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Aysha Seedat and Jane Hong announced Wednesday that they will run for SA president and vice president, respectively. SA elections will take place in April.

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Drag queen Donyella Dupree prepares to defend her title at Friday’s 13th Annual Totally Fabulous Drag Show hosted by Pride Union.

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Michael Gbinije returned to Duke last year as a bench player for Syracuse. A year later, he’s established himself as one of the Orange’s top scorers.

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Former student sues SU Lawsuit claims she was involuntarily kept in hospital psychiatric ward

By Jessica Iannetta staff writer

A former Syracuse University student who claims she was involuntary committed to the psychiatric section of a hospital after she visited Health Services with flu-like symptoms is now suing the university and the hospital.

Kaitlin Taylor, a Union County, New Jersey resident, claims she was involuntary confined in the psychiatric section of St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center for six days in September 2013, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday in New York County Supreme Court. She is now suing the university, a university employee and St. Joseph’s for misdiagnosing and improperly treating her, negligent and harmful use of medication and failure to get informed consent, among other reasons, the lawsuit states.

“When a student heads off to college, you are entrusting that they will be in a safe and secure environment,” said Marc Held, Taylor’s lawyer, in an email. “It is unfathomable that a Syracuse University student, who sought medical assistance for a simple sinus infection, wound up locked in a psychiatric ward for six days at St. Joseph’s Hospital without justification.”

In a statement, Matthew Larkin, an attorney for the university, said SU has reviewed the allegations and denies that it acted inappropriately “in any way.” He declined further comment due to medical privacy concerns and ongoing litigation.

Paul Hanrahan, a lawyer for St. Joseph’s, said the hospital does not comment on ongoing litigation.

In the lawsuit, Taylor says she visited Health Services around Sept. 19, 2013 because she was suffering from flu-like symptoms. While at Health Services she met with several people,

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THIRSTY thursday | session premium lager

Golden lager provides crisp, refreshing taste

By Ben Glidden staff writer

I popped the top off of the Session Premium Lager to find an illustration of a pair of scissors underneath the cap. Before even taking a sip, I knew that this was the perfect beer to take to a party, because it has a game built right into it. Underneath each cap is rock, paper or scissors, so opening Session beers with a friend can result in a competition.

But it’s more than a game; it’s an interesting conversation piece.

This bottle isn’t your typical beer bottle. It resembles a mini-growler without a handle. It’s only 11 ounces, which isn’t that far off from a typical, 12-ounce bottle, but it’s quite a bit shorter and wider.

This beer pours a beautiful golden color, but the aroma isn’t anything special. I get the typical hints of grain but the smell is delicate and doesn’t really stand out. The taste, on the other hand, is a bit more prominent.

It tastes like a typical lager with a nice, crisp finish that doesn’t linger.

Refreshing is a great way to describe a sip of this beer, which isn’t always the case with a lager.

The first noticeable flavor is the hint of malt and grains, which is followed by that citrus, floral flavor that gives the beer its crisp taste.

It’s not extremely carbonated and goes down nice and smooth, which really contributes to that refreshing feeling.

And I’m not the only one who enjoys this beer. The Session Premium Lager has a long list of awards to its name, including several gold medals at the World Beer Awards. It’s one of Full Sail Brewing Company’s most awarded and well-known brews.

Overall, this beer didn’t blow my mind but it was a quality, enjoyable beer that I would definitely go back to. I recommend this beer to a beginning beer drinker, looking for flavors that don’t overwhelm the palate.

Some prefer those big, bold flavors, but it just goes to show that not every beer has to knock your socks off in order to get noticed. biglidde@syr.edu

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Adjuncts at SU discuss the importance of National Adjunct Walkout Day, despite not walking out.

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S • The Butler did it

Tiara Butler has played a significant role for Syracuse, it just hasn’t been on the court.

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Guide the way It’s the 30th year of University 100 on campus, a group that works with prospective students and the Office of Admissions.

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Groups present, get input Academic Strategic Plan working groups share thoughts in open forums

By Justin Mattingly asst. news editor

(FROM LEFT) JANE HONG AND AYSHA SEEDAT announced their candidacy for Student Association president and vice president outside of Maxwell Auditorium on Wednesday. They are the first pair to announce their candidacy. frankie prijatel photo editor

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Seedat announces presidential candidacy

By Sara Swann asst. news editor

Aysha Seedat announced Wednesday her candidacy for Student Association president in front of a group of about 30 people, becoming the first student to announce a campaign for the presidency.

She made the announcement at

5:30 p.m. outside of Maxwell Auditorium. Jane Hong will serve as Seedat’s running mate in the election, which will take place in April.

Seedat, a junior policy studies major, and Hong, a junior broadcast and digital journalism major, are the first two women of color to run for Student Association president and vice president, respec-

it takes two Aysha Seedat and Jane Hong are running under a two-part campaign platform: 1. Support: providing support for campus groups 2. Safety: promoting resources that improve campus safety

tively, at Syracuse University. Seedat and Hong’s campaign platform

has two main pillars — support and safety.

“Under support we hope to provide a stronger on campus support for transfer students, on- and off-campus residents, international students, athletes and exchange students,” Seedat said in a speech during the announcement. see sa page 8

IVMF, Maxwell collaborate to create veteran event

By Lydia Wilson asst. news editor

After completing her service in the military, Ginger Gunnip wanted to put it behind her.

“When I first got out, I didn’t want to carry it with me,” Gunnip said. “I didn’t really want to be a part of it or talk about it.”

Gunnip’s experience of not self-identifying as a veteran is not that

uncommon amongst female veterans, according to Michael Haynie, executive director and founder of Institute for Veteran and Military Families and vice chancellor for veterans and military affairs at Syracuse University.

Female veterans are, as compared to male veterans, almost seven times less likely to self-identify as veterans, he said.

This is especially concerning to Haynie, who said that, within the next

five to seven years, women will make up 20 percent of the military, and current systems and processes to support this group aren’t good enough.

The IVMF and the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs are teaming up to elevate the discourse that can begin to fix this problem. They will hold an International Women’s Day celebration on Thursday and Friday, which this year honors women who serve in

combat and post-combat zones.

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• The total veteran population in the United States and Puerto Rico, as of September 2009, was approximately 23 million.

• The population of women Veterans numbered 1,824,198. source: va.gov

“We want to celebrate the contributions that these women make,

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The seven working groups in charge of Syracuse University’s Academic Strategic Plan shared their findings with the SU community Wednesday, which included the need for improved advising and communication.

Three sessions of the “Day of Conversation” were held in Goldstein Auditorium in the Schine Student Center. Sessions were held at noon, 3 p.m. and 6 p.m. to gather input from the SU community about the university’s Academic Strategic Plan, which is part of SU’s Fast Forward initiative.

“We’re here today to continue this campus conversation,” Liz Liddy, interim vice chancellor and provost, said at the beginning of the first forum.

Each working group provided its research methods, key findings and preliminary recommendations. Each group was given five minutes to make its presentation, and following the see strategic

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do round-up Here is a round-up of the top stories published in The Daily Orange this week: NEWS COLD HEARTED Syracuse has set record-breaking cold low and high temperatures for several days this month.

PULP EMPIRE STATE OF MIND The Joseph I. Lubin House celebrates its 50th anniversary as the Syracuse University alumni hub in New York City.

SPORTS ARMY OF ONE Ben Williams picked up 21-of-25 faceoffs for the Orange in its 12-9 win over No. 15 Army on Sunday.

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Adjuncts use walkout day to raise awareness of issues

By Danny Mantooth asst. copy editor

On Wednesday, many adjunct professors at colleges and universities across the country joined together for National Adjunct Walkout Day. The day was used to heighten awareness of adjunct professors’ working conditions.

Adjuncts don’t receive the same resources or pay as full-time professors, said Matt Huber, a member of the Labor Studies Working Group at Syracuse University and a professor of geography. Adjuncts are part-time professors hired on a contractual basis rather than receiving a permanent and tenured position.

While adjuncts at SU couldn’t strike due to

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veterans and make the campus aware that many of these women are us, they’re SU people,” said Mary Lovely, an economics professor and co-organizer of the event.

Lovely said service members face many complex emotions when they return, in addition to traumas they may have experienced.

Gunnip said she found this to be true after leaving the military. Gunnip joined the U.S. Army when she was 23 years old. She served at Fort Drum in northern New York for nearly three years, and served 15 months in Iraq. During her service, she assisted in female search missions, drove trucks and worked guard duty.

Immediately after service, she began purs-

contractual obligations, Huber said some parttime instructors organized to participate in the “Day of Conversation” that was held Wednesday to develop an Academic Strategic Plan.

Members of the adjunct community — as well as advocacy groups, such as the Labor Studies Working Group and Adjuncts United — say that a common goal is to improve adjunct working conditions and compensation.

At SU, there are 544 part-time, non-tenuretrack faculty as of this academic year, according to an SU FACTS brochure. However, Huber stressed that adjuncts cannot be the sole group concerned with the issues.

“It’s really important for tenure-track and tenure professors to speak up on this problem

because they have the freedom to do so,” he said.

Mark Grimm, an adjunct who teaches transmedia at the College of Visual and Performing

ing her bioengineering degree with a minor in writing and rhetoric at SU. She took care of her

lost after you get out of the military,” she said.

“It’s one of the most devastating things that a solider loses.”

Gunnip, who is now pursuing her master’s in engineering management, said that, as an engineering student, she jumped into another challenging, predominately male world.

“I face the same the struggles as I did in the military,” Gunnip said. “I want to be respected for the quality work I can do and skills I have, and there’s the pressure to fit in with the guys.”

Haynie said he realized the prevalence of these struggles amongst female veterans when the IVMF and Small Business Administration created Women Veterans Igniting the Spirit of Entrepreneurship, which brings together 200 women for a three-day conference style business-training event in various cities.

I want to be respected for the quality work I can do and skills I have, and there’s the pressure to fit in with the guys.

Ginger Gunnip engineering management graduate student

then 8-month-old son, while commuting from near Watertown, New York.

“There’s a camaraderie that you think was

It’s just gotten worse and worse over the years as far as I’m concerned.

Mark Grimm college of visual and performing arts adjunct

Arts, said, “It’s just gotten worse and worse over the years as far as I’m concerned.”

Gretchen Purser, also a member of the

Labor Studies Working Group, and professor of sociology at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, said that 40 years ago, over 75 percent of all university teaching was done by tenure or tenure-track professors. Now, over 70 percent is taught by adjuncts, she said.

“If the university took seriously education and teaching as the primary mission, you wouldn’t see that kind of labor practice being enacted,” Purser said.

Ryan Travis, an adjunct professor in the College of Arts and Sciences, said that the uncertainty adjuncts face reflects an imbalance that affects nearly every aspect of life, and it’s an imbalance that stretches far beyond Syracuse. dmantoot@syr.edu

Many of them had never participated in a veterans event, Haynie said. At a typical veteran event, there would be an average of 10 women for every 100 participants. The only reason they came, he said, was because it was only for women. They said they felt welcome, and emotionally and physically safe.

A struggle they often face in doing this, Haynie said, is proactively reaching out to female veterans, who, like Gunnip, may not initially want to identify as such.

Gunnip was eventually able to find her place at SU with the assistance of the IVMF services.

“It’s a great feeling to know that you’re connected to this huge network,” Gunnip said. “You realize you have a family of veteran military service members, bigger than you had as an active duty solider.” lawilson@syr.edu

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gender and sexuality

Gun rights advocates mischaracterize nature of campus assualts

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un rights advocates have a new goal: legalizing guns on college campuses nationwide.

Many universities have formed on-campus groups, like Students for Concealed Carry, and some states are drafting bills that promote the legalization of concealed weapons on college campuses, according to a Feb. 18 New York Times article.

Now, gun rights advocates are asserting that concealed carry laws will help prevent sexual assaults on college campuses.

But these gun rights advocates aren’t trying to empower college students against sexual assault. Instead, they’re just taking advantage of a high-profile topic to give their movement a better reputation. Not only is their plan the wrong way to end sexual assault, but it also perpetuates incorrect stereotypes and could lead to more dangerous universities.

Eight states already allow concealed weapons on college campuses, and 10 more are working on bills to join that list. Just two

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FISH WITHOUT A BICYCLE months after a shooter at Florida State University injured three students, a bill passed its House subcommittee. The bill still needs to pass a vote in the House, Senate and be signed by the governor before it becomes a law.

Instead of keeping their arguments just about gun rights, these lawmakers have made sexual assault a new selling point for their legislation.

“If these young, hot little girls on campus have a firearm, I wonder how many men will want to assault them,” Assemblywoman Michele Fiore (R-Nev.) said in an interview with The New York Times. “The sexual assaults that are occurring would go down once these sexual predators get a bullet in their head.”

Fiore’s statement reveals the incorrect way many lawmakers view sexual assault.

They assert that concealed carry laws would decrease sexual assault, but it isn’t always

something victims could prevent by having a gun. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, at least 80 percent of sexual assaults are committed by an acquaintance of the victim.

Knowing the perpetrator could make victims much more reluctant to defend themselves, especially with a weapon.

But the lawmakers’ lack of research is more than just frustrating, it’s damaging to sexual assault activism by exploiting victims and promoting incorrect stereotypes.

In some cases, guns might be ineffective altogether. According to a Dec. 3 Mother Jones article, 57 percent of women sexually assaulted in college are under the influence of alcohol or drugs. In these kinds of cases, victims may not even be coherent enough to fight off their attacker, much less use a gun. Someone impaired by drugs or alcohol and unable to consent is still a victim of sexual assault, even if they did not try to resist it.

Drug and alcohol use doesn’t just make guns ineffective in many sexual assault cases; guns themselves create dangerous situations.

If students are armed, the impulsive behavior

that accompanies drugs and alcohol could easily lead to gun accidents.

Likewise, legalizing guns on college campuses wouldn’t limit their use to potential victims of sexual assault. Everyone would have the right to carry weapons, including potential attackers. College campuses already have drastically lower homicide rates than the rest of the United States, why change a system that already works?

The downsides to concealed carry laws on college campuses are enormous and outweigh any possibility that they will decrease sexual assault. But this wasn’t the goal for lawmakers anyway; preventing sexual assault was obviously just an afterthought, exploited to frame their plan in a more positive light. Both colleges and lawmakers should be focused on ending sexual assault, but concealed carry legislation is an ineffective and harmful way to do so.

Kathryn Krawczyk is a freshman magazine major. Her column appears weekly. She can be reached at kjkrawcz@syr.edu and followed on Twitter @KathrynKrawczyk.

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Public needs immunizations to ensure health, safety

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ince the start of 2015, a series of measles outbreaks have swept across the United States, with more than 150 confirmed cases as of Feb. 20. These outbreaks started in Disneyland, and since then other significant outbreaks have occurred in Illinois and Nevada.

Measles was declared eradicated from the U.S. in 2000, and has a vaccine with an effectiveness rating of almost 100 percent when administered properly. The Measles-Mumps-Rubella vaccine is one of the standard vaccines required in all 50 states for children to attend public school. There is absolutely no reason that there should be any sizable outbreaks across America of such an easily preventable disease.

The anti-vaccination movement began about a decade ago with concerns about connections between vaccinations and some chronic conditions, specifically autism. These claims have been completely refuted by the scientific community, and yet a significant population of “anti-vaxxers” continues to avoid vaccination by clear abuse of personal exemption clauses, backing themselves up with rhetoric often centering on personal freedom. Yet each and every time, the courts have shut them down.

Take for example the case of Henning Jacobson, a Cambridge resident who in 1905 sued the government after being fined for refusing to accept a vaccine during a Small-

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pox epidemic. His reason? Much like today, he was concerned that there were adverse medical effects associated with the vaccine.

The Supreme Court found 7-2 that it was well within the rights of Massachusetts to use its police power to mandate these vaccines. They argued that just as the government could draft people into compulsory military service, they could mandate vaccinations — “acting in good faith for all, under the legislative sanction of the state.”

The problem here is that vaccinations protect the “herd.” According to the CDC, as long as 95 percent or more of the population is vaccinated, those who are not — which should be only those with compelling medical reasons not to be vaccinated — are considered safe. All 50 states offer medical exemptions, but there are a number of other ways to get out of mandatory vaccinations.

All states but Mississippi and West Virginia currently offer religious exemptions, which are meant to be given to those with strong, proven religious convictions against vaccination. However, in places like California where the standard is loosely “personal beliefs,” this is often taken advantage of by those with

misguided medical concerns. In a recent case, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit took a rightfully firm stance, stating that the First Amendment guarantee of religious freedom “does not include liberty to expose the community or the child to communicable disease or the latter to ill health or death.”

This last line touches upon an oft-touted principle from the Declaration of Independence — the right to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” However, in just about every case regarding mandatory vaccinations — and in almost every case regarding a public health issue — the Supreme Court has made it clear that a person’s right to life and liberty does not extend so far as to dangerously infringe upon another’s right to life and liberty. Just as you don’t have the freedom to kill someone in pursuit of your own happiness, you don’t have the right to put others’ health at risk for your own personal or religious beliefs.

In the end, immunizations, like the government, work to serve the interest of the public as a whole. We as a nation need to take a firmer stand and not allow the reckless and misguided behavior of the few to endanger the well being of the majority.

Zach Goldberg is a senior economics, policy studies and energy and its impacts major. His column appears weekly. He can be reached at zrgoldbe@syr.edu and followed on Twitter @zgolds.

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Gaffe of gratitude Gender and sexuality columnist Julia Smith chastises Patricia Arquette for her thoughtless remarks at the Oscars.

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Earn money, live better Business columnist Brian Cheung lauds Wal-Mart’s recent decision to raise its employees’ wages across the board.

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Outskirts of campus lack Blue Lights The mission of Syracuse University’s Department of Public Safety is to provide a safe learning and living environment. It does so through patrol services, surveillance video and the Blue Light Alarm System.

While DPS is doing a good job monitoring and maintaining the current Blue Lights, it should consider expanding the Blue Lights to more high-risk areas around SU’s campus.

DPS Commander Andrew Mrozienski said that there are now 148 Blue Light stations at SU. The Blue Lights are strategically placed throughout campus and are intended to aid people who are in distress.

When activated, they provide direct contact with the DPS Communication Center. These stations are tested every month and kept clear of snow so they are accessible.

DPS works with the university

regularly to equip new properties with Blue Lights. It should continue this effort and consider a particular focus on the outskirts of campus.

The incidents of robbery publicized

by DPS through campus-wide emails frequently occur on streets adjacent to the university, away from the heart of campus and academic buildings.

Comstock and Walnut avenues, as well as Marshall Street, should be areas of particular interest to the university because students often walk them at night. Adding Blue Lights to these areas of high foot traffic could reinforce existing security measures potentially deterring robberies or other forms of petty crime.

It should also be noted that the current map of the Blue Lights around campus, available on the DPS website, does not detail all of the current Blue Light locations. This map should be

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updated to ensure that students who are looking for Blue Light locations are able to find the information.

From July 1, 2014 to Feb. 25, there were 510 activations of the Blue Light system; only four of those instances were from people in distress. “It’s been pretty consistent ever since they put in the first ones, there’s almost never a real emergency when these alarms are pushed,” Mrozienski said. The majority of false alarms are pranks, attempts to test DPS’s response time or people mistaking the Blue Light for a cross walk.

Despite the low number of instances of emergencies that utilized the Blue Light system, it is important that there is still a strong presence of Blue Lights on campus. One never wants to need the Blue Light Alert System, but it is reassuring to students to know that it’s available.

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Increased offshore drilling efforts could lead to ecological disaster

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ast month the Obama administration released a draft for its 5-year offshore drilling plan.

The draft allows the U.S. government to sell leases for oil and gas development in federally owned waters from 2017 to 2022.

The areas newly made available include the southeastern coast spanning from Virginia to Georgia, additional portions of the Gulf of Mexico as well as a portion of the Arctic Seaboard. This is just the latest example of President Barack Obama’s “all of the above” energy strategy, and one that contradicts the widespread persona Obama has crafted for himself of tackling climate change no matter the cost.

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is yet another step in the wrong direction in a time where the investment in fossil fuels is the root of our problems, not the answer. As the drafting process moves forward, this must be an area of increased scrutiny.

The nation’s worst ever oil spill, commonly referred to as the BP oil spill, occurred in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, polluting the sea with over 4.9 million barrels of oil. As part of a Feb. 18 New York Times debate panel in regard to the new offshore drilling plan, Richard Lazarus, executive director of the Presidential Commission responsible for identifying the root causes of the 2010 Gulf oil spill, Asst. News Editor Justin Mattingly Asst. News Editor Sara Swann Asst. News Editor Lydia Wilson Asst. Feature Editor Jacob Gedetsis Asst. Feature Editor Kait Hobson Asst. Sports Editor Sam Blum Asst. Sports Editor Matt Schneidman Asst. Photo Editor Isabella Barrionuevo Asst. Photo Editor Logan Reidsma Design Editor Sydney Golden Design Editor Matthew Hankin Design Editor Chloe Meister Design Editor Momin Rafi Design Editor Max Redinger Design Editor Katherine Sotelo Asst. Copy Editor Jake Cappuccino Asst. Copy Editor Alex Erdekian Asst. Copy Editor Connor Grossman Asst. Copy Editor Danny Mantooth Asst. Copy Editor Paul Schwedelson Asst. Copy Editor Georgie Silvarole

said, “Congress has failed to enact a single statute increasing safety in offshore drilling in response to the huge regulatory gaps revealed by Deepwater Horizon.”

For a bit of perspective, according to the documentary “Mission Blue,” in 1947 there was one offshore drilling site in the Gulf of Mexico. As of 2014, there were more than 33,000 drill sites. If this same emphasis was placed on the expansion of renewable, sustainable energy, we would not be on the verge of an irreversible climate disaster like we are today. It is time to break this destructive cycle and begin anew.

A common argument in favor of expanding domestic oil production is that it is fiscally responsible and that if the U.S. government does not do it, others will. This mindset is dangerous for a number of reasons. For one,

it prioritizes theorized short-term economic gain over long-term environmental sustainability. A Jan. 19 article from Chron.com argues that opening the Atlantic to offshore drilling “could result in $23.5 billion added to the U.S. economy.” These statistics ignore the tremendous fiscal and ecological risk that a spill poses.

A spill can cripple a local economy.

Take the ocean-dependent tourism industry on the southeastern seaboard for example. In the same New York Times panel, Sierra Weaver, a senior attorney at the Southern Environmental Law Center, pointed out that “by the government’s own estimates, ocean-dependent tourism in the mid- and South Atlantic contributes $6.5 billion and $4.4 billion annually to coastal communities.”

Offshore drilling is assured to harm

local habitats and increase harmful CO2 emissions. Furthermore, the economic argument in favor of it, already short sighted as is, pays little regard to costs of massive spills even though history has shown that it is not a matter of if they will happen, but rather when.

The proposed opening up of previously protected federal waters to offshore drilling is irresponsible to marine life, local communities and our environment as a whole. Scientific consensus continues to stress the negative environmental effects of fossil fuel industries, but from looking at Obama’s 5-year plan, you wouldn’t know it.

Azor Cole is a junior public relations major and geography minor.

His column appears weekly. He can be reached at azcole@syr.edu and followed on Twitter at @azor_cole.

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strategic plan conclusion of the reports, groups went to different areas of Goldstein Auditorium to allow attendees to provide their input and ideas.

The seven working groups are: • Undergraduate excellence • Strategically focused research and doctor-

al programs • Leadership in veterans and military affairs • Enhancing internationalization • Change: Innovation and institutional renewal • Student- and faculty-centered operations • Professional program excellence

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Working groups focused on individual issues.

Some of the working groups called for change in the university’s advising structure, both academic and career. The groups also called for better communication and collaboration across the university.

Each working group had specific recommendations to share as well. For example, the working group on student- and faculty-centered operations recommended the creation of a “One-Stop Student Services Center,” citing confusion among students about which offices carry which services.

The working group on strategically focused research and doctoral programs recommended a new undergraduate research and scholarship office. In addition, the working group on enhancing internationalization recommended

expanding SU Abroad to where 55 percent of SU students study abroad.

Liddy said in an interview following the first forum that it “brought to the surface both the topics we need to address and also it will bring concerns, but really when you think about it, it really is a tough time in higher ed.”

“I think that the Academic Strategic Plan should set the vision,” she said.

Moving forward, the feedback of the Academic Strategic Plan will be reviewed through March 6; the SU community will have a comment period on a draft plan in early April; a revised draft plan will be delivered to Chancellor Kent Syverud in late April and in May, the plan will go to the Board of Trustees. Liddy said SU already has the implementation team put in place. jmatting@syr.edu | @jmattingly306

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Through the safety pillar of their campaign, Seedat and Hong said they hope to promote resources that address sexual assault and rape on campus, including an escort service for students returning to their homes on campus.

Seedat and Hong are the only pair to announce they will run in the SA presidential election, and Paulina Colon, chair of the Board

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of Elections and Membership, said that they would be the only candidates in the election.

However, a candidate could run a campaign as a write-in vote, and 10 percent of the student body must vote for the election to count.

“We plan on running normally and as we would if we were opposed,” Seedat said in an interview after the announcement.

Seedat has been the chair of the student life committee for the past three consecutive semesters and is currently the director of student life. Hong has been involved with SA since her freshmen year and has served on multiple SA committees.

“Throughout my time, I’ve come to notice that individuals involved with SA are true leaders and have the greatest potential to achieve beautiful things in our world — they just need the right leadership,” Seedat said in her speech. “And I believe Jane and I are the perfect candidates for that job.” smswann@syr.edu | @saramswann

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Carnegie Mellon apologizes to students after mistakenly sending acceptance letters

By Erin McDonald staff writer

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undreds of students were overjoyed last Monday morning when they received an email saying they were accepted to Carnegie Mellon University’s prestigious graduate computer science program.

But the excitement was short lived when, only one day later, they received notice that their acceptance letter was sent by mistake.

An error in the Carnegie Mellon system that is responsible for generating acceptance letters caused the accidental release of acceptance letters to roughly 800 rejected students on Feb. 16, Ken Walters, executive director of

media relations at CMU and spokesman for the university, said in a statement.

“We are currently reviewing our notification process to help ensure this does not happen in the future,” the statement said.

The mistake of accidentally sending the letters occurred at the graduate level, and the applicants were applying to the Master of Science in computer science program at the school, according to the statement.

“We understand the disappointment created by this mistake, and deeply apologize to the applicants for this miscommunication,” the statement said. The day after the release of the mistaken acceptance emails were released, the school sent a follow-up email apologizing for

the accidental emails sent to rejected students.

This particular instance of accidentally sending acceptance letters to the wrong applicants is rare because it occurred at a graduate level while similar mistakes have happened slightly more often on the undergraduate level, said Mike Reilly, executive director of the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admission Officers, which is one of the oldest higher education groups in the country.

The graduate program in computer science at Carnegie Mellon is among the best in the nation, according to US News and World Report.

There are two strategies that colleges take in accepting students. While some schools accept students on a rolling basis, other schools partake in the pool system where they wait to receive all applications before they select those to accept, Reilly said.

Schools that opt to use the method of pooling applicants run a higher risk of sending the acceptance emails to the wrong email list,

especially in the age of technology when mass emails can be sent to the entirety of applicants at one time, Reilly said.

Over the past few years, there have been a few similar scenarios that have happened on a larger scale at the undergraduate level at schools such as Johns Hopkins University and the University of California at San Diego, Reilly said.

Things of this nature are not typically seen at a graduate level because admissions to selective, smaller programs such this are typically handled by the departments that potential students are applying for rather than and admissions office, Reilly said.

Reilly said that one way to prevent the mistake of sending the wrong type of email to students or prevent email list mergers would be to sample some names or spot check files from each list to avoid error before sending the mass email out to an entire sending list. eemcdona@syr.edu

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lawsuit including Clark Pinson, a staff therapist at SU, who is named in the lawsuit.

Pinson is still employed by the university, according to the SU directory. Based on her examination, Taylor was “pressured and directed” by SU staff and Pinson to go to St. Joseph’s emergency room immediately, according to the lawsuit.

Pinson drove Taylor to St. Joseph’s on Sept.

19, 2013, dropping her off on the sidewalk outside the Medical Emergency Room. In the emergency room, Taylor was examined by hospital staff and then transferred against her will to the Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Program section of St. Joseph’s, according to the lawsuit.

Taylor was kept in the CPEP for six days, from Sept. 19–24, 2013. During that time, her personal possessions were confiscated, she was unable to communicate with anyone outside the hospital and she was forced to take “inappropriate and dangerous medications,” according to the lawsuit. Taylor also received only limited examinations from hospital staff during her stay, the lawsuit states.

Due to her “unlawful, negligent and otherwise improper confinement,” the lawsuit says Taylor suffered many “personal indignities” as well as physical and emotional injuries.

Mental health services at SU In a statement regarding the lawsuit, Rebecca Reed Kantrowitz, senior vice president and dean of student affairs, said Counseling Center staff follows all ethical and legal requirements and provides “the highest standard of care” to patients.

“We strongly support the medical professionals and staff in the center,” Kantrowitz said.

Improving mental health services at SU was one of the issues included in the document of demands and grievances presented to university administration by THE General Body, a coalition of student organizations that held an 18-day sit-in last semester. The university only has one psychiatrist on staff and THE General

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Here’s a breakdown of which lawyer will represent which client in Kaitlin Taylor’s lawsuit.

Marc Held, representing Taylor Matthew Larkin, representing SU and SU employee Clark Pinson Paul Hanrahan, representing St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center Body said resources at the Counseling Center should be improved.

In its response to THE General Body in November 2014, the university said it was in the process of hiring another “psychiatric provider” and that the search would likely be completed by the end of the fall semester. Since then, SU has hired an additional psychiatric nurse practitioner, Heidi Kinnally, who started in early January, said Kevin Quinn, SU senior vice president for public affairs.

The university also said in its initial response that the Counseling Center’s staff of 17 fulltime clinicians fulfills the staff to student ratio required by its accrediting agency. But due to the large number of students using the center, the office could benefit from increased staffing, which would allow for longer office hours and more counseling sessions, the university noted. jliannet@syr.edu | @JessicaIannetta

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Saturday night fever OttoTHON, Syracuse University’s first dance marathon, will take place this weekend at the Women’s Building.

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@MycallRiley Kudos to @PrideUnionSU for an AMAZING start to the 13th annual totally fabulous drag show. Looking forward to finals!

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Retreat to encourage reflection SOULscape offers free weekend getaway to explore life’s big questions

By Alex Erdekian asst. copy editor

of the hill Donyella Dupree, winner of last year’s drag show, works to continue reign Text by Clare Ramirez feature editor

Photos by Margaret Lin

One hundred students applied for 21 spots at an upcoming weekend retreat aimed at helping students explore soul-searching questions such as “Who am I?” SOULscape is a weekend retreat focused on students’ physical and mental well-being. It will take place Feb. 28 to March 1 at the Minnowbrook Conference Center in Blue Mountain Lake, New York. The retreat is free for students and is being funded by Hendricks Chapel and the Office of Health Promotion.

The weekend will include reflective discussions, introductory yoga and activities to help students understand themselves. Sean Martinelli, a senior broadcast and digital journalism major, will be leading the program along with Jill Catherine, former communications director for the Division of Student Affairs.

“One of the big things I want people to leave with in SOULscape is a vision of

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onyella Dupree was 18 years old when she bought her first pair of heels — cheetah print, chunky and 6 inches tall.

It was that pair of heels that Dupree was wearing when she won the title of Performer of the Hill at last year’s drag show — the first drag show she ever participated in. This year she will defend her title at the 13th Annual Totally Fabulous Drag Show, which will be held Friday at 10 p.m. in Goldstein Auditorium and is hosted by Pride Union at Syracuse University.

Dupree, whose real name is Dante and is a second year student in the School of Architecture’s five-year undergraduate program, needed a pair of heels to wear see dupree page 14

DONYELLA DUPREE performs to the song “Lips are Movin” by Meghan Trainor at this year’s drag show preliminaries. Dupree will defend her title at the 13th Annual Totally Fabulous Drag Show finals. The event, hosted by Pride Union, will take place Friday at 10 p.m. in Goldstein Auditorium.

what are soulful sit-downs?

Soulful Sit-Downs are a series of student-run conversations intended to help participants delve deeper into understanding their life purpose. The talks take place every Thursday from 7–8 p.m. until April 3 in 204 Tolley Building.

what they want from life and an understanding of who they are and who they want to be,” Martinelli said.

Martinelli came up with the idea for SOULscape as an extension of his program, Soulful Sit-Downs — a weekly, hour-long conversation where students engage in meaningful discussions about life’s big questions.

One of the activities Martinelli plans to run at SOULscape focuses on being kind to oneself. In the activity, students are told to think of someone who they love and are close to, and to write down all of their hopes and wishes for that person. After, the students are told that what they wrote down is really what they want for themselves. see soulscape page 16

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In the last five years, the Department of Public Safety has seen a constant rise and fall in reported crimes.

There’s been fluctuation from 2010 to 2014, and trends by year are almost unpredictable, said Tony Callisto, Syracuse University’s chief law enforcement officer.

“There’s so many variables because it’s such a dynamic community. It’s a different community every single year,” he said.

While it’s hard to predict whether or not crime rates will go up or down, the amount of incidents averages at 745. The numbers reached its highest point for the last five years in 2012, with 755 incidents.

As crimes near the campus reached their peak that year, DPS felt a need to restructure itself. Jill Lentz, DPS’s interim chief, said the department focused on improving crime deterrence. Since 2012, the department has increased both the presence of officers and

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surveillance cameras.

“In 2012 we had a series of challenges associated with violent crimes in the near off-campus neighborhoods. Serious violent crimes,” Callisto said. By mid-October in 2012, there were four violent robberies, a gunshot heard on Marshall Street and a stabbing at the Carrier Dome.

As a response, DPS created the University Area Crime-Control Team, a joint effort with the Syracuse city police to increase patrol during nights from Thursday to Saturday. It also consolidated its forces, putting more officers out on the streets rather than behind desks.

During the two years between 2012 and 2014, DPS focused on an intense campus-wide camera installation campaign. Currently, it has access to nearly 1,000 views of the university, with very few blind spots, Callisto said.

With approximately 750 security cameras spread across campus, a criminal would not be able to leave the campus without being caught on footage at least once, he said.

While crime trends by years are unpredictable, officers are seeing the same pattern for

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trends by months.

Crimes have remained at a moderate amount from January to May during the spring semester, dropped to their lowest points from May to August during the summer months and spiked up during August to November in the fall semester. This has been the exact same pattern for the last five years.

For the spring semester months, interim chief Lentz said she believes the number of reports is connected to weather and the amount of time students are on campus. It’s why the numbers always drop in March, when students are gone for a week during Spring Break, she said. The weather is also why crimes rise during April, when temperatures are also rising.

The Office of Off-Campus and Commuter Services usually receives most of its noise and party complaints from residents in the East Neighborhood during periods of nice weather, said Elin Riggs, the office’s director.

Criminal incidents during the summer months are always low for DPS because the majority of the campus population is away,

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Lentz said.

As the campus comes back to life in August, so does the crime. In the beginning of the fall semester, DPS officers will see an influx of thefts, alcohol violations, drug violations and party busts. Many times, the students involved in this influx are freshmen, Callisto said.

“Right from the first week of school right through Halloween, it’s peak experimentation for the new students, it’s certainly peak party time for returning students,” he said.

“Because the weather and the atmosphere and the environment is just right.”

It’s why during the first eight weeks of the fall semester, DPS will dramatically increase the amount of officers it has out patrolling — more than any other time of the year.

The department is trying to change this trend, to make the numbers stay low all year long. Within the first three weeks of the semester, all freshmen will meet a DPS officer during floor meetings to learn about safety tips and warnings. Officers are usually encouraging students to lock their doors to decrease thefts — the most common crime at SU. George Athanas, an assistant director at the Office of Residence Life, said resident advisers also often have a hard time getting freshmen to lock their doors when they leave.

“Larceny is the most common crime because it’s generally pretty easy to commit,” Callisto said. “It’s also the most preventable crime.” alng@syr.edu | @alfredwkng

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Top 5 buildings for crimes include mostly freshman dorms

By Alfred Ng staff writer

In the last five years, the Schine Student Center has been the scene of 100 thefts.

But it’s rarely thefts from a student’s personal belongings. In fact, the Department of Public Safety estimates that at least 80 percent of the thefts in the Schine Student Center are happening in the bookstore.

“As long as I have been here, it is not my understanding or recollection that we’ve had anybody robbed,” said Bridget Yule, the director of Student Centers and Programming Services at Syracuse University.

Because the Schine Student Center also has a popular store on campus, it’s typically the site of many thefts. It also means the store has its own security officers, and many thieves get caught, said SU’s chief law enforcement officer,

Tony Callisto.

The top five locations on campus where thefts have occurred in the last five years include: Schine Student Center, Brewster, Boland & Brockway Halls, Shaw Hall, Watson Hall and Day Hall Unlike thefts in residence halls that are personal belongings, thefts from the Schine bookstore are usually retail items that pass through security detectors and employees watching.

“While there may be thefts that go unreported at other places or people never get caught, at the bookstore, if there’s a theft, chances are pretty good the security staff at the bookstore is going to be calling DPS reporting right away,” Callisto said.

In residence halls, Callisto said the thefts are typically “student-on-student” crimes.

A majority of the times, the stolen items are valuable electronics like laptops and smart-

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Lyons Hall, which has some of the fewest incidents reported, had zero incidents reported in both 2013 and 2014.

as they’re considering their limits,” Athanas said. “We tend to see these as areas that have significant challenges with decision making.”

It’s a stark contrast with dorms like Lyons Hall, which has been all upperclassmen for the last three years, with an average population of 36 students. In the last two years, Lyons Hall has had zero incidents reported to DPS. Overall, the number of alcohol violations in residence halls has decreased since 2010.

Athanas said he believes it’s because of the BE Wise campaigns that encourage responsible drinking. He also believes the switch from “Alcohol.Edu” to “Think About It” has helped lower the number of incidents. Both BE Wise and Think About It started at SU in 2013.

Said Athanas: “I think it’s provided us an educational structure that’s been helpful, and I think it resonates with students.” alng@syr.edu | @alfredwkng

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phones. But thefts are relatively uncommon in residence halls when compared to the amounts of alcohol violations — the most common incidents for dormitories.

George Athanas, an assistant director with the Office of Residence Life, said the top four dorms for incidents reported to DPS aren’t surprising, as they’re all at dorms with high freshman populations, with the exception of Watson Hall.

Brewster, Boland and Brockway Halls have all first-year students, while Day Hall and Shaw Hall both have about 90 percent firstyear students, he said.

The office designates certain dorms as “firstyear centers” to create a supportive environment for students adjusting to college life. A side effect of this concentration of freshmen is a high rate of alcohol violations, as DPS statistics show.

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Off-campus crimes most common on Comstock, Euclid avenues staff writer

Comstock Avenue is crime central on campus for the Department of Public Safety.

In the last five years, there have been 496 reported incidents along Comstock Avenue, the majority of which are alcohol violations and thefts.

Comstock Avenue’s high student population is a major factor in the many reported incidents to DPS. There are approximately 2,474 students living on Comstock Avenue, and that’s just with the residence halls, not including the fraternity and sorority houses, as well as off-campus apartments on the street.

For the university, off-campus living begins on Ostrom Avenue, a block away from Comstock Avenue, heading into the East Neighborhood.

There are approximately 10,000 students that live off campus, with about 4,500 living in the

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Comstock Avenue had the highest percentage of crime each year.

From 2010–14 the amount of incidents that occurred on Comstock Avenue increased by 18 percent.

East Neighborhood, said Elin Riggs, the director of Off-Campus and Commuter Services.

Off-campus, Euclid Avenue consistently has the highest amount of crimes — with 257 incidents reported in the last five years. The majority of the reported crimes are alcohol violations and party busts.

Euclid Avenue is typically the main street of the East Neighborhood for foot traffic, along with always being highly visible for police officers to patrol, Riggs said. Tony Callisto, SU’s chief law enforcement officer, said it’s why party busts and alcohol violations happen there so often.

“If you’re out there you see droves of students walking up and down Euclid, and less on side streets,” he said. “Those students are going to come to the attention of the city police if they’re walking with an open container.”

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streets. Consistently in the last five years, these two streets have made up less than 2 percent of all the reported incidents. Riggs said it’s because there are more graduate students in that area — students that aren’t looking to get drunk and party every weekend.

“For them, a lot of graduate students feel like they’ve already been through that,” she said. alng@syr.edu | @alfredwkng

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dupree for last year’s drag show. She couldn’t borrow from her friends because her feet were too large. So she walked into Charlotte Russe and bought her own.

“We explained our situation to the sales clerk at Charlotte Russe and she loved it,” Dupree said.

“She was like, ‘Oh my God, I’m going to hook you up with this and that.’”

Last year’s show was the first time Dupree was fully exposed to the world of drag. Dupree said she relies on her friends for help and support — a giveand-take relationship that goes beyond asking to borrow a dress or a pair of shoes.

Dupree said she first decided to participate in the drag show last year because of her friend, SU alumnus Anthony Wright, who she met at a party on campus. Wright, who graduated in 2014, said they were the only people dancing at the party, which is how he knew they would be good friends.

“It was super sassy, full of energy, lots of choreography and high energy,” said Wright of their performance to “Telephone” by Lady Gaga and Beyoncé. “Pretty much how (Dupree) and I are all the time.”

Unfortunately, Dupree said, Wright couldn’t do the finals with her. She performed at finals alone and won by dancing to a medley of Beyoncé songs.

“I wasn’t as nervous (the first time) because I had (Wright) with me, and we were such good friends that we played off each other’s energy,” Dupree said. “But knowing that our success would carry over to me doing finals by myself, constantly being surrounded by friends’ love and support and energy was so helpful.”

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Dupree began acting and dancing in fifth grade.

As she grew up, she became involved in a theater near her home in Long Island, New York. She almost went to SU for theater, but said groups such as First Year Players let her stay in touch with her theatrical side while pursuing architecture.

Her drag persona, she said, is rooted in herself.

Both are charismatic and bubbly, but hate drama and can be sassy “when the time calls for it.”

“I like to express myself through my body, and drag is sort of an outlet for that,” Dupree said. “I feel like in my drag persona, it’s a magnified personality of who I am.”

Though her heart still beats fast right as she starts a performance, Dupree said she takes a deep breath and reminds herself to trust in her abilities.

But then she begins her routine, and when she’s performing, Dupree forgets how nervous she is. She doesn’t think about her next move because she wants to be free onstage — no choreography to limit her actions.

“If I feel like I want to go to this side of the stage or go to the audience and interact with the audience, I’m free to do that,” Dupree said. “I put a lot of energy of it. By the end, I’m breathing really heavy, but I just keep powering through because I know I can keep going and it’ll be great.”

For the upcoming drag show finals, Dupree’s mindset the past week has revolved around one idea: “I need to get this done.” Dupree has been rehearsing with her backup dancers, preparing her outfit and getting finishing touches done.

Justin Cangiano, one of Dupree’s friends, did Dupree’s makeup last year. Cangiano, who Dupree calls a perfectionist, will again do Dupree’s makeup for this year’s finals show. He said he’d need at

Donyella Dupree bought her first pair of high heels when she was 18 years old, in preparation for her first drag show. Last year, her heels were cheetah print, chunky and 6 inches tall.

least three hours to make Dupree’s makeup — or anyone’s — look exactly how he wants.

“You need time for the eyebrows to set in, to put on eye shadow — you basically have to reconstruct the face,” said Cangiano, a senior communications design major. “It’s like plastic surgery.”

Molly Mendenhall, president of Pride Union at SU, said she thinks the gender bending that happens in drag can disrupt some people’s perception of gender and cause them to realize that gender isn’t as static and binary as they might think.

“But I think this realization is a good thing,” said Mendenhall, a senior women’s and gender studies major. “I think drag can foster a sense of acceptance for those whose genders, or at least

gender expressions, fall outside of the norm or the binary that society perceives gender as.”

In her four years watching and working for Pride Union’s drag show, Mendenhall has noticed it brings people together — both from around campus and around the city of Syracuse.

In Dupree’s eyes, the drag show is just another performance, and she loves being a part of an inclusive community with strong bonds.

“Just being on stage knowing the audience is on the edge of their seats waiting what you’re going to do next — I love to feed off the energy of the crowd,” Dupree said. “And to share the experience with my friends on stage with me is exhilarating.” clramire@syr.edu | @clareramirez_

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THE LAKE EFFECT Finger Lakes offer outdoor, indoor activities during all seasons of the year

By Eric Chuang staff writer

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useums, mountain vistas and waterfalls are just some of the attractions visitors to the Finger Lakes region can enjoy during every season of the year.

“It’s a very outdoors region,” said Cindy Kimble, president of the Finger Lakes Tourism Alliance. “If (students) like nature, they can always find state parks and trails around the area for hiking and biking.”

Nature enthusiasts will be able to embrace the natural beauty of the region, and families and students have the opportunity to explore central New York in depth. There are numerous state parks surrounding the perimeter of the Finger Lakes region such as the Stony Brook State Park in Dansville, Buttermilk Falls State Park in Ithaca and Fillmore Glen State Park in Moravia. Students can visit these state parks in large groups, and most parks have tent and lodge rental accommodations for those who want to go camping.

There is a familiarity and friendliness in this region that is unlike any other.

Jessica Robideau director of marketing for the finger lakes tourism alliance

The waterfalls in the area are another reason the Finger Lakes attract so many visitors, Kimble said. Taughannock Falls is within close proximity to the region and its breathtaking views can be enjoyed during both the summer and winter, according to the New York State Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation website. As one of the highest falls in the region, Taughannock Falls is 215 feet tall and has hiking trails nearby for visitors who want to exercise while taking in the view.

Kimble added that there are several skiing des-

tinations around the region that students can take advantage of while in the area. Bristol Mountain Ski Resort and Greek Peak Mountain Resort are hot spots for students who want to experience the outdoors during the winter seasons.

In addition to the wide selection of outdoor activities the Finger Lakes region has to offer, there are also many indoor activities students can participate in.

“Throughout the winter months we encourage visitations along the Finger Lakes’ museum trail,” said Jessica Robideau, director of marketing for the Finger Lakes Tourism Alliance.

Attractions in the trail include nine museums that have partnered up with the Finger Lakes Tourism Alliance. There are several special offers and discounts that vary from museum to museum that provide admission or gift shop discounts.

“The cost affordability, I think, is something to really touch on,” Robideau said. “Rates for hotels and (bed and breakfasts) are substantially lower during the weekdays.”

Robideau added that students don’t necessarily need to break the bank to enjoy a weekend getaway or Spring Break vacation in the Finger Lakes region.

“With the region covering 14 different counties and personally working with such a diverse variety of businesses, there are endless opportunities here in the Finger Lakes region for things to explore that are within close proximity to one another,” Robideau said. “There is a familiarity and friendliness in this region that is unlike any other.”

With its rich historical context, students can communicate with nature and engage in the history and culture behind the region.

“Being 9,000 square miles, there are options for every traveler. Depending on what the group or individual is looking for, there is such a diverse range of offerings at the Finger Lakes region,” Kimble said. “Throughout the 14 counties, I can ensure you that groups or individuals will be able to find exactly what they are looking for.” tchuang@syr.edu

The Finger Lakes offer outdoor enthusiasts the opportunity to embrace the natural beauty of the area. Surrounding waterfalls attract visitors to the region. courtesy of fingerlakes.org

day at the museum Here are some places to visit on the Finger Lakes museum trail:

• The Strong National Museum of Play Museum devoted to the history and exploration of play

• George Eastman House

World’s oldest photography museum and one of the world’s oldest film archives

• Finger Lakes Boating Museum

Museum for the education and preservation of the rich history of boating activities

• Glenn H. Curtiss Museum

Museum containing a priceless collection relating to early aviation and local history

• International Motor Racing Research Center

Contains materials representing the documentary heritage of amateur and professional motor racing

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soulscape “That’s an interesting activity because it doesn’t put the limit on what we are asking for in our lives and really gets us thinking in a new way,” Martinelli said.

Catherine, who will lead the yoga during the retreat, thinks college is a great time for students to get involved in those practices. She began her own journey in yoga and as a college student and said the practice helped her at that time because she was recovering from an eating disorder.

“Because I had an eating disorder, I had to revolutionize the way I thought about my body — I figured out that my body is a space that holds me,” Catherine said. “It helped to heal me.”

Catherine hopes that SOULscape will provide the time and space that students need at a phase when they are asking a lot of questions about the world and about life.

“Because of being educated, (students) have the opportunity to learn so much,” Catherine said. “The retreat gives them the opportunity to listen to what it’s teaching them, about

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Martinelli brings new discussion topics to each Soulful Sit-Downs meeting. Some of the topics he said students connect with the most include discussions on gratitude, vulnerability and purpose. Martinelli selects topics like these by observing students and choosing conversations he believes they will benefit most from.

He emphasized that although aspects of spirituality are touched upon in Soulful Sit-Downs, religion does not play a part in the discussions.

All people are welcome at Soulful Sit-Downs, and the discussions highlight the similarities of the participants, despite their diversity.

“Every religion in its core points toward the same thing, and every religion helps you get there. We’re all looking for the same thing,” Martinelli said. “Every person that comes to Soulful Sit-Downs wants a sense of validation and wants to know that they’re seen or heard.”

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there as much as I did,” Evans said. “I was glad I did and it felt pretty good out there. I guess I healed a lot faster than I was expected to.”

In the first quarter, Evans deftly set up Weston for a behind-the-head shot that was saved. Though fruitless, the play was foreshadowing how the two sophomores can dazzle when Evans is healthy.

And now that he’s back, Evans is weaving his way into the normal routine of practice, he said. Desko added that the sophomore is behind the eight ball, but the progressions will come, both health- and skill-wise.

“I think every week you’re going to see him more comfortable and getting better,” Desko said. “He’s just got to get back in the flow and the pace of the game.”

It’s out of Evans’ power to prevent a third injury from happening, he said, and all that can be done is stretching and other injury-prevention techniques.

Desko said he thinks Evans can still be the player SU expected out of high school.

But for Evans, he just wants to stay out of an orange and gray jumpsuit on game days.

“My season just started,” Evans said. “I’ve just got to take it out of my mind that something like this could happen.

“Just play smart and fearless.”

evans noon on Sunday in the Carrier Dome. And after scoring only two goals and assisting on none last year, Evans took the first step to fulfilling the lofty expectations that his head coach has for him this season.

“I think seeing Jordan in the fall, he improved a lot since last spring,” midfielder Mike Messina said. “I think he really grew into his role and his shot and shot selection has gotten a lot better. I’m excited to see what he can do this year.”

After tweaking his left knee the week before the Orange opened up against the Saints, Evans took to rehab. He strengthened the muscles around his knee, doing leg extensions, squats and exercises that built up the “little muscles” that aid in knee stability.

After the season opener, Desko said Evans was week-to-week, and said the same on Feb. 17. But the head coach said on Tuesday that Evans could’ve gone against Cornell on Feb. 15 if he really had to.

Instead, Evans — who said that his personal targeted return date was this upcoming Sunday against the Cavaliers — saw the field for more than he expected against the Black Knights.

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Goalie Cariddi reflects on 1st start, making SU team

By Jon Mettus staff writer

Amanda Cariddi was done with her pregame routine.

She checked the tape on her stick, watched the ice for a few minutes, visualizing saves and breakaways, and played soccer with her teammates in the locker room.

Cariddi was halfway into her pads, five minutes before warm-ups, when Syracuse head coach Paul Flanagan pulled her out of the locker room before Saturday’s game.

He told Cariddi that she would be making her first career start.

“It was honestly good for me to find out five minutes before,” Cariddi said. “You don’t have all that time to think about it. I just got in the moment, got in the zone and went for it.”

Though Cariddi spent her first two years at Syracuse on the club ice hockey team, she joined SU’s Division I team midway through last season. She’s held a backup role since then, but made her first career start on Saturday, posting 23 saves and conceding just one goal. Hockey had always been a part of her life, but she gave up the dream of playing NCAA hockey — only to eventually wind up on a Division I team.

I think it’s pretty neat to have someone who comes in here and appreciates every single thing that a Division I program affords these kids.

And she made the most of it.

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“I think it’s pretty neat to have someone who comes in here and appreciates every single thing that a Division I program affords these kids,” Flanagan said. “And she made the most of it.”

From a young age, Cariddi was begging her parents to take her to the rink and lining up in goal in her driveway for her brother to whip shots at her.

As she grew up playing on multiple teams, it was clear that Cariddi had talent, but the pinnacle of any North Adams, Massachusetts native’s hockey achievement was D-III. Before her senior year at a local technical high school, Cariddi tried out for the Boston Shamrocks of the Junior Women’s Hockey League and decided to forgo her senior year to move to Boston and play. But the day before she

left, the team canceled her contract.

“She was extremely upset,” said Barbara Cariddi, her mother. “A lot of kids would have let that crush them, but she didn’t.”

Academics came first to Cariddi and hockey second, so she passed up on D-III schools to play club at Syracuse.

While her parents were helping her bring her equipment to Tennity Ice Pavilion at the start of her freshman year, her father, Patrick Cariddi, said, “Wouldn’t it be funny if one day you got a chance to skate on the SU varsity team?”

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Amanda Cariddi has saved 89.7 percent of the shots she’s faced in her two career appearances.

“That’s not going to happen,” Patrick Cariddi recalls his daughter responding. “It doesn’t work that way.”

But two and half years later, an injury and a departure left Syracuse with just one goalie.

Flanagan contacted Cariddi via Facebook message and asked her to join the team. Cariddi was out of shape and didn’t have the skill level that Flanagan would normally look for in a goalie, but he needed her.

The first few weeks of practice, she said, were “hell.” The other players were in mid-season shape, while Cariddi was coming out of the “beer leagues.”

“I got more shots in probably the first 15 minutes on the ice here than I had in a whole practice for club,” Cariddi said.

There were days she could hardly sit, walk or stand, but she made it through the end of the year and returned for her senior season.

Prior to Saturday, her only appearance had been for 12 minutes in a blowout loss to Clarkson in October. She made three saves, but let in two goals.

But with one game to go in the season and a first-round conference tournament bye in hand, Flanagan sat usual starter Jenn Gilligan.

As Cariddi took the net during warm-ups, her parents, sitting in the stands, looked at each other in disbelief.

The goalie lives by the motto of “Don’t dream it, be it,” but years ago her goal of playing NCAA hockey seemed like more of a pipe dream. Now, she’s started a D-I game and turned into a celebrity in her hometown.

“This whole thing has been a dream come true for her, something that she never thought she’d get,” Barbara Cariddi said. “… She got to be the dream, so it was touching.” jrmettus@syr.edu

chance happening Syracuse backup goalkeeper Amanda Cariddi has seen time twice this season, including the first start of her career in SU’s game on Saturday. Here’s a breakdown of her stats in her two games played this season.

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SU commits 23 turnovers, struggles to execute clears

MALLORY VEHAR defends against Connecticut’s Katherine Finkelston on Wednesday night. SU committed 23 turnovers and had a hard time clearing the ball from the defensive end. Still, the Orange took down the Huskies, 12-11. logan reidsma asst. photo editor

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An extended arm with one finger pointed to the Carrier Dome roof emerged from a Connecticut celebratory huddle.

Syracuse defender Mallory Vehar had thrown away the ball on a clear, and UConn attack Katherine Finkelston, unimpeded, barreled toward SU goalie Kelsey Richardson, and fired a shot to Richardson’s left. The goal capped a 10-minute, 4-1 run by the Huskies and made the score 11-10, still in favor of SU.

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“It was kind of like we passed it to the other team,” head coach Gary Gait said jokingly. “Oh, we did pass it to the other team, actually.

“I thought it was a nice assist by Mallory Vehar, not under pressure by any means. Just ran up and passed it right to her.”

While No. 2 SU (5-0) beat UConn (1-3), 12-11, the Orange turned the ball over 23 times, its first 20-turnover game since a May 2, 2014 game against Loyola (Maryland) last season.

The turnovers, especially on clears, resulted in fast breaks that UConn capitalized on. Before Wednesday’s game, SU had only seven unsuccessful clears all season, but nearly doubled the number against UConn, clearing the ball out of its end just 9-of-15 times.

“Today it seemed like the ball was the size of a marble and we couldn’t see it,” Gait said. “(We) kept dropping it, throwing it where a person wasn’t and we’re just out of sync a little bit.”

With the score 10-6, Richardson came out of

the net for a loose ball. Cradling behind the net, UConn defenders pressured her and she tried to flip the ball to Vehar, who misplayed the pass.

The ball rolled out of bounds as Vehar helplessly reached her stick out to save it.

“I think that a lot of the communication was lacking on our part,” Richardson said. “We were trying to control the uncontrollables with the refs and things like that.”

During the ensuing media timeout, SU players formed a single huddle, listening first to assistant coach Regy Thorpe, who stood in the middle. The single huddle migrated into two, and Gait talked to the offense with his whiteboard.

The Huskies worked the ball around following the timeout, and UConn’s Grace Nolan cut from below the net to Richardson’s left.

She faked her way through two defenders and slotted her shot past Richardson, who sat and stared into the back of the net.

“I think we put a little more pressure on ourselves, I think we could have settled down.

We were trying to, for whatever reason, quickly go,” Vehar said.

The inability to clear the ball gave UConn fast breaks, leaving Richardson alone in oneon-one situations. As Richardson looked at the stat sheet during the postgame press conference, all she could do was shake her head.

“I thought I had a lot more than five saves,” Richardson said.

But overall, it wasn’t the saves that nearly cost SU the game — it was the thrown away possessions.

“We’re a great clearing team,” Vehar said.

“So I think we needed to take a step back because it’s a valuable possession that we need to take care of.” cjlibona@syr.edu

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gbinije 18. “Offensively we need him to create and shoot the ball well. A lot comes down to how Mike plays. He knows that.”

Gbinije arrived at Duke as ESPN’s 29th-ranked recruit in the Class of 2011 but there was nowhere for him to play in his freshman year. Blue Devils head coach Mike Krzyzewski also brought in third-ranked recruit Austin Rivers, 35th-ranked prospect Marshall Plumlee, 38th-ranked recruit Quinn

Look, we recruited Mike because we thought he was good, so that doesn’t surprise me. I wish he stayed. He didn’t, and he’s a great kid and he’s playing for a great coach.

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Cook and Alex Murphy, ranked No. 41.

Of the five freshmen, Gbinije played the least minutes and took just 20 shots in 19 games. He also played the second least of the team’s 11 scholarship players — who made up the whole roster — trailing the next most used player, sophomore forward Josh Hairston, by 135 minutes on the season.

So when Gbinije entered Cameron Indoor having scored in double figures just once on the season last February, the Crazies saw him as the same player who couldn’t crack Krzyzewski’s rotation.

In an eventual Syracuse loss, Gbinije scored

eight first-half points and was on the court down the stretch. SU head coach Jim Boeheim called it his “best game of the year.” It was a foreshadow for the scoring threat that has hatched this season.

“Look, we recruited Mike because we thought he was good, so that doesn’t surprise me,” Krzyzewski said after Duke beat the Orange on Feb. 14. “I wish he stayed. He didn’t, and he’s a great kid and he’s playing for a great coach.”

After slicing up Duke in that first half with five 3s on six attempts and a pair of savvy moves to the basket, Gbinije was blanketed by Cook in the second as the Blue Devils pulled away. After the game, Cook said he knows some of his former roommate’s moves and that he’ll likely match up with Gbinije in the teams’ next meeting.

Two weeks ago, Rakeem Christmas and Trevor Cooney each scored 11 points as Duke paid particular attention to the duo. And after his torrid first half, Gbinije received similar treatment and wilted when it mattered most.

But the junior has still scored under 10 points just once in conference play and, though cooling down after a six-game hot streak, is most capable of making sure the Blue Devils can’t shut out all three of SU’s go-to scorers.

And the thought of doing that in front of the same heckling fans brought a devious smile to his face.

“I want to beat them, they’re a good team obviously,” Gbinije said after Syracuse’s win over No. 9 Notre Dame on Tuesday night. “But who doesn’t want to beat Duke? Especially in Cameron. I haven’t done that yet, so hopefully I can do that this year.” jcdoug01@syr.edu | @dougherty_jesse

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connecticut weathered a 4-1 Huskies run that cut SU’s lead to one with 10 minutes left.

“It’s a dogfight every game,” Vehar said.

“We’re going to get the best game from every team we play so I think it’s just mentally preparing us.”

And when the game hung in the balance, the Orange went to its best player: Treanor.

She received a pass from Halle Majorana while cutting through the middle of Connecticut’s defense and notched her fourth goal of the game.

It had been 11 minutes since SU’s last goal and during the ensuing media timeout, Gait

It’s a dogfight every game.

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sprinted to the wall between the stands and the field, picked up his whiteboard and hurried back to the huddle. He pointed to the spots on the field where Treanor just scored and moved his arms motioning to his players how to find offensive success.

After UConn answered to make it 11-10, its small contingent of fans out-cheered SU’s and the crowd’s reaction didn’t reflect which team was leading on the scoreboard.

“Just staying composed,” Treanor said of

the key while the Huskies trimmed the lead, “and we have the lead so just trying to stay focused and getting our opportunities.”

While the defense occasionally struggled to clear the ball, the offense didn’t get flustered as Connecticut made its comeback.

With six minutes to go, Treanor penetrated again and drew a free-position shot. She stepped toward the goal and fired a bounce shot to the far side. It ricocheted off the cross bar and gave Syracuse its 12th goal, which proved to be just enough.

“I had the opportunity to score but I think it comes down to people, not individuals,” Treanor said. “… I just ended up with the ball. I don’t think it had anything to do with myself.”

Though the Orange never scored the rest of the way, its offense did the bare minimum to hang on.

Kailah Kempney helped Syracuse win the final three draw controls of the game, and with four minutes left, Gait told his players to kill the clock. But even while trying something as simple as passing the ball around the perimeter, the Orange had unforced turnovers.

“It’s something we need to work on and get better at is finishing a game,” Gait said. “… We got to be able to kill two minutes, four minutes of the clock and we got to work hard at it.”

When the Huskies cut SU’s lead to one with 77 seconds left, their players jumped up and down and their fans banged on the bleachers as Syracuse’s bench players stood still.

But Kempney won the final draw and the Orange finished off the game — albeit barely — and remained undefeated.

“I think it’s just mental focus,” Gait said. “…

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Butler sees limited minutes in SU career despite hype

TIARA BUTLER hasn’t played more than 13 minutes in a contest for SU through her fifth year of eligibility. Despite her lack of playing time, she has shown herself to be a voice of wisdom to younger players and a role model to her teammates. margaret lin web developer

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Quentin Hillsman had to repeat himself “Tiara,” he shouted. “Tiara,” he said again, before pausing. “Tiara!”

Tiara Butler, a fifthyear senior, had never heard her name called up next this early in a game. @ Clemson But once she heard that @ Littlejohn Coliseum Hillsman was putting Thursday, 7 p.m. her in the game, she left her spot at the end of Syracuse’s bench and went to the scorers table with the demeanor of someone who’s done it may times before.

“Coach Q always has something up his sleeve,” Butler said. “It was a great experience to be in the moment and to have my Senior Day that I’ve worked so hard for.”

But Butler’s experience hasn’t matched what’s normally expected of a highly rated recruit.

Coming out of high school, she had offers from schools like Tennessee, Georgetown and North Carolina State — and many more she couldn’t remember. But, partially due to injuries, she was never able to develop into the player that people had thought she would be.

In her four seasons at SU — which plays Clemson on Thursday at 7 p.m. — she’s scored a total of 22 points in just 174 minutes, but has found other ways to contribute to the program.

In Butler’s first-ever game — an 81-42 win over Long Beach State in 2011 — she recorded 13 minutes. It was the most she’s played in a game during her SU career.

“Out of high school, she was a top 70 player in the country, I believe,” Hillsman said. “She had a lot of potential coming in.”

Hillsman was expecting the player that he offered a scholarship to as a 14-year-old after seeing her for just three days at his basketball camp. But he instead got a player that never reached the cusp of playing significant minutes.

Injuries have been partially to blame. Last season she suffered a bone spur in her left foot that kept her from being 100 percent. Hillsman said

injuries have kept her from ever getting on track.

“It’s definitely tough when you see injuries change a career like that,” SU point guard Alexis Peterson said. “But Tiara has been great in other aspects. Even though she may not have had the athletic career, she influenced this program.”

When SU’s equipment manager approached Butler — an interior design major — about designing the practice jersey, she didn’t hesitate. On the back, it says “respect everyone, fear no one.” When she asked her teammates for help on it, they jokingly told her that she was the designer and should do it on her own.

She was a voice of wisdom to young players.

When Peterson was a freshman, it was often Butler that pulled her aside for one-on-one conversations about the ins and outs of the program.

Now, she’s looking for graduate assistant jobs — and with the assistance of Hillsman — might have opportunities.

“She’s been stable, she understands everything we’re trying to do,” Hillsman said. “She’s a leader for us, she’s been around here for five years and she knows what to expect.”

On Sunday, she received a dose of the unexpected when Hillsman called her in with 17:27 left in the first half. When she got in the game, she took a shot off the dribble that bounced off the rim. On the other end of the court, she committed a foul outside of the 3-point line as Hillsman’s face tensed up.

Just a minute and a half minutes into her stint, she took back her normal spot on the bench, picked up her towel to wipe the sweat off her face and took a sip of water. When Peterson ran down the bench for high-fives after subbing out, she forgot to slap hands with Butler, who left her hand up as Peterson walked up to her seat.

Butler never became that player — the one that players like Peterson grew into — but it’s not something she dwells on.

“I don’t have any regrets. No regrets,” Butler said. “I’ve learned so much. The growth that’s there, that’s something you have to go through situations in order to learn.” sblum@syr.edu | @SamBlum3

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men’s lacrosse

Evans returns to 2nd line Sophomore midfielder works back into offense after left knee injury

By Matt Schneidman asst. sports editor

MICHAEL GBINIJE transferred from Duke following his freshman season, when he played the second-fewest minutes on the Blue Devils’ roster. The forward, now excelling for SU, was heckled by Duke fans last year and will likely hear more of the same Saturday. sam maller staff photographer

DEVILS’ PLAYGROUND

Gbinije returns to raucous Cameron to face former Blue Devils team again

By Jesse Dougherty staff writer

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binije still doesn’t play.

Those were the words, chanted in a loud cadence by the Cameron Crazies, that Michael Gbinije heard as he warmed up in Cameron Indoor Stadium a year ago. In Gbinije’s first return to

Durham, North Carolina, after transferring to the Orange after the 2011–12 season, the Blue Devils crowd was quick to point out that the forward had moved from one bench to another. That he was, in their eyes, irrelevant.

But now, with Syracuse (18-10, 9-6 Atlantic Coast) traveling to No. 4 Duke (24-3, 11-3) for a 7 p.m.

game on Saturday, not even one of the country’s most passionate cheering sections can make that claim.

In Syracuse’s 80-72 loss to the Blue Devils on Feb. 14, Gbinije scored 19 first-half points and Duke shot 39 percent from the field — yet he tallied just eight on five shots in the second half and the SU offense consequently stalled.

So for the Orange to have any chance at upsetting the Blue Devils for a second straight win against a Top 10 team, it needs Gbinije to pace its offense for 40 minutes.

“Mike is a big part of just about everything we do,” SU point guard Kaleb Joseph said after the Orange beat then-No. 12 Louisville on Feb. see gbinije page 21

women’s lacrosse

Syracuse hangs on for 12-11 home win over Huskies

By Paul Schwedelson asst. copy editor

Syracuse’s players jogged out to the connecticut 11 25-yard line and huddled syracuse 12 up.

They didn’t show the same enthusiasm that

they normally do after wins. They didn’t dance or yell, two staples of the Orange’s off-field mannerisms.

Kayla Treanor led the conversation and told her teammates to remember the result of the game.

“Kayla came in and said before we say anything — before we com-

plain — just to keep our heads up,” defender Mallory Vehar said. “A win’s a win and just to value that.”

No. 2 Syracuse (5-0, 1-0 Atlantic Coast) barely held on to beat Connecticut (1-3), 12-11, on Wednesday night in the Carrier Dome. And despite the 23 turnovers and six

failed clears, the Orange never surrendered the lead after gaining it with 11 minutes left in the first half.

On a night when head coach Gary Gait said his players looked past the unranked Huskies, they still battled through their inefficiencies and

see connecticut page 22

At media day in January, John Desko said that this season, everyone would see the Jordan Evans Syracuse recruited out of high school.

Evans — the up next No. 1 recruit in the Class VS Virginia of 2013 — fell @ Carrier Dome short of expecSunday, noon tations in his freshman season partly because of nagging injuries and at times wore a boot on his left foot as a precaution.

He was primed to be a key cog on Syracuse’s second-line midfield in 2015. But to start the season, the injury bug struck again, this time to his left knee.

“I just tweaked it that first week and it didn’t feel right,” Evans said. “It was disappointing to have this happen the week of

It was definitely a surprise that I got out there as much as I did. I guess I healed a lot faster than I was expected to.

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the first game.”

After missing the Orange’s first two games of the season against Siena and Cornell, Evans returned to the field on Sunday against Army. He wore a black brace on his left knee and played on the second midfield line along with Tim Barber and Nick Weston.

His rehab allowed him to come back sooner than expected, and now Evans will look to continue progressing when No. 3 SU (3-0) takes on No. 5 Virginia (3-0) at see evans page 18