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SU community members wrote messages of peace and love on Quad sidewalks Tuesday afternoon in response to Saturday’s shooting in Pittsburgh.

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Syracuse Stage is promoting arts accessibility through services and programs that make its live theater performances available to all audiences.

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Student Life columnist Patrick Linehan explains how people can find more ways to learn about the legacy of Remembrance Week.

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30 years after Pan Am Flight 103, Ron Cavanagh reflects on

TOUGH CALLS Remembrance Week 2018

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Lawyer talks Pan Am Flight 103 suit

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he sky was just getting dark on a cold Wednesday afternoon at about 3 p.m. on Dec. 21, 1988, when a telephone inside one of Tolley Hall’s back offices began to ring.

Ronald Cavanagh, then-Syracuse University’s vice president of undergraduate studies, took the phone call. A travel agent told him a Boeing 747, Pan Am Flight 103, had gone missing. Cavanagh asked the agent what that meant. “Well, it’s not on the radar, and we can’t find it,� he was told after a pause. “We lost it.

We don’t know where it is.� “How many of our kids are on it?�

Cavanagh asked.

The agent couldn’t provide an answer.

She didn’t know. Incredulous, Cavanagh hung up and took a breath. He walked to the front of Tolley, where then-Chancellor Melvin Eggers was sitting behind his desk, preparing to attend a Syracuse men’s basketball game.

Cavanagh explained to Eggers that a plane was missing and they weren’t sure how many SU students were on it. “What are we supposed to do?� he asked.

It had been about an hour since Pan Am Flight 103 exploded in the air over Lockerbie, Scotland. The explosion was a terrorist attack that resulted in the deaths of all 259 people aboard, including 35 SU students returning from study abroad trips and 11 people on the ground in Lockerbie. More United States civilians died in the bombing than in any other terrorist attack, before 9/11.

In Tolley Hall that day, first came the travel agent’s call. Then came radio and TV news reports saying a plane had exploded in Scotland. Syracuse officials began to make the connection. Then the university called families, families called the university and

RON CAVANAGH was SU’s vice president of undergraduate studies during the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing. alexandra moreo senior staff photographer

it all came together over a series of days that resulted in memories Cavanagh has carried with him all his life.

A tragedy like Pan Am Flight 103 carries an emotional weight for the grieving families and friends of victims. For Cavanagh, that emotional pull came as he picked up

the phone to make those calls to families.

He can vividly remember the wave of uncertainty that unfolded. “Now, I think about it and get choked up,� Cavanagh, 79, said last month while sitting in his Syracuse home, two miles see cavanagh page 13

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Apartment project reflects development trends

By Emma Folts

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A downtown Syracuse building built in the 1950s could be redeveloped into residential apartments and office space if the city approves developer plans next month.

Acropolis Center LLC has proposed a reconstruction of Jefferson Center, a former Kmart location at 115 E. Jefferson St. The estimated cost of the project, which includes residential apartments as well as office space, is $10 million, and the construction

period will last 10 to 12 months.

Steve Case, a developer at Acropolis Center LLC, said the company has plans to build two floors of residential apartments on top of the existing building. The addition would include 28 residential units, Case said.

The proposed development would also involve a new building facade and a 46-space underground parking structure.

The Jefferson Center proposal, if approved by the city, would be one of the latest redevelopment projects in downtown Syracuse.

Several buildings have been redeveloped in the area in recent years.

The Dey Plaza building, located at 401 S. Salina St., was constructed in 1893 and previously housed the Dey Brothers Department Store.

The building, currently owned by Paramount Realty Group, LLC, is now a luxury apartment complex.

The company has announced plans to convert office space into additional apartments.

The Dey Plaza building would add 23 apartments to its existing 61 residential units, said Robert Doucette, a developer at Para-

mount Realty Group, LLC. The new apartments will have either one or two bedrooms, the same style as the existing units.

Oak Knitting Mill, located in Syracuse’s Franklin Square neighborhood on 102 West Division Street, was a 20th century knitting mill that has since been reconstructed into a loft-style apartment complex with 38 units. It opened in fall 2017.

Joe Gehm of Lahinch Group, LLC, and a co-partner and developer of the Oak Knitting Mill apartments, said the city has seen a resurgence in see development page 13

Lawyer James Kreindler, who sued the Libyan government in the aftermath of the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988, spoke on campus on Tuesday about why he chose to take the case, calling the terrorist attack “the worst disaster of his lifetime.�

Kreindler was heavily involved in the litigation against Pan American World Airways as a member of the plaintiffs’ trial team after Flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland in December 1988. About 30 people attended the lecture, which was co-hosted by SU Libraries and the College of Law, and was part of the university’s Remembrance Week activities.

Kreindler’s team reached a $2.7 billion settlement against the Libyan government, where the terrorists were from, on behalf of the victims’ families. Pan Am Flight 103 carried more than 250 passengers, 35 of which were studying abroad through SU. “The story I’m going to tell you is one of a thousand examples of how our country could not survive, how the world couldn’t survive without vibrant investigative reporters,� he said in Dineen Hall in the College of Law. The lawyer, a partner at the family-run Kreindler & Kreindler LLP, discussed how his team’s case against Pan Am and its case against the Libyan government “played the essential format� for what he and his firm are now doing in a current 9/11 terror lawsuit against Saudi Arabia.

Three decades ago, the legal, aviation and political framework in the United States was radically different, Kreindler said. In 1988, for the first time in aviation history, policemen logged precisely what they found and where they found it as they searched through plane wreckage from coast to coast, he added. “Pan Am 103 changed the law in the United States more than any other event in my lifetime,� he said.

An international treaty stated that damages for each disaster victim are limited to $75,000 unless willful misconduct is found. If a mechanical issue was found with the aircraft, the team could sue for more money, Kreindler said. Since no mechanical issue was found, his firm was discouraged from taking the case, he said.

But that didn’t stop them. He said this was the worst disaster of his lifetime, so he and his father would take the case. see lawyer page 13

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Reflecting on history Professor Lawrence Mason Jr. is SU’s ambassador to Lockerbie, Scotland.

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Rallying for rights SU community members will rally on the Quad in support of transgender rights Wednesday.

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Getting political SU’s Graduate Student Organization on Wednesday meets for its monthly meeting.

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SU students unify after Pittsburgh shooting

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CHILD CARE

Five YMCA branches in Fayetteville, Manlius, Liverpool, Baldwinsville and OCC will offer free child care on Election Day to help voters get to the polls.

Families are not required to be YMCA members to take advantage of the service. source: localsyr.com

HIT-AND-RUN

A Syracuse man pleaded guilty to manslaughter and will spend the next three to nine years in jail after hitting and killing a 2-yearold girl outside her Shonnard Street home last year. He was 17 at the time and initially fled to North Carolina but took to Facebook two months after the crash to admit his guilt. source: localsyr.com

HALLOWEEN TRAFFIC

Students write short words and phrases Tuesday in chalk about the Pittsburgh shooting along a sidewalk on the Quad. Some of the words included “Shalom,� which is peace in Hebrew, and “Love wins,� along with drawings of hearts. molly gibbs photo editor

By Carolina Espinal staff writer

More than 35 people gathered on Syracuse University’s Quad on Tuesday afternoon to share messages of hope in the wake of the shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh.

The Chabad House at SU and the Winnick Hillel Center organized the event after 11 people were killed on Saturday in the most deadly attack on Jewish people in United States history. On Sunday, students, faculty and religious leaders mourned the victims of the shooting during a vigil on the steps of Hendricks Chapel.

At the Quad event, Zalman Ives, associate rabbi and program director at the Chabad House, stressed the importance of doing good deeds in public to benefit the world directly, and not to be intimidated into silence. He urged Jews to continue wearing their Kippahs and Chai necklaces, signs of Jewish faith. “The act of terror has two

effects,� he said. “There’s the past that we can’t change, but there’s the future which we hold in our hands.�

Several students walking by took a piece of chalk and began writing words, phrases and symbols on the pavement that represented themes of love, pride, peace and coexistence.

Levi Kovach, a sophomore environmental engineering major at SUNY-ESF, drew a dove and an olive branch. Underneath he wrote “shalom,� meaning peace in Hebrew.

Kovach said he wasn’t surprised when he heard about the shooting because “people hate people, and that’s just the reality of where we are today.�

He said he hopes that the messages left on the Quad will make people think about what they can do to prevent tragedies, and if they’re Jewish, to think about what it means to be a Jew. Abigail Ilizirov, a sophomore psychology major, wrote “only peace� in Hebrew with students from her Hebrew class. Ilizirov said the way

the victims were killed during Shabbat services scares her. She goes to synagogue every week, she said. “The lack of tolerance is unacceptable, especially in a country that’s supposed to represent freedom and freedom of the practice of religion,� Ilizirov said.

Sunday’s vigil left Ilizirov with a determination to continue attending services, not to be scared, and to spread light and hope because of recent events, she said.

Zach Weisleder, a freshman broadcast and digital journalism major, also came with his Hebrew class. News of the shooting reminded Weisleder of his family’s history, he said. Weisleder is the grandson of four Holocaust survivors. His grandparents fled Nazi-occupied Europe and came to the U.S. in search of a better life, he said. “They lived through mankind’s darkest hour and they came here just to make sure their future generations would not have to deal with this,� he said. “It hurts me to see this happening in a country that

so often has been described as one that practices freedom.�

Jessica Lemons, interim executive director of Hillel, said the Jewish community was appalled, but that they are fortunate to have a strong community in Syracuse. “I know that anything that happens to one of us as a people happens to all of us,� she said.

The most important thing was coming together with Chabad House and being available for the 2,500 Jewish students on campus, she said.

Lemons said the first step toward healing is understanding other religious and ethnic affiliations to the point where every difference “melts away� and people are seen just as human beings.

Some people shared messages of optimism. “This is an opportunity for us to continue to be resilient and an opportunity for us rise above, to go beyond the call of duty and just show the world that we are a powerful religion,� Weisleder said. crespina@syr.edu

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Katko, Balter debate immigration, gun violence

By Casey Darnell asst. news editor

Rep. John Katko (R-Camillus) and Democratic challenger Dana Balter sparred in a debate Tuesday night as each candidate made some of their final pitches to voters one week before the midterm elections.

Both candidates are fighting for control of New York’s 24th Congressional District, which includes Onondaga, Cayuga and Wayne counties and the western half of Oswego County. Katko and former Syracuse University professor Balter answered questions on gun violence, health care and President Donald Trump’s recent remarks

about citizenship and immigration.

The midterm election is on Nov. 6.

Trump said Tuesday he was considering an executive order to end birthright citizenship in the United States. Katko and Balter agreed that the president doesn’t have the power to make that move and said they would oppose an order.

The candidates also agreed that the migrant caravan currently traveling from Honduras to the U.S. represented both a humanitarian crisis and a national security threat. But they disagreed about Trump’s intentions for drumming up concerns about the caravan. “What the president is doing is not about securing the border,� Bal-

ter said. “It’s about stirring up fear a week before an election.�

Katko said he didn’t believe it’s about fear. He said that Balter supports abolishing the immigrations and customs enforcement, the government agency that enforces immigration law and conducts investigations into drug trafficking.

The congressman cited a photo of Balter at a rally organized to protest the Trump administration’s family separation policy, in which there is a sign that reads “Abolish ICE.�

Balter quickly refuted Katko’s claim, saying she was at the rally to protest the border separation policy. She added that she supports ICE, a position she has spoken pub-

licly about in the past.

The candidates were shown videos from constituents of the 24th Congressional District who raised concerns about gun violence, health care and the opioid addiction and heroin epidemic.

Rasheada Caldwell, the mother of Rasheed Baker, who was shot and killed in June 2017, called on the candidates in a video to stop the influx of illegal guns in upstate New York and fund additional resources for schools.

Katko cited his work as a gang prosecutor in the 1990s as proof he has worked to stop gun and gang violence. He has worked see debate page 13

A study published Tuesday found a 43 percent higher risk of pedestrian fatalities on Halloween night than on any other nights close to that date. The study, based on four decades of United States traffic data, included more than 600 pedestrian deaths.

The number of deaths peaked at about 6 p.m. on Halloween nights. source: localsyr.com

SHOOTING VICTIM

Oswego police said a man who was shot in an alleged road race incident last week is now in stable condition. He was shot four times in the abdomen Friday by a 58-year-old man, who has since been charged with second-degree attempted murder. source: cnycentral.com

ANIMAL CRUELTY

Syracuse police are looking for information in an animal cruelty investigation after a local pet owner found his 23-year-old dog apparently beaten to death in his backyard. Officers responded to an animal cruelty call early Friday morning and said the dog appears to have been struck by a blunt object. source: cnycentral.com

GANG BUST

More than a dozen people have been indicted on federal racketeering charges for alleged involvement with the 110 Gang, a violent gang in Syracuse, the U.S. attorney’s office announced Monday. The indictment alleged that the suspects used murder, robberies and assaults to control territory on the city’s southwest side. Prosecutors also said the 110 Gang sold drugs and committed credit card fraud to make money over several years. source: wktv.com

RAIN EXPECTED

Rain will move across upstate New York starting early Wednesday morning and continue through most of Friday. Up to 2 inches could fall, raising concerns about rising rivers and potential flooding. source: newyorkupstate.com

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Act forward after Remembrance Week SU’s diversity update email is commendable T he 8 p.m. Carrier Dome basketball game against Western Michigan was just starting as news trickled in that 35 Syracuse University students had been aboard Pan Am Flight 103 when it was bombed over Lockerbie, Scotland. “Your sons and daughters will be remembered at Syracuse University ... for as long as the university shall stand,� then-Chancellor Melvin Eggers promised family members at a service held after winter break in 1989.

Since then, more than 1,000 Remembrance Scholars have acted in those victims’ memory, nearly 60 students have come to Syracuse from Lockerbie on a one-year scholarship and thousands of artifacts related to the tragedy have been collected in SU’s archives.

Thirty years after the tragedy, every Syracuse University student must spend more time acting forward to uphold Egger’s institutional promise in ways that will impact them not only during Remembrance Week.

One way to do that is by visiting the archives on the sixth floor of Bird Library. I approached the

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archives and found it deeply moving to look at artifacts curated from the students’ lives. Containing personal notes and pictures, the archives humanize the names we walk past on the Wall of Remembrance.

Students can visit the archives throughout the year.

Acting forward isn’t contained to a research room, though. “Acting forward is trying to make sure that I am doing the best I can do to live the life that everyone on the plane lost,� said Andrew Dorrance, a 2017-18 Lockerbie Scholar.

That could be through volunteering, taking time to write a story you’ve been putting off or even just calling your loved ones to express gratitude for them. “The week is a reminder to not take life for granted,� said Cole Massie, a current Remembrance Scholar representing Frederick “Sandy� Phillips. “Do something you’re passionate about.�

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This week also celebrates connections. In the aftermath of the Pan Am Flight 103 tragedy, thousands of people have been connected to one another. “One of the good things about the disaster was that people came together,� Dorrance said. “Lockerbie and Syracuse came together.�

Living on what can be a divided campus, and in a divided world, we can all act forward in honor of those lost by reaching out to different people on campus. “I am trying to be more of the person people can look to on a bad day� said Ankita Varman, another current Remembrance Scholar, representing Eric Cocker.

Act forward this week, and in the weeks to come. When 35 students lost their lives 30 years ago, SU promised that we would never forget their legacy and we would work to continue it.

It’s the responsibility of every student at SU to maintain that promise.

Patrick Linehan is a sophomore newspaper and online journalism, policy studies and economics major. His column runs biweekly. He can be contacted at pjlineha@syr.edu.

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eith Alford, Syracuse University’s interim chief diversity officer, sent a campus-wide email Tuesday afternoon with updates about several diversity initiatives SU has kickstarted since the spring semester.

In years past, SU email updates specifically related to diversity haven’t been regularly scheduled or comprehensive. So it’s commendable that this update was thorough and included logistics including the date of the Disability External Review Committee’s next meeting.

Including details not only makes initiatives more understandable and accessible but also bolsters a certain degree of transparency between SU and its students.

What the email is missing, though, is forward-looking information on future events to detail how students can best contribute to campus discourse by engaging with decision makers, like Alford, in public settings.

Including that information would add to the accessibility of initiatives

mentioned by Alford in his email Although plans mentioned in this update raise several questions related to progress and implementation, SU’s efforts to share this information thus far, in the form of monthly emails following the Theta Tau controversy, have not gone unnoticed.

As long as SU continues to disseminate information regarding major campus plans on a regular basis, and officials encourage public, in-person discourse with students, emails like Tuesday’s are a step in the right direction for a university that needs better communication with its campus body.

The Daily Orange Editorial Board serves as the voice of the organization and aims to contribute the perspectives of students to discussions that concern Syracuse University and the greater Syracuse community. The editorial board’s stances are determined by a majority of its members. Are you interested in pitching a topic for the editorial board to discuss? Email opinion@dailyorange.com.

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renovation of Schine Student Center is just one of many construction projects scheduled to be completed on Syracuse University’s campus at some point in the near future, but it’s one of the most important and relevant projects to students. Thousands of campus community members move through Schine every day, whether it be to access the SU bookstore, food court or other areas to meet for work. Schine’s accessibility is vital.

Regardless of the disruption the renovations will cause, the project will improve access to important campus organizations including the Office of Multicultural Affairs.

The possible 18-month period of no access to Schine makes it easy to overlook the benefits the renovations will provide. Student offices and services that are currently hidden in the lower levels of the building will be temporarily relocated to more visible areas such as Bird Library and the Women’s Building before being moved to the main level of the new Schine structure.

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The renovations will also generally improve Schine’s accessibility, according to building plans. “Last year I broke my foot, and there were stairs to almost every single entrance of Schine and I had to walk all the way around. It made me think, ‘Oh my gosh, my foot’s broken for a couple months, but there are students where this is their everyday life, where they have to find the accessible entrance,’� said Student Association President Ghufran Salih.

The only elevator at Schine currently requires permission to use. The floor inside the building consists of uneven bricks which are loud and difficult to move over in a wheelchair or with a cane. The renderings of the new, proposed Schine building fix these issues by adding an elevator on the Waverly Avenue side of the building and replacing the brick with a smooth material.

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To make the new Schine feel more like a student center that meets the needs of the entire student body, renderings of the plans should be made available online soon. Students should also take advantage of the opportunity to provide input on the project through meetings with architects and designers working on the renovations. “A lot of the time you’re in here for a meeting to work or to get something, and then you’re out,� said Kyle Rosenblum, SA’s vice president. “A student center is somewhere you should be able to hang out. That’s something we don’t have right now.�

Although closing Schine will be difficult for everyone, at first, it’s critical that one of the most popular locations on campus become a more accessible building that represents the university’s commitment to sustain an inclusive campus community.

Bethanie Viele is a junior biology with a focus on environmental sciences major and religion minor. Her column appears biweekly. She can be reached at bmviele@syr.edu and followed on Twitter @ viele_bethanie.

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Open call The Landmark Theatre has plans to renovate its historic building. Currently, the upper levels of seating are only accessible by stairs. To increase accessibility, the Landmark hopes to renovate its entire auditorium within the next 10 years. photo courtesy of rick barletta

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s Starr Guckert sat in the Landmark Theatre’s designated “handicap” row — a word that makes her cringe — for a performance of a Broadway touring musical, she felt disconnected from the action on stage. Sitting in this section was her only option after telling the box office she had a visual impairment, but sitting more than a dozen rows back wasn’t helpful for Guckert, who is legally blind and uses a walker.

“I couldn’t see anything. When people in the audience laughed, I had no idea what was funny,” she said.

Guckert later compared her ticket price with the audience members in wheelchairs next to her — she was charged $90 while their tickets were $45 a piece, she said.

To prevent moments like these from happening to others, Guckert has been an advocate for 40 years, helping local theaters and other organizations make their events accessible to the entire community. As an advocacy coordinator at AURORA of Central New York, she works closely with the Landmark as they draft plans for a renovation of their nearly 3,000-seat auditorium. The 90 year-old theater will have its first elevator installed by the end of 2018.

Seat renovations won’t be finished for another 10 years, right before the Landmark’s 100th anniversary.

According to the Americans with Disabilities Act Standards for Accessible Design, venues are encouraged to offer accessible seating in every section if ticket prices vary. The Landmarks’ new elevator will help make the second floor lobbies accessible, though balcony seating will remain inac-

The theater scene in Syracuse is becoming more accessible

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cessible to guests who use a wheelchair — an issue that Landmark Theatre’s Executive Director Mike Intaglietta said the building’s architecture prevents them from solving.

“Being a very old building, we have some architectural challenges that newer buildings don’t have,” Intaglietta said. “And we’re constantly adapting to them.”

He said the usher staff, who undergo disability etiquette training, always keep an eye out to assist patrons who may be struggling to get around the crowded lobby and stair areas. Since many of the shows are part of Broadway tours, or feature guest artists, Intaglietta said the Landmark typically doesn’t have control over technicalities that may fix some of the problems. But the theater’s team is taking action where they can — the venue now offers hearing devices and American Sign Language interpretation at select performances.

Guckert even offered to help the team at the Redhouse Arts Center to ensure their new, larger venue complied with the 2010 ADA standards. She said the center never arranged a time to meet, but Redhouse already offers ASL interpretation at select performances and lowered ticket prices with their expanded location.

Samara Hannah, executive director at Redhouse, said her goal is to show the Syracuse community that theater is not just an upper-class luxury, but rather an art form that can positively affect anyone, regardless of their background. Through “color-blind” casting and keeping ticket prices as low as possible, Hannah said she wants everyone to have that opportunity.

“Making sure that everybody has access to that is just a critical component of ensuring that creative inspiration is happening and innovation is happening,” she said.

Guckert said she has tried to arrange a roundtable discussion with people at the Landmark Theatre and the Redhouse Arts Center at Syracuse Stage, which she calls the “quintessential accessible theater.” Both of the Landmark and Redhouse theaters can learn how Syracuse Stage makes live performances accessible, she said. Her plans haven’t worked out, but Guckert hopes to reschedule to later this year.

“I think we’ll have another crack at them. We don’t give up easily,” Guckert said.

At Syracuse Stage, Guckert can experience live theater her own way. After having no desire to go to plays for see accessibility page 12

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SU, SUNY-ESF professors research local food systems

By Nathan Abrams staff writer

The area surrounding Syracuse is home to acres of farmland — central New York is well-known as an agricultural hub within New York state.

Last Friday, the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets offered $1 million in funding to early-stage farmers as part of their New Farmers Grant Fund, aiding in

expanding New York’s 36,000 farms and more than 30 commodities. In Syracuse, a partnership between the Onondaga County Agriculture Council and a local organization is leading this research to improve the area’s food system.

FoodPlanCNY was started in 2016 by Matthew Potteiger, a landscape architecture professor at SUNY-ESF, and Evan Weissman, an assistant professor of food studies at Syracuse University. Both

Potteiger and Weissman wanted to better understand how factors in central New York’s food system interact. In sharing their findings, Potteiger and Weissman said they hope to create better functioning food systems in local communities.

There needs to be a baseline understanding of “everything from what is produced and how it’s produced, to how the system, as a whole, functions,” Weissman said.

“It’s hard to think about how we

can improve our food system when we don’t collectively have a good understanding of what that system is and how it operates,” Weissman said.

Their work so far has included conducting research interviews with a range of participants across the food system including small produce farmers, food distributors, emergency food providers and food justice activists.

Potteiger and Weissman purposefully approached their

research without a preconceived idea of what an “ideal” system should look like, they said. In their research, they highlight the positive aspects of the food system, rather than its shortcomings.

“Syracuse and central New York are often defined by deficits and problems, and certainly, we have our fair share of concerns,” Weissman said. “But I think all too often we overlook the good stories and see research page 12

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accessibility most of her adult life, she purchased season tickets this year because of the Stage’s audio description program — a service that assists guests with knowing what’s happening onstage between dialogue, said Kate Laissle, associate director of education at Syracuse Stage.

When she audio-describes a show, Laissle sits in a sound storage booth with a small glass window overlooking the stage. She speaks into a microphone and wears a headset so she can control the mix of stage sounds with her own narration. The set, lighting and costumes are described in vivid detail to paint a picture before the show starts.

Laissle prepares for audio description by watching the show five to six times in order to feel its rhythm and find pauses when she can sneak in narration. In fast-paced musicals, like “Elf,” which is coming to the Stage for the holiday season, narrating the action without talking over the actors’ dialogue is no easy feat.

For her, it’s important that every audience member feels included, especially when something humorous happens on stage without any sound.

“If you’re not sighted, then you might miss out on the joke,” she said. “You want to include people rather than make a different experience.”

Syracuse Stage also offers open captioning, a service that displays a play’s script in real-time on a screen next to the stage. Open captionists spend hours formatting the show’s script, emitting stage directions and inserting space for pauses so the dialogue can run smoothly with the press of a button.

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Jessika Whitehouse, the open captionist for Syracuse Stage, said she spends between eight and 20 hours formatting a script, depending on the length of the show and what kind of script she’s given. She then attends dress rehearsals to learn the pacing — with each press of a button, she controls the speed at which the words scroll.

In addition to working at Syracuse Stage, Whitehouse is pursuing a bachelor’s degree in American Sign Language-English Interpretation at Rochester Institute of Technology. She said she has wanted to be an interpreter from a young age — her sign language education began with seeing her mom work with nonverbal people on the autism spectrum.

“I saw sign language and thought it was people dancing with their hands, so I wanted to learn more,” she said.

As a lifelong “theater kid,” Whitehouse said helping provide access to the arts is important to her. She hopes that, moving forward, accessibility is widespread enough so patrons don’t have to ask for it. Whitehouse doesn’t want anyone left out just because they forgot their hearing aids at home or didn’t request an interpreter in time.

But at Syracuse Stage, accessibility extends beyond the assistive technology. Three years ago, the theater presented the first sensoryfriendly performance in central New York. It was designed to provide a welcoming theater experience for people on the autism spectrum and their families. Now, the Stage is expanding the program by rebranding it as “relaxed performances” for any patrons who may not feel comfortable in traditional theater settings.

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expert advisers to make sure the performances meets standards outlined by the Theatre Development Fund. People with personal experiences with the autism spectrum and professionals are invited to a rehearsal before the scheduled relaxed performance to give feedback.

In addition to the technical adjustments, relaxed performances are staffed with volunteers who are trained to handle sensory issues.

These volunteers provide fidgets and noisecanceling headphones to anyone who needs them and can guide patrons to one of two quiet rooms outside the main theater area. The two rooms — one stocked with drawing materials and plot-related toys and the other a quiet room with comfortable seating — are there for those who need a break.

Laissle said the theater has received positive feedback from families who have attended relaxed performances — some said they were grateful for the time they spent at the show, even if it was only for 30 minutes.

“There’s always such this love and wonder taking place on the day,” Laissle said. “It’s a really light, fantastic environment when those are going on.”

The Syracuse Stage team’s passion for making live performances accessible is reflected in their strategic plan, which emphasizes the theater’s commitment to telling diverse stories. Released in April, the plan was developed over a 10-month period to outline the theater’s goals in the coming years.

For Laissle, it’s equally important to be sharing those stories with diverse audiences.

Creating a community at the theater — hearing people’s “passions and their fears and their wants and their desires” — is what “makes us human,” Laissle said.

Guckert said creating this community with widespread accessibility across Syracuse is going to take time.

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Not many live performances venues in Syracuse are as accessible as Syracuse Stage.

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FoodPlanCNY is funded through a grant from the Onondaga County Agriculture Council. Since the council’s founding in 2012, they have started and maintained a number of agriculture initiatives in the county. These include the Future Farmers of America at Tully Junior Senior High School in Tully, Brady Farm at the Brady Faith Center on Syracuse’s South Side and the installation of raised bed planters at Dr. King Elementary School in Syracuse.

Agriculture Council County Legislator Co-Chair David Knapp grew up on his family’s dairy farm in LaFayette. He sees FoodPlanCNY as a means to fully realize the goals of the council, he said.

“Our mission is really supporting existing agriculture and encouraging new agriculture,” Knapp said. “Education of the public was kind of the last piece of the puzzle.”

Part of the Agriculture Council’s grant funding was used to hire student research assistants, like William Cecio.

A recent SU graduate with a bachelor’s degree in food studies, Cecio worked with FoodPlanCNY. He researched United States Census of Agriculture data on counties in central New York. Since graduating, he still views the work being done by FoodPlanCNY as necessary.

“I saw this as a great opportunity,” Cecio said. “In my opinion, food system planning is crucial for actually creating lasting positive change in local, regional or national food systems.”

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cavanagh from the SU campus. He shook his head and held back tears.

Three decades later, Cavanagh knows that, in the act of scrambling to find out what had happened to the plane and who was on it, he lived in a moment he will never forget. But at the time of the first ring, Cavanagh — nobody — knew anything.

Dec. 21, 1988 – 3 p.m.

Cavanagh stood anxiously once he entered the chancellor’s office. His meeting with Eggers turned into a decision about whether to cancel the SU men’s basketball game in the Carrier Dome. After a brief conversation, they decided that because some fans were driving from hours away and because it wasn’t clear what had happened to the plane, the game should be played, Cavanagh said.

Meanwhile, Judy O’Rourke, then an assistant in SU’s undergraduate studies department, was calling the U.S. Department of State for more information. She said the now-defunct Pan American World Airways “handled the situation very poorly” by not communicating with SU officials and that the New York state Department of State wasn’t helpful, either.

“I would call the state department and get put on hold,” O’Rourke said. “I’d get hung up on. For hours. You’d call, get hung up on. Call, put on hold for 20 minutes. People truly didn’t know what to do.”

SU’s lawyers did. By 3:30 p.m., they called Eggers and told him not to make any public statements until more details were clear.

Within the hour, news reports on the radio and television showed a plane down in Lockerbie, Scotland, O’Rourke said.

Cavanagh remembered calling Syracuse’s Division of International Programs Abroad. They, too, heard reports about a crash in Scotland.

Parents of SU students began calling Cavanagh’s office, wanting to know if their children were on the plane, after seeing the reports.

Dozens of families called. Cavanagh instructed his colleagues to repeat the same answers.

They told parents and over: “We don’t know. I’m sorry. We don’t have the names. As soon as we find anything we feel is credible, we’ll let you know.”

Dec. 21, 1988 – 6 p.m.

Cavanagh doesn’t recall eating that night.

There was no time, and the situation ruined his appetite anyway.

Eggers told Cavanagh to go to Syracuse Hancock International Airport. A connecting flight from New York to Syracuse was supposed to land, and Eggers thought it might be carrying people that didn’t yet know about the crash.

Cavanagh walked out of Tolley Hall into the dark. He hopped into his Toyota and drove north up Interstate 81 to the airport.

On the way, he thought to himself: How would he explain what happened? How does he approach people who could be in shock?

When Cavanagh walked into the airport at about 6:30 p.m., people were arriving from New York — people who were supposed to be on Pan Am Flight 103 who had instead taken an earlier flight. Some friends and families of victims arrived in Syracuse unaware of the tragedy, Cavanagh said.

“Back then, there were no push notifications or cell phones,” he said. “Not everybody got the message right away. They were destroyed, crying when they found out.”

He stayed at the airport comforting travelers for about 90 minutes, he said, then drove back to campus because a colleague had phoned him. Syracuse officials wanted to start calling families based on a list of SU students they believed to be on the plane.

“Talk about wetting your pants,” Cavanagh said. “How do you initiate a call to someone’s parents saying their child is no longer here?”

When he got back to his office, Cavanagh’s first call went to a family in Chicago. As it turns out, that student was alive – his mother picked up the phone, and when Cavanagh said he was calling about her son, she said he was in the other room.

After that, Cavanagh made the first of about 10 calls to the families of students who had died in the bombing. The one he remembers most went to Dorothy Coker, mother of twins Jason and Eric Coker. Both had died.

“I’m calling about your children,” Cavanagh began. Within a minute, he said she was consoling him. Another parent had already told her that her children were killed, Cavanagh said. Dialing numbers inflicted a slow burn toll on Cavanagh, but Coker’s compassion resonated most.

“The event was just sinking into my damn bones,” he said. “And God, that was too much.”

Dec. 21, 1988 — Night

Cavanagh lay in bed next to his wife that night and tried to rest, but he was forced to stay awake and live with his thoughts. After a while, he got up and walked around. Several times, he said he returned to bed and tried to sleep. He couldn’t.

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debate along the U.S.-Mexico border in El Paso, Texas and in San Juan, Puerto Rico, prosecuting drug cartels before working as a prosecutor in Syracuse.

Balter said the country needs better gun control measures to stop the violence in communities. Gun control isn’t incompatible with the 2nd Amendment, she added.

Balter said, if elected, she would vote to institute universal background checks. She claimed the Concealed Weapon Carry Act, which Katko co-sponsored, would allow peofrom page 1

How do you initiate a call to someone’s parents saying their child is no longer here?

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Finally the clock hit 5 a.m. He always went to the local gym by 6 a.m. anyway, so he got there an hour early.

Cavanagh recently said his life, let alone those of the victims’ families, will never be the same. He said repeatedly he’s had this feeling in the years since: it’s a kind of community spirit that the tragedy’s aftermath has provided the families as well as the members of the Syracuse and Lockerbie communities, and it’s also a feeling of gloominess — but not a loss of hope.

Friday, Oct. 5, 2018 — Bird Library

lawyer Kriendler’s father Lee was widely regarded as a “founder of disaster law,” according to an SU News release. While working on the case, James, Lee and their team discovered some major inconsistencies in the Pan Am bombing story.

The airline had violated a security regulation that required the “positive matching” of baggage with passengers, Kreindler said.

The airline allowed an unaccompanied suitcase containing the bomb to be transferred across flights, which eventually made its way to Pan Am Flight 103 in London.

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development downtown development and living.

Honora Spillane, executive director of the Syracuse Industrial Development Agency, said increased redevelopment of buildings downtown is representative of regional and national trends. Companies and residents want to be in more urban settings, she added.

“Downtown occupancy is very strong in the residential apartments and has remained very strong over the past few years as new

ple to legally bring guns that aren’t allowed in New York into the state. Katko disagreed with Balter’s assessment of the law.

The candidates were asked about how they will improve health care for struggling families. Balter expressed her support for a universal health care plan. Balter said a Medicare-for-all plan would save the government and households money, but Katko said such a plan would double taxes and the size of government overnight.

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which was a Federal Aviation Administration-approved alternative to the positive matching. FAA had never approved X-ray as an alternative, Kreindler said.

Two Libyans were tried for the bombing; one was found guilty and the other not guilty. It took 15 years for Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi to agree to pay the $2.7 billion settlement.

Kreindler added that the 9/11 suit against Saudi Arabia could take up to 20 years. The lawsuit was initially started in the early 2000s, Kreindler said, and a federal suit was filed in March 2017.

“Our mission is to eventually get the whole story out and get fair compensation the same for everyone,” he said. cefergus@syr.edu | @ColleenEFergus2

units continue to come online,” Spillane said.

Gehm said future forecasting trends show a downtown occupancy rate above 95 percent.

He said he thinks the occupancy rate will stay high, but he added that the addition of new downtown developments could make it more difficult to fill buildings as quickly.

SIDA is responsible for approving the Jefferson Center proposal in downtown Syracuse. Spillane said the agency encourages businesses and private developers to invest in the city.

Cavanagh visited the new exhibit on Bird Library’s sixth floor, titled, “We Remember Them: The Legacy of Pan Am Flight 103.” The exhibit offers displays of artifacts related to the tragedy and depicts how the esfolts@syr.edu Syracuse and Lockerbie communities have since moved on.

He walked out of the elevator to the sixth floor, reading an overview of the tragedy and the exhibit. Then he walked to the left and scanned a wall honoring all 270 victims. He perused the victims’ names and their pictures, and he went silent.

Cavanagh made his way to the other end of the exhibit and looked through one glass TU LLY CE NTE R FOR FRE E S PE ECH display after the other. Every few minutes, he recounted where he was at the time, and what he was thinking at that very moment.

TU LLY CERNTE FOR E S PE ECH TU LLY CE NTE FORR FRE E SFRE PE ECH One artifact in particular stuck with him. It was a program from the Place of Remembrance dedication, held at SU on April 22, 1990. The TU LLY CE NTE R FOR FRE E S PE ECH Syracuse Scottish Pipe Band and the SU Brass Ensemble played. Cavanagh was among the community members that spoke. He read aloud Internet and Technology, Pew Research Center to himself the remarks he made that day.

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shot clock full effect: People worried if it would damage the game, then ruled by methodic, slow offenses, according to the NBA book “Tall Tales,” by Terry Pluto.

“We thought we had to take quick shots — a pass and a shot was it — maybe 8-10 seconds,” said Syracuse star Dolph Schayes, in Pluto’s book. Schayes played in the exhibition game and told Greater Syracuse Sports Hall of Fame board member John Rathbun the “old guys were freaked out” at the prospect of shooting in less than 24 seconds.

The NBA adopted the shot clock the next season, and NBA scoring average went from 79.5 points per game to 93.1 in the first year, Rathbun said. That season, the Syracuse Nationals won the NBA title.

“People forget, but Syracuse has a rich basketball history,” said longtime Syracuse resident Bruce Laidlaw, who graduated from SU in 1955, after the shot clock was introduced. He from page 16

beilein The next day, John interviewed for the Dolphins’ job and was hired a week later. He held it until 1992, meaning for the first nine years of Pat’s life, he was the son of Le Moyne’s head coach. As early as high school, Pat thought about coaching.

When he went to West Virginia to play in the Big East for John, Pat considered himself an extension of the coach on the court. In this case, that meant being an extension of his father.

“I could tell that he had the feel for coaching,” John said. “…Pat was like that, from the very beginning. That’s what I think he loved learning, more about the game and teaching it, and he loved being a student of the game and as a student, he’s now a teacher.”

Pat spent a few years playing professionally overseas after WVU, and by the time his career ended, John was at Michigan. Pat followed and was a UM graduate assistant from 2008-2010. Every sideline Pat was on with John, whether as a player or assistant, John wasn’t “coach,” he was “dad.”

John “always” trusted Pat’s opinions at Michigan, he said, because the father figured his son knew him as well as anyone. When Pat’s time as graduate assistant was up, he had the chance to from page 16

harris college self as a runner, said the first few weeks of fall training camp conditioned him for the rest of the summer. He remembered running multiple 110-yard sprints with the “smalls” group. Harris and other skill position players are required to finish each rep in 14 to 16 seconds, Harris said.

Harris ran a 4.52 second 40-yard dash in high school, per 247sports.com, but he “really wasn’t into lifting.” To improve at blocking, which Harris had done minimally in high school, as he also split time at quarterback, he needed to be stronger. Harris said the strength coaches challenged him to be angrier with the weights and not feel sorry for himself. from page 16

ferrin Portland. “But he’s a very good player. He’s gonna be a very important part of us moving forward.”

More than two months and 16 games later, Ferrin has developed into the playmaker Syracuse (7-5-4, 1-4-3 Atlantic Coast) expected him to be. He’s tied for third on the team in points (10) and third in goals (four). The Mississauga, Ontario, native has increased his production in recent games, tallying multiple shots in each game since SU topped Ohio State, 3-0, on Oct. 8.

In that span, he’s added three goals and an assist.

“It’s continuous training,” Ferrin said of developing chemistry in his first season, “just making sure you’re getting more time with the guys in every practice. We’ve had the opportunity to do that more and more.”

McIntyre said the Orange’s offense works best when multiple forwards are getting on the scoresheet. In SU’s winless three-game stretch, its top scorers — Tajon Buchanan and Ryan Raposo — struggled with zero combined goals.

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said there was a buzz around Syracuse when the clock debuted.

This spring, Laidlaw walked into Blodgett Vocational High School on Oswego Street for a youth basketball game. He looked around.

Nowhere inside or outside of the gym could he find any sort of display, replica or plaque honoring the gym’s historic moment. When asked about whether they knew the shot clock originated in the gym, several people said they didn’t know the gym’s significance.

The shot clock replica downtown is as equally overlooked as the original at Le Moyne. Last month, as a few men were walking out of Starbucks in Armory Square, they passed the shot clock replica, erected in March 2005. “The clock was founded here?” one man asked another. “Yes, hard to believe.”

Syracuse Nationals (now the Philadelphia 76ers) general manager Leo Ferris and team owner Danny Biasone spearheaded the implementation of the clock, which aimed to reduce stalling tactics that bogged down the game.

Ferris sat at a bowling alley in Syracuse’s East-

wood neighborhood, jotting potential shot clock formulas onto napkins. Then he found a winning formula.

Ferris and Biasone decided on 24 seconds by taking the number of seconds in a 48-minute game (2,880) and dividing it by the average number of shots in a game (120). Today, the NBA, FIBA and WNBA use the 24 seconds Biasone and Ferris envisioned.

The NCAA did not implement a shot clock until the 1985-86 season, and it started at 45 seconds. It was eventually reduced to 35, then 30, and many experts, including ESPN college basketball analyst Jay Bilas, call for another reduction.

“There’s no reason why we shouldn’t have it now,” Bilas said. “All these players have played at the 24, and they’re fully capable of it.” He called the 24-second shot clock the “natural progression.”

Syracuse basketball head coach Jim Boeheim, now in his 43rd season, “wouldn’t mind” a switch to the 24-second shot clock. He points to how last year’s SU team played at one

of the slowest paces in the country and still took only “17 or 18 seconds” to shoot.

According to KenPom.com, SU played with the ninth slowest pace in the nation last year based on adjusted tempo, a statistic that measures possessions per 40 minutes, adjusted to opponents.

Before the implementation of the shot clock, college basketball was full of stall tactics and low-scoring games. Dean Smith patented the “four corners offense,” which entailed holding the ball for minutes at a time when his Tar Heels had the lead. In 1973, Tennessee beat Temple, 11-6, in a game that has been called the worst sporting event of the 20th century.

The metal box that made basketball the fast-paced game it is today, unsettled Schayes and killed the four corners offense, will not be on display Wednesday night, when Syracuse hosts Le Moyne.

Instead, it’ll be retired in a cardboard box in special collections.

stay at Michigan as director of player operations. “‘Pat you need to go learn from somebody else,’” Pat remembered John saying. “‘You coached with me, I coached you. You need to move on, go see how other people do it.’”

So Pat went to Dartmouth, where he learned from a first-year head coach, Paul Cormier. Then a year at Bradley, where he did the same under Geno Ford. At both stops, he learned the things he liked and didn’t like. In 2012, he earned his first head coaching job, at West Virginia Wesleyan, where he coached for two seasons.

After the 2013-14 season, Pat took a leap.

He was “sought” by a couple NBA teams, he said, and signed on with the Utah Jazz as a player development coach. But he realized quickly that he missed being a head coach, attached with it the authority and idea to build a program. When the Le Moyne job became a possibility, Pat put everything into it, he said.

“I was fortunate to get back in the head coaching role,” Pat said. “And I don’t think I’ll ever let it go again.”

His dad cautioned him that there would be Division I assistants applying and to not get his hopes up. In June 2015, he received a call from Le Moyne Director of Athletics, Matt Bassett.

“You can have some time,” Pat remembered Bassett said.

“I don’t need time. I’m on board,” Pat said.

“I’m ready to get this thing done.”

Once he accepted the job, Pat had flashbacks to his time as a child in the Dolphins gym. He drove by a couple houses his family had lived in in Syracuse when John coached there. While it’s been renovated since, at the time it was the same hardwood and bleachers that John had coached on. John’s office was behind the back wall of Pat’s current office.

After a 10-17 first year when Pat and a former player, Russell Sangster, said it was tough to integrate his culture on a squad he didn’t recruit, the Dolphins have made twostraight NCAA tournaments. Pat’s guided his team through the principle of “Do the right thing because it’s the right thing.” He wants them to get up early, go to class, get breakfast and plan their days. And he wants them to do well.

“I don’t want to say (culture) has attributed to the success,” Pat said. “We’ve had some really good players. But I definitely think it has taken us to where we are now.”

When now-junior Tom Brown enrolled at Le Moyne, his parents pointed out that he’d be playing for John Beilein’s son. Brown downplayed the significance. “He’s my coach now,” he said.

After practices in the 2016-17 season, Beilein worked with the then-freshman Brown for 10 to 15 minutes. He recognized that

there were a lot of moving parts in Brown’s shot and tried to simplify it, Brown said.

“He just told me to set the ball there, it’s something very simple that he just kind of saw,” Brown said. “And it was effective. He like jokes around, ‘I guess I’m a guru, I can pick that stuff up like that.’

He like jokes about it, but it’s really true that he does help you become a better player.”

Brown shot 50 percent from the free-throw line his freshman year before working with Beilein. Sophomore year, he shot 87.5.

As Pat enters season four with the Dolphins, the wooden bleachers he used to watch practice from as a kid are gone, and he isn’t sure what the future holds. This season he’s brought in nine transfers and a freshman with four returners. His future coaching career will depend on him balancing his wife and seven-month-old son with his urge to coach at the highest level.

But for right now, Pat is content to stay at Le Moyne. He’ll keep coaching basketball, the only thing it ever really made sense for him to do.

Pat might never match his father’s 724 NCAA wins. “You’re not as good as your dad in things like that,” Pat said.

“I’m not trying to be as good as him,” Pat added. “I want to be half as good as him, and I’ll take that.”

Now, more than halfway through the season, Harris knows how to squat. He smiled thinking of his favorite exercise. “Definitely hang cleans,” he said, referring to the explosive powerlift where the athlete thrusts a barbell from their knees to their shoulders.

“I just got to be able to attack, go at it and go hard,” Harris said. “Just like I said, not feel down for myself like, ‘Oh I can’t do this.’”

The weight training is meant to carry over to stalk blocking, when the receiver mauls his defender in a one-on-one open field situation.

While the strength helped, the weight room mentality carried over as well.

During fall camp, Syracuse receivers and defensive backs battled in stalk blocking drills nearly every day, Harris said. There he was introduced to the size and physicality of col-

lege cornerbacks, often tussling with fellow freshmen Trill Williams and Ifeatu Melifonwu, who both weigh about 200 pounds.

“He hates me for calling him (it), but he’s skinny right now,” Syracuse quarterback Eric Dungey said. “Once he puts some weight on, that kid’s going to be something special.”

Harris leaned on redshirt senior wide receiver Jamal Custis and junior Devin Butler.

Custis named Butler as the best stalk blocker on the team, noting that when the team watches film, the junior receiver’s tenacity is often highlighted. But it’s not all aggression. Custis taught Harris to be patient, letting the defender choose his direction. From there, with a wide base, the wide receiver rides out the cornerback, meaning the defender is overcommitted to one side.

“The game is kind of faster for a fresh-

man,” Custis said. “Sometimes freshmen get discouraged ... I could see his potential and I knew he was a good receiver. So I tried to tell him like, ‘You know, that that’s just a learning curve, you know, just to stick through it.”

Against NC State, two quarters after Harris opened up the sideline for Johnson, he faked a block for a screen on a run-pass option play.

As the defenders crept up to defend the run and screen threats, Harris snuck behind them.

Dungey pulled the ball away from the run fake and dumped it out to Harris at the 15.

Harris dashed to the end zone, spiking the ball before waving his arms to pump up the crowd.

“The one thing about receivers, Babers said, “is they all love to catch the ball.”

(9-5-3, 3-4-1) in the first-round of the ACC tournament on Wednesday night, Ferrin will need to keep producing for an offense that’s only scored thrice in its last 310 minutes.

This past Monday, on the turf field in Ensley Athletic Center, Ferrin huddled with Delhommelle, Raposo and others after SU’s last practice in central New York ahead of the postseason. All season, Delhommelle and Raposo have routinely stayed late after practice to work on free kicks and corners. Of late, Raposo said, Ferrin has joined and worked on set piece-restart techniques.

For one rep, Ferrin anticipated Delhommelle’s corner sailing to the back post before scissor-kicking it into twine. Ferrin’s chemistry is predicated on his understanding of his teammates’ tendencies. Against the Buckeyes, moments after he lost his shoe, Ferrin slipped his cleat back on and corralled a pass. He then no-look passed it down the wing to a sprinting Sondre Norheim. The play resulted in a corner and a strong early offensive sequence.

“The more touches we get together,” Ferrin said, “the more time we spend playing together. I’m learning them and they’re learning me,

so it’s important.”

Ferrin was initially set to replace Delhommelle, the Orange’s most dynamic player, as an attacking midfielder, Delhommelle said.

With Delhommelle’s placement as a defensive midfielder at the start of the season, the onus was on Ferrin to quickly settle into a new environment and act as the offense’s switchboard.

At first, Ferrin didn’t anticipate the position would limit his offensive production. He grew up playing as a false 9 striker, which meant he was a forward but roved the field as a midfielder. He called the positions “similar.”

Syracuse used its midfielders — Ferrin, Jonathan Hagman and Delhommelle — to generate possession and chances. In his first 10 games, though, Ferrin scored only once, with it resulting from a penalty kick.

But then Buchanan’s knee injury moved Ferrin forward, and SU realized Ferrin’s style suits a more attacking-based mindset. Down the wing, Ferrin is allotted more time on the ball and can play off of Delhommelle, who’s also pressed higher in recent weeks.

“He also can play both positions, but you want to have him up front to score,” Hagman said. “He

has those offensive qualities that he can get more out of if you push him up a little bit.”

Against St. Bonaventure on Oct. 16, a 7-0 blowout for the Orange, Ferrin impacted the game without finding the score sheet. He distributed the ball down the wings, acted as a outlet for the backline’s clearances and pushed forward in timely moments.

With Syracuse in control, Ferrin settled a cross-field pass from an SU midfielder and looked up to find Buchanan streaking down the left wing. A swing of Ferrin’s right foot and a Buchanan tip-in would’ve counted if Ferrin wasn’t called offsides.

Ferrin contributed the Orange’s last goal against Clemson on Oct. 23. With SU down two and pressing, Ferrin slotted a shot into the net after Raposo found him in the six-yard-box. Ferrin was in the right place at the right time. Syracuse, gunning for an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament, hopes it’s a sign of what’s to come.

“He’s a complete attacking player,” defender Kamal Miller, who knew Ferrin before he transferred to SU, said. “He just has to get comfortable, and then he lets it all loose.”

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Pat Beilein follows in father’s footsteps at Le Moyne INGA BARNELLO unboxes and turns on Le Moyne’s 64-year-old aluminum shot clock. The clock has 44 red and white light bulbs. paul schlesinger staff photographer

The first shot clock resides in Le Moyne College’s library

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asketball’s first shot clock broke through the silence of Le Moyne’s Noreen Reale Falcone Library on Oct. 19.

The second floor was noiseless until Inga Barnello, the director of the library, unboxed the original basketball shot clock and plugged it into a wall. The horn went off, sending a quick, sharp ring echoing off bookshelves. Now, the 64-year-old aluminum clock is tucked away in the special collections department of the library. “No one knows it’s here,� Barnello said. “But it’s here to stay.�

The 24-second shot clock consists of a weathered aluminum box with 44 red and white light bulbs screwed into it. The clock — now a staple in most levels of basketball — is embedded in Syracuse sports history. On Wednesday night, Syracuse tips off its final exhibition game against

Le Moyne, the Division II school which holds the original clock.

The shot clock, invented in Syracuse, accelerated the pace of play, making the sport more attractive for fans. The clock has altered the game of basketball at every level since its inception on Aug. 10, 1954, inside a gym on Syracuse’s Westside.

That summer day, a series of the game’s leading players filed into Blodgett Vocational High School, a 10-minute drive from the Carrier Dome.

They included Boston Celtics legend Red Auerbach and Eddie Gottlieb, known as “Mr. Basketball.� All of them attended a Syracuse Nationals scrimmage, during which the shot clock was utilized for the first time.

Chaos ensued from the beginning of the game, as players rushed shots in a panic over whether they’d have enough time to generate a shot. The new rule limiting shooting time had come into

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s a young child, Pat Beilein tagged along with his father, John, to Le Moyne practices and games. Pat watched from the wooden bleachers that used to line the court. He and his father hustled into the boiler room in the back of the gym on days when they arrived during the winter months. Players babysat Pat and his siblings when their parents went out to a movie, Pat said. “I was always around the game, I was always in the gym,�

Pat said. “Those were my earliest memories. It was like a huge playpen for me, jungle gym. I loved coming with him to work.�

Now, Pat walks that same hardwood, entering his fourth year at Le Moyne. He played for John at West Virginia. He was John’s graduate assistant at Michigan, where Pat’s father still coaches.

After a few other stops in between, he’s back where he spent time as a toddler and young child, this time head coaching the Dolphins. Le Moyne made the NCAA Division II tournament each of the last two seasons, including a 27-7 season last year which ended in the Elite Eight. Pat and Le Moyne play Syracuse on Wednesday night in the Carrier Dome for the Orange’s final exhibition game.

Pat has never lived a basketball season where John wasn’t a head college coach. Thirty-five years as the son of a head college basketball coach at Le Moyne, then Canisius, then Richmond, then West Virginia and then Michigan. “I’m extremely lucky to have him as a mentor and a father to be able to learn from him a little bit of what they do,� Pat said.

It all started at Le Moyne. Pat was born on March 23, 1983. see beilein page 14

football

Ferrin’s offensive Harris off to hot start at reciever development aids SU

By Josh Schafer sports editor

By Nick Alvarez staff writer

During Syracuse’s first players-only practice this past August, Hugo Delhommelle gazed at SU’s new players.

With his experience, he said, he’s been able to gauge the talent level of teammates from the way they handle the ball at their feet.

FERRIN Delhommelle

spotted Massimo Ferrin, a transfer from Alabama-Birmingham, who showcased his on-ball skill and accurate passing. Delhommelle looked over to SU head coach Ian McIntyre. “Woah, OK coach,� Delhommelle said, “you’ve done a good job.�

Delhommelle’s endorsement dubbed Ferrin a player to watch from the start. “I think we still haven’t seen the best out of (Ferrin),� McIntyre said on Aug. 26 after the Orange’s 2-1 loss in see ferrin page 14

Freshman receiver Taj Harris’ facemask dug into a defender as he chopped his feet. His hands grasped the outside shoulders of the white North Carolina State jersey in front of him. With Nykeim Johnson catching a screen HARRIS pass two yards behind Harris, the 175-pounder swung his hips inside, blockading his corner from the sideline.

For a brief moment, Harris

held up his defender. Johnson had a one-on-one with a defender to the outside.

Harris caught a 24-yard pass three plays before. But on the first series in Harris’ first career start, clearing a path for Johnson was more important. Head coach Dino Babers’ receivers always have to block before they can catch. “It’s always been the same rule, if you want the ball you’re going to need the block,� Babers said. “And they need to protect their brother and if they don’t block, you don’t have to play.�

Following a career-high six receptions, 86 yards and a touchdown against North Carolina State, Harris

was listed as an official starter on Monday’s depth chart. The 6-foot-2 freshman has caught one more pass than the week prior, tracing back to Connecticut on Sept. 22. For the selfproclaimed “small� Harris, much of his freshman season with No. 22 Syracuse (6-2, 3-2 Atlantic Coast) has been defined by adjusting to the physicality of the college game. “Everything takes technique.

You’re not just going to come out here and run and get open out here,� Harris said. “You gotta perfect your craft. You gotta run routes hard, got to be able to do the things that coach wants you to do.�

Harris, who described his presee harris page 14