Cazenovia College will shut down following the spring 2023 semester amid a projected deficit of several million dollars.
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Bandier sophomore Lauren Juzang has continued to improve her musical catalog with her new single “Yeehoo!” Page 5
weekly critiques from professors.
Architecture students are required to take studio classes every semester until their fifth and final year in the program, when the class serves as a thesis course.
Growing up, Mae Batherson relied on her brother Drake to translate German during her practices. Now, the SU defenseman applies her skills she learned from brother.
Syracuse University lists five confi dential resources on its website for sexual relationship violence, four of which are on campus. SU’s sole offcampus resource is Vera House, an organization in Syracuse which provides support, crisis intervention and victim advocacy for survivors of sexual and domestic abuse.
By Luisana Ortiz asst. copy editorWhen Grace Hong’s architecture studio class admitted to their professor they’d all been sleep deprived for weeks, she said he was “understanding” despite having been unaware of their situation. But many architecture students say such a reception has only recently become more common in the program.
Although it’s known for its culture of normalizing — even glorifying —unhealthy working habits, students in Syra cuse University’s architecture program said they are rec ognizing a shift to prioritizing mental health.
“When I started, I would say the majority of the cul ture, mostly among the older faculty, was (to) work late nights … in studio (and) eat, breathe, sleep studio,” said Sofia Gutierrez, a fourth-year architecture student. “Right now, it’s kind of shifting more toward work-life balance.”
The program requires studio classes, which students explained are six-credit, four-hour hands-on courses where students apply technical and conceptual skills learned in core classes. In these classroom environments, which usually consist of fewer than 20 people, students work on individual and group design projects and receive
Through these semesterly courses, students said the school’s faculty stress the importance of building “studio culture,” or rapport amongst peers through collaborating and providing feedback on design projects during class.
Studio classes are held three times a week, and that time commitment results in creative, supportive work environ ments, students said, as well as tight-knit friendships.
Gutierrez recalled the close bond in one of her freshman year studio classes. In the architecture world, students and professors said, a culture of competition and pushing oneself to unhealthy limits is well-known to be consuming.
“We would go eat together, and the freshmen would take up four entire tables in Ernie,” she said. “It was really wholesome.”
Yet the studio class environment can also be very com petitive, students said, to the point where students often compare their personal working and sleeping habits with their peers’ and question whether they are working hard enough. At times, Hong said she’s felt pressured to pull all-nighters if she learned another peer was going to, even if she hadn’t originally planned to do so. Though experiences varied by studio class cohorts, students said studio profes sors can perpetuate these attitudes, especially if professors hold the course with utmost importance in the program.
“Assigning five drawings that are due in two days is unrealistic, but it still happens and every one still does it,” Hong said.
From 2020 to 2022, Vera House employed a sex offender as a “victim advocate.” While SU will continue its relationship with Vera House, the uni versity has outlined a series of requests for the organization to maintain the relationship and have SU “feel confi dent” regarding it, said Rob Hradsky, the university’s vice president for the student experience.
“We’ve had a very strong relation ship in the past,” Hradsky said. “We are looking at ways that we can bet ter understand changes that they’re making as a result of that situation that occurred.”
In August, CNYCentral published an investigation into the hiring of Mar cus Jackson, who then-Co-Executive Director Randi Bregman knew was a level 2 sex offender when she offered him a job at Vera House.
In 2000, Jackson was convicted of “unlawful sexual activity with a minor,” requiring him to register as a sex offend er. While Vera House originally insisted Jackson had no contact with minors in his capacity as a victim advocate, the New York State Office of Victim Ser vices identified two such instances.
The organization has since apolo gized for hiring Jackson, and main
Students in SU’s architecture program are working to diverge from unhealthy ‘studio culture’
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Noteworthy events this week.
WHAT: Orange After Dark: End of Year Formal WHEN: Dec. 8, 9 p.m. to 12 a.m.
WHAT: Meet Sports Broadcaster Sean McDonough ‘84 WHEN: Dec. 9, 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
WHERE: Newhouse 1 303
WHERE: Sheraton Hotel and Conference Center Ballroom WHAT: Opera Workshop Presents: ‘Hansel and Gretel’ WHEN: Dec. 11, 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
WHERE: Everson Museum of Art, Hosmer Auditorium
Syracuse University’s student insurance plan covers travel expenses for anyone who seeks reproductive care in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
On Wednesday, the final Graduate Student Organization meeting of the semester focused on SU’s Student Health Insur ance Plan. Barnes Center Direc tor of Health Services Operations Kathleen Coughlin outlined the policy’s coverage of travel expenses, as well as benefits including 24/7 medical coverage on-campus and no charges for office visits, as incentives to join the plan.
In 2016, SU first required that all-full time students either enroll in SU’s health insurance plan or prove they had a thirdparty insurance plan that met the standards of SU and the Affordable Care Act.
“We’re definitely a lot lower
countythan the market is right now... and a lot of that I think is from using a health and wellness cen ter that doesn’t charge for office visits, and trying to encourage that usage as much as possible,” Coughlin said.
Coughlin also provided an overview of pricing in compari son to other institutions and options available for students, and highlighted the Barnes Center’s preventative care via immunizations, such as the Barnes Center’s flu shot clinics and COVID-19 vaccine shots.
Members of the GSO’s executive board put forward their officer reports for the meeting, with the majority of the reports focused on initiatives and goals heading into the spring semester.
GSO President Yousr Dha ouadi announced that Gretchen Ritter, SU’s vice chancellor, pro vost and chief academic officer, will speak on increasing funding for the university’s minimum
stipend levels at the upcoming University Senate meeting on Dec. 14. She called the provost’s willingness to hear and speak on the needs of graduate students a sign of progress in the GSO’s efforts to improve funding.
“We should be proud of the fact that… this is the first time our advocacy takes a stance on the Senate floor,” Dhaouadi said. “So, if the provost is mak ing decisions about that, that’s a very positive thing.”
Dhaouadi also said that sev eral GSO members will meet with Cynthia Carnaham, SU’s interim assistant vice president for budget and planning, to discuss the university’s budget ing and funding for graduate students in December. Between the two events, Dhaouadi said she hopes the GSO can produce “fruitful results.”
President Dhaouadi added that the GSO is filing a request for graduate student representation in the University Senate Student Life Committee.
Additionally, Michael Ammoury, GSO’s vice presi dent of external affairs, outlined a goal of boosting engagement among graduate students. On Thursday, GSO will host a “take a break, take a gift event” at the GSO office to provide a “holiday gift” with finals week approaching.
Ammoury said the GSO’s Outreach and Civic Engage ment committee is currently working with Hendricks Chapel to coordinate a future cloth ing drive. Ammoury said the idea is “still a work in progress,” but also that GSO will continue reaching out to members of the university for feedback.
“This is what we’re trying to achieve,” said Ammoury. “It’s to go out and help others or who ever is in need.”
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By Brittany Miller asst. news editorOn Wednesday, Cazenovia College announced it will permanently close after the spring 2023 semester, two years before the college’s 200th anni versary.
Cazenovia’s Board of Trustees cited financial issues as the main factor in its decision to shut down, but reassured students that it will remain dedicated to their education and help them transition to new institutions.
On Nov. 14, Brandon Williams was declared the winner in the election for New York’s 22nd con gressional district with 50.7% of the vote. Williams will join the 221 Republican representatives in the House of Representatives.
Williams, a Republican with no prior experience holding public office, will take Rep. John Katko’s seat following Katko’s retirement. Katko was one of 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach former President Don ald Trump following the insur rection on Jan. 6, 2021.
Before Williams officially takes office in January 2023, The Daily Orange broke down what his tenure could mean for central New York.
Williams, a United States Navy veteran and Texas native, is the owner of CPLANE.ai, a software development business based in Silicon Valley, California. He started a truffle farm after mov ing to central New York in 201o.
He advocates for growing small and medium-sized busi
nesses, entrepreneurship and investment in the central New York economy, according to a pol icy statement from BallotPedia.
“(T)he best way to create jobs for Central New Yorkers? Promoting trade learning in high school and college, modernizing manufactur ing, and reducing the red tape that stands between entrepreneurs and job creation,” Williams wrote in a tweet in November.
When Micron announced it had chosen Clay, a suburb of Syra cuse, as the location for its new microchip fabrication plant, Wil liams expressed support despite previously speaking out against the CHIPS act, which allowed for semiconductor and microchip funding subsidies.
Williams has also supported lowering taxes and cutting “reck less” government spending to curb inflation, rising costs and a possible economic recession.
“We have to look at things like smaller government and free enterprise to get us out of the mess that we’ve created, includ ing less spending and common sense energy policy that reduces energy costs, particularly for the middle class,” Williams said in an October Politico article.
Williams opposes critical race theory in schools, believes par ents should have a say in their children’s education curriculum and opposes education about sex and gender identity in elementa ry schools, according to his cam paign website. He said he wants to prioritize policy for affordable community college tuition and quality trade and public school education.
Healthcare Williams has expressed opposi tion to mandates for lockdowns and vaccines in the COVID-19 pandemic, according to BallotPe dia’s policy statement.
Regarding reproductive healthcare, Williams’ campaign website states that “Brandon will always promote life while also standing with young mothers to ensure that choice is protected in instanc es of rape, incest, or life of the mother.” He wants to work bipartisanly to expand adop tion options and affordability for pregnant people, according to the website.
But in a video of an October
debate with Democratic opponent Francis Conole, Williams denied Conole’s claims that Williams’ positions would allow politicians to ban abortion.
“The people of New York are gonna make this decision,” Wil liams said.
Williams has emphasized his support for expanding funding and training for law enforcement. The Deputy Sheriff’s Benevolent Association of Onondaga County endorsed his campaign.
When a Starbucks location in downtown Armory Square Syracuse cited safety concerns for its closure, Williams blamed cashless bail policies for “put ting violent offenders back on the street” and pushing busi nesses out of the region.
“Cashless bail is a radical and failed policy that lets vio lent criminals out of jail to com mit more crimes, putting our families in danger,” Williams wrote in a tweet. “It’s time to support victims by promoting strong prosecution of those who prey on our communities.” spwright@syr.edu @stephaniwri_
“Unfortunately, the headwinds and market conditions were insur mountable, leading to a projected deficit of several million dollars for next year,” Ken Gardiner, chair of the Cazenovia College Board of Trustees, said in a press release. “As a result, the College won’t have the funds necessary to be open and continue operations for Fall 2023 and beyond.”
The college is set to carry on as normal in the last weeks of the fall semester, and remain “fully opera tional” for the spring semester with in-person classes and events.
Going into the spring, faculty and staff will be working with students to aid in their transfer processes, according to the press release. Caze novia has entered into agreements with other upstate New York col leges – including LeMoyne College, SUNY Oneonta and Utica University – to “provide pathways” for former Cazenovia students to aid in their academic and social transition. The release did not list Syracuse Univer sity as a partnered institution.
The decision to cease operations at the end of the 2022-23 academic year follows an over 40% drop in enrollment, the press release read. Higher education institution enrollment has decreased by 4.2% nationwide since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center.
The release also pointed to stu dents postponing enrollment after acceptance or taking a leave of absence for the 2021-22 school year as a factor, which hurt investments in technology and campus safety opera tions and contributed to its finan
Third-year architecture student Zan der Leff said professors themselves are being overworked, which exacerbates the situation when students don’t have a healthy example to follow.
“(When a) professor comes in, she’s got massive circles under her eyes and she’s like, ‘Yeah, guys. Sleep is really important. Who else here is exhausted out of their mind?’” he said. “I’m like, ‘Dude, you can tell us that all you want. But how do you fix it? You are clearly suffering.’”
During his first year, Leff said faculty acknowledged the lack of ‘studio culture’ in his graduating class caused by COVID-19 restrictions. During that time, students only attended studio class every other week, where they sat far apart from one another and only half of the class at a time, he said.
Because of the pandemic’s pervasiveness in their freshman year, the lack of a concrete sense of community has led to an even greater dis parity in how students interpret and respond to professors’ workload demands, even among students from the same studio class, he said. He added that his class feels more distant than other years below and above his own.
“We all react wildly differently to the impulses we’re facing, and we don’t share a lot about that,” he said. “It’s kind of like, if you’re doing well, you feel bad because (you think) everyone else is suffering, and if you’re suffer ing, you don’t want to share that with anyone.
tained that Bregman and two advocacy program leaders were the only people within the organization who knew of Jackson’s sta tus as a registered sex offender.
“We regret the decision to hire him and are deeply sorry for the pain and confu sion this has caused. Our staff deserves to work in a safe, transparent environment,” then-Co-Executive Directors Randi Breg man and Angela Douglas, along with Vera House’s Board of Directors, wrote in an August statement.
In order to continue the relationship between Vera House and SU, Hradsky said SU has requested that Vera House place a staff member from SU on its governing board so the university can have more of a voice in its decision-making.
“We are still figuring out the best way to have the staff member involved with Vera House, so we are having active conversations with their board,” Hradsky said.
Hradsky said the university hasn’t con firmed who the staff member to sit on Vera House’s governing board will be, but that they will most likely be from one of the univer sity’s offices involved in victim support, like the Barnes Center at the Arch’s Sexual and
So you’re internalizing it and trying to get over it on your own.”
For Donovan Hernandez, being part of a cohort with minimal interaction allowed him to develop a habit of prioritizing health over work without feeling any judgment. He wasn’t as worried about whether his own work habits were up to par with his classmates, he said, because he was simply unaware of how the rest of his classmates approached their assignments.
Associate Dean and Associate Professor Kyle Miller, who has occupied his position for 10 years, said that although he thinks it’s improved “incrementally” since he first joined the program, awareness about student wellbe ing and health is one of his principal priorities in his current position.
As the first-year studio coordinator for the 2026 graduating class, Miller said impacts of COVID-19 only “exaggerated” the prioritiza tion of wellness.
Miller said he’s been working with the cur rent undergraduate chair and associate pro fessor Daekwon Park as well as meeting with faculty to achieve these goals, and added they are working on providing “extra support” to current third-years who missed out during the pandemic in their freshman year. Some new initiatives Miller and his team implemented this year include an anonymous feedback poll for first years to reflect on the most rewarding and challenging aspects of the major, as well as a new “studio tutor” program, which provides students struggling to pass with assistance
rather than being offered a makeup course. He said the team is looking into expanding this program specifically for the 2026 cohort. He also recognized the work of student groups, such as the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility Council, as giving students a way to communicate their concerns to faculty.
Hong and Leff, who are both involved with the council, cited both issues with communi cation among different organizations as well as difficulty accessing faculty as hurdles. Her nandez, who was involved in the DEIA Council his first two years, said members also strug gled to balance their role with their already rigorous class workload, which caused some members to take on more work than others.
Miller said students involved in non-archi tecture extracurriculars tend to have a better sense of time management, which first-year students cited as the most challenging part of the program so far in the anonymous feedback poll. Hernandez also said the school should always make a bigger point to promote trying things outside of the program. As a peer leader for this year’s freshman orientation in the School of Architecture, he said he was pleased with how much the topic was touched on.
“What we talked about a lot with the freshman orientation is, you go to such a big school, it has so many resources, so many clubs, so many sports, so many majors,” he said. “You can do something different every single day, all five years, and you would never do everything at this school.”
Cultivating this sense of community belong ing is another value Miller is especially commit ted to, as it protects mental health, he said.
“I think if every student feels that they belong they will be comfortable, and they will be motivated to achieve success,” Miller said.
cial difficulties. The college also had trouble receiving debt service on outstanding bonds in September, the release read.
Relationship Violence Response Team or the university’s Title IX Office.
Sarah Scalese, SU’s senior associate vice president for communications, told The D.O. on Wednesday that Vera House has yet to place an SU staff member on its governing board.
Hradsky said SU also made a request to view Vera House’s operating procedures, with which the organization complied. The D.O. reached out to Vera House for comment, but the organization did not respond by the time of publication.
With SU’s requests not completely fulfilled, some aspects of SU and Vera House’s relation ship have been put on hold.
In February, the Barnes Center announced that Vera House would hold weekly office hours for students. SU added the office hours in response to protests in late 2021 and early 2022 from Stand With Survivors SU, a student-led advocacy group against sexual assault.
Until the organization fulfills the universi ty’s requests, Hradsky said Vera House’s office hours will remain suspended.
Hradsky did not say whether Vera House officials were also suspended from visiting SU classes, but mentioned that the university has no way of knowing if
“We have worked tirelessly to strengthen the financial position of the College through fundraising campaigns, adding graduate offerings, streamlining transfer pathways and exploring alternative options,” David Bergh, president of Cazenovia College, said
members are still coming to campus in their capacities at the organization.
“Inevitably, we do have some individuals who will reach out to Vera House and schedule things on their own,” Hradsky said. “But, for the most part, we try to coordinate so that we know when they’re on campus.”
While there is not a set date for Vera House’s SU programming to return, Hradsky said the organization has been cooperative in discussions and that he would expect some “movement” in the spring.
Hradsky noted that though it isn’t finished, Vera House has made significant progress since CNYCentral’s investigation came out. Multiple members of their staff and board of directors have since resigned, Hradsky said.
“(Vera House has also) recruited new folks to the other board,” Hradsky said. “From a leadership perspective, there’s been a significant change.”
After an open letter from former Vera House employees condemned Bregman’s decision to hire Jackson, Vera House’s Board of Directors wrote in a press release that it had accepted Randi Bregman’s res ignation. In the same message, the board named Douglas the sole director.
“I am very sorry for the hurt and pain I have caused,” Bregman wrote in an open
in the press release. “Unfortunately, these efforts did not create results to ensure longterm viability for the College.”
Bergh wrote that he is optimistic about Cazenovia’s dedication to its students in the coming months before the college shuts its
Gutierrez, who said Miller’s views also involve de-emphasizing the importance of studio, said she’s observed pushback from faculty and students who want constant pro ductivity. She said she recognizes how deeply rooted the mindset is in the architecture field as a whole, but still supports Miller’s aims.
“There needs to be a better balance for the sake of attrition, for the sake of not working your students to the bone,” Gutierrez said. “Personal life needs to be considered more.”
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letter addressed to staff, volunteers and community supporters when she stepped down on Sept. 2. “In our work, we talk a lot about intention versus impact. For those that experience harmful impact, inten tions don’t matter.”
In a Nov. 14 email, then-Board Member Sheri Rodriguez told The D.O. that Douglas would be “busy” throughout the entire week and unable to interview.
On Nov. 23, Vera House announced that it had placed Douglas on paid leave and named Rodriguez the interim execu tive director. Before Douglas was put on leave, Hradsky said she joined the Chancellor’s Task Force on Sexual and Relationship Violence to provide insight into what happened and the changes ongoing at Vera House.
Scalese told The D.O. that Douglas was on the board by virtue of her position at Vera House. With her leave, Vera House Board of Director President Marissa Saunders has taken Douglas’ place on the task force.
“I have believed in the work (Vera House) has done,” he said. “I was disappointed in what occurred, but I’m really focused on the future and how we move forward.”
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“It is an extremely difficult time for all of us, but we remain committed to students, faculty, staff and alumni,” he said.
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When I started, I would say the majority of the culture, mostly among the older faculty, was (to) work late nights … in studio (and) eat, breathe, sleep studio.
Sofia Gutierrez fourth-year architecture student
Right after the FIFA World Cup in Qatar match between the United States and Iran, I checked the results and realized that the United States had won. I felt a sense of cheerfulness fill my heart.
It is no secret that the soccer World Cup is one of the most popu lar sporting events. It is a space where tears and laughter, chants and dances, anxiety and euphoria all mingle together and change by the minute. But there is much more in play than the Cup itself. People don’t just see 11 players playing soccer, they see their own country, their national identity and individual pride competing for glory against the rest of the world.
The day the U.S. played Iran, I saw a student running with an American flag on his back through campus. When he looked back at me, I raised my hand in approval, and we started celebrating togeth er. After hearing each other’s accents, we realized we were both Hispanic. He was Nicaraguan and I, Cuban.
Meanwhile, I was trying to understand why I felt so happy. After all, Cuba had not played in the Cup since 1938. Was it that I was biased against the Iranian team because they were now the symbolic representation of a regime that abuses women’s freedom? After some thought, I arrived at a conclusion: an incipi ent sense of American patriotism was developing.
I understood why I had come to feel that way — I am grateful to live in America, so I wanted the best
for America and Americans.
I then tried to visualize the whole situation from an outside perspective: two Latinos celebrat ing the U.S. team’s victory on an American university campus, while Americans all around us remained quiet. That was saddening.
At first, I thought it could be that no one knew about the game. But I find that hard to believe, as it was being broadcasted live in the Schine Student Center. While soccer isn’t the most popular sport in the U.S, Syracuse University usually puts a lot of attention and energy into sports. The only con clusion I could come up with is that American college students don’t always want to associate with their own country.
After living in this country for
three years, I’ve seen an increas ing number of young Americans become almost ashamed to be American. Some people may say contempt for America is justified because of the discriminatory events in the country’s history. What I believe has happened is that Americans have been socialized into the notion — and reminded every day at school — that America (the country) is irretrievably evil today because of the crimes that America (the government) has committed in the past, with little separation for the two.
Perhaps because I lived under a dictatorship for the first 18 years of my life, I learned to differentiate these terms at an early age. “Gov ernment” was that group of pow
erful people who tried to control every aspect of our lives. “Country” was my family, my friends, my cul ture and environment. In fact, if I were to hold my country respon sible for all the crimes its foreign and domestic administrations have committed over hundreds of years, I would be ashamed of a substantial part of my own identity. Instead, I choose to be proud of other ele ments of that national identity, which does not affect my ability to think critically about the dark epi sodes of my nation’s history.
Like it or not, where you grew up is a big part of who you are. Even if you think you’re contrib uting an act of restorative justice to the world by hating this place, all you’re really doing is hating a part of yourself, which is, of course, not healthy for you and not healthy for anyone around you. The only way to achieve positive change in a country is by acting out of love for it. The only way to make up for the wrong doings of the past is to work to create a better future, and that is not possible without loving what you want to improve. If you want a change but you don’t love the place you want to change, your activism is meaningless.
The reason why people take to the streets en masse to protest injustice is not because they hate their country, but because they want to see it improved. Even under murderous regimes, Cubans love their country, Nicaraguans love their country and Iranians love their country. Americans should love theirs too.
That does not mean you have to gladly accept whatever your administration has done or is still doing just because it calls
itself your country. Govern ments are experts at manipu lating language and turning people’s patriotism into blind loyalty to a leader, party or ideology. We saw how much harm nationalism brought to the world during World War II. However, there is no proof that loving one’s country is inher ently bad. Instead, it is a warn ing of the problems that arise when we fail to discern between government and country.
Just as Fidel Castro is not Cuba, Donald Trump is not America. Neither is Joe Biden. Trump and Biden are just representatives of the government. If you don’t like them or their policies, that is fine, and you should be free to criticize them. But you should not hate a whole country because of the decisions taken by a small group of individuals, even if those indi viduals use its name to advance their political agendas. America is not what some politician says it is. It isn’t an artificial intelligence system that can operate by itself either. It’s a place to live, and it’s the home of millions of people from all kinds of backgrounds.
There are many reasons an immigrant can be proud to call themselves American, and Ameri cans should find those reasons too. Therefore, in the upcoming 2026 Soccer World Cup, which will be held in Mexico, the United States and Canada, Americans should take the chance to celebrate along side the immigrants that will be rooting for the U.S. national team.
Justo Antonio Triana is a sophomore classical civiliza tion major. His columns appear bi-weekly. He can be reached at jatriana@syr.edu.
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Last spring, Lauren Juzang was scrolling through Instagram when she came across a guitar loop that one of her old friends from high school had posted. She loved the sound so much that she wrote a verse to sing over the loop and posted a video on her Instagram story, which she quickly deleted.
“That video will never see the light of day,” Juzang said as she chuckled to herself. “I took it down a while ago and never finished the song.”
Over the summer, Juzang, a sophomore in the Bandier program, felt like she was in a “creative rut” for the first time in her life. None of the songs she was writing were working for her.
That was until she remembered the guitar loop video she posted last spring. She listened to the loop and the verse she previously wrote. Then she began to add on. Within a few takes Juzang wrote what would become the first single of her second EP.
“Yeehoo!” is Juzang’s latest and most intimate single since the release of her first EP “HAHAHHAHA” which she wrote when she was 16. Since then, Juzang feels she has grown immensely as an artist and lyricist, and is anticipat ing her second project to come out early next year.
After she went to college, Juzang asked her child
At the gym, Emma Powers noticed that men tend to dominate the weight lift ing areas leaving women to create their own, separate space.
“No, it’s not a coincidence ... we just feel more comfortable together, so that’s where we go,” said Powers, a junior at the Falk Col lege of Sport and Human Dynamics.
This fall, the Barnes Center at The Arch hit a notable milestone, welcoming its millionth visitor. But the gym culture
at Syracuse University, while offering plenty of resources and opportunities for exercising, can still be hard to nav igate for some students. With gender stereotypes and stigma also at play, this culture is particularly harmful towards female students.
Gym intimidation, especially for women, is no rarity. Many people resort to at-home workouts, private, one-onone training, and even gyms exclusive to women to avoid the overwhelming nature of regular gyms, Harmon said.
While there are other gyms around cam
pus, they don’t have as much equipment or resources as the Barnes Center, making the Arch an important, but less welcoming, gym on campus, said RoQue Harmon, the internship placement coordinator in the Department of Exercise Science.
These gender differences in gyms like Barnes have a long history, Harmon said.
“For many decades, even fitness facilities were separated,” Harmon said. “That’s in part because of incorrect sci ence being taught that women shouldn’t lift weights because they’ll get bulky like men, which we know is incorrect.”
Harmon said that these remnants of a more segregated era still reverberate in fitness facilities today, including the Barnes Center.
A 2019 survey from OnePoll, spon sored by Isopure, found that out of 2,000 Americans, 50% are intimidated at the thought of working out at a gym. Fur thermore, 17% said they grow intimidat ed when exercising in front of someone of the opposite sex.
Despite these trends, Harmon said that there has been a lot of progress
Sophomore Bandier student furthers music career by seeing her new EP come into fruition
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While studying to be a com poser, Chris Cresswell wor ried he wouldn’t get to play his own music.
“I primarily wrote for other people, which was fun, but I missed that feeling,” Cress well said. “Like playing with other people. That was kind of where the original idea for the ensemble came from.”
But while studying for his masters in music composi tion in Birmingham, England, Cresswell formed the 315 Ensemble, an electro-acoustic sextet ensemble through which he could experience both of his loves. The ensem ble hit a lull soon after its initial founding, as Cresswell focused on other non-music endeavors. This year, Cress well revived the ensemble in Syracuse, its namesake loca tion, and it’s now fully com prised of Syracuse University students and alums.
While Cresswell is a clas sic composer, he also plays the electric guitar. Bringing in the sounds of the electric guitar
to the classic acoustic sound was Cresswell’s creative way of inserting himself in the ensemble and finding ways to play around with the typical classical music audiences are used to.
After solidifying his new found sound, Cresswell had to look for fellow musicians who were just as curious about unique sound avenues to bring his vision to life.
Self-proclaimed “pioneer of alternative style strings,” Kristen Kopf is one of these musicians. Kopf plays the cello in the ensemble and has spent most of her career playing around with nontraditional music.
“Thirty years ago, I began stepping out of the traditional string settings by incorporat ing rock and contemporary music and electric instru
ments into my programs and ensembles,” Kopf said.
While the ensemble per forms pieces written by Cre swell, it isn’t restricted to them, which gives the group the opportunity to play around with a variety of sounds and place an emphasis on different instruments in the group.
In addition to Cresswell and Kopf on the guitar and cello,
If there was any picture that encapsulated the teenage inse curities of the late 1970s, it was none other than John Badham’s offbeat and disco-filled epic “Sat urday Night Fever.” A grimy and almost saturated look into the lives of those searching for iden tity, the picture is celebrating its 45th anniversary next week.
In all honesty, “Saturday Night Fever” has become an overlooked gem due to a somewhat cultural insignificance towards contem porary American culture. Though an instant hit upon its release on Dec. 14, 1977, it is now almost entirely misunderstood.
Maybe it’s the clothes. Maybe it’s the characters or “lack there of.” Maybe you’re only familiar with the film’s soundtrack, con taining the classic pop tracks like “Stayin’ Alive” by the Bee Gees,
The Mudpit will be hosting three local SU ands for a concert this Thursday. The house show venue is hoping to end the semester with an otherworldly performance, and encourages visitors to show up ready to dance in cowboy, cowgirl, astronaut or alien costumes. DM The Mudpit’s Instagram for the address.
WHEN: Thursday, December 8 at 9 p.m.
PRICE: $5 presale, $7 at the door
Junexa
Junexa, a metal band that started in Florida in 2015, relocated to Syracuse and started recording and gigging around the city. Their music looks to be a caricature of the topic of mental illness and the lifestyle surrounding the management of these issues.
WHEN: Friday, December 9 at 6 p.m.
PRICE: $17.45 for general admission
Indie rock band All Poets & Heroes will be performing at Funk n Waffles this weekend. The Syracuse based band formed in 2015 and has developed their sound around resonating folk melodies and 90’s alternative music. The concert is 18+ and tickets can be bought online or at the door.
WHEN: Friday, December 9 at 8 p.m., doors open at 7 p.m.
PRICE: $13.07 for general admission
If you’re down for a bit of a drive and looking for an escape from the winter weather, The Beach Boys will be performing in Buffalo this weekend. Founded in 1961 by brothers Brian, Dennis, and Carl Wilson and Mike Love and Al Jardine, the iconic Californian band looks to bring good vibrations to the Sheas Performing Arts Center.
WHEN: Friday, December 9 at 7:30 p.m.
PRICE: $65
315 Ensemble
The 315 Ensemble, a local new music band made up of all former or current SU students, will be performing at WCNY’s Performance Studio. The ensemble, which contains flutes, clarinets, violins, cellos and an electric guitar, will play their electro-acoustic music that is mostly composed by their guitar player, Chris Cresswell.
WHEN: Saturday, December 10 at 7:30 p.m.
PRICE: free
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musichood friend Jason Davis, who attends NYU, to be her producer. They worked tirelessly to figure out what type of sound, production style and marketing tactics to use for her first solo EP.
“I don’t think I fully understood her sound yet, and (I) was trying to explore every avenue as a producer,” Davis said. “I’m super excited for the second EP because we have both grown so much as collaborators.”
Juzang spent almost every day last sum mer at Davis’s house working on the second release — they live only five minutes away
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made in creating gyms that are acces sible to everyone.
“Even in my short lifespan of professional experience and fitness, it’s gotten a lot more inclusive to all genders and all ability levels,” Harmon said.
Dr. Kylie Harmon, an assistant professor in the Department of Exercise Science, believes that the fitness world is becoming more wel coming, largely due to advancements in tech nology — including social media. Many people in the fitness industry use
from each other, within the same neighbor hood in Los Angeles.
When August rolled around, it was time to pick what song from the second EP would be the single. For Juzang, “Yeehoo!” was the obvious option.
She wants the second EP to be a “new era” for her music. To establish this tone, her boyfriend joined on the saxo phone to perfect this sweet love song.
Additionally, Juzang’s friend from high school contributed his trumpet skills to the song.
“Yeehoo! is the most meaningful song I’ve released because I got to work on it with people I’ve known for so long,” Juzang said.
social media to display their workouts and the progress that they have made in the gym. While this can set unrealistic expectations for people, social media has also helped with motivating and inspiring people to start working out.
“Even though social media can be good and bad … I think it’s done wonders for exposing more people to different types of fitness,” Dr. Harmon said.
A 2022 study by Digital Health found that fitness influencers on social media have a significant impact on their audience’s moti vation to exercise. Out of the 507 survey par ticipants, the overwhelming majority felt that
“I’m ready to start this next era with more personal and alternative tracks.”
Eve Friend, also a sophomore in Bandier and Juzang’s roommate, had the pleasure of watching “Yeehoo!” come to fruition. Prior to the release, she heard snippets of the song while walking around their South Campus apartment and couldn’t wait to hear the finished product.
When “Yeehoo!” was released on Nov. 9, Friend decided to throw a release party with their close friends to cel ebrate. Each person brought a baked good and shared excitement for Juzang’s new chapter in music.
the perceived trustworthiness, expertise and attractiveness of the social media influencers positively correlated with their level of motiva tion to exercise.
Despite the discomfort expressed by women who go to the gym, Dr. Harmon believes that this uneasiness is sometimes an inevitable aspect of the gym experience, especially when people want to prioritize both their physical and mental health.
“I don’t know if there’s any large tenet that we can implement … sometimes we have to do things that are uncomfortable for our own good, as long as it’s a safe space,” Dr. Harmon said. A 2017 review published by Maturitas
“I think it’s only a matter of time before everyone realizes how special Lauren’s music is,” Friend said. “When “Yeehoo!” came out, I literally played it eight times in a row. She’s just that talented.”
Juzang explores love, heartbreak, mental health and maturity in the second EP. She feels pressure to prove herself as an artist because she doesn’t want to sound like every other indie-pop musician.
“The first EP was definitely on the safe side, because it was much more pop lean ing,” Juzang said. “I’m getting more experi mental and leaning towards the alternative genre, which is definitely a step up for me.”
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revealed the numerous immunological and psychological benefits of physical exercise. Most pertinently, the paper stated that regular exercise can greatly improve the mental health of people suffering from anxiety, depression and trauma-related disorders.
While this gendered discomfort needs to be addressed more, Harmon said, the gym rep resents a place for personal growth, no matter one’s identity.
“That’s what’s nice, when I think about being in an institution of higher education,” Harmon said. “We’re all here coming in knowing that we have a lot to learn.”
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the ensemble has four other members — Diane Jones on flute, Edgar Tumajyan on violin, Mark Olesh on clarinet and Nick Abelgore on piano. Cresswell views acoustic and electric sounds as a Venn diagram, and playing around with the different sides of the diagram is where the group finds their sound.
“There’s a tension there (where they overlap), and there’s you know things that (electric and acoustic sounds) do really well together…Sounds that can only be made by these two sort of separate forces,” Cresswell said. “The
electric guitar is like the secret instru ment, because we’re the one that kind of bridges both worlds.”
The ensemble has also helped the reputations of the other members in the music community at large. The group has helped Kopf develop and solidify her reputation as an innovative string educator and performer, she said.
The group gets funding through grants from various sources and from fans across the world, including CNY Arts, WCNY-FM and Birmingham Con servatoire.
The ensemble also broadcasts other composers. While the group gets funding from grants, it still isn’t in a position to
pay composers to write pieces, so Cress well has to get creative when looking for other composers. He tweets out open composer calls and uses the Composer Diversity Database, which showcases work from classical composers who have compositions for electric guitars.
Because of its innovative sound and music, the group is aware of how different it may sound to some, but all it asks of audi ence members is to come with an open mind.
“This group plays repertoire that is much different than most other groups. I am hopeful that the appeal of some thing new will encourage many to come listen and experience what is being offered,” Kopf said.
Though the 315 Ensemble’s music is slightly unconventional, Cresswall is confident that the future of the group is bright. The 315 Ensemble is collaborat ing with some larger arts organizations in the city and has some music from British composers coming soon.
Cresswell has gotten to see the group become more than he imagined.
“We’re becoming more and more a unit. More and more like not just a group of players,” Cresswell said. “It’s the thing that I’ve come to love most about this version of the group…the happiness and the joy that everyone brings to the music making.”
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“Disco Inferno” by The Trammps, and “More Than a Woman” by Tavares.
While most certainly a product of its time, “Saturday Night Fever” is a dated yet incredible picture that deserves at least a bit of attention. With assistance from titles like “Star Wars” and “Annie Hall,” “Saturday Night Fever” helped to make 1977 one of the greatest years in American film history.
The film follows 19-year-old Tony Manero, played by a young John Tra volta, an Italian-American residing in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. His days consist of working a low-end job at a local paint store, making two dollars an hour, leaving him unhappy with his overall employment.
Tony’s homelife isn’t perfect either — he verbally clashes with his parents, sister and grandmother, unable to con nect to those that are closest to him. But, when the weekend comes around, as a means of escape, Tony and his gang of Brooklynite companions head to 2001 Odyssey, a local nightclub.
There, Tony is able to claim the appreciation he thinks he deserves. It’s every Saturday night where Tony is the king on the dance floor, with enough arrogance and charm to persuade everyone around him. With the film’s campy reputation, the term “stayin’ alive” couldn’t be more exact. It’s the ultimate test in Tony’s overall progres sion as a character, seeing if he could survive this concrete jungle.
“Saturday Night Fever” is a mes sage on the short-lived pleasures in a
crummy world. The inner city backdrop of Bay Ridge is as gross as it is beautiful, making the picture one of the greatest New York City films of all time. The city exteriors are a character in their own right, as they work as the land of opportunity that Tony’s unable to take advantage of.
The story and its characters were inspired by a New York Magazine piece titled “Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night,” written by music journalist Nik Cohn. The piece, credited as nonfiction in June 1976, was confirmed to be fictitious twenty years later.
In terms of its actors, the real extraor dinaire is none other than John Tra volta, also known for his role in “Pulp Fiction,” whose incredible portrayal of Tony Manero is filled with such open ness that you’re truly unable to look
away from him. He’s unguarded by his emotions and unable to navigate his career once he becomes an adult. There’s vulnerability in this performance, and physically speaking, Travolta’s dance moves are some of the most impressive you’ll ever see on screen.
Music aside, “Saturday Night Fever” gets a whole lot deeper than your tradi tional dance picture, bringing you into a dark character study that explores being young, poor, sexually frustrated and uncertain about what lies ahead. It’s an experience that showcases the get away from the daily, mundane lifestyles one may lead. We’ve all had melancholic phases of self-discovery, and I’d say this is an immensely unique approach to the coming-of-age tale.
michaelreedlieberman@gmail.comsaid they picked up German after attending school there until the family moved back to Canada in 2006.
“Whenever you wanted to stop speak ing German to people, you’d just find your sister,” Drake said.
Drake was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and Batherson was born in GarmischPartenkirchen, Germany. The Batherson’s moved around frequently, including the move to Germany and a few moves within Nova Scotia, where they currently reside.
Now, Drake plays right wing for the Ottawa Senators. Meanwhile, Batherson, a senior defenseman at SU, played for the Canada national team last summer. Grow ing up, Drake described Batherson as his “best friend.” The two are still extremely close, but their relationship has matured over the years, respecting each other’s game and communicating regularly about their performances on the ice, Batherson said.
Batherson and Drake did everything together as kids, mostly playing hockey. They were constantly competing, whether it was in the street, on the pond or with mini sticks in the living room. Even now, if they’re ever home at the same time, the first thing they do is run to the backyard with sticks in hand.
They love to go one-on-one because it helps them sharpen each other’s skills.
Drake helped Batherson with the mental game, teaching her to know what to expect
Growing up, Edelman read the stories of the Old Testament and met weekly with a rabbi, which progressed his under standing and appreciation for the Jewish faith. He now uses his 1.5 million fol lowers on Twitter and three million on Instagram to advocate for the Jewish community.
“(The stories of Judaism) were so par allel to my life, my career, always being the underdog, I connected with it,” Edel man said.
While Edelman said he knows the natural instinct is to put a “fist out” when there’s hatred, he knows he can do bet ter. “Pro-semitism”, as Edelman called
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forward, said the team had something to prove following the October loss. She said the Hornets were still underestimated since they weren’t a top-ranked team.
Goodman scored the first goal in the last two minutes of the first half, recognizing that “we just have to hold onto it,” she said. To adjust to the strong front of the Wildcats, Goodman said the team switched from a 4-5-1 to a 4-4-2 formation. She even doubted she would score the game winner because she thought West Genesee would score from a corner on the previous play.
Just 13 minutes into the second half,
when a stop forward is coming inside.
“It’s a good challenge for her and for me too,” Drake said. “It makes for a good battle and it’s just fun to get out on the same ice and have some fun like we used to.”
When they were young, Batherson played street hockey with Drake and his friends. Drake made sure he and his sister were always teammates since she was signifi cantly smaller than the older guys.
“He would kind of protect me if the boys were being too rough with me,” Batherson said. “But he’d always encourage me to give it back to them. He brought me up to fight on my own.”
The one consistency through all the Bathersons’ moves was hockey. In Germany, their father Norm had access to free pub lic skating every day at the rink where he played. He would come home from morning practice around 1 p.m. By 1:30 p.m., Bath erson and Drake would be begging to skate at that same rink once she got out of school, so Deeann would take them. In Germany, schools dismiss at noon to give kids the option to engage with their interests.
“Over there, kids are going to have those opportunities to explore whatever their pas sions are,” Deeann said. “It’s a lot better than here… There isn’t enough time after school to explore extra activities.”
Norm said they skated three-to-four times a week, and that extra time in the rink allowed Batherson and her brother to progress further than most of their competitors in Germany.
“We were always one of the better players at a young age because we were just really
it, involves Jewish people showing others what they can do well and spreading it to other communities.
“I don’t worry about the hate, I worry about what I can do to inspire people and worry about the good things you can and that our community does,” Edelman said.
In Wednesday’s discussion, Edelman constantly brought up the challenge of having difficult conversations about insensitive comments in today’s world. Those conversations are necessary to move forward and educate others, he said.
“We all need to have more uncomfort able conversations, that’s where it starts,” Edelman said. “When you learn (about) people you realize we’re all a lot more simi lar than you think.”
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Ashley Seidberg extended the Hornets’ lead to 2-0 off a Goodman assist. It was Seid berg’s first and only goal of the season, and Goodman said watching the pair celebrate was her favorite moment. That would be the final scoreline as F-M held West Genesee scoreless, a significant improvement from the four goals it conceded to the Wildcats in the first two meetings. It was the team’s “peak moment,” Miller said.
“Winning that game proved we know what it takes,” said Goodman, who’s committed to Xavier. “Every year seeing a new player come in and understand that role is a great feeling.”
Despite the previous performances against West Genesee – a draw and a loss –F-M only had six other conference games,
good skaters,” Batherson said.
After the family left Germany, when Norm coached at St. Francis Xavier in Nova Scotia, he had constant access to the ice. The three of them got up early in the morning to work on different individual skills.
“The two of them love to practice,” Norm said. “They really wanted to be there and they always wanted to get better, so it was easy for them and a lot of fun.”
Drake continued to help his sister prog ress her skills. He taught her the slapshot. He taught her stickhandling. He taught her everything that he could, and she listened.
Now, they try to watch all of each other’s games. But with school and a packed NHL schedule, time doesn’t always permit. So, they send each other clips over text, picking each other’s brains for advice about perfor mance and technique.
“He’s always encouraging me and looking to help me out,” Batherson said. “Now he’ll ask what I think too.”
Norm and Deeann don’t miss a second of the action, watching all of their kids’ games. Even if the two are playing simultaneously, they’ll set the computer on the table right in front of the TV, keeping their eyes peeled for a jersey with “Batherson” on the back.
“It’s really funny how Mae and Drake’s schedules [coincide] so often,” Deeann said. “So, I’ve got it down to a science now to watch from home.”
At just 24 years old, Drake already has some notable accomplishments in profes sional hockey. He was selected to the 2019
AHL All-Star game at 20 years old and won MVP after scoring a whopping five goals for the North Division. He said it was something he “never thought he’d get to experience,” especially so early in his career.
Batherson, meanwhile, wasn’t surprised.
“I mean, he’s always played well in big moments like that,” Batherson said. “But to see him excel around the best players in the league, being MVP, was just really something to see.”
Before that, and just after his NHL debut, Drake set the Belleville Senators’ season record for most assists by a rookie with 40. After moving to and from the minor leagues early on, Drake has played the entirety of his past three seasons for Ottawa.
In his action-packed NHL debut, the whole Batherson family had a front-row seat to see Drake sink a game-winning goal against the Red Wings in the second period, sitting right behind the net.
Tied 1-1, the Senators won the faceoff with 45 seconds left on the power play, and Drake tore from the boards to the puck. He collected and then skated to the middle before firing a shot right through the arm pit of Detroit’s goalie. The Bathersons then hugged and celebrated in the stands. Bath erson said the goal was, by far, her favorite memory from Drake’s career thus far.
“Part of that reason I got there was Mae being a good defenseman and making me push myself,” Drake said.
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which allowed Ostrander to schedule several nonconference matches. Ostrander tried to schedule games against the toughest teams in the state based on last year’s rankings.
He did just that, as the Hornets lost to four nationally-ranked teams, two of which ranked in the top 10 in the state. The coach said he would argue that F-M has the hardest sched ule out of any public school in New York state.
On senior day on Oct. 7 — the next game after the 3-0 loss — Cicero-North jumped out a 2-0 lead, but with the help of Good man’s two goals, the Hornets came back to defeat the Northstars 4-2.
Despite the section title, the Hornets’ sea son would end at the hands of Shaker, which handed F-M a 5-0 pounding. But the difficult
schedule will allow the Hornets to understand the level of competition they need to beat in order to secure a state title, Ostrander said.
Ostrander’s priority is to develop rela tionships between the players and coaches.
“It’s about building the student athletes, before the sport,” Ostrander said.
Ostrander admitted that the four titles does create the mindset to go after a fifthconsecutive Section III title — which very few programs have. But his dedication isn’t about success, it’s about the players.
“We look at being on a soccer team and setting goals and facing challenges as just a microcosm of what their life is going to be,” Ostrander said.
The last time Syracuse was in the College Cup, it came down to penalty kicks. The Orange had kept Clemson scoreless in Kan sas City, but also couldn’t find the back of the net in regulation. But once the match got into extra time, they missed two of their three shots, dropping the penalty shootout 4-1.
“We created chances tonight,” said SU head coach Ian McIntyre after the defeat in 2015. “On another night we score a goal, maybe two.”
Syracuse returns to college soccer’s final four for the first time since 2015 — only the second time in program history. On Friday, the Orange will face Creighton, an unseeded squad with the best attack in the country. The Bluejays have the top striker in Division-I and have dominated some of the nation’s top defenses. But should SU win, it will face the winner of Indiana-Pittsburgh on Monday for the national championship.
Before Syracuse plays in its biggest match of the year, here’s everything you need to know about Creighton:
The last time the two played:
The College Cup matchup will be the first time Syracuse and Creighton have played each other.
The Bluejay report:
Creighton quickly jumped out to a 5-0 start, averaging over four goals per match. But for the remainder of the regular season, the Bluejays sputtered, recording a 4-3-5 record. While they continued to score at a high volume, they struggled against the top teams in the conference, like Georgetown (2-1 loss), Seton Hall (1-1 draw) and Xavier (3-1 loss), placing them as the No. 6 seed in
the Big East Tournament.
But just like Syracuse, Creighton ran the table in its respective conference tourna ment. The Bluejays got revenge on all three of their conference foes, starting with 2-1 win over the three-seeded Musketeers. Duncan McGuire scored four times in the eventual 6-0 victory in the next round. Then, in the Big East championship against the Hoyas, the Bluejays recorded another clean sheet, winning their first conference title since joining the Big East and earning an automatic NCAA Tournament berth.
In the first round against Missouri State, though, it looked like the Bluejays were going home early, trailing 1-0 through 80 minutes. But Creighton’s Jake Ashford and Alejandro Maillet each scored in the final 10 minutes to steal the win.
Traveling to Seattle for the second round to face No. 1 seed Washington, Creighton responded with three goals after Huskies scored first. For their third-round matchup
at No. 15 seed Tulsa, the Bluejays won 2-1 with an 87th minute penalty kick goal from Giorgio Probo. Against No. 4 seed Duke, the second-best scoring defense in the country, Creighton scored three times, holding on to the win and moving on to the College Cup for the first time in a decade.
Creighton’s head coach, Johnny Torres, promised “fireworks” for its matchup with Syracuse. And with the Bluejays being the highest scoring offense in the country (63 goals) and the Orange being with the 15th-best attack (43 goals), expect there to be some goals.
SU’s Levonte Johnson and Nathan Opoku have proven to be one of the best scoring tandems in the country, both receiv ing All-Region honors on Tuesday. They can take advantage of a Creighton defense that doesn’t match the heights of its offense. The deciding factor for this matchup will be
whether or not the back three of Syracuse can stop the Blue Jays’ attack.
It will probably be Christian Curti, Abdi Salim and Olu Oyegunle starting in the back while Noah Singelmann moves up into the midfield. Fellow defender Buster Sjoberg might make an impact as well depending on his health. If the backline can give goalkeep er Russell Shealy enough time to make stops, then the Orange might have a chance to slow down Crieghton’s highly-touted offense.
While no team can match Creighton’s offen sive output, its defense is quite pedestrian. The Bluejays have a goals against average of 1.35, which places them at 103rd in the country. Creighton’s starting goalkeeper, Paul Kruse, has a save percentage that ranks 119th in Division I.
In all four tournament games, Kruse has allowed at least one goal. While the offense has done more than enough to make those few conceded goals not matter, Shealy has allowed only two goals, including a clean sheet against Cornell. These little differ ences might give Syracuse the slight edge.
Of the Bluejays’ 63 goals this year, McGuire has over a third of them. McGuire started the season with a hat trick against Oakland, and then two goals against Rutgers. McGuire has had four multi-goal games this season, with his most recent coming against Washington where he scored two goals in two minutes to seal the Bluejays’ spot in the Sweet 16. Along with Johnson, McGuire was named a semifi nalist for the Mac Hermann Trophy yesterday.
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Syracuse defensive lineman Steve Linton announced via Twitter that he entered the transfer portal. Linton, a redshirt sopho more, has two years of eligibility left and will be able to play immediately. He becomes the sixth SU player to enter the transfer portal this season and, after Josh Hough entered the portal last week, became the second defensive lineman to leave the Orange.
Linton played in all but one game this season, totalling 22 total tackles, 3.5 sacks and forcing two fumbles. He was thrusted into a rotational role alongside Jatius Geer when Stefon Thompson went down in SU’s first game against Louisville with a seasonending injury. In that game against the Cardinals, Linton forced and recovered a fumble on Malik Cunningham early on,
ultimately helping the Orange to a domi nant 31-7 win that kicked off a 6-0 start.
He committed to Syracuse in 2019 as a three-star recruit from Georgia, ranking as the 88th-best athlete from the state in that class. Linton appeared in 10 games through out his first two seasons at SU, garnering 17 tackles and even starting a game in 2020 as a linebacker. Then, after missing the first four games of 2021 due to an offseason surgery, Linton nabbed six tackles, a sack and two tackles for loss through eight games.
In training camp prior to this season, he looked to add depth for a defensive line that was seen as unproven and lacking experience, specifically past Thompson and Caleb Okechukwu. Once Thompson went down, he became Syracuse’s go-to weak side edge rusher.
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Part of a national chain of com Fayetteville-Manlius girls soccer head coach Brett Ostrander made a “goal board” for his team at the beginning of the season. One was to win the Section III title, again, and another was to complete goat yoga. Midway through the regular season, Ostrander told his team that they were going to play in a tournament, but to dress “nor mally” and change at the field. The field turned out to be an alpaca farm, where the team did alpaca yoga, since there weren’t any goats.
By Wyatt Miller asst. copy editorMae Batherson didn’t understand anyone during her first hockey practices in Germany. Her older brother Drake would relay everything to her in English throughout practice, as German was technically his first lan guage, Batherson said.
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Three-time Super Bowl Cham pion Julian Edelman tore his ACL at the start of the 2017 NFL sea son. After going through rehab, he returned for the 2018 season. But just before the season began, he was hit with another setback, a four-game suspension.
“I was at a very low moment in my life,” Edelman said.
But Edelman said he battled through his obstacles, finish ing the season with the Super Bowl LIII MVP. Overcoming adversity was one of the top ics Edelman discussed when he visited Syracuse University on Wednesday to talk to stu dents at Goldstein Auditorium through an event put on by Falk College, the Whitman School and Syracuse Hillel.
“The year started terribly and to be able to fight my way out of that and help contribute to that team was a very proud moment for me and my self confidence,” Edelman said. “To go out and win Super Bowl MVP and the Super Bowl was something that I am very proud of.”
Edelman tallied 6,822 yards and 36 touchdowns through 11 seasons in the NFL. But in Wednesday’s discussion he tran
sitioned into his post-football endeavors, where he focuses on fighting antisemitism and advo cating for the Jewish community.
Playing in the NFL gave Edel man the platform that he now uses to advocate for his passions, which has only grown with the development of social media.
Edelman’s roots in Judaism stemmed from his relationship with his father and grandfather
Even after four consecutive Sec tion III championships, the team never prioritized their success. They fostered a family culture and a trusting environment, Ostrander said. The team wasn’t chasing another ring when it entered the 2022 season. It was never about the program’s recent or historic success, but about the individual team, Ostrander said.
“We’re not chasing or defending titles. That’s not their job to do,” Ostrander said. “Their job is to win it on their own.”
On Nov. 1, the Hornets did just that, defeating West Genesee 2-0 for their fourth-straight Section III Championship title. Though it lost to Shaker High School in the New York State Tournament, Fay etteville-Manlius finished 12-7-1, solidifying the 2022 team into the program’s “history and tradition.”
Alora Miller, a senior center back who’s started all four years, said she was extra nervous heading into its match against West Genesee, a team that defeated the Hornets 3-0 in the team’s second of what would be three meetings throughout the season. Miller was injured in that loss back in October.
“We had nothing to lose so we came out very strong and played exactly how we planned to,” said Miller, Seton Hall commit. Morgan Goodman, a junior
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Mae Batherson developed her slapshot and stickhandling growing up through her mentorship with her NHL all-star brotherMae Batherson was mentored growing up by her brother Drake, who plays for the Ottawa Senators in the NHL. courtesy of batherson family