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Marshall Street shooting wounds 3; suspects at large

By Michael Burke, Justin Mattingly and Satoshi Sugiyama the daily orange

Three people were shot on Marshall Street early Sunday morning, police said. All are expected to survive the injuries suffered in the shooting.

Around 2:37 a.m., a Syracuse Police Department Officer heard multiple gunshots. While police investigated the Marshall Street area, three people — none affiliated with Syracuse University — arrived

at Upstate University Hospital with gunshot wounds. A 16-year-old and 17-year-old had non-life-threatening injuries to their right legs. Another man, 25, is in critical condition but is expected to survive after a gunshot to his abdomen area, police said.

Police have not made any arrests in the case but are searching for three men who were last seen leaving the Marshall Street area in a white Chevrolet TrailBlazer.

The shooting occurred at the corner of Marshall Street and

University Avenue, SU Department of Public Safety Chief Bobby Maldonado said in an email to the campus community Sunday.

Maldonado said that increased patrols were already in the area at the time of the shooting, allowing for a quick response. Because of that, “there was no active threat to the campus,” Maldonado said.

Maldonado said police have added increased patrols because of the warm weather over the weekend.

An Acropolis Pizza House manag-

er said police collected surveillance camera footage from the store on Sunday morning. Employees at Calios, Jimmy John’s and Pita Pit said police did not request footages of surveillance cameras in their stores.

On multiple occasions in the past, crimes have occurred around Acropolis and on Marshall Street.

In September 2015, four people not affiliated with SU were stabbed during a large fight outside of the pizza store around 2:30 a.m.

In September 2012, a man not

affiliated with SU was stabbed around 2 a.m. after a fight in Acropolis.

Following the 2012 stabbing, then-SPD Sgt. Tom Connellan said in an email to The Daily Orange that Acropolis had “been a focal point for late night problems.” In response to the stabbing, DPS and Student Association sent out an email to the student body suggesting students not go to Acropolis late at night. mdburk01@syr.edu jmatting@syr.edu ssugiyam@syr.edu

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Despite an improvement in water quality, some argue remediation efforts don’t go far enough to clean the lake the Onondaga Nation considers sacred. Large amounts of industrial waste have been dumped into the lake over the years. brandon bielinski staff photographer

Critics deem Onondaga Lake clean-up effort insufficient

By Taylor Watson asst. copy editor

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ecreational trails surround the shores of Onondaga Lake, but warning signs read “Please Stay on Trail.” If walkers wander off the path, they could kick up toxic dust.

When stagehands set up for events at the Lakeview Amphitheatre, some experience respiratory problems from breathing in vaporized contaminants.

Those who fish in Onondaga Lake find mercury-filled catches.

Although the water quality has improved over

the past five years, Onondaga Lake and surrounding areas remain hazardous, said Joe Heath, general counsel for the Onondaga Nation, which considers the lake sacred. Remediation efforts carried out by corporate entities that caused the pollution are often insufficient, he said.

Syracuse is still grappling with the effects of the pollution today — the latest issue being a toxic site near Destiny USA, for which a remediation proposal is currently under a period of public comment.

Honeywell International is the major potentially responsible party for the pollution, Heath said. The company is the successor to Allied Corp. and the Sol-

vay Process Company, companies largely responsible for the early contamination of the lake, he added.

In 1994, the government recognized the contamination of Onondaga Lake and related upland sites by adding it to the Federal Superfund National Priorities List, according to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. A Superfund site is land that has been contaminated and poses a risk to the environment and/or human health, per the United States Department of Health and Human Services.

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Judicial Review Board chair explains Evangelista verdict

By Sam Ogozalek and Satoshi Sugiyama the daily orange

The Student Association’s Judicial Review Board delayed its decision on an investigation into SA President Eric Evangelista three times because of scheduling conflicts,

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Student Association assembly members are currently being investigated for missing mandatory Monday night meetings, according to officials.

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among other things.

Matthew VanDemark, the JRB’s chairman, said JRB members had to juggle their time spent on the investigation with academic schedules and work. He also wanted to “make sure everything that had to be presented in (the JRB’s) decision was presented,”

VanDemark said in an interview on Friday.

“I apologize the results weren’t sent out sooner, but I wanted to be exceedingly thorough, especially since we are students and we tend to forget this or that,” he said.

The JRB opened an investigation into Evangelista on Jan. 26

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after VanDemark said several members of both the SA assembly and cabinet voiced concern that Evangelista had nominated Nicole Sherwood, a senior public relations major, for an SA public relations co-chair position without opening up applications for the position via email to the entire student body.

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The JRB delayed its decision for nearly three weeks, but eventually announced on Feb. 14 it had found Evangelista guilty of violating two sets of SA bylaws.

While apologizing for the delay, VanDemark also defended the JRB’s response. He said the JRB

No. 21 Syracuse women’s basketball played in front of 11,021 fans, a record-setting attendance. SU led for three quarters but couldn’t close the game against No. 7 Notre Dame.

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Freshman empowers local girls through group a.m.

By Caroline Schagrin

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Once a week, Maddy Oliva goes to Clary Middle School to talk about women empowerment.

Oliva, a freshman social work major, works with the Syracuse University organization Straighten Your Crown, where she acts as a mentor for elementary and middle school age girls in the city of Syracuse. “(The school) doesn’t really have a great teaching system. A lot of time, no one is there to listen to (the girls), and hear why they’re upset,” Oliva said. “We’re there to let them vent. We try to let them do fun stuff to get their mind off whatever is going on in the school day.”

The girls often resort to fighting, so Straighten Your Crown works with them throughout the semester to help them find similarities between each other and learn ways to effectively communicate how they’re feeling. Many of them don’t have a strong support system or source of encouragement.

“One of the most rewarding parts of working with them — when asking the same girls what they want to be when they grow up, they respond, ‘I want to be a doctor.’ It’s really cute seeing the progress that they make,” Oliva said.

Oliva said she loves talking with people and making sure they have the power to speak their mind. She is hoping to become a therapist or a forensic social worker, which works with anything

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cor r ection In a Thursday story titled “In the running,” the number of years Marty Masterpole has worked in government was misstated. Masterpole has spent 13 years in city and county government. The Daily Orange regrets this error.

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MADDY OLIVA said her favorite part of working with Straighten Your Crown is the fact that she is able to talk to young girls and help them stand up for themselves. prince dudley staff photographer

related to law and legal systems within social work such as deciding the rights of a child.

She explores her interest in working with individuals suffering from mental health problems through her work with SU Active Minds — a student organization devoted to raising mental

health awareness among college students. Within the organization, mental health issues are discussed and its members work to end the stigmas surrounding mental illness.

They also work to encourage students to go to the counseling center if they need it.

Over the next three years, Oliva hopes to continue getting involved with the campus and city community. She joined the Alpha Xi Delta sorority this semester and is looking forward to participating in its Autism Speaks philanthropy. caschagr@syr.edu

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Library to stay open 24 hours

By Michael Burke news editor

E.S. Bird Library will remain open for 24 hours a day over the next two weeks for midterms, Syracuse University has announced.

The library usually closes at 10 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays, but it will stay open 24 hours a day for each of the next two weeks, including the weekends of Feb. 24-26 and March 3-5. The extended hours serve as a pilot program in collaboration with SU’s Student Association.

SA will be covering the added costs of security and custodial services that come with the extra hours, according to a press release.

The initiative was led by SA Academic Affairs Chair James Franco, who said in the press release that SA “is thrilled to see this long-desired initiative become a reality.”

“The administrators for Syracuse University Libraries, led by Dean (David) Seaman, were wonderful partners throughout the process, and Student Association thanks them for their support,” Franco said in the release. mdburk01@syr.edu @michaelburke47

Evening jazz JACKIEM JOYNER plays saxophone during the Black History Month Cabaret at Drumlins Country Club on Sunday evening. Joyner was accompanied at the event by Selina Albright, a jazz, R&B/soul songwriter and artist from Dallas. The event was sponsored by Brackems Financial Solutions Network.

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Here is a round-up of criminal activity that happened near campus this week.

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2 assembly members under investigation

By Jordan Muller staff writer

Student Association’s Judicial Review Board is investigating two assembly members for failing to attend mandatory Monday night SA meetings.

In addition to the investigations, three other assembly members have also resigned from their positions after referrals to the JRB, said Matthew VanDemark, chair of SA’s JRB. The news of these investigations came the same week the JRB announced it had found SA President Eric Evangelista guilty of violating multiple SA bylaws.

Janine Bogris, chair of SA’s Board of Elections and Membership, said at the Feb. 13 meeting five assembly members had been referred

to the JRB after accumulating an excessive number of demerits. The assembly members received the demerits because of their unexcused absences from Monday night meetings, Bogris said.

For each missed roll call at a Monday night meeting, assembly members receive two demerits, Bogris said. Once assembly members accumulate 12 demerits, they are referred to the JRB for a hearing.

Hearings for the two assembly members under investigation are expected to take place next week, VanDemark said.

Nicole Sherwood, SA’s chair of public relations, said details on the ongoing investigations are confidential.

VanDemark said a final report on the current investigations

will not be made public when the investigations are over, but the public can find out which positions were dismissed when the positions are opened to the public.

The final results of the JRB’s investigation into Evangelista were made public because an email Evangelista mistakenly sent to the student body alerted the public of the investigation, VanDemark said.

This is not the first time that assembly members have been investigated by the JRB during the 60th Legislative Session. Minutes from an SA cabinet meeting in October, which are posted on the SA website, revealed that the JRB had been conducting investigations of assembly members.

According to minutes from SA Cabinet Meeting 60.07 on Oct. 23,

the JRB “decided on members to decide to take out of assembly.” It is unclear how many assembly members were being investigated when the JRB made this announcement at the Oct. 23 cabinet meeting.

At the meeting, the JRB also said it would meet with the assembly members under investigation before making final announcements. The final verdicts of the JRB’s investigations were not made public and were not discussed at subsequent assembly or cabinet meetings, according to the public minutes.

SA’s governing documents do not require JRB reports to be made public, VanDemark said. The reports are kept confidential to protect the identities of those with demerits, he added.

Special elections to fill the

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News briefs: What you missed this weekend

By Sam Ogozalek asst. news editor

Here is a round-up of Syracuse University news that you might have missed over the weekend.

Campus Facilities Advisory Board meeting held

Vice Chancellor and Provost Michele Wheatly and Vice President and Chief Facilities Officer Pete Sala on Thursday held the first Campus Facilities Advisory Board meeting.

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The board during the meeting unanimously endorsed two recommendations, according to an SU News release.

The first recommendation is to support the draft Campus Framework’s recommendation to position the physical heart of the campus as the academic core of SU, which entails that “all current space physically situated around or near the Shaw Quadrangle will be used for academic departments, studentservice units and administrative

support offices that provide invaluable support to Syracuse students.”

“As new space becomes available near or around the academic core, the space needs of the academic and student-support units will take priority,” the release states.

The board also endorsed the recommendation of supporting “a time sensitive request” by an “important” academic unit to identify additional space for teaching, learning and research.

The Campus Facilities Advisory

Board is tasked with assessing all academic and nonacademic investments within the Campus Framework, one of the three components of SU Chancellor Kent Syverud’s Fast Forward Syracuse initiative.

SU partnership awards $19,000 for green building construction research

The SU Sustainable Enterprise Partnership, cooperating with the U.S. Green Building Council, awarded $19,000 to fund new research on see news

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POSSESSION OF AN OPEN CONTAINER

Three SU students, all 18, were arrested on the charges of possessing an open container. when: Saturday at 3:51 p.m. where: 1000 block of Harrison Street FORCIBLE TOUCHING A Syracuse man, 60, was arrested on the charge of forcible touching when: Friday at 6:35 p.m. where: 600 block of East Genesee Street UPM A Syracuse man, 28, was arrested on the charge of unlawful possession of marijuana. when: Thursday at 8:48 p.m. where: 600 block of Westcott Street An SU student, 19, was arrested on the charge of unlawful possession of marijuana. when: Feb. 13 at 10:14 p.m. where: 400 block of University Place DWI An SU student, 21, was arrested on the charges of driving while impaired, speeding and operating an unregistered vehicle. when: Feb. 13 at 2:20 a.m. where: 100 block of Skytop Road SYNTHETIC CANNABINOIDS

A Syracuse man, 28, was arrested on the charge of possession of synthetic cannabinoids. when: Feb. 13 at 8:36 p.m. where: 100 block of Pine Street

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onondaga lake leak caused the problem, Heath said, but dozens of problems have contributed to the overall pollution of Onondaga Lake, once considered the most polluted lake in America.

Honeywell entered a consent decree with the DEC to implement a remediation plan in 2007, and began dredging work in 2012, per the DEC. The plan was crafted by engineers, scientists, researchers and the community, according to the Onondaga Lake Cleanup website.

About 450 acres of the lake were capped — meaning that, essentially, sand was poured on them — and 2.2 million cubic yards of material were removed, according to the cleanup website. But some argued the cleanup plan was not enough.

“You need to get all that out of here,” Heath said. “You can’t take 10 percent or 5 percent out and then try to cover it up or contain it.”

Honeywell has been involved with many Superfund sites, one of the most recent being Hoosick Falls, New York. Honeywell spokeswoman Victoria Streitfeld would not specify the number of Superfund sites that Honeywell is involved with.

“Honeywell works on remediation projects throughout the country related to our legacy businesses,” she said.

Prior to the Industrial Revolution, Onondaga Lake thrived as a source of food and water. It was central to the life of the Haudenosaunee, and the indigenous history of the lake can be traced back over 1,000 years, said Gregg Tripoli, executive director of the Onondaga Historical Association.

The Haudenosaunee consider the lake sacred, as it was on the lakeshore that the

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investigation assembly seats made vacant in October are not mentioned in SA’s public minutes.

VanDemark said the Board of Elections and Membership is responsible for filling vacancies and holding elections.

Bogris declined to comment on the Octo-

Great Law of Peace was born — the effort that brought five warring nations together to create the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. The confederacy was the first representative democracy in the west and served as an inspiration to the founding fathers of the U.S., Tripoli said.

Major lake pollution started during the Industrial Revolution when Solvay Process began producing soda ash, Heath said. There were no environmental laws, he said, and for every pound of soda ash created, the company produced 1.5 pounds of waste that was dumped into the lake for decades.

The company later dumped waste onto the lakeshore, creating wastebeds. The waste includes carcinogenic chemicals that vaporize, Heath said. The wastebeds — in which toxins reach 80 feet in depth — are now the site of the Lakeview Amphitheater. When people stand on the lawn, they are almost in direct contact with the toxins, Heath said.

A 2014 Syracuse.com article revealed it would cost $6.5 billion and take 30 years to completely clean the industrial wastebeds, which is what the Onondaga Nation advocated for. But this process would have involved tearing up six miles of Interstate 690, ripping out a bike trail extension and eliminating the site where the amphitheater is now located.

Instead, Honeywell proposed spending $16 million to $20 million to cover the wastebeds with soil and plants. Studies have shown the toxic chemicals in the wastebeds are of little risk to people. Still, Heath said building the amphitheater on covered wastebeds is a problem.

“We have the county and the state inviting people to go there … without taking the waste out,” Heath said. “And they know this, but they have calculated, ‘Oh, it’s just a little carcinogenic vapor.’

When the amphitheater was proposed,

Heath’s office helped form a coalition to try to stop it, but it was still constructed. Lindsay Speer, director of Creating Change, a public relations consulting business that works with nonprofits and native nations, said infrastructure and walking trails should not have been built unless the waste was removed in its entirety.

“The more people that buy into the idea that the lake is clean, the less clean it will ever be,” Speer said. “It’s a paradox.”

Other sources of pollution to the lake are the General Electric plant, the General Motors factory and Niagara Mohawk, Heath said. Twenty-six different toxic chemicals can be found in the bottom of the lake.

Onondaga County is another party significantly responsible for the contamination of the Lake, Heath said, due to sewage being dumped into the water. When it rains excessively, the runoff combines with the sewage and causes the pipes to overflow into a tributary of Onondaga Lake.

After years of legal complaints and evaluations that called for an upgrade of the sewer system, the county turned to green infrastructure — such as rain gardens and green roofs — that was implemented in 2008 with the help of Onondaga County Executive Joanie Mahoney, Speer said. This eventually became the Save the Rain program, and improved lake health.

Along with successful remediation came setbacks. Efforts to cap contaminants found in the lake have failed three times. The DEC, EPA and Honeywell evaluated the areas at fault and identified modified cap designs which were implemented in 2016, said Kevin Fraizer, a public relations representative for the DEC, in an email. All areas are currently stable, he said.

Neil Patterson Jr., a Tuscarora and assistant director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment, said the Onondaga

Nation has made it clear that it is not supportive of the cleanup plan. Remediation and restoration of the lake is the primary vision of the Onondaga Land Rights Action, a case started by the Onondaga Nation that was dismissed in federal court. There are ongoing efforts by the nation to further that case, Patterson said.

“On the very basis of the work that has been done to date, the Nation is not content with the amount of material that is left in place,” Patterson said. “They have been very vocal and clear that these failures of the caps on the contaminants in the lake and the design of the caps itself are an indication that we may not see a day where there is a fully remediated lake.”

Patterson said, from his understanding, the responsible parties in the contamination have it in their best interest to minimize the cost of the cleanup.

Heath said he believes Honeywell is engaging in a “very elaborate corporate spin” as a means of saving money.

“You can spend hundreds of millions on lawyers, spin, political contributions, building playgrounds … constantly getting people to say ‘It’s clean, it’s clean and you can swim there,’” Heath said. “Well it’s not clean.”

Heath’s office has been outspoken with its opposition to the current remediation efforts, and they worked with many lawyers who focus on environmental law to write criticisms of the remediation plan that were always ignored, he said.

“People cannot afford to litigate against large, well-funded corporations,” Heath said.

“The county gets to choose: Do you get a few hundred thousand dollars … or do you spend millions ending up settling anyway because you can’t afford to continue the litigation?”

ber investigations because she was on a leave of absence at the time.

If assembly members don’t attend Monday night meetings, the assembly can’t meet quorum. A quorum of at least a majority of membership plus one is required to vote on bills, according to the SA Constitution.

During the current legislative session, the SA assembly has twice been unable to meet quorum, most recently at its Feb. 13

meeting. The assembly’s inability to meet quorum at last week’s meeting resulted in the tabling of votes on two bills and delays in the confirmations of cabinet positions.

Sherwood said attendance is historically lower at the beginning of the semester because members must acclimate to new schedules.

SA met quorum at all Monday night meetings during the 59th Legislative Session under then-President Aysha Seedat.

Bogris said assembly members that are in class or taking leaves of absences do not count toward quorum.

Evangelista said SA is working to increase attendance by following procedures more strictly. SA is looking to ensure that members enjoy being part of the organization, he added.

“That’s something I think we’ve been a little lax on,” Evangelista said.

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Betsy DeVos scarily lacks commitment to preventing sexual assault

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s the United States’ new secretary of education, Betsy DeVos will be tasked with cleaning up the messes in the country’s schooling systems. But DeVos, whose confirmation has faced much criticism, doesn’t seem to think the biggest mess — the college sexual assault epidemic — is a mess at all.

DeVos, a wealthy Republican donor who believes the real plight of public education is grizzly bears finding their way into schools, was denounced by left-leaning politicians and the general public for her inexperience. Since her name first surfaced in November as President Donald Trump’s nominee, DeVos has brought forward a slew of proposals to funnel taxpayer money into private schooling, charter school vouchers, financial aid and student loans.

The most concerning of DeVos’s qualities, though, is her stance on civil rights on college campuses and upholding the 2011 Title IX guidance that strengthened

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the law’s threshold on higher education. When DeVos was pressed on her thoughts on the issue at a January confirmation hearing, she responded with a noncommittal answer.

Sen. Robert Casey Jr. (D-Pa.) asked DeVos whether she would continue to uphold Title IX — which prohibits gender-based discrimination under any education program or activity that receives financial assistance from the federal government — to fight sexual assault on college campuses. DeVos answered, “It would be premature for me to do that today,” according to The Washington Post.

With nearly 300 colleges and universities in the U.S. under investigation by the federal government for mishandlings

of sexual assault cases, the government can no longer feign ignorance to this growing epidemic facing students.

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Number of colleges and universities in the United States that are currently under investigation by the federal government for mishandlings of sexual assault cases source: the huffington post

A Title IX investigation was opened at Syracuse University in June 2016 when a former student filed a complaint that the university did not “respond promptly or equitably” to a report of sexual assault.

The Office of Civil Rights opened another investigation into the university in January, when a

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graduate student filed a complaint alleging she was subjected to a hostile work environment in her academic department. The investigation was closed after the graduate student withdrew the complaint.

And while studies have shown that sexual assault awareness has increased, no studies have been able to conclude a correlation between increased awareness and heightened safety provisions.

Combined with Trump’s controversial and downright derogatory stances on women’s rights and liberties, his promotion of DeVos to head the Office of Civil Rights is a slap in the face to victims of sexual assault across our country’s education system.

Kal Alston, a professor of cultural foundations of education at Syracuse University and former senior administrator, said the rise of university sexual assault is a crisis that can’t go ignored.

“While Title IX is not just about sexual assaults on college campuses, it’s a

fundamental concern among university students that needs to be addressed by Trump’s administration,” Alston said.

But instead of being someone who will advocate for victims of sexual assault, DeVos is someone who has donated thousands of dollars to an advocacy group actively striving to overturn an Obama administration policy that would simplify disciplining college students accused of sexual harassment or assault, according to Politico. If the group, called the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, succeeded in its overturn of the policy, it would make it more difficult for college students to file assault and rape charges.

DeVos’s Harry Potter doppelganger, High Inquisitor of Hogwarts Dolores Umbridge, may have gotten one thing right: “Things at Hogwarts are far worse than I feared.”

Kelsey Thompson is a sophomore magazine journalism major. Her column appears weekly. She can be reached at katho101@syr.edu.

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SA forum, investigation show group’s forward-looking effort Following the conclusion of an investigation into President Eric Evangelista, the Student Association at Syracuse University is making encouraging efforts to repair itself and reach out to the university community.

SA’s Judicial Review Board, which conducted the Evangelista investigation, is now investigating two assembly members for failing to attend mandatory Monday night meetings. SA also announced via Twitter on Sunday night that it is holding an open forum at tomorrow’s assembly meeting “to discuss goals and listen to students’ suggestions.”

The Judicial Review Board should be commended for cracking down on assembly members not attending the mandatory meetings. The assembly members have a responsibility to represent the students they signed up to represent. If they are not at the meetings they are required to attend, they are not only poorly representing their constituents — they are not representing them at all.

It’s embarrassing that SA must work to increase attendance at its required meetings, but it is necessary. If assembly members don’t attend Monday meetings, the assembly cannot meet quorum, which constitutes at least a majority of membership plus one. Quorum is required to vote on bills, and during the current legislative session, the assembly has twice been unable to meet quorum, which can result in the tabling of votes and delays in the confirmations of cabinet positions.

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be a representative of the student body, and Evangelista said the organization is working to increase meeting attendance by following parliamentary and judicial procedures more strictly. SA last missed quorum at its Feb. 13 meeting, which is when it was announced that five assembly members had been referred to the Judicial Review Board for accumulating an excessive number of demerits due to unexcused absences from Monday meetings.

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The Student Association is the student government of the university. SA is currently in its 60th session and Eric Evangelista is president. Outside of the cabinet, there are four committees and four boards, which report to the association.

It’s nearly impossible for SA to make strides forward if assembly members don’t care enough to show up to mandatory meetings, but hosting an open forum for students to express their concerns will allow those assembly members who do value the organization to gather input from the people they represent.

Although SA could have given the student body more than a day’s notice on the forum, the event is a welcoming move for an organization that has been riddled with controversy these past few weeks.

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Team awarded $11.5 million to study decision-making

By Madeleine Davison staff writer

A team that includes faculty at Syracuse University is working on an application to help intelligence analysts rely less on mental shortcuts and make better decisions when under pressure.

The researchers, led by Jennifer Stromer-Galley of SU’s School of Information Studies, are creating a web-based program called Trackable Reasoning and Analysis for Collaboration and Evaluation, or TRACE. The program would help people working in agencies like the CIA, the FBI or the National Security Agency avoid reasoning errors, she said.

The team’s research is supported by an $11.5 million contract from the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, which is an arm of the Office for the Director of National Intelligence, according to an SU from page 1

evangelista took a “practical” amount of time to deliver the verdict. VanDemark added that the decision was not announced during SA’s meeting on Feb. 13 because Evangelista first wanted to inform SU administrators personally about the results of the investigation.

In a report released publicly Tuesday, the JRB detailed Evangelista’s violations and several sanctions they dealt him.

The board found Evangelista guilty of lying to university administrators. According to the report, Evangelista told SU officials Sherwood had been confirmed as a public relations cochair when she hadn’t been.

The JRB also held Evangelista liable for revealing the JRB’s investigation to the public, a charge stemming from when he mistakenly sent an email about the investigation to the campus community.

The sanctions curtail Evangelista’s

News release. It is a 50-month project that involves multiple rounds of experimentation, design and testing, first with individuals and pairs and then with larger groups.

“The goal of the project is to help analysts do their jobs more effectively and more accurately,” Stromer-Galley said.

To do this, the team — which includes researchers from SU, the University of Arizona, Colorado State University and SRC Inc. — is trying to first understand how people reason so they can develop techniques to mitigate the kinds of unconscious mental shortcuts, or “cognitive biases,” that people rely on when they are under pressure.

Rosa Mikeal Martey, an associate professor in the journalism and media communication department at Colorado State who is a co-principle investigator for the study, gave an example of the kinds of cognitive biases the new application is supposed to help analysts avoid.

“Let’s say that you found a house, you love the house,” she said. “… If you only start to pay attention to the newspaper articles or the reports that say, ‘It’s great, it’s the best place to live,’… (and) collect only the stuff that essentially reinforces your own view, that makes you feel good about choosing that house … that’s called confirmation bias.”

The web-based application would first help analysts sort data into different categories and organize their thinking.

“The application could then give the people ‘nudges’ that would prompt them to look at other kinds of evidence or generate alternative hypotheses or consider crowdsourcing a particular part of the job,” said Carsten Oesterlund, an associate professor in the iSchool.

Oesterlund said that crowdsourcing, or pooling the mental resources of lots of people to work on a project, can help reduce the effects of cognitive biases by

power as SA president for the rest of the semester. He now needs Vice President Joyce LaLonde and Chief of Staff Alec Williams with him whenever he meets with university officials, apart from meetings he has with SU Chancellor Kent Syverud’s leadership team and the Board of Trustees.

Additionally, Evangelista has to consult with LaLonde and several other cabinet members to confirm cabinet positions and now needs written permission, with a twothirds vote of approval from the cabinet, before sending campus-wide emails.

On Feb. 15, however, a day after the JRB’s report was released to the public, Evangelista sent an email to the SU community using the campus-wide listserv. The email provided updates on SA initiatives and announced applications for SA’s elections this semester.

VanDemark said Evangelista did not receive a two-thirds vote from the cabinet to send that email. But that was only because SA is still adapting to the new sanctions, he said,

so the JRB granted an exception. VanDemark said despite Evangelista not having a twothirds vote to send that email, the JRB did have some form of documentation indicating what the SA President would say in the email.

“It’s a new process for everybody … and we didn’t have time to fully explain this to everybody since (the report) was just sent out Monday into Tuesday morning,” he said.

In the future, VanDemark said there will be no exceptions.

If Evangelista violates the JRB sanctions, impeachment proceedings will not be held.

Instead, VanDemark said the SA President will be immediately expelled from the student government. The sanctions will continue throughout Evangelista’s time as president.

Evangelista has until Wednesday at 5 p.m. to appeal the JRB’s decision. As of Sunday at 10 a.m., Evangelista had not filed an appeal.

VanDemark said on Friday he did not know whether the SA President would do so.

Evangelista declined to comment on this story, referring media inquiries to Sherwood, who was confirmed in her nomination as a public relations co-chair during an assembly meeting held last Wednesday.

Originally, a vote on the confirmation of the public relations co-chair position and a community engagement co-chair position was scheduled to take place Feb. 13, but after SA failed to meet quorum, the votes were tabled until SA’s Feb. 20 meeting. But, VanDemark said, a meeting was held instead last Wednesday for the confirmations because SA needs a PR chair.

“Obviously without a PR chair we can’t regulate this mess that’s kind of ... washing away any of the good our association does,” he said, referring to the investigation.

About 10 people, all SA members, testified in the investigation, VanDemark said.

VanDemark said the evidence collected during the investigation included emails and tesfrom page 3

news briefs green building construction methods.

Rene Germain — a professor of forest and natural resources management at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry — and Martin J. Whitman School of Management professor Patrick Penfield will conduct the research, according to an SU News release.

The research will focus specifically on cross-laminated timber products in multifamily housing, per the release.

“Using (cross laminated timber) in commercial buildings, rather than concrete, masonry or steel provides significant supply chain, environmental and cost benefits for companies and organizations in the U.S.,” Penfield said in the release.

The SEP annually awards a grant of up to $20,000 to promote research in sustainable enterprise, and all faculty, Ph.D. students and other researchers from SU, SUNY-ESF and the Syracuse Center of Excellence for Environmental and Energy Systems are eligible to receive the funding, per the release.

Professor awarded for dissertation work

An assistant professor in the SU School of Information Studies won an international award for her dissertation work.

Rachel Ivy Clarke was honored with the

providing a wide range of different opinions and biases that must compete against each other, so that no one person’s cognitive biases hold sway.

Other team members are working on ways to make the application more userfriendly and enjoyable using some of the principles of computer game development.

“Maybe you have to sort a bunch of candy … It’s kind of a boring task to do, but there’s something about the game that makes it kind of fun,” Martey said. “The kinds of structures and feedback that games use are part of what make them engaging for people. … It’s not that this will be a game, by any means. … but it will use the ideas from game design.”

The researchers said that while their primary client is the intelligence community, they expect that TRACE will adapt well to problems in other fields, such as journalism, medicine and law. mdavison@syr.edu

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Approximate number of SA members who testified during the investigation

Number of days remaining in the semester, during all of which the sanctions on Evangelista will remain in place

timony provided by individuals. VanDemark added that the JRB met multiple times.

He also said only JRB members were involved in the investigation and that no members of the SA assembly or cabinet were updated about the investigation as it proceeded.

VanDemark said the JRB chose to impose the sanctions that it did on Evangelista so that assembly members would “feel more included,” while also giving some cabinet members more power in SA administrative functions.

The sanctions create “more of a support team” to fairly represent SA, VanDemark said.

“We were hoping to remediate any conflicts that may exist temporarily from this case,” he said. sfogozal@syr.edu ssugiyam@syr.edu | @SatoshiJournal

2017 Doctoral Dissertation Award from the iSchools Organizationm— an annual award that recognizes outstanding work in the information field, according to an SU News release.

Clarke conducted her dissertation at the University of Washington’s Information School.

Jasy Liew Suet Yan, a graduate of SU’s iSchool doctoral program, was runner-up in the competition. Clarke won $2,500 while Yuan won $1,000 for their dissertations, per the release.

The iSchool Organization is composed of more than 80 institutions worldwide, according to the release, and dissertations are judged by an award committee “drawn from leading international schools.”

Mentoring program opens applications for peer mentors

SU’s fullCIRCLE Mentoring Program on Friday announced it was opening applications for peer mentors to serve in the program for the 2017-18 academic year.

The deadline for applications is Wednesday at 11:59 p.m. The application form is online.

Peer mentors help their mentees adapt to college life.

According to an SU News release, fullCIRCLE will be welcoming its sixth cohort of mentees this fall. The program aims to support the development of undergraduate students of color through “intentional relationships with peers, faculty, staff, alumni and employers,” according to the release. sfogozal@syr.edu

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IN THE CROSSHAIRS SUNY-ESF researchers work to reduce chemotherapy side effects

CHRISTOPHER NOMURA, a researcher at SUNY-ESF, is developing a better way to target cancer cells. Nomura and his team are looking to make sure chemotherapy drugs have less harmful side effects.

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By Mary Catalfamo staff writer

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hristopher Nomura, the vice president of research at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, is making strides to eliminate chemotherapy’s harsh side effects.

Most chemotherapeutic drugs induce nausea and hair loss because they attack a person’s cells indiscriminately, killing healthy cells as well as cancerous ones.

Up until recently, there has never been a delivery system capable of targeting specific types of cancer cells.

That problem is the basis of Nomura and SUNY-ESF postdoctoral fellow Ata Pinto’s work. They found that by feeding certain fatty acids to a strand of E. coli, the bacteria would produce polymer molecules with azide groups linking to specific cell receptors. When strapped with chemotherapy drugs, these molecules effectively trick cancerous cells into ingesting the medication, destroying them from the inside, rather than systemically as they pass through the body.

Only cancer cells are killed in this new process, not healthy ones.

“If we could more specifically target a cancer cell, our hope is that we could reduce some of the dosages (of chemotherapy drugs) and still have the killing efficacy of the drug if

it’s delivered more specifically to its target,” Nomura said.

The hope of Nomura’s lab is that the precision of this newfound technique — what the team refers to as a “Trojan horse” maneuver — will ease the discomfort of cancer treatment.

The SUNY Technology Accelerator Fund with a grant helped finance the research for this new “Trojan horse” method.

Nomura said their new approach first involves modifying the drug-carrying particles to a size small enough to be ingested through leaks in the tumor’s blood vessels, but large enough to withstand being flushed away by the kidneys.

In this case, Nomura’s lab engineered nanoparticles that are about 70 nanometers in diameter. The nanoparticles are then imbedded with azide groups that allow them to target cancer cell receptors. That’s where “click chemistry” comes into play.

This process, which was developed by Pinto, who is part of Nomura’s team, places azide groups onto the ends of fatty acids that are then fed to the E. coli and ultimately replicated in the resulting polymers.

“The idea is that the polymer is so flexible in what we can do to it that we’re given an example of how simple the process of producing these Trojan horses has become with our process,” Pinto said.

Once an azide group is present in the poly-

mer, it can be modified to target specific cancer cells. Pinto said “click chemistry” is innovative and markedly more efficient than techniques used elsewhere.

“The process done by other labs is lengthier,” Pinto said. “It’s much more prevalent in the literature because, generally speaking, this work has been done by engineers and not biosynthetic chemists like us.”

Nomura and Pinto started their own company last year called Alba Solutions because Nomura said the team was excited that their work could be used as a commercial product.

The lab at ESF has a partnership with Juntao Luo at SUNY-Upstate Medical University to catalyze the polymers for different types of cancers.

“We want to test whether (the team’s) nanoparticle by itself is toxic or not. That is kind of a safety issue,” Lou said.

Luo added that he wants to test the drug loading of the nanoparticle to see whether it is effective with acute cells compared to other types of cancer treatment drugs that are already being sold on the market.

Nomura said he hopes that the polymer delivery system will reopen the doors for highly effective chemotherapy drugs that were too toxic for traditional cancer targeting methods, but may be well utilized with a directed delivery system. mdcatalf@syr.edu

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Tuesday, Feb. 21

Friday, Feb. 24

Winter Carnival Days, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., Schine Atrium. Giveaways, free stuff, food and fun!

“Bandersnatch Concert Series,” presented by University Union and Traditions Commission, 8 p.m., Goldstein Aud. Tickets at Schine Box Office: $5 with SUID, $10 without

Trivia Night sponsored by Traditions Commission, 8 p.m., 304 ABC Schine, free! Get your team of 2-4 people together to win great prizes and eat snacks!

Wednesday, Feb. 22 Winter Carnival Days, 11 a.m.2 p.m., Schine Atrium. Giveaways, free stuff, food, and fun!

Thursday, Feb. 23 Chili cook off, 11 a.m. until it’s gone!

HBC Patio. Free chili tasting!

Cozy Cappella, presented by the A Cappella Council, 8:30 p.m., Goldstein Aud.; free tickets available at Schine Box Office. Free hot chocolate and cookies.

Glow in the Dark Late Night Skate Night, presented by Orange After Dark and Traditions Commission, 9 p.m.midnight, Tennity Ice Pavilion on South Campus. Free skate rental and entry, hot chocolate and giveaways.

Saturday, Feb. 25 Laser Tag, presented by Traditions Commission and Orange After Dark, 8 p.m.-midnight, Goldstein Aud., free!

Play a few rounds of laser tag, watch “Alice in Wonderland,” and grab free food while it lasts!

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Shred at the Shed Alt rockers Young The Giant will headline a concert at The F-Shed on Monday.

See Tuesday’s paper

Off the wall Movie columnist Erik Benjamin shares his take on Matt Damon starring in “The Great Wall.”

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@syracusestage We’re partnering w/ @SyracuseU for a special reading of Cherrie Moraga’s play “The Mathematics of Love” on Monday.

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Students, professionals perform in Pride Union’s 15th Annual Drag Show

By Rachel Gilbert

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izanga walked onstage to receive her judges feedback with a Chipotle burrito bowl in hand. Only minutes later, she was accepting first prize in Pride Union’s 15th Annual Drag Show finals — this time grasping a large soda.

After receiving her honor, Lizanga, played by Trevor Miller, plopped down on the lip of the stage surrounded by her many supporters. Once she had posed for endless photos she let out a sigh.

“I need to poop.”

Milk and Trixie Mattel, former “RuPaul’s Drag Race” contestants, hosted the show at Goldstein Auditorium in the Schine Student Center, entertaining approximately 400 screaming fans.

Drag is a style of performance where

the performer dresses in clothes commonly worn by the opposite gender and puts on a lip sync and dance show. Sunday’s show featured eight drag queens and two drag kings.

“How many are you of underage?”

Trixie asked the audience as she strode out onto the stage with co-host Milk, both met with a loud cheer.

Milk was the first performer to take the stage with her rendition of “Firework”

by Katy Perry. She performed in a dress made entirely of plastic bags and danced to the repeated lyric “Do you ever feel like a plastic bag?” The “RuPaul’s Drag Race” veteran was hosting the show for the third year in a row.

“I really love college drag shows because the energy of the performers is really amazing and so is the crowd,” Milk said. “And when offered the opportunity to come back see drag

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1. LIZANGA stole the show with a musical theater-themed set, including music from “Hairspray” and “Legally Blonde.” 2. COURTNEY MCGUIRE won last year’s drag show and decided to come back for another performance. 3. MILK, a co-host for the event, danced to Katy Perry’s “Firework,” mimicking the line in the song about plastic bags with her costume. 4. TRIXIE MATTEL, who was also a co-host of the drag show, has appeared on “RuPaul’s Drag Race” with Milk. frankie prijatel senior staff photographer

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Aaron Carter’s return is actually way better than you would expect

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es, you read that headline correctly — the early 2000s heartthrob is back and his music is not as bad as you would think. Though the EP’s title is trying too hard to be “trendy,” the five songs released last week are well-produced and have the potential to climb the Top 40 charts.

Aaron Carter is capable of making a more successful comeback than other older, washed-up artists is because he did a good job researching his target audience. This new material is Chainsmokers-inspired that’ll make teenage girls hop on an elevated surface and yell, “Oh my god, this is my song.”

This overall EP isn’t doing anything different from other pop megastars like Justin Bieber or Zayn Malik, but if you’re trying to make it back to the music scene, you have to follow who’s hot right now.

The chill EDM-pop beats of Carter’s first song, “Fool’s Gold,” set the tone for the rest of the EP. The music video for the song almost

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resembles Zayn’s “Pillowtalk,” with sexier scenes of a woman dancing, Carter with her on a bed and a ton of special effects to keep the audience visually intrigued. With lyrics like “Panties on my bed, where did they come from?” it’s clear that this isn’t the same “I Want Candy” tween heartthrob the world first fell in love with. To be fair, Aaron Carter is now 29 years old, so it’s appropriate for him to stop singing about candy.

The other four songs on Carter’s EP are no different from the first — raunchier lyrics, bubbly electronic beats that make for good dance music. I can already hear these songs in the background of Forever 21 stores across the country. The most popular song, “Sooner

or Later,” sounds like a mixture of The Chainsmokers’ relaxed vocals from from “Paris” and the pop electronica of Troye Sivan’s “Youth.”

The song is already 100 on Spotify’s Top Charts, has continued to gain coverage from publications like Entertainment Weekly and has gotten about 11 million plays on Spotify. Clearly, he’s doing something right.

What makes Aaron Carter still relevant is that he’s trying to pull what many child singers do when they get older — become bad. His huge neck tattoo and risqué lyrics scream trouble, and I can’t help but be curious as to what his next moves are going to be. Just like when Justin Bieber publically urinated and stopped wearing a shirt, or when Miley Cyrus began to stick out her tongue all the time and sing about sex and drugs, the world loves to watch the young and innocent turn naughty and mature.

On top of that, Aaron Carter’s new music really isn’t bad. This EDM pop is what the

majority of young America listens to nowadays, no matter how much we all deny or hate ourselves for it.

I never thought I would see the day that my first crush ever would return to the music industry. I mean, who could have guessed that the kid who was most known for kissing Lizzie McGuire in that Christmas episode would make a mature comeback 16 years later?

That’s what I love about the music industry — your favorites are never actually gone.

Take Tony Bennett for instance. He’s 90 years old and still smashes the charts with duets with major stars like Lady Gaga.

Now, before you write off Aaron Carter, ask yourself if you enjoy listening to Justin Bieber, The Chainsmokers, Zayn or even Halsey. And if you do, “LøVë’” might surprise you.

Christine Chung is a senior communication and rhetorical studies major. Her column appears weekly in Pulp. She can be reached at chchun02@syr.edu.

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Here’s what to do when your non-Syracuse friends come visit

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t’s that time of the year. Friends are visiting. It’s too cold for parents to visit, you self-destruct if you don’t see anyone from your hometown in a month and you don’t have a Valentine, so might as well see the kids you used to loiter with.

When they arrive, you have to find a way to get them from the bus or train station. If you’re a real friend, you’ll drive or get your friend to pick them up. If you hate them, you’ll make them take a cab to campus. And if you hate them and yourself, you’ll take the Centro bus to and from campus.

When they arrive, they’re expecting a good time. They’ve come from their clearly inferior school to one of the top party schools. But they show up at 2 p.m. and it

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When you ask them what they want they’ll never actually tell you. It’s always put back on you when they respond, “What does everyone at Syracuse eat?” What everyone at Syracuse eats is Ernie Dining or Calios drunk at 2 a.m., but unfortunately it’s 2 p.m. So off to Varsity Pizza, which is always a safe bet. You describe it as, “There’s just everything you could want.” But to be quite honest, it’s bar food

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without the bar.

After you take them for a slice of good Syracuse pizza, or mediocre everywhere else pizza, it’s time for a tour of the campus. It’s important to hit the highlights and give them all the facts you think you’ve heard at some point. You head to the promenade, tell them it cost 6 million dollars, and then proceed to explain how big of a deal it is. You stop in front of Hall of Languages and describe that it’s the most basic photo you can take, but you take a picture anyway. Next, you pass the Kissing Bench and explain why there’s a weird bench that looks like it’s from the 1880s still there. You never touch it out of fear of loneliness.

The biggest attraction, and a main stop on the tour, is the Quad. Here, you can point out Hendricks Chapel and a couple of buildings you can’t name but you definitely had a recitation in before making your way over to the Carrier Dome. You can look through the locked doors and see one-tenth of the field, and then blow their mind with a Dome stomp. Obviously, the first time, they won’t stomp too hard, but after you show them how, they’ll do it correctly and give a halfhearted “Wow, pretty cool.”

Your last destination is Schine Student Center. You show them the food court, and let them marvel in the fact that you can use

SUper Food Money for Dunkin’ Donuts. You move on to the bookstore, where they can buy overpriced Syracuse items. You both pretend to browse for three minutes or so.

Later on at night it’s time to party. If you know of a friend or club throwing a party, you’ll head there. If not, you’ll get a group of your friends to head to a bar. The nightlife is what makes Syracuse the best school in the nation. You get inside and realize how crowded it is, especially if your friend doesn’t know anyone. The watered-down drinks do not help either.

But after trying your hardest to show off ‘Cuse, there’s a life-changing realization around the corner. Syracuse University isn’t the greatest place on earth. It’s pretty great, but it’s not the campus that makes this place incredible — it’s the people. The people we’re surrounded with are the greatest people on earth, and that’s what makes Syracuse the school it is.

Oh, and the street preacher. He makes this school what it is. Syracuse is nothing without being belittled by a Christian fanatic.

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Following the intermission, last year’s winner Courtney McGuire took the stage.

She pranced around the stage with six backup dancers and a roaring fan section sitting just offstage. She twirled pink feather fans while clad in a silver, glittery costume.

The three judges were gobsmacked by McGuire’s performance, and all agreed that she had stepped up her game since the preliminary rounds.

But it was Lizanga who stole the hearts of the crowd and the winner’s title. She was the final student performer of the night, brandishing a musical theater-themed set.

Audience members were infatuated with Lizanga’s mess of blond curls and smeary blue eyeshadow.

“I’m a big fan of drag looking crazy as long as it’s on purpose, and her whole thing’s is a crazy mess — it’s the best,” Trixie said. “And remember, we are all born naked, and the rest is Sally Mae student loans.”

Lizanga said her favorite moment was “blacking out” and losing herself in the performance.

“I came on this stage and became someone else, and I’ve never felt more proud to be gay in my whole life,” said Lizanga, a senior English and textual studies major.

Although Miller is a senior, he is staying at SU for a fifth year, and said he may consider reviving his Lizanga alter-ego for next year’s drag show. But for now, he will finish his Chipotle.

Said Lizanga: “To all of the beautiful, thick, in-the-closet, out-of-the-closet children in school, f*ck what people say because you are all 100 percent beautiful.”

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to Syracuse — my hometown — and host, I’m always so down.”

Student performers started taking the stage after the professionals kicked it off.

Quincy Nolan, a sophomore at Clarion University in Pennsylvania, and Ian Laih, a sophomore environmental biology major at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, are childhood friends. Nolan had wanted to try drag for a long time and persuaded his best friend to enter the Syracuse show.

Belladonna’s act involved a lot of bending, strutting and high-energy tricks.

“Anything I can do in sneakers, I can do in heels,” Nolan laughed, fixing his pink wig as it fell in his eyes.

Next up was the only drag king act. Rachel Ameen, an undeclared freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences, and Zoe Shannon, a sophomore anthropology major, performed to a mash-up of classic rock and 2000s pop.

“It sets us apart because people tend to take drag kings a little less seriously,” Shannon said.

Performing with the stage names Neil Down and Mike Hunt, the pair wore button down shirts and slicked-back hair with drawn-on beards.

“Drag kings, at least in our particular case, are more comedy than we are about trying to be sexy and cool,” Ameen said.

“Yeah, we’re just gals being pals,” Shannon added.

Josh Feinblatt is a sophomore television, radio and film major. He doesn’t invite friends to visit him, because he doesn’t have any. He can be reached on Twitter @joshfeinblatt, by email jfeinbla@ syr.edu or giving campus tours to small groups of 0-1 people.

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Aster Pantry & Parlor, Original Grain and Liehs & Steigerwald are three of the restaurants that offer $25-deals for a three-course dinner on Wednesday nights through Downtown Dining Weeks. kelli mosher staff photographer | chris gallero contributing photographer | daily orange file photo

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Downtown dining program helps customers save money, try new foods

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old, dreary February is one of the slowest months for dining out. According to Jason Jessmore, an executive chef at Aster Pantry & Parlor, February is slow not only because of the weather, but because people are still paying off their Christmas splurges.

That’s where Downtown Dining Weeks comes in.

Starting Feb. 15 and running through March 1, Downtown Dining Weeks offers a three-course meal for $25 at over 32 local Syracuse restaurants. The goal is to not only showcase local restaurants, but to drum up more customers during a traditionally slow period for eating out.

“It definitely brings in a lot of people that might not be going out if it wasn’t for the Dining Week experience,” Jessmore said.

Downtown Dining Weeks’ menus have offered a range of appetizers, courses, drinks and desserts for 13 years.

For $25, customers can eat anything from waffles to steak, and the Downtown Committee of Syracuse hopes to offer enough variety to please even the pickiest of eaters.

“Literally, we have any sort of taste that your taste buds could crave represented in all of our wonderful dining week’s menus,” Alice Maggiore, communications coordinator for the sowntown community said. “We have a diverse array of restaurants and we want to draw attention to them.”

It’s also expanding. This year, Downtown Dining Weeks has added five new restaurants: Original Grain, Apizza

Regionale, Eleven Waters (Marriott Syracuse Downtown), Khao Gaeng and Niko’s Family Italian Restaurant.

Maggiore said the committee touches base with new downtown restaurants that have opened up in the beginning of the year to see if they would like to be a part of Downtown Dining Weeks.

“I think, almost any new restaurant that opens in downtown certainly wants to be part of the scene as a whole,” Maggiore said. “And Dining Weeks, one of the most popular winter events, is part of that scene.”

Between 45,000 and 50,000 visitors come from the central New York area to experience Dining Weeks. Some stay the night through a $185 special roommate rate at four hotels: Courtyard Marriott, Residence Inn Marriott, Jefferson Clinton Hotel and Marriott Syracuse Downtown. The downtown community hopes that by offering these discounts individuals will want to spend a few days in Syracuse, taking in its sights and foods.

“Our hope is that when folks come in for dinner, they’ll stay the night and then go out to breakfast the next day or take in a show,” Maggiore said. “Maybe, they’ll bring the kids and they can take the kids to one of the great museums.”

Maggiore also wants Downtown Dining Weeks to encourage people to engage with downtown Syracuse.

While there are no specific entertainment events linked with Dining Weeks – Maggiore says that individuals can plan their trip around the food, but then also see shows or sporting events while downtown.

“The goal is so they can to get experience not only

the flavors you can taste from Downtown Dining Week but the sights and sounds and the whole downtown experience,” Maggiore said.

Downtown Dining Weeks has also incorporated giveaways into the fold of events. If customers can spot a hidden chef hat while dining out, all they need to do is snap a picture and email it to them to be entered into a daily drawing and potentially win a gift card to a restaurant.

Jessmore appreciates that Dining Weeks brings in more customers who are excited about eating.

“We look at it as kind of a marketing thing – new customers in for the first time will become regulars down the road,” Jessmore said.

For higher end restaurants like Aster Pantry & Parlor, Jessmore encourages customers to add a little extra to their meal.

“I think that people should be able to take advantage of it. They are saving money on the food aspect of it so they should take the opportunity to get that bottle of wine that might normally be out of their price range,” Jessmore said. “The money that they’re saving should be used to elevate their experience.”

Ultimately though, the goal of Downtown Dining Weeks is to get people to enjoy all of the opportunities that downtown Syracuse has to offer, Maggiore said, adding that she hopes visitors will come again.

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Administrative or Gabby Cooper keeps No. 21 Clerical Assistant Needed SU afloat against No. 7 UND women’s basketball

our floor space and make shots on the perimeter, and she did an excellent job today.”

To slow down Sykes and Peterson, On Saturday, Brittney Sykes and Alexis McGraw said she threw triangle-and-two Peterson pulled Gabby Cooper aside for a defenses alongside her typical man-toprivate conversation. The nation’s leading man style during different stretches of scoring backcourt told Cooper she’d have to Sunday’s game. Then Cooper’s presence step up Sunday for Syracuse to upset No. 7 beyond the arc became crucial for the Notre Dame. They also told her that being Orange. When Sykes or Peterson would only a freshman doesn’t bar her from hold- drive into coverage, the freshman guard ing herself accountable. stayed put downtown, shooting only one “We’re gonna score our 20 (points), or contested shot all game thanks to her however many we score,” Sykes said of her- spacing on the floor. self and Peterson, “but we told her that she Cooper’s single contested shot came can’t have less than 15.” with only 36 seconds left in the game, via Cooper would need to do that for the yet another Peterson assist on a drive. As Orange to win Sunday’s game, said Sykes, a UND defender closed out, Cooper pulled who wanted the freshman to not get beat on up without hesitation, nailing her sixth defense and rebound.

3-pointer of the game with a hand in her Even though the No. 7 Fighting Irish (25- face. Peterson had 14 assists Sunday, and 3, 13-1 Atlantic Coast) edged past Syracuse five of them went to Cooper. The bucket (18-9, 9-5), 85-80, Sunday evening in the brought the Orange within four and reinCarrier Dome, Cooper shot 6-of-10 from vigorated a Dome crowd that had been 3-point range for 18 points — one shy of her silent for much of the quarter. career high. It was the Orange’s first home “She hit a huge shot, the one to bring us loss of the season and came in front of a within four at the end,” Sykes said. program-record crowd of 11,021.

Though the SU comeback would fail to The way Cooper started and ended Sun- come to fruition — a Peterson 3-pointer day’s game was eerily similar. Just over two falling short as time expired — Hillsman was minutes into the first quarter, with SU hold- both complimentary of his freshman shooting an 8-2 advantage, Cooper spotted up ing guard and the team’s play. He said it was The Daily Orange 2/16/17 Sudoku from nearly four feet beyond the arc and a strong showing all around for three of the drilled her first 3-pointer of the game to give day’s four quarters.

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What we learned from SU’s 71-65 loss at Georgia Tech ATLANTA – Syracuse (16-12, 8-7 Atlantic Coast) couldn’t finish off yet another comeback from down double digits, falling to Georgia Tech (16-11, 7-7), 71-65, at McCamish Pavilion. The Orange cut its deficit to as few as two despite trailing by 13 with fewer than eight minutes left, but Syracuse ultimately dropped its third consecutive game and missed a chance at grabbing a much-needed road win against a fellow bubble team.

Here’s what we learned from Sunday night’s game.

Shows’s illegal screen call on Tyler Roberson with 16.6 seconds remaining and Syracuse down two, Boeheim took the financially sound route.

“I don’t talk about calls,” he said.

While their head coach wouldn’t budge, the two players directly involved in the controversial play didn’t hold back.

Roberson: “When I was setting it, it seemed like the defender a little bit like, flopped, and I think he called a foul from that.”

John Gillon, who maneuvered around the screen before it was called: “I feel like a call like that shouldn’t be called that late in the game, especially when there’s not that much contact and it doesn’t really give us an advantage.”

When asked his opinion on referee Doug

White had a chance to tie Hakim War-

By Matt Schneidman senior staff writer

Jim Boeheim wouldn’t bite on referee criticism

Andrew White’s streak of scoring 20 or more is finished

rick seven-game streak of scoring 20 or more points, which the former SU star accomplished in the 2004-05 season, but White only scored 17 in Syracuse’s loss to the Yellow Jackets.

A game after missing 12 3-pointers, the fifthyear senior missed eight on Sunday, shooting 4-of-12 from behind the arc and 6-of-16 overall.

Three of those long balls came in a 1:26 span late in the first half, and White played relatively ineffective for the rest of the game.

“Hopefully next time I can cover the slack or help out if one of our other guys are struggling,” White said.

To Boeheim, there is no Syracuse point guard competition

Gillon turned the ball over five times and shot 2-of-10 from the field while being showered with “airball” chants for the latter part of the first half and almost the entire

second half. Gillon’s first made 3 in six tries cut Georgia Tech’s lead to 3 but it was far too late to salvage his lackluster night.

“I just wasn’t hitting open shots,” Gillon said. “That opens up a lot. They’re more set, they don’t have to run out as hard so it’s hard for me to drive. Just get in the gym more and try to correct things.”

Backup Frank Howard showed positive signs in his 12 minutes, including a pair of assists, a steal and an impressive and-one on a drive into GT center Ben Lammers.

But when asked if he considered giving Howard more playing time, Boeheim didn’t waver.

“The only games we’ve won, John Gillon has won for us,” Boeheim said. “He’s the best point guard we’ve got by 10 miles.” mcschnei@syr.edu | @matt_schneidman

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notre dame high post area. Syracuse was content to let her stay out there as it stopped UND’s forwards curling inside for looks.

But in the second half, the cuts were inverted. Notre Dame’s forwards flashed to the high post, drawing out center Briana Day while Turner curled onto the inside, oftentimes finding herself matched up with an SU forward.

Three straight buckets for Turner to start the fourth quarter turned a four-quarter deficit into the Fighting Irish’s first lead. She finished with a career-high 31 points.

“She was getting on our forwards sometimes and it was just a mismatch from there,” Day said. “… It just threw us out of our defense.”

Hillsman made adjustments too by subbing out forward Isabella Slim for center Bria Day with seven minutes left to play with extra size on the interior. Turner only made one more field goal the rest of the way.

The Orange had found the way to slow down UND’s looks on the inside, but it failed to complete the defensive stand. SU surrendered eight offensive rebounds in the fourth quarter alone, including five in the last 3:57 of the game.

On one play, Turner got fouled on a layup and missed the and-1 opportunity. Teammate Arike Ogunbowale corralled the layup and got an extra two points for UND instead.

On another, SU forced UND into a 3-pointer with one second left on the shot clock. But the visitors grabbed a long rebound.

One of the Orange’s goals, Hillsman said, was to have 20 more possessions than Notre Dame. SU won the turnover margin, but 18 offensive rebounds for UND, compared to Syracuse’s five, made achieving that goal impossible.

“When they get those offensive rebounds … off of playing 25, 30 seconds of defense,” Sykes said, “it puts pressure on us to play another 30

BRITTNEY SYKES puts her hand up after falling to the ground, unhappy with the call made by the referee. The senior guard nailed two threes at the start of the game to get the Orange fans cheering loudly.

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and now we’re playing a whole minute.”

Despite fourth-quarter errors, Syracuse fought back. Gabby Cooper hit a big 3-pointer to make it a four-point game with 36 seconds to go. Missed free throws by UND down the stretch gave the Orange one last chance to tie the game, before Peterson missed the 3-pointer.

There’s no denying that the game was dif-

ferent for Syracuse. Eleven thousand people waited with baited breath as Peterson’s final shot soared through the air. The Orange’s total season attendance before today’s game was a little more than 17,000.

Those fans arrived with higher expectations. Last year, SU played UND twice and did not lead once. On Sunday, the Orange led for three quarters and hung blow for

blow with one of the premier programs in college basketball.

Syracuse hoped that by changing everything else — the crowd, the expectation, the lineup — it would lead to a change in final result.

But, just like Peterson’s 3-point attempt, the heave came up just short.

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raised his right fist, pointed at Roberson with his left pointer finger and thrust his left arm toward the other end of the court.

Roberson threw both hands on his head.

Frank Howard did the same. Boeheim walked toward Shows, glaring in his direction. In the next 16.6 seconds, Georgia Tech iced the game with four free throws and once and for all buried Syracuse’s comeback aspirations.

“Just dug ourselves a hole,” Boeheim said.

“We fought back as hard as we could, got it back to a game where we could tie and got away. That’s what happens sometimes.”

It’s what has happened far too often for Syracuse this season, falling behind by double digits in the second half and requiring a herculean effort to crawl back. Georgia Tech head coach Josh Pastner listed off the games Syracuse has done just that, rattling off both Virginia games and last Monday’s loss to Louisville.

“No lead is safe against them,” Pastner said.

His lead emerged unscathed by the final buzzer, and it showed in a dead silent Syracuse locker room after the bout. During the game, Boeheim was animated, hands flailing, his coat ripped off and resting on the back of his seat on the bench.

After, he was nearly motionless, almost slipping out of his chair as Syracuse’s NCAA Tournament hopes slowly slip away as well.

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ANDREW WHITE drives toward the basket against Georgia Tech. He had 17 points, the second most on SU. courtesy of stephen d. cannerelli | syracuse media group

on the left wing in a span of 1:26 to inject some form of life into the Orange before the break.

But that sliver of offense stayed behind the locker room doors when Syracuse emerged from the tunnel to start the second half, and the Orange didn’t score its 10th point after the break until 7:14 remained in the game. By that time, Georgia Tech had turned a nine-point Syracuse lead in the first half into a double-digit cushion for itself. The Orange needed to pull yet another rabbit out of its hat.

As it did against Virginia twice in the past year, and against North Carolina State earlier this season, Syracuse’s press made it a game. Every Ben Lammers midrange jumper seemed to further squash SU’s slim hopes, but with a John Gillon corner 3-pointer the Orange’s deficit closed to only three. Tyler Lydon stole the ensuing inbounds pass, drew a foul and hit 1-of-2 free throws to cut it to two.

“Just the fact that we were playing defense, I think that was leading to offense,” Lydon said. “I thought we were able to get to the foul line and knock down shots.”

When Roberson set a ball screen for Gillon on Tadric Jackson’s left side, Shows

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Shkudun, Knutson lose singles as SU falls to Brown, 6-1

By Andrew Graham asst. copy editor

Gabriela Knutson and Anna Shkudun’s smiles turned to scowls. High-fives turned to frustrated leg slaps and artful winners turned to errant shots.

The day had started so well. Knutson battled a cold while playing doubles with Shkudun for the first time and the pairing dominated Mariska Chamdani and Maddie Stearns, Brown’s No. 2 doubles team, for a 6-1 win.

“We’re very intimidating to the other players,” Knutson said. “They were just scared of us.”

But the smiles quickly faded as both Knutson and Shkudun laid eggs in their respective singles matches. The lackluster performance from Syracuse’s No. 1 and No. 2 singles players cost the Orange (2-5, 0-1 Atlantic Coast) as it fell to Brown (4-1) on Sunday, 6-1.

“It didn’t go our way this time,” SU head

coach Younes Limam said.

The afternoon began with promise even as Knutson coughed, sneezed and blew her nose throughout her singles match against Alyza Benotto, Brown’s No. 2. She quickly mounted a 1-0 lead that didn’t last.

As Benotto began a long run with three straight game wins, Knutson pushed shots long and struggled on her first serves. Benotto capitalized. SU’s No. 2 player attributed the unforced errors to nervousness and lack of confidence. Every time Knutson sent a shot wide or too deep, or misplaced a drop shot into the net, the Czech native slapped her left thigh with the palm of her hand or the side of her racket.

After losing a close game to go to break in the first set, Knutson sat on the bench as her legs bobbed up and down with a half-eaten banana clutched in her left hand. Associate head coach Shelley George leaned in to speak to the sophomore. Knutson’s eyes remained coldly straight ahead.

“It’s frustrating,” Knutson said. “I just

couldn’t get out of that rut.”

Knutson lost the first set, 6-3, battled to win the second, 6-2, and the match went to tiebreak. By that point, Shkudun had lost her own match.

It’s frustrating. I just couldn’t get out of that rut. I wanna win for the fans, for my team and mostly for myself.

No one likes to lose.

Gabriela Knutson su tennis player

In her first singles match of the year, Shkudun almost handled Dayna Lord’s

rocket returns, but not quite. The Brown senior pounded missile after missile from the back line and she beat Shkudun so thoroughly that SU’s No. 1 player acknowledged each of her opponent’s winners with a polite clap.

Shkudun captured only a few points and failed to win a game in the second set. The match ended mercifully: 7-5, 6-0. As Shkudun scowled off the court, Knutson battled on in her tiebreak.

She took an early 5-3 lead, halfway to the 10 points needed to win. But then Benotto rattled off four straight points. 7-5. When Knutson left a drop shot short in the net, Benotto celebrated her win (6-3, 2-6, 10-5).

Knutson looked at the ground and cocked her racket back, ready to smash it to pieces.

She thought better of it, and released her frustration by thwacking her shoe.

“I wanna win for the fans,” Knutson said, “for my team, and mostly for myself.

“No one likes to lose.” aegraham@syr.edu | @A_E_Graham

Miranda Ramirez secures only point in SU’s loss to Brown

By Billy Heyen staff writer

Two points in a row, Miranda Ramirez attacked the net and won points with forehand smashes. That put her up 3-2 in the second set of her singles match, which she went on to win. Around her, Syracuse struggled to muster much of a fight.

The Orange (2-5, 0-1 Atlantic Coast) dropped six of seven possible points on Saturday, losing to Brown (4-1), 6-1. At third singles, Ramirez earned Syracuse’s only point in her defeat of Maddie Stearns, 7-5, 6-3.

While Dayna Lord overpowered Anna

For me, changing to singles, I still felt good. Still felt like I was playing well.

Miranda Ramirez su tennis player

Shkudun on court 3, and Dina Hegab struggled on court 1, Ramirez remained focused on her match on court 2 and won her second singles match of the weekend.

Ramirez’s day began in the third doubles match. She and Dina Hegab fell to Brown’s Devon Jack and Juliana Simon, 7-6 (7-5).

Ramirez protected her serve to make it 5-4 in the match, but some timely serving from Jack and Hegab’s unforced errors lost the match. It gave the doubles point to Brown and put Syracuse in an early 1-0 hole. Syracuse wouldn’t find much success in singles, save for Ramirez.

“I thought we had a great doubles match,” Ramirez said. “Even though we lost, I still gained some confidence from it. For me, changing to singles, I still felt good. Still felt like I was playing well.”

Ramirez adjusted throughout her singles

match. She explained she read how Stearns played, whether aggressive or defensive, and reacted accordingly.

Ramirez warded off long rallies from her opponent with her one-handed backhand, and more often than not, Stearns made an error to end the point. Once Ramirez sensed Stearns on her back foot, she attacked the net and put the point away. Regardless of the tactic her opponent chose, Ramirez countered it.

“She is a fearless competitor,” SU head coach Younes Limam said of Miranda. “She plays with a lot of heart and she’s also very talented. That’s a good combination.”

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Despite Syracuse’s loss to No. 7 Notre Dame, freshman guard Gabby Cooper hit six 3-pointers.

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JIM BOEHEIM and SU mounted a late comeback, but couldn’t complete the effort at Georgia Tech. courtesy of danny karnik | georgia tech athletics

QUENTIN HILLSMAN and Syracuse fell short of beating Notre Dame in front of a record 11,021 fans in the Carrier Dome. jeff anderson staff photographer

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SU’s NCAA Tournament hopes suffer setback at Georgia Tech

Orange blows 4th-quarter lead in front of record crowd

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By Tomer Langer

TLANTA — Tucked away in the corner of Syracuse locker room was its 72-year-old head coach, slouched in a chair, his head just above the back of his seat. Jim Boeheim’s purple and silver tie was ruffled, his black sport coat still on his shoulders, a look of disdain on his face.

The majority of players had already filed out of the tight quarters in the bowels of McCamish Pavilion. Assistant coaches Mike Hopkins and Gerry McNamara slowly packed up their belongings beside the head coach, while Eric Devendorf bent forward in a chair next to the locker room door, his gaze fixed on the floor in front of him.

This was Syracuse’s chance to grab not only a road win, but a road win against a team presumably neck-and-neck with itself on the NCA A Tournament bubble. Despite trailing by 13 with fewer than eight minutes left, the Orange clawed back from doubledigit deficits — just as it’s repeatedly done in the past month.

SU had a chance to tie or take the lead with under 20 seconds remaining, but referee Doug Shows called Tyler Roberson for an illegal screen in front of the Syracuse bench and the last glimmer of hope for yet another miraculous comeback faded away in the Orange’s (16-12, 8-7 Atlantic Coast) 71-65 loss to Georgia Tech (16-11, 7-7) on Sunday night.

“I think we were just playing in desperation mode,” Roberson said. “That’s what we need to do from the beginning.”

If you came to see offensive fireworks shortly after the ball was tipped, you came to the wrong place. It took almost 11 minutes for both teams to reach double digits. With 9:09 left in the first half, an Andrew White jumper tied the game at 11. Taurean Thompson ignited a sluggish Syracuse offense with 14 first-half points, and White drilled a trio of 3-pointers from the same spot

he game was going to be different for Syracuse. It was clear at the start of the year, when SU head coach Quentin Hillsman said he wanted to prove his team belonged in the same conversation with other upper-echelon squads, like preseason No. 1 Notre Dame.

The expectation only ramped up in the last month as Syracuse kept its program-record 18-game home winning streak alive. Then, 11 days ago, Syracuse announced a partnership with 13 local companies that all offered group ticket discounts in attempt to set an attendance record for a women’s game in the Carrier Dome.

The Orange never pretended this game was like any other. It wasn’t. Not after the North Carolina game last week. Not during the media availability session this week. Not during the first play of the game, when Brittney Sykes rose up for a deep 3-pointer from the left wing, drained it and held up three fingers on each hand with thunderous Carrier Dome crowd as the backdrop.

“It’s a big game,” Hillsman had said. “We can’t deflect that.”

No. 21 Syracuse (18-9, 9-5 Atlantic Coast) started hot in one of its biggest regular season games in program history, hitting three quick 3s to pump itself and the crowd. In front of a record-setting 11,021 fans, Syracuse seemed ready to avenge two losses to UND last year. Ready to make sure the outcome of the game would be as different as the atmosphere.

No. 7 Notre Dame (25-3, 13-1) fought back every step of the way, and took its first lead early in the fourth quarter. Syracuse brought it back to a 3-point game but an Alexis Peterson heave with seconds left on the clock came up just short, as the Orange couldn’t finish off a monumental upset in an 85-80 loss on Sunday in the Carrier Dome.

“We played a great three quarters,” Hillsman said.

Notre Dame tilted the game back in its favor by using star big Briana Turner. In the first half, Turner mainly prowled the

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