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Conservative columnist Brandon Ross commends Rep. John Katko’s recent bipartisan bill to address gun violence with comprehensive solutions. Page 5

An SU official said some exchanges between students sent after a mistaken campuswide email on Tuesday were “disrespectful and offensive.” Page 3

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Camp Good Days and Special Times offers children affected by cancer or sickle cell anemia a chance to have fun and be part of a community. Page 9

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Dom Madonna, a Liverpool native, always dreamt of playing lacrosse at SU. He’s now the starting goalie during his senior season with Syracuse. Page 16

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Competing interests

SPD chief addresses safety concerns By Bianca Moorman staff writer

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Corporate strategies at SU often conflict with academic traditions, following higher ed trends By Michael Burke senior staff writer

Editor’s note: This story is part of a series on the role of corporate influences in Syracuse University’s governance and campus politics, based on dozens of interviews with faculty, staff, students, university leadership, higher education experts and other outside experts.

t was a point of tension often reached in Syracuse University’s campus politics: Tenure-track faculty members and a high-ranking administrator

When it comes to issues that concern our youth, we need to listen to them and allow them to tell us what those issues are, and we make the adjustment.

were not on the same page as they discussed a decision that would affect the university’s academic life. In this case, during a University Senate meeting last fall, the university’s chief academic officer, Vice Chancellor and Provost Michele Wheatly, was at odds with professor of philosophy Sam Gorovitz and associate professor of history Osamah Khalil over the hiring of a new administrator. The previous day, SU appointed Steve Bennett, a senior executive at the Brookings Institution, to a position in the Office of Academic Affairs that gives him oversight in the university’s academic operations. Gorovitz asked for a description of the search

Frank Fowler

syracuse police chief

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Faculty discuss future after Wheeler’s departure By Haley Kim

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WHEELER

At a student town hall meeting on Tuesday, faculty expressed optimism about the school’s future following President Quentin Wheeler’s recent

resignation announcement. The town hall, facilitated by SUNY-ESF Graduate Student Association President Ryan Scheel and the college’s Undergraduate Student Association was held in Marshall Auditorium. Students were able to ask questions of five faculty members and one administrator, many of whom have been at SUNY-ESF for decades. Stu-

dents asked officials about their visions for the future, the next steps following Wheeler’s announcement and other university initiatives, such as a proposed enrollment increase. Academic Governance, the college’s faculty body, voted no confidence in Wheeler in November 2016, citing what they said were examples of poor leadership and a climate of fear. Con-

flict between faculty and administrators continued after the 2016 vote, notably in the wake of the administration’s controversial decision earlier this year to remove three faculty department chairs just days before the start of the spring semester. One student raised questions about why there was so much criticism of Wheeler instead of the see town

Police Chief Frank Fowler said a safety assessment will be conducted in local schools as residents raised concerns about the Syracuse City School District during a forum on Tuesday. Jaime Alicea, super intendent of the Syracuse FOWLER City School District, said students, faculty, staff and parents have raised concerns about safety in schools following the violent shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida in mid-February that left 17 people dead. The Tuesday forum, billed as a safety forum, was held at Henninger High School. The summit was the first of two safety events the school district will host in partnership with the Syracuse Police Department.

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About 50 people attended the forum, and several residents addressed school district officials and law enforcement authorities. One man said some school buildings in the district are so defunct that it’s impossible for teachers and administrators to safely supervise and protect students, and that the district needs to build new schools with modern layouts to help solve its safety problems. Alicea said he has spoken with Fowler. The police chief has said he’s willing to meet with community members about safety issues so city officials can address their concerns, Fowler said. Fowler stressed that the SPD has prioritized keeping students, staff and the community safe. “We will terminate it, and terminate is the proper word choice for see forum page 6

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Take Back the Night Members of the SU community will rally to oppose sexual and relationship violence Wednesday. See Thursday’s paper

USen University senators will meet Wednesday for the faculty body’s second March meeting. See Thursday’s paper

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on campus

Listserv confusion riles SU students By Jordan Muller asst. news editor

Bach in the background KENNETH MEYER plays Prelude and Allegro in D Major from Prelude, Fugue, and Allegro, BWV 998 on the guitar Tuesday night at the Bach Birthday Concert in the Setnor School of Music. The concert included a repertoire of 12 songs celebrating classical composer Johann Sebastian Bach, who lived from 1685 to 1750. shuran huang contributing photographer

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CDC study shows 1 in 6 adults binge drink By Katelyn Faubel staff writer

A recent study about binge drinking alcohol has found that one in six adults in the United States binge drink at least once a week, and the practice is more common among young adults. The study, released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, showed that while binge drinking is more common among adults aged 18 to 34, more than half of all binge drinks are consumed by people aged 35 or older. Dafna Kanny, senior scien-

tist of the alcohol program for the CDC and lead author on the study, said its findings were surprising. She cited a past study which found middle-aged men made up most of the victims of alcohol poisoning deaths, which involve drinking a large quantity of alcohol. Kanny said there should be fewer places that sell alcohol around colleges and universities. Establishments that sell alcohol are often concentrated around college campuses, she said. She also suggested increasing alcohol prices to discourage

Any kind of insult, and in this case binge drinking or heavy drinking, really disturb the natural process of maturation. Subhash Pandey director of the alcohol research center at the university of illinois of chicago

consumption, like increased ciga-

rette prices have done for lowering the number of smokers. Subhash Pandey, a professor and the director of the Alcohol Research Center at the University of Illinois of Chicago, said adolescent brains are still developing and alcohol has a profound effect on that development. “There’s several important regions of the brain still go through maturation process,” he said. “Any kind of insult, and in this case binge drinking or heavy drinking, really disturb the natural process of maturation.” see study page 6

An online exchange, which a Syracuse University administrator called “disrespectful and offensive” at times, played out in every SU student’s inbox Tuesday afternoon after an email meant only for members of one student organization was mistakenly sent to all students on campus. The exchange started just after 1 p.m., when Jordan Lally, acting president of the SU College Democrats, accidentally sent an email meant only for organization members to the SU student body listserv. The email was intended to remind members that the organization would vote to endorse a Democratic congressional candidate at its next meeting. “Regretfully, because this email was distributed to the entire student body, several additional emails were exchanged, some of which were disrespectful and offensive in nature,” said Dolan Evanovich, senior vice president for enrollment and the student experience, in a separate campus-wide email sent just before 5:30 p.m. Eight people would eventually “reply all” to the email, some angry that a student called believers of conservative values “sane” in the email chain. SU policy prohibits student organizations from using university listservs to endorse political candidates, Evanovich said. In a statement to The Daily Orange, the College Democrats apologized for inconveniencing and upsetting members of the SU community. jmulle01@syr.edu @jordanmuller18

state news Here is a roundup of the biggest news happening around New York right now.

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WATER TANK COLLAPSE

Howie Hawkins to announce 3rd bid for governor

The roofing covering water tanks at the Morningside Reservoir, located near Syracuse University’s South Campus behind Manley Field House, collapsed over the weekend. Officials are still investigating the cause of the collapse, and said that residents should not experience any change in water service. The tank will be out of service for at least six to eight months.

By Catherine Leffert asst. news editor

Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins is running for New York state governor again. Hawkins has run in more than 20 elections since 1993. Most recently he ran for Syracuse mayor in 2017, garnering only HAWKINS four percent of the vote. Hawkins said members of his party keep pushing him to run, and he wants to advance party ideals throughout New York in 2018,

challenging Gov. Andrew Cuomo. “We want to get at least 50,000 votes to get a ballot line for the next election cycle, and that will enable our local candidates to more easily get on the ballot and run the next four years,” Hawkins said. Hawkins last ran for governor in 2014. He received five percent of the vote. Hawkins said that by running for the position he wants to build up the Green Party’s reputation and get the party more organized. The Green Party leader’s bid for governor became public by accident, he said, when a fellow party member, who was a brother of a local reporter, emailed Hawkins

and told him he should consider running. Hawkins responded and said he was going to run and the man told his brother. Hawkins said he’s still working on putting a campaign staff together, which is why he hadn’t publicly announced his candidacy. “I have a lot more to say as we go through the campaign,” he said. “I don’t want to get it all out at once.” The Green Party leader is a proponent of raising the minimum wage, tuition-free public college and a ban on fracking — ideals that Hawkins said Cuomo has supported, to an extent, because Green Party candidates keep running for office.

“We want to leverage reforms because Gov. Cuomo can’t take progressive votes for granted. We got five percent in 2014,” Hawkins said. “Cuomo has to compete for progressive votes and as a result he’s moved our way on over a dozen issues.” Hawkins is a resident of Syracuse’s South Side, a traditionally low-income neighborhood southwest of Syracuse University’s Main Campus. As a candidate for governor, Hawkins said he wants to push for the desegregation of public schools in New York state. Hawkins has worked for United Parcel Service and was the treasurer of a South Side food see hawkins page 6

source: cny central

ICE CREAM STAND A year-round ice cream stand will be opening in downtown Syracuse next month. The Ice Cream Stand, which currently has a location in Liverpool, will be moving to Clinton Square. The stand will also serve coffee and other hot beverages and hopes to serve alcohol and have live music in the summer. source: cny central

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and rhetorical studies. “And for me, those are the most important decisions that there are to be made. They’re basically the only real decisions, the ones that in actuality make the difference.” Some faculty are particularly cynical about the university’s decision-making model and the likelihood for it to truly be shared. Those faculty described themselves as disillusioned with governance at SU. One faculty member went as far to describe the idea of shared governance as a myth. “That’s bad for the institution, when the faculty no longer believe that putting time into governance is worth their while,” said Crystal Bartolovich, an associate professor of English who has led the re-establishment of the AAUP chapter. “The university and the whole idea of the free exchange of ideas really does depend on a faculty who preserves that in their own organization. There literally is no university without that.”

governance process for the hire, calling it “a very substantial restructuring of the academic affairs office.” Khalil questioned why SU had hired a professional from a think tank rather than a university, noting that there have been criticisms of Brookings’ research and its ties to corporate interests, and that Bennett didn’t have prior experience working for an academic institution. From Wheatly’s perspective, she explained, there are two sides to academic affairs. On one hand, she said, she and her associate provosts are concerned with academic issues. The other side to academic affairs, she said, is “operationalizing” SU’s Academic Strategic Plan, which outlines the university’s mission and institutional priorities. “And so Steve will be coming in with a tremendous skill set from having worked at Brookings Institution to be able to help us in that regard,” Wheatly said. “… I think you’ll find him to be somebody who really understands our culture. He’s maybe not from our culture, but I think he’ll have the right kind of skill set to position us.” The interaction highlighted what academics, university administrators and higher education experts say and what research indicates is a widespread and growing trend in higher education. As universities, led by boards of trustees from the corporate world, continue to more closely resemble entrepreneurial models, the people charged with running the institutions arrive at conflicts with traditional faculty who see the role of universities as being concerned primarily with the production of knowledge and the exchange of ideas. “(The corporate world) is a very different world from what the academy is like,” said Michael DeCesare, chair of the Committee on College and University Governance for the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), a national group of faculty and academics whose mission is to advance academic freedom and shared governance. “When you come from banking or the financial sector, everything comes down to the bottom line. … When you try to import that to the academy, there’s going to be an inherent conflict there,” he said. “Especially when it comes to faculty. Faculty don’t have that mindset for the most part. We didn’t take these jobs to maximize profit.” At SU, the conflict has become evident in recent years as the university has often used corporate decision-making models and sometimes altered policies and issues central to academic freedom, such as the university’s process for making faculty promotion decisions. It’s part of what has prompted a group of faculty to re-establish SU’s chapter of the AAUP. Following a four-year hiatus, the chapter is expected to be fully functioning by the end of April, with officer elections scheduled for early April. For his part, SU Chancellor Kent Syverud has acknowledged the growing divide between the goals and priorities of trustees, administrators and faculty. At a panel discussion on the topic of shared governance in early March, he called for compromise. “There is a tension I’ve discovered between the narratives we want to tell about ourselves within the institution … and the messages in a completely interconnected world that the university wants to tell to the broader audience that it’s aiming for donations, for recruitment, for supportive politics,” he said. “That’s become a greater tension rather than a lesser tension.” •••

hey have spanned vice presidents, senior vice presidents, senior associate vice presidents, associate vice presidents, assistant vice presidents, associate provosts, assistant provosts, special assistants, special advisers and more. The university has added about three dozen of those positions to its upper administration in the four years since Syverud became chancellor. The growing top-down structure is far from exclusive to SU. It’s a corporate trend across higher education, which, like the corporate world, is a competitive space. Universities are selling a product, with the customers being prospective students, and they are looking to be more efficient in doing so. “A lot of this is structural, and it’s hard to blame any individual university,” said Matt Huber, an associate professor of geography in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs who has studied the corporatization of universities. “They’re all kind of trapped in this hyper-competitive higher ed world.”

KENT SYVERUD, Syracuse University’s chancellor, debated the principle of shared governance at an on-campus forum in early March. kai ngyuen photo editor

The Academic Strategic Plan, published in 2015, is explicit about the university’s entrepreneurial mindset. One of the plan’s six pillars is “Innovation: Nurture an entrepreneurial culture.” Another pillar is “the student experience.” The purpose of the Campus Framework, a 20-year beautification project that will ultimately cost hundreds of millions of dollars, is in part to “enrich all aspects of Student Life,” according to the framework’s website. A $6 million promenade, built in 2016, runs along University Place. Two other major construction projects are underway. Construction of the National Veterans Resource Complex will cost $62.5 million, while $255 million will be required for the West Campus Project, which includes renovations to the Carrier Dome and Archbold Gymnasium. Pete Sala, the university’s chief facilities officer, provides monthly updates to the SU community with updates on the many other, less notable construction and renovation projects. “Universities are constantly trying to innovate ways to attract students better,” Huber said. “Who’s going to build the most cuttingedge dorms and the best gyms? That’s why they’re focusing on this idea of the student experience, because they’re realizing what attracts students is not whether the teachers are good, which it should be from my perspective. That should be the goal: education. But it’s more about this wider experience.” The university’s major initiatives that affect academic life, rather than the campus infrastructure, also follow entrepreneurial models. The Academic Strategic Plan grew out of SU’s use of corporate consultants. Bain & Company, a global consulting firm, said SU had a “need for strategic planning” in a 2014 universitycommissioned report. Strategic planning is a common practice in the corporate world. At SU, a central feature of that strategic planning process has been an effort to shore up the university’s finances. Two separate initiatives have been implemented to serve as financial engines for the strategic plan: Operational Excellence and, later, Invest Syracuse. Operational Excellence, phased out within the past year, was meant to help SU “be more effective, achieve efficiency and create opportunities to fund investment” in the strategic plan and campus improvement projects, according to the Fast Forward Syracuse website. Invest Syracuse, which was announced last summer, is meant to enhance the student experience by “generating new resources and reducing administrative spending,” according to its website. Both initiatives have included cost-cutting as a prime feature. SU is also in the process of reviewing all its academic programs for, among other factors, their cost effectiveness. Some faculty and senators suspect some programs will either be cut or merged. “All of this is very important and very practical, and I would be disappointed if the university wasn’t doing this,” said Tom Sherman, a professor of transmedia who has been a university senator since 1991. “Where short-term and long-term fear would come is if in fact the university is moving toward more of a sound, corporate identity, and that identity is that it has to be financially secure. We maybe have to jettison things that we’re doing that are still very valuable to society, in order for the institution to flourish.” ••• 76-1. That was the University Senate vote in

April 2014 rejecting a recommendation that proposed shifting decisions for faculty promotions from faculty to the Office of the Provost. Among higher education experts, it is generally agreed that faculty promotion decisions should be left to the faculty and that leaving the decisions to administrations is a threat to academic freedom. The month after the Senate vote, SU’s Board of Trustees announced it would implement the recommendations with slight adjustments, keeping the final decision with the Office of the Provost. The decision is what some faculty call the most egregious example of recent decisions made by the university affecting academic freedom and shared governance. “It’s kind of troubling that the faculty voted so overwhelmingly against this and then (the university) went forward anyway,” said DeCesare, the chair of the AAUP’s Committee on College and University Governance. “That is one of the premier areas of faculty responsibility.” A 1966 statement on shared governance of universities — jointly formulated by the AAUP, the American Council on Education and the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and College — states that promotion decisions should be left primarily to the faculty because it is their area of expertise. The statement is considered “a mutual understanding” on governance in higher education. Bruce Carter, an associate professor of child and family studies and former chair of the Senate budget committee, said the change in policy could have the consequence of silencing academic dissent on the campus. “As a faculty member who’s not a full professor, I recognize and feel that decisions can be made about my rank which are independent from my scholarly contributions,” he said. “… If you’re a person who likes to speak your mind and you annoy a chancellor or a vice chancellor, in the former system you had the protection of the other faculty, and the issue of academic freedom was kind of moot. In the current system, it’s possible for a higher-level administrator to critique or actively punish somebody for espousing a position that they don’t like. And we don’t have any way around it.” In more recent years, some faculty have grown frustrated with more processes — particularly those related to budgetary concerns — that they say have either diminished shared governance or showed the limits of it at the university. Several times in the Senate, faculty members and committees have encouraged the university to increase support for international students — a segment of the student population that has grown tremendously in recent years. Undergraduate international student enrollment increased from 365 in 2006 to 1,942 in 2017, a 432-percent jump, according to a Senate budget committee report presented in February. Resources for international students, though, have either remained stagnant or been reduced. The Slutzker Center for International Services has seen its staff reduced from 14 to 12 since 2014, according to its website. “When in the Senate this question has been raised, (administrators) say, ‘Oh yes, we’re looking into it. We’re reviewing,’” said Gorovitz, the professor of philosophy. “And in the meantime, week in and week out, there are unmet needs.” Other issues of concern to faculty include increased hiring of adjunct faculty instead of tenure-track faculty, the presence of corporate research donors and stagnant faculty salaries. “The fundamental economic decision-making, there’s no shared governance over that,” said Dana Cloud, a professor of communication

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nside a small auditorium in Slocum Hall earlier this month, about a dozen faculty from several schools and colleges discussed trends in university politics at an AAUP interest meeting. They spoke candidly about issues at SU, including the change in procedure of collecting faculty salary data, plans to change benefits for graduate student workers and SU’s institutional veterans and military initiatives. It was a rare sight at SU: faculty engaging with each other in a public space where they felt comfortable enough to speak openly about university issues. SU’s governance structure doesn’t include an independent body for faculty. Other constituencies represented in the Senate, which is a university-wide body, have their own concrete governing roles. Undergraduate students have Student Association, graduate students have the Graduate Student Organization and administrators are delegated significant power by the university’s bylaws. Faculty involved with the reconstitution of the AAUP chapter said they think it will help remedy that discrepancy by giving faculty an outlet in a corporate culture. “You need to have countervailing forms of power to go against corporate power,” Huber said. “…In the university context, the AAUP has always been one of those critical institutions of countervailing power to advocate on behalf of faculty.” The Senate is officially the university’s academic governing body and plays a role in governance at SU, but from the perspective of some faculty, it has structural and practical issues. Faculty said they appreciate the Senate because, through the work of 16 committees, it provides an avenue for making the university’s work and decision-making more transparent. Faculty said it’s also valuable to have overlap with key university officials such as Syverud and Wheatly, who give individual reports at most Senate meetings and often take questions from senators. “It’s very useful for us to have good reports from administrators,” said Gianfranco Vidali, the chair of the Senate library committee who describes himself as a fierce AAUP member. “We learn and we can prod them.” But the Senate has limits to what it can accomplish, Vidali added, noting that it doesn’t have many specific powers. Beyond being able to approve new curriculum, the Senate acts largely as an advisory body to the upper administration. It can make recommendations to the chancellor, but it can’t enact university policy. Additionally, some faculty said the presence of administrators at meetings sometimes makes it difficult for them to speak openly and honestly about university issues. “If we were a union, we would not want our boss at our meeting while we were strategizing,” Cloud said. “Don’t we want an independent space of deliberation that could be free of the shadow of higher administration? I would be for that. I think that would be profoundly more democratic.” The AAUP chapter could provide the faculty with that independent space. Once the chapter is fully functioning, Bartolovich said she’s hopeful it will serve as a group that faculty can rely on for community organizing purposes. The AAUP has chapters in 40 states, spanning hundreds of colleges and universities. “The challenges we’re facing are not particular to SU,” Bartolovich said. “Universities all over are dealing with these same sorts of things. And having an organization through which we can work with peer institutions who are facing the same kinds of challenges, it’s really helpful to have that.” mdburk01@syr.edu | @michaelburke47

OPINION

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Gun regulations need bipartisan solutions Professor responds to Archbold Gym renovations I n light of every mass shooting, politicians desperately search for a solution, only to succumb to partisan fighting. But with Rep. John Katko (R-Camillus) introducing the Securing Our Children Act of 2018, Republicans are looking to turn political talking points into tangible solutions. Katko’s bill, co-sponsored by Texas Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Laredo) and announced Friday, creates a path to address mass shootings in the most comprehensive manner, as opposed to rushed and overly broad reform. If passed, the bill would create a bipartisan commission with members appointed by the president and party leaders of both the House and the Senate. The commission would address the need for bipartisan efforts and examine topics that frequently enter the gun debate, including potential links between mental illness and acts of violence, the current state of the National Instant Criminal Background Check System and current state and federal gun regulations. The commission would then present a written report on its

BRANDON ROSS FACTS ARE STUBBORN THINGS

findings within a year. On gun control, Democrats often preach overhauling solutions that ignore what would have been necessary to prevent tragedies and infringe on the constitutionally guaranteed right to bear arms. Many signs at the March for Our Lives rallies across the country on Saturday emanated this. Some called for an AR-15 ban, a full semi-automatic weapons ban or the outright restriction of an individual’s right to own a gun. This isn’t too far off from the type of outcry seen after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in 2012. In the succeeding Congress, President Barack Obama endorsed Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s efforts to institute a federal assault weapons ban. The bill drew a lot from the 1994 federal assault weapons ban that expired in 2004, but would have been far more restrictive and made the changes

permanent. In the end, Feinstein and other Democrats aimed too high, and the bill failed to the point that 15 Democrats voted against it. There’s certainly a solution to be had, and proposals are already being put up. The STOP School Violence Act, which reauthorizes a Department of Justice program to stop school threats, has already passed the House. Florida senators Marco Rubio and Bill Nelson have also introduced a bill to encourage “red flag laws” in states, which would give officials authority to take guns from individuals with relatives who believe they are a threat to themselves or others. These are great first steps that will go a long way, but we need more than that for effective solutions. With Katko’s commission, the American people can get a sense of which resolutions will truly work and which rely more on restricting the constitutional rights of responsible citizens.

Brandon Ross is a freshman broadcast and digital journalism major. His column appears biweekly. He can be reached at bross02@syr.edu.

environment column

Art activism sheds light on climate change

ctivism doesn’t always involve marching in the streets or signing a petition. At SUNY-ESF, speaking out can be as simple as picking up a paintbrush. The student group Sketchy Stumpies is taking an artistic route to raise awareness for environmental issues. As part of the Earth Week celebration at SUNY-ESF and Syracuse University, the group will paint a mobile, Earth-themed mural on paper made by students in SUNYESF’s bioprocess engineering department. While the mural is still in its planning phases, its theme is “Talk Earthy To Me” and will incorporate images of soil profiles, animals and plants found in northeastern United States biomes. The project demonstrates that art has power beyond the aesthetic realm. Emily Bartow, a co-president of Sketchy Stumpies, said art is useful as a tool for activism because visual representations help people reconsider their understanding of important concepts. “Art is meant to grab your attention, meant to make you feel and to make you reflect on those News Editor Sam Ogozalek Editorial Editor Kelsey Thompson Feature Editor Colleen Ferguson Sports Editor Andrew Graham Presentation Director Ali Harford Photo Editor Kai Nguyen Head Illustrator Sarah Allam Digital Copy Chief Haley Kim Copy Chief Kathryn Krawczyk Digital Editor Emma Comtois Video Editor Lizzie Michael Asst. News Editor Catherine Leffert Asst. News Editor Jordan Muller Asst. News Editor Kennedy Rose Asst. Editorial Editor Allison Weis Asst. Feature Editor C aroline Bartholomew Asst. Feature Editor Taylor Watson Asst. Sports Editor Billy Heyen Asst. Sports Editor Josh Schafer

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ECO EMISSARY feelings,” Bartow said. If the planned mural helps students and other campus community members pay attention to our beautiful and increasingly threatened biosphere, artistic projects like this could spur more respectful and conscious treatment of the natural world. Sketchy Stumpies’ mural is special because it’s mobile. Since it’s painted on paper rather than on the surface of a building, it can be moved to different display locations throughout Earth Week. Bartow expects the mural to become an annual tradition, with a new iteration created each year for the festivities. The mural will also be adaptable and respond to evolving environmental and political scenes. The ability to respond to shifts in environmental policy, especially under the Trump administration, is a major advantage. Future murals might focus on efforts to deal with climate change, the status of Asst. Photo Editor Molly Gibbs Asst. Photo Editor Hieu Nguyen Special Projects Designer Lucy Naland Senior Design Editor Bridget Slomian Design Editor Casey Darnell Design Editor Kateri Gemperlein-Schirm Design Editor Maddie Ligenza Design Editor Amy Nakamura Design Editor Talia Trackim Asst. Copy Editor Eric Black Asst. Copy Editor Sandhya Iyer Asst. Copy Editor Shweta Karikehalli Asst. Copy Editor Haley Robertson Asst. Copy Editor Jessi Soporito Asst. Copy Editor Kaci Wasilewski Social Media Director Myelle Lansat Social Media Producer Andy Mendes Asst. Video Editor Rori Sachs Asst. Video Editor Mackenzie Sammeth

national parks or the practice of oil drilling off U.S. coasts — all of which have seen drastic changes since Trump took office. Given the instability and growing concern for the fate of the environment both domestically and globally, it’s increasingly important for people to find ways to voice their opinions and facilitate critical thought. Not everyone has access to the economic, political or social power to speak out in support of environmental protection causes, so art may become an even more important medium for having messages heard. And while the mural may be aesthetically pleasing, its real value lies in its potential to open students’ eyes to the importance of caring for the planet and its many life-supporting ecosystems. If you’re wandering the SUNYESF campus during the upcoming Earth Week, be sure to keep an eye out for the Sketchy Stumpies mural. You’ll definitely appreciate its beauty, but the message beneath the paint may be even more powerful.

I’m writing to publicize the unpublicized plans for the Webster Pool renovation at Archbold Gym as part of the new fitness facility. The pool will be reduced from six lanes to three, reconfigured from 25 yards (regulation) to 100 feet (non-regulation). Reformulated as a fun, water park-like environment where “swimmers” can lie in the water and watch sports events on an enormous screen, lap swimmers will be relegated to Sibley Pool in the Women’s Building, thereby creating a second tier of users. Among our peer institutions in the ACC and those included in the recent Faculty Salary Review Report, every school except one has a minimum of one six lane 25-yard pool. It’s critical that appropriate peer institutions that correlate not only with student populations but also academic rankings, cost and student demographics are used because these are comparable universities. In a meeting with Dolan Evanovich, senior vice president for enrollment and the student experience; Pete Sala, vice president and chief facilities officer; Rebecca Dayton, associate vice president, health and wellness; and Matt Hackett, director of recreation services; I was told that SU is focusing on the needs of our student population, in terms of both recreation and fitness. This is as it should be. However, faculty and staff also use these facilities, which

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was never acknowledged by the four administrators. Faculty and staff are vital community members — the university would not be here without them. Who was surveyed for this renovation plan? Was it primarily representatives of Greek life? On average approximately 2000-2200 people used Webster Pool monthly during the academic year. Were any of these community members surveyed? Why has this information not been made public? As an architect, I know in order to receive a construction bid, drawings are produced. These administrators told me they don’t have drawings they can make publicly available at this time. This can’t be true. The schematic design drawings must be released so public discussion can take place. Is the student experience merely about fun, not fitness? We have aquatic users of all ages and abilities. However, this water park-like environment won’t serve these diverse users. To put millions of dollars into a “state of the art” health and wellness and fitness complex, and not replace the lap pool with one of comparable size, is both unfair and shortsighted. This isn’t an either-or situation, but a both-and. Our university community deserves more.

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forum something like that, because that is our goal — to terminate the threat that we are dealing with at the time,” Fowler said. Fowler said not knowing when a threatening event will happen is what the community is afraid of, and that it’s difficult to discern when an unsafe event may happen. A safety assessment will take place in all SCSD schools to determine issues facing individual schools, Fowler said. Plans for other safety initiatives will be released in the near future, he added. SCSD Board of Education commissioners said the district currently spends $6.7 million on security measures, which include hall monitors and sentries. Alicea said the district is working with elected officials to obtain more money for school security. Thomas Ristoff, the SCSD’s director of safety and security, said there was a hall monitor program that has since transitioned into a fully trained security staff. Sentries are located throughout the schools, he said. Commissioners said they are trying to make the schools feel safe, but not make them feel like prisons. The school district currently has several safety initiatives in place. City schools require photo identififrom page 3

hawkins cooperative. He also worked on Mayor Ben Walsh’s transition team last December. After almost 20 years on the job, he officially retired from the UPS in March to collect his pension. He said that by no longer working at UPS, he will have more time to commit to his run for governor. “That’s my plan for this year,” Hawkins said. “I may have to go back to work this year, after the campaign, get a job.” Hawkins is an advocate for campaign finance reform and said the recent trial from page 1

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Board of Trustees. John Hassett, a chemistry professor, said it was because Wheeler was the one making the decisions. “Our president was the one in front of us, that has a lot to do with it,” Hassett said. “He was the one here, making the decisions, that the board was possibly standing behind.”

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study Excessive drinking as adolescents can lead to high levels of alcohol and drug abuse and mental health issues such as depression and anxiety, Pandey said. Alcohol can also be one of many environmental factors that changes DNA overtime. Pandey said that change can persist into adulthood and lead to high anxiety and high alcohol consumption. Kanny said there was no baseline number of binge drinks per person her team looked at for the study. While the study found that binge drinkers in the United States, on average, had 470 drinks annually, she said that number can vary per person. Brian Quigley, senior research scientist at the University at Buffalo, said social and biological factors can affect how many

cation for visitors and metal detectors. Several people asked how, moving forward, the police expect to connect with students. Fowler said the district alongside police will continue the Drug Abuse Resistance Education program to steer teens away from illegal drugs. The police chief also said SPD is looking for new opportunities to reach out to students.

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“When it comes to issues that concern our youth, we need to listen to them and allow them to tell us what those issues are, and we make the adjustment,” Fowler said. “Our youth are very bright and they have a very strong and active voice, and we’d do ourselves a great disservice if we didn’t listen to them.” bmoorman@syr.edu

of Joe Percoco, a former aide to Cuomo and a longtime friend who was convicted on corruption charges earlier this month, displays issues apparent in the state’s campaign finance structure. Percoco ran Cuomo’s 2014 re-election campaign. “Cuomo has practiced trickle-down economic policy of giving (tax breaks), subsidies, grants to the politically-connected companies that give him campaign contributions,” Hawkins said. “These cases show us in the courtroom what we know goes on. It’s legalized bribery. That’s what the private campaign finance system is.” ccleffer@syr.edu | @ccleffert

president is named before SUNY-ESF has a new, full-time president. But the naming also depends on when the presidential search starts, she added. SUNY Chancellor Kristina Johnson and the SUNY Board of Trustees announced last Wednesday that they will look to appoint an interim campus leader at SUNY-ESF by July 1. Faculty on Tuesday were also asked to describe their vision for SUNY-ESF. Don Leopold, one of three department chairs that Wheeler controversially dismissed in January, said he hoped to see the university rise in its national rankings. Donaghy said she wanted to return the focus of SUNY-ESF to the people. “Happy people make happy things happen and first place is happening because people are motivated to do their best work,” Donaghy said. Faculty members said they are excited for a renewed focus on SUNY-ESF’s strengths. Chris Nowak, a professor in the Forest and Natural Resources Management department, said the school’s commitment to teaching attracted him to SUNY-ESF and makes it stand out from other institutions. “I’d like to see the future of ESF still to be this institution that has world-class scientists with a passion and commitment to teaching,” Nowak said. hykim100@syr.edu

drinks binge drinkers have on average, and if they become addicted or not. Quigley said if there’s a history of alcohol abuse in a person’s family, they’re more likely to have a reaction to alcohol. “You really kind of have to look at the individual, where they start and where they’re going,” he said. “If you’re looking at the social situation of college, it pushes a large group to consume alcohol.” People can also practice what Quigley calls protective behavioral strategies, such as consuming a non-alcoholic drink with an alcoholic drink, always drinking with one friend who isn’t drinking and drinking with food. “All of these things can help slow down alcohol you consume and make you less likely to get into trouble because of your drinking,” he said. kmfaubel@syr.edu

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Take Back The Night highlights survivors By Mateo Estling staff writer

On Wednesday evening, students, faculty and staff will march around the Syracuse University campus with posters in an effort to Take Back the Night and raise awareness of sexual assault.

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RYLEIGH FARRELL, 6, attends Camp Good Days events throughout the year and has been able to connect with other children who have sickle cell anemia. courtesy of camp good days

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yleigh Farrell has moon blood. The 6-year-old was diagnosed with sickle cell anemia at birth, and her mother taught her that her blood cells are shaped like crescent moons, so Ryleigh decided to call it moon blood. Thanks to Camp Good Days and Special Times, Ryleigh has found friends who have moon blood just like her. Camp Good Days is celebrating its 40th anniversary this summer. The organization offers day programs throughout the year and summer camps for children who have or had cancer or sickle cell anemia, as well as their siblings and families and affected adults. The camp takes place every summer in Branchport, located about an hour and a half from Syracuse. There are different weeks geared toward specific age and circumstance categories, such as children with one of the diseases or those with loved ones affected by them. The organization has four regional offices, with the central New York office located on North Midler Avenue. Natasha Farrell, Ryleigh’s mother, learned about Camp Good Days during one of her regular appointments at Upstate Golisano Children’s Hospital. Natasha decided to bring Ryleigh to one of the events, and they’ve been to every event in Syracuse since then, she said. “It makes her day — it makes her month,” Natasha said. see camp page 10

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Thornden Park Association works to restore area By Jony Sampah staff writer

When Miranda Hine first moved to Syracuse in the 1980s, Thornden Park was in a state of disrepair. It had a reputation for being dangerous, but Hine and her children frequently visited the park because she never felt unsafe. Hine then rallied together a group of neighbors to form the Thornden Park Association. Over the last 35 years, Hine has spearheaded restoration efforts of the 76-acre park to revitalize it into what the association believes a park should be like. Today, the association is working on a handful

of projects to get the park ready for the spring season. The largest projects are the renovation of the amphitheater to improve its accessibility and repairs on the mechanical space under the stage. The amphitheater work is estimated to cost about $1 million, said Matt Oja, the current vice president of the Thornden Park Association. He joined the organization as a volunteer in 2013, right after graduating from the Syracuse University College of Law. The pace of the restorations are contingent on the grants and funds the organization can receive, Oja said. Each year, they apply for grants to get funding for their various proj-

ects, many of which are finished over a period of time because they can’t always get the necessary funding at once. The restoration of the park’s brick pathways has been ongoing for the last ten years, Oja said. Other recent projects include fixing the children’s playground and the creation of an entirely new exercise course. Hine said the organization’s goals are gradually being realized. “The thing that has changed in the last 30 years is that it’s become more vibrant and people (are) using it more and that was our main goal — to get people into the park and using it,” Hine said. The park also has a number of events planned for the spring and

summer, including a volunteer project for Earth Day. Hine said volunteers often assist in park maintenance. This year, the SU group Orange Seeds will be helping with the Earth Day event. The next major social event the organization is planning will be a biathlon held in conjunction with the University Neighborhood Preservation Association in July, Oja said. It will be a sprinting and running event for children in the park. During the summer, the park hosts five weeks of camp for children. Restoration efforts began in the mid-80s with the Lily Pond, which took seven years to complete, Hine see thornden page 10

Take Back the Night is an international event meant to bring people together to speak about combating sexual, relationship and interpersonal violence. SU holds one every year, and this year’s event will take place on Wednesday at 7 p.m. starting in Hendricks Chapel. The event will feature speakers, a march through campus and a survivor speak-out. April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Take Back The Night is meant to give the community an opportunity to speak on forms of interpersonal violence and “provide an opportunity for community members to proclaim that each individual has the right to live free from violence and for the voices of those who have been affected by violence to be heard,” according to the Office of Health Promotion website. The origins of Take Back the Night are unknown, but it may have started in England or Belgium where women protested and took a stand against interpersonal relationship violence. Thousands of Take Back the Night marches and rallies have now taken place across the world, per the website. Michelle Goode-Battisti, a health promotion specialist with a specialty in sexual and relationship violence prevention and co-chair of the Take Back the Night planning committee, said that she thinks SU students look forward to this event every year. “There is a sense of familiarity about it from other students,” she said. “Come ready to be empowered and ready to hear some phenomenal speakers and to go on a march together through campus to raise awareness and to share your voices.” Attendees will be welcomed to the Take Back the Night event by Hendricks Chapel’s dean Brian Konkol. From there, speakers will include senior vice president for enrollment and the student experience Dolan Evanovich, keynote speaker Tekhara Watson, who is a staff therapist at the SU Counseling Center and SU seniors Gabrielle Krawczuk and Nathalie Pollack, Goode-Battisti said. see awareness page 10

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“She’s been able to understand that she’s not different.” Ryleigh is part of the Junior Good Days, a four-day summer day camp based in Syracuse. They visit places including Wegmans Playground, Fort Rickey and NBT Bank Stadium, home to the Syracuse Chiefs, said Jennifer Holman, program and volunteer coordinator. The overnight camps for older campers take place at Keuka Lake. Ryleigh is also part of the ‘Cuse Kids Club, which provides monthly activities including bowling, attending Syracuse University sporting events and an upcoming pasta-making event, Holman said. Camp Good Days was founded in 1979 by Gary Mervis, whose daughter, Elizabeth “Teddi” Mervis, was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor at age 9. Mervis realized she needed to have an experience that wasn’t about her diagnosis, such as camping with other children with similar issues so she didn’t feel so alone, said Kathy Reilley, the CNY regional director. Teddi died at age 12, but her memory lives on through the camp. “It started with one promise a father made to a daughter, and 40 years later, we are still celebrating courage,” Reilley said. Holman said camp workers and volunteers aren’t “the doctor’s office.” Their goal isn’t to have discussions with participants about their health or provide any sort of spiritual guidance, but simply to have a good time. Nancy Zlomek, an advisory board member for the camp, has been involved for 20 years. Zlomek’s son, Ryan, was diagnosed with leukemia at age 11 and started attending camp in 1997 after they also heard of the camp through Upstate. Ryan went to camp until he was 18. Now 31, he’s a volunteer with the organization. “When you have a child with cancer, you can Band-Aid it — you can take care of the nausea, you can take care of the blood counts. But the social piece, they just get knocked out completely,” Nancy said. Camp is an experience that enables every-

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one to connect quickly, Ryan said. It provides an opportunity for kids who might not be able to find their social niches to do so, and Ryan has met some of his closest friends at camp. Camp events like go-karting, dances and mini golf helped Ryan realize there was so much more to life than just the health issues he was going through. Camp also helped him build confidence and realize what he values in his day-to-day interactions, he said. “For me, the value was just being able to have a week to spend time with people who’ve been in similar scenarios and see things through their eyes and know I wasn’t the only one going through it,” Ryan said. The regional offices that provide monthly activities are an advantage of Camp Good Days, Ryan said, because the connections campers make can continue without waiting until the

next summer to be reunited with their friends. Cancer affects the entire family, Reilley said. It strips away humanity and dignity, and that is what the camp strives to give back to the kids — humanity. Since joining the program, Natasha said Ryleigh’s confidence has grown. Parents are affected by the programs, too, she said, because they are connected with parents going through similar struggles. “You can’t walk into a hospital and say, ‘Hey, does your kid have sickle cell?’ It’s hard to find people who are going through the same things that you’re going through,” Natasha said. Since 1979, Camp Good Days has served more than 47,000 campers from 22 states and 34 countries, according to its 2016 annual report, and all programs and services are free. The organization is funded by donors,

fundraising and grants. Earlier this month, Fayetteville-Manlius High School hosted a dance marathon fundraiser that raised $94,000 for the camp. The Syracuse region is gearing up for a comedy fundraiser on Wednesday at Sharkey’s Bar and Grill in Liverpool at 7 p.m. The event will feature a group of comedians and door prizes. Ninety cents of every dollar the organization raises goes directly to programs and services, Holman said. Said Reilley: “When you see kids laughing and you know it’s unbridled joy, even if for a second they’ve forgotten all of the crap that is in their life right now, you cannot quantify what it is to see a child laugh when you know that they are dealing with so much stuff that no kid should go through.”

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impacted their lives and to talk with one another about what each of us can do to work to end the violence.” Given the weight of the subjects being tackled, Goode-Battisti encouraged participants and survivors alike to take some time for selfcare the next day. She said the event is incredibly powerful, and it may take time to process everything you’re hearing. The Counseling Center will have staff members at the event from the sexual and relationship violence response team available to speak with anyone, she added. Other events provided by Office of Health Promotion include a Q&A on sexual and relationship violence on April 13 and other events related to Sexual Assault Awareness Month. “We want to highlight what every single member of the audience can do to help contribute to and be a part of a change in our culture,” Goode-Battisti said. “To change some cultural norms that exist on our campus so that it is a safer community.”

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After listening to the speakers at Hendricks Chapel, attendees will march around campus. During the march, participants will raise posters they’ve been making throughout the week as marchers continue to voice opinions on interpersonal violence, said Rachel Saunders, an SU senior and co-chair of the Take Back the Night planning committee. Saunders said that, although traditionally Take Back the Night focuses on just sexual violence, this year’s event will include dialogue about interpersonal violence. “A lot of the signs will talk about ‘No Excuse for Abuse’ or ‘Consent is Sexy and Mandatory’ and stuff like that,” she said. Following the march, a smaller, more private survivor speak-out will take place. According to the Office of Health Promotion website, “individuals have the opportunity to talk in a safe space about how violence has from page 9

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Come celebrate this year’s recipients—former Syracuse football punter Rob Long ’12, G’14 and the student groups Nanhi Kali, Uplifting Athletes, and The Shaped Clay Society. Then listen as Long shares his Syracuse story and why he chooses to give back.

said. The organization also restored the Carriage house on the northern end of the park, which Hine said was scheduled to be torn down. With support from the city’s parks and

This free event is open to all students, faculty, and staff, so register now at syr.edu/orangecircle!

$1 million Cost of the renovations for Thornden Park’s amphitheater

recreation department, and a grant, the House was able to survive. It now houses an exercise class and discovery camps in the summer. Regarding safety in the park, Hine and Oja reiterated that the rhetoric from SU’s Department of Public Safety surrounding the crime rates in the park has definitely affected student attendance. “DPS especially contributes to a percep-

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tion of lack of safety in the park,” Oja said. “But we tend to find, anecdotally, that when students do have direct interaction with the park, they enjoy it, they get a lot of use out of it. But there is a little bit of a barrier that they need to overcome when being introduced to Syracuse — that the park is there for their use and they can and should make the most of it.” There has been a problem with SU students vandalizing the park, Oja said, but the more people who use the park, the more eyes will be on the park which should enhance the perception of safety. Hine said she would encourage people to enjoy both the historic and aesthetic features of the park. “I think (there is) value in green space in the city for people who don’t have cars and can’t go into the suburbs or up into the Adirondacks,” Hine said. “I think it makes for a vibrant neighborhood to have places where children and adults can go jog and run or swim or play or whatever it is they like to do, whether it is active or passive, it’s really important to have that in the city.” ktsampah@syr.edu

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Cold War drama “Chess” to make a comeback at CNY Playhouse By Emily Cerrito

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In a room hidden upstairs at ShoppingTown Mall, the cast members of “Chess” were snacking, chatting and laughing after a long day of constructing the set for their show, set to debut in April. The musical was created by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus of ABBA, as well as Tim Rice. Largely influenced by 1980s rock but still maintaining the integral elements of Broadway opera, this score is one that cast members agree is “totally awesome,” said ensemble member Hali Greenhouse. “Chess” opens April 13 at CNY Playhouse in DeWitt. The show will run through April 28, and tells a story that combines the influences of history, politics, love and, “only a small influence in the actual, athletic sport of chess,” Greenhouse said. The story of “Chess” takes place during the Cold War era, and involves a politicallydriven chess tournament between American grandmaster Freddie Trumper and Russian grandmaster Anatoly Sergievsky, as well as their fight over the heart of the same woman. The presence of chess in this show functions as a powerful symbol that

allegorically reflects the tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union during the 1980s. The complexity of a story like this can appear daunting to a cast upon first read, Greenhouse said, but the cast gets along well, which helps. “There is no drama, which is important in a show like this where there are already many tensions between love interests and in the political atmosphere,” Greenhouse said. Garrett Robinson plays Alexander Molokov, and said he is honored to be part of the cast. “There’s so much talent in the room. It’s insane,” he said. Paul Thompson, who plays Freddie Trumper, echoed this sentiment. He said people should buy tickets to see the show’s “killer cast” and “star-studded leads.” The show will be director Robert Searle’s fourth time working on “Chess,” and he said that every experience he’s had directing the show has been different. The musical has undergone multiple alterations. “Chess” initially debuted in the West End in 1986, and recently experienced a resurgence with the adaptation “Chess in Concert” in 2008.

This performance starred popular performers including Idina Menzel, Adam Pascal and Josh Groban, Searle said. The distinctions Searle mentioned between CNYP’s production and past ones have little to do with changes to script and score, and much to do with the context in which the show is being carried out today. Searle said his intrigue was sparked by the show’s growing relevance in the current political climate. “The idea of bringing the show back out again, it intrigued me, but also because of the current political climate with everything between Russia and the U.S.,” Searle said. “It seemed like it was at the point where, while not the same as it was back in the early ‘80s, but that same feeling of tension was back.” But Searle doesn’t want political undertones of “Chess” to overshadow the beauty of its storyline. He cited one of Anatoly Sergievsky’s lines in the show where he is responding to criticisms of his decision to leave the Soviet Union: “I’m not leaving, I’m following my heart.” “That’s the message that I want people to take away, is, follow your heart,” Searle said. “That’s the most important thing.” ercerrit@syr.edu

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madonna it,” Madonna said. “A lot of people I think take it for granted when they’re here right away. I really think being at Merrimack first was almost beneficial to me because you really appreciate what you have when you come here.” ••• Resting on Madonna’s bedroom wall is a lacrosse stick head painted SU orange. It used to have a shaft that Grizanti dyed orange and blue, but that piece eventually broke because Madonna used it so often. On the back of the head is a No. 5 for Madonna’s favorite Syracuse athlete, Donovan McNabb. Madonna walked into his room every day and stared at the stick. At age 2, Madonna sent an 11-year-old Grizanti to the hospital by throwing a lacrosse ball at his eye with a baby lacrosse stick. By 3, Madonna was watching full SU games, and by 5 he was playing competitively. He wanted to be like the Grizantis — his uncles Anthony and Michael — who played lacrosse and were close enough in age to be his brothers. Both went on to play collegiately. When Madonna started playing, he turned to his uncles for help. He wanted to play goalie, sort of. Once in net, Madonna ducked out of the way of what Michael called “very light shots.” When the two forced Madonna to stay put, he started crying. In response, Michael and Anthony stood on both sides of Madonna and bounced the ball off his helmet until he stopped. Madonna quickly learned the ball wouldn’t break him. From that moment on, nothing could keep him out of the cage. One day while playing lacrosse outside, Madonna fell on pavement and cut his face. His cheeks were swollen, his face was scraped and it hurt to put on his helmet. Still, he practiced. Madonna was determined to play, but his chance to compete against the country’s best vanished. Prior to fifth grade, Madonna’s family moved to McKinney — a town in central Texas about an hour outside Dallas — where lacrosse was not treated like it is in New York. Madonna had to rely on community recreation teams to practice. None of the roughly 3,000 public high schools in the state had sanctioned lacrosse. “Down there in Texas they really had no idea what the hell they were talking about,” Michael said. His best training came from working with his uncles. Madonna filmed his games, even in middle school, and sent the tapes to Michael and Anthony for critiques. The two often visited McKinney for weeks at a time and worked with Madonna every day until the sun set. And when it did, Madonna’s father, Dominick, set up floodlights in the backyard so his son could keep practicing. “‘You know Dom, we’ve been at this for a couple hours, you can take a break now,’” Michael would say. “And he was just like, ‘No. I’m good.’” One night after practicing, Anthony marched into Dominick’s home office and told him the family had to move back north. Madonna had the talent to play D-I, but he from page 16

offense snow melts. In the dark, hangar-like space, it’s difficult for batters to pick up pitches due to the pitchers’ closer proximity to the batters and the unnatural lighting. “It seems like it’s just coming in that much quicker,” Hansen said. “So then when you go outside on the weekend against different pitchers, it’s that much easier for us.” Syracuse began its season and conference slate on fire at the plate, an outburst that translated in its early-season 15-8 overall record and 4-2 ACC mark. Prior to playing a three-game series with Florida State, starting on March 23,

needed exposure from the country’s top teams. “You never really think he’s going to be able to play Division I,” Dominick said. “I mean you feel that way. Obviously you always think that. … You’re kind of stunned by it, that someone else thinks that way.” Within two years, Madonna’s family settled back into Liverpool, and Madonna’s young career began to bud. But in the world of lacrosse recruiting, it may have already been too late. Much of that, Liverpool head coach Mike Felice said, is the nature of lacrosse recruiting. Colleges often have an entire class filled before the players reach the 10th grade, Felice said. Madonna didn’t return to central New York until then, placing him at a major disadvantage. That year, as a 10th grader in 2011, Madonna helped lead Liverpool to an eventual tripleovertime loss in the New York Section III title loss to a West Genesee team featuring former SU greats Dylan Donahue and Tim Barber. “He played one hell of a game, and I’ll never forget that,” Donahue said. The following year, Madonna led Liverpool back to the title game, beating West Genesee along the way and winning Liverpool’s first section title since 1989. “We always used to laugh and say, ‘Thank God Dom came,’” Felice said. “If it wasn’t for him, we probably wouldn’t be able to win that championship.” Despite being one of the top goalies in the region, Madonna, with limited college offers, landed five hours away at Merrimack, further from home than he wanted to be. During his freshman year, Madonna finished top-10 nationally in goals against average and earned a spot on the Northeast-10 All-Conference Rookie Team. That success continued in his second year. Madonna earned All-American Second Team honors while leading Merrimack to the NCAA Division II Championship semifinals, where the Warriors fell to Le Moyne. Heading into that contest, Madonna knew it would be his last game at Merrimack. He knew Merrimack was not the right fit. His mechanical engineering major was not officially accredited by Merrimack at the time, and the looming accreditation wasn’t guaranteed. And his Merrimack teammates didn’t share his passion for lacrosse, he said. Merrimack head coach Mike Morgan declined to comment for this story. “‘He would call me up and say, ‘I’m so frustrated. These guys are going out and partying. I don’t want to do that. We have to lift. We have to work out. No one’s taking it seriously,’” Anthony said. “That was tough. You’re out there busting your butt trying to go win that national championship and win that next game, and you see 10 of your teammates that are hungover from partying the night before.” School mattered to Madonna. Lacrosse was his passion. He yearned for a place where the two co-existed. He needed to come home. When Madonna decided to spend his last two years of eligibility elsewhere, he only applied to Syracuse. “I just think that there was this driving force in him that wouldn’t allow him to settle anywhere until he was at SU,” Virginia said.

MADONNA has started all seven games in goal for the Orange this season, notching 66 saves while allowing 85 goals. josh shub-seltzer staff photographer

By the end of his sophomore season, Madonna had been accepted to Syracuse, and he committed to the school before knowing if he would play on the field. He and his family met with SU lacrosse director of operations Roy Simmons III and head coach John Desko to see about a potential spot. That summer, former SU attackman Jordan Evans walked into the locker room in Manley to work out. Right by his No. 22 locker was a new No. 25 locker for Madonna. ••• In Madonna’s second start with SU, Albany couldn’t be stopped. Shot after shot found the back of the net, and the Great Danes repeatedly won the ball back on the faceoff. Madonna faced 50 shots and gave up 15 goals in a 15-3 thrashing that marked SU’s worst loss in the Carrier Dome since 1989. That marked a low point in Madonna’s career. After redshirting in 2016, playing backup in 2017 and holding Binghamton to four goals in his first start in 2018, he watched as shot after shot found twine. Even though there was little Madonna could control, he felt responsible for the loss. After the game, Madonna told former teammate Sergio Salcido that he felt embarrassed and unsure of himself. It was his first major start, Salcido told him. “Use it is as fuel.” The following week, SU hosted then-No. 9 Army in a game that went to triple overtime. Madonna made three saves in the first two overtime periods before making the biggest play of his career. Syracuse won the faceoff to open the third overtime period. Grant Murphy scooped the ground ball before passing back to Madonna. But Madonna didn’t find anyone immediately open on the clear. He scanned the field, looking left and right, before launching a 45-yard bullet downfield to a cutting Ryan Simmons. Simmons split the defense and fired the shot home for the win. “Holy sh*t moment,” Michael said. “My jaw was on the floor.” Madonna’s eight saves and game-winning assist earned him ACC Defensive Player of the Week. After Madonna won the award, his parents

called to congratulate him, but when they did, he wasn’t focused on the award. Instead, he just talked about what he needed to do to prepare for the next week’s matchup with Virginia. The next night, Madonna went to Anthony’s house for dinner. As soon as he walked in, his focus was lacrosse. “He says hi to my kids, and then the first thing out of his mouth is, ‘Hey, what did you think of the game?’” Anthony said. “I know after (every game) … I’m going to get that text saying, ‘What’d you think?’ He could have 20 saves and two goals allowed and I know I’m going to get that text or phone call saying, ‘What’d you think?’” Since the Army game, SU has gone 2-2, defeating two top-five teams in Duke and Virginia but also giving up a combined 32 goals in losses to Rutgers and Johns Hopkins. While Syracuse has struggled on the defensive end this season, it wouldn’t be competitive in some of those games if it wasn’t for Madonna’s play, Desko said. Still, Madonna feels responsible. He wants to anchor the team. But while he’s focused on the next game at hand, he thinks back to the journey that landed him in the position he is in. In early February, 30 people packed two rows in the Carrier Dome, all friends and family of Madonna. Virginia sat in the middle of the crowd, hoping to record the first time her son’s name was called in the team’s starting lineup against Binghamton. As she pressed record and her son’s name echoed through the Dome, Madonna’s fan section hollered so loudly that the recording is muffled. When the final whistle blew, the scoreboard read Syracuse 21, Binghamton 4. Madonna talked to Anthony, asking what he could do to improve. He talked to his parents, who were at a loss for words for seeing their son compete in the Dome. Friends and family mobbed and congratulated him. Madonna thought back to the four goals he allowed, wishing he could have those back, but then he thought about the big picture. “I knew I’d never be able to live with myself if I didn’t give it a chance,” Madonna said. “If I never made the move, I wouldn’t be playing lacrosse right now. That’s kind of the surreal thing.” mdliberm@syr.edu

four Orange batters were hitting above .300, led by junior standout Bryce Holmgren. But after getting swept by the Seminoles, Syracuse fell under .500 in conference play and saw its number of batters above the .300 mark cut in half. “The work we’ve put in so far, I’ve been trying to stay as level as possible,” Holmgren said. “Just not trying to do anything too much and keeping it simple.” Despite thoughtful work in practice, the results haven’t quite translated onto the diamond for SU. With a grueling ACC slate looming, the Orange likely needs to keep working on getting the offense on track. erblack@syr.edu | @esblack34

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DOM MADONNA has realized his childhood dream this season, starting in goal for Syracuse. The journey to SU hadn’t been clear due to a lack of scholarship offers and a tumultuous tenure at Merrimack, his first school. josh shub-seltzer staff photographer

Goalkeeper Dom Madonna is playing out his dream at SU By Matt Liberman staff writer

nthony Grizanti couldn’t fathom what he heard on the other line of the phone. His nephew, Dom Madonna — an All-American starting goalie at Merrimack College — was on the verge of quitting lacrosse, the sport he’d lived and breathed his whole life. Grizanti heard the sadness in his nephew’s voice. This life of lacrosse appeared near its end. “He told me, ‘I don’t even care if I play lacrosse anymore,’” Grizanti said. “To hear him say that, to me, I was like, ‘You’ve got to get out of there. That’s not you.’” MADONNA Madonna listened. He transferred from

Merrimack and walked onto the Syracuse University campus in fall 2016 clad in orange and blue. Madonna, a Liverpool native, dreamed of playing goalie for SU his entire life, but after receiving little attention from premier Division I programs, he ended up playing lacrosse at a school that nearly drove him away from his life’s passion. Now, as a redshirt senior, Madonna is one of the leaders of a No. 10 Syracuse (4-3, 2-0 Atlantic Coast) team that needs excellence between the pipes to reach the Final Four weekend for the first time since 2013. For Madonna, simply stepping on the Carrier Dome turf is a culmination of a 22-year journey filled with roadblocks that nearly prevented him from reaching his ultimate goal. “Growing up, you watch all these people play at Syracuse, and now you get here, and you get a shirt with an ‘S’ and your number on see madonna page 14

Syracuse guard Braedon Bayer will transfer for his fifth and final year of eligibility, he announced Tuesday night on Instagram. He is the second SU player to transfer from the men’s basketball program in as many days, joining BAYER former forward Matthew Moyer, who announced his transfer Monday. Bayer played in nine games and tallied 17 minutes during the 201718 season. He went from reserve to key player in Syracuse’s Round of 32 win over Michigan State. Bayer recorded a key block on MSU star and likely NBA lottery selection Miles Bridges in the 55-53 victory. “To be put in that position, to stay focused and keep this team going, that was phenomenal,” Syracuse associate head coach Adrian Autry said after the game. For much of the season, Bayer played the opponent’s high-post man in SU practices. Once former graduate transfer Geno Thorpe left the program in December and Howard Washington sustained a season-ending injury, Bayer became the first guard off the bench. “Braedon’s pretty good,” Boeheim said in January. Two years ago, Bayer watched Syracuse’s Final Four run from his bed in his South Campus apartment. Before that, he worked out every day at 6 a.m. for six weeks with Tyler Lydon and Autry. He wanted to play at Syracuse after a season and a half at Division III Grinnell College. By summer 2016, Lydon told former Syracuse assistant coach Mike Hopkins that Bayer “wasn’t just going to be a typical walk on,” Bayer recalled. He earned a walk-on spot, then became a scholarship player after Thorpe left. Possible destinations for Bayer could include Binghamton and Fordham, both schools that showed interest in him as a high school player. mguti100@syr.edu

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Syracuse uses variety of pitchers to prepare offense By Eric Black

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Syracuse places in the bottom half of the ACC in both average and on base-percentage. It’s been a stark contrast from SU’s performance last season, when it finished second in the conference in both categories. With the middle of a tough Atlantic Coast Conference schedule on the horizon, the Orange (15-11, 4-5 Atlantic Coast) is using any tactics necessary in practice to improve its play offensively. SU has even opted to face its own pitchers and coaches

during the week, in preparation for conference games. At the top of SU’s rotation is sophomore Alexa Romero. With a program-record three no-hitters, 143 strikeouts and a 1.64 earned run average on the young season, she’s earned Atlantic Coast Conference pitcher of the week honors twice. She’s also a pretty good batting practice pitcher. “Every so often we’ll have our pitchers throw to us,” junior utility player Alicia Hansen said. “It’s definitely more difficult than facing any other pitcher that we face in the ACC.”

The intersquad competition provides added motivation, Hansen said, for both the batters and the pitchers. Between the pitchers wanting strikeouts and the lack of pressure in the practice situation, the groups don’t hold back. In addition to Romero throwing to her teammates, Syracuse also uses the rest of its staff and its coaches for batting practice as well. Assistant coach Miranda Kramer, who was an all-American pitcher at Western Kentucky, is a frequent foe for Orange hitters. Kramer, a lefty, was drafted to the Pennsylvania Rebel-

lion — a National Pro Fastpitch softball team — before becoming a coach. If Syracuse is scheduled to face a left-handed pitcher in their upcoming game or weekend, Kramer will throw to the team during practice. “Kramer has done a great job with (the batters),” head coach Mike Bosch said. Bosch isn’t a stranger to the practice pitcher’s circle either, often serving as Syracuse’s right-handed pitching machine during batting. He throws just as well live as any other pitcher, Hansen said, and prepares the Orange for any upcoming right-

handed pitchers on the schedule. SU doesn’t just game plan for lefthanded or right-handed matchups, either. When SU’s likely to face a dropball pitcher, it’ll throw resident dropball-specialist AnnaMarie Gatti in practice, all in an effort to make it as similar to game situations as possible. Though SU controls as many variables as possible in practice, one factor is out of Syracuse’s control: weather. Since the central New York climate doesn’t allow much outside practice time, SU practices indoors at Manley Field House until the see offense page 14