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As Syracuse University tries to retain its graduates, other city programs, such as GENIUS NY, are trying to bring entrepreneurs to Syracuse.

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S • Last pieces

At the end of this year, Syracuse will have no more athletes who played in the Big East. The seven remaining athletes reflect on their memories of the conference.

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Officials discuss Campus Framework plan

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Tax breaks approved for project

By Michael Burke news editor

The Syracuse Industrial Development Agency on Tuesday morning approved tax breaks for the construction project that would demolish businesses along South Crouse Avenue. In doing so, the IDA declared its support for the project and pushed it a step closer to implementation.

Developers from BLVD Equities, a real estate development firm based in New Jersey, are planning to demolish several structures on South Crouse Avenue — including the popular student bars Hungry Chuck’s and Orange Crate Brewing Co., commonly known as Lucy’s — to make room for an eight-story “mixed-use building.”

That demolition could begin as soon as March, developers said Tuesday.

The developers previously requested about $1.7 million in mortgage and sales tax breaks (FROM LEFT) CATHRYN NEWTON AND PETE SALA, SU administrators, led an open forum on Tuesday afternoon along with Vice Chancellor and Provost Michele Wheatly inside Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium in Newhouse 3. codie yan staff photographer

Administrators provide few Campus Framework updates

Community members critique housing change idea

By Michael Burke

By Delaney Van Wey

Few concrete updates were given on Tuesday when Syracuse University administrators hosted an open forum regarding the Campus Framework plan.

Advertised as a forum that would include updates on Campus Framework developments, there was little new information provided. The Campus Framework is SU’s 20-year infrastructure project meant to guide the physical campus development in both the short- and long-term.

Vice Chancellor and Provost Michele Wheatly, Vice President and Chief Facilities Officer Pete Sala and Provost for Faculty Engagement Cathryn Newton led the forum Tuesday inside the Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium in Newhouse 3.

The event began as a panel discussion between those three — moderated by Student Association Vice President Joyce LaLonde — before turning into a Q&A session between the administrators and attendees.

Faculty, staff and students filled out most of the auditorium.

Administrators discussed a number of different topics related to the Campus Framework, from student housing to space audits that were conducted in the fall to funding for the plan.

But they didn’t present many definitive plans or findings about the Campus Framework.

They also didn’t mention much during the forum about renovations to the Carrier Dome or Archbold Gymnasium, two of the larger infrastructure projects included as part of the Campus Framework.

During the fall semester, Sala and other university officials met with deans and selected faculty from schools and colleges across the university “to better understand where each college is going” as well as to learn about their physical space needs.

The university also conducted two space audits during the fall semester, including an accessibility audit.

Potential changes to South Campus and university housing requirements drew backlash and raised questions Tuesday afternoon at the Campus Framework open forum.

Syracuse University officials presented the possibility of a threeyear on-campus housing requirement for students and continued with discussions about moving student housing away from South Campus.

Changes to South Campus were included in the June 2016 Campus Framework Draft Overview, but a longer requirement for living on campus had not previously been discussed.

Numerous audience members voiced concerns about both of the proposals during the Q&A portion of the forum.

Michele Wheatly, vice chancellor and provost, was one of three officials who spoke at the forum and was first to address what she called the “living-learning situation” on campus. She said the 2014 MyCampus survey indicated that students liked living on campus so they could have better accesses to resources, such as the library, which is what led the university to consider expanding Main Campus housing.

Wheatly then said research shows that students who live on campus longer perform better in classes and have better retention rates. Because of this, the university administration, she said, is considering expanding the on-campus living requirement to three years.

Currently, non-commuter students are required to live on campus for two years, but can get a wavier in their second for living in Greek housing.

When questions were turned over to the audience at the end of the facilitated discussion, which also included Vice President and Chief Facilities Officer Pete Sala and Provost for Faculty Engagement Cathryn Newton, the first question was about the long-term plan for South Campus.

“I don’t think there’s ever a time where South Campus will go away,” Sala said. The implementation of the Campus Framework will add housing to Main Campus, Sala said, but many other offices

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Major projects addressed

By Michael Burke news editor

In terms of financial cost, the three biggest projects in the Campus Framework plan are renovations to the Carrier Dome, renovations to Archbold Gymnasium and the creation of the National Veterans Resource Complex.

Exact timelines for those projects were not discussed at Tuesday’s Campus Framework forum, but Chief Facilities Officer Pete Sala made brief comments about the projects during the forum and in a post-meeting interview. Here is what he had to say about each.

Carrier Dome

Sala said the university’s goal is to not have any of the athletic teams that use the Carrier Dome have to move out of it during renovations. The university is planning to replace the Dome’s roof and make accessibility upgrades to the Dome.

The SU men’s and women’s basketball teams, football team and men’s and women’s lacrosse teams each play

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Trainer, cheerleader fights meniscus injury

By Chloe Greenwald staff writer

After a devastating sports injury his junior year on the Syracuse University cheerleading squad, Chris Arboleda focused on his recovery and found a new passion in helping others.

Arboleda, a second-year graduate student studying exercise science, balanced being a full-time student with his job as a personal trainer and being a member of the Syracuse University cheerleading team. He reflected on traveling with the basketball and football team and going to the Final Four game his sophomore year. Unfortunately, while training in his junior year he tore his meniscus. He had to quit the team.

He felt himself suffer a depressive-like state after his injury.

“Exercising, something that had become a big part of my life, had to be put on hold,” he said.

Arboleda did not let his injury consume his life. He spent time recovering both physically and mentally.

The following semester he interned with SU’s Director of strength and conditioning, Veronica Tearney. He also spent time interning at several physical therapy clinics and learning about how to exercise post-injury.

But he didn’t think he would become a personal trainer when applying to college. Rather, Arboleda imagined he would dual major in business and psychology. Some schools scouted him for soccer.

Ultimately, he chose to attend SU

for exercise science. He began his freshman year working in the dining hall to support himself financially, until a friend of his on the cheerleading team convinced him to work for Archbold Gymnasium.

He started work at Archbold as a fitness center attendant and was eventually promoted to supervisor.

The classes for his major peaked his interest, leading him to get his certification in personal training and CPR. “The fact that no two clients are the same … It’s like their own little puzzle, and I’m trying to figure out what’s wrong with them and what I can do to help fix what’s broken or just help improve any goal they might have,” Arboleda said about his job.

His job as a personal trainer entails meeting with a client, speaking about their goals and capabilities and then creating a custom fitness program for them. With this, he then meets with the client two to three times a week to train.

A few months after his first client had left him he received a message from the client, thanking him for giving him the motivation and skills to lose more than 30 pounds.

“That made me realize this is why I love doing what I love doing. … In a way I’m helping change people’s lives,” Arboleda said.

After graduating, Arboleda hopes to go to medical school and get his Ph.D. He plans to continue his passion for exercise, but with a shifted focus to the scientific aspect of exercise. cjgreenw@syr.edu

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N • On the rise High school graduation rates in New York hit a new high in 2016, according to data from the New York State Department of Education.

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CHRIS ARBOLEDA went to the Final Four as a cheerleader on SU’s squad, but shortly after encountered a meniscus tear that has since shaped his personal trainer career. kai nguyen staff photographer

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Look ahead A committee on undocumented students was recently formed and will meet soon.

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License to carry Some Department of Public Safety officers at SU carry guns.

Being able to requires training.

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CHARGED UP Samsung’s leader was indicted on charges of bribery and embezzlement following a 90-day investigation. Samsung said it will try to clear Lee Jaeyong’s name when he faces trial in South Korea. The indictment follows a rough patch for Samsung, which issued a recall of its Galaxy Note 7 smartphones. source: cnn.com

KICKED TO THE CURB An Uber executive was asked to resign after failing to disclose a sexual harassment claim from his previous job. Amit Singhal was a sought-after executive who had a 15-year career at Google before joining Uber. The move comes after former Uber employees asserted the company ignored harassment claims regarding top executives. source: the new york times

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Cook-off The New Orleans Jazz Band performs Tuesday at a house on the corner of Euclid and Ackerman avenues, the location for a Mardi Gras chili cook-off. The cook-off was sponsored by RentFromBen.com and was the second annual event. The cook-off included cash prizes for the best chili, free giveaway, a ghost pepper challenge and the performance from the jazz band. hieu nguyen staff photographer

Programs look to attract talent to Syracuse

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During the summer before his sophomore year at Syracuse University, Scott Friedberg wandered into J Michael Shoes after eating at Bleu Monkey Cafe with friends.

The Marshall Street staple had TV screens, and Friedberg started chatting up his business idea — engaging customers with digital signage. Friedberg sold the store on it, and they asked him to come install his idea the next day.

One small problem: Friedberg and his business partner hadn’t finished building the product.

After a trip to Wal-Mart and a late night filled with frantic phone calls, the duo installed

the product. Word spread about Friedberg’s business, expanding from Marshall Street to the rest of Syracuse. Now his company, Gilded Social, has more than 300 screens across the country.

Friedberg is one of few SU alumni who have started and kept their businesses in Syracuse. Martin J. Whitman School of Management alumni have launched more than 130 businesses in the last 10 years, but few have stuck around the local area.

Entrepreneurs have said that while Syracuse can be a solid starting location for a business, in some industries it might be better to expand elsewhere. Syracuse ranked 95 out of 100 in economic growth across the biggest metro

areas in the U.S. from 2009-2014, according to a report from the Brookings Institution.

Despite multiple issues the city is facing, including high poverty rate in the city and the possible consolidation between the city of Syracuse and Onondaga County governments, experts said Syracuse still offers many opportunities to entrepreneurs. Some organizations are continuing to try and bring more entrepreneurs in as they see graduates moving out of the area.

“A lot of university students are used to being on campus,” said ElJava Abdul-Qadir, director of the South Side Innovation Center. “So they don’t actually recognize the potential outside of the univer-

sity. … If they are able to see that in the immediate surrounding area — there are potential customers for whatever product or service they provide — then they’ll imagine this being a place where their business can be successful.”

Syracuse has more than 17,000 graduates living in the area, according to LinkedIn. But, a 2015 report from the American Institute for Economic Research ranked Syracuse 17 out of 20 for its year-over-year ratio of people residing within the city with college degrees.

Friedberg stayed in the city most summers during his undergraduate years at SU. His experience of interacting with people see entrepreneurs page 4

Attorney general condemns water rule change

By Satoshi Sugiyama asst. news editor

New York state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman on Tuesday condemned President Donald Trump’s move to scale back a rule on clean water, joining several other state attorney generals that are opposing the president’s action.

Trump signed an executive order Tuesday ordering the Environmental Protection Agency to review the Clean Water Rule, which is also known as Waters of the United States. The rule protects waterways and tributaries that are connected to downstream waters and wetlands from pollution, according

to an EPA website.

While acknowledging the importance of protecting clean water, the executive order stated that it is in the nation’s interest to promote economic growth and minimize regulation.

The rule, which became effective in 2015, was frequently criticized by Republicans who viewed it as an example of excessive federal control, according to The Hill. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit later temporarily suspended the rule.

In a joint press release with attorney generals from Hawaii, Massachusetts, Oregon, Vermont and the District of Columbia,

Schneiderman said the group of attorney generals will exercise their authority to protect people and the environment by “aggressively opposing” the order in court.

“We strongly oppose President Trump’s action today that undermines Clean Water Act protections and the public health and environment of our states,” Schneiderman said in the release.

“The President’s order runs counter to the Clean Water Act’s, and the EPA’s, very purpose: achieving clean water. The Clean Water Rule is a measured, reasonable, and lawful application of sound and uncontroverted science to protect our nation’s upstream source

waters. We rely on these waters to ensure clean drinking water, recreation, and viable commercial fishing and navigation.”

Eliminating the rule not only triggers pollution, but also burdens states economically as they use their resources to clean up the pollution, Schneiderman said.

“Clean water is essential to life — and the people of our states and the nation deserve the basic protections established by the Clean Water Rule, to ensure that the benefits of clean water are shared equally, regardless of state lines,” Schneiderman said. ssugiyam@syr.edu @SatoshiJournal

OUT OF THIS WORLD Two people will take a private trip around the moon as soon as 2018. They approached SpaceX and are hoping to fly in the company’s untested Falcon Heavy rocket. The trip could be the first lunar mission with humans in 45 years and would take about a week, nearing the moon’s surface but not landing. source: the guardian

POLITICS CLOSE TIES President Donald Trump issued an executive order to create closer ties with Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

The order moves assistance to the 100 schools from the U.S. Education Department to the White House. source: cnn.com

CHANGING WAYS In a split from his idea of cracking down on immigration, President Donald Trump told reporters he is open to an immigration revamp that would grant legal status to undocumented immigrants, so long as they have not committed serious crimes. This occurred hours before Trump was set to deliver his address to Congress. source: the new york times

U.S. PARADE ACCIDENT A vehicle plowed into a crowd at a Mardi Gras parade in Alabama. Twelve high school band members were injured, three of whom are in critical condition.

Authorities say the act was not intentional and the parade was canceled following the incident.

This event occurred days after nearly 30 people were injured by a vehicle at a parade in New Orleans. source: fox news

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trayed the current Marshall Street area as a rundown section of the Hill. He referenced violence in the area — there was a shooting on Marshall Street last week, and

there have been several stabbings on the street in recent years — and said the buildings that would be demolished are currently “decrepit.”

BLVD Equities’ construction project, Hutter said, would fix those issues.

“From our experience in communities around the country, when development starts to happen, it cleans up the area … and the area becomes safer and there (are) tremendous benefits,” he said.

Hutter added that the developers would hire exclusively local contractors for the project. He said about 150 construction jobs and 60 permanent jobs would be created.

When the mixed-use building ultimately opens, Hutter said it will likely comprise a mix of both local businesses and national tenants. Stephen Theobald, the owner of Chuck’s, has said he plans to move into the new space once it is completed.

Some Syracuse University students have voiced disapproval of the project and

its proposed demolition of Chuck’s. As of Tuesday night, 37 people have signed the Change.org petition “SAVE CHUCK’S.” Hutter, though, said Tuesday that he thinks it’s important for members of the Syracuse community to “take a long-term view” when it comes to the project and its potential effects.

“This is all better for Syracuse in the long-term,” he said.

Moving forward, Hutter said the developers will “push through with the development process,” though he declined to specify what the next steps are for the project. He also did not say whether the developers have applied yet for construction or demolition permits.

Rosen said he believes the IDA’s approval of the tax breaks on Tuesday represents “a win for everyone.”

“I think it’s a win for us, the university, the student body,” he said. “We’re excited about it.”

in the city, with initiatives such as Engagement Fellows in 2009, which gave six students $10,000 to pursue work and graduate education in Syracuse. Once the money for that grant ran out, though, the program was discontinued, said Lindsay Wickham, events and communication manager at the Falcone Center for Entrepreneurship in Whitman.

Jesse Krim, a senior information management and technology major, said he would have applied for the grant if it had been available. Krim said he has been working on his venture Influis, a platform where influential people can share their knowledge and philosophies, since last fall. He wants to move to Las Vegas, New York City or somewhere in California after graduation. One of his relatives lives in Las Vegas, and California and New York City have well-known reputations for connections in the tech industry, he said.

GENIUS NY, meanwhile, is a business competition accelerator offering prizes, including one up to $1 million dollars. Six companies are incubating in Syracuse for 2017, and they

relocated teams to Syracuse last month.

AutoModality, one of the teams, is focused on autonomous drone flight. Jimmy Halliday, the chief pilot and Federal Aviation Administration liaison and project manager, said AutoModality plans on building a permanent office in Syracuse, although headquarters will remain in California.

Halliday said AutoModality was attracted to central New York because the area is quickly growing into a drone industry leader. For example, a drone corridor is being built from Syracuse to Rome, New York.

“A lot of times, when we go out and talk to people about our business, the first thing we’ve got to do is educate people, (like tell them) what drones are capable of, why it’s a good idea to invest in the future of drones,” Halliday said. “Central New York has already picked up on that. They are already there.”

But central New York might not be the best location for all industries. Brandon Eng started ExPrep, an Excel-training software, while at SU. Eng, who graduated in 2015,

said starting the business in Syracuse had advantages because of its size.

“At Syracuse, the area, everybody knows everybody,” Eng said. “So what’s really nice is that when you make a connection, a lot of people are able to kind of make other introductions.”

But after ExPrep was established, it moved closer to New York City, where there are more opportunities for growth, Eng said.

Keeping students in Syracuse has been a concern of the community for 20 years, said Terry Brown, executive director of the Falcone Center. Brown said that to retain students, the city needs to attract businesses — like those in the drone and nanotechnology industries — who need the skilled labor SU graduates have.

“The city has its issues, (and) it’s really unfortunate. That’s a huge problem we really need to address,” Brown said. “You can’t lift people from poverty if you don’t have jobs. Entrepreneurship is a great way to give people jobs.”

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tax breaks from the IDA. The IDA voted to approve those tax breaks following a brief public hearing during which Jared Hutter, who manages BLVD Equities along with Brian Rosen, pitched the project as one that would benefit the city of Syracuse and the Marshall Street area.

Rosen said after the meeting that the developers are hoping for the demolition process to begin by the end of March, with the project ultimately being completed by Aug. 1, 2018. The mixed-use building would include both retail space and student housing.

“We’re excited for the ability to move forward on our project,” Hutter said following the meeting. “The fact that the SIDA is behind this project … It’s tremendous that the city is engaged with developers to help promote development.”

During the public hearing, Hutter porfrom page 3

entrepreneurs and local businesses convinced him Syracuse would be a great location to maintain his business, he said.

Syracuse has a strong “entrepreneurship ecosystem,” Abdul-Qadir said. Whitman’s undergraduate Entrepreneurship and Emerging Enterprises program ranked 12th in the nation by U.S. News and World Report in 2016. Hubs like the SSIC and WISE Women’s Business Center have provided hundreds of individuals with resources.

The issues facing Syracuse are issues affecting all cities, Abdul-Qadir said. Residents have other options for schools besides the public system, and should use their votes to be active in the community, he said.

“Anywhere you go, you’re going to find challenges, with the high-performing schools, or subpar kind of schools,” he said.

The university has tried to keep graduates

From our experience in communities around the country, when development starts to happen, it cleans up the area ... and the area becomes safer and there (are) tremendous benefits.

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It’s tough to prove SAFE Act is working, but it shouldn’t be repealed

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ew York state Sen. Rob Ortt (R-North Tonawanda) is leading a movement to repeal the New York SAFE Act, which aims to decrease gun violence in the state. The act has drawn backlash from gun rights advocates, who argue that the bill oversteps its bounds and that criminals will get their hands on guns regardless of the law.

But despite this controversy and the difficulty of determining how effective the act has been, the SAFE Act is still the most progressive piece of gun legislation in the country, and shouldn’t be repealed.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed into law the Secure Ammunition and Firearms Enforcement Act in January 2013 in response to the Sandy Hook Massacre. In a sweepingly bipartisan vote, the SAFE Act became one of the most restrictive pieces of gun legislation ever enacted, with Cuomo himself calling the bill “the toughest assault weapon ban in the nation, period,” according to ABC News.

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It requires gun and ammunition dealers to perform background checks, stipulates that therapists must report possibly threatening clients to the state’s Division of Criminal Justice Services, calls for the creation of a registry of assault weapons and puts a hard cap on the capacity of magazines, according to NBC News.

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Number of firearm-related deaths per 100,000 people in New York state in 2015 source: centers for disease control and prevention

A magazine may be able to hold up to 10 rounds, but cannot be loaded with more than seven bullets at a

time. The SAFE Act also tightens the definition of an assault weapon.

Gun rights advocates, including Ortt, believe that the SAFE Act infringes upon the rights of legal gun owners, and that criminals will get guns from illegal backchannels, regardless of the law. Ortt’s bill, which is currently in senate committee, would repeal the SAFE Act everywhere in the state except the five boroughs of New York City.

“It infringed upon constitutional rights, made criminals out of lawabiding sportsmen, and did nothing to protect our children, families, or communities,” Ortt’s office said in an email.

On the surface, Ortt’s claim seems to be supported by the homicide rate in Syracuse.

The city’s 31 homicides in 2016 represent the largest number of homicides in its recorded history.

But Grant Reeher, a professor of political science at Syracuse University, argues that Syracuse’s high homicide rate does not back up Ortt’s claim. City homicides are, for the most part, driven by the use of handguns, Reeher said. He added

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that the SAFE Act did not directly address that issue, and that a repeal of the act would be unlikely due to the Democratic majority in the New York State Assembly.

“There are too many moving parts in explaining the city’s homicide rate to tie it to the SAFE Act, one way or another,” Reeher said in an email.

There are too many moving parts in explaining the city’s homicide rate to tie it to the SAFE Act, one way or another.

Grant Reeher professor of political science at syracuse university

A look at the evidence supports Reeher’s argument. Of the 31 homicides that occurred in Syracuse last year, only 19 involved firearms, and most

of those were committed with handguns, according to articles on Syracuse.com.

Although it’s difficult to tie the SAFE Act to homicides in larger cities, the number of homicides statewide has steadily declined over the past 10 years, dropping from 5.3 firearm-related deaths per 100,000 people in 2005 to 4.2 per 100,000 in 2015, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That might sound like an incremental decrease, but it represents a factor of 170 fewer people dying due to gun violence per year.

This seems to suggest that last year’s homicide spike in Syracuse was an outlier in the wider scope of the state, and that the SAFE Act, though heavily restrictive, might actually be working. While it’s difficult to say whether the SAFE Act is helping to decrease gun violence, its intention is nonetheless a worthy cause, justifying its place in New York state.

Ryan Dunn is a freshman history major. His column appears weekly. He can be reached at rarozenb@syr.edu.

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Forum missed target on providing updates The Campus Framework forum held Tuesday afternoon was productive in the sense that it involved Syracuse University community members in a discussion about the campus’s future. But the forum lacked substance in providing concrete updates to the plan to those in attendance.

This lack of new information was especially apparent when none of the three administrators heading the forum provided updates in two areas that were advertised as talking points of the forum. These topics included the results of meetings between university officials and deans and select SU faculty, and the results of two university space audits — including one specifically for accessibility — that occurred during the fall semester.

When the forum’s moderator, Student Association Vice President Joyce LaLonde, asked the panel of three administrators about the results of the audit, Chief Facilities Officer Pete Sala said the audit’s findings “are fluid.” But the results of both the audits and the meetings between administrators and representatives from the different schools and colleges were

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indicated as talking points of the forum in an SU News release published in early February.

what is the campus framework?

The Campus Framework plan is a roadmap for Syracuse University’s physical campus development over the next 20 years. It includes both short- and long-term construction projects.

The Campus Framework is one of three components of Chancellor Kent Syverud’s Fast Forward Syracuse initiative, which also includes the Academic Strategic Plan and operational excellence.

It’s not expected of the university to provide groundbreaking information at every Campus Framework forum. But the administrators asked to answer questions about the plan — both from the moderator and audience members — should have been prepared to discuss the findings of the audits and meetings as promised.

At the very least, the administrators — Sala, Vice Chancellor and Provost Michele Wheatly and

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Provost for Faculty Engagement Cathryn Newton — should have acknowledged they would not address the audits or meetings.

Despite the lack of updates provided on Tuesday, the forum was productive because it facilitated a discussion among administrators and SU faculty, staff and students about the Campus Framework.

$250 million Estimated cost of renovations to the Carrier Dome and Archbold Gymnasium, which are included in the Campus Framework plan

For this reason, and because SU is expected to release a report about the Campus Framework by the end of this semester, the university should hold another forum before classes end to get more perspectives on the plan that will shape the infrastructure of the university for years to come.

Disclaimer: The Daily Orange leases a house on Ostrom Avenue owned

by Syracuse University. As part of the long-term Campus Framework implementation, the university has proposed building student housing on Ostrom Avenue where The Daily Orange currently operates.

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Here is a look at New York’s high school graduation rates over the years

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The high school graduation rate in Syracuse city schools in 2016

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Educators disagree over significance of high NY graduation rate

By Kennedy Rose staff writer

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igh school graduation rates in New York state reached a record high in 2016, climbing to 79.4 percent. Rates have increased over 10 percent since 2006 overall, according to state data.

The city of Syracuse’s high school graduation rate jumped up 6.4 percent from 2015 to 2016 — from 54.5 percent to 60.9 percent. This was the largest graduation rate increase out of the state’s “Big 5 City School Districts,” which is composed of New York City, Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse and Yonkers, according to the state education department.

Syracuse’s increase in graduating students can be attributed to the district’s commitment to offering multiple pathways to graduation, said Linda Mulvey, the chief academic officer of the Syracuse City School District.

SCSD offers students credit recovery programs through summer school and tutorials that run during the school year, Mulvey said.

The credit recovery program is designed to help students pass Regents exams when they have failed, she said. To obtain a Regents diploma in New York, a student is required to pass five Regents exams.

With new standards implemented by the state’s education department, a student can now graduate high school by passing fewer than the standard five Regents exams. By taking advantage of the 4 Regents and Career Development and Occupational Studies pathway option, a student can graduate high school

with four required Regents exams or New York State Education Department-approved alternative exams, as long as they prove they are prepared for the workforce, according to the state.

Students with Individualized Education Plans, or IEPs, can also graduate with only two of the required five Regents exams, but must show proficiency in science, social studies and another subject through exams or coursework provided by the school.

Jeanne Beattie, a spokeswoman for the New York State Education Department, said in an email that these options are designed to provide “different avenues” with equal rigorousness for students to demonstrate they are ready to graduate.

“Some students excel in areas that were not ref lected in five Regents Exams,” she said. “Now, they have meaningful ways to demonstrate their knowledge in other areas that are still directly applicable to succeeding in life.”

Education experts have criticized policies like credit recovery programs, including Morgan Polikoff, associate professor of education at the University of Southern California.

Polikoff said that the substantial uptick in graduation rates recently is aided by a number of different factors.

“We have sort of broad scale trends at the district or state level and it’s hard to say what proportion of the increase in these states and districts is due to good things — like teaching kids better or putting more effort into keeping kids in school — or if it’s bad things like credit

recovery programs, which don’t lead to better knowledge and skill,” Polikoff said.

Mulvey defended SCSD’s decision to use credit recovery programs to help students graduate, explaining the district’s belief that multiple pathways to graduation is in the best interest of students.

SCSD wants students to have the opportunity to go to college or pursue whatever they want to do, Mulvey said, adding that she doesn’t think that lowering the Regents requirement for vocation-oriented students is lowering the bar, but rather different standards for a different path in life.

“Passing a specific exam, in the big scheme of things as a high school student, is not going to be the only indicator of readiness or success.

There’s a lot more to it,” Mulvey said.

Polikoff said he prefers measures that combine both attainment and achievement, so students don’t simply cross the finish line and get out of high school, but actually have skills that can help them get jobs once they have graduated and left.

Mulvey said she understands concerns with changing graduation standards, but said students can be successful through choosing different pathways, whether that be a vocational school, community college or a four-year college.

Overall, Mulvey said she was pleased with the increase in graduation rates.

“This is a credit to principals, to teachers and parents in the community and the work they do to support students,” she said. krose100@syr.edu

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updates In an SU News release promoting Tuesday’s forum that circulated earlier this month, it was stated that administrators during the forum would summarize the results of both the meetings with deans and the two space audits.

But those results were not provided at Tuesday’s forum. In regard to the meetings with deans, Sala said they “helped us drive the decisions that feed into the framework” and that he plans on meeting with deans again, but didn’t discuss the findings of the meetings.

Sala also didn’t discuss specific find-

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projects in the Dome for home games.

“We don’t want to be in a situation where we’re forced to do something, so we’re weighing all the options and trying to do what’s best for Syracuse University,” Sala said.

Sala added that the university is looking to ensure that student events in the Dome, such as commencement, are not affected by the renovations. He said it’s possible that some schedules for Dome events will be adjusted, however.

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housing and sites, such as offices on Skytop Road and the Tennity Ice Pavilion, will not be leaving South Campus.

Another audience member asked how feasible it was to move so many housing units to Main Campus.

In the Campus Framework draft, the construction of 900 additional beds on Main Campus is proposed, in addition to relocating South Campus spots. The draft calls for a total

ings of the two audits that were conducted in the fall, even when prompted by LaLonde. The university and a partner company examined the campus, “from the basement to the roof” of every building, during the two audits.

“The findings are fluid,” Sala said.

He added that the university is currently examining every building and “every pathway” on campus to gauge movement across the campus and will deliver a report by the end of the coming summer.

Administrators also talked at length about student housing, but discussed only ideas — including phasing housing away from South Campus and instituting a three-year requirement for students to live on campus — rather than definitive plans.

Sala also didn’t answer part of a question from philosophy professor Robert Van Gulick about the cost of potentially moving housing from South Campus.

The subject of money was again brought up later in the meeting, when an audience member asked about general funding for the Campus Framework plan and from where that money will come. The exact cost of the Campus Framework plan is currently unknown, though it is estimated that the renovations to the Dome and Archbold will cost around $250 million in total.

Wheatly didn’t provide exact details about funding for the plan, but said that university leadership and academics need to be “deploying their resources in the most appropriate way” to help generate

money to fund the Framework. She added that the funding will come from a variety of resources, including tuition and fees, grants, contracts and donations.

To garner funding through donations, W heatly said the university will need to find donors who resonate with infrastructure projects. She said that can be difficult, but added that it’s been done before, pointing to the named buildings across campus.

“I think we’re bringing all of this great thinking together to try and figure out how we can stretch our existing dollars as far as possible, but also identify new revenue streams and of course be more successful in fundraising,” Wheatly said.

Calling the Dome a “big, big project,” Sala said “it’s not something that’s being taken very lightly.”

“There’s still a lot of planning that needs to go into it,” he said.

“That’s driving the timeline of the project a little bit,” Sala said. “It’s not an easy task by any means.”

The Archbold renovations will turn the gym into “The Arch,” the university’s new health and wellness center that will include an additional 7,000 square feet. New features will include a training swimming pool, four new basketball courts, a rock climbing wall and other facilities for indoor sports.

into engineering for the complex and engage with the Institute for Veterans and Military Families to “make sure we are on target with what they are looking for” in terms of program space, Sala said.

Sala said the CPDC is hoping to get approval in May to move forward with construction and then will have “quite a bit of work” going on in the proposed construction area after that. The complex will exist on Waverly Avenue, where the Hoople Building was located before it was demolished in January. The NVRC will serve as a central hub of veteran life at SU.

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Sala said the university can’t move forward completely with Archbold renovations until Flanagan Gymnasium can stand on its own. Sala said Flanagan relies on Archbold for power, water and other utilities.

The university has to transition those utilities to Flanagan so it can survive when Archbold is forced to shut down for renovations, Sala said. of 3,600 new beds to be constructed on Main Campus. Currently, South Campus accounts for one-third of on-campus housing.

The audience member also said he thought many students enjoyed living on South Campus because of the apartment-style rooms. He said it was “dicey” to say that student performance and retention was affected by living on South because most students choose to live there.

Sala responded, saying SU’s first priority is to keep freshmen and sophomores on Main Campus, rather than all students.

Questions then turned to the three-year housing requirement. A woman who identi-

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The university is currently “wrapping up schematic design” for the pending NVRC, Sala said. From there, the Office of Campus Planning, Design and Construction will transition fied herself as an employee from the Housing Office said she was concerned about the three-year requirement because the Housing Office currently cannot accommodate housing for all students for two years.

Wheatly reiterated that the requirement was still in early discussions and was only an idea, but said “we have to be informed by research.” She also said research shows that students now do more work in groups and that common spaces facilitate a better student environment. Several other universities have similar requirements, Wheatly said.

Other doubts cast on the plan revolved

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around the recent increase in private housing development projects near campus, one of which will be built on South Crouse Avenue almost adjacent to campus.

Both Wheatly and Sala said they have been in talks with local groups hoping to minimize any negative impacts. Wheatly said she believes as other local institutions make the region more attractive, more people will be available to fill those spaces.

Wheatly said the next Campus Framework plan draft should be made public by the end of the semester. dovanwey@syr.edu

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ennifer Do has spent the last three months putting time, energy and money into creating her own video game. And her mom doesn’t even know.

“My mom has always been like, ‘Video games are for kids,’” Do said. “She’s one of those kinds of people.”

Since middle school, she has been writing fictional stories, but she could never seem to finish them. She couldn’t find a good way to get from beginning to end because there were always so many possible ways the plot could go. Now, the Syracuse University senior has decided to finally finish her stories by turning them into a video game.

“It’s like I’m being a surgeon and am trying to revive those ideas,” she said.

Do has collaborated with others on games before, but this one, called “Post,” will be the first commercial game she directed by herself. She describes it as being similar to a visual novel with a choose-your-own-story format. The player will choose a character and go through the fantasy setting while being presented with different options that determine the ending.

As a magazine journalism major and editor-in-chief of SU’s ALINE magazine, Do is familiar with tight deadlines. But as the creator of “Post,” she is free to work on her own schedule and hopes the game can be released in May 2018.

“I work for myself so there’s nobody telling me that I have to do it,” Do said. “If I put out like a demo or something or promotional art, there are people online who are like, ‘Oh I’m really excited for this game to come out,’ and that’s what really motivates me.”

Do’s inspiration for the game came from 50,000 words of the novel she had already written but never finished. She said she had always wanted to make a video game and didn’t want to waste her work, so she decided to keep building off what was already there. When she does write for the game, she tries to write a scene in one day so she can get more done. Consistency is the hardest part, Do said.

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1. The video game is called “Post,” and it will be designed in part by artists Do has hired from the indie gaming community. courtesy of jennifer do 2. JENNIFER DO, a senior magazine journalism major, hopes to finish her self-designed, choose-your-own-adventure fantasy video game by May 2018. colin davy asst. photo editor

The game is mainly based on text and dialogue, which Do is writing on her own. She also does most of the coding since it is a narrative-heavy game.

“It’s nice that I don’t have to learn some really difficult coding thing or I don’t have to make a platform with physics,” Do said. “This is more just like, I like games and I want to make a game from something that I like.”

To help with other aspects of the game, Do relies on help from the online indie game community. She hires artists to draw the characters and background scenery and musicians to create an original soundtrack, paying them out of her own pocket. Do said there is an entire

community of people out there who want to work on indie games.

One of the artists involved on “Post” is June Rodriguez. She worked on sprites for the game, which are animated computer graphics that can interact with the player. In the past, she has worked on another indie game called “Romancin Dudes” which is a visual novellike game.

Rodriguez said she never originally set out to work on video games, but people reached out to her after seeing some of her work online. She’s found that artists tend see do page 10

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ince the deaths of John Lennon in 1980 and George Harrison in 2001, The Beatles don’t usually come up in current news. But when they do, it is a treat for fans everywhere.

Last Sunday, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr recorded together in the studio, just like in the good old days of The Beatles. The news broke when Starr tweeted a picture of the two, thanking McCartney for coming over and “playing

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The two former Beatles worked on Starr’s upcoming solo album, a follow-up to his 2015 album, “Postcards from Paradise.” The last time they collaborated was in 2010 on another one of Starr’s solo albums,

“Y Not.” McCartney was on bass for one track and sang back-up vocals on another. The two also performed together at the 2014 Grammys.

Along with McCartney, Starr also worked with Peter Frampton, guitarist Joe Walsh of the Eagles, and Benmont Tench of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. He’s been photographed in the studio with each of them, the images all tweeted.

This is all very exciting for many fans of classic rock. Starr isn’t

exactly the most worshipped of The Beatles — most only remember he was in the band because of his unconventional name — but working with all of these other rock icons definitely improves his image. Many fans who love Ringo are just glad he’s still alive — he is the oldest Beatle at 76 — and should be excited to hear what he has in store. If nothing else, the album will feature guitar and bass at its best, with Walsh and McCartney

being some of the best players of their respective instruments.

It is nice that the two surviving members of the Fab Four are still recording music. McCartney is as much of a household name as John Lennon was, and still is. Starr usually gets overlooked, but he is one of the most skilled drummers rock has ever seen. His beats and techniques were simple, but he had an ear for the music his bandmates would play

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The main takeaway from this medley of articles about dealing with heartache is to simply let yourself feel it. In her article “Scientifically Backed Ways to Get Over a Breakup,” Suzannah Weiss quotes psychotherapist Barbara Neitlich’s advice on getting to the acceptance stage: “Grieve the loss, cry, and get angry. Yell and stomp around … Be in the moment and feel the pain.”

And while I agree with Neitlich in saying that letting yourself feel is the first step in getting over someone, I agree even more with my personally-tested second step of cutting them out.

So yes, let yourself feel it. Yes, reread your last sweet text conversation with an ache in your heart, never finish that Netflix series you started together — I heard “Mad Men” had a crap ending anyway — and develop a new sadness for an inanimate object they gave you.

And then stop.

Delete the messages. Delete their number.

Put their things in a box. Keep it in a closet if you’re not ready to throw it out, but personally speaking, there’s something symbolic and empowering about leaving a box of letters and a teddy bear in the garbage can.

While cutting someone out of your life may seem harsh and dramatic to a lot of people, sometimes it’s a necessary step of self-care. The phrase “desperate times call for desperate measures” applies here.

After you cleanse yourself, literally and physically, of their belongings, take this advice to the world of social media. Unfollow them. On Instagram. On Facebook. On Snapchat. Or on Myspace if you’re middle school sweethearts.

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to be in demand for indie games, especially when there’s a game jam — when a group of game creators meet up for several days in a row to create either one or multiple games.

“I think a lot of people don’t realize that indie games are out there a lot of the time, but there are a lot of fun games to play on the internet for cheap or free,” Rodriguez said in an email. “Indie games have a lot more creative freedom, so you’ll get to see a lot more innovative things than from the Triple A industry.”

The biggest difference between the indie industry and the high-budget, mainstream “Triple A” industry is that there are less regulations and no contracts, Rodriguez said. She said the biggest challenge is making sure to get paid.

“Either way there’s no sure way to make sure my work is even used, since a lot of indie projects fail and never get released, due to lack of time management or whatever,” Rodriguez said.

There is a lot of uncertainty in the indie video game world, as Rodriguez pointed out and this is one of Do’s biggest fears. She has no idea whether or not “Post” will be successful — but at least her gamer friends enjoyed it when she had them run through a trial round.

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and could drum the perfect beat to complement it.

His singing, however, is nothing special.

His voice is appreciated more for its laughable uniqueness than anything else, but certainly not its beauty. Out of 275 songs on The Beatles discography, Starr performed lead vocals on a whopping total of 11.

With this in mind, it’s hard to get excited about his solo albums. On his 2010 album, though, McCartney provided vocals for one of the tracks. Starr has been hyping up his album since this past summer, so we

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to pop up and ruin your day just when you’re feeling a little better. It hinders your chance to move on and focus on personal growth.

A 2012 study published in the Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberspace found that keeping your ex-partner on social media is associated with “greater current distress over the breakup … longing for the ex-partner, and lower personal growth.”

None of which are very fun.

Even further, social media in this age — especially in the case of breakups — is often used as a weapon.

Instagram and Snapchat posts come with hidden intentions. I admit in the past I’ve personally posted well-lit pictures meant to highlight how much fun I was having in my newly single life — but the joke was on me. At the end of the day, I would end up obsessing over whether or not my ex was listed under those who ‘viewed’ MyStory or ‘liked’ my Instagram post.

It prevented me from actually having fun in my newly single life.

While the saying “out of sight out of mind” isn’t 100 percent applicable in all breakups, it’s a head start on the healing process. And cutting them out in the beginning isn’t to say you won’t let them back in the future. It’s simply a way to give yourself the time and headspace needed to heal in the present.

If in the event of a breakup you find yourself obsessing over the mystery person in an ex’s Instagram post, do yourself a favor and hit unfollow immediately. Save yourself the headache and cut it out.

Renata Husted is a senior public health major. Her column appears weekly in Pulp.

You can email her at rfhusted@syr.edu.

“I think when you make something by yourself, you put a lot of yourself into it and when you put it out you’re like, ‘This isn’t finished and it’s really bad,’ and you know people aren’t going to know what it is completely,” Do said. “Maybe they won’t think it’s the greatest thing ever but if they at least play it then that’s pretty cool.”

One of the astounding things about the industry, Do said, is that a person like her, who has had no formal training in creating games, could potentially become successful.

There are so many people who, just like her, created games at home in their spare time.

“It’s a testament to how easy it is to access technology today,” Do said. “I’m not gonna be massively rich, but I just think it’s kind of crazy. It’s like I can make a career out of something without having that gatekeeper.”

After she graduates in May, Do said she hopes to go into book publishing and still have time to create games on the side. She has always dreamed of becoming a novelist, but making video games has more potential for making an immediate profit. In an ideal world, she’ll be doing both.

Once “Post” is finally finished and released, Do hopes she can tell her mom about it as a success story.

“I think my mom won’t mind if I make money off of it,” Do said. cbarthol@syr.edu

can only hope that this means McCartney has provided vocals on more than just one track this time.

Even if his music isn’t anything spectacular, we can appreciate Starr for his general persona.

His Twitter page is filled with wishes of “peace and love,” and he seems to always send out a tweet on the gloomiest of days. There is never a bad time for a barely-coherent onslaught of emojis, with an occasional peace-sign selfie thrown in the mix. We can only hope to one day see the world the way Ringo Starr does, but we can aspire to it if nothing else.

Jenny Bourque is a freshman English and textual studies major. Her column appears weekly in Pulp. You can email her at jabourqu@syr.edu.

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gone fishin’ Badfish, a Sublime cover band, was named after one of the band’s most famous songs. The band just played at The Westcott Theater on Sunday. What sets them apart is how each member plays more than one instrument. nalae white staff photographer

Tribute band keeps music of Sublime alive with precision

By Leah Meyers staff writer

F

or Syracuse fans of the ska-punk band Sublime, the Academy Awards were not the biggest event that occurred on Sunday night.

Instead, they all gathered at The Westcott Theater to watch the Sublime tribute band, Badfish perform.

Badfish, named after one of the band’s most famous songs, formed when members Joel Hanks on bass and Scott Begin on drums conceived the idea to put on a Sublime tribute show during their time in college at the University of Rhode Island in 2001. When their first show was a major success, they decided to continue performing regularly and eventually became a touring band. They now play an average of 130 shows a year, and generally have three or four small tours annually.

But one of the most defining characteristics of Badfish is that each member is multi-talented and can play more than one instrument.

Besides Hanks and Begin, the band also has a vocalist who also plays guitar, a keys player, a trombonist and a trumpeter. During the concert on Sunday, keys player Dorian Duffy also picked up the guitar; vocalist Pat Downes played a saxophone; Begin played acoustic guitar; and the brass players contributed to back-up vocals and percussion.

Because of the death of Sublime lead singer Bradley Nowell in 1996, Badfish is as close as fans can get to seeing the reggae rock band live — although Sublime with Rome exists, they seem to have a slightly different style than the original material. For the band itself, it’s all about making sure the music of Sublime lives on.

“Sublime served as somewhat of a soundtrack to our college years,” Begin said. “Everybody we knew loved Sublime and we figured it would be something that our peers would be interested in seeing a live performance of.”

The crowd went wild on Sunday when the staff released the Badfish tapestry on the background of the stage — a design of a trippy, colorful fish smoking a cigarette. Then before the band took stage, the lights in the venue went off and Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” played in its entirety, the crowd singing every word and beginning to pack tightly together, eager for Badfish to begin.

“Party time,” Downes announced when the band finally emerged.

The band played everything from classics still heard on the radio today — “Santeria,” “What I Got,” “Doin’ Time” and “Wrong Way,” — to Sublime fan favorites, “Garden Grove,” “Seed,” “Boss D.J.,” “Smoke Two Joints” and “Date Rape,” which most of the audience knew the lyrics to.

The members of Badfish — though they admitted they hadn’t gotten much sleep — knew how to have fun on stage. At any given time, the brass players were dancing goofily and laughing together when they were not playing. During “Rivers of Babylon,” the vocalists all held out a note for as long as they could.

“You only have to play guitar twice and you f*cked it up,” said Downes to Nowell when the cable connecting his guitar to the amplifier came unplugged, and the audience erupted laughing.

Where most of the songs sounded identical to Sublime, Badfish occasionally would switch it up and use their own rendition of a song by either adding brass to the composition, a cool effect from the keys or even beat boxing. During the encore, the trumpeter also took a selfie from the stage while the drum and guitar just jammed, making everyone excited for the final song, “What I Got.” During the jam session, Duffy at the keyboard played the pop culture lines “Cash Me Outside How Bout Dah” and “Smoke Weed Everyday” as the beat dropped, gaining a positive feedback from the crowd.

“I hope you keep the music of Sublime alive because it’s f*ckng amazing,” Downes said at the end of the show.

The set lasted for a total of an hour and 15 minutes. Josh Ringen, a Syracuse University junior majoring in construction management, has seen Badfish a total of five times, and said this show did not disappoint.

“They are easily the best Sublime cover band. They sound better than Sublime with Rome. It’s a high-energy environment with an awesome combination of ska and punk music,” Ringen said.

Ringen’s girlfriend Emily Fusco, a junior environmental studies major, had never seen the Sublime tribute band before, and had high expectations going in. Even with high expectations, she was impressed.

“I liked everything. The atmosphere was great, the people there were so much fun, everyone was just jumping around and screaming the lyrics and obviously the best part was the music because Badfish killed it,” said Fusco.

Badfish does not try to be Sublime, nor do they try to be better than Sublime. All they wish to do is play music that they love for people who love it just as much as they do.

Said Begin: “We just play their music as best we can and we strive to put on a high energy entertaining show every night. We’re not a ‘lookalike’ tribute band. We’re just guys that love the music and seek to do it justice on a nightly basis.” lmeyers@syr.edu

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Limam said there weren’t any radical theories behind the changes. Rather, he said Gabriela Knutson and Maria Tritou laughed that it’s early in the season and he still when asked about their knowledge of upcoming is looking for the strongest pairings and doubles lineups. best methods to win the doubles point. As “We have no idea,” Knutson said. “It’s not Limam has said time and again, the number our choice. … They tell us five minutes before doesn’t matter to him. the match who we’re gonna play with. We “As far as where we play, we’re kind of don’t have much say in it.” always taught that that doesn’t matter,” “He (head coach Younes Limam) likes Mitchell said. “It’s just about playing the surprises,” Tritou said. tennis ball. So, we really don’t focus on the On Feb. 18, Syracuse (2-6, 0-2 Atlantic position we’re playing when we actually go Coast) defeated Buffalo 6-1, which included out on the court.” securing the doubles point by winning in Winning the doubles point has proved first and third doubles. The following day, difficult thus far for Syracuse, managing Brown came to town and defeated SU by to do so only in the win against Buffalo. the identical score, 6-1. The Bears copied That makes Syracuse 1-of-8 at winning Syracuse’s on-paper success from the day the doubles point. This correlates strongly before, winning in first and third doubles. to Syracuse’s 2-6 record. The only match Between Saturday and Sunday, the Orange where the result of the doubles point was had made wholesale changes to its doubles different than the result of the overall lineups, and it showed. match was the season opener against Yale, Against Buffalo, Syracuse lined up which SU came back to win 4-3 after losing Knutson and Miranda Ramirez at first the doubles point. doubles. The second doubles pairing was As the season goes on, Limam hopes that Nicole Mitchell and Dina Hegab, with the team can find consistent doubles pairTritou and Anna Shkudun comprising the ings, rather than announcing wholesale third. Against Brown the next day, even changes to the lineup right before warmups after wins in first and third doubles the begin on matchday. day before, 2/28/17 Limam altered all the pairSyracuse played again this past weekend The Daily Orange Sudoku ings. Mitchell and Tritou partnered in first on Feb. 26, and returned back to the linedoubles, followed by Knutson and Shkudun ups that had won the doubles point against in second and Ramirez playing with Hegab Buffalo. Syracuse was, however, unable to in third. secure the doubles point against Boston Inconsistency in pairings stems par- College as only the Knutson/Ramirez first To solve Sudoku each row, column a tially from the loss of Valeria Salazar for the doubles pairing puzzle, won its match. box must contain the numbers 1 to 9.record the entire season with a right wrist injury.

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SU needs to improve rebounding for another tourney run

By Matthew Gutierrez asst. sports editor

As Syracuse advanced all the way to last year’s national championship game, weaving its way past quality team after quality team, one thing remained constant — SU rebounded.

Save for its championship game losses, the Orange outrebounded opponents by 18. Syracuse lost five seniors from that team, but the importance of rebounding hasn’t budged.

No. 20 Syracuse, with a plus-2.6 per game rebounding margin that ranks 110th in the country, takes the floor Thursday night in the ACC tournament second round. Should the sixth-seeded Orange win its first game, it will play Duke, which last month outrebounded SU by nine and scored 44 paint points, the most SU has allowed since December 2015. For a repeat postseason run, Syracuse (20-9, 11-5 Atlantic

Coast) will need to improve its rebounding.

“Defense and rebounds wins you big games,” SU assistant coach Tammi Reiss said. “Offensive rebounds, we better improve in that area.”

Syracuse has won 20 or more games for eight straight seasons but has been a mediocre rebounding team for years. From 2012-13 to last season, as SU took more 3-pointers each year, its rebounding margin fell. In 2013-14, Syracuse hoisted 771 3-pointers. That year, it had a 2.0 differential. Last season, when its 3-pointers attempted figure shot up to 1,132, its margin slumped to minus-0.8.

“Your rebounding suffers a little bit more,” SU head coach Quentin Hillsman said, “when you have a lot of people on the perimeter.”

The 6-foot-4 center Briana Day ranks third in the ACC in rebounding with 9.3 per game — nearly half of which have come on the offensive glass. Close behind her sits redshirt senior guard Brittney Sykes, who at 5-foot-9

skies over taller defenders with relative ease.

Center Bria Day grabs four a game, forward Isabella Slim 4.2, Peterson 3.4 and Gabby Cooper 2.8.

SU crashes four players on the offensive glass while Peterson stays back to try to stop a fast break. Cooper and Peterson grab the occasional long rebound or loose ball off a tip. When Peterson drives or pulls up for a jumper, Cooper stays back. It’s a formula that, combined with a 2-3 zone defense, can allow opponents to feast on the boards. On Feb. 19, Notre Dame grabbed eight offensive boards — in the fourth quarter alone.

“I missed a few box outs,” Cooper said. “It was like, man, it’s too late and I didn’t have time. It takes a commitment to boxing out, hitting the glass, attacking.”

“You can do all these box-out drills, whatever,” Hillsman said. “We have rebounding assignments, weak side, all of this stuff. It

doesn’t mean much. It’s about will.”

Sykes, who was named Tuesday to the All-ACC First Team with Peterson, is having the best rebounding season of her career. Not only does she rank second in the conference with 19.3 points per game, she also averages 7.8 boards. She is athletic enough to leap through vast spaces, strong enough to bully people in close combat and, most important, persistent enough to get herself to the places around the rim most likely to yield rebounds..

Rebounds materialize suddenly, unpredictability and then disappear. Yet balls seem to pop into her hands. She springs off both feet, swarms in violently to tries to get a hand on the ball to extend a possession or tip the ball to a teammate. Such plays have prompted new possessions, elongated others and kept Syracuse in games against bigger teams.

The Orange needs that now more than ever. mguti100@syr.edu | @MatthewGut21

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big east “I miss that home aspect of it,” Brittney Sykes said. “I love the ACC, but the Big East setup was perfect.”

Sykes appeared comfortable in the Big East, posting 11 points in her first game, a double-double in her first month and 19 points in her first conference game. Against St. John’s in January 2013, she stole the ball and splashed a half-court heave to beat the Red Storm, 60-57, at the buzzer. Her 8.9 points and 5.7 rebounds per game earned her a spot on the All-Big East Freshman Team.

The Big East’s physicality still separates it from the ACC, Sykes said. She enjoyed facing such tough teams, citing her two favorite freshman games as an 11-point loss to No. 2 Notre Dame and a 13-point conferencetournament-ending loss to Connecticut. But those games showed progress, that Syracuse could hang with anybody.

“Playing every Big East team was a dog fight,” Sykes said. “In the ACC it kind of is, too, but unless you played in the Big East, you won’t know the difference.”

Cal Paduda, men’s lacrosse faceoff specialist

The game’s magnitude, the sleek gray jerseys, the friends in the stands and the blowout win transcended the usual level of cool.

An American legend had given the team a halftime speech.

Friends had showed out for Paduda, a Connecticut native, when Syracuse beat Notre Dame 10-4 in MetLife Stadium at the Big City Classic on April 27, 2013. A Big East squad so deeply steeped in New York City basketball lore had now returned to the city for a spring sport sendoff.

The year of lasts for SU had been full of firsts for Paduda. The freshman had won his first-ever attempted faceoff against Providence and set a single-game freshman record (20) against Hobart. He didn’t take the X against the Fighting Irish but the gravity still hits him. Yes, Syracuse plays UND now in the ACC and yes, the ACC has better competition, but it just seemed somehow different then. Paduda talked to Pete Macartney just a few weeks ago about the long-stick midfielder’s “baaaad-man” hit on that poor UND midfielder in that game.

Still, nothing compared to Syracuse football and lacrosse legend Jim Brown coming into the locker room to deliver the halftime speech. He told the men in orange to be physical and grind ‘em out and want every ball more and it didn’t matter they were clichés because — well, Jim Brown.

“I will never forget that,” Paduda said.

“There are so many awesome parts about playing lacrosse here. It’s a special school with a special tradition and that’s just something ...

“How many people can say that Jim Brown once gave them a halftime speech?”

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Even though Salcido arrived in central New York from Winter Park, Florida, he understood the Big East’s importance to Syracuse’s lore and the program’s ascension to national power. He had chosen Syracuse in part because of how much he could learn there.

Teammates preferred teaching the freshman, listed then at 5-foot-7 and 144 pounds,

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the Big East’s style of lacrosse by showing him in practice. “It was a bruiser league,” Salcido said, grinning.

Four years and 22 packed-on pounds later, Salcido is one of Syracuse’s most important weapons. “He came out of nowhere to have a great season last year,” ESPN lacrosse analyst Mark Dixon said.

“That was a project years in development.”

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Doling out hard checks to someone in a Georgetown jersey wasn’t the weird part. It was that only a few months ago, Ciferri had been teammates with the Hoyas midfielder.

Best friends Joe Bucci and Ciferri had played together for Ithaca (New York) High School for four years before this battle. The two friends had talked about playing in the Big East, where you could play Villanova and St. Johns and Providence and one another’s storied programs.

“I got to play one-on-one on him in a game,” Ciferri said. “That was a unique experience.

Being on the other side of the ball was fun.”

Bucci got a goal and Ciferri got the win.

“The Big East in general is a great conference,” Ciferri said. “But you can’t really look back too much.”

Evan Molloy, men’s lacrosse goalie

Competitive nature and postseason advantages justify any Big East losses in sentimentality, Molloy said, because the ACC has the country’s best lacrosse. Molloy spent spring 2013 on the sidelines in a redshirt year, but the Manhasset, New York, native fully appreciated the league’s legacy. His grandfather became an All-American attackman for Syracuse, coaxed Jim Brown to campus and raised Molloy’s program saves record-setting father.

Still, competition trumped all. By joining the ACC, Syracuse gave itself a larger margin

for error in becoming a part of the most successful lacrosse conference in the country.

RPI, which measures tournament resume strength and accounts for strength of schedule, suddenly bumped into SU’s favor because it now means playing Duke, Virginia, Notre Dame and North Carolina each year.

The Big East has a few tough teams, Molloy acknowledges, such as Denver and Villanova.

“But then there’s a serious drop-off,” Molloy said. “In the ACC, you’re reloading every week to play an unbelievable team that’s just as talented as you. It saves your season to a point.”

In 2016, Syracuse lost three of four games mid-season and analysts talked about the Orange missing the NCAA tournament. But then SU crushed No. 10 North Carolina in the Carrier Dome, beat the Tar Heels again in the ACC tournament and piled on with the fact that UNC had thumped No. 2 Notre Dame in between. Those quality opportunities rescued SU’s season, ones that might not have been present in another conference.

“I have great memories of basketball and stuff,” Molloy said, “but from a lacrosse standpoint, the ACC is an unreal move for Syracuse.”

Joe Gillis, men’s lacrosse defenseman

Looking into the future seemed tempting as the Orange streamed onto the field in Philadelphia to celebrate its 13-9 victory in the Big East Championship. Gillis had grown a lot that year. The freshman debuted collegiately at short-stick defensive midfielder on Feb. 24 against Army. He played only that one game and didn’t record a statistic, but he traveled with the team and has an inside look at Syracuse’s last sport to play in the Big East.

Gillis looked around at his teammates who had just played in their last Big East game ever: Matt Pratt, Joe Fazio, Brian Megill, Steve Ianzito, David Hamlin, Ryan Barber, Luke Cometti, Kyle Carey. JoJo

Marasco had five points in a season when he finally made good on the promise of No. 22.

“I was there holding up the trophy with all the boys,” Gillis said. “You worked hard with them and you went out with them.”

The next year, Gillis would notice bigger, stronger, faster athletes in the new conference. He’d notice the necessity of speed, better teams, bigger crowds and higher stakes. But he didn’t think about any of that in that moment as he looked around Villanova Stadium.

He knew in that moment what the entire team knew, what everyone watching knew, too. Those players held in their hands the last Big East trophy Syracuse would ever win.

Dajuan Coleman, men’s basketball center

Sam Fortier [11:55 PM] “I love the ACC, but the Big East setup was perfect.” - Syracuse guard Brittney SykesFour years and a season-and-a-half missed due to injury later, Coleman has perspective.

“The ACC was a little deeper, more better teams,” Coleman said. “But the Big East was a lot more physical.”

The haymaker conference had one more punch to throw at the Orange.

Coleman played four minutes in Syracuse’s regular-season-closing loss at Georgetown and not at all in the final Big East Tournament in Madison Square Garden. But he was there. He watched the steamrolling of Seton Hall, slipping by Pittsburgh and declaring Georgetown’s conference tournament chances officially over in overtime. He also sat on the bench as relative newcomer Louisville eliminated the Old Big East bastion from the conference it helped create.

“The atmosphere, the rivalries,” Coleman said. “It was real fun playing in the Big East.” sjfortie@syr.edu | @Sam4TR

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Semi-pro soccer team Syracuse FC may roster SU players

By Kenneth Mintz staff writer

Local soccer players, including those at Syracuse, can play the sport semi-professionally this spring.

Syracuse FC will begin its inaugural season in May after the new National Premier Soccer League expansion was announced on Feb. 8. Matt Tantalo will take the helm and SU’s all-time leading goal scorer Marcello Vitale will serve as vice president of business operations. The new team will join the area’s entertainment options and reflects soccer’s growth in the United States.

“I think the community is hungry for it,” Vitale said. “Kids are really taking to it. We thought it was the right time, actually it’s a little bit late, to have a professionally run team here in Syracuse.”

The team will compete in the fourth tier of the American soccer pyramid and play home matches at Onondaga Community College, where a 2,000-seat stadium is equipped with lights and turf.

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gillon similar free-throw streak with the Rams, but isn’t sure how long it lasted. In terms of his current streak, at least one of his teammates wasn’t even aware of what’s been unfolding. Freshman guard Tyus Battle was taken aback, widening his eyes when told about Gillon’s 47 consecutive free throws.

As a fellow first-year SU player, one who hasn’t had a perfect free-throw game in a month, Battle was impressed that Gillon could pull off his feat while shooting in the Carrier Dome.

The depth perception is different from almost any other basketball venue, espe-

Syracuse FC team members won’t be paid because there’s no mandate to compensate players at the fourth division level.

The team can sign active college players, but the staff has not yet spoken with any SU players. Vitale and Tantalo plan to contact Syracuse head coach Ian McIntyre soon to discuss the possibility.

“We want a lot of college kids, so we will stay away from paying players,” Vitale added.

“We don’t want to ruin their eligibility.”

The fourth division league started in 2003 and became the National Premier Soccer League in 2005. What began with six teams now has nearly 100. The league has set a foundation for soccer and has fed players into higher leagues, including current MLS player and U.S. Men’s National Team forward Chris Wondolowski. Syracuse FC will have some local opponents, like FC Buffalo and Rochester River Dogz FC. “It was a pleasant surprise,” Dennis Crowley, owner of Kingston Stockade FC said. “Syracuse is a good size city, and it’s probably a great market for an NPSL team.”

Crowley, an SU alumnus who founded cially when the stands behind the basket are relatively empty. Battle said he finds it easier to shoot against the backdrop of packed bleachers than empty ones.

Autry doesn’t buy into any perception theories. He just wants players to look at the rim. Forward Taurean Thompson doesn’t know what to think. He “never missed” his foul shots in high school, but has made only 65.2 percent of them in his freshman season. Gillon will hear about the theories, but none of them concern him anymore. He knows he’s going to make it every time.

“He doesn’t think about how many he’s made in a row,” Autry said. “It’s just an opportunity for him to go up there and make two free throws. That’s how he looks at it.” cgrossma@syr.edu

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Foursquare in 2009, compares his technology company to his startup soccer club. Entry into the league costs a team $15,000. Lower-level soccer isn’t as profitable as higher leagues, which is why his team doesn’t pay its players.

Crowley said some teams will draw crowds in the thousands, while others will focus on developing players, rather than attracting fans. Syracuse FC wants to be the former. The club has been in contact with the Syracuse chapter of American Outlaws, a United States soccer supporter group, to start a supporter section.

The club isn’t trying to attract tens of thousands of fans like MLS clubs, but instead hopes to attract around 1,600 to 2,000.

Soccer is growing exponentially in the U.S., said Rick Burton, a professor in the David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics and SU’s faculty representative to the NCAA. U.S. Youth Soccer participation has grown by almost 3 million from 1974 (103,432) to 2014 (3,055,148).

In 2015, SU’s men’s soccer program reached its first-ever Final Four and attendance continues to climb. Syracuse FC

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bomberry and still seeks a reliable third option on the backline. With just one start between the starting defense entering the year, late slides and communication problems have flared up.

Bomberry has picked up the slack.

Even with Bomberry’s production and a Top 10 ranking for Syracuse, the inexperienced defense is 30th of all 70 NCAA Division I lacrosse teams in goals allowed.

That’s why Bomberry’s multi-faceted skillset has been crucial. His quick feet and stick skills lead to easy groundballs and knocking passes out of the air to start the counter. His physical presence around the

wants to capitalize on the momentum but faces unexpected challenges.

“The issue is disposable spending in the marketplace for a team,” Burton said. “You’ve got the Chiefs, you’ve got the Crunch, Syracuse football and the two basketball teams that take a lot of disposable income out of the marketplace. On one hand, soccer is growing.

On the other, the market may be saturated.”

Syracuse FC will play at the same time as the Syracuse Chiefs, the Class AAA affiliate of the Washington Nationals. By comparison, Syracuse FC’s season will not overlap with the Syracuse Silver Knights, a member of the Major Arena Soccer League.

Fans do not typically come out to minor league games for big name players or rivalries, Burton said, but instead for a fun time, and the club should capitalize on that.

“I think the incentive has to be that they’re going to have a great experience,” Burton said. “It’s going to be easy to park, easy to get a hot dog or a hamburger, and it’s going to be a nice setting where people feel comfortable and can enjoy the weather.” kmintz@syr.edu

goal forces opponents to look for other ways to attack, like running around the cage and firing, which worked a few times for the Black Knights.

Against Virginia on Sunday, Bomberry will be called upon like he has in the close Albany and Army games. But this time will be different.

With the defense still in flux and Desko searching for a steady third defender, Bomberry faces a major challenge in just his fourth start. But that shouldn’t be a problem for a player Desko compliments without a qualifier.

“Each game he gets better and better,” Brendan said. “He’s one step ahead of them.” csdistur@syr.edu @charliedist

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On the boards For another deep tourney run, SU women’s basketball must to bump up its rebounding margin.

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Semi-pro Local soccer players, including those at SU, can play the sport semi-professionally this spring.

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Not too short Campbell College’s 5-foot-9 point guard Chris Clemons is among the nation’s top scorers.

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FADING CONNECTIONS

men’s basketball

Gillon on record FT streak

By Connor Grossman senior staff writer

Last SU players with ties to Big East reflect on conference as a departure from the brash and brawling Big East. From personalities on the sideline and court. From Patrick Ewing and Madison Square Garden and Dwayne “Pearl” Washington’s heroics. yracuse’s last link to the Big East on the playing field will “It isn’t the Big East,” Boeheim said in the documentary. “We’re break at the end of this year. not leaving that, we’re leaving a whole different Four years after bolting from the conanimal. I’m disappointed and nostalgic for what ference SU helped build for coastal hardwood we had. But that is gone. That is long gone.” powerhouses, every player in Orange who comThe seven remaining athletes are Brittney peted in the Big East will exhaust his or her Sykes (women’s basketball); Cal Paduda, Sergio I love the ACC, but eligibility this season.

Salcido, Paolo Ciferri, Evan Molloy and Joe the Big East setup It’s the final bow from an Orange exit that Gillis (men’s lacrosse); and Dajuan Coleman broke apart the Catholic 7, saddened some (men’s basketball). was perfect. fans, dulled traditional rivalries and spawned Here are memories from Syracuse’s last a documentary on the network the conferathletes to play in the Big East.

Brittney Sykes ence grew with and interdepended upon. Ezra Brittney Sykes, women’s basketball su women’s basketball guard Edelman, who won a 2017 Oscar for an OJ guard Simpson-related project, directed in 2014 Regina Sykes had been at every single Big East road “Requiem for the Big East” on ESPN. game. Travel distances for the New Jersey family had factored heavily But SU got the money it left for. Conference revenue nearly into her daughter Brittney’s decision on where to play basketball. Regina doubled in 2013-14, its first in the Atlantic Coast Conference, per loved the conference because it meant drivable trips to New York City; USA Today, to $19.2 million from $11.9 million. SU Athletics used Washington D.C.; Philadelphia; Pittsburgh; Boston; Providence, Rhode that extra cash to pay off its $7.5 million Big East exit fee.

Island; Storrs, Connecticut; and West Orange, New Jersey.

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asst. sports editor

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men’s lacrosse

Tyson Bomberry emerges on Orange defense

By Charlie DiSturco asst. copy editor

Tyson Bomberry struggled to earn playing time his freshman year because the depth chart, with two seniors and breakout star Nick Mellen, was hard to climb.

Bomberry took a hit from the deep Syracuse backline and struggled to earn minutes.

Bomberry had previously played on the U-19 Iroquois National lacrosse team and had been named a high school Under Armour All-American in 2015.

Syracuse was a different story.

Despite being a sophomore and logging four appearances as

a freshman, Bomberry has played like a seasoned veteran in No. 10 Syracuse’s (2-1) season-opening month. His success is a product of the box lacrosse he played regularly in Canada. There, with his cousin and now-teammate Brendan Bomberry, he developed his skills and consistency.

Box lacrosse is essentially indoor lacrosse, played in a hockey rink on concrete or turf. The game brings more physicality because of reduced space. Players must be fast with pickups and passes because opponents always lurk nearby. Box necessitates quickness and hones stick skills, ball control and ability to push transition.

“I have to play with a short stick in the summer,” Bomberry said.

At first glance, Bomberry does not look like the type of player to push transition. His 6-foot, 219pound frame indicates strength over speed. Yet he’s proven capable of getting out to run, which diversifies his game of a defensive stalwart down low.

“He can play the body, which makes guys think twice about coming down the middle,” Firman said. “He’s unreal.”

In Syracuse’s 10-9 comeback victory over then-No. 12 Albany, long-stick midfielder Austin Fusco picked up a groundball and looked up the field. He

fired a 40-yard pass to Brendan Bomberry. Tyson, running near midfield, saw Brendan had just one man to beat. He told one of his teammates to stay back and bolted toward the goal.

Brendan saw the 2-on-1 and, shortly, his cutting cousin. Tyson had enough time to corral the ball and put it in the back of the net to pull Syracuse within one.

“I looked at the box and they were changing so we had an oddman opportunity if I went with him,” Bomberry said. “I told Brendan we were going to push it, and we pushed it.”

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Never in his life had John Gillon struggled more from the free-throw line than the moment he arrived at the Carrier Dome.

The 15 feet between the free-throw line and the backboard can seem a lot farther in the cavernous spaces of a 49,250-person venue whose ceiling is 165 feet above the court.

When Syracuse began play on Jan. 28 against Florida State, the 6-foot point guard had made 74.5 percent of his free throws in 21 games.

That’s a respectable rate for most players, yet missing one-in-four foul shots boggled Gillon.

He needed an opportunity to reintroduce himself as the player who put up historical free-throw numbers at Colorado State. Against FSU, he delivered. Gillon made his first five free throws before missing, then proceeded to make his last eight to seal SU’s first upset win of the season. He hasn’t missed since.

“Ever since then,” Gillon said, “the comfort I felt from those free throws just stuck with me.”

There haven’t been many constants in the Orange’s season. Aside from unpredictable wins and losses, player performance has fluctuated throughout the year. Even Andrew White’s shot, seemingly the most reliable of any on Syracuse, has almost disappeared over the last couple of games. It’s now Gillon who wields the most consistent shot for SU, strictly from the free-throw line. He’s made a program-record 47 consecutive free throws since he last missed against FSU. Gillon’s streak is the fourth longest in Atlantic Coast Conference history, and he’s made an ACCbest 93 percent of his free throws since conference play began. Each shot counts for only one point, but over the nine games that span Gillon’s streak, only one of Syracuse’s (17-13, 9-8 Atlantic Coast) five wins would still stand after erasing Gillon’s free throws. His run of perfection is equal parts bizarre and impressive, but Gillon isn’t thinking about that. He’s not thinking about anything.

“He’s confident, man,” SU assistant coach Adrian Autry said. “When he steps up there he knows he’s making them. He has the same technique and he shoots them and he makes them. It’s not even a thought for him.”

Success at the foul line is nothing new for the Gillon. In two seasons with the Rams, he made a team-leading 84 percent of his free throws. During the 2015-16 season Gillon, he finished with an 87.9 free-throw percentage, 10th-best in program history. Only seven other Colorado State players had ever made more than the 152 free throws that Gillon made in 2015-16. He even won a game with a last-second free throw against UNLV. Gillon thinks he pulled off a

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