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The Women in Leadership Initiative has hosted lecture series in the past, such as one in March called “Resilient Leadership and Change.”

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Contestants in the Mr. ASIA pageant danced, sang and addressed stereotypes the Asian American Pacific Islander community faces on April 8 at Schine Underground.

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Changing perceptions

Syracuse women’s lacrosse assistant coach Kenzie Kent went from Boston College’s hockey team to its lacrosse team from 2014-19.

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Bruen, Santos win SA election

By Anthony Alandt

digital managing editor

Incumbent David Bruen and firsttime vice-presidential candidate Adia Santos have been elected as the next president and vice president of the Student Association, respectively. In a campus-wide email, Richard Kaufman IV, the Board of Elections Chair for SA, announced that Bruen and Santos received 46.7% of the vote in the first round of voting and 54.1% of the vote in the second round.

MIRANDA HINE, founder of the Thornden Park Association, believes the park has gotten safer despite its negative perception. max mimaroglu asst. photo editor

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The Thornden Park Association works to combat characterizations of the park as unsafe

hornden Park holds a special place in Miranda Hine’s heart.

Hine, a founder of the Thornden Park Association and member of the organization from 1983 to 2020, has frequently jogged, walked and visited the vast park for over 40 years.

While the park’s beauty and abundant opportunities stand out to her, Hine said the park’s negative reputation also stands out.

To Hine, the biggest mission of the Thornden Park Association is to restore and revitalize the perception of the park by SU and members of the local community. Hine said the Thornden Park Association is having tremendous success in achieving that goal.

“One of the reasons for us to form

was to change that perception,” Hine said. “We created the board because of a bunch of negative perceptions. I think we’ve been 100% successful with the community.”

Thornden Park’s reputation has been under the spotlight because of a decades-old incident that took place at the park.

In 1981, Alice Sebold, an SU freshman at the time, said a man threatened and raped her while she was walking in Thornden Park. Anthony Broadwater was

falsely convicted in 1982 for the rape of Sebold and was imprisoned for 16 years before being exonerated on Nov. 22, 2021. Recently, Broadwater filed a lawsuit against New York state for the wrongful conviction.

Hine said that the rape case back in 1981 created a narrative that the park is unsafe and has a high crime rate.

“The community feels safe (at the park),” Hine said. “I’ve been to the park for 42 years by myself and I have never, ever felt unsafe.”

Dale Avers, a current board member of the Thornden Park Association, said she’s gotten the sense the image of the park is more positive, but what happened to Sebold and the resulting false conviction of Broadwater created a long-term perception.

“I’m sure it influenced (the image see thornden page 4

There’s this constant repetition through SU warning their students … the students would say no to going to the park because we (the students) were told not to.

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There is a lot of unfinished business.

I really want to see some of those make even more progress.

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Nyah Jones, the only candidate for comptroller, won with 78.39% of the vote and will serve in the role for her second term. The referendum to continue to support Syracuse University’s chapter of the New York Public Interest Research Group chapter passed with 71.76% of the vote.

SA passed a bill last month that switched voting for the president, vice-president and comptroller from a majority-wins election to a rankedchoice system. In the first round of voting, Jordan Pierre and Lauren Gloster received 36.8% of the vote and Brenton MacNeil and Skylar Gorczynski received 16.5% of the vote, both behind Bruen and Santos’ 46.7%. Under the ranked-choice system, MacNeil and Gorczynski were eliminated. Pierre and Gloster then went on to receive 45.9% of the vote in the second round, 8.2% behind Bruen and Santos.

While the official voter turnout has yet to be announced, SA’s Instagram shared that 7.8% of the student body for SU and SUNY-ESF had voted as of April 6 at 9 a.m.

Along with the expansion of SA’s menstrual product initiative, which Bruen spearheaded last year, Bruen and Santos ran on increasing wellness days, bringing back meal swipes to the Schine Student Center, having SU see bruen page 4

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Women’s program gives career development Group aids students with disabilities

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The program aims to build a community that empowers, equips, supports and promotes the professional growth and personal well-being of those who identify as women. photo illustration by meghan hendricks photo editor

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Candace Campbell Jackson was forced to cut her Q&A with Vice Chancellor, Provost and Chief Academic Officer Gretchen Ritter short due to an overflow of questions from the attendees.

There were almost 300 participants in the Zoom room for “A Conversation With Provost Ritter,” a discussion of leadership, resilience and change held on Feb. 17.

The number of people in attendance showed her the tangible impact that her work with the Women in Leadership Initiative had on the professional development of women at Syracuse University, she said.

The Women in Leadership Initiative started as an idea from Jackson, SU’s senior vice president and chief of staff to Chancellor Kent Syverud, after observing a desire for personal and professional connection between women at the university.

“I was hearing from more and more women on campus at all

levels ... (that) we really needed to have an opportunity to come together as women and as persons who identify as women to talk about personal and professional development, and career and establishing a pipeline, and to really get to know each other and be a resource,” Jackson said.

Jackson works closely with Dara Royer, the senior vice president and chief marketing officer of the university. Jackson’s observation of the need for professional mentorships for women resonated with Royer.

“There is a lot of literature out there about how women might not apply for jobs if they don’t feel like they’re 100% qualified for a position,” Royer said. “All of us have been really trying to encourage women to engage in this and our colleagues to go after opportunities and to go after their goals and their dreams, and that’s a big part of what we’re trying to accomplish here.”

For Royer, serving as part of the initiative’s steering committee was

a way to give back.

“In my career, there have been incredible women that I’ve had the pleasure to meet to work with who have given me a helping hand along the way, either through just candid advice, or feedback or support, and so part of this is a pay it forward,” Royer said.

The initiative hosted a lecture series in March called “Resilient Leadership and Change,” led by leadership experts Amy P. Kelly and Jack Slavinski The goal of the lectures was to assist women in their careers following a return to the workplace after the pandemic, Royer said.

According to an SU News release in early March, the series was divided into four parts: “Cultivating Positive Mindset Practices,” “Strengthening Emotional Intelligence and Resiliency,” “Communicating With Agility” and “Creating Your Change Journey.” The lectures focused on weaving together empathy, selfcare and emotional resiliency into

leadership skills.

“We’re not going to sit around and let anybody assign ‘soft’ to (empathy) and point at women. It is a skill, and we want to make sure everybody’s focusing and developing,” Jackson said.

Outside of its events, Jackson said, the initiative works to provide women with a consistent support network for career development day to day.

“So many people want to unleash their potential, and they want a kind of a roadmap of how to do that through conversation, through learning, through modeling ... and so I think that’s something that anchors a lot of our conversations, especially within the steering committee, is this idea of how we help people unleash their potential,” Royer said.

The initiative aims to provide extra support because of the additional challenges that women face in the workforce, Royer said.

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New York approves $1.1 billion for I-81 project

By Richard Perrins news editor

New York state’s fiscal year 2023 budget will include $1.1 billion for the Interstate 81 removal project, syracuse.com reported Saturday.

Gov. Kathy Hochul’s budget proposal covered $32.8 billion over five years for transportation infrastructure, including $1.1 billion for the replacement of Syracuse’s I-81 viaduct.

Lawmakers passed the $220 billion budget over the weekend

after it was delayed past its original April 1 deadline. The delay was due to a combination of disputes over major budgetary issues, including funding for the SUNY and CUNY systems, bail reform, child and health care and casinos within New York City. Hochul’s initial budget proposal was worth around $216 billion.

Last year’s state budget included about $800 million for the I-81 removal plan. This year’s project brought the state’s total allocation for the plan to $1.9 billion.

The state is waiting for federal approval before breaking ground on the project, syracuse. com reported — something that’s expected to take place this spring.

On March 21, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced the removal project could have its Environmental Impact Statement approved within weeks.

The statement is a requirement for large-scale infrastructure projects that need federal aid, Schumer said. Schumer didn’t specify a date for the release of

the EIS. The release of the EIS will start a 30-day comment period before the Federal Highway Administration issues a final Record of Decision.

After the viaduct’s removal, the state plans to replace it with a community grid that would redirect traffic onto city streets. The nonprofit Blueprint 15 aims to prevent the further displacement of residents of the historic 15th Ward neighborhood. rcperrin@syr.edu @RichardPerrins2

The Access Mentoring Program, a group open to all undergraduate students with disabilities, defines itself as a center helping to coordinate different campus-wide activities for the university’s students, faculty, staff and people in the community.

Disability Cultural Center Coordinator Kate Corbett Pollack and Interim Director Huey Hsiao run the program, which includes peer mentors and mentees.

Syracuse University’s Disability Cultural Center is housed with the LGBTQ Resource Center in the Intercultural Collective. The center offers several resources and events for people who identify as individuals with disabilities.

Peer mentor Diana Garcia-Varo, a third-year art video and psychology major, joined the program as an access mentor in her freshman year. The Disability Cultural Center provides a welcoming space for all students at any time, she said.

Garcia-Varo said the program aims to help the mentees navigate the available resources on campus, create structure and enhance their journeys at SU. “I decided to work as an access mentor because the Disability Cultural Center aims to help disabled students navigate resources on campus and promote disability culture,” Garcia-Varo said.

Danielle Burden, a sophomore and a current mentee in the program, described her relationship with the mentors as light-hearted.

Burden said the program is accessible for her and that Pollack and other mentors have helped her engage and connect to campus life.

“We have a good relationship; we talk about things. I don’t feel like a mentor-mentee relationship, but more like friends,” Burden said. “It’s good to sit down and have conversations with them.”

The free group meetings of the Access Mentoring Program take place every two weeks. The group’s topics of discussion include accessibility and diversity, Garcia-Varo said.

Alison Gilmore, a sophomore studying sports analytics, said advocacy and sharing are important to her. Gilmore joined the program as a mentor this semester.

“Just connecting advocacy and sharing my story and hearing from others, that helps me to connect with the disabled population on campus, and I’m really grateful for that,” Gilmore said. “I wasn’t engaged too much with the disabled community before — it’s something I always wanted to do.”

Gilmore wants to let more students learn about the disability culture by joining the Access Mentoring Program’s info sessions.

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of the park),” Avers said. “Those kinds of stories live on. Parents would be concerned about a past event like that. I do hope though that the justice that’s occurred now also lives on.”

Avers said she’s recently seen more students at the park, and the board has educated security personnel at SU and were active in creating meetings between the board, SU, officials and the local community prior to the pandemic.

Although progress is being made, Avers said she is frustrated by recent developments of SU pushing to manage parts of the park through a new agreement between the university and the city of Syracuse. SU is investing $11 million to the city of Syracuse that would fund city services and communities near Thornden Park. As part of the agreement, the university will also maintain certain areas of Thornden Park, particularly around Ostrom Avenue near the park.

Thornden Park Association wants the park to be available to all in the community, Avers said. She added that this decision is causing frustration among Thornden Park’s board members and making it more difficult to work with SU in general.

“We want all folks to use and enjoy the park,” Avers said. “I don’t get the rationale behind putting these acres in the Services Agreement.”

Avers said that the Thornden Park Association is actively promoting more use of the park for those at SU and in the local community.

“That is our mission,” Avers said. “We love

the diversity, we love the students and we love everyone who uses the park.”

Former SU professor Marvin Druger worked at the university for 47 years and is a professor emeritus of biology at SU. Druger said that Thornden Park is a very valuable resource for the local community, especially residents of the Westcott neighborhood, but that the perception of the park has changed during his time at SU. “In the past, there were some bad incidents in the park and the park was condemned as an unsafe place to walk, especially at night,” Druger said. “The bad reputation of the park is probably overrated, but in these days of high crime, I would be apprehensive about walking by myself through any such park at night, or anywhere else.”

Druger said he has never explored the full resources of the park because he always considered it unsafe, mostly because of the incidents that occurred there. Druger said some aspects of the park are incredibly important to the Westcott community, such as the Mills Rose Garden.

Some SU students who have been to the park have had mixed responses on Thornden’s safety. Kadin Person, a sophomore at SU, said he’s been to the park numerous times to walk, jog and cut through to get to local restaurants in Westcott. He said Thornden Park’s perception as a high-crime area is exaggerated.

“I’ve never heard of a perception that Thornden Park is bad,” Person said. “I’ve been all over Thornden Park and there really is no element of crime.”

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bruen achieve carbon neutrality ahead of 2040 and increasing transparency and engagement with the student body.

“There is a lot of unfinished business. I really want to see some of those make even more progress,” Bruen said to The Daily Orange last week.

Along with president, vice president and comptroller, SA also announced the winners of assembly members and at-large seats:

• Oji Anderson (Architecture) • Alexander Anis (Architecture) • Melanie Salas (Arts & Sciences) • Emma Ferguson (Arts & Sciences) • Kam Ting Cheung (Arts & Sciences) • Yasmin Nayrouz (Arts & Sciences) • Ralph Graham (Engineering and Computer Science) • Elliot Salas (Engineering and Computer Science) • Monica Jankovic (iSchool)

Person added that what happened to Sebold and the resulting false conviction of Broadwater created a misleading representation of Thornden.

“It shouldn’t be a generalization that (the park) is bad because of one incident,” Person said. “It’s not an empty area where you will be mugged or robbed.”

Freshman Dyana Gales doesn’t recall the university warning them about Thornden Park, but that it’s best to stay away from the park at night, especially if you are a young woman.

“I went to the park one time and didn’t go alone,” Gales said. “I would never go alone. I haven’t seen it as an important place to hang out, especially at night.”

The Daily Orange reached out to Syracuse Police Department Sergeant Matthew Malinowski, but because Broadwater’s false conviction is still in current litigation, he would not comment on the matter. However, Malinowski did provide The D.O. with violent and non-violent crime that took place in the Wescott neighborhood.

According to Syracuse Police Department data, there have been 109 violent crimes in Thornden Park reported to the department between 2015-21. Among those crimes, 66 have been identified as aggravated assault, while the other 43 reported violent crimes include murder, rape and robbery. Rape makes up 10 out of the 43 reported violent crimes.

Within the span of years, violent crime peaked last year with 25 reported violent crimes.

• Linda Baguma (Maxwell) • Samantha Shenker (Maxwell) • Aidan O’Connell (Maxwell) • Thomas Simmons (Newhouse) • Richard Maj (Newhouse) • Haig Chakamian (Whitman) • Noah Cordes (Whitman) • Dylan France (Whitman)

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leadership terms of how you balance, for some women, being a mother, being a leader, being someone who may be a student as well — there’s so many different things that individuals have to manage and balance,” Royer said.

Sarah Scalese, SU’s senior associate vice president for university communications, said the young women who are part of the initiative benefit from the direct contact with the initiative’s senior faculty members and organizers.

“If you aspire as a young female to be at the highest echelon of your career ... being in a room with Candace, and with Dara, and with Gretchen, and with some of the other members and participants, it really allows you to visualize what your path is, and that’s not something that everybody experiences in corporate environments,” Scalese said.

Another benefit of the program that Scalese noticed was the impact on male colleagues, she said.

“One of the things I’ve appreciated about Women in Leadership is that it’s also creating empowerment for our male colleagues, to support women as well and to empower women,” Scalese said. from page 3

mentors of students can learn from,” Gilmore said. “If you come and listen to us, and just be able to learn and hear our experiences, I think it’s a great opportunity. Not only for a community for disabled students, but also to create a community for that further understanding for non-disabled students, so it’s just a great learning experience.”

Garcia-Varo said the program needs more participation to better support those

Meanwhile, according to SPD data, there have been 815 non-violent crimes in Thornden Park reported to the department in the same time period. Among those, 484 have been identified as charges of larceny, while the other 331 charges include burglary and motor vehicle theft.

Non-violent crime peaked in 2016 with 155 non-violent crimes. Since 2018, the number of reported non-violent crimes has declined every year, with just 85 reported non-violent crimes in 2021.

Hine said the image of the park among the local community has improved because of the efforts of the Thornden Park Association, specifically in being able to rekindle the joy that Hine wants the park to provide. Working alongside other members of the Thornden Park Association, the park continues to host tons of events for the local community, such as exercise classes every Monday and Thursday as well as Discovery Camping programs for children in K-5 over the summer.

Hine said it’s very common to see both members of the SU community and the local area running, swimming, playing football, attending a concert, eating chili at the park’s chili bowl or sitting by the rose garden. She said she wants the park, at its absolute best, to be an area open to all in the local community.

“In its idealist form, the purpose of Thornden Park is for people to be themselves,” Hine said. dcchiapp@syr.edu @DominicChiappo2

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The steering committee, which is made up of 17 women across different academic and administrative departments at SU, emphasizes the importance of listening to the community and creating opportunities that will support them. Elisa Dekaney, a member of the steering committee and the associate dean of SU’s College of Visual and Performing Arts, said the program aims to build a community that empowers, equips, supports and promotes the professional growth and personal well-being of those who identify as women.

“The word that comes to my mind is community: a place where we can come together to better understand leadership challenges and success through mentoring, education and training, and data-informed practices and strategies,” Dekaney said. “That is how (Women in Leadership) supports women in their education and careers.”

Moving forward, the initiative hopes to integrate multicultural perspectives into its work.

“We’re going to continue to do more multiculturally to make sure everybody feels represented, listened to and valued,” Jackson said.

“We just want to help women be thoughtful and planful, about developing themselves in their career or their academic path.” spwright@syr.edu

in need. The current mentors hope to see more students join the meetings to learn and hear stories of the community of people with disabilities.

“We need more people; we need more mentors. The more mentors we have, the more encouragement it’s going to give students on campus, to know they can be supported,” Garcia-Varo said. “If people want to connect, they can always feel free to do so, because that’s what we want. We want to hear from everyone on campus.” hwai01@syr.edu

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column

Seasonal depression continues with dreary spring weather

By Hannah Starorypinski columnist

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here is a feeling of burnout on Syracuse University’s campus before spring break, with the piling of exams, essays and projects. All of this work piles onto Syracuse’s dreary weather, which — whether snowing or raining — is rough for students’ mental health.

For many students, spring break is seen as the transition period from cold to warm weather. Typically, in the last week of March, everything starts blooming, the weather gets nice, winter jackets get left at home and moods generally improve. This was not the

case for Syracuse this year.

Upon returning from break, students were greeted by snow, and the cloudy sky and lack of sun remained.

Last week students walked through hail to get to class and the notorious Syracuse wind has not seemed to slow.

Seasonal affective disorder, more commonly referred to as seasonal depression, typically occurs during the fall and winter. Some causes include a lack of sunlight and a disruption of serotonin and melatonin levels due to changing seasons, and there are a myriad of symptoms including low energy, difficulty concentrating, feelings of listlessness, hopelessness and losing interest in things you once

enjoyed. When students wake up in April to a snowstorm, it’s hard to get out of bed, let alone go to class. Not only do these symptoms affect one’s life as a whole, but they are undoubtedly damaging to the way students are able to perform in school.

While it’s unrealistic to put responsibilities on hold because of the weather, SU should be more accommodating to students who remain in a slump. The university should promote the activities and methods to help students get through the burnout and seasonal depression they might be experiencing. For example, a recommended treatment for seasonal depression is light therapy, or phototherapy, which

creates light that resembles natural light, giving the brain the impression of being outdoors in the sun. SU could implement such treatment in the Barnes Center at The Arch.

Though it might seem silly to base mental health resources on the weather, the change in students’ demeanor is evident when the sun comes out and days start to get warm. Students are more likely to be outside, people smile more and campus becomes so much more enjoyable. Even on social media, such as Yik Yak, many students comment on the way a nice day can change their mood and work ethic. SU should strive to make people feel like that more often, no matter the weather.

In emails and syllabi, the SU administration and professors often talk about the importance of prioritizing mental health and say that students should put themselves first. I don’t think that idea is put into action. While I’m not suggesting students should be able to skip all classes and assignments until spring’s warm weather, I don’t think it’s too much to ask for a bit of grace while students are struggling to get through Syracuse’s neverending winter.

Hannah Starorypinski is a sophomore political science major with a minor in public communication. Her column appears bi-weekly, and she can be reached at hkstaror@syr.edu.

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There is a clear gap between students and administrators’ goals

By Patrick Fox columnist

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ar too often, students get the sense that the administration believes we shouldn’t be involved in major decisions affecting Syracuse University. But, at the end of the day, students play a more definitive role in this university than anything else.

While there is certainly a universal college experience in distrust between administrators and students, SU has had frequent conflicts between these groups and frustratingly little compromise from the administration. In the recent Student Association presidential debate, all three tickets cautiously responded to a statement about pushing the administration by saying that change is slow and they have to work within the system. SU students can’t seem to effect any truly notable change in SU policy, even though they clearly want to.

In February 2021, a year after it began its 32-day occupation of Crouse-Hinds Hall, #NotAgainSU announced it would refuse to work with the administration going forward. The statement argued that SU’s administration practiced a “complete unwillingness to care for and listen to Black students.”

The complicated reality is that the administration seems to prioritize SU’s image above the actual student experience. Chancellor Kent Syverud and the Board of Trustees are obligated to make decisions on behalf of the financial health of the university, not just the students’ lived experience. While it is certainly important to keep the lights on, emphasizing fundraising and fiscal responsibility

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over student-well being can damage the larger student experience.

For example, during a global pandemic that caused financial strain for people across the country, the university raised tuition by 3.9% despite its ongoing Forever Orange fundraising campaign, which reached $1 billion in June 2021. This move was entirely divorced from the student experience and well-being.

Although the Forever Orange campaign focused on raising money for financial aid and research, it also included a $30 million donation for the construction of the National Veterans Resource Center.

While SU has good intentions in providing spaces for the university’s veteran community, the building’s elaborate architecture provides a stark contrast to the dark laundry rooms and concrete dorms where many SU students spend the majority of their time. It builds a sense that this building is meant to be a new place to hold luxurious events, not to directly support student veterans. As soon as it opened, the space was up for rent — advertised for the architectural beauty that likely made it so expensive. The purity of the NVRC’s mission is also undercut by Chancellor Syverud’s own display in the building’s firstfloor museum, which names him as one of the most important figures in SU’s history with veterans.

Similarly, the university recently allotted $150 million to transform another building that many students rarely see, Manley Field House.

Clearly there is value to the school’s massive sports enterprise, but the building is hardly in disrepair.

Within the context of 2020’s major financial complications,

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including the pandemic, the SU administration dropped its total operating costs by $29 million to $1.1 billion, an amount that could be covered by the university’s fundraising campaign alone.

The partial refund offered with the suspension of in-person learning in the spring 2020 semester amounted only to a cost of only $26 million. Therefore, the administration could have aided students more if it weren’t putting this money into other developments. The administration also happily accepted $5 million from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act to offset lost revenues.

As the financial costs of the pandemic began to settle, SU’s financial situtaion greatly improved with endowment returns spiking to 30.8% and operating costs dipping below $1 billion — all this in addition to $17 million in federal assistance.

Despite this good fortune, the university once again bumped tuition for its students by almost 4%.

It’s difficult to summarize SU’s recent financial history, but the administration’s behavior in 2020 and 2021 demonstrates that SU will continue to place an extreme tuition burden on its students, no matter how much money it receives from donors and federal aid.

SU administration’s relationship with its own students is fundamentally complicated — our collective contribution is something considerably less tangible — we define the school.

The Carrier Dome is an impressive logistics operation, but its value comes in the students that fill its seats on game day. Our love for SU comes from the college experience, but the administration allows this to imply an

endorsement of its leadership.

There is a lack of solid data on the relationship that SU students have with the administration, but there are several recent and clear examples of conflict and disputes, even beyond #NotAgainSU. The university’s February 2021 executive overview on the State of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion reported that 43% of students were unsatisfied with the campus climate. Across the board, marginalized groups were considerably less satisfied than their peers.

SU has consistently scrambled in the past few years to ensure that student complaints are “heard.”

I experienced this first hand as a resident adviser, when RAs collectively protested a rush of new out-of-contract job requirements at the end of the spring 2021 semester.

Though the SU Office of Student Living opened up a meeting for us to express our complaints, it quickly became clear that they would refuse to compromise, only explaining why we couldn’t possibly be prioritized over those working in the Office of Student Living.

The university communicates in a highly cautious sense with its own students; guarded phrases in perfectly crafted announcements to the student body demonstrate compassion, but are careful not to promise anything at all. This lessens the value of the communication entirely — the administration might “hear” us but is by no means obligated to listen.

It may seem like an intangible criticism that the administration relies so heavily on public relations in dealing with its student stakeholders, but the impact is a sense of detachment between the university’s decision makers and its students.

Frustrations about the administration’s consistent decision to raise student tuition are mostly an example of adding insult to injury.

Even a cursory glance at SU’s recent financial reporting shows that this school has an incredible capacity to grow, but this effort is decided more so by its robust fundraising infrastructure than pulling a few thousand more dollars each out of the pockets of students and their families. Like many students, I have been forced to make hard decisions surrounding this university’s high cost, so its messaging can read as belittling at times.

This is college, a life experience that is unique in both its freedoms and constraints. The basic college experiences of friends and adventure and youth aren’t something we can just thank the university for providing to us. We have to keep this in mind 10 to 20 years down the line when we start getting harassing emails for donations — not to the school but to the administration.

So to SU students, consider your experience not just holistically at SU, but with the administrators, because they are your collaborators on the project of SU. They are working with you, not for you.

If you want something, demand it. Don’t let your demands fizzle into backroom discussions. Your greatest strength is pushing back against their effort to control public image. Rally to unionize student workers on campus.

Demand further financial transparency. This isn’t above our pay grade when we’re the ones paying.

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​​​7 TEDx speakers present at SU

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This past weekend, seven speakers took the stage in the Underground at the Schine Student Center as a part of the TEDxSyracuseUniversity event series. Here’s a rundown on what each of the speakers talked about:

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While most of the contestants expressed that they were nervous for the pageant, the crowd showed everyone on stage thunderous approval. anshul roy staff photographer

In her TED Talk, Nicki Cox shed light on the tribulations of living with and recovering from an eating disorder.

Cox, a senior at Syracuse University, lived with anorexia for three years as a teenager, spent a month in the hospital for it and is now five years into her recovery journey.

Cox’s idea of fitness shifted as she grew older, seeing exercise as the direct path to losing weight and that happiness would come with thinness.

Eventually, Cox found comfort and healing in weightlifting — she said it saved her life.

“I love seeing how strong I am, seeing how capable my body truly is, seeing just how many more pounds I can add onto that barbell,” she said.

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or poetry, it’s snaps. For golf, it’s golf claps. For most other events, it’s applause. But at Mr. ASIA 2022, the crowd showed their appreciation vocally at every possible moment, for performers, for contestants and most of all, for their love of being Asian.

“I love talking about my Asian heritage,” Kyne, a Filipina drag queen and guest judge for Mr. ASIA, said in a post-show interview.

“I think events like this, that take pride in being Asian, are so important because I think it’s so important for us to remember where we came from and who we are.”

On Friday at Schine Underground, Mr. ASIA 2022 was full of dancing, singing and warmth for the Asian American and Pacific Islander community. Asian Students in America (ASIA) has hosted this pageant since 2017 to bring attention to the current issues revolving around the AAPI community at Syracuse University and SUNYESF, said Bessie Chen, president of ASIA. ASIA invited two guest judges, Kyne and Ryan Bergara, to be a part of the celebration. In addition to drag and being a YouTuber, Kyne also teaches math on TikTok. The ASIA executive board wanted to include someone who challenged traditional perceptions of an Asian man, Chen said. Bergara, who was set to be a judge for Mr. ASIA in 2020 before the pandemic required the event to be canceled, is a Mexican, Japanese and Filipino actor and producer

who created the popular show, “BuzzFeed Unsolved.”

The night started out as contestants Anson Lin, Lawrence Xu, Emanuel Cho and Justine Serdoncillo took to the stage to introduce themselves. Most expressed that they were nervous about competing in a pageant — it was hard to make out their exact words because the crowd was thunderous with support for them.

To be a contestant for Mr. ASIA, students must be nominated at the beginning of the spring semester. From there, the ASIA e-board conducts interviews, and the finalized group of contestants are notified in March.

The event featured traditional aspects of a pageant, including a talent and Q&A portion. Additionally, dance and music performances highlighted the diversity in talent in the AAPI community.

During his Q&A session, Lin said he defies American-made stereotypes of Asians — that they’re especially smart and hardworking — by just being an average Joe, and there’s nothing wrong with that.

Furthermore, he said that his confidence as an Asian man and even his security in his fashion choices is what this pageant is all about.

“I wear what I want; I don’t really care what people think,” Lin said. “I’m confident in who I am and what I wear.”

Senior Lia Margolis sang “Dangerous Woman” by Ariana Grande, and to the beat of the song, the crowd swayed their phone flashlights in the air. Later on in the show, sophomore Ji Soo Shin sang “Eat” by

Students celebrated their love for being Asian at every moment possible during Mr. ASIA 2022 on Friday

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As a first-generation college student, a fraternity brother and a gay Lebanese man, William Khabbaz described himself as a person with a lot of adjectives. Those identities, especially his recovery from his eating disorder, shaped who he is today.

His relationship with food was especially complicated, considering that in Arab culture, “one of the most disrespectful things a person can do is not eat their mother’s cooking,” Khabbaz said.

Khabbaz knew he needed to make a change when his father asked him to take him to the hospital amidst his battle with pancreatic cancer.

“It’s been a long battle that seems to just never end, but the moment of peace I have when I look in the mirror is something I can never take for granted,” Khabbaz said

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Characterizing her childhood as “ping-ponging between abusive households,” Geena Matuson turned to social media as a safe space to be herself. On Myspace, Matuson ran a group about hair and style that attracted 15,000 members also passionate about the subject.

But when the Myspace groups disappeared overnight, Matuson’s safe space diminished. When she went to art school, Matuson stayed true to herself and stuck up for what she thought was right. Yet being herself wasn’t as well received at school. As a result, she then told the story and crafted the image that others wanted to see. see tedx page 8

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Along with cuisine from regions like Africa and the Middle East, the International Taste Festival featured performances from acts including the Syracuse Highland Pipe Band. max mimaroglu asst. photo editor

Tastes of the world

Local food vendors showcased tastes from a variety of cultures and countries at the International Taste Festival this past weekend

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he Exposition Center is usually 110,000 square feet of clear open space, but this weekend the floor was transformed into a foodie’s paradise. Local food vendors set up shop all over the center, offering tastes from a wide variety of cultures and countries. Smells of delicious fried foods and sweet treats filled the air as people chowed down on food, walking from station to station.

The International Taste Festival showcased the diverse community of central New York with food from around the world, along with live entertainment.

This was the first International Taste Festival in Syracuse, and it had a large community turnout right as doors to the New York State Fairgrounds opened at noon on Saturday. The event featured various countries and cultures from around the world including Europe, the Americas, Asia and Africa.

The purpose behind the International Taste Festival is to showcase different cultures and cuisines not only found around the world but also right here in central New York, according to its Facebook page.

Stephanie Pestillo, the event’s organizer, has a long career in event planning, public relations and community outreach. Pestillo is no stranger to planning a variety of events, but this one “is a whole different realm in itself,” as she was planning for a total of 50 vendors, she said.

“In the area, we have so many diverse communities and so many diverse cultures,” Pestillo said. “So we wanted to bring everyone together at one event in one location. Because why not?”

There were over 50 stands set up in the Exposition Center, and some stands sold freshly prepared food, while others sold crafts. The center was divided into eight sections: Artisans and Crafters, Pan African Cuisine, Foods of the Americas, Middle Eastern Treats, Tastes of Europe, Asian Creations, Kid’s Country and Sponsors. There also was a large stage in the center for entertainment.

Each food vendor offered various dishes which included at least one sample dish for $2.

Joe Shandrowski, co-owner of Colossal Kielbasa, was just one of five Taste of Europe vendors at the event. His business specializes in homemade perogies, stuffed cabbage, kielbasa and more.

He said he and his brothers began the business at their church as a fundraiser. After much popularity and demand, they decided to turn their cooking into a limited liability company.

Now, one and a half years later, the business has events booked into December. Shandrowski said the International Taste Festival was something they were looking forward to as a new business.

“It’s a great way to get ourselves out there,” Shandrowski said. “Especially since we also do orders through the mail, it would be a great way to expand our horizons.”

Not only did the event feature multiple stands of foods, but it also presented live entertainment, crafters and artisans spots. The event kicked off with the Syracuse Highland Pipe Band, and the first night ended with a fireworks show. Other acts included Saint Sophia’s Greek Orthodox Church Dancers, Central Bellydance School of Syracuse, Rince Na Sonas School of Irish Dance

and Alex Torres & His Latin Orchestra.

Matthew Balamont, owner of Al Dente’s Pizza, Pasta & More also set up shop for the festival. His team serves up American Italian takeout and was excited to participate in the food festival, he said.

“We do a lot for catering with the fairgrounds so we love it and love coming here,” Balamont said. “We all really enjoy what we do.”

Fair Deli Craft Beer, a local deli which serves classics like reubens and burgers, decided to switch things up at the International Taste Festival by offering Middle Eastern foods at their stand. Items for sale included a bechamel pasta, khichdi, spinach pie, chicken shawarma and knafeh for dessert.

Anne Marie Marji, one of the owners of Fair Deli Craft Beer, the family business, said they opened back in 2000 and have been working together ever since. Joining the event at the Expo Center was a great opportunity for Marji and the team to try something different for customers.

“We wanted to share our cultural foods that we don’t put on our everyday menu at the deli. So this was an exceptional day to do that,” Marji said.

The International Taste Festival brought multiple different cultures, customs and cuisines to one place for everyone in central New York to experience and enjoy.

“I hope the community leaves here like they’ve experienced something different and that they experienced a different culture or a different type of performance or a different activity that they never have before,” Pestillo said. sarusso@syr.edu

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Gunna, Baby Keem to headline UU Block Party 2022

By Nate Fenningdorf culture editor

University Union announced the artists set to perform at this year’s Block Party. Gunna and Baby Keem will headline the show, with support from 070 Shake and A-Trak, UU said in a press release. This will be the first in-person Block Party since Khalid headlined the 2019 show.

The concert will take place in the Carrier Dome on April 29, and doors open at 6:30 p.m. and the show starts at 7 p.m. Syracuse University and SUNY-ESF students will be able to purchase tickets starting on Monday at noon.

Tickets will be on sale for $25.

Before Block Party begins at 7 p.m., UU will host its 60th Birthday Bash from 1-5 p.m. on April 29, in celebration of 60 years of UU, the release said. On the quad, UU will host a silent disco, 360º photo booth, inflatables and jumbo games. The activities will be free and open to SU and SUNY-ESF students, faculty and staff.

In the years since he released “Drip Season” in 2016, Gunna has made a name for himself in the rap world as well as on social media. The College Park, Georgia-born rapper’s discography features songs like “Drip Too Hard,” “Lemonade” and “Space Cadet.”

Gunna’s most recent release, “DS4EVER,” is his third album to reach No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 200 and took the internet by storm with

“pushin P,’” a phrase the rapper created in the midst of the album’s release.

Baby Keem, known for his distinct lyrics and production style, has made big moves for himself through his music. At 21 years old, the artist from Carson, California, has won four Grammys, was a member of the XXL Freshman List in 2020 and has been featured on tracks from musicians like Ye. His most recent album, “The Melodic Blue,” debuted at No. 5 on the Billboard 200 chart.

Known for songs like “Honey” and “Guilty Conscience,” 070 Shake switches between multiple genres, including indie, hip-hop and R&B. In 2020, her album “Modus Vivendi” ended up in the top 10 of

the Billboard Top Current Albums chart, and it received critical acclaim from publications like Rolling Stone.

A-Trak is a Grammy-nominated producer and a globetrotting DJ who has a career which spans 20 years. The producer is the founder of Fool’s Gold Records, half of the house duo Duck Sauce and a member of The Brothers Macklovitch, alongside his brother Dave 1.

For questions, or to request accommodations, contact UU Vice President Molly Gross at uuvicepresident@gmail.com by April 20. For more information, contact UU Public Relations Director Samantha Goldstein at uupublicrelations@gmail.com. culture@dailyorange.com

written in the stars

Here are the beginnings and current beliefs of astrology full moons and eclipses to contextualize and predict societal events.

Many of these ancient astrologers were animists: they believed that the natural world, physical matter and of course, the sun, moon and stars were all ensouled and creatively intelligent.

Ancient Greek philosopher Plato explains, as quoted in Richard Tarnas’ “Cosmos and Psyche,” that “the truth is just the opposite of the opinion which once prevailed among men, that the sun and stars are without soul. … For in that shortsighted view, the entire moving contents of the heavens seemed to them only stones, earth and other soulless bodies, though these furnish the sources of world order.”

This animist philosophy contradicts completely the dominant world view of today, in which humans are the sole subjects, the only sources of intelligence in a meaningless and

chaotic universe of lifeless objects.

Many argue that astrology’s celestial correspondence takes place through a mechanism called synchronicity. As explained by Swiss depth psychologist Carl Jung in his book “Man and His Symbols,” synchronicity is any random but symbolically significant occurrence.

For an anecdotal example, my sister once told me a story in which, one day, she decided on a whim to visit the grave of our grandfather after school. Immediately upon leaving the car, she witnessed a shooting star zipping through the afternoon sky.

Whether or not the shooting star in this story was a symbolically significant message from the universe simply can not be proven.

However, stories of similarly shocking coincidences — messages from the universe — are so widespread as to be nearly universal.

Predictive dreams, thinking of someone and

then running into them immediately, timely encounters with interesting animals — all of these things and more are commonly experienced as communications from an intelligent universe.

Astrology, then, is a source of endless synchronicities. By learning the language of the stars, astrologers turn these random occurrences into a flowing conversation with the divine.

Understandably, I am sure many reading this now remain unconvinced that there is any substance or truth to astrology. In my opinion, the only truly effective antidote to skepticism is to thoroughly investigate this practice on your own.

With the Jupiter-Neptune conjunction perfecting this Tuesday, synchronicities and other mystical experiences are likely to find you. Listen earnestly.

with her trendy, modern dance moves, and members of Kappa Phi Lambda, an Asianinterest sorority, did the same. Shouting at the top of their lungs and pumping fists in the air, the crowd never ran out of energy or love for the performers.

Serdoncillo’s advice to Asian men struggling to be confident is to challenge and set goals for yourself. In his Q&A, he said that confidence can be built, and it’s possible for every Asian man out there.

“For me, it’s being in Mr. ASIA, and me being here right now and talking to you guys about this,” he said. “Which, honestly, it makes me scared at first, but it also makes me confident that honestly, I can be on stage and not be afraid.”

XCUSE, a new dance group that focuses on East Asian choreography and discography,

put on quite the show as the audience hyped them up. Afterwards, with their rhythm and synchronized moves, Black Reign Step Team dominated the night — it was maybe the first time the audience was quiet, as they eagerly anticipated Black Reign’s next move.

In addition to eating his favorite foods from home, Xu celebrates his cultural identity by continuing to speak Chinese, even in predominantly white spaces like SU. Additionally, during his Q&A, Xu addressed the recent rise in violent crime against the AAPI community.

“I think your first gut feeling is to react with the same amount of hate towards society, towards the people that caused these hate crimes, but I ask everyone to try to make it a peaceful approach,” Xu said.

While the men didn’t compete for

certain countries, each contestant represented a different group on campus, Chen said. Xu is an international student, Serdoncillo is an international student and active member of the Filipino community on campus, Cho attends SUNY-ESF, and Lin is a freshman.

At the end of the night, audience members, performers and contestants alike sat on the edges of their seats as they waited for Mr. ASIA 2022 to be announced. Serdoncillo came away with the crown, and there were smiles on every face in the room.

“I think that being an Asian doesn’t just mean food, clothes, music or other stuff,” he said. “It’s also about our personalities as well, and Asian love is loving unconditionally.”

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fourth lesson is to focus on outcomes, and the final lesson, Boden said, is to enjoy the ride.

We can “reject the disconnect” by sharing our stories, especially the moments that are most meaningful to us, and being true to ourselves.

When we make that choice to accept ourselves, we can find the people who are like us, she said.

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how cramped and hot the “insufferable” space was, which is when Austin’s passion for architecture began.

Austin realized just how mentally draining the areas typically assigned to lower-income families are. When her mother was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, Austin wondered, were the inequities of architecture to blame?

“It’s been well documented since the 1900s that urbanism is at the locus of the schizophrenic epidemic,” Austin said. She wondered if there was a more natural way to improve schizophrenic symptoms, and she proposed reconnecting with nature through strategic architecture to combat the growing mental health crisis tied to city living.

“We need to build cities that have a greater potential to act like nature,” Austin said. “We need to transform the architectonics of forest therapy to building design.”

more depressed. As she relied on TikTok as a job and gained her popularity in the midst of the pandemic, Notkin felt more isolated than ever.

Notkin said that social media, once regarded as a safe space in earlier years, has become a place of conformity that doesn’t really celebrate differences and therefore prevents real friendship.

Yet we keep coming back, because of the infamous algorithm, Notkin said. This creates a loop that keeps users clinging to social media for hours because it has an unlimited supply of content. Realizing the algorithm had gotten the better of her, Notkin tried a “dopamine detox” where she stayed off social media. But Notkin had a responsibility as a content creator, so she made conscious choices to be a reliable source to her followers.

“I can sleep soundly at night knowing that maybe I made at least one person feel a bit less alone, or a bit more empowered,” Notkin said.

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Certainly some, upon seeing the subject matter of this column, have felt the impulse to immediately reject it. To most people, astrology is illogical, ridiculous and simply a waste of time. Even many who casually practice astrology quickly become skeptics when challenged. Among those who display their sun sign or big three in their Tinder bio, how many would fold immediately when asked by a match, “You don’t really believe in that stuff, right?”

In this column, we will tackle this question: is astrology real?

Astrology is simply the act of drawing correlations between the movements of the heavenly bodies and life on earth.

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pageant Zion.T. When the audio to the song malfunctioned, she continued to sing — a cappella, which the cheering audience adored.

Cho’s time in the Q&A spotlight focused on combating stereotypes and challenging norms through representation. While Asians are overrepresented in STEM fields, Cho wanted to see more A API representation in his own interests, specifically construction, the field he hopes to enter after college.

“Apparently, a lot of Asians aren’t known to be hands-on,” Cho said. “But I am! And I wish to see that.”

In between pageant portions, solo dancer and junior Joyce Chen lit up the stage

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When Bob Boden was little, his mom took him to a taping of “Password.” Boden was captivated, and thus began his love affair with game shows.

Whether we realize it or not, game shows have shaped American culture, Boden said. The simplicity of competing for a prize can be compared to some faculties of life; Boden presented five things that game shows can teach us.

The first is to do your homework. Boden said that the preparation to appear on game shows is incredibly important. From the classic “Family Feud,” we can learn to be a team player. The next lesson is to “suck it up” — we’re better off when we can look and move past our failures. The

Shari Alyse was a victim of sexual abuse in her childhood, and unsurprisingly this shifted her whole perspective on life. She described her trauma as four walls that boxed her in — shame, guilt, fear and mistrust.

Alyse said she didn’t know she could choose a different lens in which to view the world, but she realized that she wasn’t sentenced to living this way. Even so, she spent years afraid to leave her comfort zone and change her mindset. But when she finally chose to take the leap of faith, the rewards were everything.

“My room is now decorated with four new walls — self-compassion, self-trust, hope, and I leave the last one blank for growth, however it wants to appear,” Alyse said.

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Kimoto wins both singles, doubles matchups in win over BC

By Wyatt Miller staff writer

Freshman Miyuka Kimoto took a 6-5 lead into the game point of her first singles set, facing Boston College senior Laura Lopez in the No. 2 singles spot on Sunday. The two traded powerful backhands and forehands from the corners for almost a minute before someone slipped up.

After a strong forehand stroke from the left side of the baseline, Lopez sprinted toward the middle of the court. Kimoto countered with a backhand strike to the spot Lopez had just vacated, and the ball skipped to the tarp.

Kimoto won a back-and-forth first set 7-5 and eventually the match, helping Syracuse (9-9, 3-8 Atlantic Coast) wrestle out a 4-3 win against Boston College on senior day. Kimoto was the only SU player to win both a singles and doubles match.

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week. Kent didn’t physically practice with the lacrosse team, instead just spectating to get an understanding of certain plays and motions.

Kent was also required to take a day off each week in college, she said. In high school, she had some commitment to at least one sport every day of the week.

Kent had a simple mindset on it — thinking to herself that she was “in-season” the whole year.

On the ice, Kent helped facilitate one of the best lines in the country, featuring Olympians Alex Carpenter and Haley Skarupa. Kent set Carpenter up with great goal-scoring opportunities because of her “elite” vision, Crowley said. In 2015-16, the trio led the Eagles to a 40-1 record with their only loss coming in the National Championship to Minnesota, and the second-place finish was the best in program history.

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boston college third doubles match in a row, matching up against BC’s Laura Lopez and Marice Aguiar. Kimoto and Kozyreva quickly generated a 5-1 lead, and though the SU duo allowed Lopez and Aguiar to win the next three games, they used a dynamic shot to win 6-4.

After missing the last couple matches, Viktoriya Kanapatskaya returned to the court to partner with Ines Fonte for their doubles match, giving the Orange a muchneeded boost.

“It gave a lot of confidence to her teammates to see her out there battling,” Limam said of Kanapatskaya’s return. “She just wanted to be out there for her teammates and do whatever she can.”

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injuries received support from Syracuse players and coaches, and she could only watch the remainder of the game with ice on her left knee.

“It’s really tough and it definitely hurts your heart a lot,” Sarah Cooper said when asked postgame about her injured teammates.

Carney has dealt with injuries before, though. Last season, Carney, along with Emily Hawryschuk, were absent for the Orange’s run to the National Championship

reva, Kimoto was able to use her quick hits and aggressive volleys to her advantage. The duo jumped out to an early 4-1 lead before Lopez and sophomore Marice Aguiar adjusted with a 3-1 run to make it 5-4.

The Syracuse pair only gave up one point in the last set, winning off a lunging tap at the net from Kimoto. Still, SU was not able to secure the doubles point, but it came out victorious after winning four singles matches, including Kimoto’s match against Lopez.

“Her opponent was a little tricky,” head coach Younes Limam said. “(Lopez) threw (Kimoto) a lot of slices, drop shots, lobs, spikes. But going into it we kind of liked that matchup for us.”

In the first set, Kimoto varied spins and hit speeds, and Lopez countered with lobs and drop shots. The first set was a back-and-forth affair with lots of long rallies, but Kimoto eventually pulled away by

sweeping the last point.

Kimoto won a quick second set by a score of 6-2, riding four straight points to victory after being tied early. When Lopez tied the set 2-2, Kimoto refused to let go of a rally, winning several points that lasted more than eight hits. The dagger was a backhand to the corner that left Lopez frozen in the middle of the court. Kimoto won the next three games en route to her straight set victory.

Limam decided to play Kimoto in the No. 2 singles spot, when she usually plays at No. 3 or No. 4, because of the matchup with Lopez. Limam said he was confident in her mobility and swing diversity against an opponent who liked to mix things up.

“We talked about her just moving a lot and being in position. I think when she moves her feet well she can play at a high level.”

Kimoto delivered in both of those areas, flying all over the court with different swing

patterns and directions throughout the match. She looked more comfortable as the match went on, forcing more mistakes as her opponent’s fatigue took over.

The match ended on a missed drop shot

by Lopez. Kimoto’s win tied the score at 2-2 with three singles matches still in progress.

Syracuse will end the season on a twogame road trip down south against Florida State and Miami next weekend. Kimoto will finish out a strong freshman campaign, possibly still in the No. 2 singles spot. Although Syracuse is not where it wants to be as a team, Limam said, he added that he’s pleased with the freshman’s progress this season.

“I am very proud of how (Kimoto) has progressed this season,” Limam said. “She has gotten much more accurate with different swings, and I think her confidence is going to keep going up as she adds more skills.”

that playmaker on that line,” said Makenna Newkirk, Kent’s hockey teammate at Boston College.

Kent was also an integral part of the power-play and penalty-killing units.

Defensively, Newkirk said Kent had an “innate ability” to intercept passes because she could see her opponent’s play developing before it occurred.

To open scoring in a 6-0 onslaught against St. Lawrence in the quarterfinals, Newkirk skated down the right side of the ice before launching a cross-ice pass. Kent received it just in front of the goal, slipping the puck into the left side of the goal on the power play. And on the last goal against the Saints, Kent threaded a pass between two defenders to Newkirk, who received the puck with just enough space to deke the goalie, faking right to shoot left.

“She can always read her teammates and I think that was one of her gifts both on the field and on the ice,” Newkirk said.

Once the hockey season ended, Kent immediately jumped into lacrosse, taking no more than a couple days off. Physically, the transition was pretty easy, but the

toughest part was adjusting mentally and emotionally to the new culture, Kent said.

looks like she’s skating when she is on the lacrosse field.

“She floats on the grass,” Apuzzo said.

During her first three years on the lacrosse team, she never played more than 12 games because the hockey season stretched well into the postseason. However, after redshirting as a senior in 2018, she played just lacrosse in her graduate year. Despite not seeing any action in over a year, Kent looked the same as she was before, Apuzzo said. Kent was named an Intercollegiate Women’s Lacrosse Coaches Association first-team All-American and made the Final Four.

After graduating, Kent stuck with lacrosse, becoming an assistant coach with the Harvard women’s team before being hired by head coach Kayla Treanor and Syracuse this past offseason.

“It ’s weird, I liked hockey more in college, but now I like lacrosse more,” Kent said.

Asst. Digital Editor Henry O’Brien contributed to reporting for this story.

Plipuech and Sanchez took advantage of Kanapatskaya’s visible rustiness, but eventually, the duo picked up the energy and won three of the next five games to cut the lead to 5-4, which included a rally that led to Kanapatskaya earning a point off a quick in-the-air hit near the net. But in the end, after multiple shots directed back and forth, BC served a shot that left Fonte unbalanced to give BC the opening match point.

During singles play, the Orange worked their way back to take the lead. Ito’s ability to catch her opponents off guard with quick shots near the net guided her to a 5-0 lead in the first set. BC’s Muskan Mahajan won the next two games of the set, but Ito took the first set 6-2 and the second one 6-0.

“She was consistent, but at the same time going for her shots when the opportunities came her way,” Limam said of Ito. Kanapatskaya’s rustiness carried on from doubles to singles play, as she struggled against Aguiar. Aguiar matched up

well versus Kanapatskaya since both players rely on their strong shots. Kanapatskaya found herself down early, trailing 4-1, and she earned only one more win in the set before losing 6-2. Kanapatskaya similarly trailed in the second set 4-1, and she suffered her eighth loss of the season during singles play, losing 6-4.

Limam said Kimoto plays her best when she moves her feet well and gets into good position. Sunday, Kimoto had to combat Lopez’s tricky play, full of drops and slide shots, yet her dynamic shots kept Lopez on her feet in both sets. Kimoto won the last three games of the set, which included a long rally that Kimoto sent to the corner — out of reach for her opponent to catch — to grab the game point of the first set 7-5. Kimoto comfortably won 6-2 in the next set to take the match and secure her ninth singles win of the season.

Fonte used terrific shot selection in her singles match, forcing her opponent to change her style of play. The second set

slowly became back and forth, allowing Sanchez to work her way back with shots that made Fonte slide to save them. In the end, Fonte won a close second set 7-5 to take the match after winning the first one 6-3.

Entering Sunday, Zeynep Erman had only participated in two singles matches the entire season, and she had lost both.

Erman’s backhand volley was on point during the match, as she kept Edwards constantly hustling back and forth. Erman found herself in a tied 4-4 match, and she sent shots left and right to win the first set 7-5. Erman’s ability to serve hard-hitting forehand volley shots guided her to win another close set 7-5.

Overall, it was the Orange’s strong singles play that lifted them back to .500 before they head to Florida for two final regular season matches against Florida State and Miami before ACC Tournament play begins.

game due to ACL injuries. Both recovered in time for the 2022 season opener against Stanford where they combined for two goals.

And since then, the two have been among SU’s top scorers once again.

But even before the season started, Syracuse already had key pieces out for the entire year. Two weeks before the home opener against the Cardinal, sophomore attack Ward, who had a breakout freshman year, announced on social media she would not play in 2022 due to a lower-leg injury.

Ward’s absence didn’t seem to affect SU’s

record as the Orange remained undefeated throughout the month of February. But in Syracuse’s first loss of the season against then-No. 6 Northwestern, it lost Cockerille, one of the longtime starters in the midfield.

As Syracuse was in transition midway through the game, Cockerille suffered a noncontact injury and was immediately removed from the eventual overtime loss. Then in the last week alone, Emma went from being ruled “day-to-day” to out for the season. While Cockerille played a role in the midfield and on transition, Emma was third on SU in points.

“Emma was obviously a big part of the

offense,” Meaghan said. “It was the first time not playing with her in a couple of years. So it’s been an adjustment.”

By the time the second half started against the Wildcats, five injured Syracuse players stood on the sidelines next to each other. Carney held ice on her knee and got out of her uniform. Ward, who practiced shooting before the game, walked around with a boot on her left foot. Cockerille and Harris had leg braces on, and Emma had padding on her left leg.

She can always read her teammates, and I think that was one of her gifts both on the field and on the ice Makenna Newkirk

kent’s teammate, bc hockey

Kent said Crowley was more laid back and let the team just play since the sport is back and forth, but BC women’s lacrosse head coach Acacia Walker-Weinstein had more strategy involved with set motions and offenses.

On the field, Kent had similar traits to what she displayed on the ice, especially with ability to read the field and find fellow attacks for goal-scoring opportunities, Crowley said. She added that she thinks Kent dished out the puck more on the ice. Apuzzo said she thinks Kent

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SU’s final home game vs. UND canceled due to weather

By Matthew Hassan staff writer

Syracuse’s game against Notre Dame on Sunday was canceled due to inclement weather. The final game of the series was initially slated to begin at noon.

The Orange lost the first two games of

the series, and a loss on Sunday would’ve been their third three-game series sweep of the season. More than half of Syracuse’s home games have been canceled or rescheduled so far this season.

On Friday afternoon, the Orange and the Fighting Irish were tied at two going into the fifth, but Notre Dame separated

in the final few innings to win 5-2. Then after an extended rain delay on Saturday, the Fighting Irish mercy ruled Syracuse in five innings to win 9-0. Kaia Oliver gave up eight runs in the first two innings which put the game out of reach.

The Orange sit in 11th place of 13 Atlantic Coast Conference teams after the

weekend, as Pittsburgh and Boston College rank below them. The Orange are two games behind 10th place North Carolina.

Syracuse will play the final series of its homestand when it hosts Canisius in a double header on Wednesday, with games at 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. mahassan@syr.edu

rowing

Syracuse Varsity 8 defeats Radcliffe, wins O’Leary Cup

By Nurielle Auguste contributing writer

Syracuse’s Varsity 8 boat won the Elizabeth H. O’Leary Cup on Sunday, defeating Harvard-Radcliffe in its final race. The Orange, who rank 14th in the country, won three races in Sunday’s regatta and had

four second place finishes.

In the final race, Syracuse’s Varsity 8 finished with a time of 6:43.06. HarvardRadcliffe placed second nearly 20 seconds after the Orange at 7:01.19. The O’Leary Cup, which has existed since 2000, is awarded to the winner of the Varsity 8 race between Syracuse, Harvard-Radcliffe and Dart-

mouth. The Orange won its last O’Leary Cup in 2017 at the Clemson Invitational.

Syracuse’s Varsity 4 also beat HarvardRadcliffe with a time of 7:32.04 along with the second Varsity 8 at 6:53.02, beating both Harvard-Radcliffe’s A and B boats.

In the rest of its weekend races in Saratoga Springs, New York, Syracuse’s boats also

raced against Yale and Wisconsin. The Orange finished second in the Varsity 8 (6:37.52), second Varsity 8 (6:43.46) and Varsity 4 (7:33.27) races. Yale won all three races while Wisconsin finished behind the Orange in every event.

Syracuse will next compete on April 22 at the Lake Wheeler Invitational. nsaugust@syr.edu

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Opponent preview: Everything to know about No. 6 Cornell

By Roshan Fernandez senior staff writer

Syracuse has fallen two games below .500 after losing 14-12 to UAlbany on Thursday. To be eligible for the NCAA Tournament, the Orange need to get back to .500, and need to win three of their remaining four games to do so.

Here’s everything you need to know about No. 6 Cornell (9-1, 3-1 Ivy League) before it travels to the Carrier Dome for a Monday night matchup:

All-time series

Syracuse leads the all-time series against Cornell 66-38-1. (In 1929, the two teams tied, 4-4.)

Last time they played

The two teams didn’t play in 2021 or 2020, but in 2019, Syracuse beat Cornell 13-8 in their most recent contest. The Orange took an early 3-0 lead and maintained that cushion throughout the April 2019 contest. Bradley Voigt and Stephen Rehfuss scored hat tricks for SU, and Brendan Curry added two goals and an assist.

Jakob Phaup went 11-of-18 from the faceoff X, and Syracuse won the ground ball battle 40-24.

The Cornell report At 9-1 on the season, Cornell has a 53% chance of winning the Ivy League, accord-

ing to “a couple thousand simulation runs” done by Lacrosse Reference. The Big Red have won their last three games, with their most recent defeat coming in late March in a four-goal loss to UPenn.

They are coming off a season-high 17 goals against Harvard and an eight-goal win which tied their largest margin of victory this season. Cornell averages 13.11 goals per game, 25th-most in the nation, and allows 10.44 goals per game, tied for 18th-best in the nation.

On offense, the Big Red are led by attack CJ Kirst, who has notched 49 points (32 goals, 17 assists) this season. Attacks John Piatelli and Michael Long aren’t far behind with 43 and 31 points, respectively, though Long missed two games this year.

Cornell beat UAlbany 16-8 in its seasonopener. Syracuse just lost to the Great Danes 14-12 on Thursday.

How Syracuse beats the Big Red

Cornell isn’t a very dominant faceoff team — it hasn’t won more than 62% of its faceoffs in a game this season. Syracuse, on the other hand, has Jakob Phaup who ranks 11th in the nation in faceoff winpercentage (.589).

The Big Red have found ways to grind out close wins despite not much success at

the faceoff X. They beat Yale 13-12 despite a 25% faceoff-win percentage as well as Dartmouth 8-7 with a 38.9% performance.

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number of points recorded by attack CJ Kirst

Syracuse should have success at the faceoff X, and it’ll need to be productive on offense with those possessions, something it’s struggled with in its last two games against UAlbany and Notre Dame. SU had 0.90 shots per possession against Notre Dame and 1.13 against UAlbany, according to Lacrosse Reference. It needs to get more shots away, especially with the recent struggles to convert shots into goals.

Stat to know: Three wins in 1-goal games

Cornell has grinded out three wins in onegoal games this season. It beat Dartmouth 8-7, Yale 13-12 and Penn State 16-15. The Big Red haven’t lost in a close game this season.

Syracuse, on the other hand, beat Hobart 18-16 but hasn’t had another close game turn its way this year. The Orange couldn’t mount enough of a comeback against UAlbany, and they came up short against Johns Hopkins.

Cornell has been in and won a number of close games this season, and that should give it a favorable position if Monday night’s game comes down to the wire.

Player to watch: Chayse Ierlan, Goalie, No. 22

Chayse Ierlan is the younger brother of Syracuse faceoff coach TD Ierlan. Chayse has been the starting goalie since his freshman season in 2019, and he earned All-Ivy League recognition as a rookie. He started all five games in 2020 before the season was cut short. This year, after the Ivy League took the year off in 2021 due to the pandemic, Chayse ranks 28th in the nation in save-percentage (.530) and 33rd in saves per game (11.78).

His older brother will be on the other sideline for Monday’s game, but this time as a coach. The two faced each other in 2019 when Yale beat Cornell 16-11. TD went 24-of-30 from the faceoff X, and Chayse made 15 saves. rferna04@syr.edu @roshan_f16

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Beat writers split on if Syracuse can overcome No. 6 Cornell

By The Daily Orange Sports Staff the daily orange

Syracuse will look to avoid its second threegame losing streak of the season when it faces No. 6 Cornell on Monday night in the Carrier Dome. SU lost to UAlbany 14-12 on Thursday and also fell 22-6 to Notre Dame the week prior.

Here’s what our beat writers predict will happen between No. 6 Cornell (9-1, 3-1 Ivy League) and unranked Syracuse (4-6, 1-2 Atlantic Coast):

Alex Cirino (5-5)

Long road ahead Cornell 17, Syracuse 12 Syracuse had the perfect opportunity to bounce back from its worst loss since 1977 against an unranked UAlbany on Thursday.

The response: a defensive collapse that saw the Orange lose 14-12. Now SU has a schedule full of ranked opponents to round out its final four regular season games. Cornell is

currently the highest ranked of that group, as it has lost just once so far this season. The Big Red and the Orange are statistically the same offensively, with 0.19 goals per game separating the two teams.

Syracuse’s defense allows an average of 3.26 more goals than the Big Red, which ranks 60th nationally. UAlbany, for the most part, figured out how to contain SU’s top scorers like Brendan Curry and Tucker Dordevic by double-teaming and face guarding them, head coach Gary Gait said. Cornell’s defense will likely prioritize those two players, too, which will force the Orange into their second three-game losing streak of the season.

Roshan Fernandez (5-5)

The resilient ‘Big Red’ Cornell 13, Syracuse 12 Syracuse has been everything but consistent this season, which almost makes me want to pick the Orange here. They upset Duke, then got shredded by Notre Dame. They should’ve beaten UAlbany but

couldn’t mount enough of a comeback. I honestly have no idea what Syracuse team is going to show up on Monday night to face Cornell. SU is certainly capable of upsetting the Big Red, and it seems to play better at home than on the road.

But the Orange have suffered too many injuries this year, and Gait made it clear that the thin lineup leaves SU with too many inexperienced players. Cornell, on the other hand, has pulled out three wins this season in one-goal games. To me, that shows resilience. Syracuse is resilient too, but I don’t think it’ll come away with a win against a Cornell team that seems to be able to adapt when it doesn’t win much at the faceoff X. It’s really a toss up because Syracuse can be so unpredictable, but I trust the Big Red more in that toss up.

Anish Vasudevan (7-3)

Down-and-up Syracuse 16, Cornell 13 The Big Red have only dropped one game

this season, and they opened their year defeating UAlbany 16-8, which narrowly defeated the Orange last week. Still, Cornell has had a relatively easy schedule in the Iv y League, and it heads to the Dome on a three-game winning streak.

But coming back off of that, Syracuse should be able to give the Big Red some competition indoors if Dordevic can get going again.

Gait also said Owen Seebold looked like one of the best players in practice heading into the Orange’s game against the Great Danes, and he finished with three scores. Seebold will be vital against Cornell, which has the 18th-best scoring defense in the country. Bobby Gavin is also coming off an okay performance with a 44.0% save percentage, and he will need to be a wall in the cage to help SU’s defense whenever it makes mistakes on slides or switches. sports@dailyorange.com @DOSports

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DUAL THREAT

Injuries hamper Syracuse’s season

By Henry O’Brien asst. digital editor

KENZIE KENT recorded 264 and 138 points in lacrosse and ice hockey at Boston College, respectively, which both rank in the top 10 all-time at the school. courtesy of boston college athletics

Kenzie Kent, now an SU assistant, reached 5 combined Final Fours as a Boston College hockey and lacrosse player

By Cole Bambini asst. copy editor

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ith three minutes left in the 2017 National Championship, Boston College’s Kenzie Kent pressured Maryland’s Nadine Hadnagy. As Hadnagy launched a deep pass, Kent checked her stick, secured the ground ball and darted toward the 12-meter. She passed to a trailing Sam Apuzzo for the easy finish.

Despite the eventual title-game defeat, Kent’s 10 points tied a career high. Just three months earlier, Kent had led all scorers with a season-high three points for the Eagles’ ice hockey team in a 6-0 NCAA quarterfinal win over St. Lawrence to send BC to its seventh Frozen Four appearance.

From 2014-19, Kent, now an assistant coach for the Syracuse women’s lacrosse program, starred as a dual athlete at Boston College, reaching a combined five Final Fours across the two sports. In 2017, she was named the Atlantic Coast Conference’s Female Athlete of the Year and ranks No. 4 and No. 10 in all-time career points in BC lacrosse and hockey, respectively.

“A lot of people say it’s the same but the stick is in the air,

and I think she definitely used that to her advantage,” said Katie Crowley, Boston College’s women’s ice hockey head coach. “It was so similar to watching her play lacrosse and play hockey.”

Kent said that originally, she thought she was only going to play lacrosse in college, until she started hitting her “peak” in hockey as a sophomore in high school.

During her recruitment process, Kent looked at other schools like North Carolina to only play lacrosse, Crowley said. Kent said she struggled to make a decision, but the ability to play both sports at Boston College was a key factor in her decision.

“The draw for us to kind of try to get her to BC was that she would be able to play both sports,” Crowley said. “It was definitely doable. We wanted her to play both.”

Because the end of the hockey season overlaps with the first month of the lacrosse season, Kent missed several lacrosse games each year. In 2018, she redshirted the entire lacrosse season so she could play a full season the following year.

Though she played two sports, Boston College had to abide by the NCAA’s rule of not allowing players to see kent page 9

tennis

Strong singles play lifts Syracuse over BC 4-3

By Irie Harris staff writer

Head coach Younes Limam spoke with his players before Syracuse’s match on Sunday, its final one at home this season. They spoke not just about playing hard, but also playing for Sofya Treshcheva, the only senior on the roster.

Limam offered Treshcheva a chance to play for Syracuse after a tournament in Georgia.

Coming from Moscow, Russia, the thought of playing collegiate tennis in the U.S. never crossed Treshcheva’s mind. Yet, after being a part of many firsts for the program, including an NCA A Tournament appearance and doubles title at the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Northeast Regional Championship, Treshcheva played her final home match at Syracuse on Sunday.

“We’ve had a lot of great teammates in the past, but what she does off and on the court is amazing,” Limam said.

So in their final home match of the season — and the last of Treshcheva’s career — the Orange (9-9, 3-8 Atlantic Coast) got by Boston College (8-10, 3-8 ACC) 4-3.

The win didn’t come easy, though. Treshcheva and Shiori Ito matched up with BC’s Sophia Edwards and Hailey Wilcox in

doubles play. The Eagles pair came out of the gates strong with in-sync play, and the SU duo fell behind early 3-1. Though they’d win the next game to cut the deficit to one, the BC duo went on to effortlessly win three consecutive games to take the No. 2 doubles match 6-4.

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As a part of the senior day ceremonies before No. 4 Syracuse’s matchup against No. 1 North Carolina, all of the Orange’s graduating players walked onto the field. While most seniors were prepared to play the top-ranked Tar Heels, there were some that only dressed for the occasion.

Sierra Cockerille had put on her jersey for the ceremony, but she wasn’t going to play as she had a brace and a bandage on her right knee. Meaghan Tyrrell came out of the tunnel with her younger sister and junior midfielder Emma Tyrrell walked by her side. Emma wore an orange t-shirt, because SU Athletics announced she was out for the season following a lower-body injury.

Even before the top four game began, Syracuse (10-3, 5-1 Atlantic Coast) was already hampered by injuries to Emma, Cockerille, Emma Ward and Kenzie Harris. Missing players have been a problem that the Orange have dealt with this season and in the previous one when they lost in the National Championship.

At first against the Tar Heels, the absences didn’t affect SU, which were tied 7-7 with North Carolina (13-0, 6-0 ACC) at halftime. But an injury to Megan Carney during the first half shortened the Orange’s personnel heading into the second half with a total of five players out with an injury, allowing the Tar Heels to take control of the game.

In the first half, the Orange’s attackers took advantage of their individual matchups. Carney was heavily guarded by UNC’s Brooklyn Walker-Welch, who used a consistent press and multiple shoves to slow down the senior.

But Carney also didn’t drive toward the net as much as she did early in the season, making her first appearance since the Orange’s 22-7 win over Temple due to a lingering knee injury.

Syracuse head coach Kayla Treanor said that Syracuse was evaluating her day-to-day throughout the week.

Carney’s typical aggressiveness came back in the second quarter. As Natalie Smith broke away from three Tar Heel defenders to create an attack for the Orange, she played the ball to Carney, who still hadn’t scored.

Carney used her speed to get a step ahead of the defender and send a high shot over goalie Taylor Moreno’s stick to give Syracuse a 6-5 lead.

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