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The NUTmobile returned to campus this week to recruit new “Peanutters” to travel across the country promoting the Planters brand. Page 6

Experts hope the Biden administration will reverse Trump-era Title IX policies that they believe made it harder for survivors of assault to speak up. Page 3

Quincy Guerrier was Syracuse’s sixth man last year. Now, he’s having a breakout sophomore season after adjusting his shot during the offseason. Page 12

on campus

SU data breach impacts 9,800 accounts By Michael Sessa news editor

The names and Social Security numbers of about 9,800 Syracuse University students, alumni and applicants have been exposed after someone gained unauthorized access to an employee’s email account. The university has sent letters to affected students, alerting them that the university had investigated a data security breach involving some of their personal information. The unauthorized party accessed the employee’s email account between Sept. 24. and 28. Upon learning of the breach, SU

secured the account and launched an investigation that determined in early January that emails or attachments in the account contained names and Social Security numbers, a letter sent to affected students reads. The investigation, which was conducted with the help of a computer forensics firm, was unable to determine whether the unauthorized party ever viewed the personal information in the account, according to the letter, which was signed by Steven Bennett, senior vice president for international programs and academic operations. The university did not respond to questions about why it waited

a month to alert students that their personal information had been exposed. “To date, we are unaware of any misuse of the information maintained in the employee’s email account, nor do we have any evidence that private personal information was actually viewed,” said Sarah Scalese, senior associate vice president for communications, in a statement to The Daily Orange. SU has coordinated with Experian, a consumer credit reporting company, to offer affected students a complimentary membership to a product that helps detect misuse of information and provides identity

protection support, the letter sent to students reads. The service is free and won’t affect students’ credit scores, it said. The university did not respond to questions about how the breach specifically occurred. SU is implementing security measures, such as additional resources for cybersecurity training and additional cybersecurity and phishing training for employees with access to personal information, the letter reads. “We sincerely regret any concern this incident may have caused,” Scalese said. msessa@syr.edu @MichaelSessa3

For Pan Am families, healing after new charges

photo illustration by emily steinberger photo editor photos courtesy of kara weipz, stephanie bernstein, pan am flight 103/lockerbie air disaster archives

For families of victims, charges against perpetrator represent years of dedication

By Gabe Stern

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or over a decade, FBI agents, Department of Justice officials and Scottish authorities would meet in a room on the first floor of Bird Library to provide updates about their investigation into the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. The friends and family of those killed in the terrorist attack — which killed 270 people, including 35 Syracuse University students — gather with the officials each year to share stories, give speeches and hear updates on the search for answers. For years, the investigation moved slowly. At their meeting last October, held on Zoom, the tone shifted. More agents and officials see pan

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Fans may return to Dome Feb. 23 By Anthony Dabbundo senior staff writer

Large sports arenas, including the Carrier Dome, will be allowed to host a limited number of fans starting Feb. 23, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Wednesday. Stadiums can reopen at 10% capacity, and fans must show proof of a negative COVID-19 test within 72 hours of the event to enter, Cuomo said at a press conference. Fans must wear masks, participate in temperature checks and sit in mandatory assigned seating. The Carrier Dome has a basketball capacity of 34,616 seats, meaning the stadium could hold about 3,500 fans for upcoming basketball games. Teams must have their safety protocols and regulations approved by the state prior to reopening to fans, Cuomo said. “We’ve got a great plan, and we could execute that plan on relatively short notice,” SU Director of Athletics John Wildhack said Feb. 2. The Dome will first open to a small group of students and will later host the broader community depending on the area’s public health situation, said Sarah Scalese, senior associate vice president for communications, in a statement Wednesday. “At the heart of our reopening plan is safeguarding the health, well-being and safety of the campus and surrounding communities,” Scalese said. “We appreciate the guidance we have received from New York State Department of Health and the Onondaga County Health Department and look forward to eventually welcoming spectators into the stadium for athletic competitions.” SU has also been in contact with the Buffalo Bills, who hosted 6,700 fans in January for multiple playoff games and other events with spectators. Syracuse men’s basketball has one home game scheduled after Feb. 23, a March 1 matchup with North Carolina. Syracuse women’s basketball will host Boston College on Feb. 25 and North Carolina State on Feb. 28. Syracuse men’s lacrosse’s first home game with fans could be Feb. 27 against Virginia. amdabbun@syr.edu @AnthonyDabbundo

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Experts hope to reverse Trump-era Title IX rules

New York vaccine rollout explained By Benjamin Schiller contributing writer

Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Sunday that New Yorkers with underlying medical conditions can begin receiving coronavirus vaccines as early as Monday. The state began its phased rollout of the vaccine in January. As of Wednesday, 9.4% of the state population had received the first dose of the vaccine, and 3.2% had received the second dose. As more of the New York population becomes eligible for the vaccine, here’s what the state’s vaccine distribution will look like:

Who has already received the vaccine?

SU’s Take Back the Night program raises awareness about sexual assault and relaionship violence on campus. Experts and other officials are hoping that the Biden administration will reverse Trump-era Title IX policies. corey henry senior staff photographer By Maggie Hicks asst. news editor

To Tiffany Brec, many Title IX regulations seem disguised to make the system for reporting sexual and domestic violence appear accessible. In reality, they do the complete opposite. Last May, then-Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos finalized several changes to Title IX, a law passed in 1972 that prohibits sex discrimination in schools that receive federal funding. The changes narrowed the definition of sexual harassment, expanded the ability for accused

students to cross-examine their accusers and required schools to dismiss complaints of sexual misconduct that occur beyond campuscontrolled buildings or during educational activities. “The system is already intense and confusing, and that ends up becoming a barrier for most folks to access it, and in particular, students,” said Brec, who is the campus project coordinator for Vera House, a Syracuse-based organization that works to end domestic and sexual violence. “When you add in these changes to Title IX, it just compounds the mentality that students may have around accessing

a system.” The Department of Education cited the changes as a way to offer survivors of sexual harassment and violence more protection. But Title IX experts said the regulations make reporting misconduct more confusing and traumatic for survivors. While the election of President Joe Biden could mean the reversal of many harmful regulations, experts said it is unclear how long those changes would take and how they might affect college campuses. Sheila Johnson-Willis, chief equal opportunity and Title IX officer at Syracuse University, said changes to the cross-examination

process have had the most significant impact on college campuses. The regulation differs significantly from the model used in courts, where cross-examinations are typically executed by an impartial third party, such as the chair of a hearing or an investigator, said W. Scott Lewis, co-founder of the Association for Title IX Administrators and a managing partner at TNG, a risk management law firm for schools and universities. The rules put in place under DeVos at the Department of Education put students in a position where they can be cross-examined by the see title

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Executive order protects LGBTQ employees By Joey Pagano staff writer

Hours after his inauguration, President Joe Biden issued an executive order expanding federal nondiscrimination standards for LGBTQ people that could further protect workers at Syracuse University. The order affirms that people of LGBTQ identities are protected from employment discrimination based on Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The order builds a 2020 Supreme Court decision, instructing all federal agencies to interpret sex discrimination policies to also cover discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression. “(Biden’s executive order) brings our country one step closer to a place where all of us, including LGBTQ people, can live with dignity and respect,” said Angela Dallara, vice president of external communications at Freedom for All Americans, a bipartisan organization that advocates for LGBTQ nondiscrimination protections. SU, which receives federal

funding for some of its research programs, has not announced if it has plans to update any policies in response to the order. The university already has a policy that includes harassment or discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender expression and identity. The university has also implemented other policies related to LGBTQ people in recent years, said PJ DiPietro, director of graduate studies in SU’s department of women’s and gender studies. Seeing SU develop its policies has been encouraging, they said. As a university senator, DiPietro has seen the growth of initiatives like the Transgender Rights Toolkit, which focuses on human resources work such as hiring and retaining faculty and offering trans-inclusive health care benefits. Though the toolkit is not officially integrated into the practices of the Office of Human Resources, it is a step in the right direction, DiPietro said. “When I arrived at the university in 2015, there was no mention of

transgender inclusion or transgender health care benefits during the orientation that all faculty receive,” they said. “The university will become more inclusive by adopting this and other practices.” Universities will have little choice but to adopt the new precedent, said Shannon Minter, legal director at the National Center for Lesbian Rights. . The Biden administration has issued several executive orders reinstate or reimagine policies reversed during President Donald Trump’s administration, such as protecting transgender service members and recruits. With Democratic control in the U.S. House of Represenatitives, the Senate and the White House, now is the time to guarantee protections for discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression, Minter said. The fact that executive orders can be reversed is a reason for caution, he said. The Supreme Court’s ruling that civil rights laws protect LGBTQ people will make it difficult for future

administrations to turn back the clock, though. “That precedent creates a lot of security and clarity,” Minter said. “That said, the most security would come from enacting federal legislation that expressly adds these protections to the text of anti-discrimination laws.” DiPietro said it’s also up to individual institutions, like SU, to be more inclusive of people of LGBTQ identities, even if doing so isn’t enshrined in law. Programs such as Women’s and Gender Studies and LGBT Studies deserve more attention and funding from institutions, they said. On a campus of about 22,000 students, there is just one course entirely focused on transgender studies, DiPietro said. “The university would greatly benefit from expanding the resources available to the academic units that tirelessly, and often with few resources, create scholarship that serves the trans populations,” DiPietro said. gfpagano@syr.edu

New York state is currently vaccinating residents who are eligible in its first and second vaccine rollout phases. Health care workers, first responders, citizens who are 65 years old or older, some educators, transit workers and homeless people are all currently eligible to be vaccinated. Central New York health offices have vaccinated more than 144,045 people, with 124,154 residents receiving their first dose of the vaccine in recent weeks. The region has used 86% of its current inventory of doses as of Wednesday evening. After Feb. 15, residents with cancer, diabetes, pulmonary diseases, intellectual and developmental disabilities, heart conditions, obesity or who are pregnant will be eligible to receive the vaccine as well.

How do you get the vaccine?

New York residents first have to check an online portal to confirm that they are eligible to receive a vaccine. After that, they can sign up online. Cuomo has said that residents should be prepared to make appointments for up to three months from the day they sign up. Individuals with an approved doctor’s note, pay stub or an official employer document, can receive their shot at mass vaccination sites. Syracuse residents can go to the OnCenter convention center, New York State Fairgrounds or a local pharmacy, such as Kinney Drugs, to receive their vaccine. After receiving the first dose of the vaccine, residents will be able to book an appointment for the second dose while at their vaccination site.

When will Syracuse University students and staff be eligible for the vaccine?

It’s too early to determine when university students will be able to get their shot, but some may be eligible soon as different occupations enter the essential workers pool. SU faculty and staff teaching

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Faculty raise concerns about SU’s COVID-19 response By Kailey Norusis asst. digital editor

Syracuse University professors expressed concerns about the university’s COVID-19 response at a virtual University Senate open forum Wednesday. Some professors worry that they will have to commit to choosing modes of instruction for the fall 2021 semester before knowing what the pandemic will look like then. “I am already thinking about the fall semester,” said mathematics professor Steven Diaz. “It is very unclear what the COVID situafrom page 1

pan am attended than usual. “Things are going well,” one told Kara Weipz, president of Victims of Pan Am Flight 103 Inc. After the meeting, she wrote some comments about the potential developments on a notepad and stored it away. Weipz, whose brother Rick Monetti was one of the SU students killed in the attack, received a call from the FBI two months later: The Department of Justice would bring charges against Abu Agela Masud Kheir AlMarimi, the man believed to have engineered the bomb that set off the deadliest terrorist attack on U.S. citizens before 9/11. The DOJ announced the charges on Dec. 21, the 32nd anniversary of the attack. Weipz, then in New Jersey, packed her things, found the statement she wrote back in October and drove from to Washington. “I think I speak for a majority of family members when I say that we are justified, vindicated,” Weipz said two days later, standing next to then-Attorney General William Barr as he announced the charges. “Our patience and persistence proved fruitful with this decision today.” For families who have stayed involved in the decades-long investigation, the new charges mark one more way that the tragedy and its aftermath continue to shape SU and the agencies involved in investigating the terrorist attack. Through those institutions, many friends and family members of the victims have found purpose. One learned to talk openly about her friend through discussions with Remembrance Scholars who represent each victim. Another helped push for aviation security in honor of her husband. Another returned to SU following a broadcast news job in Albany, finding it easier to grapple with her loss away from quick news cycles and tight deadlines and closer to campus where she could find support.

I think I speak for a majority of family members when I say that we are justified, vindicated Kara Weipz president of vpaf

“They kept it alive,” said Dick Marquise, who led the FBI investigation into the bombing from 1988 to 1992, and stayed involved until 2002. “That’s extremely important, because if you don’t keep some of these cold cases alive, I don’t think the FBI would have said ‘let’s close this since the families are no longer calling,’ but there’s no doubt that they acted as a watchdog.” In February 1989, family members established Victims of Pan Am Flight 103 Inc. In March, the group testified in front of the Senate. In April, they held a demonstration outside the White House and met with thenPresident George H.W. Bush. New legislation took off quickly. Bush created a Commission on Aviation Security and Terrorism, which provided 60 recommendations later implemented in the Aviation Security Improvement Act of 1990. President Bill Clinton signed a bill imposing harsh economic sanctions on the Libyan government,

tion will be by then.” Diaz asked administrators at the forum how they will respond if professors teaching in person opt to switch to remote instruction for the fall semester if the COVID-19 vaccine does not protect them from new variants. New York state has confirmed cases of the COVID-19 variants, some of which are more contagious but not more fatal, and there isn’t evidence that the vaccine won’t protect against new variants. John Liu, interim vice chancellor and provost, said the university will work with professors to adjust modes of instructions dependwhich accepted responsibility for the attack in 2003. Meanwhile, SU began organizing its Remembrance and Lockerbie programs. The university established a collection of archives on the sixth floor of Bird Library and the Place of Remembrance, in front of the Hall of Languages, in 1990. The programs on SU’s campus endured, but the attack faded from the international spotlight. At their yearly meeting, in phone calls and in trips to Washington, family members continued to push FBI agents for updates. Many families picketed when a State Department official took a job at a Libyan-based firm, citing a conflict of interest due to highly sensitive information he had. The firm later dropped him. In 2001, family members watched with FBI officials as Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, of Libya, was convicted of orchestrating the bombing. Megrahi’s family appealed the conviction and was denied last month. “I grew up in the 60s, so I know that if you want to get things done, you got to make noise,” said Stephanie Bernstein, a board member of VPAF Inc., whose husband, Michael Bernstein, was coming back from a DOJ assignment on Pan Am 103. “You got to be consistent. You got to be a pain in the rear. And we got good at it.” The case became personal for some of the FBI officials who worked on it. After the VPAF board meeting each year, many officials attend SU’s rose laying ceremony. Marquise still receives a yearly invite to the memorial at Arlington National Cemetery. Barr and former FBI director Robert Mueller have both underscored the personal impact the investigation had on them. Some FBI agents know the families personally. Bob Monetti, Weipz’s father and the former VPAF president, remembers an agent that he “pestered the hell out of” about the investigation — and soon grew close with. “We’re following all the leads,” the agent would tell him. “Yeah, Michael, you read the friggin’ newspaper. ‘What the hell are you doing?’” Monetti would tease. “I said, ‘Well, when you get to Libya, send me a postcard,’” Monetti recalled. “And don’t you know, I got a postcard.” Bob Monetti remembers the look on his son Rick’s face as the top of the Carrier Dome became visible from Interstate 81 as they were arriving to tour SU. Rick wanted to be a sportswriter. He coached Kara’s swim team and was her “biggest supporter.” Monetti talks about him each year to the Remembrance Scholar paired with his late son. “It’s wonderful and terrifying all at the same time,” he said of the program. Corri Zoli, director of research in international security at SU’s Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism, said she didn’t talk about the loss of her freshman year roommate, Miriam Wolfe, before she became involved in the Remembrance program. Now she shares her story every year. “It’s so interesting, the idea of how memories live on and how you honor people who you’ve lost,” Zoli said. “There’s lots of talk at the beginning of tragedies and lots of effort made, but to hold this effort in this consistent, productive, forward-looking fashion, for 30-plus years, it’s amazing. It’s an amazing example of what can be done with tragedy.” gkstern@syr.edu @gabestern326

ing on the circumstances of the pandemic. “We make these decisions with the context of an evolving, changing situation,” Liu said. Some professors also took issue with SU’s decision to implement a hiring freeze during the pandemic. Robert Van Gulick, professor of philosophy, said the freeze left holes in some academic programs. Some deans have had the opportunity to make requests for exceptions, but only a few have been approved, Van Gulick said. Chancellor Kent Syverud said he hopes to lift the hiring freeze by summer. The university would typically have about

200 open staff positions at this point in the year. However, there are only 71 positions currently open due to the “stringent process” for approving new hires, Syverud said. Professors also expressed concerns about their increased workload during the pandemic, some speaking about disparities in the amount of time some professors are expected to spend teaching and researching compared to others. “We’re staying afloat economically as an institution, but who are we doing it on the backs of?” asked Coran Klaver, an associate professor of English. kmnorusi@syr.edu

GLENN JOHNSON (LEFT), MICHAEL CHERTOFF AND KARA WEIPZ remember the Pan Am 103 victims. courtesy of kara weipz

RICK MONETTI (LEFT),who was killed in the attack, with his sister Kara Weipz Weipz was present when the new charges were announced. courtesy of kara weipz

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After breach, SU’s silence is glaring Biden cools the political boiling point

Americans should expect nothing but positive progress for these next four years. daily orange file photo By Nathan Fenningdorf columnist

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he names and Social Security numbers of nearly 10,000 Syracuse University students, alumni and applicants have been compromised. But SU still hasn’t published any campuswide communication acknowledging that it even happened. It took about a month for the university to inform people that their accounts had been affected by the breach, which occurred after an unauthorized party gained access to an employee’s email. SU never sent an email to the student body or published an SU News release to proactively notify the entire campus of this security threat. We’re disappointed, but we’re not surprised. This isn’t the first time SU has failed to honestly and transparently communicate with concerned members of its community. After racist graffiti targeting Black and Asian people was found in Day Hall in November 2019, SU failed to inform the student body for several days. A university official went as far as to tell Day Hall residents not to share details of the incident. SU’s delayed communication sparked the formation of #NotAgainSU, a movement led by Black students that twice occupied university buildings to demand accountability and transparency from SU. Instead of prioritizing its stakeholders’ safety, SU administrators did

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what they always do: kept their mouths shut and hoped no one found out. The entire SU community was not impacted by the breach, but that’s not a sufficient reason for keeping the whole campus in the dark. When you compare the nearly 10,000 people affected to the 14,000 undergraduate students who attended SU in the fall, it’s obvious that the security threat was extensive enough to necessitate transparent and immediate communication from the university. It’s standard practice for private companies to inform users and customers of security breaches. Equifax did in 2017. eBay did in 2014. Yahoo did in 2017. SU, a private university, has mailed letters only to those directly impacted, neglecting to inform the broader campus community of possible exposure or provide peace of mind that our accounts remain secure. People need to immediately know if their accounts are breached so they can take action against it, especially if SU hasn’t rectified the issue any more than providing free, short-term memberships with a consumer credit reporting agency. In 2021, SU should have used a faster, more efficient method than snail mail for notifying those affected by data breaches. It’s unacceptable that an immediate press release wasn’t SU’s first reaction to a potentially dangerous security threat. Instead, they sent out a paper letter that some people thought was fake.

The time has long passed for SU to publicly detail actions it’s taking on a breach of such personal information. Now we are left to call on the university to do what it can. Even if it’s a month after the fact. The university needs to implement new policies, ones that do more than just provide temporary identity protection support and actually address the long-term repercussions of this breach. The vague communication — and in this case, the lack of communication — from the university needs to change. When nearly 10,000 Social Security numbers are on the line, we need to hear from university leaders immediately instead of waiting for a letter in the mail. As students who may have had our data breached, we are not asking. We are demanding. SU’s failure to transparently communicate about this security threat is embarrassing. It’s time for a university that has one of the top public communications schools in the nation to do a better job of communicating.

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resident Joe Biden’s administration will distance itself from many of the controversial policies of former President Donald Trump’s administration. Nonetheless, the country should still expect the Biden administration to attempt to unite the country despite the intense polarization following the Trump era. The new administration’s decisions will impact college students across the United States. From talks of delaying or canceling student loan payments to issuing national COVID-19 guidelines for schools and colleges, Biden is making moves that his predecessor refused to. These policies will assist the 70% of college students who graduate with significant student loans and the college campuses across the country — including Syracuse University — that struggled to contain COVID-19 in the fall. Biden’s proposals were created to combat these issues and will positively affect tens of millions of people. In Biden’s first three days in office, he signed a record 30 executive orders and actions. These orders were focused on issues such as COVID-19, climate change and immigration, indicating that the administration would prioritize them moving forward. The American people should expect a greater effort to curb the problems of tomorrow, whether that’s natural disasters as a result of climate change, the next pandemic or the growing threat of hostile cyber attacks on our country. Biden has stated that his No. 1 priority is beating the COVID-19 crisis and reopening the economy.

He laid out The Biden Plan for an Effective Re-Opening that Jumpstarts the Economy, which is an eight-step plan to ensure a safe reopening that will help foster an economy that benefits all Americans. The president also created an ambitious goal of vaccinating 100 million people in his first 100 days in office — that equates to 30% of the U.S. population, a number that would drastically curb the raging virus. In terms of leadership tactics, Biden has already taken a much different approach from that of Trump. Biden ran on the premise of uniting the country and lowering the temperature of political tensions before they reach a boiling point. Looking at the two leaders’ reactions to the result of the 2020 presidential election gives a good insight into their leadership tactics. “It’s time to put away the harsh rhetoric, lower the temperature, see each other again,” Biden said during his election victory speech. “To make progress, we have to stop treating our opponents as enemies.” Looking forward, Americans should expect the reckless rhetoric of Trump to fade and the hopeful, uniting rhetoric of Reagan, Clinton and Obama to return under Biden. The Biden administration plans to make progress on many issues currently plaguing our country, including COVID-19, climate change and immigration. Americans should expect significant progress to come their way within the next four years. Nathan Fenningdorf is a sophomore political science major. His column appears biweekly. He can be reached at nlfennin@syr.edu.

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Clothing fundraises for diaper bank By Yasmin Nayrouz contributing writer

Michela Hugo learned similar lessons early on in parenthood that Taylor and Matt Sourwine encountered while raising their now 1-yearold son. As the three prioritized their newborns’ wellbeing, the cost of diapers put into perspective the stress that low-income parents may face every day.

ALLY TOOLAN (LEFT), GRACE NOICE AND TYLER TOWNE are visiting SU this week in the NUTmobile to “spread smiles in the salty streets,” Noice said. abby presson asst. copy editor

There’s a need for this in the community, and to think that some parents are having to make decisions between putting food on the table or buying diapers Matt Sourwine co-owner syracuse clothing co.

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ena Baehm waited outside for the Planters’ NUTmobile to arrive at her retirement home in Ooltewah, Tennessee last summer. Ally “Almond Ally” Toolan, a Syracuse University alumna, remembered that Baehm lit up with excitement when she saw the Wisconsin license plate on the NUTmobile. “Oh my gosh, I’m from Minnesota, we’re neighbors,” Toolan recalled Baehm saying to her. Toolan told Baehm to wait for a second while she grabbed her fellow “Peanutter,” Owen “PistachOwen” Luterbach, another Minnesota native. Luterbach and Baehm spoke outside for over an hour about food and the local dialect, Baehm said. For Toolan, meeting people like Baehm is one of her favorite parts of her job. The three Planters’ NUTmobiles normally journey around the United States to attend large events like state fairs and festivals to connect with customers. In February 2020, a NUTMobile came to SU for Peanutter recruitment events. Now, a year later, the Peanutters are back in Syracuse to “spread smiles in the salty streets,” said Grace “Go Nuts Grace” Noice, one of Toolan’s coworkers. The crew will also visit virtual classes at SU and give an introduction to the job. The Peanutters are holding a virtual information session Thursday at 5 p.m., too, which can be found on Handshake. This year, the job has required more planning from the Peanutters than years before due to the pandemic, Toolan said. There are fewer large events for the crew to attend, so Peanutters are encouraged to connect with locals in towns they pass through and with organizations on their own to schedule smaller, more personal events. Danny Higgins, an alumnus of SU, drove around the country as a Peanutter from June 2019 to March 2020. About eleven months ago, after he and his team traveled

Amid the pandemic, Planters’ “Peanutters” spread miles of smiles across U.S. to SU, they arrived in Hilton Head, South Carolina. It turned out to be their final stop. “I remember being in Hilton Head and the weeks leading up we had heard of some (COVID-19) cases around the world,” Higgins said. “But it didn’t really seem real until Hilton Head, when our first event had to be canceled.” Initially, Higgins assumed only a week’s worth of events would be canceled. He thought the break aligned perfectly for the group to relax in a beach town with a crew that drove a Wienermobile, the Oscar Mayer version of the vehicle, he said. Instead, the cases in the U.S. rose, and the Kraft Heinz Company informed the teams that they would quarantine in their current cities and then drive back home. Before Higgins said farewell to the 26-foot-long peanut mobile and returned to Massachusetts, he bought sanitary supplies and cleaned “Baby Nut,” he said. Now back on campus this week, the NUTmobile parked in front of Eggers Hall on Tuesday afternoon, where students passing by craned their necks at the 415-peanut-long vehicle. Toolan took “shellfies” with Otto and brought her two coworkers — Noice and Tyler “Ty The Nut Drivin’ Guy” Towne — to Varsity Pizza, Syracuse’s “rite of passage,” Toolan said. Toolan first learned about the Planters’ NUTmobile job through texts from another Peanutter, Katie Dills, who also graduated from SU with Higgins.

“I sat down and talked to both of them and (they) walked through like the good, the bad, and the ugly of the job,” Toolan said. “I was like, alright, this is the only job I want. It actually ended up being the only job I applied to.” Toolan received a call from Kraft Heinz while she was on a Zoom call with her advertising capstone group last spring. When she picked up, Toolan initially thought she was rejected. But, when the Kraft Heinz representative announced that they were offering the job, she accepted it on the spot. A month after she officially started traveling with the NUTmobile, Toolan received a Facebook message from Tracey Rae Pollard in Lexington, Kentucky, who asked about joining a drive-by parade for a friend named Kenny who was terminally ill with cancer. The NUTmobile arrived toward the end of the parade, and Toolan said she and the crew were blown away by the 50 or so vehicles in front of them. When they reached Kenny, the Peanutters gifted him a “swag bag” and Planters’ mixed nuts, his favorite snack. Toolan remembered that Kenny smiled so much when he saw the NUTmobile, and Rae Pollard told Toolan afterward by text that they had made a Planters’ fan out of him for life. “That was really incredible,” Toolan said. “A lot of what we do is just like finding opportunities and saying yes where we can.” In Syracuse, like everywhere they travel in the NUTmobile, the Peanutters are dressed in Planters apparel. The team is currently working on getting Planters masks to complete their outfit, Toolan said. The uniform and NUTmobile comes with a lot of attention. Anywhere the Peanutters travel — to a supermarket, a hotel or a drive-in movie theater — they are on duty. So, it’s important to be able to turn on the “Disney magic” at all times, Toolan said. “When you are going down the road and people honk and wave at you or their mouth just hits the floor when they see the nut,” Noice said. “Just seeing their joy gives me joy.” Assistant culture editor Christopher Scarglato contributed reporting to this story. louis@dailyorange.com

“I had a baby at the time, so I was really tuned in about moms and those struggling,” said Hugo, the founder and director of CNY Diaper Bank. Since becoming parents in 2019, the Sourwines, who are the owners of Syracuse Clothing Co., had considered partnering with the CNY Diaper Bank. A year later, in November 2020, CNY Diaper Bank reached out to begin that partnership. To help the bank’s efforts, Matt and Taylor created a clothing line fundraiser where they will donate most of the proceeds from specialty items to the CNY Diaper Bank. Some proceeds from the store’s other products will be donated as well. The fundraiser began in January and will run throughout February. The CNY Diaper Bank distributes an average of 185,000 diapers each month, and distribution doubled after the pandemic started in March. “There’s a need for this in the community, and to think that some parents are having to make decisions between putting food on the table or buying diapers,” Matt said. Hugo hopes the partnership will increase awareness about the need for more access to diapers in Syracuse. The bank works with multiple partner organizations in the community, whose volunteers hand out the diapers to parents in need. Diapers have more than just a financial cost. Other problems can arise when a baby is in a dirty diaper for a long time, with it making them prone to infection and diaper rashes, cry more, and cause increased stress for the parents, Hugo said. “The more stressed you are, the less effective you can be as a see fundraiser page 9

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MARIA RAAD (LEFT), ROBBY SHAFFER, SOPHIE PENN AND CHARLIE HANE decided last October they would take the spring semester off to launch their film production company. courtesy of sophie penn

Voyage to Austin 4 SU students are taking the semester off to launch a film production company in Texas

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yracuse University junior Sophie Penn and her three classmates are often asked why they didn’t go to a film hub like Los Angeles or New York City to create their own film company during their remote semester. Robby Shaffer, a junior, defends the group’s choice to work out of Austin, Texas — it gave them the opportunity to fully commit themselves to Voyager, their film production company. “Everyone’s like film, movies, LA, New York,” said Shaffer, co-founder of Voyager. “Why aren’t you going there? Isn’t that where it’s happening? Voyager focuses on making video advertisements and marketing pieces for local businesses. The company’s mission is to give its clients products that no one else in the market is going to have, setting them apart from other businesses, Shaffer said. The film company is fully self-funded, and all of its inventory is equipment that the four students in SU’s College of Visual and Performing Arts have acquired over the years. Altogether, they’ve been able to build up a production inventory upwards of over $10,000, giving them the professional means to put out the level of content produced by their competitors. Voyager has both a business side and a production side of the company. On the business side, each member of the team tackles a separate role. Penn is the operations manager, and SU junior Maria Raad does the branding. Shaffer is in charge of branding and social media. SU junior Charlie Hane is responsible for the finances. Each collaborates on all aspects of the production. Having backgrounds as filmmakers helps the group “bring more disruptive and cutting-edge ideas” to their work, Shaffer said. He and the rest of the team go into each project with the mindset of creating work that is of the same caliber as Super Bowl commercials. “We really don’t want to be a commercial agency, that’s not what we are,”

Hane said. “We’re filmmakers.” Penn, Hane, Shaffer and Raad initially considered taking a leave of absence during the summer but came back to campus last semester. They would have Zoom meetings three times a week, and they officially decided around October to take the spring semester off. One of the main reasons behind their decision was that productions at VPA kept getting shut down due to the pandemic, Penn said. The group officially moved to Austin, Texas on Jan. 10 to launch Voyager. They knew that, if they went to New York City or LA, they would all have to get day jobs just to pay rent. For them, Austin is where they saw the most opportunity. “Now that we’re here I think that we made the right decision,” Raad said. “This city has a big sense of community which you don’t have in New York or LA which I think is really helpful for us to grow our network. Once you meet one person they will make sure you meet everyone they know. They want you to succeed.” Raad took a class last semester in the Newhouse School of Public Communications, where she had to make an artificial production company. She went to Penn before class and asked ‘What’s a good name?’ to which Penn responded ‘Voyager?’ Later on, when thinking about what to call their company, Penn and Raad thought it was fitting to stick with that name. For Raad, Voyager represents “changing your perspective,” a mindset that she takes into all of her work. Penn, Hane, Shaffer and Raan all plan on returning to campus in the fall to pursue their degrees in filmmaking. However, they hope that they can bring Voyager back to Syracuse and “show our families that this is a thing to be reckoned with,” Hane said. “Everyone says that film people don’t make money and that they don’t care,” Raad said. “I want to show people that you can be successful and do what you love at the same time.” jordangreene@dailyorange.com

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title ix person who caused them harm, an obstacle that may deter people from even reporting their abuse at all, Brec said. DeVos’ regulations also place limitations on how sexual harassment is defined, Brec said. Under the changes, sexual harassment only includes instances that are “severe, pervasive and objectively offensive.” “When you look at that definition, it requires a person to go through a situation and experience the most extremes before being able to file a claim under Title IX for sexual harassment,” Brec said. By constricting the cases to on-campus property, Lewis said the regulations make it harder for students to learn about which procedures and laws apply for off-campus cases.

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The new regulations haven’t been in place long enough to quantify how many students have been affected by them, Johnson-Willis said. And Lewis said the pandemic has also limited the sample size of cases that occur on campus. But colleges and universities, as well as students, have still been able to work with and around the system to make the process easier, Lewis said. “Campuses have had time to work with organizations like (the Association for Title IX Administrators) on finding ways to work within the regulations that minimize retraumatizing anyone — respondent or complainant — and making it a fair process by shoring up the procedures and maintaining them

within the regulations,” Lewis said. At SU, students are also subject to state legislation, such as the ”Enough is Enough” law, which Gov. Andrew Cuomo passed in 2015. The law provides uniform guidelines for handling sexual assault cases in New York state, such as providing a definition for affirmative consent. Brec said legislation like “Enough is Enough” can also make the processes easier to navigate for students. “While the students maybe can’t navigate Title IX with these new changes, they do still have the option to navigate the general student conduct process,” Brec said. “So, there is still a system that is accessible to them for holding someone accountable.” Brec said she is optimistic about how Biden’s administration could change Title IX regulations for college students. Biden helped create the 2014 “It’s On Us” campaign, where he visited several college campuses, including SU, to speak about preventing sexual assault and domestic violence at colleges. But updating and changing the regulations won’t happen overnight. While Biden’s administration will likely begin the process of passing new regulations and reinstating old ones that the Trump administration rescinded, the process takes time, Lewis said. “Once a regulation is made, it’s gone through the administrative procedures,” Lewis said. “It just can’t be reversed. This isn’t a thing where the president can sign an executive order and suddenly the law doesn’t exist.” The process for changing the regulations will likely include a notice-and-comment period where individuals can provide feedback on the changes being made, Brec said. Students must advocate for themselves and ensure that their perspectives are taken into account, she said. “Letting your representatives know that this is something that is meaningful to you and finding a way to communicate that and advocate for that is going to be extremely important,” she said. mehicks@sy.edu @maggie_hickss

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Director and writer Sam Levinson, best known for his Emmy Award-winning show “Euphoria,” has teamed up again with actor Zendaya. Levinson’s film “Malcolm & Marie” dropped on Netflix on Feb. 5, soon after Levinson released two special episodes of “Euphoria,” starring Zendaya. “Malcolm & Marie” explores the relationship of director Malcolm, played by John David Washington, and Marie, played by Zendaya, through a conversation the couple has following one of Malcolm’s movie premieres. The conversation, which is sparked by Malcolm forgetting to thank Marie in a speech at the film screening, evolves into a deeper dissection of their relationship. At times, “Malcolm & Marie” is breathtaking, but at its worst, it’s exhausting and repetitive. All in all, the film is a great showcase for its two leads and its director’s talents, and it’s a solid drama analyzing the film industry and its titular relationship. from page 6

fundraiser parent,” which can impact a child’s development, Hugo said. For the fundraiser, the Sourwines created a baby onesie and youth T-shirt as special fundraising items, which each cost $25. Taylor wanted the design to embrace Valentine’s Day, and Matt came up with the phrase “Born, Raised, and Loved in Syracuse,” which is printed on the clothing items. Matt, who designed the logo, said it allows people to represent Syracuse with their clothes. He made sure to incorporate the heart in the diaper bank’s logo in the design. CNY Diaper Bank also designed their

Zendaya and Washington are fantastic, which shouldn’t be surprising at this point their careers. The actors could make an SAT study guide feel exciting, and they certainly elevate the film. Zendaya clearly is comfortable working with Levinson, and she holds nothing back with her performance as the disgruntled, bothered Marie. She shows her displeasure with Malcolm from her first facial expression, and she continues to do so exceptionally well with her glances and responses to her partner’s explosive criticisms. Washington enters the film blazing with energy, perfectly embodying a passionate director who finally made a hit. Malcolm is an eccentric director who is reveling in his perceived glory. He convincingly lets out his frustrations with his relationship with Marie, including her decision to quit acting. “Malcolm & Marie” is at its best when Zendaya and Washington are able to work off each other. The problem with the film is that they do not actually converse with each other enough. Rather, the film consists mostly of competing monologues between the two stars. There are points where the own collection that is sold on Syracuse Clothing Co.’s website and will be available after the fundraiser ends in February. The line has additional apparel and lifestyle items with designs highlighting the nonprofit. The business gives back by donating a portion of their proceeds to a different local nonprofit every two months. And for the Sourwines, this fundraiser is about more than just raising money. “We just felt so connected to the diaper bank,” Taylor said. “We wanted to make sure that we could give as much back as we could to them so we created these different lines and different products that help them out.” ynayrouz@syr.edu

film is caught in a ping-pong match between the two artists, with only short pauses in-between to give the audience a breather. The monologues draw the attention of audience members because of the actors involved, but there are a lot of moments where the lines are redundant and cross the same boundaries over and over again. One could argue that this showcases the characters’ flawed relationship and captures how they aren’t a match for each other, but that disjointedness could have been shown in a less redundant manner. It feels like there is a missed opportunity in the script to let the two characters argue with each other in a more candid manner. Zendaya and Washington are mostly constricted to monologuing instead of fluid interactions with each other. One of the characters even addresses how the other spent too much time rambling about menial topics instead of acknowledging their flaws. While that particular monologue is engaging and thought provoking, it doesn’t make up for the rest of them.

The film is not completely boring and dull. There are very fascinating conversations about how Malcolm’s film is based on the couple’s relationship and about whether it’s healthy. “Malcolm & Marie” is well-shot and welllit, too. The use of black and white, coupled with the shadows and the camera work, is stunning, making the static home look like something out of a classic Hollywood picture. But Levinson at times uses too many medium or long shots for conversations and moments when the actors should be the sole focus through long takes and close-ups. Overall, the positives of “Malcolm & Marie” slightly outweigh its negative aspects enough to make it an enjoyable watch. The monologues are a bit much at points, making the film feel longer than it actually is, but Zendaya and Washington are fantastic actors whose presences uplift much of those moments. “Malcolm & Marie” is a worthwhile engagement for one viewing but not much else. pagunn@syr.edu

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guerrier shots against zone defenses. The Canadian offense relied on penetration, kick-outs and getting to the rim in transition, especially with a 24-second international shot clock. Guerrier’s skill set meshed perfectly. “In today’s game, he’s probably the ideal stretch four,” DeAveiro said. “Someone who can shoot the 3 and play inside if he needs to. ” The year before, Toutoux met Guerrier and also noticed that at Thetford. Guerrier and Toutoux ended up on the same team in Thetford’s end-of-season tournament that all the players participated in. Toutoux was one of the team captains, and he drafted Guerrier in the final round, telling him to not bring the ball up — just pass and go straight to the corner. But when they started living together the next year, they formed a “little-brother, bigbrother relationship,” Toutoux said. They would spend hours sitting next to each other playing NBA 2K and Call of Duty — while also heading down to the gym to work on Guerrier’s offensive game. They spent sessions before school and after dinner solely focused on shooting, using Thetford’s team practices in between to hone Guerrier’s approach in game situations. Toutoux noticed that Guerrier particularly struggled in his one-on-one game, not reacting quickly enough after dribbling for an extended amount of time to make a split-second decision to create an open shot. In team practices, head coach Ibrahim Appiah continued to make sure Guerrier maintained that “ideal stretch four” reputation over the final two seasons. He threw Guerrier bad from page 12

sherman the Rochester Daily Newspaper. After graduating from RIT, Sherman volunteered to serve in the Vietnam War. His photography helped American soldiers gain a better understanding of the layout of missions they were entering. Military commanders used his photos to gain knowledge about their surroundings. Sherman moved to Syracuse in 1969 after spending a summer photographing for the Milwaukee Journal. He taught classes at SU while studying for his graduate degree at the university. He had an assistantship on campus where he worked with equipment at their photo studio. During the Syracuse 8 protests — in which nine Black football players boycotted spring practice to demand equal treatment — Sherman photographed the football team and student protesters. He captured a picture of a pro-life march that was published in Syracuse’s “The Record,” a now-defunct magazine. “I would be around the campus and see what’s going on,” Sherman said. “New York was a good time. It was pretty special to me.” Now in his Atlanta house, the same one he and his wife of over 50 years have lived in since the early ‘70s, Sherman has moved onto his next project: finding a permanent home for his work “so that it’ll live forever.” The coronavirus pandemic prevented Sherman from covering in-person events during the past year, so he’s used the extra time to collaborate with Emory University in Atlanta to catalogue his work. Sherman also created a website that includes a variety of his work, from photos of the evolving Atlanta skyline to powerful images of poultry farming in Georgia. Randy Gue, a curator at Emory’s archives and special collections, said Sherman’s photos

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passes before shots during practice or didn’t make him shoot until he was fatigued at the end. If Guerrier said he hated a certain basketball, Appiah made sure he grabbed that one. “‘What’re you going to do when you’re at Virginia and you’re playing with a basketball that you’re not used to, and you hate it?’” Appiah would ask Guerrier. “‘Are you going to sit there and cry and ask the ref to change the basketball, or you’re going to make it work?’”

In today’s game, he’s probably the ideal stretch four. Someone who can shoot the 3 and play inside if he needs to. David DeAveiro high school head coach

Appiah did that because, when Guerrier lost his shooting rhythm, he needed to rediscover it in unusual circumstances. And in his first season at Syracuse, he didn’t have any flow. He didn’t look like he even wanted the ball on offense, Toutoux said. Repeatedly, he watched from home as Guerrier got a mismatch down low after a switch — or against an undersized defender — but continued to operate with his back to the basket. “Face him up,” he told Guerrier over and over again. “I think he was more in observation mode,” Toutoux said. After Guerrier’s first game at Syracuse, provide “a connection point” between the historical artifacts that the library displays and the visual memories Sherman documented. “One of the hard things to measure as a historian is urban change, and one of the ways we can do it is by photographing it like Ron did,” Gue said. Kevin Ames, Sherman’s friend since 1981, said Sherman’s photography of Atlanta’s evolving downtown area helped preserve some of the city’s history. People in Georgia, Ames said, haven’t been keen on maintaining old buildings — like Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium, where Aaron hit his 715th home run. The historic stadium is in the background of photos Sherman took of the 1996 Olympic ceremonies from the top of a Holiday Inn. Now, a parking lot stands in its place. When Sherman moved to Georgia in 1971 after graduating from SU, the state was transitioning into a post-civil rights era. Black people were still fighting against voter suppression despite being granted the constitutional right to vote over a century prior. Beginning with his work for United Press International, an international news agency, Sherman was there to document that fight. His goal was to take his camera and shoot just “(going) out and documenting whatever.” He photographed social activists such as Julian Bond and César Chávez — and segregationists such as George Wallace and Lester Maddox. Sherman’s career is a retroactive contrast of people, places and a boiling pot of events, Gue said. When Sherman photographed Carter, then a Georgia governor, on a freelance gig at a University of Florida football game, he saw the future president sitting alone at the front of the plane on the flight back. Sherman took the opportunity to speak with him.

where he shot 0-of-4 from the field in 13 minutes, Toutoux asked him why he didn’t shoot more. Boeheim didn’t want him to, Guerrier replied. Toutoux understood. Syracuse had Elijah Hughes, Buddy Boeheim and Joe Girard III, all players who presented better shooting options than Guerrier at the time. Boeheim limited Guerrier to attempting high-percentage shots, securing a defined yet limited role, and effectively banned him from attempting 3-pointers. His role was to rebound, subbing in when Marek Dolezaj or Bourama Sidibe entered foul trouble, but not much beyond that. In the few attempts Guerrier did have at outside shots, though, he failed to connect. His 3-point percentage dropped — and dropped, and continued to drop — until it settled at 12.5%. This season, though, that’s changed. After not attempting a 3-point shot in 14 of 32 games in 2019-20, that’s only happened once. Guerrier’s converted 30.2% of his long shots and has the 43rd-best offensive rating in the country, per KenPom. It’s been easier for him to prepare mentally for his role, Appiah said, because he knows exactly what it’ll be: 30-plus minutes and a position where he can ensure SU’s offense goes through him. The first glimpses of the new Guerrier surfaced during the season-opener against Bryant. Midway through the second half, Guerrier swung his arm near the right elbow, motioning for Girard to dish it inside to him. He backed into a Bulldogs’ guard who was two inches shorter and 20 pounds lighter. This time, he turned to face his defender, spinning his way down to the block and finishing a layup. That exact move — the face-up, the spin, the layup — was something Guerrier and Toutoux talked about a lot last season. Toutoux

noticed that Guerrier, while playing the four, attracted mismatches against guards. Guerrier worked on it with Appiah in the one workout they’ve had together since March. The gym they were at had no rim, but their ball-handling and mobility drills ensured that explosiveness could transfer over. Then, the next game against Niagara, Guerrier rolled off a screen, took a pass from Dolezaj and hit a 3-pointer. And by the time the Orange left Piscataway, New Jersey on Dec. 8 after a loss to Rutgers, Guerrier had already surpassed the three 3-pointers he made as a freshman. “If he’s going to a mid-major, he’s probably as a freshman playing more minutes,” DeAveiro said. “But because he’s at Syracuse, it takes time and the physicality of playing at that high level, they’re just not used to it. So it’s an adjustment period.” But after Toutoux finished watching the Snapchat video of Guerrier’s new shot in July, he wasn’t immediately excited about how it’d transfer over to games. It was just practice, just Guerrier and Autry, just an empty court with no ACC defender pressuring him on the dribble and closing out on the shot. It was mostly form shooting, since Guerrier was still recovering from offseason groin surgery, and he’d need to wait until the games started. Then, the season began, and the doubledoubles started coming. The 3-pointers. The disappearing extra step defenders often gave him behind the arc. The 20-point games, the 18-point-and-16-rebound ones, the repeated reminders that, maybe after all, the player Guerrier had always been was starting to emerge. “Now, I can see it,” Toutoux said, “that there’s a change.” arcrane@syr.edu | @CraneAndrew

RON SHERMAN, SU graduate, took this historic photo of Hank Aaron rounding the bases after his record-breaking 715th home run. courtesy of ronsherman.com

“I said ‘Governor, may I have a conversation with you? I think what you’re doing is really newsworthy, and I’d like to document it from the inside.’” That simple conversation on a campaign plane in Florida allowed Sherman to document Carter as he stumped for the highest office in the United States. Photography is a great deal of standing around and waiting for the “hero image” that Sherman got of Carter walking in a field, jacket draped over his shoulder, Ames said. Forty years after Aaron’s groundbreaking home run, back in 2014, Sherman received a call from a friend of his. He was at the National Baseball Hall of Fame. The famous photo he’d taken of Aaron just three years after graduating

from Syracuse hung at the museum in Cooperstown, New York. Sherman wasn’t credited. The photo’s quality was “really low.” “We worked out an agreement that, if I sent them a high resolution image, they (would) reprint it and give me credit for it,” Sherman said. It was only then, 40 years and an illustrious photography career later, that he figured out he was the only one to capture that moment. “Not one of you guys got the photo?” he remembers asking his friend. He said he hadn’t heard that anyone did. “It took me 40-some years to get credit for it … still boggles my mind that no one else got anything close.”

points. Instead, SU fell for the senior center’s up-fakes on multiple occasions, allowing Cubaj to rip past for a layup. “We told our kids to stay down,” Hillsman said postgame on Feb. 2, “And a couple times, we jumped early and left our feet, and we can’t do that.” When No. 1 Louisville shot a comfortable six-for-11 from 3-point range in the second half, SU’s only hope to rescue a tiring defense and slow rotations had to be more than two blocks. Instead of Cardoso emerging, it was Cardinals’ top freshman Hailey Van Lith who iced the game with six 3-pointers. Against Clemson, even 11 blocks wasn’t enough to mask 20 turnovers on offense. Six of the rejections came in a first half in which

the Orange gave up 52 points already. Granted, Syracuse was playing the final leg of four games in eight days and still managed a 25-point second-half comeback to force overtime. Blocks have been an integral part of SU’s success, but they can’t become a fallback plan. SU closes out the regular season with four of six games against top-six teams in the ACC. Thus far, the Orange are 1-2 in such contests. The 177-block 2016 team lost three total conference games. “We work on that,” Hillsman said Jan. 27, following SU’s tumble from the AP Top 25 to its current position. “We want to be ranked. We want to be known as, you know, one of the top teams in the country.”

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blocking erased them,” Hillsman said. It was a similar performance to Syracuse’s 88-76 win over North Carolina 12 days prior. The unranked Tar Heels were then-No. 18 SU’s first loss of the season, shooting 47% en route to a 92-68 blowout of the Orange. Up until the fourth quarter, UNC continued to race past SU’s pressure and shoot over 50% from the field. Then in the fourth, three different players combined for six blocks, while the Heels scored nine points the entire quarter. Three of their final five shots were denied as Syracuse put its stamp on another emphatic fourthquarter effort. Hillsman put it best after SU’s narrow 85-78

win over Wake Forest on Feb. 4, when Strautmane and Cardoso combined for 10 blocks. “When they decided they wanted to guard them, they just guarded them,” he said. But those “mistakes” Hillsman has alluded to in the past — along with SU’s temperamental defense — have been exposed against better competition. Despite being the tallest team in the conference, the Orange allow the most rebounds (41.1) per game. Syracuse also has the third-most turnovers of any ACC team, and its scoring defense ranks ninth out of 15 teams. When Syracuse lost the rebounding battle to Georgia Tech (11-4, 9-3) by 10, it needed more than four blocks to deter Tech center Lorela Cubaj from scoring a game-high 21

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he Snapchat video from Quincy Guerrier had ended, but Rajeev Toutoux needed to replay it. He thought he saw something different about Guerrier’s shot, something subtle that Syracuse’s sophomore forward and his former roommate at Thetford Academy didn’t have the previous season. For a second time, he watched a clip that Guerrier had filmed of his practice earlier that day. Now, Toutoux knew he saw it: the softer roll off the fingertips, the elbow that bent closer to the 90-degree angle it needed to have, the shot that, altogether, looked smooth. It was July, midway through Guerrier’s first offseason in Syracuse, and his shooting adjustments were starting to come together. Guerrier worked on that shot, and has continued to, with assistant coach Adrian Autry, using additional free throws after practice to sharpen his form and release. The pair then turned their attention to helping Guerrier create floaters, 3-pointers and his own shot off the dribble. They needed to refine Guerrier’s all-around shooting abilities, transferring what he did at Thetford and in SU practices

into game situations. Their offseason work helped Guerrier blossom into more of the player, the pure scorer, that SU recruited him to be. He’s gone from the Orange’s sixth man last year to their focal point on offense this year. From 6.9 points and 5.3 rebounds per game to 15.7 and 9.1. From an NBA Draft afterthought to potential second-round pick, if he decides to declare after the season. For those closest to Guerrier — including head coach Jim Boeheim — Guerrier has always been this type of all-around player. It just took time for everything to surface at Syracuse (11-6, 5-5 Atlantic Coast). “Even if coach is telling me to not shoot it or whatever, I just need to do what I need to do,” Guerrier said earlier this season. “If I’m open, I will take the shot. If I’m not open or whatever, I will find a way to score or to make a play for my teammates.” When Guerrier played for the Canadian Under-17 World Cup team in 2016, he fit the prototype wing head coach David DeAveiro looked for. Guerrier was selected to the final roster, a group of 13 players to compete in Zaragoza, Spain for two weeks in the summer, but he rolled his ankle and only played four games. During a pre-tournament in France, though, DeAveiro used Guerrier to enter and knock down see guerrier page 9

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SU’s blocking hides defensive blemishes By Tim Nolan staff writer

Miami’s Destiny Harden broke through Syracuse’s full-court press and surged toward the basket. Anchoring the back end of SU’s pressure was freshman center Kamilla Cardoso. Harden attempted to evade the rookie with a Euro step. The move didn’t give Harden a better angle to the rim than she had before, and she forced an off-balance layup that Cardoso smothered with two hands without having to leave her feet. The ball quickly traveled back down the floor, culminating in a Digna

Strautmane 3-pointer. At this point in SU’s 69-58 win over Miami on Dec. 10, the Orange lead became just 14-9. But it established Syracuse’s presence in the paint, and the Orange outrebounded the Hurricanes by eight. The Orange would block four more shots as well. Through 15 games, the Orange have compiled 106 blocks. Syracuse (11-4, 8-4 Atlantic Coast) ranks third in the country, with 7.1 blocks per game. The program record is 177 blocks in 38 games in 2015-16, the same year SU advanced past the second round for the first time ever and lost to Connecticut in the

national title game. Cardoso’s average of 3.1 blocks is eighth-best in the country, while both Strautmane and Emily Engstler record at least one rejection per game. SU’s historic rate of denial has catalyzed multiple pivotal comebacks — but it has also hidden critical flaws. “That’s why you pick up a post player like that in the paint,” head coach Quentin Hillsman said following SU’s 81-69 win over Notre Dame. “That can block shots, change the game. Defensively, (Cardoso) really changed the game down the stretch.” Against the Irish on Jan. 31, SU trailed by as much as 15 in the first

half. Syracuse still lacked an answer on defense. Through the first three quarters of play, ND maintained a seven-point lead while shooting over 50%. But in the fourth quarter, the blocks began to accumulate. In this game, SU recorded nine, and each belonged to Cardoso. Her six fourthquarter blocks — combined with SU’s switch from zone to man defense — deterred Notre Dame from generating a single quality shot in a 23-4 quarter. Syracuse won 81-69 in its largest win over Notre Dame in program history. “Any mistakes we made, Kamilla see blocking page 10

When Hank Aaron stepped into the batter’s box on April 8, 1974 for what would become his record-breaking 715th home run, Syracuse graduate Ron Sherman positioned himself for a photo along the third baseline. Alongside hundreds of other photographers, Sherman readied himself on the 1-0 count before Aaron drilled the ball to left-center field. The Atlanta-based freelance photographer captured the hit with his color camera. Sherman then tracked Aaron around the bases. As the Braves’ right fielder rounded second, Sherman noticed two boys — Cliff Courtenay and Britt Gaston — running up toward the new home run king. He dropped his color camera, picked up his motor drive camera and captured what would become a historic picture as memorable as the symbolic moment. But the photographer thought nothing of the second image. He thought it was a “nice photo,” but not “one of a kind,” and one that he was later surprised to learn no one else had captured. He shipped it off to his agency in New York and moved on to the next project. “I went on with my life,” Sherman said. “That’s just the way my life has been. There’s other projects in the works.” Aaron’s baseball career ended two years later, but Sherman’s photography career was just beginning. After capturing the historic photo of Aaron, Sherman’s photography expanded from the Atlanta area to nationwide. He documented former President Jimmy Carter from a peanut field in Plains, Georgia, to the steps of the White House, and he photographed the civil rights movement in its epicenter in Atlanta. Aaron died Jan. 22 at 86 years old. After his death, Sherman paid tribute to the baseball legend by tearing out old newspaper articles and saving them for his children to read. He regrets never being able to have a real conversation with the Braves’ right fielder. “I always thought he was a marvelous person for what he did,” Sherman said of Aaron’s reputation as a civil rights activist. Sherman’s 50-year career as a professional stock photographer began while he attended high school just outside Cleveland, where he photographed football games as part of freelance work for the Cleveland Press and the Cleveland Plain Dealer. There, he brought in his photos from the day at 11 p.m. for the next morning’s paper. Before school the following day, he’d send in more photos for afternoon copies of the paper. One night, he got a photo in each of the three versions of both next day’s papers, meaning he was paid $60 for the night. Half a century later, he described the moment as his “best Friday night ever.” Sherman’s passion led him to the Rochester Institute of Technology, where he majored in photography and worked full time at see sherman page 10