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N • On the rise

A recently published study found that more college students sought counseling for anxiety during the 2015-16 academic year than in previous years.

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P • Au naturale

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Wendy Meyerson has been running Natur-Tyme health food store since she bought it from her father several years ago in hopes of continuing his legacy.

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S • Looking ahead

Syracuse men’s basketball only has five scholarship players returning next year. There are three current commits and a few more known players SU is targeting.

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(FROM LEFT) BOB ANTONACCI, STEPHANIE MINER, WILLIAM BYRNE AND JAMES WALSH, leaders in central New York, engaged in a heated debate on Wednesday night about the proposed merger between the governments of the city of Syracuse and Onondaga County. colin davy asst. photo editor

FAR APART Local leaders exchange fiery remarks in merger debate

By Satoshi Sugiyama asst. news editor

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entral New York leaders collided head-to-head Wednesday over a proposal to merge the city of Syracuse and Onondaga County governments during a 90-minute impassioned debate driven mostly by policy issues.

In a packed Maxwell Auditorium at Syracuse University, James Walsh, a former congressman, and William Byrne, chairman of the board of Byrne Dairy, engaged in debate with Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner and Onondaga County Comptroller Robert Antonacci.

Walsh and Byrne support the merger whereas Miner and expressed opposition to the proposal.

Moderated by Grant Reeher, political science professor at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, the debate began with relative-

ly toned-down statements from the individuals in both camps to advance their argument. As the debate went on, however, their exchanges heated to the point that Byrne’s face grew red in a visible sign of agitation.

Consensus, a citizen group composed of legislators and community leaders including Walsh, recommended the two governments to merge in its report released in February. Underscoring the city’s decades-long stagnation and dire fiscal state, the report identified areas of savings in 16 categories — including law enforcement, water services and street and highway maintenance — and endorsed unification of these services along with creating a new metropolitan government.

In his introductory remark, Byrne painted a grim picture that Syracuse faces: sluggish economic development, fleeing population, high tax and rising

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Audience members join in contentious merger discussion

By Delaney Van Wey asst. news editor

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murmur ran through the crowd when County Executive Joanie Mahoney took the floor at Wednesday night’s debate over the proposed merging of the governments of Onondaga County and the City of Syracuse.

She was one of several audience members to join into the discussion during Wednesday evening’s debate.

Important politicians, potential future mayors and concerned community members packed Maxwell Auditorium for the debate. Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner and Onondaga County Comptroller Robert Antonacci argued against the proposal. On the other side, James Walsh, a former congressman for the 25th Congressional District, and William Byrne, chairman of the board at Byrne Dairy, defended

the proposal from their committee, Consensus, which published a series of recommendations in February calling for government consolidation.

Audience members were given the opportunity to ask questions of the debaters after opening statements and a period of rebuttal. Mahoney was the last to speak, but was the most prominent audience member to come forward, a position she used to defend the county.

Miner earlier in the debate had accused the county of being silent of issues related to gay marriage, poverty and immigration, specifically the sanctuary city issue.

“The city of Syracuse is in Onondaga County,” Mahoney said. “Onondaga County also represents African Americans, gays, immigrants and everybody.

And we do it well and we do it proudly.”

The two women are at odds because Mahoney is a supporter of government see audience page 4

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THIRSTY thursday | limoncello sangria

Limoncello sangria perfectly replaces mimosas

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By Aline Peres Martins staff writer

There is almost no better way to celebrate the first signs that winter might actually be over than with brunch.

As the weather starts to warm up, downtown Syracuse establishments start bringing out tables, chairs and umbrellas, extending their dining areas beyond the indoors. People get the chance to remedy their vitamin D deficiencies over breakfast food at 1 p.m. The mimosas start flowing.

While there’s no denying that the mimosa is iconic, people seem to forget that there are other ways to elevate brunch. If you want to impress your friends the next time we get 75-degree weather, try your hand at sangria. The wine-based fruity drink is a way to make brunch feel less like a hangover recovery and more like a Mediterranean indulgence.

Limoncello sangria is the perfect foray into sangria territory for someone new to the drink. It brings together the citrus kick desired in a good brunch drink through the added citrus and limoncello, but also is wine-based as sangria always is. But this is not a traditional sangria. To start, it is made with white wine, which, although now popular, is not the norm.

Sangria, born in Spain, is named after the Spanish word for blood — “sangre” — because of the drink’s signature red color. Since its creation in the middle ages, it has become extremely popular throughout the Iberian peninsula and in America

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as well. In Portugal and Spain, you can find a cup of sangria for about 50 cents at almost any local bar, and in the summertime it is the go-to drink.

It first appeared in the U.S during the 1964 World’s Fair’s “Spanish World” area, according to Food & Wine. Since then, it has taken on many different forms, including white wine, red wine, and rose-based variations.

Considering that sangria is a blending of different fruits, wines and spices, it lends itself well to innovation.

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So, this sangria is really a fancier rendition to spruce up your brunch. It is a citrus-y, bubbly drink, with subtle fruit notes and a kick. The lemon cuts through the white wine, but not so much that it’s overpowering. It’s similar to a white-wine spritzer, with different fruits floating around — fitting for a brunch with friends and eggs Florentine or Benedict.

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NEWS

@SyracuseU #SyracuseU’s student-organized bike share program is back, with adaptive cycles, in time for warmer weather.

In the running Tyler Rossi is seeking to become the president of SA’s 61st legislative session.

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state

Free college legislation signed

By Sam Ogozalek asst. news editor

Face lift The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception will undergo a restoration beginning Monday, the day after Easter. The more than 130-year-old cathedral will get a new roof, heating system, floor, sound system and lights. Masses will move to a gathering space in the newly refurbished parish center during the summer, with the goal of returning to the cathedral in September. joe bloss asst. feature editor

Cuomo highlights tax cuts in Syracuse visit

By Michael Burke news editor

New York state Gov. Andrew Cuomo touted the Middle Class Recovery Act and reduced taxes as he visited Syracuse on Wednesday to announce highlights in the state’s 2018 fiscal year budget for the central New York region.

Cuomo addressed a group of central New York officials and leaders, including Onondaga County Executive Joanie Mahoney, on Wednesday afternoon at the Syracuse Hancock International Airport. During his speech, Cuomo also discussed his initiatives to

invest money in the airport and the State Fair in Syracuse.

Cuomo’s Middle Class Recovery Act increases taxes on millionaires and cuts taxes on members of the middle class in New York state. In the plan’s first four years, it will save central New Yorkers $207 million in taxes, with an average tax cut of $1,356, according to Cuomo’s office.

“If you look at the people who have suffered, it is the middle class,” Cuomo said Wednesday. “…

You know we talk about middle class anxiety, middle class frustration, economic frustration, frustration of working families.

Yeah, it’s not hard to figure out.

When you are basically flat in your earning potential for 20 years.

And everything is going up around you. You get that sinking feeling.

And that’s what’s happening to the middle class.”

The state budget also includes $50 million for moving forward with the second phase of Cuomo’s plan to redo the State Fairgrounds. That investment follows the first $50 million phase in the redo plan.

Cuomo said the fair “really, really needed” the upgrades and called the fair a magnet for tourism in the region.

“People come to central New York. Once you get them here and they see what you have, they will come back,” he said. “That’s what we’re seeing in our tourism efforts. The trick is to get them to come the first time and using that State Fair as a magnet to bring people to central New York.”

Cuomo on Wednesday also discussed plans to renovate the Syracuse Hancock International Airport. The budget includes $35.8 million for the $48.8 million renovation project that will seek to turn the airport into a state-ofthe-art facility.

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Study: More college students reporting anxiety

By Kenneth Mintz staff writer

As visits to the Syracuse University Counseling Center rise, so has the demand for counseling services at colleges across the nation, with students increasingly exhibiting higher levels of anxiety.

There was a 25 percent rise in students seeking treatment over the five years leading up to the 2015-16 academic year at SU. This statistic aligns with a national trend of students who are served by college counseling centers having increased levels of anxiety, according to a recently published survey conducted by the Association for University and College Counseling Center Directors’ during the 2015-16 academic year. Anxiety was

the top concern among students who used mental health services at their respective colleges, per the survey.

This is the seventh consecutive year that anxiety was the top concern for students. About 50 percent of students who sought counseling in the 2015-16 academic year had anxiety, according to the survey. In comparison, about 37 percent of students who sought counseling during the 200708 academic year had anxiety.

Increasing anxiety among college students has been evident at the SU Counseling Center, said Cory Wallack, the center’s director.

“Generally, the stigma around seeking help for mental health services has declined,” Wallack said in an email. “As a result, our student population is more inclined to seek

help today than they would have five or ten years ago.”

SU’s Counseling Center regularly assesses resources to determine if it is meeting the needs of students, Wallack said. The center has hired multiple staff therapists over the last five years and has recently expanded its Sexual and Relationship Violence Response Team, he added.

Wallack said it is difficult to predict when the rising number of students seeking counseling with anxiety and depression will even out or decline. Local, national and world events impact mental health, as well as technology and generational differences, which is why it is difficult to predict if the trend will continue, he added.

“We have to take into consideration that there are greater systemic

concerns in play in terms of our country, our government and then in terms of the entire world that we are very, very much alerted to,” said Ellen deLara, an associate professor of social work in the David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics.

“As a result of social media and concerns over terrorism, immigration policies and other things that affect students, these things provoke anxiety in people and particularly college students because they’re trying to figure out what is ahead for them once they leave the college arena.”

In a world where news is updated every second through social media, deLara said that although it sometimes brings people together, social media increases anxiety.

“Many people face anxiety as a

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New York state Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday signed legislation enacting the nation’s first statewide program to provide free college tuition to students attending both two- and four-year public universities.

Cuomo’s Excelsior Scholarship, which was passed earlier this week as part of New York state’s fiscal year 2018 budget, will provide free tuition to students attending State University of New York and City University of New York schools.

The scholarship will be phased in over a period of three years.

This fall, students from families that make up to $100,000 will be eligible for the scholarship. In 2018, students will qualify for the program if they come from families that make up to $110,000.

In 2019, students from families making up to $125,000 will be able to attend public colleges in the state for free.

Cuomo signed the legislation Tuesday at the LaGuardia Community College in Queens, alongside former secretary of state and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

“By providing tuition-free college to thousands of middle class New Yorkers, we are restoring the promise of the American Dream for the next generation and forging see free

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

POLITICS SANCTUARY CONTROVERSY Mick Mulvaney, President Donald Trump’s Office of Management and Budget, is pressing Congressional lawmakers to block funding for declared “sanctuary cities.”

However, this could derail bipartisan negotiations on funding the federal government, which could force a shutdown. The administration is attempting to court Freedom Caucus members to block sanctuary cities funding, threatening relations with Democrats. source: politico

‘ALL-TIME LOW’ President Donald Trump on Tuesday said that U.S.-Russia relations “may be at an all-time low.”

Trump’s comments come after he ordered a missile strike on a Syrian regime compound last week, after evidence emerged of a chemical attack on innocent civilians in the war-torn Middle Eastern nation. The Syrian regime is backed politically and economically by Russia. source: usa today

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debate level of poverty. Referring to a recent Brookings Institution report that ranked Syracuse at the bottom in economic development among cities, Byrne pinned the blame on local government and advocated for government efficiency by reducing duplicate services that are offered by both the city or town and the county.

“The statistics show that we are a community in trouble both in Syracuse and Onondaga County,” Byrne said. “ … It’s time to take action.”

Walsh presented a message captured in one sentence: “We can do better.” Walsh criticized bloated level of elected representatives in the community by citing recent elections in local villages and towns. Walsh said winners only gained votes in teens, questioning whether voters in those areas really know the elections took place.

“When it comes to representation, we can do a lot better. We propose a model we

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audience consolidation, while Miner has been a very outspoken critic. Numerous audience members also showed concerns over the effectiveness and quality of the proposed merger through pointed questions to the debaters.

A key component of the merger that many voiced concerns about is the exclusion of the school districts in the plan. Currently, the Consensus plan includes a recommendation for an entirely new committee to be convened for the single purpose of considering the issue.

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anxiety result of being linked to Facebook and seeing how everyone else looks to be so happy because that’s what the kind of pictures people post most to Facebook,” deLara said. “So they feel lesser than them.”

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believe will do better,” Walsh said. “ … If we are starting in a clean sheet of paper nobody would draw lines that are drawn today.”

The group has proposed the city and county governments be combined into one legislative body with 33 legislators. The legislative body would be composed of 29 districts and four at-large representatives, with each representative carrying one vote.

Nine out of the 29 districts would be drawn in combined, city-suburb “hybrid” districts.

In contrast, Miner highlighted that the city is making progress in the economy and its progressive model defending human rights — including controversial “sanctuary cities” and its history of raising minimum wage ahead of other cities in the Unites States — while criticizing the county leaders for keeping quiet. The city of Syracuse is the engine that can power economic growth in the region, Miner added.

“Syracuse is the health care center, recreational center, culture center and economic center of central New York,” Miner said. “ …

The vibrancy that my opponents don’t like to actually point out: Downtown has had more people living there than ever before. They’ve had more growth than ever before.”

Miner did not hesitate to demonstrate her disdain for the merger, saying that the city would be flummoxed with debts and obligations and further disenfranchised minority groups.

This argument was a sticking point through the debate — Walsh and Byrne claimed it was false but Miner did not recant her talking point.

“By saddling the city of Syracuse with $1 billion debt and calling us ‘a debt district’ we make them less competitive, residents will move out. … Put succinctly, replacing a vibrant city with a debt district will extinguish any idea of a vibrant county or a vibrant region,” Miner said.

The Consensus report claims the city-county consolidation could yield between $8.7 and $22.9 million in savings and the unification of services would save between $7.9 and $ 9.9 million a year.

Antonacci, who appeared to be skeptical of the report’s figure, called for the savings

identified in the report to be vetted and audited before heading to go ballot.

“We have been inclined to believe whatever a snake oil salesman offers without a proof of evidence,” he said.

The Consensus report proposed a ballot initiative on the merger to take place this year.

But Linda Ervin, floor leader and representative for the Onondaga County Legislature’s 17th district, ruled out the feasibility of the legislature to approve a referendum this year — dashing the hope for a referendum despite Onondaga County Executive Joanie Mahoney, who attended the debate, recently calling for the referendum to take place.

Antonacci and Miner, both debating against the merger, disagreed over whether the referendum should happen. The comptroller echoed Mahoney in calling for the referendum to take place, while Miner questioned the legitimacy of holding a referendum while voters are unsure of what they are voting for.

An audience member who was in the overflow room — the audience exceeded the number of seats in Maxwell Auditorium — asked how the Syracuse City School District, a city entity, would be funded after a merger.

Walsh said the district would continue to be funded by city taxpayers and the state, which is currently a large source of funding.

He also used the moment to take a jab at the city’s budget.

Rae Kramer, a resident of Syracuse, called schools the “elephant in the room” and asked how schools could possibly be ignored.

Walsh said that the Consensus group did discuss schools but decided not to

study them because it would have been too difficult to add to their work.

“You can see how difficult it is just for this, just for governments,” Walsh said.

Kramer pushed on, however, and said that the community should not vote on a proposal until it included the schools. Throughout the night, Walsh and Byrne were pushing to have the plan be brought to a referendum, which became a point of contention.

In an interview after the debate, Kramer said the community could not move forward on the merger issue until they approached it on common ground, rather than as adversaries of white versus black, county versus city.

Sharon Owens, the director of the Southwest Community Center and a resident of Syracuse, made a statement to the audience saying that the Consensus committee — which she was a member of — could not make decisions about the schools until foundational problems in the city were addressed.

Said Owens: “Until this community begins to deal with some deep-seated, real, socioeconomic and racially driven issues we have, you’re not going to sell me the swampland that a kid on South Ave. is going to have the same ability and shared resources of a kid in Fayetteville-Manlius.”

DeLara also said it’s tough for some students to seek help because everyone wants to handle problems themselves despite anxiety having less of a stigma around it.

The AUCCCD’s study also found that students have an average wait time of 6-8 days before getting an appointment at a college counseling center. Students tend to push it off to make themselves more comfortable and to

accommodate their schedules, deLara said.

She added that the counseling center at SU does a good job at managing urgent needs and routine appointments by providing unique treatment options, such as a 24-hour hotline and group therapy. Since more students might be diagnosed with mental health-related issues prior to college, there might be a need to expand hours and availability of staff in the

coming years, she added.

“Most of the time people who come for any kind of help or counseling, if they make a good connection with the counselor or therapist they are going to see an improvement in their academic performance and social life,” deLara said.

“That’s obviously the hope for those of us in the mental health profession that people will do better as a result of dealing with their issues.”

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environment

Electric car initiative sticks it to greedy, fossil fuel-guzzling companies

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ake that, BP. New York state Gov. Andrew Cuomo recently launched a $70 million Drive Clean Initiative, with $55 million toward rebates of up to $2,000 per single purchase of an electric vehicle and the other $15 million toward outreach projects and — most importantly — electric vehicle charging stations. Whether it was intentional or not, Cuomo has sent a message to the White House and big dog, fossil fuel corporations including BP, Exxon and Koch Industries that renewable energy is a policy priority.

The Cuomo administration is hoping the effort will help reduce greenhouse gas emissions 40 percent by 2030, according to Cuomo’s website. Environmentalists, however, are hoping the plan is one of the first steps in changing the United States’ fossil fuel culture. Electric cars emit zero carbon dioxide, and while not every charging station is run on renewable energy, they are certainly the safest and cleanest alternative to regular cars.

Even though electric vehicles seem like a no-brainer, the cars of the future are being met with a surprising

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amount of resistance. Consumer concerns include the lack of charging stations, expenses and mileage efficiency. Five years ago those concerns were perfectly valid, but due to the expanding electric vehicle industry, they simply aren’t anymore.

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Noncommercial vehicles emit, on average, about 4.7 metric tons of carbon dioxide per year source: environmental protection agency

The average noncommercial vehicle emits about 4.7 metric tons of carbon dioxide per year, according to the Environmental Protection Agency, and these emissions are high

contributors to global warming. The release of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, creates a blanket in the atmosphere that expands every time someone drives a diesel car. In addition to heightening the global temperature, vehicle exhaust worsens respiratory illnesses and can cause cancer.

Companies like BP and Exxon have a tendency to ignore these scientific facts. BP representatives have repeatedly made naive remarks about the growing clean energy and technology fields. The oil company claimed in January that electric vehicles would not be a “game changer” for BP. The company also predicts the fossil fuel industry would still account for 80 percent of energy by 2035, according to The Guardian.

Consumers’ financial concerns for the electric vehicles can be attributed to the assumption that only people who can afford Teslas can have an electric car. But in recent years, car manufacturers including Toyota, Volkswagen, Ford and other more affordable brands have been breaking into the field.

Money aside, one of the biggest issues facing the electric

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vehicle industry is the lack of infrastructure supporting it.

Now, thanks to toddler steps taken by states like California, Rhode Island and now New York, that outlook has changed dramatically.

In my view, state standards, especially those set

by California, are vital to promoting the innovation necessary to keep raising energy efficiency standards.

Tod Rutherford professor of geography at syracuse university

These state governments have implemented initiatives, like Cuomo’s, that add charging

stations and rebate incentives.

“In my view, state standards, especially those set by California, are vital to promoting the innovation necessary to keep raising energy efficiency standards,” said Tod Rutherford, a professor of geography at Syracuse University, in an email.

Rutherford added, though, that these states’ rights to set a separate and higher standard for clean air may be under threat if President Donald Trump’s administration refuses to let the states continue to operate under the Clean Air Act. But despite potential roadblocks from Trump’s administration, these state efforts will hopefully create a global culture shift toward electric vehicles. In this way, it’s up to actions like the Drive Clean Initiative to create real change and show the fossil fuel industry they are getting a run for their money.

Lydia Niles is a freshman public relations major with minors in environment and society and political science. Her column appears weekly.

She can be reached at lnilesst@syr.edu and followed on Twitter @Lydia__Niles.

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Debate shows SU can engage community Syracuse University’s willingness to host a debate about the proposed merge of the Syracuse and Onondaga County governments brought a hot-button political issue to campus, providing a spotlight on city issues that is necessary and should be replicated at the university moving forward.

The Campbell Public Affairs Institute at SU hosted the Wednesday debate, which featured Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner and Onondaga County Comptroller Robert Antonacci on the anti-merger platform, and former Congressman James Walsh (R-N.Y.) and Byrne Dairy Board Chairman William Byrne on the pro-merger platform.

Because the merger debate has proved divisive, it’s important these community figures came together to have a straight-forward, honest

debate about why they advocate for the merger or against it.

Productive discourse comes about when people with colliding ideologies sit down to explain their sides and iron out what they perceive as misconceptions. Because the merger will go to a vote, it’s essential for Syracuse citizens to see both angles of the merger question presented to them in a public space.

Grant Reeher, a professor of political science at SU and the director of the Campbell institute, and organizers should be commended for hosting the debate.

The forum extended another branch between the university community and greater city and county areas, demonstrating a golden opportunity for SU to get involved in politics without having to take a stance.

The fact that those involved in the debate were local leaders — rather than professors speculating about the potential effects of a merger — brought legitimacy to the merger question at the center of the debate, and provided a platform for community members to hear from public figures with stakes in the proposed merge.

The university should consider hosting more debates about the merger, in addition to other important issues facing the city, including the mayoral race and the future of Interstate 81. These debates could be productive mechanisms to inform the public and generate interest in the political decision-making processes that affect the lives of people living in Syracuse and Onondaga County.

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SARA SHMUELI (LEFT) AND BROOKE BEKOFF (RIGHT), students at Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, respectively, created the Instagram account Meme Me Inside, which posts memes based on “Hamilton.” courtesy of brooke bekoff

Thomas Jefferson in the Chicago production of “Hamilton,” was the first cast member to follow Meme Me Inside. He has since unfollowed the page, Shmueli said. ombining two college sophomores, ambition Ensemble members of the New York cast foland relentless love of a hit Broadway musical lowed the page, Bekoff said. Christopher Jackson, resulted in the start of “Hamilton” memes. who originated the role of George Washington in Brooke Bekoff and Sara Shmueli, students at the the New York production, follows them currently University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke and Renee Elise Goldsberry — the Tony AwardUniversity, respectively, founded Meme Me Inside, a winning actress who played Angelica Schuyler in meme account on Instagram devoted entirely to the the original Broadway cast — liked one of their musical “Hamilton.” They’ve known each other since posts, Bekoff said. they were in first grade attending the same school.

“I think that’s my favorite part of the account: Cast It started when Bekoff and Shmueli sent members who we admire so much actually look at our “Hamilton”-themed memes to each other through- content and enjoy our content. It makes me really out the summer of 2016. When they happy,” Bekoff said. had stockpiled enough memes and saw Bekoff and Shmueli sell adverthe potential to create their own, they tisements on their page to Broadfounded the page in August, Bekoff said. way-centric companies, but have I think that’s my The account attracted 1,000 followexpanded their business model ers on the first day it went up, Bekoff a month ago to include an online favorite part of said. When the women saw the potenstore, where they sell original the account: Cast designs on T-shirts, phone cases tial growth of the page, they decided to keep posting. Today, the page boasts members who we and coffee mugs. They even sell a nearly 60,000 followers. red baseball cap that reads, “Make admire so much Meme Me Inside refers to the song, America Ham Again.”

“Meet Me Inside,” sung by the character “That’s how our business started actually look at of George Washington after Alexander out. From there, we saw the potential Hamilton and his cohorts directly disto — rather than sell other people’s our content and obey Washington’s orders in the musical. merchandise — why not sell design our enjoy our content. own original merchandise and sell it,” All of their posts are original, Shmueli said. The founders conceptualize and Bekoff said.

Brooke Bekoff Photoshop all the memes themselves. It’s Shmueli said all their merchandise is unc sophomore why they said they have so many followers original and acts as a way to spread their — they aren’t simply recycling old posts. love for “Hamilton” to new audiences.

“Everything — the design, the execution — is all on Meme Me Inside has been brought up in job interour end,” Shmueli said. views, Bekoff and Shmueli said. Bekoff said the page’s The account tries to post every day and if not, every original intention wasn’t to become a business or a other day, Shmueli said. She added it isn’t difficult resume booster, but it’s indirectly become one as their to make a new post every day because they can com- fan base grew. municate and bounce ideas off each other to see what’s The page transforming into a business brought out trending and what works. Even if they can’t conceive a each woman’s individual working styles, Bekoff said. new meme for the day, they have a lot of unposted mate“More than anything, it shows we’ve gained skills to rial in reserve that they can choose from, Shmueli said. become entrepreneurs. We provided something for the The page’s following extends beyond fans of the internet and Instagram that didn’t exist,” Shmueli said. musical. Chris Lee, who plays Marquis de Lafayette and krose100@syr.edu

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free college a bold path forward of access and opportunity for the rest of the nation to follow,” Cuomo said in a press release.

Clinton said in the release that she hopes other states follow New York’s example and enact similar free tuition programs for students attending public universities.

The Excelsior Scholarship has also been endorsed by other prominent politicians, including Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who frequently advocated for a free tuition system for public colleges in the United States during his presidential bid last year. All Americans, regardless of income, should have access to higher education, Sanders said in the release.

Despite this support, the Excelsior Scholarship has sparked debate among many lawmakers and experts.

“If you’re really concerned about students who are not attending because of the reality or the perception of unaffordability, this is not the way to help them,” D. Bruce Johnstone, a former SUNY system chancellor, told The New York Times.

“This is going to cost money, and it will make some parents happy, but I don’t see it moving the accessibility needle.”

Johnstone argued that the Excelsior Scholarship would only help “a slice” of the state’s middle-class students, per The New York Times. Some lawmakers have also expressed similar concerns since January, when Cuomo originally announced his

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cuomo The project will include a redesign of the airport’s grand hall, as well as the addition of a glass pedestrian bridge and an ecofriendly roof. Cuomo has said the project will create 850 construction jobs.

Cuomo said Wednesday that if a region wants a first class economy, then it needs a first class airport. He added that airports

intention to enact the scholarship program.

New York state Republican lawmakers have also criticized the legislation for excluding students attending private universities in the state, per Politico. Republicans instead proposed an expansion of New York’s existing Tuition Assistance Program, which awards grants to students attending both public and private universities based on financial need.

Lawmakers questioned the program’s financial feasibility as well, according to Politico.

Cuomo has estimated that the Excelsior Scholarship, by 2019, will cost the state $163 million.

Fred Kowal, president of the United University Professions union that represents SUNY faculty, told Politico that the state needs “to make sure” the needed amount of funding is available to support the Excelsior Scholarship so that “we don’t get into a situation where campuses find themselves facing shortfalls … and at the same time they have an influx of students coming in.”

About 76 percent of families with collegeage students in New York will be eligible for the Excelsior Scholarship, per Cuomo’s press release. By 2024, according to the release, 3.5 million jobs in the state will require an associate’s degree or higher. This is about 420,000 more jobs than in 2014.

“With a college education now a necessity to succeed in today’s economy, I am proud to sign this first-in-the-nation legislation that will make college accessible, strengthen the middle class, and build a brighter future for all New Yorkers,” Cuomo said in the release. sfogozal@syr.edu

should be thought of as economic development centers and said he wants people flying into New York airports to be impressed with the airports.

“We want them to understand who we are,” Cuomo said. “That we are the place of tomorrow and the economy of tomorrow, and the airports are going to say that and Hancock is going to say that. But not only are we going to do it but we’re going to do it quickly and we’re going to do it fast.” mdburk01@syr.edu | @michaelburke47

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Political science professor named to ACE fellowship

By Arva Hassonjee staff writer

A Syracuse University professor has been selected to join a group of college and university leaders for the 2017-18 cohort of the American Council on Education fellows program.

Mehrzad Boroujerdi, chair of political science at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, was nominated to the fellowship

by SU Vice Chancellor and Provost Michele Wheatly, according to an SU News release.

Boroujerdi, who is also a provost faculty fellow at SU, said he is excited to be an ACE fellow, as the fellowship is prestigious and well-known among academic leaders. To earn the fellowship, Boroujerdi had to write several application essays and go through an interview process in Washington, D.C. with six current and former presidents from different universities for the fellowship.

The ACE program offers candidates the chance to shadow the president or provost of a college or university and learn from them on a daily basis over the course of a year. Boroujerdi said this is one of the most important aspects of the program. He added that the fellowship provides intensive on-the-job training.

The ACE Fellows Program has been running for 52 years. Over 80 percent of fellows to date have become chief executive officers, chief academic officers, other cabinet-level positions and deans. Boroujerdi was one of 46 fellows selected for the 2017-18 cohort.

ACE fellows should have the opportunity to engage in frank conversations with the administrators they shadow to learn about different challenges they face, whether those be financial or political, he said. Administrators deal with a range of different of constituencies, students, faculty, staff, board of trustees and politicians, and Boroujerdi said

he wants to learn how to manage all of that.

During the program, fellows are supposed to visit 20 to 30 other institutions and learn from them as well, Boroujerdi said. He added that for 14 out of his 25 years at SU he has held mid-level management positions, such as his current position as chair of the political science department.

Each of the selected ACE fellows chose 12 institutions that they would want to be placed at, he said, and they will later narrow their choices down to three. During this period, Boroujerdi said candidates meet with the presidents of those universities to see if they have a good rapport.

Boroujerdi has been teaching at SU, a large research university, for more than two decades. He said he would like to learn the administrative challenges of a smaller liberal arts school. He has mostly chosen small liberal arts colleges to potentially shadow administrators at, he said.

Boroujerdi added that he has more flexibility than other fellows regarding the geographic location of the school he selects. His selections include institutions in both New York and California, he said.

David Van Slyke, dean of the Maxwell School, said in an email he was delighted that Boroujerdi has been accepted into the ACE Fellows Program. Van Slyke added that Boroujerdi is a natural leader in higher education.

Van Slyke said he believes Boroujerdi will use the ACE Fellows Program to help Maxwell and SU compete in an increasingly competitive higher education environment. Boroujerdi will also help place Maxwell and SU at the forefront of international education, Van Slyke said.

Van Slyke also said Boroujerdi understands that “we must innovate and provide a strong learning experience and environment as a School and University.” ahassonj@syr.edu

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Natur-Tyme health food shop was opened by Stan Meyerson in the 1980s after he started selling nutritional supplements at his pharmacy.

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roviding customers with healthy products is natural for the Meyerson family.

“We’re all about helping people take the journey whether they’re walking in here to just shop or have three weeks to live,” said Wendy Meyerson, owner of Natur-Tyme. “And we get that spread on a daily basis.”

The pharmaceutical business runs in Meyerson’s family — both her grandfather and father were pharmacists, and her father, Stan Meyerson, owned a pharmacy for over 30 years. But because of health issues, her father changed his lifestyle and started learning about nutritional supplements. In the early 1980s, he started implementing supplements into his own pharmacy.

“This was unheard of at the time,” Meyerson said. “He put vitamin C and vitamin E on the counter, and started educating central New York about the benefits of nutritional supplements.”

He then bought the existing health food store Natur-tyme, which was originally in East Syracuse, while also running another health food store, Drumlins Health Shop.

After retiring and selling his pharmacy, he relocated Natur-Tyme to the west side of Syracuse — its home for the next 10 years. And when Meyerson, who grew up in Syracuse, moved back home, she bought her father’s store in 2001. A year after taking over Natur-Tyme, Meyerson doubled its size by relocating the store to Bridge Street in East Syracuse. The store is now located on Erie Boulevard East.

With her two children, Meyerson came back to Syracuse after living in Houston

for 20 years. Because she loved retail, she decided to “embrace the alternative, complimentary, holistic world” of health and wellness.

“It was a long journey,” Meyerson said.

“I wasn’t on board in the beginning, but as I saw our consumers getting results and seeing responses, I started to introduce them into my own life and became amazed at all of the options there were to do things a bit more naturally versus pharmaceutically, whether it was cosmetics, food or supplements.”

In addition to running the store, Meyerson also for 12 years hosted “Nutritional Insights,” a radio show on 570 WSYR her father started. The show is live every Sunday, where Meyerson interviews local farmers, massage therapists, and health experts to introduce Syracuse to healthy new ideas and concepts. She said that as patients started educating themselves about their own health, she saw a shift in the relationship between patients and physicians.

“It was a beautiful thing to see,” Meyerson said. “That there was more openness and willingness to listen and explore, and even possibly suggest some hands-on healing modalities as well as nutritional supplements and bringing some dietary changes into the mix.”

Walk into the shop and you’ll immediately notice that the colossal space houses thousands of organic, local products.

Wellness and health educators are also present to help customers find the right supplements. The store has everything from high-quality pet supplements to natural household items to a large bulk of herbs, grains, teas and more. Wellness and health educators are also present to help customers find the right supplements.

Natur-tyme holds monthly workshops and an annual spring health fair at the New York State Fairgrounds with expert speakers and dozens of vendors. Meyerson, who loves to plan events, started the first fair under a tent in Natur-tyme’s parking lot 18 years, moving to the New York State Fairgrounds for 16 years before relocating to the massive Horticulture Building this year. The next health fair is April 23.

“Natur-tyme is built on education and empowerment, whether that’s through all the different types of events that we do, or whether they’re here inside of our store,” Meyerson said.

The store’s current location on Erie Boulevard is its third. They moved into the 15,000-square-foot space five years ago, which features an all-natural salon, the “Enhanced Beauty Salon,” with massages, hair services, facials “all using the cleanest products to get the results you want,” Meyerson said. There’s also “Tyme-Out Cafe,” with gluten-free smoothies, juices, gelato, shakes, coffee and more, permeated with the scent of their famous chili.

Because many of her father’s costumers are now in their 70s and 80s, Meyerson said the store has been experiencing a shift in recent years. But Meyerson, proudly carrying on her father’s legacy, is still committed to serving the local community through Natur-Tyme.

“We’re still part of this community and that’s our number one priority,” Meyerson said. “You can find things in the grocery store, in the drug store, but you can’t find the commitment and the passion that my staff provides for the costumer and for people who appreciate that, that’s what Natur-Tyme is all about.” hmaeda@syr.edu

In the Catholic faith, Easter represents new life. After Easter Sunday at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in downtown Syracuse, the building itself will be rejuvenated. It’s just going to take a few months.

The cathedral begins a muchneeded restoration process Monday that will cost the parish and The Diocese of Syracuse more than $10 million. The roof will be stripped, floors gutted, lighting and sound systems totally replaced. Renovations are expected to be finished by September.

It is phase two of a construction process that transformed spare rectory and residential space into a parish center in a first phase that began last March and finished in January.

The building itself is more than 130 years old. Its slate roof should have only lasted 100 years. The cathedral’s rector, Monsignor Neal Quartier, said roof problems have been an issue for about as long as he’s been here.

“We had been fixing it up at $50,000 here and $50,000 there,” Quartier said.

Temporary wasn’t cutting it.

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Light Work gallery is hosting a reception for “Scale Without Measure,” on April 14, a solo exhibition by photographer George Awde. But he isn’t coming.

It’s not because of the commute, although Syracuse is a bit of a trek from Doha, Qatar. Awde isn’t showing up for moral reasons.

“Scale Without Measure” is composed of 10 years’ worth of photographs, all centered around boys and men living in the Middle East. The bulk of the exhibition concerns Syrian men living in Lebanon. Awde felt it would be unfair to attend the reception following President Donald Trump’s immigration bans.

“I was confronted with this idea very close to the initial ban on Syrian refugees, people from Iraq and Sudan and Yemen, where I used to live. I was faced with the privilege I have, through my citizenship, to have access to mobility,” Awde said.

“Staying away from something that I really wanted to go to makes the point of how damaging these bans are. More than just showing see light

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cathedral and architects came to take a look at the building. They reported more than just the roof needed work. Water damage to the walls meant masonry and paint jobs. Faulty heating couldn’t be remedied without ripping up the tiled floors. The inside was dim, so LED lighting was needed. A walk outside exhibits a beautifully massive building from afar, but crumbled stone is apparent up close.

The work has already started. The rectory half of the complex has taken vacant living quarters and turned it into a parish center — offices, classrooms, meeting space and three smaller residences.

In the cathedral, wood has been restained and painting retouched. Small portions of the walls preview what the entirety will look like come September — along the outer walls surrounding stained-glass windows, off-white paint is swapped for green.

On the inner walls, red arches are laced with an intricate gold design.

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light work up and talking about my objection.”

Set against pale blue skies, concrete, sand and skin, “Scale Without Measure” presents us with a look at the fluid nature of national identity and manhood in the Middle East.

Awde grew up in Boston with his Lebanese parents. He studied painting at Massachusetts College of Art and Design and he spent a year away from the U.S. to live in Yemen in 2003. While he was there, he started taking photographs as “sketches” for his paintings. Once he got a camera in his hands, he couldn’t put it down.

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there’ll be no mass, no funerals, no weddings.

All of this costs money. The parish itself, which is only about 300 active parishioners, raised $1.1 million, Quartier said. But the complex is just as much part of the parish as it is of the diocese.

“The cathedral is the most important church of the seven-county diocese of Syracuse,” Quartier said. “This is the Bishop’s church, all ordinations happen here, he calls all diocesan celebrations here.”

The Diocese of Syracuse has $13 million secured in pledges. That funding plus the money raised by the parish should cover the restoration’s costs, Quartier said. In the meantime, a gathering space that only fits about 150 people will host spring and summer masses. Overflow will watch mass simulcast on TVs throughout the parish center.

For a few months, it’s a minor sacrifice made to preserve a building that offered a first true home to the Catholics of Syracuse in 1885. Quartier said the people of the church deserve that at the least. That, and, it’s just too pretty to fall apart.

“We owe it to the city to keep the place really looking nice,” Quartier said. “It adds a great deal to the city and to Columbus Circle.” jtbloss@syr.edu | @jtbloss

his curiosity about citizenship as an idea — “who belongs and who doesn’t” — and wanted to reinforce this idea in an abstract way.

“I’m really interested in not just people who are in the margins, [but] landscapes that are in the margins,” Awde said. “Abandoned lots, overgrown fields, the undersides of bridges. The landscapes in my work are ‘non-spaces.’”

Walking through the Kathleen O. Ellis Gallery, the gallery captures both the isolation and yearning to belong. There’s a boy in swim attire, hip jutted, hair damp, standing defiant as he’s bathed in the setting sun.

There’s a gang of kids, shirts off, as they hang out against the wall. They carry that look of pensive, up-to-no-good that most 12-yearold boys have when left unsupervised.

Shane Lavalette, Light Work’s director and the curator of the show, described how the line between individual and citizen blurs as viewers go through the exhibition.

“There’s this sense of masculinity, this sense of them trying to figure out their identity. Them trying to figure out their sexuality. Their friendships. Their relationships,” Lavalette said. “There’s this element of personal identity that parallels a sense of

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national identity: The struggle to figure out how to identify yourself, especially when you’re an immigrant.”

Mary Lee Hodgens, Light Work’s associate director, also noted the relationship between national and personal identity.

Growing up with five brothers in what she called a “patriarchal kind of family,” Hodgens is constantly dissecting representations of men in art.

Viewing “Scale Without Measure” through this lens, Hodgens said, “What interests me is any kind of tenderness between men and them being supportive of each other.

And then, I also like the way he combines it with this landscape that is so foreign to me, these images of the Middle East.”

These themes are what caught Lavalette’s attention back when Awde was selected to be Light Work’s July 2015 Artist-in-Residence.

“As a photographer, he’s obviously working in a documentary vein, because he’s telling real stories, he’s photographing real people,” Lavalette said. “But photographically, he has moments where he transcends into spaces that are almost painterly or really emotive.”

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tograph from visual record to art rides on the intimacy of the project. Working with someone for 10 years will build that.

“Forming bonds or relationships with the people I photograph was intuitive, for me, I guess,” Awde said.

Intimacy also developed as a result of Awde’s literal photographic process. Awde used a four-by-five camera for “Scale Without Measure.” The way he describes it, the camera rests on a tripod and you have to look at the image upside down through a ground glass. Awde said it changed his engagement with his subjects, whether they were landscapes or people. With a 4-by5 camera, you have to look at whatever you’re photographing without a machine in between you.

Come Friday, Awde’s mother, partner, sister and her children will attend Light Work’s reception for “Scale Without Measure.” Around 2 a.m. his time on Saturday, Awde will Skype in to speak at the reception.

Close relationships drove Awde to take up photography and these bonds keep him away from his work now, standing in solidarity with his subjects. ccolvin@syr.edu

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In addition to Dugan, also attending are actor David Naughton from “An American Werewolf in London,” director Buddy Cooper of “The Mutilator,” effects specialist Edmund Ferrell of “The Mutilator,” and from the films “From Beyond” and “ReThe festival started out as a fundraiser for the American Animator,” composer Richard Band and producer Brian Yuzna.

Cancer society, in memory of local musician Shaun Luu. Luu, “That’s what we did to make it different for the 12th year who loved horror movies, died at the age of 22 from brain can- anniversary, to bring in more guests,” Meyers said. “It’s sort of cer. The festival, originally called the Shaun Luu Horror Fest, like a mini convention — a horror film convention.” brought horror films and heavy metal bands together, raising The guests will also be holding an open panel discussion, more than $25,000 for the cancer society and Upstate Golisano autograph signings, and introductions for each of their films.

Children’s Hospital, Meyers said.

After viewing the films, audience members are welcome to speak “From there, the Luu family decided we did enough good,” with the guests in the theater’s lobby and ask some questions.

Jay Meyers, the festival’s producer said. “We still wanted to do “It’s a very one-on-one experience that we like to provide for a festival but instead of making our fans and the spectaa charity event, we just made an tors there with our film event for horror film festivals in guests,” Meyers said.

Syracuse, and we’ve been doing The festival will also be that ever since.” featuring a virtual realIn 2010, five years after ity system demonstrating Luu’s passing, it turned into horror movie scenarios. the Salt City Horror Fest. The There will also be horror 12th annual edition will take vendors selling local items place at the Palace Theatre this from crafts to Halloween Saturday at 11 a.m., featuring masks, and larger vendors eight films in an all-day horror selling comic books and movie marathon. movie posters.

This year’s festival lineup In addition to an outincludes “Critters,” “The Mutidoor food truck and a bar, lator,” “The Texas Chainsaw interactive characters Massacre,” “Belly Timber,” from different haunted “An American Werewolf in houses in Syracuse will London,” “Creepers,” “Rebe there to entertain fans Animator” and “From Beyond.” between movies. Vintage Past films include classics vehicles, like old hearses like “Rosemary’s Baby,” “The will be parked outside text by hana maeda staff writer Birds” and “The Shining.” the theater for a photo op, illustration by emmy gnat head illustrator While they typically showMeyers said. case classic horror movies, To kick off the festiMeyers said he’ll play a new movie once in a while — “some- val, there will be a pre-party the night before with a Prince thing that’s hit the film fest circuit recently.” tribute event. The theater will be screening “Purple Rain” Excluding “Belly Timber,” all the films will be screened on and “The Big Lebowski” on its original 35mm print.

35mm film.

While there isn’t one specific film he’s looking forward to “What you’re actually seeing is the stuff you would’ve seen over the others, Meyers is excited to see the 35mm print films when the movie was officially released, like an original film on the big screens. The Salt City Horror Fest, Meyers said, sticks print,” Meyers said. “So it’s got that nostalgia feel to it rather out among film festivals because it’s hosted in a small city like than watching something on a Blu-ray, DVD, or video projector.”

Syracuse, where film festivals are usually a big city thing.

The movie lineup varies every year, but with a special “In Syracuse, you don’t have a lot of options to do anything appearance from John Dugan, who acted in “The Texas Chain- cool like you would in larger cities such as Chicago, New York, saw Massacre,” Meyers is bringing back the movie even though or even Cleveland, where these events are done on a regular it showed at the festival three years ago. basis,” Meyers said. “So this festival is for SU students who are The special attendee list this year has expanded past its usual used to doing these kind of events in bigger cities, but feel that one or two invitees. There will be six total, with at least one Syracuse doesn’t provide something like that for them.” person from six of the eight movies featured during the festival. hmaeda@syr.edu horror film festival in middle of April may seem poorly timed, as the genre usually dominates Halloween times. But the Salt City Horror Fest, Upstate New York’s premiere 35mm horror film festival, was founded on a good cause.

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No. 1 Syracuse hopes to end shakeups at top spot

Solidified doubles pairings help Orange close out games

By Charlie DiSturco asst. copy editor

The top-ranked teams aren’t meant to lose, at least this quickly. But this year, it has become a common occurrence running through men’s Division I lacrosse.

No. 1 teams lose a step and fall to weaker teams, and a new team emerges at the top.

“It’s parity,” North Carolina head coach Joe Breschi said of No. 1 teams losing week after week. “We knew as coaches going through this, this is going to happen.”

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In each of the past five weeks and all but once this season, the top-ranked team has only held the No. 1 spot for a week.

Last week, Penn State fell to Maryland and snapped a 10-game win streak. In Monday’s Inside Lacrosse rankings, Syracuse was named the new No. 1 for the first time in almost two years. In SU’s first defense of the ranking, the Orange play two games and its second comes against the defending national champions.

“It’s a big thing we’ve been thinking about all week,” senior attack Jordan Evans said. “You see teams get a No. 1 spot each week and they’ve all fallen.”

The Orange’s first test came Tuesday, against a struggling Cornell team. The Big Red kept the game close for the beginThe Daily Orange 4/13/17 Crossword

ning, but a 10-0 Syracuse run put the game away. No. 1 Syracuse will have its hands full on four days’ rest Saturday, as the Orange (9-1, 3-0 Atlantic Coast) takes on preseason No. 1 North Carolina (6-5, 1-1) Saturday in Chapel Hill.

North Carolina has a chance to snap Syracuse’s seven-game win streak and dethrone another No. 1. Even with Syracuse consistently succeeding against the Tar Heels the past few years, it doesn’t take away from the fact that UNC has Top 10 talent. Even if the rankings don’t show it.

Entering the year with high expectations, the Tar Heels quickly struggled and slid out of No. 1 before the Week 1 rankings.

Five losses later and No. 17 UNC is on the brink of falling outside the top 20. But that doesn’t take away from UNC’s road wins against Denver and Virginia.

After the Tar Heels fell, Denver took the top spot. North Carolina got its revenge on the new No. 1 just a week removed from the same spot.

Maryland came next and barely escaped its first week as the top-ranked team. The Terrapins staved off a late push from Yale in a one-goal game. The following week, UMD stayed No. 1 — the only team to do so all year.

Since Maryland’s loss the next time The Daily out, no No. 1 team has stuck around for the following week. Notre Dame held the top-ranked spot twice, and so did Denver. Rutgers jumped out to its best start in six decades, but couldn’t continue its hot streak against Delaware. The story remained the same.

“That speaks to what we’ve seen in 2017,” ESPN lacrosse analyst Mark Dixon said. “On any given day any team can beat any other team, whether you’re No. 1 or No. 71.”

pieced together a second stable one on March 5 against Notre Dame. That day, Dina Hegab and Shkudun began a stretch of playing seven Early in the season, Syracuse’s doubles pair- doubles matches together in eight games. The ings were far from settled. Head coach Younes team’s six most recent doubles matches have Limam freely mixed partners and a season- come at the second spot, and Shkudun and ending injury to stalwart senior Valeria Salazar Hegab are 4-3 in their time together. after one game only further blurred the picture.

“I think the best thing for us now is how Yet lately, Syracuse’s doubles pairings have we’re working as a team,” Hegab said. “We been the most consistent thing about the team. kind of expect what the other one is going to “At the beginning of the spring season, do for this point.” knowing Valeria can’t go,” Limam said, “it The remaining healthy players, Mesh, was a little bit challenging to know what Maria Tritou and Nicole Mitchell, are pieced combinations are going to give us a doubles together week by week to form SU’s third point. Obviously, if you know who’s going to pairing. Tritou appears the most consistent, be playing with whom, it’s a little bit easier.” and is usually featured alongside Mitchell.

Syracuse’s (7-10, 4-6 Atlantic Coast) doubles Two recent matches against ranked point wins strongly correlate to its wins in teams demonstrate the importance of winoverall matches. In its first eight games of the ning the doubles point. season, Syracuse’s 1-7 mark in doubles resulted On March 26, then-No. 6 Georgia Tech visin a 2-6 overall record. Syracuse has improved ited Syracuse as an ACC power visiting a conferto 4-5 in doubles and 5-4 overall since. ence underling. But the Yellow Jackets narrowly The key cogs to the Orange turnaround, escaped with a 4-3 win. Shkudun and Hegab won Gabriela Knutson and Miranda Ramirez, began their second doubles match, but Knutson and their time as the permanent doubles pairing Ramirez fell in a tiebreak in first doubles, 6-7 in the last match of the season-opening eight- (4-7). Had SU won the tiebreak and the singles game slide. Before then, SU rotated through dif- finished accordingly, the Orange would have ferent doubles pairings, looking for the right fit. pulled off the upset, like it did two weeks later.

Since Knutson and Ramirez became an official On Sunday, Syracuse knocked off No. pairing, the duo has won six of the 10 matches.

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Knutson said, “We have no idea,” regarding But Knutson and Ramirez aren’t enough double’s pairings. Now, they know. alone. It takes two out of the three doubles “I think it helps a little bit,” Ramirez said. matches win the doubles point.

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Albany transfer Alie Jimerson finds role at Syracuse

By Nick Alvarez asst. web editor

Alie Jimerson clung to memories of home.

The Albany freshman called her parents via Skype every other night to see their faces. Something was wrong and they didn’t notice.

A year later, the Irving, New York, native folded and told her mother she wanted to transfer. Her mother, Claudia, thought she was “being a baby,” but the sophomore pleaded.

Claudia realized her daughter was unhappy, giving the repeated video chats a new meaning.

This January, Jimerson left her best friends behind and traded purple for orange.

She felt the 140-mile move from Albany to Syracuse would change her perspective.

“Freshman year I thought about it,” Jimerson said. “I stayed another year and stuck it out. In the end, I wasn’t happy anymore, so I decided to come closer to home.”

In 13 games this season, Jimerson has emerged as an integral part of No. 11 SU’s (11-4, 4-1 Atlantic Coast) offense. Her 23 points (16 goals, seven assists) are good for fifth on the team. Recently, the junior attack has stepped up in wake of the injuries to Nicole Levy and Taylor Gait.

Growing up, Jimerson’s ideal target was Syracuse. Not only for the competitive lacrosse, but for the chance to connect to her Native American roots. The Midwinter Ceremony, an annual Cayuga event, occurs 15 minutes away from the SU campus. Jimerson, closer to the reservation, could now attend where she couldn’t before.

She also is a recipient of the Haudenosaunee Promise Scholarship, which SU offers to firstyear or transfer students who are in one of 17 recognized territories. The honor allowed her to go on “culture leaves” — Syracuse-allowed trips to one’s reservation, such as the Midwinter. Back east in Albany, Jimerson would have been academically penalized if she had left.

On the field, Jimerson didn’t have a hard time at Albany. She totaled 113 points in two

ALIE JIMERSON moved 140 miles west because she was unhappy at Albany. Now, the Victor, New York, native and junior attack is thriving at Syracuse with 16 goals and seven assists. Her 23 points is tied for fifth on the team.

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years as a Great Dane, third-most on the roster in that span. She developed a connection with her friends off the field and sometimes that helped her feel comfortable.

Jimerson transferred to SU three months ago, a school that didn’t recruit her in high school. Albany head coach John Battaglino lost one of his best players, and Jimerson hoped to find a joy that eluded her.

“We left things on pretty good terms,” Jimerson said. “I think in the end he wanted me to be happy, too.”

Through a spokesman, Battaglino declined to comment for this story.

At SU, it took several weeks for Jimerson to adjust. She missed fall training and lost chances to mesh with the offense. Through seven games, she had only five points. Injuries to Taylor Gait (March) and Levy (last week) bumped Jimerson into the starting lineup. In her last six games, she has recorded 18 points.

“I think we’re really seeing what she’s capable of,” SU head coach Gary Gait said.

“I think she’s added a little dimension to our attack over the last couple of games.”

As a Great Dane, Jimerson excelled behind the cage, using her height to dodge around defenders and find cutting attacks. She is try-

ing to fit in the same role at Syracuse.

Before, playing at Albany, Jimerson’s parents did not see their daughter play because of the near-five-hour drive east. Instead, they saw her only once every couple of months. Now that the drive is roughly three hours, the family attends every home game. They love it.

The switch brought her closer to her home, family and heritage. And to the Orange’s benefit, it rekindled her connection to the sport she loves.

“Lacrosse became fun again,” Jimerson said. “Everything became not fun (at Albany).” nialvare@syr.edu | @nick_a_alvarez

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SU’s head coach said he flopped then-two of his three leading scorers because he wanted to maximize each of their skills: Bomberry’s lacrosse IQ and inside finishing ability, as well as Mariano’s athleticism and dodging.

Desko also wanted to create problems.

The defense could pick which four guys it wanted to pole between attacks Nate Solomon (24 points) and Jordan Evans (27), midfielders Sergio Salcido (37) and Jamie Trimboli (8) and Bomberry (26) and Mariano (40). Usually the defense selected Solomon, Evans, Salcido and Bomberry, and Desko liked those matchups.

It left Mariano and Trimboli, “two very good offensive players,” getting short sticks. When teams double-pole the midfield, which has happened occasionally and Desko expects it to happen again, SU’s offense found itself with a short-stick defending its attack. Fine by Desko. “(Mariano) getting the shorty is a green light for him to have a day,” Salcido said.

Bomberry adjusted to the switch by spending more time studying film with coaches because, as a midfielder raised on box lacrosse and partial

to hanging out around the crease, he hasn’t had as much experience with long poles. But Bomberry downplayed the switch and said it hasn’t been difficult aside from shifting away from a mentality of being at the top of the offense.

“They want me to (be around the crease) a little more,” Bomberry said. “I get away from that trying to be more of a dodger and feeder (on attack). The coaches just want me out there more, getting more touches.”

Switching to attack actually provides Bomberry the freedom to freelance near the cage for “garbage goals”, Mariano said. The senior relearned transitioning back to midfield that he needs to play at the top more. Not that he’s complaining as his hands free up against short-sticks.

Now, when the Orange starts its offense, the ball usually rests in Mariano’s stick with options swarming around him. Then there’s Bomberry, camped near the crease on attack.

“We have a game plan,” Desko said. “That’s what I mean when I say we know who we are.

We have a lot of strength on that first midfield right now. Our dodging is great.

“When we see matchups,” he said, “we know how to attack.” sjfortie@syr.edu | @Sam4TR

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Women’s lacrosse transfer Alie Jimerson has filled in for Nicole Levy at the attack for No. 11 SU. See page 14

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He would be the ninth, 10th man, and that guy doesn’t play much anyway.

He’s not in shape. It’d be foolish for him to play this year when he can play at the other end (and) have a senior year like Trevor Cooney did last year.

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No. 1 Orange swaps Bomberry, Mariano to bolster offense

By Sam Fortier

asst. sports editor

In the middle of one of Syracuse’s best starts in program history, head coach John Desko asked two of his best offensive threats to swap positions.

Against Duke on March 25, Nick Mariano switched from attack to midfield, and he felt comfortable because the senior has spent considerable time at both positions over the last four years between

Massachusetts and Syracuse.

Brendan Bomberry was less sure.

The junior transfer had little experience on the attack. But Desko saw something.

Mariano and Bomberry combined for five of SU’s 12 goals against the Blue Devils. In the next three games, Bomberry averaged two points per game and Mariano has had at least a hat trick in every contest.

“Obviously, Nick Mariano is the alpha male offensively of this team,” ESPN lacrosse analyst Mark

Dixon said. “Bomberry is more a pure finisher. He’s a shooter first, and when you’re a shooter first your best spot on the field is attack.

Mariano is more of a playmaker.

He’s a little bit more versatile. He can beat you off the dodge, he can come off screens, he can play the two-man game. … Your versatility guys play at the midfield.”

The Orange’s (9-1, 3-0 Atlantic Coast) reconfiguration has sparked renewed offensive production on a seven-game winning streak that

pushed SU to No. 1 in the nation for the first time in almost two years.

Before the switch, Syracuse averaged 10.8 goals per game, excluding the season opener against Siena.

Since, SU has poured in 13.8 per game against some of the nation’s better defenses. The Orange will be tested again Saturday at 4 p.m. in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, against the defending national champions. The No. 17 Tar Heels (6-5, 1-2) defense allows only 9.2 goals per game.

SU beat Cornell, 15-8, on Tuesday night, and will fly out Friday morning after practicing Wednesday and Thursday. The Orange won at Hobart, 17-11, in its only other short-week game this season.

“John’s done a tremendous job,” Cornell head coach Matt Kerwick said after Tuesday’s game. “Honestly, I think this might be one of his best coaching jobs that I’ve seen him do. … They are just an efficient offensive team.’’

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