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Companies are scraping conventional hiring tactics and putting more emphasis on "soft skills" based on traits like organization and personality.

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Sofar Sounds just wrapped up its first show in the city of Syracuse as the group works to bring the community together through acoustic music.

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Officials hesitate to declare SU a sanctuary campus

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Wheatly develops plan

By Satoshi Sugiyama asst. news editor

Syracuse University Vice Chancellor and Provost Michele Wheatly has begun developing the budget and a funding plan for SU's Academic Strategic Plan, one of three components in the university's Fast Forward Syracuse initiative.

Syverud announced in a speech to the university community on Jan. 17 that Wheatly, Interim Chief Financial Officer Gwenn Judge and incoming CFO Amir RahnamayAzar will cooperate on developing and implementing a funding plan for the ASP’s programs and objectives. They will also play a role in ascertaining the funding required in the short- and long-term for the plan to meet its goals.

About 1,000 SU community members marched in support of sanctuary status after President Donald Trump was elected in November. SU has not declared itself a sanctuary campus. sam ogozalek asst. news editor

By Taylor Watson asst. copy editor

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n a time of rapid political change, students across the United States are calling for universities to declare themselves “sanctuary campuses,” but some administrators, including those at Syracuse University, are wary of the federal complications that may accompany the adoption of sanctuary policies.

A sanctuary campus, though not narrowly defined, proposes that universities refuse to comply with federal laws pertaining to the identification or deportation of undocumented students. These sanctuary policies

It is really a question of universities having to decide how best they are going to be able to serve their students.

Christopher Lasch associate professor at the university of denver sturm college of law

are generally consistent with the U.S. Constitution, and universities are free to impose them, as it is not the responsibility of universities to enforce federal law.

The sanctuary campus movement began shortly after the election of President Donald Trump, who has proposed mass deportation of undocumented people.

But several universities, including SU, have hesitated to declare themselves sanctuary campuses over concerns of losing federal funding by not complying with federal mandates. A bill sitting in Congress proposes to strip such funding from universities see sanctuary page 4

University assesses relationship with city

By Sam Ogozalek asst. news editor

An ongoing assessment of Syracuse University’s relationships with local organizations, the city of Syracuse government and other groups is intended to address different issues in the community by consolidating resources.

SU Chancellor Kent Syverud originally announced the community engagement initiative during his address to the campus community earlier this month. The initiative hopes to catalog all of the direct resources SU provides to

different businesses, governments and organizations. Syverud tasked Vice President for Community Engagement Bea González and Vice Chancellor for Strategic Initiatives and Innovation Mike Haynie with overseeing the assessment and analyzing the economic impact of SU's community relationships.

Haynie said there are “quite literally hundreds and hundreds” of relationships between the university, the Syracuse community, entities in central New York and other organizations and private sector partners.

He said that when Syverud used the word “relationships” during

his speech, the chancellor was speaking broadly, reference the university’s economic and financial relationships, but also other things such as SU’s engagement with organizations in Syracuse where students can get hands-on career training and experience.

“Where we’re at right now in the process is really simply trying to get our arms around the full scale and scope of the relationships that Syracuse University maintains," Haynie said.

González said one of the issues she’s interested in addressing through the assessment in Syra-

cuse is multigenerational poverty.

She said she wants to make sure different groups working on the issue collaborate with each other, including SU professors and the Greater Syracuse HOPE initiative, a local anti-poverty coalition that is an extension of the United Way of Central New York.

González is one of the members of the Greater Syracuse HOPE initiative’s executive committee.

She added, however, that the university is currently only in the stage of documenting all of its relationships with different see community page 4

It’s clear that it’s going to be an expensive undertaking, and it can’t happen without the money that is devoted to it.

Samuel Gorovitz member of the university senate's academic affairs committee

The ASP sets an academic vision for the university and outlines plans to meet that vision in the coming years. Some members of the University Senate said they have raised questions to Wheatly and other administrators about the plan's funding that have gone unanswered.

Wheatly said she has been meeting with various relevant university stakeholders to seek input on the funding and is currently building a budget for the upcoming fiscal year, which starts on July 1.

The university’s budget, she said, is going to support elements of the ASP, meaning a separate budget created exclusively for the ASP will not be needed.

She said it would be impossible to accomplish all ASP goals in the fiscal year and she has been tasked to support the top priority of the year: invigorating the Office of Research to provide research support to faculty.

“It’s very hard when you say where we are with short-term and long-term goal planning because this is actually a very big process, and I would say we are making our way through at the normal rate,”

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Freshman produces popular YouTube channel

By Chloe Greenwald contributing writer

Margot De Riemer practically just arrived on campus, and she already has more than 120 thousand followers on YouTube.

Hailing from Connecticut the freshman manages her own Youtube channel with videos she films and edits under the alias Margot Lee. She describes her channel as lifestyle and fashion-based. Other YouTubers and social media influencers often inspire her, she said, but she ultimately creates the main idea for each video.

De Riemer’s YouTube career began with a channel that she created along with two of her friends.

“My two best friends and I had a channel, but one of them left for boarding school and one of them just didn’t want to do YouTube anymore,” De Riemer said. “But I really liked it so I started a private channel by myself that I didn’t tell anyone about.”

She began her own personal channel titled “Margot Lee,” that she continued to develop over the past four years. De Riemer was determined to continue her channel during her transition to college.

After posting a video highlighting her move-in day this past fall, she received immense positive feedback, which motivated her to share her passion with her new friends.

“People here really want to get involved with my channel. I get to have my friends on it and work with professors,” she said about how her college peers reacted to her work.

Since arriving in Syracuse in August, De Riemer has utilized the

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MARGOT DE RIEMER goes by Margot Lee on her personal YouTube channel, which she has worked to develop over the past four years by editing and producing her own videos. kai nguyen staff photographer

many opportunities this place has offered her. She did an interview with one of her professors for National Public Radio. She also spoke on a panel during Global Entrepreneurship Week. Her strong social media presence rewarded her a role co-running the Instagram account for Original Grain in downtown Syracuse.

“I feel like I’ve grown in a lot of different senses," De Riemer said.

"I’ve become very independent.”

Looking toward the future, she said she wants to challenge herself as a producer to create more dynamic videos. She feels her bigger projects inspire her more, resulting in a higher quality end product. De Riemer hopes to collaborate with more YouTubers in the future and has recently begun communicating with YouTube celebrities who she has always admired.

The term “social media influencer” has recently started to gain trac-

tion, referring to people of Generation X who have gained fame through a social media platform. Now that she is at school, De Riemer is realizing the impact she is making on social media.

She hopes to utilize her channel to guide her toward a creative work environment later in life.

“I want to take advantage of this platform and see where it will take me,” she said. cjgreenw@syr.edu

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The Whitman School recently accepted a grant from the Charles Koch Foundation.

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Framework draft not released

By Satoshi Sugiyama asst. news editor

The Martin J. Whitman School of Management held its career fair Tuesday night inside the Schine Student Center. Experts say so-called "soft skills" are important to boost one's job prospects.

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More employers embrace, seek 'soft skills'

By Matthew Gutierrez asst. sports editor

In 1918, Harvard University researchers found that 85 percent of job success depended on people skills. Nearly a century later, the skills job candidates need to stand out still may not fit into a resume.

As the workforce tenses, companies are scraping traditional hiring methods that are based on academic qualifications and backgrounds. Instead managers are increasingly looking for candidates — college graduates included — with intangibles often harder to teach than technical skills. These traits, often called soft skills, include organization, adaptability, personality and punctuality. They can make the difference between a good hire and a bad one.

Syracuse University is currently in the midst of Career Week, with several career fairs being held throughout the week.

In a recent Wall Street Journal survey of nearly 900 executives, 92 percent said soft skills were equally important or more important than technical skills. Eightynine percent said they have a very or somewhat difficult time finding people with such traits.

“I care less about the resumes,” said Noah Garden, executive vice president of business, for Major League Baseball.

“I like to understand the person across from me … You could be the smartest person in the world, but if you don’t fit (in), you probably won’t be successful.”

Soft skills have become a flash point in recent years. One reason for the gravitation, experts said, is the steep move from the classroom to

the workforce. Susan Call, the associate director of employer relations at SU, said the reliance on course rubrics, which outline expectations and criteria for exams, could narrow students’ ability to think on their feet, a notable soft skill.

The more students are forced to problem solve on their own in class, Call added, the smoother their flow into the job field will be.

But recent college graduates may be at a disadvantage, said Christopher Perrello, director of career

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dents so that when you graduate, you have a full resume that shows what a rounded individual you are, rather than your GPA being 3.8,” said Will Geoghegan, an assistant professor of management.

The School of Engineering and Computer Science runs career workshops, job shadow opportunities and mock interviews like most other colleges on campus.

“Some students say, ‘Oh, I just need to do well in school,’” said Karen Davis, director of the

Percentage of executives who said soft skills were equally important or more important than technical skills

services at the School of Information Studies. While the iSchool runs career fairs, mock interviews and networking seminars on its own, there’s a stigma around that recent graduates have shorter attention spans and less professionalism than prior generations.

“Millennials get a bad rap,” Perrello said. “Going to the workforce — it’s a tough transition for us.”

Colleges at SU have revved up efforts to address lapses in soft skills and ease the transition.

Two years ago, the Martin J. Whitman School of Management launched the Goodman IMPRESS program, which challenges students outside of the classroom.

The year-round team competition encourages students to participate in emotional intelligence workshops and LinkedIn seminars, interact with guest speakers and take certification exams in topics such as Microsoft Office.

“IMPRESS incentivizes stu-

school's career services. “But employers are not interested in someone who just knows how to do something in school.”

Emma Thomson is a bit of an outlier. A senior chemical engineering major, she has already accepted a full-time position with PepsiCo. She’s held two summer internships, one of which was with her new employer.

As a freshman, she walked into career services to recreate her resume. She joined several clubs on campus and attended her first career fair as a sophomore. In interviews, Thomson was originally nervous. Making eye contact, carrying a conversation and being personable — qualities that she said helped her stick out — came to her only when she taught herself to relax.

The night before an interview in front of six managers, she gave herself a pep talk. She wrote down all of the accomplishments from

her past: all she’s done in and out of the classroom.

“It made me realize, 'You are so qualified for this,'” Thomson said. “It really helps you get over that nervousness, makes you feel more comfortable with yourself, and once you feel comfortable, you're able to translate that with your actions.”

Technical, tangible skills with quantifiable measures is a good start for any candidate, said Alex McKelvie, chair of the department of entrepreneurship and emerging enterprises.

Without competency, a job prospect is usually out of luck altogether, no matter how well he or she dresses or behaves on a golf course. A key difference-maker among a field of equal job candidates, then, are the intangibles he or she possesses to complement the tangibles. Soft skills can give firms a greater reason — all other things equal — to accept one candidate over another.

“Develop soft skills and grades, and you’ve got a lethal combination," Call said.

Annie Zheng, a senior supply chain management major at SU, speaks five languages and has attended career fairs on campus throughout her college years. At networking opportunities, she has strayed away from the standard 30-second elevator pitch, instead making casual conversation. She’s held two internships and already has several full-time job offers.

“I think the biggest thing is having a personality,” she said.

Perrello advises students to find mentors, attend etiquette dinners and practice looking see soft

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Syracuse University did not release an updated Campus Framework plan draft in January after officials originally said they would.

The Campus Framework is one of the three components of Chancellor Kent Syverud's Fast Forward Syracuse initiative. The other two elements of Fast Forward Syracuse are the Academic Strategic Plan and the Operational Excellence Program.

The framework is designed to serve as a blueprint for the physical campus development of the university over the next 20 years.

The creation of the University Place promenade, which was finished before the 2016 fall semester last year, was one of the goals of the framework. One future goal included in the framework is the eventual phase-out of South Campus student housing.

The June draft — made public after 18 months of planning — did not detail the cost of the framework.

The university has held several open information sessions in the past semester to seek input on the framework. Pete Sala, SU’s vice president and chief facilities officer, hinted during a Campus Framework open forum last September that the January deadline was an “aggressive schedule” that might or might not be kept.

This is not the first time the university has recently missed a supposed deadline. The demolition of the Hoople Building on the corner of Waverly and South Crouse avenues was repeatedly delayed until it was taken down over winter break. ssugiyam@syr.edu @SatoshiJournal

news to know Here is a round-up of the biggest news stories happening in the world now U.S. STAFFERS CONDEMN BAN About 1,000 staffers from the U.S. State Department have signed a letter opposing President Donald Trump’s recent travel ban. Democrats on the House Foreign Affairs Committee have told Trump to not retaliate against the staffers who have signed the letter. source: usa today

WORLD CONFLICT ESCALATES Tensions have increased in Ukraine, where on Tuesday fighting between Ukrainian troops and pro-Russia rebels escalated in the eastern town of Avdiivka, killing at least 13 people.

The conflict in the Ukraine has been ongoing since 2014 and has killed nearly 10,000 people. source: al jazeera

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sanctuary that ignore federal requests.

“It is really a question of universities having to decide how best they are going to be able to serve their students,” said Christopher Lasch, an associate professor at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law. “I think the overarching fear is that if you sort of catch (the president’s) eye and become a target for his retaliation, that is going to cause the university trouble.”

That hasn’t stopped the campus community members and official campus organizations from calling on SU Chancellor Kent Syverud to declare the university a sanctuary campus.

The first such calls came the week following Trump’s election, when about 1,000 protesters participated in the National Walkout at SU, part of a nationwide demonstration in support of the sanctuary campus movement.

A petition urging SU and the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry administrators to declare their respective universities as sanctuary campuses garnered more than 500 signatures.

Additionally, both SU’s Graduate Student Organization and Student Association have passed resolutions calling on SU to declare itself a sanctuary campus.

Syverud has twice shied away from doing that. In a December email to the campus community, Syverud said SU “simply cannot ignore federal laws.” He again acknowledged the sanctuary campus push during an address to the community on Jan. 17, but added that it’s “not exactly clear” what a sanctuary status would mean. He also said the university cannot disregard federal laws without facing the risk of losing that funding.

Syverud did, however, urge various leadership groups on campus to examine Trump’s immigration policies and has repeatedly expressed support for undocumented students.

“It is our policy not to share student information, like … immigration status, unless required by law,” Syverud said in the email to the campus.

Syverud’s reluctance to declare sanctuary

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status is common among leaders at universities across the country, given the potential of losing federal funding. Other universities that have not declared sanctuary status include SU peer institutions Boston University and Northwestern University.

A bill was introduced to the House of Representatives in December that aims to strip federal funds from any entity that does not oblige to the requests of the federal government for information or detainment of non-citizens.

The bill, titled “Federal Immigration Law Compliance Act of 2016,” has many potential legal problems but gives an idea of the type of policies that could be enacted under Trump, said Lasch, the University of Denver Sturm associate professor of law.

Unlike Trump’s recent executive order targeting sanctuary cities, such as the city of Syracuse, that bill would include repercussions for universities.

There are currently several federal policies in place that intend to ensure privacy and protection of undocumented students, but some sanctuary campus supporters are worried the new administration may reverse them.

The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act protects the privacy of students’ education records by requiring a subpoena, warrant or court order to access those records unless consent is given. But for international students, some of those rights are waived, meaning authorities could have access to their immigration status, experts said.

Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, an executive order signed in 2012 by former President Barack Obama, has garnered significant attention in recent months. The order allows a portion of undocumented individuals who entered the U.S. as minors to avoid deportation. But because DACA is an executive order, it can be modified or withdrawn at any time by the current president.

Syverud in November made SU a signatory on a letter in support of DACA. “I feel strongly that all students must feel welcome, safe and supported,” Syverud said in an email to the campus community after signing the letter.

Current policy held by U.S. Citizenship

and Immigration Services states that information collected through DACA will not be released to Immigration and Customs Enforcement or to Customs and Border Protection for the purpose of immigration enforcement unless certain criteria are met, including national security concerns, fraud or criminal offenses. But, that policy “may be modified, superseded, or rescinded at any time without notice,” per the USCIS. The petition to the administration of SU and SUNY-ESF called for campus authorities to refuse to allow ICE officers on campus. But current ICE policies indicate that it is unlikely ICE officers would attempt to enter campus and target DACA recipients or undocumented students.

ICE officers act in accordance with the Department of Homeland Security, which prioritizes deportations around individuals who pose a threat to national security, border security and public safety.

what is a sanctuary campus?

A college campus that adopts policies to protect undocumented students from federal anti-immigration laws

“Provided (DACA recipients) do not commit serious crimes or otherwise become enforcement priorities, these people are extremely unlikely to be deported,” according to a DHS memorandum.

Undocumented individuals at colleges and universities in the U.S. have never been subject to large-scale immigration enforcement, per the American Council on Education. That is in part due to ICE’s sensitive locations policy, which states that immigration enforcement should not occur at sensitive locations, including colleges and universities, unless there are national security or public safety concerns.

But that policy, like others, could be modified or rescinded by Trump’s administration, per the American Council on Education. In theory, Trump could alter the policy to make deportations of undocumented students more feasible.

Those in favor of the sanctuary status have also requested that SU’s Department of Public Safety refuse to collaborate with ICE officers in the potential enforcement of immigration laws.

Federal law does not mandate that local law enforcement, including campus police officers, enforce federal immigration laws.

State or local police may enter a cooperative agreement with ICE, but it is not required by law. Currently, 37 law enforcement agencies have signed such an agreement, but none have done so in New York state.

Tony Callisto, senior vice president for safety and chief law enforcement officer, said in a statement to the SU community on Monday that DPS

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community groups in the area to form a baseline for the overall assessment.

Syverud expects a report on the assessment

by May, Haynie said, as well as recommendations on how the university can construct a strategy to better interact with its partnerships.

“The university and the city are connected to each other by many things,” González said. “... And so my goal is to really create as much opportunity for both the community and the university to engage with each other.”

During his speech Syverud estimated SU’s partnerships provide community organizations with “many millions of dollars annually.”

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soft skills others in the eye. Experts say a diverse friend group helps, too, as it exposes one to multiple perspectives. This can make a more rounded individual and attractive job candidate.

In interviews, Fredrik Ruben, president of Tobii Dynavox, asks more nonbusiness-

neither inquires about immigration status of individuals on campus nor assists federal officials in immigration investigations or raids.

Callisto’s statement came just hours before the Student Association assembly unanimously approved a bill calling for SU to adopt sanctuary status.

Marcus Lane, a SA assembly member, wrote SA’s sanctuary campus resolution.

Lane said he appreciates that Syverud has addressed previous calls for sanctuary campus, but added that more must be done.

“It’s very clear that people are going to be alarmed, be suffering or potentially be harmed because of this presidency, and I think it’s in SU’s best interest to be at the forefront of this sort of movement,” Lane said. “… This sort of hate speech or hate crimes or hate policies are intolerable.”

Not everyone within SA fully supports the bill. Anjani Ladhar, co-director of SA’s Student Life Committee, said she doesn’t believe sanctuary status is in the best interest of the university and its students.

Her main concern stems from the risk of losing financial aid, given that a lot of the student body relies on federal aid, she said.

Ladhar is one of two students on SU’s Internationalization Council. After the council discussed the sanctuary campus movement, Ladhar said it became clear to her that university leadership cares about the safety of undocumented students “(But for somebody) who just sees it from the outside, like the rest of the students, it doesn’t look like they are doing anything,” she said.

Eagerness for more explicit support of undocumented students from university leadership is felt in pockets across campus. Tom Perreault, a professor in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs who signed the sanctuary campus petition, called it “absolutely essential” that SU declares sanctuary status.

Perreault said he hopes with sustained pressure from the community, administrators will change their minds.

“I think the university has an ethical obligation, a moral obligation to students in that situation to resist what is, I think, a radical position and an inhumane position which is taken by the (Trump administration),” Perreault said. “… It’s important that the university recognizes these kinds of threats to people’s liberties and to safety.”

It is clear that Trump intends to remove non-citizens from the country, Lasch said. And without strong institutions such as universities that are willing to oppose the president, he added, an erosion of democracy could occur.

“If you don’t have that kind of counterbalance, then you have unchecked presidential power,” Lasch said. “And it certainly seems that universities and colleges across the country are going to have to decide whether they are going to be an instrumental part of trying to make sure that we still have a rule of law in this country.” tnwatson@syr.edu

the city over a five-year span.

Aside from the community engagement assessment, the two SU administrators are also tasked with overseeing an economic impact analysis.

The economic impact analysis will be more straightforward than the engagement assessment. The university will contract a firm to document the economic impact SU has on the region. Specifically, the number of employees SU hires from the area, the wages workers are paid and the economic impact of SU athletics.

There are currently five different firms in the running to be hired for the analysis, Haynie said. Syverud said the analysis is scheduled to be released in June.

González said she will be focusing more on the community engagement assessment, rather than the economic analysis.

“We need to just find some baselines and understand kind of where we are to figure out where we’re going,” she said. sfogozal@syr.edu

related questions than ones about skills related to the job. He looks for passion, teamwork, personality and courteousness.

“The qualifications, I can read in a resume,” Ruben said. “But is this a person who can be a team player?”

“You botch it, you're done,” McKelvie added, referencing soft skills. “You don’t get a second chance.” mguti100@syr.edu | @MatthewGut21

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Destiny cleanup proposal risks lake contamination

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hile shopping at Destiny USA, you would never imagine that your car was parked on top of a contamination site.

And the resurrection of a new hotel near the mall will help the southern shore of Onondaga Lake wear a guise of good health. But this latest construction endeavor is unearthing an ugly memory of Syracuse’s past: Beneath the mall’s layers of concrete rests the remnants of Oil City.

As the Embassy Suites by Hilton is built, the community has raised concerns about what contaminants may be disturbed in the construction process. Earlier this month, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation announced a proposed cleanup of the site and announced it is accepting written comments about the cleanup plan until March 2. Although the area — right on the shore of Onondaga Lake — doesn’t “pose a significant risk,” the proposal included a list of contaminants present, none of which sound easy to get rid of.

In fact, the proposed cleanup plan won’t get rid of everything at all, which is typical for chemicals lurking in and around Onondaga Lake.

Before a significant cleanup initiative helped decontaminate the lake, it was actually known as the most polluted lake in the United States, according to NPR. And residents of central New York appear apt to forget what it looked like not too long ago.

Before there was a mall, there was an oil tank farm run by major petroleum companies. After decades of abuse, the sandy soil and swamp absorbed the petroleum that been pumped out by about 80 storage facilities, according to an Onondaga Lake management report.

There are a lot of hard questions that need to be asked before the cleanup plan is approved, said Lindsay Speer, director of Creating Change Consulting, an organization that works with grassroots groups, nonprofits and native nations.

“There’s so much waste left behind, so much contamination left behind … I won’t say that their plan is bad, but it’s a question of whether it’s good enough,” Speer said.

The contaminants in question are mostly petroleum by-products that are “at concentrations above the restricted-residential use,” according to the proposal. They are gases that are dangerous once they accumulate in groundwater — such as the lake and its tributaries — and when they come into contact with humans.

Herein lies the problem: The plan won’t remove the contaminants, but will only stop them from leaking

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THE GREEN SCENE elsewhere. A capping system works by physically covering a contaminated site with barriers like metal, pavement or buildings to prevent contamination from spreading.

But as someone who has followed the remediation of Onondaga Lake for decades, Speer said plans like these are normally disappointing.

“Once these programs are done, people need to keep being reminded of what’s below,” Speer said. “We don’t want to do that.

We don’t want to remind people that our tourist attractions are on contaminated sites.”

It’s a no-brainer that Onondaga Lake is better today than it was in the 1970s. But some capping systems are starting to move, and site cover has already proved unreliable.

Since people can comment on the plan until March 2, Speer suggests asking what chemical agents will be used to treat the contamination and what by-products may occur.

But people should also think about what it takes to help the lake return to a pristine state — the state the Onondaga Nation would like the lake to be returned to, according to the Neighbors of the Onondaga Nation.

Repeating this vicious cycle of capping is a huge diss to the Onondaga Nation. As the believed location of the Haudenosaunee Tree of Peace, Onondaga Lake is a sacred site — one ravaged by industrial pollution.

Instead of perhaps setting a capping precedent, this next cleanup plan has the potential to be a step toward truly cleaning Onondaga Lake for what indigenous people call the seventh generation. These remediation projects aren’t for our lifetime, but for many more lifetimes to come.

At its core, this isn’t about Destiny USA or the new hotel. It’s about raising awareness. Residents of Syracuse need to be more in tune with their city’s past and demand better. Even if this one project is a small part of a larger, more complicated one, residents must ask more for Onondaga Lake.

Putting sheets of metal over toxic waste will never fix the problem, and temporary solutions are not enough.

It’s time to start thinking long-term. It’s time to consider the seventh generation.

Syracuse University’s recent announcement that two administrators will assess the university’s relationship with the greater Syracuse and regional communities will be a worthwhile exploration of how SU interacts with other organizations.

Considering the university is one of the biggest employers in the central New York region, it’s important for it to maintain strong relationships within the community it resides in. But while assessing SU’s role in the Syracuse area, it’s important that the administrators heading the Community Engagement Initiative keep in mind that university resources should be distributed first and foremost for the benefit of SU’s students, faculty and staff.

The initiative is meant to integrate resources to address issues within the Syracuse and regional communities, said Bea Gonzalez, vice president for community engagement at SU. Gonzalez added

that the initiative also aims to catalog the direct resources SU provides to businesses, government agencies and organizations within the community.

Coupled with the assessment of SU’s relationship with the greater community is an analysis on SU’s economic impact on the central New York region. Gonzalez and Vice Chancellor for Strategic Initiatives and Innovation Mike Haynie, who also will charge the Community Engagement Initiative, will oversee this analysis, which will be conducted by an external firm.

It is interesting that Chancellor Kent Syverud is undertaking this initiative for SU three years into his tenure rather than tackling it at the start. Former Chancellor Nancy Cantor was a proponent of integrating the university and the greater community, especially through her Scholarship In Action program, but she often did so in an arguably fiscally irresponsible manner. Syverud’s decision to

assess the university’s relationship with the greater community before creating any collaborative programs is wise because it provides a backbone that Cantor’s plan lacked.

A final report on the assessment is due to Syverud in May. And to choose Gonzalez and Haynie, two very respected members of the SU community, to lead the initiative is commendable.

Both have extensive relations with the greater community — Haynie is head of SU’s Institute for Veterans and Military Families, and Gonzalez is the former head of SU’s University College, which enrolls students in the greater community.

Members of the immediate SU community often say the university should interact with and do more for the city and regional communities it resides in. Hopefully the report on the Community Engagement Initiative will provide answers as to how feasible it is for SU to engage to a greater extent with the communities it is a part of.

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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has announced plans aimed to improve the New York State Fairgrounds, located in Syracuse. The fairgrounds are the site of the State Fair every summer.

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Gov. Andrew Cuomo allots $70 million for state fair initiative

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ew York state Gov. Andrew Cuomo recently announced initiatives to transform the New York State Fairgrounds located in Syracuse into a yearround facility.

The initiatives are part of a state fair revitalization project, with a bill totaling $70 million. Of that money, $50 million will go toward constructing aerial gondolas, expanding the fair from 12 to 13 days, a new aerial ride for the Midway and an exposition center. The remaining $20 million will be allotted toward traffic infrastructure around the fairgrounds, including a new entrance ramp for Interstate 690 West, expansion of the Orange Lot and a new ring road.

The proposal for the $50 million in the state budget still needs to be approved, State Agriculture and Markets Commissioner Richard Ball said. Ball is a co-chair of the State Fair Task Force, alongside Onondaga County Executive Joanie Mahoney.

Some of the initiatives will not be complete by this summer and the 2017 fair. The construction of the new ramp for I-690 West is set to begin in the fall of 2017 and should be complete by the 2018 fair, if everything goes according to plan, Ball said. Construction of the ramp should have minimal impact on traffic in the area, Ball added.

“When the governor says he wants some-

thing completed in a certain timeframe, he has a pretty good track record of getting it done, and I believe he said he wants these completed in 24 months,” Onondaga County Executive spokesman Justin Sayles said.

The New York State Fair had record attendance in 2016 after the implementation of the first phase of Cuomo's plan, prompting the governor to appoint a State Fair Task Force to propose improvements for phase two, Ball said. The first changes featured a new gate and a new Midway, Ball added, calling the improvements “a great facelift.”

The aerial gondolas will cost $15 million to build and are designed to operate yearround, acting as both a method of transportation and an attraction for the area, Ball said. Gondolas were originally a part of the phase one initiative, but there was not enough money in the budget at the time and they were pushed back, he added.

The aerial gondolas have been a subject of debate, with local residents questioning their necessity. Jade Dabila, a Syracuse native, said the gondolas are not worth $15 million and that the money should go into improving streets and building more shelters for the homeless and battered women.

“I think there’s other things we should be more concerned about than the state fair,” she said.

However, Dabila also said she thinks the construction of the ramp on I-690 West will improve traffic conditions during peak

fair season. Dabila currently works at Funk ‘n Waffles in downtown Syracuse, but she worked at the state fair in 2016. She said she had to leave her home an hour and a half before her shift started at the fair to make it to work on time with the congested traffic.

Kayla Traver of the Hawley-Green area of Syracuse said she thinks the gondolas will bring people from all over the state into the area and help small businesses like the one she works for, Kitty Hoynes Irish Pub and Restaurant in downtown Syracuse.

Sayles, the county executive spokesman, defended the cost of the aerial gondolas, saying that tourism is a large portion of what funds Onondaga County.

“When we can get people to come here and spend their money and stay in our hotels and go out in Armory Square or check out a show at the Lakeview Amphitheater, that all helps fund county government and allows us to do cool projects that we like to do as well,” Sayles said.

The state fair initiatives are only a small part of the investments Cuomo has made in the upstate New York area. Sayles pointed out that the governor has said he thinks upstate New York hasn’t received the attention it deserves.

“He recognizes that we are all one state, we all share the same balance sheet at the end of the day and making sure every region does well means we all do well as a state,” Sayles said. krose100@syr.edu

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funding Wheatly said.

The ASP identifies six focus areas: providing SU students with a “world-class learning experience,” advancing the university’s research capacity, prioritizing internationalization, becoming the premier university for veterans and military students, nurturing an entrepreneurial culture and pursuing excellences in areas across the university.

The ASP was submitted to SU’s Board of Trustees in May 2015 and currently exists in draft form as a “living, breathing document,” subject to changes and updates.

Wheatly said each college and school is working on its own independent academic plan as well. All academic deans, she said, need to align their own strategic plan and steer their funds into the direction of the ASP. She also called for using strategic initiative funds to promote cross-college activity.

“What we’ve got to do is make informed decisions about aligning the money we have with the best purpose and so actually there are a lot of people at various stages within the administration that can make that decision well,” she said.

Samuel Gorovitz, a member of the University Senate’s Academic Affairs Committee, said each department in each school or college thinks differently about its priorities. This could generate tension among competing values, he said, even though the university agrees that it supports all of the values listed in the ASP. Bruce Carter, chair of the University Senate Committee on Budget and Fiscal Affairs, said there is a great deal of frustration within the University Senate about specifically from where the source of funding for the ASP will come.

“It’s clear that it’s going to be expensive undertaking, and it can’t happen without the money that is devoted to it,” he said.

Gorovitz said it is important that the university openly discusses the budgetary aspect of the plan. He said a model for transparency could be Syverud's comments on the sanctuary campus movement made dur-

ing his address to the campus. Syverud was mindful in explaining that the university needs to understand the specifics of becoming a sanctuary campus before declaring itself one, Gorovitz said.

The university should be as rigorous in assessing the academic plan as its approach toward the sanctuary campus issue, Govoritz suggested.

Syverud said during his address to the community that the university will also develop new funding resources, a process he said will include: a review of SU’s advancement goals; a look at its historical and current tuition as well as the room and board rates; and an analysis of how those rates compare to SU’s current and aspirational peer institutions.

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Such processes, he said, “will require candid and tough conversations” about priorities and choices.

Wheatly would not say whether Syverud was hinting at further tuition increases. She also clarified Syverud’s statement, saying it was not meant to be taken as a blanket statement that the leadership unilaterally decides what to support and what to forego. Rather it was supposed to be interpreted as promoting fiscal responsibility, she said.

The university receives its revenue primarily in four ways: tuition, room and board fees, philanthropy and grants and contracts.

Wheatly said all options are to be examined and that there are plans to grow fundraising and expand contracts.

“What we are trying to do is to be very open and transparent with the appropriate (University) Senate committees," she said. ssugiyam@syr.edu | @SatoshiJournal

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Editor’s note: In light of Black History Month, this story and "Black leadership still active" examine black student leadership in the 1960s and today.

Charles Hicks was elected the first black president of the Syracuse University Student Government, now known as the Student Association, in 1968. He earned that title after a campaign season interrupted by the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., in what many historians call the most turbulent year in United States’ history.

Although this historic time period marked a climax for the Civil Rights Movement, it was only years before that Hicks’ family was at a crucial intersection of white suppression and black resistance.

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n 1965, the Hicks family was hosting two young white women who were Civil Rights activists in their home. The Ku Klux Klan planned to bomb the house in response to the Hicks’ harboring them, but also because Hicks’s father, Bob, was a prominent civil rights leader in their hometown of Bogalusa, Louisiana.

Hicks remarked in an oral history interview with the Smithsonian National Institute that his father always made time for his

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icks graduated from SU in 1969 and returned to earn his master’s degree. In the 1968 student body presidential race, he ran against Joe Nicoletti.

Before his campaign for Student Government President, Hicks was heavily involved on campus. He served as the vice chairman and chairman of University Union, which brought The Temptations — famous for their song “My Girl” — to campus under his tenure.

The Student Government loosely resembled today’s SA governing

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he two candidates began campaigning on April 5, 1968, each advocating for a closer relationship between student government bodies and administration.

Hicks was primarily concerned with administrative handling of a marijuana bust, use of tear gas to break up a fight on University Place and introduction of a student discount card for local retail stores.

family, something he believes many young black men lack.

“Sometimes I think about how lucky we were,” he said. “Not only was he (a father) for me, but for so many people in that community.”

Bob created a chapter of the Deacons in Bogalusa, a civil rights protesting body that favored a more militant approach than King Jr.’s well known non-violent efforts.

But in the end, everyone was safe. The Hicks’ swiftly sent the girls to safety.

body. Back then, students wishing to hold office ran with a political party or as an independent. They operated with a full campaign team, mirroring current elections at SU. Hicks originally intended to run as an independent candidate. But when the Greek Independent Alliance party announced Matt Silverman as its only nominee — Silverman was the only person to have nominated himself by the specified deadline — members of the GIA decided to forego the deadline and extend a spot to Hicks. ilverman then dropped his presidential bid, securing Hicks as the presidential nominee for the GIA. The Daily Orange quoted Silverman in 1968, who instead picked up a nomination for Student Government treasurer.

“Chuck Hicks is our man. I give all my support to him,” he said.

As Hicks secured the GIA nomination, the Campus Alliance Party was securing its own nomination.

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Though Charles Hicks was the heavy-hitter for black leadership on campus during the peak of the Civil Rights Movement in the ‘60s, student life on campus is just as vibrant now as it was back then.

The Office of Multicultural affairs lists more than 20 organizations active today that work with students of color across all disciplines. Coordinator of Student Engagement Cedric Bolton has been working with groups — academic or performance-based — for 13 years.

He serves as an adviser and liaison for most of the student groups he works with, but he also said students really shine on their own.

One of those students includes Jahnessa Payne, a junior bioengineering major. She is a co-coordinator with Kalabash Dance Troupe, and Black History Month is one big celebration of the diversity within black culture in the United States.

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Some of Hick's fraternity brothers were also members of the CAP, and when Hicks announced he would run with the GIA, The Daily Orange printed that "the Campus Alliance Party almost lost its middle name."

Those brothers announced they would support Hicks for SG president, and CAP scrambled to find a replacement, eventually nominating Nicoletti.

When King was assassinated, the university not only canceled classes but also postponed Student Government campaigning for a week. Both Hicks and Nicoletti violated that stipulation, however, and had to pay a $40 fine each.

Campaigns pressed on, and Hicks marched into campus residence halls with his team, quoting from The Beatles’ song “a little help from our friends” as a campaign slogan. he week before the election, Hicks and his crew spent six hours visiting residence halls, speaking on campaign issues and publishing ads like the one seen above in The Daily Orange.

The late ‘60s were a formative time for student life at SU. There were rumblings of then-Chancellor William Tolley acting as Student Government president,

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which Hicks urged was a mistake.

In Hicks’ last address before the election, The Daily Orange reported that he said, “I’m trying to show you, the student, why you need student government.”

After election day on April 19, Hicks was carried into his victory celebration sitting on his friends’ shoulders after securing the presidency by a 600-vote margin. cmrussel@syr.edu

“It’s a great platform for us to get recognition for all of our contributions to the U.S.,” Payne said.

Black leadership on campus now is very strong, she added. Organizations work tirelessly and take their work very seriously, creating a positive and creative community for students of color on campus.

Dominic Samuels is president of one of Syracuse’s five historicallyblack fraternities: Phi Beta Sigma.

A junior information management and technology major, he is also part of the Alpha Kappa Psi professional business fraternity. He said he’s glad Black History Month gives students on campus an opportunity to explore their culture and reflect on what their history and culture means to them.

“It’s about the students on campus too,” Samuels said. “Giving them the opportunity to get involved in different black events and make them feel a part of the culture on campus."

For Alseny Frederick, a senior public health major and member of Phi Beta Sigma, Black History Month is a time to remember those that came before him and the sacrifices they made.

“It’s just a time to look at where we are now and just notice how far we’ve come,” Frederick said. “It just makes me feel like I have to grind and do what I got to do to continue be successful and continue to be a role model for younger black people.”

Fredericks and Samuels both said that black leadership on campus is “passionate” and “powerful.”

“We have a lot of powerful individuals on campus,” Samuels said.

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New Year's resolutions challenge students

By Lucy Naland

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The arrival of February brings with it the abandonment of many New Year’s resolutions. More than 40 percent of Americans who made resolutions give them up within weeks of Jan. 1, according to the Stanford Graduate School of Education.

From busy schedules to setting unrealistic goals, different factors keep people from sticking to their resolutions each year — lack of time being a primary reason for students.

Freshman Kiana Parrott, a health and exercise science major, planned on going to the fitness center more this semester, but hasn’t followed through.

“I’ve just been too busy with classes, and haven’t really been focused,” she said. “I haven’t had the time, really, to go.”

Senior psychology major Jessica Puro also wanted to work out more this year, but said her plans haven’t come to fruition so far. “(I blame) no time, and laziness,” she said.

Puro said she makes a resolution almost every year, but usually ditches them after a while.

While some students struggle with finding time for their goals, others’ habits got in the way of their resolutions.

“I made a resolution to answer people’s text messages more, because I never answer them,” said sophomore advertising major Sabrina Ghantous. “But I didn’t follow up on that.”

I actually didn't make any because I kind of knew I wasn't going to keep up with it.

Jada O'Neal sophomore computer engineering major Ghantous, who doesn’t usually make resolutions, said that her goal was too idealistic,

and that it's a habit that she just can't break.

Fear of failure itself kept other students from making any resolutions in the first place.

“I actually didn't make any because I kind of knew I wasn't going to keep up with it,” said sophomore Jada O’Neal, computer engineering major. “I kinda just feel like, if I’m reminding myself of it, I’m probably just going to break it anyway.”

O’Neal said that by not making a resolution, the disappointment that comes with failing to follow through can be avoided from the start.

Alana Franceski, a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences said she also thinks making New Year’s resolutions is pointless. “Most of the time we usually give up on them, so I figured I’d just change my lifestyle rather than just make a New Year’s resolution,” she said.

Like Puro and O’Neal, Franceski blames lack of time and laziness for the futility of sticking to a New Year’s resolution.

“Usually there’s just not enough time,” she said. “Or just usually thinking that you’ll do it, but ending up not just due to not wanting to follow through or becoming lazy, which is usually the case with me.” lmnaland@syr.edu

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leadership hard, especially this week, coordinating a calendar of events for Black History Month 2017.

This year, the Office of Multicultural Affairs has lined up 21 events including guest speakers, art exhibitions, musical performances, banquets and even a dance-a-thon benefit.

In addition to the events listed as official events on the Black History Month 2017 calendar, student groups are having their own events as well. Kalabash Dance Troupe is having a workshop on Friday where participants can try out all sorts of different styles of dance and costumes.

“I can’t even name them all,” said Frederick, president of the National Panhellenic Council, about Black History Month events on campus.

Black History Month may be a special time for students of color on the Syracuse campus, but at the end of the day, these groups are there to serve the student body, Bolton said.

They unify and engage all members of the African diaspora in an inclusive environment. Bolton described this campus’s black student leaders as “active” and “in-tune.”

“They have a pulse on what’s going going on,” he said. “They are great leaders.” cmrussel@syr.edu

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SO GOOD Sofar Sounds comes to city of Syracuse, brings community together through music

This ensemble performed through Sofar Sound in Syracuse. Every show has three acts and aims to have both student and commmunity performers. rachel kline contributing photographer

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ofar Sounds has been bringing communities of people together through the power of music all over the world since 2010. Started by two friends in London who had put on a concert in their apartment and were fed up with the crowd for being loud, drunk and rowdy, and barely paying attention to the performance, Sofar Sounds is a global community where artists and music lovers can come together and enjoy a night of raw, uncut music. Located in 310 cities worldwide, Sofar Sounds has made its way to Syracuse, New York, and put on its first concert this past Thursday.

The organization was brought to Syracuse by Jessica Berenson, a junior advertising major, with help from Alyssa Gorsky, a sophomore information management and technology major.

Over the summer, Berenson went to many shows in New York City and heard about Sofar through word of mouth — New York City is one of Sofar’s biggest hot spots. With all of the resources Syracuse University has — let alone all of the resources the city of Syracuse itself has — Berenson said she was shocked to discover that Sofar Sounds is not in Syracuse and decided to put matters in her own hands.

“We’re really trying to focus on combining the campus life to the community life, because I feel like when you’re on campus, you’re not engaging with the city itself, and it’s a really great way to bridge that gap,” Gorsky said.

“I think in essence, Sofar is really about bringing communities together,” Berenson added, “Everything is completely local and everything is completely donorbased or volunteer based. No one gets paid for it.”

This is a factor of Sofar that makes it standout from other performances. The artists do not get paid, nor the venues, and neither do Berenson or Gorsky. Venues and artists can opt to get promoted through the Sofar website however, and audience members can make donations to the performance, but these donations go to insurance and the Sofar Global team. The goal is to make the entire night about music and nothing else.

“It’s a group of people who all share a common love for music, and want to spend time with other people who feel the same way, vibing out all together," Gorsky said. "In college, I feel like you’re going out and partying hardcore or whatever or you’re doing homework, and I feel like it’s a really nice alternative where you can just be around some people, have some really great conversations and listen to really awesome music."

Sofar concerts are strictly acoustic-based, so an artist who is able to perform in a setting stripped of any special electronics, sims or lights is able to set up performances through the organization. However, Berenson has still seen a group of eclectic performances through her experiences of attending Sofar shows. Even R&B and electronic artists have found ways to become acoustic so they can perform at Sofar Sounds shows.

Sofar has gotten names as big as Hozier, James Bay, Leon Bridges, Bastille and more to perform at shows around the world. Here at Syracuse this past Thursday, SU student Charlie Burg; local band Mountains and Valleys; and Austin Bonk from Clinton Corners, New York, performed. Every Sofar shows has three acts.

Although Berenson and Gorsky were terrified for their first show, they said they couldn’t have asked for a better turn out. About 60 people gathered in SPARK Contemporary Art Space to share their common love for music, and they’re expecting even more for their next show.

“I had a really great time at the show,” Bonk said, including that he brought his parents to watch him perform — something they normally do not get to do. “They had a blast, too. Everyone at the show was super nice and super friendly, and honestly I think people enjoyed talking to my parents more than me,” Bonk said with a laugh.

The next Sofar Sounds show in Syracuse will be on Feb. 23, and Berenson and Gorsky are trying to find an off-campus house where they can hold the performances. They hope to book one student act, one local act and one either student or local act in order to truly bridge that gap between the local community and the student community.

“It sounds totally corny, but music can totally change a person,” said Berenson. “You can tell so much about a person by the kind of music that they enjoy and the fact that this was such an opportunity for us to impact a community through music, we just saw so much potential in that.”

Said Gorsky: “There’s just so much to share.” lmeyers@syr.edu

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Monteroso thrives at 2 sports after transfer from Purdue

By Billy Heyen staff writer

In the West Liberty men’s basketball season opener Nov. 11, starting guard Dan Monteroso scored 11 points on 5-of-6 shooting.

The next day, he ran pass routes and punted for WLU’s football team, hauling in eight passes for 145 yards and two touchdowns.

That night, Monteroso stared again on the hardwood and scored 16 points.

Three games, two days, two sports.

“It was a tough weekend,” Monteroso said, “But I’m happy I did it. It’s something I can say, tell my kids when I’m older.”

Monteroso used to be a wide receiver and special teams player at Purdue. But after getting limited playing time — he caught only three passes across his three seasons there and hardly played on special teams — he transferred. Last spring, Mon-

teroso completed 21 credits to graduate from Purdue in three years and take his eligibility elsewhere.

Monteroso grew up in Saint Clairsville, Ohio, a short drive from Wheeling, West Virginia, the home of West Liberty University.

Both of Monteroso’s parents work at West Liberty. His father, Jeff Monteroso, is the defensive coordinator for the football team, and his mother, Cathy Monteroso, teaches in WLU’s College of Education.

Throughout his youth and into high school, Monteroso attended basketball camps and played high school games hosted by West Liberty. After receiving only one scholarship offer coming out of high school, Monteroso left the sport for football. After leaving Purdue, Monteroso hoped to revitalize his basketball career, but he couldn’t garner any interest because he hadn’t played organized bas-

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Three Orange players named to preseason All-ACC team

By Matthew Gutierrez asst. sports editor

No. 8 Syracuse’s Sergio Salcido, Ben Williams and Nick Mellen were named to the Preseason All-ACC team on Tuesday morning.

A redshirt senior and 2016 second team All-American, Salcido scored 29 goals last year, second highest on the team after not scoring any goals in the previous two seasons.

He added 24 assists as the everyday midfielder. This year, he’s one of five captains.

Williams returns as the country’s top face-off specialist, two years removed from his Tewaaraton Award nomination.

He collected 111 groundballs last year.

Mellen, a sophomore defender, is the only underclassman on the list. He played in 17 games as a freshman, starting 16, causing 14 turnovers and collecting 38 groundballs.

He sustained an injury in the fall, but is expected to be ready for the season opener.

SU head coach John Desko said Mellen will match up against the opponent’s best player all season.

North Carolina was picked No. 1 and SU No. 3. by the conference’s coaches. Syracuse’s regular-season opener is Feb. 11 versus Albany in the Carrier Dome. mguti100@syr.edu | @MatthewGut21

ketball in three years.

The only coach who wanted him was the head coach at West Liberty, Jim Crutchfield, who had seen Monteroso develop. West Liberty gave him a familiar setting to turn back the clock and be a basketball player again. “(When he went to Purdue) I kind of thought he’s got some basketball ability,” Crutchfield said. “I thought it’d be a shame if he never played basketball again.”

Jeff Monteroso said last summer was solely filled with basketball workouts for Monteroso. The plan, Jeff said, was for Monteroso to play only basketball at West Liberty. About a week before football preseasoncamp began, he changed his tune.

When the two sat with WLU head football coach, Roger Waialae, the coach jumped at the opportunity to add a player with the experience and ability of Monteroso. He put up big numbers, catching 14 touchdowns,

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white Instead of trying for rebounds with one hand, he’s now trying to tip the ball away toward open space on the floor where he can cleanly come away with possession.

“He made a commitment to himself to get more rebounds and hold his own on the wing,” freshman forward Taurean Thompson said. “He’s just been a real presence defensively and it helps us out a lot.”

Even before shot opportunities arose for the Seminoles, White appeared to be in perfect motion with the zone. Several times he flicked away passes. Sometimes out of bounds, sometimes back into FSU’s arms or sometimes into Syracuse’s possession. All of it a product of anticipation.

That, perhaps more than any other sign exhibited Saturday, was encouraging for a player only known for his jump shot.

“He was back, pushing, … battling with the big guys down there,” Boeheim said. “He had

and used his experience to take less-experienced players under his wing.

“He was helping some of the younger kids,” Jeff Monteroso said. “They would listen to him. He would give them advice.”

West Liberty’s basketball team is glad to have him, too. The Hilltoppers are 19-1 and Monteroso averages a team-high 18.3 points per game. West Liberty ranks No. 3 in NCAA Division II. Based upon NCAA eligibility rules, Monteroso’s football career concluded this fall.

His time as a basketball player will continue for one more season beyond this one.

Monteroso has pursued his master’s degree with a focus on coaching education — he’s always wanted to be a college football coach — while playing two sports near his hometown.

“It was nice to kind of come back home,” Monteroso said. “It kind of was just a perfect fit.” wmheyen@syr.edu

four steals, nine rebounds, eight defensive rebounds — that’s outstanding. Outstanding.”

With the Orange clinging to a four-point lead and less than three minutes to go, FSU’s Jarquez Smith hoisted a deep 3. White positioned himself beneath the hoop with 6-foot10 NBA hopeful Jonathan Isaac towering over his back. As the ball left Smith’s hands, White peaked over his shoulder and sealed off Isaac.

When the ball ricocheted off the iron, the Seminoles’ freshman never had a chance.

White’s box out afforded him enough space to cleanly snag the rebound and jumpstart one of SU’s final possessions.

Rebounding, and defense, in general, has plagued the Orange all season. Its only redeeming quality at times has been scoring, spearheaded by White. Now Syracuse’s most reliable offensive presence is ready to mirror his production on the other side of the floor. “(White’s) so good offensively that the attention is taken away from his defense,” point guard John Gillon said. “I think people should start taking notice.” cgrossma@syr.edu | @connorgrossman

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FRANK HOWARD and the Orange’s returners beat N.C. State on Senior Day last season and hope to replicate that success again. jessica sheldon staff photographer

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“Syracuse softball, we’re on the rise but we’re not the Yankees yet,” Gatti said. “One day I believe that will happen.”

As a young girl, Gatti loved playing with boys because they kept score. No dolls or playhouse. She couldn’t see the point in doing something you couldn’t win, and credits much of her inner fight to that.

Before she turned 5, she sat next to her father at Three Rivers Stadium watching Pittsburgh Pirates games. Gatti fell in love with baseball, and in turn, softball.

As a freshman at Southmoreland (Pennsylvania) High School, Gatti earned second team All-State honors. During summers, she played for the New Jersey Inferno before switching to the Beverly Bandits, a nationally ranked team based in Chicago.

The No. 66-ranked player in the class of 2014, per FloSoftball, faced elite hitters as college coaches looked on.

“Once I saw how much ability she had,” Vince said, “I was like, ‘Whoa, wait a minute here — this girl can do this.’”

Despite being highly touted, her parents remained skeptical that a college would offer their 16-year-old a scholarship. It simply didn’t happen to girls in her area. So, when their daughter wagered a tattoo on receiving a Division I offer, Vince and Rachel, her mother, accepted.

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elmore then-redshirt senior Shakeya Leary scored 8.1 points and 7.4 rebounds per game. Next year, Elmore could step in the same way Day once did.

It doesn’t help Elmore’s playing time that senior forward Slim is seeing more minutes than she has at any point in her career. Elmore has shown her ability only in spurts, part of why SU head coach Quentin Hillsman has kept her on a shorter leash. This year, he said, is an anchor for her next three.

Tammy Millsats, Elmore’s high school coach, remembered hearing about the budding Division I prospect when she reached eighth grade. When Millsats ran into Elmore in the hallway one day at Capital Preparatory (Connecticut) Magnet School, the coach looked at her future star warily.

“I was like, ‘This kid gets talked about?”

Millsats recalls. “She didn’t look like an excep-

to the Orange. She likes quotes and deeper meanings. Her forearm now reads, “Vene.

Vidi. Vici.” I came. I saw. I conquered.

In her first year at Syracuse, she injured her right foot, the one she pushes off with when pitching. The doctors diagnosed a sprain, which didn’t concern the Gattis. But soon Vince realized how serious the injury could be for his daughter. She struggled moving to the plate normally and maintaining velocity while pitching became uncomfortable.

For the first time in her life, she couldn’t be on the field competing. Confined to the dugout, she struggled with sitting out most of her freshman season.

“I didn’t really listen to what the trainer wanted me to do,” Gatti said. “I was a complete jerk because I thought they were purposely trying to keep me out.”

Gatti appeared in seven games later that season, though Vince wishes they had taken the injury and recovery even more seriously.

One day last season with the Orange’s bats struggling, Gatti and Olivia Martinez, her catcher, got in a heated exchange at the Gatti’s home in Pennsylvania. When Gatti said SU’s players couldn’t hit off of her, Martinez retorted that she had hit well off Gatti in the batting cages that morning. Gatti didn’t drop it because of her “I beat you” mentality, escalating the argument.

“I guess you have to realize who you’re talking to,” Gatti said, “and how you’re talking to them sometimes about your accomplishments. To rub it in someone’s face, that’s not competitive. That’s just being a jerk.”

This season, Gatti wants to be a sparkplug and SU’s ace for the second straight year.

Syracuse (13-9, 5-4 Atlantic Coast) travels to Raleigh, North Carolina, in search of its first road win in a battle with North Carolina State (14-8, 3-6) on Wednesday at 7 p.m. The Orange is coming off a momentous upset of No. 6 Florida State, while Louisville thumped the Wolfpack on Sunday.

Here’s everything you need to know about Mark Gottfried’s squad.

All-time series: Syracuse holds a 6-3 advantage Last time they played: On Senior Day, Michael Gbinije poured in a season-high 34 points to lead Syracuse to a 75-66 win over N.C. State in the Carrier Dome. Gbinije shot a lightsout 8-of-13 from behind the arc, while Malachi Richardson and Tyler Lydon each scored in double digits. Four scored in double figures for the Wolfpack, led by Caleb Martin’s 18. But N.C. State only shot 23.5 percent (4-of-17) from 3-point range as Syracuse’s seniors finished their Carrier Dome careers on a high note.

The N.C. State report: The Wolfpack’s three conference wins have come against Virginia Tech (by 26, when N.C. State scored a whopping 104 points), against Pittsburgh and at Duke. According to Kenpom.com, N.C. State ranks 49th nationally in adjusted offensive efficiency and 170th in defensive efficiency. Five different players average double digits, and the She’s pitched against No. 10 Florida State, No. 13 UCLA, No. 19 Notre Dame twice and North Carolina. Syracuse head coach Mike Bosch said her out pitch, a quality changeup, coupled with her fiery attitude creates a force in the circle.

“Boy, if I could bottle that up and sell it,” Bosch said, “I tell you, I could make a million.”

Gatti sometimes can’t help her competitive streak taking over, including in mid-January preseason workouts. Last Wednesday, as the team practiced in groups of four, a teammate

team shoots a respectable 47.7 percent from the field.

How Syracuse beats the Wolfpack:

Simple. Stop Dennis Smith Jr. In N.C. State’s 15-point loss to Louisville on Sunday, David Levitch held Smith to a season-low eight points on 3-of-12 shooting. As he goes, so does N.C. State. Obviously the Orange won’t man mark him, but Smith is equally capable of scoring and dishing off, as shown by his 19 points and 6.5 assists per contest. The top of the zone will have to prevent penetration from Smith and have a watchful eye on him at all times when the ball isn’t in his hands.

Against Duke, he went off for 32 points, including the game-sealing steal and dunk, so that’s a glimpse at what he’s capable of.

Oh, and he’s a freshman.

Stat to know: 6.1 – The Wolfpack blocks 6.1 percent of opponents’ shots, the 10thhighest mark in the country, per Kenpom.

Player to watch: Dennis Smith Jr., guard, No. 4 He may be the best freshman in the country, projected as a Top 5 NBA Draft pick already and maybe even the No. 1 overall selection. Smith shoots 44.8 percent from the field, 36.9 percent from 3 and 72 percent from the line. On top of averaging team highs in points and assists, he chips in 4.4 rebounds and 2.2 steals per contest while playing a team-high 33.7 minutes per game. mcschnei@syr.edu | @mattschneidman

called out Gatti for cheating. It ticked her off.

After Gatti’s group won, she suggested the losers run a timed mile. Vene. Vidi. Vici.

That competitive fire constantly smolders inside Gatti, waiting to be stoked. Sometimes it burns overwhelmingly hot, but she tries not to let that happen. The heat has always seemed more useful directed at the batter 43 feet away.

“Softball is a team sport, but it is also very individual,” Gatti said. “I get to compete, just me and that batter in that one second.” aegraham@syr.edu | @A_E_Graham

GATTI suffered a sprained right foot her freshman season, but is back and ready to go head-to-head with the ACC’s best. brandon bielenksi contributing photographer

tional athlete that I heard so much about.”

“She’s 5-9, but she plays more like she’s Elmore grew to be a four-year starter 6-2,” Millsats said. “Our play was get the and the go-to player, even though she start- ball to Des every time we could.” ed alongside a McDonalds All-American Millsats said Elmore developed into a Kiah Gillespie, now a Maryland forward. rugged, physical player that didn’t fit the Elmore began receiving recruiting letters mold of a prototypical five-star body type. in the seventh grade It didn’t matter. Her and sat with about 20 dominant left hand, Division I coaches in finesse and reboundher last few years of ing skills make up for high school. it. Elmore selected One night durSU, becoming its first ing Elmore’s sophofive-star recruit since more year of high Brianna Butler in school, she matched 2012.

Star rating, per ESPN, for Syracuse up against a pair of In limited action freshman Desiree Elmore. She’s the 6-foot-4 seniors. She at Syracuse this seafirst five-star player to come to SU hadn’t practiced all son, Elmore’s often since Brianna Butler in 2012. week because of an bodied up with playinjury, yet she scored ers three, four and about 20 points en route to a Hartford Prep five inches taller. She plays the 5 position win. Her senior year, Elmore averaged during practice even when Day is on the nearly 30 points and 16 rebounds per game. floor. She works on low post drills with the When Hartford Prep needed a basket, Mill- Day sisters, Slim and Julia Chandler, all of sats often designed a play around Elmore. whom stand 6 feet or taller.

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On defense, Elmore spins an outlet pass as clean as anyone, Sykes said, who hardly remembers a time when Elmore didn’t box out an opponent and snatch a board in her direction. She can chin the basketball and go up for a put back, too.

“She hones in on the technique of rebounding,” said Sykes, who averages 7.9 rebounds per game. “She just does the dirty work. She boxes you out, gets you pinned under or gets you so far behind that it will be an over the back.”

Syracuse thrives when Sykes attacks the basket and either scores or lays a dump-off pass to a big in the short corner, Elmore included. The freshman can extend the floor with a shooting range of 15 to 17 feet. Though her next steps are to be more aggressive on offense, strengthen her right hand and continue to learn the offense, she’s looking more and more like a consistent force for SU. “You wait for your time and your opportunity,” Sykes said. “Desiree has had more opportunities and she’s seized them.” mguti100@syr.edu | @MatthewGut21

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Beat writers predict Orange to win against N.C. State

By The Daily Orange Sports Staff

Coming off its biggest win of the season against then-No. 6 Florida State, Syracuse (13-9, 5-4 Atlantic Coast) travels to take on North Carolina State (14-8, 3-6) at 7 p.m. on Wednesday. The Wolfpack is coming off a 25-point point loss to thenNo. 13 Louisville.

Here’s what The Daily Orange beat writers think will happen against North Carolina State.

CONNOR GROSSMAN ON THE PROWL SYRACUSE 79, N.C. STATE 70

Syracuse has offered zero evidence this season that it’s going to win a game away from the Carrier Dome. The odds will be against SU doing it until the Orange actually does it. So what does Syracuse have going for it? A win over then-No. 6 Florida State doesn’t hurt momentum.

But SU’s defense played as well in the first half of that game as it has all season.

Jim Boeheim said on Monday he thinks the Orange has cured the widespread problems that plagued it on the road this season. Will it be enough against N.C. State and stud freshman Dennis Smith Jr.?

Boeheim doesn’t know, but I do: Syracuse claims its first road victory of the season on Wednesday night.

MATT SCHNEIDMAN FIRST TIME FOR EVERYTHING SYRACUSE 75, N.C. STATE 70

The Orange hasn’t won on the road yet this season, and freshman stud Dennis Smith Jr. will try to keep that trend going when Syracuse comes to town on Wednesday night. The possible No. 1 NBA Draft pick averages 18.3 points, 6.5 assists, 4.4 rebounds and 2.2 steals per game and Syracuse probably won’t have anyone who can completely take him out of the game. But somehow, a combination of John Gillon, Frank Howard and Tyus Battle does just enough and Syracuse gets its elusive first win away from the Carrier Dome.

PAUL SCHWEDELSON ONE-MAN WOLFPACK SYRACUSE 72, N.C. STATE 69

The key for Syracuse is stopping Dennis Smith Jr. He’s right up there with the best freshmen in the country and scored 32 at Duke a week ago. When he’s on the court, 29.3 percent of N.C. State’s possessions end with a Smith make, miss that lands in the opposition’s hands or a turnover, per Kenpom.com. That percentage ranks 70th in the nation and third in the ACC. If the Orange can stop him, it could be in for a treat.

And in conference games against non-Top 25 opponents, SU is 5-2. It’s about time SU cracks through away from the Dome.

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Scouting the pack

Preseason All-ACC

Here’s what you need to know about N.C. State ahead of Wednesday night’s matchup.

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SU men’s lacrosse’s Sergio Salcido, Ben Williams and Nick Mellen earned All-ACC honors.

See page 12

S PORTS

Signing up Quarterback Tommy DeVito leads a crop of high school seniors who will sign with SU on Wednesday.

See Thursday’s paper

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ANNAMARIE GATTI gained a competitive spirit from growing up playing with neighborhood boys. Now at Syracuse, and after battling a foot injury that kept her out for most of her freshman season, Gatti is ready to channel her competitiveness and help SU rise higher. brandon bielinski contributing photographer

BRINGING A THE HEAT

By Andrew Graham asst. copy editor

AnnaMarie Gatti looks to bring fire to Orange in her junior season

t a camp with 16- and 17-year-old softball players, 9-year-old AnnaMarie Gatti reached down to field a hard groundball. As she extended her glove to stick the ball, it took a bad hop and smacked her in the face. As tears streamed down her face, Gatti barehanded the ball and fired to first base.

She almost threw out the batter.

“She really wanted to compete,” Vince Gatti, her father, said. “She really wanted to show people what she could do. She wouldn’t come off the field.”

Gatti shouldn’t have been on the field, Vince said, because the camp wasn’t

White fixes defensive struggles senior staff writer

The buzz around Syracuse three months ago was palpable. A No. 19 ranking floated next to SU’s name and phrases such as “Final Four” and “best team” were flung at Jim Boeheim in his season-opening press conference.

Twenty-two games later, the number 19 remains relevant only as Frank Howard’s minutes per game.

Now, “Final Four” and “best team” have been replaced by “inexperience” and “still learning.” Four firstyear players shouldering significant minutes was bound to create some puzzles, even for a fifth-year senior like Andrew White, who considers himself a “high IQ guy.”

No puzzle, however, presented a more complicated challenge

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open to girls younger than 11. Yet his daughter won the camp’s “Will to Win” award, even though most campers were almost twice her age.

Growing up in Scottdale, Pennsylvania, about 45 miles from Pittsburgh, Gatti played Wiffle ball and video games with the neighborhood boys over “girly” pursuits like Barbie dolls. The fierce competitiveness she developed from an early age has turned her into one of Syracuse’s top pitchers. After missing most of her freshman season with a foot injury, the junior righthander is poised to compete and lead the Orange following its first winning season in four years.

than playing the zone. Earlier this season, White said he had secondguessed himself on defense. Four years of man-to-man college defense no longer applied.

All season White has stressed the need for patience and belief that he’s all-in on learning Boeheim’s defense. Finally, in Saturday’s 82-72 win over then-No. 6 Florida State, White unveiled the defensive performance he’s been working toward. His nine rebounds and four steals didn’t set any season-highs for the veteran guard, but collectively it represented White’s maturation.

Most important, he’s got a grip on how to better position himself in the zone and back down opponents contesting for rebounds. It’s taken longer than both he and Boeheim would have liked, but ahead of Syracuse’s

(13-9, 5-4 Atlantic Coast) Wednesday night game at North Carolina State (14-8, 3-6), they’ll take it.

“To be a one-dimensional player in this league doesn’t work,” White said on Saturday. “I have a reputation as a shooter, but I try to be a threat on defense. I try to rebound.

My urgency and desperation level are so high right now.

“I can’t sleep because I’m thinking about the opportunities.”

Just last year he starred at Nebraska, both as the team’s leading scorer and rebounder. White wasn’t a defensive stalwart on a subpar Cornhuskers team, but he hauled in 199 rebounds in 2015-16, averaging 5.9 per game compared to 4.7 this year.

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Desiree Elmore shows promise off SU bench

By Matthew Gutierrez asst. sports editor

Desiree Elmore doesn’t stand out as an interior force on the basketball court. She never has. Yet packed into her 5-foot-9 frame is a court vision beyond her freshman status, a knack for finding space inside and rebounding instincts that don’t often come from a fledgling backup.

The former five-star recruit averages only 2.6 points, 2.2 rebounds and 10.2 minutes per game for Syracuse — so it’s a small-scale start. But the process of Elmore’s development offers a look at what next year’s frontcourt for No. 24 SU (15-7,

6-3 Atlantic Coast) might look like. Teammates said she brings an extra lift to team rebounding, and they believe the freshman can blossom into a regular starter once she gets a full season under her belt.

“She’s making smart plays,” redshirt senior guard Brittney Sykes said. “She’s just got to keep at it.”

With the Day sisters and Isabella Slim gone after the season, Elmore will likely head a frontcourt makeover in 2017-18. The blueprint for Syracuse’s frontcourt has for three years centered around Briana Day. In her freshman year, Day watched on as

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