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The city of Syracuse is moving closer to installing ShotSpotter, a gunshot detection sensor, throughout the city after the Common Council approved it.

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Anton Ninno and other Syracuse city school teachers have been helping kids meet new people and discover new ideas through an after-school chess club.

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Travel ban draws criticism

By Satoshi Sugiyama and Delaney Van Way asst. news editors

President Donald Trump’s modified version of his controversial executive order banning entry from certain countries has drawn ire from Syracuse University community members.

Trump signed a new executive order on Monday that puts a hold on issuing visas for citizens of six countries: Iran, Yemen, Syria, Somalia, Libya and Sudan for 90 days, and suspends the United States’ refugee program for 120 days.

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The pending I-81 replacement project could have a major impact on the Syracuse economy. Business leaders in the city and surrounding region are divided about what they believe is the best option for the highway. wasim ahmad staff photographer

Businesses face uncertainty with pending I-81 changes

By Delaney Van Wey asst. news editor

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n the 400 block of North Salina Street’s sidewalk, perspective is everything.

On the horizon, just a glance up, looms what is perhaps the most prominent feature of the city: Interstate 81.

The noise — a near constant rumble — of the nearly 100,000 cars that pass over the highway every day is inescapable.

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Business along North Salina Street may see many changes as a result of I-81 renovations. wasim ahmad staff photographer

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Mahoney calls for merger, increased dialogue

By Satoshi Sugiyama asst. news editor

Onondaga county residents are ready to have a discussion about merging the Syracuse and Onondaga County governments without forging a divide, Onondaga County Executive Joanie Mahoney said during her State of the County address Tuesday evening.

“I just hope that if we have good information and we understand that it is possible and what

we are talking about it is really the best antidote to some of the rhetoric that has caused the division,” Mahoney said. “There really shouldn’t be bickering between the county and the city, certainly not over ideas.”

Speaking in front of a crowd of roughly 100 people at Carrier Theater in downtown Syracuse, Mahoney again expressed her clear support for the merger to move forward.

The citizen group Consensus

in February released a report last month detailing its final recommendations on merging the city of Syracuse and Onondaga County governments. The report also proposed a new legislative body with 29 district and four at-large representatives.

The report calls for a referendum to be held this year and for the government consolidation transition to begin in 2018. But Linda Ervin, floor leader and representative for the Onondaga

County Legislature’s 17th district, previously said the legislature is not expecting to hold a referendum this year.

Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner in February blasted Consensus’ report on the merger as “more a plan for the worst form of corporate looting.”

Nevertheless, during her address Tuesday, Mahoney urged the referendum to take place, adding that she trusts the voters.

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Number of days it took Trump to sign a new travel ban after the first one was shot down by an appeals court

The order is a less severe version of his Jan. 27 ban on travel, with Iraq no longer included as one of the banned countries. While the first ban went into effect immediately, the new order’s rules will begin on March 16. The new rules apply for future visa applicants, also, but those who currently have a valid visa to enter the U.S. are not subjected to travel restriction.

Individuals who have permanent resident status are also exempt from the new rules, unlike the first order.

The new order was issued after the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals blocked enforcement of the original travel ban, upholding an earlier decision made by a federal judge in Seattle.

SU Vice Chancellor and Provost Michele Wheatly in an email to the campus community Tuesday said the university’s office of the general counsel is reviewing the new order. Wheatly added that the office’s attorneys and staff members from the Slutzker Center for International Services are still available to give advice to SU students, faculty and staff affected by the new executive order.

Despite the executive order’s changes, some in the SU community still feel the order violates the principles of the U.S. “When you sign an executive order, you’re saying let them be killed,” said Nada Odeh, an SU graduate student in the museum studies program who fled Syria in 2012 with her family. see executive

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Alum’s protein muffin venture grows in 1st year

By Chloe Greenwald staff writer

In 2015, Syracuse alumnus Zach Schleien and his mother, Debbie, began a Kickstarter page to raise money for his startup company, LIFT Protein Muffins.

In January of this year, the business launched. Since then, they have moved production to a co-packer in Westchester County, New York, and started selling to people outside their inner circle.

During the day, Schleien works full-time for Johnson & Johnson in the IT Leadership Development Program and works on his business for about three to five hours each night when he gets home.

His mother doubles as his business partner and covers most of the day-to-day operations like answering phone calls. The two of them are responsible for all aspects of the business, from fulfilling orders to writing content on social media and marketing. As the company’s only current employees, the pair has to devote ample time and effort in order for the business to succeed.

Schleien began working on the idea for company about two and a half years ago. His target for LIFT has always been the on-the-go person who may not have time to cook, but wants a healthy meal. That goal has never changed, but achieving it has evolved immensely since the company launched.

“The vision has always been to deliver a delicious and healthy product that’s convenient,” Schleien said.

Over the past year, they have

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ZACH SCHLEIEN started LIFT protein muffins as a Kickstarter venture in September 2015. His mom, who helped start the company, has supported him the whole time. courtesy of zach schleien

been focused on promoting the company on social media and connecting with other paleo influencers. Their current priority is sales and Schleien emphasized the focus that is required to run a business.

Though he can only devote a finite number of hours to the company each night, he feels it is important to consistently check that he is working toward his main goal.

“If you’re constantly making gains, you’ll get closer and closer,” Schleien said about the growth of LIFT. LIFT Protein Muffins are currently sold online for $5 a piece.

Schleien plans to continue selling online-only for now and hopes to move to retail locations in the future. He also hopes to expand his consumer circle and possibly take on another employee. Schlei-

en even spoke about potentially releasing new flavors or new products beside muffins.

“It’s really important to be passionate about what you’re working on … also to partner with someone you can trust,” Schleien said. “Fortunately, my mom has been essential in getting to where we are today.” cjgreenw@syr.edu

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Deteriorating The pending renovations to I-81 come at a time where the highway’s infrastructure is rough.

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news to know Here’s a round-up of the biggest news happening around the world right now: U.S. PRIVATE EYES WikiLeaks released a nearly 9,000page disclosure on the hacking capacity of the CIA. The documents were obtained at the CIA’s center in Langley, Virginia. They include information on malware intended to target smartphones, TVs and computer operating systems. source: fox news

FIRST TO SUE Hawaii state attorneys said Tuesday they intend to ask a federal judge to block the implementation of President Donald Trump’s new executive order on immigration. The order bans people from six countries from entering the U.S. for 90 days.

Both sides in the case have asked for a tight briefing schedule to have the request heard before the order goes into effect on March 16.

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PEPPIE CALVAR, the director of the Hendricks Chapel Choir, leads the choir Tuesday night during the Setnor School of Music Ensemble Series. In addition to the choir, the Syracuse University Symphony Orchestra also performed at Tuesday’s concert under the direction of professor James Tapia. The concert was held at the Setnor Auditorium.

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Detection sensors could reduce crime

By Jessica Zuk staff writer

Amid a time of high crime rates in the city of Syracuse, and after a year where the city saw its highest number of homicides on record, Syracuse will likely soon have ShotSpotter, a gunshot detection sensor.

ShotSpotter is a series of sensors used by police that are able to track, record and monitor gunshots in a particular area. The shots are recorded and transferred to police in the form of coordinates to indicate the precise location of a shot. The program will give the Syracuse Police Department more accurate data regarding the number of gun-related incidents in the city.

The Common Council recently approved the program, which would cost up to $300,000, in a unanimous decision.

SPD Sgt. Richard Helterline said the city doesn’t have the system yet and that SPD doesn’t yet know when the sensors will be installed.

“There has been no determination as to where it will be placed within the city, other than an area with a high volume of shots-fired calls,” Helterline added.

Syracuse will install between 45-60 sensors within a threesquare mile radius in the city. The hope is the sensors will be installed as early as this spring. An audio file will be included when a shot is recorded through the system.

Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner during her State of the City address said April is the targeted time for the implementation in an

area with high gun violence.

According to ShotSpotter, for every homicide committed with a gun, there are more than 100 gunfire incidents.

ShotSpotter also claims the system covers 250 times the area of the typical point protection sensor.

The company has also branched into other ways of securing areas such as schools and college campuses by utilizing the immediate technology, per the website.

ShotSpotter is currently used in several cities across the United States, including in New York City, Chicago, Denver and Miami.

The ShotSpotter website showcases testimonials from several police chiefs around the country encouraging the use of ShotSpotter.

“Within 30 to 60 seconds, the information is released to a dispatcher. This is so accurate that the other night, ShotSpotter stated gunfire was located next to a tree in front of a certain house. The program can tell you the direction of a car based on the sensors,” Kansas City Police Chief Darryl Forte said in one testimonial.

Additionally, Milwaukee Police Captain David Salazar said in a separate testimonial that ShotSpotter has improved police and community relations in Milwaukee.

“Sometimes a community feels like police don’t care about them or certain parts of the city,” Salazar said. “This technology alerts us about things that aren’t necessarily reported … so we’re showing up and now the community knows we do care.” jzuk01@syr.edu

Jewish center gets 3rd threat this year

By Sam Ogozalek asst. news editor

The Jewish Community Center of Syracuse on Tuesday was locked down for the third time this year after receiving a telephone threat, according to Syracuse.com.

The center previously received two bomb threats in January. The center, which is located in DeWitt, did not have to be evacuated Tuesday, per Syracuse.com.

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At least 11 Jewish organizations nationwide received threats on Tuesday, according to ProPublica

New York state Gov. Andrew Cuomo released a statement Tuesday morning denouncing the threat.

“New York has always stood as a beacon of diversity and inclusion, and we will continue to stand united in the face of this virulent strain of hatred and anti-Semitism,” the governor said in the statement.

“The bomb threats at the Brighton and DeWitt Jewish Community Centers and the Anti-Defamation League headquarters in Manhattan mark the latest pointed assault on the values we hold dear.”

Several other Jewish centers across the U.S. also received threats Tuesday, including ones in Atlanta, Chicago, Boston, New York City and Washington, D.C. In a bipartisan letter, all 100 members of the

U.S. Senate on Tuesday called on Trump to take more action to prevent the continuing threats.

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer on Tuesday condemned the threats.

“We denounce these latest anti-Semitic and hateful threats in the strongest terms,” he said at his press briefing. “… As long as they do continue, we will continue to condemn them and look at ways in which we can stop them.”

Cuomo in his statement directed the New York State Police to work with federal and local authorities to investigate the threat at the Jewish Community Center of Syracuse and other similar threats made Tuesday to a separate JCC and a Jewish civil rights organization in the state.

The Louis S. Wolk Jewish Community Center of Greater Rochester was evacuated Tuesday morning, after also receiving a threat, according to The Democrat and Chronicle.

The Anti-Defamation League’s Manhattan office — the organization’s national headquarters — was evacuated Tuesday after receiving a threat, according to NBC News.

In 2017, the Jewish Federations of North America has counted 98 threats made across the country to JCCs and Jewish Day schools, per NBC News.

Cuomo also said in the statement any threat against JCCs across New York is an attack “on all of us.”

“These incidents go against every tenet of our state’s tradition, and we will continue to send a strong message that New York has zero tolerance for intolerance,” he said in the statement. sfogozal@syr.edu

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BUSINESS

INCLUSIVE DESIGN Nike will release a highperformance hijab in spring 2018 for Muslim women athletes. The Nike Pro Hijab was inspired by a Saudi Arabian Olympic runner and an Emirati Olympic weightlifter.

Nike’s design is currently being used by a few Muslim women in the Persian Gulf region. source: usa today

WORLD

TAKING OVER Iraqi forces said they recaptured government buildings in western Mosul from the Islamic State. This marks an advance into the heart of their self-proclaimed caliphate.

Commanders said there was limited resistance, but there were reports of intense counterattacks.

Mosul is the last major city the Islamic State has control of in Iraq. source: the washington post

REBELS ATTACK Thirty people were killed in eastern Myanmar Monday during a rebel group’s attack. This escalates the conflict that has forced tens of thousands of refugees to flee into China. The rebel group attacked a hotel, casinos and police and army posts and is composed of members of an ethnic Chinese group that has strong ties to China. More than half of the bodies were unidentifiable due to burns. source: the new york times

MURDERS AT THE ZOO Poachers shot and killed an African rhino at a zoo in France. They used a chainsaw to cut off one of his horns, which are sold for high prices on the black market. On average, 100 African rhinos are killed every month in the wild. This is thought to be the first time poachers targeted a rhino in a European zoo. source: bbc news

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beyond her business’ walls and how it could affect her neighborhood, it’s evident that what she wants is a clearer perspective.

“We want facts. We don’t want to hear a lot of drama,” Di Scenna said. “We just want to hear facts.”

Currently, though, facts and concrete information about the future of I-81 are hard to come by.

The next step for the replacement of I-81 is a draft environmental impact study, which would provide more details about the various alternatives for replacing the aging highway, but that is on hold while an independent study is conducted by a consulting firm.

In the meantime, central New York business leaders are working off of a variety of studies and coming to very different conclusions about the possible impacts of the project. Much of that division appears to stem from a fear of the unknown, as no one can be completely certain of the effects the reconstruction alternatives will have.

“I would say the reality is that nobody has a crystal ball,” said Robert Shibley, dean of the School of Architecture and Planning at the State University of New York at Buffalo. “But if you imagine that it’s valuable to think big, and imagine the very best for your city … then the restoration of divided neighborhoods by major highway systems is a really good idea.”

While the community grid and the viaduct rebuild appeared to be the final two options for the project, others are now back on the table. The community grid alternative would bring the elevated section of the viaduct down to street level, while the viaduct rebuild would bring the existing viaduct higher and widen it by 16 feet, according to the New York State Department of Transportation.

There’s also a fear among both people in the city and suburban communities surrounding Syracuse of repeating the same mistakes made when I-81 was first built in the 1960s.

Since then, people have said the Southside of Syracuse has been cut off from the rest of the city and its economic recovery. Business leaders on the Northside of Syracuse and the towns north of the city, including Salina, are now afraid of the same thing happening to them.

Businesses in the city and, particularly, businesses on the Northside, generally advocate for the community grid option.

Di Scenna, who has been active in I-81 discussions and is a proponent of the community grid, said, “I think the thing is, is that we’re looking for if it’s possible to go back to the drawing board for the first 81 and say ‘Can we fix this?’”

But for Mark Nicotra, the town supervisor of Salina for the last 10 years, the answer isn’t so simple. While he said he’s hopeful a common solution can be reached for the project, he wants the region to remember that the suburbs, which have lost the manufacturing jobs they relied on, are now primarily servicebased, which requires people coming to them.

For the last 50 years, I-81’s current structure has shaped how the outlying areas have grown.

“Salina was built up around access, access to the highway,” Nicotra said. “You eliminate that access going forward, it will have, I feel, a huge detriment in not only the town itself but our ability to maintain the industry that we have here.”

Nicotra stressed that the region as a whole, not just the city or the county, must ultimately make the decision, unlike when the state made the final decisions on the

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Mahoney during her speech referenced an anonymous Onondaga County official who claimed, “You have over 500 officials in Onondaga County. To my knowledge one supports this. That, of course, is the county executive.”

“Can I just get a get quick show of hands, how many people think we need 500 officials to prorate the Onondaga County government? You can get from one side of the county to the other in the next 20 minutes. … It’s ridiculous,” Mahoney said, drawing chuckles and applause from the audience.

Some residents in Syracuse have opposed the consolidation, saying the city would lack representation in a new city-county government, and that county residents would have substantial power over city residents and control decision-making.

Responding to those concerns, Mahoney

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construction of I-81 in the 1960s.

Continued accessibility was a major concern for many businesspeople from various parts of the region. Nicotra said the proximity to the interstate system is attractive to businesses, adding that the proximity is part of the reason why Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits built their central New York distribution hub in east Salina.

Some business owners in the city were also concerned about the accessibility of the city for their client bases in the suburbs.

Petit Jean P. Goodman, the owner of Sweet on Chocolate in Armory Square, and Jim Bright, owner of Dunk & Bright Furniture on South Salina Street, both said they were concerned about losing customers who would be dissuaded to travel to them because of a street-level portion of I-81. While the NYSDOT has not decided what exactly this alternative would look like, Bright and Goodman said they are concerned the decrease in speed might convince people to stay home.

Bright, who insisted that he was not against any particular option, said he was wary of any plan that would limit the high-speed access to his showroom, his only location, which his family has expanded over the last 90 years.

primarily support the community grid option, which they said will hopefully breathe new life into the city’s economy, they are concerned about the “common features” of both plans.

These features include widening I-81 north of Interstate 690, realigning Butternut Street bridge to connect with Franklin Square, adding a new connection between I-81 and I-690 and changing three other important bridges that currently pass over I-81, according to the NYSDOT’s project scoping report.

These changes would most likely lead to the elimination of some roads, buildings and access points on the Northside.

George Angeloro, a fourth generation business and land owner on the Northside, and a member of the Northside Business Partnership’s board of directors, said he is particularly concerned about the realignment of the Butternut Street bridge. Currently, the bridge is a direct connection between downtown Syracuse and the Little Italy district of the Northside. The proposed changes would move it to connect with Genant Drive and Franklin Square rather than downtown.

While approximately 11,000 cars currently utilize the bridge per day, Angeloro said, traffic

We don’t want to hear a lot of drama. We just want to hear facts.

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Goodman, who said he was vehemently against the boulevard, said he didn’t agree with opponents of the viaduct alternative, adding that it would be detrimental to leave the viaduct the way it is. He pointed to other cities with elevated highways, including Worcester, Massachusetts, as proof that they can be successful.

“Why can those cities do it and we can’t?”

Goodman asked. “It just — it boggles my mind.”

Business leaders in villages and towns west of Syracuse are concerned about the possible effects a community grid option would have, as well, but because they believe traffic might be forced to pass through their communities if I-81 is rerouted east around the city.

Steve White, the owner of White & White Antiques, Inc. in Skaneateles, said he thinks trucks carrying garbage from New York City heading to landfills in Seneca Falls will avoid taking I-81 if they have to go more slowly or take a longer route toward DeWitt.

This is not the first time Skaneateles has dealt with huge trucks rumbling by, White said. The issue started about 27 years ago, White said, and the wear and tear of the traffic forced him to replace his sewer hookup twice.

The trucks also add to noise and air pollution in the village, which can make the area less attractive to tourists, a major source of village revenue.

White added that he doesn’t expect the state to work to prevent trucks from passing through the town. The trucks only stopped in 2010 after Seneca Meadows, the private landfill in Seneca Falls, issued a rule that their trucks could not go through the small towns, not after interference from the state.

“The Department of Transportation has been spectacularly unhelpful,” White said.

“They will not do anything for us.”

Business owners in the city and on the Northside have concerns about the state’s plans for their communities as well. While they

would decrease to about 1,500 cars per day if the bridge were moved. This could be detrimental to the community, Angeloro said.

“It will make it significantly harder for those who want to come to the Northside to make their way there,” Angeloro said.

Even though it might be easy to draw a line in the sand between the needs of the suburbs and the city, experts and locals have said that the two are intertwined. They said they see the future of metropolitan areas as a thriving city whose prosperity ripples out into the surrounding communities. For Dave Campbell, the owner of Davco Performance Automotive on the Northside, this means slowing down traffic and getting people and businesses to come back to the city.

“When you have a viable and vibrant downtown area, which it historically has been up until the last 20 years, it has historically been the … economic engine of the area,” Campbell said.

Currently, all of the options for I-81 are still on the table as Gov. Andrew Cuomo called for an independent review of available information, which should be completed by the summer.

Like the original construction of the interstate, the changes made next will have an impact for the next 50 or more years, said Evan Iacobucci, a Ph.D. student of planning and public policy at Rutgers University. He said while no single change could create a “utopia,” setting the tone for the future is what’s at stake currently in Syracuse.

Iacobucci, who has extensively studied similar infrastructure issues in Buffalo, New York, said he recognizes the division among business owners, but moving the region forward and out of extreme poverty may require some sacrifices.

“If we are going to have a more equitable society, something is going to have to change,” he said. “And it probably doesn’t mean that (suburban) people’s lives have to get worse.”

said there is “not a single thing” in the Consensus report that will “spell disaster for anyone,” and that people should see it as an opportunity rather than a threat.

“Those who tell you that this is a hammer from above and we will either do it or we will have our money taken away from us are either they didn’t read (the report) … or they read it and they are purposefully misleading you,” she said.

Pushing the merger effort, Mahoney pointed out the duplicity of services provided by the Syracuse Industrial Development Agency and Onondaga County Industrial Development Agency in providing tax waivers. She recommended the creation of a new economic development agency, whose members are elected by both the mayor and county legislature chair.

Mahoney touched on the city IDA’s recent approval of tax breaks on a development project on South Crouse Avenue, which would include the demolition of several businesses — including the popular student

bars Hungry Chuck’s and the Orange Crate Brewing Co., commonly known as Lucy’s — and the construction of an eight-story “multi-use building.” She said the tax break money comes from county tax dollars but there was no conversation between the agency and the county government, inferring a lack of transparency.

The final report also recommended consolidation of the Syracuse Police Department and the Onondaga County Sheriff’s Office, the unification of village and town courts to establish a regional court system, as well as the reduction and redrawing of service areas for fire departments, among other things.

Acknowledging the merger discussion is “tough,” Mahoney concluded her speech by saying she has a desire to have an open, honest dialogue about the future.

“I am just requesting that we dial down this poisonous dialogue and stop purposefully misrepresenting the facts,” Mahoney said.

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executive order On Friday, Odeh held an event in honor of Bassel Shehada, an SU student killed while filming a documentary in 2012 during a Syrian government attack in Homs. She said this new ban is a dishonor to people like Shehada who have been killed senselessly in war.

Odeh said she still believes refugees must be welcome to enter the U.S. if the world is going to help stop the Syrian government from committing violence throughout the Middle Eastern country.

“It’s either killing people in their lands or killing all the dreams that they have for a new life,” she said.

Another difference between the previous executive order and the one issued Monday was the removal of language about “religious minorities.” That language is part of what courts used to block the first executive order because it appeared to give priority to Christian refugees. Many said this showed the order was targeting Muslims, despite the administration’s denial.

Mehrzad Boroujerdi, political science department chair at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, said the new rule is an improvement compared to Trump’s initial order, pointing out that the older version of the rule banned an Iraqi translator who worked for the U.S. Army from entering the U.S. Still, he added the new rule is on shaky legal ground and described it as still being a Muslim ban.

Lee Gelernt, deputy director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s national Immigrants’ Rights Project, told “Meet The Press Daily” on MSNBC Monday the ACLU will file a lawsuit.

Osamah Khalil, assistant professor of history at Maxwell, said in an email the ban is not driven by national security concerns. With this new ban, Khalil said the Trump administration effectively admitted his initial order was “hastily crafted and implemented in an incompetent manner” to cause disruption to individuals entering the U.S. with legal and valid visas, green cards and passports.

The effectiveness of the original travel ban in preventing terrorism was contested, even among government agencies. After the first ban was enforced, the Associated Press obtained an internal Department of Homeland Security assessment validating citizenship as an “unlikely indicator” in determining terrorist threats to the U.S. Rouzbeh Berton, a Ph.D. candidate in civil and environmental engineering from Iran, said the new order doesn’t affect him much. His parents were expected to attend his graduation this May and see him for the first time since he came to the U.S. in 2009. But since Monday’s executive order still bans issuing new visas for Iranian citizens for 90 days starting March 16, there is still not enough time to secure travel visas for the trip.

Berton said he is planning to go back to Iran or go to other countries to unite with his parents, adding that he is planning to leave the country after getting his degree instead of looking for job opportunities in the U.S. When Berton, who had a beard until recently, was at Destiny USA about a month ago, he said he was called “one of those jihadis” by another man.

“I had a long beard before and nobody told me anything … but it was interesting for the first time after eight years I am in this city I had that experience,” Berton said. “ … I was so scared that when I came back home I just shaved my entire beard because I did not want to lose my life.”

Berton said he specifically chose to attend graduate school in the U.S. because of the country’s tradition in welcoming immigrants and appreciating their contribution. But after Trump became president he said he no longer feels safe to go outside and thinks the way people look at foreigners has changed.

“I don’t think this country is safe anymore for immigrants,” Berton said.

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Districts making progress in closing racial gap, but need to do more

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hen a student in a Syracuse or Rochester public school walks into a classroom, they are more likely than not to have a white teacher. But the students themselves are more likely to be a person of color. This racial gap can limit a student’s growth, which is why districts with large minority populations should strive for teacher diversity rather than strictly hiring on a merit-only basis.

The Rochester City School District is in the midst of hiring season for the next school year, and is pushing to add more teachers with diverse backgrounds to classrooms. District officials have plans to travel as far as Puerto Rico to recruit teachers of color, according to Syracuse.com. The Syracuse City School District is making similar efforts to increase diversity among its teachers.

In the Rochester district, 80 percent of teachers are white, while only 10 percent of students are, according to the New York State Education Department data website. The Syracuse City School District has a similar makeup: 75 percent of teachers are white, while 78 percent of students are of color, said Scott Persampieri, director of

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This diversity gap between students and teachers creates a divide from the very beginning of a student’s education that stifles progress and doesn’t empower them to overcome the low socioeconomic backgrounds they often come from. When students are able to work with a teacher who can relate to their own experiences and challenges, that student is more likely to stay engaged in the classroom, which benefits them in the long run.

Compare the demographics of these cities to nearby school districts in Onondaga County.

The Fayetteville-Manlius and Jamesville-Dewitt school districts just outside Syracuse both have a significant majority of white students, at 83 percent and 76 percent, respectively, according to the education department website.

While these differences are not problematic in and of themselves,

they may explain broader trends that do have a much bigger impact on a student’s educational progress. Syracuse public schools had a 61 percent graduation rate in 2016, according to the education department website, while Fayetteville-Manlius had a 95 percent graduation rate and Jamesville-Dewitt had a 90 percent graduation rate.

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of teachers in the Syracuse City School District are white

78% of students in the Syracuse City School District are of color

While the main hiring priority of any school district should be hiring the most qualified teachers who can build up their students the most, building a teaching workforce that

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is reflective of the community in which they work must be a goal for districts. The differences between these students and their teachers is obvious to all and helps no one.

While it may seem like an unnecessary effort, a more diverse workforce of teachers can significantly improve the learning environment. Having a diverse teacher workforce may be the most attainable method districts can take to raise graduation rates and general success within the district.

In addition to the Rochester City School District, the Syracuse City School District is also working to foster more diversity among its teachers. When teaching candidates are equally matched in terms of qualifications, diversity is one factor that can lead to the hiring decision, said Persampieri, the director of recruitment and selection for Syracuse City School District.

“We are committed to continuing to build a faculty and staff that better represents the student population we serve,” Persampieri said.

He added that the district is continuously looking to historically black colleges and universities as a source of new

teachers. The district also recently created the Urban Fellowship Program as a way of attracting prospective minority teachers to work in the district, Persampieri said. This program would provide a prospective teacher tuition for a master’s degree in education at Syracuse University. In exchange, that individual would teach in the district for five years.

“We believe this young initiative, will, over time, help us to slowly transform our teaching staff,” Persampieri said.

The racial gap between students and teachers in the Syracuse and Rochester school district is a complicated problem with no obvious solutions. But simply trying to hire the best teachers regardless of their race ignores the racial schisms that have led to the sharp divide in these districts. Both districts have taken measures closing the diversity gap.

But more can and should be done for the next generation.

Cole Jermyn is a junior environmental resource engineering major at SUNY-ESF. His column appears weekly. He can be reached at cdjermyn@syr.edu and followed on Twitter @Cjermyn8.

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Dialogue on merger must go further Onondaga County Executive Joanie Mahoney said Tuesday she hopes those divided about a plan to merge the governments of Syracuse and the county could foster a dialogue to mend those differences. That dialogue is essential to ensure that the everyday people who would be affected by a potential merge are aware of its effects.

Mahoney used her State of the County address on Tuesday as a platform to urge for a referendum on the merger to be held this year, which is what the most recent proposal regarding the merger calls for. Local officials starkly contrast on their views toward the merger, with Mahoney supporting it and Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner strongly opposing it.

But since a potential merger would affect many nitty-gritty elements of government that directly impact constituents, there should be a greater emphasis on community involvement in the merger discussion. Mahoney said during her address that she wants to “dial down this poisonous dialogue,” and called for a more constructive conversation about the merger.

It’s clear that there is still quite a bit of uncertainty regarding the plan, and increased dialogue in the form of community sessions would give citizens an opportunity to learn about and voice their opinions on the potential merger.

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The new edition of the merger report was released in February, and it’s important that community members understand the changes that were made to the report and the goals and logistics of the merger.

These meetings should extend not only to Syracuse residents but also residents of Onondaga County, who may be concerned

about potential changes to their districts because of the merger.

Previous community meetings about the merger were well attended, demonstrating that people care about the merger and are willing to show up and talk about it.

Mahoney’s hope for the referendum to be held this year seem far-fetched if there is not enough of a dialogue held during community meetings about the merger. It’s essential that the process of debating the merger is thorough and that all voices that want to be heard are indeed heard and received.

And if community members can come together to talk about their different perspectives on the potential merger, then politicians can, too. Mahoney and Miner — the two most influential leaders in the county — should also be able to set aside their differences and meet to discuss the merger. It’s beyond time for the county executive and the Syracuse mayor to have a dialogue themselves about the real benefits and consequences of a plan that could affect many of the people they were elected to represent.

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Reaching out Subsidies make eviction less likely among NY families

By William Muoio

What is FEPS?

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The Family Eviction Prevention Supplement is a public assistance program meant to prevent homelessness by providing subsidies to families

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amilies facing eviction in New York state are less likely to be evicted because of the state’s recent decision to increase a rent subsidy.

The Family Eviction Prevention Supplement program will provide additional funding to residents whose rent is above the regular shelter allowance owed to them. There have been no increases to the amount given to people in need since 2004, despite increased rent prices. This has led to many people being unable to afford where they live, and then getting evicted.

The state’s decision stems from a litigation case that was filed in December 2015 by the New York City-based Legal Aid Society, after four single mothers filed a lawsuit because they couldn’t afford to pay their rent.

New York state Assembly member Andrew Hevesi (D-Queens) is working on a statewide rent assistance program called Home Stability Support. The program has received support by 112 state assembly members, according to the HSS website.

Hevesi’s program aims to be a “bridge” between the current shelter allowance that families can have and a market rate that is fair for the area they live, per the website. With over 130,000 homeless children in New York state, according to a document provided by Home Stability Support, the proponents of the program believe this is a fight they need to tackle.

Susan Bahn, a senior attorney working at Legal Aid Society, who worked on the rent supplement case, said she believes Hevesi’s plan is the strongest proposal that would do the most good for the state.

“Rent subsidies are tied to the federal Fair Market Rents, which are set every year based on the census and cost of living increases. That program also has a one-year transitional benefit for everyone whose income goes up based on work or another source of income such as disability benefits so they don’t lose the entire subsidy right away,” Bahn said.

Bahn’s group, Legal Aid, has been fighting for adequate shelter allowances since 1987 when they began the Jiggetts v. Grinker case, she said. The case was closed in 2005, however, in the 18 years before the case was officially closed, “tens of thousands” of families received some type of rent assistance, Bahn said.

Through the Jiggetts v. Grinker case, the New York Court of Appeals ruled families with children must pay a reasonable amount for the housing. After the result of the case, the Family Eviction Prevention Supplement was created in 2005.

There are six requirements for eligibility for the Family Eviction Prevention Supplement. A parent, guardian or caretaker must be a recipient of regular cash assistance, or have a child under 18 years old, according to a fact sheet provided by the Legal Aid Society. Another requirement is that a person cannot owe more than $7,000 on rent and have no other way to pay the rent they are owed, per the fact sheet.

The amount of people in a household eligible for public assistance depends on whether they can receive either regular shelter or extra shelter allowances, according to the fact sheet. Currently, a family of three will receive $400 a month of shelter allowance and the Family Eviction Prevention Supplement will pay an additional $450. However, the new subsidy will mean that FEPS will pay $1,115 so the family could afford an apartment worth $1,515 a month, Bahn said.

This initiative has received support from Syracuse government officials, too. Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner supported the Home Stability Support program in November 2016, according to WAER. The Housing and Homeless Coalition of Central New York is leading the initiative in central New York, with similar programs going throughout the state.

The settlement between the state and the Legal Aid Society means that both sides have to give in pursuit of the greater good. The increase of supplements is not the only benefit of this agreement. It also increases the safety and security for those involved in domestic violence disputes.

“Victims of domestic violence will be able to obtain the supplement if they are fleeing their batterer or in limited circumstances they may be able to keep their apartment,” Bahn said.

The most important part of the agreement is that the funds will begin being distributed in the next few months, which is different from the Jiggetts case where funding was limited, Bahn said. These funds will be immediately available to help those facing homelessness and eviction. wgmuoio@syr.edu | @WillMuoio

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The students Anton Ninno teaches play chess in the Syracuse South Side Charter School as part of the chess club. Chess is more than an intellectual game — for these kids, chess is a way for them to meet people from other classes, grades and socioeconomic backgrounds. jacob greenfeld asst. photo editor

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mir Taylor and Shiloh Mantock were deadlocked. Both stared at the chessboard in front of them, only a few pieces left to their names. One owned a much more favorable fate, he just didn’t know it. They’re only kids playing an old man’s game.

All around them, other children galloped around the Southside Academy Charter School classroom to shelve bunches of chess sets. School ended more than an hour ago, and chess club was over now, too. It was time to go home. Still, both Taylor and Mantock hesitated, fearing they’d make a fatal move.

Anton Ninno had seen enough and made a lesson out of the standoff.

“If he doesn’t get a checkmate, he needs to start learning a new game,” Ninno said of the stalemate before telling the boys to pack it up, pointing out where Mantock had Taylor beat.

The teaching moment is commonplace for 65-yearold Ninno. He’s been running the chess club at Southside Charter since he got there 10 years ago, and did

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the same at Porter Elementary School on Syracuse’s Westside before he retired from teaching. Two years ago, Ninno launched the nonprofit Syracuse Chess. It’s an effort to pass the game onto the next generation, and in Syracuse, chess has been a rallying point for young and old alike.

This Sunday, Southside Charter will host the Onondaga County Chess Championship for three divisions that range from kindergarten through high school.

Participation isn’t limited to county residents. Local high schools have competitions monthly, but Ninno said it’s the biggest tournament of the year.

Ninno’s introduction of chess to the classroom began a couple decades back when he wanted to put a relatable spin on the medieval period for his students — the kings and queens made it easy. The kids expressed interest in the game and started playing during lunchtime. Soon, enough of them played to merit a club.

Now, chess club is much more than a history lesson. see ninno page 10

Light Work’s Urban Video Project showcases ethnography

By Caroline Colvin senior staff writer

Crinkled baby pictures. Bedtime legends worn with age. Falling-down childhood homes. Songs on drums or bagpipe passed down for decades.

These are the dreams and memories “Haunted Ethnography: New Experimental Documentary” brings to the Everson Museum of Art. The exhibition features films curated by Urban Video Project, the multimedia arm of Light Work gallery.

On Thursday, the Everson will host an indoor screening event to compliment museum-goers’ experience of the gallery, which opened Feb. 26, with a more in-depth look at these films. The event is co-sponsored by the Syracuse

University Humanities Center and will feature three additional films, an artists’ panel and a reception.

Each year, UVP picks a theme for its exhibitions. In the 2016 cycle, climate change wrestled with capitalism in “We Were Never Human.”

This year, “Interzones” is all about liminal states, ambiguity and places caught between the living and the dead. From this, “Haunted Ethnography” was born.

By old standards, ethnography — the study of rituals and norms of people from other cultures — was consumed as literature.

But even when ethnography transitioned to film, the genre remained problematic because of its history.

“Just as that culture is engaged in

this systematic violence, there is this desire to preserve on film some documentation of this vanishing culture,” said Anneka Herre, director of Urban Video Project and a lecturer at SU’s College of Visual and Performing Arts. “It presumably was undertaken with the best of intention. But it is, in fact, a kind of insidious extension of that colonial project itself.”

Filmmakers like Sky Hopinka, who is featured in the show, are challenging this history by redefining the genre and claiming the documentary form for themselves.

“Up until the present, there’s this strong tradition of ethnographers being white males who often are pointing the camera at people of color — or people that are ‘other’

— and explaining what they are and who they are,” said Hopinka, a member of the Ho-Chunk nation.

“So with my work, I’m definitely interested in complicating this idea of an ethnographic film or using it as a springboard to try to do something else.”

In “Jaaji Approx,” Hopinka traces his own indigenous heritage figuratively and literally. Dubbed with recordings of his father’s pow-wow stories and prayer songs, Hopinka revisits the ground his father traveled.

Hopinka’s pieces showcase shadow and light. Sprawling deserts, grass trails and mountains are held up against Midwest sunsets and glowing gas station signs. Poetry, written and performed, is spliced with neon cross-

es and flickering brushstrokes of color.

For Hopinka, the recordings, images and experiences that went into filmmaking helped him feel closer to his father. The creative process may have been like old ethnography, but there is no colonial project here.

“It’s about my family, my culture.

But I’m not trying to explain anything,” Hopinka said. “I’m not trying to teach anyone anything in the fashion that ethnographic film has tried to do.”

Carl Elsaesser, whose work is also featured in “Haunted Ethnography,” deals with getting reacquainted to a place in his film, “Vague Images at the Beginning and End of the Day.” The artist makes

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Pot, alcohol consumption has positive relationship to academic success

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eer, wine, vodka, weed or whatever — it shouldn’t be a surprise that come spring break, a lot of students across the country will forget their textbooks and focus on partying.

What may come as a surprise is that there might be a positive association between alcohol and pot consumption and academic success. Yes, you read that correctly.

According to a study published in the “British Medical Journal Open” last week, adolescents and young adults with high academic ability are more likely to drink alcohol regularly and use cannabis. The study followed more than 6,000 students. The researchers surveyed their alcohol, cigarette and cannabis use and then tested their academic skills-across the span of seven years.

While common sense may lead us to believe otherwise, this study offers an alternative viewpoint that every pot-head and Fireball-loving guy or gal would love to be

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ninno “Chess is an icon for intelligence — the thinking and planning ahead,” Ninno said.

“But what people don’t know is that chess is also a social game.”

Kids meet peers from other classes, grades and, considering it’s a charter school, other neighborhoods, too. It doesn’t matter what their race, gender, religion or financial status is. Ninno called chess a “common denominator and a leveler.”

Early on in its existence, Syracuse Chess got a $2,000 grant from Salt City Dishes, a crowdfunded community organization. Instructors could be paid to teach the game and sets were bought for donation to libraries and schools. It was necessary funding for a cause that’s been picking up steam since its inception.

Bob Nasiff, 74, just might pose the greatest

true: Regular alcohol and weed use may not necessarily mean less academic success.

A CNN article describing the study offers the voices of several experts, most of them partially surprised by the results. For instance, Pat Aloise-Young, a psychiatrist and professor at Colorado State University told CNN that the results of this study are often found to be the opposite in the United States when it comes to high school students, but the same for higher education. In other words, high academic performing American high school students drink less than their low performing peers, while American college students consume more alcohol than their non-college counterparts.

This sounds promising, but it’s important to note the drinking measures of this study are not on par with what many college students take part in — especially during spring break. The study found students with lower academic ability were much more likely to engage in hazardous drinking or binge drinking — the kind of drinking often seen on Walnut Place and around Miami, Cancun and Santa Barbara during spring break. So as far as this particular study goes, drinking can be related to academic capability in moderation.

As for the topic of pot, a 2015 study published in the “Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the United States of America” may bring some disappointing news to those who enjoy April 20 for more than just the warm weather. This study followed sets of twins — where one twin smoked weed and the other did not — over a 6-year period and tested their IQ levels. The

researchers reported that marijuana users had lower test scores than those twins who did not smoke pot.

As with the British study, this one also has a catch. Although the findings suggested marijuana use is linked to lower intelligence, there was no relationship found between amount or frequency of use and lower IQ scores. The drop in IQ scores over that sixyear period could be due to outside causes.

Whether it’s on a beach with a hundred other sunburned college kids, or on a relaxing Tuesday night in your room, we know that alcohol and marijuana use affect our bodies. To what extent they affect the mind, however, is apparently still in great debate.

Believe what you will, but at least now there’s scientific study that may help justify spring break activities.

chess mind around these parts. His training in the game began in high school, where it didn’t take long to grasp its complexities. The army stationed him in Hawaii, and when his duties allowed, he’d wander off base to challenge locals under the huts of Waikiki Beach.

Post-service, his rise through the U.S. Chess Federation ranks brought him to work there and status as a Master — a rating between 2200 and 2399 — and National Tournament Director. One vivid memory detailed a tournament in Iceland against Russians. When the federation made rules alterations, he was consulted.

A scene in chess movie “Searching for Bobby Fischer” draws from a time he kicked all the parents out of a tournament.

Playing chess often made Nasiff nervous because it was everything to him. For the past two decades, though, Nasiff has taken a step away from the board. Now he teaches others how to navigate it, whether it’s through volunteering with Ninno or offering paid lessons.

“The hope is it’ll be a lifetime hobby for them,” Nasiff said. “I’d rather have them get into sports or chess, obviously, than to drugs. And believe me, chess can be very addicting. I know personally.”

The first goal in Nasiff’s eyes is for the kids to have fun, and in that same light, for them to develop the skills to win. Winning is always more fun. Win or lose, though, Ninno sees chess as a vehicle to drive home a lesson in behavior. Nobody likes the kid who throws his pieces in disgust or celebrates with a touchdown dance, Ninno said.

Some players are a bit “too cool” for Ninno’s after school crew, so they play during lunch when fewer witnesses are around. Others embrace it, bursting into the room once the clock strikes four. Their backpacks clad with youthful and exuberant characters like the Minions and BB-8 don’t match the wisdom they display in tame games throughout the room.

But not all competitors outgrow the board.

Bobby Kunnath heads the chess club at the Institute of Technology at Syracuse Central. Students approached him four years ago with a desire to continue what they participated in during middle school. Kunnath has noticed it’s mostly kids who don’t normally excel on a basketball court — the bookworm and computer types — that join the club. The intellectual depth of the game is what seems to be attractive.

“It’s so complex that once you get into the game there are so many options available to you, and it doesn’t just depend on your moves but also on your partner’s moves,” Kunnath said.

A complex game, but the process of spreading it from generation to generation is rather simple. Teachers like Ninno, Nasiff and Kunnath, are the reason some kids are even introduced to chess.

For young sixth-grader Mantock, his favorite part about the club is just as simple.

“Playing chess.”

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the voyage to an abandoned farm where his grandfather grew up. On the way, he confronts unfamiliar second cousins, the South Dakota landscape and his sexuality.

In the same vein, “Project Gasbuggy” deals with the spookiness of a “dead-zone” nuclear site in New Mexico. The film is strung together with pastel archival footage — a medium at home in avant-garde films and ethnographic work.

Elsaesser explained that he was constantly roaming when he was working on the films back in 2014. After graduating from Hampshire College in 2011, he still hadn’t rooted himself in any city. Despite the difference in subject matter — a grandfather that’s just passed and a fracking site long since abandoned — Elsaesser’s search for self and empathy is present in both of his films.

“I was really invested in the idea of the self and the body that was more uprooted and traveling,” Elsaesser said. “These films encapsulate that experience of figuring out a self that tra-

verses through landscape, through the road, through history, through personal memory.”

The process of trying to figure it all out is where it can become “haunting” for Elsaesser.

“Thinking about these ideas of ‘haunting,’ these films present it as a thing that is ‘searched out for.’ Explored and never fully resolved. ‘Not over it,’” said Elsaesser. “And I don’t think it’s meant to be gotten over. It’s meant to continued to be sore, you know? Continued to be haunting and sore and painful. I want that.”

And finally, João Vieira Torres dissects family narratives in “Ghost Children” and puts a fresh spin on traditional ethnography in “Toré” when invited to film an indigenous tribe’s ritual. In “Toré,” Torres infuses the healthy, green lushness of rural Brazil with all kinds of music: wind rushing through the trees, crackly Tchaikovsky and indigenous percussion.

Supplementary films “Ghost Children,” “Vague Images” and “I’ll Remember You as You Were” are subtler, but watching them is the museum equivalent of flipping through family photo albums, scanning through home videos or coming home for the holidays. ccolvin@syr.edu

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Hello, Newman Nantucket native explores music as street performer

By Leah Meyers staff writer

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rowing up, Julia Newman watched as her grandma and older sister played piano. Early on she began taking piano and voice lessons herself, eventually getting involved with musical theater. It was in her junior year of high school that Newman began to write songs and teach herself guitar and ukulele, sparking her independent music career. From there, she began street performing in her hometown of Nantucket, Massachusetts, eventually booking night gigs at different restaurants around her town.

“To put yourself out there, in any way, is always scary,” Newman said. “There’s always going to be nights that are better than others, but to get positive feedback and to watch people enjoy your music is such a fantastic feeling.”

Newman, a senior television, radio and film major, stands out among other musicians her age because she categorizes her songs as folk — a genre often synonymous with music from her parents’ generation. However, depending on the song, the sound can alter and occasionally fall under the styles of country and pop as well. Though she hasn’t recorded yet, she is working on producing a few of her songs as her capstone project.

As a songwriter and artist, Newman’s inspiration comes from other songwriters and artists. Recently, the artist LP — which stands for Laura Pergolizzi — has captured her attention the most, but The Lumineers and Kacey Musgraves influence her songwriting as well.

“The way these artists can capture a story and sound through unique and brilliant songwriting is what I always strive for,” Newman said. “But also my inspiration comes from hearing music from my friends. Being exposed to different genres and styles is always important.”

As a common theme by many artists, it comes as no surprise that one of the biggest topics that Newman finds herself writing about is love and the various pains or pleasures that come with it. She also writes about family, different discoveries she makes, people she meets or her own life experiences. At times she combines songwriting with creative writing, making up her own stories.

With graduation looming in a few months, Newman is not quite yet sure how music is going to fit into her future, but she hopes to never stop writing and playing.

“If I could make a career as a songwriter or musician, that would be awesome. If I could fit in somewhere else in the music industry that would be great as well, or it could be kept more as a passion as I pursue other things. Just have to see how it works out,” Newman said.

Although she performs many of her own original songs, she plays the occasional cover, too. Her favorites include Kenny Chesney’s “Somewhere With You,” and “Wagon Wheel” by Darius Rucker.

Newman’s older sister, Jenah, is also a musician,

JULIA NEWMAN is inspired mainly by folk, but her songs can sometimes cross over into rock and pop.

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but she has enjoyed watching Newman excel and occasionally will harmonize a tune with her when the two are together, just for fun.

“Julia has an uncanny ability to connect with her audience. Her voice is so refreshing. She has so many beautiful intricacies about her voice that make any song she is singing captivating,” said Jenah, including that Newman’s lyrics are always relatable and true.

Whitney Harrigan, a senior accounting and finance double major, met Newman freshman year in First Year Players. The two are now roommates, and Harrigan, although used to hearing Newman sing, also believes that Newman is a great performer.

“She just emotes with her face and uses good facial expressions,” said Harrigan. “And her songs are really catchy.” lmeyers@syr.edu

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Roundtable: Miami game, ACC tournament outlook

By The Daily Orange Sports Staff

Syracuse (18-13, 10-8 Atlantic Coast) takes on Miami (20-10, 10-8) at noon on Wednesday in the Barclays Center. The second round ACC tournament bout has big NCAA Tournament implications for the Orange.

Ahead of the game, The Daily Orange beat writers answer questions surrounding SU.

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Brown (11.8 points) were all held below 10.

Only one player for Miami scored more than nine (3-point specialist Dejan Vasiljevic had a career-high 18 points), If it can do that again, Syracuse will be in a good position to win. But that’s easier said than done.

2. Who needs to step up the most in the ACC tournament?

C.G.: The only way Syracuse makes a deep

run in the ACC tournament is if it elevates to a level of play it hasn’t consistently shown. There are several keys required for that to happen, but of issues that could crop up for Syracuse in igniting Taurean Thompson is a good start. He’s its second tilt against Miami. The Orange more than capable of taking over on offense, played a level of defense against the Hur- both around the rim and sinking the occasional ricanes in January that it’s been unable jumper. If he can avoid the defensive blunders to demonstrate on the road. Expect Miami that have limited his playing time, he could be to score more than the 55 it dropped in pivotal in beating Miami and making a run at the Carrier Dome, meaning the onus is on No. 6 North Carolina in the quarterfinals.

SU’s offense to compensate. Tyler Lydon and M.S.: The answer to this one may not be Andrew White each scored 20-plus points White, even though Syracuse’s offense goes in Syracuse’s early-season win against the how he does. Tyler Lydon is a more appropriHurricanes, but Lydon hasn’t scored 20 ate answer to this question, especially since or more points in a month. SU’s biggest he hasn’t been the same consistent offensive concern should be scoring depth, propping force he is capable of since back-to-back blowWhite up with a few other double-digit point out losses to UNC and Notre Dame in midproducers. The one-man or two-man shows January. Lydon has only hit seven 3-pointers don’t usually result in wins. in Syracuse’s last eight games, and he hasn’t Matt Schneidman:Syracuse’s top concern exactly been a force on the interior either. You’ll shouldn’t be anything regarding the Hur- rarely get a dud of a game from Tyus Battle, so ricanes, rather what it will get out of White. Lydon will have to step up if the Orange wants Before going off for 40 points on 8-of-9 shooting a similar offensive showing it put on display in from deep against GeorgiaSudoku Tech, the fifth-year this season’s win against Miami.

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coleman just that.

His career averages: 15.4 minutes, 5.1 points and 4.4 rebounds per game.

The player is often mistaken for Syracuse legend Derrick Coleman’s relative entered college as the local kid with high expectations.

But the 6-foot-9, nearly 300-pound frame that allowed him to dominate high schoolers became his hamartia. His body broke down, slowly at first and then all at once. Coleman missed 22 months rehabbing after surgeries to repair a torn meniscus and cartilage damage in the same knee. His fight to return to the court despite his significantly lessened abilities transformed him into one of, if not the most, well-respected players in the Orange’s locker room.

The hometown hero became a tragic one.

“I think he could have been a really good player, but not with those knees,” Syracuse head coach Jim Boeheim said. “When it happened, they told me he would not be able to come back and play. That was it. Period. No questions about it. … He somehow played through this just on sheer will and determination because when you see him now, he can’t move in practice. He literally can’t get up and down.

“It’s sad to see.”

But Coleman doesn’t see his career as a disappointment. He’s one of two players in SU history to have played on two Final Four teams. When he goes to the grocery store or Destiny USA, fans recognize Coleman like they have since the ninth grade.

He doesn’t visit home often because his parents live in a one-bedroom apartment.

Coleman stays in close contact with the people who have helped him since the beginning.

Growing up, Coleman played at the Boys and Girls Club on Hamilton Street on Syracuse’s West Side, about a 10-minute drive from the Dome. His love for basketball grew by watching Gerry McNamara and Eric Devendorf play at Madison Square Garden in Big East tournaments. After meeting coaches and players during a camp in middle school, Syracuse became a top option and it stayed that way.

“I think people forget loyalty,” said

Dieudonne Tierre, a close friend of Coleman’s since both attended Frazier Middle School. “It will make you or break you. If you’re loyal to the right person in life, you should be good. I learned that from Dajuan.”

During his 22-month layoff, Coleman confided in Tierre that he didn’t think recovery was working. Using crutches to get around, Teirre said, became rehab’s toughest challenge for Coleman. The monotony of doing the same thing every day for nearly two years wore him down. Coleman felt frustrated and wanted to change the routines. But a Syracuse trainer convinced the center to stay patient, asking for just one more day, day after day.

Coleman finally worked back as a redshirt junior in 2015-16, and he started every game to chip in for the Orange’s Final Four run.

This season, Coleman has appeared in only four conference games, totaling 39 minutes without really being able to run and jump.

“It was definitely a grind,” Coleman said.

“I did what I could do. I gave it my all.”

Coleman misses his injury-free days, unhindered by issues out of his control anyway. He’d hoped for more playing time. But to help his teammates, whom he considers family, Coleman accepted whatever role helped the most.

Inked on his right bicep is one of his favorite tattoos. It reads “F.O.E.” for Family Over Everything. On his left bicep, another: “Loyal.” Then there’s one of a lion head. That one speaks for itself.

“You put Dajuan anywhere, he’s going to survive,” Tierre said. “You put him in the jungle, he’s going to come out with a fur coat.”

Coleman also wants to build up his clothing line, “Night Grind.” He took the name inspired by his career arc. Coleman hasn’t thought much about the next step, though, because he likes to finish one project before starting another and he said giving up on basketball never entered his mind.

No matter how hard he worked, no matter how positive he felt, Coleman has never become the player so many, including himself, hoped for. And that’s never stopped him from trying.

“It’s a special type of person to be able to do that,” fifth-year graduate transfer John Gillon said. “He’s been here, and it’s just tough. It makes me emotional just talking

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about it. I have the most respect for him out of anybody on our team.”

In high school, opposing fan bases taunted Coleman to try and throw him off his game. Jamesville-DeWitt’s best player had a national reputation. The jeers showed respect. After games, fans of both teams formed a line for photos and autographs, one like Coleman saw five years later at his last regular-season home game with the program he always dreamed of playing for.

With about six minutes remaining in Syracuse’s blowout win against Georgia Tech,

SU’s student section chanted: “We want Coleman!” Nearly the entire crowd joined in.

Five years later, everything was different but nothing had changed.

Coleman’s career has reached heights and endured downfalls, but he never turned his back on a community he trusted to never turn its back on him. On Saturday, he walked onto the floor with three minutes left in front of Syracuse, and it didn’t matter that he didn’t record a stat.

“You can’t really put a price tag on that.”

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women’s lacrosse

Goldstock’s habit of rushing out of net hurts SU’s defense

By Nick Alvarez asst. web editor

Syracuse goalkeeper Asa Goldstock has a problem. Opponents are taking her supposed strength and turning it into a weakness. Throughout her lacrosse career, Goldstock came out of the net more than other goalies do. But through seven games, college offenses have exposed her.

“I’m a lot more active and more athletic than other goalies,” the freshman said. “I don’t really sit tight. I play more as another defender.”

That’s left the goal empty, at times. In several games this season, she tried to jump out and intercept the ball. Other times, she ran the ball out to midfield, hesitated and threw the ball away. It happened in the season opener, then against Binghamton, then against Albany — when her flub almost cost SU the game — and last week against Virginia. SU head coach Gary Gait pulled her before halftime against UVA. (She reentered less than two minutes later).

Goldstock’s tendency to come out of the net helped make her the No. 3 recruit in the country. But through seven games, No. 4 Syracuse’s (7-0, 2-0 Atlantic Coast Conference) play in goal has kept lesser teams in games longer than they should. Through seven games, Goldstock leads the team with 12 turnovers.

The Niskayuna, New York, native didn’t start her career in net. Her lacrosse journey

originated on attack with boys teams. Her cousin asked her to play goalie and she hasn’t left the spot since. She hasn’t lost the aggressiveness that came with playing attack. On club teams, Goldstock broke the seal of her crease and pressured opposing attacks.

When Goldstock’s aggressive style of play worked, she began to push farther and farther out, her mother Tiffany Moore said.

Before the season, Goldstock said that in practice her strategy had worked. Junior attack Riley Donahue, who ranks second on the team in goals (13), said the freshman’s aggressiveness frustrates her. When the season started, Goldstock stumbled.

In the second half against Binghamton, Goldstock sprung from her crease and intercepted a pass. As she looked around for an outlet, a Bearcats attack knocked the ball from her stick and gained possession.

Teams invite Goldstock to come out of the net with the ball. Against Virginia, the freshman made a stop and immediately looked for a teammate but found none open. The Cavaliers matched up on every SU defender and midfielder, forcing Goldstock to take the ball up the field, more than 50 yards from her crease.

When Goldstock’s feet crossed midfield, Gait yelled. As the shot clock ticked down in what was a close game, Gait called for her to pass the ball. Flustered, Goldstock flung a pass over the head of Kathy Rudkin and UVA

ASA GOLDSTOCK was the highest-ranked freshman goalie in this year’s class, but has had some struggles early for Syracuse.

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regained possession.

Goldstock saves 50.5 percent of shots faced, good for 16th in the country. She said she believes she has quickly adapted to the increased velocity of shots hurled at her by collegiate attackers and midfielders.

Against Virginia, the Orange trailed 11-2 in

the first half. Goldstock posted her worst savepercentage of the season (.317), but SU mounted a furious comeback to win. Asked why he took Goldstock out of the game and put her back in net just a minute later, Gait chuckled and sarcastically asked why he waited so long. nialvare@syr.edu | @nick_a_alvarez

softball

Orange uses strong bullpen to find early-season success

By Michael McCleary staff writer

Sydney O’Hara is no longer the starting pitcher she once was. After starting nearly 70 percent of her 54 appearances as a freshman and sophomore, she has only thrown the first pitch for Syracuse twice in the past two seasons. Yet O’Hara recently got her name in the Syracuse softball history books.

On Feb. 17 against St. John’s, she became SU’s all-time leader in saves, with nine.

“I have one job when I get into the game,” O’Hara said. “Whether we are up, or we are tied: Stop the bleeding. Make sure they don’t score.”

Syracuse (12-6) makes use of its crowded rotation by allowing pitchers to split games.

This has increased save numbers and given an added importance to the role of a closer.

Using relievers is all part of SU head coach Mike Bosch’s different philosophy.

“Softball has been predominately in the

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grossman only on occasion.

The onus to key SU’s starters rests on Gillon, not the other way around.

“When he’s scoring, making plays, getting in the lane and getting assists, our team is good,” White said. “When he’s not, our

past where pitchers threw full games. They could throw seven innings, eight, nine, 10, 11,” Bosch said. “We’ve kind of taken a little bit of a baseball approach.”

O’Hara is first in the Atlantic Coast Conference in saves (4), games finished (12) and games in relief (12). With these numbers, she’s separated herself as the top relief pitcher on the Orange and someone that Bosch trusts to use at the end of games. She also posts a .182 opposing team batting average and a 1.12 earned run average. Those marks are good for second and third in the ACC, respectively.

But a relief role is not something that SU is limiting to one player. The team has expectations that all of the pitchers on the staff will be able to throw in relief at one point of the season.

“It’s just a matter of identifying who we are playing and what their strengths are,” Bosch said.

All five pitchers who have made appearances

for the Orange this season have experience in relief, even if it was just for a few innings. This setup is to make use of the individual strengths of each of the pitchers in the rotation.

Abby Thibodeau, who has only made one appearance for the Orange, boasts a reliable changeup that many other pitchers on SU are still trying to perfect. AnnaMarie Gatti, who has started more games in the circle than any other player, relies on velocity to make outs, while Baylee Douglass’ movement remains her top priority when she’s in the circle.

O’Hara said her “jerky” delivery is something that separates her from other Syracuse pitchers and Alexa Romero is one of only nine lefthanded pitchers in the ACC. SU is attempting to make the interchangeability of the staff a strength that it can turn to in many different situations.

“Each one of us very different,” said Thibodeau. “We each have different strengths and different weaknesses and each

one of them plays such an important role.”

SU believes the strength of the team is the ability to attack the opposing lineup with a variety of arms. Using multiple pitchers in a game throws off teams, rather than allowing them to adjust as the game progresses.

Bosch sees this as extremely important, especially as scouting reports become more detailed and hitters become less surprised.

Saves numbers and the role of relief pitchers is something that will rise in the future, Bosch believes, not just for SU but the in the game of softball. He expresses optimism about his team’s ability to adapt to a game that he thinks is changing.

“Any time you have more arms it’s a good thing,” Bosch said. “Ideally, if I have a pitching staff, if I have a down ball pitcher, an up ball pitcher, somebody who is left-handed and somebody who spins it all the time, I think I’m in good shape.”

team isn’t as good.

“He knows now how important he is to this team.”

Gillon’s been at the forefront of this season’s turning points. He buried his face in both hands as Boeheim leaned down to berate him on the Notre Dame sideline. That was the Orange’s second straight blowout loss on the road in a season seemingly destined for nowhere.

Teammates swallowed Gillon on the court

after beating Duke. That was Syracuse’s third win of the season against a Top-10 team, a victory some national pundits speculated had earned SU a spot in the NCAA Tournament.

Through the best and worst of this season, Gillon is the common thread.

“He’s given our team a chance,” White said, “to be what we want to be.”

Syracuse wants to be a winner, but that’s a label only attainable outside of the Carrier

Dome at this time of year. Winning on the road has been SU’s greatest challenge. The player most fit to alter that script is Gillon, who’s already rewritten and redirected this season more times than anyone anticipated.

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Connor Grossman is a senior staff writer at The Daily Orange, where his column appears occasionally. He can be reached at cgrossma@syr.edu or on Twitter @connorgrossman.

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By Paul Schwedelson senior staff writer

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s Dajuan Coleman walked out of the Carrier Dome tunnel on Saturday, fans leaned his way to ask for photos and autographs. They soaked in the moment, perhaps watching Coleman for the final time step onto the court. One hour and 20 minutes before Coleman’s final regular season game in the Dome, cheers from the community that raised him wouldn’t let Coleman’s name fade as easily as his knees.

Doctors told Coleman after his second major left knee surgery in fall 2014 that he’d never play basketball again. Still, he recovered well enough to play in all 37 games last season. This year, as his body wore down, he’s played in only 17 games. But the former five-star recruit chose Syracuse over Kentucky out of Jamesville-DeWitt (New York) High School because he wanted to play at home.

He wanted to have moments like he experienced on Saturday.

“This is my hometown. This is my favorite team growing up,” Coleman said. “… That was the main thing that motivated me (after injuries). Just getting back to playing, the fans, just being in the Dome.”

Coleman never lived up to the reputation he entered college with. He became a McDonalds’ All-American, earned Mr. Basketball in New York and checked in as ESPN’s 14th-best player nationwide in the 2012 recruiting class. But Coleman’s game-changing potential remained see coleman page 14

DAJUAN COLEMAN was a five-star recruit in high school. He got an offer from national powerhouse Kentucky but decided to stay home at Syraucse. After sitting out for 22 months following multiple surgeries, Coleman’s body broke down, which has limited his playing time this season.

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Syracuse’s success hinges on how John Gillon performs at PG

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ll the mood swings of Syracuse’s season correlate with the performance of one player.

John Gillon usually doesn’t straddle the line between goat and G.O.A.T. In most games he’s either been ineffective or terrific. The Good John Gillon authored some of SU’s signature memories this year: stunning Duke, downing N.C. State in overtime with 43 points and jumpstarting the Orange’s revival with consecutive wins against Miami and Pittsburgh. The Bad John Gillon ran Syracuse’s offense astray in road losses to Virginia Tech, Georgia Tech and Louisville.

Whichever version of the senior point guard shows up this postsea-

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son will be paramount for SU. It could spell the difference between NIT and NCAA Tournament.

“We go as John Gillon goes,” head coach Jim Boeheim said after Gillon beat the Blue Devils. “…

When he’s good, we haven’t lost.”

Gillon’s already left an indelible mark in his only year with the Orange. Now his final act is to dictate what kind of March SU will have. Whether it’s memorable or forgettable comes down to him. Gillon’s been the lynchpin all season,

just as he will be when Syracuse (1813, 10-8 Atlantic Coast) plays Miami (20-10, 10-8) in the second round of the ACC tournament on Wednesday at noon in the Barclays Center.

Even against a Hurricanes defense that Gillon’s already faced, there’s no guessing how the fifthyear senior will fare in his second go around. Syracuse’s latest homeand-home against the Yellow Jackets highlighted the senior’s stark contrast in play. On the road, Gillon shot 2-of-10 as he oversaw an offense that squandered a nine-point lead.

Then in the Carrier Dome Saturday, the Colorado State transfer stitched together his third double-double of the season in a winning effort.

Like the Orange’s dramatic home

and road splits, Gillon embodies the same dual personality trait. But now that toss-up decides how this season will be remembered.

“I owed (my team) one,” Gillon said of his improved performance against GT on Saturday. “I wasn’t going to let that happen again. I told everyone I wasn’t going to play like that again, I was going to do what it takes.”

The 6-foot point guard at this point needs confidence, a cliché attribute that’s ebbed along with his performances this year. A lack of confidence is why Gillon crumbled under an early-season platoon with Frank Howard, fearing he would be swapped out of the game after any mistake. A surplus of it is why Gillon

challenged his Twitter critics to a game of one-on-one. Just the right amount allowed the veteran to rack up points against N.C. State and prompted a wink toward a heckling fan on the sideline.

Without a sense of direction from Gillon on the court, Syracuse quickly becomes undone. Andrew White doesn’t get the same looks from behind the arc if Gillon doesn’t drive and feed an outlet pass, or effectively set ball screens. Tyus Battle needs the same assistance to get going. Taurean Thompson gets sealed off in the post if opponents know he’s the only viable scoring threat inside. Tyler Lydon is capable of doing the heavy lifting on offense without Gillon, but has done it

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