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P • Seeking a match

The Chancellor’s Workgroup on Diversity and Inclusion held an open listening session on the state of diversity and inclusion at SU on Monday evening.

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Two-year-old King Nazir Leon was born with a hereditary immune deficiency. His family is searching for a match to find him a bone marrow transplant.

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Philo Germano passed 14 runners to help Syracuse cross country win the NCAA championship. Last season, he wasn’t even able to participate on the team.

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‘Why not Syracuse?’

Dino Babers injects optimism into SU football at 1st press conference

SU group checks agencies TRAC keeps tabs on behavior of government agencies

By Rachel Sandler asst. news editor

The dean of Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications received an angry phone call from a top government official in the summer of 2011.

The call was about a small research center within Newhouse that issued a scathing report about the U.S. Social Security Administration. The report claimed the SSA failed to reduce the backlog of disability social security cases.

(TRAC) also serves as a reminder of the importance of the FOIA. Its work is a great example of public service journalism.

DINO BABERS spoke publicly on Monday for the first time as Syracuse’s new head coach. He gave life to a team that is coming off a 4-8 season, using his past experiences and mottos to generate optimism in the Iocolano-Petty Football Wing auditorium. logan reidsma photo editor

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ino Babers stepped back from the podium where his hands rested, his left now in his pocket and his right motioning to the mass before him.

“Close your eyes for me,” he said.

“Stay with me.”

A sharp cutoff met almost each phrase that followed. A tone gaining edge pierced the silent room, with clicks of cameras replacing the pounding of keyboards and sporadic laughter as the only audible noise.

Brief downward thrusts of Babers’ right hand gave emphasis to every part of the picture he painted.

A packed Carrier Dome. Deafening noise. A no-huddle offense. Electric feeling.

“Open your eyes,” Babers said.

“That’s going to be a reality.

“That’s going to be Syracuse football.”

In front of a packed auditorium on Monday morning, Babers spoke publicly for the first time as Syracuse’s head coach. He’s the fifth in the past 24 years, a 54-year-old tasked with providing stability to a team that’s lacked it. He brings

an enticing offensive pedigree to a group that’s averaged only 22.25 points per game since 2013, almost 15 less than what Babers’ teams averaged during that span.

And exactly two weeks after the firing of a head coach who opened up his tenure with similar gusto, Babers momentarily injected optimism into Syracuse football.

“Why Syracuse?” Babers asked rhetorically. “Why not Syracuse? …

You tell me why not.”

Flanked by former SU running back Floyd Little and Director of Athletics Mark Coyle, Babers looked up at a crowd dotted by family mem-

bers, current and former players, football staff members, other SU head coaches and even a Carrier Dome concessions worker.

The group broke into laughter when Babers admitted his nerves after accidentally saying “this is not a destination job for me.” They erupted when Babers confessed his love for movies, claiming he’s likely to be in a theatre when the lights go down. They chuckled when he pledged his loyalty to water because he can’t afford the calories of Hawaiian Punch — he was born in Hawaii — or orange juice, a symbol see dino page 6

Lorraine Branham dean of newhouse

There was no public response from the SSA after the report was released. Instead, the commissioner of the SSA at the time, Michael Astrue — a George W. Bush appointee — called personally to ask Newhouse Dean Lorraine Branham to sanction the small research center that produced the report.

“They were not happy,” said Susan Long, a co-founder of the research center that released the report, with a laugh.

The research center, Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, a nonprofit, non-partisan,

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TATTOO tuesday | jamie mccoy

Junior bonds with mom through math tattoo

By Lizzie Michael staff writer

Jamie McCoy’s father, mother and older brother all have tattoo sleeves.

So when Jamie got her first tattoo at the age of 17, it wasn’t a surprise.

McCoy, a junior television, radio and film major, has a love derivative tattoo on the inside of her upper arm.

When the math problem is solved, her tattoo means, “Love is greater than the sum of its positive parts.”

When McCoy first revealed she wanted a tattoo, her mother was slightly hesitant but still very supportive.

Although her mom draws a fine line between parenting and friendship, McCoy said they are still very close.

“We literally are like the same person, and it frustrates [my mom] because when we’re not getting along, it’s like fighting herself,” McCoy said.

On the day she went to the parlor, McCoy’s mother went with her and got a tattoo herself. To McCoy’s surprise, the pain was not nearly as bad as she expected, she said.

Afterward, some of McCoy’s friends were shocked that her parents allowed her to get a tattoo even though she was only 17. One of her teachers was criti-

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JAMIE MCCOY got her derivative tattoo when she was 17 years old. When solved, the inequality means “Love is greater than the sum of its positive parts.” ericka jones-craven staff photographer

cal of her parents, but McCoy said she won’t let negative comments get to her.

Instead, McCoy is proud of her mother for supporting her and helping her through the process.

Although McCoy doesn’t regret her tattoo, she does occasionally regret its

location. She said it can be difficult to hide in a professional environment, and sometimes she’d go to great lengths, such as wearing a blazer to work even on a hot sticky day, in order to keep her tattoo a secret.

“Math just made so much sense to

me, because there’s always one right answer,” McCoy said. “I thought the tattoo kind of embodied that same idea. Love is so complicated, but the equation just makes it that much more simple.” emmichae@syr.edu

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Closing books Changes to U.S. passport regulations may affect some SU students who have U.S. passports but frequently travel internationally.

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Three things What do you need to know about Monday night’s Student Association meeting? The D.O. lists the three things you need to know.

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President critiques policy Updated travel and entertainment policy questioned by Seedat

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At a forum held Monday by the Chancellor’s Working Group on Diversity and Inclusion, SU community members expressed their grievances with the current state of diversity and inclusion on the SU campus. Many participants did not share their names. zach barlow staff photographer

SU community discusses on-campus diversity

By Rachel Sandler asst. news editor

During a listening session about the state of diversity and inclusion on the Syracuse University campus, students, staff and faculty members made one thing clear: the university needs to do more to combat institutional bias.

About 150 members of the SU community gathered in Goldstein Auditorium on Monday for a listening session organized by the Chancellor’s Working Group on

Diversity and Inclusion. Attendees were asked to share their perspectives on how diversity and inclusion can be improved on campus with the 23-member working group.

Chancellor Kent Sy verud announced the formation of the working group on Sept. 28. The group plans to submit recommendations to the chancellor in March 2016.

Specifically, the session attendees suggested to the working group that more money and resources be allocated in the budget for programs

that promote diversity and inclusion, funding for POSSE scholarships, a way for tutoring to be free for students, a freshman orientation program that discusses race and a mechanism for students to input their preferred names and pronouns to MySlice.

During the listening session, a few attendees took issue with the phrase “diversity and inclusion” and said they wanted the working group to reevaluate its goals.

“Diversity brings in different bodies but that doesn’t change the sys-

tem,” one student said. “I want to have a conversation that moves past these code words of political correctness.”

Valeria Martinez, associate director for mentoring programs and diversity education in the Office of Multicultural Affairs, said having a diverse campus does not go far enough.

“There is diversity on campus; we’re just not inclusive of it,” she said. “We lack the social justice infrastructure to support and embrace the diversity that’s already here.” see diversity page 8

Professors question course evaluation effectiveness

By Stacy Fernandez staff writer

Some Syracuse University professors find that the process of student course evaluations are semi-helpful, but not necessarily an effective way of measuring student learning in a course.

In 2010, the Office of Institutional Research and Assessment at SU developed an online student rating system to replace paper evaluations. By fall 2014, about 85 percent of student course

evaluations were administered using OIRA’s online system. Each department or college owns its evaluation forms, as with the paper-and-pen versions, according to the OIRA website.

Not all of the departments use the same format for the evaluations, said Erin Mackie, a professor and chair of the English department at SU. She said the English department designs the questions for the undergraduate level so they are relevant to the courses offered. The forms have both multiple

choice and short answer questions.

However, Mackie said, on the graduate level and in Master’s of Fine Arts workshops, most professors design their own evaluations, which tend to have more free response questions. These evaluations are not handled through OIRA. Rather, they are handled within the department, Mackie said.

Richard Breyer, a professor at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, said the evaluations

are “moderately beneficial.”

“They do give a peek into how students feel about the professor,” Breyer said.

Breyer said he finds that doing informal evaluations midsemester are more useful for him and his students because he has the chance to “course correct” if need be.

While informal evaluations are not required of him, Breyer said he does them because many times they see evaluations page 8

Student Association President Aysha Seedat has concerns with Syracuse University’s new travel and entertainment policy.

Seedat discussed those concerns Monday night at the SA assembly meeting in Maxwell Auditorium.

She also updated the assembly on the continued statewide push for the legalization of ride-sharing services in New York state.

The new travel policy made BTI The Travel Consultants the university’s official travel management company and requires the use of Concur, a 24/7 booking portal, for university-funded travel.

It considers the student activity fee a university fund, Seedat said, which means students using the fee for travel expenses will need to adhere to the policy.

Seedat said that while SU will see sa page 8

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NOT ALLOWED Donald Trump said on Monday that all Muslims should be refused entry into the U.S. The statement comes in the wake of the Paris terrorist attacks and the shooting in San Bernardino, California. source: the new york times

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Obama unsuccessfully attempts to comfort Americans in speech

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resident Barack Obama delivered his third round of empty promises Sunday night from the Oval Office in response to the San Bernardino mass shooting that killed 14 people.

The purpose of his address was to reassure American citizens that while terrorism is most definitely a threat, it is not insurmountable.

While Obama made a valiant attempt, his speech did not accomplish his goal comforting Americans and could have been much more impactful had he presented an actual plan.

Throughout his presidency, Obama never appeared to have a firm stance against terrorism. It’s as if he has been hoping that the threat would simply recede without any strong action being taken. With this context, the most important part of his speech proves not to be its content, but the simple fact that the president finally took the first step in creating a course of action.

Now that Obama has gotten on the same page with pretty much every other American citizen, everyone can agree that terrorists are probably not going to change their minds. Terrorism can no longer be ignored, and it needs to be physically dealt with.

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“And I know that after so much war, many Americans are asking whether we are confronted by a cancer that has no immediate cure ... The threat from terrorism is real, but we will overcome it,” Obama said.

But while his speech was definitely necessary, its impact was not as great as Obama would have hoped and America has dealt with Obama long enough to know that his promises might not necessarily be fulfilled. In a new CNN/ORC poll released Sunday, 60 percent of Americans disapprove of Obama’s handling of terrorism, which, according to CNN, is up nine points since May. Fifty-three percent felt that the United States should send ground troops to fight the Islamic State group, and 68 percent simply felt that the U.S. response was not “sufficiently aggressive.”

Surprisingly enough, Republican front-runner Donald Trump, who was live-tweeting the event, accurately summed up the general sentiment when he tweeted, “we

need a new President – FAST! Is that all there is?” Hopefully the new president is not Trump himself, but he is right in saying that a change in power is definitely coming at the right time.

The percentage of Americans that disapprove of President Barack Obama’s handling of terrorism, according to a CNN/ ORC poll released Sunday

Some of the only concrete action plans Obama spoke about had to do with no-fly lists and gun control. He discussed the importance of ensuring that those who are on no-fly lists have zero chance of being able to legally purchase firearms. A plan as extreme and ridiculous as Trump’s to ban all Muslims is not necessary, but one better than a no-fly list is.

Rather than banning Muslims from coming to the U.S., an emphasis should be placed on preventing terrorists from ever entering.

The only thing Obama proved in Sunday’s speech is that he is filled with hot air. That is not enough. The U.S. needs a leader who will

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take legitimate steps to combat terrorism.

What Obama needs to do now is act. The U.S. does not just “detest” these terrorist acts. The U.S. is at war.

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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Course evaluations are important, but should not define class Course evaluations are a valuable tool in assessing the strengths and weaknesses of a professor’s teaching style. However, student responses should not be meant to fully define a faculty member’s performance, but rather act as a suggestive factor in seeking areas for improvement.

When filling out end-of-semester evaluations, students may allow their emotions to influence feedback responses as the course comes to an end and they have a general idea of what their final grade will be. It is for

this reason that faculty must use their professional judgment when reviewing evaluations and view student evaluations as solely a supplemental resource to take into consideration when reflecting on the past semester.

As noted by some professors at Syracuse University, student satisfaction with their courses can be influenced by their individual satisfaction with their grades, opening up the possibility for distorted evaluations on behalf of students, which ultimately skews their value to professors.

And while professors can do all they can to avoid these types poor evaluations by asking only for concise, short-answer responses and allowing time for in-class course evaluations, faculty members must know when student responses carry thoughtful weight and when they are the result of emotions or laziness.

Professors can effectively put this judgment into practice by using course evaluations to seek out trends among student responses. If specific answers are received from

a range of students, the suggestion should be taken into strong consideration to tweak their course or manner of teaching accordingly for future semesters.

But this can only be achieved if a number of students contribute to the course evaluation process.

To ensure that clear trends between a number of students can be picked up on, all SU academic departments’ course evaluations should be accessible online. While some evaluations should still be

offered on paper and should not be made exclusively online, making way for universal electronic course evaluations across departments is a greater reach toward rounded student feedback, making up for students that may be absent from in-class evaluation time slots.

Evaluations are an important outlet for student expression. But it should be understood that course evaluations are not the be-all, end-all for faculty members when measuring the success of a course.

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Tebow break-up shows celebrity sexuality does not belong to public

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lot can be said about a society in which something as personal as sexuality is emblazoned on the covers of tabloids and used to shame people.

Former NFL Quarterback Tim Tebow and former Miss Universe Olivia Culpo recently broke up allegedly because Tebow did not want to break his vow to remain celibate until marriage. Since then, their split has been all over the news, from Christian blog posts to gossip magazines.

Most notably, Jerry Thornton, a sports radio co-host on the Dale & Holley Show and author of the Thornography blog, spoke out about the break-up last week, saying that Tebow handled his relationship the way he handles most past rushes, by “dropping the ball.” Thornton went on to say that Culpo has needs and didn’t “binge-purge all those meals to

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not have her animal lust satisfied.”

Thornton’s comments reflect the general conversation revolving around the break-up, and are representative of the way our culture views the intersection of gender and sexual behavior. But what many should realize is that it is unfair to project sexual stereotypes and assumptions on celebrities based on gender.

Athletes like Tebow are often perceived as overtly sexual because of their celebrity status and assumed access to sexual partners. On the flip side, in order to have won Miss Universe in 2012, Culpo had to have met certain beauty standards that exist in our culture. However, just because

of her perceived attractiveness, that doesn’t mean her sexuality is this uncontrollable and insatiable urge that Thornton assumes it is.

Tebow’s stance on sexuality should be respected — not used to mock him. Thornton insinuated that Tebow maintaining his celibacy was a mistake — as if the idea of masculinity is challenged by not being sexually active. But Tebow’s choice to remain celibate until marriage is rooted in his Christian faith. When the media pokes fun at him, this is another layer of personal intrusion, which in this case is his spirituality.

Having said that, even if Tebow chose to be celibate for non-religious reasons, that is a decision that should also be honored and not used against him. A person’s sexuality is their own, and not open for ridicule, especially in the public eye.

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In the same way, Culpo allegedly wanting to leave a relationship due to a lack of sex should also be understood and should not make her a target for the conservative community.

After the break-up went public, many news outlets have cast Culpo as a temptress who allegedly got Nick Jonas to abandon his purity ring. This narrative then typecasts Culpo as the “bad girl” and cannot be sympathized with as someone who just ended a relationship. Sexualizing Culpo in this way proves extremely sexist because some critics are treating her as if her entire existence weighs on her level of attractiveness.

The reality is, the public does not know all of the details of Tebow and Culpo’s relationship, and we don’t need to. Many, like Thornton, have made assumptions about the sexuality in their relationship, as if it was inconceivable that a sexualized

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figure such as Culpo could be in a relationship with a celibate man.

Tebow should not be looked down upon for his choice to remain celibate and his masculinity should not be defined by his sexuality and personal preferences. In a similar fashion, Culpo should not have people’s assumptions about her sexuality projected on to her. She, like Tebow, is not a caricature of sex.

Progressive thinking is allowing people to make decisions about their sexuality without being shamed for them. Of course, this will likely never happen as long as we uphold oversexualized ideas about both men and women, famous or not.

Elaina Crockett is a senior television, radio and film major and African American studies minor. Her column appears weekly. She can be reached at ekcrocke@syr.edu.

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used by Scott Shafer at his introductory press conference as head coach.

The event had the feel of a happy-go-lucky meet-and-greet, far from the aura given off by rows of cameras and chunks of significant SU figures.

The tension surrounding SU football was nonexistent when Babers began speaking. Syracuse had found its coach, no longer competing on a market that was dwindling by the day. He was now charming a congregation, some of which will play for him, that is looking for a revival. “This is going to take an entire Syracuse

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data-gathering research organization at SU, has upset numerous government officials and has been at the center of government disputes since its inception in 1989. TRAC — as it is most commonly referred to — systematically uses the Freedom of Information Act to gather and analyze big data from federal government agencies and make it available to the public.

The center has now started a new project relating to the Freedom of Information Act. Branham rebuked Astrue’s call and supported TRAC. A few weeks later, Astrue called TRAC’s report “sloppy and irresponsible� while testifying before Congress.

At its core, TRAC tries to determine if an agency is achieving its stated goals, said David Burnham, a co-founder of TRAC and former reporter for The New York Times.

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nation to get this done,� Babers said. “I can’t see any reason why we can’t be at the top of the (Atlantic Coast Conference).�

Babers coached wide receivers under Art Briles at Baylor from 2008-11. For 12 years prior to Babers’ arrival in Waco, Texas and two years into his tenure with the Bears, the team had a losing record. Briles repeatedly told Babers that fans will come, but only if the team wins.

In Babers’ last two years, Baylor slowly ascended, finishing with a 10-3 record in 2011.

Even at Eastern Illinois and Bowling Green, he never began a season with expectations of a division title, he said, but each of the last four seasons resulted in one. Now he’s tasked with

pulling Syracuse from similar depths. “I really believe special things are going to happen here,� Babers said. “I really believe that we’re going to start something that people are going to be talking about for a long, long time.�

Before Babers was hired, Oregon offensive coordinator Scott Frost was rumored to be the top contender before he took the Central Florida job. Then Chris Ash, the defensive coordinator from defending national champion Ohio State, appeared the favorite, but he reportedly withdrew his name.

The sexy names were gone, but Syracuse snatched a coach who’s guided offenses to astronomical numbers with a foundation

based in faith.

He spoke with conviction about giving fans what they deserve. He promised a brand of football faster than anybody has seen on turf — not mincing words to bring life to a team that lost eight straight games before its season-ending win. “I wanted someone who was innovative and had an exciting brand of football,� Coyle said.

Excitement is what Syracuse lacked after missing the postseason and losing its coach.

And even if it dissipates as football season creeps farther away, Babers brought it back for now.

TRAC is mostly funded by grants, and as a result, Long said the organization has to be “entrepreneurial� with regard to getting funding.

In its 20-plus years as an organization, TRAC has released reports using data from almost every federal agency, including the Department of Justice; the Department of Homeland Security; the FBI; the IRS; the Drug Enforcement Administration; the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF); and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE).

The process of getting data from federal agencies, though, is often tricky, Long said.

In some cases, government resistance leads to lawsuits. When federal agencies deny public records requests, filing a lawsuit is the only solution under FOIA, Long said. However, she said, lawsuits are both timely and costly, so filing one is a last resort.

TRAC is currently involved in multiple ongoing lawsuits, which claim that TRAC has been ille-

gally denied access to data under FOIA, Long said.

Despite TRAC’s continued push through the legal system to force agencies to grant public records requests, agencies continue to deny them.

Recently, TRAC started the FOIA Project, which tracks how well federal agencies comply with granting FOIA requests. As part of a report released in early November, the project sent FOIA requests to 21 federal agencies.

Seven agencies never responded or did not provide usable data. Those agencies include the ATF, the FBI, the DOJ’s Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys, ICE, the Criminal Division of the DOJ and the DOJ’s Office of Information Policy, according to the report. The Office of Information Policy is supposed to encourage FOIA efforts within the government, according to the report.

The CIA refused to process the FOIA request, according to the report. As a result, TRAC filed suit against the CIA on Oct. 20.

Burnham, a co-founder of TRAC, said the

government has always been resistant to the organization’s public records requests regardless of who is in office. He said the Obama administration isn’t better or worse than previous administrations in terms of transparency. “The Obama administration talked a big talk when it first came into power, and since then hasn’t really followed through very much,� said David Cuillier, former chairman of the Society of Professional Journalists’ Freedom of Information Committee. “It’s a trend that been happening for decades really, and it’s something that goes above just one president.

Philosophically, both Long and Burnham said it is human nature for people to resist someone looking over their shoulder, which, they said, explains why government agencies have always been vehemently against granting public records requests. This, in some cases, leads to decades long and expensive lawsuits.

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CLIMATE CHAT Syracuse University professors discuss United Nations Climate Summit in Paris pumping up

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China was the largest emitter of greenhouse gas (28 percent) in 2011, followed by the U.S. (16 percent), the 28-nation European Union (10 percent) and India (6 percent).

At the COP15 conference in Copenhagen in 2009, developed countries pledged to raise $100 billion annually by 2020 to assist developing countries fighting climate change.

One goal to confront climate change is to limit the maximum average temperature increase worldwide to no more than an average of two degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial era.

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s world leaders discuss the prospective blueprint for greenhouse emissions, President Barack Obama said the stakes for the future of the planet have never been so high.

what is cop21?

COP21 stands for the 21st Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

It is an international meeting on climate change that runs from Nov. 30 to Dec. 11

More than 40,000 delegates from 195 countries are participating in the two-week long 2015 Paris Climate Conference, which began on Nov. 30. At the conference — also called the 21st Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP21) — countries are working on a legally binding international agreement on slashing greenhouse gas emissions to curb

effects of climate change.

The Daily Orange spoke to Allan Mazur, professor of public affairs in Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, and David Driesen, University Professor at SU’s College of Law, about the conference and its significance in confronting climate change.

The Daily Orange: What are you anticipating most from the conference?

Allan Mazur: I think there will be an agreement for the most part among them … I think that they will make an agreement; whether they would stick to it or not, it’s a big question.

I doubt that they will … No, (it’s not going to be legally binding) because the Congress in the United States will not approve it. So if the United States cannot make it legally binding then I am not certain what the status is with all the other countries.

David Driesen: I think it will result in solidification of commitments by countries to make significant cuts in greenhouse gas emissions … In the past, the big problems are no binding agreements and no pledges forthcoming from the United States and China.

The United States has stepped up its commitment to actual reductions and China has

pledged to peak emission in 2030, meaning that it cannot go up after that, at least for carbon dioxide … That’s big progress relative to where we were … On the other hand, what’s needed to avoid dangerous climate change is much more than their prepared commitment.

So the big challenge for this meeting is going to be either get the commitments strengthened in the meeting or kind of get some sort of process in place so that it can strengthen them in the future.

The D.O.: In past conferences, developed and developing nations have clashed over the amount of emission of greenhouse gas. Do you think the gap between those two groups has reduced through this meeting?

A.M.: I think all of these nations — their priority is developing and creating jobs and they are less worried about climate change; even Americans are not nearly as worried about climate change as about employment issues or economy.

D.D.: It has been reduced. It is still there and it is still a problem but it has been reduced mostly in the form of China having really changed its stance quite a bit … One reason is that the same action that reduced greenhouse gas emissions in China would reduce local air

pollution in China, and the local air pollution in China is deadly … It’s so bad that it creates a risk of political unrest … Another thing is, I think, President Obama’s diplomacy. He went there to secure commitment in China and made a pledge himself to use his power as a president even with the opposition from Republican Congress to move us forward.

The D.O.: President Barack Obama made it official in March 2015 that the U.S. will cut its greenhouse gas emissions by up to 28 percent over the next decade. Do you see any short- or long-term effects on U.S. consumers?

A.M.: I don’t think it would affect us much at all. I mean, we actually have done pretty good in reducing per capita use of energy. Here, people don’t really notice it. Cars are far more efficient than (they) used to be … Buildings and houses, if they have been constructed after about 1980, they are far more efficient. It does not hurt our lifestyle.

D.D.: I don’t see that having future effects on U.S. consumers. Depending on how it’s done, there might be some minor price rises, but I don’t see it having a big effect, mostly because a lot of these will be realized by switches to natural gas that are already taking place. ssugiyam@syr.edu

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Additional pages for passports to be prohibited in 2016

By Bridget McAllister contributing writer

Syracuse University students with American passports who make frequent trips outside the country may want to have new visa pages sewn into their books while they still can.

The U.S. Department of State announced last month that beginning Jan. 1, 2016, travelers will no longer be able to have new visa pages sewn into their passports. Instead, when travelers run out of space for stamps, they will need to apply for an entirely new book.

“These are measures that are being taken … that will update (the system) from a technology standpoint,” said Bill Smullen, director of national security studies in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.

The move is meant to help bolster national

security by making identity checks more effective. The pages of the new passports will contain laser engravings of code that can be scanned, Smullen said.

He added that this will make passports more difficult to forge and allow security personnel to make certain that a traveler is who they say they are.

“If you look at the intent, it is to help with anti-fraud and anti-counterfeit possibilities,” Smullen said.

International students traveling into and out of the country will only have to obey the passport ordinances of their home country, according to a release from the State Department, since the new ordinance extends only to those carrying U.S. passports.

Michelle Wu, an undeclared freshman at SU from Taipei, is one of those students. Wu, who has

no plans to pursue American citizenship, has only a Taiwanese passport, so she will not be affected by the policy when she travels to and from Taipei.

The policy will have a different effect on Jeremy Jung, a freshman film major at SU who lives in Los Angeles but was born in South Korea. Jung recently began his application for American citizenship, and will receive his documentation — including his passport — in 2016.

Jung said he makes occasional trips back to South Korea to visit extended family. As he gets his passport stamped upon both entering and exiting the U.S., he said he may be fated to renew his book more often.

Despite the potential to inconvenience some, Jung said he feels that the new policy is justified for its security benefits in an age when air travel can be dangerous.

“Definitely, from all these attacks that are

happening … it makes it better to have tighter security,” Jung said. “I understand where security’s coming from.”

Smullen also argued that while a frequent traveler may be somewhat disadvantaged by the policy, it is a small price to pay to enhance national security.

“Unless you’re a frequent flyer … it’s unlikely that you’re going to need a new passport anytime soon,” Smullen said. “I just think that in the wake of all the security concerns that we face in today’s world … it just makes sense to have additional precautions.”

Students with U.S. passports who expect to run out of pages can still have 24 more sewn in until New Year’s Day, according to the State Department release. The new pages cost $82, and an entirely new book will cost $110. blmcalli@syr.edu

Parents skeptical of costs, benefits of attending university

By Michael Burke staff writer

High school counselors and parents of high school students are skeptical that the average costs of college matches its value, surveys conducted by Kaplan Test Prep and MONEY magazine found.

Of the 500 parents surveyed, 58 percent disagreed that “the cost of a four-year college degree today is clearly justified for the value it delivers,” according to a press release from

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diversity A Canadian student said during freshman orientation, international students were encouraged to “get out of their comfort zone” and interact with American students. She said something needs to be done about the double standard that exists between international and American students.

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benefit in the long term from the policy, current students won’t be at SU long enough to see the benefit of it. Because of that, she plans to propose two separate solutions to the issue.

In a post-meeting interview, Seedat said she is working to have the student activity fee not considered a university fund. She recently began writing a policy to define the activity fee, since SU does not currently have a written definition. A concrete definition could make

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evaluations lead to more dramatic change than the formal student evaluations at the end of the semester.

“I’m not getting a prescription of how the course could change, but simply having a discussion,” Breyer said.

Mackie said she has some reservations with the evaluations, not specifically within SU, but with their use nationally.

Kaplan. Twenty-one percent agreed, while another 21 percent said they were not sure.

A separate survey, conducted among 235 high school counselors, found that just 37 percent of counselors felt strongly that the average cost of a four-year college is justified, according to the release.

“The takeaway isn’t that they don’t believe in the value of a college degree — they’re really concerned about the high sticker price,” said Michael Boothroyd, Kaplan’s executive director

of college admissions programs, in the release.

“This is understandable since for many, it’s a hefty investment that brings immediate debt but not necessarily immediate return.”

The survey of parents found that a number of them are often feeling the pressure of that investment, with 60 percent saying that thinking about saving for college is “more daunting” than thinking about retirement.

Despite this, parents are not frequently discussing the value of a college degree with high

school counselors, according to the release.

In the survey of counselors, just 12 percent of them said that topic “always” comes up with parents, while 30 percent said it “often” comes up, according to the release, and 22 percent of counselors said the topic “rarely” comes up.

“The cost of college can seem intimidating, but the last thing parents and students should do is despair and give up,” said Greg Daugherty, education editor at MONEY, in the release.

to reach out to international students like international students have to American students,” she said. “It definitely resulted in a lot of self-segregation.”

A faculty member in the department of communications and rhetorical studies also said the environment for international students is indicative of deeper institutional problems. She recalled a faculty meeting where international students were “framed as a problem that needed to be solved.”

Many international students and faculty

spoke about the importance of diverse hiring.

One faculty member suggested search committees be required to have a diverse group of candidates in their final pool.

Diverse faculty and diversity training, another student said, will give support to students on campus — especially in the classroom — who deal with microaggressions on a regular basis.

The student recalled one of these microaggressions, in which a professor touched her hair without asking, held one of her braids and said,

“You don’t even need beads on the end of this.”

In response to many similar experiences of microaggressions shared by attendees, one student said microaggressions does not exist without systematic oppression.

After the session, a member of the working group said the group has already had similar discussions and a mechanism that allows students to put their preferred names and pronouns into MySlice is “in the works.”

it easier to have the fee not be considered a university fund, Seedat said.

If that does not work out, she said she hopes to create an exception to the travel policy that would allow students to not adhere to it if they show proof of a less expensive option for specific travels.

Seedat plans on voicing her frustration with the policy Wednesday at an open forum that is being held in Maxwell Auditorium to discuss the policy.

Seedat also discussed the progress being made by other student governments in bring-

ing ride-sharing services, such as Uber and Lyft, to New York state. Currently, those services are illegal in the state, except for New York City, because of a restriction in a state insurance law.

Seedat participated in a Google conference call last week with Thomas Mastro and Melissa Kathan, the president and vice president, respectively, of the State University of New York Student Assembly — the student governing body for all colleges in the SUNY system.

Mastro and Kathan told Seedat they recently finished drafting a resolution stating

their support for ride-sharing services in New York state, Seedat said.

Last month, the SU Student Association assembly voted to approve sending a letter to the New York State Assembly pledging its own support for the legalization of ride-sharing services.

When the state assembly convenes for its next legislative session in January, it will consider bill A.6090, which would change state law to include ride-sharing services in its insurance regulations. That would allow the services to operate statewide.

“They’re used to measure student learning, and they are not a measure of student learning,” Mackie said.

The evaluations measure the integrity of the teaching process, whether the professor arrives on time, if assignments were handed back and whether the material was taught in a way that could be understood, Mackie said.

Mackie said she has found that the student evaluations tend to measure the grades that students expect, student satisfaction with

their grades and whether they were content with the entertainment level of the course.

“Those student-centered concerns tend to color and distort the evaluations and make them unusable more widely,” Mackie said.

Mackie added that the student evaluations should not be used as the sole metric for the evaluation of a teacher.

“They are an evaluation of exactly what it says — a student evaluation, the evaluation of a student’s perception of his or her experience,” she said.

Both Mackie and Breyer said they have found that having the course evaluations online has decreased the percentage of students who fill out the evaluations.

Breyer also proposed an argument for having different kinds of evaluations based on a student’s academic year, because a senior may have a “more mature overview of the process.”

He said: “I think its just wonderful that we listen to students, and that’s a statement that we make.”

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KING NAZIR LEON has a life-threatening immune deficiency. A bone marrow transplant would increase his likelihood of survival. Even though he’s on the national bone marrow registry and his family has held donor drives, he hasn’t found a match yet. drew osumi staff photographer

‘Long live the king’

Syracuse family works to get bone marrow transplant for child

By Alex Erdekian asst. feature editor

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hile riding in the car with his grandma, 2-year-old King Nazir Leon loves to sing the line “Way up I feel blessed” from Big Sean’s song “Blessings.”

He loves the crazy orange turtle Michelangelo from “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” and he loves puppies

and chipmunks. But something he doesn’t love is the time he has to spend in the hospital receiving medical treatments through an IV. King, who lives in Syracuse, was born with a hereditary immune deficiency, called a CD40 ligand deficiency. The condition prevents King from making enough antibodies to fight off disease, leaving him vulnerable to dangerous infections. King

receives his monthly treatments at Upstate Golisano Children’s Hospital. Without a bone marrow transplant, King’s condition will likely become fatal, although his precise life expectancy is unknown.

“When I’m at work, I’m very depressed because he’s always on my mind,” King’s mother, Denisha DeLee said. “I never know when I’m going to get a phone call.”

Even if King gets a transplant, he will have to continue fighting for his life. A transplant would simply increase his chances of survival, said

Wendy Holz, a pediatric nurse practitioner at Upstate and one of King’s main medical providers. CD40 is a rare condition, and not much has been discovered about it since the 1960s, King’s mother, DeLee, said.

Despite his family organizing several donor drives and being on the national bone marrow donor registry, King has been unable to find a match for a transplant.

If he finds a match, King will need to travel to Cincinnati, Ohio, for the treatment. There’s a GoFundMe see baby

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Syracuse entrepreneur to revive ‘Yellow Fellow’ mobile pub

By Delaney Van Wey asst. web editor

Michael Heagerty plans to ride down the middle of Salina St. this St. Patrick’s Day, as he debuts Syracuse’s first pedal-powered pub.

Heagerty partnered with longtime friend Michael Giannattasio to create “The BIG Yellow Fellow,” Syracuse’s first mobile pub, about a month ago. The design of the vehicle is inspired by the historic “Yellow Fellow” bike, which was manufactured in Syracuse during

the late 19th century. They are almost ready for fabrication, but are still looking for funding before they can begin, Heagerty said.

Heagerty was first introduced the mobile pub idea by friends and community members who thought he would be interested, he said.

Heagerty is the founder of the tour company NOexcuses and is known around Syracuse for his entrepreneurial spirit.

At first, he said he did not think the timing was right for the project and he wanted to focus on his tour company. However, Heagerty soon

$2,165

The amount of money raised by the Bring Back the Yellow Fellow GoFundMe campaign as of 10 p.m. Monday.

decided he did not want to let the opportunity slip by while other cities took advantage.

He brought the idea to Giannattasio, who worked with Heagerty to develop “The BIG Yellow Fellow” concept. Giannattasio is the

director of the SALT Makerspace in Syracuse and is an independent fabricator.

The pair was inspired by research Heagerty did on the E.C. Stearns Bicycle Agency and bike racks designed by Giannattasio, which were modeled after Stearns’ bikes, Giannattasio said.

Heagerty said they modeled the mobile pub after the “Yellow Fellow,” the most famous bike Stearns manufactured, because he wanted something particular to Syracuse.

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baby king page for the trip, so people can donate to fund King’s travel expenses. As of Monday, the page had raised $415 out of its $5,000 goal.

King is not alone in his battle against CD40, though. His mother, two older sisters, grandmother and doctors, along with friends they’ve met during their journey, are committed to fighting for King.

Together, this year they’ve held bone marrow drives at the Elk’s Lodge in Syracuse, the New York State Fair, the Syracuse vs. Louisiana State University football game and attended a drive in Harlem, New York.

King’s most likely match is someone of the same race as him — African American. Out of the 12 million people on the Be the Match Registry, only 7 percent are African American.

DeLee works tirelessly to get King through his treatments, and her 10-year-old daughter Kenziah helps her take care of him as much as she can.

“My oldest girl, she helps me out so much; she’s like King’s second mother,” DeLee said. “She deals with stuff a 10-year-old kid shouldn’t have to. I’m a single parent and she’s been there from day one for

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yellow fellow the name of Syracuse known everywhere,” Heagerty said.

The pair then began to consider the technical aspects of the vehicle’s design.

Heagerty said he knew he wanted something custom-made that would be different from what any other city had.

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me. That’s who King looks up to.”

But King’s condition hasn’t been easy for the team behind him, especially his mother.

When DeLee found out about King’s condition three weeks after he was born, she broke down. This wasn’t the first time CD40 had shown up in her family.

When DeLee was 5 years old, her brother, Davon, who was just a few years younger than her, died. When she was 19, her brother Daqwan died at age 17 after losing his abilities to walk and talk, a week after her daughter Kenziah’s first birthday.

“I shut down,” DeLee said. “I cried so bad because I watched my brothers suffer from it; I watched my mom fight.”

King’s condition has been a struggle for his sisters, too. DeLee said her girls have to handle understanding that King needs more parenting.

They also worry if King will be OK. One day, DeLee opened her phone to see a text from Kenziah asking if she was going to lose her brother.

“For me to hear that from my daughter, that’s scary. They love their brother,” DeLee said. “When he’s hospitalized, they don’t want to see him like that.”

Despite hard times, King and his family have gathered new friends while trying to find King a transplant.

Some of the followers on King’s Facebook page have shown their support through gestures of kindness. Alana Morris sent King a pair of red Converse sneakers in his size that she decorated with stars, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and the words “Team King,” “He’s a fighter” and “bethematch.org” At a bone marrow donor drive at the Syracuse Elks Lodge’s family day this summer, 15-year-old rapper Mahkai Bailey, who goes by his stage name Truth Speaker (the Voice of the Youth), met King for the first time, and was invited to his birthday party.

At the party, Bailey asked King’s family if

he could write a song about him, and Mahkai and his father Freedom Allah Bey formed what would be a lasting bond with King’s family.

“I woke my dad up at 1 in the morning that night to show him some of my song,” Bailey said. “I felt like I could’ve been him.”

At the New York State Fair, Bailey performed King’s song when he opened for Nas. In Bailey’s song about King, he raps, “long live the king, long live the king,” and continues later in the song with the lyrics “he was born a king so let him lead” and “long live the king, we’ve all got your back.”

Since Bailey and Bey connected with King’s family, they’ve become closer, talking to or seeing DeLee almost every day.

“King gets out there and imitates everything (Bailey) says,” DeLee said, describing King trying to rap like Bailey. “(Bailey)’s like a big brother to King.”

Bey said that after they find a match for King, which he is hopeful they will, the fight won’t be over. He sees King’s team continuing to seek out bone marrow donors for other children.

“This kid is a warrior; you rarely see him complaining. He takes it like a champ,” Bey said. “He’s a fighter.”

The seats of the mobile pub will be versions of the seat and pedals of the “Yellow Fellow,” with the added comfort of seatbacks.

It will have room for up to 16 passengers, who will operate the vehicle by pedaling, and a driver in the center to steer. It will also be wheelchair-friendly.

Another custom feature of “The BIG Yellow Fellow” will be its rollback awning. Giannattasio said the vehicle could take anywhere from

one to three months to fabricate.

Once the project is funded, however, Heagerty said they plan to start fabrication immediately. He said they are close to this goal because of two large private donations from businesses whose names he did not want to disclose.

Heagerty said he hopes to partner with more businesses once they get the bike produced.

“Everyone else just does two-hour tours

around town and drinking,” Heagerty said. “I have a greater vision for it.”

Giannattasio said he hopes the new attraction will put more people at ease with coming downtown to appreciate the culture, food and architecture of central New York.

Said Heagerty: “Syracuse needs to stay on the cusp to keep up momentum so they can move forward as a community.”

be the match

To register as a bone marrow donor, one must be between the ages of 18 and 44, generally in good health and willing to donate to any patients in need. The collection is performed by swabbing the cells inside the cheek. For more information visit www.wgpfoundation.org.

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STAR POWER 4 outfits based on classic, notable Hollywood starlettes

By Alexis McDonell

Photos by Doris Huang

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uring the holiday season, nostalgia always finds a way to creep back into our lives, making us reminisce our favorite pastimes. As the temperatures outside get colder, we spend our free time indoors, snuggling up underneath blankets, partaking in one of the best pastimes there is: watching classic films.

Scenes from “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” and “The Seven Year Itch flit across the screen, bringing you back to the world of old Hollywood.

The celebrities of the ‘50s and ‘60s were some of the first to bring personal style into the world of Hollywood.

Many of these ensembles have become classic staples and are often inspirations for today’s designs. Here are a few of their timeless looks, broken down into outfit formulas that you can easily replicate: 1

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MARILYN MONROE

Black turtleneck + high-waisted white pants

Marilyn Monroe was as much a sex icon as she was a popular actress in the ‘50s. She often wore form-fitting garments, showing off her hourglass figure and revealing the perfect amount of skin (no one can forget her white flowing dress.) The soft material of the turtleneck and pants allows you to feel comfortable, while the slim silhouette shows off just the right amount of your curves.

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BETTE DAVIS

Button down + high-waisted A-line skirt + thin belt + Mary Janes 2

Fiercely independent and a free spirit, Katharine Hepburn sported menswear inspired get-ups during a time when androgynous looks were unorthodox. This look combines the masculine elements of a structured button-down and leather belt with the femininity of a flowing skirt and innocence of Mary Janes. The skirt adds movement to the look, contrasting the stiffness of the shirt and the belt draws the eye to the waist, creating the classic hourglass silhouette.

3 Scarf + sleeveless dress

When it came to fashion, Elizabeth Taylor was daring. Throughout the years, she wore plunging necklines, miniskirts, feather boas, silk caftans and fur wraps. Here, we combine the simple shape of a shift dress with a bold and audacious print and add a sleek element of a basic scarf to tie the look together. This outfit allows you to show off enough skin without crossing the line of too revealing.

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White long sleeve shirt + belt + plaid skirt + heels + dark lip

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KATHARINE HEPBURN

While most actresses wore fashions that could have been considered larger-than-life, Bette Davis had a more simplistic take on style. Davis stayed true to herself and dressed for no one else, and that resonates here with a simple, plain white shirt with a structured plaid skirt and heels to create a rather formal yet fun look. To add a bit of pop to the outfit, pair it with a bold, deep lip color that will make you stand out. admcdone@syr.edu

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recruiting

Dino Babers breaks down philosophy

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Syracuse head coach Dino Babers said he’ll prioritize recruiting players in the northeast at his introductory press conference on Monday.

“Why can’t we go out and get the best players in the country? And we start right here in the state of New York,” Babers said. “… We’re going to work our way out and go wherever we need to be to make Syracuse great.”

Babers enters a situation in which all 15 players in the Orange’s Class of 2016 were brought in by a different coaching staff. But after Director of Athletics Mark Coyle fired Scott Shafer two weeks ago, he and other members of Syracuse’s athletic department contacted recruits and said their commitment would still be honored.

On SU’s current roster, 45 players are from New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut or Massachusetts. As Babers puts together his staff, he said he will consider recruiting ramifications as well.

“If you hire good recruiters, they can recruit anywhere,” Babers said, “(but) we will have representation from the northeast.”

While Babers stressed keeping players close to home, Syracuse’s 2016 class only has four members from the northeast.

Though there’s still two months until National Signing Day, there haven’t been any reported decommitments since Shafer’s firing. And the decision to honor commitments was made before Babers was even hired.

Coyle said he contacted commits to relieve any anxiety they had during the transitional phase. It was a strategy he learned at Boise State while the Broncos were replacing head coach Chris Petersen, who left for Washington.

“We were trying to keep this thing moving during this transitional period,” Coyle said. “We wanted to make sure we answer a lot of their questions … and now that we have a head coach in place, we can start to move forward in the next process.”

Already, multiple Bowling Green pledges have decommitted since Babers was hired at SU, adding another potential avenue for Babers’ staff to explore.

While he said on Monday that he wouldn’t target Bowling Green commits, he left the door open to go after uncommitted players.

But regardless of all the options Babers has, he said his recruiting strategy will start with local talent.

“You need to start in your backyard.

We need to take care of the state of New York,” Babers said. “We need to get over to New Jersey. We need to start to work near Philly, we need to shoot down that corridor to Pittsburgh, Chicago, Detroit and then we got to hang down there and go back down to Florida and cross our T’s and dot our I’s. But we’re always going to start close to home.” pmschwed@syr.edu | @pschweds

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Regisford provides Colgate needed versatility at center center position in high school. Heading into Tuesday’s matchup with Syracuse (6-2) in the Carrier Dome, the Raiders (2-5) will rely on versatility to fill the void of a natural center.

“It’s going to be a big task for us,” senior Austin Tillotson said. “If we can control the boards, we have a pretty good chance. You never know.”

Six-foot-eight freshman Malcolm Regisford is leading Colgate in rebounds, averaging nearly seven per game. Because he signed his commitment to Colgate late in the process, he was aware of the players who wouldn’t be returning to the team and his opportunity to play big minutes for the Raiders opened up.

“I was just ready to work hard,” Regisford said. “I was ready to play wherever the coaches needed me to be for us to be successful.”

The freshman, who is listed as both a forward and a center on the Colgate website, didn’t play the role of a true center in high school. He spent a lot of time close to the basket as one of the bigger players on the team, filling the role of a “big,” he said.

Regisford fills the vacancy of Colgate’s lack of

a true five. He’s as close as the Raiders will get to having someone who can match up against the likes of SU’s Dajuan Coleman and Tyler Lydon.

be different if they decommitted from BGSU, but if they remain committed, he said he will not go after them.

program type thing, it’s not just doing one thing.

Defensively, it’s special teams, it’s the way we lift, it’s the way we condition. It’s the way we play … I think it’s going to help us get an advantage.

“We have a very unique style. We’ve got to have men in that room that are unselfish.”

His philosophy Babers has always been known as an offensive coach and recently led one of the best offenses in the country at Bowling Green.

“We are going to play at a very quick rate.

And the team will be conditioned differently than it’s ever been conditioned before. It’s a total

What he knows Babers said he never has time to watch other college football teams during the college football season, but said he’s begun to understand the team he has over the past couple days. Many of his current players were in attendance at the press conference watching in the back of the room.

“The current team, I’ve looked at some individuals … Mark (Coyle) has filled me in on some things. I’ve had some coaches doing some homework assignments on certain things to make sure that we have the right fit.”

“I take great pride in coming into a football team and look at stuff and finding out a way to make it successful … I don’t see what it would be any different than any other place I’ve been to.”

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As summer faded into fall and the other students returned for school, he kept his routine.

Germano went to bed early, ran extra at 7 a.m.

By Jack Upton staff writer

When a pair of Colgate centers left the team this offseason for unknown reasons, it left the Raiders depleted of a true center. But to head coach Matt Langel, there’s no such thing.

“The way the game of basketball is being played,” Langel said, “there aren’t necessarily defined positions anymore … while we don’t have an old fashioned 7-foot, back to the basket center, we try to recruit guys who can be versatile.”

Rising juniors Jack Fleming, John Fenton and Wyatt Hagerty are no longer with the team.

Fleming transferred after the season to Rollins College, while Fenton and Hagerty left the team for personal reasons. All big men, Colgate is left with two freshmen that play the five.

Of the 10 players from last year’s team that aren’t on the 2015-16 roster, three of them were centers and eight were taller than 6-foot-4.

Colgate brought in a six-man freshman class that didn’t include a player that played the

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babers

germano Germano wanted that challenge of earning a spot, he said. The Albany, New York native had seen a fellow New Yorker who wasn’t highly recruited, Martin Hehir, come to Syracuse and eventually a two-time All-American.

Last season, as he healed, Germano cut out “Wired to Run,” a newspaper article about Hehir’s successes. He tacked it to his apartment’s bulletin board.

This summer, he lived on campus with Colin Bennie and two other runners. Rather than finding excuses in the weather to start later, stop earlier or not go at all — as he did occasionally at home — Germano embraced the regimented runs every morning and afternoon.

“When I started putting the work in, I felt like one of the guys, which felt cool,” Germano said. “Live the lifestyle … of professionalism that goes with working hard.”

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coyle tell you having five days to actively visit and talk to different candidates was a huge help for us.”

On Babers’ experience “What excites me about Dino is he’s done it for four years as a head coach. He did it at Baylor (as

When I started putting the work in, I felt like one of the guys, which felt cool. Live the lifestyle … of professionalism that goes with working hard.

Philo Germano su cross country runner

with teammates, cooked healthy, vegetable-filled meals with Bennie and had “tame” weekends.

“He really dedicated himself,” Fox said. “We always talk to our guys about being pros. He really did that. You could see (his seriousness) this entire year, and especially this fall at such a high level.

an assistant). Most of you guys are too young to remember Baylor football, but … you didn’t talk about Baylor football. Now Baylor football’s a consistent Top 25 program. I felt his pedigree at Baylor and then his four years as a head coach, his knees aren’t going to buckle. He’s been in that role (as a head coach) before.”

On Babers and the Carrier Dome

He can move like 6’11’’ guys. The way he uses his low center of gravity, he should definitely be considered a true center.

Austin Tillotson colgate guard

“He can move like 6’11’’ guys,” Tillotson said.

“The way he uses his low center of gravity, he should definitely be considered a true center.”

Tillotson knows Regisford can improve, but is adapting well to being thrown into the fire in his first season.

Double meaning Babers is a native Hawaiian. He played college football there and was a graduate assistant there. His father was also in the Navy. During

Tillotson works with Regisford on developing a jump shot, saying that he will continue to improve with experience. Freshman Dana Batt, who has only accumulated four points and 16 rebounds in limited minutes this season, is a 6-foot-9 center who provides intermittent depth when Regisford isn’t on the court.

The Orange has been outrebounded by a margin of just over three per game, dealing with similar issues with a lack of depth at center.

SU plays two centers. Chinonso Obokoh has played limited minutes in four of Syracuse’s eight games this season and Dajuan Coleman has started every game for the Orange. Coleman is still shaking off the rust from a two-year absence.

And just like the Orange, Colgate is working with youth at the position to make up for a lack of depth. It may put the Raiders further behind than they already are, but it’s the only thing at its disposal.

“We’re a young team,” Regisford said, “working hard, trying to get better everyday.” jfupton@syr.edu

his plane ride to Syracuse on Monday morning, he said he reflected on the fact that it was also Pearl Harbor day.

“You go on those bases in Hawaii. The warehouses and the hangers still have the machine gun bullets from the Japanese planes. They left those bullet holes in those warehouses in those hangers to remind all of the military men to always stay alert.

“You realize how real that really was. That will always be a big day in the life of any military man or any military dependent, which I am. I take a lot of pride in remembering that.” sblum@syr.edu | @SamBlum3

Those things combined and made it happen.”

About a month prior to nationals, on a challenging, 6-mile team workout run up Sweet Road in Manlius, New York, Germano ran the last mile in 4:30, about 25-30 seconds faster than he’d ever done before, Fox said.

Germano brought a little bit of Sweet Road to the national championship in Louisville, Kentucky. During the last 500 meters of the race, tunnel vision kicked in and he didn’t notice any of the runners he passed.

Ten feet from the finish line, he passed Moussa, the 14th runner he’d overtaken in the last 2 kilometers.

“Of all the people on our team, I can’t think of anyone more fitting to be the hero,” Hehir said.

“He’s a testament to hard work trumps all.”

Later, Germano watched a replay of the race and saw that he led a pack of nine runners which all finished within about two seconds of his time, 30:29.5. SU won by nine points.

Hehir, Justyn Knight and Bennie, who

had finished in the top nine, were in the waiting tent when Fox came in.

The race’s public address announcer ran into the tent shortly after and announced Syracuse as the national champions.

The team stood on the podium for a collective purpose, but it meant something different to each of them. Vindication for Fox, who’s spent 11 years building the program. A dream sendoff for Hehir in his final race. Rewarded rededication for Germano; walk-on to national champion.

As the cheers went up, Germano smiled and reached back, his left arm outstretched to touch the trophy he helped his team earn. He looked at the crowd, arm in arm with Bennie and Knight, the friends he used to watch have these moments.

The cameras snapped. Germano stood about 680 miles from South Campus, and even further from the frustration he felt there a year ago.

This time, he didn’t have to see the celebration on the TV.

“He saw that Dome as a huge recruiting tool … He kept talking about the type of system (he runs), the weather conditions, we can do some special things. If you remember when I was hired, I talked about the Dome being a tremendous recruiting advantage. Do we need to make some updates to the Dome? No question.

But again, that Dome can be special.”

On how not going to the Bahamas with men’s basketball team helped search process “With me not going to the Bahamas, selfishly that led me at home where I could start making a lot of phone calls and have lots of conversations with people. And I truly feel those four or five days helped us to get to our final spot.” pmschwed@syr.edu | @pschweds

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Centerpiece Malcolm Regisford is only a freshman on the Colgate men’s basketball team, but is playing a large role down low.

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On the trail New Syracuse football head coach Dino Babers wants to start his recruiting focus in the Northeast before moving out.

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SPORTS football

5 talking points from Dino Babers

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HOME STRETCH How Philo Germano helped Syracuse to a national title

New Syracuse head coach addresses media for 1st time

By Sam Fortier asst.web editor

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By Sam Blum sports editor

Dino Babers said he can’t handle the calories in Orange juice. “I’m basically a water guy.” When Scott Shafer took the same podium in his introduction, he proclaimed he’d bring a lot of “Orange juice” to his new team.

Three years later, it was Babers’ turn to open himself up to Syracuse. Here are five things he said.

Seeing the future “Why Syracuse? Why not Syracuse?

Tell me. You tell me why not,” Babers said in the beginning of his press conference.

He told everyone in the room to close their eyes, chiding even the press in the front row to do the same.

“Visualize this,” he said. “You’re in the Carrier Dome. The house is filled. The feeling is electric.

The noise is deafening. You have a defense that is relentless. You have a special teams that has been well coached. You have an offense that will not huddle. And you have a game that is faster than you’ve ever seen on turf. Open your eyes.”

Recruiting Babers talked about recruiting all over the East Coast and beyond, but said first and foremost, it’s important to get recruits in your own backyard. Babers himself, though, admitted to never having been in New York aside from playing the University at Buffalo.

“You need to start in your backyard. We need to take care of the state of New York, we need to get over to New Jersey. We need to start to work to Philly … cross our T’s and dot our I’s. We’re always going to start close to home and work our way up.”

Babers said he would have people on the ground recruiting by the end of the day.

In terms of recruiting players that he already recruited at Bowling Green, he said it was taboo. It would see babers page 14

Brush the floor SU men’s basketball takes on Colgate in the Carrier Dome tonight, looking to snap a twogame losing streak.

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PHILO GERMANO final stretch of the NCAA title race helped Syracuse to a national championship. courtesy of su athletics

ith 200 meters to go in the national championship, the course leveled off and Philo Germano saw Colorado’s Ammar Moussa a few meters ahead. He heard assistant coach Brien Bell yelling. Just a few points separated Colorado and Syracuse. Germano kicked.

He’d done this before.

Just a year prior, Germano sat on his couch, looking at the television. He watched teammates post photos as they celebrated their win at the Wisconsin Meet of Champions in 2014. Germano didn’t travel with the team last season, working only on the practice squad. There, in his South Campus apartment between watching, rehab runs and class, a familiar frustration surfaced.

His redshirt freshman season had unraveled before it started, having torn a foot ligament working as a lifeguard.

“I remember being so happy for them,” Germano said. “But at the same time thinking, ‘I have to be there next year … (I needed) my mind in that zone. I don’t have to be a practice squad guy. I could contribute.’

That’s all I really wanted.”

A season later, Germano’s late kick and 39th-place finish separated Syracuse from No. 1 Colorado and led to the 82-91 win in the 2015 NCAA national championship in Louisville, Kentucky. SU head coach Chris Fox compared Germano’s growth as going from the last guy on a basketball bench to scoring 35 points in a national championship game. But before his big breakout, Germano took a risk, then restructured his approach.

“For never having been there before … he outdid our expectations by far,” said Fox, who told Germano before the race to aim at finishing around 75th. “He had more confidence in himself than any of us did.”

Germano’s had that confidence since the beginning. It’s what led him to walk on in 2013. During a recruiting visit, Philo’s father, Phil Germano, had asked Fox if his son would be given the chance to run despite not being highly recruited.

“The best guys run the biggest races,” Philo remembered Fox saying. “Whoever’s the best.”

It took Germano three years to hold up his end of the deal, but when he did, Fox stayed true to his word. He started Germano in both the NCAA and Atlantic Coast Conference championship races. see germano page 14

football

AD Mark Coyle discusses hiring of new coach asst. copy editor

Here are five interesting things Coyle said.

Syracuse introduced its new head football coach Dino Babers to the media at a press conference Monday morning. Director of Athletics Mark Coyle spoke to reporters both at the press conference and afterward.

On hiring the ‘best fit’ “I wanted to make sure we found the best fit for Syracuse football. And how I define best fit was, simply, I wanted someone with tremendous honesty and integrity. I wanted

By Paul Schwedelson

somebody who would be focused on our students and the welfare of our students. I wanted somebody who was innovative and had an exciting brand of football. And I wanted somebody who had a commitment to winning. And I’m confident we’ve found that person in Coach Babers.”

On why Scott Shafer was fired before the end of the season despite previously saying he’d take the season to evaluate “Obviously if you look across the national landscape at the number of openings, I thought it was critical to give us additional time. And I can see coyle page 14