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Mayor Ben Walsh is working to promote government transparency policies and install cameras and sound equipment in the Common Council chambers. Page 3

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NEIGHBORHOOD

WATCH Deputy Chief Richard Shoff spearheads Syracuse’s community policing efforts

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Alpha Epsilon Pi suspended By Jordan Muller asst. news editor

The Syracuse University chapter of Alpha Epsilon Pi has been suspended for violations of the Student Code of Conduct and Office of Fraternity and Sorority Affairs policy, an SU spokeswoman confirmed on Monday. Laura Williams-Sanders, director of the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Affairs, said on Monday hazing was not among the conduct violations. She declined to comment further on the suspension and referred all questions to Sarah Scalese, SU’s associate vice president for university communications. Scalese on Monday confirmed hazing was not a conduct violation related to AEPi’s suspension. But she said in a statement Saturday that AEPi’s conduct threatened a student’s safety. “As soon as we were made aware of conduct that threatened the safety of a student participating in the new member process, we took immediate action to halt fraternity see suspension page 4

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RICHARD SHOFF, an officer with the Syracuse Police Department who has served on the force for almost 30 years, was recently appointed as Syracuse’s deputy chief of community policing. katie reahl staff photographer

By Kennedy Rose asst. news editor

ichard Shoff — who has been part of the Syracuse Police Department for nearly three decades, served six years in the United States Navy and has overseen every job in the city police’s community services bureau — was appointed deputy chief of community policing last month by Mayor Ben Walsh. Walsh committed to improving policing in Syracuse and championed community policing during his mayoral campaign last year. Community police officers work in small geographic areas and improve communication and responses between residents and the police department, Shoff said. As he moves forward, Shoff said he’s committed to improving recruitment of and relationships with underrepresented populations in the SPD. “Community policing to me, it’s more of a broad concept, and it should be a philosophy for the whole entire department to try and engage the community you serve on every level that you can,” Shoff said. Shoff, whose father and grandfather were police officers, has spent the last 29 years serving on the SPD. He headed the community policing division for the last eight years under former Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner.

Expanding outreach in Syracuse is Shoff’s long-term goal, but one activist said expanding community policing isn’t enough. Herve Comeau, an organizer for Black Lives Matter Syracuse, said the SPD needs to do more to address police accountability, and change the culture of policing. Despite understaffing, Comeau added that SPD doesn’t accurately represent the community. In 2015, only 12 percent of the department were women, and 10.5 percent were people of color, according to the SPD’s 2015 annual report. The city’s population, in comparison, is 52 percent women and about 44 percent people of color, according to Syracuse.com. “The culture around this is the problem,” Comeau said. “It’s the lack of awareness and the lack of compassion and empathy.” Shoff said one of his primary goals is to improve recruitment and engagement with underrepresented communities in Syracuse, including immigrants, black and Latinx people and women. But Shoff also said the city needs to hire more officers to improve incident response times. SPD cost the city $13 million in overtime pay in 2016 due to understaffing, per Syracuse.com. Walsh said he would hire more police officers to combat understaffing at a candidate forum last October, and announced he would hire 25 to 30 more officers last month. see shoff page 4

Assembly discusses initiatives By India Miraglia staff writer

At Monday night’s Student Association meeting, members discussed their plans for a variety of upcoming initiatives and events that SA will run and sponsor. Events discussed included Diversity Week, Take Back the Night and several initiatives by the Student Life committee, President James Franco and Vice President Angie Pati. Diversity Affairs committee cochairs Diasia Robinson and Khalid Khan introduced their initial plans for this year’s Diversity Week. That event will be held during the last week of March. SA, Pride Union, the LGBT Resource Center and Color Collective in March will host a pride parade to celebrate the LGBTQ community. Robinson and Khan suggested inviting winners of the Pride Union’s drag show, held on Feb. 15, to see sa page 4

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WALSH’S FIRST 100 DAYS

Here is a roundup of the biggest news happening in New York right now.

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STATE FAIR SALE

The New York State Fair will host a one-day “Midway Madness” sale on Thursday, offering discounted packages for fair admission, rides, food and games. One can get a weekday ride wristband, $15 in Midway Bucks and two fair admission tickets for $25. Attendees can also get two ride wristbands, $20 in Midway Bucks and four fair admission tickets for $45. Only 2,500 of each of the two packages will be available.

Syracuse Mayor Ben Walsh has implemented several initiatives since his inauguration to increase the city’s government accountability. One of those initiatives includes the installation of video and audio recording devices in the Common Council chambers in City Hall. Walsh has also proposed the establishment of the Office of Accountability, Performance and Innovation.

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RUBIK’S MUSEUM

Thanks to the Common Council’s commitment to accountability and their hard work over the past couple of years, we will begin streaming council meetings online. Ben Walsh

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Mayor Ben Walsh stressed during his campaign that holding city government accountable is important. philip bryant staff photographer

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Walsh works to promote city accountability By Jessi Soporito asst. copy editor

Since his inauguration, Syracuse Mayor Ben Walsh has promised to increase accountability and transparency for city services and his administration. In his “state of the city” speech late last month, Walsh said he wanted to “delivWALSH er on our promise of accountability.” Walsh, at the time, said the city would create an Office of Accountability, Performance and Innovation and stream Common Council meetings online, beginning in April. “You will be able to see and hear government happening from wherever you are,” Walsh said in the address.

The API office will act as a new performance management system, Walsh said, and it “will drive continuous improvement in quality, customer-focused city services.” Through the office, the city will host “accountability meetings.” Those meetings will be held in the iLab, formerly the SyraStat room in City Hall, and will be open to the public. SyraStat was a financial and performance management program created in 2002 and implemented by former Mayor Matthew Driscoll, according to WRVO Public Media. The Syracuse city website has not been updated to include the API office under its list of departments. The exact timeline for its creation is unclear. Walsh stressed that holding city government accountable is important during his mayoral campaign, promising accountabil-

ity for police, the Syracuse Land Bank, code enforcement and City Hall, in his platform. The Common Council faced scrutiny after unanimously appointing Michael Greene to a vacant at-large seat, which some said illustrated a lack of transparency from city government, according to WRVO. The appointment was not a matter of public record, WRVO reported. “Because I wasn’t elected by the people I want to make myself really transparent and open to people who want to come and talk to me about their ideas,” Greene said, according to Syracuse.com. Common Council meeting streams should be up and running by the city budget sessions this spring. The council usually meets weekly, but during budget season, it meets daily. A grant will help upgrade tech-

nology in the Common Council chambers. Since cameras and sound equipment will be installed soon, anyone with internet access should be able to stream the meetings online. Per the New York Department of State’s Committee on Open Government, “open meetings of an agency or authority shall be, to the extent practicable and within available funds, broadcast to the public and maintained as records of the agency or authority.” “Folks have a real habit of saying, you don’t do anything,” Common Council President Helen Hudson told WRVO. “So they’ll have a real opportunity to see that we sit there and go through hundreds of agenda items every session.” Hudson was appointed president in November 2017 and Greene filled her vacated seat last month. jmsopori@syr.edu

The world’s first exhibition dedicated to the Rubik’s Cube opened on the third floor of Destiny USA this week. It will run through April 29 on the third floor of the mall near Margaritaville. It is a hands-on experience, where visitors can play with cubes and other games. source: local syr

CHICKEN TRAFFIC

Cicero Police have issued a traffic alert for Thursday on Brewerton Road — the location of the soonto-open Chick-fil-A. Police urged drivers to stay in the right lane if they are traveling southbound on Brewerton Road and will not go to the restaurant opening day. Heavier traffic is expected from Thursday to Sunday. source: local syr

UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY RAPE

A student at the University at Albany reported that she was raped by two non-students in a dorm complex, according to UAlbany’s student newspaper. Reported rapes at the college average about one every two weeks during the regular school year. source: times union

EXPLOSION ANNIVERSARY

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Split Rock Explosion, an explosion in the town of Onondaga. The Split Rock Quarry mined limestone to be used for munitions during World War I, but a fire broke out and an explosion followed by noxious gas killed 50 people. source: local syr

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Professor to study climate in Smoky Mountains By Olivia Cole staff writer

A Syracuse University professor of biology recently received funding from the National Parks Service to continue climate change research in the Smoky Mountains. Great Smoky Mountains National Park — FRIDLEY which runs along the North Carolina-Tennessee border — contains unique ecological terrain. The peaks of the Smoky

Mountains are considered a cloud forest and those tropical-like areas frequently receive heavy rainfall. The parks service funding of about $107,000 in 2019 and 2020 will be used by Jason Fridley, the SU biology professor, to study the possible effects of climate change in the area. The Daily Orange spoke with Fridley to discuss his research and the recent funding announcement.

The Daily Orange: What made

you choose this field? Jason Fridley: It was a combination of being predisposed as a young person to really enjoy the outdoors, with a curiosity about

science and school. What really propelled me into this particular field of ecology and plant ecology — figuring out what plants do in nature — was I had a very strong mentor when I was in college who was also an ecologist. He took me under his wing. I did a lot of research with him as an undergraduate, went to some conferences and thought, “this seems like a really nice way to make a living.”

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your funding? J.F.: This funding in particular was through a long-term relationship with the National Parks Ser-

vice staff. When I was a postdoc, I did a project in the park that helped produce a map of temperatures. It was a lot of work, a lot of hiking, but it was one of the greatest jobs ever. We were able to do a big spatial analysis using a lot of geographic information systems to create these really detailed maps of temperature. The parks service (is) really supportive of the work and they have used it a lot. I originally tried to join forces with another researcher at Duke University: Ana Barros. She is working on a similar thing, but from a different angle. She works above see climate page 4

New York state released a concept plan to close the gap in the Erie Canalway Trail System between Camillus and DeWitt, which would close a 14-mile gap in the trail. It is part of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s Empire State Trail initiative, which aims to enhance outdoor recreation, community vitality and tourism development in New York state. source: wrvo public media

PARKS ATTENDANCE

Attendance at New York state parks rose by 950,000 from 2016 to 2017 at the state’s 180 parks and 35 historic sites. More than 71 million people in total visited the parks in 2017. Gov. Andrew Cuomo allotted $900 million to upgrade park infrastructure and historic buildings, campgrounds and trails. source: cny central

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shoff Increasing the number of police officers in the city is not the right thing to do, though, Comeau said. Syracuse needs more social workers, more jobs and more educational and employment opportunity for the city’s youth, he said. “I don’t think barbecues with the police or community policing are the answer,” Comeau said. Shoff said he believes SPD has a great relationship with the community, and that there will always be some people who feel differently. But the relationship is always a work in progress, he added. “The sooner you start (with kids), the better,” Shoff said. “… You make impressions on children when they’re young.” Rich Puchalski, director of Syracuse United Neighbors — a grassroots organization committed to improving the lives of people living in neighborhoods on the south, southwest, and near-west sides of Syracuse — said Shoff always attends Safe and Healthy Neighborhoods meetings. The community service bureau handles both community policing and recruitment, as

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well as Drug Abuse Resistance Education and gang resistance programs. Shoff said his children still remembered their DARE officer from when they attended Franklin Elementary School. Puchalski said the city needs more community policing, and some people feel there needs to be more police visibility through walking patrols. There must be more interaction between the community and police, he said. “Chief Shoff’s compassion for the community and willingness to listen has earned him respect in every corner of the city,” Walsh said in a statement to The Daily Orange. “I am confident in his ability to lead the city’s efforts to implement a community policing model that connects residents with the police department.” Shoff said he would continue to serve as deputy chief, if Walsh asked him to. “We serve the community. The community knows what they need,” Shoff said. “And for us to get information from the community, they have to be comfortable with you, and you have to be comfortable with them.” krose100@syr.edu | @KennedyWrites

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be queen marshalls at the parade. During Diversity Week, SA will work with the Department of Public Safety to educate the SU student body about the resources and services DPS offers. For a small donation, students will be able to throw a pie in a DPS officer’s face. The money raised will go to the Dunbar Center, a community center in Syracuse. At previous meetings, SA members discussed concerns about the relationship between DPS and SU students. Those concerns partly inspired the event, Robinson and Khan said. A candlelight vigil will be held at the end of Diversity Week to express that SU is a hatefree zone, the two co-chairs added.

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the canopy. She is interested how trees create their own rainfall, which is something I don’t know much about. She can produce maps of what’s going on above the canopy, and I can translate that to below the canopy. The D.O.: Why did you choose the Great Smoky Mountains to conduct your research? J.F.: It has to do with the decision way back when, when I was doing my postdoc. The main reason is that it has been a very famous place to do ecology since the 1950s. That’s because a very famous researcher, Robert Whittaker … he did

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activities at Alpha Epsilon Pi,” Scalese said in the statement. Jonathan Pierce, a former national president of AEPi and the fraternity’s media spokesperson, said in an email an individual engaged in misconduct that violated AEPi’s own rules, SU regulations and criminal law. The nature of the conduct violations, and the length of the suspension, are unclear. The university ordered the suspension after a Department of Public Safety investigation, Scalese said. The University Conduct Board and Appeals Booard both concluded that AEPi was responsible for violations of the Code of Student Conduct and FASA policy, she added. AEPi is currently among the Greek organizations “not allowed to operate” at SU, according to FASA’s website. Zachary Townsend, who’s currently listed by SU as AEPi’s president, did not respond to multiple requests for comment on this story. Pierce said the international fraternity is “disappointed with the heavy-handed actions of the Syracuse University administration.” “Despite repeated attempts to work collaboratively to create educational opportunities for the students, Syracuse administrators have taken this unilateral action with little regard to the facts of the case or the possible impacts on many innocent students,” Pierce said. The national fraternity is considering “fur-

Alpha Epsilon Pi’s conduct threatened a student’s safety during the fraternity’s new member process, an SU spokeswoman said. jordan muller asst. news editor

fraternity is currently under investigation for an alleged hazing incident, DPS crime logs show. The alleged hazing occured on Dec. 13, 2017, and was reported to DPS two days later, according to the crime logs. Devin Goldstein, who is listed by SU as the Sammy fraternity’s president, did not respond to a request for comment on this story. Scalese in mid-January said the university declined to comment on the active investigation. According to FASA’s webite, the following fraternities are on probationary status: • DKE is on disciplinary probation through December 2019, and social probation through December 2018, for conduct violations related to hazing. • The Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity is on disciplinary probation through March 2019, and on social probation through May 2018. • The nature of the conduct violations is currently unclear. • The Sigma Chi fraternity is on disciplinary reprimand through September 2018. The nature of the conduct violations is currently unclear. • The Zeta Beta Tau fraternity is on disciplinary reprimand through December 2018. The nature of the conduct violations is currently unclear. • The Psi Upsilon fraternity is on disciplinary reprimand through October 2018, and social probation through May 2018. The nature of the conduct violations is currently unclear.

ther legal actions,” he added. The fraternity’s national office, on its website, still recognizes the SU chapter. AEPi is the second fraternity to lose SU recognition during the 2017-18 academic year. The university suspended the Delta Tau Delta fraternity in fall 2017 for multiple conduct violations, including hazing.

SU initially intended to suspend the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity for hazing violations earlier in the academic year, said Cameron Pierro, DKE’s president, in a January email. The fraternity appealed the suspension, though, and is now on disciplinary and social probation. The SU chapter of the Sigma Alpha Mu

Take Back the Night will be held on March 22, said Janine Bogris, one of SA’s co-chiefs of staff. Every year, communities in the United States and around the world host Take Back the Night, an event created “to speak out about sexual violence, relationship violence, and other forms of interpersonal violence,” according to the Syracuse Office of Health Promotion’s website. The night will consist of multiple speakers, including SU Chancellor Kent Syverud; M. Dolan Evanovich, senior vice president for enrollment and the student experience; and a student speaker who has yet to be chosen. There will also be a parade around campus and an event called Speak Out, in which students will be able to discuss their feelings and experiences about sexual assault and violence. Bogris said the event will be a way for mem-

bers of the SU community to show that they will not accept sexual violence on campus and in their everyday lives. Elizabeth Sedore, chair of the Student Life committee, on Monday also proposed introducing kiosks to display a calendar of SA events in various building around campus. The kiosks would feature a touch screen so students could interact with the calendar, Sedore said. SA members suggested Sadler Hall, Ernie Davis Hall, Bird Library and Goldstein Student Center as possible kiosk locations. Sedore also introduced a new initiative to clean up Walnut and Euclid Avenues. She said students have been complaining about the amount of trash and debris on the two streets. The first clean-up event will focus on Euclid and will be held on March 4. Franco and Pati discussed SA’s partner-

ship with SU Athletics to provide 1,000 free tickets to the SU men’s basketball game on Wednesday night. The tickets were funded by a sponsorship from Original Italian Pizza. Obi Afriyie, SA’s parliamentarian who is also a Student Life columnist for The Daily Orange, expressed concern about the distribution of the tickets. He said he was worried that students who already held season tickets would take advantage of the deal. Pati said she has talked with the LGBT Resource Center to discuss how SA can help increase the center’s accessibility and continue to support the center as a whole. “We want to value those cultural centers that are not administrative resources, but are instead that friend that you tell everything to and is your strongest ally,” Pati said.

all kinds of things with biology. He did his dissertation work in the park. (That work) was famous for rejecting the idea that plants arrange themselves in discrete communities. Plants work in a gradient, in a continuum. He went to the Smoky Mountains because there are very extreme gradients. You go from the coldest weather to the warmest weather in a half days’ worth of hiking. There are these extreme gradients, so it’s a convenient place to survey plants. The D.O.: What exactly will you be researching? J.F.: I will be trying to figure out how the temperature and moisture at the scale of the ground — something like a salamander or

wildflower might care about — how the temperature and water availability will change at really fine spatial scales. And, then, how might that be sensitive to global warming. The D.O.: How will you be conducting your research? J.F.: We have an array of different sensors, basically thermometers, hooked up to a computer that stores data for long periods of time. These particular thermometers are about the size of a nickel. Inside is a thermometer and a memory stick that records the temperature every few hours. The D.O.: What past research have you done to prepare for this? J.F.:It has been a couple of years now,

trying to get this project going. The basic idea of that research was to collect the data and do this massive data analysis — kind of applied statistics. Part of it was creating models and part of it was mapping the output onto a landscape. The D.O.: What are you hoping to discover? J.F.: We are trying to figure out which parts of the landscape might change the most if you warm up the atmosphere. There is good reason to believe that parts of the park won’t change that much because it is too wet. It would be like trying to heat up a wet towel. If the forests dry out or if the precipitation dries out, then it will warm up much faster.

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student life column

Officials must take action, comfort communities

rom the basketball court to the promenade, civic engagement is a campus responsibility. The Syracuse men’s basketball team, while playing at Miami on Saturday, wore T-shirts in remembrance of CAMRYN the Marjory SIMON Stoneman ALWAYS Douglas LEARNING, ALWAYS WRITING High School shooting victims. The shirts read “Praying for Stoneman Douglas” in red bold letters on the front and “#MSDSTRONG” on the back. Both teams wore the shirts for warm-ups, showing solidarity in these heartbreaking times. The habituality of mass shootings seems to be part of society. Since the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in 2012, 438 people have been shot — and 138 have been killed — in at least 239 school shootings, according to The New York Times. While it’s important to recognize these shootings, we shouldn’t remain in a state of grief for too long. But,

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since we’re all here, we might as well dwell it in a little longer and question why have we become more comforted by our school’s basketball team than our government officials. Although the team act of remembrance was consoling, it’s not the job of a college sports team to comfort us. Comfort isn’t cutting it anymore. Comfort doesn’t bring back lost lives. It’s the job of the institutions in power to enact change so the weight of providing solidarity doesn’t lay on the shoulders of students. Sports teams are on campus to gain an education and play the sport they love. It’s up to the rest of us to help with the load we call civic engagement. We should comfort each other through acts of acceptance, support and conversation about polarizing subjects. While we’re waiting for our officials to enact change in response to these acts, we work to cultivate a loving and open environment for everyone, so we can work to prevent these tragedies from materializing. On and off the court.

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Protesting Katko, NRA & Republicans isn’t a solution for gun violence

Syracuse group will protest Rep. John Katko’s affiliation with the NRA this week in response to the Marjory Stoneman Douglas shooting, jumping to politicize the situation when loved ones are grieving. Swing Left announced the protests after a demonstration outside Katko’s office Thursday. In a statement, the organization criticized his “allegiance to the NRA and his inaction on (gun) control in light of the Florida school shooting that took place,” which left 17 dead and multiple injured. Protests like this one have erupted across the country, and people are already calling for increased gun control. But as families grieve the losses, it’s essential we don’t politicize the shooting, and instead examine the facts. Yes, Katko is an ally of the NRA. In fact, he was a top recipient of NRA funds during the 2016 election cycle, according to OpenSecrets.

The NRA endorsed Katko for his Congress run in 2014, and Katko’s voted for many NRA-sponsored bills, including one in December that permits gun owners with concealed-carry permits to bring their guns to any state. To suggest the NRA is responsible for the Marjory Stoneman Douglas shooting is a misleading accusation. If anything, the failure of law enforcement to act on a tidal wave of red flags is what’s most worrisome. The FBI received a warning call about the shooter, Nikolas Cruz, in January, but the information was never given to agents for investigation, according to The Washington Post. The bureau also investigated a YouTube comment written last year by a user called “nikolas cruz,” that read: “Im going to be a professional school shooter.” The FBI was unable to link the killer to the account, according to NBC News. The Florida Department

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of Children and Families also evaluated the shooter after being contacted concerning some of his social media posts, but “determined he was at low risk of harming himself or others,” according to The New York Times. Two months after that investigation was closed, his school recommended him for a “threat assessment,” and on one occasion signaled a mobile crisis unit to get him emergency counseling. The perpetrators behind the 2016 Pulse Nightclub shooting in Orlando, Florida, and the Charleston, South Carolina, church massacre were also brought to the FBI’s attention before the shootings. These atrocities demonstrate where fixes can be

made in the future. It’s clear it’s not the NRA that failed, but the system itself. Despite the warning signs and alarms raised to law enforcement and school officials, nothing was ever done to deem the shooter mentally unfit to own a firearm. But none of this is preventing the fingerpointing at the NRA. Progressive outlet ThinkProgress published a report Friday attempting to tie the NRA directly to the shootings, reporting it funded a school marksmanship team the Florida shooter was a member of. While the NRA did fund a marksmanship team at Marjory Stoneman Douglas, it’s important to note the team operated through the school’s JROTC program. Frankly, it would be more concerning if ROTC and JROTC cadets were not properly trained on how to use weapons. The notion that Katko has done nothing in light of the shootings in regard to gun control is

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categorically false. He has reached out to Rep. Grace Napolitano (D-Calif.) to examine the connection between mass shootings and mental illness, and said “it is far past time” for more action regarding preventing people with mental illness from buying guns, per auburnpub.com. “The inaction in Congress to date is unacceptable,” Katko told the publication. “I’m hopeful that our efforts will begin a productive and bipartisan dialogue that will yield real reforms.” The anger in response to the shooting is more than justified. But in a situation where the FBI and county officials were tipped off on Cruz’s violent behavior, it’s not the NRA or our representatives that failed, but the system itself.

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DON MILLER, 65, was diagnosed with early onset Parkinson’s at the age of 50. He has been going to Rock Steady Boxing CNY classes for more than a year, which has helped him manage his symptoms. riley bunch staff photographer

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he 65-year old’s right glove thwacks the heavy bag. “One,” he yells. Then the left. “Two!”

Don Miller’s voice is the loudest out of the two rows of boxers. Focused, they chant as they use a combination of jabs to hit their inanimate opponent. Don’s energy matches his volume, and he counts to 10. His partner is holding the bag, and Don’s energy accidentally sends him back on his heels.

Don has been going to Rock Steady Boxing, a Liverpool gym exclusively for people battling Parkinson’s disease, two to three times per week for the past year. He was diagnosed with early-onset Parkinson’s at age 5 and has faced symptoms like stiffness and muscle pain for almost two decades. The gym, a small space in a strip mall on Oswego Street, is a sanctuary where Parkinson’s is a universal reality. Members of Rock Steady CNY range from ages 55 to 80 and have various stages of Parkinson’s. While they’re at the gym, they take every fall and every struggle in stride. Some Rock Steady members are hiding their condition from their workplaces and families to avoid being treated differently. Classes offered throughout the day allow people to come when it’s convenient for them. In June 2016, Jeannette Riley, head coach and director of the gym, decided to open an affiliate of the national see boxing page 8

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Decline in refugees inspires local nonprofit to shift focus By Rabia Tanweer

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Despite the refugee population in Syracuse declining recently, displaced people who find themselves in central New York have several places they can turn to for help.

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As a city that generally receives a large number of refugees, Syracuse experienced a dramatic change in 2017. Last year, the percentage of new refugees that came to the city decreased by 72 percent. This decline reflects the lowest number of new refugees in a decade. InterFaith Works has made efforts to help arriving refugees establish themselves in Syracuse since it was established in 1976. Thrive at SU, an on-campus organization at Syracuse University, will partner with InterFaith Works next month to hold its second Thrive Together Fair.

The Center for New Americans, the branch of the organization that most directly helps resettled refugees, provides many services to help refugees, including helping them to find employment and medical care. InterFaith Works also aims to build understanding between people of different racial and religious backgrounds. It provides services to help refugees understand the culture, like providing English lessons and preparing them for citizenship tests. The recent decline in incoming refugees has affected InterFaith Works and other organizations like

it. President and CEO Beth Broadway said the agency has been settling refugees since 1990, and she hasn’t seen such low numbers in the time she’s been with the organization. Broadway said President Donald Trump’s executive order in January 2017 regarding refugee admittance has affected InterFaith Works as well. The order banned refugees from Syria, suspended the refugee program for 120 days and decreased the limit of incoming refugees from 110,000 per year to 50,000, per The New York Times. “Refugee organizations are, in a sense, being strangled due to travel

bans,” she said. Broadway said that by December 2016, 87 refugees were resettled in Syracuse by InterFaith Works. One year later, the organization saw a more than 90 percent reduction with only eight refugees. This has very real effects for those who benefit from InterFaith Works’ services, Broadway said. “Our organization works to reunify families,” she said. “We work to bring spouses and children here once (the arriving refugee) gets established, but due to the executive see refugees page 8

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boxing program Rock Steady Boxing in Liverpool. She was inspired by a segment on “60 Minutes” and decided this was a cause worth investing in. Riley personally funded the start-up of the program, paying for all the boxing equipment, heavy bags, speed bags and a reflex bag, among other necessary gear, out of pocket. She immediately recognized the positive effect boxing has on people diagnosed with Parkinson’s. The workouts provided not only a physical benefit, but also a social outlet for members as well – Parkinson’s can be very isolating, she said. “Parkinson’s doesn’t actually kill you. You have to live with it,” Riley said. “This is giving them encouragement, and it’s boxing, so they feel like they’re fighting against the disease.” Riley reassures members that if they’re tired, they can feel free to sit out to regain their breath. Newcomers are expected to take at least a month to get up to speed with their classmates. The gym provides members with an environment where Parkinson’s and its symptoms are inclusionary , not secluding. Falling without being punched isn’t abnormal during class. To remind people not to be embarrassed, a small sign hanging on the wall reads: “Falling down is a part of life, getting back up is living.” The boxers start warming up promptly 10 minutes before each class. They walk around the open room and shadowbox their imaginary opponent while waiting for everyone to arrive. Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the U.S.A.” begins to blast throughout the space as Riley outlines stretches and stations for the day. Even though attending boxing classes has helped Don better manage his symptoms, he and his wife, Sandy, are now considering deep brain stimulation, a surgery that involves implanting a neurological stimulator into the brain that reduces Parkinson’s symptoms. In Don’s case, the procedure would help loosen his muscles. The surgery, Don hopes, will also significantly reduce his medication intake. Throughout his diagnosis, Don says boxing is one medicine he can rely on. “It has given me a stronger core and better balance,” Don said. “I’m steadier on my feet. And the camaraderie is so important. There is a lot of support.” During the classes, Sandy, who makes the 45-minute drive to every class from their home

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in Oswego, sits off to the side of the room. The couple dated while attending Oswego High School and have been married for 44 years. She watches Don’s movements and cautions him to take it easy so he’s not as tired when he leaves. “You’re crazy,” Don joked during a class a few weeks ago. “I kept the same rhythm as Russ!” Sandy shook her head and smiled. “Why do I even try?” she chuckled to herself. Two weeks ago, Don’s doctor determined he was an ideal candidate for deep brain stimulation. Don said he’s not nervous for the surgery, scheduled for March 5. “Hopefully it will make me feel more like a normal person,” he said. In the meantime, his friends make him feel that way, if only for moments. Don’s boxing group includes 68-year-old Tom Kenah and 69-year-old Russ Harrold. Kenah, a yearlong member, sports a gray T-shirt that reads: “I am Rock Steady.” Harrold, a newcomer, wears a green T-shirt with bold lettering that reads: “My best friends are Parkies.” The news of his 2016 diagnosis shocked Kenah, who had no family history of Parkinson’s. Kenah, who ran in high school and college, said he couldn’t drive his car for six months after his diagnosis. “(Boxing) is the best way to deal with Parkinson’s,” Kenah said. “It’s the best medicine.” Because of the improvements in his condition since Rock Steady, Kenah recently purchased an 80-pound boxing bag and speed bag for the gym in his house. At the gym, Riley instructed the class to the floor for stretching. “Man, if I get down, I might not get back up,” Harrold said. Several of his classmates laughed and nodded in agreement. Effortless in lightening the mood, Harrold was quick to make friends with his classmates, including Don. The pair laugh loudly while waiting for instructions in between rotations. Rotations consist of several exercises from hitting the speed bag to boxer squats. Assistant coach Tom Cook, who joined Rock Steady after his father-in-law was diagnosed with Parkinson’s, helps keep the boxers going throughout the class. Cook’s voice rings out over the ‘80s ballads: “Boxing position, one, two, one, two, keep it loose.” “Everyone is tired and sweaty and out of breath when we’re done,” he said. “And that’s how we want it.”

refugees order we can’t bring them.” “Families are waiting — they’re scared,” she continued. “They can’t return to their own countries to visit. Families are still in danger, and this will continue.” Due to the small number of people arriving, InterFaith Works has had to adapt to these circumstances, Broadway said. The organization has shifted its focus from preparing for the arrival of refugees to increasing its efforts with those who are here now. Much of what they do now, Broadway said, focuses on navigating medical systems and helping refugees become citizens. The agency supplements funding from grants with donations. Brian Kam, co-founder of Thrive at SU, said the current political climate inspired the group to help refugees, which is why they teamed up with InterFaith Works last year. The first Thrive Together Fair raised more than $1,500 and was attended by many students and community

members, including the mayor of Syracuse. Khalid Khan, Thrive’s vice president, said this year’s fundraiser will feature “student organizations tabling at (the) event, representing the different backgrounds and cultures of our campus.” The fair will showcase foods and performances from cultures around the world. Olive Sephuma, director of the Center for New Americans at InterFaith Works, and graduate student Nada Odeh will speak at the event, sharing their experiences and discussing the organization. The fair will be held on Saturday, March 3 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in Goldstein Auditorium in the Schine Student Center. Tickets are available at the Schine Box Office for $7, with all proceeds going to InterFaith Works’ Center for New Americans. Broadway expressed gratitude to the community for its generous donations, fundraisers and volunteer work. She also said that despite the current circumstances, InterFaith Works is as dedicated to its mission as ever. “We are here, and we are not going away … we are committed to this work.” rtanweer@syr.edu

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Syracuse tries to continue late-season CHA success By Anthony Khelil staff writer

In five of the past nine seasons, Syracuse has finished with a winning record in its final six games. The Orange has not had a losing record in its last six games since the 2011-12 season when SU finished 1-5. To get a firstround bye in the College Hockey America tournament, Syracuse needs to continue that trend. This season, Syracuse (12-18-2, 11-6-1 CHA) began its final six-game stretch by sweeping Rochester Institute of Technology by a combined two-game score of 13-1. The Orange is currently 3-1 in the first four of its final six games after splitting with Lindenwood last weekend. SU wants to continue its historical success down the stretch in

arguably its most important series of the year this upcoming weekend against Robert Morris (18-7-4, 12-3-3), which sits at the top of the conference standings. The Orange is fighting for a bye in the CHA playoffs but is currently looking up at Robert Morris and Mercyhurst in the standings. In order for SU to get the bye it seeks, the Orange must secure a Top 2 seeding. Syracuse trails Mercyhurst by two points and RMU by four. With each win equaling two points and two games remaining, the Orange can still earn a bye. The Orange has reached the CHA final in each of Stephanie Grossi’s three previous seasons. Now a senior, Grossi said the final stretch of the season is “when the team comes together.” After struggling offensively at some points this season, Grossi said the Orange’s execution

on offense against RIT boosted confidence heading into the weekend of the season. Syracuse posted five goals in its most recent outing against Lindenwood. “The energy on the bench has been electric,” Grossi said. “We need to bring that into the next series.” SU junior defender Allie Munroe said the Orange “play with a little extra edge” by seasons end. She said she believes confidence and chemistry as a collective unit will be key during the CHA tournament and the offensive explosion a week ago against RIT was a good start. “We made a lot of nice plays, hopefully it will motivate everyone to score and keep passing the puck to get goals,” Munroe said. “Everyone on the ice was having fun.” The series against RIT provided the Orange with more than just two wins, SU head coach

Paul Flanagan said. Syracuse has failed to score a goal in eight games this season, but the Orange was able to net 13 against RIT on Feb. 9 and 10. Syracuse had three players — Ronnie Callahan, Allie Olnowich and Taylor Curtis — score their first career goals against the Tigers. Goalie Edith D’Astous-Moreau recorded her first career shutout. “The kids built on the positivity on the bench,” Flanagan said. The confidence the Orange picked up from its RIT wins is “contagious,” Flanagan said. It carried over somewhat into a split with Lindenwood on the road. Now, with just two conference games remaining, Flanagan knows what it takes to finish strong. “Having kids feel good about themselves and not second guessing themselves,” Flanagan said. amkhelil@syr.edu

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my academic situation they stopped contacting me,” Fox said. She and her father both said self-discipline was her academic problem in high school. Fox’s focus was all basketball, all the time. So as a mutual decision between her family and those at SU, Fox decided she needed the junior-college route to grow academically. SU head coach Quentin Hillsman had already been recruiting Fox before her low grades came to the forefront. Even after, his scholarship offer remained on the table. He had also heard good things about Mary Scovel, the head coach at Gulf Coast, and recommended that particular junior college to Fox, Harold said. The whole undertaking served as a wake-up call. “When she got to college,” Harold said, “… The green light hit.” Fox’s conviction that she would end up at Syracuse never wavered after arriving at Gulf Coast. Other schools recruited her throughout the two years, but she always made sure they knew that she was going to SU. “Even if we were being recruited by anyone else,” Harold said, “she was going back to Syracuse because (Hillsman) was so loyal to us.” The Orange also remained appealing to Fox with its performance while she bided her time in junior college. In her freshman year at GC, Syracuse went on a run to the national championship game. Fox watched every game with her teammates. “They were kind of upset because all the schools that were recruiting them, they got knocked out,” Fox said. “I was the only one standing, and they were kind of doubting (Syracuse), but I wasn’t, I knew (SU) was going to make it.” Grades were Fox’s first focus at Gulf Coast. Her goal when she picked the junior from page 12

hurff women’s lacrosse team. Hurff said she hopes it’s just another stepping stone toward her field hockey goals. “Her former high school coach was an old friend,” SU head coach Gary Gait said. “… She mentioned it when she was coming, you’ve got a really good lacrosse player that plays field hockey … Sure enough, we got that opportunity to have her.” Linda played college lacrosse herself at Delaware. She was a member of the secondever NCAA Division I women’s lacrosse national title team in 1983, her senior year. Syracuse field hockey head coach Ange Bradley, who played both lacrosse and field hockey at UD a few years after Linda graduated, was at that national championship game, Linda remembered. Bradley remembered Linda when Hurff first came to SU, Linda said. Because Linda had devoted much of her life to lacrosse, it was natural for Hurff to pick up a stick early in elementary school, trailing her mother to camps when she couldn’t be left at home. Hurff began playing club lacrosse soon thereafter. “She just pushed me to be the best that I could,” Hurff said, “and to be honest, without

college route was to “grow academically.” Looking back, she called GC a “great learning experience.” Harold said “either you put up or you shut up, and she put up.” Her grades rose drastically from high school, Harold said, raising her GPA above the 3.0 mark. And although Fox’s goals had everything to do with graduating from Gulf Coast and getting her grades to the level needed to play for Syracuse, her time on the basketball court worked out well there, too. In Fox’s two seasons at Gulf Coast, the Commodores won two NJCAA Division I national championships. Eight players from last year’s GC team went on to play at NCAA Division-I schools this season, including Fox. It was the grades that originally held her back. Two years later, overcoming her former obstacle propelled her to Syracuse. “It was our job to get her back,” Scovel said. “… She came to us and was on a mission to get to Syracuse.” Scovel accomplished that. She reminds her players that when they show up at a Division-I school, they’re juniors. There’s no time for her graduates to sit around at new schools. They’ve got to show up ready to go, and Fox did that at SU. In her first game on a team that returned one starter from last year, Fox played 20 minutes off the bench. She hasn’t started but has topped 14 minutes off the bench in half of the Orange’s 26 games. For Fox, finally getting to the stage she waited two years to arrive at was surreal. “The first game when we walked into the locker room and you see your last name on a jersey,” Fox said, “it kind of made me emotional because of everything I went through to get here, and it finally happened. Like hard work does actually pay off.” wmheyen@syr.edu | @wheyen3

my mom coaching me when I was little, I don’t know where I would have been.” In middle school, Linda was Hurff’s coach, meaning Hurff was never going to have a free pass. One gameday, Hurff went to the nurse’s office and her temperature was around 102 degrees. So Linda brought her daughter to her office in the school, had her sleep all day and made sure Hurff played well enough in the game’s first half that she could sit out the second.

She just pushed me to be the best that I could, and to be honest, without my mom coaching me when I was little, I don’t know where I would have been. Laura Hurff su defender

“If I told her to go through this wall,” Linda said, “she would have run through it.” In high school, Hurff played field hock-

RAVEN FOX couldn’t get into SU academically out of high school, so she spent two years at Gulf Coast State College to raise her grades. codie yan staff photographer

ey, basketball and lacrosse. Linda said she thinks her daughter could have played D-I lacrosse, and Hurff said the head coach at Delaware reached out about the possibility. But Hurff always wanted to play in the Olympics, and field hockey is in the Olympics, while lacrosse isn’t. Syracuse, which had turned into an NCAA tournament regular under Bradley, became the place for Hurff to use her speed. Though Hurff didn’t play her mother’s sport, she chose to wear the No. 14 that Linda wore at UD. By Hurff’s sophomore season, she had become the key cog at the heart of SU’s midfield, the year SU won its national title. She had reached the collegiate peak but was still chasing her Olympic dream. As a high schooler, Hurff spent time with the United States under-17 national team. The summer before her junior year, she played with the U.S. under-21 team. All that’s left to reach is the senior team. She’ll be away from Syracuse twice during the season, once for a camp later this week in Chula Vista, California, where the U.S. will take on Canada, and once over spring break. “My hope is that right after college, (U.S. head coach Janneke Schopman will) pull me up officially to the team, and we’re still waiting for that,” Hurff said. “I’m not gonna say that it’s definitely gonna happen because I

have no idea but that’s just what I’m hoping will happen.” When Hurff reached out to Gait after the field hockey season ended, first via email and then in his office, she wasn’t sure what to expect. She and Linda had spoken about using a graduate year to play lacrosse, but Hurff took the initiative to finish her senior year with the sport. She feels lacrosse aids her chances of field hockey success. As a defender in lacrosse, Hurff gets opportunities to catch up with attackers, get in front of them and turn them. It’s a skill she hopes will translate to field hockey. Hurff isn’t sure how much she’ll play for SU. Hurff told her mother to get to games early, Linda said, to make sure she can watch her daughter play during warmups. But for the Syracuse senior, it’s not about the playing time. It’s about a chance to further her field hockey career. And it’s coming full circle in the first sport Hurff ever played. Two years from now, in Tokyo, the U.S. field hockey team will be playing in the Olympics. Hurff said she hopes she’ll be there playing, in the sport she chose to reach that peak. “Her mindset is, ‘I’m going, mom. I’m going to be there,’” Linda said. wmheyen@syr.edu | @wheyen3

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Syracuse downs Cal Poly in Mary Nutter Classic, 4-2 By Kaci Wasilewski asst. copy editor

Syracuse (5-3) ended the Mary Nutter Classic in Palm Springs, California, with a 4-2 win over Cal Poly (4-6). The Orange entered Monday’s game off a 6-0 defeat by UCLA on Sunday night. AnnaMarie Gatti started in the circle for the Orange. She let up a single to start the game which would eventually turn into Cal Poly’s first run. Gatti allowed a second run before the Orange would get a chance to bat. She gave up five hits total and struck out two batters. After allowing two hits in the top of the second inning, Gatti was replaced by Alexa Romero, who would finish the final six innings with nine strikeouts, one walk and no hits allowed. It was Romero’s fourth win this season.

Freshman Gabby Teran was the first to cross home plate for SU. She started the bottom of the second with a home run to left field. It was her first collegiate home run. Teran had a perfect batting average in the game, recording hits all three times she batted. She also ended the game with a game-high two RBIs. Toni Martin also scored in the second inning, tying the game, 2-2. In the third inning, Bryce Holmgren scored to give the Orange the lead. A Teran single drove Holmgren home and gave SU the lead. In the sixth inning, Holmgren doubled to drive in the final run of the game. Alicia Hansen had walked and came around to score on the extra-base hit. The Orange will travel to Houston next weekend for the Houston Hilton Plaza Invitational where Syracuse will face UNLV, Houston, Yale and UTSA. klwasile@syr.edu

Syracuse beat Cal Poly in its final game of the Mary Nutter Classic. Gabby Teran led the team with three hits, including a home run. jordan phelps staff photographer from page 12

pittsburgh

TIANA MANGAKAHIA had 14 points, including six free-throws on six attempts, as well as five assists in a 62-53 win over Pittsburgh. codie yan staff photographer from page 12

drummond Ehrensbeck said. He said a few of his past D-I prospects had played for Philadelphia-based AAU teams and used that platform to get in front of more college coaches. Drummond, by choosing to play for local AAU programs, didn’t gain the same exposure. “She was in a Class C school, and I think sometimes people look past that a little bit because of their perception of the competitive level,” Crowley said. Drummond had her shining moments, though. She led Harpursville to three state final fours in four seasons. Ehrensbeck remembers one shot in particular.

I love running. I like the feeling of being able to run. For basketball, it’s the feeling of being able to run up and down the court without gasping for air. Miranda Drummond su forward

During Drummond’s junior year in the 2013 regional final, Cooperstown sank a big shot to tie the game. On the ensuing possession with under 20 seconds left, Harpursville broke out in transition and Drummond found herself open. She was 23 feet from the basket with no one impeding a path to the rim. She took the 3. “She buried it,” Ehrensbeck said. Harpursville didn’t surrender the lead after that and moved on to its second state final four in three years. Even with her postseason heroics, the bigger offers didn’t come. It didn’t matter to Drummond, who loved the coaching staff with the Bonnies and was happy to go to a school less than three hours from home. In her first season at St. Bonaventure, Drummond played limited minutes — Crowley

laughed and blamed that on “bad coaching.” Drummond’s sophomore season, she averaged more than 12 points per game and knocked down 59 3s, foreshadowing her role at SU. That season, the Bonnies had a gauntlet of games lined up in the nonconference schedule, playing Georgetown, James Madison, Buffalo and Penn State in the course of eight days. On the Friday before that stretch, SBU’s leading scorer, Katie Healy, got injured. Drummond averaged 16 points over the stretch, leading the Bonnies to four-straight wins. Crowley feels those wins were key in St. Bonaventure securing an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament that season. “She went to a whole (new) place, because she needed to,” Crowley said. In the 2016 NCAA Tournament, SBU won its first-round game before falling in the next round. The Bonnies’ brief appearance in the tournament was enough for Providence to be interested in Crowley and hire him away from SBU. Drummond, who had picked SBU in part because of Crowley’s reputation, wasn’t going to wait to see who was named the new head coach. She sought a new place to play. Greg Johnson, who coached Drummond in AAU, is friends with SU head coach Quentin Hillsman. Johnson did “all of” the transfer contacting, Drummond said. He connected her with Syracuse. Hillsman wants his team to get out and run and to shoot lots of 3s. Drummond checked the boxes. Drummond ran cross country in high school — she ran a 20:51 5K as a sophomore in sectionals before giving up the sport to focus on basketball — and her father, Vinny, even spent a year running track for the Orange. Drummond also shot more than 35 percent from beyond the 3-point arc in her sophomore year at St. Bonaventure. “I love running,” Drummond said. “I like the feeling of being able to run. For basketball, it’s the feeling of being able to run up and down the court without gasping for air.” When told she never looks tired on the court, Drummond was surprised. “Really? Maybe I’m good at hiding it,” she said. Once at Syracuse, Drummond had to sit out the mandatory year for transferring. She got up to speed before she had to play in any games. She learned by watching star perimeter scorers Alexis Peterson and Brittney Sykes.

the arc, and point guard Tiana Mangakahia tallied 14, notably going 6-for-6 from the charity stripe. Mangakahia added three rebounds, five assists and four steals. Coming off the bench, Isis Young helped spark SU’s offense, scoring 11 points while spelling backcourt running mates Mangakahia and shooting guard Gabrielle Cooper. “I was really happy that we got multiple players contributing,” Hillsman said. In lieu of poor shooting, the Orange found other ways to build an edge against the Panthers. Syracuse sank 17-of-19 attempts from the stripe. The Orange also bullied Pittsburgh on the glass, out-rebounding the Panthers 40-to-34 and five more offensive boards. “We did a good job on the defensive end,” By the time the curtain raised on Drummond’s first game with the Orange, she played even better than she had at St. Bonaventure. “It was bittersweet,” Drummond said of sitting out. “I wanted to play but it was nice taking that year to start to learn the plays and kind of get a headstart.” In each of her first 10 games with Syracuse, Drummond scored at least 13 points. That included a team-high 29 points against Northwestern. Her success at SU this season culminated on Jan. 7 against then-No. 11 Florida State, when Drummond put up 38 points, including three late 3s on an injured ankle to close out the game. Of late, Drummond’s scoring production has declined. Her average hadn’t increased in any game since the win against FSU until she scored 15 against Pittsburgh on Monday. In Syracuse’s upset of then-No. 17 Duke on Feb. 15, though, she may have found her shooting stroke again.

Hillsman said, “and made our free throws in the fourth quarter and really closed the game strong.” After Syracuse lost to then-No. 4 Louisville on Feb. 4, Hillsman stressed the importance of winning the last five games of the season to get to 10 conference wins. He cited 10 wins as being the mark where SU could feel supremely confident about its NCAA Tournament chances. Since that game, SU has won three straight, and is on pace to win its final five games. Hillsman said he thinks SU will win its final two games, so long as it plays tough defensively and can continue to be tough on the road when the Orange heads on the road to play North Carolina on Thursday night. “We’ve got to continue to do the things we’re doing well,” Hillsman said. aegraham@syr.edu | @A_E_Graham

Late in the second quarter, after missing her first four shots, Drummond knocked down a 3. Then she made her first 3-point attempt of the second half. Then, after using a pump fake and a stepback that she hadn’t utilized much, if at all, this season, she drained her third 3. “She obviously shoots the ball extremely well from the perimeter,” SU associate head coach Vonn Read said. “(She) stretches the floor, and so that was one of the reasons we recruited her.” In high school, Drummond was always early to practice and stayed after to get extra work in, Ehrensbeck said. At St. Bonaventure, Crowley found her in the gym at odd hours, as early as 7 a.m. on Sundays. She wasn’t recruited by Syracuse out of high school, but her success with the Orange isn’t a mistake. “I can say without hesitation that I would never, ever doubt or bet against Miranda Drummond,” Crowley said. wmheyen@syr.edu | @wheyen3

MIRANDA DRUMMOND spent two seasons at St. Bonaventure before she transferred to Syracuse after St, Bonaventure’s head coach left. codie yan staff photographer

Road trippin’

Finishing strong SU ice hockey finishes seasons strong. The team has two games to keep that true See page 9

Syracuse softball ended its road trip to California with a win on Monday morning. See page 11

S PORTS

Pricey seats Courtside seats in the Carrier Dome have been making SU a lot of money. See Wednesday’s paper

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women’s basketball

SU downs Pittsburgh, 62-53

Taking her

shot

By Andrew Graham sports editor

Behind Digna Strautmane’s big night, Syracuse won its thirdstraight game on Monday. “We did a really good job of getting the ball where she could score,” SU head coach Quentin Hillsman said, “and she succeeded.” Scoring 16 points and grabbing six rebounds to go along with two blocks, Strautmane led Syracuse (207, 8-6 Atlantic Coast) past Pittsburgh (10-17, 2-12), 62-53, in the Petersen Events Center. It’s the ninth-straight year that SU has won at least 20 games. The Orange featured a balanced attack with four players reaching double digits, despite shooting a rather dismal 33.9 percent from the field and 25.9 percent from 3. SU made up for the poor shooting by winning on the glass and getting to the free-throw line 10 more times than the Panthers.

Miranda Drummond thrives after move from St. Bonaventure

Women’s basketball

transfer series 2018

By Billy Heyen

asst. sports editor

hen-St. Bonaventure head coach Jim Crowley returned to Olean, New York, after a recruiting trip late one Thursday night in 2015. It was after 11 p.m., but he needed to stop by his office. As he walked through SBU’s athletic center, past Bob Lanier Court, he heard the sound of one basketball and one set of feet. Shooting around in the middle of a summer night was Miranda Drummond. “She probably doesn’t realize that I sat there for five minutes just watching her,” Crowley said, “thinking wow, this is a kid that’s got something going.” Drummond’s day-by-day, year-by-year improvements brought her from Harpursville (New York) High School to the Atlantic 10 and St. Bonaventure for two seasons and now to Syracuse (20-7, 8-6 Atlantic Coast). She wasn’t recruited by high-major schools but has proven to fit right in at SU in the ACC, ranking second on the team in scoring with 14.8 points per game while leading SU in made 3s. After sitting

out a year following her transfer, she’s started every game for the Orange as a redshirt junior. “I didn’t really know,” Drummond said of her role now at SU. “I was just working hard, obviously I was working to get the starting position but didn’t really know until that first game.” It didn’t always look like Drummond would have the shot to play in a high-major conference, though. She grew up in Harpursville, a small town near Binghamton, which had a population of 3,543 in 2016. Harpursville plays in the second-smallest classification size in New York. Hornets head coach Kurt Ehrensbeck said between college coaches focusing on recruiting AAU teams and the size of Harpursville, the only time his players really played in front of college coaches was in the final four of the state tournament. That’s one of the first times Crowley saw then-high school freshman Drummond, and from there he knew he wanted her to play for the Bonnies. On the AAU circuit, Drummond played for regional teams and didn’t join more nationally-oriented clubs, see drummond page 11

women’s basketball

I was really happy that we got multiple players contributing. Quentin Hillsman su head coach

“We just slowed the game down and did what we needed to do to win,” Hillsman said. Strautmane, who has seen an improvement in her outside shooting of late, did most of her damage on Monday in the paint. In the span of a few minutes in the third quarter, Strautmane put up seven points via an and-1 layup, getting fouled on a layup attempt and then dropping in a nifty underhand layup from beneath the hoop. Miranda Drummond chipped in 15 points, going 3-of-8 from behind see pittsburgh page 11

women’s lacrosse

Fox ups grades, finds role at SU Lacrosse helps Hurff chase Olympic dream By Billy Heyen

asst. sports editor

Raven Fox looked at her report card and saw an unfamiliar grade: a C. She was “distraught,” because it was her first C in four semesters at Gulf Coast State College. Fox ended up at GC in part because of too many low grades in high school. At FOX junior college, all her grades were higher than that C. This time, at least, the C wouldn’t hold her back from getting where she wanted to be. As a senior in high school, Fox had an offer to play at Syracuse. She knew it was the school she wanted to

attend, but her eligibility would have been in question because of a poor academic record. Fox took a twoyear detour to Gulf Coast before finding her way back to Syracuse (20-7, 8-6 Atlantic Coast), where she plays a key role as an undersized frontcourt player off SU’s bench. She played a season-high 25 minutes in the Orange’s upset of then-No. 17 Duke last Thursday. “I just wanted to go straight to a D-I school, and I couldn’t do that because I had to get my academics right first,” Fox said. The goal had been Division I basketball for much of Fox’s life. Her grandfather, Harold Fox Sr., played a year in the NBA in the 1970s. Her brother, Devin Sweeney, played at St. Francis (Pennsylvania) before finding professional action overseas. It was no surprise to Harold Fox,

Jr., her father, when she started to dribble a basketball at 4 and specifically wanted to learn the game from him by the time she was 5. When Fox asked her father, Harold, to teach her the game, he knew he had to show her “the right way” to play. So, he taught her solid basketball fundamentals. He got on her case when she traveled, even as a 5-year-old. He played Fox up an age group during AAU, putting her up against 11 year olds when she was 8. The early coaching and basketball bloodlines began to pay off in seventh grade, when Fox started receiving letters from colleges. By high school, the recruiting had become “intense,” Harold said. That changed when schools looked at Fox’s grades. “After (schools) found out about see fox page 9

By Billy Heyen

asst. sports editor

One day in third grade, Laura Hurff was “it” in a game of tag. After less than two minutes, Hur f f had tagged everyone. She came up to her teacher, who happened to be her mother, Linda, HURFF and asked, “What’s next?” Linda remembered making sure not to make her daughter “it” again so the game would last longer.

“That’s probably her biggest asset,” Linda said. “Her speed. She’s used it. I’ve always said she’s been given a God-given talent and that’s what you need to do, use it.” That speed helped Hurff become a three-time All-American in field hockey at Syracuse. She was part of the first women’s national championship at SU as a member of the 2015 field hockey team. She hopes to continue her field hockey career as an Olympian for the United States. For now, in her last semester as an undergraduate, she’s returned to her first sport, lacrosse, as a defender for the Orange (2-0) see hurff page 9