Chancellor Kent Syverud APRIL 2017 - In an address to the says he is directing Provost Michele University Senate, Syverud says the Wheatly and Rahnamay-Azar to create a university will need to collect additional plan to fund the Academic Strategic Plan resources from fundraising, tuition and administrative cuts to fund academics

Operational Excellence initiative phased out

by Syracuse University

By Michael Burke

JULY 2017 - SU launches Invest Syracuse

JULY 2017 - Andrew Clark, senior associate vice president of Operational Excellence, retires

Invest Syracuse could be at odds with Academic Strategic Plan goals senior staff writer

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perational Excellence, the branch of Fast Forward Syracuse concerned with creating plans to fund Syracuse University’s academic initiatives and campus improvements, was discontinued earlier this year without notice from SU, recent interviews with university officials revealed.

The termination of Operational Excellence came as SU officials also crafted and later launched Invest Syracuse, the university’s $100 million plan for academic investments.

The function of Invest Syracuse closely mirrors the original intended function of Operational Excellence: Invest Syracuse is a mechanism for “generating new resources” to fund the Academic Strategic Plan, according to the Invest Syracuse website.

Similarly, Operational Excellence was intended as a method to “generate savings and new revenue” for investment in the Academic Strategic Plan and Campus Framework, according to the Fast Forward Syracuse website.

But while SU advertised Operational Excellence as a universitywide initiative with faculty, staff and student input, the

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Candidates debate city issues

By Jordan Muller asst. news editor

The four candidates for Syracuse mayor clashed on city school issues and generally repeated previouslystated stances on police hiring and regional job opportunities in the first general election debate, which aired Monday night on WRVO. Democrat Juanita Perez Williams, Republican Laura Lavine, independent Ben Walsh and Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins participated in the debate, moderated by Grant Reeher, a Syracuse University political science professor and director of the Campbell Public Affairs Institute.

Perez Williams and Lavine disagreed on mayoral control over the Syracuse City School District.

$1.3 billion

Estimated cost of the Interstate 81 community grid option source: nsdot

By Michael Burke

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s Syracuse University continues to roll out Invest Syracuse, the university’s $100 million academic investment plan, it remains unclear whether it fully aligns with the priorities identified in the Academic Strategic Plan.

Other than a few particular initiatives — such as the creation of a scholarship for valedictorians and salutatorians — the university has so far provided few specific details regarding how the $100 million will be used to advance the Academic Strategic Plan. But based on what is known publicly, it appears Invest Syracuse could be at odds with the Academic Strategic Plan’s goals of internationalization and of attracting a more diverse student population.

On Tuesday, administrators will host the third of three information sessions for Invest Syracuse in Goldstein Auditorium.

There, those administrators will provide a summary of the plan, namely that the university will raise the $100 million by fundraising, making administrative cuts and instituting a $3,300 tuition premium beginning next academic year.

SU officials have said financial aid will be increased to help

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Lavine, who says she wants to institute mayoral control over the SCSD, would select the school board with the advice and consent of the Common Council.

“One person — I will be responsible for and accountable for what goes on,” Lavine said.

She said such “bold” action is needed because the graduation rate in Syracuse schools is only about 60 percent and the SCSD has the worst SAT scores among 50 upstate New York school districts.

Perez Williams said Lavine could improve the school district without being a “dictator.” Perez Williams added she would bring people together to make decisions in a “democratic way.”

On the plans to repair or replace the Interstate 81 viaduct, Perez Williams, Hawkins and Walsh said they were in favor of the community grid option. If implemented, the community grid option would eliminate the overpass and disperse traffic on existing city streets.

Lavine said she supported a hybrid community grid and tunnel or depressed highway replacement option.

The current I-81 replacement plans are unclear.

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It’s the week for everyone who bleeds Orange! Get the complete schedule at orangecentral.syr.edu/events.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7

Slice of Orange Days Just for students!

Games, prizes, office-decorating winners announced, free T-shirt!

11 a.m.–2 p.m., Schine Atrium

Invention Accelerator Showcase See novel creations and meet the student inventors.

10 a.m.–Noon, Link Hall Lobby

Einhorn Family Walk Dedication Hear how this project is changing the face of SU. 10 a.m., Einhorn Family Walk

3rd Annual Whitman Orange Tank Pitch Competition Student and alumni innovators pitch their ideas.

1–3:30 p.m., Flaum Grand Hall, Whitman School

Orange Central Homecoming Tailgate Delicious food, giveaways, and more!

10:30 a.m., Shaw Quad

The Physics of Cancer Lecture SU physics professor Lisa Manning discusses promising cancer research.

3–4 p.m., 202-204 Physics Building

The Football Game Cheer as SU takes on Pittsburgh.

12:30 p.m., Carrier Dome

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4 Slice of Orange Days Just for students!

Games, prizes, Homecoming Court announcement, free T-shirt!

11 a.m.–2 p.m., Schine Atrium Traditions Commission Trivia Night Just for students!

Free admission, free food, prizes.

8 p.m., 304 Schine THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5

State of Democracy Lecture Penn State professor Lori Ginzburg discusses the life of Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

4–5:30 p.m., Maxwell Auditorium

DanceWorks Presents: Making History Performances by talented student dancers.

8 p.m., Goldstein Auditorium

Arents Award Celebration Honoring outstanding SU alumni.

6 p.m., Schine Student Center ’Cuse Cookout on the Quad Delicious fall-themed treats, family fun zone, and more!

5:30–8:30 p.m., Shaw Quad Dye and Donate Just for students!

Free tie-dye night—get creative!

8 p.m., Schine Underground

UU and Traditions Commission Present Live comedy by T.J. Miller and the Lucas Brothers, plus Homecoming King and Queen announcement.

8 p.m., Goldstein Auditorium SUNDAY, OCTOBER 8 Malmgren Concert Series Organist Anne Laver performs on the Holtkamp organ.

4 p.m., Hendricks Chapel

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Reducing waste A University Hill business group has been awarded a grant to clean up cigarette butt litter near campus.

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Green future Students launch company to provide zero-emission fuels for transportation products.

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Up for election Meet Helen Hudson, an SU alumna who is running for president of Syracuse’s Common Council.

See Wednesday’s paper

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Reporter discusses terrorism

By Ashleigh Garrison contributing writer

Mental Health Awareness Week started Monday with games on the Quad. Habitat for Humanity also hosted Shack-a-thon, an event aimed at raising awareness about Syracuse’s homeless population. madeline foreman contributing photographer

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Mental Health Awareness Week kicks off

By Catherine Leffert staff writer

The second annual Mental Health Awareness Week, an effort to raise awareness of and destigmatize mental health issues, began Monday on the Quad.

Syracuse University’s Student Association, Office of Health Promotion, Active Minds, National Alliance on Mental Illness and other organizations collaborated to plan the event.

The event began last year, when then-SA Vice President Joyce LaLonde came to the Office of Health Promotion with the idea for the weeklong effort, said current SA Vice President Angie Pati. “(Mental Health Awareness

Week) is one of our largest priorities,” Pati said. “It’s something we’re excited to see come to fruition and develop as the years progress as well.”

1,100 Number of backpacks that will be displayed on the Quad to represent college students who commit suicide each year

This year, SA hosted Monday’s kick-off event, which included free T-shirts, a dunk tank, inflatable obstacle courses and games on the Quad. This was to highlight the

enjoyable nature of mental health and to present stress-relieving activities, Pati said.

Alongside the games, Habitat for Humanity is hosting Shack-AThon, an event where different student organizations live in shacks on the Quad to raise awareness of homelessness in Syracuse.

“We’re partnering with Shack-AThon and Habitat for Humanity to not only talk about the enjoyable nature of mental health, but also this two-fold discussion about inequity in mental health, especially in our homeless population,” Pati said.

There will be a facilitated discussion about mental health and identity on Tuesday night called “Intersectionality Matters,” hosted

by Active Minds and NAMI.

“Send Silence Packing,” a national event organized by Active Minds to spread awareness of suicide, will be at SU on Wednesday. There will be 1,100 backpacks displayed on the Quad to represent the 1,100 college students who commit suicide each year.

SU Active Minds hosted the event several years ago, and President Kylie Kerker said it was what got her most interested in the organization. “(The event) got the ball rolling to increase the awareness of mental health on campus, and it brought attention to the lack of resources we have (at SU),” Kerker said.

The Office of Health Promotion will host Therapy Dog Thursday.

Students can pet the dogs on the see mental

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$500 allocated to menstrual hygiene initiative

By Catherine Leffert staff writer

At the most recent Syracuse University Student Association meeting, a motion was passed to allocate $500 to contribute to a menstrual hygiene product initiative on campus.

It has been an SA initiative to provide menstrual hygiene products in the bathrooms of buildings on campus since last year. Now, Chair of Student Life Elizabeth Sedore said she plans to expand the project.

Currently, products are only provided in certain buildings on campus in women’s restrooms.

Sedore wants to include the products across campus in bathrooms for all genders.

The $500 will help SA buy five boxes, each containing 500 tampons, and two boxes containing 250 pads each. The Student Life Committee is also working on a system to restock these products efficiently.

Vice President Angie Pati also talked of efforts to partner with Hendricks Chapel to potentially send a team of volunteers to assist with Hurricane Harvey, Irma or Maria relief. Those plans are still in the works, she said.

Pati added that Monday’s Mental Health Awareness Week kickoff on the Quad, which was hosted by SA, was “better than (she) could have ever imagined.”

During the meeting, President James Franco called for an executive session — when non-

members of SA must leave and all session deliberations are private — which lasted about 30 minutes.

Franco declined to comment on what was discussed during the executive session.

The co-chairs of diversity affairs, Khalid Khan and Diasia Robinson, announced they are trying to coordinate with the Slutzker Center for International Services. Khan and Robinson said they want to plan a Thanksgiving or gratitude-themed dinner for international students, or even students who cannot go home for the holidays.

The Diversity Affairs Committee is also forming a partnership with Food Recovery Network to “help bridge the gap

between on-campus and offcampus populations,” Khan said.

Food Recovery Network is an organization that works to take food from SU dining halls and deliver it to food pantries and homeless shelters.

Three 2017-18 Remembrance Scholars are members of SA. Evanna Ojeda, Angie Pati and Cierra Britton gave a presentation about the 35 students who died in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. Each year SU picks 35 seniors to represent the students.

“For the university to lose one person like that is tragic,” Pati said.

“For it to lose 35, changes the campus completely.” ccleffer@syr.edu

A New York Times reporter, while visiting Syracuse University on Monday, said a holistic policy approach is the best way to approach counterterrorism efforts in the United States.

Eric Schmitt, a Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist, spoke about President Donald Trump’s foreign policy during a lecture Monday evening in the Maxwell School for Citizenship and Public Affairs.

Schmitt, who covers national security and terrorism for The New York Times, has traveled on assignment to several countries, including Afghanistan and Qatar.

Much of his lecture focused on categorizing and explaining three main “baskets” of terrorism threats facing the United States: threats inside the country, the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria and Al-Qaeda affiliates.

Regarding terrorist affiliates, Schmitt said the U.S. is currently battling more than six terror groups with few members. These affiliate groups operate in countries including Somalia, Yemen, Libya and Syria.

Domestic threats, meanwhile, often fit in two categories: Individuals are either inspired by what they see in the media, or they are enabled by online handlers in Syria, Schmitt said. He added that handlers might aid domestic terrorists by helping them purchase explosives and explaining how to use them.

“These are the threats that FBI and local law enforcement worry about the

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state news Here is a roundup of the biggest news happening in the state right now.

IN RESPONSE Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., on Monday said Congress is “too weak and too cowardly” to stand up to the gun industry, following an attack in Las Vegas where a gunman shot and killed at least 58 people and wounded more than 500 at a country concert, in one of the deadliest mass shooting in modern United States history. source: albany times union

CHANGING TIMES The Village of Whitesboro, outside of Utica, will change its seal depicting the town’s founder seemingly strangling a Native American to one of its founder wrestling a Native American. The town faced backlash on a local and national scale for its original seal. source: the new york times

LECTURER ARRESTED A biology lecturer at City University of New York Medgar Evers College was arrested for teaching unauthorized classes and selling fake completion certificates on Friday.

The lecturer was charged with fraud. source: the new york times

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Responding to mass shootings has become a fill-in-the-blank reflex

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hen I woke up to hear the terrible news of what transpired in (insert name of American city/ town here), I was disgusted by this horrific act of violence, and the tragic loss of (insert number of people killed here) lives. People who were simply there for (insert school, religious activity or entertainment event, i.e. movie or concert etc.) instead were subjected to this massacre.

My thoughts and prayers are with the victims and the people of (insert name of American city/town here). These are our (insert one or more family position here, i.e. mothers, fathers, siblings, children, grandparents, etc.) and their loss will continue to impact families for generations.

I also thank the (insert name of American city/town here) Police Department and first responders for their courage and heroism in the face of this attack. Without their efforts, I do not doubt many more lives would have been lost. (Insert line about sacrifice if one or more police officers/first responders was killed or injured).

The people of (insert name of American city/town here) are strong, resilient Americans, and I know they will withstand this tragedy and come back stronger from it. They have the full faith and support of the country, and we will do everything in our power to help them to recover and more forward. God bless the people of (insert name of American city/town here), and God bless America.

Thank you.

If the above paragraphs sound familiar to you, you’re not alone. I have a theory these paragraphs are written out on some

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OUT OF LEFT FIELD sticky notes on the corner of the president’s secretary’s computer, or maybe as a Word document, so it’s easier to fill in the blanks for a press release each time there’s another mass shooting.

Every time some guy with an overpowered gun and a million-round clip of ammunition walks into a public place and starts slaughtering people because of their religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity or just because they can, some junior deputy communications intern in the White House has the job of pulling this document up, filling in the blanks, peppering in some adjectives and sending it up the line.

We manufacture condolences like we manufacture bullets: clinically, uniformly and, most importantly, in rapid succession.

We’re told not to “politicize” the tragedy out of respect for the victims, which is another way of saying we should not discuss how to prevent events like mass shootings from happening again.

While I’m not holding my breath on any sort of sensible gun reform bills even being discussed sometime soon, I probably have the lung capacity to make it to the next mass shooting.

Cole Jermyn is a senior environmental resource engineering major at SUNY-ESF. His column appears biweekly. He can be reached at cdjermyn@syr.edu and followed on Twitter @cjermyn8.

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SU should clarify fundraising changes If you’re not sure what happened to Syracuse University’s Operational Excellence initiative, you’re not alone.

When it comes to funding Syracuse University’s Academic Strategic Plan, Operational Excellence is out and Invest Syracuse is in. Operational Excellence, which incorporated faculty, staff and student input, has been replaced with the administrator-driven Invest Syracuse. While that’s not necessarily a bad thing, the problem arises in how Operational Excellence was phased out of existence without notice from the university.

Based on what we know now, there doesn’t appear to be a substantial difference between the two initiatives. They’re both aimed at generating savings and revenue for the Academic Strategic Plan — the

university’s vision for academics under the Fast Forward Syracuse initiative. And instead of Operational Excellence’s Steering Committee of limited faculty members, Invest Syracuse has shifted its mode of communication to open forums.

The university could have had reasonable rationale for switching to the administrator-driven Invest Syracuse plan. But we don’t know what worked, what didn’t and what informed the transition.

That’s the issue.

Fast Forward is Chancellor Kent Syverud’s trademark initiative and perhaps the most popular plan associated with him. Even then, dropping one of Fast Forward’s major aspects and switching to another may not be news every community member pays attention to, but SU should have been transparent about the transition.

Instead, the senior associate vice president for Operational Excellence quietly retired in July as Invest Syracuse made its debut.

There’s no way of knowing if the work, and community input, put into Operational Excellence all went to waste or if it informed the creation of Invest Syracuse. If it’s the latter, the university should be commended for its adaptability and willingness to move beyond a plan that wasn’t working. But if members of the campus community are left in the dark, they’re bound to assume the worst.

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Teachers group should broaden focus

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aura Lavine stands out among the Syracuse mayoral candidates because she believes education is critical in rebuilding the city. So, it’s ironic the Syracuse Teachers Association won’t even consider endorsing her.

In late September, the association announced its refusal to interview Lavine for its union endorsement, citing her proposals for charter school expansion and mayoral control. If anything, the decision shows the association will not listen to ideas that do not fit into its narrow view of what the Syracuse City School District should look like.

Lavine’s plan to expand school choice and take control of the district is clearly in the best interests of children. But charter schools get a cut of taxpayer dollars, which threatens the money needed to fund the public schools and keep the Syracuse Teachers Association operating.

Megan Root, the association’s president, said charter schools are one of the group’s largest obstacles.

“When the students from the city go to charter schools, all of their money goes with them,” Root said.

“So we’re losing millions from the Syracuse City School District this year to charter schools in the city.”

It seems school choice is a viable idea only if it benefits the association and its members.

Beyond protecting the money that goes to public education, Root said the association ensures its members’ collective bargaining rights are upheld and they’re working under a contract. As part of that collective

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bargaining, the association fights for public schools to remain central in the education system to protect the interests of its members.

The association also focuses on activism and social justice efforts. It supports investigation efforts in the disproportionate suspension rates of black students and works with the Black Lives Matter movement to participate in protests, which perpetuates the myth that institutional racism is a cause of student failure.

16 The Syracuse City School District had a 16 percent dropout rate in 2016 source: new york state department of education

For teachers who need an outlet to pursue their own social justice agendas, the Syracuse Teachers Association is perfect. But when graduation rates are still stuck at 61 percent and the city itself is in a state of decline, the association should broaden its agenda past social justice to actual service.

Root said the teachers’ union supports school choice. But considering the common failure of public

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schools in Syracuse, there is no choice at all. Limiting children to failing public schools is a disservice to the entire Syracuse community.

Syracuse city schools fail to help students achieve upward mobility, hence the high concentration of poverty in the city. Although charter schools will not guarantee success, they have proven to be an option worth expanding. If schools had to compete for students the same way businesses compete for customers, schools would need to strive toward increasing test scores and better preparing students for the workforce.

Unfortunately, the Syracuse Teachers Association will only be an obstacle to the benefits charter schools could bring to Syracuse.

Each mayoral candidate the association will interview for a union endorsement pledged to support opposition to charter schools, Likewise, Mayor Stephanie Miner has opposed reduced limits on charter schools and earned the association’s approval.

It’s clear the association will continue to support candidates who implement the same unproductive policies that maintain the schools in low-quality conditions. It seems the association would rather silence opposition than listen to new ideas, demonstrating that it’s not charter schools blocking public school growth, but the Syracuse Teachers Association itself.

Joshua Nelson is a senior political science major. He can be reached at jqnelson@syr.edu and followed on Twitter @joshqnelson.

Vera House responds to DO lawsuit article We are writing to express our concern about the article The Daily Orange published on Sept.

28 regarding the lawsuit brought by a student who was expelled for nonconsensual sex.

The word choice the author utilized in the paragraph that begins with “those concerns were validated when Betsy Devos…” frames the article in a place of “siding” with the respondent and has a subtext that accused students do not get a fair opportunity.

Likewise, the quote from legal counsel stating that the victim community should be supporting John Doe is incredibly inflammatory. We realize the attorney made the statement and The D.O. is merely quoting him, but if you report a quote like that you might want to give a victim or victim advocate a chance to respond. The D.O. appears to have done little investigating, and if you had, it would have made sense to share information regarding the actual Title IX process on campus.

Let us be clear that we feel strongly that the process on campus for responding to sexual assault allegations needs to be fair for the accused student. We believe both the Title IX and New York State Enough is Enough processes ensure that fairness.

Please remember a few essential points: • There is a huge difference between having sex while intoxicated and regretting it versus

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someone choosing to take advantage of your vulnerable state or incapacitation to violate you.

• If the system was as biased as the lawsuit alleges, then there would be a lot more expulsions happening on campus. We hear far more often about victims who were disappointed that their case did not result in the finding or justice that they hoped.

• Affirmative consent, the New York state standard for consensual sex on campus, requires that a person willingly consents to each specific act. Texting to meet up at a party does not mean consent to have sex. Making out at the party does not mean consent to have sex.

We believe the university’s response to this lawsuit helps to provide some very important information regarding how every step in the required process was followed in this case. We hope everyone reads it.

Syracuse University — thank you for your efforts to build a system that supports survivors while ensuring a fair process for accused students.

Survivors — we believe you, and we will continue to support you.

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initiative Invest Syracuse plan was crafted by a team of only administrators.

Officials say some opportunities identified through Operational Excellence will be reflected in Invest Syracuse, but it’s unclear to what degree that will occur. There is no official connection between the two initiatives, and Invest Syracuse currently doesn’t specify how most of the $100 million will be allocated. It’s also not clear whether the $30 million that will be made in administrative cuts through Invest Syracuse will reflect the savings initiatives that were previously pursued through Operational Excellence.

Amir Rahnamay-Azar, the university’s CFO who was appointed in January, said in an interview with The Daily Orange Editorial Board that Invest Syracuse is a “standalone initiative” independent of Fast Forward and Operational Excellence.

“We continue to pursue opportunities to be more effective and efficient,” he said. “...

You know, the interesting thing about organizations is they evolve. New priorities come, new leadership joins.”

Those initiatives ran their course. We’re now at a point where we need to find a way to fund the Academic Strategic Plan because we want to get it out of the plan mode and into the action mode.

And this is the funding mechanism that is going to help us get there.

Amir Rahnamay-Azar chief financial officer

Under Operational Excellence, more than 90 students, faculty and staff were on teams working to identify opportunities for savings and investments. There was also an executive committee that oversaw the initiative, as well as a steering committee — one that included faculty and students in addition to administrators — that was charged with providing input on the initiative.

But the initiative, and many of the elements that came with it, was at some point phased out.

In July, the same month the university launched Invest Syracuse, the senior associate vice president for operational excellence, Andrew Clark, retired from the university, something SU did not announce publicly.

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debate proposal — which would demolish the existing overpass and replace it with a wider viaduct — Walsh, Perez Williams and Hawkins said they would fight the decision.

Lavine said she would make the case for her stakeholders’ best interests but that she didn’t think enough information about the I-81 plans had been released.

Walsh and Perez Williams said they would also push back against President Donald Trump’s policies, if necessary.

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mental health Quad for stress relief.

To close Mental Health Awareness Week on Thursday, there will be yoga and meditation sessions at sunset in the Quad. There will also be more free T-shirts given out that night.

Throughout the week, SA will also allot time each day in which people can tie green ribbons around trees on the Quad if they or someone they know has been affected by mental illness.

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Clark declined an interview for this story, while Blythe did not return a request for comment.

Most members of the Operational Excellence executive and steering committees did not return requests for comment on this story. The two who did — Keith Alford, director of the School of Social Work, and Brian Sheehan, a professor of advertising — each said they no longer serve on the steering committee.

The Program Management Office, which the university created to advance Operational Excellence, appears to also no longer exist.

The room where the office was housed, at 321 Crouse-Hinds Hall, is now home to the Office of Transfer and Veteran Admissions. Additionally, the webpage for the Program Management Office no longer has any information about the office or Operational Excellence.

Previously, the web page included a rundown of the initiative’s leaders and their roles.

“Those initiatives ran their course,” Rahnamay-Azar said of Operational Excellence. “We’re now at a point where we need to find a way to fund the Academic Strategic Plan because we want to get it out of the plan mode and into the action mode. And this is the funding mechanism that is going to help us get there.”

SU Chancellor Kent Syverud first publicly hinted at the creation of Invest Syracuse during an address to the university community in January. It was then when he announced that Vice Chancellor and Provost Michele Wheatly, Rahnamay-Azar and then-interim CFO Gwenn Judge would work to develop a plan to fund the initiatives and goals of the Academic Strategic Plan, though he didn’t say Operational Excellence would be discontinued.

During that same address, Syverud also noted the need for shared governance at the university, saying SU had worked hard “to model shared governance, respecting the significant roles of the Board of Trustees, University Senate, students, faculty and staff in the decision-making of the institution.” But when it came to creating a plan to fund the university’s highest academic priorities, those groups do not appear to have been involved.

Wheatly said Syverud turned to members of his executive team — namely Wheatly, Rahnamay-Azar and Dolan Evanovich, the senior vice president for enrollment and the student experience — to craft the plan.

Wheatly added that such an approach is a “pretty normal way of doing things.”

“We all come at it with different perspectives,” she said. “Clearly, my area is really knowing the academic plan inside out.

Amir is the money guy. Dolan knows students inside out, upside down and knows all the parts of financial aid packages, tuition, price setting and all that. So in a way, on the chancellor’s executive team, we each bring our expertise in our given areas. ... There were a lot of discussions going on before we emerged this plan.”

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“I realize that the majority of our students get financial aid, but it seems to me that we really need to think about the connection between that figure and the desire to attract students across socioeconomic spectrum, including those who may want to study things that don’t necessarily fit into the fields that get a lot of outside funding,” said Margaret Thompson, an associate professor of history and political science and current University Senator, at the meeting.

“So I’m curious as to how this is going to work in a practical sense.”

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balance out that tuition premium, but that won’t be possible for one group: international students. International students are not eligible for federal financial aid.

And though one of the goals of the Academic Strategic Plan is to “better cultivate, welcome, support, and value the contributions of our international student community,” it is not clear how Invest Syracuse will advance that goal. Of the plans for Invest Syracuse listed on the initiative’s website, none specifically address the international student population.

That’s despite a feeling among many on campus that the Slutzker Center for International Services needs more resources as the international student population continues to increase. That sentiment dates back to at least January 2014, when a University Senate Committee on Budget and Fiscal Affairs report recommended increased staffing and a more lucrative budget for the center.

The university has since created an Internationalization Council, but funding for the center has not increased.

At a special University Senate meeting held last month to discuss Invest Syracuse, Deborah Pellow, a professor of anthropology who has previously criticized SU’s handling of international student issues, said the center still lacks adequate resources, such as a staff member who speaks Chinese.

“This is not a minor thing,” said Pellow, who is currently a University Senator. “These are students who come from places that have no relation whatsoever to the United States. And that particular office simply has to be better funded. And it hasn’t been. It just hasn’t been.”

SU Vice Chancellor and Provost Michele Wheatly, whose office oversees the Internationalization Council, said members of the council spent most of the 2016-17 academic year “listening to the concerns of international students and faculty.”

“We are very aware of some of the special needs that they have,” she said.

The Academic Strategic Plan also calls for a more diverse student body, and Invest Syracuse is meant to result in increased student diversity across the socioeconomic spectrum.

The $3,300 tuition premium could make it difficult to do that.

A report published earlier this year by the Institute for Higher Education Policy found that higher education remains unaffordable for most Americans, and that students from low- and moderate-income backgrounds can only afford 1 to 5 percent of colleges.

To help counteract that trend, the report called on colleges to “contain costs” and “manage tuition increases.” Under Invest Syracuse, the tuition premium will add onto tuition rates that rise at about 3.9 percent annually.

At the special University Senate meeting on Invest Syracuse, multiple faculty members expressed skepticism about the planned tuition premium and the effects it will have.

sions in the past, including his original travel ban and his plans to cut federal funds to “sanctuary cities.”

“I’m always going to stand up for what’s right and for what’s most important for the city of Syracuse,” Walsh said. “I think that the key is to make sure you do it in a respectful way.”

Lavine said she would focus “on what our residents need and not be distracted by anything else.”

Hawkins said Trump was “hopeless” but that he would focus on local and state politics as mayor.

The candidates repeated previously stated stances on police hiring and the relationship between the Syracuse Police Department and

the community.

Perez Williams and Lavine both said they would implement community policing policies, where officers work to build relationships with Syracuse residents to help deter crime.

Hawkins said fighting poverty would help deter crime and improve Syracuse schools.

Walsh agreed that he would attack the causes of poverty in the city, including housing, segregation and jobs.

He also said he would propose the creation of a youth jobs program that would partner with local businesses to create internships.

The candidates concluded the debate by discussing ways they might restructure the city’s governing institutions.

Walsh said he would try to get citizens involved in the creation of legislation through “civic engagement.”

Hawkins said he would attempt to implement proportional representation on the city council. He added he would introduce a “community broadband” utility where residents could view hearings and school board and Common Council meetings.

Perez Williams said she would make sure City Hall is available and accessible for all and that she would work on introducing early voting.

Lavine said she would combine the city and county industrial development agencies and ban “pay-to-play” in politics.

“A lot of times a continuous factor is you do feel alone,” Pati said. “Why we want to tie the ribbons on the trees is because like the branches on a tree, and like the leaves on a tree, we’re all connected and Orange Nation is all connected.”

This year, SA brought in other organizations to make videos to promote Mental Health Awareness Week. There will be segments such as “Humans of Mental Health” videos, which will tell the stories of people in the SU community.

The Office of Health Promotions sponsored

most of the projects last year with money through departmental initiative funding. This year, SA provided most of the money to put the week together with $5,000 from their Student Advancement fund.

“Student Association in general has been really great with supporting all of the work that’s going on and bringing a lot of new ideas to the table,” said Kristelle Aisaka, a health promotion specialist with a focus in mental health from the Office of Health Promotion. “So we’re really excited about it

being even more of a collaborative project than it’s been.”

SA is passionate about continuing awareness and destigmatization of mental illness, Pati said.

The representatives from the organizations that planned the week said they hope it continues to grow and that more people and organizations will be inspired to participate.

“Everything from day one has really been a collaborative effort,” Aisaka said. “I don’t think anything could have been done without all of us.”

These are students who come from places that have no relation whatsoever to the United States. And that particular office simply has to be better funded. And it hasn’t been. It just hasn’t been.

Deborah Pellow anthropology professor on the slutzker center for international services

Dolan Evanovich, SU’s senior vice president for enrollment and the student experience, said in an interview with The Daily Orange Editorial Board that SU’s sticker price is generally not important to prospective students. Evanovich wasn’t able to provide data to support that claim, but said it was based on conversations with students who visit campus and students at high schools SU officials visit.

According to the Invest Syracuse website, the university plans to expand its socioeconomic diversity by increasing need-based financial aid programs, rebalancing student loans and increasing support for the Office of Financial Literacy.

It’s not clear how much of Invest Syracuse’s $100 million will go toward those initiatives, however, as the plan does not specify exactly how the Invest Syracuse funds will be allocated.

That lack of specificity is a trend across many aspects of the plan, making it difficult to assess how the plan will affect the university. For example, 100 new faculty will be hired under the plan, but SU officials say they’re unsure what the priorities will be in choosing those hires. There will also be $30 million made in administrative cuts, but officials have declined to provide a full breakdown of those cuts.

“It’s as if someone said they were going to sell you an iPhone for $1,000, but they didn’t tell you what it does,” said Craig Dudczak, an associate professor of communication and rhetorical studies and a former chair of the University Senate’s budget committee. “That’s sort of where we’ve placed ourselves.” mdburk01@syr.edu | @michaelburke47

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schmitt most,” Schmitt said.

On Trump, Schmitt said Trump wants to increase military spending. And, to the dismay of his foreign policy advisers, the president also wants to decrease the budgets for the State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development, Schmitt said.

These agencies, Schmitt said, are leaders in countering and researching the ideology spread by terrorist ideals on social media and the Internet.

Schmitt said a holistic policy approach is the best way to fight terrorism. This approach, he said, takes time. He said it requires military, intelligence and law enforcement groups working with each other, but also with other countries. Terrorism is a transnational problem, he said.

“The big takeaway over the last decade and a half is you can’t kill your way to victory.

That was a mistake I think the military and the government initially made,” Schmitt said.

“Terrorists just generate more.”

Returning to normalcy after terrorist attacks

is important, he added, referencing Theresa May — the United Kingdom’s prime minister — and her words following a recent attack in Britain.

Schmitt said maintaining normalcy is the most difficult challenge, but overreacting to violence is exactly what terrorists want.

The Howard G. and S. Louise Phanstiel Chair sponsored Monday’s lecture. Co-sponsors included the Campbell Public Affairs Institute, Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism and the Institute for the Study of the Judiciary, Politics and the Media.

Following Schmitt’s lecture, students asked questions and joined Schmitt at a reception.

When asked why he took the time to visit SU, Schmitt said it’s important to get out and explain journalists’ jobs.

“There are a lot of things going on, whether it’s the fight against the Islamic State, or whether it’s the crisis in North Korea,” Schmitt said. “The New York Times and other newspapers are spending even more resources to really dig down and find the deep, deep story and really reveal the truth about what’s going on in important national security issues.” amgarris@syr.edu

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TIMOTHY DIEM is in his first year as director of the Syracuse University Marching Band. Diem, who has more than 20 years of teaching experience, hopes to involve students and faculty in and outside the band in its performances. marisa frigoletto contributing photographer

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Timothy Diem is revamping SU Marching Band with fresh energy, approach

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he rhythms of the drumline reverberate against the walls of the Carrier Dome as students trickle in, ready for another marching band rehearsal. Musicians collect along the edges of the turf, grouped according to instru-

ment section. The shriek of a whistle cuts through the air and drum major Catherine Canete alerts the band to the beginning of practice.

“Two minutes.” New reeds are fitted into place and color guard flags unfurl.

Timothy Diem, the new director of Athletic Bands, darts between different sections of musicians, a clip-

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board in each hand and a Syracuse baseball cap pushed back on his head.

He stops to chat with different groups and check in with the drum majors.

Diem arrived in Syracuse in midAugust after spending 16 years at the University of Minnesota. After more than 20 years of teaching at different institutions across the country, Diem has the familiarity and understand-

ing to take on the complexities of student ensembles.

“Marching band students are the same all over, they just wear different colors,” Diem said.

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Diem joined the SU band in August after spending 16 years at the University of Minnesota. todd michalek staff photographer

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Cafe bonds community of people with memory change

By Raven Rentas staff writer

After a “goofy” icebreaker question at the monthly meetings, participants at the Syracuse Memory Cafe have time to sing, watch and sometimes participate in tai chi, Native American drumming and a ventriloquist.

The cafe, held at the Pebble Hill Presbyterian Church in DeWitt, brings all those affected by memory change, together for a relaxing meeting every month.

Tim Frazee, who started the organization, said he drew inspiration for it because of the impact that memory change has had on the Pebble Hill Presbyterian Church community.

The next meeting in Syracuse is on Wednesday, Oct. 11. The cafe meets

every second Wednesday of each month, from 10:30 a.m. to noon. During that time, those in attendance partake in various activities.

Frazee did not come up with the idea of a memory cafe. He said that they are very popular all over Europe. When Frazee discovered the memory cafe in Cortland, he reached out for guidance to open one in Syracuse. He planned for three months and began hosting events in January. Eight people attended the first meeting and by September, he had 36 participants, Frazee said.

Although there are people who regularly show up, there are always new faces. Out of the eight people who came to the first session, four still attend, he said.

The event begins with coffee

and an icebreaker question. Frazee said that they pick “goofy” questions to learn a little more about one another. In every session, some time is specifically left open to sing.

Frazee said the power of music plays an important role in the success of these monthly meets.

“People with dementia aren’t always able to remember clearly,” Frazee said. “But when they hear certain songs that they know, they just break out into them.”

At 11 a.m., some sort of entertainment is provided. Sometimes, the entertainment requires active participation from the audience.

During the meets, lunch is provided. There are times where they make the food together, but also times where they purchase it.

According to Susan Cobb, a volunteer who mainly works on decorating, each session has a specific theme to it. Cobb said that the past two themes were picnic and football.

Although the organization is entirely run by volunteers, Frazee said they have never been shortstaffed. “No one has dropped out from helping,” Cobb said.

The mission of the Syracuse Memory Cafe is not to cure memory change, but to simply create a community among those who deal with it, alongside others who are indirectly affected.

“We are not trained. We are not doctors,” Frazee said. “We’re just regular Joes.”

Despite the fact that the program does not necessarily help the medi-

cal aspect of memory change, the volunteers said it still does wonders for the people that attend, bringing them a sense of unity.

“One of our guests asked if she could bring a dish of food just because she was so appreciative,” Cobb said. “We said, ‘Of course, you’re family now.’”

Linda Kaiser, a volunteer, said she likes how everyone involved is treated equally. Simple acts, like volunteers and attendees receiving the same type of name tags, ensure everyone is treated alike.

Frazee said the cafe is beneficial to the people who come and volunteers.

“Those of us that run it have as much fun as the people who show up,” Frazee said. rarentas@syr.edu

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Midwest, many of his players were resistant to change, Diem said, but in Syracuse he notices the players are easier to teach.

Most band members have performed under the former director Justin Mertz for the entirety of their college careers. The change in leadership has been little more difficult for the senior musicians than the freshmen, but everyone is willing to step up, said Joshua McCleary, percussion section leader.

“He’s trying to show us the future. He wants us to expand, become a lot bigger, a more respected marching band in the ACC, which I can appreciate,” McCleary said. “He’s just pretty intense about implementing a lot of changes this year.”

Coming from a Big Ten school, Diem is accustomed to different standards. Unlike the Pride of Minnesota, the Syracuse University Marching Band is a volunteer-based, non-audition ensemble. Diem has brought to Syracuse the intensity, structure and organization of a large, renowned ensemble. Students like Shealyn O’Halloran, a senior mellophone player, said these changes are a positive push for the band.

“He’s kind of given us a facelift,” O’Halloran said. “We’ve been doing the same thing for the past couple years, so I think it’s like a nice refresher for the band.”

One initiative Diem has taken on this semester is creating more of a connection between the band and the student spectators during football games. He plays contemporary songs and directs more attention toward the student section.

“In the first game, when the whole band turned and pointed our horns straight at the student section, I noticed a reaction,” said senior drum major Kevin Varga. “The fact we acknowledged the students and were playing something that they knew, it made the atmosphere a little more together.”

The band administration is also looking to increase the size of the marching band.

Diem plans to seek out students who studied music in high school but aren’t sure about continuing in college.

Leah Potter, a freshman at the State University

of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, played trumpet and baritone in high school, but stopped after graduation. Looking to meet new people, Potter expressed interest in joining the marching band. Diem emailed her personally to say the band would love to have her, despite it being halfway through the season.

The process to fill the position of director of Athletic Bands began with a nationwide search. There were more than 70 applicants, most of whom had doctorates and experience with university bands. Bradley Ethington, the director of bands at the Setnor School of Music, said there were many qualities that made Diem a suitable candidate.

“I think his communication skills are one of his greatest strengths, and that’s extremely important with a position like this,” Ethington said. “The marching band director at any major university needs to communicate with a lot of different constituencies on and off campus.”

While Diem is at the head of the marching band, he has a strong network of individuals — including Ethington and Francesca Moore, the band office administrative specialist — all helping him ease into the new position.

Beyond the administration, student leaders within the band also work closely with Diem and provide feedback.

Drum majors are student conductors who lead the band during rehearsals. These students are liaisons between Diem and the rest of the band and help the director with scheduling and getting to know Syracuse traditions.

“Drum majors are my go-to, to see where the band is at,” Diem said.

The most difficult part of taking on the new role has been the whirlwind of change that came with moving halfway across the country. The Diem family left Minnesota July 31 — two weeks later, Diem was on campus for his first day of band camp.

Diem’s wife was a Cortland native, and he said he and his three sons have enjoyed spending time with that side of the family and exploring the area. It’s been a lot to get used to, but Diem said he’s enjoyed the process.

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Dorm room desserts Freshman with passion for baking finds new home for her business at GW

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ena Geller is in her first year at The George Washington University, but she has the resume of a successful entrepreneur. Geller has baked and sold her homemade desserts since she was 14.

Geller, a freshman from Durham, North Carolina, started Lena’s Lunchbox by selling her desserts for low-scale events. Geller decided to bring her baby-blue KitchenAid mixer and other baking supplies to college and has been using the kitchen in her dormitory to fill orders. By the time she GELLER arrived at GW, she already had customers eager to order her desserts.

“I knew I wanted to keep baking,” she said.

“I’ve been doing the business for so long it kind of just happened naturally that I started selling things, but I wasn’t exactly sure how it would continue here.”

Due to health regulations and conflicts in the GW housing agreement — which prohibits students from using the dorm kitchen as a resource for their businesses — she will put production on hold after she fills the remaining orders she accepted.

“I didn’t expect things to happen so quickly,” Geller said. “I was kind of thinking it would take a while for me to get my name out here in D.C., so I was kind of marketing myself but also in the process of figuring out the different licenses and safety things.”

The Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at GW is helping Geller find a commercial kitchen in Washington, D.C. to run her business.

“This is sort of perfect for us. We love students like Lena, so we’ll do anything we can to help her,” said Lex McCusker, director of student entrepreneurship programs at GW. The office has connected Geller with alumni and student entrepreneurs with similar interests.

They paired her with CakeLove founder Warren Brown and Daniel Berg, who placed second in GW’s New Venture Competition.

The university also has connections with the government, and its economic partnership programs can help Geller navigate bureaucracy and rule, McCusker said.

“I think what she’s doing is she’s showing other students that there are all sorts of possibilities, that these nontraditional career opportunities are available to you,” McCusker said. “You can do things that are creative, expressive and innovative as a student, even while you’re getting your degree.”

From word of mouth and her online Yelp page, Geller has orders streaming in — more than she can fulfill, she

said. But with the help of friends, she’s able to conquer the piling requests.

“Everybody’s very excited that she has this business because we’re all freshmen and we don’t really know what we’re doing, but she already has such a successful thing going for her,” said Ilana Davis, one of Geller’s friends who helps with the business. “I think it’s just exciting for all of us to see that.”

While pursuing cultural journalism, Geller is

busy balancing her work, extracurriculars, friends and school.

In the future, she hopes to open a brick-andmortar store to sell her treats, but she doesn’t envision the business to be her main career.

“Follow your passion,” Geller said. “I think there’s always a way to make money doing something you love if you work hard enough for it.” rhsachs@syr.edu

(ABOVE) Lena Geller, a freshman at The George Washington University, features her Rose Tiered Cake, a fan favorite, on her website. Geller is working with GW officials to find a kitchen to support her business, since it is against university policy to use dorm kitchens commercially. courtesy of lena geller

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grass lush playing surface for the Syracuse men’s and women’s soccer teams. He works yearround to ensure the field recovers from any kind of high traffic or stress, like Division I athletes ripping it up for 90 minutes a night.

They also want to prove the sod is drought and snow tolerant. In a calendar year, SU’s grounds crews dump about 30 tons of sand and spray roughly 100,000 gallons of water to ensure vigor.

Thanks to the intense care, Syracuse plays on an all-natural surface like 10 of its 11 conference opponents.

This season, the hurdle was 80- and 90-degree days in September, when there were 12 games at SU Soccer Stadium. Last year, it was a drought. By the playoffs, it may be snow flurries. SU moved an NCAA Tournament game to Onondaga Community College due to snow last year. Regardless, keeping the playing surface on the campus of one of the snowiest colleges in the U.S. in a season as unpredictable as fall isn’t easy.

“What you don’t hope for is snow,” Miller quipped.

Based on 30-year averages, September is the third-rainiest month in Syracuse at 3.68 inches.

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and humidity brought new challenges.

Three weeks ago, a period of humidity prompted pythium, a destructive parasite that can “wipe out a field in three days.” To monitor the performance and the playing quality, an SU grounds crew member walks the entirety of the field about four times per week.

“You ask any young man or young woman — they’d play on good grass (instead of artificial turf),” Syracuse head coach Ian McIntyre said.

“It can be a better surface of which to move the ball around. It’s easier and better on the body.”

Since the soccer teams began this season in late August, temperatures have been erratic.

By mid-season, temps can drop to about 50 degrees, which slows down the growth and recuperating ability of the grass. The slowdown can force managers to properly overseed or overwater to ensure extra strength.

SU focuses on keeping an extensive root system, which digs deeper into the soil, helping in drought situations such as 2016. To care for the grass, field managers use Signature Blend fertilizer. In the spring the fertilizer contains a pre-emergent to prevent weed germination. In the fall, the fertilizer is a mix of nitrogen in potassium with a higher percentage of iron, keeping the grass green without pushing too much growth.

They mow the 225 by 360-foot field twice on game day, going opposite directions each time to create the signature grid on the pitch,

and once every other day with a 72-inch wide reel mower. To produce designs on the field, the crew uses push brooms to dictate which way the grass lays. By putting the grass blades in opposition, they created a design featuring a block “S” for the Louisville game in September.

Optimal irrigation occurs between 2 and 7 a.m., said Guy Fipps, a professor in Texas A&M’s department of biological and agricultural engineering who specializes in irrigation technology, water quality and water management.

Fipps said many systems he analyzes see three to four times the water amount applied than actually needed. He said fungi and dry spots occur because of improperly designed systems, where sprinkler heads are not properly spaced. The idea is to have head-to-head coverage, Fipps said, which creates overlap to improve field uniformity.

The SU grounds crew now waters the field four times per week, at 20 minutes per zone.

The water cycle varies depending on rainfall, with an increase over the last few weeks of September, when Syracuse experienced record-breaking heat.

“We want to play it faster, we want to move the ball side-to-side faster,” junior forward Hugo Delhommelle said. “If the grass is pretty dry, it’s not as fast as when the grass is wet.”

Schools like SU stick to real grass rather than artificial surfaces, because, as Delhommelle and several other SU teammates said,

playing on grass is “more natural.” Turf increases the rate of injury, Fipps said, and it produces higher bounces. Other schools invest in turf because it’s generally easier to maintain. Irrigation alone costs between $5,000 and $10,000 per year.

It hasn’t always been a part of the game for every Syracuse player. Bakalovic, a Utica native, played mainly on artificial turf while with the Empire Revolution Academy. Junior defender Kamal Miller grew up further north in Ontario, Canada. There, Miller never played on grass.

He remembers grass being seen as a commodity. His club team, Vaughan FC, made the League One finals two years in a row. Both finals games were hosted in BMO Field, a grass surface where Toronto FC plays its MLS matches.

Now, Miller plays on grass every day. The climate in Syracuse isn’t much different from that of Ontario, but the grounds crew is more precise. After the game, Buffum and the crew do their rounds and replace the divots. A water cycle is laid down and the process repeats. One trim per day and twice on gameday.

Sometimes, though, Miller can’t resist a third cut.

“There’s been times when I mow it one way and then the other and I just have to mow it want one more way because you want that perfectly cut nap,” he said. “It gets obsessive.”

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“It’s really improved,” Mossovitz said.

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Freshman Norheim brings settling presence to defense

By Nick Alvarez staff writer

In the first half of then-No. 11 Syracuse’s loss to Cornell on Sept. 19, defender Sondre Norheim tried to thread a pass through a pack of Big Red forwards on the right of SU’s formation. If completed, the pass could’ve given the Orange a breakaway in a scoreless game. But it was intercepted, and Cornell created its own scoring opportunity.

Cornell crossed the ball to the right wing of its formation and George Pedlow found himself one-on-one with SU goalie Hendrik Hilpert. Pedlow whipped a shot about four feet off the ground, seemingly out of Hilpert’s reach. But before the ball found nylon, Norheim darted to the penalty box, jutted out his right leg and deflected the shot up and over the crossbar, preserving a clean sheet. That recovery displayed how Norheim’s instincts are more advanced than a typical freshman.

“He has a lot of gifts that athletes would wish to have,” Hilpert said of Norheim. “He’s fast, he’s tall, he’s athletic. He has everything a defender needs.”

At 20 years old, Norheim is the second oldest freshman defender in the Atlantic Coast

Conference, behind 22-year-old Jon Ingason of Virginia Tech. Both are international student-athletes who left their home country in pursuit of better competition.

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Born and raised in Bryne, Norway, Norheim started playing soccer at age 5. After standing out in high school — which is five years long in Norway — he dedicated more time to soccer by playing with a local club team during his gap year. Now, with No. 21 SU (5-42, 0-3-1 ACC), Norheim has started all but one of the team’s 11 games. Along with junior Kamal Miller and a rotating group of wingbacks, Norheim looks to shore up a defense that allows 1.36 goals per game.

“I think I have a little advantage with age,” Norheim said. “I got the physical part down.

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Last year, playing with his club team, Norheim pondered the future. Julian Veen Uldal, a friend who played at South Carolina for two years, encouraged Norheim to check out America. So, Norheim contacted College Scholarship USA, a company that puts interested foreign students in touch with U.S. schools. Within two days of hearing about Norheim, SU associate head coach Jukka Masalin was on a flight to watch Norheim play against another future player, forward Petter Stangeland.

Norheim remembered his gap year in Norway as a crucial time in his career. He frequently played against men two to four years older than him and was forced to adapt and improve to keep up.

“In that year, I felt like I developed like more of an adult player,” Norheim said.

There, Norheim developed his greatest strength: heading the ball. The 6-foot-4-inch defender was always taller than other kids and won headers easily. However, when he entered the men’s league, he needed to hone his technique.

Working with his father, Norheim said, taught him to time his jump correctly. In order to win a header, usually a player leaps and hits

the ball at the highest point possible while battling with another player.

“As a central defender,” Norheim said.

“You have to be good at headers. That’s something I’ve worked on over the last year. When I go up, I win it.”

Typically, SU deploys Miller, its best defender, against the opposition’s best forward. That often leaves Norheim alone in the middle as a center back, the backline’s lynchpin. In Norway, Norheim played in a similar role in his club’s 3-5-2 formation and the familiarity has helped him adjust.

Norheim has fit in “perfectly,” SU head coach Ian McIntyre and teammates said.

Miller referenced Norheim as a prototypical SU defender. Hilpert said Norheim is off to a better start than Miles Robinson, a former Orange defender and the No. 2 overall pick in last year’s MLS SuperDraft. During a team meeting two weeks ago, McIntyre praised and embarrassed the freshman by pegging him as a future anchor of a program known for its defense.

“I think he’s one of the best new defenders in the ACC this year,” McIntyre said. “It’s been a baptism by fire. He’s got a very bright future ahead of him.” nialvare@syr.edu

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Pugliese earns rare role as Formation change helps Syracuse in conference play underclassman rugby leader

By Kaci Wasilewski staff writer

Before a single second ticked off the clock in the first game of the season, Syracuse looked different. When the Orange took the field, it sent three players back, five to the middle and two up top.

SU (5-4-2, 0-2-1 Atlantic Coast) changed to a 3-5-2 formation this season after using a 4-4-2 the year prior. While the Orange often switch formations based on the personnel, SU has settled on the 3-5-2 for 2017. Even though the new setup leaves fewer players on defense, there’s a higher emphasis on attack.

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“We don’t come in with a preconceived notion of what we are going to do,” SU head coach Phil Wheddon said. “Many coaches have a system in mind and they say this is the system we’re going to play. We look at the strengths and attributes of the personnel in pre-season and say yeah we can try this.”

One of the major changes the 3-5-2 system brings is the addition of the wingback position in the midfield. If SU has the ball, the wingbacks push upfield on offense. Conversely, when the Orange is on defense, the wingbacks hustle back to defend.

“Wingbacks make or break the system,” Alana O’Neill said, “if they can’t get back

there is too many attackers running at our defense. You always want to be numbers up on defense.”

The addition of the wingbacks takes away a defender the 4-4-2 normally features.

Without a fourth defender, the defense has to stay spread out until the wingbacks provide defensive aid.

On Sept. 24, a hole in the defense was almost exposed when SU played then-No. 19 Clemson. The Tigers defense launched a ball to Mariana Speckmaier who took the ball down field, burning SU’s defense and creating a one-on-one with SU goalkeeper Courtney Brosnan. No goal came of Speckmaier’s effort, but the 3-5-2’s weakness had been exploited.

Offensively, the 3-5-2 allows SU to exploit the sides of the fields and send numbers forward. SU can keep forwards high up top while spreading the midfield out to create width.

“In previous years,” Alex Lamontagne said, “the forwards kept dropping back and we couldn’t get width.”

So far, Syracuse has used this system in three ACC games. While SU hasn’t won an ACC game yet this season, the system has allowed SU to compete with opponents that had recent success against the Orange. In 2016, Syracuse mustered only seven shots against Clemson, allowing 31 to the Tigers in a 4-0 loss. In the two sides’ 2017 matchup, the Orange tallied nine shots to the Tigers’ 16 in a 0-0 tie.

The flexibility of the formation, especially with the wingbacks, is what Wheddon said will help SU in conference play. The wingbacks can stay forward and take on an attacking posture or fall back and create more of a 5-3-2 formation to assist the defense.

“It’s all about the players,” Wheddon said.

“If we didn’t have the personnel we do, we wouldn’t be playing that system.” klwasile@syr.edu

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When Anthony Pugliese walked into a Monday morning class last year, his professor thought he had gotten into a fight that weekend. His face was filled with bruises and cuts, not from a fight, but from that Saturday’s rugby match.

Pugliese, a sophomore on the Syracuse club rugby team, wakes up each morning after games with bumps, bruises and cuts.

Yet he remains unconcerned about his safety, because he earned playing time as a freshman and cracked the top 15 line-ups this fall. Over the last two years, only four sophomores have broken into the starting lineup.

For the past two seasons, SU has finished first or second in the Empire Conference. This season, the team will compete in an Expanded Liberty Conference, the largest Division 1-A conference on the East Coast. The Liberty conference consists of three divisions, each with six teams. Much of the Orange’s success can be credited to the team’s depth, especially that provided by Pugliese, who was unanimous MVP in a match this month.

“It was the best I’ve ever seen him play,” teammate Matt Magargee said.

Pugliese grew up in Staten Island and was exposed to rugby early. He attended Xavier High School in Manhattan, a topranked rugby school in the country where he served as captain of the team. Now, he’s a leader for Syracuse.

“Though he is an underclassman,” from page 16

babers “From a basketball standpoint, that stuff is mind-boggling to me,” Babers said.

Postel said Pitino’s status will be determined at a later date. His program is already under NCAA probation for providing prostitutes for recruits. He said he did not know anything about either scandal.

It raises questions on whether universities will become more scrutinizing of their coaches in both basketball and football.

The repercussions are a “reputational scare for everybody,” ESPN analyst Jay Bilas said. There’s no reason to believe schools like Syracuse are involved, he said, though many programs may be more careful in how they monitor their teams and coaches. Still, it won’t stop more programs from breaking the rules.

“This is just the latest scandal we’ve had,” Bilas said, “and it won’t be the last.”

Bilas said the scandal will have little to

Magargee said, “he is viewed as one of the leaders of the team.”

Pugliese works out three times a week.

He ensures his workouts come earlier in the week so he feels no soreness during games, often played on Saturday. When lifting, he aims to hit six-to-eight reps on bench and squat. In the fall, the rugby team practices every day of the week and plays games on Saturdays. In the winter, SU trains “sporadically” to stay fit.

In the spring, Syracuse plays seven-onseven, rather than the standard 15-on-15. SU practices around three to four times per week with five-game tournaments on Saturdays.

“He is never slacking off,” junior teammate John Lombardi said.

Last year at Pittsburgh, Pugliese tried to score as snow covered the field. The conditions lead to the opposing team to drop the ball, he said. Pugliese took advantage by picking up the ball and finding the try zone in the snow-covered field.

“I picked (the ball) up and just took off,” Pugliese said. “Then all of a sudden, I heard my teammates scream, ‘Put the ball down,’ which is how you score in rugby, and I just dropped to the floor to put it down.”

Pugliese’s experience in high school provided him an upper edge to earn playing time early at Syracuse. He understands structure and strategies of the game, Syracuse head coach Robert Wilson said, positioning him to contribute in a heightened role as a sophomore. amkhelil@syr.edu

no impact on Syracuse men’s basketball recruiting, as the probe impacts only a handful of players. Dick Vitale, also an analyst at ESPN, said SU’s recruiting prospects are “absolutely improved.”

Last week, UofL basketball lost a pair of fivestar recruits. Sunday, junior college All-American running back Greg Bell decommitted.

“I don’t think it’s over,” Vitale said. “I think it’s just beginning. They’re not going to play games. I hope some of this gets cleaned up. We need someone to be in charge.

“It think this is going to make every school take a step of caution in every way possible.”

Additional note from Babers’ Monday press conference: • The FBI probe renews the debate over college athlete compensation. Babers said a football scholarship “is more than enough for compensation, based on what I did for the game and how it changed my life.” mguti100@syr.edu @MatthewGut21

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GRASSROOTS More than 100,000 gallons of water and 30 tons of sand will be poured onto the SU Soccer Stadium pitch this calendar year. That’s just part of the constant care required to maintain a grass field in central New York.

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SU soccer plays on a grass field despite inclement weather

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three-pronged, hand-held pitchfork dug deep into the pitch. Dave Buffum picked up the divot then reached into a white bucket. Using a metal shovel, he sprinkled top dressing into the wounded area before pressing the grass down. While Syracuse and Cornell broke for halftime last month, around 8 p.m., Buffum continued his long day of work, which begins daily at 10:30 a.m.

Buffum leads a four-person crew at SU, where two members work each soccer game. But on that night, he had extra help. There was a youth soccer game during halftime. Baldwinsville and Oswego grade school students herded around one ball, unknowingly assisting Buffum’s crew. The young players stomped, patching up the injured areas the grounds crew couldn’t reach. It was a resurfacing of sorts.

“It’s important to get the divots right back in so they can bite back in,” Jim Miller, the manager of grounds at Syracuse, said. “That’s one of the key components giving the field good longevity over the season.”

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JIM MILLER, the grounds manager at Syracuse, oversees all the university’s grass fields. josh shub-seltzer staff photographer

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Facility improved in 20th year

By Nick Alvarez staff writer

As Morey Mossovitz, assistant athletics director of facilities and event operations at Syracuse University, sat down to discuss the finer details of his job, his phone rang three times before he silenced it. It was a typical work day for Mossovitz, which meant organizing maintenance projects, meeting with Chief Facilities Officer Peter Sala in the Carrier Dome and overseeing the daily operations of the Joseph and Shawn Lampe Athletic Complex.

Twenty years ago, the practice fields and stadiums near South Campus were grouped together under one name. Since, the Lampe Athletic Complex has developed into the primary training grounds for SU athletes including but not limited to: Carmelo K. Anthony Basketball Center, Ensley Athletic Center,

Manley Field House, Roy Simmons Sr. Coaches Center, J.S. Coyne Stadium and SU Soccer Stadium.

“Lampe is a very busy facility,” Mary Pat Grzymala, associate director of the Physical Plant, said.

“There’s a lot of student-athletes going in out all day. Any area that has a lot of traffic will have issues.”

Over the years, Mossovitz, Sala and other administrators have worked to implement new systems that better serve student-athletes.

In May 2016, Sala introduced a new system — Campus Facilities and Administrative Services — that changed the way the university handles maintenance. “(The old system) was somewhat inefficient,” Mossovitz said.

“The service has really improved for us. We’re able to address things quicker.”

SU Athletics does not have its own maintenance staff, so it relies

on the university’s resources to deal with custodial and structural issues at Lampe. Prior to the implementation of CFAS, all campus maintenance was handled through a zone system, Grzymala said. The administrative and academic areas were designated into four zones: North, West, East and Perimeter.

Each unit had its own manager and a set of staff members that handled maintenance. Many, including Mossovitz, thought the zone system didn’t work as well as it could’ve. Lampe was in Perimeter zone and Mossovitz was the coordinator. Plumbing, Mossovitz said, is another issue that needs constant attention that the old system wasn’t conducive to fixing.

“We all became one organization,” Grzymala said. “(Physical Plant) centralized and eliminated the zones. We have created a bigger, see lampe page 12

Amid scandal, Babers says players weren’t paid

By Matthew Gutierrez senior staff writer

Last week, after the FBI’s college basketball corruption scandal surfaced, Syracuse head coach Dino Babers told his players to look to their left and right.

“None of you guys are getting paid,” SU’s second-year head coach said he told his players. “We’re not paying anybody.”

Babers, who has coached at more than one dozen schools, said Monday morning that “everywhere I’ve been, we’ve been good about that stuff.”

By “stuff,” Babers means about not paying players. The FBI probe includes allegations that representatives from Adidas promised sixfigure payments to players’ families for committing to schools spon-

sored by the company. Other allegations state that coaches steered players to financial advisers.

Assistant coaches at four schools — Arizona, Auburn, Oklahoma State and USC — have been arrested in related schemes. They face charges including conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering.

Louisville men’s basketball Rick Pitino is on unpaid administrative leave because of the probe, which states UofL assistants involvement in a scheme to pay a highly rated recruit a $100,000 bribe. University interim President Greg Postel announced Pitino and athletic director Tom Jurich had been placed on administrative leave after the basketball program was implicated in the FBI corruption investigation. see babers page 14