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The tickets for president and vice president of Student Association's 61st legislative session will debate Monday evening in place of SA's weekly assembly meeting.

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The hawks that live outside Lyman Hall haven’t gone unnoticed.

There’s a whole team of people dedicated to watching the birds fly and grow.

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S • Finding his way

People close to Ben Williams thought he was crazy for thinking he could play Division I lacrosse.

But the Minnesota native developed into one of SU's best players.

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SCIENTIFIC METHOD Proposal to increase STEM focus divides SU faculty members Text by Satoshi Sugiyama asst. news editor

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t was the last item on the agenda for the University Senate’s March 22 meeting that triggered immediate and wide-ranging reactions from Syracuse University faculty members.

SU Vice Chancellor and Provost Michele Wheatly revealed that she and academic deans have discussed a proposal to create “a universitywide STEM branding strategy” that would make SU “a leading model for contemporary STEM education.” Many SU faculty members both at the meeting and in later interviews said they were blindsided by Wheatly’s report.

Although Wheatly has stressed that no concrete decision has been made, SU faculty members are split over the branding idea. Some embrace the proposed strategy as an encouraging sign of support for STEM fields, while others caution that the branding could make the university’s non-STEM academic disciplines secondary to STEM disciplines.

The provost emphasized during the meeting that the university needs to find “a niche” to brand itself in “a very crowded marketplace,” so that it can provide academic experience to students under the spirit of the Academic Strategic Plan — one of the three pillars of Chancellor Kent see stem page 7

Michele Wheatly’s push for STEM strategy follows trend of her career

By Satoshi Sugiyama asst. news editor

Syracuse University Vice Chancellor and Provost Michele Wheatly’s recent proposal to formulate a university-wide STEM branding strategy is reflective of a career in higher education that she’s spent attempting to advance the sciences.

Wheatly announced during a University Senate meeting on March 22 that she had been talking with deans to formulate “a university-wide

STEM branding strategy” that places SU as “a leading model for contemporary STEM education.”

Through this approach, Wheatly said SU could differentiate itself in a crowded marketplace and attract prospective students, educators and donors by uniting STEM education with non-STEM disciplines. Wheatly brings more than 30 years of background as a scientist and a researcher to SU. “We have many great stories to tell and one of them happens to be our unique STEM approach, which is broader than one school, college, or

cluster of programs,” Wheatly said in a statement to The Daily Orange.

“All of our schools and colleges contribute every day to a robust, multifaceted education in the sciences, technology, engineering, and mathematics.”

Wheatly has a background as a scientist and previous leadership positions held at universities advocating for the advancement of science, technology, engineering and mathematics — a field still heavily dominated by men — and see wheatly page 6

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New York’s legalization of Uber was years in the making

By Michael Burke news editor

New York state lawmakers have authorized ride-hailing services such as Uber to operate in the state as part of the 2018 fiscal year budget, which was approved on Friday.

Ride-hailing services will be authorized to operate statewide in about three months. The services have previously been illegal in the

state, except for in New York City.

Efforts to bring Uber to Syracuse and elsewhere in the state has lasted multiple years. Here’s a look at how the state arrived at its current point.

March 2015

The New York state Assembly introduces bill A.6090, which sought to change the state insurance law to allow for ride-hailing to operate statewide.

That particular bill never passed through the state Legisla-

ture, but it helped spearhead the discussion about legalizing ridehailing services in the state.

push for Uber and Lyft, as the university never publicly said whether it supported the legalization of the services.

Then-Student Association President Aysha Seedat tells The Daily Orange she planned to push for the legislation of ride-hailing services in New York state.

Seedat’s continued support for ride-hailing services was one of Syracuse University’s lone ties to the

The Student Association assembly approves sending a letter to the New York State Assembly arguing for the legalization of ride-hailing services in the state.

Seedat and then-Parliamentarian James Franco wrote the letter with the help of student governments at

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other schools in New York state.

February 2016

Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner expresses her support for Uber and Lyft in a statement to The Daily Orange.

In the statement, Miner highlighted safety as one of the main benefits of ride-hailing services.

“Whether it’s the grandmother who needs help getting to a doctor’s see uber page 8

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MEET monday | harris rothfeld

Junior with rural background appreciates SU

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Harris Rothfeld had no intention of applying to Syracuse University, but now that he is on the hill, he has fallen in love with the school he was encouraged to apply to.

“Everything aligned properly,” Rothfeld said. “When I looked at what I wanted out of a school I realized this was the complete package.”

Rothfeld, a junior television, radio and film and finance dual major, is using his opportunity to pursue his passion: storytelling.

Theater was Rothfeld’s gateway to storytelling. In eighth grade, a teacher pushed him to audition for the school musical, where he got a lead role. He is still involved in theater while at SU, and will appear in What Theatre’s production of “The Rimers of Eldritch.”

With each story Rothfeld tells, he aims to spark a reaction from his audience. He sees it as a way to generate conversation and get people talking about things that aren’t mundane.

As a finance student, Rothfeld said he forgot how fun performing is, despite being able to flex his creative muscles in his communications classes. After graduating, he hopes to combine his financial and creative knowledge by working in business development.

Self improvement is always high on Rothfed’s to do list. He spent his fall semester in Madrid, trying to improve his Spanish skills and exploring Europe.

“Studying abroad develops your growth as a student and as a human

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being,” Rothfeld said. “Unfortunately, not everybody gets to go abroad or gets to experience going to school in another country, but if you get the opportunity, take it.”

Rothfeld said he was prepared for a school the size of SU and the study abroad experience because of his background. He grew up in rural Pennsylvania but went to a large high school — his graduating class consisted of 800 students.

“I’m not afraid of going into a

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scenario with a lot more people, in fact I love that idea,” Rothfeld said.

“I think the greater chance of you meeting new people from different cities or backgrounds is only going to make you a better person.”

Since he arrived on campus, Rothfeld has thrown himself into several organizations. He is involved in Enactus, Hillel and the fraternity Sigma Phi Epsilon. He cherishes his experiences — he always wanted to see the Syracuse men’s basketball

team make the Final Four, which it did last year.

During his senior year, Rothfeld plans to stay involved. He likes to treat each day as a new day and new opportunity.

“You have an opportunity and you’re never know when you’re going to get it again,” Rothfeld said. “Syracuse is the biggest opportunity there is and you just want to take advantage of your four years.”

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Controversial question The Common Application still asks applicants about criminal record histories despite controversy.

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

POLITICS CABINET SHAKEUP K. T. McFarland is expected to step down as deputy National Security Advisor to President Donald Trump and be reassigned to an ambassador to Singapore.

This exit allows National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster to assemble his team of the National Security Council personnel.

Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly was involved in the decision, according to a person familiar with the situation. source: bloomberg politics

SANCTUARY FIGHT State legislators in 33 states are ramping up their efforts to deter cities from becoming sanctuaries for undocumented immigrants. So far only the state of Mississippi has instituted a ban on sanctuary jurisdictions, but legislators in states such as Texas, Indiana, Iowa, Florida and Georgia are following the lead by pushing their bills. source: the hill

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The Outlaws Dance Troupe performed Saturday in the "Bollywood vs. Hollywood" dance competition held inside Schine Student Center's Goldstein Auditorium. The Outlaws Dance Troupe and Orange Bhangra hosted the event. The competition featured performances by groups including Otto's Empire, Christian Quiles and the Nu Rho Poetic Society. frankie prijatel senior staff photographer

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Candidates prepare for Monday night debate

By Jordan Muller staff writer

James Franco and Tyler Rossi, the two candidates for Student Association president, will square off in Maxwell Auditorium on Monday night in the second and final debate of the 2017 SA election season. Franco’s and Rossi’s running mates — vice presidential candidates Angie Pati and Roy Tin, respectively — will also debate on Monday, along with the candidates for SA comptroller,

who haven’t yet been announced.

As the candidates prepare for the debate, officials from both campaigns said they are hoping Monday’s debate will stick to policy ideas and campus issues.

“Students, from who we talked to, said they really liked when we kept it to what the ideas were,” Franco said.

At the first SA debate last week, Franco and Rossi discussed mental health, campus safety and community outreach but clashed over the “sanctuary campus”

issue and their respective running mates. Rossi said Pati’s oncampus experiences were not as good as Tin’s Goldman Sachs internship, while Franco questioned how Tin’s work at Goldman Sachs would help SA. After the debate, Rossi apologized for his comments about Pati.

Tin said officials on the Rossi campaign have been talking to Rossi about how to better his ability to lead and talk and that a formal apology to Pati will be “the first priority” at Monday’s debate.

“We hope to apologize and distance ourselves from the comments made at last week’s debate, and engage in a healthy discussion with our opponents over the future of this campus that we all love so much,” Rossi said in an email.

Rossi said his focus in the next debate will be on getting students to know him and Tin better as candidates.

Tin said Monday’s debate will be about how each candidate plans to implement their policies. see debate page 8

News briefs: What you missed this weekend

By The Daily Orange News Staff

Here are some Syracuse news stories and announcements you may have missed over the weekend:

‘Suspicious event’ suspect arrested and charged

The Department of Public Safety and Syracuse Police Department announced on Friday that a Syracuse resident has been arrested and charged for allegedly approaching women on SU’s campus Thursday and asking them questions that made them uncomfortable.

The suspect has been identified as Dennis Smalley, Jr. DPS issued a Public Safety Notice about the incident Thursday evening.

Smalley has been charged with burglary in the second degree, criminal trespass in the second

degree and two counts of forcible touching. The arrest was made following a joint investigation between DPS and the SPD’s Abused Persons Unit. The investigation into the incident remains ongoing, according to an SPD press release.

Smalley is currently being held at the Onondaga County Justice Center.

Chuck’s to leave current location this month

Hungry Chuck’s, the popular bar, announced it will be leaving its current location along South Crouse Avenue later this month. The bar will host students for the final time at its current spot on April 18.

The bar will likely be open for the 2017-18 academic year, said Steve Theobald, Chuck’s owner.

The bar’s location is slated for demolition, with New Jerseybased BLVD Equities planning to construct an eight-story mixeduse complex that will include luxury student apartments.

Chuck’s has been in a legal battle with the developers. Theobald filed a restraining order against the developers last month, preventing them from conducting an asbestos abatement. The bar also filed a lawsuit last month against the developers over Chuck’s lease termination notice.

“We have to balance what is good for the restaurant and what is good for our customers,” Theobald said Friday. “We had to balance what was good for class of 2017 with what will be good for the class of 2018, 2019, and beyond.”

Legislature approves ridehailing services to operate upstate

Ride-hailing services like Uber and Lyft could be operating in Syracuse within 90 days as New York state lawmakers and Gov. Andrew Cuomo reached a deal on the fiscal year 2018 budget on Friday.

The deal was reached four days after the state legislature extended the deadline for passing the budget by two months as a result of the legislative body missing the original April 1 budget deadline.

“This Budget continues the progress we have achieved to improve the lives of New Yorkers, and build a stronger, better Empire State that truly lives up to its motto: Excelsior,” Cuomo said in a press release.

CHURCH ATTACKS Bombs exploded at two churches in Egypt on Sunday, killing 44 Coptic Christian mass-goers who were celebrating the holy Christian holiday of Palm Sunday. The Islamic State claimed responsibility for those attacks. The attacks come two months following the release of a video by the Islamic State, where militants pledged to kill Coptic Christians across the country. source: usa today

EXTREMIST INVESTIGATIONS The German military’s counterintelligence agency is investigating nearly 300 suspected right-wing extremists allegedly in the military’s ranks. In a letter to Parliament on Sunday, the country’s Defense Ministry detailed incidents of soldiers saying “Heil Hitler.” In Germany, the public display of Nazi symbols or salutes is illegal. source: reuters

RESTRAINING FORCE The U.S. military has ordered to deploy warships to the Korean peninsula in light of a rising threat from North Korea. President Donald Trump has previously said the U.S. is ready to act unilaterally to counter the nuclear threat from North Korea. source: bbc

TECHNOLOGY FACT CHECKER Google will expand its fact checking feature in its search results as an effort to puncture false information and misleading news articles. Users on Google’s search engine or Google News will see its evaluation such as “false” next to stories. source: the associated press

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Law dean responds to coverage of Cold Case Justice Initiative closing Dear Editor, I was disappointed to read your coverage about the Cold Case Justice Initiative (CCJI), because it does not accurately portray the status of CCJI and inaccurately points to a lack of transparency and failure to communicate with CCJI’s co-directors, professors Paula Johnson and Janis McDonald.

To be clear, CCJI has not been “terminated” by the College of Law or Syracuse University. What has occurred is that a long-understood funding commitment to CCJI by the university and the College of Law ended by its own terms last summer.

There is no question that CCJI has accomplished great things over the years, bringing national attention to unsolved, racially motivated killings that occurred during the Civil Rights era of the 1960s. In support of that work, during the 10 years since CCJI’s inception, the university and the

College of Law have invested more than $3 million in the program.

Those funds were provided with the expectation that CCJI’s co-directors would obtain additional funding for the program to continue. Professors Johnson and McDonald began conversations nearly three years ago with both the former Provost and the former College of Law dean about the fiscal sustainability of CCJI. In a June 2014 memo to the university administration, both co-directors acknowledged that the university “has generously supported CCJI in its activities,” and stated, “We understand that Syracuse University cannot continue to support CCJI at the same financial level.” The term of the original funding commitments to CCJI expired on June 30, 2016.

Our investment in CCJI included providing professors Johnson and McDonald full relief from their teaching

obligations for more than six years. With the expiration of that funding, both professors have returned to the classroom.

I believe that having our faculty in the classroom providing law students with the specific legal knowledge and skills required to be successful graduates in pursuit of their careers is an important and appropriate use of faculty resources. Professors Johnson and McDonald have told The Daily Orange that they “have the capacity to teach courses while also running the program,” so their return to the classroom was not a termination of CCJI. Professors Johnson and McDonald have also told The Daily Orange that they’re “capable of funding the CCJI without SU’s help.”

Since January, I have been engaged in conversations with both professors about the future of CCJI, and I have

been clear in expressing my support for their efforts to secure a different funding model to sustain their work.

Specifically, I have encouraged their exploration of potential options for transitioning CCJI and its historical investigative work by identifying alternative, mission-aligned philanthropic or government funding sources. I remain hopeful that professors Johnson and McDonald will be successful in forging a new model for CCJI that will allow its work to continue.

One additional fact bears noting. Although CCJI has engaged students in its work over the years, those students received no academic credit for their work. The research work done by CCJI, while in some areas touching on the law, is essentially investigative rather than legal. I believe our students are best served by the wide range of opportunities the College of Law

offers them through our nine legal clinics, and dozens of externships and pro bono initiatives. By engaging in these opportunities, our students earn academic credit for public service and legal advocacy on behalf of underrepresented and disenfranchised populations, and in turn develop the legal acumen that is required to succeed in the legal careers of their choice.

The College of Law fully supports engagement by both faculty and students with pressing social issues in our community and beyond. I will continue to support the investment of our resources in ways that directly support our mission: to provide an outstanding legal education to our students in the classroom that prepares them for success long after they have left the College of Law. Craig M. Boise Dean and Professor of Law Syracuse University College of Law

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Program heads respond to dean’s comments about cold case initiative We are pleased to hear that Dean Boise is now stating that the Cold Case Justice Initiative will not be terminated as a Syracuse University College of Law project despite his previous direct statements to the contrary to us. In our last meeting with the Dean, which we requested to report on our fund raising efforts, he stunned us by stating “I hate to be the bearer of bad news but the Chancellor and I have decided to close CCJI.” The reasons suggested in Dean Boise’s letter for his actions

do not reflect what had already happened. Interim Dean Banks arranged last year for our return part time to traditional course teaching and a full teaching load for the following year. We had also agreed to raise our own funds so the reasons raised by the Dean in his letter had already been resolved before he informed us of the intent to close CCJI. Since July 1, 2016 when SU ended its operational funding CCJI has existed on funds the co-directors

raised from generous outside donors (as part of almost $500,000 we raised over the years based on our reputation and work).

The fact that the Department of Justice has not pursued these cases when they occurred nor after passage of the original Emmett Till Act emphasizes the need for the Cold Case Justice Initiative to hold the agency and the those who committed these heinous acts of racial hatred accountable for their crimes. Indeed, upon the recent

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recantation of Carolyn Bryant that 14-year-old Emmett Till did not say or do any of the acts that perversely were used to justify his murder, the new Department of Justice already has announced it may reopen the case to pursue charges against others who may have assisted in his death.

We welcome a meeting to create a memorandum of understanding that recognizes the Cold Case Justice Initiative as a Syracuse University College of Law project

and as such enables us to raise funds and provide opportunities for law students and others to engage in this Initiative. Concrete terms are needed concerning the University, the College of Law and the Cold Case Justice Initiative to ensure the future of this educational racial justice project at Syracuse University.

Paula C. Johnson & Janis L. McDonald Professors of Law & Co-Directors, Cold Case Justice Initiative

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Red iPhone gives millennials outlet to counter HIV/AIDS epidemic

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orporate advertising can walk a fine line between social justice and exploitation. But where Pepsi failed, Apple has thrived.

The tech company recently revamped its Product(RED) line with the introduction of a special edition, red iPhone 7 and 7 Plus.

The company will donate a portion of profits from each device to the AIDS-fighting Global Fund to accelerate the end of the HIV/AIDS epidemic: a move that can and has restarted the conversation about the epidemic in the United States, especially among millennials.

Those interested in purchasing the red iPhone are presented with a question: “Do I actually care about the fight against HIV/AIDS or do I just want a red phone?” It effectively doesn’t matter, because the donation will be the same regardless. But those who initially buy the phone just for its color may end up feeling more invested in fighting the epidemic, which can be difficult in a country like the U.S., where HIV/AIDs rates have been significantly declining.

But American millennials have good reason to care about fighting HIV/AIDS. Among all demographics, people ages 13

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LET’S GET DOWN TO IT to 24 have the highest rates of undiagnosed HIV, according to Aids.gov. Because millennials are unattached to the epidemic and consider it a largely international issue, it can be hard for them to feel motivated to generate awareness or fundraise for the cause. National Youth HIV & AIDS Awareness Day, held annually on April 10, gives young people a reason to start their fight against the epidemic, and the red iPhones give them an outlet to continue the conversation.

$749-$869 Price range of red iPhone, from standard iPhone 7 to iPhone 7 Plus source: apple.com

As a millennial-favorite company, it seems Apple has caught on to increasing expectations of corporate social responsibility (CSR) from one of its key audiences. Millennial

attitudes toward CSR are no longer “oh, isn’t that great,” but instead “if you’re going to make this much money off me, you better be doing something good with it.” This is especially true for a company like Apple, which sits on a pile of more than $246 billion in cash, according to CNN Money.

RED-branded accessories were previously available for the iPhone, with the special edition red device color exclusive to iPods. The red iPhone 7 costs a minimum of $749, and the 7 Plus a minimum of $869. While Apple has not released its per-device donation amount for the red iPhone, it has contributed more than $130 million to the Global Fund through its Product(RED) products since 2006, when the company partnered with RED, a foundation that aims to achieve an AIDS-free generation.

Rebecca Ortiz, an assistant professor of advertising at Syracuse University, said she believes that in accordance with the commitment and consistency principle of marketing, those who purchase the red iPhone may develop an attachment to the HIV/AIDS cause that goes beyond the device.

“When you publicly say

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something about yourself, commit to it and show others that that’s something that’s important to you, you’re more likely to follow through on that,” she said.

$130 million Approximate amount of money Apple has donated to the Global Fund, which aims to end the HIV/ AIDS epidemic source: apple.com

Purchasing the red iPhone is a public declaration because people are always using their phones.

Even if someone secretly opted for red because it’s their favorite color, buying the phone is still an expression of support for the fight against HIV/AIDS, and over time they may be more inclined to care about the cause — or at least pretend they do.

“If I have a red iPhone and someone comes up to me and asks, ‘Will you donate $5 to the HIV/ AIDS fund?’ it’s a little harder to say no, because here you are with

a device that insinuates you care about the issue,” Ortiz said.

Because the vast majority of people with HIV/AIDS live in lowincome countries, particularly those located in Sub-Saharan Africa, it’s difficult for many in the U.S. to find a personal connection to the cause, as opposed to more familiar diseases, like cancer.

But the red iPhone gives Americans, and millennials especially, an opportunity to become invested in the fight against the epidemic and continue the conversation around it, especially given the significant progress in the treatment and quality of life for those living with HIV/AIDS in the U.S. Whether Apple feels a legitimate responsibility to help eradicate HIV/AIDS or just wants to appear that way as it continues to amass its fortune, the company has stirred up conversations about the epidemic once again and has given customers a new opportunity to express their support for the cause.

Alex Straus is a sophomore public relations major and finance minor. His column appears weekly. He can be reached at astraus@syr.edu.

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Faculty shouldn’t fear STEM strategy The administration’s proposed shift to promote Syracuse University as a leading STEM institution may outwardly seem like the university is giving other academic disciplines the short end of the stick.

But the promotion of SU’s STEM programs should be encouraged due to the quality of research and work coming out of these disciplines, and SU is right to capitalize on those ventures.

Vice Chancellor and Provost Michele Wheatly’s announced at March’s University Senate meeting that she and SU’s academic deans had discussed a proposal to establish a STEM branding strategy across the university’s disciplines.

Some faculty members expressed surprise about the strategy and skepticism about what it could mean for the university’s other academic disciplines, especially those that fall under the “arts” category in the College of Arts and Sciences. Some said the proposal demonstrated a lack of transparency and failure

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to involve faculty members in significant academic discussions.

Transparency is not an issue at hand in this discussion, though.

Wheatly, whose job entails promoting the university’s academic disciplines, met with academic deans to discuss a proposal that she then delivered to the senate.

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Number of students that obtained undergraduate degrees from the College of Engineering and Computer Science in 2015. This number is less than that of the Colleges of Visual and Performing Arts and Arts and Sciences, and the Newhouse and Whitman schools.

Faculty must understand this strategy does not mean SU is exclusively STEM-focused.

An emphasis on the university’s

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STEM programs would bring attention to a blossoming section of SU that is often overshadowed by the prestige of programs in the highly regarded Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications.

Branding STEM fields and promoting the College of Arts and Sciences’ liberal arts disciplines are not mutually exclusive. It makes sense to promote the STEM fields, which are highly competitive and profitable in the modern workforce, in efforts to recruit talented students and boost the esteem of these burgeoning programs.

It makes sense for the university to better brand its successful disciplines. Maxwell and Newhouse are two of SU’s schools and colleges that have highly regarded reputations, and if SU’s STEM programs have that potential, administrators should capitalize on it.

There is no reason the university should hold back on promoting its assets, especially when it doesn’t come at the expense of its other programs.

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OH, DEER SUNY-ESF researchers to help curb local deer overpopulation Text by Mary Catalfamo staff writer

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team of professors and graduate students from SUNY-ESF recently received a state grant to help curb the hazardous overpopulation of white-tailed deer in Syracuse and DeWitt.

New York state Assemblywoman Pamela Hunter reserved $200,000 in the 2016-17 state budget for the initiative, $150,000 of which will fund the students’ stipends and fund the team’s efforts to quantify the number of deer in nearby herds, those involved in the project said.

This population count is the first step to take in the project before decisions are made on how to decrease the population of deer in the area.

The remaining $50,000 will be held back for the implementation of the project’s proposed strategies, if they are accepted, by Syracuse and DeWitt.

“As the town of DeWitt and Syracuse (east side) decide as to how they would like to remediate, funding is available through this allocation for each municipality,” Hunter wrote in an open letter in late March.

In 2014, a group of citizens and ecologists called the Syracuse-Onondaga County Urban Deer Task Force compiled a study on the number and range of deer on Syracuse’s eastside and the areas surrounding it.

Between 192 and 244 deer resided in the 11.5 square miles of land encompassed in the targeted area, according to the public report. The task force also noted that the highest concentrations of deer

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wheatly empowering women and minorities.

Wheatly studied biological sciences at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom, where she eventually obtained her Ph.D. in comparative physiology in 1980.

Before taking over her current job at vice chancellor and provost at SU last year, Wheatly was provost at West Virginia University. During her time there, she widened the ADVANCE sponsorship program to underrepresented faculty in non-STEM fields and helped secure a $3.2 million ADVANCE grant for women in STEM field from the National Science Foundation, her curriculum vitae shows.

Before West Virginia University, she was the dean of the College of Science and

were found in secluded areas like Drumlins Country Club and St. Mary’s Cemetery, though they were not limited to those areas.

Public complaints of urban deer on the eastside of Syracuse spiked in 2012.

Spearheading the project is Brian Underwood, an expert on deer management and an adjunct associate professor at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry. Also contributing to the project is Donald Leopold, chair of the environmental and forest biology department at SUNYESF, along with SUNY-ESF graduate students Jacob Dillon and Paul Picciano.

Following the spike of complaints in 2012, a jurisdictional stalemate began between Mayor Stephanie Miner and the Department of Environmental Conversation over who was responsible for dealing with the deer issue, according to Syracuse.com.

Hunter has since though introduced legislation placing the responsibility of wildlife management on the DEC. But still, the herbivores’ bottomless hunger continues to devastate home gardens and entire plant species alike.

“Deer are basically the single greatest threat to biodiversity in the northeastern United States —period,” Leopold said. “A lot of places that once had lots of native orchids, lots of lilies, lots of trilliums — all those plants are wiped out

Mathematics at Wright State University, where she increased undergraduate STEM enrollment by 10 percent and created new positions for coordinators of General Education and STEM Student Success. Working with Sinclair Community College, Wheatly increased first to second year retention for STEM major students, from 59 to 66 percent in science and 46 percent to 82 percent in engineering. She also obtained $19 million in federal and state funding to increase diversity in STEM fields for the university and carried out a congressional briefing in front of the House Science Committee about “Science for All Americans” in April 2004.

Wheatly was appointed as SU’s vice chancellor and provost in March 2016. The university recognized that Wheatly had received continuous funding from the NSF

and they’re not coming back.”

Aside from the different nuisances, deer overpopulation is also a threat to public health. In 2016, State Farm ranked New York state as having a 1 in 161 likelihood of drivers experiencing a deervehicle collision. Deer also bring with them the potential for Lyme disease, a bacterial infection that can become life-threatening if left untreated.

“The primary reservoir of Lyme disease resides in the bloodstreams of small mammals. It doesn’t survive in the bloodstream of deer. That’s why deer can’t give you Lyme disease,” Underwood said. “But the adult tick that does carry the disease is hostspecific to the adult white-tailed deer.”

Underwood said communities should use a multiple-pronged plan that addresses the problem in several different ways and targets specific aspects of the issue.

Though expensive and time-consuming, surgical sterilization on deer is one option to take, he said. Culling, the selective extermination typically of female deer for their reproductive potential, is another.

“For lots of reasons, people have decided that the most important living thing in the world is a deer,” Leopold said. “That is something that is so illogical to all of us who study living things. It’s incredibly irresponsible for us to allow deer to get to this point.”

over the last 30 years totaling $25 million.

SU was recognized as a top tier research school in the 2015 Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, and three of its physicists contributed to the discovery of gravitational waves.

Laura Lautz, an associate professor and researcher at SU, said in a 2016 Daily Orange interview that Wheatly’s background in research enables her to more easily understand the needs of researchers in the STEM fields and what it is like to deal with institutions such as the NSF. During the University Senate meeting on March 22, however, Wheatly highlighted the interdisciplinary possibilities between STEM and non-STEM subjects under the STEM brand strategy, saying it will help the advance a case to prospective students, donors and faculty that “Syracuse STEM

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education is bigger than the field for science, technology, engineering and mathematics.”

In the winter 2006 issue of Community magazine, a publication from Wright State University, Wheatly described building teams to collaborate on interdisciplinary projects in both the research and educational fields as the most rewarding part of being a dean.

“Critical to the research engine in the years ahead will be interdisciplinary solutions to complex problems,” Wheatly said in the magazine. “The best thing about being the dean is that I get to interact broadly with faculty across the sciences and mathematics. I have trained a lot of great scientists and take great satisfaction that a high proportion have been women.” ssugiyam@syr.edu | @SatoshiJournal

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At the Senate meeting, two senators immediately questioned the idea: Crystal Bartolovich, an English associate professor, called the idea “disconcerting,” while Robert Van Gulick, a philosophy professor, theorized that the plan is driven by a marketing strategy, something Wheatly dismissed.

In a statement to The Daily Orange, Wheatly said she will be updating the University Senate on the STEM topic at its April 19 meeting.

Wheatly clarified her remarks from the Senate meeting in a statement provided to The Daily Orange, saying SU is not rebranding itself as a STEM university and instead is developing a “set of guiding principles” to showcase its success in STEM fields.

Wheatly has asked deans to share their thoughts about a potential STEM focus for the university, said Teresa Dahlberg, dean of SU’s College of Engineering and Computer Science, in a statement.

During the University Senate’s March 22 meeting, Wheatly said that the STEM branding strategy benefits non-STEM subjects like liberal arts by facilitating an intersection between STEM and non-STEM. “It will help us advance a case to prospective students, donors and faculty that Syracuse STEM education is bigger than the field for science, technology, engineering and mathematics,” Wheatly said during the meeting.

Multiple faculty members who were present at the meeting later said the announcement caught them off guard. Dana Cloud, a professor of communication and rhetorical studies, said that Wheatly and deans have conducted discussions about the STEM idea without consultation from faculty members.

SU has been recognized as a significant STEM research institution. Three physics researchers from SU contributed to the discovery of gravitational waves last year. The university’s graduate level information systems program ranks second in the nation and the library and information science program ranks fourth in the nation in their respective fields, according to U.S News and World Report.

Duncan Brown, the Charles Brightman Professor of physics — one of the three researchers who contributed to the gravitational waves discovery — said the STEM proposal does not mean the university will invest all of its resources into STEM fields.

“I interpreted the comments as building on the excellence of our STEM departments for the benefit of all,” Brown said. “We have

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Charles Driscoll, a University Professor of environmental systems, said he supports the branding idea because it is consistent with the university’s approach in graduate level studies, where intersection between STEM and non-STEM disciplines is already evident.

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Referring to a perceived notion that scientists and engineers are not proficient in communication, Driscoll said it’s important for students studying in STEM fields to be able to convey complex ideas to the general public using speaking and writing skills. Driscoll said he sees the benefit of creating this intersection between STEM and non-STEM disciplines in undergraduate level studies as well.

Compared to other institutions, STEM is less represented at SU, Driscoll said. In 2015, 337 students obtained undergraduate degrees from the College of Engineering and Computer Science, less than the number of students that obtained undergraduate degrees from the College of Visual and Performing Arts, the Martin J. Whitman School of Management, the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications or the College of Arts and Sciences.

Karin Ruhlandt, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences — which oversees both humanities and science departments — echoed Wheatley’s point that “branding” is not the right choice of word. Interdisciplinarity, she said in a statement, is already taking place at SU and it is doing well.

“The humanities play a significant role in the College of Arts and Sciences, and not just in the teaching area, also humanity research is critical and supported by my office,” Ruhlandt said in her statement.

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“I think frankly it comes down to donors and alums and where the big money comes from … that people who graduate with degrees in the humanities maybe don’t go on to run billion-dollar companies and give a ton of money back to the university,” Everly said.

While pointing out that the STEM brand strategy is a rough proposal that needs to be fleshed out, John Burdick, professor and chair of anthropology, expressed his skepticism toward the idea in an email. Burdick, who said he supports STEM fields, called Wheatly’s talking point on the intersection of STEM and non-STEM academic disciplines “a recipe for superficiality, artifice and special pleading.”

“Any effort to do something university-wide that is motivated by the idea that we need to carve out a niche to compete in a crowded market is likely to be gimmicky and skin-deep,” Burdick said.

Several faculty members said that they worry SU won’t be able to compete with STEM programming from institutions such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. SU, for example, currently ranks No. 75 in best undergraduate engineering programs, according to U.S. News and World Report.

SU’s strength traditionally lies in programs not centered on STEM, such as the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and the School of Architecture, Everly said. Driscoll, though, argued that the STEM branding strategy could work specifically because those professional schools are already successful, so an intersection between STEM and non-STEM subject areas, like public policy and management, would solidify a platform for non-STEM students to learn more about important STEM issues.

“A lot of people are saying today there is no such thing as climate change. It’s a Chinese hoax,” Driscoll said. “Don’t you think that our students, even our non-STEM students, would have some additional information so that they can make up their own minds about that and be able to make informed decisions or maybe to be able to able work with technical people — scientists, engineers in these technical areas.”

Burdick said he is worried that the branding proposal sends a “troubling” message that other disciplines need to be useful for STEM disciplines — creating a hierarchy.

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STEM subjects in place at SU, including the Forensic and National Security Sciences Institute that intersects forensic science and national security and the Lava Project, which is coordinated by an assistant professor in art and an earth sciences professor.

There are also multidisciplinary, undergraduate arts and sciences dual programs that enable students to combine STEM majors — biology, biotechnology, chemistry and earth sciences — and Whitman majors such as entrepreneurship and emerging enterprises, marketing management and supply chain management.

The university announced last week that the master’s of science in finance program, offered through Whitman, will be designated as a STEM program effective May 15 this year.

Donald Harter, associate dean for masters programs, said this is because Wall Street companies, financial institutions and finance departments within organizations are using analytics more often to make decisions, which requires higher-level math and technology skills.

Computers, or general finance specialists equipped with advanced knowledge on mathematics and technology, have replaced many jobs on Wall Street, he said.

“Industries are demanding not that you just understand how to read a financial statement, but how do you apply analytics to financial data to make decisions, how do you use very sophisticated mathematics to help make those decisions? And that’s really the realm of STEM,” Harter said. “The jobs are actually shifted. The mix is shifting and we are seeing growth in the area of the mathematics, technology oriented finance and less growth or slight decline in financial trading.”

The United States Department of Education estimates, between 2010 and 2020, a 16 percent increase in mathematics-related jobs, a 32 percent increase in systems software developers and 62 percent increase in biomedical engineering jobs.

The merger between STEM and non-STEM is becoming more prevalent, which is why business students need to understand STEM and non-STEM students benefit from understanding business, Harter said. Aware of this merging between disciplines, Whitman faculty members are teaching courses focused on analytics that did not exist three years ago, and the school is looking for job candidates with STEM backgrounds to hire as faculty members.

Some faculty members, though, worry that an increasing focus on STEM neglects investment in non-STEM subjects.

Kathryn Everly, chair of the university’s Humanities Council, said humanities are undervalued at SU. She added that while the university

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appointment, the workers who need a reliable and affordable way to get to their job, or the college students (that need) a safe ride home after a night out with friends, Uber has a lot to offer our great city,” she said at the time.

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debate On Monday, he and Rossi want to discuss their plans to draft a sexual assault and hazing reform bill, improve the internal structure of SA and promote inclusiveness among the student body at Syracuse University.

Franco and Pati said they plan to elaborate on some of their campaign goals, including the creation of a peer listening service, a comprehensive campus safety plan and a diversity committee.

In the weeks leading up to Monday’s debate, Franco and Pati have been embarking on listening tours, visiting student groups to get an idea of the different student experiences at SU. Franco said it’s good to get face-to-face time with voters and that he and Pati value the feedback they receive from students.

The listening tours have only strengthened his campaign’s platform, Franco said. And while he said it will be important to communicate that platform at Monday’s debate, Franco added that he wants the debate to be more of a

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Under the agreement between lawmakers and Cuomo, the state’s Department of Motor Vehicles will oversee companies such as Uber to make sure they follow laws and regulations.

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conversation with the audience.

“For me, it’s not getting too wrapped up into it, not making it like it’s a presentation,” Franco said.

Pati and Tin will also participate in the debate on Monday — an opportunity they didn’t have at the first debate.

Tin said he welcomes the opportunity to appear on the debate stage.

“One of the biggest things that the debate talked about was basically the credentials and the experience of both VP candidates,” Tin said.

Pati said it’s important to have her voice heard because she and Franco bring different experiences to the ticket. Pati is more experienced in health and advocacy issues, while Franco has previous SA experience.

Pati said although Franco’s and Rossi’s campaigns have similarities and differences, she’s looking forward to channeling positive energy at Monday’s debate.

“We’re just looking forward to having a good conversation. That’s all we’re in it for,” Pati said. jmulle01@syr.edu

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A red-tailed hawk nest on Lyman Hall houses three eggs set to hatch soon. Its parent hawks, SU Sue and Otto, have been nesting at SU for years, but a livestream camera was recently mounted to document their stay on the internet. courtesy of trudi porter and syracuse hawk chatters

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lice Fox and Nancy Schreher first met a year ago at Cafe Kubal, introduced by a mutual friend. A common interest in knitting helped them connect, but that’s not what’s made them recognizable figures on and around the Syracuse University campus in the year since. For that, they can thank the inhabitants of a tiny pile of twigs.

The conversation over coffee quickly shifted to their love for hawks, and it hasn’t really veered to another topic yet. Fox told Schreher about the red-tailed hawk nest that sits under an arch on the eastward facing side of Lyman Hall. As often as they could, they’d walk over to it to watch. Early morning, during lunch or after work, they’d check in on the hawks. But Fox and Schreher weren’t alone.

So the two started Syracuse Hawk Chatters, a Facebook group to document the life of the hawks and engage with fellow BOGs — birders on ground. SU Sue and Otto, the names given to the mating hawks that have nested here for years, expect three eggs to hatch as early as the end of this week. The chatter has grown to a new level with a livestream camera installed last month. Fox said the

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group gained about 70 new members after the livestream’s launch, bringing the total over 300.

“It’s such a diverse group of people that I didn’t realize so many people

liked red-tails,” Fox said. “It’s fun.”

The camera was made possible thanks to a donation from SU alumna Anne Marie Higgins. She approached SU with the idea last summer, and

with a little guidance from the Lab of Ornithology at Cornell University in Ithaca — where there’s been a hawk cam for years — it became a reality.

SU’s department of biology sponsors the project and is using it for research.

Not that it’s a competition, but Higgins’ bond with the hawks could be deeper than that any of her fellow BOGs. She used to bird-watch with her late husband. Even though he’s now gone, she still hears him through hawks.

“I believe that we’re all spiritually connected,” she said. “The humananimal connection is very close.”

Fox and Schreher feel the connection as well. Schreher said sometimes when she’s out looking for one of the hawks, one will swoop by as if it was looking for her, too.

“We do feel over time that they get to know us,” Schreher said.

For these hawk chatters, the experience goes beyond just observing — at times it even gets interactive. They’ll spend hours walking through campus and the surrounding area looking for the hawks, no matter the weather conditions. And although young hawks, called fledglings or juvies, move on once they’re ready, parent hawks nest in the same place every year and don’t migrate. Home is home for good. see hawk

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eartthrob Harry Styles released his debut solo song on Friday, and it’s certainly different from the girly pop music we’re used to hearing from his days in One Direction.

Dedicated fans have waited for the singer’s return to the music industry after One Direction separated last year. “Sign of the Times” is a piano rock ballad with abstract lyrics and heartfelt vocals that have been compared to David Bowie by numerous

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Many Bowie fans and classic rock enthusiasts are offended at this comparison, especially since Styles became famous from a British boy band well-loved by hormone-filled teenage girls.

Styles’ biggest challenge to being taken seriously as a solo artist is going to be separating himself from his past and former other band members like Zayn Malik.

However, the crazed Directioners, or One Direction fans, are comparable to The Beatles’ Beatlemaniacs, and look at the legacy the Fab Four left behind.

Fans predicted that Styles would have the most successful solo career out of One Direction, similar to Beyoncé after Des-

tiny’s Child or Justin Timberlake after NSYNC. All of this praise and attention is quickly proving this point. Ex-member and bad boy Zayn has had a fairly successful career so far, after releasing his album “Mind of Mine” last year and singles like “I Don’t Wanna Live Forever” with Taylor Swift. However, his sexy R&B vocals may not leave as large of a mark as Styles.

Not only has “Sign of the Times” reminded people of icons

like Queen, Oasis and Elton John, but it has received a lot of praise from other musicians.

Styles’ new music has gotten approval from gifted songwriter and musician Ed Sheeran, and it is projected to break “Shape of You’s” 13-week hold at No. 1 on Billboard and Twitter’s Trending 140 Chart.

The song itself is quite long, almost six minutes of three chords accompanied by an

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because they can’t hunt. Often they’ll get hit by a car or crash into a window.

Last summer, six hawks hatched at SU. One, named Beau, crashed once and was taken in until he was rehabilitated. Not long after he was released, he crashed again into the windows of the Physics Building, a tragic end for Beau.

But not all bonding points are so unfortunate. Fox and Schreher recalled one fond memory of last year’s juvies that sticks out. Near Crouse College, on what they call woodchuck hill, three juvies put on a show.

One, perched in an apple tree, was knocking the fruit off to the two on the ground. The apples would tumble downhill, the two juvies chasing after and pouncing on them. Once they caught up, they’d throw the apples in the air and do it all over again.

Sitting in that same coffee shop where they met a year ago, Schreher spoke of a time in Oakwood Cemetery when someone knew she was a hawk chatter because of her binoculars.

Fox, sporting a shirt with large BOG lettering, said strangers have come up to her well aware of who she is.

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AARON METTHE originally started selling his home-roasted coffee online in 2010. He opened Salt City Coffee last month in Syracuse’s Westside neighborhood to avoid placing his business in an overly commercial area. The shop also serves free-trade coffee. stacy fernández asst. feature editor

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s the rain pounded the windows of the old building on a cold Friday afternoon, Salt City Coffee’s large green walls exuded only warmth and the drifting smell of freshly roasted coffee.

Salt City Coffee opened March 27 in the Westside neighborhood of Syracuse at 509 W. Onondaga Street.

Founder Aaron Metthe said the shop has seen a steady stream of regulars since then.

“We didn’t do any formal marketing,” he said. “We basically just put it out on social media and told families and friends; it was all word of mouth.”

Metthe opened the shop’s doors with low expectations that have already been exceeded.

“If I saw 30 people through the door, I’d be happy,” he said about the first day Salt City opened. “The actual number turned out to be over a hundred.”

The brick-and-mortar location of Salt City Coffee might be new, but Metthe’s roast has been around for quite while. He had always practiced coffee roasting as a hobby and began selling his coffee wholesale online after he moved to Syracuse in 2010.

Wholesale and online deliveries worked well for Metthe, who had a full-time job as a Skillbuilder at the Hillside Children’s Center. As his coffee hit the market, he realized he had a customer base.

“It was very encouraging to see customers become loyal, so I knew I had a product that people liked,” he said.

It wasn’t long before a friend suggested that he open a cafe, and thus began Salt City Coffee.

“What I wanted was to create a neighborhood space that felt like you were walking into a living room,” Metthe said. “I intentionally didn’t want to be somewhere in Armory Square or somewhere overly commercial. I wanted to be up against a neighborhood.”

The house Salt City Coffee occupies was built in the 1860s. Once they tore down the sheetrock, Metthe found crumbling, original red brick. It added to the vision he had for the coffee shop and with a touch of veneer, the red

bricks are now a staple of the interior decor.

Throw that in with the cherry-wood tables that Metthe and his family made, the leather armchairs and minimalist ladder shelves on the walls, the welcoming and casual aesthetic comes across easily. Sophia Kardaras, a dual advertising and information management and technology junior at Syracuse University, said it was like walking into someone’s house.

countries where salt city gets its free-trade and organic coffee Mexico, Guatemala, Ethiopia, Costa Rica and Brazil

“What’s really fun is that this is on my route to campus,” she said. “I really love the atmosphere here.

I love that immediately as soon as they opened here, it already feels home-y, it feels comfortable.”

Metthe also prioritized the “home-y” feeling when he began creating the coffee shop, almost like a cozy third space that wasn’t home or work. He wanted to “harken back to the old school Turkish coffee shops where politics and current events are talked about.”

He pointed out how the current climate was different and polarized, but he wasn’t discouraged. He still wanted the interaction to flow easily.

“The day we opened, we had a ‘who’s who’ of supporting local business and they ended up striking up 30-minute conversations with each other,” he said.

Further down the hallway, a back room houses one large coffee-roaster and sacks of coffee. Much

of the coffee stored at Salt City is free-trade, organic and sourced from an array of countries: Mexico, Guatemala, Ethiopia, Costa Rica, Sumatra and Brazil.

Specialty items include the Cuselandia, a crushed ice cold drink, black cherry mocha and the salted caramel latte. Kardaras, who has become a regular in the two weeks Salt City has been open, found her favorite in the medium roast drip and remained loyal.

“Once I drink it, I feel like I can shoot lightning bolts out of my arms,” she said. “It’s the best fuel I could ever dream of.”

For those with a penchant for leaves over beans, 17 glass jars of tea stand right below the chalkboard menu. Mayan chai, winterberry spice, vanilla chai and monk’s blend are among the varieties available.

Metthe wanted to make tea prominent as well, for the people in groups who enjoyed coffee-shops but not coffee. Brendan and Jennifer Jackson, of Baldwinsville, were one such pair.

Nestled in the leather armchairs, Brendan enjoyed a vanilla latte and his wife, Jennifer, drank a chai tea latte and a cranberry-apple-turkey sandwich, an eclectic mix she was delighted with.

Brendan said the coffee shop was a beautiful space and that he loved that it was in this part of the neighborhood.

“I’m planning on coming back and bringing other people,” he said. “The fact that’s in an older house — I love that these guys took risks. We want to support local businesses, so we deliberately drove down here to see.”

Classics like hot chocolate, espresso, latte, iced tea and macchiatos don’t go above $4.75 at their largest size, which is 20 ounces. Cheap prices were intended from the beginning, to really open up the coffee shop to locals who would come back.

“Fresh served coffee should go for about $2 a cup, starting,” Metthe said. “Since we are a neighborhood coffee shop, we wanted to to be able to say, ‘For $1.50, you can get cheap seed, enjoy some good Wi-Fi, hang out and strike up a conversation.’” dmurthy@syr.edu

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Never once have I walked into an offcampus house and not thought, “Wow, this could cave in on me at any second.” It seems like every off-campus apartment or house, I look at the exterior and think, “Wow, this couldn’t be worse inside, could it?” But it almost always is. Nobody wants to sublet the closest thing to a residential warzone. There is rotting wood in your apartment that makes the floor, walls and ceiling of your house so damp that bats would need a dehumidifier to live there.

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The whole process of finding subletters makes no sense. You offer — in a Facebook group — to let strangers live on one floor of a house. First off, if I posted pictures of my house and put them on Facebook asking, “Hey, who wants to live here?” I would certainly be thrown in jail for at least forever.

Second, these random people solicited in your class Facebook group could be murderers — or worse, clowns. Or, even worse, they put the toilet paper on the holder the wrong way. They’re the worst people. Don’t settle for those people.

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Rent is expensive, and it usually doesn’t include any of the utilities like water or heat.

You’re on your own for that one. Because that’s not important enough to throw in there with the package of four walls and a splintery floor.

You’re paying way too much for a house riddled with problems. Pipes bursting in the basement, floors breaking, broken windows with glass on the floor for weeks — true story — are not worth it. Nobody wants to sublet glass on the floor.

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williams Atlantic Coast) best chances at snapping an eight-year title drought. Back then, he didn’t even really know how to shoot.

On Google, Williams found hope. He’d searched both team’s rosters and found that Cornell attack Ryan Hurley was from Minnesota. In the next five years, Williams watched more games and investigated more teams.

“A lot of roster checks,” Williams said.

“Not a lot of Minnesota guys.”

There on the St. Thomas field that afternoon, playing catch, Williams still had unsaddled hope. He thought about his dad, who’d quit basketball his senior year of high school to weight-lift and prepare for a tryout with the University of Minnesota football team. The basketball coach said, “I don’t know why you’re trying. You’ll never play in college.” David walked on and earned a scholarship his last three years.

“I wanted to find another example of a guy who played at the biggest level but wasn’t a stud his whole life,” Williams said.

“I wasn’t a great athlete or dominant, really at all, when I was younger … I was looking for a story like that, so I could have a chance to live it.”

If Williams were to overcome Minnesota’s inherent lacrosse disadvantages, St. Thomas didn’t seem like the place to do it.

“They were bad,” said head coach John Barnes, who took over the fifth-year program in 2010, Williams’ freshman season.

“They had no discipline, no structure, no nothing in their program. These guys didn’t do squat. Inmates ran the asylum. It’s amazing to say, but my first (program change) was starting the practice on time and making them give 100 percent effort.”

Williams had transferred from Kenwood Middle School to the Catholic military school before eighth grade because it had stronger athletics. Then, though, he specifically thought about football, because any athletic success seemed destined to originate on the gridiron. But when Williams

tried out, he was put on the B team for the first time in his life.

David picked him up that day and felt Williams smoldering. He told his son it was a matter of when, not if, that he’d make the A team. The next day, at 5:30 a.m., David went downstairs into the kitchen to brew a pot of coffee when he noticed a basement light on.

David clambered down and saw his son at work with the dumbbells.

During the workout, Williams thought back to a football game from the third or fourth grade.

“I got drilled and I was down real bad,” Williams said. “Right then, I thought about my dad, who was always like, ‘You don’t lay down. You get up and get off the field. Don’t sit and be a baby.’ That really resonated with me, because even though I had tears in my eyes, I stood up and dragged myself off the field. That still resonates with me when I think about being tough.”

Williams was promoted within three weeks and played both as the A team defensive back and B team quarterback. The same work-more mentality later propelled and torpedoed Williams. He always juggled something else in addition to year-round football and basketball, but lacrosse stuck because he liked the physicality and fast pace.

St. Thomas lacrosse might not have been very good — the Cadets finished 5-7 in 2010 — but Williams played more than most freshmen. On his team the summer before, fed up with the nine-midfielder rotation, he realized the surest avenue onto the field ran through the X, where two players faced off after every goal. In an average game, Williams estimated, that meant about 20 extra chances.

He volunteered to face off, and the reward arrived immediately. He skipped the entire midfielder line and earned more minutes.

He enjoyed the pad-crunching hits and individual challenge. Swiveling the hips was hard, but as he took more faceoffs they slowly synced with his hands, feet and shoulders.

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In his junior year, doctors ordered Williams to stop everything, running included, for about three months. He missed five games and had a minor surgery to remove bone fragments floating around in his right knee.

It was about then that Williams decided he would play lacrosse in college, wherever that meant and whatever it took. He’d taken few faceoffs since the summer before, when he played for a former Maryland defenseman named Joe Cinosky. Williams by then had developed his faceoff specialization to a level he thought may be a ticket to Division I. Knowing that, David approached Cinosky and asked for an evaluation.

“If he works really hard,” Cinosky told David, “he might be able to make a D-III team.”

David subtly relayed that to his son on the way home, and Williams considered it carefully. He thought about his dad’s Mukwonago (Wisconsin) High School athletic hall of fame induction. Williams wasn’t there that night in 2003 because he had a Pop Warner game, but David ran into his old basketball coach, who said he’d never make football at the University of Minnesota. David shook his hand and said, “Thank you.”

After Williams’ rehab, which mostly entailed finally resting, he returned midway through the lacrosse season and helped the Cadets finish 11-3. But the program’s rejuvenation mattered little. It was still in Minnesota.

For his senior year, Williams worked out with a new strength trainer to gain muscle and prevent injury. His growth spurt stopped. Back to full strength, Williams totaled 35 goals and 25 assists as St. Thomas went 11-2. He won 82 percent of his faceoffs.

But it wasn’t enough to overcome the injuries and lack of recruiters, who focused on freshmen and sophomores because early recruiting sometimes filled classes years in advance. All of it froze a D-I recruiting process already in amber.

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used to search for D-I Minnesota players and tried to become one himself.

He emailed dozens of schools, including Jim Morrissey at Holy Cross, which played in the Patriot League. He started with his frame (5-foot-11, 185 pounds) and grades (3.74) before listing stats, injuries and accomplishments. Then, Williams departed from things you can measure.

“I pride myself on my physical play as a midfielder,” he wrote. “I would like to wrap it up by saying that my football, basketball, and lacrosse coaches all describe me as a great athlete, who is a very hard worker and a person that has a very positive attitude towards sports and school. ... Thank you for your time coach and please let me know what I have to do to be recruited by your lacrosse program.”

Morrissey now estimates that email represents 80 percent of the reason he gave Williams a shot. The other 20 was because he needed size and toughness to contend with Army at the X. For Williams, it was a chance at D-I. “You get a million emails,” Morrissey said, “so I was lucky to open that one. I had never seen him play, but … he passed the handshake test, so I went with my gut. He didn’t need a lot of coddling and he didn’t disappoint.”

Williams won 53.1 percent of his draws in 2014, including 11-of-17 against an Army faceoff specialist that Morrissey respected.

At the season’s end, the Crusaders coach called John Desko to recommend the SU head coach look into Williams. The improbable dream became possible.

“The only reason he’s at Syracuse is because of Jim Morrissey,” David said.

In 2015, Williams’ first year at SU, he finished second nationally in faceoff percentage (67.4) and was a Tewaaraton Award nominee. Junior year, he was nominated again and won 62.2 percent at the X. This season, though he missed his first collegiate game with an undisclosed injury, he set the Syracuse program record for career groundballs (298) and won the overtime-opening draw against Johns Hopkins on March 11 to set up the game-winning goal.

Williams’ one constant at SU, whether he’s winning or losing at the X, has been his pregame ritual. It’s added and subtracted steps in his three years, but he’s always wrapped the handle of his stick in pink tape and written the initials of everyone who’s helped him get to this point.

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florida state Three of them left the stadium.

The top of the third inning began well. In just eight pitches, Romero forced two easy outs, the latter of which came on a high fly ball to center field.

As Jessica Warren struck an outside pitch to right field on the ensuing at-bat, Kelsey Johnson tracked the ball. She floated back as the ball carried. Appearing to be underneath the ball, the right fielder ran out of real estate. She stopped against the fence and turned and watched the ball travel over the protective netting. It was Warren’s fourth home run of the series, bumping the Florida State lead to 4-0.

“That was just unbelievable,” Romero said. “That was a way outside pitch. I don’t know how she hit it. Just good hitting on her part.”

Romero recovered. She enticed Sydney Broderick with a high fastball for strike three. In the fourth, she worked the corners.

She beat Alex Powers with an outside curve, then caught Cali Harrod looking on the same pitch for another strikeout. Romero finished off the side with a tight inside pitch.

As the umpire signaled the third strikeout of the inning, Romero let loose an emphatic fist pump and sprinted to the dugout for highfives from her teammates.

Just when Syracuse pushed the nation’s

second ranked team back on its heels, the ball left the park again. At the start of the sixth inning, Syracuse didn’t pitch to Jessica Warren. The Seminoles’ home run leader walked freely to first base.

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Number of home runs Florida State hit in Sunday’s win. Those three accounted for five of the six runs FSU scored.

Even still, the end result was the same.

Romero attempted to pitch outside to Harrod, but the righty attacked the ball. Romero turned and followed the ball with her eyes.

As the ball carried over the right field fence, the pitcher’s head sank, she kicked the dirt around with her feet, and Syracuse trailed once again.

The final home run on Sunday was the 13th allowed by Romero in her last nine appearances, all in ACC play. The rest of the SU pitching staff has allowed only nine all season.

“I’m guessing Florida State is happy to hit in this ballpark,” Bosch said. “Balls were going out like the air was thin or something.” jlschafe@syr.edu

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virginia tech “You can’t just decide when you’re going to turn it on and off,” Gait said. “That’s the message to this team.”

Even Taylor Gait returning failed to jumpstart a dormant SU offense. Playing for the first time in six games, the redshirt-junior’s visible slowness showed she wasn’t at 100 percent.

To start the second half, Gait walked out on the field to talk to his attack. Jimerson, Riley Donahue and Parker watched and listened as he mimicked stick movements and preached ball movement.

After Virginia Tech beat SU goalie Bri Stahrr, who replaced starter Asa Goldstock to start the half, the Orange trailed 7-4.

Syracuse faced top defenses before VT but was 0-3 against top-30 defenses before Sunday. In a 3:47 span, Syracuse relied on its top offensive weapons to fight back.

“In the second half,” Parker said, “we

were focusing more on our offense than their defense.”

Donahue’s weak shot bounced and made it 7-5. Hawrsychuk dashed towards Graham, faked and cut the lead to one. After a quick VT response, Hawryshuk scored again. The Victor, New York, native muscled her way in front of the net and burst through two defenders. Rahal knocked in a low shot to tie the game at eight and foreshadowed her game-winner. During the run, the SU bench came alive. Paige Rodgers cartwheeled near the SU bench as Levy stood on the sidelines and spit sunflower seeds onto the field where she couldn’t play.

“The team stepped up all across the field,” Hawryschuk said. “It was awesome.”

Exactly one year ago, Syracuse cruised by Virginia Tech in Blacksburg by 14 goals. Last year, Levy scored twice against the Hokies and on Sunday, she didn’t. Last year, Donahue netted four goals and Sunday Hawryschuk notched five. Winning for an eighth time in as many tries looked a little different, but it ended all the same. nialvare@syr.edu

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BEN WILLIAMS had to fight through a “bad” high school program, a right knee surgery and lack of Division I looks due to growing up in Minnesota. After finally getting to Holy Cross, the faceoff specialist shined, enough to get a look from SU and John Desko. colin davy asst. photo editor

MINNESOTA-MADE

Ben Williams excels despite growing up in area not known for lacrosse

By Sam Fortier

asst. sports editor

B

en Williams’ friends were taken aback.

They were tossing the lacrosse ball around on a field when Williams finally voiced his improbable dream for one of the first times.

It was one that, considering where they stood, seemed highly unlikely. He wanted to play Division I lacrosse.

“Impossible,” said one friend.

“No way, Benny,” echoed another.

“We can’t play NCAA, only club.”

“We” meant Minnesotans. But his assessment at the time, in the late 2000s, applied to a majority of high school students outside of the Northeast and mid-Atlantic regions. In 2005, when Williams was 10, Minnesota had zero state-

sanctioned high school boy’s lacrosse teams and no competitive base to attract players or scouts.

Eight years later, when he graduated from St. Thomas (Minnesota) Academy, the state had 76.

A lot of roster checks. Not a lot of Minnesota guys.

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Deep down, Williams knew his friends had a point. He only began playing the sport in eighth

grade, when a friend suggested it as a more physical alternative to track. A few months after he started in 2009, rain forced a Memorial Day party inside at the Williams family cabin in Spooner, Wisconsin. There, flicking through the TV channels, the bored eighth grader happened upon the Cornell-Syracuse men’s lacrosse national championship. Williams, his father David and half of the party sat enraptured as Syracuse erased a three-goal, fourth-quarter deficit and won in overtime. Williams went to Google.

He didn’t know then that he’d make it to Syracuse himself. He didn’t know he’d overcome injuries, a “bad” high school program and the reputation of Minnesota lacrosse to become one of the nation’s best faceoff men. He didn’t know that he’d be one of the No. 2 Orange’s (8-1, 3-0

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women’s lacrosse

No. 11 SU outlasts No. 15 VT, 12-11 No. 2 Florida State wins series finale, 6-5

By Nick Alvarez asst. web editor

Mary Rahal pushed towards the net looking to win the game for Syracuse. Before she got a shot off, Virginia Tech’s Abby Wilson extended her stick toward Rahal’s but missed. Rahal dropped to the ground clutching her head. The referee’s whistle blew and Rahal had a free position shot.

But Rahal had already failed to beat Hokie goalie Meagh Graham twice before on free position shots. She didn’t even test Graham on the first and missed high. And, minutes before her shot to win, she committed the turnover that allowed VT to tie the game.

Neena Merola couldn’t watch.

As Rahal readied, the SU midfielder

stared at the team bench and waited.

The whistle blew and Rahal swung her stick high and shot the ball low.

It bounced once and scooted past Graham. Rahal found redemption, and Merola finally turned at the sound of victory all around her.

Rahal’s game-winner delivered the knockout punch as No. 11 Syracuse (11-4, 4-1 Atlantic Coast) outlasted No. 15 Virginia Tech (11-5, 2-3), 12-11, on Sunday in overtime at SU Soccer Stadium. The Orange’s offense managed seven second-half goals against the sixth-best defense in the country without Nicole Levy and her 36 points. The sophomore’s lower body injury kept her out of the matchup but it didn’t matter. Freshman Emily Hawryschuk led the way for the Orange, scoring five goals and adding an assist.

“They played the second half well and it really came together,” SU head coach Gary Gait said. “We saw some chemistry there. They really did come through in the second half. The attackers carried us.”

Forty-four seconds into the game, attack Devon Parker opened the scoring on senior day. Half a minute later, junior attack Alie Jimerson scored in her first start of the season and SU jumped out two a two-goal lead. Then, though, the Virginia Tech defense clamped down to earn its rank as the nation’s 6th-best scoring defense.

In the first half, even though the Orange led the draw controls, 8-3, the Hokies forced 13 turnovers.

Gait’s team only scored two more goals and trailed 6-4 at the break. see virginia

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By Josh Schafer staff writer

Alexa Romero nibbled. Her first three pitches of the at-bat sailed low and away for balls. Down 3-0, the left-hander threw the next pitch closer to the zone. Jessica Warren took advantage. The Seminoles cleanup hitter reached down to drive the ball straight over the center field fence.

For the third time in as many games, Syracuse exited the top half of the first inning trailing.

Twice due to the long ball. “(Warren) hurt us all weekend,” Syracuse head coach Mike Bosch said. “We tried this and

we tried that. If you look at those pitches from the center field view, some of them are literally off the plate and she still took them out.”

The home run was the Seminoles’ ninth in the last 13 innings.

No. 2 Florida State (38-1-1, 18-0 Atlantic Coast) hit two more balls out of SU Softball Stadium on Sunday to sweep the three-game series with a 6-5 victory over Syracuse (19-15, 3-9). After allowing eight hits and 12 runs in the first game of the weekend, Romero responded in the series finale. The freshman held Florida State, the nation’s top hitting team with a .367 overall team average, to just five hits. see florida

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