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NO END IN SIGHT Negotiations between officials, #NotAgainSU to resume Friday By Michael Sessa asst. news editor
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yracuse University administrators and #NotAgainSU organizers ended negotiations Wednesday without a resolution. Wednesday was the third day of negotiations between SU officials and #NotAgainSU, a movement led by Black students. The movement has occupied Crouse-Hinds Hall for 17 days to continue its protest of hate incidents that have occurred at or near SU since November. The movement presented Chancellor Kent Syverud with 19 demands to meet in November. The chancellor signed 16 as written and revised the remaining three. This week’s discussions have focused on the 16 additional demands #NotAgainSU has issued since it began occupying Crouse-Hinds. The two groups discussed striking graduate students, a review of DPS and the future of negotiations during the Wednesday meeting. The negotiations were originally intended to end that day. SU administrators started the final day of negotiations by walking back on a promise they made Tuesday concerning the positions of striking graduate students. More than 100 graduate students and workers who identify as Black, indigenous and people of color, as well as international students, have been withholding their labor since Feb. 19 in support of #NotAgainSU. Officials promised organizers Tuesday that graduate students on strike would have their current teaching assistantships temporarily filled. But on Wednesday, J. Cole Smith, dean of the College of Engineering and Computer Science, said striking graduate students may be assigned to a different class when they return to work. “You’re getting the same wages, and that’s all I can say,” Smith said. Negotiators also returned Wednesday to previous discussions about disarming Department
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of Public Safety officers and the absence of DPS representation at negotiations. Gabe Nugent, deputy general counsel for SU, said DPS Chief Bobby Maldonado wanted to be at negotiations, but SU decided he wouldn’t attend given #NotAgainSU’s calls for his resignation. #NotAgainSU has criticized the way DPS officers have interacted with organizers throughout the Crouse-Hinds occupation, and organizers continue to call for the resignations of Maldonado and DPS Associate Chief John Sardino.
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SU officials said they will look into inviting Maldonado to any future negotiations. “There was a mention here yesterday that he decided not to come, and that wasn’t accurate,” Nugent said. The university maintained that they will not agree to #NotAgainSU’s demand for DPS officers to be disarmed. Nugent said Tuesday he was not well-versed enough on the department’s policies to comment about potentially disarming officers in certain circumstances, such as when officers police protests or parties. see negotiations page 4
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#NotAgainSU occupation continues SU Abroad restricts travel as coronavirus spreads By Maggie Hicks asst. news editor
#NotAgainSU will remain inside Crouse-Hinds Hall until its negotiations with Syracuse University officials are complete. The movement, led by Black students, has occupied Crouse-Hinds Hall since Feb. 17 to continue its protest of at least 30 racist, homophobic and anti-Semitic incidents that have occurred at or near SU since early November. Organizers presented Chancellor Kent Syverud with a list of 19 demands in November. He signed 16 as written and revised the remaining three. The movement has added 16 demands since it began occupying Crouse-Hinds, beginning negotiations on the
additions Monday afternoon. Negotiations ended Wednesday evening without a resolution. Conversations will resume Friday at 5 p.m., a university spokesperson said. “We will be continuing occupying this until this negotiation is over,” a student protester said at the end of Wednesday’s meeting. “That is important to recognize, because we don’t want to be in this building anymore and I’m sure you all don’t want to be in this building anymore.” University officials have not agreed to implement all of the #NotAgainSU’s demands. Organizers previously said they will occupy Crouse-Hinds until the movement’s demands are met. #NotAgainSU demands the resignations of Syverud, Depart-
ment of Public Safety Chief Bobby Maldonado, DPS Associate Chief John Sardino and Dolan Evanovich, senior vice president for enrollment and the student experience. During Monday’s negotiations, Syverud reiterated his belief that no officials should resign. It would not be beneficial for any SU official to leave their position, he said. “It is not the case that the standard is perfection of every individual at the university at all times,” Syverud said. Syverud also told students Monday that administrators will likely not meet the demand for an automatic tuition freeze. University officials also said that DPS officers would have to remain armed. SU agreed Tuesday to implesee occupation page 4
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Syracuse University has restricted travel for students, faculty and staff in all SU Abroad programs due to the spread of the coronavirus. Students who violate the restriction could face conduct sanctions. The university has prohibited all travel from SU Abroad centers to countries with travel advisories ranked at Level 2 or above from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to an email sent Wednesday to students in the programs. The CDC warns travelers to exercise “enhanced precautions” under
a Level 2 advisory and recommends avoiding non-essential travel under Level 3 advisory, the most severe ranking. Travelers should take usual precautions, such as having appropriate vaccines, under a Level 1 advisory. Students who violate the restrictions will be referred to SU’s Office of Student Rights and Responsibilities, according to the email. “Our highest priority is the health and welfare of our students, faculty, and staff,” the email reads. The novel coronavirus, COVID19, is a respiratory disease experts believe originated in Wuhan, China. The disease has spread to 76 countries, infected more than see abroad page 4
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Global discussion ARKADY MOSHES, program director for the EU Eastern Neighborhood and Russia Research Program at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs, led a talk about the downfall of the EU-Russian strategic partnership in Eggers Hall on Wednesday. The talk examined the systemic failures that caused Europe’s partnership with Russia to fall through. hannah ly staff photographer
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Explainer: DPS training, patrols, SU relationship By Michael Sessa
continue, here’s a primer on how DPS operates and why officers are armed:
The Department of Public Safety has been the subject of criticism from #NotAgainSU, a movement led by Black students that’s protesting hate incidents at or near Syracuse University. #NotAgainSU organizers, currently occupying Crouse-Hinds Hall, call for the resignations of DPS Chief Bobby Maldonado and Associate Chief John Sardino. Protesters also demand the department’s officers be unarmed. SU will not disarm officers, university officials said during a negotiation meeting with organizers Tuesday. As negotiations between #NotAgainSU and SU administration
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DPS is a group of sworn public safety officers and community services officers who act as SU’s safety and security organization. While the department works alongside the Syracuse Police Department to enforce state and city law, certain personnel in the organization focus specifically on upholding SU’s mission. DPS employs public safety officers, community services officers and residential community safety officers. Each has different levels of training. Residential community safety officers are licensed security officers who are stationed at the entrances of
SUs residential buildings to validate the IDs of every person entering the building. Community services officers are not licensed police officers but remain in different places on campus to patrol the surrounding community. Public safety officers are trained, armed and sworn peace officers who have the authority to make arrests and conduct investigations.
Why are DPS officers armed?
Since New York state granted DPS peace officer status in 2004, guns have become a part of DPS’ arsenal. Each of the department’s full-time peace officers is armed and authorized to use firearms such as handguns and shotguns. The department swore in its first armed peace officers in 2005.
DPS peace officers need to meet the same minimum training requirements as SPD officers, according to the memorandum of understanding that SPD and DPS formalized in 2003. Long guns, which are assigned to officers who work in DPS vehicles, are locked in place inside the vehicle when not in use. In 2016, the department lost four shotguns after they fell out of a DPS truck following a training exercise. Maldonado said at the time that the department reviewed relevant protocols to ensure the firearms transportation and storage procedures and practices are “as strong and comprehensive as possible.” Nearly 75% of campus police officers across the country are see dps page 4
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How SU has responded to past campus protests By Sarah Alessandrini asst. copy editor
Syracuse University students have participated in several campus protests over the last 60 years. The university has implemented protesters’ demands after many of the demonstrations. #NotAgainSU, a movement led by Black students, is occupying Crouse-Hinds Hall to continue its protest of at least 30 racist, antiSemitic and homophobic incidents that have occurred at or near SU
since November. The movement presented Chancellor Kent Syverud with 19 demands in November. The chancellor signed 16 as written and revised the remaining three. Organizers have added 16 demands since beginning the Crouse-Hinds occupation Feb. 17. #NotAgainSU has met with university officials throughout the week to negotiate its additional demands. The groups have yet to reach an agreement. Here’s a breakdown of how SU administration has responded to
student protests and grievances in the past:
Recognize Us
Recognize Us, a coalition of SU student organizations, formed in spring 2018 after the Theta Tau videos controversy. SU expelled its chapter of the Theta Tau engineering fraternity after members created and circulated videos that Chancellor Kent Syverud called “extremely racist, anti-Semitic, homophobic, sexist and hostile to people
with disabilities.” Recognize Us released a set of six demands in response to the incident, including an evaluation of Greek life on campus, a required first-year diversity course and the hiring of more diverse faculty. SU implemented SEM 100, a first-year diversity and inclusion seminar, the semester after the Theta Tau incident. The university also conducted a review of its Greek life and announced in 2018 the hiring of more diverse faculty through see response page 4
State officials have confirmed nine new cases of the novel coronavirus in New York, bringing the total number infected to 11, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Wednesday. The novel coronavirus, or COVID19 — a respiratory disease experts believe originated in Wuhan, China — has spread to at least 76 countries, infected over 93,000 people and killed at least 3,000. 9 people in the United States had died of the virus as of Wednesday morning. Two patients in the state tested positive for COVID-19 as of Tuesday. The first patient, a woman in her late 30s, had recently traveled to Iran from New York City. The other, a 50 yearold man from Westchester County, had no clear connections to the virus. All nine of the newly confirmed COVID-19 cases are connected to the patient in Westchester County, Cuomo said. The man’s wife, 20-year-old son and 14-year-old daughter all tested positive for the virus, as did a neighbor who drove the patient to the hospital, he said. A family of five who is friends with the patient also tested positive. State officials will continue to search for connections and notify those who might be at risk of infection, Cuomo said. “Whenever you find a case, it’s about containment, and doing the best you can to keep the circle as tight as possible,” Cuomo said. The Westchester man, who had an underlying respiratory condition, is in critical condition at New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center, CNN reported. Yeshiva University, where the Westchester patient’s son attends college, canceled classes at its Washington Heights campus today as a precautionary measure. His daughter’s high school has also voluntarily closed. Syracuse University has taken precautionary measures this semester to prevent the spread of COVID-19. SU has restricted university travel to three countries experiencing COVID-19 outbreaks, suspended the SU Abroad program in Florence, Italy and begun devising a plan to finish the semester online if oncampus classes are suspended. The university also restricted all travel from SU Abroad centers to countries with travel advisories ranked a Level 2 or above from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. There is a possibility of continued COVID-19 spreading in New York, Cuomo said. But this should not be a cause of panic for New Yorkers, he said. “There are going to be many, many people who test positive. By definition, the more you test, the more people you will find that test positive,” Cuomo said. cjhippen@syr.edu
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negotiations “I’m just telling you we are not going to engage in a conversation about protocols in this context,” Nugent said Wednesday. It’s unfair for protesters to say SU doesn’t care about student safety, he said. Nugent agreed Tuesday to prepare responses to questions about DPS protocols he could not answer, but didn’t, a #NotAgainSU organizer said Wednesday. DPS records, policies and protocols are not public, Nugent said. They will be made available for a review of the department that former U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch is conducting, he said. Lynch will give students a platform to express concerns about DPS when she conducts her review, Nugent said. Organizers called into question the purpose and objectivity of Lynch’s review. They also asked administrators how the results would be made public. “It doesn’t feel very independent when the university is paying Loretta Lynch and didn’t have a conferencing with any of the affected parties on who the review is being done by,” an organizer said. SU officials said Lynch and a team working with her will conduct the review. The group’s findings will be made public, taking into account privacy, employment and student records laws, they said. The groups also discussed the university’s counseling services during Wednesday’s negotiations. Rob Hradsky, senior associate vice president for the student experience and dean of students, said SU has opened one additional counselor position. Hradsky said Tuesday that he believed the university had adequately addressed the need for counselors and would not add more positions. SU hired four new counselors prior to the start of the 2019-20 academic year and created four additional counselor
positions after #NotAgainSU’s November sit-in at the Barnes Center at The Arch, Hradsky said. “I want to thank you for sharing your voices and your stories yesterday,” Hradsky said. “I listened to that very closely and want to agree as you requested that we will bring on an additional counselor.” #NotAgainSU asked for a statement from the university that acknowledges the reality of how SU officials treated protesters in Crouse-Hinds during the beginning of the movement’s occupation. DPS had sealed off Crouse-Hinds as of Feb. 18, preventing outside food, medicine and resources from entering until the afternoon of Feb. 19. Organizers were allowed to leave at any time, university officials have said. SU provided lunch and dinner to organizers Feb. 18 and breakfast Feb. 19. The movement said SU’s publicly released statements regarding the occupation have been dishonest. “Dissemination of misinformation was regularly used as a tactic by this administration,” an organizer said. “Faculty who are informed are furious about this tactic used by the administration.” Amanda Nicholson, interim deputy senior vice president for enrollment and the student experience, said Wednesday that she will look into the possibility of releasing an additional statement addressing the university’s role in withholding food and other supplies from protesters. Nicholson and Hradsky, responding to a request from organizers, admitted that they were personally involved in making decisions about access to food. Administrators made “some really poor decisions,” but have learned from their mistakes, Hradsky said. “I’m sorry that that learning was at your expense,” he said. Associate Vice President and Dean of Students Marianne Thomson said she regrets the role she played in deciding to suspend students occupying Crouse-Hinds. About 30
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93,000 people and killed over 3,000 as of Wednesday night. SU Abroad centers are not operating in countries with a Level 2 or Level 3 travel advisory — currently China, Italy, Japan, Iran and South Korea — the email said. SU suspended its abroad program in Florence, Italy on Feb. 25 and has restricted university travel to China and South Korea amid the spread of COVID-19. The university’s remaining abroad programs in London; Madrid; Strasbourg, France and Santiago, Chile, will remain open until further notice, according to the email. A Level 1 travel advisory is currently in place for the United Kingdom, Spain, France and Chile. If the CDC raises the travel advisory for those countries, SU will reevaluate the programs’ operating status immediately, according to the email. The university will make a decision in consultation with the SUNY system as well as the state health department and governor’s office. “If the University does deem it necessary to suspend programming at additional Syracuse Abroad locations, we will work with each impacted student to formulate a plan to ensure coursework and academic progress continues,” said the email. Students currently participating in study abroad programs can leave the programs at any time, according to the email. Those who choose to leave their study abroad program early should contact their program’s staff to discuss the financial impacts of their decision, the email states. It is unclear if students will receive reimbursements if they leave the programs early. Students in the suspended Florence program who finish the semester online will receive a refund this month ranging from $1,700 to $2,100. Returning students may be able to finish the semester on campus, depending on guidelines from the state health department, the email said. The students could also finish classes remotely. Chancellor Kent Syverud announced Monday that SU is creating a plan for students to finish the semester online should the university suspend on-campus classes. There have been 11 cases of COVID-19 in New York state as of Wednesday evening.
the Cluster Hires Initiative. SU has already implemented some of #NotAgainSU’s original demands, such as training faculty on diversity and inclusion and gathering input on SEM 100 reform. During negotiations with administration this week, officials expressed some misunderstanding on what demands they previously agreed to in November.
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THE General Body
THE General Body, a coalition of more than 50 student organizations, presented a 45-page document of grievances and demands to the university in November 2014 following a Diversity and Transparency Rally held at Hendricks Chapel. The coalition’s grievances centered on nine issues, including increasing transparency in student services and improving training and knowledge of minority issues. After the rally, protesters walked to Crouse-Hinds to deliver the document to SU administration. The group said they would stay in the building until they received a response from Syverud on their demands. The coalition’s occupation of the building lasted 18 days. University officials said SU has created more seats for students to serve on academic committees. In September 2015, Syverud announced the Chancellor’s Workgroup on Diversity and Inclusion.
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Nine Black SU football players — who mistakenly became known as the Syracuse 8 —boycotted games and practices in the spring of 1970 to protest racism within the university’s athletic programs. The players protested racial discrimination in disciplinary action and the use of racist language by the coaching staff. They also demanded the hiring of a Black assistant coach. Former Chancellor John Corbally and other university officials had multiple meetings with the players, but progress to implement their demands was slow. The players refused to sign a statement of loyalty in which they
#NotAgainSU organizers were placed under interim suspension for remaining in the building past closing on Feb. 17. The suspensions were lifted Feb. 18. “I did not agree that that was the right route to go,” Thomson said. “I shared that, and I wish I had shared it stronger.” SU officials will need to work to develop new policies for dealing with campus protests and disruption, she said. The university can promise that it will not respond to future protests, disruptive or peaceful, by withholding food or resources, she said. “We do not have a workable campus disruption policy nor do we have a workable way to apply the policy,” Thomson said. “We clearly need a lot of work in this area.” SU officials also said they would communicate with the university’s dean and faculty to encourage professors to allow protesters time to make up assignments. SU cannot provide protesters credit for their work in Crouse-Hinds, administrators said. “There are always exemptions,” said John Liu, interim vice chancellor and provost. “I don’t want to say every professor has that attitude, but many of them I think will have that passion for you to succeed, and we want to help you to succeed.” #NotAgainSU organizers asked administrators if at least two members from SU’s Board of Trustees could sign the document of demands administrators have agreed to. SU officials said they would ask, but could not guarantee trustees will sign. Trustee signatures would not bind the board in any way, Nugent said. “We have delegated authority, and if we want to elevate this to the board, that’s a different timeline we can’t control,” Nugent said. “We cannot tell the board what to do.” #NotAgainSU’s occupation of CrouseHinds will continue until negotiations are finished, organizers said. The next set of negotiations are set for Friday from 5 to 7 p.m. msessa@syr.edu | @MichaelSessa3
accepted blame for creating conflict. SU officials had initially given #NotAgainSU organizers inside Crouse-Hinds the option to sign a letter saying their suspensions would be lifted if they left the building by 10 p.m. on Feb. 18. Students refused to sign. Corbally formed a Committee on Allegations of Racial Discrimination in the Football Program in the fall of 1970, concluding that racism in the SU athletic department was “real, chronic, largely unintentional” and also sustained “by many modes of behavior common in American athletics and long-standing at Syracuse University.” SU administration said during negotiations with #NotAgainSU that it would not admit it was complicit in white supremacy, failing to meet one of the movement’s demands.
1969 Protests
About 100 Black students in 1969 protested SU’s failure to accommodate the needs of Black students in front of what was then the SU Administration Building. The protesters, who represented six student organizations, demanded to meet with former Chancellor William P. Tolley and Vice Chancellor and Provost Frank P. Piskor. One spokesperson from each of the groups met with Piskor during the protest while the rest of the students remained outside the building. #NotAgainSU protesters met with SU Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday discuss their demands. The movement has said that it will continue its occupation until all demands are met. In response to the 1969 demonstration, SU officially established African American studies as an academic program at the university in 1971. While the program had no affiliation with any school or college at SU, the university later implemented it as an individual department in the College of Arts and Sciences. The students’ demonstration also led to the opening of SU’s Martin Luther King Jr. Library in 1971 and the Community Folk Gallery, now known as the Community Folk Arts Center, in 1973. scalessa@syr.edu
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occupation ment mandatory diversity training for non-tenured faculty. The university also said it would double students’ printing funds from $20 to $40 in agreement with the movement’s demands, Amanda Nicholson, interim deputy senior vice president for enrollment and the student experience, said at Tuesday’s negotiations. Students pushed administration Wednesday night to set a concrete date for their next negotiation meeting. “I want to add that I would really like to go to class eventually.,” a protester said. “I’m extremely frustrated that this is happening, but I’m still going to be here.” mehicks@syr.edu
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authorized to carry a firearm, according to a 2015 report from the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
What training do DPS officers complete?
DPS has an agreement with SPD to regulate shared operating procedures and guidelines. The Syracuse police chief grants peace officer powers for SU’s DPS officers, including the right to carry a gun. Every DPS public safety officer is mandated to successfully complete a state course for campus peace officers, which includes 19 weeks of academy training, said Christine Weber, public information and internal communications officer, in a statement. DPS officers complete over 80 hours of firearms training. Each year, campus peace officers must complete at least 16 hours of annual firearms training to continue to carry, and prove proficiency through a live-fire qualification round, Weber said. The department’s officers also receive classroom training on use of force laws, response to active shooter incidents, and practical training on responding to felony crimes in progress. The International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators, a professional organization of campus security and law enforcement professionals, has accredited DPS.
What is the relationship between DPS and SU?
DPS officers enforce the policies and procedures of SU in addition to local, state and federal laws. Though the department has entered into an agreement with SPD, most of its records and policies are not publicly accessible. The department provides information about crimes on campus in a daily crime log that stretches back 61 days. The log is published in compliance with the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act, a federal law requiring colleges and universities to disclose information about crime on and around their campuses. The Department of Education enforces the act. Former United States Attorney General Loretta Lynch will conduct an independent review of DPS in the near future, SU officials said in February. Administrators said during negotiations with #NotAgainSU organizers Wednesday that Lynch will incorporate the department’s sealed records and policies in her review. In a February letter to Syverud, the union that represents DPS said the ongoing campus protests have made it difficult for DPS officers to maintain the department’s mission because SU has not allowed them to fully carry out their duties. #NotAgainSU has occupied Crouse-Hinds Hall since Feb. 17. DPS officers have acted under orders from Syverud and senior SU administration throughout the protest, the union said. “At no time did any DPS administrators or officer make any decisions for how to handle the protest,” the letter states. DPS publishes an annual explanation of its internal affairs investigations and their outcomes but does not publicize the details of those cases. The department conducted eight internal affairs investigations in 2018. Two employees were suspended and one left the university, the report shows. msessa@syr.edu | @MichaelSessa3
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he last few months of the Democratic Presidential Primary race has been fun, filled with feisty jabs, changing polls and recent dropouts. But Super Tuesday proved one major point — once this is all over, Democrats better come together. Fast. Joe Biden’s sweeping Super Tuesday success could have been surprising after his dismal start in Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada. But after a closer look at his base’s demographic, Biden’s success might not be much of a surprise. That is because Joe Biden has something the other candidates are nowhere near achieving, a strong base of Black voters. According to Politico, Biden is crushing runner-up Bernie Sanders in the race for the Black vote by 20 points. While Sanders does have the Latinx vote, it only makes up 7% of the party, while the Black vote is 20% of the party. Biden’s success among Black voters could not be overstated. Sanders’ potential fall might
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LIBERAL COLUMNIST also be explained by his own base. Sanders’ self-identification as a Democratic-Socialist effectively pushes away some moderate, potentially older Democrats. Leaving Sanders’ base to collegeage voters and other young people; which is amazing except for the fact that college-age voters are the least likely to actually come out and vote. According to The New York Times, only 14% of college-age voters are expected to come out and vote. Despite this, I find Elizabeth Warren’s results to be the most impactful. Warren championed hard work and grassroots campaigning to finish third in her home state. Warren still ended up edging out Michael Bloomberg, a newcomer to the race pumping hundreds of millions of his own dollars into the campaign. The ignorance of Bloomberg’s campaign came to full display after
his campaign quit the 2020 race after only winning one primary, American Samoa, which was still more than Warren’s zero. As the sun rose after Super Tuesday, the Democratic Party woke up more divided than before. The race between the moderate and the self-proclaimed Democratic-Socialist makes this reality so clear. Let’s just hope Democrats learn from 2016, you’re not going to have your perfect nominee. Most of us will be unhappy with the Democrat nominee. But that doesn’t mean you throw your hands up and stay at home. We can compete now for the nomination, but we better come together quickly come July’s Democratic National Convention in Milwaukee.
Rachel Pierce is a junior broadcast and digital journalism and political science major. Her column appears bi-weekly. She can be reached at repierce@ syr.edu. She can be followed on Twitter at @rpiercesyr.
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ith one-third of United States delegates up for grabs, Super Tuesday was the most important day of the 2020 primaries. In both a comedic, and slightly reassuring, turn of events Joe Biden swept Super Tuesday, gaining 380 delegates. This gives him a 45-delegate lead over Bernie Sanders, who doesn’t trail far behind him. Biden receiving a majority of the delegates last night should come as no surprise, as the former vice president boasts a long list of credentials and gives centerleaning democrats a strong option. The difficulties other candidates had receiving delegates should not be surprising either. Elizabeth Warren has been in a decline for some time, and Tuesday should be the final nail in the coffin. Mike Bloomberg has also not enjoyed much success in the race to the nomination, I suppose buying an election isn’t as easy as it seems.
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He ended his campaign just hours after gaining his only primary victory, American Samoa. As for the previous frontrunner Bernie Sanders, I’m not shocked that the night didn’t go as planned for him. The policies Sanders proposes are highly divisive and while support for Sanders seemed high, as we saw in 2016, the loud radical minority will never overcome the silent majority. These results should spark feelings of relief. If the “Joementum” Biden is currently enjoying continues, he will obtain the democratic nomination. This is great news for moderates and conservatives who feared Sanders’ self-described democratic-socialist approach to the economy. Looking forward, it is likely that Warren will drop out of the race and endorse Sanders as they share similar policy goals. Bloom-
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he Democratic Party in 2020 is falling into a familiar territory of disunity and alienation, a realm stoked and prodded on by SAM the current BOVA occupant in the LIBER A L White House. COLUMNIST It’s part of the reason this party failed to pull together for Hillary Clinton in 2016 and the division is becoming a major player in what could be a similar outcome this coming November. Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden encapsulate this division perfectly. Sanders, the unwavering DemocraticSocialist whose supporters are ardent in their insurgent views, and Biden, the middle-of-the-road centrist aiming for gradual change through means of unification and concord. Throughout this election season, President Donald Trump has bolstered the idea that the Democratic establishment is rigging the election against Sanders, a view shared by many of Sanders’ supporters. Even with the ultimate goal of beating
Trump in November, Democrats have begun to collide. The president knows his best chance of winning re-election is to stoke this division, and so far, it’s working. Politics is a messy business, and right now the American political system is in the gutter. But the heart of American politics is pumping poison through its veins instead of blood. Members of the Democratic Party face the challenge of fighting for their individual values while still maintaining a collective large enough to defeat those who are content with the status quo. It starts with recognizing that we do share the same political party stamp, that we can have these difficult conversations with each other without creating unnecessary turmoil and that Trump will be president for another four years unless we pull together to say otherwise.
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Decade on display The Stand newspaper celebrates 10 years in the South Side
Syracuse Stage announces season By Amy Nakamura feature editor
The Stand, a newspaper that covers the South Side of Syracuse, is celebrating its 10-year anniversary this year. The publication is located at the South Side Communication Center on South Salina Street. sarah lee asst. photo editor By Sydney Bergan asst. copy editor
ASHLEY KANG, director, sits with volunteers Bob Gates, Justin Fogarty and Mike Greenlar. courtesy of ashley kang
Ashley Kang stood surrounded by photographs, their vibrant colors brightening up the cold concrete walls of a shop room in basement of The Nancy Cantor Warehouse. She pointed out her favorite one, in which Jovan Daniel, a young boy from the South Side of Syracuse, stands face-toface with a horse. The image accompanied a 2010 article about Daniel’s dream of becoming an equestrian published in The Stand, a newspaper that covers the South Side. Now, 10 years later, this image will be displayed as a part of “The Stand: 10 Years in Print,” an exhibit at The Nancy Cantor Warehouse’s Link Gallery in celebration of the paper’s 10-year anniversary. There will be a reception at the Link see the
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Syracuse Stage announced the shows it will be playing for its 48th season today. Kate Hamill was also announced as the playwright in residence at Syracuse Stage’s fourth annual Cold Read Festival of New Plays for March 21-24, 2021. The theater company will perform “Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein” from Oct. 14 to Nov. 1; Roald Dahl’s “Matilda The Musical” from Nov. 20 to Jan. 3; “Once on This Island” from Jan. 20 to Feb. 7; “Eureka Day” from March 3 to March 21; “Our Town” from April 21 to May 9 and “salt/city/blues” from June 2 to June 20, per a Syracuse Stage press release. The production of “Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein” will fall on Halloween weekend this year. According to a press release from Syracuse Stage, this version of the show is set around Lake Geneva in 1816. The premise continues with five friends, including poets Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe, gathering around to tell ghost stories. Mary Shelley is one of them, and she unveils the tale of Frankenstein. The show will also be directed by Risa Brainin, who directed “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” in 2017, the release said. Roald Dahl’s famous children’s book “Matilda” became a movie in 1996. Now, Syracuse Stage will take on “Matilda The Musical” during the holiday season this year. The Tony Award-winner features the story of a girl whose magical powers help her through her childhood and school. Donna Drake, who directed “The Wizard of Oz,” “Elf The Musical” and “Disney’s Beauty and the Beast” at Syracuse Stage, will be returning for this production as well, the release said. The Syracuse University Department of Drama see stage page 8
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Pop-up shop sells handmade accessories for girls’ education By Mandy Kraynak asst. feature editor
A pop-up shop in Bird Library’s Blackstone LaunchPad featured beaded jewelry, colorful woven accessories and Otto the Orange ornaments — all handmade by women in Guatemala. Team Guatemala, one of nine projects within a social entrepreneurship organization called Enactus, held the pop-up shop in partnership with Blackstone LaunchPad to help kick off Women’s History Month. The pop-up shop was open from 2 to 5 p.m. on March
4. Guatemalan coffee pour-overs were also served outside the shop. Team G works with a fair-trade partner in Guatemala that pays a fair wage to the women who create the products, said Paige Koss, an SU junior and Team G member. Team G will send 90% of the profits from the pop-up shop back to the women in the form of scholarships, said Sarah Ferranti, an SU senior and the project leader of Team Guatemala. Ferranti said that women in Guatemala are the most underserved group in Latin America. The scholarships give the daughters of the women who create the products an
That’s just something that is one of my favorite parts of Team Guatemala in general. They’re so grateful, and they are so eager to learn. Sarah Ferranti project leader for team guatemala
opportunity to go to school, Koss said, adding that the goal of the project is to break the cycle of poverty through education. Women in Guatemala made each of the pieces by hand. Products at the shop included bags, wallets, headbands and necklaces. Koss said that lots of time and care goes into creating the products and that some of the bags take six hours each to weave. Creators of a given product and the amount of time involved in making it were written on some of the tags. Ferranti, Koss and some other members of Team G went on a trip to
Guatemala over winter break. There they met with the beading and weaving teams to talk about product development. The group has plans for new products coming in the fall, Koss said. Members of Team G also got to meet recipients of the scholarships while in Guatemala, Ferranti said. During the winter break trip, Ferranti reunited with some of the scholarship recipients she met on a trip two weeks before, she said. “That’s just something that is one of my favorite parts of Team Guatemala in general,” Ferranti said. see guatemala page 8
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MFA degree candidates hold one-day art exhibition By Shrishti Mathew contributing writer
With a decade of art curatorial experience as the curator and program director at Kim Contemporary Art Centre in Riga, Latvia, Zane Onckule expected her experience at Syracuse University to be routine. But when she visited SU a few weeks ago to meet with the artists, she said all exceeded her expectations. “It was very interesting to work with the students because, as artists, they’re all very diverse in terms of medium and experience,” Onckule said. “There are painters, sculptors and computer animators. Some have had many shows, and for some, this is their first show.” The Master of Fine Arts degree candidates from the School of Art and Department of Transmedia at the College of Visual and Performing Arts will present “March Six Show,” an exhibition of their work on March 6 from 6-9 p.m. Onckule, a graduate from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, is curating the exhibition. The show is centered around social and political anxiety and how it influences society, pressuring people to conform. As the exhibit’s name suggests, it will only be held on March 6. from page 7
the stand Gallery on Sunday, March 8 from 6 to 8 p.m. to celebrate the exhibit and the accomplishments of The Stand. The gallery will feature the most memorable photograph from every year that The Stand has printed. There will also be photos on display from the 10th annual Photo Walk, an event in which members of the community of all skill levels come together to take photos around a neighborhood in the South Side. Other photographs include a community pool overlooking Interstate 81, and a child sitting with pictures of his two uncles who passed away from a hereditary disease. Kang graduated from Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications in 2004 and returned in 2009 to earn her master’s degree in higher education and community engagement at SU. She then began working part-time on a project that would later become known as The Stand — all while earning her master’s degree. At first, she was working 20 hours a week, but it quickly rose to 30, she said. In 2010, Kang helped to officially launch the newspaper. She has been the executive director of The Stand for the past two years, working with the South Side community and SU communities to cover topics that local media isn’t always covering, she said. Steve Davis, founder of The Stand, ran the publication for its first eight years. Davis was the chair of the newspaper and online journalism department and a professor in Newhouse for 19 years. He was always looking for a way to get his students out into the community and brought two sections of his classes into the South Side to get them “out of their comfort zone,” he said. His students ended up producing about two dozen stories, which they printed into a special edition paper and hand-delivered to residents of the South Side. It was such a success that Davis decided it should be turned from page 7
stage will be co-producing “Matilda” as well, according to the press release. The story of “Once on This Island” centers around Ti Moune and her love for a wealthy boy from across an island, Daniel. Steve H. Broadnax III, who recently directed “Thoughts of a Colored Man,” will direct the show. The satirical show “Eureka Day” takes place at a progressive school in Berkeley, California. After directing “Native Gardens” in 2019, Melissa Crespo will return to Syracuse Stage to head “Eureka Day.” The play “Our Town” will also be coming to the Syracuse Stage in the 2020-2021 season. The company’s artistic director, Robert Hupp, will direct the play. “It’s a season that speaks to me because
“I chose the daylily as the symbol of the show,” Onckule said. “It is a flower that blooms and lives only for a day.” The daylily also symbolizes how fragile and impermanent the various levels of inter-relations and care can be, she said.
There are painters, sculptors and computer animators. Some have had many shows, and for some, this is their first show. Zane Onckule exhibit curator
Regan Henley, a master’s of fine arts student of computer arts and one of the organizers, said that the theme was common to all of them as master’s of fine arts candidates, especially as they were about to leave the security of the academic world. “I think that these anxieties really pervade into a permanent project. “When I started it, I think it would be fair to say nine out of 10 people, maybe nine and a half, said it wouldn’t last a year,” Davis said. “Which, of course — you don’t want to tell a journalist they won’t do something, because they’ll do it.” At first, The Stand faced a lot of criticism from publications such as The Post-Standard for being an “ivory tower doing this feel-good project to say they’re helping Black people,” said Kang. But the publication rose past this criticism and has facilitated outreach into the Syracuse community as a whole through photo and writing workshops in addition to the annual Photo Walk. When Bea González, the vice president of the SU Office of Community Engagement, looks at the exhibit, she sees people who she has known throughout her life living in the South Side, and she sees leaders in the community. “It’s brought voice to the South Side community,” González said. “It has provided opportunities for understanding the newspaper business, for understanding journalism. It has really served to give voice to that particular community.” The Office of Community Engagement at SU is sponsoring the gallery and has been involved with The Stand since before González became vice president in 2016, she said. The Stand operates out of the South Side Communication Center, which is run by the Office of Community Engagement and the South Side Community Coalition. One of the most successful story series that Kang has seen over the past 10 years of The Stand has been the “fatherhood series,” in which South Side citizens nominated fathers in the community to share their stories. This led to a special Valentine’s Day collection of stories about couples in the community, which fought stereotypes about Black romantic relationships, Kang said. “The stereotype there is that Black couples it’s full of heartfelt and heartwarming stories that transport us beyond the everyday,” Hupp said in the press release. “These plays and musicals give our artists and our actors a rich canvas to create something special for our audience, the kind of unforgettable theatre experience you can’t get anywhere except at Syracuse Stage.” Finally, there will be the world premiere of “salt/city/blues” by Syracuse Stage associate artistic director Kyle Bass. The show is about Yolonda Mourning, a consultant, who is about to head a project to dismantle the highway that divides Salt City. Themes of race, class and urban renewal appear as Yolonda moves downtown to work on the project. Tazewell Thompson, former artistic director for Syracuse Stage, will be directing the show. abnakamu@syr.edu
our modern life and also make perfect sense as our position as M.F.A. candidates leading this kind of incubation and safety of an academic environment,” Henley said. “So, I think it was a very natural thing to happen for this theme to appear.” Each artist is exploring this theme in their own way. Tanisha Steverson, who goes by the pseudonym ColourMeChoco, is using this theme to explore her identity as a Black woman. She said her project seeks to end “the negative stereotype of Black people in real-time.” “The hyper-sexualization of the Black woman, the angry Black woman in the hood, the ugly Black woman — I’m highlighting and trying to steer clear of those things,” said Steverson. “And if there is something that is jarring or seemingly sexual, I try to humanize those moments.” This is part of a larger project that Steverson is working on. Her art is in four parts. Each has been designed on a computer and printed onto acrylic. She plans to connect them with chains that symbolize the theme behind her work. In order to symbolize pre-colonialism, they will have a gold chain because gold is a resource in Africa. They will then transition into iron to signify slavery and then back to gold. Meanwhile, Henley is discussing the rela-
tionship that the human body has with food through her work. She is using sculpture as her medium and is exploring the fetishization of the body’s relationship with food. Henley said she hopes to explore the appeal and the beauty of it as well, and how all of these things can be very tied together in our minds. “I think it’s interesting how these works become a conversation with one another,” Henley said. “Yiying Wang, another computer art candidate, is discussing something similar. Her work is specifically about eating disorders and pressure on social media to maintain these appearances.” Steverson, Henley and Wang are just a few of the 15 different graduate students who will showcase their work. The collaborative efforts that have been put in, bringing many artists together, are one of the highlights of the show. “We get to see kind of how our work starts to be in conversation with one another and the similarities between people’s processes even though they’re existing in different departments and different schools and different buildings,” Henley said. — Disclaimer: Tanisha Steverson is an assistant illustration editor for The Daily Orange. smathe01@syr.edu
“The Stand: 10 Years in Print” exhibit features the most memorable photographs from every year that the newspaper has been in print. courtesy of ashley kang
jump through relationships or they don’t stay married, and that’s not true,” she said. “There are so many couples in the community whom people look up to.” Throughout the past 10 years, The Stand has been able to show both the issues facing the South Side and the more mundane moments of life in the community, Gonzalez said. By covering people such as Daniels and his passion for horses, journalists are shedding a light on stories that wouldn’t be wellknown by other members of the South Side, Davis said. “Just because you live in a community doesn’t mean that you know everything about it,” Davis said. “It’s super important that journalists find and share stories so people get to know their own community better.” The Stand is starting to look at the impacts from page 7
guatemala “They’re so grateful, and they are so eager to learn.” Koss said that the group helps women in Guatemala earn a fair price for their work by selling the products in a college market rather than in Guatemala, where there is a lot of competition for similar types of products. Koss said that it’s more difficult for the women to make a profit when they sell the pieces in Guatemala because the markets tend to be oversaturated with so many of these products. Team G holds tabling events at various locations throughout the year, Ferranti said. For this pop-up shop event, Team G partnered with Blackstone LaunchPad. Ferranti reached out to Linda Dickerson Hartsock, the executive director of Black-
that the construction on I-81 will have on the surrounding community. The publication is looking into the environmental and health effects on the elementary school and the Toomey Abbott Towers senior home that line the highway. Both establishments will be in a construction zone for multiple years. As the publication celebrates its 10th year, Kang hopes to keep the paper funded and connected with Newhouse, which she said has been up in the air since the death of Dean Loraine Branham last April. She wants to keep connecting the university to the community in order to share the South Side’s stories. “A lot of local media is cutting back,” Kang said. “And what suffers is communities of color or communities that don’t have a voice. That’s not centric to Syracuse that’s everywhere.” sabergan@syr.edu
stone LaunchPad, who thought of the idea to hold a pop-up shop. The event kicked off Blackstone LaunchPad’s series #LaunchStrongWomen, which is celebrating Women’s History Month. Matt Frisch, an SU junior and member of Team G, said that the group also sells the products on Etsy and in Marshall Square Mall. He said he hoped the pop-up shop event with Blackstone raised awareness for the organization. Haley Francois, an SU freshman and Team G member, explained how the pop-up shop promotes the group’s mission. “Education is how we can empower women, so by selling these products we’re encouraging them to go school,” Francois said. “And with that education, they can get better jobs and just improve their lives.” ackrayna@syr.edu
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THOMAS PHELAN (TOP LEFT), JIMMY CINSKI (BOTTOM LEFT), BENJI WITTMAN (TOP RIGHT) AND MAX MARCY formed the band Madam Ravine in 2018 due to a shared love of punk music. Each band member said a desire to play “loud music” is Madam Ravine’s driving force. dan lyon staff photographer
Punk band Madam Ravine expands to SU’s underground music scene By Dylan Bryant
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adam Ravine has brought its punk sound to Syracuse’s underground music scene since fall of 2018. As the band’s members continue to hone their craft, Madam Ravine is expanding its reach in the underground scene with additional shows and music in store. The band released its debut EP, “3 Songs,” last month and is planning on additional releases later on. “3 Songs” is available on platforms such as Spotify and iTunes. Madam Ravine will also play at Apostrophe’ S on Saturday at 7 p.m. The band features front man Jimmy Cinski, guitarist Max Marcy, bassist Thomas Phelan and drummer Benji Wittman. The group formed at Syracuse University through a shared love of punk music and has been playing together for the last year-anda-half. While they’re dedicated to the project, it’s clear that each member is always being pulled in another direction. “We’re a product of happenstance,” said Wittman, a senior in the music industry program in the Setnor School of Music. Phelan, Wittman and Cinski all met their fresh-
man year, but didn’t immediately start playing music together. At the time, Wittman had a brief stint as a guitarist for another SU band, FLOTUS. But it wasn’t until their sophomore year that Madam Ravine really started piecing together its sound. “I started making a little music with Tom at the end of our sophomore year just to try something out,” Cinski said. He noted that the song they were piecing together originated from something Cinski had in the works during his freshman year, and eventually became their song “Rebrand.” There was no grand plan at the outset for the band. Each member cited their shared interest to play “loud music” as their driving force. The more they shared ideas for new material and passion for punk, the more serious the group became. “We’re the hardest, fastest band and we all have the same drive to play hard, fast music,” said Cinski, a senior in the sound recording technology program at Setnor. Members said they are not only involved with their own solo projects on top of the band, but they also have a hand in a number of other musical groups on campus, including The Whether Channel, Gill With the a G, and Shallow Alcove. They have been heavily involved in establishing student venues as well as maintaining communication between the network of bands, Phelan said. Phelan, a senior in the music industry program, said that the bands at Syracuse are always talking to each other about potential shows in and out of the university neighborhood. Members of the band helped lay the groundwork for The Ark and The Deli, two off-campus music house venues, he said. “There’s been a lot of casting things out in a net, seeing what catches, and distributing it to whatever
feels right,” Phelan said. Though it may seem daunting to be that involved, the band has stuck together for the music they love. “It’s a good outlet for all of us because we all really like aggressive punk music,” said Marcy, a junior in the sound recording and technology program at Setnor. Despite its relatively humble beginning, the band continues to reach for new heights. Madam Ravine made waves with its early February release of “3 Songs,” which appropriately consists of three songs. While it’s the first time these have seen a release, the songs have been around the band’s setlists for quite some time. “We had a lot more emphasis on playing shows than getting in the studio at the beginning,” Wittman said. Wittman’s flavor-infused drumming and a catchy riff from Marcy in “Now What,” the first track, helps get the song right to the point. “Corduroy” is a high-energy piece that brings listeners back to the days of their rebellious youth. Finally, “Rebrand” starts as a slow burn with just Cinski’s vocals and a riff from Marcy, but crescendos into a chorus that maintains the energy throughout the rest of the song that wraps up the EP. Beyond these tracks, the band worked with Andrew Maury, a producer and musical engineer who has a residency at SU. He has worked with mainstream artists such as Lizzo, Shawn Mendes and Post Malone, according to his website. The band shows no signs of slowing down, continuing to book and play shows. “We play music we like, and if you like it too, perfect,” Wittman said. dybrant@syr.edu
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appeel contours of long, mercurial seasons. In trying to distinguish their respective voices, the duo is loath to criticize Boeheim’s decisions or errors players made — they understand Boeheim knows more about his team and both made plenty of mistakes when they played. They’re “100% behind Syracuse,” Shackleford said, and toe a careful line of analyzing and providing critical insights on SU without becoming backseat coaches or being too overtly negative — or positive — about athletes. As former players, Bouie and Shackleford see things outside fans might not, Shackleford said. They help viewers get a better idea of what it’s like to be in the locker room at halftime, how Boeheim handles certain situations and why some plays went the way they did. Together, they played 235 combined games for Syracuse in the 1970s, building an almost unmatched expertise. When Time Warner Cable was purchased by Charter Spectrum in 2015, Bouie and Shackleford, who then worked at Time Warner, were out of jobs. Eager to still be a voice on Syracuse basketball and “on-air” in some sense, Bouie decided to start a Facebook Live show. He texted Syracuse broadcaster Dan Tortora and from page 12
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that we would really struggle with,” Hillsman said. In her first SU start, Lewis nearly posted a triple-double — 16 points, eight rebounds and seven assists — in Syracuse’s season opener against Ohio. Despite Hillsman acknowledging Lewis as a “score-first” guard while Mangakahia is “pass-first,” SU’s offense didn’t significantly change from last year, Hillsman said, except for one difference: the angles of screens set for Lewis to create more space and initiate downhill drives, unlike Mangakahia, who thrived in tight quarters.
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But as Syracuse started to face tougher opponents, like then-No. 1 Oregon and thenNo. 3 Stanford, Lewis began to struggle. In an overtime loss to Green Bay on Nov. 30, she fouled out with 2:47 remaining and the Orange up by five. The Phoenix’s Lyndsey Robsen sunk a half-court heave at the buzzer to force overtime, and Lewis was forced to watch SU’s second-straight loss from the sidelines — one that dropped it out of the top-25 for good. “When she fouled out, it came back to bite her,” Cooper said. “That’s something that’s been in her head the rest of the year. She’s the type of person where once that happens, it won’t happen again.”
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asked him what equipment he needed. After spending about $1,500 — he already had an iPad to be the main camera — Bouie started the show with Brendan McDaniels, who he’d worked with previously at Time Warner. The original show aired on Thursdays. McDaniels and Bouie previewed upcoming games and broke down prior contests. The first episode aired from a living room-style set in Brockport, New York, on Dec. 21, 2017. Bouie and McDaniels delved into SU’s narrow win over Buffalo two days before and talked about the misconceptions of a team like Syracuse playing smaller schools and being expected to blow them out. “When we decided to do this we decided ‘Let’s do the living room scene. Let’s talk basketball like we’re in your living room,’” McDaniels says about 90 seconds into the inaugural show. About a minute after McDaniels finished his explanation of the show, Bouie mentioned SU alumni stay in touch, and he’s got a “host of them on speed dial.” He also said that Shackleford would be joining them in a few weeks. Originally, Shackleford was a call-in guest for the show — he didn’t live in the Rochester area like McDaniels and Bouie. McDaniels and Bouie were the anchors and, almost like a reporter in the field, Shackleford called in to offer his pieces. When Lewis had four fouls at the start of the fourth quarter at Boston College on Feb. 6, she knew she had to stay on the floor to help preserve a nine-point lead, she said. Lewis played conservative defense and opted for jumpers rather than drives in an eventual 89-79 win, the first of a five-game SU win streak in conference play. The Green Bay contest was her only foul-out of the season, despite finishing 11 games with four fouls each. Playing over 15 minutes per game more than last season, Lewis initially struggled with the workload — not knowing “how to recover the next day or the day after,” she said. But quickly, she learned the most effective method was simply staying off her feet, whether that came from Hillsman limiting how much she practiced or staying in bed all day. Lewis played all 40 minutes in eight of SU’s final 13 games. Whether it was hitting the game-winning layup with 4.6 seconds left against Virginia Tech on Jan. 30 or setting the pick for Emily Engstler’s buzzer-beating layup in an overtime win against then-No. 8 Florida State on Jan. 2, Lewis was the catalyst in turning around SU’s season. Of her team-high nine 20-point games, four came in the final eight contests of the year. “I’ve stepped my game up to a different level,” Lewis said. When Hillsman phoned Gary on Monday and told him Lewis made the All-ACC First Team, Gary yelled through the house. “We never would have thought that would happen,” he said. A year ago, Gary could tell Lewis was “damaged” during their film reviews over the phone — sessions she was “high-spirited” for this season. Lewis came into this season looking to prove herself. Even after a career year, she still feels she has more. “I don’t think I’m getting the respect I deserve but it’s nothing I’m not used to,” Lewis said. “I’ve always played with a chip on my shoulder, even in high school, and I’m going to continue to do it.” ddschnei@syr.edu
KIARA LEWIS averaged 17.6 points and five assists in the regular season, earning her first team All-ACC status as a redshirt junior. elizabeth billman asst. photo editor
He became a consistent, but physically distant, voice on the show. So when McDaniels and his wife had their third child in 2018 and he didn’t have the time to continue hosting, Shackleford was a natural replacement. “Dale and I, we always got along well as teammates and we’re a little bit different, basketball-wise,” Bouie said, “but our perspectives complement one another. So that was a whole thing. I didn’t want someone to have the same opinion about everything as I did, because that would be boring.” After the Orange’s UNC loss, at the two-minute mark of the episode, the conversation turned toward Bourama Sidibe. The oft-maligned center turned in a 17-point, 15-rebound game against the Tar Heels in which he blocked six shots in the middle of the 2-3 zone. “Let’s talk about the man, the myth, the legend,” Bouie said, turning left toward Shackleford, pausing, “in the post.” “Well, you know what? People have been on Bourama Sidibe’s case all year, all last year, and the last couple games, without him in there, Syracuse would be getting blown out of these games,” Shackleford replied. “Anybody who says the young man can’t play has got to be out of their mind,” Shackleford said a few moments later. from page 12
midfield later against Binghamton, solidifying one of the most potent offenses in the country. Pat March, hired in the offseason as the new offensive coordinator, integrated an approach that starts with alley dodges and relies on Syracuse’s midfield core to initiate. Through four games, 10 of Syracuse’s 42 midfield goals have come from the second line, giving No. 1 Syracuse (4-0) two lines capable of scoring in bunches entering Saturday’s matchup against Johns Hopkins. “Obviously the first line is tremendous and everyone knows them — being AllAmericans and just big-name guys like that, guys that can score whenever they want pretty much,” Quinn said. “So being able to put us on there and produce and be more of a threat I think is great and it gives those guys a little bit of a rest.” Through the opening games, most of the midfield attention has been directed toward Syracuse’s top line of Jamie Trimboli, Tucker Dordevic and Brendan Curry. Each has a 5-goal game under their belt, and after last Friday’s victory over then-No. 19 Hobart, Statesmen head coach Greg Raymond called the Orange’s group the best midfield in the country. But what’s complemented that group is the line of Lipka, Quinn and Jacob Buttermore. Last year, they patrolled the secondary grouping along with now-attack Griffin Cook and now-graduated Pat Carlin. The group scored 42 goals despite Quinn dealing with finger and groin injuries and playing in just eight games. Buttermore led with 20 and Lipka chipped in 14. The young line carried promise and an ability to complement Syracuse’s top midfield trio in 2020. “I think that we made a conscious effort to play younger players a couple years ago,” head coach John Desko said on Jan. 7’s media day. This season, the continuity’s combined
The conversation flowed out of that exchange into Bouie actually explaining what went well for Sidibe in the game, the duo effortlessly showing why “Orange Appeel” works. The genuine interactions between two former teammates on air, coupled with an immense passion for what they’re talking about, all over the backdrop of immense knowledge of the subject at hand propelled the show from a passion project into a regularly followed show. It started with them asking friends and family to like the Facebook page, hitting up local businesses and having occasional guests — including Dennis DuVal and Jimmy Lee — to raise its profile. There’s still room to tap into Syracuse basketball’s inherent and rabid following, and Bouie and Shackleford have an easier job than most, of course. More guests and more travel to road games are high on their list of priorities for the future. Regardless, after a Syracuse game, “Orange Appeel” will invariably go live, its two co-hosts and friends sharing their views on SU hoops. “We can literally walk in the door, turn the mic on and start talking about it,” Bouie said. — Disclaimer: The D.O. and Orange Appeel previously had a business partnership. No money was exchanged. aegraham@syr.edu | @A_E_Graham
with different drills initiated by March to create opportunities after dodges. In one drill, a midfielder and defender split away from a cone and race toward opposite lines. The midfielder must execute in time to spin around, catch a pass and shoot before the defender returns, and hand placement is key to the quick release time. In another workout, the middies honed primary and secondary dodges by starting at different angles with the cones too, ensuring a dodge for every angle in the offensive zone is covered. “I would say a lot of the initiation comes from us, definitely,” Quinn said. “And I think all of us middies dodge hard and dodge well.” After Chase Scanlan notched seven goals against Colgate, defenses adjusted. A lot of times, Quinn said, opponents would compensate, forced to decide which midfielder to leave open: in the inside or on the far alley. Quinn followed up his hat trick against the Raiders with a goal against Binghamton a week later, and Buttermore found twine along with Lipka, too. As the third quarter clock wound down against the Bearcats, the second line again patrolled the field. Buttermore set a pick and faded off toward the middle, but Quinn swung the ball behind X to Cook. He facedodged his Bearcat defender and sprinted toward the left side, paralleling Scanlan’s rotation up top. And because it was Scanlan, Binghamton’s Teddy McLoughlin left the middle and shadowed the No. 22 too. “It’s a strong group of middies that you have to slide to,” Colgate head coach Matt Karweck said. “If you don’t, they’re going to hammer the ball to the back corner.” That’s exactly what Buttermore did. He sprinted into the opening created by the Binghamton slide, caught a pass from Lipka and fired a shot into the cage. With the Orange’s lead now nine, there was no need for fist pumps. Just light glove taps celebrating something that’s become normal for that line. arcrane@syr.edu | @CraneAndrew
DAVID LIPKA, a second-line midfielder, has scored two of the position’s 42 total goals for Syracuse this season. will fudge staff photographer
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Peeled back
Former stars give fans their take on SU men’s basketball
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Dale and I, we always got along well as teammates and we’re a little bit different, basketball-wise Roosevelt Bouie
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itting alone at a table in front of a fireplace in a Fayetteville hotel lobby on Feb. 29, Roosevelt Bouie slid on his glasses, looked into his iPad camera to see it was recording, then started the show. “Syracuse University versus University of North Carolina. This is Orange Appeel coming to you from the Craftsman Inn and Suites,” Bouie said. His co-host slid into the shot, wearing a gray sport coat over a white Nike shirt, taking the seat to Bouie’s left. “I’m Roosevelt Bouie, this is Dale Shackleford.” Following the Orange’s 13-point loss to the Tar Heels,
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it was time for another installment of the duo’s Facebook Live show, “Orange Appeel,” currently hosted by the former teammates and dedicated to all things Syracuse basketball. “We feel like sometimes people like to hear from ex-players,” Shackleford said. “People who have played for Coach Boeheim before. Not that Roosevelt and I are the greatest, but you know, a different view on a game from someone other than the coach is interesting to people.” The Shackleford-Bouie Syracuse basketball braintrust has grown “Orange Appeel” from its initial viewership of roughly 25 live viewers and a few hundred after the fact, to nearly 1,400 between live broadcasts and episodes watched afterward. The hosts lean on their playing experiences to contextualize the see appeel page 10
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Lewis living up to lofty expectations 2nd midfield line steps up for No. 1 Syracuse By David Schneidman staff writer
When Tiana Mangakahia announced she would return to Syracuse for her senior season last April, it meant Kiara Lewis would again back her up. Lewis’ father, Gary, remembered telling his daughter they had to accept that playing in the WNBA was “questionable.” Three months later, on Aug. 1, 2019, Mangakahia revealed she was diagnosed with breast cancer. She would miss the entire 2019-20 season. Lewis, who sat out a year due to NCAA transfer rules in 2017-18 and then played behind Mangakahia as a
backup, would finally get her chance to start. At the Orange’s media day, less than a month before the start of the 2019-20 season, Hillsman and SU’s players were questioned about Lewis’ ability to replace one of the nation’s top point guards. “Not concerned at all,” Hillsman said. Lewis followed that up with, “it’s my time.” She was right. She proved herself as Syracuse’s (15-14, 9-9 Atlantic Coast) best player, one of the top talents in the conference and a WNBA prospect. The All-ACC first-team selection and two-time College Sports Madness national
player of the week led the Orange with 17.9 points and five assists per game while ranking 11th in the nation with 1,090 minutes played (37.6 per game). SU hasn’t met its usual expectations this season — a near .500 record and a resume that will fall short of an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament — but with SU’s NCAA tournament hopes reliant on an ACC tournament run, Lewis is a reason Hillsman still has confidence — for this week and for the future. “We’re here right now because she stepped into a role and filled some shoes that people thought see lewis page 10
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For 30 seconds, Syracuse’s secondline midfielders had hinted at a goal. They circled the ball around the Colgate zone during the Feb. 7 season opener, extending sticks to earn resets and beating the Raiders to open alleys. First, Lipka fired a lefty shot wide. Then, his pass into the middle bounced around in a scramble before another SU player scooped up the ground ball. Each pass lacked a final touch,
and when the ball reached Lucas Quinn, this time on SU’s third chance of the possession, the junior midfielder flicked a shot past Raiders goalie Sam Collins — extending Syracuse’s lead to two. Quinn sprinted toward the end zone, jumped in the air and pumped his right fist at his unit’s first goal of the year. “Our depth is pretty incredible,” Quinn said afterward. Syracuse scored 21 goals on Collins and added 17 a week see midfield page 10