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Syracuse University will host a panel of experts to discuss President Donald Trump’s order on immigration, the university announced Wednesday.

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P • Stick a fork in it

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Funk ‘n Waffles, the breakfast restaurant and concert venue, closed its Hill location Wednesday night, rounding out with its weekly open mic night.

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S • Battle ready

Tyus Battle had been struggling of late, unable to play his best basketball while battling through the flu. He bounced back and scored 18 points for the Orange on Wednesday.

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Faculty member in AAS dies

By Michael Burke news editor

Renate Simson, a Syracuse University professor in the African American Studies department, died earlier this week.

Simson died on Sunday, according to an Instagram photo posted Tuesday

by SU’s Student African American Society. A RENATE SIMSON staff member in the AAS department on Wednesday confirmed that Simson died.

Simson was previously chair of the department. She published more than 30 articles and chapters in journals and books, according to her faculty webpage. She also published a book in 2007 about inequalities of New York state public schools, per the webpage.

“We are keeping her family and her SU family in our hearts,” the Instagram post reads. “If you’d like to send flowers or anything please direct them to the AAS department.” mdburk01@syr.edu @michaelburke47

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TYLER LYDON runs toward John Gillon (4), who banked in a 3-pointer at the buzzer to win the game for SU. Gillon led the way with 26 points for the Orange and played stellar defense on the possession before the winning shot. jessica sheldon staff photographer

Syracuse claims 3rd Top 10 win, bolsters NCAA resume behind John Gillon’s buzzer beater tant coach Gerry McNamara screamed, “Bank! Bank! senior staff writer Bank!” from the sideline because he saw it was going long. The shot hit off the backboard and fell through he season of comebacks was on the precipice of the basket. Syracuse beat Duke. 78-75. another. With two minutes and 20 seconds left, a “I’m going to try and be a stone-cold killer every security guard warned fans in courtside seats to game,” Gillon said. be aware of a possible court storming, The win over No. 10 Duke (22-6, Syracuse’s third of the season.

10-5 Atlantic Coast) provides a masWith eight seconds left, Tyler sive boost to Syracuse’s (17-12, 9-7) Lydon passed the ball to Tyus Battle.

NCAA Tournament resume. WednesBattle then lobbed it to John Gillon, day night marked SU’s third Top 10 who caught it with 4.4 seconds left. win of the season. Each previous time, Gillon hadn’t realized how little time students stormed the court. They Syracuse is the only was left. He looked up at the clock and did it again after 11 ties and 16 lead unranked team to beat three changes, none more dramatic than the knew he had to sprint down the court.

Top 10 teams this season, “I was like, ‘Alright, I gotta go make a final one. per ESPN play,’” Gillon said.

Gillon didn’t sub out once and finHe stopped at the 3-point line in ished with 26 points on 9-of-14 shootthe tied game. There was only time for one shot. The ing and six assists. His ability to drive and score, which Orange had been in this position before. He beat he showed more and more as the game went on, is the the buzzer to force overtime against North Carolina reason he took over midseason as Syracuse’s starting State. Battle beat the buzzer against Clemson. point guard. After committing five turnovers in each of Lydon rushed to get the offensive rebound. Gillon the past two games, both losses, Gillon committed zero didn’t know if it’d go in when it left his hand. Assissee duke page 12

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Owners prepare for future

By Jacob Gedetsis enterprise editor

A string of small businesses located on South Crouse Avenue are currently planning their last days of business on the Hill.

The city’s Planning Commission recently approved a proposal from BLVD Equities, a real estate development firm based in New Jersey, to demolish the structures on the street and construct an eight-story “mixed use building.” The first floor will remain retail space, and the rest will be residences.

Project developers still need to acquire a construction permit and a demolition permit from the city’s code enforcement division.

If the permits and abatements are approved, construction could begin as early as next month. Several businesses have already announced their last days of business.

In paperwork filed with the city last month, the developers listed March 1 as the “approximate” start

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THIRSTY thursday | kombucha beer

Kombucha beer fields healthy, probiotic kick

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By Aline Peres Martins staff writer

When Lindsay Lohan was caught violating her parole rules by drinking alcohol in 2011, she said she had just been drinking Kombucha Tea. Clearly, Lohan couldn’t have been referring to Unity Vibration’s Kombucha Beer — because it packs a punch. At 8 percent alcohol by volume, it is not your average health drink.

Made with organic dried hops and a symbiotic colony of friendly bacteria — called symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast— the Unity Vibration’s Kombucha Beer sits right in between a wheat ale and the type of acidic Kombucha Tea you can pick up at your local Whole Foods. It doesn’t taste or look quite a beer, but also doesn’t taste or look just like Kombucha Tea either.

It smells more like Kombucha Tea than beer, though it tastes more like a mix of the two. Unlike bottled nonalcoholic Kombucha Tea, the added flavors pop. In this case, the burning ginger variety and characteristic sweetness was front and center.

It also looks … interesting. It’s opaque with a slight fizz and yellow color. Think hard apple cider, but cloudier. Next to an ale, it looks light, but next to 1911 Cider, it looks dark.

The process of making this Kombucha Beer is complicated, according to Unity Vibration’s website. Symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast is used in the first round of fermentation, then the added flavors are used in the fermentation proceeding it. Owners Rachel and Tarek Kanaan started brewing their own Kombucha in their

CORRECTIONS In a Monday article titled “Royal runway,” Sallie Mae was misnamed. The Daily Orange regrets this error.

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Kombucha Beer is made with hops and the same friendly bacteria used in Kombucha tea. Unity Vibration, the brewery that makes it, has been in business for 10 years. aline peres martins staff writer

Michigan home in 2007, and while they now have a larger operation, they still brew in small, hand-crafted batches. In a video of the owners on the company website, you can see the positive mantras written on the side of the tanks and Rachel playing Tibetan bowls above them, “infusing the tanks with positivity.” It is an unusual process, but the owners seem to care for the product they produce.

As for the health properties

typically associated with Kombucha, the beer is also gluten-free, vegan and organic. The Mayo Clinic says it cannot for certain whether any Kombucha actually helps with digestion, immune function or prevent cancer.

But Health.com says it is rich in B vitamins and folic acid, which help the body produce and maintain new cells.

Unity Vibration’s Kombucha Beer isn’t an easy find around Syracuse. It is sometimes on tap at The Evergreen

in Hanover Square and can occasionally be found at J. Ryan’s Pub, but you must be prudent to catch it while it’s in stock. It’s worth a try if you are into funky or fruity beers. And if you just want to feel like you might be doing your health a favor by drinking some Kombucha Beer instead of a porter at your next happy hour, go for it — even if the health benefits might just be a fluke.

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A new look With the pending demolition of Chuck’s and Lucy’s, the Syracuse bar scene will be changing soon.

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news to know Here is a round-up of the biggest news happening in the U.S. right now.

POLITICS GETTING OFF THE AIR Kellyanne Conway, White House counselor to President Donald Trump, was taken off the air for a week as a sanction for misrepresenting the administration’s official message. She stirred controversy as she promoted Ivanka Trump’s product lines on Fox News, mentioned a massacre that had never happened and used a phrase “alternative facts.” source: the chicago tribune

BATHROOM LAWS Trump issued new guidelines that would take away the federal mandate that allows transgender students to use their preferred bathroom. According to a New York Times report, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos was against rescinding the mandate but was overruled by Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

The administration cited confusion and litigation over the order as its reason for dismantling it. source: the new york times

In celebration Syracuse University students stormed to Hungry Chuck’s, the popular student bar on South Crouse Avenue, after the Syracuse men’s basketball team defeated Duke inside the Carrier Dome in thrilling fashion on Wednesday. The bar is nearing its final days, at least temporarily, as a pending construction project on the street would require its demolition. colin davy asst. photo editor

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Election official discusses voting reform

By Chieh Yuan Chen staff writer

New York state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman recently rolled out a plan that could make the New York voting process more accessible for the public.

The New York Votes Act, which was proposed by Schneiderman, would make early voting, automatic voter registration and sameday registration available for New York residents. The act could have effects in Onondaga County.

During the presidential primary last year, the attorney general’s office received 1,500 calls of complaint from voters, according to the office. That number was 10

times higher than any previous election, the office has said.

“Any law that makes it easier to vote is a good law; any law that makes it harder to vote is a bad law,” Schneiderman said in a press release. “The New York Votes Act will help our state become a national leader in protecting and expanding voting rights for New Yorkers.”

Dustin Czarny, one of Onondaga County’s Board of Elections commissioners, said that because Election Day usually takes place at the beginning of a month where people tend to move, that currently affects people’s ability to register to vote.

“If you move from outside of city or outside of county, you won’t be able

to register to vote because the deadline has already passed,” he said.

Those who miss the deadline need to follow court orders to restore their rights to cast a ballot, Czarny said.

But with same-day voter registration, he said people would be allowed to update their addresses and register to vote right before the election.

Schneiderman’s bill also permits a registered voter to vote two weeks prior to any scheduled election.

Currently, 37 states and the District of Columbia have allowed early voting, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

With same-day voter registration and early voting, Czarny said he thinks there will be an increase in New York voter turnout.

“(It) allows campaigns and voters to be able to have more convenience to vote on Election Day or before Election Day,” he said.

He added that early voting brings convenience to voters because it can lead to shorter lines at voting stations on Election Day, which in turn can lead to an increase in participation.

“There are a lot of people who wanted to take part in this election and they thought ‘I’m in a state of early voting,’” he said.

“They came into our office wanting to vote, and they can’t.”

Czarny said Onondaga County doesn’t see long lines at polling places because over 180 poll sites are located throughout the region,

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SU to hold expert panel on Trump travel ban

By Sam Ogozalek asst. news editor

Syracuse University experts will be hosting a panel discussion for the campus community to discuss President Donald Trump’s immigration policies and his executive order that banned immigration from seven majority-Muslim countries.

The university on Wednesday announced that the event — an interdisciplinary roundtable — will be held Friday from noon until 2 p.m. in Dineen Hall’s Empire Lecture Hall.

The event is for anyone confused by Trump’s executive order, interested in the legal, social and political ramifications of Trump’s immigration policies or affected

by Trump’s original travel ban, according to an SU News release.

The effects of Trump’s actions on immigration have been widespread and created controversy and debate across the country, including in Syracuse.

While Trump’s initial travel ban has been temporarily blocked by a ruling upheld by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, some reports indicate the

president is now drafting a new executive order.

Protests erupted across the country at airports following the original implementation of the ban. At the Syracuse Hancock International Airport, hundreds of protesters along with Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner held a rally in support of refugees and immigrants blocked from entering the U.S. At SU, meanwhile, debate centered around the “sanctuary campus” issue and SU Chancellor Kent Syverud’s stance on Trump’s immigration policies. Syverud

eventually denounced Trump’s executive order in a statement, after about 250 frustrated SU faculty members signed a petition urging him to do so.

The chancellor later defended how long he took to announce his stance in an address to the University Senate, saying that as a lawyer he wanted time to read and understand the language in the executive order, which he called “quite difficult.”

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CLOSE TIES The new Environmental Protection Agency head was disgruntled with federal environmental regulations on fossil fuels while he was Oklahoma’s attorney general, showing his close relationship with the fossil fuel industry, according to thousands of emails released Wednesday. source: the washington post

SCIENCE EARTH-SIZED DISCOVERIES A study published Wednesday in the science journal Nature announced that scientists have discovered at least seven Earthsized planets orbiting a dwarf star about 40 million light-years away from Earth. Three of the planets are in the habitable zone of the star, and some may have oceans on their surfaces. source: cnn

U.S. LAST STAND As of 4 p.m. Wednesday, authorities in North Dakota said they have been negotiating with a few remaining protesters at an encampment set up to protest the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline. The Army Corps of Engineers had set a 2 p.m. deadline Wednesday to close the camp.

Most protesters walked out of the camp during the afternoon, but those who remained put barbed wire across a camp entrance. source: associated press

DOG DAYS The Supreme Court ruled in favor of a 13-year-old girl with cerebral palsy and her goldendoodle in a closely watched case. The justices ruled that Ehlena Fry and her family had the right to pursue a lawsuit against her former public school because they would not allow the dog to be her aid. source: usa today

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businesses date for construction and Aug. 1, 2018, as the first date of occupation. Those involved with the project have previously been reluctant to share a strict timeline.

Hungry Chuck’s, the popular student bar, has received much of the initial attention regarding the effects of the project, but here’s a look at the other small businesses on South Crouse Avenue that will be affected.

“Even if it’s part-time, money is money.

I got three kids to take care of. I do look forward to these 20-30 hours that I get up here, I need those 20-30 hours, and I will be looking for other employment,” Bradish said. “It just sucks the way this place is going out.”

Faigle said the demolition not only affects the lives of the employees, but the entire SU community.

He talked about the campus culture and how South Crouse Avenue businesses have been a cornerstone to thousands of students’ experiences.

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Orange Crate Brewing Co., formerly Lucy’s Retired Surfer Bar

Just before Orange Crate Brewing Co. opened for the night, a few student employees sat in the front room. They joked about the Duke game, made bets they quickly backed out of and gave each other a hard time.

It felt normal.

A patchwork family — Orange Crate employees pride themselves on a strong family culture and surely act like one — was ready for another normal work night. And that’s how owner R.C. Faigle likes it.

But soon that family, made-up of almost 50 student-employees annually, will be torn apart as the demolition of the space looms.

Faigle was approached about the project in August by the Dellas Family, the property owners. The Dellas Family, owners of Faegan’s Cafe & Pub and Varsity Pizza, recently sold the Orange Crate building to BLVD Equities.

Faigle was at the end of a five-year lease that would not be renewed. He’s happy for his friends, the Dellas Family, but is crushed to see a place he started working at 27 years ago as an SU student approaching its end.

He has been in contact with the Dellas family but has not talked to BLVD Equities.

Faigle would be willing to move into the new space, he said.

Chris Bradish has worked part-time at the bar for 18 years, and said he doesn’t understand why the construction has to happen now. He said he hopes that construction doesn’t start until the end of the school year, so that the businesses can benefit from one of the busiest parts of the academic year.

The number of businesses on South Crouse Avenue affected by the proposal to construct an eight-story “mixed-use building”

“It’s really sad to the redevelopment of the properties here, and it will really change the entire experience of Syracuse University, and I was a part of that, and I took pride in that,” Faigle said. “It’s an overwhelming, depressing feeling knowing the end is near.”

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Hair Trends owner Antonio Pinti isn’t going anywhere until he knows his business is protected.

There’s more than a year left on his lease, and he won’t close shop until he receives the commercial buyout he thinks he deserves.

He has been engaged in negotiations with BLVD Equities, and said he “got some numbers” but has been unsatisfied with its offers so far.

Pinti has owned the salon on the corner of the alley for 23 years and used to own all of Campus Plaza, before selling it to the last owner, The Woodbine Group.

He declined to go into details about the buyout, but said he has more than a year left

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on his lease.

He plans to stay “within a one block radius” of his current location, and has been looking at several vacant locations in the area.

In a January interview, Pinti said he wanted set up shop in a new location by March 15 and he didn’t intend on holding up demolition of the project in any way. But since then, that timeline has shifted. He hopes to reach an agreement with BLVD Equities this week but is willing to sit on his lease until that happens.

He said he sees the complex as a chance to clean up the area, and that he believes it will enhance the student and business experience “an awful lot.”

Funk ’n Waffles

Adam Gold pulled down South Crouse Avenue like he had thousands of times in the past decade.

It’s a decade that catapulted his basement waffle and music venue to national lore – attracting the attention of the Food Network – and capturing the hearts of generations of Orange faithful.

It’s a drive that has become less frequent as his business has expanded, last year to downtown, and later this year to Rochester.

It’s a decade that was filled with rumors and whispers of new owners looking to tear down Campus Plaza. Whispers that always ended with Funk staying just where it is.

So when the rumors started up again in the last few months, Gold didn’t spend too much time thinking about them.

But on this day, the commute was different.

Gold, a graduate of SU, pulled down the familiar alley, its bright graffiti welcoming him, but he couldn’t pull into his normal parking spot.

“I think it became more real to me when I saw them drilling core samples in our parking lot, and I couldn’t pull into my normal spot,” Gold said. “It wasn’t until then that I took it seriously.”

Funk ’n Waffles on the Hill closed its location Wednesday. Gold wants to keep a presence in the area and would be open to moving into the new retail space, but he said he hasn’t received enough information to commit to that.

Gold said he often thinks it’s the worst location he could have found. It’s located in a leaky basement underneath Chuck’s, down the alley behind Marshall Street.

Over the years, he’s looked at other locations on the Hill as they have come available. Recently, he considered Bruegger’s Bagels’ old location, but none of the potential new spaces matched his criteria.

“It’s pretty hard to talk about, I got to say,” Gold said. “It’s pretty heavy to think about the space being demolished.”

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voting but added that there are still delays during peak times in presidential elections.

“If we have early voting and automated registration, a lot of court orders will be unnecessary,” the elections commissioner said, adding that they issued more than 200 court orders last year on Election Day to allow people to register and vote.

Schneiderman’s law will not take effect unless the state legislature passes the proposed bill.

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panel outside of the U.S., in fears they would not be able to re-enter the country following Trump’s order.

Kseniia Guliaeva and Amanda Freire de Almeida, students at SU College of Law, developed the idea for the Friday roundtable, according to the release.

“Many of us know people personally affected by the (executive order),” said Guliaeva, an international student attending SU from Russia, in the release. “They have a lot of questions about what is happening, and they pushed us to organize this event.”

The Friday panel will be composed of Mehrzad Boroujerdi, a professor and the chair of political science in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs; Ken Harper, an associate professor of multimedia photography and design, and Stephen

appeThaizing

Joe Jittaratlert was blindsided by the news.

“I didn’t know what to think. I still had lease here for a long time, and we want to stay,” Jittaratlert said.

He learned about the demolition “just after the new year,” and a few weeks later he would be closing appeThaizing’s Hill location forever.

AppeThaizing recently reached a commercial buyout agreement with BLVD Equities. Jittaratlert declined to go into detail.

There’s another appeThaizing location in Liverpool, and the owners also own Khao Gaeng, a Thai-street food joint in downtown near Clinton Square. The owners are considering changing their downtown property into another appeThaizing as a result of their Hill location closing.

The owner’s downtown restaurants will deliver appeThaizing dishes via GrubHub to the Hill as soon as the South Crouse Avenue location closes Friday at 2 p.m.

Several members of the kitchen staff will continue to work at the downtown restaurant and Liverpool location, but most of the front of house workers will be laid off.

Jittaratlert said online delivery has changed how appeThaizing has done business in recent years, and so a physical location on the Hill isn’t necessary to serve students. Business at the Hill restaurant has increased since the announcement of the demolition, he said.

He said they’ve talked “a little” to BLVD Equities about moving back into the new space, but plan to focus on their other restaurants for now.

“Another ending creates another opportunity,” Jittaratlert said.

Komachi

Several Komachi employees and the owners declined multiple requests to comment on this story.

There are no other Komachi restaurants in Syracuse.

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Nicole Stein, a senior vice president in marketing, wrote in an email statement that “absolutely” would like to maintain a presence on the Hill. There is no current timeline for the eviction of the property.

“We are in active discussions with our current landlord, the project developers, and other property representatives on options for continuing service to our existing members as well as a facility to attract more of the Syracuse market. Unfortunately, we can’t comment on any specifics yet,” Stein wrote in the statement. jagedets@syr.edu | @JacobGedetsis —Asst. News Editor Sam Ogozalek contributed reporting to this article.

es for Onondaga County’s elections office.

“Once it gets into the process, it’s going to be very hard for Board of Elections to adjust this within a small period of time,” he said.

However, it’s still unclear whether the legislature will support the bill because state legislators often have partisan views on voting matters, Czarny said This is also one of the reasons why New York is lagging behind other states when it comes to voting systems and procedures, he added.

“We have a divided legislature that doesn’t seem to be able to come to an agreement,” Czarny said. “It’s time for the Empire State to join the rest of the country.” chchen@syr.edu

Pike, associate professor of public relations in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications; Gary Kelder, a professor of law, and Andrew Kim, an associate professor of law, in the College of Law and Corri Zoli, the director of research for the Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism.

Boroujerdi said in the release he hopes the event will give students a more “holistic” view of Trump’s immigration policies and the executive order, but added that he doubts a revised order from the president “will calm the waters.”

Harper said in the release that he thinks the damage has already been done.

“I know that some SU departments are seeing a decrease in student and faculty interest,” he said in the release. “What better way to cut higher education institutions off at the knees than push international students away. We are in uncharted territory with this administration’s immigration actions.” sfogozal@syr.edu

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‘Will & Grace’ should portray queer characters fairly in revival

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BC recently announced it would revive “Will & Grace” — the sitcom that former Vice President and Syracuse University alumnus Joe Biden once said “did more to educate the American public” on the LGBTQ community “than almost anything anybody’s ever done so far.”

Biden’s 2012 glowing review 0f “Will & Grace” came six years after the show went off the air, revealing its special position in American culture. When it debuted in 1998, the show made history for featuring two openly gay main characters. While LGBTQ characters had been on television before, “Will & Grace” was the first hit primetime program to feature them.

During the 2017-18 television season, modern audiences will be reacquainted with its queer characters.

But can the “Will & Grace” reboot have the same social and cultural impact Biden described nearly five years ago? Although it was revolutionary for its time, it’s hard to find anything radical about “Will & Grace” today.

The sitcom’s reboot needs to embrace diversity — both in its characterizations of queer people as well as the storylines they participate in.

Even though it was meant to represent queer communities, “Will & Grace” was produced for straight consumption. Perhaps as a result,

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the show indulged in every “gay character” trope in the book. And then, as if to add insult to injury, “Will & Grace” was unkind and often downright homophobic to its gay characters. Much of the show’s humor revolved around mocking feminine or stereotypically gay aspects of their personalities.

“I think there is a tension there because it was beloved,” said Robert Thompson, director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture at Syracuse University.

“But at the same time… (it was) a walking thesaurus of stereotypes.”

While gay characters shouldn’t exist only to extinguish stereotypes, “Will & Grace” didn’t allow its protagonists much personality outside of their queer archetypes. The show sanitized gay life and gay culture to be as inoffensive as possible, as Will, Jack and their friends are all sexless, white and upper-middle class.

The sitcom scrubbed away anything that could possibly be alienating about queer communities in order to appeal to a mainstream audience. Storylines revolved around catty conflict,

not fighting for civil rights. There may have been dating drama, but there was hardly ever any onscreen intimacy. The characters of “Will & Grace” are gay, but only in principle, not in practice.

Grace” was a game-changer for gay characters on television. For the first time, Americans were laughing with them — not at them.

“When it came on, it was really breaking some ground,” Thompson said. “And because it broke it so well, we’ve had all these other things that have come afterwards.”

Now, nearly 11 years after the sitcom’s finale aired, television’s portrayal of queer characters is a far cry from the days of “Will & Grace.”

“Modern Family,” “How to Get Away with Murder” and “Empire” are among many primetime network television shows to feature queer main characters.

In fact, the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation’s annual Where Are We On TV report showed that LGBTQ-identifying characters accounted for 4.8 percent of all series regulars in 2016 — the highest percentage of LGBTQ series regulars the group has ever found.

And, unlike in “Will & Grace,” many of these characters go beyond archetypes that presume how queer people should look and behave.

This is not to say today’s media portrayal of LGBTQ people is not without its issues. Even in a new media landscape rich with queer characters, old conventions remain.

The same GLAAD poll showed that queer characters on TV remain overwhelmingly white. It also

revealed that, while the number of gay men was at its highest, queer women and trans people continue to be underrepresented.

There’s still much to improve about gay representation on television. So, even though “Will & Grace” was groundbreaking for its time, rebooting it today begs the question of why we are going back in time instead of progressing forward.

Queer representation in media has always been important, but it’s particularly urgent today. A man whose administration is circulating a proposed executive order that would legalize discrimination against LGBTQ people sits in the Oval Office. He, along with a Republican-majority Congress, have made it clear that endangering queer Americans is on the agenda.

“I think that show is going to have to go into territory that it originally didn’t [have to] in order to not seem outdated,” Thompson said. “There is an opportunity for the show to evolve by placing them in this current political climate and exploring that.”

Perhaps Biden was right to say that “Will & Grace” educated the American public. Now it’s ready for a more advanced course.

Gene Wang is a junior public relations major and women’s and gender studies minor. His column appears weekly. He can be reached at gwang19@syr.edu.

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Dustin Czarny, an Onondaga County elections commissioner, said New York is lagging behind other states when it comes to voting systems and procedures because state legislators often have partisan views on voting matters. But the importance of accessible voting should transcend partisanship, and any opportunity to simplify the voting procedures is an opportunity that should be taken.

The changes to voting procedure seen in the bill, which was proposed recently by New York state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, all seem like common sense changes. But many people don’t know registration is required to cast a ballot. In order to increase voter turnout and make voting a more accessible process, it should be understood that instilling early voting — a process permitted in 37 states and the District of Columbia — and other procedures should be a priority.

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Three Philadelphia University students, all of them freshmen, picked a painting from the Philadelphia Museum of Art and used it as inspiration to build a 3-D kinetic machine based on Leonardo da Vinci’s principles. Assembling the device took about five days, they said.

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group of students from Philadelphia University have combined art, geography and motion to recreate the Grand Canyon as a 3-D kinetic machine.

Charles Barilo, Peter Holderith and Zachary Samalonis, all freshmen at Philadelphia University, picked a painting at the Philadelphia Museum of Art as part of a school project and developed it into a machine using artist and inventor Leonardo da Vinci’s principles.

“Peter, Zach and myself all knew each other, and the talents and assets that we brought to the table and decided we would be a good fit for a group,” Barilo said in an email.

He said the group was originally unsure of which painting to choose, but as the museum was closing, a security guard said she wanted to show the group her favorite part of the museum.

“She ushered us into a gallery, and there was ‘Grand Canyon of the Colorado River,’ a beautiful painting by American artist Thomas Moran,” Barilo said.

He said the group analyzed the actual canyon and selected a portion of it that they liked best to design the machine.

Barilo and Samalonis had a background in Adobe Illustrator, he added, and they took the canyon map into Illustrator and began penning the different regions. They pitched the initial idea to the professors in the form of a non-working, foam model.

“At Philadelphia University, the professors structure the curriculum as if they are real-world clients. This

allows us, even as freshman to gain real world experiences,” Barilo said.

After that process, the group spent time perfecting their design and working on issues that came up. They also created a second, simplified copy of the map, which sat on the inside of the machine under the visible map to help guide the dowels.

Assembling the device took four or five days and made necessary adjustments to make sure the gears meshed correctly and ensure the entire machine flowed seamlessly, Barilo said.

“Throughout the whole process we took videos and documented to create a process video so people could see how it all came together,” he also said.

Da Vinci’s principles that the group included in the project were “Demonstration,” a commitment to test knowledge through experience, persistence and willingness to learn from mistakes; “Art and Science,” which includes thinking, the development of the balance between science and art, logic and imagination; and “Curiosity” that approaches to life and a quest for continuous learning, according to The Da Vinci Institute for Technology Management.

Originally, Barilo said, they were intolerant when designing the map and the pieces would not flow up and down correctly. They later made adjustments and learned from their mistakes, he said.

“We learned about each other as friends and coworkers in the field, as well as the skills, knowledge, and expertise that each member of the group brought to the table,” he said. dsahintu@syr.edu

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1 1. Customers wait in line on the morning Funk ‘n Waffles closed. Customers walked in as early as two minutes after opening. 2. The venue has served the Hill for 10 years.

Though Funk ‘n Waffles has a downtown location and will open one in Rochester soon, students are still upset the original location will be gone. ally moreo photo editor

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t’s 8:50 a.m. and Allie McKenna Daut is expertly refilling more than a dozen syrup bottles.

She laughs, and says she will finish the task with minimal stickiness, but by the end of the night the tables will be covered in it.

“It’s unavoidable.”

After one use, syrup clings to outside of the bottle, and lingers on the fingers of the hungry customer. Using a paper napkin to wipe the stickiness away is as futile as wiping the memories of Funk ‘n Waffles away. It’s a restaurant that doubles as a music venue and has served the Hill for 10 years — but served its last waffle at its original location Wednesday night. Like the syrup, memories will linger after the last waffle is served, and they will linger after the building is torn from its foundation to make way for an eight-story “multi-use” project.

“I have so many good memories here, and I just wanted to come here one last time before it closed forever,” said Audra Linsner, a sophomore advertising major.

It’s a sentiment shared by most of the students that lined up for a last chance to eat there.

Open mic nights, first dates, countless dinners with parents — all of these memories are shared between syrupy bites and talk of the Duke game.

Nineteen steep, cement stairs lead into the basement

restaurant. Every step taken is cautious, but hurried.

It’s 9:02 a.m. A small line has formed and the doors open to the first five customers. The last first customers.

“Coming in for your last waffle?” McKenna Daut says with a smile.

As the night goes on I am feeling more and more emotions. I am just remembering everything: the good and the bad.

Kyle Corea co-founder of funk ’n waffles

The morning crowd is steady, humming with a quiet energy. It’s early on a college campus and a few yawns bounce across the room. The smell of cooked waffle batter fills the space at 9:15 a.m., and doesn’t relent.

“I can’t believe this place will be gone.”

A plastic buzzer goes off with swirl of blue lights

and smile bursts on its owner’s face.

“It’s so good.”

Students’ smartphones are thrust into the air to capture the perfect photo of their waffle, and the brightly-colored space It’s busier than a normal weekday morning, and by 4 p.m. it’s busier than most weekends. The dishes are stacked high in the bus bins, and the the wait for a waffle reaches almost an hour.

It’s a Wednesday, and that means open mic night. It has meant open mic night for years.

At 7 p.m. the place is bursting at its seams, as more than 50 acts sign up to take the stage.

A man in a faded black and white Funk ‘n Waffles T-shirt lounges in a patterned armchair at the back of the venue soaking it all in. The waffle on turntable graphic is peeling at the edges. The man helped build this place. But about four years ago, Kyle Corea, walked away to pursue film. It was one of the hardest decisions of his life.

It’s the first time he’s been back since leaving, and he’s struggling not to jump behind the counter and work.

Instead, he strolls to the counter and points his camera at the counter. A counter jammed with orders, and films his college best friend and old business partner, Adam Gold.

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emotions,” Corea said. “I am just remembering everything: the good and the bad.”

Corea said they created this place to fill a void. It was for the alternative kid that could be themselves. Looking around the room, he said, “look at it, this what it’s about. It’s so special. They feel that, that’s why they’re here. This is a special night.”

On this night, many of the performers thank the venue for being such a strong part of their lives, and say one last goodbye.

The small stage at the back of the venue has given students a chance to test out comedy routines, sing newly written songs and practice performing in front of a receptive audience for years.

It’s a stage that has hosted the likes of then little-known Vampire Weekend, and funk legend Fred Wesley, the trombonist for James Brown.

And it’s the stage that connects Funk ’n Waffles to its roots.

The Funk ‘n Waffles business took off before its physical location on South Crouse Avenue. It started at house parties featuring owner Gold’s former band, Sweaty Pants, and slowly turned into a waffle empire with Corea manning the iron.

Gold and Corea invested $100 to make about 50 waffles to give away to partygoers.

The parties became more and more popular, eventually prompting the best friends to enter in a Martin J. Whitman School of Management competition that awarded a $25,000 sum to the best student-created business. They didn’t win, but they decided to start a business anyway.

The house parties “reeked of waffles,” said Gold in a 2007 Daily Orange article. “It was a sensational overload.”

That sensational overload smacks every customer as they open the double doors at the bottom of those steep cement steps.

The smell, and the hundreds of fans, overwhelmed popstar Nick Jonas when he stopped in for chicken and waffles before his 2015 New York State Fair performance.

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(FROM LEFT) ADAM GOLD AND KYLE COREA pose 10 years ago inside Funk ‘n Waffles. On Wednesday, the founders said goodbye to the venue. daily orange file photo

Network’s Guy Fieri and “Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives” to the Hill.

Fieri, whose face smiles down on customers as they order, called the breakfast “dynamite” and said Gold’s cooking technique was “gangster.”

The venue has a palpable character.

The mixed assortment of furniture, funky artwork and equally funky music give the student-favorite joint a flavor all its own.

But the building is falling apart, and drips of water and beer fell on the heads of customers as soon as Hungry Chuck’s opened upstairs for the Duke game.

It used to be the basement of Hungry Charlie’s, and Gold said he can still feel that joy in the walls. Gold is trying to look to the future.

He has his hands full with a barely-year-old downtown location, and a new venue set to open in Rochester later this year.

But the closure of his first location is anything but easy. Gutting the place is going to be “pretty tough thing to do,” and will start imme-

diately after the last waffle has been served.

“We will close the doors at midnight, and we will start the tear down. We will be packing up the refrigerated items for downtown tonight,” said Jarred Vryhof, an employee for the last for years. “I think Adam is coming in tomorrow at 7 a.m. with a jackhammer to take out the grease trap.”

They have a chance to move into the new retail space, but Gold said he doesn’t have the information to commit to make any type of decision on that. He wants to return to the Hill, but doesn’t know how or when.

“I am definitely going to miss the place, and I hope we can get back in there,” said Gold in a early February interview. “These types of businesses they come and go, there’s the hey-day, and then they’re gone.”

As customers head up the steep cement stairs for the last time, a faded handpainted message sends them on their way: “Stay Funky.” jagedets@syr.edu | @JacobGedetsis

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his weekend, the Community Folk Art Center in Syracuse will celebrate the arts of the Caribbean — a culture that can often go unnoticed in central New York.

The Caribbean Cinematic Festival is a four-day festival that highlights Caribbean culture through film screenings, dance, spoken word performances, Caribbean cuisine, workshops and post-film discussions. The festival will take place Thursday to Sunday.

The idea for the festival came from the former executive director of the Community Folk Art Center, who wanted to make an event in addition to the center’s monthly musical series, “Journey Through Music of the African Diaspora.” The Community Folk Art Center regularly holds exhibitions, film screenings and workshops that celebrate the artists of the African Diaspora.

Tamar Smithers, the center’s director of education, said the festival is a way of bringing the Spanish, French and English-speaking communities together through film.

“We wanted to create an event that would bring the university community together with the greater Syracuse community and what better way to do that than with a film festival that highlights the Caribbean,” Smithers said. “I don’t think that that is done or it’s not showcased as much as it should be in central New York.”

The festival kicks off Thursday at 6 p.m. with a performance by Syracuse University Raices Dance Troup and a small reception with Latin cuisine. Afterwards, there will be a screening of “200 Cartas,” a romantic comedy from Puerto Rico that stars actor Lin-Manuel Miranda. Other featured films consist of narratives and documentaries

from a variety of islands, including Jamaica, Haiti, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Dominica, St. Kitts and Nevis and St. Lucia. The festival ends on Sunday with a Caribbean-style brunch catered by Jerk Hut, followed by screenings of three short films.

SU’s Kalabash Dance Troupe and Haitian poet Ray Sunshine are also set to perform at the festival.

Cecilia Green, associate professor of sociology at Syracuse University, has been involved with the festival as a member of the board of directors of Community Folk Art Center for three years. Green, who is from the Caribbean herself, has helped with getting film for the festival through her connections with the Caribbean Studies Association.

With the theme of music this year, the festival will showcase several documentaries about music, including two from Jamaica — “The Legend of Ska,” which focuses on the music genre ska, the precursor to reggae music, and “Songs of Redemption,” a film about inmates in Jamaica involved in a music rehabilitation program.

They will also be showing a cult classic from Jamaica, “Harder They Come,” a crime film about the music industry.

This year, Green looks forward to building an audience for the festival and the films of the Caribbean.

“We want to make people aware of this sort of location within the African diaspora, the Caribbean, which is so close to us,” Green said.

“And to let people know that in fact, it has a growing and very vibrant film industry.”

In recent years, the Caribbean film industry has been gaining international recognition — distribution companies have showcased Caribbean film through film festivals in places like Toronto.

Showcasing and celebrating Caribbean culture and history through film is also

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what the festival hopes to accomplish, Smithers said.

“It’s an opportunity for people of Caribbean descent who are living in the area to be able to enjoy their heritage,” Smithers said. “It’s also to provide an opportunity to showcase the beauty and the richness of Caribbean culture for people who may not have been exposed to it or haven’t been able to experience it.”

“Cu-Bop,” a documentary about the roots of Cuban jazz, will also be showing at the festival. Smithers is looking forward to watching the documentary, in part because the director of the film, Shinichi Takahashi, will be traveling from Japan to attend the festival. Takahashi is set to facilitate the post-film discussions, where people can discuss topics that deal with “provocative topics that deal with social justice issues,” Smithers said.

In addition to the post-film discussions, Smithers is especially excited about reaching the fifth year for the festival.

“I’m definitely looking forward to seeing everyone attend the screenings, hearing the in-depth discussions, so I look forward to everything,” Smithers said. “But every year I look forward to growth— I definitely want to see this into its 10th annual and 15th annual.”

Green said this festival celebrates the multicultural society of the United States by showcasing films from multiple language regions of the Caribbean. In the past, the festival featured films from the Dominican Republic, the U.K. and the Bahamas.

“We try to develop a global, cultural imagination, which I think is really important, not just in terms of cultivating a multicultural cultural consciousness, but also cultivating tolerance,” Green said. “I think art is one of the greatest ways of cultivating global tolerance among people.” hmaeda@syr.edu

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being in that position and the combination of Battle and Gillon exploded in the second half and combined for 44 points.

“This team keeps fighting,” Boeheim said. on Wednesday.

Gillon, in particular, has seemingly “We go as John Gillon goes,” Syracuse bounced back every time. After zero points head coach Jim Boeheim said. in back-to-back games against North Florida After joining the ACC in 2013-14, Syra- and Connecticut, he scored 23 against Boscuse and Duke played two of the most ton University. He followed up a zero-point memorable games in recent SU history. performance against Notre Dame by leading In the first matchup that year, the Orange SU down the stretch against Wake Forest in beat the Blue Devils in overtime. Gillon’s its first ACC single-digit win. high school teammate Rasheed Sulaimon On Sunday, Gillon had his worst game hit a buzzer-beater that tied the game at of the season. He went 2-for-10 from the the end of regulation. The two talked last field with three assists and five costly night. Gillon told Sulaimon he’d “kill Duke turnovers. Each time he touched the ball, for him.”

Georgia Tech fans berated him with “air ball” chants. Now, Gillon’s resilience has sparked Syracuse’s in a season that nearly slipped away.

“How do you come back from a horrible game — and then do that? It’s special and I’m going to try and underrated,” Gillon’s mother, Phyllis, said be a stone-cold killer via text message. “(Boeheim) didn’t get down on John after the Georgia Tech game. Do every game. fans really think players want to play poorly?

They are trying to miss shots? That belief John Gillon bore fruit. The outcome you saw tonight.” su point guard Gillon’s first-ever buzzer-beater came in a fourth grade AAU tournament. About 50 people witnessed the shot. His friends Gillon wowed the buzzing Dome crowd jumped on him. Wednesday’s buzzer-beater with under five minutes left in the first half came in front of nearly 30,281 more peoby crossing over multiple times leading to ple. In the locker room after the game, an Jayson Tatum tumbling to the floor. Gillon equipment manager held Gillon’s jersey. He backpedaled and nailed a 3. As he walked showed it to a security guard before putting back on defense, his facial expression didn’t it in the laundry. change. It was the kind of play he was used to The transition from a motion-type making at Arkansas-Little Rock and Colo- offense to a pick-and-roll-type offense took The Daily Orange 2/22/17 Sudoku rado State against weaker competition. time. Four new players in a starting lineup But this was Duke, the 10th-ranked team did too. And Gillon didn’t get off to a hot start in the country with the seventh most effi- Wednesday, either. In the final 13 minutes, cient offense nationwide, per Kenpom.com. he scored 12 of his 26 points. He reached the On the Blue Devils’ next possession, Tatum, second level of Duke’s defense consistently the future first-round NBA draft pick, hit a the and finished.

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senior guard Andrew White said. “I think tonight should give him supreme confidence. … He carried our team for a short stretch.”

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battle more than double the 25 points it did in the first frame. Ultimately it was Gillon who took the reins last, banking in a buzzerbeating 3-pointer to vault Syracuse (17-12, 9-7 Atlantic Coast) past No. 10 Duke (22-6, 10-5). The game will be remembered for Gillon’s signature moment, but it’s one that could not have happened without the contributions of Battle.

The 6-foot-6 freshman was crucial against a Blue Devils defense that didn’t yield much space around the arc. Battle’s step-back jumper has become a specialty of his, and it was never more vital when he freed himself from Luke Kennard to splash in a game-tying basket with 2:02 left on the clock.

That set the stage for Gillon’s heroics and a game that nudges the Orange a little closer to an NCAA Tournament bid.

“He put on his big boy paints in the middle of the second half,” freshman Taurean Thompson said of Battle. “He just kept going to the basket. He kept putting points on the board so we just kept giving it to him.”

At first it looked as if Battle wasn’t going to play much of a role at all. In his 13 first-half minutes, when he shot only 1-for-3, the freshman said he was “sleeping” on the court. In other words, he was playing the way he had in the past two weeks: sick.

But the proverbial shackles seemed to unhook themselves in one second-half play, when Battle crept into the corner opposite of Syracuse’s bench. He buried a 3-pointer to cut Duke’s lead to two, and proceeded to score five of the Orange’s next seven points in a two-minute stretch to knot the score at 47.

With another two jumpers that each gave SU a one-point lead in the final 5:11, Battle’s shot hadn’t looked as steady since he dropped a career-high 23 against Virginia on Feb. 4.

“I think he’s always known that he’s served as that X-factor role for our team,”

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He put on his big boy paints in the middle of the second half. He just kept going to the basket.

He kept putting points on the board so we just kept giving it to him.

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Syracuse head coach Jim Boeheim dubbed Battle’s performance “tremendous,” saying his freshman guard looked healthy and able to move for the first time since his flu cropped up. Boeheim’s never been shy to publicly criticize his players, but over the past couple of weeks, he didn’t fire any press conference zingers at Battle.

And even though Battle scored only 22 points over his previous four games, he knew he wasn’t going to get the best out of the freshman until he was healthy.

But on this night, Boeheim didn’t have cover for Battle. He did all of the talking himself. “(This game) definitely proves my point,” Battle said. “… I’m back.” cgrossma@syr.edu | @connorgrossman

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molloy second slides and recovers increased. Syracuse’s clearing improved from 88 percent to 93. “He really turned some things around for us,” Desko said.

Molloy transitioned into the larger role midseason, leaning on senior stalwarts Jay McDermott and Brandon Mullins. This season, roles reversed.

“I love playing for Evan,” redshirt sophomore Cunningham said. “He bails you out all the time and he’s very vocal. …. Even though usually we are in a good spot, he’s always reminding you where you need to be.”

Molloy, though, cannot communicate what he does not see. But therein lies his strength as a goaltender, he said. Because Jamie Molloy, his father, introduced him to lacrosse in Manhasset, New York, at age 5, Molloy said he often recognizes offensive sets and angles.

He compares it to playing football and walking to the line of scrimmage. You can’t exactly explain how you know the defense will blitz, but you yell to alert your teammates anyway. The confidence to direct as Molloy did last season as a career backup comes from Jamie. His father holds the career saves record at SU and still says, according to Molloy, that he could play wide receiver in the NFL. Projecting unfailing confidence has been passed down and now signifies one of Molloy’s strongest traits.

“It’s just my IQ,” Molloy said of his strength in net. “I’ve been playing the game

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what we learned receives from its top scorers.

Lydon still chipped in 11 points on 3-of-6 shooting, but White mustered only seven points on four shots in his second-lowest scoring performance of the season. This season, the duo has combined to score 41 percent of SU’s points this season. On Wednesday they scored only 23 percent.

Riding 26 points from Gillon, 18 from Tyus Battle and 11 from Taurean Thompson, the Orange proved itself capable on offense without its best shooters. “Everybody can score and put the ball in the hoop,” Thompson said.

“If (White) ain’t going, we’ll get other people involved to open him up. “…He’s not our only scorer.”

The Orange can respond to a knock down shooter

Duke’s Luke Kennard shot 5-of-9 from 3 and seemingly had an answer for every big Syracuse shot. All season, an issue for the Orange had been limiting opponents from deep. Pittsburgh’s Cameron Johnson (6-of-8 from 3), Virginia’s Kyle Guy (4-of-6 from 3) and North Carolina State’s Maverick Rowan (8-of-18) were the three most recent ones, but the list goes on. And Kennard joined it on Wednesday.

In the second half, Kennard pushed Duke’s lead to nine a minute after the break. Then he pushed it to five two minutes later. Kennard hit a 3 to put Duke up, 59-58. Each time, Syracuse scored on the following possession.

With eight seconds left, Kennard had one

since I was 5. … I’m just a good leader inherently. I’m in the net and (defenders) hear my voice, their ears perk up. ‘He’s telling me something I got to do.’ Then they realize someone’s wide open in the crease.”

The vocal and fundamental soundness reminds ESPN lacrosse analyst Mark Dixon of other great Syracuse goalies, such as John Galloway and Jay Pfeifer. The 6-foot, 176-pound redshirt senior’s frame, read-and-react style and steadying influence fit the archetype.

The Orange needs a calming presence now more than ever. The experience has already hurt Syracuse two games into the season with struggles against Albany.

When SU faced a 6-1 hole against the Great Danes, Desko shifted lineups by rotating Austin Fusco and Andrew Helmer at longstick midfielder and even subbed off Cunningham for true freshman Nick DiPietro in long spurts. The defense clamped down and didn’t allow a goal in the next 30:38 en route to a 10-9 win. But Desko credited Molloy and his four second-half saves to cool a scalding offense and play SU back into the game.

The result didn’t surprised teammates.

And Molloy even less. But they know it’s only the beginning of the defense’s transition. Impromptu adjustments require time to normalize and, until then, Molloy will push Syracuse forward with direction from behind.

“I have the best view because (defenders) are all focused on their men,” Molloy said.

“Their back might be turned, but I’m in the net. I can see everything.” sjfortie@syr.edu | @Sam4TR

last chance to sink the Orange. He pulled up for a mid-range jumper in search of his 24th and 25th points of the night. The ball rimmed out and it led to Gillon’s memorable game-winner.

“Grayson Allen and Luke Kennard were pretty darn good,” Syracuse head coach Jim Boeheim said. “They had 31 and John (Gillon) and Tyus (Battle) had 44. That’s pretty big numbers.”

Especially after last year, Boeheim wants no part of the NCAA Tournament buzz this season

For a Syracuse team that’s struggled so mightily at times this season, Wednesday marked the third time a Top 10 team lost in the Carrier Dome this season. SU’s rather stunning, polarizing NCAA Tournament resume features losses to teams like St. John’s and Boston College, counteracted by wins against elite opponents like Florida State, Virginia and now Duke.

Boeheim has never attempted to guess his team’s NCAA Tournament fate. He knows it’s all a guessing game, and there’s no telling how much SU will be hampered by its failures on the road.

If nothing else, last season’s run to the Final Four taught him to completely shutout the national pundits and professional guessers who are making cases for and against Syracuse.

Specifically, ESPN’s Joe Lunardi came to mind.

“I’m not listening to Joe (Lunardi) because he said we were out last year,” Boeheim said.

“I’m not listening to any more of him. We haven’t thought about the Tournament.

“It’s not that you don’t think about it, we just try to play the next game.” pmschwed@syr.edu | cgrossma@syr.edu

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BATTLE BACK

By Connor Grossman senior staff writer

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hen he could finally relax, Tyus Battle leaned back in his locker room chair and flashed a wide smile. It was a kind of happiness the freshman hadn’t shown since hitting his buzzer-beater at Clemson on Feb. 7. But finally, after scoring 18 points and keying an upset over No. 10 Duke, Battle could admit something that had been bugging him for weeks: He was tired of hearing about his illness.

Tired of having an excuse. Tired of being strapped down by a flu that sunk him into an 8-of-27 shooting slump over the past four games. Tired of being unable to show he’s the versatile offensive threat he’s proved he could be for three months.

On Wednesday night, the only thing sickening Battle was thinking about the pile of questions he faced about his health.

“Yeah, I definitely did (get tired of hearing about my illness),” Battle said. “I was trying to keep the flu a little bit low. You don’t like to make excuses.”

The Orange didn’t need to offer any explanations for another thriller in the Carrier Dome.

Guards Battle and John Gillon took over for much of the second half, allowing SU to score

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TYUS BATTLE entered Wednesday’s game coming off the worst stretch of his freshman season. He was sick, which led to an 8-of-27 shooting slump over the past four games, a period during which he scored only 22 points. Against No. 10 Duke, a healthy Battle scored 18 points shooting 6-of-11 from the floor. jessica sheldon staff photographer

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Vocal Molloy leads SU defense

What we learned from win over No. 10 Duke

By Sam Fortier

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What now constitutes as “experienced” on Syracuse’s defense is less than a year spent as a starter.

Evan Molloy, a backup 10 months ago, now barks orders from the net as a grizzled guru.

Injuries and graduation have forced the redshirt senior into the leadership position on a defense with a former fourth man, a freshfaced sophomore and transitioning long-stick midfielder. Molloy has an approach manicured over years of goaltending: Be really, really loud.

“I make my voice really deep,”

Molloy said, speaking normally.

“It doesn’t sound like this. I’m yelling at people. It’s intense.”

Syracuse’s current defense — Tyson Bomberry, Marcus Cunningham and Scott Firman — combined for one start at their positions entering the year. But it’s the group Syracuse must roll with after preseason All-American defender Nick Mellen, who started all but one game last season, needed season-ending surgery.

Albany exposed Syracuse’s new defensive line last Saturday like Siena never could with skip passes and quick rotations. Now, No. 6 Syracuse (2-0) needs Molloy to be the antidote for inexperi-

ence by preparing and directing teammates for when Army (2-1) visits the Carrier Dome on Saturday at noon. “(Molloy) is very local, which helps our defense play well as a unit,” SU head coach John Desko said. “He’s like a quarterback out there. Communication is important. … He’s been the strength of our defense.”

The coach now heaping high praise passed on starting Molloy last season but reversed his decision after eight games.

Immediately, Desko noticed, defensive communication improved. The fluidity of slides,

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By Paul Schwedelson and Connor Grossman

Here are three things we learned from the game.

Syracuse’s NCA A Tournament resume got a massive boost on Wednesday night when John Gillon banked in a game-winning 3-point buzzer-beater to lift the Orange (17-12, 9-7 Atlantic Coast) to a 78-75 win over No. 10 Duke (22-6, 10-5) in the instant classic.

SU snapped a three-game losing streak and battled back from facing a double-digit deficit for the seventh straight game.

If you were to build an imaginary scouting report for Syracuse’s offense, it wouldn’t take much research to determine that Lydon and White are the focal points of SU’s offense. The fifth-year senior is averaging 17.5 points per game, and the 6-foot-9 sophomore averages 13.5 points each contest. But on Wednesday, the Orange didn’t have the usual amount of fuel it

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Syracuse can win without Tyler Lydon or Andrew White

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