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SUNY-ESF has announced that it is planning to divest from fossil fuels. Syracuse University announced the same course of action in March.

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P • Getting saucy

Rod Wallenbeck created a barbecue sauce recipe as a Sadler Dining Center cook and now is bottling it for sale in local stores, including the Schine Bookstore.

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SCHINE ON

By Sara Swann asst. news editor

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od Oshins remembers how new, clean and undecorated the Schine Student Center was when it first opened on the Syracuse University campus 30 years ago.

At the time, Oshins — a Class of 1989 SU alumnus — was a member of the SU Musical Stage (SUMS). When Schine first opened in October 1985, the group was working on their production of “A Christmas Carol.”

Oshins recalled that all of the student organization offices were located downstairs and a dry night club called The Milky Way — which

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SU community members reflect on 30 years of the Schine Student Center

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was “nothing more than a giant room with tables and chairs” — existed where the Jabberwocky Café is now located.

DID YOU KNOW? The Jabberwocky Café in the Schine Student Center used to be the name of an on-campus bar located inside Kimmel Hall. However, in July 1984, “the Jab” — as it was commonly called — was shut down. The university renamed it to The Milky Way in an effort to bring more popularity to the space.

“I can’t believe it’s been 30 years,” Oshins said. “I feel like I could still be there.”

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1. The Schine Student Center opened on the Syracuse University campus 30 years ago. The average age of student centers among SU’s 16 peer institutions is 40 years old. 2. In order to build Schine, SU had to tear down Winchell Hall, the university’s first ever dormitory.

Professor sues university on disability, gender discrimination

By Annie Palmer development editor

A former Syracuse University professor is suing the university for allegedly violating the Americans with Disabilities Act and the presence of discriminatory, “Mad Men”-esque sexism in the College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Ruth Westervelt, who was a design professor in VPA, claims certain faculty in her department

were sexist toward females and discriminated against faculty with disabilities. Westervelt is now seeking up to $300,000 in damages, according to the complaint, filed last week in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York.

Westervelt, now a Santa Clara, California resident, was hired as a tenure-track, associate professor at SU in 2009. After receiving consistently negative performance reviews by the design department, she was fired in July 2013.

She argues that she was fired as a form of retaliation against a disability leave she took in 2011. Westervelt suffers from Crohn’s disease, which causes the intestines to become inflamed and in some cases, results in life-threatening internal bleeding, the complaint states.

Westervelt said she believes her performance reviews were written negatively to retaliate against her disability leave and contained deliberately sexist reviews from ten-

ured, male faculty members.

In a section titled “Sexist Men in the Department,” the lawsuit describes a group of “old men,” who are tenured professors in the communications design department that would allegedly make sexist remarks in passing and in performance evaluations.

The lawsuit lists four communications design professors as part of the “Comm Guys” see lawsuit page 6

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Olivia Liskowitz has never eaten a Jimmy John’s sandwich, but she makes them.

“My favorite thing to make is definitely the Italian Night Club,” Liskowitz said. “My boss teases me because my face lights up every time someone orders it.”

She said she enjoys making the sandwiches, but opts to eat at a campus dining hall most days.

Liskowitz, a sophomore broadcast and digital journalism and finance double major, was looking to make some money with the extra time she had in her schedule. One of her friends who worked at Jimmy John’s told her they were hiring.

Liskowitz began working at Jimmy John’s on Marshall Street in early September of this year.

She works mostly on the weekends during football and basketball games, when hours are busy since Jimmy John’s caters football games.

“While you’re taking care of the people in the store, you’ve also got to make about 200 sandwiches to send to the Dome at the end of the game,”

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OLIVIA LISKOWITZ has worked at the Jimmy John’s Marshall Street location since September. Previously, she worked at Carlo’s Bakery, from the hit TLC show “Cake Boss.” hannah wagner staff photographer

Liskowitz said. “It’s crazy, but it’s really fun and the time flies when it’s so busy.”

She said one of the hardest parts about the job is balancing her time when she is off the clock.

As double major, she has a heavy course load, but for the most part she

said balancing work and school is manageable.

Jimmy John’s is not Liskowitz’s first job. Her most recent job was at Carlo’s Bakery, the bakery featured on the TLC show “Cake Boss.”

Liskowitz said she hopes to keep this job throughout the rest of her

time at Syracuse, as long as her schedule allows it.

“Jimmy John’s is a lot more systematic,” she said. “They’ve got sandwich making down to a science, and everything is done a certain way to ensure uniformity.” kazilcos@syr.edu

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Don’t forget about our interest meeting tomorrow! 8pm Maxwell 110. Learn the process to become SA President and VP! + other positions too!

The University Senate, SU’s governing body, will hold its final meeting of the semester Wednesday at 4 p.m. in the Maxwell Auditorium.

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suny-esf

College plans to divest

By Alexa Torrens asst. news editor

SUNY-ESF announced Tuesday its intention to divest from fossil fuels, making it the first SUNY campus to set a divestment goal.

what is divestment?

Divestment in this case is the prohibition of direct investment of any part of SUNY-ESF’s endowment in companies that mainly work with fossil fuels.

The State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry aims to “fully divest from the top 200 companies that are directly involved in the extraction, processing and transportation of coal, oil and natural

“Invitation to Dance”

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(LEFT TO RIGHT) SIMI LINTON, CHRISTIAN VON TIPPELSKIRCH AND STEVE KUUSISTO, a professor of disability studies, held a discussion on Tuesday after a screening of their documentary “Invitation to Dance” in Goldstein Auditorium. The documentary celebrates 25 years of the Americans with Disabilities Act. The event also featured a dance performance from Tina Christina-Price and Rik Daniels. chase guttman asst. photo

Here is a round-up of news happening around the nation and the world:

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Chat & Dine to return after updates to program

By Katelyn Faubel asst. copy editor

The Student Association Chat & Dine Program will be reintroduced to the Syracuse University community next semester after updates are made to the program’s application process.

The program was approved in November 2014 and was introduced last semester by then-Student Life Committee Chair Aysha Seedat, who is currently president of SA’s 59th Session. The purpose of the program is to allow students the opportunity

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to invite members of the university faculty or staff to an SA-paid lunch at the Goldstein Alumni & Faculty Center. Chat & Dine was put on hold

what is sa?

The Student Association is the student government body of the university. SA is currently in its 59th session and Aysha Seedat is president.

Outside of the cabinet, there are four committees and four boards, which report to the association.

this semester in order for SA members to make changes to the progr-

am’s application process.

“It was a really, really diverse group of individuals being invited to the program, which is exactly what we wanted,” Seedat said. “ …

I’m happy to see that was something quite natural for this program — it’s not like we had to push it.”

Seedat said the program received many applications from graduate students, but since the undergraduate student activity fee funded the program, graduate students are ineligible to apply. She added that students invited faculty and staff from

all around campus to the lunches.

Seedat said that last semester, 37 applicants for Chat & Dine were accepted and participated in the program. She said “way more” than 37 students participated, though, as there were often more students who attended the lunches than were accounted for.

Not knowing the exact number of students who attended the lunches was one reason Seedat decided to stop the program for a semester.

“It’s just organizing those kinks and ensuring that nothing falls see chat

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GETTING BACK Russia announced Tuesday it’s levying sanctions against Turkey following the downing of a Russian airplane in November. One of the sanctions includes a ban on charter flights to Turkey. source: reuters

PAYING UP Puerto Rico paid a $355 million debt payment due Tuesday to creditors, but the government expressed concern over being able to make its next payment, which is due New Year’s Day. source: usa today

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College plans to build academic research center

By Stacy Fernandez staff writer

Construction on a new academic research building at SUNY-ESF

that will reside where the Abraham Lincoln statue currently stands will begin in at least one year.

The research building would primarily house research labs in forest

biology. Illick Hall, built in 1968, is currently home to the Department of Environmental and Forest Biology at the State University of New York College of Environmental

Science and Forestry.

The facilities in Illick are becoming outdated, and the academic research building will support the

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CHICAGO FIRE Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel fired the city’s police superintendent on Tuesday after national attention was brought to the department following the release of a video that showed a CPD officer shooting a black teenager 16 times. source: chicago tribune

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Dialogue, not forced diversity, can spur lasting campus change

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arginalized college students across the country have been voicing their outrage for months in student activism efforts across the country, from Missouri to Ithaca, and even in Syracuse. Brown University proved it’s listening by recently issuing a diversity proposal for its campus — all for the low price of $100 million.

After student protests against the university’s lack of action regarding institutionalized racism and injustice, Brown released “Pathways to Diversity and Inclusion.” The working document covers propositions, which include increasing the number of minority faculty members and improving financial and mentoring support for low-income students.

It is difficult to determine whether these initiatives will truly bring about change. Even though spending money, like Brown did, is the most direct and tangible solution to the problem, diversity cannot be bought.

While the administration’s motives or intentions are most likely genuine, it is important to question whether universities simply give in to demands to pacify protesters and if these policies really change the day-today lives of students.

This does not mean that the actions of student protesters should be taken lightly; they have accomplished a great deal by bringing attention to these matters and forcing the people in power to respond. Their voices need to be heard, and their concerns need to be

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validated. But as important as it is to challenge the status quo, fixing institutional biases is no easy task.

If the storm hits Syracuse University with the same force, the administration should do more than throw money and make changes for the sake of saying something is being done.

For instance, a social justice center, as some students called for in November’s solidarity protest, has the potential to make a difference. The administration could undertake the project as a token of support, but what significant cultural change would be accomplished when there are already other bureaucratic forms of inclusiveness, like the Office of Multicultural Affairs, the STOP Bias campaign and the Chancellor’s Workgroup on Diversity and Inclusion?

As simple as it sounds, conversation is often an overlooked, but valuable remedy to working through misunderstandings. Instead of following a model of forced diversity, students should have a more natural outlet for dialogue for a longer lasting sense of empathy and belonging.

This can be accomplished by encouraging discussion in the classroom, inviting speak-

ers to address racial and inequality issues to campus and creating more opportunities for students from different backgrounds to interact.

At the end of the day, all students really want is a feeling of belonging. It’s disheartening to walk around a new place and not see many people of similar appearance. It doesn’t hit right away, but slowly it starts to take a toll on your self-perception and begins to makes you wonder whether you fit in or whether other people see you differently. It all comes down to that human level and an individual’s daily interactions on campus.

These discussions are important so students nationwide do not write off their administrations as heartless promoters of racism, and so the administrations do not to assume students are whining kids with radical demands.

As renowned educational universities in the 21st century, these entire institutions are not completely ignorant and are not fully at fault. Forums will reveal students share the responsibility, too. It was students at Yale who allegedly hosted the “all white girls” fraternity party and it was “a group of young people” at the University of Missouri who yelled the n-word at student body president Payton Head this fall.

As much as students want to look up and demand those in authority to do “more” with diversity initiatives, sometimes they need

to look on their own level and ask their peers to do more. Students must come together despite the divisiveness and acknowledge that this issue is not exclusive to students of color, but one that influences the entire campus culture.

This is imperative not just to eliminate implicit racism, but also to ensure we don’t just “buy” short-term solutions.

Rashika Jaipuriar is a freshman broadcast and digital journalism major.

Her column appears weekly.

She can be reached at rjaipuri@syr.edu.

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Ottawa yoga class example of political correctness taken too far

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erms like “oppression” and “genocide” are typically used to describe war-torn countries and extreme acts of violence, but these words have recently been associated with the practice of yoga, in the name of political correctness.

The University of Ottawa is currently facing backlash after it cancelled its yoga class for students with disabilities over concerns of cultural appropriation. In reasoning the program’s cancellation, the university’s Student Federation stated that the decision was made since the practice was taken from a country that, “experienced oppression, cultural genocide and diasporas due to colonialism and western supremacy.”

Although the university’s Centre for Students with Disabilities defended in a Facebook post last week that the class is not cancelled, but simply under review, the issue is not necessarily that the Student Federation is wrong in stating that yoga comes from India. But while the region has experienced historical hardships, it is ridiculous to say that students practicing stretching and breathing exercises are somehow trying to offend an entire culture.

According to the Washington Post, the cancellation was inspired by some students and volunteers that felt uncomfortable with how yoga could be practiced and the university could claim to be inclusive at the same time. The ethnicity and religion of the people who made the actual complaints remain unclear.

The goal of the entire “political correct-

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ness” movement is to create a world in which no actions, written or spoken word and other forms of expression, offend any culture, religion or nation. However, when everyone is walking on eggshells around each other, creativity, thoughts and opinions that are potentially meaningful may never be heard.

30,000,000

The number of people that regularly practice yoga worldwide, according to BBC.

This entire debacle is a classic example of political correctness being taken too far. And the good that yoga has done for students with disabilities, considering it is accessible as a low-impact physical activity, at that university is much more powerful than a few anonymous, and seemingly unsupported, complaints about cultural appropriation.

The instructor of the now-cancelled class, Jennifer Scharf, was surprised when she received word of the decision. She told the Washington Post in a phone interview, “I would never want anyone to think I was making some sort of spiritual claim other than the pure joy of being human that belongs to everyone, free of religion.”

The most interesting part is that even though the email discussing the cancellation attributed the action to concerns coming from the student center, some of its members have gone on record questioning the decision.

The most discouraging part of this activity being taken away from these disabled students is that when the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation interviewed actual practitioners of the Hindu religion, including Dilip Waghray of the Hindu Temple of Ottawa-Carleton, who are really the first people who should be asked if they took offense, they did not agree with the decision.

Waghray, who has been practicing yoga for 50 years, said, “If you look at what the Western world has adapted, it is just phenomenal; imagine how much good they’re doing for themselves. They’ll live a long and very happy life.”

If the instructor and people who practice Hinduism had been included in the discussion, the outcome would have been more favorable.

The instructor even mentioned in an interview that if people truly had an issue with her calling her class “yoga,” she could have just changed the name, and this whole situation would have been avoided.

Even though doing so would be excessive in order to make everyone happy, the class should be reinstated with a name change. This way, those who were allegedly offended will be pacified and students can continue to enjoy the health benefits that coincide with yoga as an outlet for exercise and relaxation.

But, in future decisions, it must be remembered that the Hindu religion is founded on the principles of peace and love, and it is difficult to believe that such a compassionate people would truly find offense in Western cultures sharing in their fondness of yoga.

Victoria Razzi is a sophomore advertising major. Her column appears weekly.

She can be reached at vcrazzi@syr.edu and followed on Twitter @vrazzi.

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Top artists can alter music streaming

SA must bring back Chat & Dine program

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nless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve probably heard about the success of Adele’s latest album, “25.”

Among other accomplishments, it’s just completed the most successful week of any album in recorded history, according to Nielsen Music.

The musician’s success is shared by many, but among those left out is a huge player in the industry: music streaming companies.

Aside from her single, “Hello,” the singer has taken a stand against streaming services for not limiting her music to paid subscribers. While this clearly hasn’t hurt the musician, and her ability to choose where she wants her music to be played is a luxury many can’t afford, it has the potential to spark a revolutionary change in the music streaming industry.

Here’s a quick debrief on how the industry works using Spotify. The company has a free subscription service and a paid one, and it distributes royalties to its musicians through advertisements on the former and the user’s monthly payment of $9.99 on the latter.

In total, the company pays artists between $.0006 and $.0084 per stream, with the amount being paid out having to do with a number of factors, including which country the song is streamed in and what the artist’s “royalty rate” is. There are a few other criteria as well, which can be found on Spotify’s website, but that’s the gist of it.

With that established, it’s time to bring up the obvious: Spotify doesn’t

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even pay the artists a penny per song stream. The company acts like this isn’t a big deal because they “pay out nearly 70 percent” of their total revenue to rights holders. That may sound like a lot, but clearly, it isn’t.

Instead of receiving a measly sum for what could have been hundreds of millions of song streams, Adele said, “No thanks.”

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The number of copies that “25” has sold in pure album sales in the United States, according to Nielsen Music.

Despite all this, it’s still commonly thought that one or two artists can’t shake up the way the music streaming industry currently works.

Rather, they are simply outliers who have leverage that few musicians do.

This is true, but it doesn’t take into account what steaming service could do if it changed its model and had every artist available for users.

That’s more attractive to a potential user than a service that has many artists, except for one of the most popular ones in the world.

For streaming companies, Adele is essentially a free agent right now. While she’s not interested in joining any of them, she could be

persuaded if they ponied up and paid her something similar to what she receives from a physical purchase of her album. While this opens up a whole can of worms in terms of which artists should get a larger piece of the pie than others, it may be a legitimate way to get a leg up on the competition.

What I just don’t believe, however, is that Adele’s absence from Spotify and Apple Music doesn’t hurt those companies. If Adele was the only artist who did this, then maybe, but she’s not: Taylor Swift did the same thing for her latest album, “1989.”

This shows a trend is developing. It may only be amongst the stars who have enough sway that people will find a way to listen to their music no matter what, but that may be even worse. No one cares if some no-name band isn’t on their favorite streaming service, but they will care if their favorite band isn’t.

At that point, what are they paying $9.99 a month for?

If more artists like Adele and Taylor Swift exercise their power to withhold their music from music streaming services, something will change. Money is the main point of contention for both sides, but what these streaming services can’t afford is to keep losing out on the most popular releases of the year.

Paul Sarconi is a junior broadcast and digital journalism major.

His column appears weekly.

He can be reached at pjsarcon@syr.edu and followed on Twitter @paulsarconi.

It was a smart move on behalf of the Student Association to hold off on hosting the Chat & Dine program this semester to work through the program’s organizational weak points. But SA must ensure the opportunity is reinstated for the spring semester and that its status is properly communicated.

Chat & Dine is an SA-funded initiative that was approved in 2014 to provide students with the chance to invite members of the university faculty or staff to a lunch at the Goldstein Alumni & Faculty Center.

While SA President Aysha Seedat and Student Life Chair SA Keelan Erhard have cited problems with the application process and monitoring the number of students taking part in Chat & Dine as reasons backing SA’s decision to postpone the program, these are issues that should have been clearly communicated to the university community from the start.

In moving forward from the Chat & Dine program’s sudden hiatus, SA must make sure the opportunity returns to the SU campus — a priority that should be complimented by proper revisions to improve the program and clear communication of news regarding the program.

Seedat, who introduced the idea as Student Life Committee chair in 2014, said Chat & Dine had 37 applicants last semester that

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were accepted and participated in the program, but that there were more that participated as there were often additional students who attended the lunches.

SA should address this oversight problem by working to create a better system to monitor how many students are actually using the program, so that it returns with a comprehensive structure capable of tracking the ratio of students who applied to those attending the lunches — an important asset in funding and planning decisions for the future of the program.

While bringing back a stronger program, SA should also make sure students know about it.

The organization should use all communication avenues available to report updates on decisions made about the program and its projected return in the spring.

In this way, SA can do its part in ensuring this information is made clear, unlike the Chat & Dine program’s abrupt suspension and the reasoning behind it.

In implementing effective structural adjustments and maintaining communication with the university community, SA make significant efforts toward accomplishing what should be a strong priority heading into the spring semester: bringing back the Chat & Dine program to the SU undergraduate student body.

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schine Thirty years after the initial need for a community gathering space at SU has been met, the university is considering future improvements to the building. Schine has been an integral part of discussions relating to the university’s Campus Master Plan as SU decides what exactly it will do to accommodate the growing student body with an up-to-date student center.

After Schine initially opened, Oshins and other students who were involved with SUMS at the time were asked to start a comedy group in an effort to make Schine more popular for student entertainment. Over the Edge Comedy Players was born.

John DiDonna, who was the executive producer of the Over the Edge Comedy Players at the time, said Schine was a great place to be and that he loved working in the student offices downstairs.

As a result, Over the Edge Comedy Players became the main entertainment group on campus, DiDonna said, a Class of 1988 SU alumnus.

“There were all new possibilities (in Schine),” DiDonna said. “It became the center and hub for everyone to come together. The campus was no longer split up or spread out.”

Schine was considered the answer to a cam-

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lawsuit — Robert Cooney, William Padgett, Roderick Martinez and Kenneth Hine. Westervelt mentions one incident in 2009 where Cooney spoke with her and Lucina Havenhand, chair of the design department, in an elevator following a female professor’s presentation.

When asked if he enjoyed the lecture, Cooney allegedly responded that it wasn’t “bad for a woman,” the lawsuit states. Westervelt complained to Havenhand about the comment, to which Havenhand said the “Comm Guys” were a “blast from the past,” but that she could handle them.

None of the “Comm Guys” were immediately available for comment.

Westervelt became worried when Havenhand told her that a negative portion of her performance review was likely written by the “Comm Guys,” according to the complaint. The review was completed in 2010 — Westervelt’s second year — and included faculty comments that she was arrogant, hostile and unfriendly. Havenhand told her the comments came from the “Comm Guys” and shouldn’t be taken seriously.

Westervelt felt concerned that their comments might affect her ability to receive tenure, the complaint states. A recent study by a professor at Northeastern University showed that student evaluations are more likely to label female professors as mean, harsh or unfair compared to males — pointing to a possible gender bias in higher education, according to a Feb. 15 Guardian article.

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chat & dine through the cracks like what happened a few times last semester,” Seedat said.

Applications for the program were originally inputted online through OrgSync, a Campus Engagement Network, but last semester Seedat was responsible for inputting all of the information from applications.

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paign for a student center that lasted about 60 years, said Mary O’Brien, a reference archivist in the SU Archives.

In the 1970s, there were plans to build a student center, but the oil crisis of 1973 prevented it.

It wasn’t until the mid-80s when Reneé Schine Crown, a class of 1950 alumna and life member of the Board of Trustees, gave a $3 million donation to the university that SU received the student center it had long been waiting for.

When Sam Mettler, a television producer in Los Angeles and creator of the Emmy-winning show “Intervention,” visited SU two years ago to speak at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, he also stopped by Schine.

“It looked exactly the same,” said Mettler, a Class of 1991 SU alumnus. “A lot of SU did — it was amazing.”

Mettler added that when he walked downstairs to the bookstore inside Schine, he saw a cardboard figure of one of his professors at SU, Marvin Druger, and thought it was actually him.

“I said his name and hello before I realized it was cardboard,” Mettler said with a laugh.

Mettler recalled that the downstairs portion of the bookstore used to be a music store where students would buy their CDs and albums. However, the Panasci Lounge upstairs has always been known as a study room.

The square couch just inside the main entrance of Schine was “the jock spot” where campus celebrities such as Pearl Washington, Rony Seikaly and Derrick Coleman would hang out, Mettler added.

“It was the cool place to go during the day.

That’s the place you went in between classes, especially when the weather was lousy,” Mettler said. “It was also a place where you didn’t want to look bad because you were going to see someone you knew.”

Although Mike Pollock has not been back to visit Schine since he graduated from SU in 1988, he does remember walking down the giant spiral staircase inside the building and feeling like he was in a video game.

Pollock said Schine was a “very imposing structure” that was hard to forget. He remembers the large, sparse auditorium and being very impressed by the food court.

“It was all bricks — nothing but bricks,” Pollock said of Schine.

He added that Schine was a gathering spot and a “great place to go in a pinch.”

Watching the construction of the building, Pollock said, was interesting. He recalled the mixed reactions on campus about whether or not Schine was needed in the first place and whether or not SU could afford it. But after it was built, Pollock said, the general reaction was positive.

“I’m looking forward to visiting it soon to see how much has changed,” Pollock said. “Although, I wish there was a place where I had carved my initials so that I could go back and look at it.”

Student Association President Aysha Seedat said she thinks Schine is a great place for SU students to hang out and for the university to engage students, but it definitely has room for improvement.

Seedat said SA is looking to add more things to Schine, like the kiosk in the main foyer, to help modernize the building and make it more of a student center.

One goal, Seedat added, is to purchase a magazine rack for Schine so that student publications can be properly displayed throughout the year.

For a lot of students, Schine is typically their first impression of SU, Seedat said.

“Looking back, my decision to come here was really last minute and the campus really did a lot to help solidify my choice,” Seedat said. “… So believe it or not, Schine really did have a say in whether or not I was to come here.”

Student and faculty evaluations are often referred to when considering a professor for hiring and promotion, which can be a problem if they are biased, according to the article.

Forty-four percent of women hold tenured positions, compared to 62 percent of men, according to a 2012 study by the American Association of University Professors.

The rest of Westervelt’s review was largely positive, describing her as a “rising star” in the communications department.

A few months later in July 2011, Westervelt received a blood transfusion for bleeding in her colon. It was shortly after the transfusion when she told SU that she had Crohn’s disease and would need to go on disability leave.

Westervelt said she felt anxious telling Havenhand about her disease because Havenhand had allegedly criticized other employees on disability leave. In one case, she remarked that she would like to see a specific professor fired and questioned whether another professor’s disability was genuine, according to the lawsuit.

“Professor Havenhand informed Professor Westervelt that she did not like dealing with employees on disability and felt that they were both a nuisance and problem for the institution,” the complaint states.

In Westervelt’s spring 2013 evaluation — her first since returning from disability leave — she noticed the comments were “astoundingly negative,” such as those from faculty claiming she was opinionated, “hard to communicate with” and “not a good collaborator.” She questioned if the comments came from the “Comm Guys,” but

Havenhand refused to tell her, the lawsuit states.

The review also referenced her medical leave as the source of her lack of research. In addition to the review, Westervelt argues that Havenhand gave her “new, unreasonable demands” in retaliation to her medical leave, such as submitting work for journals or publications.

Westervelt showed the review to Jen Hamilton, then a professor in the design department, who took part in her evaluation. The complaint states that Hamilton was shocked when she saw the review, saying it was a “substantial distortion” of her actual comments.

Havenhand said in the review that the faculty almost unanimously voted that Westervelt should be fired.

“I have serious doubts about Ruth’s ability to succeed as a faculty member in our particular department,” Havenhand states in the review. “…

Because of this, I must agree with the majority of my tenured faculty, who voted unanimously … to not support Ruth’s going forward from the third year in her tenure track position.”

Havenhand was not immediately available for comment.

Westervelt later showed the review to Brian Lonsway, then-chair of the University Senate Committee on Academic Freedom, Tenure and Professional Ethics. Lonsway told her she had certain rights as a tenure-track professor, such as a “clock stoppage” which would discount the time she took off from her performance evaluation.

Lonsway suggested she request a formal inquiry from the committee and also told her that Havenhand’s evaluation of her showed a lack of

procedure, contained “poor, lacking or perhaps even irresponsible documentation” and was “ethically problematic.” Lonsway said he could not discuss the committee’s investigation of Westervelt’s case because they are conducted confidentially.

John Valentino, Westervelt’s lawyer, said the committee recommended that the design department give her a new contract that would contain a “fair period” for her review, among other things. Instead, he said the contract they gave her “set her up for failure.”

Shortly after she submitted the request, Westervelt received a notice from VPA Dean Ann Clarke that she was fired. Valentino said the department never responded to the committee’s recommendations.

Westervelt argues in the lawsuit against SU that her firing, motivated by gender-based and disability discrimination, violated the Americans with Disabilities Act, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act and the Human Rights Law. Kevin Quinn, SU’s senior vice president for public affairs, said he couldn’t comment on the case, but added that the university has “very strong” non-discrimination policies dealing with disability and gender.

Westervelt also submitted a claim in August with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, a federal agency that enforces employment discrimination laws. The EEOC didn’t find SU in violation, but it also didn’t certify the university was in compliance, according to the document.

The case is currently in the mediation phase.

Keelan Erhard, student life chair of SA, has made changes to the application process, including putting the application on Google Drive.

When the Google form was created in midto-late October, Erhard said SA decided to hold off on the program because the form was created too late in the semester. He said he plans to release the application form over winter break.

Erhard added that he hopes SA can start funding the program this semester, though it will be

reintroduced during the spring 2016 semester.

Seedat said SA allocated $3,000 for the program this semester. Erhard said the approval for the funding will be determined by a vote by the SA cabinet most likely at its next meeting.

“Hopefully in the future, we can even set aside more money for it as the program continues to grow and gain traction,” Erhard said.

Erhard said the days allocated for the program will be Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. He said

he plans to learn the exact amount of students who attend the lunches by communicating with staff at the Goldstein Alumni & Faculty Center.

“I think (the program) is very successful, and I think that we will go through our funding,” Erhard said. “That’s why I definitely think there’s room to expand in the future and maybe partner with groups on campus and expanding this — like off of Student Activities and things like that.”

DID YOU KNOW? In order to build the Schine Student Center, Syracuse University had to tear down Winchell Hall, SU’s first ever dormitory. As Winchell was being demolished in February 1984, the building caught fire — possibly due to arson — expediting the process.

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THEIR WAY OR THE HIGHWAY

Syracuse officials, organization call on state to increase funding for New York State Department of Transportation

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ayor Stephanie Miner and the Rebuild New York Now coalition have teamed up to call on state leaders to increase funding for the New York State Department of Transportation in order to spearhead new projects.

Miner joined the coalition for a news conference at the City of Syracuse Department of Public Works on Nov. 18 and called on both Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the New York Legislature to increase spending in the NYSDOT, and to veto any legislation that does not give equally to all parts of the state.

Miner said New York should commit as much money for statewide transportation projects as it is pledging for downstate public transit. According to the Associated Press, aging cities like Syracuse need more help to maintain bridges and other infrastructure.

Upstate gets short-changed enough. Our bridges and roads are just as important as New York City’s.

Fred Akshar new york state senator

Cuomo’s 2015 budget has designated $1 billion for updating roads and bridges across the state, according to the Associated Press, but transportation departments downstate are receiving much more funding to improve their infrastructure.

For example, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which services New York City and surrounding areas including Long Island, has received more than $8 billion for system infrastructure upgrades, according to a press release from the Office of the Mayor.

“It’s a very important issue, and the notion

STEPHANIE MINER, mayor of the city of Syracuse, spoke at a Nov. 18 press conference for the Rebuild New York Now coalition, which seeks to promote awareness about the issues affecting infrastructure in New York state.

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that we are going to be investing so much money downstate to address their transit issues, but yet not have a comprehensive plan to address our issues upstate is unacceptable to me,” said New York state Sen. Fred Akshar at the press conference.

Akshar is one of the senators supporting an increase in funding for the NYSDOT. Akshar said at the press conference that more than $6 billion has been raised from the annual New York gas tax. He added that he thinks all that money should be given to the NYSDOT, rather than Cuomo’s current budget of $1 billion.

“Upstate gets short-changed enough. Our

bridges and roads are just as important as New York City’s,” Akshar said. “I want the governor and my colleagues in the legislature to understand our issues in upstate, and that’s my intention during the next session.”

More than 6,000 bridges and over 60 percent of New York roadways need repairs, Akshar said.

New York state Sen. Marty Golden said at the press conference that he believes there will be a plan that is “acceptable for roads and bridges as well as the MTA,” and added that his concern is how this plan will be paid for.

Rebuild New York Now is hoping for the same level of investment that the state gov-

ernment gave the MTA. After the press conference, Rebuild New York has called on Republicans in the state government to veto this plan until there is “upstate parity,” according to the coalition’s website. Most Republicans in the state Senate come from the upstate area.

“Historically, if there’s not parity, the Senate has vetoed it,” said Mike Elmendorf, executive director of the Associated General Contractors and a leader of the coalition, in an interview. “It doesn’t mean you’re not going to have an MTA plan, but it’s drawing lines and stating priorities.” hrhorvat@syr.edu

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SU Sport Management Club to hold charity auction event

By Andrew Godnick contributing writer

It will be more than a game on Wednesday night.

During Syracuse University’s men’s basketball marquee match-up against the Wisconsin Badgers Wednesday night, the Sport Management Club will be running its eleventh annual charity sports auction. The auction will benefit the Salvation Army of the Syracuse area.

“From the beginning they’ve been a great beneficiary to work with, and truly a great cause,” said Jack Moriarty, co-chair of the

auction and a senior sport management major.

The money raised at the auction will go towards one of Salvation Army’s 40 programs, which are meant to help about 40,000 individuals around the Syracuse area, said Kevin Reese, co-chair of the auction and a junior sport management major.

Making the decision for which charity the auction would benefit was a tough process, Moriarty said, but “the outright winner was the Salvation Army.”

The game tips off at 7:15 p.m., but the doors of the Carrier Dome open at 5:15 p.m. “to give

people time to arrive early and hopefully do a lot of bidding,” said Kate Veley, faculty adviser of the club and the events and alumni manager for the David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics.

The auction will take place in the backcourt from 5:15 p.m. to the start of the game’s second half. The silent bidding will end when the buzzer goes off, Veley said, and then people can come to the backcourt after the game to see what they have won.

The auction is the prime event for the Sport Management Club and entails a semester of

planning and research, Reese said. The club has committees that work on donations, sales, logistics, marketing and getting items for the auction, he added.

The backcourt will be occupied by 100 tables covered in nearly 450 items up for bidding, Veley said.

The items range “from almost every conceivable sport,” Veley said, but the auction also offers gift certificates to local restaurants, electronics, items for kids, jewelry and clothing. angodnic@syr.edu

Centro to avoid statewide budget cuts after bill restoration

By Sara Swann asst. news editor

United States Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Rep. John Katko (R-N.Y.) announced Tuesday that the final transportation bill for New York state will be fully restored, avoiding potential cuts to the Centro bus service.

Included in the final transportation bill is funding to the 5340 High Density States Program, which, if eliminated, would have cost New York state transit agencies roughly $100 million per year and the Central New York Regional Transportation Authority (Centro) nearly $2 million per year for six years, according to a press release from Schumer’s office.

As a result of Schumer and Katko restoring the bill through an agreement with the joint

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divestment gas,” according to a SUNY-ESF release.

The college’s decision to divest comes just over eight months after Syracuse University announced it would divest from fossil fuels.

The decision was prompted, in part, by a student resolution approved by the Undergraduate Student Association — the student government of SUNY-ESF — and action by the student group Divest ESF, according to the release.

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building lab work that is being done there, said Douglas Johnston, professor and chair of SUNY-ESF’s department of landscape architecture. Johnston also serves as a faculty representative on the advisory committee for the new building.

The new building will have three stories of labs with the underground housing mostly structural and mechanical systems — as well as a few freezers for storing specimen, Johnston said. Construction is expected to be completed in 2018, but plans to construct the building have been in the works for the past decade, roughly, he added.

“As a SUNY school, we basically have to go compete with all the other state university systems for funding,” Johnston said.

Each SUNY institution puts in a request for capital funds as well as a proposal, which gets reviewed at the state level, Johnston said.

He added that the requests are prioritized and

House and Senate Transportation Conference Committee, Centro will no longer risk these costs, and the program will receive an increase of about $18.5 million over the next five years, according to the release. Schumer and Katko are both transportation bill conferees.

“This is great news for Upstate New York and a major victory for Central New York in particular — because it means we have protected the critical $12 million in transportation funding Centro was set to receive over the next six years,” Schumer said in the release.

Schumer added in the release that with this funding, Centro will be able to continue operating its bus service across four counties.

Centro covers Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga and Oswego counties. In 2014, Centro provided more than 11 million rides to residents and

visitors in CNY, according to the release.

Centro received $2,043,375 in federal funding under the 5340 program in 2014,

The college will divest in partnership with the ESF College Foundation, Inc. and the SUNY-ESF Board of Trustees.

SUNY-ESF will continue to make efforts to bring an end to fossil fuel dependency, innovate renewable energy alternatives, improve energy efficiencies of built environments and “maximize living organic matter as a storehouse of carbon and renewable energy,” SUNY-ESF President Quentin Wheeler said in the release.

The college will continue its efforts to combat fossil fuel dependency and create innovative

energies through research, scholarship, innovation and public education, Wheeler said.

“These actions are consistent with ESF’s values as an environmental college and our responsibility to lead by example,” Wheeler said.

Setting a goal for divestment is a new frontier for the State University of New York system, which is comprised of 64 campuses, according to the release.

“Divesting from the companies that are directly causing climate chaos sends a message to our students, alumni, and community that ESF is prepared to lead the global community

into a just transition away from a fossil fuelbased economy,” said Katie Oran, an organizer with Divest ESF and the SUNY-ESF representative in SU’s Student Association.

An investment symposium will be held to “address the role of divestment and reinvestment as an agent of global change,” according to the release. SUNY-ESF invited students to partake in the symposium, which will be held with partners from other universities, financial institutions and NGOs, according to the release.

once money is available, funding is given out in order of priority.

It takes many years for requests to be supported and work their way up, Johnston said, and the project was also tied up in negotiations over land swaps, putting the construction of the building two or three years behind schedule.

After examination of other locations, it was determined that putting the building as close to Illick as possible would make the most sense in terms of proximity, Johnston said. There will also be added convenience since the two buildings are going to be connected, he said.

“After examination of multiple sites, this was determined to be the best possible site.

It’s not ideal, but we’ll make it work,” Johnston said. “That’s what design does — design makes things work.”

Architects and landscape architects are currently between the conceptual and schematic design stage of the project, and construction will begin in at least one year, Johnston said. Design development will be the following

step, during which decisions about materials, structural systems and mechanical systems will be made, he said. These decisions will need to be specific enough in order to provide estimates for the total project budget, he said.

Marin Braco and Darren Damone — both graduates of SUNY-ESF — are two of the landscape architects working on the project. They were originally approached to do the project in fall 2014. Their team deals with site issues including drainage, grating, planting and the building footprint, Damone said.

“ESF is a unique client in that we can work closely with their environmental forest biology department,” Braco said. “And we’re integrating a lot of the research that their professors and PhD students have done over the past few years.”

The building will have a small green roof on top of a collaborative space that will collect water and feed into a series of fens and marshes, Braco said. She added that the system for storm water management will be outside of the building on areas of the SUNY-ESF Quad.

The initial concept of the Quad was that it be a “living laboratory” and an extension of what is happening inside of the new academic building, Braco said.

Although construction is expected to be completed in 2018, certain complexities in mechanical systems may cause the construction to take a bit longer, Braco said. Construction is also tied to the academic year, she added, so it can be expected that this project will need to be constructed in the summer so the building can be up and running when students to return to campus.

The idea of the research building was presented publicly to the SUNY-ESF campus a few weeks ago. While students and faculty had questions about the building the reactions were mostly positive, Johnston said.

One of the main concerns from the public was whether the building would allow enough Quad space for students to use for recreational activities and events, he added.

$100,000,000 The amount of money per year that New York state transit agencies would owe if the 5340 High Density States Program had been eliminated.

according to the release. In addition, Centro employs about 630 people in the four-county area and contributes about $30 million to the local economy.

It was unclear exactly how the potential cuts would have affected Syracuse Univer-

sity, which has a partnership with Centro. SU officials said Centro bus services for the SU community wouldn’t be affected, but Centro officials said the cuts would means less services across the board.

Schumer and Katko said in the release that if Centro had not received the anticipated funding of $2 million for 2016, both this service and local jobs could have been threatened.

The funding from the 5340 program is also important to other transit agencies across the state, including the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority and the Rochester-Genesee Regional Transportation Authority, according to the release.

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Fashion forward Fashion design major Maddie Hofmaier sports cool Adidas sneakers and plaid Zara pants in this week’s Wardrobe Wednesday.

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Smash hits Get ready for your music publications of choice to rank this year’s tunes, validating your listening for the past year.

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BOSS Sadler cook crafts, sells barbecue sauce

By Kathryn Krawczyk staff writer

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fter Sadler Dining Center closed each night, cook Rod Wallenbeck saw too many leftovers being tossed out. So in November of 2013, he decided to repurpose some of them in a new way. Instead of dumping perfectly good ketchup, molasses and other sauces, Wallenbeck mixed them all together and created Rodfather’s Premium BBQ Sauce.

While still working at Sadler, Wallenbeck finished his degree at SU, which helped him to turn his sauce into a business. Today, Rodfather’s is sold in small businesses throughout Syracuse and in the Syracuse University Bookstore.

Rodfather’s didn’t just get its start in the Sadler kitchen; it made its debut served with chicken wings in the dining hall and was an instant hit with students, he said.

secret sauce Here are the current businesses at which Rodfather’s barbecue sauce is sold, according to its website.

Schine Bookstore Green Hills Farms Dominick’s Meat Market Nojaim Brothers Super Market Murphy’s Convenience Shoppe Ascioti’s Met Market Nichols Supermarket Lorenzo’s Wholesale Foods Mazzey’s Meats

“We would put that out there because it was leftovers, and it would disappear,” Wallenbeck said. “They would literally swallow it up.”

But Wallenbeck wasn’t settling for dining hall success. He spent that winter break perfecting his sauce.

“I took the same kind of stuff, the same recipe I’d been making, then I said I’m going to elevate it some more,” Wallenbeck said. “I took whiskey — they didn’t have that at SU — and really took it to a whole new level.”

Besides being created at SU, Wallenbeck credits Syracuse for helping him turn Rodfather’s from a dining hall dish to his own small business. Wallenbeck is a graduate of the now-discontinued hospitality and food service management program at the David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics. A big part of that program was a class in which students design a retail or hospitality product and try to sell the idea or the product itself to the Small

ROD WELLENBECK discovered his sauce recipe by mixing the leftover ketchup, molasses and other sauces in Sadler Dining Center when he was working. His concoction was first tasted by students at Sadler as well. phillip elgie contributing photographer

Business Administration.

Even though Wallenbeck already worked on his barbecue sauce for months, he didn’t develop an actual recipe, said Joe Adamo, an adjunct professor who taught Wallenbeck’s class. So Adamo set that as Wallenbeck’s first step on the road to the perfect barbecue sauce.

“We went back and forth a number of times

because the first time he presented it, the sauce actually came out horrible,” Adamo said. “By the fifth time, he got it to the point where it really started tasting pretty good.”

It took a few more rough drafts, but Wallenbeck eventually turned out a sauce that both Adamo and his picky 2-year-old daughter loved.

Adamo then reached out to the Small Busi-

ness Administration to give Wallenbeck more advice. Wallenbeck said he knew his sauce was good, but he didn’t realize the Small Business Administration would love it as much as it did and offered to help him make connections with local businesses.

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5 end of semester joys to look forward to despite dreadful finals week

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easons Greetings readers, friends and peers. No, I’m not feeding into the “War on Christmas,” (which exists) because unfortunately the reason for the season is finals.

Yes, it’s finals season, and the depression and stress are thick in the rapidly-approaching-winter air. During this time of year as we navigate thick stacks of rubrics, essay prompts and review sheets, it can be tough to find the light at the end of the tunnel.

Fortunately, I’m here to remind you that there’s plenty to look forward to in the coming weeks and that finals aren’t actually life and death. I once slept through a final and got a D in the class. Was it the end of world? No. Will my future employers think that I lack the necessary skillset to properly interpret a film? Probably. So be it.

But there are plenty of great things beyond the horizon, so before you give up on finals and start perusing Craigslist to see how much money a professional dog walker makes, strap in and have a gander at all there is to look forward to in this crazy thing we call life.

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barbeque sauce working with a bottling company in Cazenovia and asked dozens of local shops in and around Syracuse to sell his product. After sampling

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If you haven’t put together a Secret Santa exchange with your friends, then it’s clear you want to be miserable and can’t be helped. Also you’re an idiot. If done right, Secret Santa is basically just a roast of your friends a la Comedy Central but with gifts. Presents, drinking, friendship, sweaters and laughter — what’s not to like? You don’t have to be a gentile to get in on this action. Secret Santa is like drinking margaritas on Cinco de Mayo (awesome). So come one, come all and keep it under $15.

New Star Wars Movie Dust off your Jar Jar Binks action figures; Star Wars is back, baby. If you’re not excited for this then I don’t get what your deal is.

When that trailer dropped during Monday Night Football I got chills. Yeah, maybe I’m genetically predisposed to enjoy ‘70s-era science fiction films (my dad used to give me the “live long and prosper” hand gesture

the sauce, none of them turned him away.

“Stores ask, ‘What’s different about your barbecue?’” Wallenbeck said. “Quite frankly, we let the barbecue talk for itself, and the sauce says we’re going to take barbecue to a new level.”

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every morning through the window of the school bus) but this is going to be tremendous.

It comes out Dec. 18, which is the last day of finals for those of us who got a bad draw. “A galaxy far, far away” will be here before you can even argue that Jar Jar Binks’ role in “The Phantom Menace” was contrived.

your dog in affection and hope they don’t forget you exist while you’re gone. There will be snow outside and the blankets in your house are soft and have a high stitch count. Any sleep lost during finals week is really just loaned out and you’ll get it back with a high interest rate.

“Man, finals, am I right?”

Syracuse Basketball We’re ranked! If you’re depressed that you can’t make it to games because you’re busy studying, that’s the type of negativity that we don’t need right now. For those of you too young to remember when we made it to the Final Four, I can promise you that it is very, very fun when we’re good at basketball. The Dome makes me claustrophobic, and I haven’t been to a game since Long Beach State sophomore year, but even I’m pumped. This article is really starting to make me sound like a loser.

Go Cuse!

Winter Break Ever hear the phrase “you can sleep when you’re dead?” Winter break is close enough. It’s a month with literally nothing to do but shower

It’s not just tailored to the ribs and pork crowd. Wallenbeck suggests using his versatile sauce on chili, burgers, baked beans and even fish, aiming to cover all regions of barbecue in one bottle.

Rodfather’s sauce can even be found in Wallenbeck’s “pride and joy”: the bookstore in Schine Student Center.

As a proud SU alumnus and current employee, Wallenbeck is proud to see his creation on the shelves.

“I owe it to SU to be here. If it wasn’t for my job here, I couldn’t have gotten this started,” Wallenbeck said. “I told myself even if I make 10 million, I’m not leaving.”

Wallenbeck showed his thanks to Adamo and his class by sending him a 12-pack of Rodfather’s sauce last year.

But Adamo credits a lot of Rodfather’s success to Wallenbeck’s personality.

“As with most entrepreneurs, you really

That’s all you have to say to greet people during finals week. Human interaction becomes streamlined. Just one less thing you have to worry about.

If you really feel swamped and like you’re never going to make it, just think of all the great, successful people in history that never made it through college.

Steve Jobs, Andrew Carnegie, Sacagawea, P. Diddy, the list goes on. I’m sure if you throw in the towel you’ll end up on your feet, making the big bucks just like they did. Keep in mind that this isn’t an advice column and happy studying.

Evan Hohenwarter is a senior advertising major who is almost as modest as he is handsome.

He can be reached at emhohenw@syr.edu or on Twitter at @evanhohmbre.

need that drive and that perseverance, and he really did have it,” Adamo said.

Wallenbeck even had to finish his SU degree independently after the hospitality program was discontinued.

But he stuck it out and graduated this past May. This success isn’t stopping him from taking Rodfather’s even further while still staying local. Wallenbeck is talking to big chain stores like Tops and Wegmans to get his sauce on their Syracuse shelves.

Adamo also sees Rodfather’s expanding into e-commerce, which was a big part of the plan he and Wallenbeck developed.

However, one of Wallenbeck’s biggest goals for Rodfather’s sauce reflects its roots.

“I’d like to put it in all the dining halls, including the Dome,” he said. “It was born here and I want it to stay here.” kjkrawcz@syr.edu

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WRITE ALOUD SU Songwriter Showcase highlights student talent

By Rebecca Plaut staff writer

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welve young musicians will take the stage for this year’s Syracuse University Songwriter Showcase. The budding artists will perform songs from diverse musical genres including American acoustic folk and Chinese piano-pop.

Professor and songwriter Jeffrey Rodgers has been using the showcase for his class HNR 340: “Inside the Words and Music” to expose the students to talent and the music industry.

The showcase will be taking place Dec. 4 at 8 p.m. in the Panasci Lounge of Schine Student Center.

There is no admission fee.

“When I started teaching this course, creating an SU songwriter showcase just seemed like a great way to connect students with songwriting talent right on campus,” Rodgers said. “At the same time, this would give the songwriters a rare chance to play their music for a real listening audience.”

Students in the class analyze lyrics of all genres from current pop hits to decades worth of Bob Dylan tracks.

For the showcase, Rodgers assigned each of the 15 students a position varying from recruitment to graphic design.

He will grade each honors undergraduate based on how well he or she completes the designated duty.

Sophomore magazine journalism major and campus/social media promotion representative Tiffany Moran said she is excited to be working on the committee to make this event happen.

The purpose of the event is to try to bring to light these students who are putting themselves out there.

Tiffany Moran committee member

“I wanted to help with the recruitment process because I had never really done anything like it before,” Moran said. “Clearly, I love music, otherwise I wouldn’t have and I think it was important to have a good variety of musicians and wanted to put out the best show possible.”

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students enrolled in the class advertised the event by reaching out to VPA students, songwriting class sections and the rest of the student body via wordof-mouth.

The prospective performers were then asked to submit a recording of a song that he or she had performed.

The students and Rodgers listened to each submission and then ranked their top choices individually.

A combination of 19 SU and ESF undergraduate students sent in audition clips.

Twelve performers were chosen. Many of the selected artists are Bandier, television, radio and film, and information technology students.

“We definitely listened for the quality of the composition,” Moran said. “We also tried to vary the genres of the music because we definitely didn’t want twelve musicians singing slow ballads on an acoustic guitar.”

Of the 12 singers, five of them will be returning.

Those performers are Julia Newman, Kevin Crowell, Lewis and Clark, Basket(s) and Zach Schweikert.

This will be Schweikert’s, who is a student in Rodger’s class, second consecutive year performing at the showcase. The junior advertising major is a

largely folk-influenced musician.

“I really enjoyed performing last year because it made me much more aware of the musical talent at SU,” said Schweikert, former Daily Orange humor columnist. “When I played last year, there were people I knew and had seen perform before, but I was most surprised by the people I hadn’t known were performers — I think that’s what was most exciting to me, honestly.”

The seven remaining first-time performers include PJ Walshe, Alexandra Moniqué, Logan Piercey, Jason Mcgill, Eva Cassandra, Ariel and the band Exits.

“The purpose of the event is to try to bring to light these students who are putting themselves out there,” Moran said. “We are trying to get people to appreciate their talent and the courage it takes them to perform in front of people.”

For students who want to take “Inside the Words and Music” and get involved in this event, it doesn’t matter what their major is, they just have to be part of the Reneé Crown University Honors Program. rcplaut@syr.edu

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Final race standings after D.O. staff member pick ‘em Each week during this past college football season, members of The Daily Orange staff picked the winner’s of five different games in a competition called “Race.” The leaders stayed constant throughout most of the season, with the final week coming down to Chris Libonati and Michael Burke. Here’s how the final standings shaped out after 13 weeks. Each staff member was paired with a character from “The Office” that they most closely resemble.

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maryland Running dry

Syracuse has been outscored 90-71 in the third quarter this season. The Orange had to be saved by fourth quarter runs against Fordham, Washington and Rhode Island to avoid upsets.

Hillsman said the defense has been solid for the full games, but that the offense needs to be more proactive.

“It’s about scoring, man, we’re just not scoring,” Hillsman said. “We come out of the locker room and we’re just not productive scoring. We’ve got to be more productive scoring in the third quarter.”

The Orange is outscoring its opponents 273-198 in the other quarters.

In the paint Maryland boasts coaches’ All-Big Ten First Team center Brionna Jones, who is second on the team with 15.2 points per game and grabs team-leading 10 rebounds per contest.

Hillsman said the key to defending Jones utilizing the 2-3 zone that Syracuse runs and not allowing her to get in the post one-on-one with SU’s Briana or Bria Day. He wants them to smother her off the ball to limit her touches.

Briana Day said it’ll be a foot fight in the post and she’ll have to use her speed to get

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“We’re a really good rebounding team and I know that Maryland is too,” Briana Day said. “If we get all of our primary rebounders down there and just box them out … we’ll be great.”

Led by Jones, Maryland averages a 20.5 rebound advantage its opponents — third best in the country. Syracuse, averaging just a 0.8 advantage, is ranked 174th.

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Movin’ On Up Syracuse rose three spots to No. 20 in the Associated Press Poll released Monday after off a 3-0 week, in which it beat Morgan State, 90-61, Washington, 66-62, and Fordham, 76-54.

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buescher because of the language barrier.

Nods of yes and no served as his only tools of communication when former Syracuse goalie Alex Bono’s family drove him around to show him the area.

Everything was new, but soccer was the same. Hours alone juggling soccer balls in Manley Field House helped Buescher escape.

His technical ability was what Syracuse associate head coach Jukka Masalin had seen in highlight videos during the recruiting process. For the rest, Masalin relied on managers in Germany and “dear friends” that he asked to watch the future star play and train about six times — unbeknownst to Buescher.

What came back were reports of an undisciplined player compared to the rest of the parts of the German machine. He was lightweight, too, and lacked athleticism.

But what he did have was the innate technical ability and a wealth of untapped potential.

It was enough for Masalin and Syracuse to pull the trigger on a guy they had never seen play in person — a first for the staff, he thinks — and who was desperate to enroll right away to not lose a year of eligibility after his gap year.

“We got so much information on him at the end of it and we had to make a quick decision,” Masalin said.

Buescher had only decided to look at American schools a few months prior at the sugges-

tion of Matthew Taylor, a teammate in Germany who had played at UCLA and in Major League Soccer before going international.

He spoke with UCLA and other big soccer schools, but their interest vanished because he hardly knew English. Then the Orange came along and within six weeks of committing, he arrived in Syracuse, a 20-year-old freshman.

Senior Juuso Pasanen referred to him as the grandpa of the team and Buescher, now a sophomore, calls himself a fourth-year senior.

Two years at the semi-professional level gave him more experience than a typical freshman, but the clock was ticking on his career.

“I come here and realize that I have to get the work done. I’m really late,” Buescher said.

“I don’t want to waste another year.”

The first thing to do was get stronger and faster.

He spent time in the weight room and began his first season as the most fit player on the team, Masalin said. Though he couldn’t do any pushups when he arrived, he can manage a few now.

His freshman season was a slight disappointment, he said, with no goals and just five assists despite starting every game. The Orange didn’t need him to be the go-to point producer.

This year, it has, and the result has been a team-leading 27 points — eight goals and 11 assists. Two assists, including a spin move inside the penalty box and a slick pass to defender Louis Cross, pushed SU past Dartmouth on Nov. 22. Another assist on Saturday sent the Orange to the Elite Eight.

“We saw that he has potential to be a

JULIAN BUESCHER didn’t score any goals in his first season at SU. Now, the 22-year-old sophomore has eight goals heading into the home stretch.sam maller staff photographer

fricken hell of a player and he’s starting to answer those questions now,” Masalin said.

“I think he’s got more in his locker and he needs to be pushed in that way.”

Buescher originally considered returning to Germany after school, but he seems to have put that aside to make a career in the United States.

He worked out with five different MLS teams during the summer, spending a week with each.

“I like America,” he said. “Let’s just say that.”

Buescher, made fun of most for the way he says words with “th,” doesn’t have many pieces

of Germany with him. He just has some customs and traditions, like his natural aversion to peanut butter, and a pair of sandals with the German national flag printed across the strap.

His roots are evident in his accent and his play on the field. But Germany is where his career stalled. He’s left that behind and created a renewed dream in the U.S. “I just went a different way,” Buescher said.

“I wont regret it because I made the decision and I go fully for it. It could be different, could be not. You never know.” jrmettus@syr.edu | @jmettus

PREGAME PLAYBOOK key players

beat writer predictions SAM BLUM (5-1)

syracuse TYLER LYDON

syracuse 80, wisconsin 65

MICHAEL GBINIJE

forward

point guard

HT: 6’8” WGHT: 210 YEAR: FRESHMAN

tyler the creator

The rangy freshman won Atlantic Coast Conference Rookie of the Week after opening eyes in the Bahamas. He’s averaging 11.5 points per game off the bench for Syracuse and seeing significant minutes at center when Dajuan Coleman is out.

HT: 6’7” WGHT: 200 YEAR: SENIOR

g-unit

Gbinije leads the Orange with 19.7 points per game and is shooting a team-high 52.9-percent clip from the field. He’s knocked down more than half of his 3-point shots and shown he can be just as efficient a scorer on the ball as off.

wisconsin BRONSON KOENIG

NIGEL HAYES

guard

forward HT: 6’8” WGHT: 235 YEAR: JUNIOR

HT: 6’4” WGHT: 190 YEAR: JUNIOR

action bronson

Koenig is one of four Badgers averaging double figures in scoring, leading UW with just over 16 point per game. He’ll pose the primary threat from behind the arc to stretch out the Orange’s 2-3 zone, but his 36-percent clip from 3 is no match to the efficiency SU has shown early on from deep.

haymaker

they said it

The Orange is thinner down low than in its backcourt and Hayes could exploit that. He averages almost 15 points per game but even though Syracuse has struggled on the boards at times this season, Hayes is only averaging 4.9 rebounds through Wisconsin’s seven games.

Take note Winning the Battle 4 Atlantis shot Syracuse up to the No. 14 team in the country and allowed the Orange to boast. SU is a team that readily admits it wanted to demolish its expectations. It has, and will continue to do so with Wisconsin standing in its way.

JESSE DOUGHERTY (5-1) syracuse 67, wisconsin 61

Brick by brick Syracuse will go go cold against Wisconsin, but the Badgers will go even colder. The result will be an ugly, grind-it-out game in the Carrier Dome that makes the Orange faithful wonder where it’s fun team went.

MATT SCHNEIDMAN (5-1) syracuse 73, wisconsin 61

Honey badger The Badgers are allowing opponents to make almost half of their 3-pointers every game and that’s Syracuse’s area of strength. Don’t expect Gbinije to cool off from deep and this could be when Trevor Cooney lights in up from behind the arc.

I think we proved a lot of people wrong today.

Tyler Lydon

su forward on battle 4 atlantis title

We said at the beginning of the season that we would get on the radar. That’s over with.

People are going to know who we are.

Malachi Richardson su guard

last time they played Syracuse advanced to the 2012 NCAA Tournament Elite Eight with a one-point win over the Badgers at the TD Garden in Boston. Four Orange scored in double figures, led by C.J. Fair’s 15 points. Each player for SU grabbed a rebound and the Orange shot above 55 percent from the field in the win.

march 22, 2012 syracuse 64 wisconsin 63

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Pick ‘em Members of The Daily Orange’s staff picked five college football games each week. See the final standings and who won.

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SPORTS

Eagle hunting Syracuse men’s soccer takes on Boston College with a bid to the Final Four on the line. Check out our preview of the matchup.

See tomorrow’s paper

Lucky seven Syracuse goes for a 7-0 start against Wisconsin tonight. Check our graphical preview before the game in the Carrier Dome.

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men’s basketball

Coleman flashes his potential Recovering SU center is inching back to form after 2 years off due to injury

By Sam Blum sports editor

RIGHT AT HOME

JULIAN BUESCHER is a semifinalist for the Hermann Trophy, given to the country’s top college soccer player. After dropping aspirations of a professional career in Germany, he’s starred with Syracuse. He leads the Orange in points with 27.

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Buescher thrives at college level after leaving career in Germany

By Jon Mettus asst. web editor

J

ulian Buescher’s career in Germany was coming to a slow halt.

He had once started a game in front of 30,104 fans, getting a taste of what it’d be like to fulfill his childhood dream of becoming a professional German soccer player — his highest career point. But after that, he’d been relegated to the bench, spending more time there than on the field.

He had friends who had failed professionally and were now struggling. His mother asked if he was doing the right thing, still trying

to make it to that level. Finally, Buescher decided enough was enough and put his professional aspirations on pause.

“It is what it is,” he said, looking down at the ground and his voice trailing off. “I decided not to stay and to fight at that point.”

After pursuing professional soccer for two years, the 22-year-old Buescher, a player once tagged as the top midfielder in the U-19 German Bundesliga, came to America to play collegiate soccer. He’s traded the 40,000 seat stadiums in Germany for SU Soccer Stadium’s 1,500-person metal bleachers. The decision has paid off.

We saw that he has potential to be a fricken hell of a player and he’s starting to answer those questions now.

Jukka Masalin su assistant on buescher

His time on the bench has been swapped out for a starring role as the leading scorer for a Syracuse team that’s headed to the first Elite

Eight in program history. On Tuesday, he was named a semifinalist for the Hermann Trophy, an award for the nation’s top player. And his career, once reaching a dead end in Germany, has found a new path through Syracuse.

“He’s an exciting player … and has the ability to be a game changer,” Syracuse head coach Ian McIntyre said. “… It’s worked out great on both sides.”

Buescher’s time at Syracuse began “kind of depressing.” It was January, cold and dreary.

He couldn’t talk with most people, including his new teammates see buescher page 14

women’s basketball

5 things to know before SU faces No. 5 Maryland

By Jon Mettus asst. web editor

No. 20 Syracuse (4-1) will travel to College Park, Maryland to play the No. 5 Terrapins (6-0) at 7 p.m. on Wednesday as part of the Big TenACC Challenge.

Here are five things you need to know before the matchup:

Double trouble Maryland is the second top-five opponent the Orange will face only six games into the season. Syracuse fell to then-No. 4 Tennessee on Nov. 20, 57-55.

SU guard Brittney Sykes had a chance to tie the game with just six seconds left, but missed the first of two free throws before intention-

ally missing the second.

The Orange went 0-3 against top five opponents last season and 0-6 against the top 10.

“It really sucks when you lose a game by that close of a margin,” center Briana Day said. “… We’re in a desperation mode. We know we can do it. We want to prove to other people … how good we really are.”

Head coach Quentin Hillsman said a win over Maryland would be a quality win on the road and have huge implications come selection Monday. Starting point guard Alexis Peterson added that it’s easier to get upsets during the earlier part of the season when it’s harder for teams to scout.

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PARADISE ISLAND, Bahamas — Dajuan Coleman backed a defender down off the dribble in the post with 10 minutes left in the first half of Syracuse’s Battle 4 Atlantis Championship game on Friday. He laid the ball up and in and it looked easy.

Very little has been easy for the center over the past two injury-plagued seasons.

“I think Dajuan’s performance down here was very encouraging,” SU head coach Jim Boeheim said. “I think he’s going to be very important for us.”

In his three games in the Bahamas over just three days, Coleman averaged 17.3 minutes as opposed to just 12.3 over the season’s first three games. He also recorded 21 of his 28 total rebounds during the latter three games. He said he feels healthy and is showing slow but steady improvement as the newly minted No. 14 Orange (6-0) gets set to host Wisconsin (4-3) on Wednesday, “I feel good,” Coleman said after the Texas A&M win. “If I could, I would play tomorrow.”

Coleman hasn’t been limited in practice, Boeheim said, but is slightly in his conditioning. When he’s needed a break or has gotten into foul trouble, Tyler Lydon has moved over into the center position. Chinonso Obokoh had taken some minutes at the five, but was completely out of the rotation as the Orange played two ranked teams in the Bahamas.

The oft-injured big man has gotten into foul trouble very quickly, picking up four in each of the past four of the six games this season. It’s a work in progress, as most things are for Coleman. But it’s coming along.

“It’s definitely a confidence boost that I could come down here and play three games in three days,” Coleman said. “I did pretty good on defense and rebounding the ball.

I’m ready just to keep working, keep getting better.” sblum@syr.edu | @SamBlum3