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Vincent Cobb is a 2022 Unsung Hero Award recipient. In over 20 years at SU, he has served as a mentor for Black and underserved students.

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Here’s a crossover that you never knew you needed: Otto the Orange and the Wienermobile.

On Saturday the pair met up outside Newhouse.

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After Chase Scanlan entered the transfer portal following last season, no player has worn No. 22, leaving the future of the number in doubt.

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Educational equity

photo illustration by meghan hendricks photo editor, photos courtesy of of richard kaufman-hanson iv and taylor john

Two SU students will draw upon their leadership experience to work toward Teach for America’s mission to end educational disparities

By Jana Seal

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hen Cara Ladd, a recruiter for Teach for America, looks at potential candidates, she maintains a vision for how individuals who demonstrate leadership and community involvement can work toward the organization’s mission to end educational inequity.

At Syracuse University, Ladd came upon two students, Taylor John and Richard Kaufman-Hanson IV, who

she feels embody these values.

John and Kaufman-Hanson, both seniors at SU, will join Teach for America in fall 2022 and fall 2023, respectively. Following a recruitment and application process, the two are preparing to fulfill personal, academic and service goals with the program.

The work that the two have done on SU’s campus, Ladd said, ultimately made them successful candidates and will carry over into the work they will do with Teach for see teach

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Syracuse University moves to ‘BLUE’ level masking Monday

By Richard Perrins and Kyle Chouinard the daily orange

Syracuse University will return to the “BLUE” COVID-19 alert level effective Monday, according to a campus-wide email Friday.

Mike Haynie, the vice chancellor for strategic initiatives and innovation, said in a campus-wide email

Friday that the decision was made after the Onondaga County Health Department reported that the weekly average number of new cases and hospitalizations has declined by 85% and 58%, respectively, since mid-January.

Haynie also said, however, that less than 2.3% of students are not yet compliant with the university’s booster policy.

Under the “BLUE” level, all students, faculty and staff are required to wear masks during academic instruction regardless of vaccination status.

Masks are recommended, but not mandated, for vaccinated people indoors in the presence of others and outdoors in large groups. The university may also require people to wear masks during non-academic

events on a case-by-case basis.

Haynie announced on Feb. 9, that the university will consider lowering it’s COVID-19 alert level to “BLUE” following Gov. Kathy Hochul’s announcement that New York would end the state-wide mask-or-vaccine mandate for indoor businesses effective Feb. 10.

At the time, Haynie said the decision of whether to lower mask level

or not will be made after the university’s Public Health Team monitors the COVID-19 data on campus and throughout central New York for the following seven to 10 days.

Haynie announced the fourtiered masking system on Aug. 13, 2021, to modify the university’s requirements based on campus and community COVID-19 data. see masks page 4

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Vince Cobb promotes Black student success SU looks for new VP of research

By Danny Amron asst. news editor

vince cobb, who is an instructional technology analyst and equipment access manager at Newhouse, was one of the recipients of Syracuse University’s 2022 Unsung Hero Award.

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By Lilli Iannella staff writer

When Vincent Cobb had the chance to look at the GPAs of the 21 total number of Black students graduating from his Ohio high school class of approximately 250 students, he was shocked to see that only he and another Black student were in the top 10%, while the other 19 Black students, mostly men, were at the bottom of the list.

“How is that even possible?

And I thought to myself, that’s not right. Because I knew the guys, they were smart,” said Cobb, a media technology analyst and engineer at Syracuse University and a 2022 recipient of the university’s Unsung Hero Award.

“In most of those guys, when

they got into high school, they graduated and never went to college because it was never in the cards for them,” Cobb said. “And I said to myself, I have to do something about that because that’s wrong.

And that’s been my mission.”

Cobb’s upbringing, faith and community-driven character have led him to form special bonds — bonds that run beyond his job title at SU — with those he meets, especially Black and underserved students.

The Unsung Hero Award is an honor given to SU staff, students and community members who exemplify the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s vision of bringing hope and healing into the world, yet have not received widespread recognition for their contributions.

He joined SU in 1989 as an engineer under the university’s Infor-

mation Technology Services, and Cobb later started working directly with Newhouse School of Public Communications in 2007 after being hired by one of his mentors, Dean Lorraine Branham. He oversees the “CAGE,” which provides multimedia equipment for Newhouse students.

Dona Hayes, an associate professor and the interim associate dean for special projects at Newhouse, said she has worked with Cobb for decades. She described how Cobb has been an integral part of Newhouse’s evolution and “will move mountains” for both faculty and students.

“His knowledge is wide-ranging and his fingerprints are in many, many places in Newhouse, both current and past,” Hayes said. “Maybe that’s why he’s unsung, because his fingerprints

are there, and I’m not sure everybody realizes how many fingerprints of his are there.”

Not only does Cobb utilize his media technology skills to help students become multimedia storytellers, but he also extends these skills and his life experiences in connecting with the community and motivating students of color to achieve.

“I didn’t do anything for an award. I would do this if no one ever knew about it,” Cobb said.

“I will continue to fight and push for minorities and people who I think are marginalized and have great opportunities to be great things in life, but people never (told) them or never opened them up to those opportunities,” he said.

Cobb said he has always been see unsung

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on campus

SU employees to take data security training

By Francis Tang asst. news editor

Syracuse University faculty and staff are required to complete a mandatory information security awareness training on MySlice before March 31, according to an SU news release on Wednesday.

Faculty and staff must complete the training in accordance with New York state requirements, the release said. The training included topics such as understanding data and the corresponding threats as well as protecting data.

“Even in the last few months, we have seen bad actors adapt to new

security measures,” said Christopher Croad, SU’s chief information security officer, in the release. “These training sessions are essential to discuss best practices and to learn how to protect against new threats.”

SU has been under scrutiny for its history on safeguarding faculty and student privacy as well as data security. The university revealed in February 2021 that the names and Social Security numbers of nearly 10,000 SU students, alumni and applicants were compromised due to a data breach after someone gained unauthorized access to an employee’s email account in September 2020.

SU did not immediately notify those

who were impacted.

In fall 2021, the university implemented fingerprint scanning in dining halls for students with unlimited meal plans.

Although university officials told The Daily Orange that SU’s Housing, Meal Plan, and I.D. Card Services does not store biometric data, multiple students expressed concerns over the security of their biometric information to The D.O., partially given SU’s data breach the year prior.

At the time, SU also confirmed that the fingerprint scanning system uses a mathematical representation of a person’s biometrics data

as a coded file, which is impossible to reverse engineer back into the original hand scan.

The Security Awareness training video can be accessed through the Employee Home page on MySlice, under the Employee Resource tile.

Faculty and employees will need to enter a code provided at the end of the training video to receive full credit, according to the release. The training will take 30-35 minutes. Questions can be directed to the university’s Information Security IT analyst Sarah Marciniak at smlittle@syr.edu. btang05@syr.edu @francis_towne

Gretchen Ritter, Syracuse University’s vice chancellor, provost and chief academic officer, announced the members of a search committee for the next permanent vice chancellor for research in a press release on Feb. 10.

The vice chancellor for research leads SU’s research enterprise and reports directly to the provost, according to the release. Ramesh Raina, a professor in SU’s biology department, has served as interim vice president of research since his appointment on Jan. 7, 2020.

Sarah Scalese, SU’s senior associate vice president for university communications, said that the university waited until a new provost was in place to coordinate the search for a new permanent vice chancellor for research. John Liu was appointed interim vice chancellor and provost the same time Raina was named interim vice chancellor for research. Ritter was named vice chancellor, provost and chief academic officer after Liu’s 22-months as the interim.

“I am grateful to Ramesh Raina, whose service as interim vice chancellor for research began just as the COVID-19 pandemic arrived. Syracuse University’s scholarly community has benefited from his leadership and advocacy,” Ritter said in the release.

The committee is tasked with consulting key campus stakeholders about the challenges facing the next vice chancellor for research. It will first develop a position description before advertising the position to a pool of candidates through a partnership with Paul Chou of Korn Ferry’s global education practice.

Scalese confirmed in an email to The Daily Orange that the committee is revising the position’s prior description and refining it based on new strategic priorities or opportunities.

Duncan Brown will lead the committee along with 13 other representatives of different communities at SU: • Nicholas Armstrong, the managing director of the Institute for Veterans and Military Families • Kristen Barnes, a professor at the College of Law • Michel Benaroch, a professor at the Martin J. Whitman School of Management • Yousr Dhaouadi, a Ph.D. student at the College of Engineering and Computer Science and president of the GraduateStudentOrganizationSenate • Heidi Hehnly, an associate professor at the College of Arts and Sciences. see research page 4

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teach for america

America. The organization looks at candidates who can showcase their capability to build relationships and communicate across lines of difference, she said.

“A lot of times within our recruitment process, what we look for is student organizations that work with the same types of communities where we’re involved in,” Ladd said. “We look for student organizations that maybe have more of a focus on equity work, student organizations that are really involved in the community, things of that nature.”

John, who’s majoring in international relations and citizenship and civic engagement, is the chief of staff of the Student Association and the former president of her sorority. Off campus, she is a doula and an intern at Planned Parenthood. For John, being an educator and a leader is conducive to being a doula and her ultimate goal of becoming an OB-GYN. “A doula is not just someone that is educated in birth practices … but they’re also there to educate the client, to educate the mom about how to breastfeed and how to nurse, how to hold the baby properly,” John said. “And then the same way you can think about a teacher …

We spend most of our time as students with our teachers than we do at home, so that teacher role, that foundation, is really important and crucial to the development of the child.”

In Los Angeles, where she will be stationed with Teach for America, John said she plans to use her understanding of what it means to be an educator to better understand where her students need mental and emotional support. She from page 1

masks SU will continue to require masks at events in the Carrier Dome except for when people are actively eating and drinking, according to the campus-wide email. Haynie added that SU is currently in communication with large venue operators across the state to assess possible policy adjustments for vaccinated people. from page 3

unsung hero an advocate for helping students who are underserved and struggle in certain areas of math and science. He expressed how both his parents did not finish high school, and so he had to work harder to understand material himself since his parents did not have the knowledge in subjects like math and writing to help him. Since his teachers had pushed him to succeed, he decided to push other students in return, especially students of color.

Brianna Downing, the vice president of content strategy at Conceptual Geniuses — a woman-owned, minority business enterprise — said that Cobb represented a father figure for her as her work study supervisor during her time as a SU student about 20 years ago.

She said there were not many Black students at Newhouse while she was there and seeing someone as generous as Cobb inspired her.

Eric Derachio Jackson Jr., an SU graduate and mentee of Cobb, worked at the CAGE, where Cobb not only was his boss but also from page 3

research • Sandra Lane, a professor at the Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics • Christine Larsen G’84, a University Trustee • Regina Luttrell, an associate professor at the Newhouse School of Public Communications • Jennifer Karas Montez, a professor at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs • Daekwon Park, an associate professor

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also said a lot of her work will focus on listening to students rather than focusing only on school work. Part of this, John said, means tailoring teaching methods to specific points of entry and reference for children of different ages.

“The best way to relate to a younger mindset is to think about what they’re thinking about — utilizing their tools that they already have access to,” John said.

For Kaufman-Hanson, being an educator means bridging a gap between education policy and real classrooms that he saw growing up in New York state. As a policy studies major, the chair of SA’s board of elections, the treasurer of College Democrats and the interim president of Amnesty International at SU, Kaufman-Hanson said he wants to be a voice in the room that has both a grasp of policy and political processes and an understanding of the realities of a classroom.

“I think you’re seeing that a lot around the country now, where there’s a lot of policymaking happening without any real classroom experience,” Kaufman-Hanson said.

“So I thought it would be a good idea to sort of get some actual classroom experience.”

Kaufman-Hanson also said that his mother, a social studies teacher and an SU alumna, was an influence on his value of education as well as on his decision to join Teach for America.

As part of the application process, candidates for Teach for America conduct a lesson plan for the admissions team to assess how they communicate and engage. Lesson plans can be anything that could be taught in a pre-K-12th grade classroom, Ladd said.

Kaufman-Hanson conducted a lesson

on summations and did a walk through of algebraic summations and expressions with a high school precalculus class in mind.

Though he has interest in policy, particularly transportation policy, Kaufman-Hanson said he hoped to teach high school math to fill a need at Teach for America. “(I’m) going where I’m needed,” KaufmanHanson said. “There are just certain subjects nationally that there are less teachers in. So math is one of them. There are other high demand areas. Elementary special education is another big need that they have.”

SU switched from “BLUE” to “RED” on Aug. 28 and lasted throughout the fall 2021 semester. Under the “RED” level, all students, faculty, staff and visitors must wear masks indoors at all times and outside in the presence of others.

The day prior to the change from “BLUE” to “RED,” SU had 22 active COVID-19 cases.

The peak of the wave came on Sept. 13 and 15 with 163 active COVID-19 cases.

There were 122 active COVID-19 cases

on SU campus as of Friday, according to SU’s COVID-19 dashboard. The university’s surveillance positivity rate was at 1%. There were two students in quarantine.

Under “YELLOW” status, masks are recommended indoors and outdoors when people are in groups, but are not mandatory for vaccinated people. For unvaccinated individuals, masks would still be required indoors and outdoors in groups.

For “GREEN” status, masks are com-

pletely optional for the vaccinated. For unvaccinated people, under “GREEN” status, masks are still required indoors and outdoors in groups.

“Thank you to everyone in our community for your continued cooperation and adherence to the University’s public health guidelines, and for your ongoing commitment to a safe and healthy campus,” Haynie wrote.

represented someone who looked like him in the production industry, he said. After graduating from SU, Jackson started his own media company, Black Cub Productions.

“As an African American man, being able to see him putting himself out in the community inspired me to also want to do similar things,” Jackson said. “Him being out in the community and doing that work and bringing students along like me to help and contribute is just awesome.”

Cobb held events to promote Black students to become entrepreneurs and teach students how to market their programs with technology, and Jackson witnessed and was involved with Cobb’s community work with nonprofits, both locally and nationally.

While his father’s work ethic inspired him to create a bigger impact at the university and his mother’s passing motivated him to get involved with the Genesis Health Project Network, a project promoting health and wellness for African American families. Cobb said that accessibility, from public facilities to education, is critically important to success.

Cobb immediately adapted to the Syracuse community, he said, but realized there

was a lot of negativity towards people of color. He made it his mission to stand up for fairness and equitably. He serves on SU’s Inclusivity, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility Committee and has represented a voice to articulate concerns on behalf of parents who couldn’t successfully do so for their children at Syracuse city schools through the Youth Advocacy Mentoring Program.

Cobb also said that he has provided academic support and worked with the parents of children he has coached in basketball as well as at his church, the Greater Evangelical Church of God in Christ.

Kenneth W. Reed, the pastor of the church, has known Cobb for over 30 years and described how Cobb’s roles as the media and technology director and deacon have exemplified his character.

“One of the definitions for love is that it works and retires, which means it doesn’t parade itself,” Reed said. “It doesn’t put itself out there. It just does what it does and doesn’t have to make noise about it. And that’s Vince.”

Richard Breyer, a professor in Newhouse’s television, radio and film program who has also worked with Cobb for decades, highlighted Cobb’s ability to recognize

needs in the community and place into action changes to ensure they work. Breyer mentioned Cobb’s work with The SENSES Project, which seeks to make creating music accessible for marginalized students.

“I noticed the way the (students) looked up at Vince,” Breyer said. “I see the way they look at him with respect and gratitude.”

Cobb said the award partially covers how he stood up for the injustices presented to both his growth as a Black employee at the university and the growth of students of color at a predominantly white institution like SU. He said he encourages the community to connect with one another and step up to the issues present within the university and city.

“If you’re a community member trying to make an impact, reach out to someone who is in a situation where you can help them out by words, by spending time with them, doing a kind act for that person, telling them you have great confidence in them or that God blesses you and you’ve lived a wonderful life,” Cobb said. “Just being positive. That goes a long way, and people see themselves in how people see you.”

at the School of Architecture • Dacheng Ren, a professor at ECS • J. Cole Smith, the dean of ECS • Stuart Taub, the director of the Office of Sponsored Programs “I am pleased and grateful that the committee includes a cross section of campus sta keholders who understand the importance this role will have in shaping the future of research at Syracuse Universit y,” R itter said in the release. “I am grateful to all of the committee members for participating in this search, which is so important for the

University ’s future trajectory.”

During the University Senate open forum on Wednesday, several SU faculty members expressed concerns regarding the lack of representation of humanities and arts programs on the search committee.

Only one member of the committee — Kristen Barnes, who holds a doctorate in literature — has a background in humanities. Sascha Scott, an associate professor in Native American and Indigenous studies department, pointed out that despite her doctorate, Barnes is not currently a practicing humanist.

“We need somebody who is actually practicing research as a humanist now,” Scott said in the meeting.

Ritter responded that such interests will have an opportunity to be heard at a listening session held by the committee. Laura Heyman, an associate professor in SU’s College of Visual and Performing Arts, questioned the purpose of the session.

“Listening sessions are not representation,” Heyman responded in the Zoom call’s chatbox.

Taylor and Richard (are) going to have that opportunity every day to really build those relationships with kids Cara Ladd teach for america recruiter

For her lesson plan, John chose to give a lesson on consent. Teaching consent in a broad context and to kids at a young age, she said, hopefully results in kids having a strong foundation for consent as a concept that they can use throughout their adult lives. She said conversations with her parents and 8-yearold sibling about small ways to exercise consent inspired her to create the lesson.

John’s own experiences shaped her goal to

create change that starts with education, she said. As a survivor of sexual assualt and domestic violence, John believes that sexual consent “can and should be taught” at a young age.

“The hope is that those students that learn consent at a young age are able to adapt that throughout their entire adult life,” John said.

“And we would ideally have a decrease in sexual assault cases, abuse cases and things like that.”

John said that a strong alumni network through Teach for America ultimately drew her to the program. As an alumna of the program herself, Ladd said that the support built in defines its power and ability to help educators make an impact.

For Kaufman-Hanson, seeing the accomplishments of alumni helped him to envision a way to segue into policy making.

“A lot of Teach For America alumni end up in government and the policy process,” Kaufman-Hanson said. “And so I think joining that sort of group of people with these experiences is really cool.”

When John and Kaufman-Hanson begin their roles with Teach for America, though, Ladd said the most important takeaway will be the relationships they form with their students and the day-to-day interactions that shape children’s educational experience.

“Taylor and Richard (are) going to have that opportunity every day to really build those relationships with kids. And that’s really what is the lasting impact,” Ladd said.

“And I know that they’ll do that with the utmost respect. And they’ll really make some lifelong connections out of this experience.” jlseal@syr.edu @JanaLoSeal

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Greek life is being misrepresented SU’s Kink 101 seminar is distasteful and reckless

By Augustus LeRoux

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Social media increases the perceived prevalence of Greek life at Syracuse, but its culture is not as widespread as it seems. meghan hendricks photo editor

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s of fall 2020, 3,535 of the 14,479 undergraduate students enrolled at Syracuse University were members of Greek life organizations, or about 24%, even less if professional houses are excluded. Yet when spring recruitment rolls around, it seems as if the entire campus is involved in Greek life. So, what makes fraternity and sorority culture seem so much more widespread than numbers would suggest?

I would pin that on the influence that the sororities and fraternities have over social media. Greek organizations’ online presence results in them appearing larger to SU students than their actual size. The houses’ mass exposure on social media is far from an accurate picture of campus life, and I’d urge everyone (regardless of Greek-affiliation) to keep this in mind when navigating platforms during the post-bid period.

After a grueling recruitment process that seems to have bled its way into every conversation amongst the majority-freshmen group of potential new members, social media platforms have been loaded with content pertaining to recruitment over the past few weeks.

This rise in Greek life-related posts and stories about bid season serve as a reminder of how omni-

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present the organizations are online. Looking at social media alone, one could easily assume that fraternities and sororities are one of the only ways to be involved at SU outside of the classroom. The disproportionately large influence that Greek life has on social media can create a distorted view of extracurricular life on campus.

Oftentimes, this presence makes it seem as if the 300+ student organizations at SU are absent.

One of the leading reasons for this perception is the resurgence of Yik Yak, an app that most college students are likely familiar with.

The forum-based platform grants users the ability to anonymously post tweet-like messages for everyone within five miles to see. And due to Greek life being commonly associated with the more controversial aspects of college social-life, the houses are unsurprisingly a staple of the app. Very rarely does one see a Yik Yak about OttoTHON, CitrusTV, Otto’s Army or University Union, and it isn’t because of a lack of members in said groups, but rather the impact of the internet in deeming them less newsworthy than Greek life.

Meanwhile, on more conventional social media platforms (i.e.

Instagram), the fraternities and sororities themselves promote a justified passion for their houses’ respective social and philanthropic endeavors. This enthusiasm further

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creates the impression that Greek life is the be-all and end-all for extracurricular options at SU, given how passionate its members are versus other organizations. But because the Greek system can be so polarizing, in large part due to its relationship with partying and drug use, as well as past allegations against houses on campus, there’s a newsworthiness that many other groups don’t warrant.

And it’s also important to remember that participation in Greek life and any of these aforementioned hundreds of organizations are not mutually exclusive.

Plenty of the members in the houses are also involved in other extracurriculars as well, even if social media makes it seem like there’s an “us vs. them” mentality.

So whether one is not part of a house for financial or scheduling reasons, because they got dropped or simply out of choice, the majority of campus is in the same boat. Especially during this time of recruitment, bidding and pledging, it’s important to keep in mind that the overwhelming influx of Greek life-related social media content is not reflective of reality. There are plenty of other opportunities to get involved on campus this spring semester.

Jonah Weintraub is a freshman broadcast digital journalism major. His column appears biweekly. He can be reached at jsweintr@syr.edu.

f you visited the Syracuse University events calendar recently, you may have stumbled upon the university’s latest “Health and Wellness” seminar: Kink 101, a Bondage Domination Sadism Masochism (commonly known as BDSM) seminar aimed at teaching students how to tie-up, whip and burn their sexual partners. It seems the movement in recent years to re-paint perversion with a coating of academic credibility has finally made a stop at SU. At an age where young minds are still quite impressionable and on a campus where, in 2020, 19% of students said they were sexually assaulted, SU would like students to believe that sadism and masochism are normal and encouraged components of intimacy. Only at SU can a student simultaneously demand constant coddling but be deemed developed enough for a crash course on how to have violent sex.

Apologists for this sort of programming will say that young people need “sex education” and that it’s meant to promote safety. The assumption is that because some people are going to torture or be tortured for pleasure, we might as well destigmatize the whole thing for everyone.

Promoting fetishistic sexual behaviors to students as young as 18 years old is not SU’s place. BDSM should be off SU’s campus and far away from the eyes of students. The degree to which students’ day-today lives have become hypersexualized has damaging implications.

SU’s normalization of violent sex compounds an already existing mental health crisis supplemented by the widespread consumption of internet pornography. The sole defense our society has against this — shame — is now buckling

thanks to those universities that now encourage depravity.

There is a very real danger in how we are distorting Gen Z’s perceptions of sex. After Billie Eilish became a voice of reason and criticized violence in pornography, commentators rushed straight to the defense of their favorite adult videos.

There is a very vocal crowd that likes to paint our new hypersexualized culture as harmless and liberated, but the reality facing many young people is that the kind of sex they are now expected to have is uncomfortable, unhealthy and even painful. That warped perception exerts an immense amount of pressure on young people.

This is not an isolated incident. Students at universities across the country are being encouraged to normalize violence in sex. The same week SU hosted its Kink 101 seminar, Tulane University hosted its own BDSM workshop as part of the university’s annual Sex Week. Just last semester, America’s premiere Ivy League school did the same, offering an Intro to BDSM workshop. SUNY Fredonia even had a ”distinguished” professor of pornography, sexual fantasies and torture — at least until he was suspended earlier this month for making statements in support of pedophilia.

This is not alarmism, and it is not contended that SU will soon be racked by a deluge of sexual violence.

On the contrary, exposure to gratuitous and degrading sexual material is not out of the ordinary for young people — it is the new normal. What is perhaps most disturbing is not that SU hosted this workshop, but that most people are too addled by the TV show Euphoria and on-demand internet pornography to even notice.

Augustus LeRoux is a junior history major. His column appears biweekly. He can be reached at aoleroux@syr.edu.

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From Syracuse, hotdoggers Marcelo Nyland and Nicole Sasiela will continue their tour by driving for approximately nine hours arthur maiorella staff photographer to Dayton, Ohio, for an appearance at the Dayton Off Road and Outdoor Expo.

Weiner on wheels Marcelo Nylund, an SU alumnus, drove Oscar Mayer’s Wienermobile to Syracuse last week

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arcelo Nylund’s dream cars — a Camaro, Mustang and Mercedes — all have one thing in common: they aren’t the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile.

“Those three cars, (I) would love them to death, but it’s just different with the Weinermobile,” Nylund said. “Not only do you feel like yourself (when driving the Wienermobile), you feel like you’re impacting so many other people around you, and it is absolutely nuts everytime you drive it.”

Nylund, a recent Syracuse University graduate, is seven months into his year-long journey across the eastern region of the U.S., with a few stops in the Midwest, in Oscar Mayer’s promotional vehicle, the Wienermobile. He is joined by fellow driver Nicole Sasiela, a DePaul University graduate, in the trek across the region.

Sasiela and Nylund — known as Nicole Slaw and Mustard Marcelo — are two of 12 “hotdoggers” touring with one of six Wienermobiles, which are each 60 hotdogs in length by 24 hotdogs in height. So far, the duo has traveled through about 20 states, stopping in over 100 cities and towns along the way. The Wienermobile came to Syracuse for two reasons, Nylund said: to recruit next year’s drivers and to attend events taking place around the central New York region.

While at SU, Otto the Orange caught up with the Wienermobile.

Nylund called the encounter a wonderful collision of two worlds. “(Otto is) such a beacon of happiness on campus, and the Wienermobile is such a beacon of happiness in general. Having the two combine, the atmosphere was so fun,” Nylund said.

From Syracuse, the duo will continue on their tour of the region by driving for approximately nine hours to Dayton, Ohio. There, the “hotdoggers” are going to attend the Dayton Off Road and

Outdoor Expo where they will be spreading smiles to the outdoor community of Ohio, Nylund said.

For Oscar Mayer and the duo who are driving this vehicle around this year, the original intention of the program has come full circle since its inception in 1936. In an attempt to put a smile on people’s faces during the Great Depression, Oscar Mayer’s nephew, Carl Mayer, had the idea of creating a mobile hot dog that could tour the country — thus the Wienermobile was born.

Now, 85 years later, Sasiela thinks that the Wienermobile’s original purpose is once again needed as the country comes out of the years-long battle against COVID-19.

“The pandemic has caused a lot of hardships for people, and to put a smile on someone’s face when they might need it most is the best part about (the Wienermobile),” Sasiela said.

For SU students who are hoping to become next year’s Wienermobile drivers, applications are due Monday, Feb. 21. Nylund offered some advice for prospective applicants.

“Being your genuine self is a surefire way to show everyone who’s recruiting you to be the best hotdogger you can be,” Nylund said.

“If you have good stories that show how personable you can be, how much you’re willing to connect with people you’ve never met … show it in any of the stuff you submit.”

Nylund’s trip to Syracuse in the Weinermobile is his first time back since graduating from SU in 2021. He said that returning in the Wienermobile was a significant introspective moment for him. “(Coming back was) an awesome look into everything that Syracuse gave me,” Nylund said. “Syracuse gave me so much as a student. It helped me grow so much as a person and to be able to come back and show that if you allow your college experience to impact you in positive ways like it did for me, you could end up driving an American icon.”

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When asked to do an impression of Will Smith, Jay Pharoah, known for his spot on impersonations, replied, “I’m not a jukebox, motherf*cker!”

The energy at University Union’s “A Stand Up Comedy Show” was electric as Pharoah, alongside fellow comedian Matteo Lane and host AJ Foster, captivated the crowd with deadpans and quips. The show touched on a variety of topics, including politics, travel and video game decor.

The show began with Foster, who likened himself to an annoying YouTube ad.

“Except you can’t skip me after the first five seconds,” he said.

Foster then introduced Lane, who before deciding to do comedy was an oil painter and opera singer.

Lane, an advocate for gay comedians, got right to the point about his identity in his introduction.

“Hey everyone, thank you so much! I’m obviously gay,” he said.

Like many, Lane found the pandemic a difficult time to connect with friends, so he turned to video game favorites Call of Duty and Fortnite. Lane applauded Fortnite — what he called the gay version of Call of Duty — on its special ability to combine action and aesthetics.

“It’s just like, you’re killing and decorating at the same time,” Lane said. “You’re like, ‘Cease fire! But could you add a bay window?’”

Another popular quarantine pastime for the comedian was flipping through TV channels. “The Great British Baking Show” brought Lane the revelation that American food programs are unnecessarily aggressive. He also joked that he discovered the Travel Channel somehow only plays ghost hunting shows.

He was particularly captivated by “Ghost Adventures,” specifically one clip of Zak Bagans announcing that he is a demonologist. Lane wondered which would be worse, coming out to his parents as gay or as a demonologist.

“Mom, Dad, I’m going into demonology,” he mimicked. Changing his tone to imitate a parent, he said, “‘We’d rather you … suck a d*ck.

At least it’s there.’”

Immediately afterwards, Pharoah was heard cackling hysterically from backstage.

Since he is of both Italian and Mexican descent, Lane learned both Italian and Spanish. But he mastered Italian before Spanish, and now he can’t switch accents at will — when Lane speaks to Latinos, they often say that he sounds just like Mario, he said.

Some countries Lane visited aren’t very accepting of the LGBTQ community, which he said he found out on a trip to Italy.

“Italy can be kind of homophobic.

You know, the Vatican,” he said as the crowd giggled. “It’s so funny, it’s

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Spectators gathered outside of Iron Pier Apartments for the second Winterfest Human Dogsled Race

n Sunday, a couple hundred people gathered outside the roughly 100-foot lawn of Iron Pier Apartments near the Syracuse Inner Harbor, anticipating the start of the second Winterfest Human Dogsled Race. People converged to the sides of the lawn to watch teams of five people, with four pullers and one rider, race with their own customized sleds.

All proceeds gained from participating racers — who each paid a fee to secure their spot — and raffles went to Helping Hounds Dog Rescue, a nonprofit organization focused on matching unwanted dogs with loving families in the central New York area since 2009. With the help of dedicated staff, volunteers and donations, Helping Hounds Dog Rescue has been able to successfully secure loving homes for over 1,700 dogs.

Angela Paparo, a volunteer from Helping Hounds Dog Rescue, was glad to help host the Winterfest Human Dogsled Race this year, since COVID-19 caused the event to go on a year-long hiatus in 2021.

She hopes the race will become a traditional annual event. “(The event helps) bring a community together — it gets people out and about during the winter, especially during Winterfest,” Paparo said. “We bring volunteers and dogs down, so it gets them some visibility. And it really just gets people out and brings people together. Everybody really seems to be enjoying it.”

Merissa Lynch, the marketing manager of COR Development Company, a real estate company that sponsored the event alongside Pepsi and Meier’s Creek Brewing Company, was also looking forward to the human dogsled race.

“COR believes in giving back to the community and working with a nonprofit organization like Helping Hounds. We’re able to give back to such a wonderful nonprofit that’s well known in the Syracuse area, as well as bring the community out to have some fun during the winter months,” Lynch said.

Although there was enough snow for attendees to enjoy the event, it was a bit cold. Olivia Orlando, owner of Blueberries and Lace, a mobile cafe and bakery, sold out of hot chocolate at the event.

“Tons of people here today, I think because it was so cold,” Orlando said.

“Everyone wants coffee and hot chocolate.”

Orlando bought her trailer in 2017, which took a year to be remodeled into the established Blueberries and Lace business. The business was up and running in 2018, two years before the first WinterFest Human Dogsled Race in 2020. Orlando has been participating since and is excited to continue doing so.

She plans to take part in other similar events, such as the Syracuse Food Truck Takeover on Wednesday nights during the summer. Orlando hopes community-based events like the human dogsled race will help her to eventually open a local shop soon.

In the last race, there was a close call between QPK Design, an architecture firm and another sponsor of the event, and the Hellwig Family Speed Demons. They started off strong, looking like a tie — then in the final moments, the Hellwig Family picked up momentum, and they won the Winterfest Human Dogsled Race.

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On Sunday, the Office of Multicultural Affairs organized the first Black History Month Basketball Classic at the Women’s Building. The game featured a team of faculty and staff competing against a team of students. It gave the opportunity for students to network with staff members like Quincy Bufkin, the assistant director of diversity and inclusion, who said he was excited for students to be able to put a face to the name.

“We wanted to make sure students get to connect with faculty and staff,” Bufkin said.

“It goes beyond just the basketball.”

Before the game began, a performer sang “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” which added to

the enthusiasm of the crowd. More than 50 people attended the game at the volleyball court which was converted into a basketball court for the afternoon.

After a strong start for the staff-faculty team, the students turned around a first quarter deficit and finished the first half with a narrow 14-12 lead.

At halftime, performances kept the event lively and engaging. Audience members, who sat in stands that looked onto the court, took part in the dances and shouted encouragement to the dancers below them.

As the second half started, it became clear the game would follow a similar trend as the second quarter, as the faculty and staff lost the 34-26 lead they. The students stayed dominant,

with the occasional failed dunk, which kept the audience entertained. In the end, the students won the game with a commanding 51-38 lead.

The event was created to become an annual tradition to bring students and staff together as a chance to bond over the game. This was an important aspect of the event for Yaya Diawara, an SU junior in the College of Arts and Sciences and a student player in the game.

“It was fun to play with the staff and introduce ourselves (to them),” Diawara said. “The game brings unity in the Black community in a predominantly white institution.”

Diawara, who is also the vice president of the African Student Union, said that he found it important for students to come out and support the community.

After the game ended, students and faculty alike stayed around to shoot baskets at the court. Audience members were excited at the prospect of the Basketball Classic becoming an annual tradition.

Jordan Pierre, a junior in the Newhouse School of Public Communications, said he was excited for the growth of the event. He said that the Basketball Classic is part of a building process, but he added he wants to see more players and maybe even a tournament in the future.

“It was a great event to meet professors and for students to meet each other,” Pierre said.

“It let students network with other Black and Brown professionals.” anbailey@syr.edu @Anthony77654539

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‘Sender’ humorously shows the difficult shift to adulthood

By Veronique Wojcik contributing writer

Syracuse University’s Department of Drama has opened another drama-packed production, this one shedding light on the realities of adulthood and relationships — it isn’t just about worrying about student loans and budgeting out your daily lattes and avocado toasts to make sure you can afford a house in the future.

Written by Ike Holter and directed by Terrence Mosley, “Sender” made its debut in the Storch Theater at the Syracuse Stage/ SU Drama Complex on Saturday and runs through Feb. 27. Many audience members said that this play had an accurate portrayal of the process of coming into adulthood.

“It encompasses adulthood well and has a great mix of humor and emotion,” Syracuse resident Kaytlyn Flansburgh said.

Her partner, Dane Flansburgh, an archivist at Bird Library, described the play as a

creative piece that accurately displays the rough transition into adulthood all while balancing it with a humorous script.

“Sender” follows a group of four friends who live in a small Chicago neighborhood, who are still coming to terms with the presumed death of their close friend Lynx, when suddenly, a year later he pushes himself back into the picture, leaving them hurt and confused. The play follows the friends’ lives and their progress with Lynx coming back into their life, as well as the overall struggles adulthood brings that everyone seems to ignore.

The production explores their individual struggles and shows how sometimes growing up means growing apart. The production showcases grief, confusion, joy and even unrequited love, proving that it takes more than a couple of falls when it comes to growing up.

Holter highlights the struggle of maturing at a different pace than others through

the four friends, who are all at vastly different stages in life. Many individuals have been in that kind of situation: it feels like everyone is moving on while they seemingly stay glued to the same square. Having multiple perspectives in the play allows the audience to connect to the piece.

One character, Cassandra, is prepared to start a family. She’s at a stable place financially and wants to take the next step in her relationship. Morgan Perry, an SU sophomore who played Cassandra, hopes the audience treasures the storyline in the play.

“I hope the audience appreciates the story and its raw and beautiful view on relationships, and how who we are and what we do determines how we navigate through the world,” Perry said.

Cassandra’s character has tensions between her romantic and platonic relationships in the play, uncovering the realities of human connections. Perry describes her preparation for the scenes as working on connecting to her

character’s emotions and supporting her cast members. Even though it wasn’t an easy process, Perry described her time in the play as “an incredibly rewarding experience.”

This production was Perry’s first time performing in a play that wasn’t a musical.

Another character, Jordan, who seems put together and even satisfied with his life at first glance. But as the production progresses, the audience realizes he has his own set of struggles. He’s buried in student loans, all while still coming to terms with his sexuality and trying to find his happiness.

SU junior and drama and tech major Sophia O’Connor, who attended opening night of “Sender,” said that it was a well rounded show with a great design.

“It was a great contemporary piece that was about relationships between people,” O’Connor said. vcwojcik@syr.edu

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comedy just a bunch of men in dresses, with no women, and they’re like, ‘No gays!’”

After about a half hour, Lane gave the stage back to Foster. After making a few jabs at the time he, a Black man, lived in Whitesboro, New York, Foster introduced the “Saturday Night Live” alumnus. Pharoah, already beloved by the crowd, danced his way on stage.

This was Pharoah’s first college show since the pandemic, he said. Fortunately, he could keep comedy going amid social distancing guidelines; Pharoah did a few drivein shows in the earlier months of the pandemic. While this sort of venue might sound like a great idea, the honking and flashing of headlights in exchange for applause was jarring to Pharoah as the performer.

“It’s one thing to walk out of someone’s show,” Pharoah said. “But when you drive out (of the venue), that’s a different level of disrespect.”

He followed up with, “Hope you pop your tire!”

Pharoah confessed to the crowd that his first name isn’t Jay and is actually Jared.

While he made the name change, he still appreciates his birth name when making dinner reservations over the phone — he said he gets a better response when he sounds white.

“I knew what my mom was doing though,” he said. “She was setting me up for a beautiful white future!”

During the Trump administration, as Pharoah recalled, politics were extremely hard to ignore, but this gave him the perfect opportunity to master impressions of prominent political personalities. Pharoah nailed Barack Obama’s effortlessly smooth voice, as well as the classic pursed lips and dramatic hand gestures of Donald Trump.

“I’ve never watched CNN more than ESPN in my life,” Pharoah said.

Jay Pharoah quipped about learning to do more impressions of politicians and doing drive-in shows at the beginning of the pandemic, after Lane performed a set that referenced his identity and quarantine pastimes. megan jonas contributing photographer

While he’s able to laugh — and joke — about it now, on April 26, 2020, Pharoah was wrongfully detained by the Los Angeles Police Department. They were looking for a Black man in sweatpants and a sweatshirt — “so, every Black dude in America?” Pharoah said — and so he was taken into custody. After police realized he wasn’t who they were looking for, and mistook him for Pharoah’s former “SNL” co-star Michael Che, they released him, he said.

Pharoah then made a few calls to family members, who all had differing reactions. His mom was worried about him and asked if he was OK, to which Pharoah replied, “I actually lived through the situation. I can talk about my story. You got Black folks who won’t be able to talk about it tomorrow; I’m good, Mama.”

His father, on the other hand, was hardly

surprised. His grandmother, Gertrude, insisted on Pharoah calling her if anything happened again. When he asked why, she plainly said, “Imma f*ck. Them. Up.” The show ended with the same vibrant energy it started with — the audience roared with applause.

In a post-show interview, Lane got real about being on tour. While he likes visiting new areas, trying new restaurants, interacting with the crowd and performing as a whole, traveling so frequently can be really cumbersome.

Lane attributed his background in comedy to his large family. Lane experienced trauma during his childhood — and everyone around him used humor to cope.

As a gay comedian working towards better representation in the industry, Lane always

strives for personal authenticity in his work.

For future LGBTQ comedians, he recommends the same.

“Anyone who is out, and themselves, is good,” he said. “Be out, be proud, and be yourself.”

As for Pharoah, “SNL” was instrumental to him mastering and becoming comfortable in comedy. He learned to produce material efficiently because he basically had to audition for his part every week.

For those considering going into comedy, Pharoah suggests returning to the basics and being genuine.

“Be yourself, don’t be afraid. Don’t restrict yourself,” he said. “Don’t feel like you have to censor yourself, and that’s how you find gold.” rlraposa@syr.edu @rachel_raposas

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pitcher he pulled over to the side of the road: “Dan, we’re going to take Andrew Luck in the draft, but you’re going to be the first quarterback I draft. I want you working in our organization.”

There was a bit of risk involved. Grigson didn’t have time for a formal interview, and he needed to trust his gut and the word of Alexander — who’d originally coached him in Cincinnati. Pitcher had also always hinted at a desire to coach long-term, something that former players and coaches could sense. For a general manager, Grigson said, this always led to the question of why he would “groom” Pitcher if he didn’t plan on working longterm in the scouting department.

“That was an instance where I totally kind of went counter to processes,” Grigson said.

When Pitcher accepted the scouting assistant position, he immediately called Dan MacNeill, Cortland’s head coach, and told him he wasn’t going to believe what had happened. Because in a profession where connections that open doors are key to igniting careers, this was the spark Pitcher, who was just a year out of school, needed.

Following five years in the Colts’ scouting department, Pitcher left for the Bengals in 2016 and rose through their offensive coaching ranks — a trajectory that ultimately led him to the Super Bowl last Sunday as their quarterbacks coach. Pitcher placed himself on the track to become a head coach one day, Grigson said, and now holds the valuable combination of front office experience with the Colts and coaching experience, with the development of Joe Burrow, to leverage himself for future roles. from page 12

maryland goalie Bobby Gavin, who made a number of stops against point-blank attempts. And faceoff specialist Jakob Phaup won 15-of28 attempts, earning his team a number of crucial possessions.

But SU wasn’t good enough on the offensive end. The unit appeared in spurts during the second quarter, the final minute of the third and brief periods of the fourth, but the slow start, combined with other offensive lulls, proved too much for SU to overcome.

“We just didn’t get the job done on the offensive end, and we need to get better,” head coach Gary Gait said postgame.

No. 9 Syracuse (1-1) fell 14-10 to No. 1 Maryland (3-0) on a Sunday afternoon where Gait’s jersey was retired before the game and Roy Simmons Jr.’s name was added to the Ring of Honor at halftime.

After trailing early, SU clawed back via Tucker Dordevic and Lucas Quinn in the second quarter and then once more in the final minute of the third quarter. Syracuse was too inconsistent on offense, though, and Maryland’s five-goal lead out of the gate provided enough padding to earn it the victory. from page 10

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goals in two games this season.

On one play, Wisnauskas got past Brett Kennedy, bouncing off a hit from Saam Olexo before unloading a strike from the center. Gavin couldn’t get to it, or another strike from Wisnauskas four minutes later, as the Orange’s defense didn’t pick up the slide. Gait said Gavin played well, but goals like Wisnauskas’, where he was left wide-open because of defensive mistakes, led to easy strikes.

“We left him hanging a few times. There were some seven-yard step-downs and I wouldn’t want to be in the net guarding those,” Gait said. “There’s not a lot of guys in the country that can stop those shots from those guys.”

The Terrapins continued to break down

“You can tell that it was in his blood to be a coach,” said Colts area scout Mike Derice, who worked with Pitcher in Indianapolis.

Pitcher shared an office with Derice while with the Colts, each of them possessing a laptop connected to a monitor for game film and another for typing up the reports. He learned how to compile unique reports each day for their logs even when the personnel didn’t change and there were lulls in between cuts and free agent signings. “It sharpened our eyes,” Derice said, forcing them to be concise, to articulate everything pointedly, to string together observations across practices and understand everything in the context of the season instead of from day-to-day.

During breaks, they’d walk over to the indoor complex and throw back and forth for 90 minutes. Derice would mimic routes that a receiver might run, and Pitcher would drop back — just like he did as a quarterback with Colgate and Cortland — and zip the ball to that spot. And when they wrapped up for the day, they carpooled back to their shared apartment and continued those conversations. If Pitcher’s then-girlfriend, Melissa, wanted to surprise him, Derice would fake driving back to the complex and instead pick Melissa up from the airport. They’d alternate cooking dinner for each other, then wake up the next morning at 6 a.m. and do it all over again.

That was the routine that defined Pitcher’s first year with the Colts, with Derice and him always locked in unison as the two scouting assistants. Mike Gillhamer, a positional coach with the Colts, dubbed the duo the “Miami Vice” — referencing the Crockett and Tubbs pairing — and posters were hung around the Colts office. Derice became an area scout after the season and moved to New York City, and

the year after that, Pitcher earned his first promotion to a pro scout.

There, Pitcher was assigned to teams in the NFL, and he was responsible for knowing their depth chart inside and out.

Pitcher would put grades in the system for free agents and one week before the Colts were scheduled to play the Steelers, Grigson called Pitcher from a gas station parking lot and said he couldn’t make it back from the scouting trip in time. He needed Pitcher to step in and complete the tape work and two-deep roster analysis.

But at the same time, Grigson knew Pitcher would eventually want to get back into coaching. After Pitcher tore his Achilles in 2009, he started to take on more of a coaching role at Cortland. He returned the next year, took over the starting quarterback job and then capped off his collegiate career with a final season that included a 31:5 touchdownto-interception ratio, a 62% completion percentage and a 9-2 record.

After he finished his graduate year at Cortland, he briefly became the wide receivers coach in the spring while attending coaching conventions. Alexander invited Pitcher to the 2012 scouting combine, where he originally met Grigson and Bengals owner Mike Brown, to help expedite that trajectory.

The relationship between Alexander and Pitcher — now two Cortland alumni with NFL coaching experience — started when Alexander built a log cabin in the Skaneateles woods and asked MacNeill to send players every summer to help move rocks and wood. Alexander watched from his porch as Pitcher didn’t dive right into the labor, but instead coordinated the other players to make sure they finished everything efficiently. And when they broke for lunch, Alexander listened as Pitcher gave

off more signs that demonstrated a natural draw to coaching techniques.

Eventually, in 2016, Alexander called again about an open offensive assistant position with the Bengals. Despite it being difficult to get out of a scout contract, Grigson had always promised Pitcher that if a coaching opportunity intrigued him, he’d grant his blessing and allow him to leave. Grigson had spent years honing Pitcher’s scouting instincts, and even if he did transition back to coaching, that experience would benefit him in future years, Grigson said.

For Grigson, that was validated a few years ago after he joined the Seahawks as a senior football consultant and traveled to UMass to scout a speedy wide receiver, Andy Isabella. John Schneider, Seattle’s general manager, had sent him, and Grigson arrived to find the “whole league converged” on UMass. But eventually, as he glanced around at the scouts there, Pitcher, along with Derice, caught his eye. Pitcher had found his way to a school without significant NFL talent — even after transitioning out of a scouting department — and Grigson was thrilled.

“Dan’s got it all out in front of him,” Grigson said. “His career is clearly on the right trajectory.”

That was before his promotion to quarterbacks coach, before the Bengals drafted Burrow No. 1 in the draft and Pitcher had a prospect to mold. It was also before Pitcher realized, and texted Grigson, that Burrow was a “different cat,” then turned that potential into a reality with a Super Bowl berth while giving his rising career its largest boost yet.

“That’s the difference in the game, right? Spot them five and then you fight, spend the whole game trying to get close,” Gait said.

At the start, Syracuse struggled to generate dangerous offensive opportunities.

Dordevic tried to dodge but slipped and then had the ball jarred out of his stick moments later. Brendan Curry tried a low-rising shot that didn’t connect, and Dordevic tried the same thing but also missed wide.

The chances were there for SU — Phaup won nine of his first 15 faceoffs, Maryland had four failed clears in the first half and the Orange forced nine first-half turnovers — but it just took them too much time.

“We just came out just a little anxious, like we were not sure what to expect, instead of coming out and just doing what we practiced,” Gait said.

Initially, Wisnauskas got the better of SU’s defense. He dodged past Brett Kennedy and bounced off a hit from Saam Olexo to notch Maryland’s third goal, and he later slotted home his second score after a pass from Anthony DeMaio. The Terrapins used a nice skip-pass to beat SU’s defense and cash in on the far side, too.

But what started with shots straight at Maryland goalie Logan McNaney from midfielders Griffin Cook and Curry even-

tually turned into offensive production. It began when Quinn got SU on the board at the start of the second quarter, turning a pass from Curry into a low-rising shot.

Quinn, who started his first career game, continued that production and finished with a first-half hat trick. The shortstick matchup he drew helped fuel that success — on his second goal, he turned a pass from Cook into a finish. Quinn was almost facing his own goal but turned all the way around and fired a low, powerful shot into the net.

“That was something we worked on all week, just that two-man that we were running behind the goal,” Quinn said. “I saw that Cook drove up the side and my guy was stuck in the front of the net. Just back-cut him and Cook threw me a pass.”

Then, on SU’s final possession of the half, Quinn pulled the Orange within one goal, making the score 7-6 when he unloaded a long shot off a Dordevic pass.

But then some of the offense’s inefficiencies returned for the bulk of the third quarter. Curry couldn’t seem to get going at all. He fired seven total shots by continuously using his speed to create shooting windows, but he missed the mark on his efforts. Attack Owen Seebold had five shots, no points and saw very little of

the ball. And Mikey Berkman didn’t make his impact until the final seconds of the third quarter.

SU managed to pull within two goals when Tyler Cordes picked out Jackson Birtwistle for a point-blank range shot in the final minute of the third quarter. Then a faceoff violation gifted SU the ball back, and Berkman’s goal made it 9-8, Maryland.

Yet Syracuse’s offense went quiet once more, and Maryland used its 3-0 run to re-extend the lead. It took five minutes before Dordevic was able to answer back, halting the run with his fourth goal of the afternoon on another shot he created off the dodge. Then he unloaded his fifth when he curved a run from right to left and fired a lefty-shot that rifled into the top corner.

It wasn’t enough, though, and Dordevic couldn’t do it without more help. When the final buzzer sounded in the Dome, it was Maryland who walked away with the last word. The Terrapins rattled the post with a shot in the final three minutes, but they recovered the loose ball so Owen Murphy could add the dagger goal that ended SU’s hopes of knocking off the nation’s top team once-and-for-all.

“We need to trust what we’re trying to do, and finish our opportunities and we’ll get better,” Gait said.

the Orange’s defense, though Gavin made some crucial saves either by trapping the ball on the turf with his stick or deflecting it to himself on long strikes.

“I couldn’t have made those saves without the awesome defense I had in front of me,” Gavin said.

Early in the second period, Gavin was left with a two-on-one situation as the rest of the defense fought for a ground ball near midfield.

Gavin tracked Khan with the ball before shifting his attention to Eric Malever, who was on his left side. Malever shot high at point-blank range, but Gavin trapped the ball with his stick, preventing a seventh score.

Gavin continued his strong play into the third period but near the end, Wisnauskas got the ball unguarded again from 15 yards out from the cage. He sent an underhand left strike from the right side of the field,

hitting the top left corner of the net for his final score.

10 shots. During the fourth, the Terrapins also had 14 ground ball pickups compared to the Orange’s five, allowing them to get on the offensive end to attack Gavin.

Gavin didn’t record a save for the final 12 minutes, but early in the fourth period, DeMaio curled from the left side of the cage. DeMaio didn’t have an open option to pass to like Khan did earlier in the game, instead deciding to score himself.

DeMaio’s attempt was off the mark on the right of the cage, and Gavin was able to trap the ball on the turf, sending it to Fraterrigo for the clear.

“We had all fight in us today. We never gave up. It didn’t go the right way for us but we are excited to bounce back next week,” Gavin said.

When we gave them tough shots, he made saves. ...We were happy with his play.

Gary Gait

head coach

Wisnauskas’ ability to shoot with his left hand made it hard for Gavin on some saves, the goalie said, but he finished with two stops against the Terrapins leading scorer.

But in the final period, Maryland started to pull away offensively with five goals on

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Syracuse offense struggles in 95-53 loss to No. 4 NC State

By Adam McCaffery staff writer

Najé Murray drove down the right side of the lane but was met by three NC State defenders.

Still, Murray decided to take the shot herself.

She floated the ball in the air in hopes of a layup, but the ball was instead met in mid-air

by Jada Boyd’s hand.

Kai Crutchfield gathered the ball for the Wolfpack, and they quickly ran out in transition before the Orange could react. Jakia Brown-Turner received the pass in the corner and drove as Alaysia Styles looked to stop her. But Styles stepped out of the way, giving Brown-Turner a wide-open layup and NC State a 26-6 lead, just one instance of poor Syracuse offense leading to easy points for the Wolfpack.

On Thursday, Syracuse was handed a 102-53 loss at home against Virginia Tech, its biggest margin of defeat on the season. On Sunday, Syracuse (11-15, 4-12 Atlantic Coast Conference) didn’t fare much better against No. 4 NC State (25-3, 16-1), the top team in the ACC, as the Orange got off to a sluggish start and played poorly on offense, eventually falling 95-53.

“NC State came out and jumped on us a little bit,” head coach Vonn Read said.

The Wolfpack opened the game on an 11-0

scoring run. Elissa Cunane won the tipoff and Raina Perez hit a jumper from the top of the key. Chrislyn Carr tried to match that with a layup of her own for Syracuse, but it was tightly contested and she couldn’t convert.

Perez confidently shot a 3-pointer after making her first basket, but she missed.

Still, Brown-Turner got the rebound for the Wolfpack, leading to second chance points.

Syracuse quickly gave up the ball after Teisha Hyman took a pull-up jumper that missed early into the shot clock and then gave up a field goal on its third straight possession after Brown-Turner hit a 3.

The Wolfpack forced Read to call his first timeout of the game less than three minutes in after Hyman over-dribbled and turned the ball over at the top of the key to give NC State an easy transition layup and an 11-0 lead.

Throughout the game, SU’s bad plays outweighed the good ones, as most looks were early into the possession after barely rotating the ball around.

Syracuse got its first points after the time out when Murray caught a pass and quickly drove on the right side for a layup. SU had an opportunity to cut the lead to six after Cunane missed a post-up shot, but Murray jacked up a 3 just one pass into the possession, which led to an easy look for NC State in transition.

Possessions later, and with a defender in

her face, Murray launched another 3 that missed off the back of the rim. And late in the third quarter, Murray — who only scored three points in the second half — took another illadvised 3 with Crutchfield in her face. Crutchfield blocked the shot, gathered the ball and the Wolfpack got a layup seconds later to take a 33-point lead.

Possessions often revealed the Orange showing no signs of organization and struggling to move the ball smoothly, forcing them to play an isolation-heavy offense.

To start the second quarter, Murray tried setting up the offense but lost the ball at the top of the key to Crutchfield. The next play, Hyman looked to give the Orange a spark and stole the ball from Perez on the other end, but after trying to create a play in transition, Perez snuck behind her and stole the ball back before finding a cherry-picking Camille Hobby for an easy layup to extend the lead to 30-9.

On one offensive possession in the third quarter, Syracuse looked stagnant and unorganized. Hyman had the ball at the top of the key on the right side and was quickly met by defenders on the drive. It didn’t even matter, though, since Christianna Carr was called for an offensive foul.

The further Syracuse got into the game, the further it fell deeper into a hole against the Wolfpack. Overall, SU finished 25.7%

from 3 and 27.5% from the field, and it only assisted on nine of its 19 field goals. But the Orange never looked to change their approach and kept shooting contested 3s and jump shots.

After Syracuse went on an 11-0 run in the second quarter to cut NC State’s lead to 12, the Wolfpack quickly scored and extended their lead to 14. Styles then took a jumper with a hand in her face the next possession, and Murray coughed the ball up to Kayla Jones to allow NC State to go back up 16.

In the fourth quarter, NC State hit a layup and Chrislyn quickly dribbled the ball up and passed to Murray on the move. Murray, who was 2-for-6 from 3-point range before her shot, chucked up a shot from beyond the arc without hesitation and it hit off the back rim.

Later in the quarter, Alaina Rice had a fast break layup opportunity and jumpstopped in an attempt to get Jones to bite on a pump fake. Jones didn’t bite and instead of passing the ball back out to the perimeter, Rice shot the layup, which Jones contested. The Auburn transfer missed and put her head down in frustration, with her team down by 40.

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No. 3 Syracuse narrowly defeats No. 4 Stony Brook 12-11

By Cole Bambini asst. copy editor

In the fourth quarter, Emma Tyrrell found herself just outside the 8-meter with a shooting window to extend SU’s lead and give a little breathing room to a lead that had been slowly shrinking. Emma launched a low-rolling shot which snuck past Stony Brook goalkeeper Charlie Campbell, but during the routine stick checks after each score, it was determined Emma had an illegal stick, negating the goal which kept Syracuse’s lead at 12-11.

On the ensuing possession, Sierra Cockerille picked up her second yellow card, giving Stony Brook a woman-up opportunity on its last chance. But after SU defended the Stony Brook attacker’s dodge and Tessa Queri picked up the ground ball, the Orange cleared and killed the clock, securing the team’s second win over a ranked opponent.

“It definitely got chaotic at the end of the game,” head coach Kayla Treanor said. “The defense held it down and did what it needed to do.”

In a back and forth game, No. 4 Stony Brook (0-1, 0-0 America East) couldn’t spoil Katie Rowan Thomson’s jersey retirement as No. 3 Syracuse (3-0, 0-0 Atlantic Coast) narrowly defeated the Seawolves 12-11. Through strong scoring runs from the Orange, SU managed to escape with four players scoring multiple goals despite lead changes.

Ahead of the game, all Syracuse players warmed up in shooting shirts with No. 21,

honoring Rowan Thomson, whose jersey was retired Sunday afternoon. Following a fouryear career from 2005-09 where she recorded the program’s most points (396), Rowan Thomson became the second SU female athlete to have her jersey retired following Felisha Legette-Jack, with her number right next to Gary Gait’s No. 22.

The Seawolves quickly jumped in front just 58 seconds into the game. Kailyn Hart found a cutting Ellie Masera in the middle of the 8-meter for Stony Brook’s first of the season. Masera found the net later in the first quarter from a similar spot to extend the lead to 2-1. Erin MacQuarrie’s four assists tied with Megan Carney for the game-high.

After the Seawolves got in front one minute into play, Syracuse equalized three minutes later with a free position opportunity.

The Orange cleared and on the ensuing possession, Lindsay Rongo received a yellow card for checking to the head. Emily Hawryschuk scored the free position shot, recording her first goal of the afternoon.

With one minute left in the first quarter, Emma dodged a Seawolf defender inside the 12-meter fan and found her older sister Meaghan Tyrrell outside of the right side of the cage, who equalized the game at 2-2. Later, with three seconds left in the first quarter, Meaghan returned the favor, assisting Emma while giving Syracuse its first lead of the afternoon.

“When it comes down to those final minutes of each quarter or each half, we’re kind of prepared to do what we have to do to get a

momentum shift if we need it,” Meaghan said.

Just 27 seconds into the second quarter, Carney found Hawryschuk at the crease for her second goal of the game. A minute later, Carney had the ball behind the net and saw Meaghan cutting towards the goal and launched a short, over-the-net pass to Meaghan, who dodged her defender and put away her second goal as well as the final of a string of four unanswered goals.

Then, Stony Brook silenced the Syracuse attack, only allowing one more goal for the remainder of the half.

In the first half, both teams played scrappy, awarding occasional free position attempts.

After an SU foul, Stony Brook had a free position opportunity, deciding to reset instead of going towards goal. Masera cut from outside the 12-meter fan right down the middle, receiving a pass in stride before slipping the ball past Delaney Sweitzer to cut the Orange’s lead to 5-4. By halftime, the Orange led 6-5.

Kate Mashewske won the opening draw to start the third quarter and within 55 seconds, Carney scored in a fashion similar to Syracuse’s quick start in the second quarter. A few minutes later, Meaghan scored her 14th goal of the season, putting the Orange up 8-6. However, that lead wouldn’t last long as Stony Brook ultimately regained the lead.

MacQuarrie ran down the right side of the 12-meter, finding Hart who was just behind the goal to the left. She approached Kimber Hower from behind, but saw Charlotte Verhulst cutting towards the goal. Hart made the

simple pass, which resulted in the easy goal as the Seawolves notched three unanswered goals to take a 9-8 lead.

After an ensuing timeout, Hawryschuk won the draw, catching the ball before it even hit the ground. The Orange received another free position opportunity and Carney scored, leveling the game at 9-9.

“We made adjustments on the defense, on the offense and on the draw circle,” Treanor said of the media timeout after Stony Brook took the lead. “We got a lot of life back in us and they were able to score those four goals. They always look to respond.”

Similar to the Seawolves’ string of unanswered goals, Syracuse responded with three more goals that Stony Brook wouldn’t respond to until the fourth quarter.

With just under 12 minutes in the fourth, Rongo received her second yellow card, disqualifying the Seawolves’ leader in ground balls at that point. But Syracuse couldn’t convert on the free position attempt, giving possession back to Stony Brook with another chance to cut the deficit.

MacQuarrie found herself alone on the right side of the 12-meter fan. Kyla Zapolski cut from the top of the 12-meter straight down and MacQuarrie found her cutting, dropping the Orange’s lead to one.

“That wasn’t our cleanest win,” Carney said. “It was definitely messy but any top 5 win is gonna feel good for us.” cabambin@syr.edu @ColeBambini

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Gavin makes 11 saves, holds Maryland below season average

By Anish Vasudevan asst. sports editor

With 11 minutes left in the first half and Syracuse trailing by two, Bobby Gavin planted his feet in front of the cage. He wasn’t looking toward the field though, instead keeping his toes on the crease while he looked at Maryland’s Keegan Khan through the netting.

Khan immediately sprang from behind the cage to the front while Gavin followed his movements with his stick. Gavin knew that

Khan was not looking just to shoot, in case a player was open near the crease. So when Khan flipped the ball into Jack Koras’ stick, Gavin was ready, flipping his stick in the other direction, and catching the shot near his waist.

“When we gave them tough shots, he made saves,” head coach Gary Gait said. “We were happy with his play.”

The Orange’s defense stepped up as Gavin had 11 saves, finishing with a 44.0% save percentage. The Terrapins entered the game averaging 20.5 goals, but Gavin and the rest

of Dave Pietramala’s revamped defense held them to six fewer in Syracuse’s (1-1) 14-10 loss to Maryland (3-0).

Gavin had eight saves in the Orange’s season-opener against Holy Cross, coming out for Harrison Thompson after the first half.

Following the 28-5 win, Gait said that SU’s starting goalie position was still up in the air.

But Gavin got the start on Sunday and following two penalties by Syracuse’s defense — one for pushing by Nick Fraterrigo and another on Dami Oladunmoye for illegal procedure

while substituting into play — he recorded his first save.

Khan shot from 10 yards out, but Gavin deflected the high strike out of bounds. Still, Daniel Maltz picked up the ground ball for the Terrapins and assisted Anthony DeMaio, who easily scored past Gavin.

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‘Bigger than any 1 person’ Several notable Syracuse lacrosse alums say Chase Scanlan didn’t ruin the legacy of the famed No. 22

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By Andrew Crane

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By Roshan Fernandez senior staff writer

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itting in the Drumlins Country Club, Director of Athletics John Wildhack fielded questions about SU legend Gary Gait the day before his jersey was retired. Wildhack spoke about the legacy that Gait put into motion when he helped lead SU to three consecutive national championships (1988-90) while donning the No. 22. He talked about the dynasty that Gait helped start — between 1988 and 2004, the player who wore the famed No. 22 jersey earned All-American honors every single season.

Then Wildhack was asked about how Chase Scanlan fit into that picture, and whether his actions had tainted — or ruined — the legacy associated with the number.

“He didn’t ruin that legacy,” Wildhack said. “No. 22, that’s bigger than any one person. It’s the most famous number in the history of the sport, but it’s not about one person. It’s about all the people who’ve worn it.”

On Sunday, Gait became the first Syracuse men’s lacrosse player to have his jersey lifted into the Carrier Dome rafters. The No. 22 tradition that essentially began with Gait continued nearly every season through 2021, and Gait said it will return next year when top-ranked Class of 2022 recruit Joey Spallina wears it. Since Gait, the No. 22 has been worn by an SU player expected to be one of the best in the country.

Scanlan took the No. 22 jersey ahead of the 2020 season after transferring from Loyola. But midway through last season, Scanlan was arrested and charged with criminal mischief that allegedly stemmed from a domestic violence incident. He was suspended from the team and later entered the transfer portal. In the fall, he was arrested for a DWI. No one has worn the No. 22 since Scanlan. But eight SU men’s lacrosse alumni, including Gait and three others who wore the number, told The Daily Orange they don’t believe Scanlan ruined the legacy of the number.

“He ruined the legacy of Chase Scanlan. I don’t think he’s ruined the number,” said Ric Beardsley, a four-time All-American from 1992-95.

All condemned the domestic violence and abuse that Scanlan allegedly put another person through, but they also emphasized there’s too much history from other great players for any single person to destroy the meaning of the

number. The player represents themselves when they wear the number, Gait said, and “(Scanlan’s) going to have to live with that.”

Former No. 22 JoJo Marasco said Scanlan’s actions reflected poorly on SU as well as the number, but he thinks nothing could ever unwrite the accomplishments of the past. Some of the best players in collegiate lacrosse wore the jersey, he said. Marasco said he expects the number to be back and “strong” with Spallina next season.

Ryan Powell, another former No. 22, said the number is still strong and alive in the lacrosse world. Currently a lacrosse coach at Christian Brothers Academy, Powell said he sees top high school and college players around the country wearing the No. 22.

“There’s a ton of players that have rocked that number and carried themselves and conducted themselves in a great manner, and it’s made that number extremely strong,” Powell said. “It’s got to be an awesome honor to wear that number, and I think every kid would be honored to be able to slip that over their head.”

Charlie Lockwood, Todd Curry, Tom Marechek and Paul Carcaterra all echoed similar sentiments. Some have ideas about ways to tweak the No. 22 tradition, but none think it should end with Scanlan.

Carcaterra, an ESPN lacrosse analyst and SU player from 1994-97, said he’d like to see the number given to an upperclassman who has proven themselves instead of a freshman, similar to the way that Maryland handles its No. 1 jersey.

Brad Kotz, an SU player from 1982-85, said he’s not a fan of setting aside a specific jersey for a recruit. He said it could lead attacks or midfielders to try and prove they’re worthy of the honor by trying to score themselves, a concept that he said is disruptive to a team’s offense.

But regardless, the legacy is expected to carry on with Spallina. Gait said he “couldn’t think of a better guy to do that,” citing Spallina’s confidence and abilities as a team player.

“The number of people who wore 22 really carried the torch very well,” said Curry, an SU All-American from 198487 and the father of current player Brendan Curry. “Because there was so much success around people who wore 22 and it became an honor, I don’t see why they should not carry on that tradition of 22.” rferna04@syr.edu @roshan_f16

The way that Dan Pitcher landed his first NFL job “never happens,” and it likely never would’ve happened in the first place if Paul Alexander, the then-Cincinnati Bengals’ offensive line coach, hadn’t made a phone call on the morning of the 2012 NFL draft’s first round.

Ryan Grigson, hired that year as the Indianapolis Colts’ general manager, sat in the nook of his new condo that his family hadn’t even moved into yet and the footprints on the fresh carpet only tracked to the kitchen, the bedroom and the one chair where he sat to watch television. He spent most of his time in the team offices, preparing for his first draft, one where the Colts held the No. 1 pick. That was life for a first-time NFL general manager trying to assemble his personnel staff, and the opportunity to hire Pitcher — SUNY Cortland’s wide receivers coach — as a scouting assistant was about to slip away.

Alexander called to tell Grigson that Pitcher was driving to meet with LSU head coach Les Miles, where the offer to become a graduate assistant might’ve materialized. “This kid’s special,” Alexander recalled telling Grigson. So as soon as he hung up, Grigson dialed Pitcher and offered him a sales pitch after he pulled over to see pitcher page 9

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No. 9 SU falls to No. 1 Maryland 14-10

By Roshan Fernandez senior staff writer

After Syracuse ended the third quarter by scoring twice in the final 30 seconds, making it a onegoal game, Maryland answered right back. First it was Logan Wisnauskas, then Jonathan Donville and finally, Daniel Maltz, who came around from the X and scored unassisted to stretch Maryland’s lead to 12-8.

Syracuse had chances all afternoon to even the scoreline, aided by a solid defensive performance and the ride. It forced 16 Maryland turnovers and five failed clearances and held the Terps’ high-powered offense to just 14 goals behind 11 saves from see maryland page 9