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How he’s made

The development of Syracuse’s temporary (and future) head coach

By Jesse Dougherty

Community reflects on death of SU priest

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ust after 3 p.m. on a Friday in September, a line of students stretched across three storefronts in Marshall Square Mall.

Some gripped Starbucks iced coffees. Others used their shirt sleeves to fight the humidity. All of them craned their necks to see how close they stood to the next head coach of the Syracuse men’s basketball team.

One by one, they walked up to Mike Hopkins as he offered a swinging high-five and a personalized conversation.

Smack. “Were you at the six-overtime game or do you just have the shirt?”

Smack. “Where’d you get those shoes? Those are sweet.”

Smack. “How’s your freshman year going? You came a long way from Atlanta.”

A freshman boy was worried about the weather. “Is it really that bad?” he asked.

Hopkins’ eyes widened as he jumped into his own coming-toSyracuse story. In 1988, he moved to central New York from sunny Mission Viejo, California to play basketball for the Orange. He had a full head of surfer-blonde hair, an unrelenting work ethic and was in pursuit of perfection. That’s how he went from JV athlete to Big East recruit. From benchwarmer to Syracuse captain. From Syracuse’s temporary head coach to the man who will take over for Jim Boeheim in 2018.

“Mike has truly earned this honor through his hard work, dedication and commitment to our program for more than 20 years,” Boeheim said when Hopkins was announced as his successor. “There is no one more ready or prepared to carry on the success of Syracuse basketball than Mike Hopkins.”

The transition started Saturday, and Hopkins’ voice quivered with emotion as he lamented not winning for his mentor. He was filling in for Boeheim for the first of his nine-game suspension stemming from an NCA A investigation.

Twenty minutes after Syracuse fell to Georgetown, he stopped midsentence and took a long stare at the box score in front of him. When he looked up at a room crammed with

Chaplain engaged students

By Alexa Torrens asst. news editor

About a week before he died from a heart attack, the Catholic Chaplain of Syracuse University and State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry was gleaning apple orchards with SU students in an effort to feed the poor.

Father Linus DeSantis was someone who was gracious to the Syracuse community and was involved in it beyond his role as a chaplain and the head of the Alibrandi Catholic Center at 110 Walnut Place, said Melanie Carroll, a member of the Catholic Center’s Board of Directors and a doctoral candidate at SU.

The Syracuse University students, they loved him, they just — what’s not to love? He was a great priest … He was a really good human being as well as a good priest.

Melanie Carroll

member of the catholic center’s board of directors and a doctoral candidate at su

MIKE HOPKINS has been a Syracuse assistant coach for 20 years, and made his head coaching debut filling in for Jim Boeheim against Georgetown on Saturday. sam maller staff photographer

reporters, his eyes were red and filling with tears.

“I’ve been preparing myself to be a head coach for 20 years,’’ Hopkins said. “That was always what I wanted to be. I always visualized myself doing it.”

Hopkins doesn’t dwell on how long it took to get here; instead he remembers everyone who said he’d fail. He keeps three binders marked

“Inspirational Quotes” in his office.

He recently read a book titled “Onward: How Starbucks Fought For Its Life Without Losing Its Soul” to study a company’s success. He became Syracuse’s next head basketball coach by turning every experience into a learning opportunity, by turning every day into a step toward that dream.

In some ways, it all began with

the purchase of an oversized coat when he got to Syracuse some 27 years prior. Hopkins reached out his arms to show the freshman from Atlanta just how puffy it was. Time, he explained, has acquainted him with the cold. Time has done a lot of things.

“Now it’s shoes, no socks, jeans and a light jacket,” Hopkins said to him. see hopkins page 10

DeSantis died Tuesday after suffering a heart attack. He was ordained as a Catholic priest in 1971 and began his role as Roman Catholic chaplain at Hendricks in November 2007.

Carroll first met DeSantis in 2008 when she was the principal of an inner city elementary school in Syracuse. She needed someone to volunteer for Read Across America Day, and DeSantis came in to the school dressed in full SU gear and a big Dr. Seuss hat, she said.

Carroll, 45, who said she hasn’t left the university since she was an undergraduate, said see chaplain page 8

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Juniors create media show for student voices

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By Molly Berger staff writer

Amin Lawal was looking for a way that student voices could be heard around campus. While protesting is an outlet for expression, Lawal decided that there should be a “more formal” way to do it.

“We felt like our voices were getting lost,” Lawal said.

The junior history major put his head together with co-founder Luis Gonzalez to launch Voice of the Student (VOTS), an online media network that will post regularly.

“We needed to create something that could get out to the masses quickly,” Lawal said.

Lawal explained that some people consider him to be the boss of his team at VOTS, but he does not see himself in that position.

“I see myself more as a visionary … everyone needs their own voice to be heard and I want everyone to stick with their vision,” Lawal said.

Lawal works with three teammates, including co-founder Gonzalez, Andrew Grella, video editor and panelist, and Patrick Fallon, panelist. VOTS also uses voluntary

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Syracuse women’s basketball used a third-quarter run to defeat Stony Brook. The Orange had struggled in that quarter all season.

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AMIN LAWAL co-founded Voice of the Student as a new media venture that allows students to vocalize their concerns. He wanted to create a “more formal” way to protest. gabriella jones staff photographer

help when anyone wants to participate or help with a show.

In a VOTS show, the panelists talk about anything ranging from sports to academia to campus life to sex.

Lawal said no topic is too touchy.

With time spent interviewing

people on campus and marketing the brand on social media, the team spends about three days a week working on VOTS-related projects.

Although many of his teammates will be graduating, he hopes other students will take over. Lawal said

he loves working on VOTS voluntarily for the school, but his ultimate goal is to make it a business.

“We really have big dreams, but we have to take one step at a time,” Lawal said. moberger@syr.edu

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Listening Session on Campus Diversity and Inclusion to Be Held Monday Members of the Chancellor’s Workgroup on Diversity and Inclusion invite all members of the Syracuse University community—students, faculty, staff and administrators—to share experiences, voice concerns and express hopes about diversity and inclusion on campus during an event Monday, December 7.

The event, Community Voices: Listening Session on Campus Diversity and Inclusion, will be held from 7-9 p.m. in Goldstein Auditorium in the Schine Student Center.

Sign language interpreters and CART services will be provided. Questions regarding additional accommodations and parking can be directed to Aaron Hodukavich at ajhoduka@syr.edu or 315.443.2377 as soon as possible.

Light refreshments will be served.

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@cspan President Obama: “What we can do, and must do, is make it harder for them to kill.” #SanBernardino #ObamaSpeech

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@brnndnls Father Linus was the perfect university catholic chaplain.

Man was awesome. Such a shame he passed.

Speaking out SU community members will discuss diversity at a forum held by the Chancellor’s Workgroup on Diversity and Inclusion on Monday.

See Tuesday’s paper

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Obama addresses terrorism

By Sara Swann asst. news editor

President Barack Obama made an address on Sunday with plans to keep Americans safe and defeat the Islamic State — four days after 14 people were killed and 21 were injured in San Bernardino, California by shooters who were self-proclaimed supporters of IS. The shooters, Syed Farook and his Pakistani wife Tashfeen Malik, received praise from IS for the shooting, which happened on Wednesday at the Inland Regional Center, a nonprofit agency that assists people with developmental disabilities. But IS did not claim direct credit for the attack, according to a Yahoo News article.

In his live broadcasted address, which began at 8 p.m. on Sunday, Obama said this shooting was an act of terrorism designed to kill innocent people. During his seven years of office, Obama said he has had

Happy holidays PEPPIE CALVAR, director of the Hendricks Chapel Choir and artistic director for the annual Holidays at Hendricks concert, led the choir at the event, which took place on Sunday at 7:30 p.m. The concert also featured the SU Brass Ensemble, SU organist Annie Laver and special guests.

Calvar is also an assistant professor in the Setnor School of Music. liam sheehan staff photographer

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Group discusses Carrier Dome accessibility

By Michael Burke staff writer

The Student Association is working with several other organizations at Syracuse University to make the Carrier Dome more accessible for students with disabilities during men’s basketball games.

SA Vice President Jane Hong is

leading the initiative for SA and is currently in conversation with organizations such as the Disability Student Union, the Beyond Compliance Coordinating Committee, the Office of Disability Services and the Disability Law Society.

SU’s Americans with Disabilities Act coordinator Aaron Hodukavich and several professors specializ-

what is student association?

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.

ing in disability studies are also involved.

There is not an area in the Carrier Dome’s men’s basketball student section for people in wheelchairs, Hong said. She was first made aware of this issue when she read a Jerk Magazine article titled “Wheels of Progress” in the magazine’s May see accessibility page 8

About half of millennials OK limiting free speech

By Stacy Fernandez staff writer

Forty percent of millennials are OK with limiting speech that is offensive to minority groups, according to a recent report from the Pew Research Center.

The report — using data on free speech and media around the world — found that American millennials are more likely than older genera-

tions to say the government should be able to censor people from using offensive language about minority groups, according to the report.

“I’m not particularly surprised at the findings, especially with the millennial generation,” said Roy Gutterman, professor at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University and the director of the Tully Center for Free Speech.

Gutterman said the millennial generation has grown up being coddled and made to believe that hazardous and insensitive speech is something that they need to be shielded from.

The survey asked whether people believe citizens should be able to make public statements that are offensive to minority groups, or whether the government should be able to prevent people from saying these things. Forty

percent of millennials said the government should be able to prevent this language in public — 58 percent said such language was OK, according to the report. “(This) shows both an ignorance of the First Amendment and a very disturbing willingness to permit government to decide what sort of speech is appropriate and what see free

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crime briefs SHOOTING A man died from a gunshot wound to the chest that was discovered after the man crashed his car into a Syracuse police officer’s, police said.

Around 2:40 a.m. Sunday, a Syracuse police officer was responding to a shots fired incident on the 100 block of Smith Lane when, near the intersection of East Colvin Street and Robert Drive — about two blocks away from Comstock Avenue near the Carmelo K. Anthony Basketball Center — the officer’s patrol car was hit by another vehicle, according to a Syracuse Police Department release.

The police officer checked on the other driver and determined the driver had suffered a gunshot wound to the chest. The 22-year-old victim was taken to Upstate University Hospital where he died, according to the release.

Police are investigating where exactly the shooting took place, according to the release.

— Compiled by Justin Mattingly, news editor, jmatting@syr.edu See dailyorange.com for our interactive crime map.

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The tortoise population on the island of Pinta, which is located in the Galapagos Islands, has been missing for more than a century. The disappearance of the tortoises led scientists to believe that the Pinta tortoise species went extinct, but a new hybrid Pinta species was discovered. courtesy of bill corbett

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SUNY-ESF faculty members rescue formerly ‘extinct’ tortoise species to breed

By Anjali Alwis staff writer

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n the late 1800s, whalers and pirates would take tortoises from the islands of Pinta and Floreana to use as food on their ships, leading to the supposed extinction of these tortoises.

James Gibbs, a conservation biologist from the SUNY-ESF, is a member of a group of scientists who recently returned from a research expedition to the Galapagos Islands in search for a strain of these tortoises that until recently was believed to be extinct.

When Lonesome George, a Pinta tortoise, passed away in 2012, it was thought to be the end of the species.

However, a new hybrid Pinta species was discovered.

The focus of this expedition was to rescue some of these tortoises so that they could be bred in captivity.

Donald Leopold, the chair of the environmental and forestry biology department at SUNY-ESF, said even today people are finding species of plants and animals that they thought were extinct across the globe.

“The Galapagos is unique because it is a series of these islands where species were unique to those islands, so (there are) … a lot of things that look sim-

ilar but are actually quite different island-to-island because they spent so many hundreds of thousands of years on those islands all isolated,” Leopold said.

He added that when the sailors came in and began moving things around and eliminating the tortoises, it had a negative effect on the islands’ ecosystems.

Elizabeth Hunter, a SUNY-ESF alumna, first became involved in Galapagos research in 2010 when she was working toward her Master’s degree under Gibbs. Her research focused on a group of sterilized tortoises that were introduced to Pinta Island to help fulfill the ecosystem functions of the extinct Pinta tortoise.

“Giant tortoises are also a conservation icon, and so resurrecting these species takes on a global importance that is larger than the Galapagos,” Hunter said in an email.

Giant tortoises are ecosystem engineers in many ways, Hunter said. For example, they structure the plant community through their disturbance, herbivory and seed dispersal, Hunter said. The tortoise population on Pinta has been missing for more than a century and as a result the plant community has changed, she said.

During a 2008 expedition, about 1,600 tortoises with the Pinta and Floreana genes were found, marked and identified based on blood samples. Based on that

sampling, a list of high-priority tortoises was created, and these tortoises were searched for during this expedition, Hunter said.

Once a tortoise was identified as being high-priority, it was transported off the island. With helicopter support, the tortoises were airlifted using a net and kept on a ship until they could be transported back to Santa Cruz Island, where they are currently being kept in a captive breeding center, she said.

Hunter said this kind of species resurrection — restoring an extinct species from hybrid individuals — is unprecedented. She said this won’t be a true success until the tortoises can begin breeding and their progeny can be restored to the islands, which could take decades.

“It’s important that we conserve endangered species before they become extinct as resurrecting them is clearly a time- and resource-intensive endeavor,” Hunter said.

Leopold said conservation is not a field that people should be dismissing because they think all the work has been done.

“This is probably the most important time in the history of the world for people to be thinking about conservation of plants and animals and habitats,” Leopold said. acalwis@syr.edu

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he giving nature of the holiday season began with a bang last Tuesday as restaurants across the U.S. donated food to the needy, setting what should be a precedent heading into the new year.

The one-day event, known as “Giving Tuesday,” showed the extent of the role restaurants can play in their respective communities by donating leftovers to hunger alleviation organizations. However, these efforts are often short-lived; by Wednesday, many restaurants were back to tossing leftovers in the trash.

To minimize hunger and better their public images, some restaurants should extend the annual giving throughout the entire holiday season, and restaurants that can sustain such programs should consider continuing their humanitarian efforts for the full year.

By throwing food out, restaurants waste 133 billion pounds, or $162 billion dollars worth annually, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Research Service.

About 40 percent of food grown in the U.S. ends up in landfills, and, according to the Business for Social Responsibility for the Food Waste Alliance, food establishments account for 20 percent of this waste.

In Syracuse, the poverty rate is among the highest in the nation.

While local soup kitchens and food pantries are working to combat hunger, they can’t do it alone.

Some community food providers and restaurants have consistent leftover donation programs in

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place, including the Carrier Dome, Chipotle on Marshall Street and Pastabilities downtown.

In the meantime, restaurants including Panda West and Varsity Pizza said that they do not donate leftovers at all. A representative at Dinosaur Bar-B-Que said the restaurant had a program in place, but recently dropped it due to logistical reasons.

The costs associated with preservation and transportation, in addition to the fear of any potential lawsuits, are what may prevent these restaurants and others like them from donating food. However, businesses can reduce costs, accrue tax deductions on dated leftovers and combat hunger to ultimately better their public image.

According to a 2013 Social Impact Study, 89 percent of U.S. consumers would switch to brands associated with a cause, given comparable price and quality. If a campaign were initiated across Syracuse, restaurants could leave a note on their menus signifying that they are part of a greater purpose. Consumers would then be more inclined to eat at those restaurants because of the positive association between social efforts and businesses.

In regard to the legal side of donating food, federal laws, including the Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Food Donation Act, protect good faith food donors from civil and

criminal liability, should the product later cause harm to its recipient.

To aid in the shift toward food sustainability, local businesses should take note of organizations like the Food Recovery Network (FRN). In its second year, the program collects leftovers from SU dining halls, the People’s Place cafe in Hendricks Chapel and SUNY-ESF’s Trailhead Cafe and donates them to local shelters and pantries several times per week.

Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern, an assistant professor of food studies in the David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics, said students involved in FRN are “in something very tangible for all students.”

“To go and donate food that would be wasted to the community and looking at broader food implications is great,” she said.

Heightened collaboration between local, off-campus food establishments and organizations like FRN would be transformative for the Syracuse community in addressing hunger, but would also prove beneficial for businesses.

More needs to be done to combat hunger and food waste. Neighborhood restaurants should work together to create food sustainability and charitable campaigns to alleviate hunger. Feeding those in need with what would otherwise be harmful waste makes sense both morally and economically. Hunger never stops and neither should philanthropy.

Matthew Gutierrez is a freshman journalism and entrepreneurial management dual major. His column appears weekly. He can be reached atmguti100@syr.edu.

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Syracuse University Student Association President Aysha Seedat, Vice President Jane Hong and Comptroller Phil Kramer are deserving of the stipends they were granted last week in a unanimous vote by the SA assembly.

The governing student body set aside $2,500 in its budget at the beginning of the semester for Seedat, $2,500 for Kramer and $1,500 for Hong in stipends, but the money had not yet been approved for distribution until the vote.

As three of the most influential students on the SU campus who have consistently demonstrated a strong dedication to the university and its students throughout the semester, the stipends are justified in the reasoning behind the decision and in the amounts allocated.

Although it is arguable that each student actively sought out and campaigned for these leadership positions, the stipends are similar to holding a work-study job in which students receive pay for the work they put into university jobs. The hours Seedat, Kramer and Hong spend working with SA do not allow them the time for another job and it is only fair they are compensated for their work as the voice of the student body.

The stipends come after SA received about $1.5 million in budget requests for the spring 2016 semester and was only able to allocate roughly $685,000 in funding for recognized student organizations. While SA could have used the

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extra money elsewhere, the $6,500 total is justified in not making a significant impact in SA’s budget nor taking considerable amounts of funding away from RSOs. This semester’s vote was the first time that approving the stipends was left up to the assembly.

In the past, the decision has been up to SA’s cabinet members, Parliamentarian James Franco said. But assigning the deciding vote to the assembly is a process that should be continued in future sessions.

This process is fair, considering the SA cabinet is hand-selected by the president and voting by the assembly ensures a more rounded vote. This move would also maintain the precedent that stipends are granted on the basis of a fair assessment of performance throughout the course of the semester, a process that should be continued for future sessions of SA to uphold a standard for student leaders to meet.

This standard is one Seedat, Kramer and Hong have visibly met after a semester defined by a strong push to bring ride-sharing services like Uber to central New York and heightened collaboration with SU Athletics to increase student attendance at sporting events.

To have rightfully granted these student leaders stipends is to acknowledge the time and work Seedat, Kramer and Hong have put into the 59th session of the Student Association to improve life at SU for the greater student body.

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University appoints permanent chief information officer

By Rachel Sandler asst. news editor

Samuel Scozzafava has been named chief information officer and vice president for information technology of Syracuse University, Interim Vice Chancellor and Provost Liz Liddy announced Friday.

As CIO, Scozzafava will oversee the department of Information Technology Services, according to an SU News release. Scozzafava has been serving in the position as interim CIO since June 2014.

Scozzafava was chosen for the position following a national search after Scozzafa-

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chaplain during her experience in the community, none of the SU priests reached out the way DeSantis did.

“They did not engage in our Syracuse city schools, they did not engage with kids in poverty at the Franciscan Center the way he did,” Carroll said.

This also extended to SU students, who he encouraged to volunteer and engage in the Syracuse community as a part of the service component of Catholic education, Carroll said.

Through DeSantis’s efforts, SU students

va’s predecessor, Christopher Sedore, was appointed senior vice president for enrollment management, according to an SU News release.

Scozzafava was among 39 candidates during the search, according to the release.

“The University was extremely fortunate to have a candidate so strongly positioned and well equipped to take on this critically important role,” Liddy said in the release.

“Sam has been exemplary in his performance as interim CIO and vice president for information technology and proven himself to be both a skilled manager and an innovative leader.”

Scozzafava, as CIO, will report to Liddy,

according to the release.

ITS provides centralized technology and support services for the university. These services include maintaining the campus network and Internet connectivity, according to the release.

ITS also includes enterprise academic and administrative systems, information technology security, telecommunications and telephone and walk-in service centers, according to the release.

Scozzafava has been working at the university since 2007. In that time, he has held a number of positions within ITS, according to the release.

“I look forward … to (finding) innovative ways to apply technology to support the University ’s mission,” Scozzafava said in the release. “I am excited by the opportunity to lead such an outstanding team and collaborate with our IT colleagues across the University.”

As CIO, Scozzafava will also be responsible for providing cost-saving applications of information technology, overseeing information technology disaster recovery, security and privacy and ensuring that the university appropriately invests in technologies, according to the release.

got involved in STEM science fairs at the inner city schools.

“The Syracuse University students, they loved him, they just — what’s not to love? He was a great priest … He was a really good human being as well as a good priest,” Carroll said.

The chaplain “really was passionate” about the students he worked with, said Hendricks Chapel Interim Dean Samuel Clemence. DeSantis cared for them and counseled them, he added, and was always very “visible” on campus.

Clemence said DeSantis was “hands-on” and added that the chaplain would often say, “‘Words are good, but actions are more important.’”

DeSantis’ actions included his efforts to help the poor and children in inner city schools. The chaplain also was always willing to volunteer within the SU community, Clemence said, and often organized and prayed at vigils held at Hendricks.

When Hendricks celebrated its 85th birthday in the fall, DeSantis was out cutting cake on the Quad and handing slices to students, Clemence said.

DeSantis held Catholic masses every Sunday at Hendricks, and also held masses regularly at the Catholic Center, Clemence said.

The chaplain was available 24/7, Clemence added, and was “always willing” to help stu-

dents with whatever they needed, whether it be help with religious observances or counseling.

“There’s no other place he would rather be than working with students,” he said.

There will be an interfaith service held Wednesday in honor of DeSantis, Clemence said. At the end of the service, attendees can get their hands washed. DeSantis often washed people’s feet at religious ceremonies, Clemence said, as this is a tradition in the Catholic faith.

“He was willing to talk to anybody and be supportive,” he said. “He really was a very, very important part of the chapel.”

buildings, but that doesn’t do anything for students right now,” she added.

Hong said she wants to make the student section accessible for students in wheelchairs as soon as next semester, since the men’s basketball season is already underway. She added that she hopes to work with SU Athletics to create a ramp or platform reserved for students in wheelchairs.

“Even if it’s just a temporary solution, I want all students to have the ability to participate in the student section,” Hong said.

SA President Aysha Seedat has also proposed moving the student section from behind the basket to behind the sideline, which could also potentially eliminate the problem.

That initiative is still in its early stages, but Seedat said it’s important something is done soon to make the student section accessible.

“These aren’t things we think about when we go to the Carrier Dome unless you’re a student with a disability, and we need to,” Seedat said.

Though she hasn’t been able to yet, Hong said she plans to soon meet with Pete Sala, SU’s vice president and chief campus facilities officer, to discuss the issue.

In an email through SU’s Office of News Services, Sala said SU is taking steps to make the school “more accessible to the campus and surrounding communities.”

he said, no matter how effective the U.S.’s intelligence and law enforcement agencies are, they cannot identify every potential mass shooter, even if that shooter was motivated by IS or by another hateful ideology.

confident of the U.S.’s eventual success because “we are on the right side of history.”

New York state Gov. Andrew Cuomo released a statement on Sunday that said he stands with Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and demanded that Congress close the terror gap.

“As if it weren’t common-sense enough, it is clearer now than ever that members of Congress can no longer sit on their hands and shirk their responsibility to protect the American people — they must close the terror gap,” Cuomo said in a press release from his office, sent before Obama addressed the nation from the Oval Office.

Cuomo said this loophole does nothing more than help radical people kill innocent Americans, and added that it must be closed.

“The fact that reform continues to languish illustrates the stranglehold the NRA has over Washington, and it’s time for our elected leaders to show the political courage to vote for the safety of the American people,” Cuomo said.

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accessibility 2015 issue.

“My red flags just kind of went up,” Hong said.

When Hong returned to SU for the fall semester, she met with Diane Wiener, director of the Disability Cultural Center, who said students had previously talked to her about issues with the Dome’s accessibility.

As part of SU’s Campus Master Plan, which is part of Fast Forward Syracuse, the university has appointed the ISES Corporation to evaluate the accessibility of all campus facilities, including the Dome. However, that audit won’t begin until January and the results

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obama to confront this evolving threat. He said he authorized U.S. forces to take out terrorists abroad because he is aware of how real the danger is.

“I know after so much war, many Americans are asking whether we are confronted by a cancer that has no immediate cure,” Obama said in the address.

Groups like IS are hoping countries like America give into fear, Obama added.

In his address, the president outlined his strategy for how to destroy IS. First, he said, the U.S. military will continue to hunt down terrorist plotters in any country necessary.

Secondly, the U.S. will continue to provide training and equipment to Iraqi and Syrian forces fighting IS on the ground, Obama said.

For the third step, Obama said the U.S. is working with friends and allies to stop IS’s operations, disrupt its plots, cut off its financ-

Even if it’s just a temporary solution, I want all students to have the ability to participate in the student section.

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won’t be available until the fall 2016 semester, Hong said.

“It’s great that they’re analyzing all of the

ing and prevent the group from recruiting more fighters.

Obama said lastly that, with American leadership, the international community has begun to establish a process and timeline to pursue ceasefires and a political resolution to the Syrian war.

Following this strategy, Obama said, will allow the Syrian people and every country — including allies to the U.S. and other countries like Russia — to focus on the common goal of destroying IS. “Now, here at home, we have to work together to address the challenge,” Obama said. “There are several steps that Congress should take right away.”

To begin, Obama said, no one on a no-fly list should be able to buy a gun in America, stating that this is a matter of national security.

He added that the U.S. needs to make it harder for people to buy powerful assault weapons, like the ones used in San Bernardino.

Obama acknowledged the fact that some will oppose this gun-safety measure. However,

14 The number of people who were killed in San Bernardino on Wednesday by shooters who were self-proclaimed supporters of the Islamic State

“What we can do, and must do, is make it harder for them to kill,” Obama said.

If Congress believes as he does, Obama said it should vote to authorize the continued use of military force against IS. However, Obama warned against the U.S. being drawn once more into a “long and costly” ground war in Iraq or a war in Syria — because that’s what IS wants, he said.

Obama ended his address by saying he is

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hopkins “When you’re here this long, you just adjust.

You’ll be fine my man. See you at the games.”

••• t was 7 a.m. on a Saturday and, like any kid, Mike Hopkins was fast asleep.

But Griffin Hopkins, his father, had been awake for several hours. He started with a five-mile run, tidied up the house and was now washing the family cars while their California neighborhood stirred in the morning hush.

“I can’t believe your dad is out there and you’re going to lay in bed,” Mike’s mother, Sue, said through his bedroom door. So he peeled away the blanket, put two feet on the floor and followed his father’s lead.

Five days a week, Griffin woke up at 4:30 a.m. to drive 65 miles through Los Angeles traffic to his family-built business in La Verne, California. Then he’d drive 65 miles back, all so his family could live in the idyllic Orange County. He’d sometimes fall asleep at the dinner table but always helped his wife with the dishes at night’s end.

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I fell in love with basketball because my friends were all better than me. And then it was, ‘How do I get better?’

MIKE HOPKINS

“He was just like a machine,” Mike said.

“That’s where I learned it.”

Griffin signed Mike up for his first organized basketball team in the fourth grade, and Mike took to the game immediately with an unyielding tenacity. The skill it took to score, grit to defend, teamwork to win. He was the first player on his team to develop an actual jump shot because he realized other kids couldn’t block it.

By sixth grade, Mike was playing on an A AU team with two future NBA players, a college All-American and a gold medal Olympic sprinter. He played one-on-one with his friend Chris Patton — then rated the No. 1 high school freshman in the country — and would lose 50-1 in Patton’s backyard. They’d play again to the same result. And again, same result.

“I fell in love with basketball because my friends were all better than me,” Mike said.

“And then it was, ‘How do I get better?’”

He arrived at Mater Dei (California) High School as a solid player dead set on becoming more.

Mike played on the freshman team but stayed in the gym to watch the JV and varsity practice, studying players both good and bad.

He refused to leave the gym until he won the last game of one-on-one. Late at night, he’d call one of the assistant coaches to discuss everything from his help defense to freethrow form.

And if he wasn’t shooting hoops, Mike glued himself to Big East games playing in primetime on the opposite coast. Patrick Ewing at Georgetown. Chris Mullin at St. John’s. Pearl Washington at Syracuse. He watched with friends and rattled off their names like he was opening a pack of baseball cards.

MIKE HOPKINS started as a Syracuse player close to 27 years ago, and is in his 20th season as an assistant coach. In June, he was named the Orange’s “head coach-in-waiting” and is set to take over in 2018.

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Mater Dei head coach Gary McKnight took Mike and a few friends to a Syracuse basketball camp after their freshman season. Though it wasn’t a recruiting trip, Mike treated it like one. And he fell in love.

“He came back and he told everybody that I’m going to go to Syracuse. He said, ‘I’m going to get a basketball scholarship,’” Paul Hoover, then a Mater Dei assistant coach, said. “And everybody laughed at him. I can remember people saying, ‘Yeah, sure you are Mike. Sure.’”

Three years later, Syracuse unveiled a strong recruiting class that featured Billy Owens, Dave Johnson, Richard Manning and a lanky kid from southern California.

Mike, who stood 6 feet, 5 inches tall, had impressed Boeheim enough to earn a scholarship, but didn’t exactly figure into the Orange’s future plans.

He redshirted his first season, played sparingly the next and was just about done with Syracuse after logging 13 minutes per game as a sophomore. After the Orange lost to Richmond in the first round of the 1991 NCAA Tournament, Mike told Matt Roe what he’d been thinking all year.

“I don’t know if I’m ever going to play here; I think I have to leave,” Roe, who’d transferred from SU to Maryland two years prior, remembers Mike saying.

“And for a second,” Roe says now, “I thought he really meant it.”

With the season over, Mike took a trip home during a break from school. His father’s company had just opened a new plant and he wanted to give his son a tour. They had talked about transferring several times — over the phone, in the house, in the car — but now Griffin showed Mike the tangible reward of hard work.

When they got to PaperPak Product’s new offices, a security guard asked to see Griffin’s ID. He patted both his pockets and realized he’d left it in the car.

“Listen, my name is Griffin Hopkins and I

ON SATURDAY, Hopkins was nearly brought to tears during the press conference of his first game — and loss — as a head coach.

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work here,” he said to the security guard.

But the guard wouldn’t let them through without identification. They walked back through the plant, got his wallet from the car and approached the entrance.

“Mr. Hopkins I apologize … ” the guard started, realizing that he had been talking to the CEO. “This is the type of person I want working for me,” Griffin responded. “You’re just doing your job at a high level and I’ll always remember that.”

Standing beside his father, Mike knew the key to getting on the court at Syracuse.

••• he church was quiet aside from the bouncing of the basketball.

Hopkins often went there with Leo Rautins, who played at SU in the early ‘80s before embarking on a professional career. Rautins later moved back to Syracuse, took a liking to the 20-year-old Hopkins and found himself with a key to Most Holy Rosary Parish on the

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city’s west side. So they came to the gym and took free throws, then jumpers, then broke into an all-out game of one-on-one.

Now the church was filled with voices, two of them, trash-talking each other while elbows flew and sweat dripped on the worn wooden floor.

“I used to talk a lot of (stuff) to him, try and get in his head, try and control him, try and do things like that,” Rautins said. “It was an effort to teach him how to do it.”

In Hopkins’ third active season, he teamed with Adrian Autry in Syracuse’s backcourt and used wit and will to become the team’s eccentric energy source. He regularly dove on the floor, pressed up on the opposition’s best players and was named a captain as a senior.

Away from practices and games, Hopkins itched for more and went to the church with Rautins. He and teammate Stevie Thompson knew what buttons to press in the Manley Field House security room to get in late at night. If they couldn’t, they ran down to the

HOW HE’S MADE kins called an old coach and started giving personal lessons. Soon he had a dozen players and was coaching an A AU team. He thought he may be onto something. Then the phone rang.

“Listen, I think I’m going to get the Duke job. I think you’d be a great coach,” said Tim O’Toole, an assistant at Syracuse. “You should call Coach Boeheim and tell him you’d want my spot if I get the job.”

O’Toole was right about two things: He was hired as a Duke assistant, and Hopkins had a knack for teaching. Hopkins called Boeheim and, like he did eight years prior, flew out to Syracuse to help his former coach with a camp.

He hasn’t left central New York since.

“Every star was aligned,” Hopkins said.

“The way it happened was incredible.”

••• erry McNamara stretched out his arms and legs, picked up a basketball and started walking toward the basket on the far side of Syracuse’s practice court.

He’d worked out with Hopkins, an assistant coach then in charge of the guards, from the start of his career in 2002, and here he was again in an empty gym.

As he crossed half court, the junior guard noticed two pieces of tape stuck to the floor.

The first one, about 8 feet behind the 3-point line, read “J.J.’S RANGE.” The second, 4 feet in front, read “G-MAC’s RANGE.” Hopkins wanted to remind McNamara of Duke’s J.J. Redick, who was making national headlines and averaging 21.8 points per game.

McNamara smiled, shook his head and started launching 3s.

“I couldn’t wait until he got out there because I was going to give him quite a face full of stuff,” McNamara said. “He had a way of getting under your skin in the perfect way.”

From the time he started as an assistant in 1996, Hopkins’ creativity and non-stop energy made him a skilled motivator.

When Ryan Blackwell was slumping in 1998, he called the sophomore into his office and showed him a highlight tape of his best plays that Hopkins compiled himself. He offered to come early and stay late for any player, to help them “figure it out” like he had, in the darkness of the Carrier Dome so many years ago.

Allen Griffin took him up on that, dozens of times, and Hopkins dove after his misses so they wouldn’t hit the floor. When Griffin’s girlfriend gave birth in December of 1998, Hopkins sat patiently in the Crouse Hospital waiting room.

“For him to be there for me the way he was, all the time,” Griffin said, “it’s something I will cherish for the rest of my life.”

Hopkins began as a restricted-earnings assistant who wasn’t allowed to recruit. That afforded him opportunities to get close with the players and immerse himself in opponent scouting. When he started on the recruiting trail around 2000, he drove with his pregnant wife up and down Interstate 81 to seek talent in SU’s backyard.

Working with fellow assistant Troy Weaver, Hopkins’ first class included Craig Forth, Billy Edelin, Josh Pace and Hakim Warrick. The next featured Gerry McNamara and Carmelo Anthony. In the spring of 2003, those six players formed the nucleus of Syracuse’s only-ever national championship team.

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“Hop is a guy who can take a kid, whether it’s a kid at the end of the bench or a kid who plays a lot, and he’ll make them feel special,” said Jim Hart, who coached Forth in A AU. “As a coach, you want to send your kids to play for a guy like that. He was so trustworthy as a recruiter.”

His eye for talent and ability to develop it made him a hot coaching candidate in the coming years. He was connected to the University of North Carolina at Charlotte job in 2010, Oregon State in 2014 and a handful of other opportunities. He says he interviewed for some, declined others and always had the same rebuttal when schools talked badly of the Syracuse weather.

For him to be there for me the way he was, all the time, it’s something I will cherish for the rest of my life.

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Women’s Building and played on a wooden backboard with an old-school rim.

He knew the late-shift security guard in the Carrier Dome, who would flick on the hallway lights to illuminate a path to the court.

Inside a dark, empty stadium, Hopkins took jump shots alone.

Mike was a different breed. He just wanted it so badly. He didn’t stop and he figured it out. Having a guy like that, it gave us a certain edge, a swagger.

We knew, within the program, how much Mike meant to our team.

ADRIAN AUTRY | SU ASSISTANT COACH

“Mike was a different breed,” said Autry, who now works alongside Hopkins as an SU assistant coach. “He just wanted it so badly. He didn’t stop and he figured it out.

“Having a guy like that, it gave us a certain edge, a swagger. We knew, within the program,

how much Mike meant to our team.”

After leaving Syracuse, his life was filled with injuries, plane rides and a fleeting goal of playing professional basketball.

It started in Denver, where he recalled being one of the last cuts off the Nuggets’ summer league team. Then he was days away from flying to Cyprus for what he said was a $35,000 contract before a last-minute change. Instead he trekked to Rochester, Minnesota, for a brief stint in the Continental Basketball Association.

Next was an international tour that included stops in Turkey, France and Holland.

Eventually he decided to hang it up.

Back in Orange County, Hopkins thought about his next step. Two and a half years had passed, and he needed a direction. He wanted to work for his father, but Griffin had just laid off six employees after coming off a bad financial year. He didn’t think it would be right to hire his son in their place, so Hopkins sunk into his couch, bag of Doritos in hand, and watched hours of O.J. Simpson coverage to pass the time.

“Knowing that your career is over is depressing enough, and now my dad can’t hire me so now it’s like the double depression shot of espresso at Starbucks,” he said. “The double shot of misery.”

Naturally, he turned to basketball. Hop-

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“It’s always warm in the Carrier Dome,” he’d tell them.

In 2013, Hopkins said he was nearly hired at USC before the Trojans chose Florida Gulf Coast’s Andy Enfield.

He was disappointed he wouldn’t get closer to home, but Syracuse was where every opportunity had originated. Boeheim hired him without any experience, took him to work with the U.S. Olympic team and had already said he wanted Hopkins to take over for him when he retired, whenever that would be.

“Life is unpredictable, you never know what’s going to happen,” Hopkins said. “Live for the day, try and prepare the best for the day.”

He was officially named the Orange’s “headcoach-in-waiting” in June.

••• n October, Hopkins placed his MacBook Pro on his office desk.

He flipped it open and pulled up 15 years of photos and videos organized by date. His eyes lit up. Memories flooded back.

“I need to look at this all more often,” he said to himself. “Man, look at this stuff.”

There was his son Griffin’s first time at Yankee Stadium. A video of him working on Demetris Nichols’ jump shot. A photo of his dad and brother smiling in the Carrier Dome stands. A shot of him and Derrick Rose, arm in arm at USA Basketball camp, after he and a handful of NBA stars got McDonald’s after a late-night workout.

Next there will be photos from Saturday’s game. Then from his first season as a head coach. And then … who knows.

He scrolls through the years and starts connecting the dots. From childhood to perfectionist, from player to coach, from failure to success. This is how he got here. This is how he became the next head coach of a program that was once 2,700 miles from home and even farther from reality.

It’s all right there on the 15-inch screen, proof of what the world has already seen.

“When I first started coaching, my goal wasn’t to be the head coach at Syracuse,” Hopkins said. “My goal was to be the best coach on the planet. I just wanted to be the best.”

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SU, Le Moyne College vet organizations hold food drive

By Taylor Watson staff writer

The Student Veterans Organization of Syracuse University recently teamed up with the Student Veterans Association of Le Moyne College and Clear Path for Veterans to host a food drive to support local veterans.

The food drive began on Nov. 30 and will run through Jan. 15. Goods collected will be donated to Clear Path for Veterans, a community-based resource center that connects service members to necessary resources and programs to ensure they are physically and emotionally supported, according to its website.

Collection bins on the SU campus can be found in the Schine Student Center, the Institute for Veterans and Military Families, the Student Veterans Lounge, the Goldstein Student Center on South Campus and at Univer-

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free speech isn’t, and that sort of attitude does not belong in a democratic system,” said David Rubin, dean emeritus of Newhouse.

Although a larger portion of millennials favor allowing offensive speech against minorities, the 40 percent statistic is significant given that only 27 percent of Generation Xers, 28 percent of baby boomers and 12 percent of silents — people born from the mid-1920s to the early 1940s — say the government should prevent such speech, according to the report.

sity College. Jordan Robinson, the president of the SVO at SU, said the organization hopes to empty each box three times.

Once the food is donated to Clear Path for Veterans, it will supply the organization’s weekly lunches and stock its food pantry, she added.

The student veterans organizations are able to host the food drive thanks to a mini grant awarded to Hendricks Chapel by the MLK Day of Service Community Partnership Project, which was initiated by Iowa Campus Compact. Funds from the grant covered the cost of the food drive coordinator position along with various other event-related expenses, Robinson said.

The culminating event is the Martin Luther King Jr. Day Lunch of Thanks, to be held on Jan. 18 at Clear Path for Veterans. The lunch is to thank veterans and veteran supporters, Robinson said.

The goal of the Lunch of Thanks is to involve people from all over the community and recog-

nize Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a day of giving back, according to a press release from the SVO. The Lunch of Thanks involves student veterans, other college students, community members and community organizations. Representatives from Hendricks Chapel, the Student Veterans Organization, the Office of Veterans and Military Affairs and members of the Le Moyne College community are volunteering at the event.

The Lunch of Thanks is funded by scholarships, grants, donations and the sale of yellow ribbon “support our troops” car magnets. Magnets can be purchased for $5 at People’s Place in the lower level of Hendricks Chapel. The fundraising goal for the lunch is $1,500, according to the release.

This is the first year for the collaboration of the student veterans groups in hosting the food drive and the Lunch of Thanks, and Robinson said she would definitely like to see it turn into an annual event.

The collaboration between the SU and Le Moyne College student veterans groups arose following a veterans networking event held at SU, said Michael Venditte, vice president and co-founder of SVA. When the SVO members decided they wanted to work with another student veteran organization, the similar philanthropic values of the SVA at Le Moyne College made them a great pair, Robinson said.

This is the inaugural year for the SVA at Le Moyne College, and Venditte said the fact that the organization was able to plan and participate in this project is a success that may lead to greater opportunities to help the community.

Venditte and Robinson both said they hope the collaboration between the student veterans clubs will continue, as the groups can learn from each other and work for the greater good.

Rubin said he is not sure whether these views will last as millennials mature and understand more.

Compared to dozens of other nations surveyed, people in the United States are more opposed to the government being able to prevent any kind of speech, according to the report.

The report comes as college campuses have seen fierce debate about political correctness and “PC culture.” Increasingly, university campuses have become environments of political correctness, according to an article in the U.S. News and World Report.

“The way people start to appreciate free

speech is when they themselves become censored or when their view points become sanctioned or punished,” Gutterman said.

Can Aslan, a third-year PhD candidate in the bioengineering program and president of the Graduate Student Organization, is working on free speech issues with SU’s computer and electronic policy.

“We cannot separate electronic policies from free speech so we’re going to look into free speech overall,” Aslan said.

The goal of this work is to redefine free speech policy on the SU campus, especially because SU is currently a red-light school, Aslan said. SU received

the red-light rating because of a policy that gives the university ownership of all electronic communication transmitted on the SU system.

The red-light rating was given by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education.

The foundation’s website defines a red light university as having at least one policy that both clearly and substantially restricts freedom of speech.

Rubin, who is leading the group, said there is no way to know what people will find offensive and added that there is no knowledge of what kinds of speech will have certain reactions.

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$52,777.40 The amount of money OttoTHON raised beyond its $100,000 goal for the Upstate Golisano Children’s Hospital.

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JUST DANCE (FROM LEFT) VICTORIA HOPE, SARA ECKHARDT AND ELIZABETH YOUNG danced during OttoTHON to songs like Justin Bieber’s “What Do You Mean?,” Mark Ronson ft. Bruno Mars’ “Uptown Funk.” The students had to raise a required $100 before the event and $44 while they were there.

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Students at OttoTHON shatter fundraising goal for Upstate Golisano Children’s Hospital

By Lizzie Michael staff writer

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im Pitt walked out on stage with her 13-year-old daughter, Victoria, and began to cry. Overwhelmed with emotion, she struggled to hold back tears as her daughter hugged her tighter. “[Victoria] is my hero, like you are my hero in raising money for Golisano,” Pitt said to the audience.

Victoria has severe Crohn’s disease and the money raised at this year’s OttoTHON will benefit Upstate Golisano Children’s Hospital, where she receives treatment.

Masses of students dressed in fluffy tutus, silver sparkles and

sneakers danced their way into the Schine Student Center at Syracuse University Saturday morning. Adrenaline pumping, these students had one goal: to raise money for the hospital through SU’s largest student philanthropy event, OttoTHON.

$152,777.40

The amount of money fundraised by this year’s OttoTHON

This year, OttoTHON raised $152,777.40, which exceeded its $100,000 goal.

The OttoTHON dance marathon, which lasted from noon

until midnight, works in conjunction with the Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals, a nationwide non-profit. Last February, the event raised over $84,000, beating the northeast record for the most money raised by a CMN dance marathon’s first event.

The money raised at OttoTHON will be used to move the pediatric emergency room to a higher floor in order to make it bigger and better, said Upstate Golisano CEO John McCabe. He then donated $440 to the efforts to a loud cheer.

At the start of the day, hundreds of students, all wearing yellow OttoTHON T-shirts, cheered their way past the Orange Appeal a cappella group into Goldstein Auditorium, where Justin Bieber’s “Sorry” was blasting through the speakers. Fairy lights see ottothon page 16

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Ranking the top 5 stop-motion Rankin/Bass Christmas TV specials Christmas movies take over TV channels, streaming sites and movie theatres the entire month of December. Programmers have a huge selection of Christmas movies to choose from: the cult classic “Elf,” the timeless “It’s a Wonderful Life” and even

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This year, ”The Night Before,” “Joy” and “Krampus” line up as the top holiday Hollywood releases. A lot

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ottothon rimmed the balcony and balloons covered the walls and scattered across the dance floor.

Close to 450 students had registered to fundraise, Max Murphy, a sophomore English education major and a volunteer for OttoTHON, said.

“It’s been an amazing process, the last OttoTHON to now; the hype has just been going up and up,” Murphy said.

Jillian Lynch created OttoTHON last fall.

After she gave her opening remarks, Lynch, a junior dual broadcast and digital journalism and citizenship and civic engagement major, introduced Chris Hixon, the Miracle Dance Marathon manager for the northeast, and Thomas Welch, the chair of pediatrics at Upstate Golisano Children’s Hospital.

“Remember that you are the reason that some kids will see one more day,” Hixon said before pumping up the crowd.

This year, OttoTHON’s theme was superhe-

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stevens 5. “Rudolph’s Shiny New Year” (1976) While the New Year setting feels premature before Christmas, Rudolph keeps it merry.

He chases after Baby New Year alongside Big Ben, The Great Quarter-Past-Five and General Ticker through the Archipelago of Last Years as they try to avoid the vulture Aeon. It’s a New Year’s story with Christmas characters, so it still plays well in December. Not their best work, but an underrated story.

4 . “The Year Without a Santa Claus” (1974)

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roes. Posters printed with “You are our hero,” and “Dance for a day, give hope for a lifetime,” plastered the walls.

At around 1:40 p.m., children from the hospital began arriving and immediately jumped into the action, tossing volleyballs and hula-hooping around the venue.

At the back of the auditorium was a special area reserved for the families of the children.

Dubbed “Superhero HQ,” it included a station where the kids could paint their own superhero masks and bright red capes for each child to wear.

This area was designed so the kids could have somewhere to sit while still participating and watching the dancers, junior advertising major and OttoTHON volunteer Stephanie Malis said.

The largest activity of the night was the hourly “morale dance.” This elaborate routine, taught to dancers by energetic morale director Nikki Cullinan, required every student in attendance to do grapevines, knee slaps and other dance moves. The synchronized dance kept people moving and was set to a mashup of songs and song bites.

“I’m up there sweating and going all out, and you just can’t care what anyone else thinks. It’s so much fun,” Cullinan, an undeclared sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences, said.

The majority of the 12 hours was dedicated to an open dance floor, while OttoTHON volunteers danced along on stage. The time was broken up by games, fundraising opportunities, speeches and a surprise dance workshop from the Raices Dance Troupe.

Many children from the hospital came to speak on stage, including Nick Ammann, a high school senior who had two brain surgeries in the past year.

“Upstate Golisano Children’s Hospital is a remarkable place where miracles really do happen,” Ammann said. “I appreciate all of you coming out today and I look forward to an exciting evening at OttoTHON.” In order to bring more money to Upstate Golisano, dancers were asked to raise an additional $44 throughout the day. Every time a student did, buzzers would sound across the entire auditorium and draw loud cheers from the dancers.

Rob Long, an SU alumnus and former punter for the football team, came to speak about his experience being treated for brain cancer at the hospital nearly five years ago.

“You guys are in such an amazing position to make such a big difference,” Long said. “It’s been a long road, but we have so much hope.”

By the end of the night, the dancers were tired and their moves turned strangely interpretive, swaying to the rhythm as they acted out song lyrics. Still, they danced on, until Lynch walked on stage to give one last speech.

“Wow, we did it!” Lynch said as the room burst into applause. “Honestly, all of you are dance marathon. You are the reason this is happening; without you, none of this would have happened.”

Although not every dancer lasted the full 12 hours, those who did got a second wind, exploding into cheers and hollers when event organizers revealed OttoTHON raised about $66,000 more than last year.

As she left the auditorium with her mother, Victoria Pitt shouted out, “Best party ever!”

The title is a bit misleading, but this special boasts two of the most memorable characters from the Rankin/Bass world: Heat Miser and Snow Miser. Their dueling songs remain the most fun originals in the whole series. And nothing beats the trumpet noise of Santa’s sneeze, that’s classic.

2 . “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” (1964) The one that started it all. Based on the classic Johnny Marks song, this was Rankin/Bass’ first network Christmas movie and its success made the rest possible. Most importantly, this one follows the song exactly, so it sets up the rest of the Rankin/Bass universe to be the true stories of the Christmas characters everybody loves.

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3 . “The Little Drummer Boy” (1968) Based off the song, this special goes without the North Pole characters, and instead tells the story of an orphan boy and his lesson in giving. While it is more religious than the rest, it gives one of the best lessons: giving is the most rewarding thing, no matter how little you have to give.

1 . “Santa Claus is Comin’ To Town” (1970) The best Rankin/Bass movie is the story of the man himself. It’s a growing up story, it’s romantic, it’s heartbreaking and it’s a perfect execution of the Santa Claus’s legend. Plus,

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Rankin/Bass achieved classic status because its specials felt like the true origins of Santa, Rudolph and all their friends. Stop-motion cartoons feel playful, like new Christmas toys, and that’s why they remain timeless and they will be a part of the 25 Days of Christmas no matter what ABC Family changes its name to.

Editor’s note: “Frosty the Snowman” (1969) was also produced by Rankin/Bass, but it is not a stop-motion movie and therefore not on the list.

Kyle Stevens is a sophomore advertising major. You can email him at ksteve03@syr.edu.

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Laci’s Lunchbox got its name from the combination of the first names of its founders — Laura and Cindy. Laura Serway and Cindy Seymour opened the cafe in an effort to restore Green Street. Laci’s offers snacks and lunchtime treats like cookies, smoothies, soups and more.

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Laci’s Lunchbox offers coffees and sandwiches as one of Syracuse’s better lunch spots

By Callie Weinstein staff writer

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ith finals week approaching, it’s imperative to eat yummy, healthy foods to get you through the stress. Over the weekend, I tried Laci’s Lunchbox, which I consider to be a top-notch hidden spot in the Hawley-Green neighborhood of Syracuse. Down the road from Syracuse University, Laci’s Lunchbox is located at 115 Green St. Opened by Laura Serway and Cindy Seymour, who also owns Laci’s Tapas, which is located across the way, Laci’s Lunchbox is set in a refurbished Victorian-style house. When first approaching the restaurant, you immediately see colorful Adirondack chairs on the front porch. I could tell that this lunch spot was going to be cute and inviting.

After successfully opening Laci’s Tapas five years ago, Serway and Seymour decided they wanted to restore Green Street one restaurant at a time, so they opened their second restaurant (Laci’s Lunchbox) last year. The name “Laci” comes from the first two letters of Laura and Cindy’s names put together.

Laci’s Lunchbox offers specialty coffees, smoothies, soups, salads and specials. Breakfast and catering are also available.

They have eight different paninis to choose from, all made with freshly baked focaccia bread or gluten-free white or wheat wraps.

I tried the green panini, topped with turkey breast, Swiss cheese and cranberry mayo. The food is presented in a fun way — the sandwich was served on checkerboard paper, giving it an old-school diner kind of feel. The panini was very tasty and was not your average Syracuse sandwich. The cranberry mayo was a surprising addition to the turkey and Swiss combination.

For a drink, I tried the Almond Joy, a specialty coffee made with chocolate and almond milk, topped in whipped cream and finished with shredded coconut bits, served in a huge mug.

The coffee tasted just like an Almond Joy candy. It was very smooth and creamy but not overly sweet. Like all specialty coffee drinks at Laci’s Lunchbox, this one was served with a fresh chocolate chip cookie — which, I must say, was the perfect touch. I dipped my cookie in the warm beverage and thoroughly enjoyed this special treat.

On the way out, I decided to try a smoothie. I ordered the Green Genie, which contains apple juice, spinach, mango and pineapple. I was disappointed to see the smoothie being made with frozen fruit and confectioners’ sugar. It tasted very artifi-

cial. This isn’t something I would order again.

While watching my smoothie being made, I couldn’t help but stare at the container of cookies in front of me. There were four different options of cookies to choose from: peanut butter, chocolate chunk, white chocolate macadamia and the seasonal cookie which is white chocolate chip with cranberries.

All of the cookies are baked fresh daily. I tried the chocolate chunk and it was exceptional.

The quaint lunch spot is casual but fun. When you walk in, you immediately see a chalkboard wall with specials listed.

There is an open counter filled with containers of fresh baked goods next to where you order food. You can either choose to take your food on the go or stay and dine. Some of the chairs have coffee cutouts behind them, adding to the coffee shop decor.

The comfortable atmosphere resembles a dining room — it is very homey. There is a fireplace in the center of the dining room, adding to the coziness. It felt like the type of place where the employees would know my name.

Of all the sandwich options in Syracuse this is definitely one of the best spots. The food is phenomenal, the portions are massive and the prices are right. caweinst@syr.edu

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men’s soccer

Syracuse applies extra defensive pressure in win over Eagles

By Chris Libonati asst. copy editor

Noah Rhynhart and Liam Callahan flanked defenders Kamal Miller, Louis Cross and Miles Robinson as Syracuse’s wings dropped back.

After pressuring for 78 minutes, the Orange was able to pack in its defense. A Ben Polk goal had put Syracuse up, 1-0, the first time it led against Boston College in the teams’ two meetings.

The Orange’s typical 3-5-2 transformed more into a 5-3-2, stopping any last ditch efforts BC squeaked out.

SU head coach Ian McIntyre was only able to pack his defense in because of Polk’s goal and the in-progress clean sheet. The few chances unseeded Boston College (11-8-2, 4-4 Atlantic Coast) earned, the No. 6 seed Orange (16-5-3, 3-4-1) shut down in a 1-0 Elite Eight win.

Just three months ago, the defense was trying

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(11-8-2, 4-4), 1-0, to advance to the Final Four for the first time in program history.

Syracuse will play No. 2 seed Clemson (17-23, 6-1-1) on Friday at Sporting Park in Kansas City, Kansas.

“There’s only one more week left in the season and to be playing is something special,” head coach Ian McIntyre said.

Five minutes before kickoff, McIntyre brought his team together in an arm-in-arm circle. “We want it more. We want it,” McIntyre seemed to say to his players, and from the

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babers 2013 and 8,873 yards and 84 touchdowns in two seasons under Babers. He was taken in the second round of the 2014 NFL Draft by the New England Patriots and currently serves as Tom Brady’s backup.

Last season, Bowling Green quarterback Matt Johnson suffered a season-ending hip injury in the Falcons’ season-opener. In 2015, he led the country in regular-season passing yards. His 4,465 yards through the air are 182 more then Texas Tech quarterback Patrick Mahomes’ total. Johnson, a senior, also has a 43-to-8 touchdown-to-interception ratio.

Next season, Syracuse is expected to return quarterback Eric Dungey, along with walk-on Zack Mahoney and sophomore Austin Wilson.

The Orange is also bringing in Rex Culpepper and Lindsey Scott as Class of 2016 commits.

2. Bringing Baylor to Syracuse Babers served as the wide receivers coach and

to replace its whole back line from last year. Over time, it’s been successful in doing so. The Orange has yet to allow more than one goal in any postseason game and tallied its fourth clean sheet in seven games. SU will face No. 2 seed Clemson (17-2-3, 6-1-1), who the Orange split two games with this season, on Friday in the Final Four at Sporting Park in Kansas City, Kansas.

“The three boys are just winning balls and being aggressive and tackling and concentrating on what’s going on,” BC head coach Ed Kelly said.

The last time the two teams played, SU gave up seven first-half shots and two goals.

This time it gave up no shots in the first half.

That game was the last SU has lost this season. Simon Enstrom, who scored one of the goals by intercepting a pass from SU goalie Hendrik Hilpert and assisted on another to Trevor Davock in that game, was held in check

on Saturday.

A few times he motioned to the referee about a call, inciting one fan to yell and ask him why he “pranced” around the field. Kelly yanked them each from the game in favor of Isaac Normesinu and Dylan Pritchard at times.

“I definitely have got two quick defenders by the side of me with Kamal and Miles,” Cross said of keeping up with BC’s pace. “Just being tight with assignments.”

As Robinson turned away corner after corner, he evoked the tall, athletic defenders like Skylar Thomas, Tyler Hilliard and Jordan Murrell that allowed just seven goals all of last season. They, at times, were just feet away from Robinson, as they leaned up against the SU soccer barrier that separates the hill from the playing field.

“You had a pretty special Syracuse defense sitting in the crowd,” McIntyre said before turning to Cross, “… This guy here was outstanding.”

He then dipped into a list of players for Boston College, naming off some of their best offensive weapons. None of them were on the score sheet for anything other than a shot.

Just a few months ago, the defense was inexperienced, having played a total of eight college soccer games. The goalie behind them, Austin Aviza, was also a freshman and filling in for Hilpert, who hurt his quadriceps in the preseason.

Hilpert recalled starting a scrimmage against Georgetown in the preseason two weeks ago and only having less than half of a week to prepare with players he had never played with before.

He vowed that it wouldn’t happen again before SU’s game against BC and it didn’t. This time, the unit stood strong.

“If you can keep clean sheets like we did today,” McIntyre said. “There’s goals in this team.”

start of the game it looked like it.

Syracuse applied constant pressure through the first half, taking risks while Boston College had to shift its weight back on its heels.

“Our brand of soccer is just to keep pushing and attack and throw numbers forward,” McIntyre said.

SU forward Chris Nanco fired a hard line drive of a shot from about 20 yards away that hit off an Eagles player inside the box and skipped to Boston College goalie Alex Kapp, who had to make a diving save. SU midfielder Julian Buescher’s shot from the left corner of the penalty area forced Kapp to make another diving stop.

Seven shots and four on goal in the half, but the

Orange had nothing to show for it. Boston College, meanwhile, had failed to even record a shot.

McIntyre’s squad pushed the pace in the second half, too. Any stoppage of play was followed by a quick throw in or free kick. The head coached begged an official to speed up the game, spinning his hands in a circle.

“We didn’t get an early goal in the second half, but you could feel the momentum,” McIntyre said.

Boston College’s first recorded shot on goal didn’t come until 70 minutes into the game.

The ball was blocked on the way and never made it to the net. Minutes earlier, the Orange had managed five corners kicks in a row — though each one was sent away.

On the 13th corner of the day, Boston College finally cracked. Polk was undefended 5 yards away from the far post and connected with a cross that Callahan didn’t think anyone was going to get to.

“It was only a matter of time to actually counter on one and score,” Callahan said. “… It was just finding that one goal to push us forward.”

After the game, McIntyre joked that he doesn’t know how far Kansas City is from Syracuse.

About 1,008 miles.

And the Orange will be one of just four college soccer teams left playing there on Friday.

recruiting coordinator for the Bears in 2008.

From 2009-11, he was Baylor’s special teams coordinator and wide receivers coach for an offense led by current Washington Redskins signal-caller Robert Griffin III. The Bear’s high-powered offense put up 45.3 points per game in 2011 and Babers carried the style to EIU, where the Panthers put up 36.5 points per game and 48.2 points per game in his two seasons. Bowling Green put up 34.8 points per game last year without Johnson and 43.4 per game with him this year.

The Orange posted 27.3 points per game this season, only 17.1 in 2014 and 22.7 in 2013.

Babers’ offensive-minded approach can only help a team scrapping to emerge from the depths of the Atlantic Coast Conference.

• 1988-89 – UNLV (special teams/RBs) • 1990 – Northern Arizona (ST) • 1991-93 – Purdue (wide receivers) • 1994 – San Diego State (WRs) • 1995-97 – Arizona (WRs/RBs/quarterbacks) • 1998-2000 – Arizona (offensive coordinator/QBs) • 2001-02 – Texas A&M (OC/QBs) • 2003 – Pittsburgh (RBs) • 2004-07 – UCLA (asst. head coach/RBs/QBs) • 2008 – Baylor (WR/recruiting coordinator) • 2009-11 – Baylor (ST/WRs) • 2012-13 – Eastern Illinois (head coach) • 2014-15 Bowling Green (HC)

coordinator Scott Frost eventually took the UCF job.

After a USA Today report linked Babers to Syracuse on Thursday, he released the following statement: “I am focused on Bowling Green State University and our goal of winning a MAC championship.” It didn’t refute the rumors like his earlier statement about UCF did, but it didn’t confirm anything either.

Now, he’s reportedly hired as SU’s next head football coach.

3. Past stops Here’s a list of Babers’ 16 coaching jobs before getting the head job at Syracuse • 1984 – Hawaii (graduate assistant) • 1985 – Arizona State (GA) • 1987 – Eastern Illinois (running backs)

4. What he said this week Earlier this week, 247 Sports reported that Babers would be the next head coach at Central Florida. He refuted that on Monday, saying, “I am not going anywhere, OK. I have no secret deals, no above deals, no verbal deals. I have no deals.” He expressed the sole focus of preparing for Friday’s Mid-American Conference title game against Northern Illinois. Syracuse target and ex-Oregon offensive

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5. Almost giving up “I always lived my life from a very young age to be a head football coach,” Babers told The Daily Orange in 2013. “It was something that I always worked and strived to be. But after I left UCLA, I kind of gave up on that.”

Babers was involved in a life-threatening car crash while coaching at Baylor. It gave him a new outlook on life, one that made him not want to give up on football.

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women’s basketball

Syracuse limited from 3, still pulls out win over Stony Brook

By Jon Mettus asst. web editor

Alexis Peterson squared to the basket on the left wing and launched a shot from behind arc that clanked sideways off the rim. Syracuse head coach Quentin Hillsman, who was squatting on the sideline, turned his head away, closed his eyes and grimaced as if he were in pain.

Syracuse’s 3-point shooting in the first half was painful at a 1-for-11 clip and never got much better. The Orange finished just 3-for-18 beyond the arc — well below its averages of nine 3s made and 31 attempted coming into the contest.

Stony Brook (4-4) limited No. 20 Syracuse’s (5-2) 3-point opportunities with high-pressure defense around the arc in the Orange’s 64-49 win in the Carrier Dome on Sunday.

“No there really wasn’t,” Hillsman said of whether there was less emphasis on the 3s compared to prior games. “I think they did a

really good job of taking things away from us.”

Hillsman had expected Stony Brook to play in a sagging man-to-man defense, giving Syracuse space to hoist 3-pointers off of screens and handoff plays where a player tosses the ball to another one crossing behind her at the 3-point line.

Instead, the Seawolves played a tight man defense and pressured SU on the 3-point line.

“They did exactly what I asked them to do, turn the corner, be aggressive and play at the rim,” Hillsman said of his players.

Syracuse is usually able to generate 3s in transition whether by pushing the ball down the court or forcing turnovers with its full-court press.

The press wasn’t creating turnovers, however. And each time Brianna Butler, Syracuse’s leading 3-point shooter, threw her hand up calling for the ball as she ran to the corner, the pass never came. She was seldom open.

Though Butler previously averaged 12.8 3s attempted and 3.7 made per game, she came up

empty in just five 3-point attempts. One just barely scraped the bottom of the rim, avoiding an air ball.

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Syracuse’s 3-point percentage on Sunday vs. Stony Brook

Her best result on a 3 attempt didn’t even come close to making it into the basket. She took a moving jumper, but was hit on the arm and managed two points in made foul shots out of the play.

“At the end of the day,” guard Brittney Sykes

said, “we just want to put the ball in the basket.”

Hillsman has been able to consistently strut up and down the Syracuse sideline in other games this season, hoisting three fingers in the air. But on Sunday, the biggest celebration came when freshman guard Savannah Crocetti played her first minutes for Syracuse and sunk a 3-point attempt with 47 seconds left.

Cornelia Fondren jumped off the bench waving her Gatorade towel around. Taylor Ford pretended to fire arrows into the sky. But it was just the third 3 that the Orange hit all game.

In the first half, Syracuse died by the 3, leading to a 25-23 deficit at the break. When the Orange surged in the third quarter it was because of the team’s play in the paint, not from beyond the arc.

“It didn’t really make sense to settle for 3s when we can get a higher percentage shot,” Peterson said. jrmettus@syr.edu | @jmettus

men’s basketball

Frank Howard emerges as viable backup point guard option

By Sam Blum sports editor

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Syracuse’s biggest run of the game came midway through the second half and was capped off when Frank Howard created a steal and drove hard, coast-to-coast, forcing a layup that Tyler Roberson needed to rebound and score on.

Georgetown’s lead had shrunk from 19 to 12 in 75 seconds. And it all happened with the seldom-used point guard running the offense.

“I’m happy I could play more,” Howard, a freshman, said. “I want to continue to give good minutes, no matter how many it is. Just always be ready to contribute to the team.”

Howard finished just 2-of-8 from the field and had four rebounds and two assists in No. 14 Syracuse’s (6-2) 79-72 loss to Georgetown (4-3) on Saturday. He came in for two minutes in the first half but played 11 in the second, establishing himself — at least for the moment — as the primary backup option at the point.

He was aggressive on offense, air-balling a running hook shot. But he showed ability in his first real chance to impact a game this season.

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stony brook Peterson said. “… I just have to keep my team moving forward.”

And after Syracuse faced a two-point halftime deficit, that’s what the Orange did.

It was No. 20 SU’s (5-2) third-quarter turnaround that led to a 64-49 win against Stony Brook (4-4) on Sunday in the Carrier Dome.

The Orange bumped a 26.7 field-goal percentage to 36.5 after scoring 20 second-half points in the paint compared to 10 in the first. After a lackluster opening two quarters ended with Syracuse down 25-23, 22 third-quarter points allowed it to cruise to victory over a team that has never beaten a ranked opponent.

Other than switching from a zone full-court

“It’s a tough game to get your most minutes in,” Trevor Cooney said. “I’m definitely proud of the way he played. He created plays for others, got in the lane, did really good things, played great defense.”

Syracuse interim head coach Mike Hopkins said the spike in minutes wasn’t an indication of how the depth chart will shake out in the future. Kaleb Joseph played just in the first half and didn’t record a single statistic in three minutes. The two will continue to battle for minutes.

But Howard showed that the battle was real for the first time this season. He scored on a rebound off an air-balled 3 to cut Georgetown’s lead to 15 seven minutes into the second half.

His second score came off a turnover as the game felt out of reach with under a minute to go in the second half.

With Joseph’s inconsistent play and minutes off the bench, Howard executed on his chance to be the SU point guard.

“Frank had good minutes,” starting point guard Michael Gbinije said. “He came in and was aggressive. He did a good job of getting in the lane and making plays for us.” sblum@syr.edu | @SamBlum3

press to a man-to-man one — something Syracuse has typically done in third quarters this season — the difference came down to finishing plays, whether it be hitting open shots or forcing turnovers.

“There was no adjustment to be made because we were doing the things we had in our game plan,” SU head coach Quentin Hillsman said. “You can’t make an adjustment until you figure out what you’re doing isn’t working. So there’s nothing to adjust.”

With less than three minutes left in the third quarter and Syracuse up by only four, Isabella Slim was called for an illegal screen.

But on Stony Brook’s next possession, Davion Wingate was met at halfcourt by Peterson, who trapped her along the sideline.

Wingate picked up her dribble and rushed

FRANK HOWARD scored four points, had four rebounds and had two assists in SU’s loss on Saturday. He also played a season-high 13 minutes. logan reidsma photo editor

a pass that landed in Jade Phillips’ hands.

Peterson flew up the court and served as the outlet for Phillips before laying in another easy two points.

After seemingly every negative play in the third, the Orange answered it with a positive one.

One possession after Wingate was trapped at midcourt, the Seawolves couldn’t cross it in time and turned it over due to a 10-second violation. Five free throws later and SU was on a 9-0 run, breaking open a game that was close just minutes earlier. “(When) you’re down their throat the whole second half and you’re pressing them and you’re up on the ball and not giving them a chance to get into their half-court offense, they start to lose energy,” guard Brittney Sykes said, “and that’s where we go on our run because it’s

easy run-outs for those layups.”

Earlier this week, Hillsman told reporters his team had to be more productive in the third quarter. Entering Saturday, the Orange had been outscored 105-90 in the third period this season compared to outscoring opponents by 65 in all other quarters. It needed fourth-quarter comebacks to stave off upset bids by Rhode Island, Washington and Fordham.

But against Stony Brook, SU didn’t let it come to the final 10 minutes. The Orange took care of business a little bit earlier this time.

“Once we started making shots, we started getting into our half-court traps,” Hillsman said.

“We got some steals, got some man-ups, got some balls going to the basket, sat back in our pressure.

That was the difference in the game.” pmschwed@syr.edu | @pschweds

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dailyorange.com @dailyorange december 7, 2015 • PAG E 20

BEN POLK scored the lone goal in No. 6 seed Syracuse’s 1-0 win over unseeded Boston College in the Elite Eight. With the victory, the Orange advanced to its first Final Four in program history. SU will face No. 2 seed Clemson on Friday at Sporting Park in Kansas City, Kansas. bryan cereijo staff photographer

SYRACUSE 1, BOSTON COLLEGE 0

By Jon Mettus asst. web editor

POLK HERO B Ben Polk’s late-game header sends Syracuse to its first Final Four

en Polk ran toward the Syracuse bench and pounded his chest twice with his right hand before being engulfed by a mass of jumping Orange players.

“Let’s go,” Polk yelled, clenching his fists. “Let’s go.”

His screams of celebration were more than just that. With a back-post

women’s basketball

header on a corner kick from Liam Callahan in the 79th minute of the game, Polk sent Syracuse to its first Final Four. His screams were the release of pressure SU had built up all game to finally crack through and get the winning goal. They were the exorcism of Syracuse’s last loss — Oct. 30 at Boston College in the final game of the regular season. And they were the realization that Syracuse would be headed to the College Cup.

“It means everything,” SU defender Louis Cross said. “This is the reason why we’re here.”

Since losing to the Eagles, the Orange went undefeated in six games, won the Atlantic Coast Conference title and made it to the Elite Eight.

On Saturday, in front of 1,923 fans at SU Soccer Stadium, the No. 6 seed Orange (16-5-3, 3-4-1 ACC) made history again, beating Boston College see polk page 18

football

3rd-quarter run sparks SU victory 5 facts about new SU head coach Dino Babers

By Paul Schwedelson asst. copy editor

Alexis Peterson attacked the hoop while being sandwiched by two Stony Brook defenders. The Seawolves’ Kori Bayne-Walker tumbled to the floor and drew a charge.

Peterson turned around to stare at the ref and threw her hands up in disappointment.

On Syracuse’s next possession, Peterson pump-faked to get her defender out of her path. She pen-

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etrated the paint again. Again the ref blew their whistle, this time for

a charge.

But within the next 60 seconds, Peterson turned the game from a tie to an SU lead that it wouldn’t give up. A mid-range jumper. A 3-pointer.

A 34-31 lead. The third-quarter sequence flipped the game on its head and sparked a 16-5 SU run.

“If I dwell on the turnovers then I’ll never be able to progress,” see stony

brook page 19

By Matt Schneidman

who will fill the vacancy.

asst. sports editor

1. Success grooming quarterbacks Bowling Green head coach Dino Babers will be the next head coach at Syracuse.

He’s spent the last four seasons as the head man at Eastern Illinois (2012-13) and Bowling Green (2014-15). Here are five quick facts about the 54-year-old

In 2013, Babers coached EIU quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo to the Walter Payton Trophy, FCS’s equivalent of the Heisman. Garoppolo had 5,050 yards and 53 touchdowns in see babers page 18