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The town planning firm Dover, Kohl & Partners will create a “Vision Master Plan” revolving around I-81’s removal and the subsequent construction of a community grid.

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Freshman Olivia Adamson took over for the injured All-American Emma Ward and has notched 10 goals this season, helping SU maintain a top spot in the country.

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Six years ago, Serena Exantus saw an advertisement that said she could be a pageant winner.

This year, she witnessed her dream become a reality.

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Not alone

After speakers took the stage in Hendricks Chapel, a group of around 30 to 40 people marched around campus to raise awareness for domestic abuse. wendy wang staff photographer

Advocates spoke at Hendricks Chapel for Take Back the Night, an event dedicated to ending sexual and relationship violence

By Grace Katz

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igns lined the stage and the pews in Hendricks Chapel on Wednesday night. Each was decorated with bright yellow stars, each containing an individual promise to work toward ending sexual and relationship violence at Syracuse University.

“I felt I did not have agency over my own body. I believed my body was infectious,” said Carla Guariglia, the founder and former president of Stand With Survivors SU who was the student speaker. “I didn’t want to be around anyone because of the immense shame that I carried. Everything changed for

me when a friend of mine confided in me that she (had also) survived sexual assault.”

Six different speakers, including Guariglia who joined the event virtually, discussed practices to prevent domestic violence during Take Back the Night, a global protest held on college campuses during the month of March to raise awareness about preventing sexual and relationship violence. They also raised awareness about on- and off-campus resources available for survivors.

The keynote speaker of the night was Randi Bregman, the executive director of the Vera House. In her speech, Bregman see take

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Syracuse’s ShotSpotter system raises privacy concerns

By Grace Katz

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As the Syracuse Police Department expands its ShotSpotter system, concerns about the technology’s privacy have resurfaced.

Organizations such as the American Civil Liberties Union have criticized the use of live microphones in

detecting gunshots in real time as well as concerns about transparency regarding certain procedures used.

The ShotSpotter system was first implemented in 2017 by the SPD and has since been installed in different parts of the city. The most recent expansion came to the Northside neighborhood on March 1, which covered an additional 2.1

square miles of territory according to a press release.

Mayor Ben Walsh said in the release that the expansion will help residents feel safer. He added that the police work more effectively through the aid of the system.

Additionally, the ACLU said ShotSpotter lacks transparency in addition to its problematic use

of live microphones in residential areas. The system utilizes around 20-25 microphones per square mile, according to the ACLU. While analyzing the system, the ACLU determined that ShotSpotter didn’t pose an “active threat” to privacy, but it set a dangerous precedent.

William C. Banks, a law professor at Syracuse University, said that

due to the Fourth Amendment, surveillance technology like ShotSpotter could warrant a legal review. People don’t expect full privacy in public spaces, the professor said. However, when they’re in a residential area or in a more personal space, there is a certain level of privacy expected. If

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OPINION “The fix is not to demonize sex, but it’s not to worship it either. The solution is really quite simple: to make intimacy intimate again.” - John Parker, columnist Page 5

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City approves Interstate 81 removal funding 3 juniors named Goldwater Scholars

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The city hired a town planning firm to execute a three-phrase study that analyzes state and federal plans for I-81 and makes recommendations focusing on surrounding neighborhoods, Budget Director Tim Rudd said. meghan hendricks photo editor

By Nick Robertson senior staff writer

Syracuse Common Council approved $550,000 to create a plan for what the city needs to do to better integrate the Interstate 81 community grid plan into Syracuse’s neighborhoods during its meeting Monday.

The council unanimously approved the resolution, which hired town planning firm Dover, Kohl & Partners to execute a three-phase study centering on

creating a “Vision Master Plan.”

The master plan would analyze state and federal plans for I-81 and make recommendations for what the city should do in surrounding neighborhoods, the city’s budget director, Tim Rudd, said.

“We don’t have a huge urban planning division, so this is our attempt at having our own consultant to give us our own perspective, which will be a unique and different perspective from the state and the feds,” Rudd said. “It’s about having a city-centric voice.”

In 2019, the New York State Department of Transportation announced it would recommend a plan to remove the I-81 viaduct and replace it with a community grid alternative.

Syracuse University Chancellor Kent Syverud announced the university’s endorsement of the plan in 2019. Syracuse community members have advocated for more local hiring opportunities in the project to reconnect the communities that had been displaced by the construction of

the viaduct decades ago.

The study, which the firm estimates will take eight months, will focus on the community grid plan’s effects on traffic, the pedestrian experience and community economic development, said Owen Kerney, the city’s assistant director of city planning.

“The vision plan will visualize and facilitate the community’s ambition for I-81 and the city of Syracuse for generations,” he said.

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Syracuse expands scooter and bike service

By Anthony Alandt

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Syracuse and Veo, a vehicle-sharing company, announced that the city’s fleet of scooters and bikes will be returning and expanding following the winter season.

Veo is also altering its parking policies for scooters and bikes, providing new initiatives for residents with “convenient, affordable, and sustainable transportation options,” according to a release from Mayor Ben Walsh’s office.

The city said in the release that Syracuse’s micromobility fleet will increase by 300%. Micromobility refers to a range of small, lightweight vehicles operated by one person including bicycles, e-bikes, electric scooters, electric skateboards, shared bicycles and electric pedal-assisted bicycles.

The upcoming fleet will include a new e-bike with throttle-assisted motor and pedals. The new bike, the press release said, makes it easier for varying body types and physical abilities to ride comfortably for long distances.

Syracuse’s bike share program returned to the city in October 2021 following the initiative’s suspension in 2020. In the 2021

The city initially partnered with Veo for a fleet of 50 e-bikes and 250 electric scooters in October 2021.

Under the expansion, the current fleet will increase by 300%. max mimaroglu asst. photo editor

agreement, the city partnered with Veo for a fleet of 50 Veo Halo pedal assist e-bikes and up to 250 Astro electric scooters.

“We started slowly with plans to grow, and based on last year’s high ridership and positive community feedback, we are expanding and improving the program with Veo all around the city,” Mayor Ben Walsh said in the release.

Scooters and bikes in the program will no longer be equipped with locks to improve convenience and accessibility, the 2022 press release wrote.

Veo has also recently launched Group Ride, which allows one Veo account holder to have multiple riders operating vehicles at the same time without others needing to make an account. The company will also host community outreach events

throughout the city in hopes of signing up new riders, the release said.

“We’re also committed to providing an equitable service that works for the entire community, and as fuel prices increase, micromobility offers a more affordable mobility option,” Veo CEO Candice Xie said in the release. aalandt@syr.edu @anthonyalandt

Three Syracuse University juniors were named 2022 Goldwater Scholars on Wednesday.

Cordiana Cozier, Matthew Cufari and Ellen Jorgensen were selected by an SU faculty committee, a university press release said. The scholarship is designed to help students intending to pursue science, mathematics or engineering.

The Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education foundation, which administers the awards, estimated that over 1,242 applications were filed this year. Out of the pool, 417 were selected across the U.S. Cozier, who is seeking to pursue a Ph.D. in organic chemistry after graduation, said in an email statement to The Daily Orange she is honored to be named a Goldwater Scholar. “(The foundation) has offered me the opportunity to continue my research and my education without having to worry about the expenses that accompany it,” Cozier said.

Her coursework, Cozier said in the press release, has informed her on the field of chemistry.

“These courses have taught me how chemistry can be used to formulate therapeutics, and have expanded my knowledge of the way research in organic chemistry is dependent on knowledge of other subfields,” she said in the SU press release.

The scholarship, according to the website, offers up to $7,500 a year until graduation. It was created to honor U.S. Senator Barry Goldwater, a senator from Arizona, who was first elected in 1952. Goldwater would vote in favor of the civil rights bills of 1957 and 1960, but against the Civil Rights Bill of 1964, citing federal overreach, NPR wrote.

The program enables those selected to attend a research symposium over this upcoming summer, Curfari said in the press release, which is an opportunity to network with other Goldwater Scholars.

Jorgensen shared a similar statement, telling The D.O. that she was grateful to receive the scholarship. It affirms her commitment and excitement to pursue research in climate science, she said.

Jorgensen, who plans to pursue a Ph.D. in climate science, told the foundation she wants to research paleoclimate systems and develop projections for climate systems.

“The Goldwater Scholarship has already connected me to a network of scholar alumni who are a source of mentorship and advice going into graduate school and beyond,” Cufari said in the press release. kschouin@syr.edu @Kyle_Chouinard

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take back said that the event was important as it helped provide survivors a space to discuss stopping domestic and sexual violence.

“I want to speak first to the victims and survivors in this space,” Bregman said. “You are not alone. I believe you. You deserve to be treated with honor, respect and human dignity. To know love and care without fear.”

Bregman also addressed those who may have committed harm themselves, in any capacity. She added that many different types of prejudice — including racism, sexism and ableism — overlap with domestic violence and are intersectional.

“We have all experienced hurt and harm. We have all caused harm to others,” Bregman said.

Bregman told The Daily Orange afterward that she does believe in holding people accountable for their actions, but doesn’t support shaming others. Sending people into a “shame spiral,” she said, doesn’t help to create change. Through working with Vera House since 1990, she’s seen many people come in with set beliefs, and grow for the better.

The Rev. Brian Konkol, the dean of Hendricks Chapel, led introductory remarks from page 1

privacy ShotSpotter is recording people in this space without their knowledge, it could be a violation of personal rights, he said.

“In general, the more intrusive the new surveillance technology, the greater the Fourth Amendment protection,” Banks said.

The Fourth Amendment of the Constitution states that Americans have the right to protect their personal property from “unreasonable” searches by the government.

While there has been a struggle adapting this regulation into the modern era of technology and private companies, Banks said, there is still a legal framework that could generate an argument against ShotSpotter. from page 3

funding include proposals for a reconnected street network, including ... pedestrian and bike infrastructure ... coordination with public transit ... affordable housing, as well as implementation strategies.”

Phase one of the firm’s work will analyze the state and federal plans and reach out to community leaders, especially those who may be skeptical of the community grid plan, according to the resolution. Phase two creates the vision plan, focusing on the Almond Street corridor, the intersections of Harrison and Adams streets where I-81 passes the university neighborhood and other key intersections along the viaduct. The final phase creates a strategic plan to implement the recommendations generated by phase two’s master plan, the resolution states. “(This study) is looking at the I-81 project footprint in the city ... and developing a plan for how this will not only impact the city, but how the city and this community should react to that huge investment and what strategies there are to do that equitably and effectively,” Kerney said.

The firm will also conduct outreach in the communities surrounding the I-81 viaduct to garner their input. Councilor Rasheada Caldwell wants to make sure the firm also includes community members beyond directly near the viaduct as well.

“The priority has to be to get the community involved,” she said. “This project is going to affect the entire city, all the way from the valley to the west, north, south and east.”

The study will be funded by a portion of the $123 million in American Rescue Plan funds the city received from the federal government.

“I think this is what American Rescue Plan money is for, to look ahead and plan for the future,” Councilor Pat Hogan said. “Obviously,

and started the night with a prayer. He stated that Take Back the Night could help draw attention to the “chasm” in our society caused by domestic violence and therefore allow the SU community to commit to getting rid of that gap.

Other speakers included counselors and student peer leaders from the Barnes Center at The Arch. Each emphasized the resources the Barnes Center offers, including confidential counseling and trained critical response groups such as the Sexual and Relationship Violence Response Team, which they said is available 24/7 to aid students.

The speakers from the Barnes Center also emphasized a focus on setting healthy boundaries and consent, even in platonic relationships. Stepping back and creating open communication can improve a relationship and solve many issues, said one peer leader.

Guariglia spoke in a pre-recorded message from the U.K., where she is currently studying abroad. Her experience in a foreign country, she said, has helped her reflect and gain perspective on the movement.

“Survivor networks are a crucial part of the healing process in that, when connecting with other survivors, our minds are able to fully humanize our experiences,

empathize with others and discuss methods for moving forward,” Guariglia said. “We need each other and we need to be there for one another, to uplift one another and to empower one another.”

Bregman primarily spoke about understanding intention versus impact. While you may not have intended to hurt someone else, she said, the impact of your actions is what comes first. Instead of running from your mistakes, addressing what happened and the impact it had on the other person is the best way to resolve conflict, she said.

After the speeches, about 30-40 attendees went outside and marched around campus with signs displaying phrases to raise awareness about domestic abuse.

Chants such as “We have the power. We have the right, the streets are ours, let’s take back the night” echoed around campus.

After the event, students who attended, including Natalie Trerice and Rachel Katz, said they appreciated the relationship between a purely student-run organization such as SSWSU and the university. Although Guariglia is no longer the president of SSWSU, her involvement in the event felt like a bridge between the institution of SU and the student body.

Hearing from other students, they said, also helped the experience feel more relatable

and allowed them to understand that they had a community backing them. While they came out to support their roommate, who participated in the presentation, the event was nonetheless important and educational, they added.

“It is important for victims and survivors to know that they are not alone, that there’s other people also going through the struggle,” Trerice said.

Bregman said that the relationship between the student organizations and the university was something she’d never experienced before. She felt it marked a change, as previously the relationship between the administration and the students was adversarial. While this tension still exists, she said, this event was a good step towards cooperation and change.

“What we saw with the student activism on campus this year is that they built a connection with the (administrative) leadership, and their voices were brought into (the conversation),” Bregman said.

“We started to see the connection between the demands of (students) and what we needed to do on this campus to address them, and really this year things came together in a way I haven’t seen them come together before.”

Additionally, ShotSpotter uses artificial intelligence technology to assist the analysis process when determining whether or not a sound picked up by the microphones is a gunshot.

Vice reported in July that ShotSpotter altered its data to fit a certain narrative when requested by the police. The investigation came after a criminal case in Chicago where prosecutors were forced to withdraw any evidence using the technology, as it was determined to be faulty. Due to their untested AI procedures, there currently was no way to be sure the technology could offer scientific, empirical evidence, according to the article.

ShotSpotter CEO Ralph Clark publicly disputed these and similar criticisms in

an article published in the Buffalo News.

The company also sued Vice Media for defamation in October, seeking $300 million in damages.

“ShotSpotter’s core purpose is to make communities safer, help reduce gun violence and, ultimately, save lives,” Clark said in his article. “Critics have purposefully distorted how our system works.”

ShotSpotter partnered with the Policing Project, a New York University project aimed to hold law enforcement accountable, to review the technology.

The report said that “the primary privacy concern we identified with the technology was the possibility that it might capture voices of individuals near its sensors, and could conceivably be used for targeted voice

surveillance.”

Dr. Shubha Ghosh, an SU law professor and director of the Innovation Law Center, which focuses on the legality of introducing new technologies into the market, said that the main concern producers of security products face is potential hacking.

If the technology was compromised, then the hackers could have access to these microphones, Ghosh said, which, as stated by the Policing Project, could be used for targeted voice surveillance.

“Security has become a market phenomenon,” Ghosh said. “There should be the appropriate level of governmental scrutiny to regulate its use (by private companies) and ensure its effectiveness.”

there was no plan when they went through the 15th Ward in the 1960s.”

The community grid replacement plan for the I-81 viaduct will tear down the overpass of the interstate, which separates Syracuse’s Southside from the Eastside, redirecting all non-local traffic around the city via an improved Interstate 481. In the viaduct’s place will be a ground-level and tree-lined street. City officials hope to annex the extra real estate space created by the viaduct’s destruction as well and use it to revitalize the old 15th Ward, which was destroyed when I-81 was built, in collaboration with local nonprofit Blueprint 15.

The community grid plan has received near-universal praise from city and state officials. The 2022 New York state budget contains $800,000 to fund the first phase of construction.

Based in Coral Gables, Florida, Dover, Kohl & Partners has worked on similar projects throughout the country. In New York, the firm has been involved in Rochester’s plans to replace the inner loop section of Interstate 490, Rudd said. The firm was also responsible for the downtown development plan of Richmond, Virginia, in 2008, which also included significant outreach in the community like the Syracuse plan.

Three firms submitted bids for the Syracuse project. Dover, Kohl & Partners was chosen unanimously by the city’s proposals committee, according to city engineer Mary Robison.

“The goal of this project is to ensure that the NYSDOT’s overall community grid alternative project will facilitate the redevelopment of strong neighborhoods that are sustainable and walkable and allow for equitable development within the city once the viaduct is removed,” Robison said in a letter to council. njrobert@syr.edu @NickRobertsonSU

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SU’s campus is saturated with overly sexualized activities

By John Parker columnist

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nless you’ve been living under a rock for the past few years you may have noticed the overt sexualization of campus activities. From seminars like Kink 101 to school-sanctioned extracurriculars like the recent drag shows, it seems like everything has been sexualized at Syracuse University. While at first glance these eccentricities of college life may seem harmless, the truth is that they are anything but.

Students on campus have noticed.

Sophomore Ralph Graham, an attendee of SU’s most recent drag show, said that he was speechless while watching the show.

“The drag show finals were definitely over-sexualized for the most part, and (it) was not what I was picturing in the first place,” he said. “No wonder why many friends of mine decided not to attend anymore at the last minute.” No wonder indeed.

Graham said the show involved nudity, routines, music and dialogue

that wouldn’t be out of place at a strip club. But because many people think condemning lewd drag is a criticism of the LGBTQ community overall, which of course is political and social suicide, they avoid judging such activities at all. While the show may have felt empowering for individuals on stage, it plays into various stereotypes and can further alienate the LGBTQ community.

One would think that a university intent on escaping its party school reputation would seek to limit this outward appearance of raunchiness.

And it has to an extent, promoting safer sex and therapy opportunities. But incomprehensibly, it then turns around and creates seminars like Kink 101 which, as columnist Augustus LeRoux writes, is “aimed at teaching students how to tie-up, whip and burn their sexual partners.”

Political science major Anthony Draghi reacted to Kink 101 by saying that “offering these sorts of courses and openly talking about these activities can create a social stigma that undermines the most

intimate aspect of a relationship and can help create an environment of social gratification that pushes people to revert to obscure measures for pleasure, ones they may feel unsure of later on.”

Apologists for this trend of oversexualization typically fall back on the idea that it is consensual and therefore is both harmless and not anyone else’s business. But the same people who would make the case that these matters are private affairs that don’t concern anyone else turn around and advocate for the normalization, public acceptance and even celebration of those same behaviors.

In The Daily Orange’s coverage of this most recent drag show, Ilsa Dohner, who goes by Dilf Dangerbottom, echoed the sentiment of flouting social norms. “I can be sexual, I can be funny, I can be goofy, and I don’t feel embarrassed about it,” Dohner said. “It’s like putting on a persona but also, Dilf Dangerbottom lets me be who I really want to be without thinking about what

people think about it.”

The explicit goal, or at least the result, of this lewd behavior being accepted on masse is the dissolution of social standards, the annihilation of shame, and the normalization of all sexual activities as equally wonderful and productive. That may sound nice on paper but it’s simply not true and pretending like it is has dangerous ramifications. Overexposure to sex, in the form of pornography or hypersexual activity in general, has been correlated with the shrinkage of parts of the brain as well as decreasing decision-making skills and general restraint.

When it comes to BDSM, what qualifies as true consent isn’t all that obvious and the activity can often bond more aggressive brain functions to sexual ones. Psychiatrist Norman Doidge writes in his book “The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science” that the brain is subject to changes.

“The human libido is not a hardwired, invariable biological urge but

can be curiously fickle, easily altered by our psychology and the history of our sexual encounters,” he wrote.

This is the real danger. These hypersexual and deviant behaviors do not only affect those involved with the behaviors because exposure alone can literally alter minds without consent. And the campus is becoming increasingly saturated with this activity. If this trend continues, no one should be surprised if SU never shakes off its status as both a party school and a hotspot for sexual misconduct.

At the moment, this is not the end of the world. There’s still time to avoid these consequences. There’s a way to deal with sex without making its very mention taboo, but this current trend is reactionary overkill.

The fix is not to demonize sex, but it’s not to worship it either. The solution is really quite simple: to make intimacy intimate again.

John Parker is a freshman writing and rhetoric major. His column appears biweekly. He can be reached at 12johnparker12@gmail.com.

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Yik Yak’s anonymity allows dangerous behaviors to persist

By Grace “Gray” Reed columnist

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ik Yak, a social media platform in which all users are completely anonymous and post to a message board that anyone within a 5-mile radius has access to, is built upon a concept that is simple in theory. But in execution, it creates a complex environment of anxiety and cyberbullying due to its anonymous nature.

Some people using the platform have good intentions. I have seen users try to spread anonymous positivity and give advice to those who post about having a bad day. The

issue is not with every single individual who uses Yik Yak. Rather, it is with the environment the platform has helped create. The design of Yik Yak appears to bring out the negative side of human nature.

A large portion of the posts on Yik Yak are used to frame others in a negative light, some going as far as to name drop people they take issue with (despite this action being heavily discouraged by the app itself). Such behavior has been prevalent online for decades, but Yik Yak’s anonymity factor allows such toxicity to flourish.

In recent years, many have learned the consequences of posting negative comments online, how-

ever, posting anonymously saves the individual from being connected to harmful comments they write, so the target of the harassment has no way of determining who the aggressor is. The app’s anonymity encourages this type of behavior to persist.

Some are going to argue that the anonymity factor is what makes Yik Yak unique and that it is the whole point of the app. Even so, what’s the point of creating and utilizing a platform that appears to center around encouraging toxic environments?

Yik Yak was originally launched in 2013 but was removed from the internet in 2017. Only in 2021 did it make a comeback with new terms

and services. Within these terms and services, Yik Yak outlines a plan to get toxic content removed: a post is taken down if it receives a total of -5 vote points from the community or if it is reported by a user.

I am glad that the people behind the platform are trying to limit the hate being spread on the app, but this is not enough — there is still negativity all over the platform, with some of these posts even being upvoted and encouraged by other users.

By leaving the regulation of the app up to the users, no effective change will take place. There needs to be an algorithm put in place that removes harmful posts without the

need to be alerted by a community member. Certain posts should be removed that are indicated to be harmful through the detection of keywords and phrases.

There has to be a way to fight against the toxic comments that the anonymity factor of the app naturally attracts without relying on users themselves. Until this change is made, harmful posts and cyberbullying will persist on the platform used by students all around the country.

Grace “Gray” Reed is a freshman magazine, news and digital journalism major. Their column appears bi-weekly. They can be reached at greed04@syr.edu.

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First-generation college students are left in the dark on loans

By Melaica Delgado guest columnist

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or the first time in my life, I’m afraid to open my email. As a first-generation college student, I knew next to nothing about the student loan repayment system or how I’d ever manage to cover my tuition bill.

My uncertainty only heightened in the wake of the global pandemic.

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Food instability, financial hardship and virtual learning affected not only myself but millions of students across the country. COVID-19 ignited the flame that awoke much of the nation to the struggles of higher education accessibility. The University of California, Los Angeles Health conducted a study in Sept.

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deal with pandemic-related stressors; a total of 44% noted financial burdens, while 18% faced racial or ethnic discrimination.

As only one person, I wasn’t sure I could do much to change the circumstance I experienced. It was not until I made connections to the New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG) as an intern that I truly began to see the pandemic as a

lamp, rather than a wildfire.

Alongside the maintenance and expansion of opportunity programs, more state funding for “Bundy” Aid and the expansion of the Tuition Assistance Program is an essential means of continuing higher education accessibility. With the final New York State budget due April 1, it is essential that the movement is made now! The power of a person comes from our

actions; it’s more than just taking the time to hear my story but taking the time to let others know your own.

The COVID-19 pandemic was a life-changing event that burned the bridges of our expectations of the future. I and many other students faced that reality first hand. Though the future continues to seem uncertain, the light of our past will guide us.

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Queen of ’Cuse As the Miss Syracuse titleholder, Serena Exantus plans to serve the community as a prominent voice and representative

By Dakota Chambers asst. culture editor

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hen Serena Exantus was 17 years old, she kept seeing an advertisement for an upcoming pageant. It had a picture of the most recent winner and read “This could be you.” Eventually, Exantus started to believe that was true — so she applied.

“I had no idea what I was doing the first time, but it was one of the best weekends of my life at that moment,” Exantus said. “And so I continued, and now it’s what I do all the time.”

Six years later, the advertisement’s premonition came true. On Feb. 26, Exantus won the Miss Syracuse title at the Miss Syracuse and Miss Central New York Scholarship Competition. The event was held at the University United Methodist Church.

The pageant included many different portions, including talent, private interviews with the judges and essay questions submitted by the competitors before the show date.

“What the judges are looking for is just your authentic self,” Exantus said. “So you have the opportunity to present yourself in front of these people and just share what makes you unique and what you’re passionate about.”

Exantus will move on to compete at this June’s Miss New York State competition. In 2021, she competed and was fourth runner-up in the statewide pageant.

Her road to that pageant, however, was not without its twists and turns. Nina Zesky, a former Miss Salt City, Miss Buffalo and Miss Central New York, said Exantus was forced to assume a large amount of responsibility in a short time when Miss Finger Lakes 2020 stepped down and Exantus had to fill her shoes as the competition’s runner-up.

Since all Miss America pageants were halted for two years after the pandemic began, this allowed Exantus to compete in the 2021 state finals, where her and Zesky’s friendship began.

“I felt like instantly we were really good friends, and to watch her work so hard to compete for Miss Syracuse and then instantly get that accomplishment in her first try this year, I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, full circle,’” Zesky said. “She’s grown so much. Syracuse is a big title (and) it means a lot to her.”

Zesky, who now helps to coach Exantus in preparation for her pageants, said that she mostly acts as a “sounding board” for Exantus to bounce ideas off of her as she prepares for the Miss New York State competition.

Exantus, an Ithaca native, is also focused on connecting with the Syracuse community as a prominent voice and representative while she holds the Miss Syracuse title. Her social impact initiative, she said, is mental health action and suicide prevention.

She said she’s passionate about educating young people in the local area to recognize and regulate their emotions so that mental health issues can be addressed early on and

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In this fast-paced digital age, a week in the wilderness away from it all sounded appealing to the members of the Syracuse University Outing Club.

During a brief moment of cell reception, Eva Morris, a freshman at SU studying communications design, texted her mom, “Not to sound like a complete hippie, but I’ve never felt so connected to myself or nature before.”

This was the first SU Outing Club spring break trip to Franklin, West Virginia, since the beginning of the pandemic. Only one out of the 50 people who signed up for this excursion has gone on it before. Prior to the pandemic, the Outing Club had been doing this same trip for 50 years, with the first trip to Franklin taking place in 1971.

Members said the club goes to the West Virginia town because it’s a place where they can bike, hike and rock climb. The local people there even have the trip marked on their calendar in preparation of welcoming the club every year, the club’s see outdoors page 7

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Students double as bartenders at Harry’s

By Sophie Cohen asst. digital editor

Harry’s Bar has been a Syracuse University staple for many students for over three decades. Students, alumni and Syracuse locals come to Harry’s for game days or late nights Tuesday through Saturday.

While the majority of SU students think about Harry’s as a place to go out, SU students who double as bartenders there endure late hours, chaotic college-age customers and the responsibility to serve their peers.

Erien Uppal, a junior information management and technology and retail management dual major, has always wanted to experience bartending at some point in her life.

She struggled to find a job on campus that paid more than minimum wage.

But when a friend recommended she start working at Harry’s because of the flexible hours and tips, she thought it was a no-brainer to start.

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Events for Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month

By Siron Thomas

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May marks Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month. To commemorate the month while students and faculty are still on Syracuse University’s campus, the Office of Multicultural Affairs and the AAPI Heritage Month Committee will host a series of events from April 1-30.

According to the website describing the events, the theme for this year is “Regrounding: Celebrating our Identity” which focuses on sharing pride for the AAPI community, especially in light of the rise of anti-Asian hate.

April 1: AAPI Heritage Month: Kick-Off

The first event of the month will be split into two parts. From 4-5 p.m. AAPI student organizations and communities will be tabling at Schine Student Center. Following the first half of the kick-off, there will be a program which includes student performances, a vigil and a discussion of the annual Anti-Asian Hate Crimes exhibit which is located at Bird Library.

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“The biggest way that I want to do that is to get into Girl Scouts and the Girls and Boys Club of Syracuse, to get into those communities that are already working with youth,” Exantus said. “Whether it’s youth in foster care, youth with disabilities, just any of those organizations, and then (I can) bring my initiative and build the gap between the resources already available and the people who need them.”

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outdoors vice president, Thomas Brossi, said.

On this year’s trip, there was a different outing led by a knowledgeable team leader every day of the week. They backpacked, rock climbed, mountain biked, hiked and went caving. For Brossi, a fourth year architecture student at SU, the rock climbing experience was especially notable.

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crowd begins to pick up around 10:30 to 11:30 p.m.,” Uppal said. “The nights are really long, I usually won’t go home until around 3 a.m.”

Uppal said the job can be stressful, as people often won’t stop ordering drinks until the bar closes at 2 a.m. She goes home tired and sweaty, with a wad of tips in her purse.

Despite the late nights, Uppal said her coworkers and the owner of Harry’s, John Shahin, make the job worth it.

“We all have a lot of fun together,” Uppal said. “We’re always making jokes in our group chat about the craziest things that happen at work, because the only people you can talk about it with are the people who experienced it with you.”

Uppal said Harry’s has given her the confidence and responsibility to be at ease in situations she can’t control. Her biggest advice for people looking to bartend on their college campus is to not take things personally.

“Sometimes you’re going to see things and hear things that will make you uncomfort-

April 2: Holi

Known as the festival of colors, Holi is celebrated widely across India to mark the coming of spring. At SU, the Hindu holiday filled with dancing and throwing different colored powders will be commemorated at the Women’s Building Field from 1-4 p.m.

April 5: AAPI Heritage Month: Book Club Discussion: “Crying in H Mart: A Memoir” by Michelle Zauner

From 7-8:30 p.m., a discussion of the book “Crying in H Mart: A Memoir” will be moderated by Amy Messersmith of Student Support Services and Pa-Zong Bina Lee, a master’s student. The discussion will take place in room 132 in Schine.

April 6: Dumplings Around The World The Lambda Phi Epsilon fraternity will give a presentation of the cultural importance of dumplings from various Asian countries, including Tibet, China and Japan. Afterwards, there will be a session where attendees can learn how to wrap dumplings themselves.

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Michelle Zauner, a Grammy-nominated singer and guitarist who leads the band Japanese Breakfast, will give a lecture on April 7. The talk will be at Gifford Auditorium in Huntington Beard Crouse Hall.

April 8: Mr. ASIA 2022

Mr. ASIA is a pageant featuring male competitors that focuses on issues revolving around AAPI students at SU and SUNY-ESF. The event will feature performances from student organizations as well as special guest artists.

April 8: OAD: Grocery Bingo (AAPI Heritage Month Edition)

As an Orange After Dark event, the Office of Student Activities will be hosting a night of bingo. Winners will receive prize bags that feature items from Asia Food Market.

April 15: K-Night

Singers, dance groups and comedy acts will be performing at Kittredge Auditorium in HBC from 7-9 p.m.

The event, which is at Dineen Hall, will address anti-Asian bias in Syracuse and grieve Asian community members who have been victims of hate crimes. Presenters will include Jessica Goddard, SU Bias Education Coordinator, along with Asian American and the Law Seminar students.

April 20: Queer & Asian

From 4-5 p.m., an educational discussion about people who are queer and Asian will be held at the Schine 132 lounge.

April 22: AAPI Heritage Month: Paving the Way Alumni Panel Discussion In room 500 at the Hall of Languages, a panel of AAPI alumni will recount their college and career experiences while giving current students advice. Issac Ryu, a senior, will be moderating the event.

April 30: AAPI Heritage Month: Badminton Tournament

Whether you play on a competitive level or for fun, students from different backgrounds are invited to register for the badminton tournament. Registration will be open from April 1-22. sthoma10@syr.edu @sironthomas

April 7: AAPI Heritage Month

April 19: Community Voices: Overcoming Anti-Asian Bias

Additionally, she works at Tre Bella’s Dance Studio as an instructor.

Dance is a major part of Exantus’ life and is integral to her talent portion at competitions, she said. While she enjoys many different styles of dance, she sticks to jazz when competing. She said she choreographs her own dances and has performed them on many different stages.

At February’s Miss Syracuse pageant, Exantus had to perform at a church rather than in a theater. Zesky said Exantus’ routine was beautiful, and she made having to adapt to a less than ideal venue look seamless.

“I remember watching her do her turns and there was … a pedestal of sorts in the way. And she was able to very delicately maneuver around (it),” Zesky said. “So it didn’t really affect her choreography at all, but obviously that wasn’t part of her plan. It was just really … awesome to

watch her not only be so prepared for the show but be able to adapt to change as well.”

The former Miss Central New York added that Exantus’ biggest strength is her consistency, which is key to excelling in pageantry. She said she thinks that consistency combined with Exantus’ passion are her biggest strengths going into this year’s Miss New York State finals.

Exantus also relies on sponsors to support her and help her prepare for pageants. Laurie Linn, president of Communiqué Design and Marketing, one of Exantus’ sponsors, says the company has worked with Exantus for about four or five years. Like Zesky, Communiqué has also helped Exantus with interview preparation.

Linn said Communiqué employees will ask Exantus questions she doesn’t know of in advance, which forces her to think of answers off the top of her head. Afterwards, the Com-

muniqué team gives her feedback.

“It was really, really wonderful on her part to challenge herself in that way,” Linn said.

Even though she didn’t follow pageantry, Linn said she’s enjoyed watching Exantus compete and succeed, and Communiqué is proud of how far she’s come.

“I so admire what I’ve learned through Serena and the pageant work,” Linn said.

“Now that I’ve been much more aware of how critical the work is that these beautiful young women perform and the communities that they serve, the awareness building and the empowerment (of ) women of all shapes and sizes and colors, I’m just really impressed with the pageants and what they stand for.”

just go to the rock climbing gym, but this was outside and it was just a whole different experience,” Brossi said.

For Morris, going caving for the first time was a big part of what made this trip special for her. There was a moment where they arrived at a big opening in the cave and the team leader suggested she and the rest of her club members turn off their flashlights.

“It was scary at first but then it was super peaceful and calm. It was absolute silence,” Morris said.

Min Jin, a freshman studying psychology, was completely new to all of the trip’s activities.

As an international student from China, Jin said she was interested in joining the trip as an opportunity to see other parts of the country.

Jin said she felt very welcomed to the club as a complete beginner. The team leaders were all very knowledgeable and helped Jin feel a sense of achievement from climbing to the top of the rocks.

“This club is not only for someone who’s good at outdoor sports. It’s friendly to beginners and gives us the chance to try new things,” Jin said.

Without any Wi-Fi or consistent cell service, there were a lot of bonding opportunities. They spent time around the campfire, strumming guitars and singing. There was even a kickball match between the SUNY-ESF and SU students.

This trip gave students a chance to put their assignments and other worries on pause as they enjoyed the outdoors.

“It made me realize how stressed I was this semester because I felt like I could finally breathe,” Morris said.

able,” Uppal said. “When you mix a lot of college students and alcohol, people don’t always say the nicest things.”

Just like Uppal, Isabella Kopilak, a junior geography and economics dual major, started working at Harry’s because of a friend’s recommendation.

Kopilak said she began the second semester of her sophomore year as a “table girl.” She would collect and organize everyone’s cover to enter the bar, stamp people’s hands and keep track of how many people entered.

This fall, Kopilak started working as a bartender, which she said has been a more enjoyable role for her.

“It’s crazy how fast time goes bartending. I literally call it ‘bartending blackout’ because I’ll blink and three hours have gone by,” Kopilak said. “You just don’t have time to think or do anything other than move from one person to the next, until the last call, which is at 1:50 a.m.”

Kopilak loves seeing her friends when she is working because it is like experiencing a night out from a different perspective, she said.

“It obviously doesn’t feel like you are going

out, but it still feels like you are experiencing something with them,” Kopilak said. “You can’t really experience that at any other job.”

Similarly to Uppal, Kopilak feels like Harry’s has given her the confidence to handle stressful situations. She said that being a bartender has made her feel like a more prepared adult who can juggle multiple tasks at once.

Emma Likly, a graduate student at SU pursuing a master’s in the marketing program in Whitman, has the most experience working at Harry’s out of the three SU students, and she became the manager in the spring of 2020.

During her time as an undergraduate student, Likly was on the SU women’s field hockey team for two years. She missed having something to do each night, and when her teammate recommended she start working at Harry’s, she thought she would give it a try.

Likly said that she loves “being the leading woman of the bar.” She has to figure out everyone’s schedules, coverage for shifts and ultimately make sure everything is running smoothly.

Likly said the busiest nights are Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays. Likly works Thursdays and Saturdays and collects herself before the

night gets going an hour into the shift.

Game days are the shifts where Likly works the longest hours and sees the most SU students and alumni. Alumni will come into Harry’s after 20 years to see the owner and if anything has changed, she said.

Working at Harry’s has shaped Likly’s experience at SU, she said. She has learned how to manage a group of people and balance friendships and employee relationships.

“There’s the ‘put your head down and do the hard work’ grittiness of Harry’s, which I was used to being an athlete,” Likly said. “But Harry’s has also taught me to find confidence within myself.”

Likly said that it can be hard serving customers who are usually around her age. She’s had to learn how to handle uncomfortable situations and gain respect as the manager.

“As a bartender at a college campus you need to remember that you have that power to end someone’s time at the bar for the night,” Likly said. “You kind of have to walk with confidence in order to gain that respect.”

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offense last season, and incorporated various designed quarterback runs. Shrader threw for fewer than 100 yards in three straight games late in the season, but said he didn’t feel like he threw the ball poorly last year. Instead, it was more about his receivers not finding open space.

“We were really limited in what we were doing or what we could do, so it’ll be totally different this year. … It’ll be a lot more explosive,” Shrader said.

Babers said last Monday that he’s starting with Anae and Beck’s concepts as the lead for SU’s offense, but added he thinks there will be more of a “blend” with existing concepts later down the line when the coaching staff can decide what things they want to keep or get rid of. The new offense is similar to what Shrader ran at Mississippi State in 2019 — when he threw for almost 1,200 yards as a true freshman — and even his offense at Charlotte Christian (N.C.) High School, his father Tracey Shrader said.

“He’s really excited about the offensive coaches that have come in, and the scheme and being able to do more things opening it up,” Tracey said last Monday. “It’s not as restricted.

And playmakers can make plays, and they can air it out more — he’s always wanted to do that.”

Shrader said Syracuse is running a lot of different plays in practice to see which ones work the best, while coaches are looking at which players fit in the best spots. Designed quarterback runs will still be part of the offense, Tracey said, a continuation of what Anae and Beck ran with their dual-threat QBs at BYU and Virginia, when the pair worked with Taysom Hill, Bryce Perkins and Brennan Armstrong, among others.

At BYU, Anae frequently called read options for Hill, allowing him to read the defensive end and decide whether to hand off the ball or keep it. That, along with Hill’s scrambling ability, helped him run for over 1,300 yards in 2013, Anae’s first year as offensive coordinator.

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In practice last Monday, Shrader and other quarterbacks took turns running read option fakes in front of Anae. Wide receiver Courtney Jackson, among other skill position players, also took snaps in the drill, as if running a wildcat formation.

Anae also utilized read options at UVA with Perkins, along with delayed quarterback draws and fake jet sweeps. Pre-snap motion and misdirections are a large part of Anae’s offense and are being incorporated into SU’s new offense, Jackson said. The motion helps set up one-onone chances outside and can create leverage and mismatches for an offense, particularly in short pass plays against zone defenses.

On plays where Syracuse may motion a receiver toward the right side of the field, opportunities may open up for wideouts like 6-foot-6 Damien Alford to bring in jump balls.

Alford said he focused on improving his ability to bring in 50-50 passes during the offseason.

Short passes are a big part of the offense, with chunk plays over the middle helping set up deeper passes out wide and down the field. It’s a concept that helped Perkins set a single-season UVA record with 3,538 passing yards in 2019 and allowed Armstrong to throw for 4,449 last season — the fourth-most nationally.

Jackson said last Wednesday that the Orange still aren’t that deep into the install and don’t know the “full scope of everything.” Shrader said the same day that there were plenty of mistakes and turnovers in practice as SU continues to become familiar with its new plays.

The new plays, though, are easier to understand, helping the offense move faster, Alford said. Offensive players just have to focus on their role instead of the whole concept, Alford said. And fewer mistakes are being made as plays are relayed to the field, he added.

“Honestly, (the coaches are) just letting us do what we got to do,” Alford said. “They give us the tools and we just implement it on the field.”

Tight ends are also becoming a bigger part of the offense, Alford said. They’ve been running more routes in practice instead of just blocking, “opening up everything” as a result, he added.

Syracuse’s offense ranked 10th in the ACC last season with an average of 24.9 points per game. meghan hendricks photo editor

In UVA’s offense under Anae, tight ends didn’t have a large role, but Jelani Woods did bring in 44 catches for 598 yards last season.

Syracuse’s top tight end, by contrast, was Luke Benson, who caught five balls for 22 yards and later entered the transfer portal. Most throws to tight ends at UVA were short, near the line of scrimmage or in the middle of the field.

Sophomore Max Mang is expected to be SU’s top tight end passing target, though the Germany native recorded just one catch last season.

Price and Allen, along with receivers like Kendall Long and Umari Hatcher, could see significant snaps Friday night and during the season. Shrader pointed to Long and Hatcher specifically as players who made big jumps during the offseason. Babers said spots on the

wide receiver depth chart are “wide-open” right now and said reps are being distributed almost evenly — something that will extend into the spring game.

For now, as Syracuse gets into the final stretch of spring ball, the theme of improving from last year — when the Orange finished their season by averaging just over 11 points per game in the final three contests — remains constant.

“Everybody bought in,” offensive lineman Matthew Bergeron said. “Both coaches are doing a good job of just changing the culture because I think that’s going to make the difference between 5-7 and 8-5 down the stretch.”

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the Blue Devils, the Orange showed that their second line in the midfield could finish shots off passes from Dordevic or Curry. All of that could be enough to pull off the upset and defeat the Fighting Irish for the first time since 2018.

Defensively, Syracuse will likely turn to Bobby Gavin again in goal after his performance against Duke. Gavin and the Orange’s defense will be tasked with stopping Kavanagh and Eric Dobson, and if they’re able to hold Notre Dame to fewer than its 12.50 goals per game average, they could seal the game on the offensive end.

notre dame exposed holes in the Orange’s defense that were plugged just a week before. Toward the beginning of the second period, both teams were tied at four goals apiece, but the Fighting Irish outshot the Orange and outscored SU 9-2 for the rest of the quarter with Kavanagh leading the push.

The Fighting Irish held the Orange to a scoreless third quarter, the second time last season where they didn’t score in a single period. And Notre Dame didn’t allow a goal again until the final three minutes of the game. SU’s 22 goals allowed were a season high, while the eight scored were a season low.

The Fighting Irish report

Similar to the Orange, the Fighting Irish have had a tough start to the season. Notre Dame is the only team sitting above Syracuse in terms of strength of schedule, according to Lacrosse Reference. It lost against Georgetown and Maryland — both top three teams in the country — and then Virginia just a week ago.

But before playing Georgetown and Maryland, the Fighting Irish showed their offensive strength against Detroit Mercy, winning 24-2, the most Notre Dame has scored in a single game against a Division I opponent in program history.

How Syracuse beats the Fighting Irish

Syracuse will need to figure out how to exploit Notre Dame’s defense, which has the 17th-best scoring defense nationally, only allowing 10.33 goals per game. Like its last win over Duke, the Orange will need to get other players scoring than just Tucker Dordevic in order to win. Brendan Curry, Owen Seebold and Mikey Berkman need to get open opportunities to keep SU in the game.

The Orange are heading into the game without Griffin Cook and Lucas Quinn, who have often taken the offensive load off the attack. But against

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Stat to know: 53.3% penalty-kill percentage

The Fighting Irish are last in the ACC with a penalty-kill percentage in the ACC of 53.3%, which along with its 2.67 penalties per game makes for a weak man-down defense. In 15 man-up attempts from its opponents this season, Notre Dame has given up seven goals.

This helps the Orange, who sit behind Notre Dame in the conference with a 41.7% man-up scoring percentage. Despite the Fighting Irish ranking fifth nationally by causing 10.83 turnovers per game, Syracuse should be able to run its man-up sets with Curry and Dordevic to get past some of Notre Dame’s best defenders.

Player to watch: Pat Kavanagh, No. 51, attack

The Orange can’t have a repeat of last season’s handling of Kavanagh if they want a chance against the Fighting Irish. He’s picked up right where he left off from 2021 as a Tewaaraton Award finalist, recording 11 goals and 13 assists so far this year. The next closest player in points is Dobson, who has 15.

Kavanagh has gone scoreless in a single game only once this season in Notre Dame’s win over Michigan. But he still had four assists and has notched an assist in every matchup this year. Still, his shot and shot-on-goal percentages are down from his last two seasons, sitting at 23.9% and 43.5%, respectively. anish.sujeet@gmail.com @anish_vasu

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Opponent preview: Everything to know about Pittsburgh

By Henry O’Brien asst. digital editor

Syracuse struggled to establish an early lead against No. 6 Loyola on Tuesday, as the Orange trailed by two goals midway through the second quarter. But the Orange then scored four straight goals to end the half and take a 7-5 lead. In the fourth quarter, two Olivia Adamson goals would be the last goals SU scored.

Loyola’s Jillian Wilson recorded a hat trick in the game’s final 10 minutes and Livy Rosenzweig notched her fourth score of the day to cut SU’s lead to one.

With 12 seconds left, the Greyhounds’ Georgia Latch seemingly scored, but she was called with a charge against Katie Goodale. That allowed Syracuse to hold on for its third top 10 win of the season.

The Orange will now host Pittsburgh, a program in the midst of its first regular season, on Saturday.

Here’s everything you need to know about Pittsburgh (6-6, 0-5 Atlantic Coast) before it visits No. 4 Syracuse (9-2, 4-0 ACC):

Last time they played:

Saturday’s game will be the first meeting between the two teams.

The Panthers Report:

In 2018, Pittsburgh announced that it would be adding women’s lacrosse as a varsity sport. And after a 2020-21 season that saw the Panthers only play fall scrimmages, the program finally took part in its first regular season this year.

Pitt started the season with three straight nonconference wins. But the winning streak ended when the Panthers played their first ACC opponent in a 15-5 defeat to then-No. 2 North Carolina. By the fourth quarter, the Tar Heels had jumped out to a 13-3 lead. This was the beginning of Pitt’s losing stretch against conference opponents as it has still yet to win a game against an ACC team.

The UNC loss also highlighted the Panthers’ defensive woes, despite goalie Paulina DiFatta averaging 8.58 saves per game, the second most in the conference. But this has come out of necessity because Pitt has allowed more shots than it has taken so far this season.

How Syracuse beats Pitt:

Syracuse’s high-powered attack has once again proven to be one of the best in the nation, with the 11th-best offensive efficiency according to Lacrosse Reference. Last Saturday against Temple — a team that hol a top 50 defensive efficiency — the Orange finished three goals short of tying

the single-game record. The Panthers’ backline, led by Therese Pitman and Abby Thorne, struggle at causing turnovers and collecting ground balls. In fact, DiFatta leads Pittsburgh in both of those categories. So there is no doubt the Orange, a team full of offensive weapons, will take advantage of the Panthers’ defenders.

But SU’s goals against average is nearly identical to Pitt’s, as the Orange’s backline has also been prone to mistakes throughout the season. With this in mind, and with the fact that Megan Carney’s status is “day to day,” according to head coach Kayla Treanor, SU’s other top attackers will need to step up.

Against Loyola, Meaghan Tyrrell and Emily Hawryschuk combined for five goals, with Meaghan scoring her two goals in the second quarter. With key depth players like Emma Tyrrell and Adamson scoring as of late, Meaghan and Hawryschuk can help cement the victory if they play well on Saturday.

Stat to know: 16.25 turnovers per game

The Panthers average the fewest points per game in the ACC, and one of the biggest reasons for that is because they turn the ball over more than any other team in the conference. Pitt averages 16.25 turnovers per game, which is one more turnover than the next worst team in Louisville. Graduate student attacker and Syra-

cuse native Madisyn Kittell leads the Panthers with 24 turnovers and seven other Pitt players have at least 10 turnovers through its 12 games.

The Panthers have already finished three games with at least 20 turnovers this season.

But what makes this stat more glaring is that two of those games came against Niagara and Canisius, teams that both hold a Lax-ELO rating in the mid 60s.

Player to watch: attack, No. 26

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Ahead of its inaugural season, Pitt picked up Petty as a graduate transfer from Virginia Tech. In four years with the Hokies, Petty was named to the All-ACC First Team in three seasons and was also a three-time IWLCA All-Region pick. Along with these honors, Petty finished as Virginia Tech’s alltime leading goal scorer with 204 goals and she is also tied in career points with VT’s Megan Will with 227.

At Pittsburgh, Petty has continued to be a dominant attacker as she has nine more goals than the next Panther. In the last three games, Petty has scored more than one goal in each, which included a five-goal performance against Binghamton in a 17-11 win. henrywobrien@gmail.com @realhenryobrien

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Beat writers split on if Syracuse can defeat Notre Dame

By The Daily Orange Sports Staff

Syracuse climbed back to .500 on the season with an upset win over Duke last weekend.

Now, the No. 18 Orange will travel to South Bend, Indiana, to face the No. 15 Fighting Irish at 2 p.m. on Saturday. The Orange are now on a two-game winning streak after losing four of their previous five games.

Here’s what our beat writers predict will happen:

Alex Cirino (5-3)

Keep the upsets rolling Syracuse 16, Notre Dame 11 Syracuse finally managed to pick up its first win over a ranked opponent in a fourgoal win over then-No. 11 Duke. It never trailed and held the Blue Devils’ leading scorer Brennan O’Neill to just three points. Now the Orange just need to check from page 12

adamson giving Syracuse its first goal of the season en route to a 12-9 win.

“Coming into one of the top ranked programs in the country there’s a lot of high expectations,” Adamson said. “I was just really happy to be there out on the field.”

The freshman made an impact almost instantly for the Orange, but a month earlier, her role was a lot different. She was sitting behind preseason All-American Emma Ward, who scored 43 goals last season. But then on Jan. 23, it was announced Ward would miss the entire season with a lower leg injury, forcing someone to fill the void. In Ward’s spot, Adamson has notched 10 goals and two assists, helping Syracuse remain a top five team so far this season.

Adamson’s emergence has been a long time coming — at least for her. She’s told people for years that she wanted to help Syracuse win a national championship one day. Now starting on the fourth-ranked team in the country, Adamson is within reach of that goal.

Her playing career began in the Great Falls Little Lax League when she was 4 years old.

Adamson was nervous on the field, so her dad, Tom Adamson, started to coach her to help her out. Eventually she began liking the game, her dad said.

off another important feat: securing their first ranked road win. And they will get that victory when they travel to South Bend on Saturday.

Notre Dame is now the ACC’s only team below .500 and, like SU, have struggled to handle the country’s top teams. It has one ranked win over then-No. 15 Michigan, but other than that, the Fighting Irish have just a 24-2 blowout win over Detroit Mercy. While ND allows over two fewer goals per game than Syracuse, the Orange average nearly two more goals on the attack. And with Dordevic having gone five games with at least five goals this season, expect him to lead SU to its third consecutive victory.

Roshan Fernandez (5-3)

Doing it again?

Syracuse 13, Notre Dame 12 Last year, Notre Dame blew Syracuse out of The Adamson family moved to St. Petersburg, Florida, when she was 7 years old, but there were no girls youth teams, so Adamson played on a boys lacrosse program from second to fifth grade with Tom coaching her.

With the boys, Adamson played defense because she didn’t like getting hit, which she said was ironic since she now plays attack at Syracuse. It was still physical, but Adamson said playing a different style of the game helped her when she eventually switched back over to the girl’s team.

Around the same time, Adamson started watching women’s college lacrosse and looked up to players like Kayla Treanor and Michelle Tumolo, her dad said. When Adamson said she wanted to help a team compete for a championship like them, Tom laid out to Adamson what it would take to get to that level.

“She goes, ‘Yup,’” Tom said. “And that was that.”

Almost two years later, a friend of the Adamsons was holding a lacrosse camp featuring Syracuse’s former women’s head coach Gary Gait. Tom said Gait liked Adamson’s stick skills and attitude, which became the source of her deciding that she wanted to help SU win a national championship one day.

At the Presidents Cup, a well known recruiting tournament for women’s lacrosse, Adamson went to watch the girls on an older Lax Maniax team, the club she had just started

the water in what turned into a 22-8 defeat in South Bend. Pat Kavanagh had five goals and five assists just weeks after he notched nine points in the first contest against SU. Syracuse wasn’t even close.

I don’t think this Notre Dame team is the same. Yes, Kavanagh is still on it, and yes, I think he’ll post another impressive stat line against Syracuse. But the Fighting Irish’s offense managed just eight goals against Virginia, just 12 in a win over Michigan and so on.

I was impressed with what I saw from Syracuse against Duke. It was the most complete outing of the season — by far — with a very strong defensive showing and Dordevic’s best game of the year. The biggest question is if the Orange can replicate that performance again.

Anish Vasudevan (6-2) Different year, same result

playing for. Regional director Sarah Burlingame was coaching in the tournament, and she passed by Adamson and her dad.

Despite only being in middle school, Adamson told Burlingame she was going to play in the Presidents Cup in the future and be one of the best players on the field, and that she would eventually commit to Syracuse, Burlingame said. Burlingame said she was surprised, but when Adamson started to play under Burlingame, she thought the attack was the best player in her class, and even one of the best in the older age group.

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The number of seconds it took Olivia Adamson to record her first career goal

But Tom’s real realization that Adamson could make it to the next level came when she attended a camp at Delray Beach as a seventh grader. Gait and Tumolo were there, too, and Tumolo told Adamson that she loved her game. A year later, Adamson committed to Syracuse.

Her dad said that behind the scenes,

Notre Dame 16, Syracuse 11 Syracuse hasn’t beaten Notre Dame since 2018. Last season, the Orange were blown out by 14 goals, giving up a season-high 22 goals while scoring the least on the other end of the field. SU had momentum heading into the game with a 13-11 upset over then-No. 5 Virginia, but the Fighting Irish quickly killed that. Notre Dame has the opportunity to do this again as Syracuse is coming off an upset over then-No. 11 Duke, which marked the first time it’s won two games in a row this season.

This year, it will likely be closer than last year. But in South Bend, it’ll be a very tall task.

Dordevic will need to have a monster game, similar to what Kavanaugh did against SU last season with 10 points, if the Orange want a legitimate chance. sports@dailyorange.com @DOSports

Adamson put in hundreds of hours of work after practices, camps and games with her dad and younger sister, Gigi. At the start of the pandemic, the Adamsons used their extra free time to workout even more. Gigi played goalie and developed into a strong enough opponent to push Adamson as she did shooting drills.

Adamson and her dad worked on both hands equally while doing drills. She would match the reps with her right and left hand, which gave her an advantage against opponents.

In a tightly contested game against No. 4 Stony Brook, Adamson had a key second-half goal when she caught a pass from Megan Carney right outside the crease with her left hand.

Instead of having to switch to her right hand, which would’ve allowed defenders to close in on her, she was able to shoot instantaneously and give Syracuse a 10-9 lead.

For the freshman, the goal was a culmination of everything she had worked on up to that point. The physical elementary school competition with boys that preceded the middle school tournaments ultimately led to the chance to start on a team built to return to the national championship.

“I kind of thought like, ‘Alright kid, sure,’” Burlingame said when Adamson spoke about her goals at first.

“And sure enough, she did.” adamj40323@gmail.com

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INSTANT IMPACT Olivia Adamson has scored 10 goals in 11 games this season as a freshman attack

OLIVIA ADAMSON tied her season high with two goals in Syracuse’s 14-13 win over Loyola on Tuesday. She has accumulated 12 points so far this season. nick luttrell do sportscast executive producer

I tell her all the time that before she got to Syracuse, she probably had never been around anybody that had done as much work as she had done

By Adam McCaffery staff writer

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n Syracuse’s opening matchup against Stanford, Kate Mashewske won the first draw and the Orange immediately initiated the weave. When Sam Swart got the ball, she quickly ran across to the left side of the perimeter, drawing both Ailish Kelly and Caroline Mondiello to her.

Swart tossed the ball behind her to freshman attack Olivia Adamson, who was a step ahead of two defenders, attacking the goal. Kelly tried to chase her down, but Adamson ripped a shot to the left side of the goal.

Less than a minute into her college career, Adamson had already scored, see adamson page 10

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Inside Syracuse’s new offense What to know about No. 15 Notre Dame

By Connor Smith sports editor

At the first practice after spring break, Garrett Shrader faked a handoff and let it fly. Starting from midfield, Anthony Queeley ran straight downfield as Garrett Williams attempted to cover him before cutting toward the middle of the field at the 30-yard line. After turning Williams around, Queeley stuck his right arm out, calling for the ball. Williams closed the gap near the goal line, and Shrader’s pass went just over Queeley’s outstretched hands.

Even with the incompletion, the play serves as a small example for the changes Syracuse has made — and is still making — to its offense this offseason, with the growing

pains included. After offensive coordinator Sterlin Gilbert was fired, head coach Dino Babers turned to Robert Anae, then-UVA’s offensive coordinator, to improve an offense that finished in the bottom third of the Atlantic Coast Conference in each of Gilbert’s two seasons.

So since Shrader, Queeley and the rest of the Orange’s offense took the field in early March, the focus has been on learning a new, air-raid style offense, one that hopes to add a more lethal passing attack to a unit that already possesses one of the top ground games in the country behind All-American running back Sean Tucker.

Anae and new quarterbacks coach Jason Beck, also from Virginia, have been working alongside Babers on the install, the early

versions of which will be displayed on Friday night during Syracuse’s annual intrasquad spring game.

Players have said the team has emphasized moving faster and throwing the ball more, potentially moving Syracuse’s offense closer to the one that averaged almost 40 points per game in 2018.

“We’re doing a lot of good things,” Shrader said. “We love the scheme. We just got to buy in and make sure we’re on the same page.”

Shrader calls the new offense a lot more “wide-open” than the one SU had last year. There are more opportunities to take downfield shots, and more balance between the run and pass games, he said.

Syracuse’s offense was heavily reliant on Tucker and Shrader’s legs see offense page 9

By Anish Vasudevan asst. sports editor

Syracuse pulled off an upset over then-No. 5 Virginia last season, winning 13-11 on the road with six different goal scorers. But immediately the next weekend, the Orange lost their momentum in a matchup against then-No. 4 Notre Dame, falling 22-8 in South Bend.

Notre Dame has the opportunity again this season to stop Syracuse’s momentum. The Orange are coming off an upset over then-No. 11 Duke, which marked the first time they’ve won two consecutive games so far this season. The Fighting Irish are coming off a 12-8 loss to

Virginia, which dropped them five spots in the national rankings.

Here’s everything you need to know about No. 15 Notre Dame (2-4, 0-1 Atlantic Coast) before it plays No. 18 Syracuse (4-4, 1-1 ACC) on Saturday:

All-time series

Syracuse leads the all-time series 10-7.

Last time they played

Pat Kavanagh led the charge for the Fighting Irish, setting a program record for points in a single game with five goals and fi ve as sists, in their 22-8 win over Syracuse. He see notre

dame page 9