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Experts have recommended the use of road salt to de-ice roads in the winter should be limited because of the effect it could have on groundwater and lakes.

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Drag queens and ballet performances highlighted the Black Artist Collective’s Fête Noir-themed Black History Month Showcase.

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Jim Boeheim said after Syracuse’s loss to Duke that Frank Anselem still isn’t ready for big-time minutes after only recording no points and two rebounds in 12 minutes.

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Syracuse comes together in solidarity with Ukraine

Members of the congregation stepped outside following a service at St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church to raise the Ukrainian flag and sing the Ukrainian national anthem. meghan hendricks photo editor

By Danny Amron, Richard Perrins the daily orange

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undreds of people gathered at St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church Sunday afternoon to stand in solidarity with the Ukrainian people.

Nataliya Kolesova, a member of the congregation, is a second-year doctoral student in teaching and curriculum at Syracuse Univer-

State and local officials have shown support for the Ukrainian community

sity’s School of Education and a paralympic athlete. Her daughter and mother, alongside her friends and other family members, still live in Rivne in western Ukraine, where she grew up.

But after she read about Russia’s invasion in the news, she said she hasn’t been able to return to her studies. Instead, she’s been constantly calling her friends and family to encourage and pray with them. see ukraine page 4

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Syracuse University Literacy Corps aids city community

By Kyle Chouinard asst. news editor

In an elementary school near Syracuse, a teacher noticed one of the students was a great orator but couldn’t always do well in a group setting. The student needed more one-on-one time, a presence to be around him while he is doing his classwork.

Katherine Quinn, a member of Syracuse University Literacy

Corps, provided that service to this student last year.

The SULC provides tutors to local school districts as well as programs such as the North Side Learning Center, Hillside and 100 Black Men of Syracuse. Currently, 35 tutors are involved in the program and are spread between 15 sites, said Carla Ramírez, an assistant director at SU’s Shaw Center, who runs the program.

Before the pandemic, Ramírez

said the program had around 100 tutors and was spread between 40 sites. Little by little, they are getting back to where they were before the pandemic, she said.

The literacy corps’ website calls itself a “reciprocal learning experience,” where SU students gain experience working in the Syracuse community.

Quinn, a senior public relations major at SU, joined the literacy corps in her sophomore

year. During her time as a member, she said, her work has varied.

“I would do vocab words, I would read one-on-one with them, I would help them with any of the class work they were doing,” Quinn said. “Other classrooms I would literally just sit in there and just help keep the peace.”

In kindergarten classes, she would take students out for walks if they were being moody or disruptive.

The work the SULC conducts

is not restricted to younger children — the group also works with people as old as college students.

The North Side Learning Center helps refugees and immigrants learn English, NSLC Executive Director Mark Cass said. He added that SULC tutors have been the strongest and most effective the organization has had.

He said people who arrive in the U.S. at a high school age see literacy

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“I can’t do anything to protect my family. I live here. I cannot come to Ukraine, have a weapon in my hand and defend my motherland.” - Nataliya Kolesova, SU student Page 3

OPINION “With all that’s happening in Europe, SU students not only need to reach out to international students, but be a friend.” - Sophia Leone, columnist Page 5

CULTURE “We wanted to put a little bit of light in our community. ...

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Broadwater sues state for false conviction NY lifts school mask mandate

By Francis Tang

asst. news editor

After Anthony Broadwater’s conviction was overturned, Alice Sebold apologized for her role in his imprisonment in a statement. Broadwater served 16 years for the crime before his exoneration. jaden chen asst. photo editor

By Jana Seal

asst. digital editor

Anthony Broadwater, the man who was falsely convicted in 1982 for the rape of then-Syracuse University freshman Alice Sebold and wrongly imprisoned for 16 years, filed a lawsuit Friday against New York state for wrongful conviction.

The lawsuit claims “egregious” police and prosecutorial misconduct leading up to the trial and seeks $50 million for unjust conviction and imprisonment and a list of damages including loss of wages past and future, mental and emotional suffering and loss of family contact and consortium.

Broadwater was exonerated for Sebold’s rape in November 2021 after a reexamination proved inconsistencies in key evidence and deemed the DNA microscopic hair analysis tying Broadwater to the crime unreliable. Review of police conduct during the investigation of Broadwater’s case was brought about by new information presented in Sebold’s memoir, “Lucky,” which detailed her rape, the investigation and the conviction.

Sebold identified Broadwater on Marshall Street nearly five months after the rape, the lawsuit reads, which led to his subsequent arrest and conviction.

Prior to the conviction, however, Sebold identified a different man in a lineup.

When Sebold chose “person number five” in the lineup rather than “person number four” — Broadwater — the lawsuit claims Detective George Lorenz justified the opposing identifications by telling Sebold that she had just been “in a hurry to get out of there.” Assistant District Attorney Gail Uebelhoer falsely stated that Sebold had been manipulated into identifying a man other than Broadwater, the lawsuit alleges.

The lawsuit claims that Uebelhoer suggested to Sebold that the other man she chose in the lineup had been a friend of Broadwater, planted there to confuse her and throw her off track. “He uses that friend, or that friend uses him, in

every lineup they do. They’re dead ringers,” Uebelhoer told Sebold according to the lawsuit.

These conversations were first documented in the memoir, the lawsuit says, which was published 17 years after Broadwater’s conviction.

The lawsuit refers to crossracial identification as a complicating factor and claims egregious police and prosecutorial misconduct. Broadwater maintained his innocence ever since his conviction, the lawsuit says. He had originally requested the lineup in an attempt to vindicate himself. Once foundational evidence to Broadwater’s conviction was dismissed,

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Road salt may impact New York water bodies

By Louis Platt

senior staff writer

While road salt is a useful tool for preventing slipping on the sidewalk and car accidents on the roads, its environmental impact on regional bodies of water is felt in the central New York and Adirondack regions.

“We’ve kind of had this cultural shift in the amount of road salt that we are actually applying (to the roads),” said Camille Marcotte, the water and ecology educator at the Cornell Cooperative Extension of Onondaga County.

“People expect roadways to be completely clear when there’s a snowstorm, and so that led to an increase in the amount of road salt that’s been applied.”

The city of Syracuse is meeting this demand through a mobile tracking system for residents to keep tabs on where snow plows

are in the city so they know what streets are cleared to drive on.

The city is mitigating supply chain issues by contracting some snow removal to private businesses.

Cornell Cooperative Extension of Onondaga County hosted a webinar in February with Brendan Wiltse, the senior research scientist at Paul Smith’s College’s Adirondack Watershed Institute. A watershed is an area of land in which any precipitation is going to eventually drain to a single body of water, Marcotte said.

Wiltse explained how water runoff following snowstorms carries large amounts of road salt into watersheds and directly into local bodies of water. The elevated amount of sodium can disrupt water ecosystems and stress the organisms living there, Marcotte said.

While conducting research

New de-icing methods are being tested, but research is still inconclusive about their eco-friendliness. meghan hendricks photo editor

on Mirror Lake in Lake Placid, New York, Wiltse found that stormwater that is directed into the lake contains about 10,000

milligrams of sodium chloride per liter. Wiltse said this means the lake is being fed water that is see road

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New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Sunday the state will lift the statewide mask requirement in schools effective Wednesday, including for children 2 years and older in childcare facilities.

Counties and cities may still require masks in such settings.

The state previously ended its statewide mask-or-vaccine mandate for indoor businesses on Feb. 10. The new decision, Hochul said, came as COVID-19 cases have dropped by 98% since the omicron peak.

A statewide mask requirement is still in effect in state-regulated healthcare settings, adult care facilities and nursing homes. Masks are also required in correctional facilities, public transit, homeless and domestic violence shelters.

“This is a huge step forward for our kids and communities,” Hochul said. “And I am grateful to the students, educators and parents for their dedication to keeping us all safe.”

On Friday, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention altered the metrics of its COVID-19 guidelines. CDC’s new “COVID-19 community level” metrics — which contain low, medium and high levels — are determined based on three different indicators: new COVID-19 hospitalizations, hospital capacity and new positive cases. As of Thursday, around 62.7% of U.S. counties are at low or medium COVID-19 community levels, for which the CDC has no recommendation for indoor masking.

Onondaga County, under the new metric, is at a medium community level as of Thursday, according to the CDC. Previously, the CDC used four levels of community transmission indicators: low, moderate, substantial and high. The levels were determined by the total number of new cases per 100,000 persons and the percentage of Nucleic Acid Amplification Test results that are positive in the past seven days.

New York state confirmed 1,671 positive COVID-19 cases on Sunday, with a seven-day average positivity rate of 1.94%, per state data. Around 85.6% of New York adults are fully vaccinated as of Sunday, according to the CDC. Syracuse University has been under its “BLUE” COVID-19 alert level for one week. Under this level, all students, faculty and staff are required to wear masks during academic instruction regardless of vaccination status.

Masks are recommended, but not mandated, for vaccinated people indoors in the presence of others and outdoors in large groups. The university may also require people to wear masks during non-academic events on a case-by-case basis. btang05@syr.edu @francis_towne

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ukraine “It’s heartbreaking for me,” Kolesova said.

“I can’t do anything to protect my family. I live here. I cannot come to Ukraine, have a weapon in my hand and defend my motherland.”

Kolesova said that, though the situation is uncertain, her friends and family in Ukraine are determined to stay and withstand the invasion, unwilling to let their home be overtaken without a fight. But they know that things could take a turn for the worse.

“My family are sitting now in my house, and they are waiting for the most dangerous night of their lives,” she said.

Kolesova has a 26-year-old daughter and a mother in her 60s. She said she is not sure if she could see them again.

“I’m a human being and it’s painful,” she said. “I am afraid. I want my daughter to live a long life. I want to have grandchildren in the future. I want to see my friends, live my mother’s life. I want to be able to travel to my beautiful motherland.”

Outside the church, Dmytro Kuchirka, a senior economics major at SU from Ukraine, gave a speech to the crowd about the need to persevere and support Ukraine. He said that his parents are still in Kyiv, hiding in their basement as the city is bombarded with missiles.

He then pointed to several avenues for individuals to helping Ukraine, including supporting verified organizations that provide aid and working with the Ukrainian Club of Syracuse University on its efforts and projects.

Kuchirka emphasized that the world from page 1

literacy corps and do not know English have a difficult road ahead. They need to pass English state testing as well as finishing their high school course content.

“There (were) twin sisters who came here and one of the literacy corp students … really just took them under her wing,” Cass said.

Two years later, one of the sisters, Nidaa Aljabbarin, received the Cooke Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship. The scholarship provided Aljabbarin, who was then a student at Onondaga Community College, up to $40,000 a year to complete her bachelor’s degree, in addition to other benefits. She was one of 50 students to receive the scholarship from page 3

broadwater Onondaga County District Attorney William J. Fitzpatrick joined Broadwater’s motion to have his conviction overturned.

“I am not going to, you know, sully these proceedings by saying I am sorry,” the lawsuit quotes Fitzpatrick. “That doesn’t cut it. This should never have happened. And I will say to Mr. Broadwater that I assure from page 3

road salt “nearly sea water” following snowstorms.

The median chloride concentration in a lake in the Adirondack mountain range is about 0.24 milligrams per liter, Wiltse added.

This reduces the amount of dissolved oxygen in the water, and while the conditions are not lethal, it most likely puts the fish under physiological stress, Wiltse said .

Marcotte said this is an issue that plagues Skaneateles Lake, which is about 20 miles southwest of Syracuse and a primary water source for the city.

“The road salt used in Skaneateles will definitely impact Skaneateles Lake,” Marcotte said.

While there are new de-icing methods being tested for sustainability measures, like applying liquid brines instead of rock salt or the use of beet juice salt, the research is still inconclusive on how much more eco-friendly these methods are, Marcotte said.

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must stand up against authoritarian and tyrannical actions such as the recent invasion to preserve democracy and the sovereignty of smaller nations.

“Now we must not let that happen as the younger generation,” he said.

Linh Nguyen, an operations research analyst at SU’s Institute for Veterans and Military Families, spoke after Kuchirka at the service Sunday and emphasized the strength in character of her country. Born in Kyiv, Nguyen said hearing the Ukrainian national anthem gives her a sense of warmth, support and belonging in an uncertain time.

“A lot of nations have been trying to uproot our culture,” Nguyen said. “We have built the culture to persevere.”

Nguyen said her family, who lives in Vietnam, were supposed to return to Ukraine in December but were unable to do so because of COVID-19 restrictions. She said the extent of the Ukrainian presence in the city has strengthened her resolve.

“I found Ukrainians to be incredibly resilient when it comes to unifying against something that is that atrocious,” Nguyen said. “There were not only Ukrainian people, but also people of Ukrainian descent and other American friends who came to support us, which I think stands as a proof of how strong this community is.”

Russia invaded Ukraine early Thursday morning with a blitz of strikes across the nation. But as of Sunday, Ukraine has put up resistance.

SU Chancellor Kent Syverud sent a campus-wide email Friday morning, condemning Russia’s invasion against Ukraine. He also

said during Wednesday’s University Senate meeting that the conflict may be a potential challenge for the university community, given the large Ukrainian and Russian population at SU, as well as the high percentage of students, faculty and staff currently on active duty in military, guards and reserves.

“It’s not that sudden if you look back at things (Vladimir Putin) has said and done over the last 22 years,” said Brian Taylor, a professor at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs who specializes in Russian politics. “Ukraine has been for him a foreign policy priority for more than 20 years and it’s also been his greatest foreign policy failure. Everything he does to try and bring Ukraine into the Russian sphere of influence just encourages the Ukrainian government, Ukrainian people to work harder to try and pursue a proWestern orientation.”

Taylor added that even if the Russians are successful in installing a “puppet” government in Ukraine, he still sees a Ukrainian insurgency succeeding.

“I don’t think the Ukrainians are just going to give up,” he said.

Grant Reeher, another political science professor at the Maxwell and the director of Campbell Public Affairs Institute, said in an email to The Daily Orange that the U.S. can show its support for Ukraine by providing a haven for refugees fleeing the violence. He added that Syracuse in particular is a hub for refugees, and that the immigrant communities already existing in the city — which includes Ukrainians — contribute greatly to the city’s diversity

and economy.

On Thursday, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced that New York state stands ready to welcome Ukrainian refugees. New York has the largest Ukrainian immigrant population in the U.S., the release said.

“Our prayers are with the Ukrainian people, including those in New York who are scared for their family and loved ones,” Hochul said in the release. “Just as the Statue of Liberty stands tall in our harbor, New York stands ready to welcome Ukrainian refugees. We remain engaged with the Biden Administration and we will be prepared to accept and support those who seek shelter in our state.”

Hochul signed an executive order on Sunday directing all state agencies and authorities to divest public funds from Russia.

On Sunday at the service, Syracuse Mayor Ben Walsh affirmed the city’s strong support for its Ukrainian population.

“I just wanted to make sure as your mayor, you all know that the city of Syracuse, the people of the city of Syracuse stand strongly behind the people of Ukraine,” Walsh said.

“You should know that the Ukrainian flag flies proudly from city hall today.”

Throughout the service, members of St. John’s congregation were brought to tears as the priest led them through prayer.

But afterwards, the crowd moved outside.

They gathered around a flagpole, holding signs and shrouded in Ukrainian flags.

As the flag was raised high on the flagpole, the sea of blue and yellow began to sing the Ukrainian national anthem in unison.

in the country.

Quinn also worked as a tutor at North Side Learning Center. Much of her work, she said, was helping students with technical items such as learning Microsoft Word or Canva.

Quinn said that, during the holiday season, many students went out of their way to celebrate with her.

“They all wrote me letters,” she said.

“I was so touched I almost cried. … I can’t believe that I’ve impacted (the students) and (the students have) impacted me in such profound ways.”

Cass said literacy corps tutors seem to come “pre-trained” to work with students at the North Side Learning Center.

Kieran Kokesh, a senior at SU studying

psychology and neuroscience, also works as a tutor for the SULC. “Tutors would be required to attend meetings and discuss your sociological awareness of your experiences, such as removing yourself from a ‘savior complex’ for example, when faced with kids who are perhaps lower-class or (using English as a second language), or some other circumstance that differs from your own,” Kokesh said in an email to The Daily Orange.

Camille Muzzarelli, another tutor with the SULC, also said tutors discussed white savior complexes and diversity. SULC taught tutors how to talk to teachers when a student is having problems at home, Muzzarelli said.

Ramírez said tutors do not just teach with

the SULC, they also serve as role models and support systems for students. Tutors need to be ready to help kids in any possible way, the assistant director said, and the SULC provides training for those situations.

She said the university is within its own bubble, and does not necessarily relate to what the Syracuse community is actually living.

There’s two different worlds within the city, Ramírez said.

“The divide between the average SU student and the populace is striking — how I-81 affected the population, leading to a significant amount of poverty in the area,” they said. “Yet SU may feel like a castle gated off from it.”

him that it will never happen again.”

A number of pieces of legislation that would overhaul New York state’s sentencing laws are on the agenda for central New York organizations that joined to form the “Communities Not Cages” campaigns.

Three bills, the Eliminate Mandatory Minimums Act, the Second Look Act and the Earned Time Act aim to end mandatory minimums, amend resentencing laws and reintegrate people in prison back into

society, respectively.

When Broadwater’s conviction was overturned, Sebold addressed the systemic issues in the American judicial system which contributed to the wrongful conviction and apologized for her role in his unjust imprisonment in a statement.

“I will continue to struggle with the role that I unwittingly played within a system that sent an innocent man to jail,” the statement reads. “I am sorry most of all for

the fact that the life you could have led was unjustly robbed from you, and I know that no apology can change what happened to you and never will.”

“It’s still painful to me because I was wrongfully convicted,” Broadwater said about the apology in a statement to syracuse.com. “But this will help me in my process to come to peace with what happened.”

“It’s kind of trying to figure out what’s the best way to keep our roads safe, but also reduce the environmental impact,” Marcotte said.

In October 2019, the Onondaga County Soil and Water Conservation District and Central New York Regional Planning and Development Board held an event in collaboration with New York’s Department of Transportation to calibrate municipalities’ snow plows.

Part of the calibration process included making sure the trucks sprayed the right amount of salt on the roads, Marcotte said.

She would like to see municipalities continue to experiment with different plows and equipment that measures the amount of salt being applied to roads.

Another adverse effect of excess road salt application is that parts of lawns near roadways will not grow grass due to higher sodium levels in the soil, she said.

Nonetheless, there is still a significant dependence on salting roads to prepare them for snowstorms, Wiltse said. His

research in the Adirondacks showed that on an annual basis 108,000 tons of road salt is applied on state roads in that region of the state, with another 84,700 tons applied on local roads.

Curtis Jetter, the New York State Department of Transportation’s public information officer, said in an email that the department calibrates all of its equipment at the beginning of the snow and ice season, and the snow plows are “calibrated routinely throughout the season to ensure (they are) applying salt at the prescribed rates.”

Marcotte recommended that residents do more on their part to clear their driveways, sidewalks and walkways with shovels and snowblowers during and immediately after storms instead of relying on copious amounts of salt.

“It’s something you can do ahead of the ice forming and after the snowstorm, go out and immediately shovel so that the snow doesn’t freeze and you’re not trying to use de-icer after that,” Marcotte said.

“There’s just different things that you can do on a variety of scales to reduce the impact that road salt has.”

It’s kind of trying to figure out what’s the best way to keep our roads safe, but also reduce the environmental impact Camille Marcotte

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SU students are not doing enough to support Ukrainians

By Sophia Leone columnist

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ast Thursday, Violetta Soboleva fiercely stood alone by the Hall of Languages. With a somber expression and tears streaming down her face, she holds a sign in her hands.

Immediately, this sign catches everyone’s eyes as they walk by. The sign reads “Stop the war. Putin is Hitler.” A bold statement to say the least.

There’s a brief pause when fellow students read this sign, analyzing the depth of the statement and then they go on their way to class, without a care. But Soboleva still continued to stand there because she knows the seriousness of the UkraineRussia conflict. All Syracuse University students should stop and realize how dangerous this conflict is.

Soboleva, a 23 year-old SU graduate student, is from Russia and is also half Ukrainian. She has spent her years in both countries where her family resides. When she received a phone call from her relatives at 5 a.m, Ukrainian time, Soboleva felt sheer horror as she discovered they were getting bombed by Russia. The panic she heard over the phone made her worry for her family and other Ukrianians fighting for their lives, “They woke up … in the morning and they were getting bombed.”

There was a stay-at-home order put in place in Kyiv last Thursday due to these attacks, and people were told to seek shelter if they heard sirens. Still, many Ukrainians started fleeing Kyiv in a frantic man-

ner with the sound of sirens ringing through their ears. To add to the tension, Russia has made it extremely difficult to maintain a visa, which for Soboleva, an international student, creates a problem as it may make it harder for her to travel home and Russians to leave the country.

Putin’s public voice and use of propaganda towards his nation promotes his actions as a good deed. “Putin and Russia (are) not calling it a war. … They call it ‘military help.’... They say they are helping Ukraine, but they went on our terriitory and started terrorizing people,” Soboleva said. With this intense censorship, citizens are facing undisclosed consequences. Soboleva sums up the totality of this as the censorship is having a huge effect on the citizens’ views of nationalism and military efforts. “Russia is the new North Korea,” she said.

The disinformation Russia has communicated to civilians puts a hardship on her family, with her dad in the military and her relatives suffering, Soboleva said, leaving her stunned and frustrated. “My dad is in the military, and his sister is suffering. He is saying it’s for the good. I don’t understand why he’s saying this. He believes in their propaganda,” she said.

Putin addressed the issues in his recent speech, and in doing so, he suggested the state of Ukraine was not one at all. He then went on to talk about Moscow’s recognition of two separatist regions in Ukraine, which initiated him to send “peacekeeping forces” to keep control. Although many did not know it yet, that was just the start of

what was to come: escalating into what we are facing at this moment.

Many Russian citizens have taken to the streets to protest Putin’s actions. According to Radio Free Europe, since Friday, there have been protests all across the country, including 54 different cities, including thousands of angry citizens protesting in the center of Pushkin Square in Moscow. Their bravery comes with many ramifications, though, as Russian officials have stopped any form of political rebellion.“Citizens of Russia went to the streets, but the police are shutting it down and stopping it,” Soboleva said, “They are getting fines upwards of $150.” Marina Litvinovich, a prominent Russian human rights activist, was fined an equivalent in American currency, $350 for her participation in the protests. Citizens’ efforts have been squashed and ended in arrests of hundreds of people. The display of citizens’ preferences and lack of governmental translation upsets Soboleva.

“I feel Russian people don’t deserve this. They’ve been locked in jail. I feel guilty that I could do this while they’re being jailed,” Soboleva said. With her Ukrainian and Russian backgrounds, she feels as if she’s trapped between her nationalities and her First Amendment right in the U.S., to speak out against Putin. But with this guilt comes some anger. Ironically she feels as if she’s the only one using her rights, here at SU, to speak out against this injustice. She feels as if America is not doing enough to the best of its abilities, to prevent further

Violetta Soboleva stood outside the Hall of Languages with a sign, “Stop the war. Putin is Hitler.” sophia leone columnist

fatalities from happening and that SU students do not really care about the seriousness of these events.

The Biden Administration has not been as forceful as some might have assumed. After supporting much military action in the 1990s and the invasion of Iraq, President Joe Biden has become hesitant about using his military power, which was what prompted him to pull out military troops in Afghanistan, according to BBC News.

Although no strong military actions have been taken, the U.S. government, along with the EU, put strong penalties on Putin. Sadly, though, this might not be enough to stop him from redrawing the entity of Europe and killing thousands of innocent people.

So there Soboleva stands, alone in the cold. In a strong symbolic manner she represents the Ukrainian and Russian that resides in her. She calls out to us, her fellow students, to see, not only her, but to see the citizens of these countries as they are, people.

To see them as people calling out for help against a government that claims to protect them.

With all that’s happening in Europe, SU students not only need to reach out to international students, but be a friend. They may be alone here on campus and are often the only ones in their family who are allowed to voice their opinion on this matter.

While their families overseas may be struggling to survive, international students like Soboleva are bravely taking stands to display their worries.

SU students need a collective call to action, and they need to truly appreciate the efforts international students of Russia and Ukraine are displaying.

Those students whose families are being terrorized need to be supported by the U.S., as we are a campus of one.

Sophia Leone is a freshman broadcast and digital journalism major, with a minor in political science. Her column appears biweekly. She can be reached at seleone@syr.edu.

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Critiques of Kink 101 reveal a misunderstanding of BDSM

By Our Reader

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f you visited the Syracuse University events calendar recently, you may have stumbled across the university’s latest Health and Wellness seminar: Kink 101, a Bondage Domination Sadism Masochism (commonly known as BDSM) seminar aimed at teaching students — and this is a quote from the event description: “a night of safe and consensual learning.”

Columnist Augustus LeRoux recently argued such seminars, as well as the normalization of pornography, are connected to endemic sexual assaults on college campuses, implying that the 19% of students who were sexually assaulted in 2020 are the result of SU’s normalization of BDSM. I believe a few factual clarifications are in order.

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LeRoux wrote that “the degree to which students’ day-to-day lives have become hypersexualized has damaging implications.” However, the past decades have shown a steady decline in sexual activity among young people. A 2019 CDC report showed that just 27.4% of American high schoolers were currently sexually active, a significant decrease from 1991’s 37.5%.

Condom and birth control usage is up, and the number of students who have ever had sexual intercourse is down. A 2020 study also found that since 2000, sexual inactivity increased among U.S. adults, especially among men aged 18-34. Wouldn’t a culture of sexual perversion and hypersexuality involve more sex?

He also argued that normalization of BDSM “compounds an already existing mental health crisis

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supplemented by the widespread consumption of internet pornography.” However, a 2013 study found that practitioners of BDSM were actually found to exhibit a healthier mindset than their vanilla control group. Practitioners of BDSM showed less neuroticism, more extroversion, less rejection sensitivity, more conscientiousness and higher subjective well-being.

And if LeRoux meant to argue that exposure to BDSM is connected to incidence of sexual assault, evidence to support that point is nonexistent. If nothing else, a BDSM practitioner who has been trained in safe and consensual sex — the exact education Kink 101 offered — is better off than a BDSM practitioner who could make mistakes.

And yes, LeRoux cited an article to back his argument that exposure

to pornography leads to violence.

(Admittedly, this article only studied first age of pornography exposure, not current frequency of use.) But the broader view of science studying pornography and violence is muddy. The National Resource Center on Domestic Violence, for example, has found no evidence in its research to back the assertion that pornography usage causes sexual assault.

If what LeRoux calls “perversion” — the rise in comprehensive sex education, on-demand pornography usage and seminars like Kink 101 — is responsible for normalizing sexual assault, one can expect the past 20 years reveal a skyrocketing rate of sexual violence. But the FBI found that rates of sexual assault are decreasing, both short- and longterm. The FBI estimated that the proportion of survivors who report-

ed to police increased from 29.3% in 2004 to 34.8% in 2013, according to the 2013 report, and up to 40.9% in 2019. In short: sexual assault is down, and reporting is up.

LeRoux’s alarmist article does get one thing correct — he cannot contend that SU will soon be racked by a deluge of sexual violence. His words paint little more than a man appalled that his legal adult peers would shamelessly learn safe and consensual sexual practices. His argument is a series of loosely connected dots, revealing little more than his personal discomfort and unfamiliarity with BDSM. Perhaps he could consider attending the next Kink 101.

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What does astrology predict for your week?

By Liam Hines

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arley Robinson moved to the Syracuse area in August. With loosening COVID-19 restrictions, Robinson wanted to start exploring new spaces in the city and find a strong sense of Black community in Syracuse, which is what drew her to the Community Folk Art Center.

“I’ve been looking for some Black community, and this event looks really fun ... I was excited to come and check out the space,” Robinson said. “I have not really been able to find community in the COVID times and things like that, so as more in-person events are happening, I’m trying to get out a little bit.”

The Black Artist Collective, in association with the Community Folk Art Center, hosted its second annual Black History Month Showcase on Saturday. This year’s event, which ran from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., had the theme “Fête Noir,” which translates to Black party.

This year’s theme was a party to celebrate Black joy and talent. Guests were invited to wear gala attire and masquerade masks to honor the inspiration for the event: Mardi Gras and Carnival. With guests dressed in their finest, Fête Noir began with an hour of light refreshments

The Black Artist Collective collaborated with the Community Folk Art Center to host the second annual Black History Month Showcase and live music before the main event began, which was live streamed on Facebook and Zoom.

Around 7:15 p.m., the performance started with a singing of the Black national anthem by the show’s performers, and audience members were invited to sing along. Following the performance of “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” the show’s host, Jaleel Campbell, remained on stage to introduce the theme of the night and interact with the audience.

Campbell, who is a co-founder of the BAC, acknowledged the purple, green and gold decorations adorning the CFAC’s stage, which he said were an upgrade from last year’s event. After energizing the audience, Campbell gave the stage to Vanessa Johnson, who performed poetry

by Harlem Renaissance artists to live jazz music, played by Bernie Williford.

Following Johnson and Williford, Amarachi Attamah came onto the stage.

Attamah, a chant performer and poet, addressed the audience in Igbo and English. As she danced and chanted, Attamah wore a smile on her face that elicited enthusiastic reactions from the audience.

“I felt so happy. I perform for people that will connect to the energy — the language, the expressions — and I chose some lines that really meant something,” Attamah said. “I got the feedback that I wanted as a performer.”

Another highlight performance of the night came from Syracuse-based drag queen Sparkle Royale, who Campbell introduced as a main Black drag queen in the Syracuse area.

Royale entered the room in complete darkness before dancing to a medley of songs between rows of audience members. Once Royale made it to the stage, the music stopped and gave way to see fete

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Astrology is the practice of drawing correlations between the movements of the stars and life on earth.

For thousands of years, people have looked to the night sky as a source of truth, capable of shedding light on the hidden mysteries of human life.

Early astrologers noticed that among the elaborate canvas of fixed stars and constellations, the sun, the moon and five especially bright stars wander along a shared circular path, enacting a beautiful cosmic dance of geometric alignments in their eternal eastward procession along this ecliptic. By the time of the ascension of the Ancient Greek Empire, this 360-degree ecliptic had been divided into the twelve 30-degree segments we know today to be the signs of the Zodiac.

What are the stars up to this week?

This week, we see a new moon in Pisces on Wednesday and a triple conjunction of Venus, Mars and Pluto in Capricorn perfecting on Thursday.

When the moon, drained of its light, moves between the sun and earth, we are called upon to rest, reflect and plant seeds for the lunar cycle to come. During the days leading up to the new moon, known to astrologers as the balsamic moon phase, you may find yourself especially devoid of energy. Feel no guilt in surrendering to any impulses towards an afternoon nap during this time.

Wednesday’s new moon in Pisces occurs within two degrees of a conjunction with Jupiter, the planet of abundance, optimism and growth.

Jupiter, as the planetary ruler of Pisces, supports this new moon and subsequent moon cycle, as any gracious host would.

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from the stage

Academy Awards fail to represent marginalized communities

By Sophie Szydlik

contributing writer

On March 27, the biggest names in the film industry will gather at Hollywood’s Dolby Theater, praying for their name to be enclosed in a legendary golden envelope and receive the 13.5-inch tall, 8.5pound golden statue: an Oscar.

Long considered the crown jewel of awards season, the Oscars have maintained a prestigious reputation for recognizing cinematic brilliance.

Despite this, marginalized communities have been continually excluded from the Oscars.

The Academy of Motion Picture

Arts and Sciences has tried to lift the curtain on this lack of representation in recent years, notably in 2016 after the social media campaign #OscarSoWhite, which prompted aggressive diversification efforts by the Academy.

The largest of these efforts was their inclusion goal: to double the number of women and voters of color by 2020. The Academy succeeded in this goal by doubling its number of female members from 1,446 in 2016 to 3,179 in 2020 and tripling the number of members of color from 554 to 1,787.

In 2021, a record-breaking number of Black nominees and winners were selected. However, it is important to note that even with the admission of

these new members, only 19% of the voting body are people of color and only 33% of Oscar voters are female.

Seldom does the conversation of representation extend to the technical, behind-the-scenes categories.

Because of this, the same diversifying progress that appears to have been made in popular categories like Best Picture and Best Actor/Actress has not been evenly distributed to all creative aspects of the film industry.

Take this year’s nominations for example — a mere two years after the Academy introduced its diversity and inclusion initiatives, all of the 2022 nominees for Best Cinematography are white, and only one of them is

female. Another technical category, Best Visual Effects, is dominated by white male nominees.

Even in the on-screen categories, there are only four people of color nominated for acting awards, contrasting last year’s nine, and none of those women are nominated in the Best Actress category. In fact, the only woman of color to take home the award for Best Actress was Halle Berry for “Monster’s Ball” in 2002, 20 years ago.

In discussing Black representation at the Academy Awards, Charisse L’Pree, an associate professor at the Newhouse School of Public Communications, said that there is a

dire need for voices of marginalized communities in all facets of film’s creative process, not just what we see on the screen.

“I understand that on-screen triggers the conversation. … I would really like for that to go deeper, but it never does,” L’Pree said. “Because it never does, we drift into this wave where it’s like, ‘Oh we need to have a whole lot of Black representation,’ but we’re not changing anything else in the institution.”

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slice of life

Students brave frigid weather at the Duke Camp Out

By Paola Gonzalez contributing writer

On Thursday night, Emma Infanti wrote her sociology paper under a tent outside of the Carrier Dome, with a snow storm on the horizon. In preparation for the expected cold weather, Infanti brought three blankets and a set of hand warmers.

“It’s going to be a cold night, but I’ll get through it,” said the freshman, who also wore three layers of clothing.

By 7:30 p.m. on Thursday night, fans had already begun setting up tents outside of Gate E at the Carrier Dome in anticipation of the Syracuse University versus Duke University men’s basketball game on Saturday.

Students demonstrated their passion for the Orange by camping out to secure the best seats for Saturday’s game. On Thursday night, campers endured a snowstorm that was projected to

produce nearly a foot of snow.

The event, called the Duke Camp Out, is annually organized by Otto’s Army, SU’s largest student-run fan organization that helps connect students with SU athletics.

Freshman Connor Monfort, was accompanied by his friends and fellow freshmen Alyssa Curtin, Hannah Baker, Wyeth Karpovich and Diana Stone, who all said they were there because of Monfort.

“I’m from Rochester, so I’ve been a huge ‘Cuse fan my entire life, and I wanted front row seats for the Duke game,” Monfort said.

“This is the biggest game of the year, and it’s Coach K’s last game against Syracuse, so I wanted good seats.”

Across the landing, freshman Luke Hasenwinkel occupied the biggest tent at Gate E. “The tent was actually bought about three hours ago,” Hasenwinkel said.

He said his “undying love for our basketball

team” is what motivated him to camp out these past two days. The tent is big enough that Hasenwinkel, who stands at 6’4, has a stool inside of it and can still sit comfortably without touching the ceiling.

He was accompanied by three of his friends, who all said they were excited to see the Orange take home the win.

Like Monfort, Hasenwinkel grew up as a Syracuse fan, making this game part of his fan legacy.

“Ever since I was little I wanted to come here, and now that I’m actually bleeding Orange, I’m getting firsthand experience by camping out with the fellow fans of Syracuse,” Hasenwinkel said. “We’re gonna beat Duke, and that’s what (it) means to bleed Orange.”

On Friday, Jim Boeheim surprised the campers, who came out to show support for them.

Boeheim came with assistant coach Allen Griffin and Otto the Orange.

“The fact that he came out and showed his support to us because we’re showing our support to him is really important, and it really rallied the troops here,” said Jonathan Danilich, a senior advisor for Otto’s Army.

After spending Thursday night outside of Gate E, the campers were allowed inside to watch the team practice while enjoying free pizza for dinner. Other campers went the extra mile to stay entertained — freshman Andrew Selover and his friends set up a TV in their tent, along with an Xbox, on which they watched college basketball and played Fortnite.

Danilich said the bigger meaning behind the Duke Camp Out is the sense of community.

“You get to meet a lot of awesome people that love the same thing — cheering on the Orange,” Danilich said.

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Men of Color Initiative holds brotherhood-themed inauguration

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As attendees walked into the third floor conference room at Schine Student Center, love filled the room — but not romantic love or love for a friend. As Jeffery Mangram, the keynote speaker at the event said, it was brotherly love.

Brotherhood was one of the most important themes of the afternoon as the Men of Color Initiative inaugurated its Class of 2022. The inauguration banquet was the first for the MCI. Dylan Antigua, a Syracuse University senior and an intern at the MCI, said it was “a program designed to support, empower and explore issues unique to the Black male student experience.”

The inauguration was held on Friday in front of a crowd of students, faculty members and families of the new members. The speakers of the event talked in depth about the power of community and the importance of bonds within the Black community.

Dr. James Duah-Agyeman, the director of the Office of Multicultural Affairs, opened the event with remarks about the process of creating the MCI, which he said had been a long time in the making. The idea was initially brought to Duah-Agyeman in 2018 and it began in 2019, but due to the pandemic, the program was seemfrom page 6

fete noir Royale lip-syncing to Porsha O.’s slam poem, “Angry Black Woman.” The audience snapped, cheered and clapped during Royale’s recitation.

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awards particularly focuses on marginalized demographics and sexualities, they said.

They said they believe that, without systemic inclusion in all areas of creative and production cinema, any positive change the industry attempts to implement will be fleeting. Hollywood will remain trapped in an endless cycle of

ingly put to the side by the university, until the students and faculty came back together to rebuild it, Duah-Agyeman said.

After Duah-Agyeman, Antigua and Jordan Pierre, a junior at SU and new member of the MCI, spoke about the purpose and goals of the initiative.

Antigua talked through the overarching goals of the MCI and the reasons for its creation. He said that the program was designed in response to the pressures Black students face to become better academically and professionally.

He also spoke about the motto of the initiative — “Be Phenomenal or Be Forgotten” — and reiterated the importance of ensuring that the MCI will not be forgotten.

Following Antigua, Pierre spoke about the individual experience of being in the MCI. As Black men in a predominantly white institution, Pierre said the reality of their situation is that the members of the MCI do not just represent themselves, but the Black community as a whole.

“Today alone, we are defying the stereotypes against our community by coming together for positive reasons,” Pierre said. “Today is not a funeral or a court case, but a celebration.”

Pierre finished his speech with a request: for attendees and new members to promise that while this was the first banquet for the initiative, that it will not be the last.

Once the video concluded, the keynote speaker, Mangram, was brought to the stage.

Mangram is an associate professor in the School of Education at SU and the coordinator of social studies education. Mangram, an SU alumnus, gave a passionate speech about love — the importance of loving your brothers and how that love can change your life.

Mangram used former SU quarterback Don McPherson, his friend and one of the speakers at the banquet, as an example of the power of brotherly love. Mangram recalled visiting McPherson’s family house and the foundational growth that he achieved from his relationship with McPherson. He said that he hopes that the MCI will foster the same kind of love felt between McPherson and Mangram.

“My hope for you men of color is that you all work at getting to know each other, that you dare to share your sacred story with each other,” Mangram said. “I hope in the band of brotherhood that you’re forming you can share your sacred story and speak about your hopes.”

After Mangram finished his speech, the members of the MCI were officially inaugurated and each received a jacket to celebrate the power of their achievements, Knighton said.

Directly after the jacket ceremony, all the seniors of the MCI were given stoles from the MCI, and Aaron Knighton, an academic advisor

at the Newhouse School of Public Communications, announced that all current seniors and all seniors in the future will be gifted a $250 gift card to Men’s Wearhouse. This was a way for the MCI to show appreciation for the hard work of the new members and to offer them access to professional clothing as they embark on their career paths, Knighton said.

McPherson followed the ceremony with a speech directed to the new members about the challenges and potholes that can be found within masculinity. He challenged the men of the MCI to be vulnerable to others, especially their brothers.

“This is not just one night where you get a jacket and you get to be recognized. This is the beginning of some work,” McPherson said. “I want you to know, you will not be forgotten, you have proven it already — you will not be forgotten. You make sure that nobody forgets how you all stood up today.”

Duah-Agyeman said he recognizes the importance of this program, as it can only grow and become more impactful on campus and in the community.

“The future of MCI is very bright, it can be brighter,” Duah-Agyeman said. “We feel very strongly about the men that are now with us.”

“Giggling Rapids,” the third part of “The River Suite,” composed by Duke Ellington. The pair received a standing ovation from the audience for their performance, and each received a bouquet of flowers. Campbell came back onto the stage following the ballet to have the performers bow and perform a final synchronized dance, which concluded the night.

Qiana Williams, one of the lead organizers

for Fête Noir and a co-founder of the BAC, was pleased with the outcome of the event.

Williams was happy to provide an event like Fête Noir to the Syracuse community, especially to close out Black History Month. She noted the emphasis the event placed on Black joy, and joy for attendees in general.

“We wanted to put a little bit of light in our community,” Williams said. “I hope

that everybody at home watching and everyone in the audience had a good time and enjoyed themselves — enjoyed the variety of artists in our area, the messages that they were representing. I hope everyone was able to connect with something and just feel that joy.”

Venus and Mars, the archetypal lovers, have been traveling hand-in-hand in a close conjunction for several weeks now and will continue this way for several weeks more. Here we see an invigorating combination of the principles of love and war, harmony and conflict, beauty and the assertion of will.

During this time, it is wise to reflect on the

interplay of pleasure and pain in your own life.

Do you find a secret pleasure or beauty in whatever heated conflicts you may be encountering?

As these two approach the doorstep of Pluto, the god of the underworld and of volcanic, elemental intensity, see how these themes may become amplified to the point of boiling over.

Pluto is known to bring transformation and

is associated with the cycle of death and rebirth.

Break-ups are possible here, and may indeed be the least of your worries during this time.

With the concurrent Sun-Moon-Jupiter triple conjunction, you may find support wherever you find joy, optimistic philosophy and nourishing rituals of self-care.

being called out then attempting broad changes, but, because the changes are surface-level, institutions like the Academy will revert back to the same problems they sought to solve, until the cycle begins again.

The professor said that because of the deeply collaborative nature of filmmaking, such institutional changes would promote improved representation in all areas of the industry as well as earn them accolades like an Academy Award.

“If you don’t have somebody who knows how to light dark skin, then you’re not going to be able to get the awards because the film itself will not be as pretty to look at,” L’Pree said. “White people may not know the unique tasks in lighting a diverse skin tone cast. … So all of these things feed on each other and if you don’t make change everywhere, then the topical change that you do make, won’t hold.”

L’Pree said movies should be “for the people, by the people” and because of that, they have a duty and responsibility to represent all people, even marginalized ones.

Calling awareness to these matters is the first step in the direction of inclusivity, L’Pree said. Continued, relentless pursuits are required if we ever hope to see true, lasting change.

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anselem Instead, Boeheim said Anselem crept forward and allowed Duke to get dunks from behind. Boeheim said he didn’t know what Anselem was thinking, and maybe the pressure of a big game with a big crowd (almost 32,000) got to him.

Boeheim said he was disappointed with SU’s interior play — if Anselem played the way he did against Duke, the Orange would’ve lost the Virginia Tech game by 25, Boeheim said.

The head coach said Anselem was struggling to make basic, defensive plays that Syracuse needed him to make early on. Instead, Duke built a 30-point lead in the first half.

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In 12 minutes, Frank Anselem had two rebounds and two fouls with zero points

Anselem said he’s played in enough games this year to understand what Syracuse is trying to accomplish. The problem for him has been slow starts, he said after the Notre Dame game. He isn’t used to filling a starting role, and it hasn’t been easy being suddenly thrown into one. But playing more minutes is the only true change, he said on Feb. 23. Anselem said he needed to be more locked in.

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boston college 2-3 zone early, with six 3-pointers from that area alone coming in the opening period.

With the defensive issues, Syracuse brought out the press late in the first quarter. Following her own 3-pointer, Chrislyn maintained defensive pressure on Makayla Dickens from the inbound pass until half court. After Dickens crossed half court, Chrislyn was able to push her back by continuing to go for the ball, resulting in an over-and-back violation.

Christianna and Alaysia Styles scored from beyond the arc later in the second period, but neither were able to maintain a presence inside defensively. Before Styles scored, Gakdeng punished her inside, spinning her around for a one-handed hook shot that found the bottom of the net. After Christianna’s 3, Gakdeng was able to draw a double team from Christianna and Styles, finding Taylor Soule open directly next to the basket.

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to Teisha Hyman, and applying even more pressure on Boston College’s half of the court.

By the time Murray passed across the court to find Chrislyn for a 3, the once-blowout advantage had been cut to just 13.

“We just came out and told ourselves we’re not going to get beat that bad again,” Chrislyn said. “It was just a pride thing.”

Syracuse ended up losing by 16 points, finishing the regular season as the No. 12 seed in the Atlantic Coast Conference and with its worst record since 2006-07. The Orange still gave up 52 points in the paint, allowed BC (19-10, 10-8) to shoot 61.3% from the field and went just 7-of-25 on 3-pointers, but a 20-5 run in the fourth quarter gave SU (11-17, 4-14) a chance and gives it something to build off of before the ACC tournament.

Sunday’s game marked the end of Read’s first regular season at the helm for the Orange.

He said his goal for the team was to be one that constantly pressed, but injuries and a lack of depth off the bench forced him away from his

five minutes a game,” Boeheim said after the Notre Dame loss. “We’re trying to make the best of what they can do.”

Later in Boeheim’s postgame press conference after Duke, he tacked on a dig at Anselem that epitomized how he felt about his center’s recent play. It came when answering a question about whether Boeheim would return for next season, something the 77-year-old head coach has answered countless times over the years.

“I don’t know what you need me to do or say,” Boeheim said after reiterating he had no intentions of retiring. “I guess, kind of like Frank, you don’t get it.”

The game was won when…

Duke jumped out to a 14-0 run to start the game, and stretched the lead to as many as 30 in the first half. KenPom gave the Blue Devils a 93.4% chance of victory after the first five minutes of the game, which only increased as the contest went on. Even when Syracuse posted an 11-0 run right before half, the Orange still had just a 3.1% chance of winning at halftime.

of the first half. Duke had success finding the open 3-pointers — it started 7-of-8 from deep and finished 15-of-32. In the paint, the Blue Devils scored 40 points through Mark Williams and Paolo Banchero.

Game ball: Buddy Boeheim

Buddy Boeheim was the bright spot for Syracuse with 17 first-half points. He proved that he could consistently score against some of the best defenders in the country.

“If Buddy hadn’t made some really hard shots early, it would’ve been 30-2,” Boeheim said postgame. “Every shot he made was against a really good defensive player.”

Boeheim cited Wendell Moore Jr., AJ Griffin and Banchero as defensive matchups that Buddy was faced with. “He’s been making some plays in the last two games that I didn’t think he’d ever be able to make, to be honest with you,” Boeheim added.

Three final points

he’s trying his best to play 10, 15, or 20 minutes — whatever Boeheim asks of him. He said he asks Boeheim for a substitution if he gets tired, but there isn’t a specific minutes-restriction on him.

Sidibe had knee surgery after Syracuse’s season-opener in 2020-21, and then suffered another injury ahead of the 2021-22 season.

He’s been playing limited minutes since, though his 26 against Duke were his most since March 2020.

Coach K thanks Syracuse for naming a scholarship after him. Before Krzyzewski’s final game in the Carrier Dome, SU Director of Athletics John Wildhack announced a military scholarship named after the Duke head coach. The Captain Michael William Krzyzewski Award for Leadership and Civic Engagement will be given out annually to an SU military student, Wildhack said.

Krzyzewski served as an officer in the U.S. Army, and was also a player and coach at Army West Point. After the game, he thanked Boeheim and SU for the award.

“The honor that they bestowed on me today was amazing, just absolutely amazing,” Krzyzewski said. “I got to take a little bit of time to really understand just how deep of an award that is.”

The Blue Devils displayed good ball movement around the perimeter and inside the arc, finishing with 26 assists on 35 made field goals. Krzyzewski said he was pleased with his offense’s performance in the first 17 minutes

Why John Bol Ajak and Benny Williams?

Boeheim said Cole Swider and Jimmy Boeheim simply weren’t playing well. They’re offensive players who can score against everyone else, but Boeheim said maybe Duke was just too good defensively.

That prompted Boeheim to go with backups John Bol Ajak and Benny Williams, who both played a career-high in minutes (13 and 30, respectively).

“He hit a couple shots, he was more active,” Boeheim said of Williams. Boeheim reiterated later in the press conference that Benny is improving slightly, but there’s a lot of work to be done in the offseason to improve his rebounding and shooting.

An update on Sidibe’s health. Postgame, Sidibe said he doesn’t know where he needs to be in terms of his conditioning and health. But

the Eagles scored two more times inside.

After Christianna turned the ball over, Swartz positioned herself at the top of the key while the Orange’s defense shifted to the right side of the court. This created a hole on the left side, allowing Swartz to go untouched down the lane.

Christianna made up for her earlier mistakes at the start of the third quarter, poking the ball away from Gakdeng as she tried to establish herself in the post. She ran to the right corner and Styles found her wide open, cutting the Eagles’ lead to 33.

The shot started a 7-4 scoring run for the Orange, but Swartz started to create problems for Syracuse. With multiple players on Gakdeng to mitigate her post presence, Swartz was left wide open on a backdoor cut, going behind Chrislyn as she was focused on another player.

The Eagles set up screens for Swartz, too, getting her in isolation against Murray, where she was able to score off a pull-up jumper.

Murray later exited the game, walking back to the locker room after a weird fall while trying to get a rebound following a missed

3-pointer. Nyah Wilson came into the game, but Hyman and Chrislyn were forced to keep pressing without their third counterpart.

Hyman later turned two steals into two baskets. As the Orange launched a final comeback against the Eagles, Hyman’s pressure caused the Eagles to throw the ball out of bounds while trying to break through the press. Hyman took possession and drove unguarded through the lane, notching her 17th and 18th points of the game.

“If you look back at the game, almost every possession they were scoring,” Hyman said. “Once we slowed them down a little bit, got some momentum, it shifted the energy of the game.”

With a minute left in the third quarter, Chrislyn pressured JoJo Lacey, who was inbounding the ball, forcing Lacey to send an errant pass that was not in the vicinity of any BC player. Chrislyn secured the ball in the right corner, turning around for a baseline jumper. But she was short, barely grazing the bottom of the backboard with her shot.

Styles also made an offensive impact

when the game was still in striking distance during the second quarter, though the Orange were still unable to turn those plays into baskets. Styles, who’s usually positioned in the back of the full-court press, moved into Chrislyn’s spot after Murray missed a 3 from the right corner.

The Syracuse forward came up with a steal, but immediately missed the ensuing layup.

Hyman was there on the glass, but her shot bobbled in and out of the rim, unable to stop a four-minute Syracuse scoring drought.

Styles batted down a pass a few minutes later, passing right to Murray, who sprinted down to the basket on her own. Murray was hit as she went up, though a foul wasn’t called and the attempt rattled off the left side of the rim as the Orange were unable to turn defense into offense again, another example of a season-long issue that popped up again and again on Sunday.

“We have to be able to get stops, and we have to be able to get shots out of the press,” Read said.

“vision of the team.”

In the fourth quarter, Syracuse returned full strength to that vision. Christianna Carr didn’t drop all the way back after Syracuse scored. That allowed her to redirect herself to her left, throw her hands toward the ball and bat away a pass, ending Boston College’s possession before it began.

Read harped on the importance of the team getting stops on defense and generating shots out of the full-court press, something the Orange didn’t do for the first three quarters of Sunday’s game. Once it did, it allowed Chrislyn to sprint over to the right side of the outer arc after a turnover — one of the Eagles’ 24 — and drill a 3 during the comeback attempt. The press also allowed Hyman to take over, as she’d done in almost every game for SU this season.

“They are our two best players one-onone,” Read said. “Both of them were trying to make plays one-on-one, and they’ve done that all year for us.”

One portion of the 20-5 run that helped Syracuse gain the momentum that Hyman believes makes the Orange “hard to stop” started with Hyman at halfcourt. She

quickly batted the ball away from Cameron Swartz, turned around and ran for a breakaway layup. Hyman said she felt as though she was seeing the ball really well against the Eagles. That, combined with their subpar ball-handling skills, led to her team-leading six steals.

On the next play, before Boston College could begin calling out a play or settle back to their positions, Hyman swatted another ball away at halfcourt, leading to a drawn foul on a layup attempt and two made free throws.

While the press didn’t stop Boston College in the first three quarters, extending it to the entire court and shifting the front line up past the ‘S’ logo allowed Syracuse to keep the Eagles off balance. Read has talked about the importance of the press the entire season, and Hyman and Chrislyn know that they have to be dynamic play-creators at the top of the press in order for it to work and for teams to stay off-balance.

“Teisha can really put pressure on the ball — just looking over to the other side looks like they’re kind of scared of her,” Chrislyn said.

Hyman said defensive stops defined the momentum swing and strong run

throughout the fourth quarter. Stopping Boston College and translating those stops into scoring opportunities of their own allowed the Orange to storm back, forcing head coach Joanna Bernabei-McNamee to sternly turn to her bench and call for the starting five to reenter against Syracuse.

It couldn’t finish the comeback attempt, though, as Boston College regained a grasp on the flow of the game.

Taylor Soule flipped in a layup of her own to extend BC’s lead back out to 13 points, and Hyman missed her shot, a sign that SU’s comeback effort would likely fall short. The Eagles made a few more shots inside, and eventually Read called a timeout to empty out his bench and check out all of his senior starters. Time simply ran out on the Orange’s season and last hope at a conference win.

“Fighting back from adversity, that’s been our thing all year long. I thought that our young ladies stepped up, and they were able to compete,” Read said.

Quote of the night: Coach K on Boeheim

“I just think it’s Jim’s palace,” Mike Krzyzewski said of playing in the Carrier Dome.

“I love his intro. Especially, if there’s over 30,000 people, that was pretty cool…. This is one of those iconic programs, Syracuse. I think ours is too, so when you bring both of them together in this setting, it’s spectacular for college basketball.”

Stat to know: 26 assists

Next up: at North Carolina

Syracuse plays the Tar Heels on Monday in the two teams’ second-to-last game of the regular season. The Orange will get another shot at a Quadrant I victory, a category where SU currently sits at 0-8 this season. Sidibe said that UNC center Armando Bacot is going to try and do the same thing that Duke’s Mark Williams did. Buddy said it’ll take a whole team effort to stop Bacot, who he called the best big-man in the league. rferna04@syr.edu @roshan_f16

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Graduate student Manek leads North Carolina offense

By Matthew Hassan staff writer

Brady Manek didn’t realize he was close to a key milestone in his Oklahoma career until he read articles about it. Manek found out he was about 30 points shy from the 1,000-point mark, and his childhood friend and teammate, Kristian Doolittle, wasn’t too far from eclipsing the achievement, too.

After 17 points against Iowa State and 10 versus Kansas, Manek knew he could break it in a home game against TCU. The then-junior exploded for 31 points against the Horned Frogs, and Doolittle reached 1,000 two weeks later “It was really cool to see local guys be able to do that,” Manek said.

Manek transferred to UNC for his graduate season after a successful four years at Oklahoma. He started 111 of 122 games at Oklahoma, finishing his career as the program’s 14th-leading scorer, and the only Sooner to ever compile 1,000 points, 500 rebounds, 200 3-pointers and 100 blocks. Now at UNC — which hosts Syracuse on Monday night in a key late-season matchup — Manek has become one of the Tar Heels’ leading scorers, averaging almost 14 points per game and leading the team in 3-pointers made (65).

Manek’s parents met at Oklahoma Christian University where they both played basketball. His brother, Kellen, is in his last year of college eligibility at Southeastern Oklahoma State, and his dad coached his youth basketball team, which Doolittle was also a part of.

Manek, Kellen, and Doolittle competed in youth tournaments in Texas, Kansas, and Oklahoma together for five years, but Manek said he was more focused on baseball growing up.

“I was a big Little League baseball player,” Manek said. “That’s what I wanted to do, and that was the goal. Then I got to high school and

realized baseball didn’t have full scholarships, there’s a lot of leagues, and it’s hard to make it.”

Toward the end of his sophomore basketball season at Harrah High School (Oklahoma), Manek quit baseball. At 6-foot-9, Manek received his first scholarship offer in basketball from Oklahoma head coach Lon Kruger.

When Manek entered college, he was still relatively unknown, former Oklahoma assistant coach Carlin Hartman said. But that quickly changed when the team went to Australia during the summer before his freshman season.

On that trip, Hartman said the coaching staff realized how special of a player Manek was going to be. He earned his way to the starting lineup and was out there for the Sooners’ opening tipoff against Omaha. Hartman said Atlanta Hawks star Trae Young, who Manek played with during his freshman season, played a major role in his development from a starter to a difference maker. “(Trae was) a guy who can get (Manek) the ball, get him shots and take pressure off a true freshman,” Hartman said. “He just took off from there. It was really a match made in Heaven being able to pair with Trae.”

The connection between the two culminated when the Sooners were up by two with less than 20 seconds left against then-No. 4 Kansas in January 2018. Kruger called a strong slide slip play, where Young was used as a decoy. Thinking Young was about to take the game-sealing shot, Manek set a pick on guard Devonte’ Graham, drawing Manek’s defender to Young and leaving him open from the 3-point line.

Young hit Manek in stride, allowing him to step behind the arc and put the game out of reach with just 14 seconds left. Hartman said that moment proved to him that Kruger fully trusted Manek, even when he was a freshman.

Hartman said Manek’s versatile skill set allowed Kruger to navigate between big and

Brady Manek leads the Tar Heels in 3-pointers made with 65 and is third on the team in scoring at 13.9 points per game. courtesy of maggie hobson photo

small lineups. Shortly after breaking the 1,000-point mark, Manek’s season was cut short due to COVID-19, causing him to miss out on the NCAA Tournament for the first time in his career. Manek continued to excel during his senior season, finishing top three on the team in scoring, 3-pointers made, blocks and rebounds.

Following the Sooners’ loss to No. 1 Gonzaga in the second round of last year’s NCAA Tournament, Kruger retired from coaching.

Manek said Kruger was a big reason why he came to Oklahoma and decided to take a week to decide if he wanted to enter the transfer portal or go professional. Manek knew he’d have opportunities to play profes-

sionally overseas, but he also had aspirations to play in the NBA. Manek eventually settled on transferring to UNC, which was also going through a coaching change as Roy Williams retired at the end of its season. After speaking to newly hired head coach Hubert Davis in one of his last calls with other schools, Manek decided to join the Tar Heels. He felt like he fit in best there and that he had nothing to lose with one more collegiate season.

“If all else fails, I’ll end up exactly where I was a year ago,” Manek said, referencing his persistent goal of making it to the NBA once he finishes his successful collegiate career. mahassan@syr.edu

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Syracuse mercied by Auburn at Plainsman Invitational

By Matthew Hassan staff writer

Syracuse was on its third pitcher for the day, Lindsey Hendrix, and it was only the third inning. With Hendrix giving up a double and another two runs on her first batter, the Orange were down eight.

Then, Hendrix threw a wild pitch that catcher Laila Alves couldn’t corral. This sent Makayla Packer home and the Orange were in the same position they put Delaware State in the day before — down by nine and in danger of getting mercied before the end of the fifth inning.

After beating the Hornets 9-0 after five innings on Saturday morning, Syracuse (9-4) fell to Auburn (14-1) by the same score on Sunday afternoon. The Orange dropped two of three games at the Plainsman Invite in Auburn, Alabama, as they also lost to Bradley 6-2 on

Friday evening. A nightmare third inning for Syracuse pitching put the team in a hole that was nearly impossible to come back from.

The Orange struggled throughout the game to make contact as Auburn pitcher Shelby Lowe struck out over half of the batters she faced. After closing Saturday’s game against the Hornets, Ariana Adams got the start against the Tigers. She had two strikes on the leadoff batter, but Packer ended up poking a ball to short center for a single. Then, Packer got all the way to third on a ground ball before shortstop Nelia Peralta hit one up the middle to send her home and put Auburn up 1-0.

Syracuse got on base at the top of the second, with Neli Casares-Maher and Angie Ramos both singling up the middle to put runners on first and second. But the Orange couldn’t capitalize as Lowe caught Alves swinging to retire the side. Following a bumpy first inning, Adams responded with a no-hit

second that ended after four batters.

Lowe threw a 1-2-3 inning to start the third and added two more strikeouts to the tally.

Once Summer Clark subbed in for Adams to start the third, the Tigers offense exploded.

Packer hit another single up the middle and stole second during a long Sydney Cox at-bat that ended with her walking to first. Then, Peralta doubled to right center, which sent Cox to third and Packer home.

Clark fielded a ground ball at the pitcher’s circle and threw out Lindsey Garcia at first later in the inning. But Auburn freshman Bri Ellis hit a two-run home run deep to center field to extend Auburn’s lead to five. Aspyn Godwin followed that up with a solo shot of her own, making it 6-0. After SU allowed two straight singles that put runners on first and second, head coach Shannon Doepking pulled Clark for Hendrix. Hendrix finally got out of the

inning on a Peralta fly out to right field, but the damage was already done.

Syracuse freshman Kelly Breen tried to respond by singling between the shortstop and third base, but Lowe put away the next three batters to quickly end the inning. Although she gave up two hits, Hendrix pitched a better fourth inning as she got out of it after five batters.

Syracuse tried to avoid the mercy rule in the fifth inning. The team needed two runs to keep the game going and it seemed promising when Ramos kicked off the fifth with a line drive to right center. After sophomore Ryan Gallegos was caught swinging for the first out, Paris Woods got to first with a hit to left center. Then, Carli Campbell’s shot to third base forced an error and the bases were loaded with just one out. But Lowe struck out Tessa Galipeau and Breen backto-back to end the game. mahassan@syr.edu

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Syracuse remains winless in ACC play after 6-1 loss to UVA

By Irie Harris

staff writer

After a 4-3 loss against Virginia Tech, the Orange traveled to Charlottesville, Virginia, to match up against the No. 9 ranked Virginia Cavaliers. But SU was unable to bounce back, losing 6-1.

During doubles play, the Orange had a rough time keeping up with Virginia. In their No. 2 doubles match, Polina Kozyreva and Miyuka Kimoto matched up against Amber O’Dell and Sofia Munera, who ranked No. 4 in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association’s preseason doubles

rankings. Kozyreva and Kimoto had a rough time combatting the in-sync style of play from the Cavaliers duo, and they lost 6-0.

In their No. 3 doubles match, Viktoriya Kanapatskaya and Ines Fonte also were unable to win a game. They couldn’t keep up with Sara Ziodato and Natasha Subhash, who ranked top 10 in ITA preseason singles and doubles rankings.

Shiori Ito and Sofya Treshcheva split the first few games to tie 2-2 in their No. 1 doubles match, before dropping the next two games. Their match would go unfinished, as

Virginia earned its point from doubles play to lead 1-0 in the match.

Much of the same difficulty SU experienced in doubles was repeated during its singles play. Kanapatskaya was subjugated by her opponent in her No. 1 singles match, losing her sets 6-0, and 6-2.

Zeynep Erman and Fonte both were overmatched in their No. 4 and No. 6 matches, eventually dropping their matches after staying close at first. Kimoto and Ito both did the best they could during their No. 2 and No. 5 singles matches, both winning only four

games combined in their two sets.

The No. 3 singles match was the only close matchup of the day, including SU’s Kozyreva and Virginia’s Munera. The first set was a series of back and forths, as Kozyreva combatted Munera with her hard-hitting shots. The series went to a tiebreaker, but Munera got the better of Kozyreva in the end winning the tiebreaker (7-5). Kozyreva would battle back and win the next two sets by a comfortable lead, keeping her undefeated singles streak. irharris@syr.edu

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‘FRANK ISN’T READY’ Jim Boeheim has repeatedly said Frank Anselem isn’t prepared since he entered the starting role

FRANK ANSELEM has secured three rebounds or fewer in two of his five starts since Jesse Edwards’ season-ending injury.

His 12 minutes played against Duke are his lowest since Feb. 2. corey henry senior staff photographer

By Roshan Fernandez senior staff writer

T

he phrase head coach Jim Boeheim has repeated recently when he talks about new starting center Frank Anselem is a familiar one: “Frank isn’t ready.”

It’s the same saying Boeheim commonly used when talking about Jesse Edwards last season. Edwards was a raw talent who had the potential and the size to develop into a good player, Boeheim said then, but he was still growing and wasn’t good enough to play significant minutes.

Edwards showed that development when he filled the starting center role this season and is a frontrunner for the Atlantic Coast Conference’s Most Improved Player of the Year award. But his season-ending wrist fracture thrust Anselem into the starting lineup.

Boeheim’s been critical of Anselem in all but one game since the sophomore took over the starting job on Feb. 12. He said Anselem took a step backward after the Boston College game, and that Anselem provided “zero, zero, zero, zero” across the board against

Georgia Tech in the first half. He reiterated that Anselem wasn’t ready against Notre Dame, and then once more after Syracuse’s blowout loss to Duke on Saturday.

The exception was Anselem’s 15-rebound performance against Virginia Tech, his first career start. Boeheim said Anselem did “a tremendous job” playing defense and rebounding the ball. “That’s what he has to do,” Boeheim said postgame.

But Anselem is struggling. He had three rebounds or less against Boston College and Duke. He got into foul trouble against Georgia Tech and Notre Dame. And against the No. 7 Blue Devils — the most recent sign that the center still has a lot of room to grow — he played just 12 minutes and grabbed as many boards (two) as he had fouls.

“Frank isn’t ready. Bourama (Sidibe)’s trying with everything he can. He did as much as he can do,” Boeheim said after the Duke game.

“We would’ve won this game, maybe, or Notre Dame, maybe, a couple of other games, maybe, with Jesse — but we’re just not deep enough or talented enough to lose him.”

In the loss to the Blue Devils, Boeheim said the game plan involved Anselem staying back and defending the paint.

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women’s basketball

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SU defense folds in 91-75 loss Hyman, Carr carry SU in 4th-quarter run

By Anish Vasudevan asst. sports editor

After any Syracuse basket from late in the first period until the end of the game, the Orange brought out their full-court press to try and cut into Boston College’s expanding lead.

After bringing out the press, Teisha Hyman immediately got a steal, but she fumbled the ball and couldn’t convert, drawing a foul instead.

Early in the second quarter, Najé Murray scored a layup and Chrislyn Carr, Hyman and Murray fell into their spots in the press.

But Ally VanTimmeren easily navi-

gated through the trio and found Maria Gakdeng inside, heaving the ball over Christianna Carr’s outstretched hands. Then, Cameron Swartz scored from deep after Chrislyn missed a layup, forcing acting head coach Vonn Read to call a timeout as BC led 40-16.

“With the press, that was my vision of the team, but our girls can’t do that for 40 minutes and be able to score with six players,” Read said. “You just can’t do that with that type of depth.”

Syracuse’s (11-17, 4-14 Atlantic Coast) year-long problems didn’t disappear in its final regular sea-

son game of the year, leading to a 91-75 loss against Boston College (19-10, 10-8). The full court press, which has been Syracuse’s secret weapon at times, was a nonfactor on Sunday. The Eagles were able to get past the set on most possessions, hitting 10 shots from deep and notching 58 points in the first half. The Orange got as close as 11 in the fourth quarter, but throughout the game they were unable to stop baskets from the Eagles or answer back on the other end.

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By Anthony Alandt

digital managing editor

Syracuse entered the fourth quarter down by 28 points, with all indicators pointing to a fourth double-digit loss in the last four games. It couldn’t stop Boston College with any consistency. It had already allowed 40 points in the paint again. It had just seen Najé Murray fall awkwardly and get helped to the locker room with an apparent ankle injury.

But Chrislyn Carr and the rest

of the Orange didn’t want the regular season to end on another blowout loss, and neither did acting head coach Vonn Read, who had opted for the full-court press just six minutes into the game.

Then SU bucked nearly every trend that had plagued it throughout the season. In place of Murray, Nyah Wilson drove straight in to the basket, going up and under the hoop for a layup. It was capitalizing on poor ball-handling skills, according see run page 8