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Students gathered in the Whitman school this weekend to pitch their business ideas for the opportunity to win funding for their startup.

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This is the first year Syracuse’s club boxing team fielded women to compete at this weekend’s national championship, hosted at the University of Michigan.

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Jocelyn Cater has recorded 188 strikeouts in her first season as a pitcher for Syracuse. She developed thanks to the help of former SU pitching coach Jenna Caira.

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SA week encourages service

By William Norris staff writer

Impact Week has been absent from the Syracuse University campus for the past couple semesters, but this year Student Association MAKING AN Director of Student Engagement Here are some Alejandra Avina is bringing it back in events hapa different way. pening during Taking it a Impact Week: step further Tuesday from community Serving service, Avina breakfast at wants the SU the Samaritan Center community to truly define what Wednesday it means to make Nonprofit panel an impact. discussing Beginning this problems that exist in the Syr- week, Avina and acuse commuothers who have nity hosted by planned Impact Phi Sigma Pi Week will try to do just that.

Thursday Impact Week, Packaging food hosted by SA and for Meals on the Residence Wheels and Feed My Starv- Hall Association, ing Children is a weeklong movement where Friday different groups Volunteering at and organizations Danforth Midcome together to dle School dissolve boundaries and work Saturday together, accordEarth Day event ing to the event’s at the BaltiVo l u n t e e r S p o t more Woods Nature Center page. Throughout the week, numerSunday ous community The Cuse Conevents, panels ference event and workshops will take place.

Avina, working alongside Nedda Sarshar, director of civic engagement for RHA, wanted to make Impact Week bigger this year than in previous years. With a broader vision in mind, Avina said the groups made a list of

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Home sweet home RACHEL MORGAN, an incoming freshman in Syracuse University’s class of 2019 who will be majoring in communications design in the College of Visual and Performing Arts, won the rock, paper, scissors tournament at Own the Dome on Sunday. Own the Dome is an event where around 500 of SU’s newly admitted students spend a night in the Carrier Dome. logan reidsma asst. photo editor

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Election forum draws audience of 1 student

Just 3 students attend candidates’ town hall

By Rachel Sandler staff writer

Only one student attended the official Student Association candidate forum Sunday night in Shaffer Auditorium.

Aysha Seedat, the only nonwrite-in candidate running for SA president, was the only candidate allowed to be present, despite a field of four write-in candidates challenging Seedat. Phil Kramer, who is running uncontested for SA comptroller, was also a part of the forum.

Seedat and Kramer, a former colum-

nist for The Daily Orange, answered around 15 questions posed to them by the moderators, despite only one student being in the audience.

A major goal in Seedat’s campaign, she said, is to advocate for an increased role for the student liaison for the Board of Trustees, the president of SA and the president of the Graduate Student Organization. These three people are currently only allowed to sit in on meetings and are not allowed a vote on the Board of Trustees.

“It’s nice to be able to sit in on the see forum page 6

By Lydia Wilson asst. news editor

A town hall meeting held Sunday by two write-in candidates in the Student Association elections was attended by just three people.

AJ Abell and Jonathan Dawson hosted the 15 minute-long meeting in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications to discuss their campaign progress and platform and hear back from the Syracuse University community.

Abell and Dawson are running as write-in candidates for Student

Association president and vice president, respectively.

The pair updated the audience on the progress of their anti-sexual assault platform. Abell said he and Dawson discussed the importance of proactive rather than reactive sexual assault policies and initiatives with Vera House, a nonprofit organization to end domestic violence and sexual assaults.

Abell and Dawson are also meeting with the DPS Crime Prevention Commander Ryan Beauford next week to create an open dialogue see town

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Senior begins electric car-charging start up

By Momin Rafi design editor

Joshua Aviv hopes to give electric car owners the freedom to travel farther.

One of the biggest impediments to electric car ownership is range anxiety — electric car owners save tons of money by avoiding gas stations, but often can’t find charging stations, which restricts the total distance they can travel.

Aviv is the founder of SparkCharge, a startup that aims to solve the problem of range anxiety by increasing the availability of highway charging stations for electric cars — about one every 40 miles.

SparkCharge first came to fruition in February 2014, and is now fully funded and backed.

“I took (my friend’s Jeep) to get some gas while it was a quarter from being empty, and I put $20 in the Jeep and by the time I got back home it was almost empty again,” said Aviv, senior economics major.

“I started looking into electric vehicles but there were a lot of limitations, like range anxiety.”

Reflecting on the process of building SparkCharge, Aviv noted some of the challenges he has faced,

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JOSHUA AVIV is the founder of SparkCharge, a startup that aims to establish electric car charging stations on highways. He hopes stations will be installed in June. genevieve pilch staff photographer

particularly with marketing. Aviv said he didn’t initially think marketing was going to be challenging, but added that it’s all about letting electric vehicle owners know that this service is available for them.

Now, SparkCharge is competing for market space with Tesla Motors. Aviv said SparkCharge’s

small size is what allows it to be agile and “f ly under the radar” against multimillionaire giants who can generate mass publicity with a single tweet. Its first electric charging station will be installed by the end of June. Consumers can drive up to the station, pay through a mobile app and then

plug the hose into their car, just like charging a phone.

“It’s like teaching people how to use the phone all over again, like when the iPhone came out,” Aviv said. “Most kids can’t say they’ve built infrastructure that could be the next Exxon in a matter of years.” mrafi@syr.edu | @Mominat0r

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Owning it Prospective students spent Sunday night in the Carrier Dome as part of Own the Dome, a successful admissions program.

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NEWS

Meet the candidates SA elections are this week, and The Daily Orange is featuring profiles of each of the candidates, starting with Aysha Seedat and AJ Abell.

See Tuesday’s paper

@A_McKelvie Congrats @DanLevGoldberg @JamesShomar @KatherineDesy @JoJo_Rings for winning serious prize money @WhitmanatSU Panasci competition #startsu

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Company plans housing

By Satoshi Sugiyama staff writer

Making waves In the first race of the spring season, Syracuse University’s men’s crew team raced the University of Wisconsin. The race took place in Ithaca because Onondaga Lake, where SU typically practices and competes, was still thawing. The boat pictured is the 3V men’s 8. SU’s varsity and 3V boat lost, but the university’s junior varsity team won its race. hannah wagner staff photographer

A Utah-based development company has submitted its plan to construct a student-housing complex in the Outer Comstock neighborhood in Syracuse.

Innovative Acquisition Group LLC, based in Park City, Utah, has made a proposal to the city establishing three, five-story buildings at the corner of East Brighton Avenue and Thurber Street, according to an April 7 Syracuse.com article. The site is about a five-minute car ride away from campus, according to Google Maps.

The first-floor of the building is reserved for a parking garage for students while the remaining four floors are allocated for apartment units.

The area of a complex is estimated to be 19,880-square-feet, according to the Syracuse.com article.

The development company reportedly wants permission from the city to amalgamate 11 existing see housing page 8

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Board of Elections changes write-in vote rules

By Justin Mattingly asst. news editor

With four of the five candidates for this year’s Student Association presidential elections being writeins, SA’s Board of Elections and Membership has revised the guidelines for acceptable votes.

SA elections begin Monday and run through Thursday. Presidential can-

didate Aysha Seedat and her running mate, Jane Hong, are the only candidates who will appear on the ballot.

Write-in responses that will be accepted as a vote for a candidate include: • The first name or nickname of a candidate • The first and last name of a candidate • The last name of a candidate

• The last name of presidential and vice presidential candidates • The spelling of names close to enough to where they are agreed upon by the Board of Elections and Membership Write-in responses that will not be accepted as a vote include: solely the vice presidential candidate’s first, last or first and last name, as well as names that are misspelled

so that the Board of Elections and Membership “cannot discern the intent of the vote.”

There will not be polling stations for this year’s election as voting will be done through MySlice.

Votes will be cast for president and vice president, comptroller and student representatives. jmatting@syr.edu @jmattingly306

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Students earn money for startups in competition

By Delaney Van Wey staff writer

Undergraduate and graduate students gathered in the Martin J. Whitman School of management this weekend with the hopes of earning money for their startups, and one student walked away with $20,000.

The 13th Annual Panasci Business Plan Competition, hosted by

the Falcone Center for Entrepreneurship and the Entrepreneurship and Emerging Enterprises program in the Whitman School, allows students to pitch their fully developed business plans to judges well-versed in the art of starting a company and selling products.

Cash prizes are awarded to the most innovative and viable ideas, said Lindsay Wickham, the events

and communications manager at the Falcone Center. The top three ideas receive $20,000, $7,500 and $2,500, respectively. There are also prizes for plans that fit more specific criteria, which are funded by Whitman alumni and local businesspeople.

This year’s first place winner was Daniel Goldberg, a senior information management and technology major, for the global athletic wear

company Diamond MMA, which he co-founded. Goldman said he has competed in close to 10 business competitions, including coming in third place at last year’s Panasci Business Plan Competition for a different undertaking.

When developing their ideas, Wickham said many students work in the Couri Hatchery Business see panasci page 8

crime briefs Here is a round-up of criminal activity that occurred near campus during the past week, according to Syracuse police bulletins.

UNLICENSED POSSESSION OF MARIJUANA A Syracuse man, 40, was arrested on the charges of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third, fourth and seventh degrees, criminal use of drug paraphernalia in the second degree, possession of an open container, having an uninspected motor vehicle and criminal possession of marijuana in the fifth degree. where: Saturday at 1:53 a.m. where: 524 Westcott St. HARASSMENT A Syracuse woman, 45, was arrested on the charge of harassment in the second degree, according to a police bulletin. where: Wednesday at 2 a.m. where: 200 Westcott St. — Compiled by Jessica Iannetta, staff writer, jliannet@syr.edu, @JessicaIannetta

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Kansas second-trimester abortion law bans gruesome fetal murder

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he anti-abortion movement had a major win, when Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback instituted a law that will ban a common type of second-trimester abortion, which will go into effect on July 31.

The specific procedure now outlawed is the dilation and evacuation procedure. It typically involves vacuum aspiration and dilation and curettage, commonly referred to as D and C. The only time a second-trimester abortion will be legal is if it is necessary to save the life of the mother, or to prevent some other type of irreversible damage to her.

The doctor would perform the abortion by inserting a cannula, essentially a hollow tube, into the uterus. The cannula is attached to a bottle and a pump that creates a vacuum to remove tissue from the uterus. If the procedure is performed after 16 weeks the doctor will likely have to use a grasping instrument such as forceps to grasp piec-

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es of “larger tissue.” Sam Brownback, along with the National Right to Life Committee drafted the measure because the procedure just described is essentially dismemberment.

The question of whether life begins at conception is not an issue when it comes to second-trimester abortions. It would be difficult to ignore the signs of life present at this point in a pregnancy.

According to The American Pregnancy Association, around the 14th week of pregnancy, “Fingerprints which individualize each human being have now developed on the tiny fingers of the fetus.”

Second-trimester abortions are murder, and people are finally starting to recognize this as truth.

Kansas is not the only state that currently

recognizes this procedure as horrific. Currently, Missouri, Oklahoma and South Carolina are working to pass similar measures. “This law has the power to transform the landscape of abortion policy in the United States,” National Right to Life Committee president Carol Tobias said.

One of the biggest reasons people support D and C abortions is because they have chosen to be ignorant. It is probably safe to assume that before Kansas banned this particular type of second-trimester abortion, people did not understand what it encompassed. However, when issues such as this gain national attention, people are forced to take notice, and to become educated to the facts.

During a dilation and evacuation procedure, the fetus is removed from the woman in pieces.

Dr. Tony Levatino is an anti-abortion advocate who used to perform this type of abortion. He wrote an article describing the procedure, and it is absolutely nauseating. This is his description

of the part of the procedure in which the doctor would use a clamp, to begin removing the fetus from the mother. “You feel something let go and out pops a fully formed leg about 4 to 5 inches long. Reach in again and grasp whatever you can.

Set the jaw and pull really hard once again and out pops an arm about the same length. Reach in again and again with that clamp and tear out the spine, intestines, heart and lungs.”

In no world should a procedure such as this one be legal. Pro-abortion rights groups are planning to fight the legislation to win back the “right” to take an unborn child apart piece by piece. The banning of second-trimester abortion is the beginning of a new era for anti-abortion groups.

Hopefully, similar legislation will continue to be passed throughout the United States.

Victoria Razzi is a freshman magazine journalism major. Her column appears weekly. She can be reached at vcrazzi@syr.edu.

letter to the editor

SA vice president stresses importance of students voting wisely Students should take their right to vote seriously and work hard to make an educated decision when voting in Student Association Elections.

Two years ago the Student Association held their weekly Monday meeting at Maxwell Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. It was the unofficial halfway point of the 57th Session. A bill was passed during this meeting that changed the Student Association, “the president and vice

president will now run together on one ticket.”

On November 15, 2013, Student Association announced the first president-elect and vice-president-elect. Boris Gresely and I were elected into office. There had been the highest turnout in Syracuse University history, 31 percent of the student body voted, a total of 4,411 total votes cast.

I urge students to inform themselves

of every member of the ballot such as the vice-president, comptroller and assembly representatives. While each role in SA is different, every role has empowerment for change. These individuals will work together for two consecutive semesters to better SU, and students need to be aware of who represents them. Each student representative has a constituency of 300 students; do you know who your represen-

tative is? Elections should not be a popularity contest or voting for your friend. They are about electing the best candidates to make us all better. I urge all of you who bleed orange to become an informed voter and vote on MySlice April 13–16.

Sincerely Yours, Daniela Lopez SA Vice President 58th Session

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Ch-ch-ch-changes Generation Y columnist Laritza Salazar argues that young people don’t always have to adapt to outdated policies.

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Baby boom Gender and sexuality columnist Julia Smith suggests that women having children later in life notes a change in societal norms.

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D.O. endorses Seedat-Hong for SA office The Daily Orange Editorial Board endorses Aysha Seedat and Jane Hong for Student Association president and vice president. The pair’s diverse experiences, proven follow-through and concrete platform make them the best candidates for the job.

While Seedat and Hong are the only candidates on the ballot, they are running in a highly-contested election, with four pairs of write-ins actively campaigning. AJ Abell and Jon Dawson, Jesse Nichols and Moke Hein, and Tatiana Cadet and Fatima Bangura have all announced their candidacies and were considered by the Editorial Board. Safet Mesanovic and Gener Romeu Oliva, who are also running as write-ins, were unable to be interviewed by the Editorial Board.

The write-in candidates are from diverse pockets of campus, representing athletics, Hendricks Chapel, international students and THE General

Body. All pairs raised valid concerns and should seek further involvement in SA to perpetuate their messages if they are not elected.

What sets Seedat and Hong apart from the other candidates is their past experiences in SA and understanding of the nuances within the organization. Seedat has served under current SA President Boris Gresely as student life chair and Hong worked on several committees in SA during her freshman year. While an outsider’s perspective is valued, it would be difficult for an outsider to be president. As Seedat said in her interview, “You can’t be president of any organization without any experience.”

Seedat has experience. As student life chair, Seedat worked on the Chat & Dine program and the impending heat lamp initiative. She has proven that she can work persistently to get students what they deserve.

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The Seedat-Hong platform is based on two pillars of support and safety, and the pair offered concrete proposals they could realistically obtain. Seedat wants to better integrate transfer students into campus by allowing them to join Greek organizations in their first semesters and moving them out of Sky Hall. Hong wants to focus on giving smaller and multicultural student organizations a space to hold events.

While Seedat and Hong have worked within SA, they both recognize that the organization can be seen as exclusive. Seedat remembered how afraid she felt trying to break into SA and said she wants to increase dialogue with her constituents.

“There is no way as a representative that I can represent every student’s experience on campus,” Seedat said.

That would be an impossible task for any one individual. But Seedat and Hong are the best candidates to try.

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Mobile gaming thrives on narrative content Zynga doesn’t offer

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ynga CEO Don Mattrick recently announced he would step down from his position.

In his place, founder Mark Pincus will return as the company’s CEO in an effort to steer the struggling company in a more successful direction.

But as the mobile gaming industry gets more lucrative and crowded Zynga’s round robin of CEOs reflects a company fighting to stay relevant.

Zynga gained fame with FarmVille, a Facebook-integrated game that far too many of us were spammed with notifications to join. With Pincus at the helm of the company, Facebook games like Words with Friends and Draw Something launched Zynga’s name to the top of the gaming industry. Seeing room to grow in the industry, Pincus opened Zynga for public trading and raised $1 billion.

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I’M A BUSINESS, MAN For a long time, Zynga was able to exploit Facebook’s large user base with its games. But in 2011 and 2012, online users abandoned Facebook’s gaming platform for applications on their Android and iPhone devices.

Zynga developed mobile versions of Words with Friends and Draw Something, but the wide variety of free mobile games with exciting narratives made it hard for Zynga to hold users. As a result, the company lost more than $600 million, and its stock prices sank by 70 percent. Pincus stepped aside so Microsoft executive Don Mattrick, a more experienced and business-savvy leader, could try to take Zynga mobile.

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While in charge, Mattrick took a machete to the company: laying off workers, cutting costs and shifting the company’s focus to games designed for smartphones and tablets. He spent half a million dollars on British software company NaturalMotion, hoping that the investment would give Zynga the resources to produce high quality mobile games.

But as the number of mobile gamers multiplied, so did the number of companies eager to carve out a spot in the industry. Companies dedicated solely to mobile game development created apps with more advanced storylines and social capabilities. With more entertaining options, users abandoned the repetitive board-game like apps from Zynga in favor of Game of War and Clash of Clans.

Zynga only has itself to blame.

Investment bank Digi-Capital said mobile games and online games could be worth more than $60 billion by 2017 and make up 60 percent of the entire gaming industry.

If you need any proof that this is the case, look no further than the advertising efforts for Game of War. Do you remember the bizarre but seemingly ubiquitous TV ads featuring Kate Upton in Middle Ages-like settings?

Machine Zone paid $80 million on those advertisements, placing them in the Super Bowl and other high profile sporting events.

While that seems like a lot of money for a company who doesn’t charge for Game of War, the company claims to make $1.2 million a day. This is because of the volume of users and the “freemium” model employed by most free games now. An estimated 2.4

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million users play Game of War, which means 2.4 million opportunities to sell in-game premium bonuses.

The industry is even calling traditional gaming companies to battle.

Nintendo is partnering with DeNA Corp, a leading Japanese mobile games developer, to try and bring classic Nintendo characters to iPhones and Androids everywhere.

At the news of Pincus’s return, Zynga shares fell an astonishing 15 percent. Pincus has a lot of work to do, but his first step might be answering all the investors who doubt his ability to fix the sinking ship. Otherwise it might be game over for Zynga.

Brian Cheung is a senior broadcast and digital journalism and finance dual major. His column appears weekly. He can be reached at bkcheung@syr.edu.

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town hall about how DPS and SU can begin to foster a better relationship with one another, Dawson said.

“Everyone loves Officer Joe (Shanley),” Dawson said. “Why can’t there be more of that type of relationship in student interactions with DPS?” Abell and Dawson also discussed how they’ve

We want SA to be a magnifying glass to help students find those resources on campus and pair the students to the resources that can benefit them the most.

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been working to create improve transparency between SA, faculty and students on campus.

Abell said that although SU is a campus with many diverse groups, it remains, in a way, a “segregated” campus. This reflects a need for increased transparency and intergroup com-

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munication between the groups on campus, and SA should function as a mediator for these conversations, he added.

The third point of the pair’s platform is further enabling students at SU, which is necessary because there are a lot of resources on campus that exist but that people don’t know about, Abell said.

“We want SA to be a magnifying glass to help students find those resources on campus and pair the students to the resources that can benefit them the most,” Abell said.

Dawson said that he and Abell have been meeting with as many different groups on campus as possible to better understand what SA can do for them in terms of transparency and enabling.

“We have a certain understanding of how Syracuse works and what Syracuse can do for us, but that’s just us,” Dawson said. “We can’t accurately represent everyone unless we meet with them.”

The team encouraged those in attendance to vote. At last year’s SA election, only 31 percent of students voted. This year, Dawson said they want to see at least 50 percent of students voting to give a more accurate representation of what the student body wants.

University-wide elections begin Monday and run through Thursday. Students can vote on MySlice. lawilson@syr.edu

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forum meetings, but if we could actually have a voice and influence change that would be better,” Seedat said.

The candidates also answered questions posed to them by the one student who attended, Danielle Reed, a junior broadcast and digital journalism and Spanish dual major.

Reed asked specifically about a point in Seedat and Hong’s platform that called for safe spaces to talk about social justice issues and whether just creating those spaces was enough to spur change from the administration.

“It’s really important to have a close relationship with administrators, which I have, and to be able to be frank with them and tell

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impact week nonprofits to collaborate with and began reaching out to people.

Avina said they brought back Impact Week for this week in particular because there is a lot happening throughout the week allowing students to dedicate themselves to the community.

Health and Wellness Week and SA elections also take place this week, as well as The Cuse Conference on Sunday.

Avina said Impact Week is not about putting in community service hours and getting a pat on the back, but instead figuring out how to collaborate within the community.

“I want to bring people together,” she said.

For this year’s Impact Week, more than just community service projects will be taking place.

them when we’re having the same conversations over and over and nothing is getting done,” Seedat said in response.

Reed also asked how Seedat feels about her being the only student who showed up.

“Obviously I do wish that more students were here and able to hear my platform, but I think Jane and I are doing a really good job of talking with a lot of different organizations on campus and having one on one conversations with students,” Seedat said.

Write-in candidates are not officially recognized by SA and therefore were not allowed to participate in the SA-sponsored forum.

There was a lot of confusion about who could participate in the forum or if the forum would happen at all, Seedat said. rsandler@syr.edu

Community events begin on Tuesday, which include serving breakfast at the Samaritan Center in the morning, followed by food sorting and packaging for the Food Bank of Central New York and Salvation Army Daycare volunteering, according to the VolunteerSpot page.

Ending the week on Sunday will be The Cuse Conference — an event SA President Boris Gresely said is an opportunity to bridge the gap between administration and students.

The Cuse Conference will be a day of conversation on action-areas, or the main issues and challenges students face regularly, according to The Cuse Conference website. The Cuse Conference will take place on Sunday from 1–6 p.m. in the Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium. wrnorris@syr.edu

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CLASS SUNY-ESF professor wins TACNY Award as top professor, applies past experience

By Anjali Alwis staff writer

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homas Amidon began his career as an educator “fairly late in life.”

Despite the late start, Amidon was recently named the 2015 College Technology Educator of the Year by the Technology Alliance of Central New York.

“Being in front of the classroom is fun for me,” Amidon said. “I’ve always enjoyed when you’re talking with students and you see the lights go on, you see they learned something.

It’s a thing of beauty, frankly.”

Amidon started in the paper industry where he worked for 23 years and finished his career as a manager of The Corporate Research Center in Tuxedo, New York. In 2000, he returned to his alma mater, the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, because “SUNY-ESF was the smartest place on Earth to do the work he meant to do,” as working in new forest-based materials was not the norm in the corporate world.

He was interested in working in the new forest-based materials industry because he said the sustainable society is going to need a lot more renewable, sustainable resources in the future than it’s gotten in the past.

There was an opening as a chair in the paper science department and over the next seven years, Amidon helped the department evolve to become paper and bioprocess engineering along with several other faculty members.

They aimed to develop a curriculum in bioprocessing with the help of faculty who were willing to add courses and voluntarily accept higher workloads.

Amidon was invested in this development because it created a large increase in the range of what the university could educate students to be.

“Bioprocessing is a bigger part of the industry of the future,” said Amidon, who believes it is also a large part of where the pharmaceutical, chemical and food industry is going.

Once the bioprocessing curriculum was approved, Amidon joined a team that was pushing to create an advanced certificate program for graduate students. Amidon credits this curriculum creation and growth as a reason he won the College Educator of the Year Award.

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Thomas Amidon 2015 college technology educator of the year

The transition from manager to educator didn’t feel as different to Amidon as would be expected, and he said he’s always enjoyed the sharing of knowledge.

Amidon said he always felt at home in his role as an educator. Even while working in the paper industry, he was always the person that knew what wood was, “physically, chemically, anatomically, morphologically… and I would help other people understand the importance,” he said.

Maria Welych, the president of TACNY, said that awards like this are important for the educators as they are recognition of all the hard work that they have put in.

Welych said STEM education is important for the future of central New York as this region is trying to push itself to be a center of green technology. Welych added that students need to be educated and encouraged to go into STEM fields, and one way of doing that is by rewarding educators who make STEM

fields interesting.

“We need to highlight people that are doing a fantastic job,” Welych said.

She said she believes that this recognition will also be largely beneficial for the university.

“There are some unique programs there and they’re doing some amazing research, and people don’t know that,” Welych said. “Having a College Educator of the Year from SUNY-ESF means that that work is being recognized.” acalwis@syr.edu

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housing lots on the 17-acre site into three lots and build an apartment building on each one, Syracuse.com reported.

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panasci Incubator, which is part of the Falcone Center. There, students are provided with the resources needed to craft a strong business plan from start to finish, including working professionals who can give expert advice to young entrepreneurs, she said.

Rita Reicher, a judge for the competition, added that young entrepreneurs should not discard new concepts too early. Reicher, who has been a judge for four years, is president and chairwoman of KS&R, a market research firm in Syracuse.

As a veteran judge, she said she looks at how well the team has assessed its product’s market and investigated possible competitors. She added that the best submissions were those that began with a great idea. Then they must outline a realistic plan of action and present with care and professionalism.

Jordan Dudden, a senior communications design major, was also a participant in the competition. She is the sole-owner of JoJo Rings and partners with Anthony Richichi, her high school sweetheart and creator of his own startup, ChronicleMe Inc., to manage the business.

Dudden’s business creates rings out of recy-

sion of Business Development for the city, Patty Lynch, office manager of neighborhood development for the city, and Stephanie Pasquale, deputy commissioner of the division of neighborhood development for the city, all could not be reached for comment. ssugiyam@syr.edu

cled keys and donates a portion of the profits to a different charity every month, something that cannot be found anywhere else.

Dudden said Wickham encouraged her to take part in the competition after they worked together through Women Igniting the Spirit of Entrepreneurship at the Syracuse Tech Garden.

Developing a business plan for the competition taught her much about her business, which was an experience she needed, Dudden said.

JoJo Rings finished second in the competition, bringing in $7,500 of investment capital.

Nick Massa, an MBA candidate at SU and a competitor in the final round, said he decided to take part in the competition because he had nothing to lose. Massa, the co-creator of Target Golf, a digital system that helps serious golfers train, said his idea grew from talking with his brother about his struggles as a professional golfer.

Solstice Power, a company that has redesigned the way solar power is generated, finished in third place. In addition, the company earned the Goldberg Prize in Technology & Innovation, as well as the Fetner Sustainable Enterprise award. Combined, these awards will contribute $10,000 to Solstice Power’s future. dovanwey@syr.edu

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(FROM LEFT) EDIVA ZANKER AND PHIL BENEDICT traveled with the SU Boxing Club this past weekend for the Intercollegiate Boxing Association National Championships. It was the first time the club sent women to a national competition. courtesy of kiera jordan

FIGHT CLUB SU Boxing Club sends women to championship for 1st time

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diva Zanker doesn’t feel like she has to prove anything to anyone within the boxing world.

“It’s the outsiders that know nothing about boxing that think, ‘Oh, you’re so small. You’re a girl, how do you fight?’” said Zanker, a senior magazine journalism major. “Within boxing I’m given an equal opportunity. That’s why I love fighting.”

Zanker is a member of the Syracuse University Boxing Club, composed of students, staff and faculty. This weekend, Syracuse competed in the United States Intercollegiate Boxing Association National Championships, held at the University of Michigan. The team sent three male and three female boxers to the tournament, marking the first time SU has sent women to a national competition.

“There is so much focus on the fact that there’s guys and girls on the team, when the focus should be on the fact that we’re a team of good fighters,” Zanker said.

The team practices three times in the Archbold Gymnasium during the week and twice on the weekend, always for two hours.

In the months leading up to the nation-

... BUT BOXING IS ABOUT WILLPOWER AND HEART, WHICH KNOWS NO GENDER. Ty Cothren su boxing club member

al championships, Zanker would often go straight from class to Archbold’s basement, where she would do eight rounds of shadow

boxing and jump rope. She’d then put on her mitts and perform what she calls a burn out, which consists of her repeatedly punching a punching bag until she has no energy left.

Zanker said she doesn’t think twice about her gender when she’s fighting in the ring.

Gender equality in boxing is still relatively fresh — it wasn’t until 2012 that women’s boxing was included in the Summer Olympics.

But Ty Cothren, who also competed over the weekend, says the team is doing what it can to accelerate the process.

“There’s no leeway for gender here,” said Cothren, who graduated from SU last spring.

“A lot of us have strong feelings about gender equality and everyone is pushed to their limits when we train … At base level we are entirely differently built animals, but boxing is about willpower and heart, which knows no gender.” see boxing page 10

ith the addition of a new section, men may be getting more out of The New York Times than knowing stock prices and where our relationship with Russia stands.

Now, they can also get style advice.

On April 3 The New York ALEXIS MCDONELL Times debuted Men’s Style — the I’LL HAVE WHAT THEY’RE first new launch of WEARING a print section of the newspaper since 2005. The new section will appear in the newspaper the first Friday of each month, and will incorporate stories about men’s fashion and grooming, profiles and personal essays.

The first edition of Men’s Style featured a cover story on wearing spring suits, a profile of the surfer-turned-menswear designer Kelly Slater, an informative piece on grooming, a piece on the manliness of using emoji and some talk on travel. It is, in other words, pretty much exactly what is expected when the paper’s iconic Style section gets “Men’s” joined to its name.

So why the new addition?

The fashion industry has been known to be one-sided. With dozens of magazines just for women’s fashion and women’s clothing sections that push the men to the back corner, it’s safe to say females own the fashion industry.

But men’s fashion has picked up interest and become an area of growth for retailers. The menswear market has been on an upswing for the past few years and is expected to reach $40 billion in sales in the United States by 2019, according to the market research firm, Euromonitor International.

“Last year, we saw a 30 percent increase in men’s related ads in the newspaper, T and digital combined,” said Brendan Monaghan, The Times’ vice president of luxury advertising, to New York Magazine’s The Cut. “The demand for this is huge.”

Large retailers have been expanding the men’s sections of their stores to be more accommodating to the growing interest in men’s fashion. Stores such as H&M, Gap and Forever 21 have grown their men’s sections to take up larger portions of their stores. Even in some cases, like in the global brand Topshop, see mcdonell page 10

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boxing Fittingly, Syracuse boxers of both genders — one woman and two men — qualified for Saturday’s finals. Samantha Usman, Tom Smith and Tony Chao, who is also The Daily Orange’s art director, each represented SU in a championship bout.

Usman, a junior physics major, finished second in the women’s flyweight division. She said the national championships felt like an emotional rollercoaster, citing her wins in the quarterfinals and semifinals but also her loss in the finals.

The former coxswain for her high school men’s rowing team, she has past experience in being the minority gender, which she says helps her in boxing.

“I’d say I’ve grown pretty accustomed to it at this point,” she said. “Though I’m sure other girls would find the gender gap alienating.”

Head coach Phil Benedict said he doesn’t allow gender to affect how he coaches his fighters.

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mcdonell men’s fashion has grown to match its women’s fashion counterpart.

Right now there are very few other publications whose sole purpose is to explore men’s fashion. The only publications that appear to be making any headway are the Financial Times with its lavish, glossy How To Spend It section and The Wall Street Journal’s weekly Saturday lifestyle and fashion section, Off Duty.

Both publications provide fierce competition for luxury ad dollars and providing the hottest, quickest fashion content.

If anything, the section has to live up to The

“It’s based upon the person and what type of fighter they’re developing to be. It doesn’t have anything to do with gender,” he said. “It’s about ability. It’s all about ability.”

For all of SU’s boxers, the 2014–15 season is wrapping up after the championships, which Benedict described as the team’s “last hurrah.”

Benedict said he expects the club will begin training in September for its 2015–16 season. The seniors have already watched their collegiate boxing lives come and go, but Smith, a junior chemistry major, and Usman plan to resume in the fall.

Smith, who captured a title belt Saturday in the heavyweight division and is the team’s captain, said that ability is ever-present in SU’s female boxers.

“They all have tremendous amounts of heart,” Smith said. “Even when they’re outmatched technically, facing a better fighter, they still go in there and give it their all. It takes a great amount of heart to do that.” mdburk01@syr.edu

Times’ reputation for fair and fast coverage. Many will hope that translates back to style — coverage of men’s runway shows, fads before they become trends and the up-and-coming in men’s fashion.

The first edition was a little behind in the fashion news, but with any new publication there is going to be a little catch-up time. The mere presence of the section and the fact that there are 32 pages of it show that The New York Times is taking men’s fashion seriously.

It will be interesting to see the direction the section goes in, and to see if The Times can stay with the fashion times.

Alexis McDonell is a junior magazine journalism major. Her column appears weekly in Pulp. You can email her at admcdone@syr.edu.

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Ironwood’s wood-fired chicken and arugula pizzas features a thick and chewy crust. They’re topped with vegetables and sprinkled with fresh basil and grated parmesan reggiano. The wood-fire oven means that the pizza cooks at a higher temperature and caramelizes the toppings. jackie barr staff photographer

Ironwood’s wood-fired pizzas offer delicious, fresh taste in rustic restaurant atmosphere

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ronwood’s wood-fired pizzas are out of this world, but also a little out of the way.

It was 17 minutes from my Clarendon Street home, but this little, rustic pizza restaurant made it worth every minute of the drive.

Approaching the restaurant, I was greeted by a little walkway lined with a cute, wooden fence pathway covered in vintage license plates. This is a decorative feature repeated on the walls inside the open floor plan restaurant.

The minute you walk into the room, your eyes are drawn to the huge bar in the center, circling a large silver oven with a blazing open fire.

I was immediately received and seated at a table near the front of the restaurant. The first floor is set up as a more casual area, brightly lit with natural light streaming through the large windows.

The bar takes up the majority of the room and is surrounded by the Munich steel stools you see in hip coffee shops. High tables and regular tables are arranged around the edges of this floor. The adjacent room, the dining room, features less natural light but bigger tables that cater to larger groups.

To start, I ordered the bruschetta plate, which featured four small pieces of hearth-baked bread, heaped with soft chopped tomato and small cubes of fire-roasted garlic, sprinkled with fresh basil and grated parmesan reggiano.

They were delicious. The bread was soft and buttery but not soggy. The garlic was a nice bite without being overpowering and despite being a bread dish, it didn’t feel heavy at all. I just wish that for the price it had been a little bigger.

For the main course I, of course, ordered pizza. Unless you want salad, pizza is actually the only option on the menu. The margherita seemed to be the most popular dish, but I

skipped that one for the more elaborate sounding fire-roasted chicken and arugula pizzas.

The pizzas quickly followed the starter. It was awesome since from where I was sitting, I could watch the pizza being placed into the oven. The oven also filled the room with the delicious aroma of melted cheese and grilling meat.

The pizzas were the size of a large plate and cut into four huge slices. The website explains that the wood-fire oven means that the pizza cooks at a higher temperature — the pizza cooks faster and the heat caramelizes the toppings, sealing in the taste without drying them out.

The fire-roasted chicken first had a base layer of olive oil, garlic and sweet caramelized onions covered in fresh mozzarella and generously layered with fire-roasted chicken breast, pancetta and wilted spinach. The dough was divine.

The sweet caramelized onion was offset by the salty pancetta and the soft gooeyness of the moz-

zarella cheese. Each bite had a peppery woody infusion from the fire. My only critique is that I found the chicken breast to be a little too chunky, and it was falling off my pizza as I was trying to eat it. Apart from that, it was a slice of bliss.

The arugula pizza I tried next was an actual slice of heaven. It was a simpler pizza with more subtle flavors. The base was drizzled in garlic infused olive oil, and it was covered in prosciutto and parmesan reggiano topped with fresh arugula.

Without as many base flavors, it was lighter and eating it in the setting afternoon sunlight, it felt like summer could be right around the corner. And if you still have room for more, Ironwood also offers a dessert selection of homemade gelatos.

Ironwood is simple, classy and downright delicious. It should be a must on everyone’s bucket list while here at Syracuse University. rlascheb@syr.edu

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Cater struggles after strong start in loss to Pittsburgh

By Liam Sullivan staff writer

One hundred and fifty-two pitches and 23 hours later, Leigh Ross called on her ace to start one more time.

After throwing pittsburgh 10 a complete game syracuse 7 in the front end of Saturday’s doubleheader, Jocelyn Cater took the mound again for Syracuse. She had a no-hitter through three innings, but then things started to unravel when Pittsburgh tacked on three runs in the fourth.

“Generally, that happens when you’re tired,” Cater said. “I don’t know how else to answer that. I did throw a lot of pitches this weekend and that’s the best I can do and that’s all you can ask for.”

Despite a strong start, Cater fell apart in the later innings as Syracuse (15-22, 1-10 Atlantic Coast) came up short against Pittsburgh (29-14, 9-9), 10-7, on Sunday at SU Softball Stadium. The Panthers scored in each of the last four innings to cement their lead and sweep the three-game weekend series.

With Sydney O’Hara unable to pitch, Syracuse continued to rely on Cater to pitch the majority of the innings, as she has all season long.

The lefty was finally relieved with one away in the seventh inning, but only after throwing 130 pitches on the day and allowing eight runs on eight hits while recording four strikeouts. “… (Pittsburgh) got the big hit when they needed it,” said Ross, SU’s head coach. “They got the runners into position and got the big hit.”

Cater set down Pitt in order in the first two innings and the third would have been the same if not for a dropped fly ball by left fielder Alyssa Dewes.

After walking Jenna Modic in the fourth, Cater surrendered a double off the centerfield wall to Carly Thea with one out. After falling behind 1-0 to the next batter, McKayla Taylor, pitching coach Mike Bosch visited the mound to calm his ace down.

The visit didn’t work. On the 1-2 pitch, Taylor blasted a three-run home run down the right-field line to give Pitt a 3-1 lead.

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Cater returned to the mound in the top of the fifth, but Pitt continued to give her trouble when Shelby Pickett hit a solo shot beyond the wall in left-center and into the trees to make the score 4-2.

“I think (the coaches are) trying to see whatever works,” Cater said. “For as long as I could go and for as long as I could hold them, that was going to be beneficial.”

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Pittsburgh didn’t wait long to attack Cater, when Taylor hit a solo home run to knot the game at five. The homer marked Taylor’s second of the day and her fourth of the series.

Visibly tired at this point, Cater gave up three more runs before the sixth inning finished.

“She was going on fumes and she had thrown a lot of pitches this weekend so we knew we needed to make a change, but you ride your ace,” Ross said.

The head coach said that if O’Hara had been at full strength, Ross wouldn’t have left Cater in the game as long as she had. But with O’Hara still recovering from her forearm injury, Cater trotted back out of the dugout to pitch in the top of the seventh.

And after the first two batters reached base, Ross turned to freshman AnnaMarie Gatti to close out the game.

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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — First Riley Donahue fired a bouncing shot that went out of bounds instead of in the North Carolina goal. Then Kayla Treanor syracuse 8 made a pivot and north carolina 15 released a shot that was saved by Caylee Waters.

Nineteen seconds later, Devon Collins attempted one wide to the right.

By the time Halle Majorana turned the ball over with 14 minutes to go in the first half, Syracuse had missed six consecutive scoring chances.

And the Orange deficit remained at two.

“We didn’t show up to play today,” said a quiet head coach Gary Gait. “...We stepped on the field and I thought we played a little nervous.”

No. 6 SU (9-6, 2-4 Atlantic Coast) dropped a 15-8 decision to No. 2 UNC (12-2, 5-1) at Fetzer Field. It was the most lopsided loss since February 2013 for Syracuse and was the fourth conference loss of the season for the Orange. The previous three came by a combined three goals. On Saturday, though, SU had trouble keeping it competitive.

Syracuse only registered 17 shots on goal, third worst on the season. Its 16 turnovers were tied for the fourth most on the year.

“Whether they showed up or not, we’re happy with the fact that we showed up and gave a top-notch performance against an ACC opponent,” UNC head coach Jenny Levy said.

“… If you don’t show up, yeah you’ll get beat, but so will we if we don’t show up.”

Levy said the game plan was to focus on Treanor and Majorana. She was quick to compliment her defense and note that most of Syracuse’s goals came on free-position attempts and in transition.

Treanor converted on just two of her seven shots and appeared frustrated at points. After she attempted to pick up a ground ball behind the Syracuse goal, she was called for a foul and shrugged her shoulders questioningly at the referees.

“It’s never fun to lose,” Treanor said. “But the game’s over now.”

Treanor’s demeanor was mirrored by the Syracuse bench, which was given a yellow card with 13:28 to play in the second half. Gait refused to comment on the cause.

With 22 minutes left in the game, a Collins and Lisa Rogers run-out ended with a missed shot by Rogers and an Orange bench begging for some sort of call against the Tar Heels.

“You know what,” Gait said. “That’s just an ongoing thing.”

After the game, Gait answered questions with short phrases. His voice was faint. The Orange players didn’t talk to media until 40 minutes after the game ended.

Syracuse allowed the most goals it had all season and scored the second fewest of the year.

“A lot of things didn’t go our way today,” Gait said. “It’s just the way the ball bounces, as they say.” sblum@syr.edu | @SamBlum3

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Dombrowski paces SU offense with 4 RBIs in loss to Pitt

By Jack Rose staff writer

Syracuse couldn’t make good on its opportunities. In its loss to Pittsburgh on Sunday, the Orange stranded 10 runners on base.

It was an area that the Orange struggled in all day, and Mary Dombrowski did all she could to make it a non-factor.

“There’s just a different intensity when it gets to the end of the game and you just feel the need to pull out,” Dombrowski said, “and be the more important hitter, the one who’s going to be the star and get the winning run.”

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cater Washington and wanted to find a program where she could feel comfortable.

So she turned to the person who she trusted most when talking softball: Caira.

The two roommates sat down one night during the summer and made pro and con charts of different schools that Cater could be interested in. Caira never persuaded Cater to come to Syracuse while she was at Washington or even after her release, but acted as a resource and friend.

After Cater went home for a week for Team Canada’s break and weighed her options, she made her decision. Then in a boarding area of the Toronto airport on their way to the 2013 Pan American Games qualifiers, Cater delivered the news.

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staats wrapped in ice after the game — held him back in his conditioning.

Desko said he thought Staats was rusty, but that he played well. And Staats said he planned to be ready for SU’s game against Hobart on

fifth. But Pitt (29-14, 9-9) answered back and Orange hitters squandered late opportunities in an eventual 10-7 loss at SU Softball Stadium.

In the first inning, Syracuse loaded the bases on three straight two-out walks. Dombrowski followed with a single through the hole on the left side for her first RBI. Dombrowski walked to lead off the fourth before designated player Rachel Burkhardt knocked her in two batters later. The senior entered the weekend series with a .131 batting average and one home run, but left the finale batting an even .200 with three homers.

“I’ve been working with (hitting coach Matt Nandin) on … getting my hands in front so I can time the ball better,” Dombrowski said.

She came to bat again in the fifth with two runners on base and timed the 2-1 pitch per-

fectly, hitting it over the fence in dead center to regain the lead.

Head coach Leigh Ross attributed Dombrowksi’s resurgence to her positive attitude and confidence at the plate, despite her struggles.

“I think we scored enough runs to win a game today,” Ross said.

And while Dombrowski did all she could, the rest of the lineup didn’t help the scoring enough to put SU on top.

In the sixth inning, first baseman Sydney O’Hara stepped to the plate with two out and two on. Pitcher Kayla Harris threw O’Hara seven pitches over the outside part of the plate, and the hitter obliged by chasing four of them in an eventual strikeout.

“We would get singles, one at a time, one by one by one, when you got bases loaded you need one big

hit,” Ross said, adding that while SU failed to get that big hit late in the game, Pitt succeeded.

The Orange entered the top of the seventh trailing by two, but found itself down five by the time Dombrowski stepped to the plate with one on in the bottom half.

She smacked a ground ball toward third baseman Shelby Pickett, who misplayed the ball, allowing Dombrowski to reach base. After a strikeout, Burkhardt loaded the bases on an infield single.

Syracuse scored two more runs. And despite a breakout performance from a player who desperately needed it, the Orange still came up short.

Said Dombrowski: “Getting two runs in an inning is nothing to shake your head at but that’s just how the game goes.”

she talked about her experiences here and said the coolest things about Syracuse,” Cater said. “Jenna just made this seem like this was a better place for me to make relationships and a future for myself as a player and as a person.

“I wanted to be here.”

Without ever visiting campus and after only a few phone calls with Ross, Cater came to Syracuse in the fall of 2013.

Cater couldn’t pitch in 2014 due to eligibility requirements involving her transfer, but worked with Caira to further develop a riseball and a curve. But she lacked a pitch that would elevate her to the next level.

Caira’s change-up was her “bread and butter,” so she helped Cater develop one. After starting to work on the pitch regularly at the end of August 2013, Cater took Caira’s grip and adopted it to work with her rise-ball style.

Caira remembers Cater’s eyes lighting up

upon mastering the change-up.

With an 8-10 mile-per-hour difference between her rise-ball and her change-up, Cater has found success even throwing it in full counts.

She believes that without it, her massive strikeout numbers would be anywhere near as high.

“It’s brought her to the next level,” said Mike Bosch, Syracuse’s current pitching coach.

Caira left this past season to pursue further education in corporate communications at Seneca College in Toronto, but she and Cater text regularly. While it isn’t daily, Caira isn’t surprised to see texts describing how effective the change-up they established together has been confusing Syracuse’s opponents, or more simple things like how Cater’s classes are going.

Through the work last season and during the offseason, Cater has transformed from an unsure transfer searching for a home.

“I think that without this family-orientated

situation, I wouldn’t be doing the things I have been here,” Cater said. “I’ve found a place I belong and I want to do everything I can to help my teammates win.”

In her first game at SU Softball Stadium, Cater looked to the scoreboard emblazoned “Syracuse Softball” beyond the fence in left field.

Cater faced her catcher to receive the sign, dug her left cleat into the rubber for the first time and followed with her right. Eyeing down the North Carolina batter, she rocked back to initiate her delivery and released her first pitch from the same circle that Caira cemented her legacy in.

“The biggest and most significant impact for Jocelyn is the bond she has with Jenna Caira,” said Smith, Cater’s coach with the Canadian national team. “If there is one single individual who has helped Jocelyn evolve into the pitcher she is, it’s Jenna.”

Tuesday despite the short turnaround, joking that his three weeks on the sideline provided him with enough time off. “(He) may have dropped a pass or missed a shot or two,” Desko said. “All things considered, for how much he practiced, it was good to get him back out there.”

Staats showed flashes of being the prolific

piece that the Syracuse attack missed in his absence. He helped start the stagnant Orange offense 14 minutes into the game by getting himself open for a pass from Jordan Evans. He then dumped it back to Evans, who whipped a shot in the goal to cut the deficit to 5-1.

He said the UNC defense did a good job sliding and playing physical defense. That, along

with being self-admittedly a little rusty, played a factor in why he wasn’t able to score after totaling nine goals in the last two games he appeared in.

“I only had like a week to practice,” Staats said. “I’ll bounce back these next couple days and take on Hobart.”

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Bomb-browski Syracuse softball senior Mary Dombrowski had a strong weekend at the plate despite the Orange getting swept by Pitt.

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On their heels SU women’s lacrosse suffered its worst defeat in two years, falling to UNC by seven goals on Saturday.

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men’s lacrosse

Staats returns to action Attack looks to continue working back from injury after rusty outing

By Sam Blum asst. sports editor

JOCELYN CATER has emerged as Syracuse’s ace this season after transferring from Washington and sitting out last season due to eligibility rules.

She looked up to former Orange pitching coach Jenna Caira, a fellow Canadian national team member. katherine sotelo design editor

IN HER FOOTSTEPS Cater thrives in circle for SU, looks to follow legacy of mentor Caira

By Liam Sullivan staff writer

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enna Caira knew that Jocelyn Cater had arrived.

The Canadian national team had just defeated Team USA, 4-3, in the 2011 World Cup of Softball behind the combined effort of Caira and Cater. Against the most dominant team in international play, the 16-year-old Cater threw two innings in relief and let up only one run on two hits, while striking out four batters all in their 20s.

And Caira, then a 22-year-old who had been Cater’s role model long before the two ever met, pitched the other five innings in the win.

“When people found out how young she was, people couldn’t believe it,” Caira said. “She got some big outs, I remember. It wasn’t just any other team — she proved herself against the best in the world.”

Cater’s success at the national level led to high expectations for her

college career and after struggling for two years, she has finally found a home on the mound for Syracuse in her junior season. Pitching regularly for the first time at the college level, Cater has developed into an ace thanks to Caira’s tutelage.

Caira remains the school’s alltime leader in wins, starts, ERA and recorded more than 1,000 strikeouts after graduating in 2012. A power pitcher, Cater hopes to follow in her mentor’s footsteps and leads SU (15-22, 1-10 Atlantic Coast) this season with 11 wins, a 3.55 ERA and 188 strikeouts, over 1.25 strikeouts an inning.

“Coming hard from the left side, she’s real hard to hit against,” SU head coach Leigh Ross said. “She brings power and control that you don’t see often at all in this conference.”

Cater remembers watching Caira pitch on ESPN at the Pan American Games and aspiring to one day play for Canada with her. And when she made that a reality just three years later, Cater was star-struck to meet

her role model for the first time.

The younger left-hander recovered from her initial nervousness and the two became close. They roomed together on the road, and on a team where the catcher and first baseman were over the age of 30, Caira became a resource and more importantly, a friend.

But Cater’s freshman year at the University of Washington didn’t bring success.

She was ranked 69th out of ESPN’s top 100 softball recruits in the Class of 2012, but was slated behind two veterans and entrusted with only 4 2/3 innings over four

appearances all season, giving up seven runs over that span.

“I think Jocelyn may have been put under and put herself under unfair expectations,” said Mark Smith, Cater’s head coach with the Canadian national team. “She wasn’t given much opportunity to fail and when things didn’t go well, she didn’t get the level of support she needed.”

Caira, who was then the pitching coach at Syracuse and had been since her graduation, told Cater not to wallow in self-pity and encouraged her to improve.

But Cater was frustrated at see cater page 15

following the leader Jenna Caira graduated in 2012 as the best pitcher in Syracuse softball history. Now, the player she mentored, Jocelyn Cater, is working to follow suit in her first full season pitching for the Orange. Here’s a comparison of their career numbers at SU.

Caira Cater Strikeouts per seven innings 8.23 8.77 ERA 1.87 3.55 Opponent batting average .190 .250

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Randy Staats was the first Syracuse player on the field on Saturday, more than 90 minutes before the opening faceoff.

He walked out to the edge of the turf in a Syracuse lacrosse T-shirt and khakis and looked out at the field for the first time. He fidgeted with the tape at the end of his stick before ripping it off, throwing it in the trash and going to get changed.

At that point there was no official word on whether Staats would return to the SU lineup after missing three games with a lower-body injury, but he appeared to be getting ready even though no decision had been made.

(He) may have dropped a pass or missed a shot or two. All things considered, for how much he practiced, it was good to get him back out there.

John Desko su head coach

“I felt good all week when I was practicing with the team,” Staats said after the game. “Yesterday it felt good and in pregame. I was just feeling well and I think Coach made the decision to put me in.”

In No. 2 Syracuse’s (8-2, 2-2 Atlantic Coast) 17-15 loss to No. 4 North Carolina (12-1, 3-0) on Saturday, Staats started and had three assists, but didn’t score a goal in his four shot attempts. He didn’t play the whole game, though, because SU head coach John Desko said his injury — Staats had his left knee see staats page 15