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The University Senate will meet Wednesday afternoon when the Senate’s Agenda Committee will present a resolution related to academic freedom.

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SU women’s lacrosse is in a new era without Kayla Treanor. The Daily Orange beat writers grade the team’s performance halfway through the season.

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Balancing act Growing student housing projects elicit concern

Trump cuts would hurt research

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By Delaney Van Wey

Graphic Illustration by Bridget Slomian

A sweeping cut in President Donald Trump’s proposed budget could put the future of libraries — and major research funding for the iSchool at Syracuse University — at risk.

The proposal calls for the complete defunding of the Institute of Museum and Library Services, an agency that is the primary source of federal support for the nation’s museums and libraries. IMLS is also a major provider of funding for research and projects focused on improving the services these institutions provide, including at SU’s School of Information Studies.

For professors in the school, the cut would not only be harmful to them, but a loss for the nation, they said.

“The total budget of IMLS is $230 million, which is an insignificant fraction of the total federal budget, so cutting it will make almost no difference to the deficit,” said Kevin Crowston, the associate dean for research in the iSchool, in an email. “But losing that support will be a huge loss for the museums and libraries it supports and the communities they serve.”

The IMLS primarily provides funding to programming at libraries and museums that fall outside of regular day-to-day operations.

Another portion goes to supporting innovative research focused on improving these places, a key research area in the iSchool, which offers a master’s degree in library and information science.

Crowston said the school and its research faculty are currently receiving a total of $2.4 million from IMLS, which accounts for 20 percent of the iSchool’s sponsored funding. The supported projects include development of a website that would promote creative thinking and a method for libraries to connect local experts with residents.

While losing the IMLS would hurt researchers, Crowston said it would also hurt the communities that benefit from libraries and museums, which the research is meant to improve.

Crowston, who called the cut “shortsighted,” said the benefits of the educational and professional services provided by community institutions outweigh the burden of the program.

“Really, the cutting is symbolic: making points with the right wing rather than a serious policy position,” Crowston said. “And even more, cutting services that serve the general public to be able to cut taxes for the wealthy.”

Bei Yu, an associate professor in the iSchool, said in an email that IMLS has been key for her in

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states historically concentrated with student housing:

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New York is projected to add the second most beds for the 2017-18 academic year behind Texas, a historical student housing development hotbed

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Percentage of off-campus housing developments in Syracuse that have been leased for the 2017-18 academic year

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or citizens who have led, observed and revitalized the city of Syracuse for decades, the development of private student housing is another chapter in a story about the city’s housing market, which has been subjected to the push and pull of the University Hill tide.

But the rate at which the industry is growing has raised concerns among community members that Syracuse is approaching a tipping point between opportunity and instability.

The city, which had eight existing student housing properties at the time, saw a wave of development proposals at the end of 2016: 263 beds with Studious Apartments on Genesee Street and Walnut Avenue; 604 beds with The Standard on University Avenue and Adams Street; 581 beds with the 900 East Genesee Street project; 245 beds with Campus BLVD and an unavailable number of beds with Varsity BLVD on South Crouse Avenue. Since then, three projects have been approved by the Syracuse Industrial Development Agency to add 1,240 beds to the city by the 2018-19 academic school year.

Syracuse isn’t currently reviewing any other student housing proposals, but Axiometrics, a national housing market research company, projects continued growth on a local and national basis in the next year. City planners believe the housing shift can balance the university neighborhoods while some residents feel developers are adding beds faster than the student population is growing. The change, local tenants fear, will vacuum students from the university area neighborhood and leave vacancies in their wake.

“What really is the concerning element right now is that there are seven, eight, nine of these developers coming — all with the same product, all at the same time,” said David Mankiewicz, who came to Syracuse in the late 1970s to work with the Metropolitan Development Association, which would later merge with the Greater Syracuse Chamber of Commerce to become CenterState CEO. “So the question is: How deep is the market? Where are the students who are going to fill all that space?”

Mankiewicz, president of the University Hill Corporation, fears the consequences an overbuilt student housing market will have for the city because he has already seen what happens when the market isn’t deep enough. The corporation is a nonprofit organization that helps guide long-term economic sustainability in the areas surrounding Syracuse University, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry and SUNY Upstate Medical University.

Early on in his time in Syracuse, Mankiewicz saw vacancies plague the downtown corridor after a surplus of office buildings were constructed — disinvestments he said took the collective efforts of the Syracuse community 30 years to fix — and watched downtown bleed retail when shopping malls surrounded the suburbs of Syracuse heading into the 1980s. see housing page 4

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Cuts to homeless services would burden groups

By Satoshi Sugiyama asst. news editor

With President Donald Trump recently unveiling his first budget proposal, some organizations in the central New York region combatting homelessness have become worried about funding to a governmental

agency that handles homelessness.

The United States Interagency Council on Homelessness, a federal independent agency responsible for developing and implementing plans to tackle homelessness, would receive no federal funding under the proposed fiscal year 2018 budget. The agency’s budget

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is estimated at $4 million, according to The Washington Post.

The USICH works as an intermediary that facilitates cooperation among different government agencies on homelessness, said Melissa Marrone, coordinator of the Housing and Homeless Coalition of Central New York. Without the federal

assistance, those operations would be hampered, she said.

When it comes to homelessness, she explained, multiple departments are involved: low-income housing programs supported through the Department of Housing and Urban Development, health

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Alumnus helps launch online convenience store

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GoPuff is an on-demand online convenience store rising in popularity among college students. It allows consumers to order products through a website or app and it guarantees delivery in only 30 minutes.

Daniel Folkman, a Syracuse University alumnus, is an essential component in the success of this company. He runs the business development for goPuff, which requires him to manage major partnerships with other companies such as Coca-Cola and Hershey’s.

About three years ago, a group of roommates at Drexel University realized they were constantly running errands for their whole house with only one car. Two of these students knew there should be a better way to get their necessities, and goPuff was born.

“After a couple months they realized, this is not the most efficient way of getting what we need, there’s got to be a better way,” Folkman said in reference to the founders of goPuff.

Folkman graduated in 2012 with a dual major in entrepreneurship emerging enterprises and finance and a minor in economics. After graduation he spent time working on different startup companies in Manhattan and Philadelphia.

There he discovered his passion of working with early-stage technology startups. Last March, Folkman reconnected with a friend of his — one of the goPuff founders. They

INSIDE N • Bring it on

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has challenged President Donald Trump several times since Trump took office.

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Sydney O’Hara has always been a top hitter for SU softball, but she’s far exceeding her benchmarks halfway through the year.

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DANIEL FOLKMAN, who graduated in 2012, handles business development for the growing online convenience store goPuff. He manages partnerships with brands like Coca-Cola. courtesy of daniel folkman

discussed building up goPuff’s business development team, a task Folkman thought was a natural fit for him in terms of responsibility.

“I love bridging the gap between larger corporations and emerging technology companies,” Folkman said.

He appreciates the opportunity to assist longstanding brands in

learning novel techniques for running their company. Folkman utilizes his contemporary knowledge to help goPuff and other companies evolve.

Folkman said he supports goPuff wholeheartedly because he sees it as an on-demand space set apart by the fact that they eliminated the middleman — controlling the customer

experience from start to finish.

He reflected on his experience coming full circle with his recent return to Syracuse to help launch another goPuff market here at the university. The company currently has 17 markets running and hopes to have 30 by the end of the year. cjgreenw@syr.edu

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@SUAlums SU lost a legendary educator when Max Bloom died earlier this month at 100. Bloom joined the SU faculty in 1956

Take it back The annual Take Back the Night march against sexual assault will be held Wednesday.

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news to know Here is a round-up of the biggest news happening around the world right now.

POLITICS BLOCKING ACCESS The Trump administration has sought to bar former acting attorney general Sally Yates from testifying in front of a congressional hearing regarding investigation between Russia and President Donald Trump’s campaign, according to letters examined

by The Washington Post. White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer dismissed the report. source: the washington post

RULE REPEALED The House of Representatives passed a bill on Tuesday that nullifies regulation passed under former President Barack Obama that gives internet users more control in determining how their data will be used by internet service providers. The White House has indicated its intention to sign the bill. source: the hill

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SAMUEL CLEMENCE delivers a lecture on the Erie Canal on Tuesday in the Peter Graham Scholarly Commons in E.S. Bird Library.

Clemence, the interim dean of Hendricks Chapel, went into detail on the development of the canal, which transformed New York state manufacturing and development. Before becoming interim dean of Hendricks, Clemence was a professor in the College of Engineering and Computer Science, and the lecture is known around the university as an informative hit. olivia gormley contributing photographer

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Resolution will address academic freedom

By Michael Burke news editor

The Syracuse University Senate’s Agenda Committee will present a resolution related to attacks on academic freedom during the Senate’s Wednesday meeting.

The meeting will be held at 4 p.m., the Senate’s second meeting in two weeks in Maxwell Auditorium. In addition to the academic freedom resolution, nominees will be presented for two open positions on the Senate’s Agenda Committee.

The Agenda Committee’s resolution states that “significant numbers” of SU community mem-

bers have appeared on lists created by non-academic organizations that call for the blacklisting of academics for their views.

Dana Cloud, a professor of communication and rhetorical studies, appeared on a website called Professor Watchlist, which sets out to expose professors who the site believes “discriminate against conservative students and advance leftist propaganda in the classroom.” At the time, Cloud called it McCarthyism and said it was “really quite frightening.”

“Non-academic organizations, in hopes of silencing the expression of views with which they disagree, are increasingly turning

to the tactic of blacklisting academics, creating photo galleries of targeted individuals and publishing their contact information to encourage their harassment, and encouraging students to engage in anonymous denunciations of academics to the lists,” the resolution states.

The resolution also claims that academic freedom is essential to the “production, dissemination and exchange of knowledge” and that protecting members of the university community from harassment is necessary for the preservation of academic freedom.

The resolution proposes that

the Senate decry “the blacklisting of our colleagues” and call upon members of the SU community to ensure that the lists aren’t used in hiring, promotion, tenure or other situations that require evaluation.

The nominees for the Agenda Committee positions consist of Shobha Bhatia, the Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor of Teaching Excellence in the College of Engineering and Computer Science; Lori Brown, a professor in the School of Architecture; Cloud, the professor of communication and rhetorical studies; and Mark Monmonier, a distinguished professor of geography in the see senate page 4

state

Officials condemn executive order on climate

By Sam Ogozalek asst. news editor

New York state and national officials on Tuesday decried President Dona ld Tr ump’s planned elimination of the Clean Power Plan, calling it a “misguided” action that “shockingly ignores basic science,” among other things.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo issued a joint statement with California Gov. Edmund Brown opposing the executive order signed by Trump on Tuesday that begins the process of rolling back the former President Barack Obama-era regulatory plan aimed at reducing carbon dioxide pollution from power plants.

“Dismantling the Clean Power

Plan and other critical climate programs is profoundly misguided and shockingly ignores basic science. With this move, the Administration will endanger public health, our environment and our economic prosperity,” they wrote in the statement. “…

We stand together with a majority of the American people in supporting bold actions to protect our communities from the dire consequences of climate change.”

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman also issued a statement condemning the order.

“We won’t hesitate to protect those we serve — including by aggressively opposing in court President Trump’s actions that ignore both the law and the critical importance of confronting

the very real threat of climate change,” Schneiderman said in the statement.

The Clean Power Plan is a set of guidelines for power plants that would have forced them to reduce carbon emissions by 2030. The plan would have lowered carbon pollution in the energy sector to 32 percent below 2005 levels by 2030, if fully implemented, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.

Carbon dioxide is the most prevalent greenhouse gas pollutant, according to the EPA, and accounts for nearly 82 percent of the U.S.’s greenhouse gas emissions.

The plan had been stuck in the courts for months, however, prior to Trump’s order. Critics accused

the Clean Power Plan of being unconstitutional and more than two dozen states joined a mix of electric utilities, unions and other groups to hold the plan up in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, according to Bloomberg.

Trump criticized the regulatory framework during his campaign last year and said the changes bring about a “new energy revolution that celebrates American production on American soil” while signing the orders Tuesday aiming to kill the Clean Power Plan and several other environmental and climate policies pushed through by Obama.

While some energy companies celebrated the move, according to see climate page 4

AIRSTRIKE INVESTIGATION There is a “fair chance” that a United States airstrike in west Mosul killed civilians earlier this month, according to a U.S. commander. An Iraqi health official said 112 bodies had been pulled from the site of the airstrike. Iraqi and U.S. defense departments are investigating the matter. source: cnn.com

BIDDING FAREWELL United Kingdom Prime Minister Theresa May signed a letter officially declaring the beginning of two-year process for the country to leave the European Union. By signing the letter, May invoked Article 50 of the Treaty of Lisbon to make clear the country is intending to secede from EU. source: the guardian

$ BUSINESS JOBS SECURED Ford announced it will invest $1.2 billion in three facilities in Michigan. Much of the investment was part of a labor deal made in 2015. Ford is not bringing back jobs to the United States from any foreign country, but with the funding it is securing 3,700 jobs in Wayne, Michigan. source: cnn.com

A BIG PURCHASE American Airlines reached a deal to purchase a stake in China Southern Airlines, worth almost $200 million. Delta Airlines also has a stake in the company.

China Southern said the deal would improve governance and boost competitiveness. source: fox news

U.S. ROCKY WATERS Michigan announced it will designate $87 million in a settlement regarding Flint’s water crisis. The money would replace thousands of lead pipes over the next three years and will be a combination of federal and state funds. source: cnn.com

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libraries her early career, just as libraries are important parts of children’s lives. She received a $386,025 grant from IMLS for the development of a plug-in that would help researchers sort through citations in databases more efficiently. Her paper on the project won an award at iConference in China earlier in March.

Libraries are also key to the early careers of students, Yu said. She pointed to the Fayetteville Free Library, which has opened a “Fab Lab” that encourages kids and adults to use 3-D printers and other machines for hands-on learning in the sciences.

“We need more workers with STEM skills in the future workforce,” Yu said.

“The museums and libraries have been soil for young STEM minds to sprout and grow before they choose STEM major.”

Professors in the iSchool who have received funding from IMLS said the cuts would ultimately hurt those who need and use libraries, like kids in Fayetteville. Marilyn Arnone, an associate professor of practice, said her projects have received about $2 million from IMLS and those funds have helped others.

She, along with other iSchool professors, helped develop S.O.S. for Information Literacy, a database of lesson plans for librarians to help kids learn how to use, find and evaluate information, using IMLS funding. Currently, IMLS is supporting a project Arnone is working on called the Young Innovators Project, which is connecting youth with mentors in their community to promote innovation and critical thinking.

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Both of these programs benefit children, and consequently the future, Arnone said.

She said research shows that young people who have access to books ultimately do better in school, which is one of the reason libraries, she said, are so important.

Defunding library programing, Arnone said, could also widen the digital divide between the rich and poor because a lot of extra programming is about computer education. She said she doesn’t think the administration has thought about this, though.

“They’re looking at the short-term benefits without thinking of the long-term outcomes,” Arnone said.

Ruth Small, the director of the Center for Digital Literacy at the iSchool, said this is not the first time a president has threatened to cut funding for IMLS, but it is the first time it has been slated for complete elimination. Small said she understands that the president may want to scale back federal spending, but she doesn’t think he and his advisers understand the major impact small agencies like IMLS have on the country.

That pushed Small to send an email to Trump a few weeks ago. She said she urged the president to think about the widespread impact of libraries and IMLS, with which she has worked on over a dozen projects over the past 15 years. One of her most recent projects was one that trained librarians on how to work with people with disabilities.

“Libraries are the cornerstones of our culture, so anything that would take away support from those institutions, which do so much good for so many people, and are free. … It’s just unconscionable to me,” Small said. dovanwey@syr.edu

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homelessness care systems through the Department of Health and Human Services, educational programs supported through the Department of Education and even the criminal justice system through the Department of Justice.

“All the funding streams are really to serve people who are suffering, who are vulnerable, and without them we can’t just use the money to house people without taking care of their service needs,” Marrone said.

The USICH offers guidance and helps to break down bureaucratic barriers among different government agencies, which has served as a model for the statewide Interagency Council on Homelessness. New York state launched its own in 2016 along with a $10.4 billion Homelessness Action Plan proposal to support new and existing community housing from Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Trump’s budget also proposes to cut 13 percent in the Department of Housing and Urban Development, 18 percent in the Department of Health and Human Services, 14 percent in Department of Education and 4 percent in the Justice Department.

“I guess I don’t know if the Trump administration or the (Secretary of the HUD Ben) Carson administration really understands the magnitude of the ability that USICH has on ending homelessness,” Marrone said.

Liz Osborn, external affairs manager at U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness, declined to be interviewed for this story.

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housing “In a city the size of Syracuse, it takes forever to fix those mistakes when we overbuild. So that’s my fear here. We’re going to do it for the third time. We’re going to do it to ourselves,” Mankiewicz said. “The result is going to take us back, and I don’t know how many years it will take to fix what’s left behind of the neighborhoods.”

In an effort to better gauge the student housing market in Syracuse, SIDA commissioned Camoin Associates, Inc., an economic development planning company, to assess the state of the market with consideration for the developments on the city’s horizon.

Honora Spillane, the executive director of SIDA, said the study was commissioned after the agency anticipated that developers would apply to SIDA for benefits.

“The main takeaway was that while at SU, Le Moyne (College) and ESF, the undergraduate populations are anticipated to stay relatively flat — there is a demand in the market for a higher quality residential offcampus unit,” Spillane said.

The final report, which came out in November 2016, found there is a demand for higher quality units with more amenities, but the arrival of the new units would draw student renters in adjacent city neighborhoods to the new developments and make a void in demand for the vacated units.

“We hope — we think that there’s a market demand that will encourage these units and (developers) do, too. No one is spending the amount of money these projects are spending without doing their own due diligence,” Spillane said. “We hope if there’s competition in the market, that’s going to raise some of the standards potentially, then maybe we have higher quality, better housing stock all around.”

Jared Hutter, co-owner of Syracuse 727 LLC, the landlord and developer behind the eight-story mixed-use student housing development pending construction on South Crouse Avenue, said the student population growth rate doesn’t concern the development company.

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senate Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.

Bhatia teaches civil and environmental engineering, and her current research focuses on the development of sustainable materials to protect water quality, according to the Senate agenda. Brown has been a professor of architecture at SU since 2001,

Number of off-campus beds added to university areas in the United States source: axiometrics

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projects. We’re building boutique-style buildings at the best locations,” Hutter said. “We’re not building 500-600 beds at a location students may or may not want to live at. Time will tell.”

Hutter also said the increase in student development projects opens up the chance for the city to encourage local property owners to renovate university-area homes and ultimately turn them back into single-family houses and attract more people to the city of Syracuse.

The University Neighborhood Preservation Association has started to facilitate conversations between community organizations and landlord groups in hopes that some properties may be able to be converted back to owner-occupancy. David Michel, president of the UNPA, said the increase in student housing development presents an opportunity to restore balance in the neighborhood.

Barry Lentz, who has been a homeowner in Syracuse since 1983, said the housing developments are pulling students out of rental units in residential neighborhoods now and that the city’s approach to these developments on a broader scale plays a role in the interaction.

“It’s a simple logic issue. If the population is steady and you’re adding housing units, what does that mean? It means some units along the line are going to go empty,” Lentz said. according to her faculty webpage. Before that, she worked as an architect for several firms based in New York City.

Cloud, the professor of communication and rhetorical studies, researches topics including Marxist theory, feminism, social movements and postmodernism, among other things.

Monmonier researches the history of cartography, which is the science of drawing maps. across a number of areas. mdburk01@syr.edu | @michaelburke47

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“Because Syracuse and Onondaga County are starving for resources, they generally stake the approach that all development is good — that anything that increases development activity is a net good. That’s a very shortsighted view.”

Jean Kessner, a Syracuse Common Councilor At-Large and chair of the Neighborhood Preservation Committee, lives in the university area and said the effects of development are starting to surface.

With the increase in luxury housing as a national trend, fewer students who move off campus are living in neighborhood houses, Kessner said.

“There are a number of houses and apartments I’ve never seen vacant that are vacant,” Kessner said. “So that sets up a whole different dynamic. We don’t have enough population to absorb these.”

“A lot of this is anecdotal — that we’ve seen an increased number of vacancies over the past few years,” said Eric Persons, the associate vice president of government and community relations at SU, at a Neighborhood Preservation Committee meeting about local student housing impact in January.

March 2017 data from the Syracuse Department of Neighborhood and Business Development’s monthly parcel download shows vacant

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climate NPR, officials like Cuomo and Schneiderman adamantly opposed the deregulation. Addressing the U.S.’s largest source of carbon pollution, Schneiderman said in his office’s news release that it “is essential” in mitigating climate change’s negative impacts.

Cuomo and Brown in their statement

at local organization Rescue Mission Alliance, said in an email that even though the organization has no relationship with the federal agency, it acknowledges the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness has served as a voice for the homeless.

Only three agencies in the country — the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Defense — would see a bump in their budget next fiscal year under Trump’s budget.

Shana Gadarian, associate professor of political science at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, however, pointed out the budget plan currently on the table would likely be modified as it will go through Congress.

“Budget proposals are just that – they are proposals and they are a starting point,” Gadarian said.

Syracuse has made progress in homelessness, as it has seen a decrease in its homeless population by about one-third over the past six years and was recognized for its efforts to decriminalize homelessness by the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty. The city also successfully eradicated veteran homelessness in 2015.

“We couldn’t have been able to end veteran homelessness without USICH,” Marrone said.

Central New York is “really close” to ending chronic homelessness, Marrone said.

“With those proposed cuts … it’s just not good,” Marrone said. ssugiyam@syr.edu | @SatoshiJournal

properties have decreased in the University Hill, University Neighborhood and Westcott neighborhoods since 2015. The data shows 38 vacant dwellings, or physical structures, in 2015 and 2016, with 29 dwellings currently vacant between the three neighborhoods.

“You can go through the neighborhood, you can see vacancies and that could be a result of additional housing on campus or students finding housing elsewhere — there have been some shifts,” Persons said.

“That speaks to some of the demand changes that we see. Students wanting newer, better increased housing moving closer to campus, leaving other properties closer to Westcott and Lancaster (Avenue) — where we’re seeing some additional vacancies.”

When the first housing developments went up in Syracuse, local landlord Ben Tupper said residents thought the projects would usher in the end of the “great university neighborhood.”

But Tupper, who owns 70 houses in the university neighborhood, isn’t worried about the structures anymore: The upscale prices of the housing developments have made his properties more sought after among students.

“Everyone’s freaking out and I’m not freaking out,” said Tupper. “The reason why is real simple: The more places that have been built, the more new luxury places that pop up and are available, the faster every year I have rented my houses.”

The average monthly rent for the offcampus developments in Syracuse is about $1,150 per bed, according to Axiometrics.

The median rent in the university area is $634, per the housing analysis report commissioned by SIDA. As the University Hill cluster approaches a new academic year, Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner has discussed the student housing impact with developers and landlords, but said none of them have expressed concern about the new facilities being built.

“I am worried about it because I worry about the balance,” Miner said. “If you were to pull all of those students out for the luxury apartments that are being built, you have a real vacuum.

I’m not sure where the tipping point is, but it is something I’m keeping an eye on.” adiaz02@syr.edu | @alexalucina

pledged to continue fighting the affects of climate change in the future.

“Together, California and New York represent approximately 60 million people — nearly one-in-five Americans — and 20 percent of the nation’s gross domestic product,” Cuomo and Brown said in their statement. “With or without Washington, we will work with our partners throughout the world to aggressively fight climate change and protect our future.” sfogozal@syr.edu

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Housing extension could restrict students from choosing their own path

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by Syracuse University officials that living on campus contributes to better grades and more campus involvement, a student’s decision to live on or off campus after their second year should be left up to the student.

SU officials are considering the extension of the on-campus living requirement from two to three years, citing research that suggests students who live on campus have a better university experience. But because campus involvement is an individual choice, students’ experiences at SU — or at any university — cannot be cast under a huge net.

It doesn’t make sense for the SU administration to take claim on the experiences of others.

Kevin Quinn, senior vice president for public affairs at SU, told The Daily Orange that research suggests students who live in on-campus housing are more engaged in campus social life.

Freshmen and sophomores, who constitute the majority of students who live on campus, of course seem more involved in campus social life because they are trying to find their

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place in the SU community. It makes sense for underclassmen to join more clubs and participate in more events because they are getting a sense of what SU has to offer.

Upperclassmen, on the other hand, generally know where their interests lie. So if the statistics and demographic generalizations convey decreased student involvement, this could

$15,558 The cost of housing and meals for Syracuse University students living on campus during the 2016-17 academic year source: su financial aid website

be attributed to students devoting themselves to the one or two organizations they are most invested in.

There are students with flourishing social lives who live off

campus, as well as students who excel in academics. There are also students who struggle in both those areas who live on campus, right in the middle of it all.

The main concern that SU administrators should have regarding the housing requirement is students’ financial abilities to pay for housing.

Forcing higher prices on students who would otherwise be able to afford an off-campus apartment or house is unfair. Not every university has the ability to provide scholarships and grants to help students pay for housing.

Vanderbilt University — an SU peer institution in Nashville, Tennessee — has a four-year on-campus housing requirement.

But the university still doesn’t guarantee housing.

“We are fortunate right now that we have enough students interested in living off campus that we are able to accommodate all the people who want to live on campus, but we do not guarantee housing,” said Jim Kramka, senior director of housing operations at Vanderbilt. “We can’t because we don’t have enough beds.”

A university should be able to provide on-campus housing,

especially if it is a requirement for students. If the school cannot guarantee housing, the option to live on or off campus should be available.

We are fortunate right now that we have enough students interested in living off campus that we are able to accommodate all the people who want to live on campus, but we do not guarantee housing.

Jim Kranka senior director of housing operations at vanderbilt university

It’s important to note, Kramka said, that the rental market of a university’s location should be considered in housing

requirements. If living off campus is the same price or more expensive than living on campus, then the housing requirements may benefit students. This is the case for Vanderbilt, which is why its housing requirement can be somewhat justified, despite its shortcomings.

Although there are likely students who want to live closer to the hub of campus, forcing all students to do so until their fourth year is not in the best interest of SU students. Instead, the university should advertise the option for upperclassmen to live on campus, while still guaranteeing underclassmen a place to live.

The fact of the matter is that students differ in their level of campus involvement and academic success regardless of where they live in relation to campus. To draw a connection between an entire student population’s university experiences and their living situations is not a strong enough justification for an extension of SU’s on-campus housing requirement.

Aishwarya Sukesh is a freshman magazine journalism and psychology dual major.

Her column appears weekly.

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Instructor promotes fake news course I read with interest the March 1 story, “The University of Michigan is offering a new class on fake news and fact-checking.”

I’m writing to inform you and the student body that there is just such a course at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications.

It’s COM 337, and it’s open to nonjournalism majors across campus: “Real News, Fake News: Literacy for the Information Age.” Professor Charlotte Grimes started it in the spring 2010 semester and taught it until her retirement. I’ve taught it the last three academic years.

What do the students who’ve

taken it think about the course? Here are a few of their responses to the course evaluation questions “Has this course made you think? Why?” • Yes it has. I look at the news with a critical eye, and I am able to decipher what is true.

• Yes, it has helped me begin to think critically about how to decipher news.

• Yes, it made me a wise news consumer.

• Yes. I view the news much differently after this course and think about what is true and what is not.

• Yeah a lot. Especially with the verification process. It made me

think about all the fake news I’ve been consuming without knowledge.

• Yes. Every time I watch/read the news I pay attention even more.

Thanks to Professor Grimes, SU has been ahead of the curve on this issue. With the explosion of misinformation — inadvertent and deliberate — on social media and elsewhere, every student needs to develop the critical thinking skills to determine what is true and what is not.

Sincerely, Tom Boll Part-time instructor Newspaper and online journalism

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BATTLEGROUND New York Attorney General challenges Donald Trump early in his presidency

By William Muoio staff writer

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ew York state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has spent much of the past few months challenging United States President Donald Trump, building off a rocky past with Trump.

Schneiderman, elected attorney general in 2010, has a tumultuous past with the president. While running for attorney general, Trump donated $12,500 to help Schneiderman defeat Republican Dan Donovan in the election, according to Politico.

Once taking office, though, Schneiderman began investigating Trump University, the controversial and now-defunct forprofit company that existed from 2005-10.

That investigation was the beginning of the now longstanding public feud between the two.

Now, Schneiderman — along with other state attorney generals — has started to fight Trump’s more controversial decisions during his presidency.

The New York state attorney general in particular has more legal power than in other states, notably in business matters.

Through the Martin Act general business law, the attorney general has the ability to force change for large businesses, such as those on Wall Street. While it was introduced into law in 1921, the Martin Act general law received a large amount of publicity when former state attorney general Eliot Spitzer ordered 10 investment banks to pay $1.4 billion for misleading investors in 2003.

Although Schneiderman has not used this law against Trump, he and his office had the power to sue Trump in 2013 due to his “swindling” of American citizens out of millions of dollars, according to a statement released after the settlement of the Trump University case in November 2016.

Schneiderman did not stop there in pursuing Trump. Before the inauguration, Schneiderman provided local officials in New York with information regarding laws and policies that would clarify how the state would respond to cities that declared themselves to be “sanctuaries” for immigrants, such as Syracuse.

After the president signed an executive

DONALD TRUMP, shown here campaigning in Syracuse in 2016, has faced challenges from New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.moriah ratner staff photographer

order that threatened to cut sanctuary cities’ federal funding, Schneiderman also defended his constituents in a statement.

“The President lacks the constitutional authority to cut off funding to states and cities simply because they have lawfully acted to protect immigrant families,” he said in the statement.

The President lacks the constitutional authority to cut off funding to states and cities simply because they have lawfully acted to protect immigrant families.

Eric Schneiderman new york attorney general, in a statement

In March, Schneiderman hired Howard Master as a senior enforcement counsel, who will directly focus on corruption issues regarding the White House. Master was an assistant U.S. attorney who worked under Preet Bharara, who was fired by U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions for refusing to submit a letter of resignation this year, after working as a federal prosecutor under former President Barack Obama.

While this decision received national attention, it is not uncommon or unusual for state attorney generals to hire from the U.S. Attorney’s office, said James Tierney, a Columbia law professor, in an email.

Schneiderman also announced that he would lead a 23-state and locality coalition to oppose Trump’s executive order aimed at eliminating the Clean Power Plan rule. Of 22 Democratic U.S. state attorneys in total, 15 signed onto Schneiderman’s plan, including state attorneys from California, Connecticut and Massachusetts.

“Addressing our country’s largest source of carbon pollution — existing fossil fuelburning power plants — is both required under the Clean Air Act and essential to mitigating climate change’s growing harm to our public health, environments, and economies,” Schneiderman said in a statement.

W hile Schneiderman has received recognition for his work against the president, other state attorney generals are also working to combat the president ’s orders.

Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced on Jan. 30 that his state would challenge Trump’s executive order that banned entry for non-citizens and refugees from seven Middle Eastern countries. Then, after the president revised his travel ban, Hawaii Attorney General Doug Chin filed a lawsuit, which stated that the order would harm the Muslim population within the state. wgmuoio@syr.edu | @WillMuoio

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ore than beauty lies within Miss Scarlet, the game’s resident femme fatale. She’s cunning and uses sexuality in her favor, simultaneously enchanting and outsmarting opponents.

Like Miss Scarlet, HST 222 aims to shift your perspective on sexuality, specifically in the United States. Carol Faulkner, the course professor, looks at history from the colonial period to present day.

“We tend to think that this is the most sexually liberated we have ever been, but that’s, in fact, not true,” Faulkner said. “The class communicates that we haven’t gotten more and more progressive over time, that there are definitely periods where we’ve moved backwards and shut down practices that have previously been opened up.”

The class explores questions of power and inequality as a way to understand the experience of race and gender in American history.

Faulkner said the class changes a bit every semester because the history is always evolving. Before, she used to end the class with the struggle for gay marriage, now she concludes with the impact of the decision to legalize marriage equality.

“You never know what topic may come up in any given semester,” Faulkner said.

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rofessor Plum, an archaeologist from Scotland, made a name for himself in academia with degrees from both Harvard and Oxford Universities. But it doesn’t take a genius to know that eating healthy is a smart choice for anyone, and with this fruit-bearing last name of Plum in mind, let’s solve the mystery of what makes a good diet by taking a look at NSD 225: “Nutrition in Health.”

As professor Jane Burrell Uzcategui points out, 90 percent of Americans could make improvements to their diet. She’s been teaching NSD 225 here at Syracuse since 2009, and said every college students should take a nutrition course at some point.

“When you’re 19, 20, 21, you’re establishing habits that are going to affect your health in the long run,” she said.

SU doesn’t get a lot of majors studying this area —Uzcategui said between nutrition and nutrition science, there are usually fewer than 100 per class. So, to make her class more appealing and beneficial, she puts a personal spin on it. After an introduction of all the nutrients, the semester entails self-assessment activities to evaluate and analyze your diet. At the end of every semester, Uzcategui said there’s always at least one student that comes to her and claims the course helped them improve their diet and health. Mystery solved.

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s. Peacock, according to Clue canon, studied fine arts at Boston University. For those looking to tap into their artistic side like Ms. Peacock, consider taking ARI: 563 “Painting: Art for Non-Art Majors.” The class is a fundamentalist art course, perfect for beginners with no experience and intermediates looking to improve their skillset.

It runs on Thursday nights and is taught by Master of Fine Arts candidates. Owen Drysdale, a graduating master’s student concentrating in painting, has taught the class in previous semesters. The class usually starts with observational drawing, which can include still life and contour drawings. Then it moves more into painting.

“By the end of it, students will have the freedom

to make whatever they want to,” he said.

Creating whatever the artist wants is a defining tenet of the course. Because it’s taught by graduate students, the curriculum can vary from instructor to instructor. Some might focus more heavily on drawing while others will stick to painting.

More experienced artists interested in the course will not find themselves unchallenged — Drysdale said he has worked with knowledgeable artists in the past, coming up with special projects so they wouldn’t get bored with the basics.

This is a free-flowing class that typically fills up quickly, but many students drop the course before getting to the meat of it because of the long studio hours, something to keep in mind.

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ove sports? Need to fulfill a College of Arts and Sciences requirement? REL 103: “Religion and Sports” has got you covered. Learn the stories behind the creation of your favorite sports and the role they play within communities. The class builds on a foundation of defining religion as exchanges between people, animals, plants, ancestors and planets, according to the course syllabus.

In this class, you’ll delve into the relationship between teams and fans, coaches and players, and teams and their stadiums. You’ll also discuss the way sports help build a bond between kids and their communities. The class seeks to help students understand sports as ceremonial activities rather than purely entertainment, per the syllabus. A main of discussion is the origins of lacrosse because of its importance to the local Haudenosaunee community.

Other topics include issues relevant to today, like ethics, problems with mascots and diversity in sports.

Colonel Mustard psc 398: “how the united states became a great power” course times tba

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ike Colonel Mustard, PSC 398 is a class that knows a thing or two about history. All it’s missing is that fabulous moustache. The class discusses how America became the power it is today. Covering the period between 1785 and 1900, this class reveals through readings how the United States went from being a 90-pound weakling to Arnold Schwarzenegger, said Colin Elman, who teaches the class.

“You begin in the 1770s and the 1780s as this small, fragile fragmented collection of newly independent political entities,” Elman said. “By the end of the 19th century, 120 years later, you are this enormously powerful soon-to-be most powerful country in the world.”

The class looks at America through the analytical perspective, asking questions about American exceptionalism, its relationship with Europe and the expansion. It also discusses why America stopped expanding at the Mexican and Canadian borders. While it may not have a candlestick in the drawing room, students are not required to purchase a textbook and there are 60 available slots for students.

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rs. White became a black widow after the mysterious death of her husband, an illusionist. The case was never solved and some suspect she was behind his sudden death, but she’s maintained her private demeanor, maybe because of a class that touches how to circulate information.

Professor Kendall Phillips will teach CRS 360: “Trump & Rhetoric and Popular Culture” this fall, a course that’s designed to get students thinking about the collision of two different realms “It’s really not going to be about policies,” Phillips said. “It’s really about the unique and not-so-unique intersections between the presidency and popular culture. We have a president for the first time ever that’s not a military leader or an elected official. The real reason we know him is his presence in popular culture.”

The three-credit class will discuss the current president, Donald Trump, in the context of how

popular culture shapes the way we approach questions about policy and how popular culture can become resistant to official government. Besides that, the class will analyze media use, celebrity currency and how the two have been used by former presidents, like President Roosevelt’s use of radio and President Obama’s appearance on Zach Galifianakis’ show “Between Two Ferns.”

There will be a few short papers and quizzes, Phillips said.

“For students who are interested in popular culture but not politics, this will give them a different view of pop culture that’s not just about the media industry but as something that circulates,” he said.

“For students who are interested in politics but not popular culture, this will be valuable because politics is not just about what happens behind closed doors, but about how things get circulated and talked about.”

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‘Blueberry Soup’ documentary shows power of collaboration

By Connor Fogel staff writer

Searching for “Blueberry Soup” on Google will lead to endless recipes for a traditional Icelandic dish. But among the recipes lies something much different. Eileen Jerrett’s documentary, a film about a modern Icelandic issue — the reform of the nation’s constitution. It’s the only record of the constitutional struggle.

Jerrett comes to Syracuse University on Thursday at 6:30 p.m. to screen her film and lead a discussion in the Maxwell Auditorium.

“Blueberry Soup” documents the grassroots movement in Iceland to improve the constitution. The people involved were not those expected from the nation’s government, but rather farmers, teachers, lawyers, students and activists all looking to change the constitution after the economic collapse in 2008.

Since filming from 2008 to 2011, and producing the final film in 2013, Jerrett has screened the film and discussed its issues all over America and Europe at universities and conferences. The documentary inspired people from various communities all over the world to begin their own grassroots movements.

People from Scotland are working to reform and write their own constitution after Brexit. Some people of Catalonia, a part of Spain seeking independence, have gained new insight in writing their own constitution. Citizens of Greece have looked to improve their nation’s backbone after its economic struggles.

Although Jerrett believes the film demonstrates the power of citizens reforming the constitution, she notices many of its other benefits.

“For me it’s not necessarily meant for consti-

tution reformation,” Jerrett said. “It’s just what good can come from opening up the discussion to people, putting more seats at the table so we can hear other voices to deal with our problems in a more collaborative consensus.”

Before the film gained international attention, Jerrett planned an extensive screening tour at colleges across North America, the first at Harvard University. She initially noticed the film’s impact at Duke University.

That shows the beautiful things that can happen if we talk about it with more people. Because in Iceland this became a dead matter — they weren’t talking about it in their country anymore.

Eileen Jerrett documentary filmmaker

“In one day we were able to go on NPR and talk about it and show it to this great group of students,” Jerrett said. “For the first time, there was an Icelander in the crowd. I was terrified because I thought, ‘It’s the first time an Icelander has seen me, and what are they going to think? Did I represent them properly?’”

Jerrett says misrepresenting somebody is a documentarian’s biggest fear. After screening the film at each school, Jerrett leads a discussion. This time, she felt scared.

But the Icelander joined, agreed with and emphasized all the points discussed.

“That shows the beautiful things that can happen if we talk about it with more people,” Jerrett said. “Because in Iceland this became a dead matter — they weren’t talking about it in their country anymore.

“The international attention that this has gained actually reunited the movement in Iceland. That idea, that this is the cyclical process, is just feeding itself, and I never anticipated it.”

In 2012, Iceland held a national referendum for the public to vote on whether they agreed with the reformed constitution.

Two-thirds of the public voted in favor of the newly-drafted constitution, and many Icelanders believed this would lead the parliament to put the constitution in motion.

The parliament did the opposite. It pushed the document aside, never voting on it. Currently those involved with the movement focus on keeping the public’s attention in their drafted constitution.

When she began filming, Jerrett wanted to look at how Iceland’s economic collapse in 2008 would affect the nation’s arts. What she thought would be a film about an art movement turned out to be a film about a people’s movement.

During the four years filming, Jerrett was the only journalist documenting the writing of the reformed constitution. Not one Icelandic media outlet reported on it, Jerrett said. “‘Blueberry Soup’ ended up being the only document of this constitutional process,” Jerrett said. “The weird thing was that it was just me and my tiny camera.”

Jerrett credits Kickstarter campaigns and the generosity of strangers for the making of the film. She noticed that people are

willing to help if someone just asks, but asking can be a tough thing to do.

During her trip, she exchanged her trade of film production with a hotel, a commercial for a room. An Icelandic vegan restaurant welcomed her as an American. Some nights she slept on couches and ate cans of beans.

The kindness of others made possible what Jerrett said could have been a $50,000 project, an amount she deemed too steep.

She also acknowledges the support of the broad community, many strangers, in her completion of the film.

“It also helps you to be accountable to your work,” Jerrett said. “Because it is really easy when you are trying to do everything yourself to have fake deadlines and never live up to them. Then obviously the project never gets done. By involving other people, they hold you accountable to actually finishing your project.”

Many of the people who helped in many ways through various donations have hosted screenings and discussions for their communities with Jerrett.

On June 3 at the University of California, Berkeley, Jarrett will host a public conference with various groups involved — writers of the reformed Icelandic constitution, American activists, current and past Icelandic politicians, viewers of the film and many others. She hopes this will continue to lead discussion about what is possible through the power of people working together.

“At one table you might have an ex-president from Iceland, a lawyer from Texas, an activist from Greece, an IT person from Silicon Valley,” Jerrett said. “I think that is just going to be so cool.”

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stirring the pot Local rapper signs with Busta Rhymes

By Leah Meyers staff writer

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aron Cooks never took lessons or learned from anybody how to count bars or create a hook. Instead, Cooks said it was all God-given. Once he started writing, he knew that he wanted to create music for the rest of his life. That’s just what he does under the stage name Aaron Cook$.

Though he listened to all genres of music growing up, Cooks particular remembers not being allowed to touch the radio whenever his grandfather’s favorite country music came on. It was this country influence that taught Cooks the art of storytelling, which is now apparent in his songs.

Cooks was brought into a studio by a friend, where he recorded his first verse. After spending more time in the studio, Cooks decided he wanted to make something out of his original music, and decided to start performing. Now, the Syracuse native is signed with hip-hop giant Busta Rhymes.

“From day one, we hit it off,” Cooks said. “He’s a great dude, a great inspiration, a great mentor. And he understood what I was trying to do with my music and my sound, and he just didn’t want to change anything. He just let me run with what I was doing already.”

Busta Rhymes caught wind of Cooks after Cooks’ manager sent a sample to the rap legend. He loved it and instantly reached out.

Just recently, on March 18, Cooks shared the stage with Busta at Lava Night Club at Turning Stone Resort Casino.

“It was good to be home,” said Cooks. “Me and Busta Rhymes — it being sold out, and being from here and people who grew up with me in the audience, and him just really introducing me and telling the city how real it is.”

The performance concluded the 30-day nation-wide tour Cooks was on, which started in Virginia and went on to Florida, North Carolina and Texas performing in venues ranging from bars to arenas.

“I’m trying to touch everybody,” said Cooks.

“I still want to go in the trenches and get my boots dirty, just like new artists in music do.”

Now Cooks is prepping for his first EP, which will be released in April. It will be available for streaming everywhere including Apple Music and Spotify. Included on the EP are big-name features such as French Montana, Bun B and The Game. While waiting for his new music to come out, fans of Cooks can listen to his hit song and visual video “Yellow/Day Up” that has been featured on BET.com and has over 20,000 views on YouTube. From this song, Cooks has cultivated the nickname Yellow God, and according to him, his new EP is going to have a lot more “Yellow God-ness.”

“I’m gonna walk on water on this project. I’m gonna be the best rapper alive when I’m finished. I promise you,” Cooks said.

Since being signed with Busta Rhymes, things have only gotten busier. Besides travelling more, Cooks sometimes endures 24-hour studio sessions. But the craziest part of it all for Cooks is being recognized. He still has not gotten used to being home in Syracuse or being recognized by a stranger in the store.

Cooks has written about the things he saw growing up. Now that he is going to different places, his music is changing because he’s seeing different things. He gains inspiration from different people and different conversations and hopes people gain inspiration from him.

Especially the people from his hometown in Syracuse.

“Coming from Syracuse, it’s like different what I’m doing. No one has reached this level from what I’m doing with my music,” said Cooks. “The Yellow God is alive and I’m coming to save the city.” lmeyers@syr.edu

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SU senior Devon Parker thriving in new attack position

By Kaci Wasilewski staff writer

In the fall, head coach Gary Gait knew Syracuse needed a left-handed attack for the 2017 season and surveyed his options. He found someone he thought might work.

During a pre-fall ball practice, the team rotated through midfielders. Some that were not playing their usual position had to stay back on attack, including senior Devon Parker. The lefty was already half of what Gait was looking for. She also played offensive midfielder and had the offensive mentality.

“I remember our coach saying something like ‘What do you think about moving to attack?’” Parker said, “and I said ‘It’s definitely something I would want to do if the position was available.’”

Parker made the switch, which increased the senior’s opportunities. So far, she has quadrupled her point total from last season for No. 11 SU (8-3, 2-1 Atlantic Coast) and proved crucial in a 12-goal second half comeback against then-unranked Virginia.

She’ll be a focal point when the Orange takes on No. 8 Princeton (6-1, 2-0 Ivy) on Wednesday night.

The fast pace of the game and the influence of her brother got Parker into the sport.

She started playing in third grade, primarily at midfield. She always enjoyed the offensive side more than the defensive and would typically take more reps at offense. Parker never thought about playing attack until after she talked to Gait.

“I thought, ‘You know what, it might be a good fit for her,’” Gait said. “I think

it’s been a great fit so far. She’s had some very good games. Certainly UVA was the highlight, leading the comeback for us but, she’s still learning.”

After making the switch, Parker spent a lot of time in the fall taking reps. She knew she’d have more looks this season at her new position and would go out with the goalies on the team to practice her shooting.

“I kind of pinched myself a few times in the fall,” Parker said, “and kept the ball rolling. I tried not to think about it too much.”

Currently, Parker is fifth on the team in points with 16. Her 12 goals and four assists are career highs for the senior. The 12 goals also put her at sixth on the team overall.

To start the second half against UVA, Taylor Gait flipped the ball to Parker. Parker turned and shot the ball, hitting the back of

the net. Her first and third goals of the game bookended a 6-1 run by the Orange and her final goal of tied it at 15-15.

“Devon Parker was a big part of (the comeback),” UVA head coach Julie Myers said after the March 5 game in the Carrier Dome.

Parker hasn’t registered many points since the Virginia game. She recorded an assist in the loss to No. 1 Maryland and a goal against No. 3 Florida but nothing in the last two games. With big conference games coming up, including Duke on Sunday, Parker will have to step up on attack.

“I know that my mentality is to buy into what the coaches say,” Parker said, “to work hard. I’ve enjoyed my four years here and it’s almost like icing on top of the cake to be able to get in and get those minutes.” klwasile@syr.edu

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SU’s foreign players hire outside recruiters to play in US

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Playing tennis outside of the United States adds layers of complication and red tape that domestic players don’t have to go through. That’s why foreign players hire recruiters to gain exposure and shepherd them through the process of applying to college in the U.S. “In Europe, it’s really tough to find out how (to get to college),” sophomore Maria Tritou said, “and all of those things you need to know.”

Only one player on Syracuse’s (5-8, 2-4 Atlantic Coast) current roster — Tritou — used a recruiter to get to college, but head coach Younes Limam said it’s through recruiters that he and his staff will identify players to potentially evaluate. Though other SU players may not have Daily Orange 3/29/17 Crossword hired a recruiter, they have seen them firsthand overseas. Tritou first found out about

recruiters through another player and soon F-1 student visa, which costs $160 to apply these agent-like operations. Most of the hired one herself. and is mandatory to attend U.S. college as foreign players on the team had encounThat was in the spring of 2015, and an international student. tered recruiters or know girls who hired Tritou enrolled at SU the following fall. “(A recruiter) tells you exactly what you them, like Dina Hegab in Egypt, Tritou in Hiring help proved valuable because she need to do,” Tritou said, “which papers you Greece and Holland and Knutson in the started playing tennis at age 9, late by most need for the visas, all the details.”

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report card calmed her aggressiveness down, but she’s still been unable to put up the type of save numbers she was expected to as an Under Armor All-American and one of the Orange’s most highly touted recruits.

— Matt Feldman

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Number of goals that Riley Donahue and Nicole Levy, Syracuse’s two leading scorers, have combined for this season

X-factor moving forward: Team Defense

Syracuse’s defense was exposed against the likes of No. 1 Maryland, No. 3 Florida and No. 13 Notre Dame. The Orange has given up at least 15 goals each game over its last five and has gone 2-3 in that span.

Specifically, the middle of the Orange’s defense has been fairly open. Gait will need to assure his team communicates more and catches the cutting attacks that have breached SU’s defense at will. If Syracuse is to make another deep tournament run and possibly dethrone Maryland, the defense will need to tighten up.

— Nick Alvarez

Evaluating the Attack

March 31, 2017 French Colloquium: Program BIRD LIBRARY, PETER GRAHAM SCHOLARLY COMMONS 8.50am – 9.00am: Opening Remarks Barbara Opar (Bird Library, SU), Recollection 9.00am – 9.40am: Keynote Address Prof. Maryann Tebben (Bard College), French Food Studies: A Literary Perspective 9.45am – 11am:

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Syracuse’s strength is its attack. SU has found success this year like most dominant teams do, control possession and scoring at will. The Orange’s strong offense has come from its litany of scoring options. Led by Levy and Donahue, there are currently nine players with at least 10 goals on the roster. The only negative is the attack has struggled against top teams.

Syracuse’s three losses this season has come against the current first, third and 13th ranked teams in the nation. SU aver-

ages 8.7 goals per game in losses. In wins, it averages 15. The attack has been without Taylor Gait for the last three games and her return will help. But unless the Orange proves it can beat the best goalies, SU’s postseason run will be short.

— Nick Alvarez

Evaluating the Midfield

The midfield has been a strong supporting cast to the high scoring efforts of the attack. The depth that the top six midfielders provide allows for quick rotation. All six have 10 or more points. Mary Rahal leads the midfield in points, ranking third overall with 19. Her overtime goal against Harvard gave the Orange a much needed road win. In the loss to Maryland, it was the midfield that kept SU on the board, scoring six of the seven goals in the 17-7 blowout loss. The unit provides a second layer of attack when the high scoring attack duo of Nicole Levy and Riley Donahue are shut down.

— Kaci Wasilewski

11.36 Number of goals that SU allows per game, only the 50th-best mark in the nation

Evaluating the defense

Though Goldstock hasn’t looked stellar in the net so far this season, much of her woes can be attributed to a struggling Orange defense.

The SU defense has allowed 11.36 goals per game, good for just 50th in the nation, and the Orange is averaging only 8.18 caused turnovers per game, the 82nd-best mark. SU’s 1.91 scoring margin is just the 38th and is largely due to the Orange allowing 125 goals on the season. Thankfully for SU, its offense made up for shaky defense early in the season, but after losing three of its last four, the defense needs to turn its act around in the second half in order to right the ship.

— Matt Feldman

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Making the switch Senior Devon Parker switched from midfielder to attack and has thrived for No. 11 Syracuse.

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o. 11 Syracuse (8-3, 2-1 Atlantic Coast) is a little more than halfway through its season. The Orange won its first seven games of the season. It now has four more conference games remaining to finish out its schedule and is just 1-3 over its last four games. The Daily Orange beat writers awarded superlatives and graded the units as SU gets ready for the second half of the season.

Team MVP: Riley Donahue and Nicole Levy

With the loss of Kayla Treanor and Halle Majorana, and their 95 goals, Syracuse needed new offensive leaders. Earlier in the season, head coach Gary Gait said he didn’t know who would step up. Eleven games in, it is clear that SU relies on the production from Riley Donahue and

Nicole Levy. The pair co-leads SU in goals scored and have combined for 65 points. In the three one-goal games this season, Donahue has scored two gamewinners. It would be unfair to prioritize one over the other, as both are crucial to the Orange’s success every game.

assists) puts her fifth on the team. In the back half of the season, Parker’s efforts will be needed to achieve success against highly ranked teams like No. 2 North Carolina.

Biggest Surprise: Devon Parker

Asa Goldstock has seen her share of downfalls through the first half of SU’s season, posting more than a .500 save percentage just three times in the Orange’s first 11 games. She has struggled immensely against top opponents, allowing an average of 14.6 goals in her last five appearances, all but one (Harvard) coming against ranked teams. Early on, Gait said that a lot of her problems were coming due to her aggressiveness in the net, and turnovers via errant passes. Goldstock has

— Nick Alvarez

Between the end of the 2016 season and the start of the 2017, senior Devon Parker switched from a midfielder to starting attack. Filling a need for a lefthanded attack as well as a major hole left by Treanor and Majorana, Parker can now focus only on the offensive side of the ball, which so far has worked for her. Last season, she finished with four points over 17 games. In the game against Virginia alone, she had five goals and helped spark SU’s comeback. Her 16 points (12 goals and four

— Kaci Wasilewski

Biggest disappointment: Asa Goldstock

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Senior Sydney O’Hara having best season of her career

By Josh Schafer staff writer

Before a recent game against North Carolina State, Sydney O’Hara had hit only one home run on the season. In her first at bat, she smashed an outside pitch over the left field wall — a rarity for the pull-hitting O’Hara.

“An oppo home run means (your) hands are working well that day,” O’Hara said.

She batted three more times in the game. She went yard in all three.

The four home-run game tied a NCAA record and landed the senior Louisville Slugger NFCA Division 1 Player of the Week honors, the first

national player award ever earned by a Syracuse player. In her final season with Syracuse (17-10, 3-4 Atlantic Coast), O’Hara leads the ACC in batting average, on-base percentage and slugging percentage. Her .493 batting average is good for fifth in the nation. O’Hara, sometimes a designated hitter, other times first baseman and frequent relief pitcher, is going out with a bang in her final season with Syracuse.

“It’s just different,” O’Hara said. “I’m not as tense up there. I am more relaxed than ever.”

The comfort stems from steady improvement in practice sessions.

O’Hara spent much of the summer focusing on hitting with her

father. The pair traveled to a local middle school and set up a batting tee or hit soft toss three or four times a week.

The focus of the sessions remained on outside pitches. In the past, O’Hara faced many outside pitches but failed to capitalize on them. To fix the issue, the lefty put the tee on the outside of the plate and soft toss pitches scraped the edges of the plate, forcing O’Hara to stay on the ball.

“It’s hard enough to be a great hitter when you’re swinging at good pitches,” said Syracuse assistant coach Alisa Goler. “If you’re going to expand your zone, you’re really not making it any easier. But I think

for Syd, I don’t think I’ve seen her swing at more than one bad pitch in her last few weeks of at-bats. That just shows she is dialed in.”

In offseason training sessions, O’Hara drew a line in the batter’s box.

The mark in the dirt signals where O’Hara’s front foot should remain throughout her swing. If her foot passes the line on her follow through, she sees the dirt mark in the box.

Syracuse’s top batter completes the routine each time she reaches the box.

“I think she has just a pretty good idea of what she’s doing right now and what pitch selection she wants to have,” Syracuse head coach Mike Bosch said. “It’s just a confidence that when she

steps up there, good things are going to happen.”

Since the four-home run game and the subsequent appearance on SportsCenter’s Top 10 the next morning, O’Hara’s tacked on three more bombs, placing her one shy of her previous season best of nine. She’s on pace to break all of her season-high batting statistics through half of the season. And if her current batting average holds, she’ll finish her career with the best batting average in program history.

After four years, O’Hara’s approach hasn’t changed. The results have. jlschafe@syr.edu