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Syracuse University’s Coalition for Justice led a rally on the Quad on Wednesday in solidarity with women across the country who were striking.

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Tyus Battle scored 14 points for Syracuse against Miami. But he, and the rest of SU, came up short in the loss. Now, SU has to wait to find out its NCAA Tournament fate.

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Slowly crumbling

With changes pending, I-81 is deteriorating

The Interstate 81 viaduct on East Washington Street is one of several spots on the highway that have been deemed structurally deficient. Reconstruction plans for the highway have been debated and delayed for years, but structural problems remain.

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nderneath the Interstate 81 viaduct on East Washington Street, the scene reflects the stark reality of the interstate: Green paint coated guardrails, struts of the interstate are falling off and guardrail joints are crumbling. A pipe is covered with rust and a light bulb attached to wire dangles upside down on a strut.

This “structurally deficient” section of highway running through Syracuse has been slapped with band-aids over the last decade, as a longterm solution has been debated and delayed.

The 855-mile interstate highway that con-

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nects Wellesley Island in northern New York to Dandridge, Tennessee, is in dire need of receiving a comprehensive treatment following years of snowy winters and heavy traffic. What that treatment will be is still unknown, as the New York State Department of Transportation is currently considering several options for renovating the highway. A consulting firm is conducting a review of all possible options and is expected to complete it this summer.

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Syverud: Ban ‘unconstitutional’ SU community divided on 3-year housing idea

By Michael Burke news editor

Syracuse University Chancellor Kent Syverud on Wednesday denounced President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban as unconstitutional and illegal.

While discussing the travel ban during an address to the Graduate Student Organization at the group’s meeting, Syverud said the United States Constitution make clear that “blanket decision-making about individuals based on national origin is unconstitutional.”

“It’s illegal,” he added.

Syverud spoke for several minutes about the ban, which for 90 days puts a hold on issuing visas for citizens of six coun-

tries: Iran, Yemen, Syria, Somalia, Libya and Sudan. It also suspends the U.S. refugee program for 120 days. The ban will be implemented March 16.

The order is a less severe version of Trump’s Jan. 27 ban on travel, with Iraq no longer included.

Syverud last month denounced the original ban, which was ultimately shot down in a U.S. appeals court.

Sy verud said the revised order will jeopardize the predicament of current international graduate students and students enrolling this coming fall. He said some of the university’s best students have, throughout SU’s history, come from the countries included in the ban.

“And we don’t want to stand

down from that,” he said.

Syverud also denounced the original travel ban in a statement to the University Senate last month, after two petitions circulated among community members calling on him to do so.

On Wednesday, Syverud said he’s “struggling” with what steps the university should take in response to the revised ban.

He added that he wouldn’t have imagined six months ago that such a ban would be reality.

“But now it is,” he said. “… This is not normal.” mdburk01@syr.edu –Staff Writer Siddarth Senthilkumaran contributed reporting to this article. Read the full story at dailyorange.com.

By Taylor Watson asst. copy editor

Renovated houses, a revitalized neighborhood and homeowner stability.

That is the future Michael Flusche, retired associate vice chancellor for academic affairs at Syracuse University, sees for residential areas surrounding SU if the administration chooses to extend the on-campus housing requirement for students.

SU officials announced the possibility of switching the on-campus housing requirement from two to three years at last week’s Campus Framework open forum. Current

policy states that all non-commuter students are required to live on campus for two years, but can get a waiver if they choose to live in Greek housing their second year.

Flusche said the three-year oncampus housing requirement is long overdue. Having more students living on campus will assist in a positive educational experience, he said. But neighborhood officials and landlords are split over what the requirement would mean for students and for residential areas near the university.

Senior Vice President for Public Affairs Kevin Quinn said in a statement to The Daily Orange that a

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THIRSTY thursday | green beer

Green beer unites Tipperary Hill community

By Aline Peres Martins staff writer

As kids from The Francis Academy of Irish Dance performed their routine down Lowell Ave at noon on a Sunday, patrons drunkenly stumbled out of Coleman’s Authentic Irish Pub with pitchers of beer in hand. There was clapping and cheering for the dance group, the pipe bands and the van from Harrison’s bakery giving out bags of green cookies.

But none of the cheering compared to the roar that came from the crowd when the Coleman’s truck showed up at the end of the parade. It was carrying the one thing almost everyone in the crowd had been waiting for: green beer.

Green Beer Sunday is a staple in the Tipperary Hill community — a day full of drinking and Irish pride.

It began when Peter Coleman, the owner of Coleman’s Pub, decided he was going to “import” tanks of green beer from Ireland a few weeks before St. Patrick’s Day in the 1960s. He did this, he says, in order to kick off St. Patrick’s Day season.

In the Tipp Hill neighborhood, St. Patrick’s Day is significant. In the late 1800s, the Irish potato famine coincided with the rise of the salt industry in Syracuse. The Westside neighborhoods of Syracuse became increasingly German and Irish.

These influences can still be seen today. From the upside down traffic light on Tompkin’s street that was installed in the 1920s because the Irish community was unhappy that

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Syracuse men’s lacrosse has managed to win three games so far. But its ground ball numbers haven’t helped that cause.

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Green beer tastes exactly like Coors Light. People don’t go to Green Beer Sunday for quality beer — they go for the good times with good people.

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the British red was above the Irish green, to the people that live there.

Drew Ellis, a 53-year-old resident of Eastwood, is the drum major for the Highland Pipe Band. His family came over from Scotland in 1763. He knows that the green beer isn’t actually imported from Ireland, but he still said he believes the event brings the Irish and Scottish communities in the area together.

“We do this every year,” Ellis said. “It’s a brilliant idea. Green

beer is kind of a little bit of Irish luck we celebrate our heritage every year this way.”

The parade with the bagpipes and Irish dancers, certainly shows this side of Green Beer Sunday.

But there is also a flip side to it: Drunk college kids and Syracuse residents showing up at 10 a.m. to day drink.

Halina Kalinowski, a 25-yearold LeMoyne College student said “I am just here to get drunk, I don’t

expect much. It’s Coors Light.”

If your goal is to try an exotic variety of green Irish beer, this is not the place for you. The beer really does just taste like Coors Light.

But if you want to get a head start on your St. Patrick’s Day festivities and drink some mediocre beer while listening to bagpipes and seeing adorable babies dressed in green, Green Beer Sunday is for you. amarti22@syr.edu

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SU to hold service for deceased

By Satoshi Sugiyama asst. news editor

Syracuse University will be holding an event commemorating SU students, faculty and staff who died in the year 2016, the university announced on Wednesday.

The event, called “Service of Commemoration” encouraged by the SU Remembrance Scholar’s “Look Back, Act Forward” commitment, will take place on Tuesday, March 21, at 4 p.m. in Hendricks Chapel, according an SU News release. Names of deceased individuals will be read and candles will be lit during the ceremony to remember them.

This is the first time the university organizes a collective memorial service, according to the release. Additionally, this type of service will be held annually going forward, per the release.

SU Chancellor Kent Syverud, along with a Remembrance Scholar, the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Affairs and Orange Seeds representatives, will make remarks during DANA CLOUD (CENTER), professor of communication and rhetorical studies and member of the International Socialist Organization, said the current women’s movement against Donald Trump is a new wave in the history of women’s protests. colin davy asst. photo editor

Rally calls for Syverud to protect students

By Delaney Van Wey asst. news editor

Under somber and cloudy skies, members of the Syracuse University community spoke out Wednesday against Chancellor Kent Syverud’s reluctance to declare a “sanctuary campus” and called on him to protect his students.

The speeches, given on the Quad by demonstrators, were part of the Women’s Day Sanctuary Campus Rally organized by the SU and State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry Coalition for Justice on Wednesday afternoon. The rally was part of the International Women’s Strike movement that took place across the United States on International Women’s Day. Numerous groups, including the Women’s March on Washington, organized protests to coincide with the day that honors female protesters who sparked the Russian Revolution.

Like the national movement, members of the rally on the Quad Wednesday called for change on a variety of issues, including reproductive rights and disability rights, but primarily focused on formally naming SU a sanctuary campus.

Demonstrators said they needed to fight for women’s and immigrant’s rights, which they said were inextricably connected.

“I truly hope that the next time we get an email from the chancellor about sanctuary campus, I hope it’s clear what we mean to this campus,” said Janet Flores, a first-generation Mexican American, to a cheering crowd. Flores is a geography major and member of the student group Xicanxs Empowering Xicanxs.

As the megaphone was passed from one person to another, it became clear that the crowd of about 100 supported the different speakers’ goals. Scattered throughout the attentive audience were splashes of

red, the color of the national Women’s Strike. Some wrapped red bands around their arms with the Women’s Strike logo, which had been distributed in part by the department of Women’s and Gender Studies.

The department closed their offices at noon “in solidarity with other women protesting the misogynist, racist, xenophobic, ableist and elitist US regime,” according to an email sent to the Women’s and Gender Studies student listserv. Multiple classes taught by the department at the time of the event were also cancelled.

Numerous speakers at the rally, who stood on a bench and used a megaphone so their voices could be heard throughout the Quad, called out Syverud for failing to declare SU a sanctuary campus. They said the university’s connection to the city, which has declared itself a sanctuary city, means it’s necessary to show the administration cares

about all of its students.

Hasmik Djoulakian, another SU student, said she was concerned about Syverud’s position on the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Academic Advisory Council, something that drew a lot of boos from the crowd and a sharp spike of anger.

Katherine Sotelo, a former The Daily Orange digital design editor and a member of Xicanxs Empowering Xicanxs, discussed her Mexican heritage and how her grandmother, the first of the women in her family to live in the U.S., was sold into prostitution at age 9 by Sotelo’s great grandfather.

Three generations later, Sotelo said she’s worked hard to be able to attend SU. Vanessa Lora, a junior film major who attended the rally, said Sotelo’s speech in particular resonated with her, specifically the part about her grandmother’s

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Experts analyze potential highway renovations

By Delaney Van Wey and Sam Ogozalek asst. news editors

The future of Interstate 81 in Syracuse is currently up in the air, but experts say that change for the city is inevitable and a necessary solution.

After years of debate and discussion about the future of I-81, the highway will reach the end of its usable life this year and a decision for what will replace it is pending.

The state had originally nar-

rowed the options for replacing I-81 down to two — the community grid and rebuild options — from 16 last year. But after pressure from New York state Sen. John DeFrancisco (R-50th), Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) ordered the New York State Department of Transportation to have an independent consultant review all options — including the different tunnel options dismissed by the state — for replacing the major highway, according to Syracuse.com.

The NYSDOT did not respond

to multiple requests for comment on this article.

WSP/Parsons Brinckerhoff is conducting the review, which isn’t expected to be finished until this summer.

The current options on the table include the community grid option, which would destroy the I-81 viaduct and replace it with a street level road, while rerouting interstate traffic east around the city on what’s currently Interstate 481. In contrast, with the rebuilding option, the viaduct

would become taller and wider. With the tunnel option, traffic would be directed underneath Syracuse. The viaduct would also be destroyed with the tunnel option, and a street level road would take its place.

Cuomo is already pushing through a number of other large costly infrastructure projects. Examples include the Tappan Zee Bridge replacement project, the closure of the Indian Point nuclear plant and the completion of a statewide bike

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news to know Here is a round-up of the biggest news stories happening in the world now WORLD CHILDREN KILLED As many as 19 girls were killed in a fire in a center for abused teens in Guatemala. A fire started after residents set mattresses on fire in an effort to escape from the overcrowded government institution. The Guatemalan press has previously reported on overcrowding issues in the center and families said that abuse inside is rampant. The mattress was lit after a riot and escape attempt the night before. source: the guardian

POSSIBLE DEPLOYMENT President Donald Trump’s administration is weighing the possibility of sending 1,000 U.S. soldiers to Kuwait to serve as reserve troops in the fight against the Islamic State radical group in Iraq and Syria. Proponents of the deployment said it would allow U.S. commanders to more quickly react to battlefield developments. source: reuters

POLITICS AMBASSADOR APPOINTED President Donald Trump will select Jon Huntsman Jr., a former Utah governor and 2012 Republican candidate, to be the next U.S. ambassador to Russia, officials said Wednesday. Huntsman served as former President Barack Obama’s ambassador to China. source: usa today

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infrastructure attention, according to The National Bridge Inventory Index. State officials have labeled approximately 66 bridges in the county as structurally deficient — labels that the area is aware of, but hasn’t been able to reach a substantial plan of action to fix. The damaged infrastructure poses no immediate threat to public safety.

Additionally, 23 percent of bridges, or 107 bridges, in Onondaga County are classified as “functionally obsolete,” which describes a state of a bridge that is no longer sufficient for its task by design.

A 2013 I-81 Corridor Study found that of 76 bridges located along I-81 and I-690, 9 percent were deemed structurally deficient and 60 percent were considered functionally obsolete. Eighteen of those bridges are in the viaduct section of I-81 in downtown Syracuse.

Functionally obsolete bridges may be safe and structurally fine, but the condition indicates a bridge doesn’t have enough lanes to handle heavy traffic flow, according to The National Bridge Inventory Index. Structurally deficient bridges, meanwhile, pose no danger to the public, such as a bridge collapse, said Michael Tuttman, a civil engineer at a transportation engineering consulting firm called Robson Forensic.

The U.S. saw a major infrastructure accident in 2007 when the Interstate 35W bridge over the Mississippi River in Minneapolis

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highway trail, said Ray Bromley, a professor in the State University of New York at Albany’s geography and planning department. Which is why, he added, he believes an I-81 tunnel underneath Syracuse won’t work out.

“Just my gut reaction is that tunneling in Syracuse goes beyond the financially feasible,” he said.

Bromley compared the I-81 tunnel option — which is the most costly option on the table for the project, estimated to cost $3.1 billion by the NYSDOT — to the Big Dig mega project in Boston, which went about $21.4 billion over budget, according to The Boston Globe.

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housing change in the housing requirement is currently only an idea, but added that research suggests students who live in on-campus housing are more engaged in campus social life, perform better academically and are more satisfied with their overall university experience.

Many of SU’s peer universities have a threeyear on-campus housing requirement, including Duke University, George Washington University and Georgetown University, Quinn said.

If implemented, he said the requirement would apply to new, incoming students and would not affect commuter students. It would likely take multiple academic years to fully implement the change, Quinn said. SU is working to develop a process to assess the feasibility and implications of such a requirement.

“That process will include significant opportunity for key constituencies — both on and off campus — to provide input, ask questions and share perspectives,” Quinn said.

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collapsed, killing seven people. Tuttman said I-81’s bridge structure is different from the one in the Minneapolis. I-81 in Syracuse is structured so that there are several steel beams underneath the concrete roadway, supporting it. Even in the case one of these beams fail, the whole roadway will not fall, he said.

“Our bridges are safe. Period,” said Tiffany Portzer, NYSDOT spokeswoman, in an email.

Portzer said a bridge inspector evaluates and documents the conditions of at least 25 elements of the bridge in an inspection. All publicly owned highway bridges are subjected to a general inspection at least once every 24 months, while some bridges are inspected every 12 months based upon their condition, she said.

“If a bridge is open – it’s safe,” Portzer said.

The product of former President Dwight Eisenhower’s Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, a massive infrastructure project, interstate highways once embodied engineering power that fueled a transportation revolution, facilitated automobile-dependent culture and created suburbs in the late 1940s and 1950s in the United States. The decision to construct the elevated interstate expressway along Almond Street in Syracuse was made in 1958.

Tuttman said bridges on I-81 were constructed with a limited lifespan of around 50 years to keep cost reasonable. Portzer said the 50-year lifespan was a standard engineering practice for bridge engineers.

Even though a final decision on the future of the interstate is expected to be made some

time this year, the state’s actual timeline for the project may not go according to plan, as the consulting firm hired to study replacement options postponed a release of its findings for six months.

Joanie Mahoney, Onondaga County Executive, told reporters after her State of the County address on Tuesday that the infrastructure Onondaga County has control of is “in good condition.” As for I-81 and Interstate 690, which are owned by the state, Mahoney said it does not make sense that the county cannot go into the city of Syracuse to inspect the highway’s bridges, due to constraints with the existing system.

Mahoney has voiced support for consolidating Syracuse city and Onondaga County governments to create a countywide highway maintenance system.

Alden said stakeholders in the Interstate 81 Corridor Coalition, including state DOT officials, are feeling overworked as they are pressured to do more work with less money. Highway maintenance situations varies state from state, Alden said, depending on how states use funds provided by the federal government.

The state has allocated $5 billion for the DOT’s capital program for fiscal year 2018, meant to improve the state’s highways, roads and bridges. The city received $3.5 million in state highway aid during the 2016-17 fiscal year.

The interstate highway areas flagged as either functionally obsolete or structurally deficient were inspected as recent as 2015, according to New York State Highway Bridge

Data published in February.

The weather conditions in Syracuse are among the factors contributing to the wearing down of the roadway, said Andy Alden, executive director of the Interstate 81 Corridor Coalition. In snow-heavy regions such as Syracuse, metal blades used to plow the snow scrape the surface of the pavement.

Additionally, using salt on bridges results in corrosion of steels used in concrete.

“As long as we depend on salt for de-icing and as long as Americans demand to have their roads open very quickly after a snowstorm, we are going to have these kinds of issues with the salt decaying the infrastructure,” Alden said.

Alden noted that heavy traffic is another factor: There is almost twice as much traffic on the highway than was originally anticipated by engineers when I-81 was built. About 40 percent of traffic that pass through I-81, he added, are heavy trucks that put much more pressure on the highway than cars.

To replace the highway’s elevated portion in Syracuse, the state last year originally narrowed the project down to two options —the viaduct option and community grid option — only to reverse its direction in January, when the state announced that a consulting firm would be reviewing all possible options, including different tunnel options that the state had previously eliminated.

“It’s time for these structures to be replaced,” Tuttman said.

“Using 481 as the choke route does make quite a lot of sense,” said Bromley, referring to the community grid’s proposed reroute of interstate traffic around the city.

Both Bromley and Rick Geddes, the director of Cornell University’s Program in Infrastructure Policy, also said the planned replacement of I-81 in Syracuse is part of a growing trend in the United States to remove large highways that, when built, bisected cities.

“It’s basically about reviving cities and tying neighborhoods back together again,” Bromley said, referring to the motivations behind the trend. Some residents in Syracuse, however, worry the I-81 replacement project may damage communities again.

Geddes added that people are beginning to rethink Robert Moses’ — an infamous city

planner who worked in the New York City area during the early and mid-20th century — belief that putting an interstate through the middle of a city is a good idea.

In an attempt to raze similar 1950s and ‘60s-era interstate highways, New York state is looking to dismantle the Sheridan Expressway in the Bronx, for example.

Buffalo is also considering options for big changes to two major roadways. The Scajaquada Expressway and the Kensington Expressway effectively bisected two stable neighborhoods and pushed people out into the suburbs, said Robert Shibley, dean of the School of Architecture and Planning at the State University of New York at Buffalo.

Shibley, an expert in urban planning in the Rust Belt, said he wants to see parts of these

expressways altered, which would reconnect parts of the city. That could be a possibility for Syracuse, he said, adding that divisions about the best way to do this are common because people often make decisions based on assumptions.

“The assumptions are sometimes self-fulfilling prophesies. If you assume the positive, you may well create it. If you assume the negative, you will definitely achieve it,” Shibley said.

Ultimately, he said, community members and state leaders have to decide where the best place is to put their money. The state is currently investing in many large infrastructure projects.

“You’re throwing in a few billion here and a few billion there,” Bromley said. “There’s a lot of very ambitious projects out there right now.”

Ben, said an extended housing requirement is the “worst idea ever.” Limiting students to oncampus housing may take away student freedom and the evolution of independence, he said.

In looking for apartments and being responsible for groceries and utility bills, students learn to manage their personal affairs as young adults, Tupper said. Students should make mistakes now because landlords treat them with “kid gloves,” something that won’t happen after graduation, he added.

Jared Hutter, manager of BLVD Equities, said the change could hinder the student experience, but he believes communication between the university and area developers will be essential moving forward.

BLVD Equities created the luxury student housing complex #BLVD404, now known as U Point Syracuse, and is currently the developer behind the South Crouse Avenue housing project. He said an extended housing requirement may deter some developers from building in the SU area.

“If you told me that Syracuse was implementing a three-year program tomorrow, I’d still move ahead with my project,” Hutter said. “But maybe other people may not, depending on where their locations are and the size of their project.”

Off-campus houses that were converted into student housing would feel the effect of the extension first, Hutter said, rather than

luxury student apartment buildings.

Tupper, who rents out houses adjacent to SU, said the outer-ring of student housing near Westcott Street would see a loss in tenants as undergrads move to on-campus housing.

Fourth-year and graduate students would then occupy the space closer to the university.

There is no new demographic eager to fill in the vacancies, he said, so empty houses may be boarded up or converted to “Section 8” housing for low-income tenants, which could add dysfunction to the neighborhood.

But Flusche, the retired SU employee, is more optimistic. With proper planning and effort by the city and the university, he said houses could be restored and the neighborhood could become reestablished.

Flusche has lived on Lancaster Avenue since the 1970s, when the neighborhood was dominated by families rather than students, and he said he could see that happening again.

“The transition could be quite positive,” Flusche said. “… I am not convinced it is going to have the disastrous consequences some people think it will have.”

David Michel, president of the University Neighborhood Preservation Association, is also optimistic. He sees the change as an opportunity to increase levels of owner-occupancy.

The UNPA will be meeting with other area organizations to discuss what steps may

be taken to mitigate the potential negative effects of an extended housing requirement, such as an increase in vacancies, he said.

The opportunity to bring a mix of students, faculty and hospital employees to neighborhoods surrounding the Hill could strengthen the area, said Mike Stanton, president of the Southeast University Neighborhood Association.

Stanton said he doesn’t think the neighborhood or local businesses will suffer if the requirement is changed. Students frequent Westcott Street-area businesses, but permanent residents would take their place as customers, he said. He cited the HawleyGreen and Eastwood neighborhoods as area business districts that don’t rely on students for support.

Neighborhoods will have to work with the city and SU to try to backfill the houses left vacant by students, Stanton said. Redeveloping the houses in clusters would be a good start to bring families to the neighborhood, he said.

“There has always been conflict in our neighborhood between people who work on the Hill and would like to live nearby, and students who go to school on the Hill and want to be near the university,” Stanton said. “But it looks like we’re getting to a situation now where we can have both groups living on the Hill.”

many students who feel unsafe in the current political environment, adding that it’s his job to make them feel secure on campus.

Flores, an earlier speaker, also said she was unsure about what she called Syverud’s lack of concern for undocumented students and students from the six countries that will

soon be banned from issuing U.S. visas.

Citing an email from Syverud to the student body about the passing of his dog, Lucky, earlier this year, Flores issued Syverud a question.

“What would it take for them to mean to you what Lucky did?” Flores asked.

Choir, according to the release.

The service will be inspired by the Remembrance Scholars’ motto of “Look Back, Act Forward” and will be held in the “spirit of Remembrance,” said Samuel Clemence, the interim dean of Hendricks Chapel, in the news release.

“We have planned a service that, in the spirit of Remembrance that is so much a part of our campus culture, looks back and acts forward,” Clemence said. “We will honor those we have lost in 2016 and be inspired in how we can make a positive difference in our communities.”

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rally experience with sex trafficking.

Syverud needs to declare SU a sanctuary campus, Lora said, because there are

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service the service, per the release. The service will also include prayers and music by University Organist Anne Laver and the Hendricks Chapel

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Solidarity with Standing Rock should translate to Onondaga Nation

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he rallying cry against the Dakota Access Pipeline, “Mni Wiconi,” is universal: Water is life.

Much like Lake Oahe — a sacred burial site and main drinking source for the Standing Rock Sioux Nation in Cannon Ball, North Dakota — Onondaga Lake and Onondaga Creek were desecrated. Like Lake Oahe, Onondaga Lake is central to a native group, the Haudenosaunee — or the Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy — to which the Onondaga Nation belongs.

On Friday, people standing in solidarity with Standing Rock will go to Washington, D.C., to protest the completion of the Dakota Access Pipeline in the nation’s territory.

Although there is no pipeline planned to cut through Onondaga Nation lands, there are many parallels between the Standing Rock Sioux and Onondagas — the biggest being the sacredness of their respective lakes — and the Onondaga deserve solidarity as well in their fight to clean up the polluted Onondaga Lake.

Onondaga Lake shouldn’t be sacred to just the Onondaga Nation — it should be sacred to everyone.

Residents of Syracuse should demand more from officials for the lake’s cleanup because the solution lies in the power of people uniting together under a common cause. It’s time Onondaga County and the city of Syracuse gave the Onondaga Nation a designated spot on the lakefront for

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THE GREEN SCENE traditional uses, especially since the county last year went back on its 2011 promise to give the nation Murphy’s Island, a 36-acre piece of land behind Destiny USA. Once contested as the most polluted lake in the United States, Onondaga Lake is a sacred place for the Haudenosaunee, otherwise known as the Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy, to which the Onondaga Nation belongs. As the alleged birthplace of the Tree of Peace and game of lacrosse, the Onondagas have deep, ancestral ties to the area.

Students and local residents are forgetful that Syracuse University and neighboring towns like Fayetteville, Liverpool and Watertown were built on Onondaga Nation land — land that once stretched across the Jefferson, Oswego, Cortland, Tioga and Broome counties in New York state. But the nation’s land has been reduced to a 7,300-acre territory just six miles south of Syracuse.

Hickory Edwards, who belongs to the Onondaga Nation, has a special connection to water and is an avid canoer. Edwards has traveled from home to Albany, Buffalo, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C. and Canada to raise awareness about water pollution.

He’s also traveled more than 1,500 miles on five different occasions to deliver donated supplies to the Water Protectors at Standing Rock and take part in the resistance.

“It just feels like it keeps on going and going,” Edwards said about communities’ drinking water being polluted. “We’re wearying, but we have to keep fighting. It doesn’t feel like it should be an issue at all. We need water. Why do we need to fight for clean water?”

It doesn’t feel like it should be an issue at all. We need water.

Why do we need to fight for clean water?

Hickory Edwards resident of onondaga nation

As a vital resource, it’s shocking when a pipeline — especially one that will carry half a million barrels of oil a day from North Dakota to Illinois — is legally allowed to threaten such a basic necessity and human right.

Since 2010, nearly 9 million gallons of crude oil have leaked from American pipelines, per Business Insider.

In early December, the Army

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Corps of Engineers announced they would look into alternative routes and conduct a proper environmental impact statement after legal battles over water safety increased. The analysis should have taken roughly a year to do, but shortly after President Donald Trump was sworn into office, he reversed that decision by signing an executive order granting easement to DAPL’s completion.

That action also included the possibility of resurrecting the once defeated Keystone XL pipeline.

“He didn’t lie when his whole campaign said he was going to America great, but he didn’t say for who,” Edwards said. “He’s going to make America great for the businesses, for the corporations, not for the people.”

Business, like pipelines, always seem to win over both people and the planet.

Each year Syracuse gifts the Onondagas with salt and other material goods in observation of a treaty that essentially allows the city to lease the land. Once used as a natural resource by the Onondagas for growing medicinal herbs, crops and to fish, Onondaga Lake was transformed into an industrial wastebed after being the dumping site for soda ash, petroleum and other chemical byproducts of waste. The Onondaga Lake amphitheater was built in that wastebed area, but Justin Sayles, a county spokesman, said in a statement that the amphitheater has

been cleared for public use.

“No site that has been more studied or monitored than the Lakeview Amphitheater site,” Sayles said. “In fact the United States Environmental Protection Agency, the New York State Department of Health and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation have all certified the amphitheater site to be safe for the public.”

The remediation plan in place to clean the lake is more about hiding and trapping the problem instead of actually improving it. There’s more than can be done in order to sustain the lake for future generations.

“They need to do more than the caps they put on that have slipped a couple times and will slip more,” Edwards said. “We need to get this lake back to roughly of what it half used to be.”

In a time when bipartisanship appears to be dividing the nation, without a planet there will be no reason to fight over issues of race, sexuality, gender equality or guns.

Putting the planet first is long overdue, and it starts by tackling local issues of environmental injustice, especially when it comes down to such a basic right as clean water.

Morgan Bulman is a graduate magazine, newspaper and online journalism major. Her column appears weekly. She can be reached at mebulman@syr.edu and followed on Twitter @morgbulman.

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SU shouldn’t extend housing requirement Syracuse University’s three-year on-campus housing requirement may only so far be an idea, but the information used as a basis for that idea to become policy must be re-evaluated. Undergraduate students should not be restricted in their independence by being forced to live on campus for 75 percent of their time in college.

Kevin Quinn, senior vice president of public affairs at SU, said there is research that suggests students who live in on-campus housing are more engaged in campus social life and are more satisfied with their overall university experience. But SU should be careful to assume that correlation equals causation in this case.

Most students who live on campus are freshmen and sophomores, and underclassmen tend to be part of more campus organizations because they readily explore new opportunities and aspects of campus to make friends.

Upperclassmen, who currently have the option to live off-campus after their second year at SU, usually have found a

more specific organization on campus that they thrive in and devote time to.

Some students who live off-campus are also in closer proximity to the hubs of campus, like the Quad and the University Place promenade, than students who live on campus in remote residence halls or in South Campus apartments. SU officials have discussed the goal to integrate South Campus housing into Main Campus. But if these plans are made under the assumption that students who live away from campus are less engaged in campus life, the interpretation of what constitutes engagement must be broadened.

Living off-campus promotes independence, an attribute that’s important for every college student to acquire. Many students who live off-campus also have cars, and are therefore more likely to engage in the city of Syracuse and its surrounding communities.

SU officials have continuously discussed the importance of strengthening the connection between the university and the city,

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This requirement would hinder the relationship university officials have been supposedly trying to build.

If SU wants to keep more students on campus and increase its room and board revenue, it should stick to its current two-year on-campus housing requirement and extend its housing guarantee, which right now is only two years — a policy change that is most in line with students’ interests.

The freedom to make independent decisions is of the utmost importance for college students. Students learn the meaning of self-sufficiency when they live on their own for the first time, away from the control of their families and their university.

SU should not compromise students’ choice to live off-campus, and a three-year on-campus housing requirement would do just that.

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Dissertation (remix) A.D. CARSON, a doctoral candidate in Clemson University’s rhetorics, communication and information design program, submitted his dissertation as a 34-track rap album. He became the first student at the university to create a music album for a dissertation.

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Clemson doctoral student completes dissertation by creating 34-track rap album

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doctoral student at Clemson University has challenged the boundaries of what an academic dissertation can be, after he completed his dissertation in the form of a 34-track rap album.

A.D. Carson, a doctoral candidate in Clemson’s rhetorics, communication and information design program, defended his dissertation that was called “Owning My Masters: The Rhetorics of Rhymes and Revolutions,” and has since gone viral.

“Rather than writing about those elements, it seemed appropriate to perform them instead,” he said.

Carson was in a program that focused on communication design, and in a Ph.D. program that focused on rhetorical engagement. The songs on the album have received tens of thousands of views on YouTube and over 50,000 streams and downloads on SoundCloud, according to a Clemson University News release.

Using a music album as a dissertation has never happened before at Clemson, per the release. Carson recorded his album in his apartment, where he created a recording studio.

Carson’s dissertation also included a digital archive of rap and poetry: 34 music tracks included in a main playlist, seven other playlists that included songs which didn’t make the cut for the main playlist, a YouTube channel and a blog with essays and videos.

Carson’s dissertation included two years of classwork, extensive reading and preparation

and a writing stage, he said.

“There are many, many issues that are brought up in the dissertation,” Carson said.

“Critical theoretical things on personhood, being black bodies, historical and contemporary social justice issues that pertain to the embodied and disembodied voice which are all of the voices that we might hear around us all the time and what they signify, and what is being done through the performance of that voice.”

I will be listening to the album for years to come.

The written component of the dissertation, all 276 pages of it, is also compelling and nuanced.

Jillian Weise member of a.d. carson’s disseration committee

He also said there have been many positive reactions to his dissertation, from both top scholars in his field, and many other scholars that were thinking about ways to present their work creatively.

“Then you know, there were some comments like ‘Why a rap album for a Ph.D. as opposed to a fine arts project?’” he said. “My

response to them is that as I’m in the communication program the answer is inherent in the program I’m in, and in the rhetorical appeals hip hop has.”

He also said his response to people who told him he did not do enough writing was that every song was a song that he wrote and, along with the writing of the songs, there were the reflections that went into them from multiple source materials.

He added that there was a 276-page document that he gave to program faculty, detailing how much work, writing and recording he did for the project, and how he created the digital archive online.

A substantial amount of work goes into recording music, he said. Two childhood friends helped Carson record his dissertation, according to the news release.

Jillian Weise, a member of Carson’s dissertation committee, said in an email that Carson had written a superlative dissertation.

“I will be listening to the album for years to come. The written component of the dissertation, all 276 pages of it, is also compelling and nuanced,” she said.

Weise said she is a poet and rap is poetry, so it didn’t strike her at all as unconventional. One of the tracks on Carson’s album was called “Black Love Poem,” and it was in “conversation” with one of Weise’s favorite poets, Amiri Baraka, she said. She also said Carson extended Baraka’s poetics by breaking with tradition to change the conversation.

“It’s an exciting time to be a rapper, a poet and a Ph.D. student in America,” she said. dsahintu@syr.edu

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No, this is Patrick Catholicism is on the decline nationwide, but the same isn’t true at St. Patrick’s Church on Tipp Hill.

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Grocery run Since the first Shamrock Run 12 years ago, the number of participants has tripled.

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St. Patrick’s Church was built in 1871 by Irish settlers in Tipperary Hill, making it one of the oldest buildings in the area. Across the street is St. Patrick’s School, established by the church in 1911. Most of the parishioners who attend St. Patrick’s Church attended the school before it closed in 2006.

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Irish community at St. Patrick’s Church thrives despite decline in Catholic population

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aturally, the inside of St. Patrick’s Church in Tipperary Hill, Syracuse is a spectacle of Irish culture. Three-leaf clovers adorn the stained-glass windows. Green is used as an accent against the gold of the domed roof. Pillars in between benches are painted a dark green. A sign that hangs above the front door inside of the church reads “Pray Like a Champion Today,” just one letter’s difference from the slogan of Notre Dame’s Fighting Irish.

And when Father Kevin Maloney steps in front of parishioners for Monday Mass at noon, he stands below a stained glass window that features Jesus and Mary underneath a clover.

The church has proudly stood on the corner of North Lowell Avenue and Schuyler Street since 1871. And though Catholic Church membership rates have steadily declined across the United States since then, St. Patrick’s has seen an uptick in recent years. That’s due to the deep Irish culture weaved into both the church and Tipperary Hill’s tight-knit community. Maloney has helped cultivate it in recent years.

This St. Patrick’s Day, or Feast Day, will be the church’s 147th. Since March 17 falls on a Friday this year, the church will hold its regularly scheduled noon Mass, but will “do it up a little more,” Maloney said. As part of other festivities, a bagpiper and an organist will contribute a soundtrack in the form of traditional Irish music.

Though St. Patrick’s is still vibrant as ever, nationwide, the Catholic faith hasn’t.

In recent years, the Christian population in the U.S. fell by 7.8 percent between 2007 and 2014, and within the Christian population, the Catholic population fell from 23.9 percent to 20.8 percent, according to the Pew Research Center.

Despite the recent decline of the nation-

wide Catholic population, Sarah Fisher, the St. Patrick’s Church bookkeeper, says that St. Patrick’s church added around 100 more families in the past three years, bouncing back from a low-point in their attendance rates.

Maloney, who has been at St. Patrick’s since 2013 and church’s 11th pastor, said he’s recently noticed that masses are fuller, with Saturday evening Mass at 5:15 p.m. being the most popular. He believes that knowledge of St. Patrick’s church is passed down through family members, as a large majority of modern parishioners have Irish heritage.

“It kind of helps that we’re a beacon for the people who like to share a beverage every once and a while too,” Maloney said. “There’s tons of bars within a half mile or so.”

The Irish are “a very, very proud people,” said Maloney. Faith and heritage is instilled within the Irish families of Tipperary Hill, and the roots that some of the parishioners have in the area draw them back to St. Patrick’s, he said.

Some of the families who belong to St.

Patrick’s today are fourth, fifth and sixth generation Irish families, said Noreen Driscoll, St. Patrick’s Church secretary.

Jim Satalin, whose mother is from Ireland, has attended Mass at St. Patrick’s since he was growing up on Emerson Avenue just a block away. As a kid, he attended St. Patrick’s School just across the street from the church itself. The building hasn’t been used as a school since 2006, but the old school sign still stands facing the church.

Now, Satalin lives on Onondaga Hill.

He and his wife Kathleen Satalin attend the noon Mass on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays as often as they can. One of their daughters brings her children when she can, said Satalin, and she attends St. Patrick’s Mass, she does so in the company of her entire family. Kathleen Satalin said that she’s been attending St. Patrick’s alongside her husband for 15 years.

After elementary school, Satalin’s family moved away, so he wasn’t a part of the parish. But later, he and Kathleen decided to move back and return to their roots, Satalin said.

Here is a breakdown of religious affiliations across the U.S. adult population in 2007 and 2014

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“It’s been a great situation for us,” Satalin said. “It’s a great parish with great people.”

Father Maloney described the church’s community as a close one, as most churchgoers know each other, either from attending school together across the street or from bonding at Mass. Everyone looks out for each other, he said, adding that the parishioners are always willing to help one another and to celebrate with each other.

The active role that Maloney plays in the Syracuse community has contributed to the tight knit culture and the recent growth in the church’s members, said Fisher. The previous priest, Father John Fenlon, who was at St. Patrick’s from 2007 to 2013, couldn’t take as much of an active role because of health issues, Fisher said.

“People seem to really enjoy him,” Fisher said. “He’s young, he’s got a lot of energy.

He’s very active in everything that we do.”

Said Satalin: “Father’s fabulous.”

After Mass on Monday, a few of the parishioners hang around to chat with Maloney. They exchange jokes and make small talk. Two of these parishioners, MaryBeth and Peter Barclay, have only been attending St. Patrick’s for a few months.

Mary-Beth’s mother’s family, as well as Peter’s entire family, is from Ireland. The area of Tipp Hill is familiar to Mary-Beth, as she grew up on Tennyson Avenue and graduated from St. Patrick’s School across the road. Some of her current fellow parishioners were her old classmates.

“I’m with so many people that I grew up with (when attending St. Patrick’s),” she said. “They’ve all come back here.”

Maloney locks the church doors once all of the parishioners leave. They will return for the next week’s Mass, just as parishioners before them did for 147 years.

“Life is short,” the church sign next to the front door on Schuyler Street reads in bright-green letters, underneath the brightgreen listed times for Mass. “Pray hard.” akharfor@syr.edu

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Neighborhood pride, quirks stick with Tipp Hill residents

By Casey Russell feature editor

When Jim Cahill, better known by his nickname since kindergarten, Curly, was growing up in Tipperary Hill, he used to walk to school at St. Patrick’s Catholic School.

“There was about a mile’s worth of trouble to get into before we got to school,” he said.

As an 11-year-old product of a proud conservative family tradition – both his father and grandfather were on the Republican committee — he spotted a John F. Kennedy bumper sticker on someone’s car, and ripped it off in a gesture of solidarity with his conservative family.

Turns out that car belonged to an elderly Tipp Hill resident named Mae Griffin. She was from “the old country,” and she chased Curly down. All he could think was, “I am so screwed.”

“She chewed me out like I shot the Pope,” he said. “Apparently it was a class A felony that I ripped her bumper sticker off.”

She caught up with him and she chewed him out, but that was the end of it. She never told his Irish Catholic parents that he defamed America’s first Irish Catholic president. But that was the beauty of growing up in Tipp Hill.

“That was the end of it,” he said. “Everybody looked out for everybody else.”

Curly is one of many Irish residents in Syracuse’s traditionally Irish neighborhood, Tipp Hill. He’s watched the area change over the years, though many of its quirky characteristics have stuck around.

The Irish first settled in Tipp Hill in the 1820s during construction of the Erie Canal.

Many of those laborers were Irish immigrants who built a community for themselves on a hill overlooking the newly-built canal. It was named Tipperary Hill in the 1860s because many of its residents emigrated from County Tipperary in Ireland.

Tipp Hill has watched key events in Irish history unfold from an ocean away. As Irish nationalists and radicals fought the British for independence in a 1919-1921 episode of

The famous upside down traffic light represents the Irish community’s connection to the fight for independence in the old country. junxiu wang contributing photographer

history called “The Irish Question,” Tipp Hill residents showed their support for people in the old country by famously flipping a traffic light upside down.

Red represented the British, and green obviously represented the Irish. Tipperary Hill youths threw rocks at the red light, repeatedly breaking it. The light was flipped upside down, and state officials had it turned right side up because it would confuse colorblind drivers. But people kept throwing rocks, so in 1928, city leaders finally relented and the traffic light officially remained upside down.

The nine original stone throwers are commemorated in the Stone Throwers Park, a small monument on the corner of the intersection where the traffic light hangs.

While the famous upside down traffic

light has been around for years, Curly said Tipp Hill has still changed from how it was when he was growing up there.

When he was a kid, families with kids mainly populated the area. Curly was one of four kids, but many families had seven, eight or nine kids in classic Irish fashion. Now, the area is less of a family neighborhood and more of a spot for young adults.

One of those young adults is his daughter, Laura.

The houses in Tipp Hill are so close together that “driveways come at a premium,” Curly said. He remembers parking on the street, and having to move cars every time a plow came through.

Now, his daughter does the same. And there are more cars now than there were in

her father’s time.

From Curly’s speculation, young people like the idea of living in an area with so much tradition and history, not to mention one of the area’s main attractions: “The bars.”

Tipp Hill is even more rife with traditional Irish pubs than the rest of Syracuse – in a 1-mile radius, there are at least 12 pubs. One of the most famous is Coleman’s Authentic Irish Pub, known for its Green Beer Sunday.

The tradition started 52 years ago when Peter Coleman devised a way for his employees to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day – normally, they couldn’t because it always gets busy on March 17. Green Beer Sunday happens every year on the Sunday before St. Patrick’s Day. The quirkiest part is that the beer itself is an electric, Wizard of Oz emerald green.

And everyone loves that quirk – up to 2,000 people at least, said owner Dennis Coleman to The Daily Orange last year.

One of the other ways Tipp Hill remains a tight-knit community a century after the original Irish immigration is the way communities are placed together. Right near Tipp Hill lie vibrant Ukrainian and Polish communities, each with their own churches.

“You could walk to all three of them in a matter of 15 minutes,” Curly said.

Close proximity – both in geography and in relationships – is perhaps the number one way Tipp Hill maintains its sense of community.

Lynn Hy, chief development officer for The Food Bank of Central New York and current Westvale resident, lived in Tipp Hill for 10 years – Curly said it’s common for Tipp Hill residents to move to Westvale.

“I still hang out there,” she said. “It’s very fun.”

Ly and Curly’s son Dennis went to Bishop Ludden Junior/Senior High School together.

And though Curly now lives in Camillus, Tipp Hill has never left him.

“It goes with you,” he said. “It’s a part of you.” cmrussel@syr.edu

Parade committee champions Paint the town green: Street Ireland’s close-to-home cause stripe represents Irish culture

By Casey Russell feature editor

Vince Christian drove a grey Jeep Grand Cherokee. He and 20 others made stops at five different locations, collecting food donations.

Five years later, he was asked to plan that same route, collecting donations for St. Patrick Hunger Project in a venture he calls the “charitable arm” of the St. Patrick’s Parade Committee, most known for planning the annual downtown festivity.

The Hunger Project’s partnership with the Food Bank of Central New York has been a fruitful one — in 11 years, The Hunger Project donated $120,000. That equals 521,000 meals for Syracuse natives who are food insecure.

“People in our community care about each other,” Christian said.

Members of The St. Patrick’s Parade Committee decided in 2006 that they wanted to add a philanthropic element to their repertoire. Committee representatives John Young, Bill Gooley and Richard Walsh reached out to several food-related entities, including the Food Bank. They were the original founders of The Hunger Project.

And it made sense to pick hunger relief as the champion cause for The St. Patrick’s Parade Committee. Irish immigrants originally came to the United States during the disastrous potato famine in the 1840s. They settled across the northeast, especially in Boston. In Syracuse, they moved to Tipperary Hill, named after the Irish county from which most of them came.

Looking at the numbers, the Food Bank has benefited from the Committee’s efforts to “bring a different focus and a different light to their celebration,” as Lynn Hy, chief development officer at the Food Bank put it.

The donations started originally as just actual food drive donations, and the first cash donation came in 2006 at four

thousand dollars. By 2016, that number had multiplied by five. At $20,000, that was the highest donation the Food Bank had ever received, a figure the Committee matched this year. That money has a tangible impact.

“For every dollar that gets donated, that becomes three meals out in the community,” Hy, who has worked with the Food Bank for six and a half years, said.

Hy also said cash donations allow the Food Bank to stock the shelves with perishable goods. Community members can’t donate perishables, but when the Food Bank receives cash, they can purchase fruits, vegetables, lean meats, dairy and other products that spoil.

But the St. Patrick’s Day Committee has to get that money from somewhere. Christian said the Committee does the bulk of their fundraising from December to March, but it can be a year-round deal. Much of that money comes from the annual Shamrock Run, which took place Saturday, March 4, but money also comes from the Committee’s “Irish Night” collaborations with the Syracuse Silver Knights professional soccer team and Syracuse Crunch professional hockey team.

The Food Bank generally provides foodinsecure individuals in Syracuse with a place to get something to eat. Hy said there is a large food desert – an area where finding and purchasing quality, fresh food is difficult – on Syracuse’s South Side. Not only that, but buying fresh food in the first place is too expensive for some. The emergency food network, i.e. the Food Bank, lessens the harsh effect a food desert can have on people who live there.

Christian saw all the Hunger Project’s efforts pay off when the Committee received a letter from an elderly woman who was confined to her house. Her letter detailed how she identified with the Hunger Project’s mission.

She enclosed $3. It was everything she could afford. cmrussel@syr.edu

By Connor Fogel

contributing writer

Led by the music of a bagpiper, the Syracuse St. Patrick’s Parade will kick off Friday morning with its tradition of painting a green stripe down Nancy Duffy Lane.

The green stripe marks the path of the parade, stretching from the corner of Erie Boulevard and South Salina Street down to the corner of Harrison Street.

During the week before the parade, the city’s Department of Public Works replaces the street signs on South Salina Street with signs marking “Nancy Duffy Lane” in honor of the parade’s founder who passed away in 2006.

“The green stripe tradition kicks off the beginning of the weekend festivities,” Janet Higgins, the parade’s president, said. “It’s been going on for at least 25 years.”

The green stripe painting will take place on Friday at 9:30 a.m. starting at the corner of Erie Boulevard. Many government officials join Higgins and other parade officers and directors to paint the stripe.

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St. Patrick’s Parade Where: South Salina Street When: Friday at noon How much: Free

This year Mayor Stephanie Miner will not only take part in the parade’s festivities as the city’s mayor, she is also the parade’s Grand High Marshal. She will be joined in painting the stripe by other local politicians; the Syracuse, NY Ancient

Order of Hibernians; the parade chaplain, Father John Ahern; Kiltie Pipe Band’s bagpiper Dan Walsh; and also Higgins, who has been involved with the parade since its beginning 35 years ago.

AT LEAST

30,000 Number of people expected to attend the 2017 Syracuse St. Patrick’s Parade

“There are lots of people from around the town,” Higgins said. “There are just people who are incredibly Irish that love to come to the stripe painting to watch. It’s just really fun. It’s a really nice way to start off the weekend.”

In 2014, the International Business Times ranked Syracuse as the ninth largest St. Patrick’s Day parade in America.

Hosting at least 30,000 people, according to IBT, Higgins says the Syracuse St. Patrick’s Parade is the largest city event celebrating the holiday.

Ten years ago, the parade committee began the Hunger Project, which the parade’s website, works to “support our community network of hunger-related agencies in meeting the food needs of the individuals and families they serve.”

Higgins said that in the 10 years since beginning the project, the parade has helped supply more than half a million meals to people in Central New York. cbfogel@syr.edu

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Shamrock Run donates to Hunger Project

By Kenneth Mintz staff writer

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Green colored apparel filled the streets of Tipperary Hill in Syracuse on Saturday, benefitting a cause, which once plagued the Irish.

The 12th annual Tipperary Hill Shamrock Run wrapped up in frigid conditions, but runners who have trained in the cold this winter were untroubled. The race raised $3,500 from online donations and the committee is still tallying race day donations which will benefit the St. Patrick’s Parade Committee’s Hunger Project.

“The famine is what forced many people to leave Ireland, so it makes sense to us,” said Janice McKenna, Tipperary Hill Neighborhood Association president. “And now we have hungry people in our own neighborhoods.”

Nearly 3,000 people took to the streets to represent the Irish culture of Tipp Hill, as it’s commonly referred to. Unlike most races, the four-mile course is filled with hills, reaching its pinnacle on Hamilton Street where runners can overlook the city of Syracuse.

Bands played on street corners for the runners. In years past, Syracuse University’s student-run pep band Sour Sitrus Society would play on street corners, but could not this year due to conflict with SU men’s home basketball game against Georgia Tech.

“Even neighbors are hanging off their porch, banging pots and pans and such just to let the runners know that people are cheering them on,” McKenna added.

The first Shamrock Run had 800 runners, and has more than tripled since. The run attracts some serious runners who finish four miles at a pace of five minutes a mile, said McKenna, but there are also walkers and others in between. Besides collecting several barrels full of food, the race also benefitted the Boys and Girls Club, the town library, three local schools and the Tipperary Hill Neighborhood Association.

“It’s not just the Tipperary Hill community that has helped — it’s central New York in gen-

Runners trot up and down the area’s characteristic hills on a route that captures main attractions, including the traffic light. courtesy of st. patrick’s parade committee

eral,” said Janet Higgins, St. Patrick’s Parade Committee president who works with the hunger fund. “We have the most generous people in the country. I’m absolutely convinced of that.”

The Tipp Hill community is largely formed by people who immigrated to the United States from County Tipperary in Ireland. Those whose ancestors once escaped the famine have learned to give back in way near and dear to their heart.

The Irish immigrated in search of work and followed their family members to Central New York after arriving in New York City. They soon found jobs alongside Germans when the Erie Canal was being built from Albany to Buffalo in the 1820s. They have made Tipperary Hill their own, and the infrastructure and culture has been formed over time to mock that of Dublin.

“It’s got the hills,” McKenna said. “The houses in the neighborhood were designed to

be close together, and that was really something the people up here wanted because it reminded them of Dublin. Plus, Ireland is lakes and hills and that’s what we have around here.”

While the large waves of Irish immigration have subsided, nearly 30 percent of the Tipperary Hill area still derives from Irish ancestry, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The route has been designed and professionally measured by Race Director Eileen Murray to pass all these staples.

Even on one of the coldest days this winter, people enjoyed the spirited atmosphere with their neighbors, friends and family.

“We have an advantage because when you say, ‘Tipperary Hill’ to someone, they immediately think ‘fun,’” McKenna said. “So they just assume that anything we do up here is going to be fun, and we are known for our hospitality.” kmintz@syr.edu

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The year that Syracuse City Ballet first opened. This year, 2017, marks 20 years.

Evelyn Kocak, a former soloist from the Pennsylvania Ballet, will be performing as the Evil Queen. Kocak said she’s excited to play a character “that is opposite of my actual personality.”

“I don’t think I’ve ever played a character that was evil — I normally do more of the nice, ballerina-type roles,” Kocak said. “So it’s fun to like explore being bad and wicked.”

Claire Rathbun, a Syracuse native, will take on the lead role of Snow White. Rathbun,

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Syracuse City Ballet gears up for opening of ‘Snow White’ athleen Rathbun grew up performing ballet. After dancing for several companies in New York, including The Julliard School, the Syracuse native returned home and taught ballet around the area. But Rathbun hoped for something more — to put together a ballet production. With no ballet company in Syracuse at the time, she decided to start her own company instead.

“I realized I wanted a studio where you can learn the art, but also have opportunity to be mentored alongside professionals and professional productions,” Rathbun said.

Rathbun opened the Syracuse City Ballet in 1997 with their first ballet production, “Snow White.” Now, 20 years later, the ballet company is coming full circle with a new production of “Snow White.”

This Friday and Sunday, the company will showcase an original ballet of the classic fairy tale at the Oncenter Crouse Hinds Theater. As the only professional ballet company in Central New York, the Syracuse City Ballet also offers productions of “The Nutcracker,” “Sleeping Beauty” and “Swan Lake” throughout the year. It provides various outreach programs for over 3,500 Syracuse city school children as well.

Along with celebrating the company’s 20th anniversary, Rathbun, now artistic director, chose to showcase “Snow White” for its universal appeal.

“I wanted to bring something that was kind of different, and would attract absolutely everybody, boys and girls, old and young alike,” Rathbun said. “So it’s one of those kind of ballets that, if you’ve never seen a ballet, you’re going to love it.”

Since its first show 20 years ago, this production of “Snow White” has added new music, different sets, costumes and more choreography. But the storyline of the show hasn’t changed.

Based on the Brothers Grimm fairy tale, this production of “Snow White” features the wicked queen, who transforms herself into three different witches to try and kill Snow White. After the seven dwarves save Snow White from her first two attempts, the queen finally succeeds — with the help of a poisoned apple.

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An award winning poet, Francis is currently a Poet-in-Residence for the Alice Lloyd Scholars Program at the University of Michigan. when: Friday, 7 p.m. where: YMCA of Downtown Syracuse “OF MICE AND MEN” The opening night of the adaption John Steinbeck’s classic. The play discusses the moral dilemma of turning in a friend for an accidental killing. when: Friday, 8 p.m. where: The Central New York Playhouse RARELY DONE PRODUCTIONS’ “THE TOMKAT PROJECT” This comedy by Brandon Ogborn is based off of real interviews from Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes and explores their marriage and experience with The Church of Scientology. when: Friday and Saturday, 8 p.m. where: CNY Jazz Central 27TH ANNUAL GREATER SYRACUSE ANTIQUES EXPO

CLAIRE RATHBUN dances in Syracuse City Ballet’s production of “Snow White.” The company wanted to cater to all ages with the show. courtesy of syracuse city ballet

who danced with the Washington Ballet, just finished performing in Tony-award winner Susan Stroman’s musical, “Little Dancer.”

The main cast also includes Daniel Baker as the prince and David Block as the huntsman, both of whom trained at The School of American Ballet. Baker, who is originally from Australia, also competed in the show “So You Think You Can Dance.” Other cast members of the production are from Syracuse, including two Cuban immigrant dancers and some of the company’s students.

With the main dancers away in New York City, Rathbun admits that rehearsing the show without the full cast “has been hectic.” All of the dancers have been rehearsing since January, but will rehearse together for the first time just three days before the show. Rathbun, however, said the dancers are all professionals, and trusts that rehearsals will go well.

“This isn’t like a production that’s touring and coming in, this is Syracuse’s own company,” Rathbun said. “I mean, these people are talented, and I think it’s important and so fortunate that we have this quality of ballet and dance in our community here.”

Rathbun is also hoping the stagehands backstage will be just as prepared. The pro-

duction runs for two hours, but the nature of the ballet is fast-paced.

“One minute you’re in the dwarves’ house and the next minute you’re in the wicked queen’s castle,” Rathbun said. “It goes so fast that trying to make that all happen seamlessly is going to be interesting.”

As a full-scale production, the show will include hand-painted sets from Italy, and a magic mirror and dwarves’ bed designed by an artist from Syracuse Stage. Rathbun, who describes the production as “beautiful, scary, but funny,” is looking forward to the scene where the wicked queen orders the huntsman to kill Snow White. After he leaves Snow White in the forest, the brambles, disguised as dancers, starts moving and “come alive in the forest,” Rathbun said.

Kocak will be performing in Syracuse for the first time as a professional dancer. Her family will attend the show, including her 5-year-old nephew who has never seen her dance, Kocak is excited to bring ballet into the community.

“It’ll be great to come because this show is so accessible to children,” Kocak said. “It exposes kids to ballet, to dance, and maybe inspires kids to want to dance even.” hmaeda@syr.edu

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“It’s pretty tough, but it’s what we have to do,” freshman Tyus Battle said. “… We definitely fought our way back just into the whole conversation which most teams wouldn’t do.”

The Orange had a chance to all but secure its spot in the NCAA Tournament with a win against a Miami team that’s already a lock. Syracuse entered the half down eight but never disappeared in the second half, clawing back as it has so often this season.

Battle even gave SU a one-point before DJ Vasiljevic canned two 3-pointers to put the Hurricanes back in front.

White tried his best to resuscitate Syracuse with a game-high 22 points, but in the end it wasn’t enough. Battle’s blown two-handed dunk that would’ve brought SU within one under three minutes left led to a Kamari Murphy slam at the other end that put Miami up five. Even a

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“Maybe it just wasn’t in the cards to make the third one,” Boeheim said.

In Syracuse’s locker room after the game, six coaches sat shielded by a portable white board in the corner. From left to right, director of operations Kip Wellman, assistant coaches Adrian Autry, Gerry McNamara and Mike Hopkins and assistant strength coach Eric Devendorf quietly talked amongst each other.

Boeheim sat before them, his jacket and tie off, his right leg crossed over his left and his hands resting on his knees. Last season, he orchestrated a magical Final Four run after SU squeaked into the field.

The 41-year head coach believes the committee values teams that can win games in the Tournament. That, he said, is what his team offers to deserve squeaking into the field again.

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Syracuse finds success despite low ground ball totals

By Matthew Gutierrez asst. sports editor

Three consecutive ground balls ended Syracuse’s longest stretch without a lead in 10 years.

The Orange did not lead for seven straight quarters spanning from its 14-13 Army loss and Virginia win by the same score. That’s largely because SU lost the ground ball battle by 23 in those games. Fifty-fifty balls near midfield, scrums around the cage and turnovers gone loose often found an opponent’s stick. But four straight pickups in the final minutes against then-No. 9 UVA, including Jordan Evans’ scoop with 1:32 that set up Sergio Salcido’s gamewinning goal, revealed how steady SU’s offense can be when it gets loose balls.

“It’s not often,” SU head coach John Desko said, “You can win a game by one goal having a groundball discrepancy like we did.”

The Cavaliers routed the Orange, 43-27, in that category, leading to extra possessions and scoring chances. Perhaps where Syracuse prides itself most — winning the mini-game of ground balls — hasn’t factored into the offense the way

Desko would hope. Through four games, No. 6 Syracuse’s ground ball ratio is at its rate lowest since 2014. A Ben Williams-less SU team struggled against Army and a Virginia team gave SU fits on ground balls. Even in a near-upset loss to Albany, SU had only two more ground balls than the Great Danes.

A last-second goal has decided each of SU’s last three games, magnifying the importance of winning 50-50 balls. And despite SU’s troublesome ground ball numbers, the Orange’s 31.75 average per game places higher than four of five ACC teams. SU ranks No. 2 in the ACC and tied-13th in all of the NCAA. That bodes well for Syracuse (3-1, 1-0 Atlantic Coast), which has found ways to stay in games even when it doesn’t pick up ground balls.

Army starts every practice with ground ball drills. Virginia’s run-and-gun style depends on volume, possessions and ground balls. Duke, a team SU hosts later this month, thrives in the category. Every day leading up to the UVA game, Syracuse drilled on ground balls, something it doesn’t normally do daily.

Without Williams, SU had come off a last-sec-

ond loss to Army because the Black Knights dominated at the X and 31-24 on loose balls.

“With them having all of their possessions today,” Desko said after the Army loss, “they had some nice two- to three-minute possessions. A couple of times the ball bounced and it bounced their way.”

Sometimes, picking up groundballs comes down to will. The way the ball scoots off the turf, the scrums that formulate at midfield and the faceoffs don’t always favor the more skilled player. You just have to be in the right spot.

For two years, Williams has led SU in ground balls. This season, even though he missed a game, he tops SU with 23. His 5-foot-11, 192-pound frame allows him to win ground balls near midfield. Williams, SU’s all-time leader in ground balls, muscles opponents then feeds a midfielder to initiate the offense. Winning such ground balls leads to more clears and breakaways, and players such as Williams know what to do with a pickup to outlet and better facilitate the offense.

“It’s not just quantity,” said St. John’s

head coach Jason Miller, whose 1-4 team plays SU Saturday. “The key is the tough ones. The 50-50 balls are the ones of value.”

Another potential avenue for SU to examine is the attack. Evans has already picked up 12 ground balls. Evans, Mariano and Solomon have combined for 18 ground balls.

Senior defender Scott Firman has nine.

Getting the wings more involved, Desko said, should help. And increased minutes for Tyson Bomberry, a sophomore defender who’s emerged from non-factor in 2016 to the team’s best defender, also adds value. At 6 foot, 219 pounds, Bomberry knocks balls down and grabs passes in the air. In practice, he plays the wings because he’s a quality ground ball player.

Syracuse didn’t have Williams against Army. He would have probably tilted the ground ball battle in SU’s favor. Outside of that, SU is a big, athletic team looking to strengthen its ground ball play in games it could have handedly won had it commanded more ground balls. Still, the conditions are now ripe for Syracuse to beat conference opponents by winning in the ground ball department.

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Orange tries to earn 1st win against Maryland since 2012

By Kaci Wasilewski staff writer

Since 1998, Syracuse has faced Maryland a total of 21 times. The Orange has only won once.

Recently, Maryland’s dominance has derailed SU in the postseason. The Terrapins beat Syracuse in the national championship in 2014, the only time the two teams have met in that game. In the 2013, 2015 and 2016 seasons, UMD eliminated SU from the semifinals.

No. 4 Syracuse (7-0, 2-0 Atlantic Coast) will once again take the field against No. 1 Maryland (4-0) in College Park on Saturday.

Since 2007, when Gary Gait took over as

head coach, UMD has SU’s Achilles heel. The only time SU won was a road game in 2012.

“We’re still the last team to beat them at home,” Gait said, “at Maryland a long time ago — five years.”

That game occurred on March 10, 2012 — five years and one day before this Saturday’s meeting — with SU winning, 10-9. Thenjunior Michelle Tumolo, led the team to victory with her five points on three goals and two assists, while then-sophomore goalie Alyssa Costantino registered 10 saves. Prior to the March 10 loss, Maryland last lost at home in May of 2008 to Duke.

“It was a battle back and forth,” for-

mer Maryland midfielder and two-time Tewaaraton winner Katie Schwarzmann said. “They played us very well, their goalie came out with a lot of saves.”

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Wins for Syracuse over Maryland in the teams’ last 21 meetings dating to 1998

Syracuse and Maryland’s first matchup took place 19 years ago. The 1998 season brought the Orange to College Park, where they received their first of many losses against the Terps. Maryland head coach Cathy Reese was a player for Maryland at the time. Gait, one of Maryland’s assistant coaches at the time, recruited Reese. She was his first real blue chip recruit.

Gait, one of the best players in Syracuse men’s lacrosse history , got his start at Maryland. He was on seven teams that won national championships.

“I spent a lot of time there,” Gait said. “I loved my time there, I got involved in the game of women’s lacrosse. Lots of history, lots of tradition there. I certainly look forward to going back.”

Maryland runs a fast-paced offense with multiple high scorers. Leading their offensive efforts this season is junior attack Megan Whittle. A Tewaaraton watch list member, Whittle played a crucial role in Maryland’s trouncing of SU. In last year’s semifinals, Whittle posted a gamehigh five points on four goals and one assist.

Junior Taylor Hensh also posted four goals in that game. She returned this season with eight points over the first four games. Whittle leads

the team with 11 goals. Senior midfielder Zoe Stukenberg is also on the Tewaaraton watch list this season and is tied for second with 10 goals.

On defense, Maryland has senior Nadine Hadnagy. She caused two turnovers in the game against North Carolina on Feb. 25. The reigning National Champions North Carolina is a top caliber team and was ranked No. 1 going into the UMD game. Maryland kept the Tar Heels’ top scorer, Molly Hendrick, to one goal off five shots. Hendrick currently averages three goals per game. Her speed allows allows her to transition the ball quickly but SU runs a fast paced offense and could create opportunities to stop her.

Maryland’s domination over Syracuse has put a damper on any achievements the team has. Many upperclassmen for the Orange have faced, and failed, against Maryland multiple times throughout their careers.

We’re still the last team to beat them at home, at Maryland a long time ago — five years.

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“Having to say I’ve been here for four and a half years and I haven’t beaten Maryland is... it’s been a goal,” redshirt junior Taylor Gait said. “They’re a great team every year, they’re consistent. It would be amazing if we could come out with a W.” klwasile@syr.edu

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MIAMI 62, 8 SYRACUSE 57

dailyorange.com @dailyorange march 9, 2017 • PAG E 16

JOHN GILLON walks off the court, disappointed. He had a chance to tie the game, but his long 3-pointer came up short and Miami went on to hit free throws to ice the game. When the point guard has played well, Syracuse has played well. When he hasn’t, the Orange has struggled. jessica sheldon staff photographer

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By Matt Schneidman senior staff writer

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SU’s NCAA Tournament odds murky after Miami loss

EW YORK – Syracuse had run its final play before, John Gillon charging up the court to hoist a desperation 3-pointer from the top of the arc.

The first time, that sequence produced arguably the highlight of college basketball’s regular season as a game-winning buzzer-beater against Duke. Two weeks later, the contrary came as the ball deflected softly off the left side of the rim and trickled away from Syracuse as its chances for victory did the same.

Gillon’s shot would’ve tied the game and granted SU another chance to win and further its spot in the NCAA Tournament. Instead, with four-tenths of a second left and Miami trotting to the opposite foul line to bury the Orange, the team quietly waited for its fate to become official.

Syracuse’s (18-14, 10-8 Atlantic Coast) NCAA Tournament fate is anything but official following a 62-57 loss to

ninth-seeded Miami (21-10, 10-8) in the second round of the ACC tournament in the Barclays Center. Because of that, Syracuse will wait a lot more before the NCAA releases the field of 68 on Sunday night.

“We’ve done everything we could to put us in a position to be considered for the postseason,” guard Andrew White said. “Just proud of the way we’ve come, coming from where we started earlier in the year.”

Where Syracuse started is far from where Jim Boeheim’s team is now. This team had no business in any Tournament conversation after a 33-point defeat to St. John’s at home and a 15-point road loss to Boston College, the eventual worst team in the conference, to begin league play. Back-to-back blowout losses spoiled chances for marquee wins against North Carolina and Notre Dame and the Orange showed no potential to turn its season around.

Yet it did just that. Syracuse tacked on wins against Florida State, Virginia and Duke that now serve as the basis of Boeheim’s argument that his team should be one of the 68. see miami page 12

men’s basketball

John Gillon falters in Syracuse’s 62-57 loss to Hurricanes

By Connor Grossman senior staff writer

NEW YORK — In the days leading up to Syracuse’s biggest game of the season, Miami head coach Jim Larranaga and his staff had a revelation that’s clung to Orange all year: If John Gillon has a big game, so does SU. That was the case earlier this season against the Hurricanes, when the senior point guard dished 11 assists and came two points shy of a double-double. It was the case for Gillon in an overtime win at

North Carolina State and the case in a home upset of Duke.

It’s been the case all season, so Larranaga made sure it wouldn’t be on Wednesday. The Hurricanes clogged the paint and made it difficult for Gillon to drive for most of the game, resulting in a more deliberate SU offense that doesn’t maximize its strengths.

Gillon turned the ball over three times and scored all eight of his points in the second half, enduring one of his most frustrating performances of the season.

“I didn’t do my job as the point guard tonight,” Gillon said in a quiet Syracuse locker room.

With Gillon leading an offense that leaned on 3-pointers and long jump shots for most of the afternoon, SU (18-14, 10-8 Atlantic Coast) spent most of its 62-57 loss to Miami (2110, 10-8) playing catchup. While the Orange has mounted plenty of comeback wins this season, that wouldn’t be the case in the second round of the ACC tournament on Wednesday in the Barclays Center. A win would have given SU more comfort about its

NCAA Tournament fate. Now it’s a tossup that will be decided on Sunday.

The most glaring stain on SU’s tournament resume is a lack of road wins, a trend that correlates substantially with Gillon’s performance. In the Orange’s most recent road losses at Louisville and Georgia Tech, the 6-foot point guard mirrored the disappointing outcome with disappointing play.

When SU’s offense doesn’t have its ringleader, it doesn’t have much at all.

“I’m the head of the snake,” Gillon said. “I’m the point guard. If I’m

not having a big game, it’s going to be tough for us to do what we need to do.”

Despite the game-long troubles to attack Miami’s defense, Gillon had chances to make up for every one of the Orange’s offensive woes.

He charged down the court with 7.7 seconds left and a chance to tie the game with a 3-pointer. He pulled up a few feet from the top of the key, losing his balance as he let go of the shot, but the shot landed wide.

He tried to scream it out to his teammates, hoping they could snag a

see gillon page 12