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N • Talking travel

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Members of the Syracuse University community expressed their concerns about SU’s new travel policy at a listening session on Wednesday.

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Esther Gray chronicles her experiences running the University Lecture Series as she prepares to retire later this month after almost 40 years at SU. Page 11

S • Mama, we made it

Dino Babers said he found a ‘destination job’ at Syracuse during his introductory press conference. The head coach was an assistant coach for 27 years.

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Stepping forward When Chancellor Kent Syverud came to SU, he launched Fast Forward Syracuse, a three-part initiative that will serve as a framework for administrative decisions at the university moving forward. Going into the spring semester, there will be many important decisions made relating to Fast Forward. To help you better understand the initiative, The D.O. collaborated with SU administrators to provide a breakdown of the three components and what you need to know.

A look at what’s guiding Syracuse University policies text by justin mattingly news editor graphic illustration by emma comtois design editor

ACADEMIC STRATEGIC PLAN

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The Academic Strategic Plan emerged from a year-long collaborative process to refine the university’s institutional vision and mission in light of current and emerging needs and opportunities, and identify broad university-wide goals that will advance progress toward achieving that vision.

SU’s Academic Strategic Plan Oversight Committee announced the appointment of faculty, staff and students to six working groups that will help inform the committee’s work to implement the university’s new Academic Strategic Plan. Each of the six working groups is charged with focusing on one of the themed areas of the plan: The Student Experience, Discovery, Internationalization, Commitment to Veterans and Military-connected Families, Innovation and One University.

The working groups are prioritizing the objectives and developing clear plans of action for achieving them. This is a multi-year plan and a living document, which means that SU fully expects it to continue to evolve even as it moves more deeply into the implementation phase.

WHAT IS FAST FORWARD?

For more than a year, The Campus Framework Advisory Group, comprised of faculty, staff, students has partnered with Sasaki Associates to make the Syracuse campus — both inside and outside of the classroom — even better.

Sasaki has gathered thousands of input points and developed a draft Framework Plan that was shared with the Board of Trustees at its November meeting.

The draft Framework Plan is being assessed and aligned with university priorities. That process is underway and will be further explored in the coming weeks. A comprehensive update will be provided to the campus community at that time.

Fast Forward is Chancellor Kent Syverud’s three-part initiative to improve SU and focus on what the university needs to do moving forward. The plan emerged after the consulting firm Bain & Co. produced a report on how the university could improve.

OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE

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WHAT HAPPENED

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IN PROCESS WHAT’S NEXT

KEY DATES JUNE 24, 2014

CAMPUS MASTER PLAN

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Cross-functional teams, including faculty, staff, and students, continue to re-think how the university buys goods and services to fully leverage the purchasing power of “One University” while being good stewards of students’ tuition.

Initiative teams are improving and refining university processes; modifying or implementing systems and communicating these changes. Identification, evaluation and selection of further opportunities for operational improvements are moving forward.

Metrics and other assessments are being developed and refined to report progress on university savings.

Syverud announced the start of Fast Forward Syracuse

SEPT. 22, 2014 The first Fast Forward Syracuse forum is held

MAR. 2, 2015 Sasaki Associates answered questions from the SU community relating to the Campus Master Plan

JULY 23, 2015 SU announced the completion of the Academic Strategic Plan

DEC. 2, 2015 Oversight Committee appointed members to six working groups to help with Academic Strategic Plan implementation

University to expand employee health, wellness program

By Ali Linan asst. copy editor

Syracuse University has partnered with Carebridge Life Resources to provide comprehensive health and wellness services — including mental health services — to all eligible employees of the university.

As part of the university’s ongoing Wellness Initiative to expand the Faculty and Staff Assistance

Program, Carebridge will help SU provide 24/7 year-round health and wellness services, said Andrew Gordon, chief human resources officer at SU. The company is currently contracted for two years with potential to expand in the future.

SU announced on Nov. 19 that the Faculty and Staff Assistance Program, which provides counseling services confidentially like the Counseling Center, would soon be led by a third-

party organization like Carebridge.

The announcement sparked concern from members of the University Senate at its Dec. 2 meeting.

“It just seems quite surprising that it’s closing without any public information besides a 1-800 number telling us how the services would work,” one senator said.

Carebridge will provide services during “green-days,” or days when classes are not in session. Previously,

when school was not in session, neither were the services.

In addition, faculty and staff will have access to local counseling, crisis support and resources, mental health professionals with specialized training and on-demand worklife learning opportunities, according to an SU News Release.

Carebridge works to bring “individuals and families a comprehensive treasury of information and

tools to make contemporary life manageable and successful,” according to its website.

Calls will be answered by a “qualified and licensed clinician” who is trained to assess the situation and direct the caller to be the best answers, he added.

Gordon said faculty and staff will also have access to work-life resources. This includes child and

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THIRSTY thursday | leinenkugel’s snowdrift vanilla porter

Vanilla porter proves perfect for cold nights

By Clayton Dyer staff writer

I’ve often mentioned that porters and stouts are the perfect beers for long, cold Syracuse winters … but have yet to review one. Maybe I have been avoiding admitting that we’ve been drifting closer and closer to the first snowfall and subsequent Syracuse ice age; maybe I have just not been willing to commit to drinking a dark, rich porter. In any case, I decided it was finally time to get into the seasonal spirit, and I already had a beer in mind.

I had been eyeing Leinenkugel’s Snowdrift Vanilla Porter for weeks before finally committing to try it this week. Although I had been hesitant to dive into a porter this early in winter, dropping temperatures and the word “vanilla” led me to eventually cave.

The Snowdrift Porter met my expectations when it came to appearance and smell — the beer had a dark brown color with a tan, foamy head and smelled of chocolate and malts.

The first flavor that hit me upon trying the beer was coffee, followed by sweet

caramel and brown sugar. Subsequent sips brought about a rich cocoa and vanilla flavors. The Wisconsin-based brewery uses real vanilla when brewing the Snowdrift Porter, and it was certainly evident. The beer had a smooth and creamy texture, making it incredibly easy to drink.

Porters are particularly heavy and rich beers, so they’re perfect for chilly winter evenings. If you’re looking to pregame for the bars with your bros, a porter is not the direction you want to go in. In my opinion, enjoying one at the bar at Faegan’s with a big meal in front of you is the ideal situation.

Leinenkugel’s Snowdrift Vanilla Porter would pair nicely with marshmallow sweet potato casserole, glazed ham, roast beef and Brie cheese (a perfect winter meal). I highly enjoyed this beer; the sweet taste of cocoa and caramel was balanced perfectly by the slightly bitter flavor of coffee, all extenuated by roasted malts.

Cocoa, vanilla, caramel, coffee …

What’s not to like? ckdyer@syr.edu

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INSIDE N • Furry friend

The Orthotics and Prosthetics Club at the University of Delaware is creating a prosthetic leg for a UD professor’s three-legged dog.

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S • Right at home

After Dino Babers made his way through a gauntlet of jobs, he’s landed his ‘destination job.’

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Big reveal New York state Gov. Andrew Cuomo will announce Thursday a series of awards that could benefit Syracuse University.

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NEWS

Up the charts

Reading out loud Author Elissa Schappell discussed her “anti-etiquette book,” “Blueprints for Building Better Girls” with students from SU. See page 7

SU’s undergraduate architecture program moved up in the 2016 ranks for America’s Best Architecture & Design Schools.

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Calendar pushes final exams Finals week occurs later this semester due to later date of Labor Day

By Rachel Green contributing writer

In accordance with Syracuse University’s fall semester starting a week later this year, final exams were also pushed back a week. This has affected students who travel significant distances to attend SU, as they have seen an increase in the price of airfare.

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An information session on Syracuse University’s new travel and entertainment policy brought in SU faculty, staff and students who have confusion or general concerns about the policy and whether it will be an efficient tool for faculty travel.

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Attendees question travel policy at session effect Sept 1. and is believed by the university to potentially save $2 million annually, names BTI The More than 50 members of the Travel Consultants as SU’s official Syracuse University community travel management company. attended an information session on The policy also requires faculty, Wednesday to express their con- staff and students to book “univercerns with the university’s contro- sity-funded, sponsored research or grant-funded travel” through the 24/7 online booking portal Concur, if you go according to an SU News release.

Concur System Training Session Where: 010 Crouse-Hinds Hall The goal of the Concur system When: Dec. 16 from 10 to 11:30 a.m. is to increase the efficiency of the How much: Free travel process, said Douglas Freeversial new travel and entertain- man, director of purchasing and ment policy. real estate and initiative team manThe policy, which went into ager at SU, at the session.

By Alexa Torrens asst. news editor

Freeman said Concur enables users to book travel arrangements such as airfare, hotels and car

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percent of SU faculty have signed a petition opposing the travel policy

rentals all in one place. At forums last fall, he added, members of the SU community complained they were “spending too much time shopping around” when making

travel arrangements.

But about 40 percent of SU faculty have signed a petition opposing the policy, with some grievances against the efficiency of the Concur system.

These grievances include the views that Concur will not necessarily save money for faculty traveling for research purposes, that the policy is inefficient in regard to time-consuming paperwork and that the use of Concur will make it difficult to combine work travel and family travel.

The main issues addressed at see travel

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graduate student organization

Organization holds elections, discusses initatives

By Bridget McAllister contributing writer

Senators for the Graduate Student Organization held elections at its last meeting of the semester on Wednesday and discussed what it might do with a $100,000 surplus.

GSO currently has about $100,000 leftover to designate to various projects. With a large volume of proposals to comb through, time for discussion was limited to one minute per topic.

Proposals were submitted to fund internship programs for doc-

what is gso?

The Graduate Student Organization is comprised of graduate students at Syracuse University and represents graduate students in the University Senate. GSO has seven committees that senators are required to be on and that any graduate student can join.

toral students to gain experience in academic positions, as well as a

team-teaching internship for Future Professoriate Program participants.

The GSO also heard proposals to increase the number and size of travel grants for graduate students — all of which were recommended by the Senate’s executive board and will be officially voted upon at a later date.

Other proposals were rejected outright by the Senate, such as a proposal to fund the publishing of a graduate school press book on academia and a proposal to fund the opening of department-wide career

services for graduate students, which the Senate saw as exceeding its budgetary capabilities.

The executive board reminded GSO that certain funding projects were already underway, such as a motion to fund on-campus childcare services so that single-parent students could more flexibly attend classes and a motion to update GSO websites, forms and grant policies.

Led by President Can Aslan and Vice President of Internal Affairs see gso page 10

Classes started this semester on Aug. 31, whereas last year they started on Aug. 25. Last year, final exams ended on Dec. 12. This year, the last day of finals is Dec. 18.

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do round-up Here is a round-up of the top stories published in The Daily Orange this week: NEWS ONE DOWN Aysha Seedat’s first semester as Student Association president is coming to a close. She has emphasized increased communication as she’s pursued different initiatives.

STILL WORKIN’ Syracuse University and its investment managers are assessing the current landscape of potential investments in companies focused on renewable energy as part of its future plans for divestment.

IN THE MIX About 150 students, faculty and staff gathered in Goldstein Auditorium on Monday for a forum organized by the Chancellor’s Working Group on Diversity and Inclusion. The community members expressed frustration, saying SU needs to be more inclusive.

See dailyorange.com to read the stories.

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Cuomo to announce regional awards that may go to SU

By Justin Mattingly news editor

New York state Gov. Andrew Cuomo is set to announce Thursday a set of awards that could lead to funding for a major initiative at Syracuse University.

Cuomo will announce the awards for the Regional Economic Development Council and Upstate Revitalization Initiative on Thursday at 10:30 a.m. in Albany. Among the initiatives up for possible state funding is Syracuse University’s proposed National Veterans Resource Complex, which would help “solidify” central New York as the “hub” of research

and programming connected to veterans and military affairs.

The Upstate Revitalization Initiative aims to do just what it says — rejuvenate the upstate economy. State leaders announced the URI program and a partnership between the Regional Economic Development Councils in January. The competition has seven regions and the three regions that “make the most compelling argument” receive $500 million each to projects proposed by the REDCs. According to recent project descriptions from the Central New York Regional Economic Development Council, the Veterans Resource Complex would be housed at 111 Waverly Ave.,

which is the current home of SU Health Services. The location would be renovated into a “state-of-the-art, multi-use” complex.

The project would be a university-community collaboration, according to the description. The grant amount requested to the CNY Regional Economic Development Councils was $2 million, according to the description.

The total project cost is estimated at $62.5 million, according to a separate report on the creation of a veteran-focused medical school.

The NVRC would generate more than $300 million in regional economic activity over the next five years, according to the report, and it projects to also increase occupancy rates in

central New York hotels and lodging facilities.

Chancellor Kent Syverud is one of the co-chairs of the CNY Regional Economic Development Council. The university had originally considered including funding for the proposed veteran-focused medical school in the application to the state, but it was not included in the application. However, the veteran-focused medical school idea would be a potential subcomponent of the NVRC, according to an SU report.

According to the CNY Regional Economic Development Council’s application, the council would invest about $12.5 million into the NVRC. jmatting@syr.edu | @jmattingly306

upstate medical university

Researchers work to create 4-part vaccine for dengue fever

By Kenneth Mintz contributing writer

SUNY Upstate Medical University recently partnered with the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command to develop a vaccine for dengue fever, which, as of Dec. 7, had infected at least 139 people in Hawaii, according to NBC News.

The university plans to perform clinical studies as part of its dengue research, which will span three and a half years. The study will be used to profile the four strains of dengue in an effort to forge forward in the development of a vaccine, according to the State University of New York Upstate Medical University website.

The disease is caused from the bite of an

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health elder care and legal services, through which they will receive 30 minutes of free consultation and a referral to a local lawyer. University managers and supervisors will also have access to unlimited consultations on how to become better managers, or advice on dealing with employees or difficult situations, he said.

In addition, Gordon said there will be a new “webinar” with on-demand training to help people deal with problems available on the self-service health portal.

Gordon said all university employees, even those not working on campus, will have access to the health and wellness services. Access for those who are not local will be available early in the next year as some coordination with Carebridge is still in the works, he added.

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finals Kevin Quinn, senior vice president of public affairs at SU, said the academic calendar shifts to accommodate Labor Day, which was “as late as possible” this year on Sept. 7.

Final exams end a week before Christmas during a holiday travel window that is one of the most expensive times of the year to fly.

Students traveling far distances have also had to reconsider what mode of transportation they will use to get home.

Emilie Benyowitz, a junior Los Angeles

infected mosquito. Richard Mata, a pediatrician who deals with dengue fever on a daily basis in Panabo, a city in the Philippines, said in a Skype interview that the disease kills

It’s when people are outside or when children are playing in playgrounds; they are more prone for dengue.

Richard Mata a pediatrician who deals with dengue fever on a daily basis in panabo, a city in the philippines

Some faculty and staff, Gordon said, are concerned about the amount of confidentiality the services actually provide. Gordon said the resource provider is completely separate from the university, making the information “completely independent and confidential.”

“HR doesn’t get any details of Carebridge and employee interaction,” he added.

Gordon said the university is hoping that because the service is not affiliated with the university that utilization rates of these types of services will go up while anxiety goes down.

Ultimately, Gordon said the university decided to bring in an outside source to provide services to its employees because “people matter.”

Said Gordon: “We don’t want them to be concerned about the other elements of their life while they are working, or for people to worry about something they don’t have to be worried about.” avlinan@syr.edu

native studying illustration photography in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, said her plane ticket price skyrocketed to $200 more than she has previously paid .

“The setback of living on the West Coast is that it limits my transportation options and forces me to spend a lot more money on travel expenses,” Benyowitz said.

The undergraduate population at the university includes students from all 50 states and 123 countries, according to the 2014-15 SU Fact Book. rgreen@syr.edu

about 1 percent of people who contract it.

Dengue fever is accompanied by symptoms of high fever, headache, joint pain, mild bleeding and muscle and bone pain. Besides taking pain relievers, there is no specific treatment for the disease, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website.

The dengue virus originated in monkeys and later jumped to humans in Africa or Southeast Asia between 100 and 800 years ago, according to the CDC website. Although the disease is rather uncommon in the United States, the diseasecarrying mosquito, Aedes, is common in tropical regions and is known to attack during the day.

“It’s when people are outside or when children are playing in playgrounds; they are more

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travel policy the information session related to purchasing flights through Concur when there are cheaper flights available on other platforms, multi-person booking and the flexibility of the travel policy.

Student Association President Aysha Seedat and a few other session attendees questioned why SU community members should book flights through Concur when there are cheaper options elsewhere.

$2 million The amount of money SU believes the new travel policy could save

Freeman said traveling SU faculty, staff and students are actually able to purchase lower cost airfare through other portals with documentation, such as a screenshot, as long as the flight arrangements shown on Concur line up with the arrangements of the flight through the different platform.

Sheri Tyler, a BTI representative, said Concur users have pointed out lower fares on other platforms, but she added that BTI has found people need more direction in navigating Concur in order to find those cheaper arrangements.

Another reason people may be unable to find those cheap flights is because they search

prone for dengue,” Mata said.

Dengue exists in four subcategories, or serotypes, Mata said. Giving a vaccine that defends against one strain will only cause a more significant reaction to the mosquito bite, he added.

Dr. Timothy Endy, a lead researcher on the vaccine at Upstate, said in an email that the first vaccine will only defend against the first strain of dengue fever, and it will take about six months to develop.

He said it will take about three years to develop and optimize a solution for the other three strains.

Endy said he expects the vaccine to reduce severe infection, hospitalization and intensive care unit visits, as well as decrease the numbers of deaths correlated to dengue infection. kmintz@syr.edu

for flights within a constrained time range, such as an eight-hour range, rather than a 24-hour range. The longer time range might present cheaper flights, said Jen DeFuria, another BTI representative.

Several attendees questioned why Concur does not permit users to book more than one ticket at a time. Freeman said the university is working with Concur to modify a feature that would allow a “clone your trip” feature to do multi-booking.

Although users cannot book multi-person flights themselves, the BTI representatives said agents can book more than one person for the traveler.

Regarding the flexibility of the policy, several faculty members wondered how easily they could book other travel arrangements in disregard of the policy’s 21-day advance notice.

Freeman said the policy is encouraged, but is not a “deal stopper,” and added that the reason for the 21-day advance is that research showed flights booked at least 21 days in advance tended to be cheaper.

Freeman added that there will be a training session for the Concur system on Dec. 16 in 010 Crouse-Hinds Hall from 10 to 11:30 a.m., The session will teach attendees about the nuances of the Concur system and show them how to book travel and use shortcuts on the portal, Freeman said.

The training sessions will continue on a monthly basis through the end of June, Freeman said. atorrens@syr.edu

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Healing process Orthotics and Prosthetics Club at University of Delaware creates new leg for dog

TIKA is a terrier mix who, after a fall from a 10-foot high ledge, had to have her front left leg amputated. A club at the University of Delaware is working to develop a prosthetic limb for Tika, whose owner, Vicki Cassman, is an associate professor at UD. Cassman adopted Tika last February.

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By Brigid Kennedy staff writer

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he Orthotics and Prosthetics Club at the University of Delaware is creating a new leg for a patient in need — a patient that happens to be a dog.

Before securing adoption last February from Vicki Cassman, an associate professor at UD, Tika, a terrier mix, fell 10 feet from a ledge, sustaining injuries that forced veterinary doctors to amputate her front left leg up to the shoulder.

Tika’s three-legged status puts her at risk for a number of health problems as she ages, which Cassman said is because of the way Tika is now forced to walk.

“She takes that right leg and she puts it in

the middle, and it’s a really odd angle for her leg. And you know that eventually, it’s going to cause a great deal of harm in that giant shoulder joint,” said Cassman.

In an effort to keep Tika in prime physical condition for as long as possible, Cassman reached out to UD’s Orthotics and Prosthetics Club, a student-run organization.

“I suggested (the idea of creating a prosthesis) to them, and they were thrilled,” Cassman said.

“They’ve taken on this incredible challenge.”

Bretta Fylstra, co-fonder of the Orthotics and Prosthetics Club and a senior biomedical engineering major at UD, said the club was immediately enthusiastic about Cassman’s idea.

“We thought it would be a really great project for us to learn and get some hands-on

experience,” she said.

Fylstra said the biggest challenge in creating prosthesis for Tika has been finding a way to attach the actual fake limb.

“Because she doesn’t have a residual limb, it’s sliding a lot, so it doesn’t stay centered underneath of her — it kicks out to the side, and it’s useless then,” Fylstra said.

Fylstra said she and the other club members have been researching online to find different possible designs that circumvent that issue. So far they have tried using a “loop” design, to no avail and a wheel.

The club plans to create the prosthetic limb using plastic — specifically, high-density polyethylene, which is rigid but has some spring — and other low-cost materials, Fylstra said.

The limb is still in the process of being made. Fylstra said the club is just looking through designs right now, but it hopes to finish the leg during winter break, when there won’t be other academic distractions.

“We have a January semester, so there’s a couple students that will be around and we won’t have to worry about classes We can just spend a lot more time working on it,” she said.

Regardless of when the limb is finished, Cassman said the experience working with the club has been “great” so far, and that the end result is more important to her than the wait.

Said Cassman: “It would be really wonderful for (Tika) to have the ability to go a bit longer, see a little bit more of the world.” brkenned@syr.edu

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gender and sexuality

Sex workers can be sexually assaulted, despite assumed promiscuity

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ontrary to popular belief: yes, sex workers can be raped, too.

Porn star James Deen did his first interview on Tuesday since nine rape allegations have been made against him. The interview was released two weeks after Deen’s ex-girlfriend Stoya, a writer and porn star, accused Deen of rape. Stoya tweeted about how Deen forced her to have sex with her without consent, yet he is idolized as a feminist.

In response, Deen has said that Stoya’s accusation is false and that he has the utmost respect for women. Likewise, fans of Deen dismissed the claim based on the porn star’s good-natured attitude and reputation for being attentive to the comfort of his female co-stars.

In a time when the nation is mobilizing to combat sexual assault, Stoya’s decision to speak up has contributed another angle to the conversation about consent. It has brought

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for their consent to be disregarded.

This may due in part to the fact that BDSM and rape scenes are often enacted in porn, which complicates the public’s belief that sex workers can be victims of physical and sexual violence.

With the case of Deen in particular, Amber Rayne and Kora Peters explained how they were punched and violated by Deen during filming with no consequences.

It’s conceivable that porn producers and consumers would have trouble drawing the line between scripted rape narratives and sexual aggression.

Being able to distinguish between fantasy and reality goes hand-in-hand with honoring someone’s right to consent to sex. Even though he said that he is sorry in retrospect for pushing boundaries, Deen should have made sure that his co-stars consented at every step of the film production process.

Another reason why people are inclined to dismiss Stoya’s accusation against Deen is that they were romantic partners. When it comes to rape cases, some people are inclined to say that being in a romantic and sexual relationship with someone assumes consent for sexual intercourse by virtue of being in a relationship.

This view is unfair to the reluctant partner, because wanting to have or having had

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TOUS LES MĂŠMES mainstream attention to the fact that people in the sex industry can be sexually assaulted.

On a national basis, an estimated 58 percent of prostitutes face violence at the hands of clients, according to Laws.com. More incidents likely occur, but remain unreported because sex work is illegal and its participants are not held in high regard by society.

If that isn’t disheartening enough, sex workers may feel discouraged when it comes to breaking their silence because rape survivors’ “promiscuityâ€? will be put under a microscope in a court of law. The rationale is that adult film actors, strippers and prostitutes should understand the perception of their work and that they are putting themselves in a position • Emailed to opinion@dailyorange.com. • Include your full name, major; year of graduation; or position on campus. If you are not affiliated with SU, please include your town of residence. • If you are sending the letter on behalf of a group or campus organization, indicate your position within the group. • Include a phone number and e-mail address where you can be reached.

sex with someone does not mean that you are available to them at any time. This is why affirmative consent is so important: it should be clear between couples, porn stars or not, that both parties are willing and comfortable with every sexual act along the way.

It is important to note that the frequency of rape cases attached to sex work may be misconstrued as an argument against stripping or porn; however, one of the biggest drawing points about sex work is that is empowering for some women. Part of what enables sex workers to be empowered in what they do is the ability to consent to partners, to nudity, to prices and to sexual acts — most importantly — on their own terms.

Call-outs like that of Stoya’s not only counter the stigma surrounding sex work and sexual assault, but also move the conversation away from blaming victims and toward combating rape culture.

Sex workers are human beings like the rest of us and should be afforded the same agency in what they decide to do with their bodies. No one’s right to accept or decline sex should be waived based on their occupation or how much sex they have had in the past.

Caroline Colvin is a sophomore magazine journalism major. Her column appears weekly. She can be reached at ccolvin@syr. edu and followed on Twitter at @fkacaro.

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or students coming from elsewhere, the presence of deer in upstate New York might be welcomed, an excitement even. Locally, this is not the case.

Fayetteville is currently steeped in rampant debate over whether to kill local deer, and, if so, how many and through what means.

Three major narratives — the increase in Lyme disease, considering deer are common carriers, danger to vehicles and consumption of foliage — are all drivers behind the push to kill, or, to stay consistent with the terminology being used, to “cull” the deer.

This debate is not unique to Fayetteville, considering Hamilton, New York is scheduled to begin baiting and killing deer Dec. 23.

But for Fayetteville, the town board is currently reviewing the Deer Management Committee’s bait and cull Deer Management Plan and the discussion has a tangled web of dissenting opinions. For this, it is increasingly important to take a step back and survey the rhetorical landscape to best make sense of the current situation.

Part of what makes this issue so complicated is that geographically, the issue varies greatly from place to place due to different environmental factors.

Yet, based on the precedent set by Hamilton, Fayetteville seems intent on pushing forward with the culling argument despite a lack of scientific consensus regarding the effectiveness of baiting and culling programs.

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“Studies that contradict the popular notion of deer culling are given little voice (at the Fayetteville public meetings), as compared to personal testimonies attesting to the importance of culling being heard repeatedly,” said Shannon Fabiani, a graduate student at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry who is conducting research of her own surrounding this debate.

Varying scope and scale of geographic areas make knowing if a baiting and culling program is the right course of action impossible.

If we can’t predict the outcome, we should at least be able to understand the process that preludes specific action.

“In Fayetteville, the root of the problem is identified as the deer. In Onondaga, the root of the problem is still considered to be Lyme disease,” said Fabiani. “From there you can see that the solution is either going to attack the deer or attack the Lyme disease.”

This distinction is crucial for understanding the trajectory of this debate. Board members of the Fayetteville Board of Trustees have repeatedly expressed at public meetings that centering efforts on Lyme disease educational programs would be “accepting defeat.”

The importance of this discursive analysis transcends the immediate issue and can be scaled up to look at larger trends of human-environment interactions.

“Are we victims that need to gain control over the deer population, or are we a part of this larger interaction and need to adapt and change the way that we’re interacting with the environment?” questions Fabiani.

Understanding the framing of human-environment interactions is critical for any topic.

To see this in action, one must look no further than the current polarizing discourse enshrouding climate change in this country.

Is the problem being framed as human-induced, or is it beyond our control? These two options have wildly different solutions.

As Fayetteville forges ahead with deciding the best course of action, it seems likely that some type of baiting and culling program will be implemented. This could work, or it could not.Ironically, it will be difficult to know and debate will likely continue.

As it does, being able to identify the way the issue is being framed, and what that framing implicates as the solution, will only become more important.

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

His column appears weekly.

He can be reached at azcole@syr.edu and followed on Twitter @azor_cole.

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A lack of communication on behalf of the Syracuse University administration has caused the Campus Master Plan to appear as more of an abstract idea than a concrete plan, despite the important role it is intended to play in the future of the university.

The Campus Master Plan Advisory Group consists of students, faculty and staff with the goal of improving the SU campus as a component of Chancellor Kent Syverud’s Fast Forward initiative.

The initiative is meant to guide administrative decision making at SU through a set framework and act in conjunction with the Academic Strategic Plan, another Fast Forward initiative that is now in its implementation stage, and with Operational Excellence, the third part of the initiative.

However, the failure to distribute updates about the Campus Master Plan throughout the fall semester has seemingly rendered the initiative inactive to students, contributing to a greater misunderstanding among the SU community about the importance of the plan.

This is due in part to the fact that in its current state, the plan lacks an access point for SU students, faculty and staff to have the initiative fully explained to them.

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potential measure could be to hold listening sessions and open forums similar to those held last year.

The sessions would provide a space in which the university could listen to community concerns, explain administrative decisions and communicate necessary updates with attendees.

In benefitting the community, the sessions would also allow the administration an opportunity to demonstrate full transparency in explaining how decisions made under the plan will affect SU on a campus-wide scale.

However, it is important to acknowledge that the university must work to move past the discussion stages and follow through with tangible action. While bureaucratic processes are necessary in thoroughly assessing the costs and feasibility of proposed plans, at some point decisions need to be made for sake the of the community and overall best interest of the university.

At the start of the fall semester, the Campus Master Plan was promising. The initiative seemed like a comprehensive step in restructuring the way the university makes decision for the better.

But a lack of consistent communication and visible action on behalf of the administration has led to this point in which the accomplishments, progress and goals of the initiative remain unclear.

Moving forward, the administration should approach the spring 2016 semester as an opportunity to address this lapse and rightfully restore the initiative as one that plays an integral role in future of SU.

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pplying to work at The Daily Orange was the best thing I’ve done in college. It gave me incredible opportunities and incredible friends, and for that, I’m grateful. I can, sort of, summarize my feelings about the people I’ve met here using a quote from my favorite show, “The Office.”

“The people that you work with, are just, when you get down to it, your very best friends.” — Michael Scott Casey and Chase: Thanks for hiring me and getting me started here. I owe the past two years to you both.

Meredith: You’re probably more responsible for my time at The D.O. than anybody. You gave me my first A1 — sorry it sucked —, let me cover SA and talked me into applying to work in-house. Thanks for all that and for letting me complain to you on Gchat. I owe you Portillo’s.

Annie: You’re a good writer and reporter, and a fun person. Thanks for letting me be on your staff and for teaching me things my first semester.

Lizzie: Some of my fondest D.O. memories involve our stretching routine at parties. You are talented and a good friend. Love ya like a sister. ONE, TWO. Dylan: I always left my phone volume on after SA coverage because I knew I could expect you to call to fact-check my story. I learned a lot just from being around you.

Jess: My goal as news editor was to not f*ck up all the great stuff you did the semester before.

I learned more from watching you lead the section than from almost anybody else on this campus, and I’m lucky I got to be an assistant for you.

Alfred: Remember the hic-tape? You always made work and parties more fun. You’re also one of the smartest people I’ve worked with.

Audrey: I could’ve used you this semester to fake choke or make a blood brothers joke on occasion. Thanks for keeping your promise to come back if I did. Life at The D.O. would’ve been far more stressful if you weren’t around.

Lara: You did some things as EIC last year that improved the paper that most people will never realize or appreciate.

Erin Kelly: I missed having you to gossip with this semester.

Jacob Pramuk: I would not have survived my first semester in-house without you.

Kevin Quinn: Thanks for returning my emails and phone calls.

Chris Russo: You were thrown into a new job this semester with very little direction on how to do it. Thanks for your patience through it all.

Lydia Wilson and Jake Cappuccino: You are positive and talented people. I was lucky to have you both on my staff.

Katelyn, Ali, Alex Archambault and Rachel Gilbert: You’ve all improved a lot this semester.

I’m excited to see what you do next.

Brendan, Leslie and Laina: Thanks for your guys’ contributions to the digital side of the paper.

Yerin, Tiffany and Kiran: Thanks for making the paper look great.

Danny: Thanks for your hard work the past year and for speaking your mind at Sunday meeting.

Chase: Your Instagram captions make me smile.

Moriah: Heyyyyyy Moriah. It was wonderful talking to you about our shared passion for photography. Rule of thirds, depth of field, etc.

Alex Erdekian: You’ve gotten a lot better as a writer the last couple semesters. Thanks for always doing the mac pitches.

Kat: Thanks for designing most of my favorite front pages while I was news editor.

Delaney: You set the bar high as the first Pulp web assistant. Keep it up in news.

Sam Fortier: You’re a super talented writer and only a sophomore. Don’t overextend yourself and you’ll be just fine.

Rachel Sandler: I’m glad you’re coming back next semester. Thanks for all of your hard work as a staff writer and as an assistant.

Sara Swann: I had a bad experience with a freshman assistant once, but you did great last spring and have been a positive presence in news ever since. Keep pushing yourself to get better.

Alexa Torrens: News editor is a tough gig, but I’ve always been impressed by how smart you are when it comes to writing and editing. You’ll do great, and maybe you can let me write a story or two.

Colleen: You’re the designer everybody wants in their section every night. Thanks for never complaining and for doing great work all semester.

Emma/Lucy: The two of you are super talented and fit right in as freshmen. Please stick around for a while.

Chris: You’re one of the hardest working people I know. That’ll take you far.

Schwed: Never change, Schwed. It’s impossible not to be happy around you, and on top of that, you’re great at your job.

Schneidman: You’ve improved a lot in a short time. You’re full of good ideas, and I’m excited to see to all the things Sports accomplishes with you in charge.

Connor: You’re one of the most likable and talented people I’ve ever worked with. Sports was lucky to have your level-headed demeanor this semester. Keep making DGH proud. See you at the festival.

Jesse: You gave me my first sports story. I still remember how cool I thought it was that you were emailing me that summer about reporting on it. Thanks for the opportunity and for hanging out in management this semester. I look forward to reading whatever incredible stuff you write in the future.

Logan: You carried photo on your back for the last couple semesters and rarely complained.

Thanks for making jokes with me during design meeting.

Jon: You were probably my best friend my first semester in-house, and we were a deserving cutest couple. On top of being a great guy, you’re one of the most talented people I know.

You’re going to be a star as digital editor/in life.

Alexa Diaz: You’re the nicest person I’ve ever met and it’s not close. Don’t change; you make everyone’s day better just by being you.

Jacob Gedetsis: You did enough work the past two semesters to warrant at least two weeks off. You turned the laughingstock of the paper into a respectable section this semester, so be

proud. Don’t lose your creativity; the paper needs it.

Justin: I’m lucky to have worked with you and to have you follow me the past couple semesters, even if it means you’ll immediately outdo me. You are absolutely relentless and a genuinely great person. I never worried about News with you around. You raised the bar to an unreachable level as news editor, and I can’t wait to see you do the same as managing editor.

Remember to focus on the things you can control, and have some fun along the way.

Mara: Thanks for putting up with me. I tell you this sometimes, but I firmly believe when people come to say goodnight to you, they should be saying thank you instead. You’ve done some incredible stuff in a difficult job, and most people will never know about half of it. You should be proud. Thinking about all the crap dating back to May that we’ve had to deal with, there is not a single person who could’ve handled it better than you. Remember that you’re a kid in college at a college paper, so have some fun with it next semester.

Sam Blum: I think you’re a great writer and editor, and you see and do things that I wish I could duplicate with stories. You’re also one of my best friends and someone who I’m fortunate to have met through this place. I can, and do, tell you almost anything, and you’ve been there to listen to me complain or share ideas or fears or frustrations or exciting news whenever I need to. Thanks for all that. Next semester let’s bring back plain burger Thursday and basketball in Archbold.

Kelley: You’ve dealt with me coming home late all the time, listened to me complain about people you’ve never met and had me quit a video game to go cover something. Thanks for putting up with me as a roommate and for being a great friend.

Chloe: I could’ve written this whole duck about you, Chloe. Spending two years holed up in this rickety house was worth it because I met you, and the other stuff is just a bonus. You work harder and do more than anybody, and you’re extremely talented. However much credit you get, it’s not enough. D.O. stuff aside, you’re perfect for me and I’m lucky to have you. Fourteen months after we started dating, I am still at my happiest when I’m with you. My life is infinitely better with you in it, and I have no f*cking idea what I would do without you. I can’t wait to spend most of my last semester here with you. My life would suck without you.

Mom and Dad: I say thanks to you two sometimes, but it’s not nearly often enough. So … thanks for letting me talk about the paper all the time. Thanks for scheduling our weekly phone calls around what I had to do for The D.O. Thanks for reading my stories. Thanks for letting me complain about people you don’t know. Thanks for letting me come to SU. Thanks for sending me stuff in the mail.

Thanks for visiting. Thanks for letting me study what I want to study and spend almost all of my free time at The D.O. Most of all, thanks for supporting me no matter what.

That still doesn’t nearly cover it, but hopefully it’s a start. Love you both.

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ell, here I am writing this at 30,383 feet over the United States coming back from an assignment for The D.O. I remember when I first came to The D.O. all I wanted to do was photograph the basketball team. Well I just did in the Bahamas, crazy. Mission accomplished. It feels like yesterday that I was coming back from SA shoots in the middle of February freezing my ass off as I walked back to The D.O. house thinking this was pointless.

Shoot, I don’t even think I was a photojournalism major yet. But I slowly learned that no story is pointless. No matter how small it may seem. It is big for someone somewhere and you are there to tell the story.

Chloe: You were pretty solid to work with.

Thank you for putting up with me throughout the semester, as I am sure I was a pain, just kidding.

Brett: We aim for fine. So keep up the good work and maybe you can become a photographer.

Justin: Man Jrecks, that’s all. But seriously, you have a drive that is unmatched here. You somehow get it all done and do it extremely well so keep it up. It was a pleasure covering stories with you and I am sure you will do great in the future.

Jesse: Man Clemson was fun. Pre-gaming dinner and Chick-Fil-A, can’t beat that for

a road trip.

Connor: F*ck you Matt: Where the f*ck is my 128 dollars …

Sports: You guys were a pleasure to work with and some of the hardest working people that I know.

Sam Blum: Man, where haven’t we been it feels like. Traveling and working with you has been a blast. Honestly some of my favorite trips have been in your company. Hey you remember when we almost got arrested?

Yeah, I don’t either.

Margaret: Thank you for reaching out to me in PHO301. You had a tremendous task at hand during your time and I am thankful for the opportunities you provided me. If you hadn’t asked if I wanted to photograph for The D.O. then who knows if I would even be involved here.

Michelle Maggie and Annie: Y’all are the best.

You guys have become some of my best friends here at Syracuse and I am not sure why or how that happened. But regardless it did and I am grateful for that. Also Michelle definitely broke Baileys plate outside the bar.

Kat, Jessica, and Russ: You three gave me the most joy from being photo editor. Kat you went to cover the field hockey championships and killed it. Jessica you went to UVA on your first ever football shoot and came back with a fantastic photo and it blew everyone away. That was great moment for

me. Lastly Russ, you covered one of the bigger football games of the semester and I was a little worried. However, you captured the moment and I was really excited to see your photo of Shafer on the player’s shoulders.

Riley: You came to Syracuse to challenge yourself. Well, now you are the next photo editor and I wish you nothing but the best. I hope you are ready for the challenge. You’ll do great!

Frankie: I came in to photo editor a little hesitant and I am not going to lie it was because of how stressed you were. However, it was one of my best decisions I think I have made here at Syracuse. So thank you for pushing me into it.

Mara Corbett: I do not think I would have made it the entire semester with out your positivity. So thank you for that. Also thank you for pushing me to take this job because I do not think I would have if it weren’t for you and Frankie and Chase. Thanks for the sandwich during the basketball guide shoot it was clutch. #triangles Chase Gaewski: I am not sure what I would be doing if I hadn’t met you. You have constantly pushed me to exceed what I think I am capable of. For that I am forever grateful. I hope I was able to keep the photo department up and running during my time here. Thanks for everything.

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wish I had something deep to say. When I think of The Daily Orange I don’t think of one individual or one particular moment. I feel it. I feel the late nights. I feel the laughter. I feel the frustration and conviction to produce something meaningful. I’m not going to say that The D.O. is home for me.

I’m still not really sure if I ever quite fit in, even to this day. But I am thankful for the memories and friendships I’ll leave with because of it.

The D.O. pushed me to be better, and I hope I left it a little better of a place.

Luke Rafferty: I’m writing this because of you. I interviewed for the video editor position thinking I would be your assistant, not the new you. You really couldn’t give me a heads up?

Frankie: I loved working with you all those late nights. Every memory I have of you in the house is of laughter, cursing, or music. I don’t know if you’ve realized it yet, but you are extraordinary.

Renee: You are my favorite. I will never not give you a hug when I see you. Nothing more needs to be said.

Jackie: When you smile the world goes round.

I miss you every time I walk into the house and you’re not there.

Tony: We never really had a full conversation about anything other then boxing, but I will remember you. Words cannot describe my enjoyment seeing you walk into head editor meetings hungover and late, while wearing an armadillo sweatshirt, on Friday mornings.

Thank you for making a scribble of me!

Jesse: Thank you for always saying hi to me when I first started working at The D.O. I will never forget you giving me random hugs, or having slight disagreements during web meetings. I’ll see you at Chucks.

Annie: You’re dope.

Jacob: I felt really special when you called me gorgeous instead of by my first name. I later realized I wasn’t the only female you called that, which in all honesty did make me a little salty. Thank you for always coming to me with ideas, and never saying no to any of mine.

Always seeing a smile on your face made the nights easier.

Chase: I didn’t even work with you while you were in house but I might as well have. Every conversation I have ever had with you has left me inspired. You are amazing.

Other Chase: Thank you for silently serenading me. I deeply enjoyed every moment.

Every other staff member I have worked with: Thanks for the memories.

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Author discusses writing techniques, award-winning novel

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Elissa Schappell opened her Q&A session in Gifford Auditorium on Wednesday afternoon by asking the crowd of students to “do some sort of interpretive dance” because she is “very easily bored.”

Schappell, an author and professor at Columbia University, spoke to a crowd of more than 60 students from Syracuse University’s Living Writing course, ETS 107, about her writing technique and her book, “Blueprints for Building Better Girls” — which she called the “anti-etiquette book,” that discusses wearisome times and how to behave when nobody wants to listen.

In ETS 107, students are taught about living writers and the vibrant nature of writing. This semester, they read Schappell’s award-winning novel, while learning how to question authors on their content, technique and inspirations. The students in attendance for Schappell’s Q&A session did exactly that.

One of the audience members praised Schap-

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Samuel Leitermann, GSO also discussed the status of health insurance for graduate student workers.

Aslan also showed the senators a letter from Rebecca Reed Kantrowitz, senior vice president and dean of Student Affairs at SU, that said graduate students are allowed to stay on the univer-

pell for her authenticity while writing about sexual assault. The student asked Schappell whether she censors her writing for her audience.

“Not at all,” Schappell said.

Schappell said she doesn’t ever think about the audience while writing because then she “can’t tell the truth.” The reason Schappell resorts to art is to have the truth of the culture and her own experiences reflected back to her.

She added that she hopes by writing about topics like sexual assault that she can change the conversation that’s happening about such topics today. She concluded that she could not do that in an honest way if she lies, and that sexual assault cannot be represented painlessly if it’s genuine.

Schappell also advised writers not to think about how their writing will be perceived, but to hope that the audience will reward them for pure motives.

A male audience member asked Schappell if she has received backlash for her “overtly fleshed-out female characters.”

Schappell replied, “Oh sure, but you always wanna piss people off.”

If some people are not “pissed off,” Schappell said, then a writer is not doing their job right. She said she writes women as she sees them — people who “aren’t angelic do-gooders but they aren’t whores or witches either.”

Schappell added that it is an artist’s job to fashion fully fleshed-out human beings, and not everybody will appreciate that.

A student writer asked Schappell how she became a writer, and Schappell said she has always been one and that it is one of the only skills she has. As a child, Schappell said she was filled with rage and she expressed her anger and depression through writing, mostly in a journal under the pseudonym Shannon.

Another audience member recognized Schappell’s interest with etiquette books and asked her what kind of influence they had on “Blueprints for Building Better Girls.”

Schappell, who collects etiquette books, said she found them “fascinating” when she was

younger because they instructed people on how to behave. Schappell said that as a child she never understood how people are supposed to behave and could not comprehend how decorum and etiquette related to “being human.”

“How are people supposed to behave under the most trying circumstances?” she asked.

Schappell said she also wanted to use humor to disarm people, serve as a shield for her as a writer and as a sword for characters. Humor allows audiences to trust writers because life is hard enough without reading about agony, she said. Therefore, she said she uses humor as a catharsis while writing about discomforts that everyone knows about, but nobody wants to talk about.

A student from the audience asked her if she could advise those who are in love for the first time — similar to two characters from her stories.

Schappell responded by asking her if she “had time to get drinks later.”

sity-sponsored employee health insurance plan until GSO and the university administration come to an agreement about transitioning to the student health insurance plan.

Some senators, feeling that the letter was not specific enough about the parameters of the agreement, voted to invite relevant administrators to a meeting in the spring semester to further discuss the issue.

Aslan also updated the Senate on the current statuses of the university travel team’s desire to alter the on-campus transit system to more effectively save funding. Aslan also discussed the upcoming policy recommendations regarding SU’s free speech ordinances, which will be announced in the spring.

After the discussions, the meeting shifted gears to hold elections for University Senate. The Univer-

sity Senate, a body that advises the chancellor, has 12 seats — two of which have been vacated.

Alexis Drickel, a Master’s of Business Administration candidate in the Martin J. Whitman School of Management, and Ryan Falkenstein-Smith, a third-year graduate student studying mechanical and aerospace engineering, were elected to the two positions.

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ESTHER GRAY will be retiring Dec. 31 after almost 40 years of working at Syracuse University. Since 2001, she has been running the Univeristy Lecture Series, bringing more than 100 speakers. Her favorite memories are the personal moments she shared with lecturers and the relationships she built with them.

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THE LAST LECTURE Esther Gray reflects on 15 years shaping University Lecture Series

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n a chilly December morning, Esther Gray shifts her weight from one foot to the other; she pursed her lips and sighs deeply.

Her breath clouds the frigid air.

“Sadness … ” Gray said, her voice trailing off, reflecting how she felt during her last University Lecture.

“The lectures have just been such a

huge part of my life.”

Over the last 15 years, Gray shaped the University Lecture Series, which brings prominent individuals in their fields of study to speak at Syracuse University. From late night errands to marketing the event, Gray oversaw every detail of the series.

After nearly four decades spent working at the university, she’s retiring earlier than she’d like.

Over the summer, SU offered a

buyout to employees whose age and years of service combined was 65 or more to cut costs. Gray, who turns 70 in January, took the deal, forcing her to leave a semester earlier than she wanted.

“I am not happy to be leaving in the middle of the year, I don’t think anybody is,” Gray said. “… I feel like my final act here is leaving something undone.”

But Gray prefers to reflect on the

things she has done.

Gray graduated from SU with a degree in anthropology and women’s studies after taking classes parttime for eight years and was named a Remembrance Scholar in 1999 when she was in her 50s.

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Committee to restructure University Lecture Series after retirement

By Jacob Gedetsis feature editor

The organizational structure of the University Lecture Series shifted this fall as longtime employee and organizer of the speaker series, Esther Gray, announced her retirement.

Syracuse University Interim Vice Chancellor and Provost Liz Liddy created the University Lecture advisory committee this fall to take over Gray and her team’s responsibilities. Liddy asked every dean on campus to appoint a faculty representative to be on the com-

mittee, she said. The University Lecture Series hosts speakers that are prominent in their fields of work and study.

The committee is currently composed of 14 members, including one student representative. These members will select the lecturers and organize the series.

“I am pretty good at stepping away and letting good committees run. We have nominations, we have students on the committee, and we are getting nominations,” Liddy said. “If you think about it, we have a representative from every college on

campus so I think for ‘16-’17, we will have a very good series.”

Liddy said the committee has taken advantage of the fact the Gray is still on campus and has been working closely with her to ensure a smooth transition into next semester and beyond.

Barbara Stripling, co-chair of the committee, said the team has met about every two weeks this semester in order to start booking speakers for next year and to coordinate next semester’s speakers. They are currently paring down the list of possible lecturers and have two tentative

schedule drafts for next fall.

Stripling said one of the biggest challenges in the transition is learning all of the logistics and budgetary demands of bringing a speaker to campus.

“It’s a really balancing act. We can pick people that we think will be really phenomenal, but then we find out they cost $75,000. Well, we don’t have that kind of a budget,” Stripling said. “We have to balance cost with availability.”

In the past, six to eight speakers visit the SU campus each year as part of the lecture series. The committee see lecture page 12

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gray dot her track record, some of whom she also brought to the Syracuse City School District.

Her favorite memories are those she shared with the lecturers.

On April 13, 2010, the Nobel Prize Laureate and poet Seamus Heaney stood at the front of Hendricks Chapel as the crowd began to trickle in. Gray stood close by, gesturing toward the sign language interpreters explaining every detail of the upcoming speech.

“After you finish, I will take you, very quickly without stopping to the back foyer for the book signing. I will have a bottle of water for you …”

The Irishman inched closer to her, and with a mischievous smile slid her a small bottle of vodka.

“Esther, this bottle of water would be so much better with this put in it.”

She hid it in her hand, walked to her colleague and best friend Kelly Rodoski to explain the situation. Rodoski went to the bathroom of Hendricks to make the swap, hiding the empty bottle at the bottom of the trashcan.

through the years

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No matter the speaker, Gray wants to treat them the same way. She is the first person they meet at the airport either on the night before they speak or early in the morning.

She tells them to look for the “short, chubby grandma” upon arrival. It gives her a chance to know them, and to anticipate anything they might need.

She gets them settled, and at about 1 p.m. the typical day kicks off with media interviews.

She shuttles them back and forth across campus, until they head to dinner at 5 p.m. and the lecture at 7:30 p.m.

During the lecture, Gray sits in the wings, carefully listening and watching to make sure everything goes smoothly. After the speech, the speaker might do a book signing or just hang around to talk to students.

When it’s time to leave the Hill, Gray drives them back to the airport — she wants her face to be the last one they see before leaving. She gives every guest a hug before they depart.

“I never expect any of these people to remember me or the university, but they do; they remember the students, they remember that they came here and that they had a good

time, and that they were treated so well.”

She’s stayed close with many of the speakers over the years, exchanging emails and letters with lecturers like Billy Collins, Eric Schlosser and David Henry Hwang. A member of FOE, or “Friends of Esther,” made her a memory box that she keeps these correspondences in. Gray said she will always cherish the relationships she built with the people she worked with, the speakers and the students.

Just inside the Genesee Grande Hotel, a group of 50 people gathered to celebrate her retirement. Yellow and purple balloons float near their heads, and gentle murmurs can be heard as she steps forward. At first, in a quiet voice, Esther Gray begins to address the crowd, giving her last lecture.

“I never dreamed that my life would end up the way it has, to have the opportunity to work for the university for 40 years with the greatest bunch of people that I could ever imagine working with,” she said, her voice shaking with emotion. “And to be leaving now surrounded by the sea of friends that I have, I must’ve done something right.” jagedets@syr.edu | @jacobgedetsis

Here is a look at some of the milestones during Esther Gray’s almost 40-year career at Syracuse University.

Started taking classes as a part-time student

Started working at SU in the Metropolitan Studies Program (renamed Center for Policy Research)

“When I took it out to him during the book signing I said, ‘Here’s your special water,’ and he just looked up at me with that great big grin,” Gray said. “He was so funny, he was such a sweetheart.”

Her face lights up when she talks about her “honored guests.” From driving them to the airport at 4:30 a.m. or bringing them cold medicine at midnight, she prided herself on making everyone feel at home.

Gray and the rest of the University Lectures team become invested in the speakers far before they arrive on campus.

The booking process begins in the fall of the year before the lecturer comes to speak.

She sits down with her team of about a dozen people and they try to gauge what speakers to bring based on affordability, diversity and prominence in their respective fields.

They want to bring individuals who are well respected in different lines of work, but Gray is more interested in their storytelling abilities. She called the University Lectures “a performance” and that over the years, she’s seen biologists bring audience members to tears and writers who “don’t have a clue.”

1999

Graduated summa cum laude; GPA 3.997

Named Remembrance Scholar

1999

Began working with University Lecture Series in the Office of the Provost and the Office of Academic Affairs

1999

Named Remembrance Scholarship Convocation speaker

2001

Named National Continuing Education Scholar for the year

2000

Former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell speaks at the first University Lecture

2001

2015

Gray will retire Dec. 31 after taking an SU buyout.

(FROM LEFT) CHERYL STRAYED AND ESTHER GRAY talk to a Syracuse community member at the Oct. 8 University Lecture. Gray organizes speakers more than a year in advanced and spends all day with her “honored guests.” courtesy of stephen sartori

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lecture is exploring possibilities of scaling that number down based on the honorarium, or cost of the speaker, in order to host fewer speakers, but bigger names, Stripling said.

Gray shaped and ran the series since it was created in 2001, and said the organizational structure has changed in the past. When the lectures first began, it had an advisory team made up of members of the faculty, staff and Board of Trust-

ees, including Gray. This lasted until around 2007, when responsibilities shifted to Associate Provost Kal Alston.

Gray said she knows that the committee understands how important the lectures are for the SU community.

“I don’t know how they are going to do it. But it will be done well; the reps from the schools and colleges are good,” Gray said. “They don’t want to do anything to mess up the lectures, they realize how important it is.” jagedets@syr.edu

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After Hours

Where: Goldstein Auditorium When: Dec. 10 at 9 p.m.

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Main Squeeze is one of the six a capella groups performing at this year’s After Hours. Though the event used to be held in Hendricks Chapel, the groups will now perform on Goldstein Auditorium’s stage because of its improved audio quality, which will better compliment their signature songs. georgie silvarole staff writer

THE SING OFF

A cappella groups come together to perform joint end of semester concert

By A.J. Gersh staff writer

T

he lights come up on the Goldstein Auditorium stage, revealing no drums, no speakers and no guitars. A group of singers in a U-shaped formation is all that is on stage, and their voices are all the audience will hear at this year’s After Hours performance.

This Thursday at 9 p.m., six of Syracuse University’s student-run a cappella groups will showcase their talents for the A Cappella Council’s biggest concert of the semester. After Hours is a biannual end of semester event set to showcase talent from The Otto Tunes, The Mandarins, Orange Appeal, Main Squeeze, Groovestand and Oy Cappella.

In past After Hours concerts, each group performed three of its best songs to 800 to 1000 audience members in Schine’s Goldstein Auditorium.

Since shows are usually at 6 or 7 p.m., After Hours’ later start time creates a different atmosphere from most

a cappella events, said Quinn Cartelli, senior history major and current president of all-female group The Mandarins.

Many concerts, like those during SU’s Family Weekend and at other colleges and venues, pale in comparison to the excitement and energy surrounding After Hours, she said.

“Everybody’s super excited and the crowd’s really into it,” Cartelli said. “It’s usually a packed house, which is nice because we can really feed off of the audience.”

Having the concert in Goldstein also improves the concert’s atmosphere.

Before its current location, After Hours was held in Hendricks Chapel and lacked top-notch audio quality, said Scott Casanova, associate director the student centers and programming services.

As the coordinator of the entire technology infrastructure for the performance, Casanova said Goldstein’s improved audio technology is crucial to improving the sound of the voices and the ambience of the concert, Casanova said.

Each group brings its own spin to the

concert, which is the only joint a cappella concert this fall semester. But despite the differences, all of SU’s a cappella squads share a special bond through music and performance, Cartelli said.

Lauren Green, a senior public relations major and member of Main Squeeze, said this show is her group’s favorite of the year. She loves the sense of togetherness that After Hours brings to all the a cappella groups, since they don’t usually get the chance to perform together.

“It’s really cool because we all get to hear what the others have been working on, like what songs and what people have solos,” Green said. “It’s really cool to see how the other groups have grown throughout the year, as we’ve been growing and working on different types of music and showcasing different voices.”

The best part about After Hours is the exposure that each group gets as a result of new audience members who have never experienced a cappella, said Alex Alpert, a senior vocal performance major and member of all-male group Orange

Appeal. People who would not normally go to an a cappella concert are more likely to be at After Hours because they get to see every group perform, Alpert said.

“It’s something every group looks forward to at the end of the semester, and everyone involved works their hardest to put together the best possible performance,” Alpert said.

It’s not just the student performers who have a special place in their hearts for the semester-ending concert. Casanova has a great appreciation for this performance and each group’s dedication to and attitude toward After Hours, and loves that this is one of the few SU concerts with entirely student performers, he said.

“Unlike the national artists that we have here at Schine, the students aren’t here for the paycheck, they are here to perform; that’s what they’re getting out of it,” Casanova said. “They really enjoy doing it, and it’s an atmosphere of fun that you don’t always get from professional acts.” ajgersh@syr.edu

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coppin state rebound and finished with a layup. Then Brittney Sykes found her in transition for an easy bucket. Then Morrison poked the ball out of Coppin State guard Keena Samuels’ hand on the press and converted the uncontested shot.

A tie game prior to Morrison and Ford coming in was turned into a 17-10 Syracuse lead.

“I knew immediately I had to be aggressive,” Ford said. “I had to do something to pick my team up … Me being aggressive at first knocking down 3s motivated everyone else to play harder.”

Briana and Bria Day and guard Alexis Peterson got into foul trouble early, forcing Hillsman to dip into his reserves more frequently than usual.

role reversal Four bench players combined for 50 points in Syracuse’s win over Coppin State on Wednesday night.

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Ford finished the half 5-for-5 with 13 points, including three 3-pointers. The bench’s 20 points at the half was just six shy of Coppin State’s team total.

Chandler’s first time off the bench she was stripped in the post and Hillsman took her out. On the sideline, Briana Day pulled her aside on the bench to give her pointers.

The struggles didn’t last as Chandler was soon blocking shots in the post, knocking down 3s from the wing and cleaning up the boards in place of the Day sisters.

“We talk about seven, eight, nine, 10 playing well off the bench and they were tremendous,” Hillsman said. “Julia Chandler shot the ball like she can do it and Taylor played awesome and Corn (Cornelia Fondren) just filled it up.”

When Ford’s layup on a play where she was fouled rolled out of the rim to start the fourth quarter, she stomped her foot into the court.

But it was almost the only thing that didn’t fall for her on the night. Of her 10 shots, she missed just two. Fondren and Morrison both shot over 50 percent, too.

By the end of the game, SU’s seven-player bench had nearly matched the Eagles entire team and outscored its own starters by 12. Guard Savannah Crocetti came off the bench for just her second appearance of the season.

“I think that speak volumes,” Peterson said. “If we can play like that and get that type of bench performance we’ll be a hard team to beat.”

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Alexis Peterson flew up the court on a breakaway and found her way to the basket, drawing contact against Coppin State’s Keena Samuels

before rising and dropping in a layup.

Peterson thought she had earned herself an opportunity for a traditional three-point play.

Instead, the nearby referee whistled for a charge.

Syracuse head coach Quentin Hillsman, who expressed frustration with the officials through-

ALEXIS PETERSON dribbles the ball down the court in Syracuse’s 32-point win over Coppin State on Wednesday night in the Carrier Dome. liam sheehan staff photographer

out the night, turned away from the play and paced quickly toward the end of SU’s bench. He didn’t stop until nearly walking off the court.

When Hillsman turned around, Peterson was standing at halfcourt, staring at him and holding up three fingers, one for each foul she had. With 3:09 remaining in the first half, Hillsman was forced to remove Peterson from the game.

“I didn’t want her to get that fourth foul in case the game got tight down the stretch,” Hillsman said.

After a red-hot start to Wednesday night’s game, Peterson cooled off once she found herself in foul trouble. She played only 25 minutes, nine fewer than her season average, during Syracuse’s (6-2) 88-56 win over Coppin State (2-6) in the Carrier Dome.

Peterson scored five points in the game’s first four minutes, to put the Orange ahead 8-6.

By the 7:15 mark of the second quarter, she had registered 10 points on 4-of-4 shooting.

“That’s a great floor game,” Hillsman said.

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But Peterson committed her first foul with just over seven minutes to play in the first half.

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Logan: There isn’t anyone better to do a road trip with. You’re willing to go anywhere. You’re willing to drive at night. You could sleep on the chair upright or even on a hardwood floor. Your willingness to be that type of person made you a fantastic photo editor.

Jess: I did a read with you on my Michael Sandel coverage in 2012. That was my first byline.

You were someone I looked up to then and that never changed. The best Monday of our lives happened last semester. Not only did we uncover some real sh*t, but I did it with a true Daily Orange legend.

Annie Palmer: The most chill person out there.

I always feel like I can be myself around you.

That’s the kind of friend you are.

Alfred: I can always have an honest conversation with you. There aren’t many people like that. It’s that quality that will make you successful but will also get you into many more “best fights.”

Casey: Part of the awe of getting hired my first semester was getting to work with you.

Impressing you with my stories was always at the top of my mind whenever I filed.

Meredith: People say we’re both gossips. I take that as a compliment. I know you’re a friend because we could fight about 100 different things but we’ll always be able to move past it. You claim to have taught me how to write a nutgraf. I’ll take your word for it.

Mara: No one puts the paper and the people first like you do. You could be having the worst day, have the most homework, the printer could call and all hell could break loose. But if I came to you with a problem, then you would make sure it mattered. That’s what separates leaders from non-leaders, the ability to put themselves behind everything else. You do that admirably. There is no one more capable of being in charge. And I’m grateful and fortunate to call you a friend … one that loves country music and The Daily Orange even more than I do.

Chloe: One of these days, you’ll realize how f*cking amazing you are. And yes, I cursed because I know you won’t. Everything you touch turns to gold. Everyone you talk to is a happier and better person because of it. You’re a much, much stronger person than you’d ever give yourself credit for. Through everything, you’ve been a friend that I can talk to. Even when there’s a basketball guide to design, a holocaust paper to write and a hundred other things pop up, you’re there. The D.O. doesn’t mean what it does to me without you. And even if not everyone recognizes it, I know you’re the most talented person here. I just wish I was a president of the Nice Person Club.

Parents: Thanks for always reading and texting when you read. You always seemed to like the stories I wrote, even when I didn’t … and it means something coming from two writers.

Pete Morelli: You command respect from everyone that knows you. To have your respect means that much more. Someday you’ll be in the Navy or a biologist or the best and tannest lifeguard. No matter what it is, you’ll do well.

Sam, Danny and Kevin: Danny, remember when we were Tennis Beat Bros? Remember when we ran a half marathon? I met you when you lacked confidence. To see the person you have become makes me proud. Kevin, you haven’t changed one bit, and I love you for it. I’m pretty sure you could have a conversation with just about anyone in the world. You think about everything and always speak your mind. We’ll be Demathletes for life. Sam, you’re a loyal friend, the first one that I made at Syracuse. I know that will never change.

Andres: You’ve been my best friend since I knew what it meant to have one. Even if you’re halfway across the country, it feels like you’re there in everything I do. There are only so many hours in the day, but I always make sure I save at least one to talk with you. Whether that be on the phone in the corner of The D.O. or if you call at 4 a.m. People might think only five percent of what we say is funny, but we make each other laugh. I’m proud of the person you are, it’s a person that I look up to. We’re just living between the blinks.

Brett: Whenever I thought about writing this duck — and for the past few weeks, that was a lot — it was always what I’d say to you that I fixated on the most. My time at The Daily Orange has so much to do with the time I spent with you. We came through this place together — from the time you were just a quiet kid that always wore sweatpants to now, a person that I truly consider to be a best friend. I could joke about the Plain Burger Thursdays, the Hans Peter Schmidt’s (hey Hans!) or the time we spent 45 minutes crying in Chris’ office (sorry for the broken post-it holder), but those are only parts of a two-year whole. You’re my family, my brother and a genuinely great person that people will always gravitate toward. There are 10 times a day I stop myself from texting you because literally everything that makes me laugh I want to share with you. We spent a day in Buffalo sitting on different park benches and getting Boston Market and it was my favorite day of the summer. That’s just the person you are. We’ve got the same birthday (sorta), same major, same minor, and thankfully the same glasses prescription. It’s no wonder we ended up in the same place. You’ve always been there for me and I’ll always be there for you. I’ll see you on the other side, brother. It’s not our problem anymore.

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ice hockey

Syracuse looks to avoid letdown against Boston College

By Matt Alexander staff writer

Syracuse’s game against Boston College is more than a matchup against an undefeated team ranked second in the nation. It’s also a culmination of physical and mental fatigue for an SU team that hasn’t had a real break since the season began.

“This is, for our sport, a tough time,” SU head coach Paul Flanagan said. “Because we’ve been going pretty hard for a couple of months.”

On Thursday, Syracuse will host Boston College (19-0) at 4 p.m. at Tennity Ice Pavilion.

Flanagan is conscious of the beating his team has taken so far, but is using the Boston College matchup as motivation.

Syracuse is coming off a three-game unbeaten streak, and after a week of preparing for an offensive juggernaut of an opponent, the Orange is looking to close out 2015 strong and carry the momentum into a much-needed reprieve.

“Let this be your outlet this week,” Flanagan said of his team’s mindset. “We’re a decided underdog … but I think from our perspective, embrace it. Let’s have some fun with it.”

On Nov. 28 against North Dakota, Flanagan sat Jenn Gilligan, pointing to all the minutes the senior goalkeeper had logged and the long stretch of season still to go.

Just one game removed from a three and a

half week break, Flanagan made sure a team gasping for air doesn’t have one foot out the door prior to playing Boston College. Yet for Gilligan, the timing is a benefit.

“It makes it a lot easier to put everything out on the line,” she said. “It is our last game and we’ve got a few weeks to recover.”

Syracuse spent the beginning half of the week prepping to be physical on the puck with a BC team chock-full of players with United States National Team experience.

Angling drills in particular were a point of emphasis this week as Syracuse prepares to offset the Eagles.

Forward Heather Schwarz said there has been a focus on body control, something Syracuse will try and use to push Boston College off the puck and stunt its potent offensive attack that averages 5.5 goals per game.

In Tuesday’s practice, Schwarz said that Syracuse threw the puck down into the corner, where players would take turns pushing it off down the ice, shielding one another to create space for open passing lanes.

“Really focusing on not just watching the puck,” Schwarz said. “Trying to use our body to get around them.”

Offensive intensity is one thing that Syracuse will attempt to use against BC, trying to exploit a weakness on a team that has very few.

While Flanagan praised the offensive talent of the Eagles, he also said that it has a defensive deficiency.

“They’re a real good skating team and

they’re very skilled,” he said. “And they don’t spend a lot of time playing defense because they’re so gifted offensively. I think what we really want to focus on is getting the puck deep. Making them retreat. Make them play deep, because they don’t want to.”

Fla naga n sa id it ’s bet ter the Ora nge doesn’t have to dea l w it h a weekend series that w ill decide f irst-place sta nding in the conference.

Instead, it’s Syracuse’s toughest game of

the season with predetermined expectations.

Gilligan said it would be foolish to consider Syracuse anything but the underdog, and Flanagan joked there was a higher likelihood of Elvis walking through the door than Syracuse winning.

But in reality, he sees an opportunity.

Said Flanagan: “I think it’s a chance to pull an upset and really send ourselves off in a real good mindset for the break.” mralex01@syr.edu

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Dixon, Estime earn All-Atlantic Coast Conference honors

By Chris Libonati asst. copy editor

Punter Riley Dixon and wide receiver Brisly Estime earned All-Atlantic Coast Conference honors on Wednesday, the ACC announced in a release.

Freshman quarterback Eric Dungey received votes for both rookie of the year and

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babers a.m. after celebrating — he had taken the job at Syracuse. Twenty-seven years as an assistant.

Four more as a mid-major head coach. Fifteen different schools, six different positions coached. Now, he’s at Syracuse, in what he calls a “destination job.”

“One of the reasons why I like this university over other universities that were available is that I thought at the other universities that I could win, but I’d have to move again,” Babers said. “What I was looking for is some place that I could win and have an opportunity to stay, because I have moved so much.“ Babers’ wife, Susan Babers recently bought a map to put every spot that the couple has moved to together over the past three decades. On the map it says, “home is where you live”. Only four months ago, Susan Babers had bought a home in Ohio. On Saturday morning, she found out that her husband would need a new one.

Susan had gotten home around 2 a.m. the night of the MAC championship, only to wake up at 4:10 a.m. for a flight to College Station, Texas to watch her daughter play volleyball.

On her way there, she got a call from Babers,

offensive rookie of the year, but finished fifth and fourth in the categories, respectively.

Dixon was voted onto the second team by the coaches, narrowly losing by two points to Wake Forest punter Alex Kinal (19 points).

The Syracuse punter finished first on the press’ All-ACC team just more than a week ago, while Kinal finished second. Dixon averaged 43.7 yards per punt this season with a

telling her that talks of getting to a school might be happening. The next time he called, Babers was the head coach at Syracuse.

It was his decision to make, just like it was when he went to Eastern Illinois and took a pay cut to leave Baylor. “(Babers) goes by faith,” Susan said. “And once he makes his decision, I know it’s going to be the right one.”

The two hardly talked between then and when she got back Sunday night. On Monday morning, they flew to Syracuse. Her daughter Jazzmin, whose Texas A&M volleyball team lost in the NCAA tournament, came, too. At 10 a.m. he introduced himself to the school. At 11 a.m., he schmoozed with players, coaches and boosters. At noon, he did more media.

At 1 p.m., he did even more. At 3 p.m., he got to meet his team, asking them to give him a round of applause.

For Babers, the week has been a nonstop whirlwind. The life of a new head coach in the ACC. But the buildup was long. Thirty years in the making. Twenty-seven as an assistant. Fifteen different schools and six different positions.

Now he’s where he wants to be, and doesn’t want to leave.

Said Babers: “I really think that this is

long of 64 yards. Eighteen of his punts went at least 50 yards. He was also one of 10 semifinalists for the Ray Guy Award, given to the nation’s top punter, but didn’t make the list of three finalists.

Estime was voted to the honorable mention team with 12 points. He was named to the team as a returner rather than a wideout.

One of his biggest contributions came in the

return game, where he racked up 18.1 yards per punt return, good for second in the country and first in the ACC. He was the first SU player since 1997 to return two punts for touchdowns in a season.

His two scores came in the season opener against Rhode Island and on Oct. 31 against Florida State.

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come up and score,” Syracuse head coach Ian McIntyre said. “You set the bar and say that this is an expectation.”

Robinson recalled a moment at the beginning of the season when McIntyre spoke to the starting defensive trio and set out a number of goals for each of them to score. He doesn’t recall the exact number, but remembers asking himself, “Does he actually think we’re going to score that much?”

The freshman defender has netted four shots this year, a number he still struggles to fathom, and is unquestionably Syracuse’s primary target on set pieces. On corner kicks he typically stands pat around the penalty-kick mark before making a break toward the center of the 6-yard box.

The Orange typically keeps him in the center of corner-kick plays, flanked by a player in front and behind him to give Robinson the most space to work in dangerous areas around the net.

“You’ve got to be brave and you’ve got to be aggressive,” McIntyre said of what Robinson’s exhibited. “To score as many goals as (Miles) has in his freshman year, it’s a big deal.”

Pushing up bulky defenders Louis Cross, Robinson and Miller has forced out the quicker, on-ball offensive threats like midfielders Callahan and Julian Buescher, along with forward Chris Nanco.

It’s far from a compromised spot for SU, though, and one the defensive-minded McIntyre has known all along would work to his team’s benefit. And in the most important games in program history, it has.

set pieces with No. 2 seed Clemson (17-2-3, 6-1-1) in the national semifinal of the College Cup in Kansas City, Kansas on Friday at 6 p.m.

Polk’s game-winning goal against BC in the Elite Eight gave him a team-leading 12 tallies on the season, but SU has seen its goal contributions come from the least likely places.

Included is a starting defense that’s combined for 10 goals this season, mostly on set pieces.

“We know we’re dangerous every time we get a corner kick or a free kick,” midfielder Oyvind Alseth said.

Polk’s become a formidable scoring threat because of his improved heading ability, something once labeled as a glaring weakness of his

by Polk’s former coaches. He now considers it a strong suit of his game, making him an asset in the hectic mosh of jerseys on the receiving end of corner kicks.

Syracuse took 29 more corners than any team in the ACC, and the abundance of opportunities has lent itself to more creative schemes. Against Seattle on Nov. 29, defender Kamal Miller used the lanky height advantage of Robinson to block his defender’s view.

Miller leaked around and behind Robinson, also a defender, to put himself in a prime goal-scoring position as the ball ricocheted out of the box before reaching him. But SU continued to push the territorial limits of its position players, and both Miller and Robinson subsequently scored against the Red Hawks.

“It’s the responsibilities of defenders to

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CORNERED Syracuse leads the ACC in corner kicks with 29 more than second-place North Carolina. Here’s a look at the ACC’s top-five teams at earning corner kicks.

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DINO BABERS comes to Syracuse after serving as head coach at Bowling Green the past two seasons. Before that, he was Eastern Illinois’ head coach for two years, as well.

Babers brings over 30 years of coaching experience to SU. logan reidsma photo editor

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Dixon for Heisman Riley Dixon may not be able to win the Heisman Trophy, but he was named first-team AllAtlantic Coast Conference.

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SPORTS

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Proper sendoff

Alexis Peterson scored 15 points to supplement Taylor Ford’s 21 points against Coppin State in a 88-56 win. SU is now 6-2.

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Syracuse is trying to get in one last good performance against 19-0 Boston College before it takes its Winter Break.

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women’s basketball

SU uses depth to run by CSU Syracuse bench scores 50 points in 32-point win to improve to 6-2

By Jon Mettus asst. web editor

DINO BABERS is Syracuse’s 30th head coach in program history. He said his offense will not huddle in his introductory press conference on Monday and spoke about restoring an excitement to the Carrier Dome that SU has lacked in recent seasons. logan reidsma photo editor

‘destination job’ How Dino Babers landed his 1st head coaching job at a Power 5 school

By Sam Blum sports editor

D

ino Babers sat in a convention of over 4,000 football coaches. At the time he was an assistant at Baylor, a wide receivers coach looking for an opportunity to be a coordinator, to call plays.

Babers had gotten offers at other schools, but nothing good, nothing that would let him bring another

assistant with him. Unless he found the right opportunity, the then-25year assistant coach would continue to be just that.

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Dino Babers’ head coaching gig at Syracuse is his 17th different coaching position since breaking into coaching at Hawaii in 1984

He confided his concerns in Homer Smith, a former coach who had cancer at the time. Smith told him to step back from his misery and look in the room he was in. Half the people in there were without jobs. The other half were looking to hire. “’Dino, that’s a bunch of garbage,’” Babers remembers Smith, who died less than a year later, telling him. “‘You need to get off your butt and get it done.’”

In 2011, Babers left his job as a Baylor assistant. But he got it done, getting hired at Eastern Illinois en route to major success at the FBS level. After two years, he moved to Bowling Green, where he just led his team to a Mid-American Conference championship on Friday. Four years as a head coach, three conference championships.

And by morning the morning of Dec. 5 — he went to sleep at 3:30

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men’s soccer

Set pieces fuel Syracuse offense entering Final 4

By Connor Grossman asst. sports editor

As Liam Callahan unleashed a corner kick in the 78th minute of Syracuse’s Elite Eight game against Boston College, it immediately drifted away from its target.

Callahan typically aims his kick

toward the front post of the goal or to the head of 6-foot-2 cherry picker Miles Robinson. Instead he did neither. His ball sailed toward the far post, where Ben Polk bounced off his defender on the goal line and flicked the ball off his forehead and into the net on a bounce.

Callahan’s service deviated from

Syracuse’s usual plan, but the end result of the play, and continuation of the team’s month-long winning streak, certainly didn’t.

“When you’ve got service as good as ours it’s just about direction,” Polk said. “Just get your body right, keep your eye on the ball and put your eyebrows through it.”

The goal was the fifth set piece conversion for the Orange since postseason play began, and its third in the last two games. No. 6 seed Syracuse (16-5-3, 3-4-1 Atlantic Coast) will continue pressing its diverse, all-out attack on set pieces in its third matchup of the season see set

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The Syracuse players huddled in a circle around head coach Quentin Hillsman. The public address announcer boomed the names of SU’s starters through the Carrier Dome speakers, but none of them budged.

No pregame rituals. No flashy handshakes. Just a few final words from the head coach.

“We don’t come out for starting lineups anymore because we got seven starters,” Hillsman said.

“Until they start announcing seven people we’re not coming out.”

We don’t come out for starting lineups anymore because we got seven starters. Until they start announcing seven people we’re not coming out.

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On Wednesday night against Coppin State, the Orange was more than just seven deep. Taylor Ford, the fourth substitution for SU and its ninth player on the court, scored a career-high and game-high 21 points. Maggie Morrison, the eighth, added nine points and the ninth, freshman Julia Chandler, tallied 11.

Syracuse’s bench players combined for 50 points and led the Orange (6-2) to an 88-56 win over the Eagles (2-6).

“This is the first game where I really just trusted our bench and just played them,” Hillsman said, “and it worked great.”

Less than 30 seconds after coming into the game, Ford lined up on the right wing and sunk a 3.

She grabbed an offensive see coppin

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