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N • Diversity partnership

SU’s Student Association has partnered with the InclusiveU organization to increase representation of people with disabilities in student government.

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O • Expanding horizons

Gender and Sexuality columnist Lianza Reyes explores the importance of taking on a global perspective of human rights during Black History Month.

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P • Making history

As SU’s first black Panhellenic president, Linda Bamba is working to expand women empowerment and diversity in the Greek community.

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S • The catalyst

Isis Young was always the star basketball player. A knee injury during high school changed that, and shaped her career at Syracuse University.

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Grant gains SU officials push to support graduate student research Story by Catherine Leffert asst. news editor

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s part of a major academic initiative, Syracuse University officials say tweaks to existing programs and new funding opportunities will better support graduate students, whose work is key to the university’s standing as a major research college, professors say.

By increasing research opportunities and support for graduate students and faculty, SU aims to continue to develop its standing as one of the top research universities in the country, said John Liu, vice president of research.

“They’re kind of an overlooked group, but they’re actually kind of the lifeblood of the university in terms for research,” said David Althoff, an associate professor of biology, about graduate students. “If we don’t have good graduate students and resources available for them, research just doesn’t get done.”

Several professors said finding solutions to improving research at the graduate student level could allow them to teach less and provide monetary support for research and travel.

As part of Chancellor Kent Syverud’s broad Academic Strategic Plan, the university has said that it plans to better support doctoral and postdoctoral student research.

“We will work to attract and retain outstanding doctoral students, including those from underrepresented groups,” the document states. “We also will enhance recognition of and support for doctoral programs by providing competitive stipends, benefits and workloads; increasing University and dissertation fellowships and awards for summer research and travel; and facilitating professional growth and networking opportunities.”

SU is a major Research 1 designated university, according to the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. That organization determines a Research 1 classification based on, in part, the see research page 6

university politics

2 internal Title IX investigations opened at SU

By Michael Burke senior staff writer

Two internal Title IX investigations were opened this academic year at Syracuse University after complaints were made against faculty members, according to a document forwarded Friday evening to members of the University Senate.

Thomas Keck, a professor of

political science and chair of the Senate committee on Academic Freedom, Tenure and Professional Ethics, wrote in a message to senators dated Feb. 14 that the committee investigated the two cases and reported its findings to the university’s Office of Equal Opportunity, Inclusion and Resolution Services.

Further details about the investigations and their findings

were not immediately available.

Keck and a universit y spokesperson did not immediately return a request for comment on the investigations Friday evening.

The committee on Academic Freedom, Tenure and Professional Ethics is scheduled to provide its annual report at the Senate’s Wednesday meeting.

On Thursday, the day after

Keck’s message was sent, the university announced it had named Sheila Johnson-Willis as SU’s permanent chief equal opportunity and Title IX officer.

Johnson-Willis had previously served in that role as an interim officer, a position she was named to in 2015. In November 2017, the university launched a search to fill the position permanently. see investigations page 4

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Franco addresses concerns

By India Miraglia staff writer

Student Association President James Franco has responded to frustrations over a private meeting held to discuss a possible reconfiguration of Student Legal Services.

Jack Wilson, president of Syracuse University’s Graduate Student Organization, expressed concerns on Wednesday after he said he learned GSO representatives were left out of a meeting regarding SLS between Franco, Chancellor Kent Syverud and M. Dolan Evanovich, the university’s vice president for enrollment and the student experience.

Nothing is set in stone, nor were formal options given.

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SLS, which is jointly funded by the SA and GSO, provides free law services to Syracuse University undergraduate and graduate students.

Franco said there was no deliberate decision to leave Wilson out of the conversation about SLS. He added that SA wants to collaborate with GSO as much as possible moving forward. Wilson was not immediately available for comment Sunday evening.

“Nothing is set in stone, nor were formal options given,” Franco said.

The topic of making changes to SLS was first raised with Syverud last semester, who then directed SA to Evanovich, Franco said in an interview with The Daily Orange. A meeting was held with Evanovich in early February to see if SA would be able to revisit how SLS operates and serves the undergraduate student body, Franco added.

Wilson on Wednesday said he was notified of a meeting between Franco and SU officials after it had taken place, adding that it raised concerns that the interests of GSO members were deliberately left out of preliminary talks.

“We do not like this,” Wilson said.

“The degree of independence that the SLS provides is absolutely critical.”

At Wednesday’s meeting, GSO members said they were concerned that SLS would be replaced by lawyers working for the university and SLS would subsequently lose its status as an organization independent of SU. “I think Jack may have misperceived that nature of the first two see franco page 4

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Community policing Mayor Ben Walsh is working to fulfill a campaign promise to improve community policing.

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Planning progress SU officials detail the status of the Campus Facilities Advisory Board and Campus Framework project.

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crime briefs Here is a roundup of crime that happened in the Syracuse area in the last week, according to police records and Syracuse.com reports.

LARCENY A Syracuse girl, 17, was arrested on the charge of petit larceny. when: Feb. 11 at 2 p.m. where: Destiny USA A Syracuse woman, 31, was arrested on the charge of petit larceny. when: Feb. 11 at 7:20 p.m. where: Destiny USA A Solvay man, 31, was arrested on the charge of petit larceny. when: Wednesday at 6:47 p.m. where: Destiny USA A Syracuse man, 20, was arrested on the charge of petit larceny. when: Friday at 7 p.m. where: Destiny USA A Syracuse man, 33, was arrested on the charge of petit larceny. when: Saturday at 4 p.m. where: Destiny USA OBSTRUCTING GOVERNMENTAL ADMINISTRATION A Seneca Falls man, 52, was arrested on the charges of obstructing governmental administration and seconddegree harassment when: Wednesday where: Seneca Falls source: syracuse.com

Cold competition

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A cornhole tournament was held in Hanover Square in downtown Syracuse on Sunday as part of the city’s annual Winterfest. The tournament took place outside of Maxwells, a local bar, and included a “pool play” and double elimination round of cornhole. Winterfest runs throughout most of February and includes several events. hieu nguyen asst. photo editor

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A Syracuse man, 46, was arrested on the charge of unlawful possession of marijuana. when: Thursday at 12:20 a.m. where: 500 block of Clarendon Street

InclusiveU partnership to increase diversity

POSSESSION OF SYNTHETIC MARIJUANA

By India Miraglia staff writer

A new relationship between InclusiveU and Syracuse University’s Student Association that has students with disabilities working on SA committees is the culmination of a plan a year in the making.

The partnership between the two organizations started in early February. InclusiveU students — SU students who have intellectual or developmental disabilities — will work with SA members on

various committees, including the Diversity Affairs and Student Life committees.

The idea for collaboration between InclusiveU and SA was first discussed last spring, while now-Vice President Angie Pati was campaigning with now-President James Franco, Pati said.

One of the campaign pillars that Franco and Pati ran on was diversity.

“Diversity is very multifaceted and we often forget all that encompasses diversity,” Pati said.

During their campaign, Pati and

Franco discussed how SA could reach out to groups that SA hadn’t connected with in the past, she said.

Tori Cedar, who worked on the Franco-Pati campaign, was also a part of that conversation, Pati added.

Cedar is a peer trainer at InclusiveU. The program accepts students with disabilities into the university, where they are enrolled in classes to receive a certification of completion in a certain field or focus, Cedar said.

As a peer trainer, Cedar works with InclusiveU to organize events throughout the Syracuse community

and ensure that students are enjoying their experience on campus.

“This year, most importantly to me, my goal was to ensure that we got more involved with organizations on campus,” Cedar said.

Cedar, who was good friends with Pati since freshman year, said part of her position on the FrancoPati campaign was to help promote awareness for inclusivity, diversity and acceptance.

The idea for a partnership between SA and InclusiveU was see partnership page 6

FALSE REPORTING A Montezuma man, 51, was arrested on the charge for falsely reporting an incident in the thirddegree after allegedly sending false threats to a local school. when: Friday where: Cayuga County source: syracuse.com

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Researcher develops wildlife camera program

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contributing writer

The Canid Camera project at SUNY-ESF will allow scientists to help researchers identify wildlife through trail cameras in the Hudson Valley.

“Canid” refers to mammals in the dog family, such as foxes and wolves. Amanda Cheeseman, a postdoctoral associate at SUNY-ESF and her team, recently installed camera traps throughout the Hudson Valley to snap photos of wildlife.

A Syracuse man, 45, was arrested on the charge of unlawful possession of synthetic marijuana. when: Friday at 8:09 p.m. where: 500 block of Clarendon Street

Sometimes the bears come and just take (a camera) because they can rip it off the tree.

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With those photos, the team determined the areas wildlife were using or avoiding to

improve forest management practices, according to a SUNYESF press release.

Cheeseman is currently studying the declining populations of the New England cottontail rabbit, along with a team of undergraduates.

Her team will also study predator species such as wolves, coyotes and foxes. They’ll research whether different forest management techniques lead to different predator activities, in turn determining if that impacts the survival of the New England cottontail, per the

press release.

Restricted to the dense groundcover of young forests, the New England cottontail is at risk of disappearing as its habitat declines.

The trail cameras allow researchers to look at the wildlife diversity within “young and old forests,” Cheeseman said.

Cheeseman had a team of undergraduates to help her with the project, according to the press release.

There were more than 100,000 images collected by cameras in the three years since they were set see wildlife page 6

RAPE A Rome man, 43, was arrested on the charge of rape in the second degree for having sex with a child under 15. when: Friday where: Lenox, New York source: syracuse.com

THREATENING A Cayuga County boy, 12, was arrested on the charge of making a terroristic threat, a felony, after allegedly threatening fellow students in the Port Byron School District. when: Friday where: Cayuga County source: syracuse.com

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3 Syracuse stories you may have missed this weekend

By Sam Ogozalek news editor

Here are some of the biggest news stories from around Syracuse University and central New York that you may have missed in the last few days.

President responds to resolution

SUNY-ESF President Quentin Wheeler responded to an Undergraduate Student Association resolution that called for increased communication between college administration and the campus community.

Wheeler, in an email to USA President Ben Taylor on Thursday, said the administration will be sending biweekly updates for significant announcements. A USA resolution passed in early February in part called on SUNY-ESF administration to clarify its work on major university initiatives.

Wheeler said his administration has increased their presence on campus and will “accelerate” this activity by appearing at more student scheduled events. Additionally, he and Provost and Executive Vice President from page 1

franco meetings. They were really preliminary,” Franco said.

Franco said he wants to make changes to SLS that would increase its accountability.

At present, not as many undergraduates are using the service as is to be expected and it’s important to find out why, Franco said.

If students are not accessing legal help — whether it’s because the SLS lawyers currently available are unable to address certain topics or the litigation process for some cases would be too complicated — SA wants to find a way to fix that problem, Franco said.

Nosa Egiebor will be, “present in Gateway for informal discussions with students on a more routine basis.”

The turmoil surrounding January department chair dismissals at SUNY-ESF and other issues follows previous tension between SUNY-ESF faculty and administration. In November 2016, SUNY-ESF faculty passed a vote of no confidence in Wheeler, expressing frustration in the president’s leadership style and citing a climate of fear.

SUNY-ESF’s Board of Trustees during its Wednesday meeting also promised to more closely follow the administration’s actions after the university’s Academic Governance body and USA both passed similar resolutions.

Permanent Title IX officer appointed

Syracuse University announced on Thursday that Sheila Johnson-Willis, who served as the university’s chief equal opportunity and Title IX officer in an interim capacity since 2015, was permanently appointed to the position.

A committee of university officials and “We’re looking toward keeping that separation from the university to a degree, while also getting more support from the university,” Franco said on the independence of SLS. He also said there was a meeting of student government leaders, including Wilson, with Evanovich on Friday to discuss possible SLS plans.

He added that undergraduates have expressed some concerns over SLS, and as SA’s president he said he wants to ensure the service is working for the students he represents.

“Wilson represents the graduate student body and I think they’re much more pleased with the current success level of SLS,” Franco said. itmiragl@syr.edu

other campus community members launched a search for a permanent chief equal opportunity and Title IX officer last November.

That was more than two years after Johnson-Willis first started serving as interim officer.

“The committee understood the crucial nature of this position in fostering a culture of inclusion and acceptance and a safe and supportive learning, living and working environment,” said Andrew Gordon, the university’s senior vice president and chief human resources officer, in a press release Wednesday afternoon. Johnson-Willis reports to Gordon.

In her role, Johnson-Willis leads the Equal Opportunity and Inclusion Resolution Office. She’s responsible for the investigation of equal opportunity claims and disability rights guidance and investigations, among other things.

An active Title IX investigation is open at SU, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education’s Title IX sexual assault investigation tracker. That investigation, opened in June 2016, was first reported by The Daily Orange

in August 2016. The complaint alleges that the university failed to “respond promptly or equitably” to a report of sexual assault made on or about May 5, 2015.

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The timing of the two investigations also coincides with the Senate’s Agenda committee tasking AFTPE in December with reviewing the university’s policies on relationships between faculty and students and possibly recommending changes to the university’s faculty manual.

In addition to the two internal Title IX cases involving faculty members, the university is also still under federal investigation for its handling of a sexual assault case stemming from a Title IX complaint filed in 2016 by a student. That complaint alleges that the university failed to “respond promptly or equitably” to a report of sexual assault.

investigations SU Chief Human Resources Officer Andrew Gordon said in an SU News release on Thursday that, following a national search, “it became very clear to the search committee” that Johnson-Willis was qualified to serve in the position permanently.

In response to this article, Sarah Scalese, SU’s associate vice president of university communications, in an email said: “It is categorically inaccurate and irresponsible to imply that the appointment of our new chief equal opportunity and Title IX officer is somehow connected to this recent report by the AFTPE Committee.”

SU Rising event held

Campus community members gathered Friday night to raise awareness about sexual abuse as part of the sixth annual SU Rising: Stop Sexual Abuse Event.

“It’s a call to action to stop sexual abuse and all kinds of patriarchy and misogyny, to create a world that is full of compassion and love, and to be together in that,” said Tula Goenka, an SU professor and one of the organizers and speakers at the event.

The event also aimed to raise awareness of campus resources. The program listed seven options for students seeking help: Sexual and Relationship Violence Response Team, Hendricks Chapel, Chancellor’s Task Force on Sexual & Relationship Violence, the Vera House, Office of Health Promotion, Contemplative Collaborative and SASSE. sfogozal@syr.edu | @Sam13783

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SA partnership fosters representation The Daily Orange Editorial Board commends Syracuse University’s Student Association and InclusiveU for their efforts to increase on-campus representation for students with developmental and intellectual disabilities.

SA recently partnered with InclusiveU, a university program for students with developmental or intellectual disabilities, to include InclusiveU members on SA committees, including the Diversity Affairs and Student Life committees. The measure fulfills a plan proposed during SA President James Franco and Vice President Angie Pati’s campaign last spring.

The partnership comes into play at an important time under the university’s Fast Forward initiative, ensuring that people from marginalized communities have a greater platform to utilize their voices and speak on issues

concerning them.

For SA’s collaboration with InclusiveU to be most beneficial, it’s essential that SA extends this partnership beyond membership in the Diversity Affairs and Student Life committees.

To ensure proper representation, SA should invite InclusiveU members to meetings with various student organizations and administration members on a regular basis to maintain a dialogue about accessibility and on-campus experiences.

Rather than speak on behalf of students with disabilities, SA should utilize its partnership with InclusiveU to contact them directly and ask which resources they need to best facilitate academic and community success. In the same way, SA should seek to partner with similar groups, including the Disability Cultural Center and the

Office of Disability Services.

Inclusivity isn’t a one-sizefits-all solution for increasing diversity, and it’s important SA explores all avenues when working to increase visibility of marginalized communities in student government. The editorial board looks forward to seeing how this relationship with InclusiveU — and hopefully more on behalf of SA — contribute to more balanced representation in campus policies.

The Daily Orange Editorial Board serves as the voice of the organization and aims to contribute the perspectives of students to discussions that concern Syracuse University and the greater Syracuse community.

The editorial board’s stances are determined by a majority of its members. You can read more about the editorial board on dailyorange.com.

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BHM also encompasses global history

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lack History Month is a prime time to celebrate black individuals who’ve played prominent roles in American history, including black history not contained within the United States.

Black history transcends boundaries and encompasses people who fought for equal rights in the face of fear across the globe. People like Julia de Burgos, an Afro-Caribbean writer whose feminist ideals served as a precursor of her American contemporaries, and Zulia Mena, who became the first Colombian congressional representative to advocate for the rights of AfroColombians in 1994.

Non-black communities should appreciate the names that have amplified the voices of people of color around the world to shed light on issues that aren’t always discussed in the U.S. The more we challenge ourselves to learn about outside movements, the more our understanding of human rights expands.

“We have to think about brown and black people in a regional and global context,” said Kwame Dixon, an assistant professor in the African American Studies department at Syracuse University.

Dixon, who has lived in countries like Brazil, Ecuador

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GIVING YOU ‘THE TALK’ and Nicaragua, teaches courses about Pan-Africanism at SU, and is preparing to publish a book called “Comparative Racial Politics of Latin America.”

Dixon said studying black politics in different countries has broadened his understanding of human rights with a globalized and diversified perspective.

If communities of color, like Dixon, study prominent black individuals from across the globe, we’ll find that the definition of human rights expands beyond U.S. borders. Dixon said accounting for diverging histories and experiences is crucial to understanding the development of human rights, especially those that are intersectional.

“There’s a lot of human rights discourse about Afro people in the United States,” Dixon said, “but very little discourse about black Latin Americans.”

By taking the global and making it personal, Dixon reflected on the attitude of discourse at SU, saying that although there may be pockets of discussion around campus,

the campus community could do better.

“We have some of the same circular, redundant conversations, over and over,” Dixon said. “… I wish we had a reset button so that we can think of new conceptual ways about what the university talks about.”

what is the naacp?

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People aims to ensure a society with equal rights for individuals and without race-based discrimination source: naacp.org

As college students in 2018, we should know higher education is about bringing new conversations and perspectives to the table as a means of cultivating more well-rounded, culturally aware thinkers. With organizations such as the NAACP in the city of Syracuse, or the CNY Solidarity Coalition, we can move in that direction.

Higher education should be a right, not a privilege A new semester starts, but many of the same questions about how to afford a college degree remain. For too many students, college is still far from free. Between rising tuition and fees, mounting textbook prices, rent, food, transit and even child care expenses, Syracuse University students deserve a break.

With the economic crisis in 2008, the United States government gradually reduced the subsidies for university finance, and the university relied more heavily on tuition income to survive. Under these circumstances, both public and private universities have witnessed soaring tuition fees, which has resulted in increasing U.S. student loans and enormous pressure on getting access to a degree for students.

Flat state funding has left the burden of paying for our expanding City University of New York and State University of New York institutions increasingly on the backs of students and their families. Tuition has gone up over 35 percent in just seven years at New York’s public universities. The state has two tuition aid programs which are designed to provide free tuition to low and middle income students. Even so, the Tuition Assistance Program (TAP) and the governor’s new Excelsior Scholarship continue to box out too many students in need.

Flat state funding has also meant that campuses cannot invest in

more classes or student resources.

Insufficient course offerings and support services like advisement means that graduating on time is far from the norm. What’s more, this year’s budget proposal includes millions of dollars in cuts to Educational Opportunity Programs, ASAP, SEEK, College Discovery and campus child care centers.These are time-tested, successful services that support New York’s most financially vulnerable students through to graduation.They deserve more funding, not less.

In short, our state representatives are responsible for ensuring all New Yorkers have access to a degree, because higher education is a right. When students organize together, sending a message that students deserve more from their government, real change happens. Join NYPIRG and hundreds of students across the state for Higher Education Action Day on Feb. 28 in Albany to share your story and fight for an accessible, affordable higher education. A cost-free, debt-free, public higher education is in New York’s future. Join us in the fight to get there.

Stop by the NYPIRG office in 732 S. Crouse Ave. to learn more. If interested, contact us at ethompson@nypirg.org or 315412-5357.

Ethan Thompson, NYPIRG project coordinator

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partnership revisited at the beginning of the spring semester, Pati said. Obi Afriyie, SA’s parliamentarian, played a role in getting the idea off the ground, she added.

Afriyie, who is also a Student Life columnist for The Daily Orange, said he realized that SA was not connecting with as many different groups on campus as the organization had the capability to.

“SA has the power to do so much, we have so much influence, and the best part about that is we can make sure that everyone gets what they want and everyone gets the chance to join the organization and use its resources,” he said.

Before he discussed an InclusiveU collaboration with Pati, Afriyie said he was unaware that Pati had previously addressed the partnership with Cedar.

This semester, Pati and Cedar had a meeting to discuss how to get InclusiveU involved in SA. They decided that having InclusiveU students join SA committees would be a good first step for the students to express their opinions and ideas, Cedar said.

“A lot of the time in the disability community our voices are not heard, which is problematic and not right,” Cedar said.

Pati said running a campaign with Franco that focused on increasing inclusivity and diversity showed her that there have been times when students have not felt welcomed in SA. As an organization that represents the entire undergraduate

student body, it’s important to have diverse representation in SA, Pati added.

“When we have representation in SA, then we’re able to have more policies and initiatives that are working toward an increasingly inclusive campus,” she added.

Some SA members pointed to the evolution of the cycle share program, launched during SA’s 60th legislative session, as one of the more recent ways SA has worked to promote inclusivity. SA originally launched the cycle share program as the “bike share program,” but then added two adaptive cycles so students with disabilities could also utilize the program.

Jon Rushmore is an InclusiveU student who joined one of the SA committees. Rushmore, who has been with the InclusiveU program for four years and is studying education, said he started working with SA to learn how to serve on a committee and help the community.

Rushmore added that SA should continue to work to encourage InclusiveU students to participate in SA, show them what the organization does and what students can be expected to do if they join.

Andrew Benbenek, a first-year InclusiveU student who said he’s hoping to study sports broadcasting, is currently on SA’s Diversity Affairs committee. He said he feels it’s important to show that people can become involved on campus, no matter their background.

“I want to be able to have the directors of InclusiveU say to the next kid, ‘this is what you can do,’” Benbenek added.

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wildlife up. Cheeseman said she needed help going through them.

The team of undergraduates included Allison Becker, Reilly Carlson, Melissa Phillips and Jenna Holakovsky, per the press release.

All these students are currently studying in the department of environmental and forest

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biology at SUNY-ESF. Already having experience working in a lab that focused on the piping plover, an endangered bird, Carlson said she was looking for more research experience related to mammals.

The team had to find ways to work around unusual obstacles. Each trail camera was equipped with bait to attract wildlife, but “sometimes the bears come and

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research amount of doctoral student research at a university.

In previous years, if a faculty member wanted to hire a graduate student to assist with lab research, they would be required to pay the student’s salary as well as the student’s tuition, Althoff said. When students were working in a lab instead of teaching, those funds needed to be supplemented, he said.

Althoff said the school recently waived the required student tuition fee for researching faculty, who can now hire students solely at the student’s salary rate.

“I think the university is committed to … more investment into research and providing more opportunities for research, which will directly back graduate students, postdocs,” said Ramesh Raina, the chair of the university’s biology department. “I think it’s an exciting time.”

Raina said the university recently launched a new internal grant program to provide funding for faculty research, called the Collaboration for Unprecedented Success and Excellence, or CUSE grants program. The program is part of Invest Syracuse, a $100 million academic fundraising plan.

Those faculty research projects, paid for by CUSE grant funding, will generate more research opportunities for graduate students, he said.

There’s $1 million in total grant funding available, with specific awards possible — $30,000, $10,000 and $5,000, Raina said.

Althoff said he believes SU’s administration intends to improve graduate research and supjust take it because they can rip it off the tree,” Carlson said.

Cheeseman said her team of undergrads were “fantastic,” and that “the project wouldn’t have been possible without them.”

The students will continue to tag wildlife photos, manage social media for the project and create other support materials to engage the public, according to the press release.

Cheeseman chose to use Zooniverse, a

port. But he also said that he has not seen many details of plans to improve graduate programs.

“I think the focus and part of the plan of making (graduate programs) better is good,” Althoff said. “The question becomes whether or not the methods that are implemented will actually make the program better.”

If there were more opportunities for students to apply for internal grants or funding, Althoff said those students would be able to do their own research. That option could be “pricey,” though, in the field of biology, he added.

Dan Coman, a professor of mathematics, said the university’s graduate research programs would be stronger if there were more research fellowships or opportunities for graduate students without a required teaching assistantship.

Both Coman and Althoff said supporting graduate students is vital to research. The quality of research affects the reputation of the university and its potential to receive external grants.

Steven Diaz, a mathematics professor, said decreasing the teaching requirements of graduate students to allow them more time for research would be beneficial, but he understands “the university is not flush with cash.”

Multiple professors said graduate students are integral to having a strong research institution, to assist with teaching, research and publishing.

“I think to have a strong university and a strong department, for any particular department, it’s important to have a good Ph.D. program,” Coman said. “This is where the future generation of researchers and professors are formed.” ccleffer@syr.edu | @ccleffert

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Cheeseman added that the team is working on outreach to engage more people because “the public should see what is in these forests.” irclemen@syr.edu

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LINDA BAMBA came to Syracuse University in 2015 as a transfer student and noticed that the Greek life system was not as diverse as SU’s overall population.

In November 2016, Bamba was elected the first black president of SU’s Panhellenic Council.

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hen Linda Bamba applied to Syracuse University in 2015, she took note of the school’s diverse student body. But during her first encounter with SU’s Greek life, she didn’t see that same representation.

After arriving on campus for the fall 2015 semester, Bamba said she and another black friend attended the Panhellenic Expo in November, where sorority leaders gathered in Goldstein Auditorium to speak with women

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interested in joining Greek life. Bamba and her friend saw no one who looked like them.

“There was no representation of anyone of color,” said Bamba, a senior public relations and sociology dual major. “In that moment, I knew I wanted to chase a leadership position when I went into Greek life.”

Bamba would be elected the first black president of SU’s Panhellenic Council in November of the next year. Her experiences growing up helped her develop the leadership style she’s used to be an agent of change on the SU campus. see panhellenic page 8

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LaNia Roberts’ self-acceptance journey started with painting

By Jony Sampah staff writer

LaNia Roberts sits in her studio on the fourth floor of the Shaffer Art Building at Syracuse University, surrounded by art she’s created. Selfportrait paintings hang behind her, and on her left are caricature cutouts. “(They) are reflections,” she said.

ROBERTS “Reflections of myself, reflections of people who I see myself in.”

Something happened when she created her first self-portrait at 16, she said. She’s been creating

ever since.

Roberts, a senior painting major, might be known around campus as the girl who posts weather updates on SU’s Snapchat Campus Story, but she proudly wears many other crowns — like artist, motivational speaker, storyteller and black woman.

She was bullied in middle school, which affected her self-esteem. At age 16, Roberts decided to embark on a journey of “resistance” — not with words, but with her art.

“At that time, even though I didn’t realize it, I was giving … other people’s opinions about my image more power than my own opinion about my own image,” she said. “And so that influenced my confidence and my love for myself, and I really

just did not like the way I looked.”

Roberts, a native of Louisville, Kentucky, said she’ll never forget the first time somebody wanted to buy one of her self-portraits.

“I was like, ‘Yo, you know that’s me right? You want me on your wall, what?’”

The first time she heard people describing her paintings as beautiful, Roberts said she felt amazing — and that was where her journey of self-love started.

The idea that she’ll be able to inspire someone with her art is what encourages her to get up every morning, she said. But still, she values her ability to question above all else — it makes her feel alive. see artist page 8

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Vietnamese restaurant offers pho, traditional cuisine

By Leah Toney staff writer

Phi Tran comes into Dang’s Cafe every day at 8 a.m. to prepare for his day as general manager and head chef. Because quality is so important to him, Tran allows his broth to cook for 12 hours before deciding it’s ready.

Dang’s Cafe, located at 1828 Butternut St., celebrated its grand opening on Jan. 26. Since then, they’ve been serving up traditional Vietnamese food — and, as owner Nhan Dang said, giving back to the community through the art of good cuisine.

“I feel like this neighborhood needs a place like this,” Dang said. He moved to Syracuse from Vietnam 16 years ago and has lived in central New York ever since.

“Some people might see Syracuse as going downhill, but I don’t, and I’m happy that my place can add to the city.”

Head chef Tran said his preparation methods for dishes including pho — a traditional Vietnamese soup made with broth, rice noodles called banh pho and various herbs — are customary to his Vietnamese culture.

“Back in the day in Vietnam, people did not have powder seasonings and stuff like that, there was no pre-made chicken or beef flavor, so I try to replicate that here as much as I can,” Tran said.

When making broth, Tran uses two whole chickens for the chicken broth and beef shanks with the bone for the beef broth. He said you can definitely tell the difference from the two. He also adds cloves, cinnamon, ginger root and onions.

Nadia Suleman, a junior magazine journalism major at Syracuse University, said Dang’s Cafe offered her an outlet to try food from a different culture.

“My cultural background is Ethiopian, so I’m used to spicy cuisine,” Suleman said. “I’d never tried Vietnamese food before going to Dang’s, but I love exploring new foods, and it was really good.”

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panhellenic Bamba grew up as a “military brat,” with her father serving in the Marine Corps and her mother in the process of joining the Air Force to serve as a nurse. Her parents grew up and attended college in Ivory Coast. Bamba was born in New York City but has lived in San Diego; Tampa, Florida; Hawaii; and Japan.

Living at military bases meant Bamba met people from all over the world. In each place she’s lived, Bamba said she’s experienced an extreme amount of culture shock.

“That instant moment when you get there and everything is different, I think that’s the most memorable part,” Bamba said.

She recalled driving on unpaved roads in Hawaii and learning that some residents had never been to the rest of the United States, which they referred to as the “mainland.”

Bamba credits her upbringing for instilling in her the importance of diversity and an ability to quickly make friends. It also led her to enter the sorority recruitment process with an open mind. Bamba said she was curious but knew little about the chapters or the history behind them. After meeting the women in the chapters, she started to form her own opinions.

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artist “I want my questioning to create a sense of freedom in somebody else as it has for me,” she said. “The art of questioning is so important to me in my life … and I have this desire to have an effect on people in as much of a positive way as possible with my art, with my work. Especially at this time where such negativity is alive.”

Recognized as “LaNia the Weather Girl” for her daily forecasts, she started giving motivational speeches, both via social media platforms and in person at a local school.

Dang’s Cafe celebrated its grand opening in January. Owner Nhan Dang moved to Syracuse from Vietnam 16 years ago and aims to serve traditional Vietnamese dishes to the central New York community. courtesy of dang’s cafe

dishes, sandwiches and other traditional dishes including pho. Pho is often served with some kind of meat, but Dang’s Cafe also offers a vegetarian-friendly pho, made with daikon, onion, ginger root, radish, carrots and mushrooms.

The cafe is working on adding more vegetarian options, including rice, spring rolls and sandwiches.

Dang and Tran said they want to invite the Syracuse community to try Vietnamese food. The cuisine is an explosion of flavors ranging from spicy, sweet, aromatic and sour, Tran said.

“The flavors hit you on so many levels if

you are a first-timer, but it’s delicious and an incredibly unique experience,” Tran said.

The cafe prides itself on cooking with natural, fresh ingredients, Tran said. He said they choose to only buy locally and keep the menu small to maintain efficient quality control, as well as preparing all dishes inhouse and from scratch.

Customers can look forward to new additions to the menu soon. The cafe will start making boombayah — a spicy beef noodle soup — and a Vietnamese pancake.

The cafe also has new dessert items in the making. Recently, it added a fruit cocktail made with jackfruit, acorn jelly, strawberries,

raspberries, raspberry syrup, mint and condensed milk. Patrons can also expect a brandnew avocado ice cream.

“We chose to take a risk and make everything from scratch, and because of that everything has to be top quality,” Tran said. “It’s the only way we’re going to do it.”

Dang said he believes his business practices and appealing menu items will bring in customers.

“Some of my friends told me that we might not be in a good business zone, but I disagree,” he said. “I believe if the food is good, people will come no matter what.”

man between the sororities, the university and the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Affairs.

This means that every day at 8 a.m. she’s hit with about 140 emails, she said, and there are constant meetings with delegates, sorority presidents and advisers.

There are six Greek councils on campus, Bamba said, but Panhellenic is the biggest. A significant part of her job involves maintaining relationships not only within the Panhellenic community but also among the other councils, including the National Pan-Hellenic Council and the Professional Fraternity Council.

At the start of each year, there is an AllCouncil Retreat for leaders from all the Greek councils, said Dana Matuson, the Panhellenic Council’s vice president of communications. But usually, over the course of the school year, the leaders get so wrapped up in their own councils that they forget about the others, she said.

“Linda has been really good about grounding us,” Matuson said.

She added that Bamba organizes monthly meetings with the other councils and makes it a point to encourage attendance at their events. She also set up a GroupMe for all the leaders to communicate.

Bamba listens to all points of view and comes up with diplomatic solutions, said Taylore Ratsep, public relations chair of Kappa Kappa

Gamma, Bamba’s sorority. Her knack for keeping the peace comes in handy when drama arises in the Panhellenic community, Ratsep said.

“She’s one of the most outstanding mediators I’ve ever met,” Ratsep said.

Bamba said a lot of the work the council does is much bigger than themselves. National movements such as #MeToo and the Women’s March have inspired the council to take action on a smaller scale on the SU campus.

“And with women, we are so strong and so powerful, and our voices, they need to be heard,” Bamba said. “And in a community like this, that power can actually be put to use … and it can travel further than you could ever imagine.”

In March, the council will host a Women Empowerment Series, with some events open to all women on campus and others reserved for women in Greek life. One event is “Let’s Taco About It,” which gives girls on campus the opportunity to engage in “girl talk” while they eat tacos.

Bamba has permeated the idea that anyone can be a sorority woman, Matuson said, adding that race is still a daunting factor for some women looking to join Greek life. Matuson recalled a moment at Kick-Off, the first event of Panhellenic recruitment, when a black woman approached Bamba and said, “I hadn’t considered Panhellenic recruitment before I

had seen your face as the Panhel leader.”

Bella Carter, vice president of judicial and standards on the council, said Bamba has made comments about seeing more women who look like her at recruitment events.

Bamba also advocates for breaking down the self-separation that exists on campus and bringing people together.

Carter said she’s able to accomplish this as a black leader of a predominantly white Panhellenic Greek life.

When she became president, Bamba said she didn’t know she was the university’s first black Panhellenic president. The Office of Fraternity and Sorority Affairs told her a few weeks later. It was surprising and inspiring, Bamba said, since Greek life has been part of the university for so long.

Women from all over campus — not just those in Greek life — have come up to Bamba with positive comments, she said. Her election encouraged women to be in the same position and opened the eyes of women who were on the fence about recruitment, she said.

And at the Panhellenic Expo in November, Bamba said she saw an immense amount of diversity compared to her first expo three years ago.

“I think that’s really why I did this,” she said, “and to know that it worked? Pretty awesome.”

Since her freshman year, she has given two one-hour-long motivational speeches in Grant Auditorium. In 2015, she gave a speech titled “Motivation by LaNia: Loving Yourself Unconditionally,” which she said was attended by about 150 students and was very well-received.

She followed it up with another the next spring, titled “Motivation by LaNia: How I Got My Groove Back, And How You Can Get Yours Too.” She will be giving another speech in April — her final one before she graduates.

Roberts said she’s also interested in storytelling and talking about concepts of blackness.

During her freshman year, she became

a member of the Black Artist League, an organization that aimed to create a space for black creatives on campus. The group would meet up to share different ideals, understandings and concepts. Roberts was co-president of the organization for a year and a half, but the organization has since become inactive.

“We really tried to simply create a space for (black art),” she said. “To let artists know that they are appreciated and that they are desired … we want to create a space in which we can share your work with as many people as possible.”

Her identity, not only a woman but as a

black woman, has been an integral part of how she views herself as an artist, she said.

Last year, Roberts was crowned homecoming queen, and she could be seen around campus wearing her crown.

“I kind of wear it as performance art, because … I realized that was the first time in my life thus far that I had seen this image of a big black woman wearing a crown,” she said. “… If I’ve never seen that image before, there has to be so many other people that haven’t seen that either.”

Roberts still wears her crown.

“I do, every single day.”

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young the injury. She’s the first player off the Orange bench, averaging 18.3 minutes and 6.3 points per game. She’s one of five transfers to impact Syracuse this season.

Up until the injury, every offense she’d played on had run through her. At Florida, Young was an afterthought. At SU, she’s shown flashes of the dynamic scorer she was four years ago, but as a role player, Young’s had to adjust.

“Before the injury, she was a heck of a player,” said Walter Welsh, one of her former AAU coaches. “She had a little more quickness.

Her shot was even more on target. I’m not sure if the injury took something away from that, but I think she’s trying to find her way back to where she was.”

Dennis and Denise primed Young for her future prior to her injury. At 5 years old, Young dribbled through plastic cones after her soccer practice. Dennis wanted her to be the best, so after some practices he and Young remained on the field for an extra 30 minutes.

Young comes from a family of athletes. Her brother, Isaiah, plays for Werder Bremen II, a third-tier German soccer team. Her sister, Imani, attends Wagner College on a soccer scholarship. Young’s parents allotted an extra hour or two of practice for their children.

“That’s the lifestyle we created,” Dennis said. “Before the season starts and after it ends, it’s a constant workout.”

Eventually, Young fell in love with women’s basketball through watching Southeastern Conference schools like Tennessee, Mississippi State and Louisiana State. She was enamored with the schools’ run-and-gun, “exciting,” style of play. Because of that, Young chose basketball, foregoing a soccer career.

Dennis and Young then developed a practice regimen they follow to this day. The routine starts with Young warming up with some elbow jump shots. After that, Dennis sets up a plastic cone somewhere on the court, usually behind the 3-point line, and has Young make 25 shots from the designated spot. Then he’d drop another cone and on they would go. The whole routine usually takes less than an hour, he said.

You have to learn how to walk again. I know I walk a little bit tilted now, differently than I did before.

Isis Young

syracuse guard

Dennis, owner of Youth Elite Sports, a company that hosts youth sporting events, had access to gyms around their home in Berlin, New Jersey. He called the shootarounds with Young their “bonding time.” Somewhere amid the 500 made shots, the conversation would veer toward school and life.

“Most of the time it was just Isis and me,” Dennis said of the practices. “Sometimes, Denise participates, but those times for me from page 12

brissett 7-7). The Orange will rely on Brissett, one of three players who can create offense for himself, to remain a weapon outside and in to help shove this team off the bubble and into the NCAA Tournament.

“He’s our best 3-point shooter,” said Syracuse head coach Jim Boeheim. “… He’s playing as well as you could ask a freshman to play.”

At the beginning of ACC play, Virginia Tech and Wake Forest played off Brissett. All year, he had predicated his game on bruising drives enabled by strong fakes, but the fakes stopped working. Opponents wanted him shooting jumpers because he couldn’t make them. By the end of the loss to the Demon Deacons on Jan. 3, Brissett had hit one of his last 11 3-pointers and 15-for-58 overall.

Then, three days later, Brissett flipped defense’s scouting reports. He drilled his second shot of the game against Notre Dame, a 3-pointer. He hit another. And another. All three of his makes on 15 shots (seven 3-point

ISIS YOUNG , a redshirt-junior who transferred from Florida, has served as a spark plug coming off Syracuse’s bench this season. codie yan staff photographer

were my quality time with my daughter.”

In seventh grade, Young joined Ring City, an AAU team founded by five-time NBA champion Ron Harper. Her team was coached

by Welsh and featured future Division I players like Virginia’s Aliyah Huland El and Connecticut’s Batouly Camara. Young, Welsh said, was the point guard and go-to player who took crucial shots late in games.

She made passes to open spaces on the floor, expecting her teammates to fill the gap. When the ball eventually trickled out of bounds, Young made her way to the sidelines, and Welsh had to explain that she understood the game better than her teammates.

“She developed herself to be one of the top players of the country,” Welsh said. “… With all the talent we had, she stood out the most.”

Her parents continued to challenge her, enrolling her in Trenton (New Jersey) Catholic Academy, a high school an hour from their home that featured more competitive basketball. In her first three seasons, Young scored more than 1,000 points.

During the state semi-final in her junior season, en route to what would be an eventual championship, Young led TCA against Gill St. Bernard’s. The matchup was billed locally as the battle between the top-two teams in the state. Harry Perretta, Villanova’s head women’s basketball coach of 39 years, was in attendance to scout Young. By halftime, TCA had put the game out of reach and Young had scored 24 of her 33 points. Perretta told Dennis it was the “greatest individual performance” he had ever seen.

In the summer before her senior year, Young committed to Florida and transferred to Life Center Academy, a prep school. Life Center had a nationally ranked program, Dennis said. It featured a “college-like” schedule, meaning the team would compete against topranked programs across the country. Young started immediately and averaged 20 points

per game before the knee injury in the 17th contest derailed her season.

Instead of having surgery immediately, Young rehabbed to reduce the swelling in her knee. Her treatment included extended periods of icing her knee followed by sessions of an electrode machine stimulating movement in her leg. Three weeks after the tear, she underwent surgery.

For weeks after the procedure, Young couldn’t walk and was hunkered down by the knee brace. Dennis was Young’s mode of transportation, carrying her from room to room.

Still looking for their bonding time, Dennis sometimes lugged Young to the family’s minivan and drove to an empty gym, where Young threw up shots from a chair. They eventually purchased a stationary bike and treadmill as Young proceeded through rehab.

Young was cleared nine months after the surgery and competed in full basketball activity for the first time while at Florida. Physically, she was back to normal. The only remnant of the injury was a scar on her knee and a new hitch in her walk.

“I still don’t walk the same way I walked before,” Young said. “… When you get the chance to take (your leg out of the brace) and bend it, you always walk with a limp because you’re so used to having to drag it. You have to learn how to walk again. I know I walk a little bit tilted now, differently than I did before.”

Young was granted a medical redshirt for her freshman season and spent her first year mostly running during practices. Florida wanted to strengthen the area around her knee to prevent another ailment.

In her second year, the Gators pivoted from a point-guard-oriented, fast-paced offense, Young said. She was quickly lost among the eight other guards on the roster. Young played in 16 contests and averaged 7.3 minutes per game for a team with no use for her skillset.

“I just didn’t think I was going to reach my

attempts) were beyond the arc. Though he struggled to finish at the rim, Brissett noticed how Notre Dame defenders closed out more aggressively as the game progressed.

“They weren’t coming out at me at all (before) and I couldn’t hit,” he said. “(During Notre Dame), they’re coming out a lot more and it’s helping the team, so I can get back in (the paint) and get fouled, or kick it back out to one of our guards.”

In the 11 games since UND, Brissett hasn’t cooled off. He’s taken at least three 3s in every contest, always made at least one and overall has hit 20-for-47 (42.6 percent). The blossoming dimension of Brissett’s game is important further because Syracuse isn’t a great 3-point shooting team, but it always seems to have someone hitting when the team needs them to.

Brissett did that through filling the void left by Howard when he came down from his scalding stretch from behind the arc in late January.

“When people are running out at me,” Brissett said, “I can easily go by them. I feel like I’m pretty quick off the bounce so a lot of taller guys can’t keep up with me when I’m driving

past them, so that’s helped me a lot.”

The advantages in stretching the floor, and in convincing opponents you can stretch the floor, are two-fold, said fellow forward Marek Dolezaj. He has seen Brissett’s presence alone increase spacing because defenders play him further out now, which opens driving lanes for everyone.

Yet this 3-point emergence has also coincided with an inability to finish consistently at the rim. After the Jan. 16 win against Pittsburgh, Boeheim said Brissett’s game had taken a step back.

Associate head coach Adrian Autry chalked it up to the physical nature of ACC play and ran Brissett through a drill to finish with balance and off two feet to try and remedy the situation. Brissett understood he also needed to improve from 3.

At practice in late January, a TV crew waited to interview Brissett as he shot 50 triples from varying spots around the arc. After Brissett finished, he walked over to the interview and, on his way there, Autry said to the crew: “Don’t worry, he’ll get more of those up after practice.”

full potential (at Florida),” Young said. “… It had nothing to do with me.”

Her parents looked for a program that would best suit the shooting-heavy mindset Young still possessed. Dennis referred to Orange head coach Quentin Hillsman’s program as “second-nature” for Young, and in May 2016, she announced her transfer.

Young spent another year on the bench due to NCAA transfer rules, but this time felt different. She wasn’t hurt and watched all of SU’s 33 games thinking about how she could thrive.

Young buried herself in film study and refined her catch-and-shoot ability.

Last summer, Young and fellow-Orange transfer Miranda Drummond signed up for King of Kings, a pro-amateur basketball league in Utica, New York. Young won the league’s most valuable player award and dropped 41 points in the championship game.

For the first time in four years, she felt like her old self, she said.

“It was the most productive thing she’s done for her college development,” Dennis said. “It was the first time that she knew that she was back. … It was good to see her in an environment where was comfortable.”

Last fall, when Young started her first eligible season, she wasn’t the standout she was over the summer. She wasn’t even a point guard. Young scrapped for minutes and searched for her role within SU’s then10-player rotation. She learned to complement Tiana Mangakahia, SU’s star point guard, and play off the ball.

Before the season, Dennis wanted to ready Young for the minutes she’d earn. Every Tuesday or Wednesday until conference play began in late December, he drove five hours from New Jersey to the Melo Center. Young met him there after SU’s team practices and completed the same shooting program they’d done together for years. Sometimes, team managers stuck around and helped father and daughter work through some of Syracuse’s drills.

A few months after the practices ended, Dennis sat in the Carrier Dome stands before Syracuse played then-No.17 Duke on Feb. 15. He saw the bounce in Young’s step, the fluidity of her shot, and knew the Blue Devils were in trouble.

Once play began, he watched Young drain shot after shot around the 3-point line. In the first half, Young dropped four 3s and co-led the team with 12 points. She finished with a season-high 16 in an eventual 68-65 SU win.

“I can see it as soon as it leaves her hand,” Dennis said. “… When she’s in a rhythm, that’s a wrap.”

With the clock bleeding down in the third quarter and the Orange down a field goal, Young used a screen and drove inside. With three seconds left, the crowd rose to its feet, cheering. She flicked her head up, tricking her defender and gaining a step. Two seconds remained, and a gasp trickled through the stands. As the final second ticked off the clock, she flung the ball in the air between two extended hands.

It hit the rim and swirled around. An electronic red square outlined the backboard.

Young, now behind the net, stared at the rim as the ball slipped through.

“It takes a lot of time,” Young said. “It took me a while to feel like I’m 100 percent back to what I could do. I think I’m actually better.” nialvare@syr.edu

Saturday served as a perfect case study for Brissett’s progression, because he made Waardenburg slip on the dunk, and then justified his worries three minutes later with a 3-pointer. The difference was his ability to finish at the basket — and not just with the jam. He went off the dribble a few times better than normal, Boeheim said, and he finished “a couple plays that he hasn’t always finished.”

One of them, on a Dolezaj dime, was a particularly difficult finish that Brissett dropped in.

“When there’s a smaller guy, I attack him down low,” Brissett said Saturday. “When there was a bigger guy, I beat him off the dribble. That’s every game. It doesn’t matter who’s on me.”

Brissett’s self-confidence and the Orange’s offensive needs have afforded him opportunities this season to learn and grow on the court.

He has played through mistakes and developed how to wield his outside shot. He knows the Orange needs him, and when he’s struggling inside, he knows sometimes it works to start outside. sjfortie@syr.edu | @Sam4TR

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Syracuse tennis rolled to an easy victory over Yale on Sunday, 6-0, only dropping one set.

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Shooters shoot

Miranda Ramirez overcame a poor second set to come back and win in first singles.

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Miranda Drummond has proven to the coaches who didn’t recruit her that she can play in the ACC. See Tuesday’s paper

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SU beats Oregon 17-11

2018

By Michael McCleary

Young again

asst. digital editor

No. 5 Syracuse (2-0) beat Oregon (1-1) 17-11 to win its second-straight game to start the season. Nine SU players scored in the game, with Taylor Gait’s three goals leading the Orange. Freshman Molly Carter was the other three-point scorer for Syracuse, adding an assist to her two goals.

Syracuse led the shots battle all game long, finishing with a 36-26 lead in that category while putting 26 on-goal to the Ducks’ 19.

Gait tied for the team-lead in shots as each took seven. Levy scored the two of the first four Orange goals in the game and never recorded a point after.

Isis Young battled a torn ACL to become SU’s top bench option

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Number of Syracuse players who scored in the win on the West Coast

The matchup was the first time the two programs met in each of their respective histories. SU head coach Gary Gait captured his 167th win in his 222nd game as head coach of the Orange and it comes against Oregon’s Katrina Dowd, who owns a .500 career record after just 18 total games over the past two seasons.

SU started fast out of the gate, grabbing a demanding lead before Oregon could counter. The Orange opened on a four-goal run and grew its lead to eight with 5:33 remaining in the first half.

But the Ducks began to threaten after SU built its lead. In a 6:25 stretch spanning the end of the last 3:32 of the first half and the first 2:53 of the second half, Oregon ripped five-straight goals to cut the Syracuse lead to just three.

Hannah Van Middelem played the entire second half in goal for the Orange after entering at the break.

She struggled early, but bounced back, not allowing a goal for the next 19:34 in the half as the Orange began to run up the score. Starting goalkeeper Asa Goldstock had five saves in the first half before being replaced

by Van Middelem in the net.

Following the 5-0 run from the Ducks, the Orange scored four straight goals to give it another comfortable lead that it never looked back from.

In the season opener, Gary Gait said the Orange struggled on draw controls, as it split the draw 18-18. The Orange didn’t do much better against an unranked Oregon team, only narrowly edging the Ducks 16-14.

Following the brief cross-country road trip, Syracuse returns to the Carrier Dome Thursday for a 5 p.m. matchup with Albany. mmcclear@syr.edu @MikeJMcCleary

By Nick Alvarez staff writer

D

ennis Young sat in the bleachers of Philadelphia University’s gym and watched his daughter, Isis, compete in a showcase during her senior year at Life Center (New Jersey) Academy. She drove the lane on a fast break late in the game and had a clear route to the rim. A defender hustled back and clipped Young, sending her to the floor.

“Dad!” Young yelled from the ground while holding her right leg.

Dennis didn’t budge. He recently

described the hit as “innocuous.” When she yelled again, her voice sharper, a higher octave, he grew concerned. Young tried to get up and crumbled back to the ground.

A few days later, a doctor examined the MRI and told Young, Dennis and his wife, Denise, what they suspected from their own research: Young tore her ACL and part of the MCL in her right knee.

Young had committed to Florida the summer before her injury and was playing the best basketball of her life, her parents said. It took her about a year to rehab the injury, and another four years to mentally recover.

“Rehab is no joke,” Young said. “I always tell people that. It’s probably one of the hardest things I’ve been through in my life.”

Young, now a redshirt-junior at Syracuse (19-7, 7-6 Atlantic Coast), was the No. 59 player in the Class of 2014, according to espnW, and was part of Florida’s Top 10 recruiting class. But the injury and a scheme-change foiled her two campaigns as a Gator. They both served as an impetus to SU, where she transferred in 2016. After sitting out last season due to NCAA transfer rules, she’s playing consistent minutes for the first time since see young page 11

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Brissett’s 3-point emergence aids Syracuse

By Sam Fortier

senior staff writer

CORAL GABLES, Fla. — Early in the first half against the Miami, Syracuse freshman forward Oshae Brissett caught a pass behind the arc in the left corner and rose up to let a shot fly. Or at least looked like he was going to.

Miami’s Sam Waardenburg, who was guarding Brissett, was caught in a dilemma: Stop SU point guard Frank Howard from getting into the lane or stay tight on Brissett. He chose Howard, so Howard passed to Brissett and then Waardenburg saw his man open where he’s become the most dangerous.

Waardenburg lunged toward Brissett off-balance and realized a

split-second too late it was a fake.

Waardenburg slipped. Brissett blew past him. With Waardenburg chasing trailing behind him, Brissett posterized Miami’s forward, Dewan Huell.

“He’s that good,’’ Howard said.

“When you’re that good, (plays like the dunk) become the norm.”

Five weeks ago, that play wouldn’t have been possible for Brissett, because it was unthinkable defenders should be afraid of him from deep. He still sometimes frustrates coaches with his shot selection, but now things have changed beyond the arc. Brissett’s 16 points and 12 rebounds were key in Syracuse’s (18-9, 7-7 Atlantic Coast) 62-55 win at Miami (18-8, see brissett page 11

OSHAE BRISSETT has become SU’s top deep threat, hitting his last 20-of-47. alexandra moreo senior staff photographer