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N • Talking drones
Vijay Kumar, a roboticist and professor at the University of Pennsylvania, discussed the emerging drone industry on Tuesday in Hendricks Chapel. Page 3
O • Heading home
Student Life columnist Rashika Jaipuriar dismisses the stigma against recent college graduates who move in with their parents instead of finding their own space. Page 5
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IN THE PAINT
Discovery Program students spent the first semester of their freshman year halfway across the world from University Hill. Now, they’re getting settled on Main Campus. Page 7
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SUNY-ESF faculty demand clarity on policies
on campus
Director named for LGBT hub By Sam Ogozalek news editor
Academic Governance, SUNY-ESF’s faculty governing body, passed multiple resolutions Tuesday in response to the college’s controversial decision to remove three department chairs before the semester started. alexandra moreo senior staff photographer
Faculty governing body votes for campus visitation amid rising tensions By Haley Kim
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SUNY-ESF’s Academic Governance body on Tuesday passed two resolutions in response to the university administration’s controversial decision to remove three department chairs just before the start of the semester. The governance body also announced that they passed a vote for a campus visitation from the SUNY University Faculty Senate. According to the University Faculty Senate governance handbook, visitation committees are created by the SUNY system’s governing body in the event of a “serious, prolonged conflict about faculty governance.”
The committee would visit the campus and write a report that may include recommendations to deal with on-campus conflicts. The meeting raised numerous points of contention against the SUNY-ESF administration, and the Academic Governance body passed three resolutions Tuesday: a request for clarification on the Pursuit of Excellence, a major academic plan; a request for the procedures for selecting new department chairs be followed; and a request for a reception to thank the three removed department chairs for their work. The wording for the title of the resolution about department chair procedures was changed slightly to reflect
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on campus
Advisory board works to expand academic space By Sam Ogozalek news editor
Syracuse University is starting to move administrative units, including the division of marketing and communications, to off-campus sites to free up more space for academic programs on Main Campus. About a year after its first meeting, the Campus Facilities Advisory Board has focused on making sure about thousands of square feet of the Women’s Building is available for schools and colleges to use as possible academic space, among other things, said Cathryn Newton,
a member of the board. The Campus Facilities Advisory Board is tasked with evaluating the Campus Framework, a major 20-year infrastructure plan that will fundamentally change the layout of some areas of SU. “It’s up to colleges to identify the space in which they might be most interested in putting a proposal together,” said Newton, special adviser to Chancellor Kent Syverud and Vice Chancellor and Provost Michele Wheatly on faculty engagement. As part of the Campus Framework’s second draft, released in
May 2017, the university aims to transition administrative and other service functions “that do not directly support students” to other areas of the university, “to make room for academic programs and units.” Pete Sala, the university’s vice president and chief facilities officer, said SU is just starting to move the department of marketing and communications out of the Women’s Building to the second floor of the Warehouse, in downtown Syracuse. SU’s Advancement and External Affairs is also in the process of being moved out of the Women’s Building
to the Skytop Office Building, a section of South Campus, Sala said. Moving forward, Sala said the advisory board will consider proposals from deans of schools and colleges for using the new space being opened up at the Women’s Building. As of Monday, Sala said only one proposal has been received by the advisory board. That proposal was for the health and exercise science program, Sala said, which is housed in the School of Education. The chief facilities officer added see board page 6
Syracuse University announced on Tuesday evening that khristian kemp-delisser has been appointed as the LGBT Resource Center’s permanent director. kemp-delisser, who’s currently Colgate University’s assistant dean and director of LGBTQ initiatives, will start KEMP-DELISSER their appointment at SU on April 2. The LGBT Resource Center has been without a permanent director since early November, when then-director Tiffany Gray left her position at SU for a new job with West Chester University’s LGBTQA Services. Rob Pusch, a former member of the University Senate’s Committee on LGBT Concerns, was appointed as the center’s interim director in the fall. “It is all coming full circle as this was the community that launched me, and now, is welcoming me back to lead the LGBT Resource Center,” said kemp-delisser, in a press release Tuesday evening. kemp-delisser graduated from SU in 2001 and was on campus when the LGBT center was established. kemp-delisser earned a doctorate in educational leadership and policy studies and a master’s in higher education and student affairs administration from the University of Vermont, Burlington. Two open forums were held by SU earlier this semester for both kemp-delisser and Samuel Neil Bryd, another candidate for the permanent LGBT Resource Center director position. kemp-delisser, during their forum in Crouse-Hinds Hall, presented strategies they used at Colgate, including a “leave-themalone” technique they described as allowing LGBTQ people of color to create their own spaces. “I’ve been in a dual-multiplicity space,” kemp-delisser said at the time. “It comes out linking my salient identities as a gay man. I came out when I came to college … jumped into pride union. And I had a lot to learn about my racial and ethnic identity.” During their time at Colgate, kemp-delisser helped develop the Gender Pronoun Service. They also helped increase gender-inclusive restrooms, supported peer-to-peer sexual assault prevention education initiatives and strengthened programs for the LGBTQ and ally communities at Colgate, according to an SU press release. sfogozal@syr.edu | @Sam13783
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Budget report A University Senate budget report notes funding concerns at the Slutzker Center. See Thursday’s paper
Katko protest A rally will be held Wednesday afternoon in Syracuse to protest Rep. John Katko (R-Camillus). See Thursday’s paper
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state news Here is a roundup of the biggest news happening in New York right now. GUILTY PLEAD
A Syracuse man pleaded guilty to threatening Rep. John Katko (R-Camillus) over a voicemail message. The man threatened Katko over net neutrality, saying he would kill him and his family if he voted to repeal net neutrality. The man is expected to be sentenced in June and faces up to five years in prison. source: local syr
TEMPERATURE RECORD
Syracuse broke a record for the highest temperature on Tuesday. The city had a high of 68 degrees Fahrenheit, breaking the previous record of 65 set in 1930. The highest temperature in February in Syracuse was set last year at 71 degrees. source: syracuse.com
WEGMANS APOLOGY
VIJAY KUMAR, a drone expert who spoke Tuesday night during Syracuse University’s first University Lectures series event of the semester, said drones have issues when navigating cluttered environments such as forests. molly gibbs asst. photo editor
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Roboticist talks drone research in 1st lecture By Kennedy Rose asst. news editor
Vijay Kumar, a roboticist and drone expert, talked about the recent challenges of working on drones and unmanned aerial vehicles during this spring semester’s first installment of the University Lectures series. Kumar is a professor of engineering, mechanics and computer science at the University of Pennsylvania and an expert in robotics and drone technology. He has taught at UPenn since 1987 and leads a drone lab there. More than 100 people attended his lecture in Hendricks Chapel on Tuesday night. The audience gasped at videos of drones that were, literally, programmed to jump through hoops. No actual drones were brought to the lecture.
Gurdip Singh, associate dean for research in the College of Engineering and Computer Science, introduced Kumar as an accomplished roboticist. “His lab is phenomenal,” Singh said. “If anyone can do anything with robotics, it’s Vijay Kumar.” The number of unmanned aerial vehicles has grown exponentially since the 1980s, Kumar said. They have been used in agricultural and the military industries, he said. The drone industry’s revenue grew by 36 percent in 2016, according to Business Insider. “Our focus, as we think about where we want to get, is to make vehicles smaller, safer, smarter and then make them faster,” Kumar said. The more autonomy a drone has, the larger it must be, he said. More
autonomous drones require more sensors and parts, he said, and must be bigger.
Our focus, as we think about where we want to get, is to make vehicles smaller, safer, smarter and then make them faster. VIJAY KUMAR
roboticist and drone expert
Kumar mentioned a drone his lab is working on named “The Fal-
con,” which can travel at speeds of 20 mph indoors. In the future, drones can be used for search and rescue missions and crop monitoring through “precision farming.” Drones, though, have issues when it comes to navigating cluttered environments, Kumar said. But those issues can be remedied by laser depth perception and cameras. Cluttered environments can include a simple drone navigating a forest, he said. “What we’re trying to do is to find safe trajectories … that minimize time as I go from one position to another,” Kumar said. Kumar and his team have programmed drones to learn and adapt so they can navigate new environments without GPS.
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Organization to hold protests against Katko By Charlie Sawyer staff writer
Swingleft.org, a left-leaning nonprofit organization concerned with flipping seats in the House of Representatives from Republican to Democrat, will be hosting a series of protests this week outside Rep. John Katko’s (R-Camillus) office in Syracuse. These protests come after a demonstration on Feb. 15 against Katko’s connections to the National Rifle Association in the wake of last week’s school shooting in Parkland, Florida. William Happy, a representative of swingleft.org who works in New York’s 19th, 22nd and 24th congressional districts, said protests on
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Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday will each cover different issues. Tuesday will focus on the protection of DREAMers, Wednesday will address gun control and Thursday will cover the investigation into possible Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. Happy said the week of protests will culminate in a march from Katko’s office on South Warren Street to the James M. Hanley Federal Building on South Clinton Street to demonstrate against the congressman. “I think what a lot of people have a problem with and why people are so angry is because John Katko has billed himself as a moderate, but he votes with the Trump administration over 90 percent of the time,” Happy said.
According to statistics website FiveThirtyEight, Katko’s votes align with President Donald Trump’s agenda 91 percent of the time, while before Trump’s inauguration he was expected to align with it only 57.5 percent of the time. But Happy said he’s optimistic, based on what he’s seen since he started working in New York’s 24th congressional district, which contains Syracuse. “We had a protest last Thursday at his office about gun control and we got some good press for that,” he said. “It’s difficult to organize people last second, we had just thought of the idea for that morning. But we were able to get about a dozen people out there with some good signs, and the energy is definitely real.”
He added that he’s been organizing a weekly protest, which in the past three weeks has grown to involve about 35 people at the Wegmans in DeWitt. He said he hopes the weekly protest will grow and involve more people from the Syracuse community. Happy added that he hopes the swingleft.org protests are similar to frequent protests in areas such as California’s 49th congressional district. Congress is on recess right now, and Happy said he expects Katko to be present at his office this week. Happy said he heard rumors that he is not going to be there, but the protests will be happening regardless. cesawyer@syr.edu
NAVY CONTRACT
The United States Navy selected Lockheed Martin’s plant in Syracuse for a contract to build two sonar systems and equipment for naval ships. The contract is valued at $51 million, but is an addition to a pre-existing project — totaling the company’s naval contract value at nearly $152 million. source: syracuse.com
NIGHTLIFE MAYOR
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has yet to select a “nightlife mayor,” or a city official who would be the contact between city agencies, nightlife industry and city residents. De Blasio announced the creation of the position in September. source: new york post
HUDSON POLLUTION
High levels of caffeine and pharmaceuticals were found in a stretch of the Hudson River near Albany, a study found. There were also high levels of artificial sweeteners and medication for blood pressure, ulcers, heartburn and pain relief in the water. source: new york upstate
DENTIST SENTENCED
A Syracuse dentist was sentenced to six months in jail after he struck a 15-year-old boy with his car. The dentist pleaded guilty to vehicular assault and driving drunk on Valentine’s Day, when he struck the teenager. The teen sustained serious injuries. source: syracuse.com
LIBERAL COLLEGES
Nine central New York colleges made a list of the most liberal colleges in upstate New York. SUNY Cortland ranked 47th, Cornell University ranked 23rd, Syracuse University ranked 13th and Ithaca College topped the list, ranking 11th. The most liberal college was SUNY Purchase College. source: syracuse.com
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Governor announces funding for early voting in New York By Carolina Espinal contributing writer
New York state Gov. Andrew Cuomo last week announced a 30-day budget amendment to fund early voting across the state. The effort is part of the Democracy Agenda, a project proposed to reform the political process and increase transparency. Cuomo’s proposal will allocate $7 million to the Fiscal Year 2019 Executive Budget, an incentive for counties in New York to offer early voting 12 days before Election Day, giving voters eight hours on weekdays and five hours on weekends to cast their ballots. As part of the legislation, every county will have one early voting poll site for every 50,000 residents. In the United States, 37 states and from page 1
suny-esf forward procedures and the lack of existing procedures in some departments. The votes signaled continued tensions between faculty and university administration. Of the 171 voting Academic Governance members, 84 percent voted for visitation, 16 percent were opposed and seven people did not vote. Kelley Donaghy, an associate professor of chemistry and current SUNY senator, said a campus governance leader and the campus president must write a joint letter to request a campus visitation. “If that does not happen, yes we can inform the University Faculty Senate, but this does not have to go any further than this,” Donaghy said. Klaus Delle, Academic Governance’s executive chair, said he was in favor of writing the letter. But Provost Nosa Egiebor confirmed that President Quentin Wheeler, who was not present at the meeting, was not in favor of writing the letter. Discussion ended with a motion to have Donaghy present the results of the vote to UFS,
the District of Columbia currently allow early voting. New York is one of 13 states that did not, before the amendment. An American Journal of Political Science study conducted by political scientists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison found that early voting decreased the likelihood of voter turnout by 3 to 4 percent, while Election Day registration increased the probability of voter turnout by the same percentage. “The stimulus that Election Day provides by giving people information, imposing social pressure to encourage them to vote, giving them social rewards from seeing neighbors and friends at a polling place — all the things that happen on a traditional Election Day — tend to be diluted,” said Barry Burden, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-
Madison, who worked on the AJPS study. Christopher Faricy, associate professor of political science at Syracuse University, said in an email that voter turnout is caused by a variety of factors that are not necessarily limited to state laws. “A state may make it easier to vote but that doesn’t mean more people will vote,” Faricy said. Some worry, though, that because campaigns and media coverage increase in intensity as Election Day gets closer, people will vote with different information, Burden said. Burden added that the allocation of early votes in cases where candidates withdraw or die before the election vary in different states. In some states, voters can cast new ballots. Other states also allow the votes to be reallocated to a nominee.
For nonprofit organizations specializing in voting reform, such as Vote.org, making voting more convenient and accessible is necessary for increased voter turnout. Strategies such as “get out the vote” campaigns can also help bump up the number of voters. “Early voting is a common-sense improvement to the voting process in the United States,” said Debra Cleaver, CEO of Vote.org. Onida Coward Mayers — director of voter assistance for the New York City Campaign Finance Board — said in New York, groups are trying to “build back our culture of voting.” “It is what is at the foundation of what it means to be an American and it’s at the foundation of what our democracy means,” Coward said.
regardless if the letter is actually written. This is not the first time Academic Governance has suggested a campus visitation vote. In 2015, President Wheeler, SUNY Provost Alexander Cartwright, UFS President Pete Knuepfer and then-Academic Governance chair Donaghy discussed a campus visitation, Donaghy said in an email. The provost negotiated to have outside consultants mediate instead, but that never happened because it was cost prohibitive, Donaghy said. The body also discussed a recommendation from the Academic Governance Executive Committee body to oust its executive chair. The committee received two complaints against Doelle on Friday — one internal to the committee and one from an external faculty member, according to an email obtained by The Daily Orange. The committee, a subsection of the full Academic Governance body, met on Friday and recommended Doelle be removed, according to an email sent by Academic Governance executive committee members to Doelle, which was obtained by The D.O. Academic Governance passed a motion to
reschedule a closed officer removal session to next Tuesday. Only voting Academic Governance members can attend. The three resolutions passed Tuesday come after weeks of tension in response to the abrupt removal of three department chairs. The Undergraduate Student Association passed a resolution calling for clarification on major academic strategic plans and increased communication from the administration. Wheeler responded to the USA resolution last Thursday, and said the administration is working on sending regular executive communications and and publishing online updates for the Pursuit of Excellence Plan. SUNY-ESF’s Board of Trustees also said at its meeting last Wednesday that it would more closely scrutinize the administration’s actions in wake of the December Academic Governance and January USA resolutions. The motions passed are part of a string of critical resolutions SUNY-ESF faculty have been discussing. The SUNY-ESF faculty chapter of United University Professions are voting on two resolutions: one requesting Wheeler’s con-
tract not be renewed and the other requesting the UUP State Chapter union review the financial situation at SUNY-ESF. The two resolutions are being voted on paper, with the ballot count to occur on March 1, according to an email to UUP faculty members, obtained by The D.O. The turmoil follows previous conflict between SUNY-ESF faculty and administration in recent years. In November 2016, SUNY-ESF faculty passed a vote of no confidence for Wheeler, expressing frustration in the president’s leadership style and citing a climate of fear. While Wheeler was not at the Tuesday Academic Governance meeting, Egiebor said it was normal to have “vigorous” arguments among faculty and administration. He said he was surprised by the “vitriol” seen on campus in the forms of social media and in person confrontations. “My appeal is that, although we have serious differences, just like our students have asked us to reconcile, to at least treat each other with civility,” Egiebor said.
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dailyorange.com @dailyorange feb. 21, 2018 • PAG E 5
student life column
Living at home post-grad isn’t shameful
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om, Dad, don’t turn my old bedroom into a new office or gym
just yet. Living at home after 18 has always had its negative perceptions in American society. Just watch “Stepbrothers” if you have any doubts. The old norm is that once you’re an adult, you’re on your own. Moving back into a parent’s basement has been treated with shame and as an absolute last resort for students tying up loose ends ahead of commencement in May. But that stigma could be changing. A 2017 report by the Pew Research Center found that more young adults are living at home — and for longer periods of time. In 2016, 15 percent of people ages 25-35 were living in their parents’ home. This is a jump from 2000, when that number was about 10 percent. The report explains this changing trend could be influenced by various factors, including “success in the labor market, the cost of living independently, and debt obligations.” It’s a good sign for our generation. If more people are living at home after college, it’ll become more culturally accepted, and perhaps encouraged. Living at home can help us with our financial burdens, especially when we’re already grappling with rising rent costs and living
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SO HIP, SO COOL, SO COLLEGE expenses, and of course the price of avocados. There are also cultural benefits. Living at home has the potential to strengthen familial relationships, especially since Western countries like the United States tend to be more individualistic than Eastern cultures. Since living at home is often a financially viable — and sometimes better — option than living independently, it’s difficult to pin down where the stigma comes from. This mindset could trickle down from previous generations, but Sara Burke, an assistant professor of psychology at Syracuse University, said our biases toward others stem from our own uneasiness. “I can imagine that some people’s reaction to partially judge young people who live with their parents … whether they know it or not, some of what they’re feeling may reflect a sense that the world is changing and a discomfort with that,” Burke said. Maybe it’s the frightening reality of changing job markets and financial conditions, or even just the demographic changes in the U.S. But whatever the
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reasons behind our discomfort, it’s not fair to judge other young adults for decisions in their personal lives, or subject them to invalid stereotypes about their “level of success.” “In our broader culture, some people view living with your parents in your 20s as an indication that you’re not working hard enough to live independently,” Burke said. “That is a larger constellation of classist attitudes that are potentially very damaging.” Burke added that living with one’s parents is a “perfectly valid strategy.” And it is — it’s one of many valid strategies. Everyone has different rules for living their lives, and although we often abide by unspoken societal norms, there should be no pressure or judgment in going against the “majority” way. This isn’t to say everyone should, or should want to, move back home immediately after graduation. Surely there’s some sense of satisfaction in moving into your own apartment. But the growing number of young adults living at home could normalize that choice, and make it more generally respected, as it should be.
Rashika Jaipuriar is a junior broadcast and digital journalism and civic engagement dual major. Her column appears biweekly. She can be reached at rjaipuri@syr.edu and followed on Twitter @rashikajpr.
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environment column
New York state’s delay on curbing plastic bag usage is disappointing
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e’ve seen it all: proposed bans, fees and incentives to curb plastic bag usage. But one year after New York state Gov. Andrew Cuomo created a specialized task force, we still haven’t seen action. Last February, Cuomo blocked a New York City law that would have put a 5-cent fee on all carryout bags at stores. Cuomo then vowed to take “bold action” and created a state Plastic Bag Task Force. The team recently released a report on eight potential policy packages to reduce production and consumption of plastic bags. New York state already has a program in place to educate
consumers about alternatives to plastic bag use, but this report is another reminder that Cuomo is dragging his feet on an important measure. Sarah Pralle, an associate professor of political science in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University, said consumers will need a stronger incentive to give up plastic bags than education alone can provide. “Using plastic bags is far too convenient. We need policies that discourage consumers from using plastic bags and that encourage them to bring their own bags,” she said. Evidence from countries
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Pralle recommends making reusable bags free to consumers, especially low-income people. This idea makes sense. And while there may be an initial expense of providing consumers with reusable bags, this cost would decline as people adjusted. The environmental cost of plastic bag use also would drop, and that’s the real goal. Until then, we’ll have to hope and vote for a choice that motivates consumers and politicians to put down the plastic and protect the environment before their personal convenience.
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board that, in the future, the advisory board will study individual Academic Strategic Plans from schools and colleges to determine what units need additional space on campus. Those individual plans have all been drafted, Syverud said in his January speech to the campus community. As part of the chancellor’s broader Academic Strategic Plan — which outlines SU’s long-term academic goals — each school and college has to submit its own unique plan. The College of Engineering and Computer Science, for example, has aligned its own master planning document with the Academic Strategic Plan. That plan aims to increase the college’s physical space by 40 percent to 230,000 square feet. “By and large, the vast majority of the university will complete strategic planning this summer,” Syverud said at the time. “It is therefore time that we start moving faster from reaction and planning, to proactive implementation of our strategies.” Newton added that she expects more officials to consider using the space that will be opened by the movement of administrative units. “I think it’s fair to say that, in the months ahead, we’re likely to see more proposals,” Newton said of schools and colleges requesting to use new space opened up in the Women’s Building. sfogozal@syr.edu | @Sam13783
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kumar Drones at Kumar’s lab can identify obstacles on their own and have “situational awareness,” both indoors and outdoors. He said he’s excited about artificial intelligence, and has integrated deep learning into drones for activities such as fruit counting on farms. He said he doesn’t know, though, if machines are becoming smarter or more autonomous. While machines can crunch
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numbers and make complex calculations faster, it does not mean they are more autonomous or “smarter,” he said. His lab also developed a 250-gram drone that can be operated with hardware less complicated than that of an older smartphone. Trends in drone technology are pointing to smaller vehicles, he said. “If there’s one thing we know, humans will not want to carry heavy expensive things in their back pocket,” Kumar said. Groups of these smaller drones pro-
grammed together act as “swarms,” navigating together as a kind of body, Kumar said. “Part of this is just waiting for technology to evolve and for consumer habits to drive the technology,” Kumar said. Answering an audience question, Kumar said a lot of drones’ commercialization is driven by people wanting to take “glorified selfies,” but camera drones are also being used to aid with water conservation on farms. Kumar is the recipient of many awards — including the 1991 National Science Founda-
tion Young Investigator award; the 1997 Freudenstein Award for his work in mechanisms and robotics; the 2013 Popular Mechanics Breakthrough award and the 2017 IEEE Robotics and Automation Society George Saridis Leadership Award in Robotics and Automation. Other University Lectures speakers include Maureen Dowd on April 13 and Rick Fedrizzi on April 24. Dowd is an award-winning journalist, and Fedrizzi is a Syracuse University alumnus and environmentalist. krose100@syr.edu | @KennedyWrites
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hen she filled out an application to study at Syracuse University, Lillian Tsegaye clicked a box on the screen indicating she’d like to study abroad. What she didn’t realize was that she’d do so in just a matter of months. The Boston native, who grew up in Ethiopia, is one of 50 students who spent the fall semester of their freshman year at one of three SU Abroad centers through the Discovery Program. First-semester students like Tsegaye took advantage of the opportunity to study introductory courses at centers in Florence, Italy; Strasbourg, France; and Madrid, Spain. After starting their undergraduate experience halfway across the world, the Discovery students arrived at University Hill at the start of the spring semester. A majority of their peers acclimated to SU’s academic standards and the central New York weather last fall. Now, a month into the semester with midterms on the horizon, these students find themselves experiencing culture shock all over again. When Tsegaye, an international relations major, received an acceptance letter indicating she qualified for
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There were times Rob Bundy would rather watch paint dry than finish seeing a production of Anton Chekhov’s work, but the acting instructor still wanted to bring the Russian playwright’s work to Syracuse. Bundy, who works in Syracuse University’s Department of Drama, searched for the perfect translation of Chekhov’s “The Seagull” to produce with a college-aged cast. After reading five versions, he knew he wanted to produce the play as a comedy, the way Chekhov had intended. Despite Chekhov productions being notoriously difficult to liven up, “The Seagull” will come to the
Syracuse Stage/Department of Drama Complex on Friday. The play’s cast and crew said they’re bringing the 19th-century piece to life to broaden the horizons of both student actors and the public. SU drama faculty made the decision to produce a Chekhov play last year, and initial auditions were held in October. Bundy, who is directing the play, said production decisions are made to challenge student actors with periods and styles they haven’t performed before. “Chekhov introduced into the world of theater a very new way to write plays and to act in them,” Bundy said. “When Chekhov started writing plays, he said, ‘No, I’m not going to write plays about kings fall-
ing from great heights of fame and to destitute. I’m going to write about just people.’” “The Seagull” features a cast of 13, each with the same desires, fears, frustrations, hopes and loves a modern audience can relate to, Bundy said, despite having premiered in 1896 in St. Petersburg, Russia. When producing a Chekhov play, it’s difficult to avoid what Bundy calls the “Chekhov melees”: periods when characters on stage mope around, proclaiming their boredom. “The biggest challenge is to think that just because nothing happens doesn’t mean that it’s boring,” Bundy said. “There’s all kinds of detail in terms of emotions and see seagull page 8
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Justyna Badach, refugee, Philadelphia-based artist and museum professional, has brought her work to Syracuse. Badach’s “Land of Epic Battles” solo exhibition, on display now at Light Work, explores the hyper-masculine BADACH world of Islamic State group recruitment videos and
exposes the futility of war. Being able to create art about violence and masculinity is important to Badach, both as a woman and as an immigrant. “Land of Epic Battles” is a series of large, handmade dichromate prints composed using film stills from IS training videos, according to Light Work’s website. The prints went on display in January and can be seen through March 2 at the Light Work Gallery on Waverly Avenue. Badach was born in the former Soviet Union and is of Polish see badach page 9
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discovery a grant to participate in the Florence program, she was hesitant to go. She liked to travel. She spent a year of high school in South Africa. But she wanted to assimilate to Syracuse quickly. Her parents pushed back: This is a once-ina-lifetime experience. Go. She eventually decided that being in a new environment with no concrete foundation would help her learn to operate on her own. “I feel like it brings out the immediate reality that you’re no longer a child living under dependency ... you’re an adult,” Tsegaye said. “Going to Florence for me really helped me establish that.” While abroad, students in the program take mandatory courses to help them adjust to life in their respective country. These include introductory liberal arts courses, courses relevant to their new environment and electives. They live with host families, and many visit neighboring countries. As she transitions to college life in the United States, Tsegaye said the SU environment is more academically driven than what she experienced in Italy. “I used to call Florence (a) paid vacation because we didn’t do as much work but we had the same amount of credits, and it was more of a lax environment,” she said. “Whereas here you don’t get to go out as often, and the weather really does put a damper on a lot of things.” Sierra Mortimer, a freshman biology major from Ephrata, Pennsylvania, also spent her first semester in Florence. Mortimer’s mother, Melissa, said she encouraged her daughter to take advantage of the abroad program because it fosters independence and maturity. Mortimer is now taking five classes, including one on Friday. She’s not used to Friday classes, as she didn’t have any in Italy. “It’s getting better every week,” Mortimer said of her adjustment to SU. “The first week was very disorienting ... being in a class, a bunch of classes all week long was hard.” Making friends, Mortimer said, is also harder at SU. The classes are bigger than those in Florence, and students typically leave as soon as professors dismiss the class, leaving no time to interact with classmates afterward. Tsegaye said her first experience entering a large lecture hall with dozens of students was daunting. “Those smaller classes over in Florence
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definitely made it easier to participate, which is kind of where I lack in some of my others classes (on the SU campus),” Mortimer said. “When they are so big and there are so many people I don’t know, it’s just like, ‘No, it’s OK, you guys can talk. I’ll just sit back and listen.’” The average size of a Discovery Program class is 14-20 students per location, said Lou Lou Delmarsh, an academic adviser for the College of Arts and Sciences. Delmarsh has been working with the Discovery students since the fall 2017 semester. After the Discovery students return from abroad, Delmarsh and other administrators make efforts to keep the group close. The first weekend of this semester, the Office of First Year and Transfer Programs organized a lunch event for returning and past program participants. Last week, Delmarsh organized a Valentine’s Day pizza party for Discovery students and program alumni. Liliana Schoenke, a sophomore selected studies in education major from Los Angeles, participated in the Florence program last year. She said she’s been able to make valuable connections thanks to her involvement with the Discovery program. She met a program alumna who introduced her to First Year Players — a performance group for freshmen not studying drama — at a lunch event for Discovery students. The alumna, Katie Conti, suggested Schoenke and a friend audition for FYP. Both got into the program, and now they’re roommates. Schoenke was elated during her first few weeks on campus, she said. But she wasn’t used to the cold weather, and she found herself frustrated that she couldn’t relate to her freshman peers. There wasn’t any common ground since she’d been in Italy for a semester and they hadn’t studied abroad. Still, Delmarsh has high hopes for this group in and out of the classroom. She said their decision to study abroad their first semester demonstrates the courage Discovery students possess, and she’s confident this courage will help them adjust to SU’s Main Campus now. “I love that students are worldly, multilingual ... that they are brave, outgoing and willing to meet and make new friends,” Delmarsh said. “They’ve done so well over there. And I know they are going to do well over here.”
seagull behavior and these kind of intersecting plots.” Carly Caviglia, a sophomore musical theater major who will play the character Másha, said Chekhov is “a monster of its own.” When Caviglia initially read the script, she said she was preparing herself to play a depressed, hopelessly-in-love addict of a character. But instead, the production will portray Másha in a hopeful light. “She’s a fighter,” Caviglia said. “And she’s trying to be better, even though she can’t.” Rupert Krueger, a junior acting major, will take the stage as Yevgény Sergéyevich Dorn. He called “The Seagull” one of the founding pieces of Western theater literature, and Chekhov one of the founders of modern theater. He said it’s been a challenge for him to find where Dorn fits in with the rest of the char-
acters. In this particular production, Dorn is someone who’s “watching life in front of him from a distance.” Still, Krueger finds a kindred spirit in Dorn. “Dorn is very similar to me,” Krueger said. “We both enjoy others’ company and we enjoy being around friends, but we’re not the best at actually speaking ourselves.” The play brings out deep, troubling subjects, but Krueger said he and the cast have been trying to keep the show light. “It’s these people living their lives, and even though there’s a lot going on in their heads, they still joke and they still want to have fun,” Caviglia said. “My favorite word for it is hope. We always say like, play the positive, find the hope. Because that’s what people do to survive.” “The Seagull” will run from Friday to March 4. Tickets are available at the Syracuse Stage/SU Drama Complex box office or online. akharfor@syr.edu | @aliharford
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CHAPPELL ROAN will perform in Syracuse on Sunday. The 20-year-old musician will play music from her upcoming album, which will focus on heartbreak. courtesy of chappell roan
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hat started as uploading song covers to YouTube in high school turned into a musical career for Chappell Roan. “I started posting covers when I was 14 or 15, and that got some recognition from some labels, and when I turned 17 I got signed,” the Missouri-based singer said. Roan, now 20, is scheduled to perform at The Lost Horizon on Thompson Road on Sunday at 7 p.m. with singer-songwriter Declan McKenna. Their United States tour began in January and will end in March in Arizona. This tour gives Roan a chance to bond with McKenna, an artist similar in age to her, and share her evolving sound with fans. Roan described her sound as organic mixed with electronic sounds, but with a pop-y tone. The singer said her music has
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badach descent. She emigrated to the United States as a refugee with her family in 1980. In May 2012, Badach was an artist-in-residence at Light Work. The Daily Orange spoke with Badach about her works past and present, and how she plans to use art to continue pushing boundaries. The Daily Orange: How would you characterize your art? What is its mission? Justyna Badach: Well, I have a researchbased practice that involves looking at masculine tropes and how they’re communicated through popular culture. So, this is sort of the foundation of my work, and also looking at how myself, as a woman artist, fit into the long history of masculine tropes within art. The D.O.: What influenced this project?
evolved. She enjoys writing songs with more of a pop sound now, and she also is more selective about her lyrics. “When I first started out, I was writing five-minute ballads, really slow and really long, but now I like writing songs that are catchier,” she said. She hinted that, at Sunday’s show, fans will hear songs from her upcoming album, allowing listeners a “sneak peek” into what’s to come. “School Nights,” which Roan said will be released in March, is her favorite song to perform. A music video will be released soon for the song “Sugar High.” The video could be out in as little as a few weeks, she said. Roan is most excited to share her song “Bitter,” which has been released on an EP with an acoustic video also coming soon. “(‘Bitter’) is a song written on the guitar, and it’s different and more folky and dark,” she said. “It’s really intimate to play live because it’s just me and my guitar player. You can really
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appropriating imagery for a bit. In 2001, I had another body of work that I had a solo show (with) at White Columns. It was called “Untitled Epic Film Stills,” and those were from movies like “Wyatt Earp” and “Young Guns,” and I was also going through those films and looking for the single frames of landscape that appeared to be unclaimed. Primarily, I was interested in that because I am an immigrant, a refugee. The space of those films, those very macho (films)...it seemed to be very much kind of tied in for how I could kind of access that space both metaphorically and physically, as a woman and an immigrant, and kind of appropriate that history to myself. So, I was looking for these landscapes that were empty and picking up the single frames out of those movies, so I was kind of working
just listen to the words.” Roan declined to say when her next album will be released, but said it will tell a story about heartbreak. “It’s all about one relationship, one person,” she said. “The first time I fell in love and the first time my heart broke. It was my journey and how I recovered, and the EP takes a few songs about it off of (the album).” The tour has been a good one for Roan, she said. She said she enjoys being with McKenna and his band because they’re laid-back and easy to get along with. McKenna is a year younger than Roan, and she said she’d never met anyone her own age in the music industry before him. Roan is excited to share her new music and see how her fans react. “Fans are the most exciting and openminded and sweetest kids,” Roan said. “I couldn’t ask for a better tour. It’s so fun.”
both as a censor and an editor within the context of those films. The D.O.: What are your long-term goals as an artist? J.B.: To continue making work, to push the boundaries of the medium, and to also push the boundaries of what kind of work is considered acceptable for a woman to create. …The idea of a woman working with subject matter that is violent or (to) some extent, threatening, is not something that’s readily out there…We also live in a world that’s affected by war and violence. And so I think it is important to have the female voice in that conversation. And so for me, that’s my goal — is to really interject the female voice into what is essentially a global situation that we are also part of and yet oftentimes left out of the conversation. The D.O.: Why did you choose to bring your
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art to Syracuse? J.B.: You guys are actually in a place where there is a lot happening, and this kind of belief that art only happens in big cities, I think, is foolish. A, I don’t think that big cities are necessarily the best places to make art, and B, I don’t think that the audiences for art are necessarily the best in big cities. Because you’re essentially competing with so many different things, and so, sometimes work that’s more difficult and requires a little bit more time of the viewer, is just going to get glossed over in a big city because there are flashier, easier things to see. So, I think Syracuse actually is a really great place. There’s a huge intellectual community, and it’s very highly respected, and a network of people that are doing really great things. So I’m really excited to be there. ktsampah@syr.edu
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courtside million, he said. Years later, as the seats have expanded to three and four rows deep, the proceeds have continued to pour in. A large chunk of Syracuse’s ticket revenue comes not from the tens of thousands of fans sitting across the Carrier Dome, but rather from a select array of seats alongside the court. The financial implications of the decision to add several rows of courtside seats 13 years ago has brought in tens of millions of dollars to the Syracuse Athletics’ budget. “It was an important piece of our existence,” Gross said. “It’s significant as heck. It was a nice new revenue source at a time when we really needed it.” Courtside seats have a risk. The court is 94 feet by 50 feet, but the ball does not always stay in that confined area. Neither do players. Lebron James of the Cleveland Cavaliers apologized in 2015 for falling on the wife of the PGA champion Jason Day. It happens. Occasionally throughout the season, SU players and the opposition bump into, or fall onto, fans nearby. The most visible seat at the Dome has provided Ronald Szyjkowski, a season ticket holder, select encounters few other fans get. Years ago, during an NIT game, Eric Devendorf came plowing into his seat. Szyjkowski caught him with his hands to protect his son, who was sitting next to him. “Thanks man,” Devendorf said, to which
Ron thought, “I was just saving my son.” Around that time, Terrence Roberts almost clobbered Szyjkowski’s mother-in-law. Wesley Johnson once leapt over his head after going for a ball. “Everybody sees it on TV, they talk about it at the office the next day,” said Szyjkowski, a resident of Fayetteville. “One big rule here is that you can’t stand while the ball’s in play. You can’t interfere with the players. You can’t use flash photography, and then there’s sort of a joke on the ticket. It says if you get hurt, it’s your fault. There’s been some balls bop a guy in the head, chairs moving around from time to time.” Szyjkowski chuckled about that, but he takes his fandom seriously. He said he has missed three Syracuse home games since he first bought season tickets in 2002, when he sat in section 108. Three years later, he and Gross said, floor seats were introduced at two rows deep. Szyjkowski knew that he wanted to be aligned with top of the key, across from where head coach Jim Boeheim often stands. Courtside season tickets are priced at about $5,000 per season, depending on a variety of factors, including location and donations made. Szyjkowski arrives early from work, chats with the ushers — he can name each one — and enjoys quiet time as players warm up while fans trickle in. Friends send him texts when they see him on TV and many of his family members back in his hometown of Amsterdam, New York, call him “Ronnie Orange Seed,” because he’s always at the game.
“The beauty of being here, besides the whole atmosphere, is that if you watch a game on TV, you watch whatever they want to show you,” Szyjkowski said. “Here, I watch what I want to watch. If I want to watch coach (Boeheim), I see his reaction. If I want to watch away from the ball, and see what’s going on with the zone, I can do that. ... You hear the foul the ref doesn’t call. The sneakers. Everything.” Back in 2005, during a game between Syracuse and Notre Dame, Gross was sitting in the Dome for one of his first SU men’s basketball experiences. He had just arrived at SU from the University of Southern California. He looked around and was impressed by the Dome atmosphere. But he noticed something else. The scorer’s table, where officials, SU employees and members of the press sat, extended almost all around the court, Gross said. “Who’s sitting there?” he asked. Gross knew how the Staples Center in Los Angeles offered floor seats, and he didn’t think press row had to be as close as it was inside the Dome. Syracuse basketball was “so wellreceived,” he said. “I couldn’t believe it. I thought, boy, this could all be floor seats. People would love it. It was a no-brainer, low-hanging fruit. Let’s knock this out of the park. So we did.” The rise in college basketball floor seats is emblematic of how athletic departments operate like Fortune 500 companies, said sportsbusiness experts including Thilo Kunkel, an assistant professor in sport management at
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man-down offensive end of the field. That’s a tremendous amount of pressure on our defense.” Last season Syracuse’s man-down defense struggled, successfully killing just two-thirds of the man-up opportunities it granted opponents. That ranked SU tied for 32nd out of 69 teams in man-down defense while the Orange ranked tied for fifth in man-up offense. Redshirt-junior defender Marcus Cunningham attributed some of SU’s failure as a man-down unit to getting too many penalties against good-shooting teams. In late January, after Desko praised his team’s defense in its preseason scrimmages, he revealed he’s taken a different approach to practicing man-up and man-down situations. Past years, including last year when Syracuse owned a top-five man-up unit, SU often practiced man-down play against a scout team. The squad, comprised of mainly backups, provided a solid example of the formations and schemes opponents would employ in the coming game, even though it didn’t have the firepower of the starting man-up. This year Desko has matched up the two top units in a competition style part of practice. In the man-down unit’s first true test, facing last year’s top point scorer in the nation and another preseason All-American at attack, SU’s preparation paid dividends. from page 12
nwajei despite a reduced role. “Every time she comes in,” point guard Tiana Mangakahia said, “she changes the tempo of the game.” At Wagner, Nwajei was the star, scoring 30 or more points 15 times her junior season, her last with the Seahawks. She finished the 2015-16 season averaging 29.0 points per game, the top mark in all of women’s Division I basketball. Nwajei went to Wagner to play for head coach Lisa Cermignano, she said. Early on in her career for WU, things went well for Nwajei, but she felt the pressure of being the top scorer. Scoring in bunches was what Nwajei needed to do at Wagner, she said, because the confidence in her teammates finishing plays wasn’t there. If her team needed a bucket, she would go get it. This season at Syracuse, that pressure hasn’t been there. In games and in practice, Nwajei said, she feels more comfortable giving up the ball, and trusts her teammates to finish plays more than ever. “Me passing to someone and them scoring is the same feeling I get when I score,” Nwajei said. Just passing the ball in the first place has been a tough transformation for Nwajei. Coming to Syracuse, she was expecting a similar role to what she had at Wagner, she said. As someone who views herself as a versatile offensive threat, she was frustrated to be relegated to
NICK MELLEN held Connor Fields to one point in the first half during Syracuse’s 15-3 loss to Albany on Saturday. gillian farrugia contributing photographer
During the first quarter, Mellen, SU’s top defender, jogged to the box for a one-minute slashing penalty. While down a player, Syracuse’s defense thrived. Its first big rotation came when All-American attack Connor Fields drew extra attention from longstick midfielder Andrew Helmer, pulling the defender out of his zone. Fields quickly spun the ball back to Helmer’s portion of the zone, the bench after being the go-to option at WU. Still, though, after a transfer and sitting out a year, Nwajei accepted that she would need to adapt. “It came with time, really,” Nwajei said. “Maturity, growth. Got to understand that this is your situation and you’ve got to make do.” That adjustment meant finding ways to maximize her production in significantly fewer minutes. In her final season at Wagner, Nwajei averaged 36.6 minutes a game. At Syracuse, she’s clocking in 9.1 a night with two games left in the season. In playing more than 27 fewer minutes each game, Nwajei needs to make her shots count, and she’s currently shooting 42.4 percent from the field, fourth best of any SU rotation player this season. Part of the way she’s been particularly efficient is using her drive-and-bump move. By using her body to protect the ball, she almost always gets the shot up. More importantly, by initiating contact while the defender’s feet are still moving, she puts herself in a situation with more positive than negative outcomes. “I’m going to get a foul or I’m going to get an and-1,” Nwajei said. Although the stat sheet may not reflect it as much, Nwajei is a tenacious defender, her teammates said. She brings athleticism and length to the 2-3 zone, and always plays with energy. Nwajei’s play style lends itself to clogging passing lanes, closing out shooters and keeping the ball in front of her. It hasn’t always translated to the
which now lacked any SU defensive presence. Before the Albany player fully received the pass, SU defender Tyson Bomberry barreled into the zone, covering up the hole and bowling over the Great Dane player. The play resulted in a loose-ball push that granted the ball to Albany. Nonetheless, Syracuse’s prompt slides prevented a goal. When the ball worked up top on the restart,
Temple University. With plenty of costs and tight budgets, athletic departments look for ways in which they can offer entertainment, brand themselves and develop revenue streams to pay for the entire entity, Kunkel said. For major sports programs, TV rights and ticket sales are the biggest revenue drivers, per ESPN, as well as fundraising and multimedia rights from companies such as Syracuse IMG Sports Marketing, the multimedia rights holder for SU Athletics. But for fans like Neil Gold, courtside seats are purely for enjoyment. He has been a fan of SU for more than 51 years, missing only about five Syracuse games, home and away, since 1996. Gold pays less than $500 per season, because he makes donations to the university and is a member of the Board of Trustees. He sits in the very first row across from the visitor’s bench. That way, he can be on the same end as SU during warmups. He said the connection courtside regulars have to the game and players can be deep. Over the years, Gold has had his fair share of players barrelling into him, wayward passes flying into his lap and tipped balls spinning inches from him. Before games, he chats with players and referees. Then, he said he wears his game face and immerses himself in what he enjoys most: the comfort of sitting a few feet away from the spotlight. mguti100@syr.edu | @Matthewgut21
Bomberry once again provided pressure on the attacker, forcing a weak shot. “I think we are running the same system,” Cunningham said. “We are just focusing on rotating smarter, rotating better, not getting too extended on the outside to make that rotation harder than we have to be and other than that just taking good angles.” Cunningham is one of three players returning from last year’s man-down group, with preseason All-American Mellen being the lone long pole who wasn’t on the unit last year. In the third quarter against Albany, Cunningham shut down a dangerous scoring opportunity. As Fields worked his way up the far side hash marks, Cunningham sagged off on the opposite side to be closer to the ball, as defenders often do. Instead of passing in the normal rotation of the offense, Fields skipped the ball down to the opposite corner, where Cunningham was the nearest defender. Cunningham recovered, arriving at the ball in time to obstruct Albany midfielder Kyle McClancy’s pass to the crease. The play resulted in an Albany turnover and ended another unsuccessful man-advantage for the Great Danes. It wouldn’t decide the game. Syracuse made plenty of other errors to cost it that. But on a day where Syracuse suffered its worst loss at home under John Desko, its man-down played stronger than it has in recent memory. jlschafe@syr.edu | @Schafer_44
NWAJEI is averaging 2.7 points per game in less than 10 minutes per game in her newfound role off the bench for the Orange. codie yan staff photographer
stat sheet, but at Wake Forest on Feb. 11, it did. Nwajei played 15 minutes, scored eight points, swiped four steals and grabbed five rebounds, and according to her teammates, helped turn around a game SU was losing on the road. “She’s definitely great coming off the bench,” freshman Amaya Finklea-Guity said, “and really bringing us up and really bringing that energy, really bringing that fire that we need.”
Coming to SU, Nwajei thought things would be similar to what they were at Wagner. They’re not. Still, she’s evolving her game, learning to make the most of the minutes she’s playing, but always remembering how she got to SU in the first place. “You have to adapt,” Nwajei said. “That’s just the way of life.” aegraham@syr.edu | @A_E_Graham
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Sitting pretty Syracuse has expanded to host 414 courtside seats, bringing a hefty payday to the university in the form of season tickets. Priced around $5,000 a season, the tickets have brought in tens of millions of dollars to Syracuse Athletics’ budget over the past 13 years. alexandra moreo senior staff photographer
By Matthew Gutierrez senior staff writer
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hile their placement is prominent, courtside seats come at a price: several hundred dollars for a single-game ticket. They run at a hefty price tag, but sitting courtside offers fans TV air-time, the noise of rubber-soled shoes squeaking on the hardwood and intimate facetime with players and officials just a few feet away. As thousands enter the Carrier Dome for every men’s basketball game, up to 414 fans fortunate enough to be courtside gain the prestige of sitting in cushioned chairs behind the baskets or across from the benches.
Courtside ticket sales bolster revenue for Syracuse Athletics
They can arrive 30 minutes earlier than other guests and relax in a bar open exclusively to those who sit courtside. The VIP treatment provided with courtside seats is a staple of the NBA and many big-time basketball programs, Syracuse included. Back in 2005, the Syracuse Athletics department was facing financial uncertainty not unique to big-time college programs. Big East money was drying up, former SU Director of Athletics Daryl Gross said, and Syracuse needed to look for fresh revenue streams. Gross said he brought the idea of expanding courtside seats to Syracuse in 2005, during his first few months on the job. The payday arrived in year one in the form of about $1.5 see courtside page 11
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Syracuse improves man-down defense
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By Josh Schafer
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On Saturday against then-No. 4 Albany, in a 15-3 loss where little went right for the Orange, Syracuse players made six trips to the penalty box. But Albany, which scored on 34 percent of its extra-man chances a year ago, only found nylon once with the man advantage on Saturday. “I thought the first half we were pretty sound and we were pretty stout,” redshirt-sophomore defender Nick Mellen said. “I think for the most part we held our ground. We got a little broken in transition.” No. 16 Syracuse (1-1) locked down Albany’s extra-man unit through
efficient rotations and precise stick placement. The lone man-up goal for the Great Danes came with just less than one minute remaining in a game Albany already led by 11 goals. The Great Danes dominated the faceoff X, winning 17 of the 22 draws, while outshooting the Orange 50-23. Syracuse held offensive possession for fewer than 20 percent of gameplay in the second half, which affected SU’s six-on-six defense, but not its man-down. “I thought defensively we did not a bad job for the amount of possessions they had,” Syracuse head coach John Desko said, “and the time that they had the ball at their see man-down page 11
By Andrew Graham sports editor
When Jasmine Nwajei drives right, she knows exactly what move she’s going to employ. The redshirt senior puts her body between the defender and the ball, and as she prepares to launch, slightly bumps the defender with her left shoulder to create separation and potentially draw a foul. Nwajei’s signature move, coupled with intense defensive effort off the bench, have carved her niche in Syracuse’s (20-7, 8-6 Atlantic Coast) rotation this season. After leading the country in points per game at Wagner two years ago, Nwajei moved on to Syracuse for a chance to grow, and has learned how to contribute see nwajei page 11
JASMINE NWAJEI is a role player for SU after once leading the country in scoring at Wagner. codie yan staff photographer