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city to institute better biking lanes. Pryor, who also received her master’s degree in early childhood special education from Syracuse University, said it “takes a lot to move things in this city.”

Syracuse city officials may soon get rid of all parking spaces on Euclid Avenue to make space for two new bicycle lanes, said Syracuse Common Councilor Bob Dougherty.

The possible move is the result of pressure from bike advocates and community organizers around the area amidst claims of the dangers posed to bicyclists on the busy avenue.

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university pl When the Student Association Board of Elections and Membership initially reached out to write-in presidential candidate AJ Abell for a meeting, his campaign team assumed it would be a “nice to meet you, get to know each other kind of thing.”

But this wasn’t the case, said Bryce VanderBerg, Abell’s campaign manager.

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By Thomas Beckley-Forest staff writer “She wasn’t giving us a fair shot at being able to really even run an effective campaign,” VanderBerg said. asmine Pryor was biking home from class Colon was not available for an on Euclid Avenue on a sunny, late-April interview on the matter. day six years ago when a vehicle suddenly VanderBerg then contacted the SA collided with her, launching her to the ground.

Board of Administrative Operations, “I was biking with the traffic, having a good which conducted an investigation day,” Pryor said. “All of a sudden, this woman into Colon’s activities. just turned into her driveway, catching me with “The Board of Administrative her car, hard. I’ve never biked on Euclid since.” operations found several key instances Pryor, 37, has been involved in years-long where Ms. Colon allowed personal relaefforts to improve cyclist safety by convincing the tionships to get in the way of running a 120 fair election,” said SA Parliamentarian 100 Stephen Thomas, in an email.

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of four alternatives detailed in a report by Bergmann Associates that the City of Syracuse Department of Public Works commissioned after a community meeting last year in which many citizens expressed concern for the issue, Dougherty said. A total of 72 parking spaces on Euclid would be lost, according to the report.

Other possible alternatives include parking and a bicycle lane on opposite sides, some parking with a bicycle lane in the middle of the street and halving the street for parking and biking on one side and driving on the other. see bike

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Trader Joe’s craft beer has rich coffee flavor

By Ben Glidden staff writer

With spring comes a whole new season of beers. Seasonal beers are the cornerstones of a lot of different breweries, and many people look forward to certain seasons just to try beers. Spring beers typically have bright flavors, citrusy notes and something refreshing that helps you welcome the sun and the warmth back into your life.

The Josephsbrau Prost doesn’t remind me of those spring flavors, but it definitely has its own interesting style to offer. You might recognize Josephsbrau, since it’s a Trader Joe’s craft beer brand. Although it’s a German-style beer, it’s actually brewed in Monrovia, California.

The first noticeable thing about this beer is its strong, malty nose.

You crack open the bottle, and strong scents come pouring out. The beer is lightly carbonated and the first taste you’ll notice is a rich, coffee-like flavor followed by the sweetness of some caramel that comes through.

You might even taste a burnt or toasted flavor on the sides of your tongue. It’s a fairly heavy beer with a strong, bready and hoppy taste. The alcohol content in this beer is at 7.3 percent, which is on the higher end, but that doesn’t really come through in the flavor of the beer.

This is a Maibock-style lager, which is a German beer brewed during the winter and released during the spring.

This is why the beer is heavier, rather than the refreshing beer typical of spring. With a heavy beer like this, you’ll want to pair it with something equally heavy and flavorful that can stand up to the beer’s strong flavor. I’d typically recommend a burger or steak to go with a lager like this, but since it’s a German-style beer, get yourself a juicy bratwurst.

“Prost” is the German word for “cheers,” but I won’t want to raise my glass of Josephsbrau Prost once spring rolls around. But knowing Syracuse weather, I probably wouldn’t mind a heavier beer to cope with the seemingly endless freezing temperatures. biglidde@syr.edu

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Scholarship in action Students and a professor are working to create PSAs that aim to educate the campus about SU’s Got Consent? campaign.

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Rapper Snoop Dogg will be performing at this year’s New York State Fair. The September concert is free with admission to the fair.

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@Syracuseulib It’s no April Fools’ joke: we’re lending out human books today as part of our Human Library!

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Program promotes immersion Maymester class allows community interaction

By Rob Romano staff writer

KRISTINA BORJESSON, an award-winning investigative journalist, speaks during “The Whistleblower, The Press and The Truth,” which was held in the Hergenhan Auditorium. Panelists discussed the role of the press in preventing corruption. isabella barrionuevo asst. photo editor

Panelists discuss role of press, whistleblowers

By Joe Leonard staff writer

Louis Clark is constantly searching for whistleblowers in need of representation.

“Whistleblowers tend to be the hardest working employees, and tend to have the highest standards,” said Clark, the president of the Government Accountability Project.

Most whistleblowers, he said, are, “exactly the kind of employees

that employers want.”

For the second straight year, Syracuse University partnered with the GAP to present “The Whistleblower, The Press and The Truth” on Wednesday night in the Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium. The event was moderated by Roy Gutterman, director of the Tully Center for Free Speech at SU. The event was a three-person panel discussion on whistleblowers and the importance the press plays in relaying their stories. Panelists included

Clark, Thomas Tamm, a Department of Justice whistleblower, and Kristina Borjesson, an award-winning investigative journalist.

Tamm worked for the Department of Justice during the George W. Bush administration and took part in illegal wiretaps on people in the United States. In order to perform these wiretaps, the department needed warrants and Tamm soon realized they were bypassing this necessity. He approached report-

ers from The New York Times, who eventually published his story.

Borjesson investigated the explosion and crash of TWA Flight 800 in 1996 and faced extreme pressure from government officials to drop her story.

She persisted and ended up losing consecutive jobs at CBS and ABC. Borjesson was eventually able to release her findings, countering the official reports that had been disseminated by media outlets for years. see whistleblowers page 6

SU Libraries host event to celebrate culture, diversity

By Zeena Saifi staff writer

Syracuse University Libraries held the second annual human library event on Wednesday, which replaces books with people in order to share stories of different cultures.

For the event, participants were able to check out a “human book” and have a conversation with that person for about 20 minutes about their cultural background. The purpose of the event was to gain a greater understanding of the other person and of different cultures

in general, said Abby Kasowitz-Scheer, an associate librarian for Learning Commons in Bird Library.

Kasowitz-Scheer said the event coordinators sent out surveys based on last year’s event to determine what topics should be covered. This year, there were 16 human books covering topics such as autism and bullying, and included people from different cultures including Native American and Egyptian.

The reason SU Libraries first offered the event last year was because of an effort to have a community-wide

human library, Kasowitz-Scheer said.

Libraries around central New York were all offering events during the month of April since it’s when National Library Week takes place.

Consequently, SU Libraries got together with other libraries in Onondaga County and agreed to host similar events around the same time.

“The first human library was held in 2000 in Copenhagen, Denmark and the purpose of that event was to challenge prejudices and stop violence between people who didn’t understand each other,” Kasowitz-Scheer said. “So that’s

where our whole concept came from.”

Tarida Anantachai, an assistant librarian for Learning Commons in Bird Library, described the human library event as a celebration of human diversity. She said it was an international initiative created as a safe environment to encourage people from different backgrounds to come together and learn from each other.

“It’s more interactive than just checking out a book,” she said. “You get to check out a person.”

Anantachai said the purpose of the see human

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A co-taught Spanish immersion course that is taking students out of the classroom and into the Spanish-speaking world will now be offered during MAYmester.

Students taking the “SPA 200: Selected Topics — Spanish Immersion” course will be conversing with and interviewing Spanish-speaking immigrants and refugees at Syracuse’s Westside Learning Center this May. “We just believe that having real world experiences are key when students are learning Spanish,” said Catherine Nock, language coordinator in the Department of Languages.

The three-credit course uses instructors who are native Spanish speakers to teach students about different facets of Latino culture. Students learn to salsa dance, play soccer and cook see immersion page 6

do round-up Here are some of the top stories that ran this week in The Daily Orange.

NEWS SU DIVESTS SU announced Tuesday that it would prohibit investments in fossil fuel companies. Divest SU and THE General Body had advocated for divestment leading up to the announcement.

PULP IN DEDICATION Professor emeritus Marvin Druger dedicated the Patricia Meyers Druger Astronomy Learning Center on Saturday in honor of his late wife.

SPORTS STICKING WITH IT Long-stick midfielder Peter Macartney has excelled this year after traveling abroad in Europe last fall.

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Divest SU responds to university Breast cancer awareness campaigns objectify disease limiting fossil fuel investments Since October 2012, Divest SU has been part of a global movement of universities and organizations that are connecting the dots between climate change and the fossil fuel industry. The practices of the fossil fuel industry are inconsistent with the future welfare of the planet, and we are pleased to see SU formally recognize this through their recent announcement.

Syracuse University did not have direct investments in fossil fuels. On Tuesday, SU administration made this a formal prohibition.

However, they do have substantial investments in fossil fuels through external fund managers.

We are waiting for specifics from SU administration on how they will direct those external managers to minimize investment, and we will continue to ask that SU fully divest from the fossil fuel industry.

Nonetheless, this is a win for the campaign.

We want to thank all the students and faculty who participated. We held hundreds of meetings, dozens of events and passed resolutions through both the University Senate and the Student Association. We especially want to thank the organizers and participants in THE General Body.

Our work is far from over, and not just for fossil fuel divestment, which is a climate justice and social justice issue. Over the past year especially, we have been connecting the dots between global warming, racism, sexism and economic inequality. As Van Jones made clear in his remarks at the Syracuse University lecture

series last fall, poor people and people of color around the world are hit “first and worst” by climate change. At Divest Fest this February, a student organizer from Harvard made connections between climate change and women’s rights — the burdens of climate change fall heavily on women across the globe.

We want to continue to connect these dots on campus. While we are happy that university administration will prohibit some fossil fuel investments, we would like to see them investing in Posse and Paris Noir. We want them investing in a new advocacy center, additional psychiatrists and counselors, and a living wage for TAs. We want them to invest in the safety of SU Law students. And we want them to divest from the corporate ideology central to Fast Forward Syracuse. Partial fossil fuel divestment is a first step down a long road toward social justice on campus, one that we will continue to walk. We ask that the administration continues with us.

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s a breast cancer survivor and author of the blog Stupid Dumb Breast Cancer, Ann Marie Giannino-Otis is a huge advocate for breast cancer awareness.

But even though she had a double mastectomy to save her life, Giannino-Otis doesn’t agree with campaigns that encourage people to “save the boobies.”

“It has nothing to do with saving my breasts and has everything to do with saving myself,” said Giannino-Otis. “It really degrades what we’re trying to do.”

While they may seem like funny and harmless ways to promote breast cancer research, these campaigns send the wrong message.

They encourage the objectification of women by putting the focus of breast cancer research on saving breasts, not saving lives. By sexualizing breast cancer, “saving the boobies” hurts the cause.

The Keep a Breast foundation launched its “I love boobies!” campaign in 2000, which sparked a trend of “boob pun” followers. The Save the Ta-Tas Foundation began in 2004 and central New York’s Save the Boobies movement started in 2005, along with plenty of other variations on the played out “save the boobs” theme.

With so many of these popular campaigns out there, using humor to fight breast cancer seems to be effective. But even though a cure is the shared goal, how these groups raise awareness still matters.

The real problem doesn’t arise from trying to “save the boobies,” but from the objectification that makes these campaigns so successful. By worrying about saving breasts, these campaigns imply that this potentially fatal disease is actually about a woman losing her sexuality.

Nowhere is this more obvious than in Angelina Jolie’s decision to have a preventative double mastectomy. According to her May 14, 2013 New York Times op-ed, Jolie reduced her chance of breast cancer from 87 to just 5 percent by having the procedure done. There were plenty of congratulations for her courage, but many people mourned her apparent loss of femininity and sexuality and proceeded to treat her decision like a personal loss.

KATHRYN KRAWCZYK

FISH WITHOUT A BICYCLE These disrespectful reactions reveal a huge problem in how society views mastectomies and breast cancer in general. We seem to think that having breasts or not defines a woman’s sexuality, and campaigns that focus on saving breasts rather than saving lines only perpetuate this stereotype.

Giannino-Otis also pointed out that 1 in 1,000 men will be diagnosed with breast cancer. Campaigns to “save the boobies” portray breast cancer as a woman’s disease and completely alienate this population.

Instead of these campaigns that sexualize breast cancer, Giannino-Otis said people need to see breast cancer and mastectomies for what they really are. “This is not a pretty boob job,” she said. “We don’t walk away with perfect boobs.”

The SCAR project is an amazing example of the realities of breast cancer. This project asserts that “breast cancer is not a pink ribbon” or some cute disease to be sexualized. It does this through featuring powerful images of women who lost their breasts but beat breast cancer.

Since we didn’t “save the ta-tas” for these women, are they failures? No. Losing one’s breasts doesn’t mean a loss of sexuality or even always a loss of life, and we need to stop branding breast cancer like it does.

Of course, it would be amazing if we could both cure breast cancer and save breasts.

But since this isn’t always possible, our main priority should be saving lives.

Campaigns that focus on saving breasts don’t convey this message.

Though this may not be their intention, they encourage objectification of women and sexualize a disease. Instead of focusing on “saving second base,” these campaigns need to revamp their slogans to show there is much more to breast cancer than boobs.

Kathryn Krawczyk is a freshman magazine major. Her column appears weekly. She can be reached at kjkrawcz@syr.edu and followed on Twitter @KathrynKrawczyk.

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Chairman becomes chairman emeritus, doesn’t step down To the Daily Orange Editor: I am writing to correct Tuesday’s Daily Orange article regarding SU Board of Trustees Chairman Richard Thompson, in which I was quoted.

Contrary to the headline of the story and the introductory sentence, Mr. Thompson is not stepping down as chairman. Rather, per University by-laws, the term of the chair of the Board of Trustees is limited to one four-year term. Mr. Thompson became chairman in May 2011 and his term will end

in May 2015, when he will become chairman emeritus.

Under university by-laws, the board chair, vice-chair, and committee chair positions are all limited to one four-year term, with the goal of ensuring the Board’s leadership and membership is refreshed and renewed over the long-term.

Sincerely, Kevin Quinn Senior Vice-President for Public Affairs Syracuse University

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Environment columnist Azor Cole pushes people to realize the damage global warming has already done to the oceans.

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Gender and sexuality columnist Julia Smith salutes the women who have succeeded in becoming Army Rangers.

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Parking outweighs need for bike lanes Syracuse city officials should seriously rethink the proposal to remove the parking lanes from Euclid Avenue in order to replace them with bike lanes.

Syracuse already has a parking problem and removing more parking spots would be a mistake.

The City of Syracuse’s Department of Public Works commissioned the group Bergman and Associates to research the possibility of removing the parking lanes on Euclid Avenue between Westcott Street and Ostrom Avenue. The study was conducted in the summer of 2014 over three days: July 26, July 29 and Sept. 18. It determined that the times when the most cars were parked on Euclid were on week days between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m.

Because the majority of the study was conducted before the fall semester began, it didn’t get an accurate picture of what the parking needs are

in the East neighborhood during the nine months of the year that students live in Syracuse.

Euclid Avenue serves as residential parking, as many of the students who live on Euclid cannot park in their driveways because there are multiple residents in the houses.

Oftentimes, the driveways cannot accommodate all of the residents’ cars. This problem is only more obvious during the winter when driveways can become impassable and students look for alternatives.

The Bergman and Associates study suggested that the parking spots that would be eliminated on Euclid would be replaced by the parking additions on Waverly and Comstock Avenue.

This is an impractical solution. The parking on Euclid serves a residential area, and it would be illogical for people to park so far away from their

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houses and apartments.

Additionally, the parking on Euclid serves the guests of Syracuse University. When there’s a concert or sporting event on campus, as much as the university encourages visitors to park at Manley Field House, those spots fill up and the spill over winds up in the East neighborhood.

While the roads and parking in the East neighborhood are controlled by Syracuse, SU should intervene, advocate on behalf of the students and prevent this change from happening. SU didn’t have a say in the Comstock and Waverly parking changes, which caused a lot of confusion for the SU community.

SU should learn from its mistakes.

As much as Syracuse wants to be a more bike-friendly city, its long winters and lack of parking make that dream unrealistic.

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Election season must not be dominated by Republican candiates

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hen Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) stood up in front of a standing-room-only audience at Liberty University last month, he became the first announced candidate in the 2016 presidential race. Cruz, who was the outspoken freshman senator who held the floor for 21 straight hours in a pseudo-filibuster in 2013, is a firebrand anti-Obama, anti-establishment candidate who will surely leave his mark on the race.

Meanwhile, a packed-to-the-brim cadre of other A-list Republicans are gearing up their 2016 campaigns.

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PUT YOUR MONEY WHERE MY MOUTH IS ration for a run, while familiar faces New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Mike Huckabee, Rick Santorum, Rick Perry and others have all expressed pointed interests in running.

Meanwhile, on the blue side of the aisle: nothing but static. If the Democrats have any hope of running this race on anything close to their own terms, they need a candidate. Now. The only Democrat to make any sort of official statement about the presidency so far is Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) who made it explicit that she will not be running for president — emphasizing that point repeatedly, most recently on Asst. News Editor Sara Swann Asst. News Editor Lydia Wilson Asst. Feature Editor Jacob Gedetsis Asst. Feature Editor Kait Hobson Asst. Sports Editor Sam Blum Asst. Sports Editor Matt Schneidman Asst. Photo Editor Isabella Barrionuevo Asst. Photo Editor Logan Reidsma Design Editor Sydney Golden Design Editor Matthew Hankin Design Editor Chloe Meister Design Editor Momin Rafi Design Editor Max Redinger Design Editor Katherine Sotelo Asst. Copy Editor Jake Cappuccino Asst. Copy Editor Alex Erdekian Asst. Copy Editor Connor Grossman Asst. Copy Editor Danny Mantooth Asst. Copy Editor Paul Schwedelson Asst. Copy Editor Georgie Silvarole

Tuesday’s “Today” show.

That leaves America patiently waiting for Hillary Clinton, the assumed and all-but-crowned Democratic nominee, to announce her candidacy.

Unfortunately, unless she emailed someone about it during her time as Secretary of State, we probably won’t hear about it until after this whole public records debacle clears up — experts are surmising a mid to late April announcement at this point.

Whether or not the rest of the potential GOP candidates declare any time soon — and they likely will — there is now a full field of active, vocal and persistent Republican presidential hopefuls roaming the country, giving stump speeches and rallying donors.

Each day without at least one prominent Democratic candidate is an eternity — an enormous, vacuous space that the Republican Party is primed to

fill with anti-Obama, anti-immigration or pretty much any other anti-Democratic rhetoric it can come up with.

It’s safe to say at this point, it doesn’t really matter if America has even heard of the Democrat who announces first — it just matters that someone announces soon. Like really, really soon.

Even before Cruz announced his candidacy, the Republican Party had been dominating the conversation.

Starting with and stemming from the 2014 midterm elections, the conservative arsenal has consisted of a whole bunch of “anti” stances — antiObamacare, anti-Immigration reform, anti-gay marriage and anti-abortion.

If President Barack Obama has ever spoken out in favor of it, the Republican Party wants to take it down.

Even though many self-identified Republicans might not agree with all — or even any — of the major stances

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the Party has taken, with no Democratic candidate to go head to head combatting these calls, this rhetoric may just become reality. Additionally, with no Democrats currently running, America isn’t even particularly sure what the party’s platform will even be this time around.

So what are you waiting for, Democrats? Wait any longer and there won’t be an opportunity to set your own agenda — it’ll be refuting Republican claims from day one, straight through till that fateful Tuesday in November.

This is an ultimatum for the Democratic Party: Get a candidate and get one soon.

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bike lanes Bike lanes have become a common sight around the University Hill area in recent months.

While a portion of University Avenue has been dedicated to biking for a few years, a bike lane more recently popped up on Comstock Avenue.

In October, the city re-striped the street to add parking and improve bicyclist safety. The parking lane has since become a deliveries only lane.

More broadly, there is a Syracuse Bike Plan, which the city created as part of its comprefrom page 3

immersion with help from native speakers from Central America, Cuba and other Spanish-speaking countries.

Over the past two summers, the immersion course has been offered to high school students through Syracuse University’s Summer College Program, and to college students as a summer class. The class has had an eclectic mix of participants, said Katie Clinton, Spanish instructor and co-teacher of the course.

“We have had a very big geographical and

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whistleblowers Officials contended that the plane exploded due to mechanical failure, despite eyewitnesses claiming a missile struck the Boeing 747.

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hensive plan, which aims to make the city more bicycle-friendly. This is being done for economic, environmental and safety reasons, according to the city’s website.

Dougherty said he is the only member of the Common Council openly in favor of the bike lanes along Euclid.

“Most are neutral, some are vehemently opposed,” he said. “It’s amazing to me, because we’re pretty progressive here in Syracuse, but the council seems to favor the way of the car over the way of the bicycle.”

Dougherty said he received a letter from a

property owner on Euclid who was opposed to the loss of parking because it might hinder his employees. He added that studies show more bike traffic gets a larger flow of people through the East Neighborhood area than parking spaces.

Michael Stanton, president of the Southeast University Neighborhood Association, said his organization supports the recommendation

by Bergman Associates that all parking be removed to make way for more bike lanes.

“We think the safety of cyclists on Euclid should be the most important factor when deciding how to add bike infrastructure there,” Stanton said.

Melissa Fierke, an associate professor at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry and co-founder of the bike advocacy group BikeEuclid, said Mayor Stephanie Miner has not come out with a decision on the issue yet.

SUNY-ESF called on the city to implement bike lanes on Euclid in a press release in March.

“It’s been a main grievance of people in the area for a while,” Fierke said. “It’d be great if the decision was made before biking season is in full swing this spring.”

socioeconomic and ethnic mix both times we have run these courses,” Clinton said. “We learn from each other and learn from that knowledge.”

This year, the immersion course is going to be offered to college students in MAYmester and high school students in July. Clinton said it still is not confirmed whether the program at the Westside Learning Center will be happening this summer for high school students, outside of MAYmester.

Another aspect of the course is the method by which students will fulfill their credits. The two-week MAYmester course only fulfills two of the three credits, and the last one is for an outside

project. Nock said students have completed the project by using video and other presentations depending on their interests.

Nock said some of the goals of the course are to make students more confident in their Spanish-speaking abilities and to prepare them for their future use of the language.

Prior to enrolling, students need to have taken two semesters of Spanish, which would place them at the 200 level. This was done to ensure that every student taking the course gets the most out of the experience, Nock said.

Alberto Lainez, a senior at the Urban Assembly School for Law and Justice in downtown

Brooklyn, said he benefited from the individual attention he got from the class and the close-knit environment it created.

Sophia Jones, a junior at Fayetteville-Manlius High School, completed the immersion course last summer. Her class was mixed with students from different places and age groups. She said the program enabled her to get ahead in her Spanish classes. Now, she is looking to attend SU for college if she is accepted next year.

“Even if we had different backgrounds, it didn’t really matter because we all became friends by the end,” Jones said.

ated by all these reports in the past, and it was a big moment for me,” Borjesson said.

The panel went on to discuss the difficulties whistleblowers and journalists both face when they expose stories like this. Borjesson said she felt she became a pariah in the media and Tamm said he felt “very isolated” at times and even had his house raided by FBI agents with-

out having committed a crime.

The idea of whistleblowers using journalists willing to tell their story was stressed throughout the discussion. Tamm said he reached out to specific journalists because he had been impressed with their previous work.

Clark added that this is common among whistleblowers that, he said, have no other

outlet to tell the truth.

The panelists helped educate the audience on what the press can and can’t do when the government actively misleads it. For example, Borjesson said the Bush administration “came down like handcuffs on the press” in the lead up to the Iraq War.

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SMOKING GUN Proposed Nevada law would allow college students to carry guns on campus

By Erin McDonald staff writer

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f passed into law, a new proposed bill in the Nevada State Legislature would allow college students to carry guns on campus.

AB-148, the bill that is being proposed, “would allow any person with a concealed carry firearm permit to possess a firearm while on the property of the Nevada System of Higher Education, a private or public school or a child care facility,” said Chuck Price, executive board chair at University of Nevada-Reno, in an email.

If passed, the bill would invalidate the current Nevada System of Higher Education policy in place, which makes it a requirement for any person that does have a concealed carry permit to first obtain approval by the institution before they carry a weapon at that institution, Price said.

The proposed bill is being sponsored by Nevada Assemblywoman Michele Fiore and supporters of the bill and pro-gun advocates want to see it passed to combat other threats and crime on campuses, such as sexual assault, according to a March 26 USA Today article.

AB-148

The bill that is being proposed by the Nevada State Legislature that would allow college students to carry guns on campus

Fiore’s office did not respond to requests seeking comment.

Potentially higher suicide rates due to ease of access to weapons and misunderstanding of common forms of sexual assault are part of the opposition to the passage of the bill, according to the USA Today article.

There are many concerns that community members have regarding AB-148, and some include the lack of necessary presidential approval. In addition, they worry that campus security would not have knowledge as to who was carrying a weapon on campus, according to the USA Today article.

The University of Nevada-Reno conducted a survey of faculty regarding the proposed bill, and the results showed that an overwhelming majority of university faculty was against AB-148. The survey revealed that 85.21 percent of the 987 responses were opposed to the passage of the bill, Price said.

Following the survey, the Faculty Senate at the University of Nevada-Reno passed a resolution

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saying that the represented faculty “opposes any legislation that would ease current restrictions regarding weapons on the University of Nevada, Reno properties. We are deeply concerned that increasing the availability of weapons will have a chilling effect on an academic environment that promotes knowledge acquisition and the free exchange of ideas.”

The resolution passed also states that the Faculty Senate, which serves as the representative body of faculty at the university, supports the current policy in place by the Board of Regents that

allows weapons on campus “only under limited and appropriate circumstances.”

One of the main concerns that the University of Nevada-Reno faculty had with the proposed bill was the allowance of weapons on centers for childcare and education on campus, and the school is home to many K–12 grade student facilities that are “gun-free zones” protected under federal law.

University of Nevada-Las Vegas President Len Jessup also voiced his disapproval of AB-148, saying that “UNLV joins an overwhelming number of university administrators, faculty, campus

law enforcement and students across Nevada — those on our campuses every day — who oppose legislation that would allow concealed weapons on college campuses,” according to a March 26 Las-Vegas Review Journal article.

This statement came following rallies and backlash from student groups against the administration and the student government for not following the example of other Nevada schools in taking a stand on the issue of the proposed bill, according to the Review Journal article. eemcdona@syr.edu

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efficiently as possible,” Bogris said.

SA has since been working with Abell and Dawson to better interpret and enforce the official by-laws regarding write-in campaigns, Bogris said.

Voters won’t need to write Abell and Dawson’s full first and last names for votes to be counted, she said. SA will accept Abell’s first name, a recognized nickname, or other entries “as long as (the board of elections and membership) can tell the intent and come to an agreement.”

All decisions on votes will be at the discretion of the eight people on the Board of Membership and Elections, and they may decide votes don’t count if they cannot be read, or state only the name of the vice-presidential candidate and not the president, Bogris added.

Bogris said because write-in candidates don’t have to follow rules set by SA, there is a “different from page 3

human library event was to encourage people who might not normally interact with each other to actually do so. She said it allows people to challenge assumptions and promote tolerance amongst each other.

In order to relate to the message of the human library, topics discussed should have either been about culture, life experiences or anything that would challenge stereotypes and break down prejudices, Kasowitz-Scheer said.

Pamela McLaughlin, director of communications and external relations, said as people came forward as prospective human books, they were put up against the marker of whether or not their stories encouraged diversity. She said it was

dynamic” to the election process, and they are continuing to “close loopholes” as issues arise.

Dawson said SA has been more open to speaking with him and Abell recently, but there’s still a little uneasiness as to whether or not SA truly supports a write-in candidate having the opportunity to run.

There’s a long history of students with connections to SA having a much better chance of winning, he said.

“If you’re only having candidates run that are involved in SA and winning every year, not all voices are heard,” Dawson said.

Bogris said everyone at SU has an equal chance of winning a position in SA, and that the organization opens itself up to new people all the time.

“You don’t have to be a member to get the support of other members, what it really depends on is how you run your campaign,” she said. lawilson@syr.edu

important to have a variety of different books and she is happy that there was a good range this year.

“We are all in this world together, and I think more and more people are interacting through social media online,” she said. “And that makes it more important to interact face to face and have real conversations about what life is all about.”

Kasowitz-Scheer said what she hoped the event accomplished was to successfully bring a lot of people together.

She wanted them to engage in a wide range of conversations that will eventually open their minds to different experiences and “expand their understandings on different topics and know that the library is a safe environment to share and speak your mind.” zssaifi@syr.edu

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Hip-hop artists to perform Rich Homie Quan to headline Greek Unity Fest

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TARAJI P. HENSON, an Academy Award-nominated actress known for her role as Cookie Lyons in FOX’s hit drama “Empire,” spoke at Goldstein Auditorium at Schine Student Center Wednesday night. Throughout the talk, Henson reflected on her life struggles. leslie edwards video editor

Taraji P. Henson conveys importance of struggling to achieve success

By Ali Merrill staff writer

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f you’re looking for a pity party, you won’t get it from Taraji P. Henson.

Known best for her role as the outspoken Cookie Lyon on the TV show “Empire,” Henson spoke at Goldstein Auditorium in Schine Student Center Wednesday evening.

Henson, who earned an Academy Award nomination for her work in the movie “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” focused primarily on the importance of struggle, saying that difficulties in life are needed in order to succeed.

“Nobody’s going to give you a break,” said Henson. “You have to make your own break.”

Throughout her talk, Henson used the obstacles she faced in her life — from her rejection from a performing arts school to her transition from Washington, D.C. to Hollywood as a single mother — to stress that struggles are a necessary component of success.

Both at the beginning of the night when Henson took the stage and at the end when she answered questions, many audience members cheered for Cookie, the character she plays on “Empire” instead for Henson.

“I love Cookie,” said Henson, laughing. “I just hate that she’s stolen my identity.”

I know there is a God. And he didn’t give me anything that he didn’t also give y’all.

Taraji P. Henson “empire” actress

Although Henson described Cookie from “Empire” as her alter ego because Cookie is always saying the

things she’s afraid to, Henson herself is the one who showed some gall.

Causing an uproar as she took the stage chanting “SU, you know,” Henson didn’t seem to have any reservations about discussing controversial issues.

“I know there is a God,” Henson said firmly. “And he didn’t give me anything that he didn’t also give y’all.”

Henson encouraged students to persevere in everything they do.

She discussed the importance of employment, as well, saying she’s had a job since she was 13 years old. Though incredibly successful, Henson has refused to buy her see henson page 10

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t’s the back end of my junior year, my sister is a freshman in college and time feels like it is sprinting at Usain Bolt-like speed. Time is a Ritz cracker, a delicious flat circle that tastes good with almost anything, but there are never enough sleeves in the box. Excuse me while I lock myself in my room and play Gary Jules’ “Mad World” on repeat.

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I have always struggled with the concept of getting older, even from a young age. Like most kids my age, I was petrified of death. I didn’t fully understand the concept of not exist-

ing, and the Bible’s stories of man-eating lions and building giant boats due to monsoons were not alleviating any of my fears.

Not knowing things gives me anxiety, so you can guess how I feel about the future. What I’ve learned is it’s never as scary as you think, but it doesn’t stop you from wanting to pause things from time to time. But we

move forward, since I don’t have the smarts to build a time machine, and “Click” really turned me off from the idea of stopping time anyway.

Rather than approach it with reason, I prolonged thinking about it until I had to. It’s why I didn’t take applying to college so seriously. When the guidance counselor called me into

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Hip-hop artists Rich Homie Quan, Travis Scott and Fetty Wap will perform Friday night at Goldstein Auditorium to a sold-out audience. The if you go concert is a part Greek Unity Fest of this week’s Concert Where: Goldstein Greek Unity Auditorium Fest, and the When: Friday, 7 p.m. concert’s floor How much: $10 seats were all sold within a day of the announcement.

“Our concerts typically don’t sell out,” said NPHC’s historian Nina Rodgers, who is also a former columnist for The Daily Orange. “Like, the floor does, but the balcony too?

That’s a huge accomplishment for us.” Rodgers, a junior broadcast and digital journalism and sociology dual major, also said alumni travel from far to attend.

The show was organized by the NPHC and the doors open at 6:30 p.m. Greek Unity Fest include Wednesday’s “Empire” speaker Taraji P. Henson, Friday night’s concert and a step show on Saturday, which is followed by an after-party.

Chelsea Mikell, NPHC’s social chair, said the goal of Greek Unity Fest is to unite the Greek community for a week of fun and stress-relieving events. “(The artists) all based upon hip hop, but all different types of hip hop,” said Michael George NPHC’s treasurer and a senior accounting major.

Fetty Wap, the first performer of the night, rose to fame after his debut single “Trap Queen,” which was released late last year. The artist from Paterson, New Jersey currently has no projects out. His debut mixtape, “Fetty Wap: The Mixtape,” was delayed last February. There’s currently no release date.

Travis Scott will perform after Rich Homie Quan. Scott just finished his cross-country Rodeo tour with Young Thug Tuesday night in Seattle.

The Houston rapper and producer is best known for his 2014 mixtape “Days Before Rodeo” and his close working relationship with Kanye West. The two see greek

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henson now-20-year-old son anything that he hasn’t paid for out of his own pocket. Henson interspersed a heavy discussion about overcoming obstacles with hilarious anecdotes.

Many audience members were in tears laughing during one of Henson’s most dominant parts of her talk. She described her brief attraction to costar Tyrese Gibson in one of her earlier

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greek unity have worked together on production for many of each other’s projects.

Rich Homie Quan will be taking the stage last.

The Cash Money Records artist forms one-third of rap group Rich Gang with Young Thug and Birdman. He entered the spotlight after his 2013 release “Type of Way” and has remained there since. “Lifestyle,” which he released with Rich

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cuneo the office and asked what schools I was interested in, I didn’t have a clue. It was high school, so the only colleges I knew were Greendale Community College and whoever played in the NCAA tournament. But I couldn’t go to school with Juan Dixon, so what was the point? So when the college process came around, I did what any frightened high school student would do: applied early decision to Syracuse (because Newhouse) so I wouldn’t have to worry about it. Who cared about college,

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films, “Baby Boy.” She remembers Juanita (Adrienne-Joi Johnson), who played Gibson’s mother in the film, sitting her down and blatantly saying, “If you sleep with him, they’ll never have the need to work with you again.”

It was a short conversation, but Henson said she still carries with her that message of self-respect in her career. She added that she doesn’t want men coming in and out of her apartment so that she doesn’t lose the respect of her son.

“How can I raise my son to respect women if

he doesn’t respect his own mother?” Henson said.

As a teenager, Henson applied to a performing arts high school but was rejected. She later attended North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, majoring in electrical engineering. After failing pre-calculus, Henson called her father crying, who encouraged her to transfer to Howard University to earn her acting degree.

Though she said was broke when she first moved to Los Angeles and living in what she described as a “roach dome,” Henson was never

fazed by the fast-moving Hollywood lifestyle.

“Big deals don’t happen at the club,” she said. “They happen in business meetings.”

Henson ended the night with a discussion of the male-dominated movie industry and said she wanted to see more female directors.

“Not every black woman in America can relate to me,” Henson said. “ All little girls aren’t going to identify with me — we need more of us. We need an accurate representation of America.”

Gang last year, was ranked by Complex Magazine as No. 2 in their “50 Best Songs of 2014” list.

“You have Travis Scott who’s very live and enthusiastic, then you have Rich Homie Quan who has a lot of hits so people are going to be able to sing along and ride along with his music,” said George. “Then you have Fetty Wap, who’s kind of like a transition between hip hop and R&B where he kind of sings, but he doesn’t rap.”

Travis Scott and Rich Homie Quan share verses on Scott’s song “Mamacita.” Scott is also

known for playing songs from his upcoming debut album, “Rodeo,” at his shows.

The selection process for Friday’s concert took a lot of deliberation, and the lineup went through many revisions before the three artists were decided on, said both Rodgers and Mikell.

“We could not decide who to get,” said Mikell, a senior public health major. “We have our favorite artists, but it’s all about who’s really going to attract the audience.”

This past year, SU has hosted an extensive list

of hip-hop performances. Schoolboy Q, Ace Hood and Migos performed here throughout the fall.

Pell, Isaiah Rashad and Ty Dolla $ign have all performed in the spring semester, with 50 Cent and Rae Sremmurd recently announced as artists performing at SU’s Block Party on April 24.

Said Rodgers. “Hip hop is so popular. It’s cross-cultural, it crosses all kind of boundaries … it’s bigger than everyone just turning up and having a great time. It brings people together.”

you’re telling me my mom isn’t going to cook for me anymore?

Which is why I think everyone should listen to postmodern philosopher Ferris Bueller, “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in awhile, you could miss it.”

Early last year I was walking home alone from a fraternity party. Jealous? While I don’t remember the house, based on its condition, I think the theme of the party was “recently looted.” The party was sweaty and terrible, and I walked home with a bit of a bad taste in my mouth, probably from all the raw eggs I drank.

But on my way home, I was called over by a group of seniors to come hang out. I was across the street, and I did what any sensible person would do at around 1 a.m. when called by a group of strangers: I went over immediately.

It turns out they had invited me to the Funk Porch. While they did not sell waffles, this group of students designed this porch for the sole purpose of dancing to funk all night long.

So that’s exactly what we did. Like the deleted scenes of “Step Up 2: The Streets,” we danced until we couldn’t any more. I went home at 3 a.m., and to this day have not had a more fun

time purely dancing.

I’m not telling you to go to strangers houses and dance on their porches, nor am I asking you to listen to music purely from before our time — I did that in middle school, and it just makes you a cynical old person.

I guess what I’m saying is: find your funk porch and dance until you’re tired of hearing the Bee Gees.

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Danny Cuneo is a junior television, radio and film major. The last watch he wore had Anakin Skywalker on it. His column runs every Thursday in Pulp. He can be reached at dacuneo@syr.edu.

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What Theatre to produce 1st musical with ‘The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee’

By Alex Archambault contributing writer

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hen Alexis Cardwell transferred to Syracuse University last fall, she ventured to the student activities fair with hopes of finding a group that would offer her new friends.

As a previous musical theater major, Cardwell wrote down her name for What Theatre, not realizing that she would soon be the director of the group’s next two productions, a member of its E-board and its co-executive producer.

Under the direction of Cardwell, a history and social education major, What Theatre is working toward the production of its first musical, “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.” The group will perform the show on Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. in Schine Underground.

Tickets for the show are $3 at the Schine Box Office.

“Right now we are doing a spring musical because we are trying to jumpstart the program,”

I love how small and endearing the group is. There are a lot of groups on campus that are pretty big and while that is great, it’s nice to have such a small yet diverse group.

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CHARLES KEPPLER practices his role in “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.” This is the first time What Theatre will produce a musical. courtesy of matt mangione

Cardwell said. “Next semester we will get on track when we perform ‘Hair’ which is also a musical. We want a rotation that is opposite of the First Year Players, so our musical is not the same time as theirs and people will go to both if they want to.”

“The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” is a long one-act musical that focuses on six students who compete in their middle school spelling bee. During the show, four audience members are brought up to the stage to participate alongside the actors.

Architecture students began the organization, Cardwell said, and the “What” in the group’s name stood for Warehouse Architecture. A few years ago, theater students took it over and started doing more recognizable plays. Now, Cardwell and her friends are in charge, and they have hopes of doing a fall musical and spring play every year.

Cardwell also stressed that a vital part of What Theatre is that it is an outlet for non-theater majors of any year to experience theater in a relaxed setting.

“I think the reason that I love this group is that we are very laid-back,” she said. “Not in the sense that we do not work to get things done, but we’re not very intense, and our rehearsal schedules are manageable and always do everything we can to include everyone.”

Charles Keppler, a freshman aerospace engineering and physics dual major, auditioned for the show on a whim after not having done theater for years. After receiving the part of Chip Tolentino, one of the spellers in the play, he said the show’s cast members have become a sort of family to him.

“I love how small and endearing the group is,” Keppler said. “There are a lot of groups on campus that are pretty big and while that is great, it’s nice to have such a small yet diverse group. It makes it easy for me to get to know and love everyone.”

Dina Resnick, an undecided freshman in the Martin J. Whitman School of Management, echoed Keppler’s thoughts as she described how she was looking for a close group much like her theater friends in high school, and found exactly that in What Theatre.

“I got really close with a lot of kids in the show because of how small it is,” she said. “It’s been a lot of fun, a lot of bonding.”

Resnick also said Cardwell was a perfect balance of tough yet endearing when it came to directing the show.

“Alexis was really laid-back, but when push came to shove we got everything done,” she said.

“She was always so supportive of me, I never felt any pressure when I missed some rehearsals because of Greek life and she really brought the show together.” ararcham@syr.edu

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Dewes looks to use speed to break out of hitting slump

By Liam Sullivan staff writer

Leigh Ross expects Alyssa Dewes to finish first.

Ross thinks the sophomore will always be the fastest, whether it’s going first-to-third on a bloop single or conditioning in practice. up next Dewes has VS North Carolina been starting as a @ SU Softball Stadium catcher and outSaturday, 1 p.m. (DH), fielder this season Sunday, noon for Syracuse, but has been struggling at the plate. Earlier this year, Ross noticed Dewes not running as quickly in practice as she usually would, something the head coach said might be related to the pressure she’s putting on herself recently at the plate.

“Obviously, I’ve been in a slump,” Dewes said. “… Softball is a game of failures, so you can only keep working hard and eventually it’ll come back.”

Through 61 at-bats this season, Dewes is hitting .164 at the plate. At this time last year she was hitting .344. Dewes is hoping to use speed as an asset to her hitting approach this weekend as Syracuse (12-18, 0-6 Atlantic Coast) plays North Carolina (24-9, 9-2) in a Saturday doubleheader at SU Softball Stadium, SU’s first home games of the year, starting at 1 p.m.

Assistant coach Matt Nandin said that coming into this year, Dewes put a lot of pressure on herself to replicate her first season for the Orange when she hit .307 and hit as high as two in the order. Now slated in at the nine spot in the lineup, she hasn’t hit as consistently this year. Her 19 strikeouts are one more than she had all of last season.

“They always say hitting is contagious, and hitting is mental. There really is truth to it or they wouldn’t say it,” Ross said. “I don’t think much has changed mechanically at all,

but if she can get through it and she can get a few base hits and build some confidence, it’ll change so quickly.”

Nandin agrees that there is a mental aspect of her struggles, but has been working with her to utilize the lower half of her body in her swing.

Upon arriving to practice almost an hour early, the two use a small wedge placed under Dewes’ foot to help her rotate her backside through the zone and drive through the ball.

He believes that when the wedge is combined with the soft toss and work off the tee, it helps build muscle memory and translate to games.

The inconsistency in SU’s schedule hasn’t allowed Dewes to build on her extra practice with Nandin. The Orange has experienced breaks as long as 12 days between games due to weather and field conditions, and she hasn’t gotten into a rhythm this season.

In the past, even without great success at the plate, Dewes was able to use her speed — primarily through bunting, or beating out wouldbe outs — to generate offense for Syracuse.

“When we have the opportunity to get her on first base, we steal her right away,” Ross said. “Her speed and ability to steal bases is invaluable.”

Ross refers to Dewes as “almost a second leadoff hitter” and that she can be the spark Syracuse needs to kick-start an offense that has been outscored 134 to 115.

Since Syracuse has returned from three canceled games against Boston College almost two weeks ago, Ross has seen extra “giddyup” in Dewes’ step. She said that there has been a bit of an attitude change and now Dewes has been changing up her practice habits.

“She’s got a lot of tools to help the team win. It doesn’t mean she’s going to get six or seven hits on a weekend, but there are ways to get hits and drive in runs,” Nandin said. “Now it’s a matter of getting a few hits here and there and I think she’ll be fine.” lpsull01@syr.edu

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sykes her to just throw it in and give up. But she’s working to get back,” Hillsman said. “… It’s more mental than it is physical at this point. And you have to be a mentally strong person. And she’s that.”

A Syracuse billboard featuring Sykes proclaimed her return. But when she came back, a big brace covered her right knee. She struggled, botching numerous layups and free throws. She missed assignments in the back of the zone and scored just seven points on 3-of-13 shooting.

After her second injury, her teammates and coaches praised her for being in good spirits.

But even Sykes admitted that she sometimes questioned why all of this had happened to her.

“It’s kind of a shock to me, you don’t expect that to happen,” Sykes said. “When it happens, you have to take it day by day. That’s what I’ve done. Some days are bad. Some days are good. Some days are my worst. Some days are my best. But at the end the end of the day, I’m a regular person before basketball.”

SU guard Maggie Morrison said Sykes took on the role of pseudo coach, often the first person to talk when players walked back to the bench from a timeout. She’s not afraid to call players out.

When SU started 0-of-17 from 3 against Virginia Tech on Feb. 15, it was Sykes that told her teammates to keep shooting as the Orange pulled off a comeback win.

“She’s making the most of it,” Morrison said. “She’s working on her strengths getting back. She’s in the gym more than anybody I know. At the beginning it was probably really rough, but she’s taken a good approach to it.”

Lying on the court surrounded by coaches and trainers, Sykes convinced herself she had to stand up and walk off the court. Her mother was in the stands and she didn’t want to scare her.

Throughout the second half, Sykes came back out to the bench to watch her team play.

When she returned to the bench after her first injury in the 2014 NCAA tournament, her eyes were red from the tears she shed.

This time, she was smiling and laughing, but knew all along that everything she had been though was just starting over again.

“You gotta think, it’s not just you,” Sykes said. “You’re a part of a team. Of course, in my head I didn’t want to go back out there. But in my heart, I knew that I belonged with my team. They were worried about me. And I was worried about them, more than my own knee.” sblum@syr.edu | @SamBlum3

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Syracuse hits 3 homers in doubleheader split with Fordham

By Liam Sullivan staff writer

Syracuse (13-18, 0-6 Atlantic Coast) split a doubleheader Wednesday, defeating Fordham (16-14, 3-2 Atlantic 10), 4-2, before losing 7-3 in the second game to the Rams.

The Orange began the scoring in the first game when Sydney O’Hara hit a three-run home run in the third inning. Maddi Doane hit

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albany try, the SU defensive trio of Brandon Mullins, Sean Young and McDermott already has their tentative assignments. Young and McDermott will match up with Fields and Oakes respectively, while Mullins will be keeping tabs on Thompson.

After spending Sunday and Monday watching film, SU players are keen on Albany’s offense and its freeform structure. There’s no patented way to counteract the Great Danes, and it may work to the Orange’s benefit.

“That could just let us play well,” Mullins said. “We don’t necessarily have to focus on some sort of play that they’re going to run.”

The “controlled chaos” of Albany, as McDermott called it, is going to be quarterbacked by Thompson on the attack.

Thompson dished out five assists last year in SU’s 17-16 overtime win, and leads

a solo homerun in the following inning to cap off the team’s scoring.

Fordham rallied for one run in the fourth inning and one run in the sixth, but Jocelyn Cater finished the game strong, pitching her 11th complete game of the season. She allowed only one earned run on five hits, surrendering two walks and striking out six.

SU kicked off the scoring in the second game in the top of the first with a two-run home

run from Corinne Ozanne. Fordham answered back in the bottom half of the second when Lindsey Larkin gave up three runs and the lead on three hits, including a two-run home run.

Syracuse recorded its third and final run of the second game on an RBI single to right field from Rachel Burkhardt.

Larkin lasted four innings, giving up four runs on five hits, before AnnaMarie Gatti came on in relief to pitch the final two innings. Gatti

gave up two runs on four hits, recording a strikeout and walking two in her first action of the season.

SU was unable to muster more than three hits the entire game and fell 7-3. Syracuse will next play North Carolina (24-9, 9-2 ACC) in a Saturday doubleheader at SU Softball Stadium, SU’s first home games of the year, starting at 1 p.m.

the NCA A with 6.6 points per game. He creates a conundrum for a Syracuse’s defense that will be honing in on him and sliding early, which inevitably could allow Fields and Oakes to expose any misstep by the Orange defense.

During Saturday’s loss to Notre Dame, Young and McDermott got mixed up on who was going to “coma slide,” or cut across the crease and the Notre Dame attack burned the Orange for miscommunications.

Thompson is capable of doing the same and merits the attention he’ll get from Syracuse, but Desko warned that his defense needs to take precaution before vacating position.

“You give (Thompson) too much attention, you double-team him all the time, he’s got great vision so he finds open people,” Desko said. “The other people offensively are very capable to dodge, create and finish themselves.”

Twenty-three different players on Albany

have registered a goal this year, compared to the Orange’s 18. Desko said the Great Danes

In a 25-0 drubbing of Massachusetts Lowell last week, several Albany goals were scored from outside shooters with four to five other attacks actually standing closer to the crease than the shooter.

“There’s lots of movements and little structure,” McDermott said. “The guys on their offense know what they’re doing, but it seems chaotic to opposing teams.”

Syracuse appears to be at a disadvantage on paper given that this is the first week all season with less than six days between games.

The weekly preparation cycle was expedited, and Desko was adamant about the challenge of facing something “different” in a shorter timespan. The Orange, however, is prepared to see an offense it’s never prepared for, and is hungry to get a piece of it.

Said McDermott: “Guys are going to be all over the place, different than any game we’ve played so far.”

You give (Thompson) too much attention, you doubleteam him all the time, he’s got great vision so he finds open people. The other people offensively are very capable to dodge, create and finish themselves.

John Desko su head coach

will often bunch up four to five different players in front of the net and set a series of picks in a short span of time.

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Sophomore O’Connor brings toughness to Syracuse defense

By Chris Libonati staff writer

Kaeli O’Connor ran to the end line with her arms extended. She ran through Boston College’s Caroline Margolis and knocked her back a few feet as she toppled onto the ground. up next The hit prompted BC head coach Acacia VS Virginia Tech Walker to step forward @ Carrier Dome a few steps to yell, Saturday, 10 a.m.

“That was hard.”

But that is how O’Connor has played this whole season and her whole life.

The sophomore has improved her footwork to match her aggressive defense – fellow defender Mallory Vehar, also her buddy in the team’s defensive buddy system, called her “a bulldog” — to fit into Syracuse’s defensive scheme this season. In middle school, O’Connor played football for her father, helping ingrain toughness in her.

She’s tied for second on SU with 10 caused turnovers and is tied for third on the team with 16 ground balls. And after playing in just six games last season, O’Connor has started all 12 games this season as one of two defenders on the crease and will play a key role in SU (8-4, 1-2 Atlantic Coast) defending Virginia Tech (6-7, 0-4) on Saturday at 10 a.m. in the Carrier Dome.

“There’s no hesitation. Ball’s on the ground, she’s going to get it,” SU associate head coach Regy Thorpe said. “She’s a pitbull and she wants the ball in her stick.”

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queener college lacrosse, SU women’s lacrosse head coach Gary Gait and assistant head coach Regy Thorpe — Queener’s coaches with the Hamilton Nationals of Major League Lacrosse — gave him his first coaching opportunity in 2011.

Queener had been a fan of Gait since he was a child. Gait had recruited Sarah Queener, his sister, when Gait coached for Maryland’s women’s lacrosse team. When Gait visited the Queener house to recruit Sarah, Patricia pulled Gait upstairs to her children’s rooms to take pictures with the children and sign their posters of himself and his brother Paul, who were both stars at SU. “Who wouldn’t want to coach with Gary Gait?” Patricia Queener said. “Other people had Mickey Mantle, but for us in this house it was the Gait brothers that were the stars.”

Queener transitioned to his role at SU seamlessly, having been around women’s lacrosse from the time he was in fourth grade. He helped his mother coach the women’s lacrosse team at Penn Yan Academy (New York), teaching the goalies to play similar to the Penn Yan boys’ goalies, where his father was the coach. Patricia Queener told her goalies that he knew more than anyone on the team, and that included her.

“I had one (goalie) who was a little more resistant,” Patricia Queener said of her son coaching, “and the one that wasn’t as resistant was our starting goalie.”

Before a state title game Penn Yan won, state officials tried kicking Queener off the field. His mother had to cite the roster card, telling the officials he was listed as an assistant coach.

Queener also chose SU because he wanted to

Since a young age, O’Connor was aggressive.

Having two brothers helped her toughen up and her father said she could always hold her own with them. Because she is a long-time Baltimore Ravens fan and her brothers were able to play football for her father in middle school, she decided to play, too.

Some parents gawked, but her father Patrick said it was never odd coaching his daughter. She played defensive end for the football team and could match the boys who hadn’t quite peaked physically. Even for her age, she was fast and he had no qualms about her playing a physical sport.

Though she stopped playing football, she carried the aggressive mentality to lacrosse.

The first time she played in front of Gait when he was recruiting her, she gave a hard foul.

It made her father nervous because he knew a scholarship was on the line. But in the end her style meshed perfectly with SU’s system.

“The style that Syracuse plays fit her personality and the way she plays. I mean, they’re very aggressive,” Patrick O’Connor said. “They like to play a lot of pressure and that’s the way she likes to play.”

But when O’Connor came to SU, three seniors anchored the Orange’s defense. Her aggressive style had to stay on the bench for her first season. O’Connor went to Sweat Performance, a training gym, this summer.

Every morning at 6 a.m. she would work with a trainer for an hour.

“It was a lot of footwork,” O’Connor said.

“It’s what I focused on because that was proba-

coach a program with a chance to win a championship. From a young age Queener and his sister would have dance competitions to Madonna’s “Celebration” CD and he would always claim he won. Even now, he is competitive in games of Cards Against Humanity, Sylvia said.

SU goalies Kelsey Richardson and Alyssa Costantino were helped by Queener after goalie Liz Hogan, SU’s three-time nominee for the Tewaaraton Award, graduated. Queener helped Richardson learn ways to strengthen her ankles and feel more comfortable in net, so her feet settled.

Around last Christmas, Albany called Queener about a job opening. He had not actively thought about returning to men’s lacrosse, but realized it was the right time to return. When he came to an Albany practice, the players didn’t know he’d be a full-time coach.

He’s helped our goalies take the next step to being great goalies.

Liam Gleason au associate head coach on brett queener

“The third or fourth day of practice we didn’t know what was going on,” Albany goalie Blaze Riorden said. “He stepped up in the huddle and said he wanted to be a Great Dane this year, and he wanted to coach for a team that could win a national championship and we’re that team.”

At Albany, Queener coaches with Marr, Liam Gleason and Eric Wolf — the latter two being former Albany teammates of Queener that he drove to and from games with.

Riorden already mimicked Queener’s ability to

KAELI O’CONNOR has stepped up defensively this season for the Orange. After coming off the bench as a freshman last season, O’Connor is second on the team with 10 caused turnovers, and her 16 ground balls are third most on the team. kelli mosher staff photographer

bly my weak point last year.”

At the same time, she participated in a Baltimore-metro summer league that is the equivalent of a pick-up league where players such as Maryland’s Taylor Cummings competed.

O’Connor used the league to improve her stick work and build on her aggressiveness and athleticism. This season, that work has shown and she even finished second in the team’s 40-yard

come out of the net because he watched him play as a member of the MLL’s Rochester Rattlers. He remembers Queener making big plays and playing to the crowd. Queener taught him ways to shield his stick, get attacks off balance when he takes the ball out of the net and intercept passes behind it.

“Really to get him back at Albany in the coaching level, in this capacity, by my side on the defense has been great,” Gleason said.

“He’s helped our goalies take the next step to being great goalies.”

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dash, Thorpe said.

It’s a far cry from where she stood last year, and that might’ve been just because she didn’t realize what she could do.

“Last year, I think she kind of didn’t realize her potential,” Vehar said. “This year, I think she came in ready to work, ready to go, learn the defense. She really proved herself since last year.” cjlibona@syr.edu

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SU’s Sykes talks injury, rehab plan Guard speaks to media for 1st time since tearing ACL for 2nd time in 2 seasons

By Sam Blum asst. sports editor

BRANDON MULLINS (11) and the rest of the Syracuse defense will face their greatest challenge of the season going up against Albany’s top-scoring offense in the country. Led by attack Lyle Thompson (4), the Great Danes average 18.4 goals per game. spencer bodian staff photographer

WILD DOGS Albany assistant coach Queener makes return to Carrier Dome

By Chris Libonati staff writer

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lbany has come calling for Brett Queener twice.

After Queener’s freshman year at Penn State, he left the school because his mother said he was a “naughty boy.” One year at Herkimer Community College and one NJCAA lacrosse championship later, the goalie landed at Albany.

“Ending up at Albany was a great place for him because (head coach) Scott Marr loves the fast-break game so much that he used Brett’s ability to create that fast-break situation to perfection,” said Patricia Queener, his mother.

“Only Brett could end up in a great situation even though he made a couple mistakes.”

The second time No. 9 Albany (7-1, 3-0 America East) and Marr came calling was around last Christmas.

Queener had been a volunteer assistant coach for the Syracuse women’s lacrosse team the prior three seasons, but he received his first men’s lacrosse coaching opportunity.

This season, Queener has seamlessly transitioned back to the sport he played, assuming the same role he had with SU, working with the Great Danes’ goalies. When No. 2 SU (7-1, 2-1 Atlantic Coast) and Albany square off on Thursday at 7 p.m. in the Carrier Dome, it will be Queener’s fourth matchup against the Orange.

“It’s pretty much the best environment I could ask for,” Queener said.

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SU defense prepares for lethal UA offense

By Connor Grossman asst. copy editor

John Desko compared it to spaghetti.

Backed by reigning Tewaaraton Award winner Lyle Thompson and current top-five goal scorers Seth Oakes and Connor Fields, Albany’s offense is as solid as any in the country.

But it’s the Great Danes’ unique offensive approach that drew the Italian food comparison from Syracuse’s head coach.

“It’s all over the place,” said Desko, Syracuse’s head coach.

“There’s no set pattern to it, it’s all random, so it’s hard to prepare when you don’t know what they’re going to do.”

Orange defender Jay McDermott called it one of his defense’s toughest tests of the season coming up as No. 2 Syracuse (7-1, 2-1 Atlantic Coast) prepares to take on Albany (7-1, 3-0 America East) in the Carrier Dome on Thursday at

leading the pack Here are the teams that average the most goals per game in Division I. 1. Albany 2. Brown 3. North Carolina 4. Syracuse 5. Duke

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Brittney Sykes knew it had happened again the second she collapsed to the floor.

Lying in pain next to the stanchion on the side of the court opposite the Syracuse bench on Jan. 4, her teammates, coaches and the 2,158 fans in attendance all wondered. But Sykes was already certain.

“You go eight months rehabbing, you learn who you are. You learn your body,” Sykes said. “Other than me hearing the actual pop that everybody talks about, you know your body. Once it happened, I went into more of a shock and fear.”

It’s more mental than it is physical at this point. And you have to be a mentally strong person. And she’s that.

Quentin Hillsman su head coach on brittney sykes

Sykes came back for Syracuse on Dec. 28 after tearing her ACL and meniscus in March 2014. She spent her summer waking up at 6 a.m. to rehab.

She hobbled up to classes with a brace and crutches. She sat anxiously at the end of the bench as Syracuse played its first 13 games without her. And just a week to the day after her return — in the second half on a Sunday afternoon matchup against then-No. 4 Notre Dame — it started all over again.

Speaking with reporters Wednesday morning for the first time since, Sykes says the process is the same. She’s doing the same workouts and talking to the same people. Sykes hopes to be back at the start of the 2015–16 season and SU head coach Quentin Hillsman expects her to qualify for a medical redshirt, which would give her two years of eligibility remaining.

“She’s a tough kid. It’s really easy for see sykes page 12