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The Sport Management Club at SU will be hosting a charity auction next weekend during the Syracuse vs. Boston University basketball game.

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Five central New York crocheters share memories while giving each other advice, suggestions and admiring each other’s work in their Facebook group.

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Syracuse men’s soccer’s season ended on Sunday with a 1-0 loss to No. 9 seed North Carolina. The Orange began the season with eight straight wins.

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MEETING DEMAND

As international student enrollment increases, resources have not

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By Rachel Sandler and Satoshi Sugiyama the daily orange

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or years, Shuohan Zhang had been preparing to go to an American college or university.

Her parents, convinced the United States’ higher education system was better than what’s offered in China, sent her to an international high school, where she took the ACT and the TOEFL, a test measuring English language proficiency.

But three months into her freshman year at Syracuse University, Zhang, who has not yet declared her major, has found that no amount of testing and studying could have prepared her for life at SU, particularly speaking and writing in English.

Although international students are required to take English as a second language classes at

SU, those classes sometimes aren’t enough. This semester, Zhang ended up dropping one of her classes — human geography — because she was expected to complete four long essay assignments.

We’re talking about a campus that is fundamentally different than it was 10 years ago because of the presence of international students.

Mehrzad Boroujerdi chair of the political science department at su

“I think the most challenging part is the writing part,” she said. “And because when I was in high school I did not have such amount you need to write. In the first essay (at SU) I needed to write 1,500 words and I had not written so much.”

Zhang is one of an increasing number of international students studying at colleges and universities in the U.S. The Institute of International Education found the number of international students in U.S. is up 7.1 percent compared to last year, surpassing 1 million for the first time.

At SU, international student enrollment has risen drastically over the past decade, increasing 143 percent since 2006. Now, international students make up almost one-fifth of the total see students page 4

Police arrest 2 in student murder Judge blocks pay rule before implementation

By Michael Burke asst. news editor

Two arrests have been made in connection to the murder of Syracuse University student Xiaopeng “Pippen” Yuan.

Cameron Isaac, 23, of North Syracuse and Ninimbe Mitchell, 20, of North Syracuse have each been charged with murder in the second degree, robbery in the first degree and criminal possession of

a weapon in the second degree.

Yuan was found dead behind the Springfield Garden Apartments located on Caton Drive on Sept.

30. Drugs were found in Yuan’s car upon the arrival of law enforcement, which led them to believe there had been a drug transaction gone wrong, Onondaga County Sheriff Eugene Conway said.

In a statement to the SU community, Senior Vice President and Dean of Student Affairs

Rebecca Reed Kantrowitz and Department of Public Safety Chief Bobby Maldonado called the crime an isolated incident.

They also called the arrests of Isaac and Mitchell the “first step toward justice for Xiaopeng.”

Isaac and Mitchell were each arraigned in the Town of DeWitt Court and are currently being held in the Onondaga County Justice Center without bail. mdburk01@syr.edu

By Haley Kim asst. copy editor

A Texas judge blocked President Barack Obama’s upcoming overtime pay threshold change, which is set to be implemented on Thursday.

United States District Judge Amos Mazzant of the U.S. District

Court for the Eastern District of Texas ordered an injunction against the Fair Labor Standards Act last Tuesday. The rule would allow 4 million people nationwide to be qualified for extra compensation.

At Syracuse University, the Department of Human Resources see overtime page 7

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Freshman to pursue music industry passion

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For freshman music industry major Jordan Reynoso, family had a big influence on her musical background. Her cousin was a singer along with her grandfather, who is from Ecuador and has been sing ing a nd traveling since a young age.

REYNOSO “My entire family likes to say they all sing, but they don’t actually sing,” she said.

“They are, however, so supportive of my music.”

Reynoso’s love of music came by chance. She initially auditioned for the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School, a performing arts school in New York City, because it was a school where her twin brother wasn’t going to be.

But she got in and, shortly after starting there, fell even more in love with music.

Her musical career kicked off when she started playing acoustic electric guitar. Soon after she started writing her own songs.

W hen she was a sophomore, a girl in her class asked her to write a song together. She pinpoints this moment as when she realized she wanted to pursue a career in music.

Outside of classes, Reynoso

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keeps busy. She is a member of the a cappella group Main Squeeze, and also has begun recording her first original album at Syracuse University Recordings. She said each of the groups have taught her quite a bit about what she likes and doesn’t like.

“Main Squeeze socially taught me a lot, and has really helped with my college transition,” she said.

Along with Main Squeeze and Syracuse University Records, Reynoso is also involved with two choirs, Hendricks and Women’s Choir.

Looking forward, Reynoso is looking into the Setnor School of Music’s new five-year MBA program, which ties in with the Whitman School of Management to complete a music industry major.

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her future after SU, Reynoso isn’t entirely sure what she wants to do. She said she would enjoy being a talent recruiter, but in a dream world, she’d write and perform her own music.

“I kind of want to dip my toes into everything, so I don’t really know what I want to do yet,” Reynoso said. gnasteri@syr.edu

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See photos of people across the U.S. gathering to protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline.

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Outreach programs in Syracuse work to combat homelessness in the city, especially in winter.

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NSF grant awards research

By Sam Ogozalek staff writer

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A multidisciplinary team of researchers at Syracuse University was awarded a $344,184 grant from the National Science Foundation to pursue a two-year research project on the potential creation of cybersecurity threats with the modernization of electric power grids.

The modernization will be done through the development of smart grid technologies and the decentralization of energy markets.

The team is led by Jason Dedrick, a professor at the SU School of Information Studies, according to an SU News release.

Three other researchers will work with Dedrick, according to the release: Peter Wilcoxen, a professor of public administration and international affairs at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs; Steve Chapin, an associate professor of computer science at the College of Engineering and Computer Science; and Keli Perrin, the assistant director of the Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism.

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crime briefs

Standing ground

Here is a round-up of criminal activity that happened near campus this week.

1. Law enforcement releases tear gas to disperse the crowd gathered at the barricade as part of the Standing Rock protest from Nov. 20.

2. Jules from Philadelphia recovers at the Mess Hall at Oceti Sakowin main camp gathering at the barricade.

3. Protesters of the Dakota Access Pipeline use tarps to protect the sacred fires from the law enforcement water hoses. photos by frankie prijatel senior staff photographer

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Club to host charity College to award event in the Dome memorial scholarship

By Jordan Muller staff writer

Signed sports memorabilia, electronics and sporting-event tickets will be up for auction on Dec. 10, when the Syracuse men’s basketball team hosts Boston University.

The items will be available at the 12th Annual Charity Sports Auction, which will be hosted

by Syracuse University’s Sport Management Club in the Carrier Dome during the game.

Proceeds from the auction will benefit the McMahon/ Ryan Child Advocacy Center, a Syracuse-based nonprofit organization that provides legal and medical resources for abused children and their families.

Items will be set up on tables

behind the basketball court for people to browse and bid on during the game, said Christina Myers, SPM Club vice president of community service.

“Basketballs signed by Jim Boeheim and the basketball teams are pretty popular,” Myers added.

Items will be sold in a silent auction format throughout the game.

The Annual Charity Sports Auction is the SPM Club’s largest event of the year, said Stephen Marciello, SPM Club vice president of programming. The club began planning for the December auction last January.

About 100 volunteers are working to organize the Charity Sports Auction this year, said Kyle O’Connor, auction co-chair and a see auction page 4

By Madeleine Davison staff writer

Syracuse University’s College of Engineering and Computer Science will award the first Nelson L. Nemerow Memorial Scholarship for environmental engineering graduate students this upcoming spring.

The scholarship will be given to research focused on water conservation and preservation.

It was endowed in memory of Nelson Nemerow, a professor at SU and a pioneer of environmental protection, by his son Glen Nemerow. Glen, who belongs to the Scripps Research Institute, graduated from Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences in 1973.

Glen said Nemerow was “real-

ly ahead of the curve in terms of understanding how important clean water was.”

As a professor, Nelson founded SU’s environmental engineering program in 1976. It was one of the first programs of its kind at any university nationwide, according to his obituary in the San Diego Union-Tribune.

Nelson was a well-known researcher, who sought to find “ways to reclaim polluted water … allow industry to make the best use of their resources … (and) treat water as a precious commodity,” Glen said.

His father wrote several books and hundreds of articles on water pollution, conservation and treatment, according to the San Diego Union-Tribune.

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A Rochester, New York, man, 41, was arrested on the charge of petit larceny, according to a police bulletin. when: Saturday at 5:10 p.m. where: Destiny USA A Syracuse woman, 52, was arrested on the charge of the petit larceny, according to a police bulletin. when: Tuesday at 1:47 p.m. where: Destiny USA A Syracuse girl, 17, was arrested on the charge of petit larceny, according to a police bulletin. when: Tuesday at 5:41 p.m. where: Destiny USA A Syracuse woman, 48, was arrested on the charge of petit larceny, according to a police bulletin. when: Nov. 20 at 8:30 p.m. where: Destiny USA RESISTING ARREST A Syracuse woman, 20, was arrested on the charges of resisting arrest and obstructing governmental administration in the second degree, according to a police bulletin. when: Thursday at 9 p.m. where: Destiny USA See dailyorange.com for our interactive crime map.

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students student population.

But as the number of international students on campus has increased, resources supporting students like Zhang have not kept pace, some on campus say. SU recently launched an internationalization council that, among other things, will seek to support international students. The council met for the first time just before Thanksgiving break.

The problem was concern enough for the University Senate Committee on Budget and Fiscal Affairs to recommend SU increase funding for the Slutzker Center for International Services, the primary support structure for international students on campus, in a January 2014 report. The Slutzker Center, the report said, needs more money for staffing and an operating budget to keep up with the growth in international student enrollment.

“We’re talking about a campus that is fundamentally different than it was 10 years ago because of the presence of international students … and it’s time for us to take these things more seriously,” said Mehrzad Boroujerdi, chair of the political science department at SU and the council on internationalization.

Almost a year after the University Senate released the January 2014 report, the Slutzker Center found itself with even less staff than before. The result limited a staff that, according to the report, was already underfunded and understaffed. A Slutzker Center staff member was one of the 254 SU employees who took a buyout package from the university in 2015.

SU’s Voluntary Separation Incentive Program allowed non-faculty members whose combined age and years of service totaled more than 65 to retire immediately in exchange for select benefits and a single payment of half of their base annual salary.

After the buyout was announced, the Chancellor’s Workgroup on Diversity and Inclusion recommended the university

STUDYING ABROAD The number of international students at Syracuse University has increased by more than 800 between 2013 and 2015

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rehire another staff member at the Slutzker Center to replace the one who took the buyout. Although the university has said it would follow the Workgroup’s recommendation, the position has not been filled and the Slutzker Center is stretched thin, said Patricia Burak, director of the Slutzker Center.

“The delay puts an enormous amount of pressure on the rest of the staff,” she said. “… We are stretched to the max for doing the necessary. And the additional support things we would love to do will just have to stay on hold until it becomes a higher priority at the university.”

Yaqing Xu came to the U.S. after completing her undergraduate degree at a Chinese university. Although transitioning to an American college environment was not difficult for Xu, she said, she struggled to make friends with other students and participate in class because of the language and cultural barrier.

Xu especially felt the gap between international students and U.S. students when

she was taking in an information policy course. As American students engaged in discussion over current affairs with a professor, international students — mostly from India and China — remained silent, she said.

“All semester, I’ve been watching people discuss,” Xu said.

Toward the end of her second year in graduate school, Xu said her attitudes began to change as she became more willing to socialize with others and felt less afraid of making mistakes as her English improved.

“There’s nothing to be afraid of,” she said.

“There’s nothing to fear. But I think I realized that too late.”

Burak said she and her staff at the Slutzker Center realize that cultural and language barriers present significant challenges for some international students, especially freshmen, both in the classroom and in their social circles. The Slutzker Center hosts a number of programs to help students adjust, but those programs require staff and fundfrom page 3

auction former columnist for The Daily Orange.

Each year, the SPM Club interviews representatives of charities and nonprofit organizations to select the beneficiary of the auction’s proceeds. O’Connor said the SPM Club selected the McMahon/Ryan Child Advocacy Center because it is a local charity that helps kids in the Syracuse area.

The McMahon/Ryan Center really has a direct impact on the Syracuse Community, and that’s why we want to help them.

Kyle O’Connor auction co-chair

“The McMahon/Ryan Center really has a direct impact on the Syracuse community, and that’s why we wanted to help them,” O’Connor said.

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scholarship Part of the reason Glen established the fund was to make sure the field remembers his father’s contributions.

He added that on a personal level, his father’s work inspired him to embark on his own career in biomedical research.

“My father … used to take me into the laboratories and show me how he measured bacterial contamination in the water, and so at a pretty early age, I was getting exposed to

ing that the Slutzker Center doesn’t always have, Burak said.

For example, the Slutzker Center runs a peer mentorship program for undergraduate students. Mentors are paid graduate students who are always on call to answer questions about life at SU. Graduate students found out about the program and want something similar, but there’s not any funding for it, Burak said.

The Writing Center has also seen an increase in international students, though its resources have not met the heightened demand. During the spring 2016 semester, 52 percent of all appointments made at the Writing Center were from international students, said Ben Erwin, director of the Writing Center. The center has to frequently turn students away, Erwin said, and would benefit from additional resources from the university.

“More than anything, the university needs to look closely at the many organizations and entities across campus that complement and supplement the education of international students and ensure those organizations have the resources to adequately serve students,” Erwin added.

SU’s recently-formed internationalization council, which met for the first time on Nov. 16, created a group to research and then make recommendations about international students on campus.

But, Boroujerdi said, it is too early to tell if the internationalization council will recommend increased funding or resources for the Slutzker Center, the Writing Center or other services for international students on campus. And since the Council is an advisory body, there is no guarantee that any recommendations will actually be implemented, like the University Senate report from 2014.

“I’m hopeful about the direction we’re going in,” Burak said. “Nothing has happened yet, but I’m hopeful.” rsandler@syr.edu | @rachsandl ssugiyam@syr.edu | @SatoshiJournal

and physical abuse in the Syracuse area. The McMahon/Ryan Center has approached the SPM Club in the past, but this is the first year it was selected as the auction’s recipient.

O’Connor said the McMahon/Ryan Center’s goal to help child victims of abuse resonated with members of the SPM Club.

“I really think people rallied around the idea that they are helping kids that might not have parents to talk to or get help from,” O’Connor added. “For many kids in Syracuse, the McMahon/Ryan Center is their only resource.”

Myers, SPM Club vice president, said the Charity Sports Auction has raised $312,000 in the last 11 years for organizations such as the Salvation Army and the Make-a-Wish Foundation.

While the Charity Sports Auction has always been successful, O’Connor said he hopes this year’s auction will attract members of the greater Syracuse community.

“It’s always been a challenge to reach people off the hill, but we’ve extended the auction’s hours longer than past years to get a larger crowd,” O’Connor said.

The 12th Annual Charity Sports Auction will run from 10 a.m. until the start of the women’s basketball game following the men’s game on Dec. 10. Anyone with a valid admission to the men’s basketball game can attend the auction. jmulle01@syr.edu

scientific discovery,” Glen said. “I thought it was the coolest thing in the world.”

Glen said he hopes the scholarship will help environmental engineering graduate students travel to conferences and other meetings and “enrich their experience.”

“What I’m hoping for is that (students) will get inspired … (to) dedicate their careers to environmental engineering and preserving water resources,” Glen said. “That’s what my father would have really liked to see as his legacy.” mdavison@syr.edu

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Standing Rock raises feminist issues

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onstruction of the North Dakota Access Pipeline started a fight against its development to ensure the respect and preservation of indigenous groups that constantly find themselves at the mercy of the Unites States government.

The DAPL was proposed to make the U.S. more self-sufficient by minimizing the need to import energy from other countries. Having the pipeline would also be a more environmentally safe way of importing the crude oil. But while the government sees this as a costeffective way to fuel the country, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe has filed a complaint in federal court and protested at the Sacred Stone Camp since April 1.

Protesters were hit with rubber bullets and doused with water in freezing temperatures Monday, which sent some protesters to the hospital with hypothermia. One activist from New York had her arm torn apart from an explosion, which those present say came from a hand grenade fired by authorities.

Instances of this kind of abuse and infringement on the rights of indigenous people make it clear that prejudice and privilege are as alive as ever.

While the DAPL does put the historic sites and sacred spaces of the Standing Rock tribe at risk, at its core, this project is just as much a feminist issue as it is an environmental and cultural one.

The main issue with the DAPL is that depriving families of clean drinking water creates a chain reaction of problems: from the financial burden of having to purchase clean water to increased physical violence against native people. This violence particularly affects Native American women, as they are almost three times more likely than other groups to be sexually assaulted — with twothirds of those assaults being committed by non-natives, according

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to the U.S. Bureau of Justice.

The conflict is also a feminist concern because, within tribes like the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, women are the leaders — and the DAPL protests are no exception. These indigenous women are stopping at nothing in order to ensure construction crews can’t begin work on the pipeline, even if that means using their own bodies as barricades.

These “chosen protectors of the water” are determined to put an end to the DAPL to help preserve Mother Earth, because any harm caused to her would be harm to us all. The battle that is currently taking place at Standing Rock is just a part of a long, ongoing history of oppression and the white man’s efforts to erase the last remnants of Native American history and culture.

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The number of protesters at the site on Saturday, according to Reuters

Jourdan Bennett-Begaye, a magazine, newspaper and online journalism graduate student at SU, traveled to North Dakota in September and October to join the protests and stand in solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. Bennett-Begaye considered her firsthand experience at Standing Rock a spiritual awakening. As for national attention — or lack thereof — on the DAPL, Bennett-Begaye pointed to how indigenous people are struggling for their voice to be heard.

“It’s just sad that it takes a white person or celebrity non-

Native who has to say something about it — that’s what makes the news which is a sad thing,” said Bennett-Begaye. “It’s a cycle and that’s what we are trying to break.

People only pay attention when there’s violence rising.”

Because both men and women have taken it upon themselves to defend their health, culture and sacred spaces, Bennett-Begaye underscored the importance of gender equality in the fighting the DAPL.

The role of women in native communities is that we are equal.

Men and women were created to help one another.

Jourdan Bennett-Begaye su graduate student, standing rock protester

“The role of women in native communities is that we are equal, men and women were created to help one another,” she said.

But rather than embracing the empowerment of women and the diminishing importance of gender roles in native communities, non-natives are undermining this powerful activism.

The women of Standing Rock are setting an example that the rest of the world should take note of. These women are powerful, respected and have a sense of authority within their tribes that is missing in the rest of U.S.’ patriarchal society. They are putting their lives on the line to protect their identities and the history of their people while making it clear that they are their own protectors.

Ivana Pino is a sophomore political science major. Her column appears weekly. She can be reached at ivpino@syr.edu.

letter to the editor

SU alumnus commends campus rallies The hundreds of students demonstrating against Trump and for a sanctuary campus is a good start.

When I was an undergrad there, from 1963 to 1967, the student body was quite active. I was one of the organizers of a civil rights demonstration covered by CBS,

NBC and ABC. It should soon sink in that the Democratic Party candidates’ promises of student loan forgiveness are now kaput.

The city of Syracuse has the highest poverty rate of the 100 largest US cities. City poverty among African American and

News Editor Sara Swann Editorial Editor Caroline Colvin Sports Editor Paul Schwedelson Feature Editor Rachel Gilbert Presentation Director Clare Ramirez Photo Editor Jessica Sheldon Head Illustrator Emmy Gnat Copy Chief Kathryn Krawczyk Development Editor Alexa Torrens Digital Editor Jacob Gedetsis Social Media Director Benjamin Farr Video Editor Griffin Morrow Web Developer Shuai Wang Asst. News Editor Michael Burke Asst. News Editor Stacy Fernandez Asst. News Editor Satoshi Sugiyama Asst. Editorial Editor Joanna Orland Asst. Feature Editor Hanna Horvath Asst. Feature Editor Casey Russell Asst. Sports Editor Chris Libonati

Asst. Sports Editor Jon Mettus Asst. Photo Editor Jacob Greenfeld Asst. Photo Editor Ally Moreo Senior Design Editor Emma Comtois Senior Design Editor Lucy Naland Design Editor Ali Harford Design Editor Andy Mendes Design Editor Jordana Rubin Design Editor Rori Sachs Asst. Copy Editor Joe Bloss Asst. Copy Editor Alison Boghosian Asst. Copy Editor Matthew Gutierrez Asst. Copy Editor Haley Kim Asst. Copy Editor Tomer Langer Asst. Copy Editor Taylor Watson Asst. Video Editor Amanda Caffey Asst. Web Editor Rachel Sandler Asst. Web Editor Alex Archambault Asst. Web Editor Byron Tollefson Digital Design Editor Kiran Ramsey

Latino locals is highest in the US. The GOP now in power will want their banking friends to collect every dime of your student loans.

You’ll soon realize your common cause with those down the Hill.

Wake up, organize, and resist.

Roland Van Deusen ’67 , G75

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Preferred name option promotes inclusivity Syracuse University is far behind the times when it comes to officially recognizing students’ preferred names and pronouns across campus platforms.

In the past, gender-neutral housing and bathrooms have been instituted as a means to better accommodate transgender and gender nonconforming students at SU. But another discussion has been rekindled when it comes to trans* inclusion at SU and the State University of New York’s College of Environmental Science and Forestry.

Keelan Erhard, the co-chair of student life for the Student Association, said in an email to The Daily Orange that there is an initiative on track to be launched next semester that would allow Syracuse University students to enter their preferred name on MySlice. Not only will this take care of nicknames, but this will allow transgender and non-binary students to have their preferred names show up on class rosters.

With this initiative, SA has taken an important step in furthering its allyship with the LGBTQ community. Still, it is imperative that SU allows students to list their preferred name on all official campus mediums — including Blackboard, university email addresses and the SU student directory — to further validate trans* students’ identities at the administrative level.

While the term used is “preferred name,” the importance of these names for trans* students cannot be overstated. Calling a trans* student by the wrong name, or their “dead name,” is incredibly disrespectful, as is using incorrect wrong pronouns when addressing someone.

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called the wrong name, being misgendered or having to give an explanation has the capacity to be traumatic. And as a school that brands itself as progressive and inclusive, SU should be doing everything in its power to ensure trans* students are recognized on their own terms and can specify preferred names and pronouns on MySlice, Blackboard, SU emails and the directory. It is important that birth names are kept on record in some capacity, but are never used on the frontend of any channels.

Looking at some of SU’s peer institutions that accommodate trans* students, using preferred names would not be out of the ordinary. Cornell University allows for primary and preferred names — primary names for degrees and student ID cards, but preferred names for class rosters. Like Cornell, SU peer institutions Georgetown University and Northeastern University, and Northwestern University also extend its preferred name policy to Blackboard.

Considering how commonplace it is to keep a primary name on file for transcripts, financial aid purposes and academic records appears, this update to SU systems is absolutely feasible.

Given that SA — with help from the LGBT Resource Center, Information Technology and Services and the registrar office — has been pushing for a preferred name change option since November 2015, this improvement to campus life has been a long time coming. A student’s name makes up the core of their identity and it’s time for SU to value that as an institution and implement these options as soon as possible.

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BEHIND THE BALLOT Experts explain Electoral College system and likelihood of switch in voting loyalty

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he Electoral College has been called into question by some following the election of Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton as president of the United States.

Clinton won the popular vote by more than 2 million votes, but Trump won more than the 270 electoral votes necessary to win the presidency.

The results of the Electoral College will not become official until later this year, which has led some to speculate that Clinton could still win the presidency.

The Daily Orange spoke with Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs professors Margaret Susan Thompson and Kristi Andersen about the Electoral College and its fate.

The Daily Orange: When does the Electoral College meet to make their results become final?

Margaret Susan Thompson: Dec. 19. It always (takes this long). I think it used to be that some of these rules go back to when transportation and communication were less easy than they are now. It also gives times for recounts.

Kristi Andersen: It doesn’t really meet together, the electors of a state meet that day. Then they send it to Congress. It’s not a big issue usually, but it will be a big issue this year with talk of electors going with Clinton instead of Trump.

The D.O.: Why does the process take so long?

M.S.T.: It doesn’t take that long, but the date is set up before the election. The date was set a while. And they’re still counting. In some states they don’t even count absentee ballots until they become decisive. We know the outcome on election night more or less, but we don’t know the exact figures. And that’s why Hillary Clinton’s margins have been going up since election night.

K.A.: I suspect that if you look at the Constitution, that the time is probably specified because at that time, both counting and all the electors of Virginia to get to the capital of Virginia on horseback … that took awhile for that to happen.

The D.O.: What exactly does the Electoral College do?

M.S.T.: When you’re voting for a candidate, you’re not voting for that candidate, you’re voting for a slate of electors to vote for that candidate.

K.A.: It was initially a deliberative body in the individual states.

The constitution drafters were afraid of direct democracy.

Once political parties came into being and they could run national campaigns, it took on the shape they have now. The key thing is this winner-take-all part of it. So if Donald Trump wins a state by one vote, he gets all the electoral votes of that state. And essentially when you’re voting in New York state for a candidate, you’re really voting for 29 people who will vote for Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton.

The D.O.: Why are some people still claiming Clinton could win?

M.S.T.: I think they’re just doing wishful thinking as much as anything. Most states have laws that require the electoral vote to go the way that the popular vote in that state actually went.

Now the question becomes can people be persuaded to become faithless electors. … A faithless elector is a voter for the person that doesn’t represent their party.

The D.O.: Why is there some pushback against the Electoral College?

K.A.: I think that people believe it was a structure that suited the politics of 1790 but it no longer is appropriate today. I think most people feel that we should have direct election of the president; the popular vote should determine who is president.

The Electoral College gives the voters from small rural states more power. Their votes are worth more than ours in New York. Our vote is less powerful and less meaningful here in New York.

The D.O.: What is the likelihood of the system being changed?

K.A.: I think it’s unlikely, because Donald Trump electors are Donald Trump supporters typically. It would have to be a change of heart. Typically electors are party activists or legislators, so this is a part of their livelihood.

M.S.T.: I think (the likelihood) is slim. I think it’s a very hard thing to accomplish. I’m not predicting one way or another. I’m saying it would be very, very hard. However, it could happen, it’s not impossible. mpmoor02@syr.edu

DONALD TRUMP earned 290 Electoral College seats in the election. Syracuse University professors say Electoral College voters wouldn’t likely change their party affiliation. jensen stidham contributing photographer

IN THE NUMBERS The electoral college is an indirect system used to select the president of the United states. It was established as a way to limit the power of the majority rule.

41 Days between the election and when Electoral College members cast their votes

28 The number of Electoral College votes the state of New York has

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News briefs: Co-chairs announced; Bias training held

By Michael Burke asst. news editor

Here is some Syracuse University-related news you may have missed over Thanksgiving break:

Co-chairs of council announced

Syracuse University Chancellor Kent Syverud has appointed two co-chairs of SU’s recently-established Council on Diversity and Inclusion: Barry Wells, special assistant to the chancellor, and Diane Wiener, director of the Disability Cultural Center.

In September, Syverud announced the members of the 22-member council, which will function as the main advisory committee to the chancellor on matters related to diversity and inclusion.

Wells joined Syverud’s leadership team as a special assistant in January 2015. He served as the senior vice president and dean of student from page 1

overtime has been holding individual meetings with employees and preparing the PeopleSoft system for classification changes throughout November, according to a timeline on its website.

In the 20-page injunction, Mazzant said the injunction is in the public’s best interest because if the rule is found invalid it will protect the public, but if the rule is valid the injunction will only give the Court more time to make the rule as well as check the rule’s validity.

This is the fourth time in the last 21 months that a Texas federal judge has blocked one of Obama’s executive orders, according to Bloomberg. Twenty-one states and dozens of business groups have objected the rule, saying it would increase state government costs by $115 million next year alone and give private employers more leeway, according to Bloomberg.

The overtime pay rule was announced in May by the U.S. Department of Labor, which raises the maximum salary needed

affairs from 1995 to 2008. During that time, he led the creation of the Office of Learning Communities, the LGBT Resource Center and the Office of Multicultural Affairs. After stepping down from that position, he served as a consultant to the university. Wiener came to SU’s Division of Student Affairs to serve as the director of the Disability Cultural Center in 2011.

“I am grateful to Diane and Barry for their outstanding leadership and commitment to advancing diversity, inclusion and equity at Syracuse University,” Syverud said in an SU News release.

Implicit bias training

Central New York law enforcement personnel met on Nov. 22 at Syracuse University for a training seminar meant to help officers avoid having unconscious bias, according to an SU News release.

Officers from SU’s Department of Public for employees to qualify for overtime pay.

The original threshold, which hasn’t been changed since 2004, set the weekly salary at $455, or $23,660 annually. The new threshold sets the weekly salary at $913, or $47,476 annually.

The threshold is set to be updated every three years starting in January 2020, according to the Department of Labor website.

In October, Gordon said SU had reviewed more than 1,000 job positions to see if they were qualified for overtime pay. The university has announced two key changes for employee salaries: Employees who move from exempt to non-exempt will be able to remain as salaried employees while also being eligible for overtime pay, and retain their benefits associated with the exempt status, such as vacation time, salary continuation and parking privileges.

Gordon said in October there is no figure yet to how much the new rule will cost SU. This amount will likely be determined over the next year as each college plans its budget and unit officers monitor overtime, he had said. hykim100@syr.edu

Safety took part in the training, as did officers from the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry; the New York State Police; the city of Syracuse; the Village of North Syracuse; the Onondaga County Sheriff’s Office; and SUNY Onondaga Community College, among others.

Bryant Marks, an associate professor of psychology at Morehouse College and director of the Program for Research on Black Male Achievement, led the training session, per the release. Marks serves on United States President Barack Obama’s board of advisors for the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans.

“In confronting your biases, you need to question your assumptions and look at the evidence around you,” Marks said in the release.

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grant is that we are very interdisciplinary,” said Wilcoxen, who noted that although there is a large amount of research being conducted on the emergence of smart grid technologies, most research teams are solely composed of engineers.

According to the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability, the DOE, the electricity industry and the Smart Grid Investment Grant program have jointly invested $8 billion in modernization efforts since the inception of the stimulus package.

These modernization efforts include “smart” technologies.

Both Chapin and Wilcoxen said separately that a number of states, including California, New York and Massachusetts, are currently looking into regulating smart grid technologies.

“The smart grid implies that metering … includes sensors that report usage back at a much finer granularity than the traditional, old-fashion meter that would be read once a month,” Chapin said.

biology at Stanford University, will give a lecture at SU on Dec. 8, SU announced Wednesday.

Her lecture, which will serve as this year’s Kameshwar C. Wali Lecture, will be on the subject of Alzheimer’s disease. The lecture will be held on Dec. 8 at 4 p.m. in 132 Lyman Hall.

The lecture is part of the Syracuse Symposium, which is organized and presented by the Humanities Center.

Vivian May, director of the Humanities Center, in an SU News release said Schatz’s research “enhances our understanding of human nature.”

“She illustrates how our brains are like plastic, inviting us to think of the brain as a ‘place’ of its own and as something that interacts with wider contexts and experiences,” May said.

“Her study of brain-environment interaction provides an important glimpse into how our bodies ward off neurodegenerative disease.” mdburk01@syr.edu | @michaelburke47

Consumers could use their own personal solar panels or wind turbines to help distribute energy in a smart grid, Chapin said.

With a smart grid, consumers will be able to sell their electricity into the grid and bid that they will either take demand offline and receive monetary compensation in the form of a decreased electric bill, or they will generate power to sell into the grid, Chapin said.

The team’s main goal will be to analyze the potential cyber threats to market stability that can potentially arise from this new decentralized energy system, and the resulting distributed markets, found within the smart grid concept.

Threats the team will analyze include the potential for actors to use Distributed Denial of Service attacks to disrupt markets, and the ability for actors to make false energy bids, Wilcoxen said.

“Our goal, actually, is to try to help the devices and the systems that are used to manage these distributed markets be designed in a way that prevents some of these kinds of attacks,” Wilcoxen said. “So security by design, rather than security bolted on afterwards.” sfogozal@syr.edu

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CHRIS BAILEY has become one of the point people for the Central New York/Syracuse Crochet/Knit Group on Facebook. As an administrator, she schedules meetups at the North Syracuse Public Library, bringing crafters from around the area together. jacob greenfeld asst. photo editor

STITCHED TOGETHER Common crafting interest creates crochet community for CNY women

By Casey Russell asst. feature editor

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s a child, Terri Dauback Marolf sat in class and practiced knitting using pencils under the desk while the teacher was talking. At age 13, her Aunt Sally taught her how to crochet, which she’s preferred ever since.

Now, she’s completed over 400 crochet projects during the course of her life.

“It’s very relaxing, I feel like I can’t go a day without it,” she said.

Now, Dauback Marolf is working on four different projects at once, and donates many of her items to schools, hospitals and rescue missions. But she doesn’t play favorites when it comes to her projects.

“I put love into every stitch,” she said.

Along with 115 other yarn fiends, Dauback Marolf shares progress pictures of her work, tidbits of advice and funny crochet memes in a Facebook group she founded called Central NY/ Syracuse Crochet/Knit Group.

The group came to life this past spring after Dauback Marolf asked on Facebook if anyone else in the Syracuse area was into crocheting or knitting. Shortly after, she received a message from Chris Bailey encouraging her to create the Facebook group, which has grown ever since.

Dauback Marolf grew up in central New York.

She lived in Syracuse for a brief period, but has recently moved back to Rome to be with family.

“I’m going to miss the people that I have become friends with in this group, but I will still be in contact with them,” she said. “I feel I grow with everyone I speak to in there.”

••• From a distance, looking at Chris Bailey’s crocheted blankets, it’s hard to believe that her yarn

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work isn’t a photograph.

Bailey likes doing portrait work, where she uses a pattern to crochet a larger-than-life sized scaling of a photo. One of those portraits was a gift for her pastor, depicting him and his family.

She also made a sepia-toned blanket of her with her daughters.

Bailey has lived in Syracuse for 36 years and works the front desk in the sleep ward at Upstate University Hospital. This year, she’s gearing up for “Crochet Christmas,” using her expansive collection of yarn she keeps in a bedroom-turned-craftroom, “Yarntopia,” to make gifts for her loved ones.

Yarntopia was once the bedroom of her 26-yearold daughter who now lives in the basement. Bailey

also has an older daughter who’s married with kids, but for the most part, she’s home alone with her bichon-chihuahua mix dog, Roxy.

“I just wish she had thumbs, you know, so she could be more helpful,” she said with a laugh.

“And hold conversation.”

Conversation is exactly what Bailey was looking for when she joined Dauback Marolf in their crocheting and knitting group. They connected through a shared love of crafting and a mutual desire for local friendship.

Bailey has joined several similar Facebook groups, but they can be difficult to find. She is part of a group at her church, which she loves, but see crochet page 12

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Toss ‘n’ Fire’s North Side pizza restaurant is its permanent location, though it was previously a catering company that operated out of two food trucks. The restaurant’s clean, simple interior combines well with its flavorful menu. courtesy of toss ‘n’ fire pizza

Toss ‘n’ Fire Pizza offers delicious Italian pies, eclectic combinations

By Angelica Welch staff writer

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lthough there’s no shortage of pizza places in Syracuse, there isn’t one that particularly stands out as the best.

A firm lover of thin crust, all of the bready, soft crusts that get delivered to my door at Syracuse University remind me of the pizza you would get at your 7th birthday party at Chuck E Cheese’s.

As a New Jersey native, I care a lot about pizza. Some say it is snobbery, I say it is just good taste. Especially because I’m from the tri-state area, I have been spoiled with great Italian food in general, making it difficult to find dishes — especially pizza — that are worthy of my time and money anywhere else.

I first heard of Toss ‘n’ Fire Wood-Fired Pizza when scanning the web for the highest rated pizza place in the city. They are primarily a catering company that operates two food trucks. These trucks are different than your average taco truck — they are custom built with wood-fire ovens inside that can be seen at farmers markets, festivals and catered events.

Recently though, they opened a permanent location in North Syracuse at 315 N. Main St. Toss ‘n’ Fire’s brick-and-mortar restaurant is very unassuming, sitting among the strip malls of the street.

Overall, the restaurant was very simple: it was clean, smelled great and the staff was extremely friendly. Like a traditional pizza place, they had a glass enclosure on the counter with slices to go, but there was also a large menu overhead with a decent amount

of options. I decided to order the classic margherita pizza off their specialty woodfired pizzas menu, so I could get a no-frills, unadulterated taste of what kind of pie they serve up.

After I ordered, the guys got right to work in the open kitchen preparing my food. After spooning on some sauce, laying down fresh mozzarella and finishing with a few leaves of basil, the pizza was put into a massive red oven filled with aromatic, burning wood. It was nice to be able to see right into the kitchen, making my dining experience more authentic.

on the menu Here are some pies you can grab from Toss ‘n’ Fire Pizza’s specialty menu • Margherita pizza • ‘Cuse salt potato pizza • Chicken bacon ranch pizza • Fig ’n’ pig pizza • Caprese pizza

A lot of places that make brick-oven or wood-fired pizza tend to make the mistake of putting a few huge globs of fresh mozzarella on top of the pie. Although cheese does make the world go around; if the pieces are too big, it weighs down the pizza and all the cheese slides off in the first bite.

Sauce is the most underrated aspect of pizza, in my opinion. A pizza is unacceptable with an underdeveloped, overlooked sauce. It has to be a little sweet and if you’re going for a

traditional pizza taste, it has to have oregano.

There should be enough sauce that you can see and taste it, but not so much that it makes the pizza soggy.

In only a few minutes, the pizza was ready and frankly, after smelling it cooking, my mouth was watering. Piping hot and melty, I bit into the first slice. At first sight, it looked beautiful. The red, white and green of the Italian flag was represented, the cheese wasn’t overwhelming and the sauce wasn’t dried up. The top of the crust was a little charred — which I love — and the basil was a little roasted.

I take a bite and wow, the crust was unbelievable. The wood smoke really flavors the crust.

The sauce is sweet and the mozzarella was fresh and salty. It wasn’t super crispy like a normal brick oven pizza — but almost delicate, like a pizza on a pastry. This pizza was both beautiful and delicious — definitely a wonderful surprise.

The other pizzas on the menu sound incredible too, like the “Fig ‘n’ Pig,” fig jam topped with gorgonzola, mozzarella, pecorino Romano, prosciutto and balsamic; a caprese with a house-made nut free basil pesto and my personal favorite, BBQ Chicken. They also offer appetizers like wings and garlic bites as well as salads — for those people who, for some reason, decide to order salad over pizza.

Although the drive from campus was a little long, I would definitely recommend taking the trip if you treasure your pizza-eating experience.

Toss ‘n’ Fire really knows what they are doing with that oven. With fresh ingredients and a beautiful menu, it is definitely worth trying out.

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December Netflix roundup includes originals, documentaries

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etflix will wrap up 2016 relatively quietly, with fewer original releases than most months and without a big live-action drama or comedy. After last year’s “A Very Murray Christmas,” it seemed like Netflix would dive deeper into producing Christmas specials, but they really have not done much on that front this year. Here are a few of the Originals, big name movies and TV shows debuting on Netflix this upcoming month.

“Barry”

As President Barack Obama’s time in the White House comes to a close, more and more media productions about his early life are coming out. Earlier this year, the movie “Southside with You” debuted. That film chronicled the first date between Barack Obama and the future First Lady, then Michelle Robinson.

Netflix’s new film will take the story

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another step backwards in time to when Barack was known as Barry. This seems to be a coming of age story filled with admiration for the 44th President.

Whether or not you like this movie will probably depend on how much you already like the man himself. Hopefully it can illuminate areas of his life that fans and haters alike can both see as essential to his later development in life.

“Fuller House” Season 2

Everybody’s favorite childhood family show got a revival last year, and season 2 is out this month. It can be cringeworthy in the way it tries to recreate the nature of the original “Full House,” but if you are really into it, I am

sure you will enjoy these new episodes.

“Pacific Heat”

This is literally “Archer” with Australian accents — super spies with guns, sex, drugs and eerily similar animation. “Archer” is a good show, so this new series looks interesting, but the biggest thing to look out for will be how different it can be.

“Captive”

This new series will document different true stories of hostage situations, how they occur and what it is like to be inside and outside each situation. Combining media coverage with family and victim interviews will be a great way to tell their stories while appealing to the hungry “Making a Murderer” audience.

“Chasing Cameron”

Cameron Dallas was one of the first, biggest and most cliche vine stars that ever

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••• Sheley Siegfried remembers watching her mother knit and crochet. Crocheting came easy to her, but when she tried to learn to knit as a 3-year-old, she got so frustrated that she threw her needles at the wall.

At age 19 Siegfried started taking crochet seriously — making Christmas presents for her friends and family. She didn’t have much money to go out and buy presents, so making them was her way of not letting her family down.

When she was pregnant with her now two-year-old son, she turned to YouTube to expand her knowledge of crochet.

“Turns out that it wasn’t as simple as the videos portrayed because I think three out of the ten hats I made actually fit our relatives,” she said. “You live and learn, right?”

She did learn. In fact, she learned an entirely new stitch to complete a bald eagle blanket with

Netflix also announced recently that it will air three new Dave Chapelle comedy specials at the same time next year, but until then we have a few other new specials. The Late Late Show bandleader and musical comedian Reggie Watts’ new hour is called “Spatial,” and Gabriel Iglesias will continue his shtick in “Sorry for What I Said When I Was Hungry.”

Some notable titles coming to Netflix that are not originals include “National Lampoon’s Animal House,” “Blue Jay” and “Captain America: Civil War.”

Kyle Stevens is a junior advertising major. His column appears weekly in Pulp.

You can email him at ksteve03@syr.edu or reach him on Twitter at @kstevs_.

Pearson lives in Verona, New York, 45 minutes away from the city and the north Syracuse meetups. While she can’t make it out to the meetings, she loves the support network the group gives her.

Recently, when she was working on a backpack purse, Pearson didn’t know whether she wanted the straps to lie at an angle or straight, so she posted a picture asked the group. They unanimously said angled.

Taught by her maternal grandmother when she was a young teenager, Pearson is now 48. She still has a crochet blanket her grandma made her when she was young.

crochet meetings happen Friday mornings during work hours.

Without direct information readily available about area crochet groups, Bailey needed to fill a hole. So, she suggested to Dauback Marolf that they create their own group.

Since spring 2016, the pair has attempting to coordinate meetups in public spaces around Syracuse. Attendees would bring their work in progress and sit for an hour or two, chatting about life while stitching away.

But it’s been hard to coordinate. Everyone has busy lives and families, and for some it’s hard to get a spare moment to come to a meetup. Bailey hopes to pick up interest again and has since scheduled a meetup for Dec. 8 at the North Syracuse Public Library at 6 p.m.

Besides Dauback Marolf and Bailey, only one other central New York crocheter has made it out to a meeting.

was, and this series follows his fame in a completely serious way, making it look like Cameron had an actual career. He apparently got beat up, which is not cool, but neither is the fact that this show will exist.

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the star spangled banner in the background as a father’s day present for her boyfriend.

Since she’s gotten better at crochet, Siegfried has started her own online business at timelessstrings.com. With the slogan “homemade is better than store bulk,” she has hats, scarves, blankets and specialty items like a mermaid blanket, a unicorn stuffed animal, and toddler-size overalls.

She said the activity has been somewhat therapeutic for her. Siegfried has anxiety, and crafting helps her decompress, especially after a bad day.

“I can get lost in my creation and don’t have to worry about seeing a doctor,” she said.

Siegfried loves attending the North Syracuse crochet meetups because she finds it nice to know that she’s not the only one with a “crazy obsession.”

Online, the group has been an asset to Siegfried because group members are eager to help when she doesn’t understand the pattern she’s working off of, or if she needs inspi-

CHRIS BAILEY has two adult daughters out living their lives. The group has helped her find companionship outside her family and dog. jacob greenfeld asst. photo editor

ration on what to make in the first place.

On a personal level, she remarks how welcoming Dauback Marolf and Bailey have been.

“Chris is someone who you could talk to for hours about anything no matter if perspectives are the same or not,” she said. “Terri is such a sweet lady. She is fun to talk with and always seems to want to put a smile on your face.”

••• Lisa Pearson’s 5-year-old daughter wishes she could keep all of her mother’s crochet work — she loves it all.

Pearson has also finished over 400 crochet projects. Earlier this year, Pearson and Dauback Marolf met up a few times. Dauback Marolf was collecting donations for a local children’s organization, and asked the central New York crochet group if anyone was interested in contributing.

“We ended up with 215 between her, myself and a couple others,” Pearson said.

“Not too bad for a small group.”

••• Debbie Mazzole’s mother taught her how to do the easiest stich in crochet, chain stitch, which is used at the beginning and end of projects.

“I had the chain I guess from one end of the house to the other, and I said ‘mom, I wanna make something bigger,’” she said.

Now, at age 39, she’s been crocheting “since forever,” but guidance from Chris Bailey really brought her out of her shell.

Bailey and Mazzole connected on Facebook, and Mazzole was really inspired by a photo Bailey posted of the blanket with her pastor and his family. Mazzole told Bailey she’d love to do portrait work but she was intimidated by it. Bailey encouraged her to go ahead and try it.

“So I bought a pattern that said ‘I love you to the moon and back,’ and I made that for my mom for Christmas, and I was like ‘oh, that was pretty easy,’” and then decided to jump into a bigger project.

Currently, Mazzole is working on a black and white “Abbey Road” blanket as a Christmas present for her Beatles-loving fiance and just finished a white tiger blanket.

“If you know how to single-crochet, anybody can do that type of work,” Mazzole encouraged. cmrussel@syr.edu

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Hilpert makes career-high 8 saves in Sweet 16 loss

By Matt Schneidman senior staff writer

Hendrik Hilpert has rarely been called into action more than a handful of times in a single game all season. Syracuse’s stringent defense has prenorth carolina 1 vented the ball from syracuse 0 even reaching the Orange’s sophomore goalkeeper, who ranked near the bottom of the league in saves despite leading it in shutouts.

Sunday’s NCAA tournament tilt brought a different twist to the narrative of Hilpert’s season, when he was summoned to keep North Carolina off the scoreboard early and often.

Hilpert recorded a career-high eight saves, but he needed a ninth to keep Syracuse’s season alive. Despite one of his best games of the season and his two-year career, Hilpert and the eighth-seeded Orange (12-4-4, 3-2-3 Atlantic Coast) fell, 1-0, to the ninth-seeded Tar Heels (13-3-3, 5-1-2) in the NCAA tournament Sweet 16 at Onondaga Community College’s Murphy Field on Sunday afternoon.

“We know what Hendrik brings to the table,” SU head coach Ian McIntyre said.

“He’s a wonderful shot-stopper.”

Less than eight minutes into the game, Hilpert took flight and parried Tucker Hume’s header from the edge of the 6-yard box with the palm of his right hand. The rebound fell to Alan Winn, and the ball bounced up to his waist just to the right of Hilpert’s near post. The sophomore charged into the 50-50 challenge and threw his body into Winn’s to prevent the visitors from taking an early lead.

Just 15 minutes later, Hilpert deflected Winn’s one-time shot from point-blank range, before pouncing on the rebound right

in front of the goal to keep the game scoreless.

“He’s going to tell you that’s part of his job,” McIntyre said. “He’s a very humble young man, but when called on, he was outstanding today.”

Jeremy Kelly’s line-drive attempt from the top of the 18-yard box found the bottomleft corner of the goal with 13:46 left in the first half. The goal left Hilpert sprawled out on the ground, and in a rare instance on Sunday, with the ball behind him.

For the remainder of the game, SU mustered a handful of chances but it was mainly the Tar Heels threatening to blow the game open.

“It felt like a one-goal game no matter what was gonna happen,” UNC head coach Carlos Somoano said, “even the chances, it just felt like it was gonna be a one-goal game.”

That was, in part, a credit to Hilpert’s heroics, flashing the reflexes he displayed on occasion this season but never in bunches like when Syracuse trailed with its season on the line. First it was a leaping two-handed deflection off a Cam Lindley dipping shot from 35 yards out late in the second half. Then an acrobatic save of Mauricio Pineda’s free kick from the same distance.

For the majority of the regular season and even this postseason, Kamal Miller, Louis Cross and Miles Robinson have relieved Hilpert of having to save a game on his own.

On Sunday, it was Hilpert’s turn to bail out his defense for a switch, which he did nearly as much as possible.

“I think an outstanding goalkeeper is on the winning team. That was the case throughout the season. We won a lot of games, but today it’s over,” Hilpert said. “That hurts right now, and we may need some days and weeks to settle down emotionally.” mcschnei@syr.edu | @matt_schneidman

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No. 11 Syracuse loses for 3rd time in last 4 games

By Tomer Langer

HENDRIK HILPERT faced North Carolina’s shots all game, deflecting several and swatting others away in the Sweet 16 loss. tony d. curtis staff photographer from page 16

north carolina took the air out of the game.”

The score that ended Syracuse’s season left Kamal Miller flat on his butt. The ball had slotted to UNC’s Jeremy Kelly in front and center of the net, where the freshman midfielder navigated his way through a scrum to boot home the goal. Hilpert had crept up near the 6-yard box, left only to turn and watch Kelly’s shot whiz by to the left corner.

Up front, 6-foot-5, 204-pound forward Tucker Hume imposed his size, strength and skill on SU’s backline. He found openings in the middle, flashing to open space before slotting passes within the 18-yard box. Tar Heels players looked to the redshirt senior, who scored in both SU-UNC matchups last year, to initiate movement, open up the field and give Syracuse’s back line difficulties. Much of UNC’s scoring flowed through Hume, the goal included.

“The battle was the first entry ball,” UNC head coach Carlos Somoano said. “Even though we lost the majority of them, the ones that we did win made the difference.”

Syracuse was shut out, adding to its 110

minutes of scoreless action against the Tar Heels from the teams’ 0-0 draw in September. SU’s sputtering offense on Sunday rekindled memories of the team’s fourgame winless streak earlier in the year — the longest such span in five years.

Syracuse resurged from that midseason slide. Until Sunday, it had not lost since Oct.7, its only blemish coming earlier this month when Clemson advanced past it on penalty kicks. With each victory, SU’s quest for backto-back College Cup appearances resurfaced.

In making sense of a career during which Syracuse blossomed from a middling program to perennial contender, Alseth was optimistic. Until recently, a run this deep would be considered an accomplishment.

“Looking back to freshman year three years ago,” he said, “we didn’t make the postseason at all. We didn’t think of that as a disappointment. Now three years later, we’re one of the top teams in the county.”

But now, a third-round loss is a letdown.

A year that showed so much promise with the program’s best-ever start came to a crashing end. mguti100@syr.edu | @Matthewgut21

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No. 11 Syracuse (4-3) lost its second game in a row. After dropping a game to No. 8 Ohio State on Saturday, the Orange fell to No. 18 DePaul (5-0) in the syracuse 84 third place game depaul 108 of the Golf Coast Showcase, 108-84. It was the third game in three days for both teams.

The Blue Demons led 17-11 with just over four minutes left in the first quarter but they went on 12-0 run to end the frame with an 18-point advantage.

We just came out flat … we just never really got going.

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“We just came out flat … we just never really got going,” SU head coach Quentin Hillsman said.

“It was evident early, the first four, five possessions.”

The Orange tried to find different lineup combinations to fix the issues, as 11 different

players saw at least five minutes or more in the first half, with nine of them scoring — none more than double digits. SU outscored DePaul by one in the second quarter but still went into the break with the double-digit deficit.

Hillsman said he’s unsure why his team lacked energy on the court but that it was clear it wasn’t playing at a high enough level to win the game.

In the third quarter the DePaul lead ballooned to 26 points, the highest margin of the game.

An and-1 from Brittney Sykes with 4:29 left in the game trimmed the lead back down to 14 points. But two minutes later, the Blue Demons had regained a 20-point lead, going on to sub out all of the starters.

The past two games marked the first time SU suffered back-to-back losses since last January, when it lost to Atlantic Coast Conference powers Notre Dame and Louisville.

The Orange shot 43.8 percent from the field, a season best. But it allowed DePaul to shoot 51.4 percent and make 19 3-pointers at a 48.7 percent clip — all season highs allowed.

“We weren’t ready to play today and that falls on me as a coach,” Hillsman said. “…

It’s my job to put the right product out there on the court and tonight it just wasn’t the right product.” tdlanger@syr.edu | @tomer_langer

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POSTGAME PLAYBOOK sweet as ma-honey

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passing yards

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Backup quarterback Zack Mahoney started his third game in a row in place of an injured Eric Dungey and shattered his previous career high for passing yards in a game. Check out how his performance Saturday compared to his previous six starts in his career.

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Syracuse and Pittsburgh combined for an FBS record 20 touchdowns. SU reached the end zone nine times while Pitt did 11 times. Here’s a breakdown of the scores.

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The scores came from an average of 28.5 yards away.

Pitt had four touchdowns of more than 50 yards.

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Mahoney has struggled with accuracy throwing the ball in his career, but found his touch against Pitt, completing better than 70 percent of his passes

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libonati But in the absence of some of its best players, SU has had others step up. Colin Byrne played well enough when he stepped in for Jason Emerich. SU took well to Babers’ offense, penciling new records offensively.

Daivon Ellison proved to be starterworthy material at safety in place of the Orange’s best defensive player, Antwan Cordy. Bennett and Zaire Franklin accounted for 211 tackles this year on 870 plays by opponents. Last year (Bennett played only eight games), those two accounted for just 125 on 847 snaps. Together, the three players formed a core that each had 90 tackles or more. Last year, no defensive player had more than 90 tackles.

SU beat Virginia Tech and fought in the second half against Pittsburgh, both current Top 25 teams.

“Normally, it looks bad one year,” Babers said of young players having to play more

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this season, “But the negatives from one year can be the blessings the next year.”

Saturday, SU couldn’t close the talent gap with the Panthers. It struggled to get itself going to the extent it needed to in the first half.

But it was also just the storm before the calm.

For the next nine months, SU will go relatively silent. It won’t have games to worry about. Babers can give his team and recruiting all of his energy. Next year, Babers will be held to his promise of a relentless defense and a breakneck-paced offense. But for now, SU’s pushed the program forward, however marginally.

“It’s going to get better,” Babers said after Saturday’s loss. “It’s going to get better with recruiting … We’ll bring in a fresh group of young people and we’ll put them with the underbelly of our team that we are developing and we are going to get better.”

Chris Libonati is an asst. sports editor at The Daily Orange, where his column appears occasionally. He can be reached at cjlibona@syr.edu or @ChrisLibonati.

ZACK MAHONEY had a career day in SU’s season-ending loss to Pittsburgh, throwing five touchdowns. courtesy of stephen d. cannerelli | syracuse media group

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Syracuse suffered a loss to UNC on Sunday in the third round of the NCAA tournament. Defender Miles Robinson (top) and goalie Hendrik Hilpert (bottom right) were emotional after the game. Coaches (bottom left) comforted players following the contest. tony d. curtis staff photographer

Syracuse’s season ends in Sweet 16 with 1-0 loss to North Carolina COMING TO A HALT

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Syracuse got just one shot on goal against North Carolina in its final game of the season 9 SHOTS ON GOAL

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iles Robinson draped his jersey over his head and several players knelt around midfield. SU goalkeeper Hendrik Hilpert sat alone, head down, trying to fathom the brutal loss. North Carolina’s players flocked to celebrate. Syracuse’s remained motionless.

The Orange players on the bench stayed put, shielded from the cold by heavy jackets they wore all game.

But the chill of the drizzle turned snowfall paled in comparison to the sting of Sunday’s season-ending defeat.

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cuse’s (12-4-4, 3-2-3 Atlantic Coast) year was cut shorter than once expected in the NCAA tournament Sweet 16 by ninth-seeded North Carolina (13-3-3, 5-1-2), 1-0, Sunday afternoon at Onondaga Community College’s Murphy Field.

Next weekend, the Tar Heels will host unseeded Providence, which downed No. 1 overall seed Maryland in the second round. The winner gets a trip to Houston for the College Cup, soccer’s final four.

“We felt we were in a pretty good spot going into halftime,” SU head coach Ian McIntyre said of the Orange’s one-goal deficit. “Now having said that, UNC did a pretty good job nullifying. They managed the game extremely well … they kind of see north

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Despite clear struggles, SU made progress in Babers’ 1st year

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efore the season, Dino Babers justified his calm on the field by saying he gives players his energy during the week. Saturday, that all changed.

After a questionable late hit call on SU’s Evan Foster, Babers’ headset swung to the ground and his hat swept back on his head.

Eventually his hat came off, suffering the same fate as the headset.

His gloves and vest followed. He called a timeout and motioned for the referee to come over to him.

The outburst, uncharacteristic

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for Babers, proved the game’s importance. In SU’s most do-ordie game of the year, the Orange recorded its best offensive output, with a backup quarterback no less. In past seasons, the Orange has struggled in the back half of seasons. It lost eight of its last nine games in 2015 and its last five in

2014. While it struggled again, losing its last four games in 2016, the team showed more fight than former head coach Scott Shafer’s teams ever did.

It’s emblematic of a shift in culture. Coaches talk about changing culture, including SU men’s soccer coach Ian McIntyre and field hockey coach Ange Bradley. Both have turned around their respective programs. Often, measuring a change like that is intangible. But Saturday showed SU is headed in the right direction.

“I just feel like a lot of the mindset around here has changed a lot.

Just a lot of guys holding people more accountable and it’s a more of a winning culture,” Syracuse junior linebacker Parris Bennett said. “It’s a lot more guys believing we can win every game and people going in with the mindset we should really win this game. Not just try to keep it close and make it an upset.”

That’s not to say Syracuse football has been turned around, because it clearly hasn’t been yet. SU won’t be going to a bowl game for the

third straight year. Eric Dungey’s health remains in doubt. Coming into the season, it was arguably the second-biggest topic for Syracuse and will be the most-talked about subject for the rest of the offseason.

SU’s precision has struggled all year. The inability to execute consistently cost SU losses at Wake Forest and in the Carrier Dome against North Carolina State. Even beyond that, wins and losses, the most basic measure of a season, haven’t improved.

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