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P • Renegades

“Wild” author and Syracuse University alumna Cheryl Strayed delivered the second University Lecture of the semester.

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X Ambassadors and Tribe Society pumped up the audience at the first Bandersnatch concert of the fall semester.

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S • Ender’s game

Ron Thompson is tied for second on Syracuse with four sacks this season, vastly improving with each game he’s played at defensive end.

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ITS works 24/7 to protect university email systems from outside infiltration, hacks

By Sara Swann asst. news editor

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bout 84 percent of emails sent to Syracuse University email addresses in the past 30 days have not been delivered.

In that time, SU’s email servers have received more than 102 million email messages, meaning only 16 percent of the emails sent to SU addresses are accepted and delivered. The other 84 percent of emails — more than 86.5 million emails in total — were blocked by the various

filters and services managed by Information Technology Services.

Protecting university email accounts — about 105,000 mailboxes — is a 24/7 battle and ITS uses complex software to help stop infiltration to the systems.

Andrew Joncas, manager of core infrastructure services, and his team can work securely from anywhere in the world, but on the SU campus, they do 90 percent of their work in

Machinery Hall.

Joncas and his six-person team manage many services on the SU campus, including lower-level services like infrastructure, storage and processing power and higher-level services like email.

Two separate email systems are used for SU: one for students and one for employees. Student email is routed through the university’s email servers to the Microsoft cloud email system

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Syverud: Syracuse University’s budget no longer in crisis

By Annie Palmer development editor

Chancellor Kent Syverud released a flood of updates at Wednesday’s University Senate meeting on last year’s budget, employee buyouts, student enrollment and other topics.

Syverud packed all the information into an approximately 25-minute address to senators

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The University Senate is the academic governing body of the university and is made up of faculty, students, staff and administration members. The majority of the work is done in 17 standing committees, which report to the full senate at least once a year.

in Maxwell Auditorium, followed by a report from Interim Vice Chancellor and Provost Liz

Liddy. Several of the updates showed university-wide improvements in budgeting, transparency and research.

Working toward a balanced budget In fiscal year 2015, SU saved, rather than overspent, its money. Syverud said the university managed to balance its $1.2 billion budget and added $4 million to its reserves. The university

has and will continue to restructure its budget, but Syverud said there should not be feelings of a “budget crisis” right now.

“Last year was a year of unusual budget discipline in recent times,” he said, pointing to substantial budget changes in the School of Architecture, College of Arts and Sciences, College of Engineering and Computer Science, S.I. see usen page 6

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THIRSTY thursday | sierra nevada oktoberfest

Oktoberfest beer has malty, caramel flavor

By Clayton Dyer contributing writer

The extent of most people’s knowledge of Oktoberfest — that festival in Germany where people wear ridiculous clothing and are served crazy amounts of beer for days on end — comes from the photos your Facebook friends who went abroad just had to post, or from the movie “Beerfest.”

Although these photos and that classic movie do not paint a completely correct picture of Oktoberfest, they certainly get one thing right: the incredible amount of beer.

Oktoberfest is a two-week festival held in Munich, Germany that usually takes place between mid-to-late September and the first weekend of October. The festival attracts more than six million people a year with one goal in mind — to drink. And drink they did; 6.4 million liters of beer were consumed at the festival in 2014, the equivalent of roughly 18 million bottles of beer.

I decided to give Sierra Nevada Brewing Company’s Oktoberfest a try.

Sierra Nevada partnered with Brauhaus Riegele, a brewery from Augsburg, Germany, to create this year’s one-time only batch of Oktoberfest beer. Crafted using German Steffi barley, the beer has a deep golden color and smells very malty.

The first thing that struck me upon tasting the beer was its crispness. The Sierra Nevada Oktoberfest had a very sharp, malty flavor to it (thanks to the German barley), with light touches of caramel and pine, and an almost winelike bitterness.

As I continued to taste the beer I began to truly enjoy the sweet, but light, caramel flavor, which balanced out the malty bitterness nicely. In true German spirit, the beer pairs with German Weisswurst sausage, mild cheddar cheese and apple strudel.

I’ve never been to Oktoberfest, but I think that this beer from Sierra Nevada is as good as it gets this side of the Atlantic Ocean.

So break out those lederhosen, grab a pint glass and embrace the Oktoberfest spirit. ckdyer@syr.edu

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A group of students from Hamilton College recently summited all 46 high peaks in the Adirondacks.

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Freshman Hendrik Hilpert has started the last two games in goal for SU after Austin Aviza started the first nine.

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A closer look Tiffany Gray was named the interim director of the LGBT Resource Center at SU in August.

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@mellanie_perez “What is bravery and what is courage? It is being in the company of fear and ‘doing it’ anyways.” @CherylStrayed at SU!

@BrianaRinaldo “To me the message in #Wild is whatever you have to say to me about it.” @CherylStrayed

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do round-up Here is a round-up of the top stories published in The Daily Orange this week: NEWS SHOW ME THE SYLLABI SA is continuing to pursue its initiative of publishing syllabi before students register for classes. The organization has surveyed students of varying majors and years to present to Syracuse University administrators.

MOUNTAIN TO CLIMB SU held a Student Diversity Summit on Friday and Saturday to address diversity and inclusion on college campuses.

KNOCKING IT BACK The number of disciplinary referrals for liquor law violations at SU decreased about 30 percent from 2013 to 2014, according to DPS’s annual security report. SU administrators attribute some of the decrease to university-sponsored programs.

CHERYL STRAYED, a Syracuse University alumna, signs copies of her New York Times best-selling book “Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail” after delivering the second University Lecture of the semester on Wednesday night.

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Strayed discusses personal experiences, ‘Wild’

By Deniz Sahinturk contributing writer

Award-winning author Cheryl Strayed’s earliest childhood memories were being rushed out of the house to escape her abusive father’s rage, she said at Syracuse University Wednesday night.

Her family eventually moved to a ranch in Minnesota, and during her senior year she decided to apply to college to be able to become a writer.

Strayed discussed her personal

journeys, such as her childhood, during her University Lecture in Hendricks Chapel on Wednesday night.

The SU alumna spoke about her journey of becoming a writer, writing the award-winning novel, “Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail” and getting through the hard phases in life.

Strayed was introduced by Mary Karr, the author of the New York Times bestseller “The Art of Memoir,” and one of Strayed’s professors during her time at SU. Karr described

Strayed as “a fierce lover of humans, tireless advocate for feminist causes and women in the writing profession.”

“In ‘Wild,’ we find our untamed selves through her,” Karr added before leaving the stage to Strayed.

When talking about “Wild,” Strayed defined it as a book about journeys; both her emotional journey of getting over her mother’s loss, her physical journey through the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) and the journey of learning about her readers’ journeys.

“I began here. I was a writer

all my life, but being here is very important for me because what I learned (at SU) has stayed with me forever,” Strayed said.

Strayed said she discovered her calling for the profession at an early age in a church, through a chapbook she was given in Sunday school. The chapbook was simple with watercolor images on every page and a three-line poem describing each picture, she said.

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Herbert Lourie lecture to cover health care policy

By Joanna Orland contributing writer

In 1987, at the age of 57, Dr. Herbert Lourie was shot and killed in his doorway by an unsatisfied former patient.

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What: 27th Annual Herbert Lourie Memorial Lecture Where: 220 Eggers Hall When: Oct 8. from 2-3:30 p.m.

How much: Free

Soon after, his wife, Betty Lourie went to the Central New York Community Foundation to set up a fund that would financially support an annual lecture at Syracuse University, in order to honor her husband’s memory.

The 27th-annual Herbert Lourie Memorial Lecture, sponsored by the Central New York Community Foundation and SU, brings in a speaker from the health care community who can talk about hot button health

care policy topics that are relevant to the Syracuse community.

This year’s speaker, Dr. James Knickman, president and CEO of the New York State Health Foundation, will be giving a presentation entitled “Patients As Consumers: Is It Time To Make Health Care Like Other Service Industries?” The event, which is open to the public, will take place on Thursday, Oct. 8 from 2-3:30 p.m. in the Dr. Paul and Natalie Strasser Legacy Room, 220

Eggers Hall.

It will begin with Knickman’s lecture, and then people will be able to ask questions regarding the ideas in his presentation or about anything they feel Knickman might be able to answer. After, there will a reception for all attendees.

Since 2006, NYSHealth, a private foundation that advocates for accessible health care for all New Yorkers has invested more than $100 million see lourie page 8

KISS ME A proposal made at Monday night’s SA meeting would change the way the “Kiss Cam” at SU athletic events operates.

FEAR THE MOOSE Utica College, a former branch campus of Syracuse University that became legally independent in 1995, recently cut tuition by 42 percent and total cost by 35 percent. The college still has academic ties to SU. IN REMEMBRANCE About 40 members of the Syracuse University community gathered on the steps of Hendricks Chapel Tuesday night for a religious candlelight vigil to honor the victims and families of the Umpqua Community College shooting in Roseburg, Oregon.

PILOT DIES An American Airlines pilot flying from Phoenix to Boston died mid-flight of natural causes Monday morning and the plane landed in Syracuse.

HEY ARNE Arne Duncan, the secretary of education and a member of President Barack Obama’s cabinet, announced on Friday that he is stepping down at the end of the year.

RUN BABY RUN Colleen Deacon, a Syracuse University alumna and former Central New York Regional Director to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-New York), will run for Congress as a representative for New York state’s 24th District.

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emails — known as SUmail — where individual mailboxes are managed. Employee mail, however, is housed in Microsoft Exchange and supported

by SU’s virtual cloud.

“ITS has less visibility into and control over the student email environment at Microsoft,” members of the team said in an email. “While this limits our ability to protect student email directly, we are confident in the standards and practices Microsoft has in place.”

SU uses several security methods to protect both student and employee emails, including firewalls, access control through NetID and password security, encryption and filters.

All access to all services is controlled through something called two-factor, Joncas said, which is the concept of “something you know and something you have.” For example, the “something you know” is a person’s username and password, Joncas said, whereas “the something you have” is something that looks like a thumb drive, but is a cryptic key.

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strayed immediately realized she’d become a writer, she said she saw the power and beauty of words and realized she wanted to be someone who would bring out that power.

Although Strayed defined her childhood as happy due to her mother’s hard work, she thought she needed to do something else to become one of

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ITS, said this two-factor security makes it very difficult for someone who is not a member of Joncas’ team to even log in to one of the systems and do something.

The most common type of attack Joncas’ team sees is on the individual level is “fishing attacks,” in which hackers convince people in some way to give up their username and password. This often happens when a person receives an email linking to a website that looks authentic, when in reality it was built by a hacker.

But, Joncas said, ITS has scanners programmed for its email systems that help filter out these “fishing attack” patterns. He said the scanners are like doctors — they only know about the things they’ve seen before but can try to use heuristics to defend against the attack, just like a doctor would.

In terms of protecting student and employee emails against spam, Finkle said both the student and employee email servers have “fairly robust” spam filters. But, he said, the amount of spam a person receives is dependent on how “promiscuous” they are on the Internet.

Finkle explained that hackers will often randomly generate emails in order to send spam and

viruses. Colleges and universities can be “sitting targets” in these cases because student and employee email addresses usually end in .edu, making it easier for hackers to randomly guess.

However, Finkle said ITS is able to catch a lot of these randomly generated spam emails on the servers’ filters.

ITS also encrypts all email communications with SU’s systems, Joncas said, so it’s important for SU students and employees to stay within the university’s systems. ITS cannot monitor security problems if they happen in another mail system, such as Gmail.

The team said keeping ITS up-to-date with the latest methods hackers are using to gain access to systems and services is a challenge they deal with. Every month ITS performs software patches on the SU systems, including the mail systems. This means they update the system’s software. They also subscribe to notifications about new infiltration techniques, or hacks.

In addition, the infrastructure of SU systems are penetration-tested by outside security inspection companies hired by ITS. The security inspection companies will attempt to hack SU’s systems in various ways and at the end, ITS will receive

a report card about the strength of the systems.

Joncas said the tests are a good way to make sure ITS is using an adversary that works well.

These infrastructure tests happen typically on a yearly basis, Joncas said, but each time, they focus on different aspects due to the large size of SU. He added that ITS will usually give these companies information to make them better hackers, which in turn improves SU’s systems.

“They’re on the inside track in the hacking communities,” Joncas said. “… So that tests our ability and our preparedness for things that haven’t come out yet.”

Joncas said protecting email and educating users are only two parts of what it takes to keep the systems secure. People also need to be vigilant in their own lives and with their own devices in order to better secure the technology they use, he said.

“It is a cat and mouse game. It is an arms race and every day we have to up our game to make sure we are one step ahead of theirs,” Joncas said.

“It’s one of those things that you have to be vigilant every day, because if you slip, they’ll get you.”

the sophisticated people who had something to say, so she applied to college to be a writer.

College turned out to be a life-changing experience for both Strayed and her mother.

Strayed was accepted into the University of St. Thomas.

Strayed’s mother continued to be a strong influence throughout her life.

Therefore, the loss of her mother had a hard toll on her during her last year of college.

“I didn’t know how I could exist in a world where my mother didn’t,” Strayed said.

Finding the answer to that question ultimately led her to the journey that created “Wild.”

Strayed got by in life until one winter day she had to shovel out a truck from the snow in front of the restaurant she worked at. Strayed then realized that she had to do the same thing with her life.

She saved money for a couple of weeks and

went on a hike through the PCT. “My journey through the PCT ended with the simple realization of ‘I’m OK,’” Strayed said. “I had 27 cents in my pocket. I didn’t have a job. I didn’t have a degree, but I had finally accepted the loss I had been through.”

Said Strayed: “The most important thing in life is to be able to be in the company of fear and doing things anyway.”

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Hamilton College students summit 46 Adirondack High Peaks

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he 46 high peaks in the Adirondack Mountains total 202,637 feet. A group of about 120 Hamilton College students recently summited them all.

“The kids were silly giddy,” said Andrew Jillings, the director of outdoor leadership and the Hamilton Outing Club’s faculty adviser. “We celebrated with crackers and 46 different cheeses.”

The accomplishment is the second-straight year Hamilton students summited the mountains after 18 years of being unable to do so.

The yearly three-day challenge, which is known campus-wide as 46 Peaks Weekend, is sponsored by the Hamilton Outing Club, a student-run outdoor leadership and adventure organization on campus.

Under the guidance of the Outing Club’s nine student officers, participants have Friday through Sunday to plot, plan and strategize how to summit every peak in the Adirondack range.

The Outing Club’s first successful attempt at climbing the Adirondacks took 18 years to achieve for reasons such as inclement weather, unexpectedly difficult trips and inexperienced climbers. The club’s student officers attribute both this year and last year’s triumphs to beautiful weather, an absence of injuries and meticulously curated itineraries.

It’s just a crazy awesome time that gives people the chance to climb some mountains. It’s also a way for new students to be brought in and just have an amazing weekend.

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The difficulty of the trips up the mountains vary in difficulty; there are easy ones, hard ones and ones in between. And while the choice of trip is ultimately up to the climber,

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the student officers — who run the sign-ups — try and provide some assistance in matching the level of intensity to a student’s ability, said Charlie Ross, one of the Outing Club’s junior student officers.

“When kids come in they see trips they think they can do, but it’s probably not a good idea because they don’t have enough experience,” Ross said. “So we have to guide students towards trips that would be a better fit for them.”

Climbing all 46 mountains is no easy feat, Jillings said, and a lot of behind-the-scenes preparation and planning by the student officer team make the entire weekend possible.

These preparations stem from the officers’ self-appointed responsibility of keeping the three-day weekend as incident-free as possible, said Laura Kwasnoski, a sophomore on the student officer team.

“We have to make sure everyone is staying as sane and healthy and safe as you can be on the mountain,” she said. “If anyone has a problem, we’ve got their backs.”

Arrangements for the event begin two weeks prior to the start date, said Lindsay Pattison, a senior student officer. First, officers organize the trip leaders and create detailed itineraries of where each trip is headed and when.

Then, the following week, a horde of eager students line up outside the Glen House, the Outing Club’s headquarters. Ross said spots for

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1. A Hamilton College student stands atop one of the 46 Adirondack High Peaks. A group of about 120 Hamilton students recently summited all 46 as part of a yearly three-day challenge that is known campus-wide as 46 Peaks Weekend. courtesy of hamilton college 2. The High Peaks of the Adirondacks are a total of 202,637 feet tall. Mount Marcy is the tallest peak at 5,344 feet. It’s located in Essex County, New York. logan reidsma photo editor

the trip went pretty fast this year and filled up within 17 minutes.

“People love it,” Jillings said. “And often, more people want to do it than can fit.”

While the advertised goal of 46 Peaks Weekend is to get a Hamilton student on every one of the peaks in the Adirondacks, all of the student officers agreed that for the 20 years it’s been

happening, the true goal of the weekend is simply to get students outside.

“It’s just a crazy awesome time that gives people the chance to climb some mountains,” Kwasnoski said. “It’s also a way for new students to be brought in and just have an amazing weekend.” brkennedy@syr.edu

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These changes reflect much of what was suggested in the 2014 report by Bain and Co., a global management firm hired by SU to evaluate the university’s efficiency. The report recommended that SU develop a uniform plan to streamline how schools and colleges allocate resources, make hiring decisions and move toward a focus on research and teaching.

As departments were told to make cuts, faculty also feared the possibility of layoffs — an issue that Syverud said they no longer face, due to the success of the university’s Voluntary Separation Incentive Program. The buyout program was announced in July and gave some employees the opportunity to leave the university in exchange for half their yearly salary and other benefits.

“Because of the success of the program …

I do not anticipate institutional involuntary terminations this year,” Syverud said. “And that doesn’t mean it was easy or was easy for faculty and staff and units to contemplate the departure of beloved contributors at all.”

In an interview following the meeting, Syverud said he could not give an exact number of how many employees accepted the buyout.

SU is also slated to improve its research opportunities and funding — an improvement in line with the Strategic Plan. In her address to the senate, Liddy said the university received 634 research proposals and received 510 research awards, which is an all-time high for SU. Alumni and enrollment SU admitted 3,800 new undergraduate and

transfer students this year — 100 more than they expected, Syverud said. This is because there were far fewer students to “melt” before the semester started, or admitted students who don’t end up attending SU. “Normally, there’s a significant group of students who deposit and then don’t come,” Syverud said in an interview following the senate meeting. “Lower melt is a great thing because it means people want to be here, but it does mean we end up with a slightly larger class.”

Compared to other schools, alumni donations at SU lag “way behind” other peers, Syverud said. The university is currently restructuring its Advancement and External Affairs office, which deals with alumni donations, and is in the process of creating a new fundraising campaign.

Other business discussed: – The Senate Agenda Committee has been meeting with the Board of Trustees to develop plans for shared governance between administrators, trustees and faculty. Issues of faculty governance arose last year when the university changed its policies on promotion and tenure.

• Syverud reported that all incoming students have health care insurance. This is a result of the university’s efforts to be compliant with the Affordable Care Act. • The university is still evaluating the feasibility of a veteran-focused medical school. Syverud assured senators that the plan isn’t set in stone.

• The search for a new dean of Hendricks Chapel will begin in January 2016. Before the dean search begins, SU will evaluate Hendricks Chapel itself — something that hasn’t been done since the 1980s, Syverud said. apalme05@syr.edu | @annierpalmer

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Online Outreach Should SU take the approach of offering free online courses for refugee students? Share your thoughts on the online poll.

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Refugee outreach programs need support Syracuse is home to roughly 14,000 refugees, a number similar to that of Syracuse University’s undergraduate student body, and steps need to be taken to help this population.

This movement is not unique to SU. The push to provide accessible education to refugees around the globe is gaining traction with the launch of Kiron University later this month. The online university has partnered with more than 20 universities, including Harvard, Stanford and Yale, to offer a free, three-year program that will grant refugee students an internationally accredited degree, according to Reuters.

In Syracuse, refugees come from all over the world, including Bhutan, Burma, Iraq, Somalia and Vietnam, according to Syracuse University News. Refugees make up approximately 10 percent of the city’s total population and, based on current

trends, the city receives between 1,100 and 1,200 refugees each year, according to Syracuse.com.

There must be increased joint efforts between the SU administration and the student body in continuing to support programs that aid local refugees.

Programs like the Special Refugee scholarship, a full-year tuition award administered by the Office of Admissions with CenterState CEO, and the Syracuse University Program for Refugee Assistance (SUPRA), a registered graduate student organization that provides English classes to refugees in the local community, already exist.

But these resources need to be taken a step further, first by raising awareness about the refugee population in Syracuse among the student body.

After students are made more aware of the refugee situation in Syracuse, they can be encouraged

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to get involved. This involvement could come in the form of a student group that would help refugees with filling out applications to local academic institutions.

Some members of The Daily Orange Editorial Board do not feel that even SU’s support of these programs is enough, and see a push to provide accessible education to refugees as a suitable measure. Others disagree, citing SU as a private institution with an obligation to its own students first.

Regardless of these differences, it is agreed that the SU student body is generally uninformed of the refugee situation in the city, and that unawareness must be overcome first.

In working to address this lack of awareness on campus, SU students and the administration must collaborate to ensure that refugee outreach programs continue to receive the support they need.

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Mattel should make Zendaya Barbie doll available for purchase

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he best kind of beauty is one that breaks the mold.

Mattel presented actress and singer Zendaya Coleman with a lookalike doll in late September at Barbie’s Rock ‘N Royals Benefit Concert for VH1’s Save the Music Foundation.

Immortalization as a doll is honorable, but Mattel’s gesture is to little effect. When a potential buyer asked about purchasing the Barbie on Twitter, Mattel explained that they created the Zendaya doll solely for the artist herself.

But Mattel should mass-produce the Zendaya doll. Apart from the obvious financial benefits for Zendaya and Mattel, the creation of this doll would diversify Barbie’s image and help broaden the beauty standard presented to young girls.

Zendaya is undeniably popular with tweens for having starred on

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Disney’s television show “Shake It Up” from 2010 to 2013 and “K.C. Undercover” starting earlier this year. She is wholesome without being boring, and consistently proves to be a positive, engaging icon for a younger audience.

In the past, the Barbie brand has struggled with accurate representations of black women. About a decade after the first Barbie was created, Mattel released “Colored Francie” in 1967. Essentially, Francie was a darker version of the pre-existing white doll of the same name. Mattel’s failure with “Colored Francie” rests in the fact that she lacked the physical features of a black woman

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and was not marketed as extensively as the non-black versions of Francie.

It’s important that impressionable young girls grow up with images of femininity outside of Eurocentric beauty standards so that when they look in the mirror or look at their peers, they aren’t conditioned to see dark skin or textured hair as undesirable or ugly.

The Barbie with which Zendaya was presented is recognizably a woman of color and is a clear deviation from the fair, blonde-haired, blue-eyed ideal of Barbie. The prototype even has dreadlocks for which Zendaya was ridiculed on E! News earlier this year.

“Fashion Police” host Giuliana Rancic made a comment about how the artist’s hair “smells like patchouli oil or weed.”

Dolls in particular have been instrumental in sampling what children perceive to be beautiful. Studies

have shown that kids have more positive connotations with light-skinned, white-appearing dolls than those with darker skin. The first example of this theory was offered by psychologists Mamie and Kenneth Clark in their famous 1947 doll test. The Clarks presented their child subjects with white and brown dolls, and measured the children’s positive and negative reactions to dolls in each color.

Margaret Beale Spencer, a professor at University of Chicago, conducted a 2010 experiment similar to that of the Clarks’. The results confirmed that even in the modern, post-segregation, supposedly “post-racial” age, kids are absorbing messages about beauty and value based on skin color.

Some Twitter users have criticized Mattel’s choice of a light-skinned celebrity as a safe one due to the fact

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that colorism, a phenomenon that favors people of color with lighter complexion, is a pervasive factor in beauty standards. But Zendaya’s complexion is arbitrary in that she is an icon for young girls of color.

Ultimately, the wide-scale production of this doll would enable Mattel to continue to create a more diverse cast for kids. Barbie as a character has had her token minority friends, but women of color are more than accessories and the Zendaya doll would aid in this shift.

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lourie in enterprises promoting and expanding the accessibility of health care in New York state, under the leadership of Knickman.

“Health care is such a huge topic in America and (Knickman) has spent a large part of his professional career researching about how people cope without health insurance and how we can make health insurance more accessible,” said Len Lopoo, the director of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs’ Center for Policy Research, which coordinates and plans the event in its entirety using the funds allotted by the CNY Community Foundation and the university. “So it just seemed that he was the perfect candidate to further this discussion on the Syracuse campus.”

Lopoo and the Center for Policy Research hope to see people from all over the Syracuse community — including the surrounding medical facilities such as Crouse Hospital, SUNY Upstate Medical Center — attend the event.

They added that they hope SU students, faculty and staff and other members of the community who are directly affected by the health care system in America come to the lecture.

While the Center for Policy Research plans for the event, the Central New York Community Foundation manages the fund, and thus, sponsors the event every year using the money from it.

“Our role is to support people in achieving charitable goals and to help make sure that those goals are achieved through funds like these,” said Jennifer Owens, vice president of development and marketing at the Central New York Community Foundation.

The Central New York Community Foundation manages about 710 funds, each with a distinct goal and purpose. Owens pointed out that a number of the funds the CNYCF oversees are memorial funds.

“People are motivated because they are looking for a way to honor someone when they die suddenly,” Owens said.

Health care is such a huge topic in America and (Knickman) has spent a large part of his professional career researching about how people cope without health insurance and how we can make health insurance more accessible.

Len Lopoo director of the center for policy research

Owens added that charity is often a way to lessen the pain by doing something to honor their memory. She said there are a lot of non-memorial funds, but “there’s something about tragedy that makes people want to do good.”

“We would love for everyone in our community — faculty, staff, students, administrators — to attend,” Lopoo said. “I think it’s a really great opportunity to see what health care in this country looks like and the direction it’s heading in.” jorland@syr.edu

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CASEY HARRIS, X Ambassadors’ keyboardist, rocked out throughout the group’s set, dancing and headbanging with the music. The alternative-rock band played to a soldout audience Wednesday night at the Schine Underground as the first Bandersnatch concert of the semester. The concert series is organized by Univeristy Union.

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alk into the United Kingdom’s Pavilion at the Milan Expo and you’ll find the foods that typify the expectation of Britain — scones, sandwiches, tea and fish and chips. But every day, I walk the streets of London and am overcome by the Americanization of restaurants and the onslaught of fast-food options.

The American cuisine offered at the Expo was fitting, serving barbeque, burgers and hot dogs. To me, that seems to be the cuisine of London as well. When I walk to the tube in the morning, I pass three McDonald’s, two Pret A Mangers, a Subway and a Starbucks. All options I saw in New York City this summer.

I spent my weekend in Italy — Milan and Venice — and experienced genuine cuisine. Most students go abroad and immerse themselves in that local cuisine, but all I can say I’ve eaten are a whole lot of sandwiches. Maybe that is British, but I’m constantly struck by the mass of fast-food imports from the United States. Most shocking, perhaps, is the prevalence of Ben and Jerry’s storefronts throughout Central London.

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COMING BACK WITH AN ACCENT The Expo celebrates the different foods of the world while also trying to educate people on world hunger. Its slogan is “Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life,” and the first pavilion I went into chronicled human interaction with food from hunting and gathering to the factory farms of today. Pavilion Zero also explored the food humans waste, reporting that we waste more than a third of the food we produce, which is enough to feed everyone in developing countries that go hungry every day.

So I found it interesting to walk the rest of the expo and see trash cans filled with wasted food, but it really got me thinking about the food consumption habits in the UK, especially fast food.

It’s important to note that fast-food outlets in England are far nicer than those in the U.S. McDonald’s offer ample seating and clean, two-story restaurants at many locations, while

Starbucks serves pastries warmed up on plates if the patron chooses to eat in the store. On the other hand, Pret A Manger, which originated in London, looks much the same as it does in America.

Pret is the ultimate British fast food, serving primarily sandwiches, coffee, tea and pastries. The density of the chain in London is remarkable. Last week, walking back to class after a break, I passed two Prets before choosing to go in a third and bring my food back to campus. With a bag in my hand, I passed two more stores on the way back. In 2012, The Guardian reported 176 of their stores in London, compared to 205 McDonald’s, according to the company itself in 2013. From my perspective in 2015, a Pret logo is far more common than the golden arches.

In the midst of all this cheap food, it is contradictory that the Daily Mail reported on hunger as a “public health emergency” in Britain less than two years ago, and it doesn’t seem to have gotten much better. This is where the lessons of Pavilion Zero are needed – this country, like America and many others

in the so-called first world, can provide more than enough food to feed their entire population and more, but don’t.

In May of this year, the World Health Organization reported on a growing obesity crisis in the UK, saying that nearly three quarters of English men and more than 60 percent of women will be obese by 2030.

These are staggering numbers that do not make sense when taken in the context of the country’s concurrent hunger epidemic.

America faces many of the same problems, such as a wealth gap. The British middle class is shrinking just like America’s.

These issues are hard to see when fast-food gauntlets line the streets with prices that seem entirely affordable. Educational opportunities such as the Milan Expo are vital to showing the world that these problems exist, even when they aren’t immediately obvious.

Jack Rose is a junior broadcast and digital journalism major. You can email him at jlrose@syr.edu or follow him @jrose94 on Twitter.

Life in Color brings popular EDM acts to Syracuse Oncenter

By Delaney Van Wey asst. web editor

Someone in Syracuse is going to be caked.

Onstage, EDM powerhouse DJ Steve Aoki goes beyond the typical champagne spray. His

iconic stunt is “caking” fans in the face. The hyperactive DJ makes a point at nearly every show to get out from behind the booth and throw at least one sheet cake into the crowd.

Aoki will be at Life In Color, a global concert tour coming to the Oncenter this Friday. The

EDM concert will feature Aoki, LIC veteran David Solano and EDM up-and-comer Reid Stefan. The event starts at 7 p.m. and will be held in the Nicholas J. Pirro Convention Center.

An instantly recognizable name in the EDM scene, Steve Aoki is one of the highest paid DJs in the world, according to Billboard. com. He plays at hundreds of shows and festivals throughout the year and is known for his stage theatrics.

Founded by college students in 2006, LIC was originally a smaller-scale event called Dayglow. Now, it calls itself the “World’s Largest Paint Party” and has sold out shows around the world. The concert itself is a cross between a paint party and a rave; concertgoers throw neon paint at each other and dance non-stop to EDM bangers.

“LIC’s goal is to provide world-class entertainment to EDM fans, we want you to go and have fun with your friends and create memories that last a life time,” said Paul Reed, director of marketing for LIC in an email. “LIC is a chance to escape reality, be yourself, and dance the night away with your friends.”

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This year, the tour’s theme is the “Big Bang” and the invention of color. Concertgoers will be taken through the process of how color was created, according to the event’s website.

“The production for this year’s show is the biggest and best we have ever done. We always stride to provide the best experience possible,” Reed said in an email.

Aoki was No. 45 on Rolling Stone’s “50 Most Important People in EDM” list in 2014 and his recently released album, “Neon Future Odyssey,” is currently No. 13 on iTunes’ dance chart.

His remix of Kid Cudi’s “Pursuit of Happiness” from the “Project X” soundtrack is one of his most familiar tracks, but another rap-infused song, “Delirious (Boneless),” has also climbed high on the charts. On Billboard’s Hot 100, it reached No. 90 and on the Hot Dance/ Electronic Songs chart it peaked at No. 9.

Fellow DJ David Solano, who will also be performing at LIC Syracuse, has also received an increasing amount of recognition from the EDM community. He has been featured on multiple popular dance podcasts, including “Clublife” by Tiësto.

Solano has been with LIC since the beginning and is the resident DJ. The CEO and founder of LIC is his brother, Sebastian, according to a Nov. 11, 2010, Tampa Bay Times article.

Solano has also been featured on the last three LIC anthems, on which he has partnered with R3hab, Adventure Club and Borgeous.

The latest, “Big Bang,” was in the tour’s promotional video and has a high probability of being performed this Friday.

While he may not be the resident DJ or a global powerhouse, Reid Stefan — the final DJ in the lineup — is just getting started. In 2012, he won Beatport Play’s remix contest and, in 2013, his original work “Shocker” won Hardwell’s unsigned track contest, according to a June 24 Trapstyle.com article.

He is now signed to Aoki’s label, Dim Mak, but has not yet released an album. dovanwey@syr.edu

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Syracuse Snarl to bring zombie models to life in annual Halloween-inspired fashion show

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orty models covered in professional makeup, leather outfits and fake blood will walk down the runway at the third annual Syracuse Snarl Show this weekend.

The fashion show, put on by Syracuse Fashion Week, will be on Saturday Oct. 10 at 8 p.m. at the Landmark Theater. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are $10 and include entry into both the fashion show and an after-party. The show also includes a costume contest and a 50/50 raffle.

Preparation for the show began in late July, with Syracuse Fashion Week representatives reaching out to local designers, said Lisa Butler, the organization’s head director.

Now, along with the 40 models, there are eight

hairstylists and eight makeup artists working to make the event happen.

In the spirit of Halloween, the event will showcase outfits based on iconic horror movie characters, including characters from “Carrie,” “Poltergeist,” “The Bride of Frankenstein,” “Friday the 13th” and “The Exorcist.” Each of the films the show selected has an entire look created around it. Most of the looks are from Syracuse Fashion Week’s own line of clothing.

At the start of the event, the models and the clothing they wear will be like any other fashion show. But, as the night progresses, the models’ costumes will start to get wilder.

Women and men dressed as zombies, vampires and corpses will saunter down the long runway, Shannon Fleming said.

“We start with very traditional fashion-based designs,” said Fleming, the show’s hair and makeup coordinator. “Then we go crazy.”

Most of the artists have worked at Syracuse Fashion Week before, but some are new to the organization. Since the show has a mix of traditional and horror looks, experienced artists had to be found to pull off the fake blood and cinematic makeup, while also being able to use high-fashion makeup. Butler said the show will “explode with the horror-themed looks.”

Both Butler and Fleming hinted at a couple surprises during the show and after-party.

“We have a great DJ,” Fleming said. “It’ll be a lot of fun, so stick around after the show.”

The event will also have multiple vendors with Halloween-themed products. Carmelo’s Ink City, a local tattoo parlor, will bring some full-body paint art. Guests are encouraged to come in costume to compete in the annual costume contest.

The Landmark Theater will play an integral part of the show.

“It’s crazy beautiful,” Butler said. “It’s a his-

toric, old-time movie palace, and it’s haunted.”

Legend states Clarissa is one of Landmark’s resident ghosts and has famously haunted the theater for decades. Landmark’s employees and professional ghost hunters say that not only do the ghosts exist, but their presence adds to the theater’s atmosphere.

Legend has it that in the early 1930s, shortly after the theater opened, Clarissa witnessed her lover die of electrocution while working backstage. Another version of the tale states that she was an actress who was distraught from losing an important audition. The story ends the same way with Clarissa throwing herself off the balcony. “(The show is a) really cool event to see people’s inner creative minds work,” Fleming said.

“It’s zombies and monsters which are wild and crazy, so we can just let loose.” amendes@syr.edu

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thompson “We just have to work on the inconsistencies.

He’s got to be able to play every snap, run or pass, with a high level of consistency. And he knows that.”

Six years ago, Thompson was off to a slow start in his first season at Southfield (Michigan) High School. The coaches knew they wanted the sophomore at tight end and defensive end, but he didn’t have much experience on defense and wasn’t in the best shape.

Vernon Burden, Southfield’s defensive line coach, told Thompson he could split reps as a backup in each spot until he was ready to start at one or the other. He did that for four weeks, grew frustrated and showed the coaches why he should never leave the field.

The Blue Jays’ opponent tried running a stretch handoff on the doorstep of the red zone.

Thompson burst off the edge and stripped the running back in one motion, running 70 yards untouched for a score.

“That’s when it became, ‘Why would we ever sub this kid out?’” Burden said. “If I had my

choice obviously I would have loved for him to focus on becoming a great defensive end. But that happened naturally for him, and he was so effective on both sides of the ball.”

Syracuse technically recruited Thompson as a four-star tight end — he’s the only four-star recruit on the Orange’s current roster — and switched to defensive line after an injury-filled redshirt year in 2012.

At the time, Lester was two years away from implementing his own offense but pictured Thompson running post routes in his spread attack. Syracuse had other plans, and Thompson’s athleticism made him a movable piece in Daoust’s unit.

Thompson rotated in at defensive end as a redshirt freshman and finished with 20 tackles, 4.5 tackles for loss and two sacks. As a sophomore, he was shifted inside to defensive tackle and collected just 32 tackles, seven tackles for loss and three sacks while starting all 12 games.

“He never griped one bit to me. He wanted to be on the field,” Daoust said in August. “Physically, tackle is a different position and there’s a lot more opportunities to double-team a guy

like him inside. I’m sure he’s glad he got the experience but never wants to do it again.”

Now he’s four games into his first-ever season as a full-time starter at defensive end, and he’s making the most of time and space.

After only playing in special situations against Rhode Island in Week 1, Thompson heated up against in Central Michigan in Week 3 with five solo tackles, three tackles for loss, two sacks and two forced fumbles. In Syracuse’s 34-24 loss to LSU in Week 4, Thompson had a sack-fumble with just three linemen rushing the passer, and batted down a Brandon Harris pass later in the game.

Next it’s on to Tampa Bay, then Charlottesville, Virginia, and then the rest of the Orange’s season. There are more offensive tackles to dance around. More double teams to split. More effort to tap into and consistency to find.

Thompson, by his coaches’ estimations, is only getting started.

“He does at least one thing a day where I’m like, ‘Huh? Really?’” Lester said. “And then I realize it’s Ron Thompson and it all makes sense.” jcdoug01@syr.edu | @dougherty_jesse

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hilpert freshmen split reps in practice.

“I like situations when people put pressure on you,” Hilpert said. “I think I (have) a way to enjoy these situations. I’m not nervous, I try to see the opportunities.”

I like situations when people put pressure on you. I think I (have) a way to enjoy these situations. I’m not nervous, I try to see the opportunities.

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With Aviza playing every minute between the posts in practice and games, Hilpert put up a façade of competition while injured. He kneeled on the sidelines during practice and had goalkeepers coach Matt Stith throw balls at his chest while Aviza fended off real shots.

Stith was shocked at the rate at which Hilpert recovered, continuously taking balls straight to his chest without leaning to his left or right.

HENDRIK HILPERT is likely going to get his third straight start against North Carolina after giving up a goal to both Duke and Albany. Hilpert replaced former starting goalkeeper Austin Aviza after Aviza started nine games this season. riley bunch staff photographer

“His technique is unbelievable,” Stith said.

“I’ve never seen someone work as hard as he did to get back.”

Hilpert boasts an equally strong left and right foot — a skill Stith dubbed “super sick” —, which Aviza said is unusual to see from a goalkeeper in American soccer.

He works on his footing during games — shuffling his feet forward going to the left, then back and to the right, left again and then back right.

He’s used the entire box to accumulate five saves through two starts, sprawling to his left to making a diving save against Albany on Tuesday night.

He leapt high and deflected a booming shot against Duke destined for the upper-right corner — his first career save.

Instead of describing the moment days later, Hilpert pulled out his phone to show off the video of the play his friends sent him. He smiled looking down at his phone screen, slyly remarking he was unsurprised he stopped the shot.

“For him, it’s routine,” Stith said of Hilpert’s save. “For other goalkeepers, it’s not. He

made it look so easy.

“I’m sitting on my couch thinking like, ‘Damn.’”

Hilpert brings versatility in net that perhaps Aviza lacked in the eyes of Syracuse’s coaches. The Orange ranks last in the ACC with 2.30 saves per game while allowing nearly three and a half shots on goal per game.

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The plan may have been to give Hilpert the season-opening nod in goal, but an early-season injury derailed that prospect.

McIntyre maintains the competition is an open one, but it’s clear SU wants to see what Hilpert has to offer.

“Maybe the easy decision is to go with Austin, but I have a lot of faith in both of our goalkeepers,” McIntyre said. “…The only way you’re ever going to get an opportunity is to play.” cgrossma@syr.edu | @connorgrossman

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CB Kelton Brackett finds home at Massachusetts after leaving UAB

By Liam Sullivan staff writer

Kelton Brackett didn’t want to play football anymore. The decision by University of Alabama at Birmingham to discontinue its program left him devastated.

Instead of responding to UMass defensive coordinator Tom Masella, yet another coach trying to court him to his program, Brackett flipped his phone over and went back to playing NBA 2K15.

“That was probably my low point,” Brackett said. “After losing the program and my family, I just wanted to forget about football.”

Brackett’s girlfriend Kendra Gilchrist knew he needed football and felt tired of the “black cloud” surrounding him. She took matters into her own hands by posing as Brackett and texting Masella back.

He didn’t know Gilchrist had been on his phone until the second text from Masella came through. Now that she had expressed interest, Brackett felt obliged to at least give UMass a chance.

He met with Masella in Birmingham and then visited the UMass campus before becoming a Minuteman for his senior season. Though he’s seen limited action at cornerback this season due to injury, Brackett has found a new home at UMass. He’s leaning on four years of experience at UAB — which recently reinstated its football program — to help his new teammates realize the opportunity in front of them, an opportunity he had temporarily snatched away just 10 months ago.

“He enjoys playing, has a great presence and has a smile on his face,” said head coach Mark Whipple. “… He fit right in and we’re really fortunate to have him.”

In his junior year at UAB, Brackett battled foot and leg injuries playing in just three games. When the program was shut down for financial reasons, Brackett planned on healing up, finishing out his senior year as a student and getting his degree.

After Gilchrist answered that text, things changed. During the second day of Brackett’s visit to UMass, she noticed during a phone call that Brackett seemed rejuvenated by the prospect of playing again. Without taking any other visits, he committed two weeks later.

He thought about the past and worried about his future throughout that summer.

During the transition to a new team he found himself thinking of what could have been during a senior year in Birmingham.

“Of course he tried to say that everything was okay, but he had devoted all these years and hard work to that football team,” Gilchrist said. “He had these relationships with all these players and coaches and it was taken so suddenly. So no matter how good UMass seemed initially, there’s no way it couldn’t affect him in a horrible way.”

The first weekend upon arriving at UMass, Brackett played paintball with some of the other defensive backs. He had never been before and got shot a lot, but just being invited on the trip made him feel welcomed.

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KELTON BRACKETT has found his place with the Massachusetts football team after Alabama-Birmingham discontinued its program in December of last year. Brackett nearly gave up on playing football again. courtesy of umass athletics

whole team for the first time, Bracket realized while he could never recreate the past, being a member of a tight-knit team wasn’t exclusive to UAB. “If you feel like you can hang out with the person beside you, you’re going to die for him on the field,” Brackett said. “The little things they did…helped me feel at home.”

Now he passes advice on to younger players.

With three years of experience under his belt, Brackett makes for a great football resource.

But the lesson he preaches most to young players isn’t about coverages, playing balls in the air or stepping up to defend the run.

It’s to make the most of the opportunity in front of them.

“After football was taken away from me at my first school, I get a special feeling every time I step on the field,” Brackett said. “This season, I look up at the lights and I know I’ve got my second chance.” lpsull01@syr.edu

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hile the Syracuse coaches eased Ivan Foy through a switch to left tackle before this season, Ron Thompson didn’t give Foy any time to get comfortable.

First Thompson would spin to the inside. Then came a swim move to the outside. Then he’d line up, time the snap count perfectly and

Thompson has recorded 16.5 tackles for loss in 29 career games for the Orange.

“He was going right by him and I had to keep telling Foy the same

thing,” offensive coordinator Tim Lester said. “‘You’re doing well, you’re getting better. Ron Thompson is just a damn good defensive end.’”

So far this season, Syracuse’s opponents are also finding that Thompson is a wrecking ball off the edge. Lester called him a “freak of nature.”

SU head coach Scott Shafer said Thompson is one of the best edge rushers he’s coached. Through four games, his four sacks are tied for sec-

ond on the team and are tied for second in the Atlantic Coast Conference.

His three forced fumbles tie him with Duke safety Jeremy Cash for the conference lead, and Cash has played one more game.

But the most intriguing thing about Thompson isn’t his gaudy numbers. It’s that the junior is rapidly improving, game by game, learning to read offenses and tuning himself to go all out on every play.

Syracuse’s (3-1, 1-0 Atlantic Coast) next test comes at South Florida (1-3, 0-1 American Athletic) at 3:30 p.m. on Saturday, and it’s another chance for Thompson to be less of just an “athlete” and more of an “athletic defensive end.”

“I see a kid that can play football at a very high level, anywhere in the country on any Saturday,” said Tim Daoust, SU’s defensive line coach. see thompson page 12

men’s soccer

Hilpert takes over as Syracuse GK after recovering from injury

By Connor Grossman asst. sports editor

Following Syracuse’s 2-0 win over Colgate on Sept. 29, Hendrik Hilpert told coaches he was ready. Freshman goalkeeper Austin Aviza just wrapped up his third shutout of the season, and Hilpert spent the last two weeks practicing on his knees.

A “high-octane” preseason battle between the two freshmen netminders lasted all of four days before Hilpert was sidelined with a tear in his quadriceps. Aviza was the impromptu victor, but Hilpert’s tryout was never resolved.

Three days after signaling his health to SU’s coaches, the culminating moment of a dormant com-

petition came after breakfast at the team hotel in Durham, North Carolina, just hours before kickoff against Duke on Friday.

“The decision’s been made,” Hilpert recalled head coach Ian McIntyre telling him. “Go out and play.

Help us win games.”

Aviza sat for the first time in nine games against the Blue Devils. The

goalkeeper switch came despite Aviza averaging one goal allowed — a mark Hilpert’s matched through his first two games.

McIntyre leaned on a coaching cliché — “game-to-game” — when asked about handling the goalkeeping situation. But the Orange’s head coach was adamant Hilpert needed experience, tipping him as the likely

starter for No. 22 SU (8-2-1, 2-1-1 Atlantic Coast) when it travels to Chapel Hill, North Carolina to play No. 2 UNC (9-0-1, 4-0) on Saturday.

The plan has long been for the team to get Hilpert a look in goal, McIntyre said, but uncertainty looms as Aviza said he has “no clue” at the length of Hilpert’s starting window, and the

see hilpert page 12