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Former NBA star Etan Thomas will discuss athletes engaging in social justice efforts Monday as part of the Tanner Lecture series at Hendricks Chapel. Page 3

Syracuse women’s basketball head coach Quentin Hillsman doesn’t take his gameday attire lightly. He often wears eyecatching three-piece suits. Page 12

The annual Green Beer event at Coleman’s Pub paid tribute Sunday to Tipperary Hill’s longstanding Irish heritage with alcohol and a parade. Page 7

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SU won’t penalize applicants for protest Participation in protests won’t affect admissions By Jordan Muller asst. news editor

JOHN LIU, Syracuse University’s vice president for research, was hired by SU last year. He previously served as Auburn University’s associate provost and associate vice president for research. hieu nguyen asst. photo editor

Meet one of the driving forces behind SU’s efforts to fund STEM research By Shweta Karikehalli asst. copy editor

yracuse University’s new vice president for research will play a key role in obtaining more grants to support faculty and graduate student projects this year, as SU shifts toward the implementation of its major Academic Strategic Plan. Zhanjiang “John” Liu, in a University Senate budget report published Wednesday, noted that aspects of SU’s research portfolio can be improved. Liu was hired by SU last year as the vice president for research.

“SU has low levels of foundation and industry support grants (about $6 million per annum) and receives fewer grants from mission-oriented funding agencies relative to peer institutions,” stated the report by the Senate’s Committee on Budget and Fiscal Affairs. During a Senate meeting last spring, Vice Chancellor and Provost Michele Wheatly said the university needs to find “a niche” in terms of STEM research to brand itself in “a very crowded marketplace,” so it can provide academic experience to students, under the spirit of the Academic Strategic Plan. see liu page 4

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SU professor leads race to challenge Katko By Sam Ogozalek news editor

Syracuse University Professor Dana Balter is now the frontrunner in a Democratic push to upset Rep. John Katko (R-Camillus) in cong ressiona l midterm elecBALTER

tions this fall. Balter, a visiting assistant teaching professor at SU, clinched the Onondaga County Democratic Committee’s congressional designation on Saturday. Balter did not respond to a request for comment Saturday. Balter received 73 percent of committee member votes Saturday morning. She has now won the endorsements of all Democratic committees in the four counties

I’ve decided to run for Congress because Donald Trump threatens everything I teach my students. Dana Balter

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that make up the 24th Congressional District, which Katko currently represents. Syracuse is part of the district. The professor launched her campaign in September. Katko is a two-term incumbent who’s particularly unpopular among local activist groups for voting to approve the Republican Party’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Anne Messenger, Balter’s see balter page 6

Syracuse University on Sunday joined a growing number of colleges nationwide that have promised not to penalize applicants for participation in peaceful protests. “Admissions decisions will not be affected by participation in or disciplinary action associated with peaceful, meaningful protest,” Syracuse University announced in a tweet Sunday afternoon. The announcement from SU and dozens of other universities comes as high school students nationwide plan protests and walkouts condemning gun violence. After 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, were killed on Feb. 14, students have taken to social media and the streets to push for stricter gun control legislation.National school walkouts protesting gun violence are planned for March 14 and April 20. A march in Washington, D.C., called the March for Our Lives, is scheduled for March 24. It’s expected to draw about 500,000 people, the Washington Post reported, and similar marches are also set to take place in cities nationwide. Some school districts, including two near Houston and one in Wisconsin, threatened to suspend students for participating in walkouts. “Please be advised that the Needville ISD will not allow a student demonstration during school hours for any type of protest or awareness!!” said Curtis Rhodes, superintendent of Texas’s Needville Independent School District, in a Wednesday Facebook post that has since been taken down. American University, Cornell University and Northwestern University are among the SU peer institutions that have put their support behind student protesters. “No student who is admitted or has a pending application will be affected by disciplinary actions arising from their right to protest,” American announced in a Saturday tweet. The national debate surrounding gun violence and gun control was reinvigorated when see protests page 6

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Open discussion SU’s Student Association will consider proposed changes to its constitution Monday. See Tuesday’s paper

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Officials to develop cost-saving initiatives By Bianca Moorman staff writer

Winterfest wings MARIE BULICK takes chicken wings off a platter Sunday during the Winterfest wing walk event in Maxwells, a bar on East Genesee Street. People sampled chicken wings and voted for their favorite recipe at nine restaurants and bars in the Clinton Square area. Winterfest is an annual celebration held in downtown Syracuse. kai nguyen photo editor

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Constitution vote to be considered Monday By India Miraglia staff writer

Syracuse University’s Student Association will vote on Monday to potentially update the organization’s constitution. SA’s Constitutional Review Committee drafted the changes, which include clearer language and expanded voting rights for committee chairs, among other things. Created in the fall semester, the temporary Constitutional Review Committee, which consists of five members of the SA cabinet and assembly, was tasked with reviewing and revising the SA constitution.

SA initially created the committee to address an issue surrounding the voting rights of committee chairs in the SA cabinet, freshman SA member Ryan Golden said in an email. Previously, the chair of the Diversity Affairs Committee did not have a vote in the cabinet because of the wording of the constitution, Golden said. The current constitution states that each committee chair has the ability to vote in the cabinet. But because the SA assembly didn’t approve the establishment of a Diversity Affairs Committee until spring 2017, that committee chair’s voting rights are not explic-

itly included in the constitution. The updated constitution will include a qualification system that would allow chairs of long standing committees to vote on cabinet, as long as the committees met certain requirements, Golden said. The change ensures that members “don’t have to worry about not getting a voice and a vote on cabinet,” said Emily Gallagher, chair of the Constitutional Review Committee. “They can just have it.” She added that there were some parts of the constitution’s language that were unclear, so the committee looked at how the wording and structure of the

document could be reworked. The committee made changes to the constitution to increase its clarity, adaptability and relevance, members said. Gallagher said one of the committee’s goals was to create a constitution that would not have to be updated in upcoming years. And Golden said the committee wanted to make a document that would be “adaptable.” “Hopefully with the new constitution and changes we’ve made, this document won’t have to be changed for several years to come,” Golden said. Ethics was the main focus see constitution page 6

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Former SU, NBA star to discuss activism, book By Daniel Strauss asst. digital editor

Etan Thomas, a former Syracuse University basketball player and NBA star, will discuss his new book “We Matter: Athletes and Activism” as part of the Tanner Lecture series on Monday. Thomas was on SU’s team from 1996 to THOMAS 2000 and played in the NBA for 11 years for the Washington Wizards, Oklahoma City Thunder and Atlanta Hawks. He’s been interested in activism for years.

His new book includes interviews with more than 50 athletes, coaches and commentators in an examination of their personal experiences with activism. The discussion on Monday in Hendricks Chapel will focus on the current state of activism within the athletic community and the history of activism, Thomas said in an interview with The Daily Orange. The discussion starts at 7 p.m. Thomas said he hopes to encourage younger activists, especially athletes, to continue in the footsteps of legendary athletes such as Bill Russell, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and John Carlos, all of whom were interviewed for the book. Russell, who played for

the Boston Celtics during 11 NBA championship runs, participated in the 1963 March on Washington.

I want athletes to be able to see the power of their voices. Etan Thomas former su basketball player and nba star

Abdul-Jabbar, a six-time NBA champion, has frequently written about politics. Carlos is a former Olympics athlete who participated in 1968 Black Power protest salute. A wide variety of issues are

examined in the piece, including NFL players such as former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick kneeling during the national anthem, and police brutality. “I want athletes to be able to see the power of their voices,” Thomas said. A common sentiment that came up in reporting for the book was the criticism athletes received for speaking out about contemporary issues, Thomas said. Most recently, basketball star Lebron James was criticized by television and radio host Laura Ingraham for speaking about politics and President Donald Trump in see thomas page 6

Plans to support Syracuse Mayor Ben Walsh’s pledge to create cost-saving initiatives between the city and Onondaga County are still in the early stages of being developed, a city official recently said. In his “state of the city” address, Walsh said he plans to “reinvigorate” Syracuse’s participation in Onondaga County Executive Joanie Mahoney’s shared services plan, which was mandated by New York state Gov. Andrew Cuomo last year. That plan is estimated to save $5 million in government costs. Mahoney and former Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner frequently clashed over government consolidation, and Miner was a vocal critic of a citizen group’s proposed merger of the city of Syracuse and Onondaga County governments. That legislative merger idea is not the same as Mahoney’s shared services plan. Bob Andrews, director of intergovernmental affairs and shared services for the city of Syracuse, said shared services can be a mix of things, including the exchange of information among municipalities. “The mayor just does not want to have shared services or consolidate services just for the heck of it,” Andrews said. “There has to be a better way to benefit the taxpayer in the end.” But there’s no timeline currently as to what Walsh’s shared services initiative will exactly look like since it’s still in the early planning stages, Andrews said, and the city is currently not ready to release any specific ideas to the public. Andrews said Syracuse and Onondaga County have already started sharing services and the Onondaga County Water Board and the Syracuse Water Authority were consolidated last year. The city official added, though, that Syracuse has already met with the mayors of several neighboring towns and villages to discuss the possibility of sharing different services. “I think that the mayor has been vocal about that,” said Cornelius Murphy, co-founder of Consensus and former president of SUNY-ESF. “We don’t need two economic developmental offices in the city and the county. We should have a joint economic development office that both serves the city and the county.” On the campaign trail, Walsh said he supported the consolidation of the Syracuse Industrial Development Agency and Onondaga County Industrial Development Agency into one office. Those agencies grant developers tax breaks for see services page 4

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A major component of Syverud’s strategic plan is to better support graduate student programs and improve the university’s research capabilities.

million Amount of foundation and industry support grants Syracuse University receives for research each year source: committee on budget and fiscal affairs report

“When we have grants, we have more resources to support research and our graduate students. Once we have resources, we can grow the numbers and quality of Ph.D. students’ programs,” said Liu, in a recent interview with The Daily Orange. Liu said one of his main jobs in coming months, as SU starts to implement the strategic plan, is better support faculty research, according to the Senate’s budget report. And, in the future, SU plans on increasing the number of Ph.D. students in STEM and non-STEM areas through extramural funding and obtaining grants and contracts, Liu added. These areas of focus tie into the university’s Research 1 designation. That designation, which was announced in early 2016, is set by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. The prestigious designation is used as a benchmark by agencies such as the United States Department of Education in determining grant money awards. “SU is vulnerable with regard to ranking, and continued growth of the research enter-

prise must be achieved,” the budget report stated, though. The report noted concern that the vice president for research has historically been “very modestly funded.” The committee recommended that officials ensure the office of the vice president for research be adequately staffed and resourced so it may address goals including improvement of research support for faculty. “Retention of R1 status is a critical goal that will be difficult to achieve without the appropriate research infrastructure,” the report stated. In the current research environment, Liu said “global challenges” must be addressed through interdisciplinary work, rather than a “single department or a single college.” Collaboration between faculty on projects is key, he said. The university’s Academic Strategic Plan also promotes interdisciplinary research. The vice president for research’s appointment came a month before SU’s announcement of Invest Syracuse, a $100 million academic initiative, this past summer.

boosting research Vice President for Research Zhanjiang “John” Liu outlined five key areas for research improvement in a recent University Senate budget report: 1. Faculty research support 2. Award recognition for research 3. Research collaborations 4. Recruitment and retention of talented faculty 5. Research infrastructure source: committee on budget and fiscal affairs report

SU aims to hire a total of 20 professors per year over the course of five years as part of the Invest Syracuse initiative, said Michele Wheatly, the university’s vice chancellor and provost, last month. Ramesh Raina, biology professor and chair

of the biology department at SU, said Liu is a “fantastic person to work with.” Raina said he appreciates that Liu seeks out the opinions of faculty researchers on campus when carrying out his duties, and that he looks forward to seeing Liu carry out his vision for strengthening research in all areas at SU.

SU is vulnerable with regard to ranking, and continued growth of the research enterprise must be achieved. University Senate Committee on Budget and Fiscal Affairs report

Liu was hired by SU out of Auburn University last year, where he served as the university’s associate provost and associate vice president for research. While in Alabama, Liu was wellknown for his ability to communicate with others, said John Jensen, a professor emeritus at Auburn and a former colleague of Liu’s. “I still to this day don’t know how he did that, (he) handled 15 graduate students and he was an administrator. How do you do that and succeed? As far as I could tell he never slept,” Jensen said. “He’s a very hard worker, we’ve never seen anything like him.” During his time there, Liu secured a tenured position as an associate professor, published several articles and received an award from Alabama Catfish Producers for his contributions to the state’s catfish industry, among other things, Jensen said. Jensen said Liu was known for his commitment to bolstering research at Auburn. And, at SU, Liu said he already has ideas. “The success of SU depends on the success of our graduates. If you guys are very successful, we are very successful,” he said. “My passion is to generate research opportunities for students and help them succeed.” skarikeh@syr.edu | @karik654

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services projects, among other things. Andrews said the city is looking at shared services as a way for Syracuse to save money. Onondaga County, for example, is considering outsourcing its public lawn mowing to contractors, giving the work to Syracuse or county residents, he said. Most of Mahoney’s shared services plan’s estimated $5 million in savings will come from an agreement between the Syracuse City School District, city of Syracuse and Onondaga County to buy supplemental Medicare benefits for area retirees, Mahoney said in September. That agreement is projected to save at least $2.2 million in 2018, but could create savings as high as $4.4 million, according to the plan. “It is not really a codified plan,” Andrews said. “What (Walsh) expressed in the ‘state of the city,’ and throughout his campaign, is the idea in that we need to work together.” Murphy said Consensus is prepared to support whatever the Walsh administration decides to do. Consensus has previously pushed for a public referendum to decide whether the Syracuse and Onondaga County legislatures should merge. But Murphy said there is no need for a referendum if the city, the county and surrounding towns and villages decide to share some of their services. Andrews said a referendum would only be needed if the city and county consolidated into one municipality. “What we are doing is moving forward with shared services initiatives, and trying to find the best options and opportunities to save money, enhance services for the taxpayer and hopefully benefit the cites’ financials in the process,” Andrews said. bmoorman@syr.edu

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SU right to respect applicants’ speech Amid a wave of protests against gun violence following the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, Syracuse University has rightfully joined a growing number of universities protecting students’ rights to free speech and peaceful protest. SU announced via Twitter on Sunday that the university will not jeopardize admissions for applicants who participated in or faced disciplinary action for participating in “peaceful, meaningful protest.” The statement reflects a proactive stance on a growing issue surrounding students’ First Amendment rights and an increasing need for support from institutions. With universities across the United States establishing civil engagement and political participation as the cornerstones of higher education, it’s imperative that SU ensures students are not punished for using their voices in the hopes of

furthering proactive change. And if the aftermath of the Parkland shooting is any indication, students using both social media and their actions to speak out against injustices is worth supporting. Universities are fertile grounds for peaceful protests, and the initiative shown by these student activists is worth commending, considering their activism has spurred change. National school walkouts against gun violence have been scheduled for March 14 and March 20, and a Washington, D.C. demonstration called March for Our Lives is scheduled for March 24, with an anticipated turnout of 500,000 people, according to The Washington Post. SU and the other universities that have announced their admissions process will not be influenced by participation in peaceful protests should stand by these statements moving ahead. Participation in existing movements, including Black Lives

Matter and #MeToo, and future movements should be protected by universities, which have the responsibility to ensure that all civil protests — regardless of the topic matter — are respected within the realm of free speech. It’s only right for SU, whose communications school brandishes the First Amendment on the side of its building, to ensure its applicants and students are not punished or silenced for speaking out.

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SU grad workers demand choice on healthcare plan The SU administration is attempting to massively downgrade graduate workers’ health insurance benefits. In recent weeks, graduate student employees have received emails advertising “forums” and “office hours” to discuss how best to “optimize” graduate workers’ health insurance, which we’ve learned will be accomplished by kicking us off our current employee health plan. This is nothing less than an attack on our living standards and the university diminishing our role as employees. Rather than optimization, the Aetna plan is primarily a means for the administration to cut the cost of graduate student labor by minimizing its contribution. Although the Aetna plan, so the administration tells us, could reduce costs overall, it bases its numbers on the assumption that graduate workers are and will be perennially healthy, requiring only occasional check-ups. The Aetna plan will negatively impact student workers needing recurrent treatment and/or serious operations — and those who might in the future. The Aetna plan is more affordable so long as we do not really use it. Despite all the administration’s lip service to accessibility, reducing health benefits and options blatantly contradicts their #AccessibleSU campaign. It’s a slap in the face to graduate workers, both disabled and able-bodied, who chose SU because of the protections offered by an employee health care plan.

Only organized pressure, power and action will win meaningful changes. In 2015, the administration attempted to move graduate student employees onto the student health insurance plan, prompting the GSO to censure the administration for its undemocratic, untransparent actions and pass a resolution exploring unionization. Graduate students collectively resisted the attempt to steal our health insurance, and the administration reneged. The administration is counting on graduate workers to remain uninformed, uninvolved and unorganized. But we’re now more organized than ever. Syracuse Graduate Employees United is a group of teaching assistants, fellows, researchers and students working to build a union to collectively bargain and stop these decisions about our working conditions being made without us. Graduate workers at NYU unionized and now the university pays 90 percent of health care premiums, covers 100 percent of the cost of basic dental insurance and set aside funds for child and family health care. We can accomplish this, too. We deserve and demand that all graduate workers — including fellows — are given the option to choose either the Aetna student plan or the employee benefit plan during the open enrollment period each academic year.

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thomas a recent interview. James is not the only athlete to experience criticism, Thomas said. Abdul-Jabbar and other past athletes were also criticized for speaking out about issues they care about, he said. Thomas’s motivation to write the book came from his own desire to discover what has led to the recent resurgence of activism among athletes. “I really wanted to capture the reason why the whole resurgence happened,” Thomas said. “What were the things that happened to cause athletes to speak out in an unprecedented way?” Thomas spoke to current athletes including Carmelo Anthony, Dwyane Wade and Russell Westbrook for the book. Anthony helped lead SU to its only NCAA championship during the 2002-03 season. from page 1

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constitution of many of the committee’s conversations, Golden added. He said the committee wanted to ensure that the changes could not lead to abuses of power. “We are the organization that supports and, in a way, regulates other organizations on campus,” Golden said. “We wanted to make sure that an organization with that much power and authority was in check.” Potential changes to the constitution include a revision to the rules surrounding the ability of non-SA students to participate during SA meetings, and a change in the description of the vice president’s role, Gallagher said. If passed, the new constitution would allow for students outside of SA to address the organization during meetings, Gallagher added.

Police brutality brought about the resurgence of activism in the athletic community, Thomas said. Cases such as Freddie Gray, a man killed by police in Baltimore in 2015, were frequently discussed with current athletes when Thomas was writing the book. Thomas’ interest in activism can be traced back to high school, when he was a member of the speech and debate team. “It’s always been passion of mine to discuss these issues,” Thomas said. “So it was an easy transition for me to write this book.” Thomas said Muhammad Ali has had the biggest influence on his involvement in activism. Ali died in June 2016, but Thomas was able to interview his daughter, he said. He also spoke with Russell, who marched on Washington in 1963 and defended Ali when he refused the Vietnam War’s draft. “I’ve always admired the courage that they had to stand up for what they believe in,” Thomas said. dstrauss@syr.edu | @_thestrauss_

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“(The revision) allows students to come in and voice their opinion,” she said. The updated constitution would also state the vice president’s right to serve as a spokesperson along with the president, which is a practice that’s currently happening but is not explicitly written in the constitution, Gallagher said. Other proposed changes include the addition of the historian position to the constitution and the adaption of the document’s language to include gender neutral pronouns, she added. If approved at Monday’s meeting, the revised constitution will be presented to the SU student body to be voted on, Gallagher said. An amendment to the constitution requires approval by vote from 10 percent or more of the student body, according to the SA constitution. irmiragl@syr.edu

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isconsin has the Green Bay Packers. Georgia has fried green tomatoes. Sam-I-am had green eggs and ham. And for one day each year, Syracuse has green beer. The final Sunday in February is known as Green Beer Sunday in Tipperary Hill, the historically Irish neighborhood on Syracuse’s Westside. For more than half a

century, Coleman’s Authentic Irish Pub has been throwing the celebration to kick off St. Patrick’s Day season. Coleman’s first opened its doors in 1933, and current owner Peter Coleman has been working there since 1955. Coleman has mentioned that he was a heavy drinker back then, and the idea for Green Beer Sunday came to him after he grew frustrated with being unable to enjoy the St. Patrick’s Day celebration due to the tavern’s demanding crowds, according to Syracuse.com. The event has since become a Tipp Hill staple, attracting visitors across the city

while embodying the neighborhood’s rich cultural heritage. Named after the County Tipperary in Ireland, where many of the district’s early residents emigrated from, Tipperary Hill is filled to the brim with legends and tales like the plastic cups that hold its green beer. Lisa Alton, a longtime hostess at Coleman’s, described the event as her favorite of the tavern’s annual celebrations. “It’s like every holiday rolled into one. And because it’s unique, it makes it special,” she said. “People here are really proud of their Irish heritage.” see celebration page 8

1 Syracuse Mayor Ben Walsh served as the grand marshal of the parade. 2 The famous green beer is supposedly from "the emerald isle." 3 Peter Coleman prepares to pour green beer in his glass. 4 The parade route is one block, traveling from the famous stoplight to Coleman's Authentic Irish Pub.

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NUTmobile visits SU campus to recruit ambassadors By Connor Fogel staff writer

Most college graduates want to travel the country after getting their degree. Syracuse University alumnus Liam Sullivan gets to do it in a giant peanut and visits a new city every week. Sullivan graduated from SU last May and went to Planters Peanut Prep in June. Then he hit the road in the Planters NUTmobile, promoting the snack food company while meeting new people and exploring new cities. Sullivan, who is a former staff writer for The Daily Orange, and his partners, Elise Grover and Iara Aldape, brought their NUTmobile to SU last week to recruit for the next class of Peanutters. “We are on the road pretty much 340 days out of the year, and we are executing these events,” Sullivan said. “Whether that’s at grocery stores, Walmarts, festivals, parades, we’re out here making people smile, talking to people, Planters fans. Whether that’s 8 to 98, you can just make people smile.” They call themselves the “Three NUTketeers” because they spend each day together, whether it’s driving one of the three NUTmobiles around the East Coast, working events or managing the Planters social media accounts. In their free time, they explore the cities they’re recruiting in. Grover graduated from Baylor University with a sociology degree. Although that’s not a typical degree for a Planters brand ambassador, she said she learned what she needed to know about brand promotion during her time at Peanut Prep. During those two weeks, the nine Peanutters learned about the brand and developed the skills they needed to promote Planters and travel with the NUTmobile. “It’s a lot of hard work, and you have to be self-motivated, but there’s a lot of opportunity to make it the most incredible experience of

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your life,” Grover said. Before traveling the East Coast with Sullivan and Aldape, she spent the first half of the year-long job on the West Coast in cities like San Francisco, Seattle and Denver. The three Peanutters said another great aspect of the position is the network it offers. With four previous classes of Peanutters, professional connections expand to many fields like public relations and marketing. Often, they meet people who give them business cards so they can reach out after their year as a brand specialist.

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Grover said she collected about 20 business cards during her time on the West Coast. “It’s a network internally and externally,” Sullivan said. “You are traveling and meeting people every day, so you never know who’s going to roll up and want to see the NUTmobile. There’s a great network internally of Peanutters who understand the job, understand the skills you’ve picked up. Every day you have the chance to meet someone cool.” Aldape graduated from the University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley with a degree in communication studies. She said one of her favorite moments was when they met former President Jimmy Carter in his hometown of Plains, Georgia. “I love the people I’ve met,” Aldape said.

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She also talked about how being a Peanutter pushed her outside her comfort zone and got her to try new things, like the ropes course she did during Peanut Prep. “I would never choose to climb that high on my own,” she said about the team-building exercise. “It was definitely a leap of faith. It’s just so many things that you never thought you would’ve tried.” Sullivan calls the NUTmobile a “PR firm on wheels” because they mostly work as an independent group, organizing events at grocery stores and festivals and negotiating hotel arrangements for when they’re in each city. He said he hopes that an SU student will continue on the tradition of being a peanut-

ter. He heard about the opportunity from his friend and SU alumnus Gil Maher, who did the program two years ago. Graduating as a newspaper and online journalism major with information management and technology and marketing minors, Sullivan said he had the skills to work as a brand specialist, but the Peanut Prep and hitting the road has given him the best experience while exploring cities. “There’s not many opportunities to manage a billion-dollar brand’s social media account, especially right out of school,” Sullivan said. “Not many 22-year-olds get to say they do that.”

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The procession was complete once the large tanker truck holding the sacred green beer arrived outside the pub. Tradition requires the grand marshal to tap the first glass of beer from the spigot on the truck’s rear end with Coleman at his side. The emerald hue of the beer sparkled as Walsh held up the ceremonial first glass to the crowd, receiving cheers before taking his first sip. When asked about the flavor of the alleged “beer from the Emerald Isle,” a sly grin spread across Walsh’s face. “It tastes like beer.” For partygoers not akin to the taste of beer, or those who can’t have gluten, 1911 Established, a brewery in LaFayette, offered for the first time a green hard cider alternative. Katie Meehan, 1911’s director of marketing, said they “thought it could be a great addition to liven things up and give people an option that they’ve never had before.” Like Coleman’s, 1911 cider has been a central New York staple for decades. “We both have a ton of heritage and history, but we’re both also committed to innovation and keeping things fresh, so this is a great way to do it and partner together,” Meehan said. After the parade, the party roared on for hours in Coleman’s parking lot and pavilion. Local college students, donning every green article of clothing one could imagine, were unaffected by the inclement weather as they danced through the puddles. One student sported a necklace of pretzels, casually offering snacks to a crowd whose most trying concern of the day was the length of the bathroom lines. It wasn’t just the young attendees relishing in the green alcohol, though. By the outdoor bar, an older woman could be overheard finishing a sentence with, “and that’s why I couldn’t give up liquor for Lent.” By 2:30 p.m. the rain had subsided and the sun gingerly made an appearance. Through the clouds, a faint rainbow could be seen by attentive viewers. There were no sightings of a leprechaun sheltering a pot of gold, but one would assume that if there was, he’d be spotted instead with a few pitchers of green beer.

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The Stone Throwers Monument stands at Tipperary Hill Memorial Park to honor the stalwart persistence demonstrated by a group of neighborhood boys in the 1920s. When the city first installed traffic lights in 1925, local youths were irate that the red light sat atop the green. Perceived as a symbol of British oppression over the Irish, they continued to hurl stones at the light until officials stepped in and permanently installed the green light over the red, according to Syracuse.com. This fabled light, resting atop the intersection of Milton Avenue and Tompkins Street, serves as the ceremonial starting point of the “World’s Shortest Parade” that kicks off Green Beer Sunday’s festivities. The parade lasts just a block and a half to Coleman’s. Mayor Ben Walsh was selected by Coleman to be the grand marshal of this year’s parade. Donning Irish flag-striped sashes, he, his wife and their two daughters led the procession. Walsh described the opportunity to serve as grand marshal, like both his father and grandfather before him, as extremely special. “I was really excited to get that call from Mr. Coleman,” he said. After graduating from Ithaca College, Walsh moved to Tipp Hill, which he described as an easy decision. “My father grew up here. I’m very proud of my family’s history of public service in this community, and it really did start on Tipperary Hill,” Walsh said. “This neighborhood has always held a special place in my heart.” As the Walsh family made their way down Tompkins Street on a rainy Sunday afternoon, they were shadowed by a trio of Irish dancing schools, doing colorful jigs and reels to the tune of traditional Celtic melodies. Coleman, in his signature gold corduroy sport coat, was chauffeured in a New York Yankees-pinstriped vehicle, tossing chocolate coins and green necklaces to the children on the sidewalk, taking shelter beneath their parents’ umbrellas.

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Mangakahia sets ACC single-season assist record in win By Billy Heyen

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Syracuse’s Amaya Finklea-Guity tipped the opening jump ball back to Tiana Mangakahia, who brought the ball up the floor. She quickly found Miranda Drummond open on the left wing. Drummond wasted no time knocking the 3 down. The assist was Mangakahia’s 283rd of the season. She entered the day tied with former Notre Dame star Lindsay Allen for singleseason assists. After Drummond’s shot fell through the basket, the public address announcer let the crowd know that Mangakahia had broken the ACC’s single-season assist record. “It’s a great honor to be the leader of that,” Mangakahia said. SU’s point guard went on to finish the game with six assists to go with a team-high 22 points. Another standout performance from the sophomore point guard from Australia was enough to lead Syracuse (22-7, 10-6 Atlantic Coast) over Boston College (7-22, 2-14 ACC), 69-63, in the Carrier Dome. “You look at the guards (who’ve played in the ACC), you’re almost like you’re speechless,” SU head coach Quentin Hillsman said. “You come in the first year in the best conference in the country and you break that record, it’s an amazing, amazing feat.” The Orange and Mangakahia got off to a quick start Sunday. Midway through the first quarter, she found Abby Grant open on the right wing, and Grant knocked down her first 3 since Nov. 25. On the next possession, Mangakahia did it herself with a stepback 3-pointer from the left wing. A few minutes later, still in the first quarter, Mangakahia stole the ball and pushed it down the middle of the floor. She set up Drummond for what looked to be an open 3 on the left side, but instead, Drummond dished it down low to Finklea-Guity for an easy bucket. “(My teammates and coaches) having that confidence (in me),” Mangakahia said, “gives me the confidence to come out and do what I do.” Syracuse led by as many as 11 in the first quarter, its largest margin of the game. The Eagles kept the game close from that point on, though, and Mangakahia needed to keep the Orange on track. After BC had gotten within six points in the second quarter, Mangakahia drove left and got all the way to the basket, finishing with her left hand. And after Boston College took its first lead of the game late in the second, Mangakahia went to the stepback again, this time from the right wing, and knocked down another 3 to give SU a two-point halftime lead. “She did a really good job of playing hard today,” Hillsman said, “and she’s done this all season.”

TIANA MANGAKAHIA set the single-season Atlantic Coast Conference assist record with a dime on the first play of the game on Sunday. She finished the game with six assists, bringing her season total to 288. max freund staff photographer

Mangakahia kept getting the ball to her teammates early in the third. She inbounded the ball from underneath the offensive basket and found Digna Strautmane with a simple bounce pass that the 6-foot-2 freshman put off the glass for the bucket. Then, after feeding Gabrielle Cooper on a missed 3, Mangakahia went right back to Cooper on the next possession, who hit nothing but net. With the game tied entering the fourth, it was time for Mangakahia to embrace a familiar role: closer. On the first possession of the final frame, she drove right and scooped a shot around the taller defender in front of her, off the glass and in. After BC took a 52-51 lead, Mangakahia found Cooper on the right wing again for a 3 to put SU back ahead. Then Mangakahia, who said postgame that she knew the Eagles were sagging off of her, pulled up at

the free-throw line and hit a jumper. She hit another shot 30 seconds later after driving, planting her left foot and fading off of one leg — like the Dallas Mavericks’ Dirk Nowitzki — to put SU up by three. “I was just going out and doing what I needed to do to get the win,” Mangakahia said. Mangakahia drove right again with just over a minute left and scooped the ball off the glass and in again to put the Orange up six. When it came time, Mangakahia headed to the free-throw line, needing to make her shot. And she did, making 6-of-6 in the game’s final 20 seconds to ice it for the Orange. “We don’t win without her,” Hillsman said. “… You try to get a point guard to come in and take over your team and play well. And she’s taken over our team and played well.” As Syracuse’s players ran off the floor, all but

one went straight down the tunnel unimpeded. First, a young girl wanted her picture taken and Mangakahia obliged with a smile on her face. Then, more youngsters lined the walkway to the tunnel, holding posters for Mangakahia to autograph. She found a Sharpie and started signing away. Four months ago, Mangakahia was coming off a two-year game layoff after not playing at her junior college. On Sunday, Mangakahia walked off the court as the one player everyone wanted a piece of and the best player on a surefire NCA A Tournament team. “(The record) is one of those things where you don’t realize it until you’re two, three, four years removed from what you’ve done,” Hillsman said. “Something no one can ever take from her.” wmheyen@syr.edu | @Wheyen3

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No. 43 SU wins its 5th straight, 6-1, on road over Harvard By Anthony Dabbundo staff writer

Syracuse (8-1, 1-1 Atlantic Coast) earned its second consecutive road victory in as many days Sunday morning when the Orange defeated Harvard (4-6, 0-0 Ivy League) 6-1. The win marks five-straight wins for SU.

Number of matches Syracuse has won on the road this season as part of a five-game winning streak

The Orange came out firing to the tune of 6-1 wins at first and second doubles. Gabriela Knutson and Miranda Ramirez continued their

unbeaten record together this season at first doubles, earning their sixth win as a pair in the doubles competition. At second doubles, Sofya Golubovskaya and Anna Shkudun improved their record as a team to 6-1 on the year. With a point already in hand, Syracuse continued its solid play into singles. No. 18 Knutson battled through a tight first set to eventually win 7-6, 6-1 over Erica Oosterhout at first singles. At third singles, Golubovskaya battled through the peaks and valleys of her game when she overcame a tough 6-4 second set loss to win in the third set. She improved her singles record to 6-1 on the season. Harvard earned its lone point at fourth singles, as Dina Hegab dropped her second consecutive match of the weekend after a 6-0 start to the season. Natasha Gonzalez of Harvard defeated Hegab 6-4, 7-6. With two wins under its belt in this fivegame road stretch, the Orange will now travel to Virginia Tech next Friday as the Orange reaches the bulk of its ACC schedule. amdabbun@syr.edu

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hillsman the game. If there’s no vest, a quick shirt untucking usually follows the removal of the suit jacket. Mention of Hillsman’s style wouldn’t be complete without acknowledging his glasses. On the road at North Carolina last Thursday, Hillsman didn’t do anything wild with his outfit. His glasses, though, had a cheetah-like pattern, with a mixture of yellow and brown portions. It seems whenever his outfit is on the subdued side, he makes sure to bring out his most stylish glasses. He’s got “maybe” up to 18 pairs, he said. “What happens is once you realize you can’t see, you kind of go overboard,” Hillsman said. “Three years ago I found out I couldn’t see and I started buying glasses, and I’ve got to stop.” Multiple Syracuse players brought up Hillsman’s cufflinks, which Finklea-Guity called “bedazzled,” as one of their favorite from page 12

boeheim peers who remember those times too. Here are three takeaways from Boeheim’s comments about recently unearthed NCAA violations by agents, their impact on amateurism and what college basketball does next.

The involvement of agents is inevitable

On Friday evening, the ongoing college basketball scandal that originated in September took on new meaning. Yahoo! Sports published documents from the FBI probe detailing the expenditures of former NBA agent Andy Miller, his former associate Christian Dawkins and the agency ASM Sports. Expense reports and balance sheets in those documents detail what appear to be illegal bribes, benefits and/or payments to big programs and prominent current and former players. No player has been punished by the NCAA. Boeheim said that he’s known for decades — 30 years, precisely — that agents have been involved in the families of star players. He said he has no issue with agents involving players, Syracuse included, as long as it is legal. When payments and bribes are made, that’s where Boeheim said he draws the line. “This should not surprise anybody that agents are trying to get clients,” Boeheim said. “You have the one-and-done factor, you need to get them early. You need to get them. You can’t wait. That’s not surprising. The thing that’s been surprising this year is obviously that 60 coaches (are) involved.” Boeheim added: “We have blinders on. We have blinders on. Agents are going to do that.” College basketball players should not be paid Boeheim’s larger point when discussing agents lies in the fact that removing amateurism entirely from big-time college basketball is not a from page 12

cooper “two stops, two buckets, that’s it. … There wasn’t enough possessions for us to lose unless we imploded.” After the game, though, Cooper sat and faced the media, looking subdued as Tiana Mangakahia answered questions about becoming the Atlantic Coast Conference single-season assist leader. When questioned about the shot, Cooper demurred. “It felt good,” Cooper said, looking down, grinning. “Just another shot.” But it wasn’t “just another shot.” Cooper’s 3 with 2:10 left in the game gave Syracuse (22-7, 10-6 ACC) the breathing room it never had for the previous 18 minutes of the second half, and put the Orange in position to top an inferior Boston College team (7-22, 2-14), 69-63, on Sunday in the Carrier Dome. Despite rolling out to a moderate lead early in the game, SU let BC scratch and claw its way back into the game, and both squads entered the fourth quarter knotted at 45. Still, Syracuse downed the Eagles for the ninth-straight time. “It was a tough game for us,” Hillsman said. “We didn’t create enough margins. To win games comfortably, you have to create margins.” In the teams’ first meeting this season on

parts of his look. On the cuffs from which the links hang, Hillsman gets his name, first and last, monogrammed. And around his wrist he almost always wears a shiny, golden watch. The style doesn’t stop with his clothing. All of Hillsman’s luggage is Louis Vuitton, SU forward Miranda Drummond said. “He has great swag,” Drummond said. “I like that he has that swag to him,” Tiana Mangakahia said. “He’s always bringing it,” Finklea-Guity said. The “swag” doesn’t just exist on the sideline during Syracuse games. Isis Young is in her first year of play at Syracuse after transferring from Florida. While she was at a showcase before coming to SU, her father, Dennis, remembered Hillsman arriving to the showcase decked out with flashy glasses and carrying his Louis Vuitton bags. “Look at this cat,” Dennis remembered thinking. “He’s more concerned about what he’s wearing than this basketball game.” By now, Hillsman’s look has integrated viable solution. Paying high-level college basketball players won’t mean agents will stop trying to go after young players, Boeheim said. The 73-year old then looked back to his playing days, when he played at SU from 1963-66, and went from walk-on to captain. He said he received a full ride throughout college, alluding to the fact that that may be enough, or nearly enough, compensation for players. Dino Babers, Syracuse’s head football coach, took a similar stance when asked in October whether college football player should be paid. Babers said a scholarship “is more than enough compensation.” “What’s so disheartening for me is when people who are so intelligent keep saying, ‘They’re making millions of dollars,’” Boeheim said. “We make our share just like everybody does at Syracuse. We make our share on the tickets. Our athletic department barely breaks even. If you just say, ‘Don’t have any other sports, and basketball makes $16 million, then we should be giving it all back for the players.’ But all that money (SU men’s basketball generates) pays for everything else.” By “everything else,” Boeheim referenced non-revenue sports, such as soccer, softball and field hockey, all of whose expenses exceed revenue. He later said that having athletes participate in endorsements would be “unbelievable.” It is unclear exactly why he said that, but he said, generally, that “we can try to do more in basketball … hopefully they’ll come through with solutions. We’ve got a great game.”

The one-and-done rule ‘has to go’

Established in 2006, the one-and-done rule requires U.S.-based players to be one year removed from high school before being eligible for the NBA Draft. Until then, players were eligible to enter the draft out of high school, like LeBron James and Kobe Bryant. But the rule was implemented because of concern over Jan. 28, Syracuse cruised into halftime with a 14-point cushion, and by the end of the third quarter, the Orange led by 22. SU finished off the Eagles behind 25 points from Digna Strautmane and 19 more from Mangakahia. The Eagles offense floundered that day, taking 20 fewer shots than Syracuse and making only four 3s. On Sunday, the Orange had no such offensive dominance, taking only seven more shots than the Eagles, and giving up 10 made 3s (seven of which came from Taylor Ortlepp). Syracuse, a team that averaged 73.9 points per game prior to Sunday, struggled to gain the separation it needed from a Boston College side that averaged 57.8. “I never thought this game would be easy,” Hillsman said. “… (BC) did a good job of making shots.” The win comes with extra importance, as it takes SU to 10 wins in the ACC and caps off a streak of five-straight victories to end the season. After then-No. 4 Louisville came and beat Syracuse on Feb. 4, the Orange was under .500 in ACC play for the first time since losing two straight road games in the middle of January. With a 5-6 conference record at that point, head coach Quentin Hillsman’s directive was clear. “We understand that these last five games we have,” Hillsman said on Feb. 4, “I think, are

itself into timeout entertainment at SU games. Once a game, the scoreboard will display the virtual game where three basketballs swirl around each other with an object under just one of them. Classically, fans at sporting events around the country are looking to identify which basketball an object is under. At Syracuse games, fans need to identify which basketball is hiding Hillsman’s glasses. When the Orange upset then-No. 17 Duke on Feb. 15, the third quarter ended on a Young buzzer-beating layup. Moments later, two young girls took to the floor. At SU men’s games, it would be the segment where the children put on well-oversized Syracuse basketball uniforms before running and trying to score a basket. At this particular Syracuse women’s game, the two girls dressed up in clothes to mimic Hillsman’s style. That day, Hillsman went with a classical black and white suit look, save for a tie featuring different shades of green. The girls, in the pseudo-Hillsman attire laid out for them, may

have out-styled Hillsman himself. The dress-to-impress look Hillsman employs on the sideline during games doesn’t carry over fully to practices. In the Carmelo K. Anthony Center, there aren’t as many eyes on him. Drummond said that at practices, he’s more “laid-back, like the other coaches.” On the practice court, Hillsman isn’t concerned with people’s thoughts on his appearance. He just wants to make sure his basketball philosophies are implemented correctly. But when it comes to gameday, there really is no equal to Hillsman’s fashion sense. Vonn Read, SU’s associate head coach, is crucial to Syracuse’s game planning for individual opponents. But when asked about whether he felt like he needed to dress up to Hillsman’s level, he just laughed. “If I can be as sharp as he in the (game planning), then we’re gonna be okay,” Read said. Staff writer Nick Alvarez contributed reporting to this story. wmheyen@syr.edu | @wheyen3

JIM BOEHEIM responded to college basketball’s pay-for-play scandal, contesting that agents will always be involved. alexandra moreo senior staff photographer

whether players were mature enough to enter the NBA. The result has been a college basketball landscape including players who have no intention to stay at school more than one season required. Ten of the first 11 picks of last year’s draft were college freshmen. Last year, it was reported that NBA commissioner Adam Silver was considering getting rid of the rule. He said he got the sense that it wasn’t “working for anyone.” There could be consideration of not scratching the rule altogether, but rather raising the minimum age to 20 to enter the draft. Boeheim is vehemently against the rule, he said on Saturday. “It won’t change the whole game, but

(getting rid of) one-and-done would help,” Boeheim said. “Hopefully we’ll get guys who want to be in college. If they really want to go, they should be able to go (to the NBA out of high school). Bill Gates didn’t want to go to college. I think he did alright. Golf, tennis players don’t have to go to college. “I think that would help. It won’t change the whole thing. It will help somewhat. We have a great game … it’s not going to change a thing. Not one thing. There’s tons of good teams right now that don’t have a one-anddone. We can easily survive. That’d be a big step.”

very urgent.” SU didn’t look urgent at times against the Eagles on Sunday. Leading 29-20 with fewer than five minutes to play in the first half, the Orange was in position to keep the pressure on and put an inferior BC team away before halftime, but it didn’t. Instead, SU struggled to get open looks and turned the ball over trying to run its halfcourt offense. In response, BC gashed SU for two fastbreak layups and set up sharpshooter Milan Bolden-Morris for open looks from the top of the key.

ton College run that put the Eagles ahead, 30-29, with just more than two minutes until halftime. The third quarter was much of the same. Syracuse opened on a 7-0 run to stretch its lead to nine. But after seven more minutes of back-and-forth play, Boston College had come back, and an Ortlepp 3 with 52 seconds left in the third quarter sent both teams to the final stanza with 45 points on the board. “We played a little sloppy this game,” Miranda Drummond said. In the final frame, both teams traded blows. Ortlepp or Bolden-Morris would splash a 3, only to be answered by Cooper on the other end. When a Georgia Pineau jumper brought BC within one, SU knew it needed to find a dagger, and quick. Mangakahia brought the ball down the court, took a hop step and fired the ball down to Amaya Finklea-Guity, who turned and missed a lefty layup. But Drummond had sprinted in from the wing and snatched the ball from two would-be BC rebounders. Drummond broke toward the sideline, curled right, and hit Cooper five feet behind the 3-point line, halfway between the wing and the top of the arc. Cooper made no mistake, and SU had the game in hand.

It was a tough game for us. We didn’t create enough margins. To win games comfortably, you have to create margins. Quentin Hillsman su head coach

After swinging the ball around the arc, a BC wing drove, collapsing the defense and freeing Bolden-Morris for wide open looks from straight away. She knocked down two-straight 3s to cap off a 10-0 Bos-

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Man of style Quentin Hillsman has a reputation for his sideline fashion By Billy Heyen

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HILLSMAN is the winningest coach in SU history with 263 wins. codie yan staff photographer

HILLSMAN is in his 12th season as Syracuse’s coach. max freund staff photographer

bout an hour before every Syracuse home game, head coach Quentin Hillsman emerges from the home team’s tunnel in the Carrier Dome to do a pregame interview with the game’s broadcast team. Often, he comes out wearing a jean jacket that features a lion patch on the front. Stylish, to be sure, but just a precursor to his in-game fashion sense. “He’s one of a kind,” SU freshman Amaya Finklea-Guity said. Quentin Hillsman, in his 12th season at Syracuse (22-7, 10-6 Atlantic Coast), is the winningest all-time coach in SU women’s basketball history at 263 wins and counting. He’s led a team with just one returning starter to multiple upsets of Top 25 teams and almost assuredly to another NCAA Tournament berth. And he’s done it all in style. Hillsman, who often wears a three-piece suit during games and almost always wears a shirt and tie, got his fashion sense from his father, he said. He called his father a “suit-and-tie guy.” “Three-piece suits are just old school, I’ll tell you,” Hillsman said. “That’s my dad, it’s all him.” When the Orange took on Colgate on Dec. 6, Hillsman went with a relatively simple look. He wore an all-black suit but spiced it up with a green shirt and green tie. Against Drexel three days later, Hillsman broke out the simple look again, even going with a black tie, but mixed it up with a striped dress shirt. For SU’s upset of then-No. 11 Florida State on Jan. 7, though, Hillsman went all out. His whole getup was dark blue: suit jacket, pants and even shoes. He wore a green dress shirt to contrast the blue. His outfit didn’t even need a tie that day. Hillsman coaches with an intensity that a suit jacket doesn’t allow. So, sometimes by the end of the first quarter, he’ll have taken the jacket off. If he’s wearing a vest, he’ll usually remain in the vest to coach for the remainder of see hillsman page 11

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Desiree Elmore sprung up from her seat on the bench, knowing what came next. The moment Gabrielle Cooper’s 3 from the right wing kissed the net, the Carrier Dome exploded. Elmore kicked up her left leg and swung her right fist down simultaneously, then bounced her way to teammates as SU head coach Quentin Hillsman called a timeout. “Gabby hit a big shot and I took the timeout and I told them,” Hillsman said after the game, see cooper page 11

By Sam Fortier and Matthew Gutierrez the daily orange

GABRIELLE COOPER’S 3-pointer late in the fourth quarter served as the dagger for SU. max freund staff photographer

DURHAM, N.C. — Jim Boeheim left his news-making press conference and made it about four paces before he suddenly stopped. “Lefty!” he yelped, and extended his right hand for the older man to shake. Standing in the doorway leading to the Cameron Indoor Stadium floor was Lefty Driesell, the 86-year-old former Blue Devil player and legendary college basketball coach whom

Duke had invited back for Saturday night’s game. The two men sized up one another. “You look good,” Driesell said. “I got to,” Boeheim responded. “I work out. My wife will yell at me if I don’t. I’ve got teenagers!” Driesel shook his head and told the 73-year-old, “Stay young, man. Stay young.” Then Boeheim smiled warmly and walked down the hallway, farther away from his press conference that reflected thoughts formed long ago, farther away from one of his few see boeheim page 11