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N • Climate change

P • Drop the mic

Syracuse University is preparing a survey to be delivered to students in the spring to assess the climate of the university and make it more inclusive and diverse.

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Hip-hop artists Raury and Demo Taped performed at the final Bandersnatch concert of the fall semester Wednesday in Schine Underground.

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S • Hands on

Steve Ishmael has been an anchor in SU’s receiving corps this season.

More than anything, he seeks to lift the Orange from underdog status to the front of the pack.

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WHAT’S BEEN DONE

One year later, a look at the SU administration’s response to the sit-in

Text by Justin Mattingly and Brett Samuels the daily orange

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hen THE General Body made its way into the Crouse-Hinds Hall lobby on Nov. 3, 2014, it brought with it a 45-page list of grievances and demands.

In most cases, the coalition of student organizations had laid out needs and solutions for addressing the issues on the document, and had included timetables for when it wanted those solutions enacted by.

Over the course of THE General Body’s 18-day sit-in last November, student protesters met with administrators several times to discuss the document. Bea González, a special assistant to Chancellor Kent Syverud and dean of University College, served as the liaison between the protesters and university leadership. When the protest concluded, administrators had agreed to meet some of THE General Body’s demands, discuss others further and acknowledged it wouldn’t change its stance on certain issues.

what is the general body?

As part of THE General Body’s 45-page list of grievances and demands is a section on “Needs and Solutions,” which features nine main issues. Here’s what they are and what’s been done or what’s being done about them by the SU administration: graphic illustration by chloe meister presentation director

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One year later, the administration has largely held up its end of the bargain, addressing each of the nine overarching points in the “needs and solutions” section of the protesters’ document.

“We embraced the demands of THE General Body out of respect for what they were doing,” González said. “Some of what they wanted was already in play, some of it was helping us refocus the way we were managing things so we were more inclusive.”

González highlighted ways in which the university has become more transparent, emphasizing that there’s intentionality about how the university approaches decisions in a way there may not have been before the protest.

Other issues, including pay for graduate students, divesting from fossil fuels, sexual violence prevention and awareness and others, have also been acted on, many in accordance with what protesters had asked for. jmatting@syr.edu | @jmattingly306 blsamuel@syr.edu | @Brett_Samuels27

SU has “institutionalized” being transparent through Fast Forward, and is “very conscious to make sure we’re soliciting input, in a way that maybe we weren’t before,” González said. As a direct result of THE General Body, González said, SU added more spots to committees for students.

MORE TRANSPARENCY IN STUDENT SERVICES AND UNIVERSITY POLICY

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MORE TRAINING AND KNOWLEDGE ON MARGINALIZED IDENTITIES AND EXPERIENCES

The SU administration went on a retreat in August focused on diversity and inclusion. In early October, the university held a diversity summit for students on the same subject matter. In late September, Syverud announced the creation of a Chancellor’s Workgroup on Diversity and Inclusion.

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FUNDING LEVEL OF SU LIBRARIES

David Seaman took over as dean of the Syracuse University Libraries in August, and González said Seaman is taking a look at the libraries and its strategic planning. “Give him time, he just got here,” she said with a laugh.

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IMPROVEMENTS TO GRADUATE STAFF AND COMMUTERS

The Graduate Student Organization got the salary increases proposed by THE General Body, González said. The university doesn’t have a permanent dean of the graduate school as Ben Ware retired in May.

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FINANCIALLY TRANSPARENT UNIVERSITY

SU is using all channels that exist for talking about financial policy, González said. Syverud spoke at last month’s University Senate meeting, saying the budget had been balanced and is no longer in crisis. González added that she believes the relationship between the administration and the Senate Budget Committee has been strengthened in the past year.

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BETTER MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES

SU created a meeting space at 111 Waverly Ave. because it was comfortable for students.

González said SU hired a psychiatric nurse and is working on a comprehensive long-term plan.

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SUPPORTIVE SPACE FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS

In February, Mehrzad Boroujerdi, the chair of the political science department, was appointed as a Provost’s Faculty Fellow with a focus on strengthening internationalization.

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SEARCH FOR AN ASIAN/ ASIAN-AMERICAN STUDIES MINOR DIRECTOR

“That’s been done and she’s been hired,” González said of program director Yingyi Ma.

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ADD HATE SPEECH TO THE STUDENT CODE OF CONDUCT AS WORDS THAT ARE PROHIBITED

SU is waiting on the recommendations from a workgroup aimed at addressing concerns regarding free speech, González said. The workgroup was formed in February.

THE General Body is a coalition of student organizations that staged an 18-day sit-in in Crouse-Hinds Hall in November 2014 to protest topics listed in the group’s 45-page list of grievances and demands.

For an interactive timeline of THE General Body’s 18-day sit-in last November, see dailyorange.com

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Committee presents report LGBT committee members say new system is needed

By Annie Palmer development editor

There is room for improvement in how athletes can report harassment and LGBT climate complaints, according to the University Senate LGBT Concerns Committee.

Syracuse University Athletics doesn’t have a system for student-athletes to report harassment anonymously — a mechanism that’s been proven crucial for victims, said Francine D’Amico, co-chair of the LGBT committee. D’Amico and Rachel Fox von Swearingen, the other chair of the committee, discussed the need for this system, among other updates, at Wednesday evening’s University Senate meeting.

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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.

The meeting began with an address by Chancellor Kent Syverud, who discussed the city of Syracuse’s submission to the Upstate Revitalization Initiative, concerns about the veteran-focused medical school and other topics.

Syverud said he and other city officials visited Albany to present the city’s Upstate Revitalization Initiative proposal. Seven regions in upstate New York will submit ideas spurring economic development in their area, with three winners receiving $500 million each. Syracuse’s proposal mainly focuses on

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THIRSTY thursday | ommegang iron throne blonde

Game of Thrones beer packs lemony punch

By Clayton Dyer staff writer

As one Westerosi family might say, “winter is coming,” and with it, a long break between seasons of “Game of Thrones.” But those long, cold, Game of Thrones-less winter nights do not have to be dark and full of terrors if you have an Ommegang Iron Throne Blonde Ale at your side.

Ommegang have re-released the first two beers of its Game of Thrones-inspired beer series — Iron Throne Blonde Ale and Take the Black Stout — this fall, which originally hit the shelves in 2013. Capitalizing on the massive success of the HBO show, Ommegang has decided to bring back the beers for the first time “since the merry rule of King Joffrey.”

I stumbled upon the Iron Throne Blonde Ale at Tops and, as a massive Game of Thrones fan, could not pass up the opportunity to give it a try.

The Iron Throne Blonde came in a hearty 750-milliliter bottle complete with a cork that popped like a bottle of the finest Dornish wine. The beer

poured to form a full and frothy head that smelled of lemon zest.

The blonde ale had an invigorating spicy flavor to it, balanced out by sweet hints of lemon peel. The Iron Throne was surprisingly smooth and had a bitter bite to it that you would not expect from a fruity blonde ale, but the sweet aftertaste of honey lingered on the tongue. The beer had a light malty taste with just enough hops and was almost as carbonated and bubbly as champagne.

While the Iron Throne Blonde Ale may be better suited for warm summer nights in Braavos, the beer would pair nicely with green beans, baked potatoes and roast chicken — a feast that the late King Robert Baratheon would enjoy — ideally in front of a roaring fire.

Ommegang’s Iron Throne Blonde Ale will only be available for a limited time, and considering the popularity of Game of Thrones I would imagine that they’ll run out quickly. So grab yourself a bottle before it’s too late, otherwise you truly do know nothing. ckdyer@syr.edu

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INSIDE N • Get down to business The University of Tampa is hosting its first entrepreneurship camp and students will create and develop an idea in three days.

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@THEgeneralbody The struggle continues. It didn’t start with us, & it certainly will not end with us. Today is the one-yr. mark of the sit-in, but carry on.

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Following up

Get your program Syracuse University’s School of Architecture will launch a new postgraduate program called “Design - Energy - Futures” next fall.

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What do SU officials have to say about the veteran-focused medical school report from the faculty advisory committee? The D.O. finds out.

See Monday’s paper

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Committee to create SU survey Survey to focus on campus issues following workgroup suggestions

By Ali Linan asst. copy editor

Ringing a bell Representatives of the Institute for Veterans and Military Families at Syracuse University rang the New York Stock Exchange Closing Bell on Tuesday. Earlier this year, Intercontinental Exchange, a network that regulated exchanges and clearinghouses for financial and commodity markets, including the NYSE, formally announced its support of the work of the IVMF and SU. courtesy of alyssa ringler

Officials discuss Blackstone space in library

By Ali Linan asst. copy editor

Syracuse University will build the physical space for the Blackstone LaunchPad program over Thanksgiving break.

The university announced on Oct. 23 that it received a $900,000 grant from the Blackstone Charitable Fund for a new entrepreneurial

program, which will be a hub for students with an entrepreneurial idea to receive help and resources in launching their businesses.

SU will build a glass, 625 sq. ft. cube on the first floor of Bird Library that will be placed on the window wall between Bird and the Schine Student Center, said David Seaman, dean of SU Libraries.

The furniture that is currently

located where the LaunchPad will be placed will be reallocated around the first floor of Bird so that no seating or study space on the first floor will be lost, Seaman added.

The physical space will have a few desks and tables that will facilitate one-to-one mentoring, small group work and an opportunity to talk, said James Fathers, principle investigator for the LaunchPad pro-

gram and director of the School of Design in the College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Placing the center inside of Bird was a suggestion by Blackstone, Fathers said. Blackstone recommended it be placed somewhere public with lots of foot traffic so that students can see the space, see students using it and hopefully be

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SU to collaborate on center for green buildings

By Gulnaz Khan contributing writer

Syracuse University and Nanjing University in China have signed an agreement to form the International Center for Green Buildings and the Urban Environment.

The center will focus on three main areas: research, education and outreach, said Jensen Zhang, a professor of mechanical and aerospace

engineering and the SU director of the International Center for Green Buildings and the Urban Environment. The center is located at the SU Center of Excellence, and Nanjing University has also dedicated office space in China for the center.

The center’s current research activities include urban building design and how it impacts environmental quality, building materials and how they affect energy con

43% The U.S. and China are responsible for 43 percent of greenhouse gas emissions.

sumption and indoor air quality design and control strategies, Zhang said.

The U.S. and China are responsible for about 43 percent of greenhouse gas emissions, which are collective action problems that require collaboration, said Sherburne Abbott, vice president for sustainability initiatives at SU. “It is important that we have

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A recommendation by the Chancellor’s Workgroup on Sexual Violence Prevention, Education and Advocacy, led to the formation of a committee that will work to create a campus-wide, anonymous and confidential survey.

This extensive survey will assess gender-based violence, alcohol, safety and other issues on the Syracuse University campus, according to an SU press release. Climate issues affect different people in different ways, so a committee is useful to maximize the likelihood that most people’s concerns are addressed, said Libby Barlow, SU assistant vice president for institutional research and assessment and co-chair of the committee, in an email.

“We want to be sure our learning, living and working environment is as inclusive as it can be,” Barlow said. see climate page 6

do round-up Here is a round-up of the top stories published in The Daily Orange this week: NEWS VETERAN-FOCUSED Syracuse University is exploring the idea of creating a veteran-focused medical school. In September, Chancellor Kent Syverud created a Faculty Advisory Committee, which submitted its report in late October.

RE-ELECT HER Joanie Mahoney, a SU alumna, was elected on Tuesday for her third term as Onondaga County executive, defeating Democrat Toby Shelley.

NAME CHANGE SA is working with the LGBT Resource Center and ITS to give students at SU and SUNY-ESF the ability to change their names on class rosters and university email addresses.

See dailyorange.com to read the stories.

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SU to continue using red meats despite WHO report

By Kenneth Mintz contributing writer

The hot dog bar will continue to operate in the Syracuse University dining halls despite a recent study from the World Health Organization that says consuming processed meats increases the risk of cancer.

The study, which was released on Oct. 26, revealed that eating 50 grams of processed meat on a daily basis increases the risk of developing cancer by 18 percent. Processed meats include sausage, bacon, hot dogs and hamburgers containing salt and chemical preservatives. Fifty grams of bacon, for example, is only two slices.

The WHO advises certain meat eaters to limit their consumption.

The food centers on SU campus will continue to serve these foods to the university’s students, but support healthier alternatives, said Lynne Mowers, secretary to the director of SU Food Services.

“We encourage our students to weigh their options and make well-informed decisions,” Mowers said.

The study specifically pinpoints unusual risk for colorectal cancer, but risk for pancreatic and prostate cancer are also possibilities.

“It is likely there is good evidence,” said Tanya Horacek, a professor in the department of public health, food studies and nutrition in

the David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics, of the study. Horacek said she expects Americans to continue to eat processed meats despite the risk.

International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) divides cancer risk factors into four hierarchal groups. Processed meat was recently added to Group 1, the highest group, which is labeled as “carcinogenic to humans,” according to the IARC website.

Taking a slight backseat behind processed meat is red meat. Joining Group 2A alongside the agents that are “probably carcinogenic to humans,” red meats were listed as another food which should not be consumed excessively, according to the IARC website.

The North American Meat Institute (NAMI), a trade association that is responsible for processing 95 percent of red meat and 70 percent of turkey products dispersed throughout the United States, upholds this same claim about a mixed diet, according to a press release from the association.

Jane Uzcategui, an instructor in the department of public health, food studies and nutrition advised consumers to occasionally replace their processed meats and red meats with tofu, beans and tempeh in an SU News release. She said red meats and processed meats are also higher in saturated fat, cholesterol and sodium, which are nutrients “many Americans get in excess.” kmintz@syr.edu

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DOWN TO BUSINESS

University of Tampa to promote student entrepreneurship through competition

By Brigid Kennedy staff writer

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he University of Tampa will hold its first Global Startup Weekend this month.

The 54-hour competition will be held from Nov. 13 to Nov. 15 in the university’s John P. Lowth Entrepreneurship Center. The objective of the competition is to create a viable business plan for an original idea in three days, said Eric Liguori, assistant professor of entrepreneurship at the university.

“Judges will look for customer validation, a physical prototype and some sort of viability — is this [idea] something that can actually grow in scale and can the team actually execute it?”

Liguori said.

Seventy-five maximum participants will have the early part of Friday to pitch entrepreneurial ideas to those present at the competition, which is called “crowdsourcing,” Liguori said. Then, that same populace will vote on its favorite ideas and select about seven-12 projects to expand upon. After ideas are narrowed down, participants will choose which project they want to be a part of and form corresponding teams.

The teams will have Saturday and Sunday to work on, develop and refine their chosen startup project. Later on Sunday, Liguori said judges will evaluate the work completed by each team and declare the first, second and third place teams. Teams that place will not be receiving a monetary prize, but a package centered more so around mentorship resources, he said.

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Hours in the University of Tampa’s Global Startup Weekend competition

Anybody at the university is invited to participate in the competition. The event is also open to members of the Tampa community and other schools in the area. Liguori said he thinks the weekend will be an excellent chance for synthesis across majors at UT. “We think it’s a good opportunity to reach students that we otherwise wouldn’t reach — other majors outside of the business school. It’s

Students at the University of Tampa will take part in Global Startup Weekend next weekend, when participants come up with and pitch a viable business plan for an original, entrepreneurial idea.

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a fun, quick event that anyone can get involved in and not be intimidated by,” Liguori said.

“It’s very much a good networking opportunity for our students.”

Jimmy Uteg III, a junior entrepreneurship major and a student community organizer for startup weekend at UT, said in an email that in addition to the opportunity to make connections, he is excited to see the energy participants bring.

“As students we can only learn so much in the classroom,” Uteg said. “This is real world experience.”

Brianna Cronin, a junior management major and student community organizer, said she and Uteg have spent a large amount of

time internally marketing the event to the UT community to ensure a good turnout.

Cronin said the pair gave a handful of presentations to entrepreneurship classes, clubs and student government; spoke with first-year students; and designed flyers and slideshows to promote the event.

Although Cronin said she doesn’t identify with the term “entrepreneur” and does she plan to become one, she said she took the job of community organizer to be a part of Global Startup Weekend without actually participating in the competition.

“I’m excited to see the different ideas and how different people are going to mesh,” she said. “You need more than just one person to

start a business, and I’m excited to see all the people that will come together to help make a business possible.”

Earlier this year, the university opened a new innovation and collaboration building.

Other startup weekends will be happening all over the world at the same time as UT, Liguori said, so it’s only fitting that UT will be taking part as well.

“We’re actually participating in this global movement. There will be teams from Singapore working on this; there will be teams from New York working on this,” he said. “We’ll be able to tap into the energy surrounding that and plan a startup weekend that’s a little more local.” brkenned@syr.edu

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climate The Climate Assessment Planning Committee has 14 members and will work with Rankin and Associates, a consulting firm that specializes in educational institutions in assessing campus climate, to develop questions that will best retrieve the desired data,

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senate economic inclusion — an area that has come into consideration after the city was slammed with the highest rate of extreme poverty between blacks and Hispanics among the nation’s largest cities.

But Syverud cautioned senators that there is no guarantee the city will edge out its competitors.

“They’re very good proposals, so it’s not assured that we will win,” he said.

The university could play a part in the city’s economic revitalization if it chooses to pursue a veteran-focused medical school, he said. If the school and the National Veterans Resource Complex are built, Syverud said it would result in the creation of hundreds of jobs and large-scale economic activity for University Hill and beyond.

The hope is to establish the city as the national leader in veterans resources, he said,

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the release said.

In addition, the consulting firm will also provide intervention strategies to improve issues, according to company website.

The results of the survey will be made available to the public, said Bea González, dean of University College and a member of the committee.

The survey is not mandatory but students,

and the next step will be to consult with various university stakeholders to see how the medical school stacks up to all of SU’s other planned initiatives.

“There’s no other complex like this in the nation,” Syverud said. “The vision would be that we’re the one-stop shop for research and service issues and education related to veterans.”

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The participation percentage needed for the findings of the survey to be valid

faculty and staff can expect to be asked to participate in the about 30-minute-long survey in

February 2016, González said.

Rebecca Reed Kantrowitz, senior vice president and dean of student affairs and co-chair of the committee, said she believes that this survey will help people’s voices get heard.

The university needs at least 30 percent participation for the finding to be valid. SU is considering incentivizing those who take it. avlinan@syr.edu

Syverud said the winners of the URI will most likely be announced in December by New York state Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

In its report to the senate, the LGBT committee said it’s still waiting on the results of a

survey evaluating the climate around LGBT issues in SU Athletics.

D’Amico said several student athletes approached the committee with “very specific and very concerning complaints” about the LGBT climate in athletic teams.

In 2012, the committee noted that the experience of LGBT athletes was “shocking,” resulting in a multifaceted list of recommendations for SU Athletics. This included establishing concrete anti-harassment and anti-homophobia policies for athletes, coaches and referees. It also called for SU Athletics to conduct a survey evaluating the climate around LGBT issues.

The athletics department and the committee have since joined the national “You Can Play” campaign, which encourages athletes of all sexual orientations and gender identities to join college teams.

SU is creating a video with the campaign to

be shown at Carrier Dome athletic events, but the video is still being reviewed, as it doesn’t incorporate coaches, staff and administrators speaking out against harassment, “gay bashing” and other areas, according to the report.

The committee also mentioned SU’s overall ranking on the Campus Pride Index, which evaluates a university’s commitment to LGBTQ inclusive policies, programs and practices, according to the website. For 2015, SU received 3.5 out of five stars and is not listed on the site’s “Top 50 LGBTQ Friendly Colleges and Universities,” D’Amico said.

D’Amico said members of the campus still feel like they can’t be upfront and disclose their sexuality. One of her students told D’Amico that they had been beaten and bruised on campus by a group of men due to their sexuality — an indicator, she said, that there is still more to be done.

visions of clean energy, sustainability and climate mitigation,” Abbott said.

Despite the fact that there are often disagreements between Beijing and Washington, D.C. on economic and security issues, academic exchange is an area that continues to grow, said Terry Lautz, a visiting professor at SU and director of the East Asia Program of the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs.

“This is an extremely important priority for China because of the severe problems they have with pollution — air, water and ground,” Lautz said. “There is a clear mutual interest not only on the part of our universities, but on the part of our two governments.”

During President Barack Obama’s visit to China last year, he and Chinese President Xi Jinping signed a historic agreement to work jointly on the issue of climate change. They reaffirmed their commitment ahead of the Paris climate talks during Jinping’s visit to Washington, D.C. in September, according to a White House statement.

The center has received several proposals for additional projects, said Zhang, the SU director of the center.

Zhang added that funding is also a challenge, and the center will be looking at a variety of sources to sustain this research.

For the education component, the center is developing an exchange program that includes a set of identified courses related to green buildings and urban environment, including virtual desi gn and studio courses jointly offered by SU and Nanjing University faculty, Zhang said.

Ultimately, the center plans to develop certificate, minor and Master of Science programs in integrated design, Zhang said. While the certificate program is already in development, he said the other programs will require additional planning and state approval.

The center will also use outreach to commercialize the technologies developed by helping academics connect with industries through the Center of Excellence, Zhang said.

In the future, Zhang said center officials hope to develop a training program for Chinese officials to come to the U.S. to learn about the principles of green building development and take tours of green buildings here.

Green buildings and urban environments require a multidisciplinary approach, Zhang said, so three different colleges are all bringing their own expertise to the center — the School of Architecture, the College of Engineering and Computer Science and the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. A similar multidisciplinary approach is being taken at Nanjing University, Zhang said.

Abbott said she thinks it’s only the beginning for the partnership.

“This project is more than just interesting research questions, but practical applications toward improvement in urban areas,” she said.

“I think this is the beginning, and it’s going to be up to all the various parties to keep the momentum going.”

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center to be open for extended hours in order to accommodate the students’ schedules.

An executive director for the program has not yet been named, but Fathers has headed a search committee to select a full-time director, according to an SU Libraries release.

Once a director is chosen, the university will staff the center based on need, Fathers said.

SU is one of five schools in New York state to receive the grant, including Cornell University, New York University, the University at Albany and the University at Buffalo. Each school will receive parts of the three-year, $4.5 million grant.

The schools were selected on the basis of the university that has an entrepreneurial ecosystem but needed the investment to improve it, Fathers said.

“They wouldn’t place a LaunchPad where there is no entrepreneurial ecosystem, but nei-

ther would they place it in an ecosystem that didn’t need it,” Fathers said. “SU has a vibrant ecosystem in place with the entrepreneurial program … the iSchool … and the student sandbox, but what we’re missing is a central center for all of this.”

Blackstone LaunchPad will be available to more than 500,000 students worldwide by the end of 2015, according to the Blackstone LaunchPad website.

In addition, those involved in LaunchPad are able use an online platform, powered by VentureBoard, to communicate with other students using LaunchPad to bounce their ideas off of them, even if they are in a different state, Fathers said.

“We want to inject and inculcate and infect all students in SU with an entrepreneurial and innovative drive,” Fathers said.

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blackstone inspired to go inside and use the facility, he said.

It is also glass so that activities occurring within are visible to the other students in the library, and if they do not know what it is, they will go in and ask questions, Fathers said.

Any student regardless of year or major is able to use the center to get advice, he said. “(If a student) has some sort of idea and say ‘hey, maybe this is good idea,’ they can come in the door … get some advice … have a mentoring conversation … sign on to get some more information to help them develop that (idea) and more importantly they can be sent to other resources within the university,” Fathers said.

Since Bird is a 24-hour library on weekdays, Fathers said students can likely expect the

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Election reflection

Gender and Sexuality columnist Caroline Colvin argues that black women must be recognized in social justice movements.

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Liberal columnist Keely Sullivan takes a look at the general election and argues that low voter turnout favors incumbents.

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OPINION

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TGB should acknowledge SU’s efforts The Syracuse University administration has taken comprehensive measures to implement resolutions in response to the 45-page list of grievances presented by THE General Body one year ago, and The Daily Orange Editorial Board commends it for doing so.

SU administrators took genuine interest in listening to the opinions of students, valued student feedback in the process of assessing the state of campus and put reforms in place that fairly met the requests of students.

Credit should rightfully be given to the administration for its efforts to improve the institutional practices of SU in the past year, and THE General Body needs to recognize that.

“Since TGB began pointing to the issues, we have seen the administration continue in the same manner as regards numerous concerns on campus,” wrote the group in a Nov. 4 Letter

Looking back Has the university been fair in its responses to THE General Body’s demands? Share your opinion on the online poll.

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to the Editor to The Daily Orange.

For THE General Body to continue to cite the administration as unreceptive to its demands is naïve.

The SU administration has attended to, or has plans in place to attend to, each of the nine overarching points in the “Needs and Solutions” section of the group’s document over the course of the past 12 months.

These resolutions were put in place in addition to a number of campus-wide changes, including the appointment of an ADA coordinator, divestment from fossil fuels and the increased availability of gender-neutral bathrooms in academic buildings.

SU has since opened up new lines of communication for the community, as seen with Fast Forward Syracuse and the Academic Strategic Plan, initiatives that would make significant structural changes to the university. Moving forward, students

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should use these forums, surveys and other outlets to accomplish goals.

These protests and the exceptional response from the administration highlight the fact that students and faulty should consider the university an environment in which they can openly voice their concerns and have them taken into consideration by the administration.

But while the sit-in culminated in tangible change, it should not serve as a model for student activism on campus when official channels, like forums and surveys, allow expression.

Though THE General Body’s protest ultimately led to changes across campus and in the university’s decision making methods, credit must be given to the invested nature of an administration that was extremely accommodating to student concerns during and after the sit-in.

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Naomi Klein offers inspiring, refreshing outlook on climate change

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enowned activist-author Naomi Klein challenged students, faculty and the local community alike, to reimagine what combating a changing climate might mean for this earth.

Klein presented on Tuesday night as part of the University Lectures Series at Hendricks Chapel. The lecture centered around her book, “This Changes Everything,” a call to understand the vast structural overhauls, in practice and in ideology, needed to fight climate change.

At the heart of Klein’s work is a critique of the narrative that responding to climate change means losing something. But, as Klein argues, this approach is a disempowering one, and must be replaced by the notion of potential gains on a scale never seen before.

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This flip in thinking posits climate change as an opportunity, although I use that word with caution. It must not be forgotten that the effects of climate change are already afflicting people every day, and that to reframe the issue in this positive light is by no means an attempt to discount its accompanying, already existing injustices.

Klein argues that social issues, such as Black Lives Matter, the prison-industrial complex and food justice, to name a few, are fighting the same basic systems of oppression as the climate justice movement. Given the political makeup of the United

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States, Klein correctly asserts that limiting the fight to strictly combatting climate change will be futile.

Klein suggests that there is a distinct difference in talking about “climate action” and “climate justice,” and she is right.

Climate action views climate change mitigation as strictly scientific, dealing with dense reports, facts and figures followed by economic sparring between developed and developing countries.

In contrast, climate justice deals with the entire spectrum of realms climate change affects, including a wide variety of social, political and geographical inequalities.

Framing the issue as one of climate justice rather than climate action humanizes the problem, putting faces to the issues rather

than limiting the issue to CO2 warming projections inherent to climate science.

Visuals help mobilize. Klein knows this, and it is no coincidence that her documentary “This Changes Everything” is not told in the same style of its namesake book.

It is people-driven, utilizing vivid, shocking images meant to galvanize public support. This is a savvy, powerful addition to Klein’s best-selling book, and will be an important resource for activists all over the world as the push for climate justice pushes onward.

The most important takeaway from the lecture was to maintain hope and resolve in a fight that is far from finished.

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When her 45 minutes were up on Tuesday, a packed house rose to its feet, delivering an impassioned round of applause.

In Hendricks Chapel on that alarmingly warm November evening, the collective fight that Klein argues as paramount existed and, in that moment, I realized it had always been real — the task at hand now is one: to mobilize.

Azor Cole is a senior public relations major and geography minor.

His column appears weekly.

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RAURY showed off strong vocals and dance moves Wednesday night in Schine Underground during the final Bandersnatch concert of the fall semester.

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SU professor discusses tree of 40 fruit, upcoming book

By Josh Feinblatt contributing writer

Syracuse University professor Sam Van Aken attracted national attention when National Geographic featured him for creating hybrid trees that hold up to 40 different types of fruits. The School of Visual and Performing Art professor’s story went viral this summer, getting picked up by news outlets across the country.

Now, he is writing a book chronicling the process used to mix different types of trees, a process called grafting. At his sanctuary, right next to the Comstock Art Building, he is currently grafting around 75 trees. While it may seem like only a genetic engineer could be able to create a hybrid tree with 40 fruits, professor Van Aken does not consider himself a scientist. He took some time from creating Frankenstein-esque trees to sit down with The Daily Orange to talk about the grafting process and how he came up with the idea.

The Daily Orange: How did you come up for the idea for these 40 fruit trees?

Sam Van Aken: I became interested in it as a metaphor. The project probably started about 10 years ago combining two pieces of plastic fruit, just playing around in the studio, and eventually it was the notion of, “How can I make this real?” So, the aim of the project at first was to have this tree to blossom with all of these different colors that would produce all these different fruits, so that when people would happen upon it, they would have this moment of rethinking.

Gradually the project evolved, and I realized a lot about how fruit was being grown and produced in the country. New York was the largest producer of plums in the country back in the early 20 century, and that industry had pretty much disappeared. So, then the project almost became a form of preservation of these heirloom and antique varieties [of stone fruits].

The D.O.: What is grafting, and can you explain the process?

S.V.A.: I do it two times a year: Once in the spring right before the tree blossoms and once in August. It’s two different types of

grafting. I’ll go out in February and prune these and bag them and store them until April. It’s actually pretty simple, I cut a harsh diagonal line on the tree, cut a diagonal line on that variety I collected and just stick them together.

You use electrical tape, and what you’re trying to do is match up the cambium layer of the branch. Right underneath the bark is the cambium layer where all of the nutrients for the tree flow. The other type of grafting that I’ll do is called chip grafting.

So what I’ll do, and this is in August, you take a small sliver of a tree, and that small sliver will include a bud on it. You insert that small sliver into the tree and you just tape it. What it does is create a tiny little greenhouse with high humidity. I’ll come back in spring, right before blossom, and I’ll prune that tree right above that graft, and it forces the tree to think it’s its own fruit.

The D.O.: How long have people been grafting?

S.V.A.: It’s been going on for thousands and thousands of years. There’s actually records of [ancient] Egyptians grafting using leather as the binder that holds the two things together.

The D.O.: Why choose to plant the first 40 fruit tree on the Quad?

S.V.A.: I was approached by Hendricks Chapel to develop a piece that would commemorate Sept. 11. That day was so tragic that it was impossible to develop a piece for it.

I talked to the Dean of Hendricks at the time and said, “What do you think about this tree of 40 fruit?” And they really liked the idea, so we went around to some sites and the quad made the most sense for it.

The D.O.: A lot of people have heard about the tree but not many people know where it is, even though it’s right out in the open. Why not make a big deal out of it or have a huge sign where it is?

S.V.A.: That was the initial aim of the work — to have people happen upon it as opposed to having a big announcement that says “This is the tree.” It’s almost one of those things that, if you stop and notice, you’ll get something from it. jfeinbla@syr.edu

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hen Cheech Manohar stepped off the elementary school stage, he was met by the embrace of a child who was in the audience moments ago.

Every Tuesday and Thursday, the cast of the Bank of America Children’s Tour of “New Kid” travels to elementary schools across central New York. The shows typically start around 8 a.m.

The tour is co-produced by Syracuse Stage and the Syracuse University Department of Drama. A different show is produced each fall, with one show open to the public and all other shows performed for elementary schools.

This season’s public performance is scheduled for Nov. 7 at 11 a.m. at Archbold Theatre at Syracuse Stage/Drama Complex.

The show is written from the perspective of Nick, a young boy who moves to America from the fictional country “Homeland.” In “Homeland,” the people speak English, and in America, people speak gibberish. The play follows Nick as he struggles to adjust to the language and foreign customs in America.

Three other characters make up the cast: Nick’s mom, a bully named Mug and a girl named Mench — all played by SU students.

The cast has been traveling to schools across a five-county region since Sept. 17 and will continue until Dec. 10. In total they will visit over 9,000 students in 23 schools, performing once, sometimes twice, at each site, according to an SU news release.

Cheech Manohar, a junior musical theater major, plays the main character Nick. He said he related to Nick because he also moved to a new city when he was young — in his case, from

Australia to Pittsburgh.

Since the play is so consuming, Manohar said it’s important for him to plan ahead and balance schoolwork with his time on stage.

“This is the smallest production I’ve done and yet it’s the most intense by far,” Manohar said.

Crystal Ferreiro, a senior acting major, plays Nick’s mom and said the constant traveling and waking up early can be challenging.

“It’s hard,” she said. “There was a moment where I was kind of like, I’m sick of this play, I’m sick of getting up early … but every time I feel like I’m tired of it, something will happen where I’m like OK … this is why I’m doing this.”

At the end of every school show, the cast will encourage students in the audience to reflect on and discuss the theme of the play. Sometimes the conversation will take on a more serious tone.

In one school they visited, the students had just dealt with an incidence of bullying. The message of “New Kid” is to not judge someone right away; rather to get to know him or her first and learn from them, Manohar said.

Hopefully in hearing this message, kids can prevent prejudice and promote tolerance. Manohar also mentioned the story applies to a broader audience than just elementary school children.

“I think people hear [the words] children’s story and they think ‘Oh it’s going to be like Little Red Riding Hood or like a fairy tale,’ but the show is really, really physical,” Manohar said. “There’s a lot of comedy and dancing in it and it’s wallto-wall sound. It’s just like this really upbeat, energetic piece of theater that would be really exciting for anyone to see,” Manohar said. cdsimms@syr.edu

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ishmael around and make an underdog a frontrunner.

“When you see them change, that’s when you’ll be like, ‘Man, they really did it,’” Ishmael said. “… If I changed the channel and saw the Rockets vs. the Suns and the Suns are losing by 20, I’ll be like, ‘Come on Suns!’”

Since the age of 5, Ishmael’s been working on his craft.

He’d play outside with his older brothers Kemal, a safety on the Atlanta Falcons, and Trevor, a former player at Western Michigan.

That’s how Ishmael learned to snatch passes out of the air. His fundamentals grew and his outstanding body control followed suit.

On a touchdown against Wake Forest, Ish-

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mael caught the ball behind the cornerback. The safety sprinted toward him to make a tackle, but Ishmael swung out his hips and avoided him.

“I think it’s his ability to make plays when everything in front of him is a bit of a mess,” SU head coach Scott Shafer said, “which says a lot about his ability to see multiple things at once.”

The reliability that Ishmael provides on the field is the same one he does off it.

The summer entering Ishmael’s senior year of high school, neighbor and teammate Immel Rai needed a place to live due to family issues.

The Ishmaels took Rai in, which allowed him to continue playing for North Miami Beach (Florida) High School. They treated him like any other kid in the family.

“I probably wouldn’t have made it through high school or made it anywhere without Steve

and his family,” Rai said.

One time, former teammate Buthler Jean’s car broke down on Interstate 95 traveling north and he needed a jumpstart.

Though Ishmael lived more than 20 minutes away, he was the first person Jean called.

“I knew he would come through for me,” Jean said.

In high school, Ishmael played cornerback for three seasons and only allowed two catches, Jean said. Ishmael, though, never saw himself as a cornerback. His primary focus was wide receiver and that’s the position he considered playing in college.

He did it anyway because it was a way to help his team.

“That’s Steve for you,” Jean said.

When the Orange lost to Pittsburgh, Ishmael

surpassed career highs in both receptions and yards. But in the fourth quarter, he dropped a crucial pass in the red zone that could have helped extend a drive to give SU the lead.

Three days afterward, offensive coordinator Tim Lester said the only thing Ishmael thought about following the game was that one drop.

Lester assured his receiver that SU wouldn’t have been competitive without him that day.

He tried to cheer him up, but still, Lester took comfort in how focused Ishmael was on improving on his failure so it wouldn’t happen again.

Ishmael roots for underdogs, but he doesn’t want Syracuse to be one anymore.

“That’s the way he thinks,” Lester said, “and that’s a really good sign about what type of kid he is and where he can go.”

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ularly Nanco, had searched for the Orange’s second goal of the match.

Nanco split two defenders and received a pass from Buescher about four minutes after the midfielder’s goal. An N.C. State defender bodied Nanco as he tried to maneuver into the box and the ball skidded to McCauley from his foot.

Buescher slid a pass to a streaking Noah Rhynhart down the right side of the field with less than five minutes left in the half. The forward ripped a low cross to Nanco, who jumped and kicked the cross out of the air. The ball rose, lifting over the crossbar and skimming it. McIntyre spun around and Nanco put his hands on his head and looked to the sky.

But with about 20 minutes left in the game, Nanco corralled a pass from Lassiter, who had stumbled and ran over an N.C. State defender,

and bent in the shot that closed the game.

A week and a half earlier, McCauley had stretched out to nab a nearly identical shot from Nanco even further into the top right corner.

Nanco opened his arms wide as his teammates chased him down. As he was subbed off the field four minutes after his goal, the crowd greeted him with an ovation.

The celebration was a far cry from the frenzy that took place with the whole bench emptying around goal scorers and Louis Cross being serenaded the last time SU played N.C. State.

But this time, Nanco’s goal helped guarantee SU another game.

“We would’ve liked to have gotten that second goal before the half,” McIntyre said. “So Chris’ goal was an important one.”

n.c. state yards from the goal with Liam Callahan about 2 yards to the right of the ball. A wall formed directly in front of Buescher and a few defenders flanked the wall to the left. The midfielder surveyed the options around him, instead blasting a low shot that ricocheted through the wall and barely found the bottom left corner of the net. “(McCauley) was leaning the whole time to the other side, so I felt like he was cheating a little bit. So I tried to put it in the corner,” Buescher said. “I got a little bit lucky that it went in, but I’ll take it.”

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Laura Hurff uses speed to excel as Syracuse midfielder

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Laura Hurff ran over, set down her practice jersey, stick and banana and extended her hand.

The sophomore midfielder hasn’t stopped running all season since she finished first in the team’s 2,000-meter fitness test.

Freshman Roos Weers, who plays behind Hurff at back, said Hurff’s speed and seeming inability to feel tired helps stop opposing offenses.

“I don’t like (practicing against her),” Weers said. “She’s running a lot. Running is not my strongest part. … If we are on the line, I always try to keep someone in front of me (in line) so I don’t have to go against her.”

Hurff runs into the postseason faster, stronger and without the lingering injures which bothered her during the 2014 postseason, due to a changed diet and extra workouts. This time around, she’s switched positions, playing mid-

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joseph national champion Florida Southern on Sunday gives him one last chance to continue rounding into form before the regular season.

“I was settling in the first half, kind of forcing the issue a little bit,” Joseph said. “The second half, it’s just about playing basketball, making the right play and not pressing.”

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field as she did in high school. The Orange (16-0, 6-0) begins Atlantic Coast Conference play on Friday at 1 p.m. against either Duke or Virginia.

“Laura’s one of the fastest and fittest people I’ve ever seen,” said teammate Alma Fenne, who played at the highest level in Europe. “She’s nice to have at the left midfielder because … no other girl can run at her and pass her because she’s always faster than the opponent.”

Head coach Ange Bradley never thought of Hurff as a midfielder until seeing her attack and “shed layers” at the position with Team USA’s U-21 team in the summer. She realized Hurff, who played forward freshman year, had potential elsewhere; especially considering SU lost two of its top midfielders from 2014, Lieke Visser and Kati Nearhouse.

During preseason, Bradley mixed Hurff into drills with the midfield. She never left.

Hurff went into Manley Field House for the extra, 90-minute workouts on Monday

and Wednesday mornings. Under the direction of assistant strength and conditioning coach Corey Parker, she did lifts, leg work and arm work. In 2014, Hurff played the postseason at less than 100 percent with an ailing lower back, tight legs and sore hip flexors.

“It didn’t stop me from performing, but wasn’t helping, obviously,” Hurff said. “(The extra lifts) have helped my body feel OK throughout the season and not having — knock on wood — any of those kinks as much as I did last year.”

Hurff also switched up her diet, eating only natural peanut butter and smoothies or oatmeal for breakfast. She became more conscious fueling her body.

Hurff now controls the ball and often the flow of the game, distributing from the backs to the forwards. She cringes at the memory of watching tape of her freshman games, when she’d gain possession and feel “frantic” to do something, anything with it.

Throughout the season, Hurff has learned to read situations and discern when to push the ball forward and when to drop it to the backs and slow the pace.

“When she gets the ball, she brings (calm) to the play,” Weers said. “She brings chill on the ball. It’s why she’s so good.”

Hurff’s speed translates in the offensive zone as well. She passes defenders with the “throwgo,” a move used in one-on-one situations when the offensive player throws the ball into space behind the defender then runs to collect it.

Usually the move is used to free up Hurff so she can pass to forwards who sprint toward the goal like she used to. She misses that part of playing forward, she said. But now she dictates the tempo and slows some of the country’s best offenses.

“Oftentimes, you don’t even see (Hurff’s contributions),” Weers said. “Sometimes she’s invisible. But invisible in the best way.”

Carleton, Joseph scored a team-high 19 points.

He was the starting point guard, running an offense that lost Tyler Ennis early to the NBA. This year, Joseph has refined his game despite not cracking the first five, putting on significant muscle and improving his stroke from deep. He showed a tendency to attack the rim in the first half against the Dolphins and his first two shots in the second half, both makes from behind the arc, helped SU pull away.

“Kaleb’s definitely 16-17 pounds stronger and

he’s shooting the ball better this year,” Boeheim said. “Those two things definitely help.”

Syracuse shot 32 3s on Monday, many of which came from penetrate-and-kick situations. Gbinije, who shot 10 from beyond the arc himself, and Joseph, were able to get in the lane, draw defenders in and pass it back outside to an open shooter.

“He got in the paint quite a lot,” Gbinije said.

“I think that’s big for him, if he can get in the paint and make it easier to make plays.”

SU plans to be more of a perimeter-ori-

ented offense, and it’ll need Joseph, even if he plays just 16 minutes like Monday, to draw attention to the paint.

It’s an improved branch of his game, but one that’s still a work in progress. If it can be refined along with his outside shooting, Syracuse can inch closer to the new offense it’s already begun to unveil.

Said Joseph: “I think there’s definitely a lot more to come.”

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SU moves on in ACC tourney Syracuse defeats N.C. State, 2-0, at home

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Kamal Miller skipped into a group of teammates around Chris Nanco and Julian Buescher climbed on top of the pile.

Nanco had just curved a pass from Kenny Lassiter toward the top right corner of the net that eluded North Carolina State goalie Alex McCauley’s hand, solidifying a first-round win in the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament for Syracuse.

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STEVE ISHMAEL leads Syracuse with 397 receiving yards, 26 receptions and four touchdowns, three of which have come in the past four games.

The sophomore wide receiver chose the Orange over offers from Oregon and Tennessee.

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Steve Ishmael doing all he can to turn SU from underdog to frontrunner

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teve Ishmael’s greatest weakness was his weakness. He lacked the physique of a college football hopeful.

Then a high school freshman, a 162-pound Ishmael went to make a block on a defender 40 pounds larger.

He was pushed backward so easily the defender taunted him.

“‘Man you got to go to the weight room,’” Ishmael said the defender told him. “I took that so personal. Ever since then, I’ve literally been in the weight room every day taking it serious.”

His older brothers were bigger than he was too. Their size reminded him of the same thing that the defender did.

With Ishmael’s strength a perpetual work in progress, his college aspirations were nonexistent until he received his first offer from West-

ern Michigan. It was a shock to Ishmael in his junior year, something he never expected and hardly believed when it happened.

“I was like, ‘Wow. Me?’” Ishmael said.

Ishmael eventually chose Syracuse over offers from Oregon and Tennessee in order to help a program trying to turn things around — a desire to help that defines him.

He increased his weight from 178

pounds as a freshman last season to 205 now and is the Orange’s (3-5, 1-3 Atlantic Coast) leading receiver with 397 yards, 26 receptions and four touchdowns, three of which have come in the past four games.

Ishmael wants to be a part of what makes Syracuse great. He accepts the current struggles, because ingrained in his decision to play for SU was his desire to turn things

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men’s basketball

Joseph already shows flashes of improved game

By Matt Schneidman asst. sports editor

Le Moyne’s Daniel Kaigler blocked Kaleb Joseph’s shot near the rim with three seconds left in the first half.

Tanner Hyland corralled the rebound, lofted a three-quarters-court shot that hit the top of the backboard and

the buzzer sounded as Joseph headed toward the locker room.

Syracuse head coach Jim Boeheim stood near midcourt, his unwavering glare directed right at the sophomore, before screaming “Hey” to get his attention.

“He made a bad play at the end of the first half,” Boeheim said after the game.

It capped off a 20-minute span that Joseph wanted to put behind him. One-of-6 shooting. No makes on his two 3-pointers. A meager three points for a professed new player whose stroke from distance and ability to finish at the rim was supposedly far superior than a year ago.

But in the second half, the point

guard was more selective in his looks from the field, he said. Joseph hit half of his six shots, including back-toback 3s that topped off a 21-0 SU run, and finished with 11 points. The latter 20 minutes displayed the Joseph that Syracuse knows he can be, and a second exhibition against Division-II see joseph page 15

Syracuse took almost an hour to score its second goal Wednesday night, but was able to do so in a 2-0 win over N.C. State.

“I’ve come close to scoring a lot of goals this year,” Nanco said, “and I just haven’t executed that final finish.”

The Orange (11-5-2, 3-4-1 ACC) beat the Wolfpack (8-6-3, 1-4-3), 2-0, on Tuesday night at SU Soccer Stadium to advance to the tournament quarterfinals at North Carolina on Sunday at 1 p.m. Nanco’s goal bolstered SU’s 1-0 lead, broke his six-game scoreless streak and put the game away after a Buescher free kick gave the Orange an earlier advantage.

Nanco had several chances to put SU up 2-0 and tied Buescher for the team lead in shots with three.

In two of SU’s five losses and both of its ties, the Orange played with the lead, but lost it, including games against North Carolina, Wake Forest, Louisville and Hartford.

“Sometimes you get a little bit nervous holding a lead,” McIntyre said, “so it was important getting that second goal.”

After waiting 74 minutes and two Wolfpack goals to scratch out a goal of its own the last time the two teams met, it took just 11 minutes for SU to find the back of the net Tuesday night.

Buescher lined up about 25 see n.c.

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