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Hendricks Chapel leaders say Syracuse University is adapting as students redefine modern spirituality and explore nontraditional religious identities. Page 3

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Syracuse University students on the autism spectrum are working to combat misconceptions of autism in honor of Monday’s World Autism Awareness Day. Page 7

Gender and Sexuality columnist C.C. Hendricks recognizes the influence of the #MeToo movement on Sexual Assault Awareness Month this April. Page 5

S • A new team

Fifteen years after playing on Syracuse’s only men’s basketball championship team, Craig Forth has rebranded himself as “Mr. Forth” for his teaching career. Page 12

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Suspended SU student claims bias in lawsuit

Candidates prep for 1st presidential debate

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A Syracuse University student placed on indefinite suspension for sexual misconduct filed a lawsuit against the university last Monday, claiming the investigation into the complaint was biased against him. The plaintiff, referred to only as “John Doe” in court documents, claims he was wrongfully suspended for a September 2016 act of consensual sex that was considered sexual assault by SU. Doe claims his accuser, referred to as “Jane Roe,” changed and fabricated parts of her account of the sexual encounter during the university investigation that ultimately found Doe guilty of misconduct. Doe also claims “inadequate procedures” employed by SU, its Board of Trustees, Chancellor Kent Syverud and other university staff members led to an erroneous guilty verdict. Doe’s lawsuit — the third reported against SU during the 2017-18 academic year with a plaintiff accusing the university of a bias against men when handling a sexual misconduct investigation — comes as colleges nationwide grapple with how to internally investigate and adjudicate sexual misconduct complaints. Some people, including Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, say Obama-era policies guiding colleges’ handling of sexual assault complaints unfairly treat men accused of misconduct. Sarah Scalese, associate vice president for university communications, said in a statement on Saturday the university takes every alleged incident of sexual violence “extremely seriously.” “The University’s process to adjudicate sexual assault allegations is fully guided by federal and state law,” she said in the statement. “Per University policy, we do not comment on the specifics of any pending litigation.” Only Doe’s account of the sexual encounter that led to his suspension is in the March lawsuit. According to court documents, Roe performed consensual oral sex on Doe — then a second-year student — in the common area of Roe’s dorm suite after they left a party together in September 2016. Roe suggested they continue the sexual encounter in her bedroom and asked her roommates to leave, per the complaint. A student witness to the encounter said it was “pretty clear what they were going to do and [Roe] seemed okay with it,” according to the lawsuit. Roe and Doe then engaged in see lawsuit page 4

Candidates campaigning for Student Association president plan to better detail what they would do if elected during the spring’s first SA debate on Monday at 7:30 p.m. in Maxwell Auditorium. At present, three students have declared their candidacies for president: Kaitlyn Ellsweig, a junior political science and economics dual major; John Jankovic, a sophomore political science and psychology dual major; and Ghufran Salih, a sophomore information management and technology.

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Easter Sunday FATHER GERRY WATERMAN helps a Hendricks Chapel congregation renew baptismal vows by sprinkling holy water during the afternoon mass Easter Sunday. Dozens of people attended the Easter masses held at 10:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. paul schlesinger staff photographer

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SU alum returns to LGBT center By Caroline Colvin senior staff writer

khristian kemp-delisser is coming full-circle. Following the departure of Tiffany Gray in October, kempdelisser has been appointed director of Syracuse University’s LGBT Resource CenKEMP-DELISSER ter. Their first day is on Monday. And just like Rob Pusch, the center’s interim director over the past few months, kempdelisser was a part of the 2001 committee that transformed the LGBT Resource Center from a proposal to a reality. “Emotionally, it’s like going home,” said kemp-delisser, who graduated from SU in 2001. “But at the same time, it’s extremely different. It’s been 17 years. I wouldn’t expect anything to be the same after all of that time.”

The bluish-grey LGBT Resource Center house on Ostrom Avenue is a hub for SU’s queer community. Regularly, students who walk up to the center can find a pride flag fluttering from its front porch. Inside is an office space, a kitchen and a living room. Comfy couch seating, shelves lined with queer films and TV shows on DVD, and an all-encompassing rainbow mural. Twenty years ago, this center of programming and opportunities for LGBT-identified students wasn’t nearly the case, kemp-delisser recalled. They said SU’s LGBT climate was good but “burgeoning” in the late 1990s. kemp-delisser had to figure out their identity as best they could with limited resources. “I tend to be an experiential learner who likes to immerse myself into projects that I take on,” kemp-delisser said. “So, it was a personal project of really trying to find myself as a freshman.” Beyond coming out, kempdelisser had a tough time finding a core group of friends, they said.

“I didn’t fit that. I wasn’t a skinny, white boy from an affluent background who liked to party,” kemp-delisser said. “Nevertheless, I did find that there were nerds who were gay. And there were pop fans who were gay. There were really academic but also fun-loving, party-school people who were all a part of our community.” kemp-delisser joined Pride Union and learned more about what it meant to belong to an LGBT social group, they said. It marked the beginning of kempdelisser’s career in improving LGBT campus life. In their junior and senior years, though, kemp-delisser became frustrated with the lack of racial diversity in SU’s visible LGBT community. By then, they had been elected Pride Union president. “I had to be at those meetings because I was an officer,” kempdelisser said. “But at the same time, I would be like, ‘Oh my God, it would be easier if there were see kemp-delisser page 4

Ellsweig said she and Ryan Houck, her vice presidential running mate, want to discuss international student support on Monday night. “We keep hearing that international students want more resources,” Ellsweig said. A recent University Senate budget report noted concerns about the Slutzker Center for International Services’ budget remaining stagnant while international student enrollment has increased by more than 130 percent in the past 11 years.

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Jankovic said he and Serena Fazal, his running mate, want to address gender neutral bathrooms during the debate. The presidential candidate said that, if elected, he would hope to implement an initiative that pushes the university to create more gender neutral bathrooms. SU is currently installing allgender signs at more than 700 singleoccupancy bathrooms on campus. Jankovic also said he wants to improve physical accessibility in some spots of campus, such as the section of stairs between Schine Student Center and Bird Library.

Ghufran Salih

Salih said she and her running mate, Kyle Rosenblum, want to discuss some effects of SU’s $100 million Invest Syracuse fundraising initiative on Monday. The plan includes a $3,300 tuition premium for new first-year and transfer students starting school this fall. The university’s total cost of attendance is projected to be north of $70,000 next year. Salih said she and Rosenblum would push SU to release a specific, detailed cost report of how Invest Syracuse funds are being spent. “Right now it’s a lot of broad buzzwords being used,” Salih said. “It’s really important for students to know what they’re paying for.” sfogozal@syr.edu

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Hendricks Chapel adapts to modern spirituality New York town bans currency mining By Casey Darnell design editor

Syracuse University students sing on Sunday during the weekly Dean’s Convocation in Hendricks Chapel. The convocations include reflection from a diversity of religious, spiritual and philosophical perspectives. hieu nguyen asst. photo editor By Delaney Van Wey senior staff writer

Hendricks Chapel is located in the physical heart of Syracuse University’s campus. It’s pointed out on every tour, dozens of students must walk by it on their way to classes and hundreds of SU alumni have had weddings in the chapel. But when Hendricks Chapel was dedicated nearly 88 years ago, it was meant to serve a greater purpose: to be the spiritual heart of the campus community. During those decades, though, unprecedented change in the way young people have practiced religion redefined campus spirituality. Now, Hendricks Chapel — and the entire faith community at SU — is trying to understand how to engage with students who don’t always follow the rules of organized religion. “It’s not just about walking alongside them, serving alongside them, journeying alongside them, but students show us, in many ways, the future of religious and spiritual life,” said Brian Konkol, dean of Hendricks Chapel. Statistics show many young people at SU and in the U.S. still follow religions such as the Abrahamic faiths of Christianity, Judaism and Islam. About 20 percent of SU’s student body affiliates with Catholicism, making it the largest faith group on campus, Konkol said. But younger people have become increasingly interested in a nontraditional spiritual journey. Peo-

ple less than 30 years old account for roughly one-third of the religiously unaffiliated in the United States, according to a 2017 study by the nonpartisan Public Religion Research Institute. Although Konkol and his team are working on developing more comprehensive statistics about the religious identity of the student body, he said he finds this number extremely encouraging. He said he sees that percentage as the number of students that Hendricks Chapel has the potential to reach. “There is a deep yearning that one’s work and one’s life is more than just a paycheck, but it’s about purpose, meaning,” Konkol said. “All of those things manifest themselves in some shape or form around religious and spiritual life.” Not many students actively seek out religious or spiritual programs at Hendricks Chapel. According to the 2016 Hendricks Chapel Review Report, many students have no idea what is available at the chapel and have never attended an event there. The Hendricks Chapel chaplains, leaders of the denominations under the interfaith umbrella of the chapel, said they recognize that there can be low attendance at some programs. Some of those leaders, though, said they’ve seen how the desire to live an active life of meaning has drawn students to their organizations. Amir Duric, the Islamic chaplain at SU, said young people respond best to direct activism and leadership roles in which they can apply their religious learning to the

real world. He said he sees this both in his own programming and the Muslim Student Association, but also in other Islamic communities he has worked with. “I recognize a revival of spirit and allegiance in these young people because they have the chance to express what they already know about religion and spirituality in a safe space,” Duric said.

Percentage of SU students who self-identify as “spiritual” source: brian konkol, dean of hendricks chapel

The chaplains all agreed on another front, too. They said creating more programming that caters to activism and service will require more human resources, both at Hendricks in general and within specific chaplaincies. Jessica Lemons, interim director of Hillel at SU, said their program is actively working to create and hire someone to a third leadership position to specifically manage programming. Rev. Gerry Waterman, the chaplain of SU’s Catholic Center, also said he struggles to manage his workload with his small team, as did Duric. To help meet this need, the university has created two new positions in Hendricks Chapel. Rebecca Reed Kantrowitz will become asso-

ciate dean, and Peg Northrup will join the chapel’s administration as director of operations. The new hires aim to help the chapel with visibility and communication, both of which were highlighted as key concerns in the 2016 review report. The chaplains also have their own plans for outreach, specifically by creating networks of small groups and one-on-one connections between students. “Jesus didn’t put an advertisement on Facebook,” Waterman said. “... He went to people individually and said, ‘Come follow me.’ It was personal.” Libby Harris, a senior chemical engineering major who was formerly the Jewish representative on the student-led Spiritual Life Council, said she understands why students don’t prioritize religion. She hasn’t always prioritized religion, either. The opportunity to engage with different faiths at Hendricks Chapel, though, helped her better understand how she feels about being Jewish, Harris said. Students of all faiths and no faith could better assess their own spirituality and the spirituality of those around them, she said, if they were more involved at Hendricks. “I can still be Jewish and I can still learn from what Judaism has taught me and what scripture has taught me,” Harris said. “But I can also learn from Christianity and I can learn from Paganism. And that’s what I want for Hendricks Chapel.” -30dovanwey@syr.edu

For decades, the people of Plattsburgh have paid some of the cheapest electricity rates in the country. That changed in recent months, when a surge in bitcoin mining sent electric bills skyrocketing hundreds of dollars. An agreement made in the 1950s guarantees the city a set amount of electricity from a massive hydroelectric dam on the St. Lawrence River. Bitcoin mining operations pushed Plattsburgh over its energy allotment in December and January, forcing the city to buy power on the open market, which is more expensive, said Dale Dowdle, a member of Plattsburgh’s Common Council. In response, the council passed an 18-month ban on new cryptocurrency mines on March 15, citing safety concerns due to the large amounts of heat they produce. Villages and towns in northern New York are considering whether to pass similar measures that would stop cryptocurrency miners from taking advantage of low electricity rates. Cryptocurrencies, such as bitcoin, are digital currencies designed to make transactions more secure through cryptography, the process of converting information to codes that are almost impossible to crack. Bitcoin mining is the process by which transactions made with bitcoin are added to the public ledger, a shared but encrypted list of transactions. At any moment, thousands of mining computers, called rigs, are rushing to complete complicated calculations that add a transaction to the ledger. The miner whose rigs solve the problem first receives a certain amount of bitcoin as a reward. Running mining rigs requires large amounts of electricity, which produce a lot of heat. Dowdle said the rigs get so hot that front doors of buildings are left open in the winter for heat to escape. In Plattsburgh, bitcoin miners were using 10 percent of the city’s total 104-megawatt monthly allotment, Dowdle said. In comparison, the average American household uses 897 kilowatts per month. That means Plattsburgh’s bitcoin mines use the same amount of electricity as almost 12 households. “There’s no opportunities for them (that) I know of to give back to the community in any way,” Dowdle said. “They don’t employ many people.” David Bowman, who owns a bitcoin mine in Plattsburgh, said he and other cryptocurrency miners are working closely with the city to figure out how to prevent residents from paying more than they need to. “The city council and the mayor seemed very willing to work with us, and they were very receptive to some of my friends who are local experts in blockchain and bitcoin,” Bowman said. cdarnell@syr.edu

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kemp-delisser more people of color in this space.’ And people didn’t really get that.” kemp-delisser said it wasn’t until after graduation, when they went to the national Creating Change Conference, that they felt at-home being queer and black. “That was the first time I even knew it was possible To not be conflicted. I made that my goal,” they said. ••• After majoring in newspaper journalism and English and textual studies at SU, kemp-delisser attended the University of Vermont, Burlington to get their master’s and doctorate degrees. For six years, they served as coordinator of assessment and student retention at UVM’s African / Latino / Asian / Native American Student Center. In 2014, they became the director of LGBTQ Initiatives at Colgate University. Beyond their credentials on paper, Pusch from page 1

lawsuit Roe and Doe then engaged in consensual sex, according to the lawsuit. The two exchanged contact information after the encounter, and Roe invited Doe back to her room. Doe did not return to Roe’s room the next day, but met with Roe and her friends a few days later. Doe started hearing rumors that he had done “unspeakable things” to Roe, according to court documents, and he began avoiding her. In mid-November 2016, Doe received an email from SU that a complaint had been lodged against him, alleging code of conduct violations. That email did not include details of the specific conduct violations, according to court documents. Doe would later learn in a meeting with Bernie Jacobson, SU’s equal opportunity and Title IX investigator, that Roe said she consented to vaginal intercourse but not oral or anal sex. Roe allegedly claimed in a later interview with Jacobson that she withdrew consent for vaginal

said kemp-delisser’s personality and work style makes them a good fit for the job. He described kemp-delisser as a calm influence, saying they are not reactive in times of crisis. “They’re very reflective and very thoughtful about how they respond to things,” Pusch said. Dena Bodian, a rabbi and the associate director of Jewish life at Colgate, said kemp-delisser’s personality lends itself well to problem-solving. Chimebere Nwaoduh, an assistant director of resident life at Colgate, recalled her time as a student intern for LGBTQ Initiatives under kemp-delisser. The one-on-one meetings kempdelisser had with staffers stuck out to Nwaoduh. Nwaoduh said that, although she’s no longer a student intern, in the days before kempdelisser left, they still checked in with her and let her know they cared. kemp-delisser is also used to giving their all: As an administrator at Colgate, they were an office of one. But that is the norm at many college campuses with LGBT resources, Pusch

said. He said that, sometimes, there’s only one program coordinator. khristian said they’re looking forward to having a bigger network to support them in their work at SU. They’ll have a team complete with graduate students and undergraduates, along with professional staffers. “It’s new and exciting. It’s also really unusual,” kemp-delisser said. ••• For kemp-delisser, a queer person of color, intersectionality is an important theme in their life and work. Among their favorite documentaries is “Check It,” which follows black gay and transgender kids in Washington, D.C. who form a gang to protect themselves. kempdelisser also enjoys “Kiki,” a 2016 documentary about New York City drag culture. “Those that feature and center the reallife, lived experience of queer people of color are things that really give me life,” kempdelisser said. Nwaoduh and Bodian said kemp-delisser

would hold the LGBTQ Initiatives student interns accountable by ensuring that every student was able to have a seat at the table. “It was so like khristian to not just agree to disagree, but to think really deeply and make the effort to understand someone else’s perspective,” Bodian said. kemp-delisser said the center must consider the needs of people with disabilities when it comes to accessing its physical location. There’s a ramp in the front of the building, but it has stairs leading up to it. They said the location should be changed to an area that’s more accessible to people with disabilities. They said they were surprised to find the LGBT Resource Center is in the same place as it was when it was first established. “We really need to change the location, not only symbolically there on the edge of campus,” kemp-delisser said. “I think it sends a bad message about where we think LGBTQ people and our issues belong.”

intercourse, according to court documents. Doe claims the oral and vaginal intercourse was consensual, and that anal intercourse never happened, per the lawsuit. Doe, in the lawsuit, claims that the first set of allegations were not documented and relayed to him only verbally. When Roe allegedly changed her story, Doe said in court documents there was “nothing concrete” he could reference to point out the variations in Roe’s account. Despite what Doe claims are inconsistencies in Roe’s description of the encounter, and contradictory evidence, Jacobson submitted Roe’s account to the University Conduct Board as “wholly plausible,” according to the lawsuit. Doe also claimed that Jacobson’s investigation was not neutral because of the investigator’s background in protecting the rights of sexual assault victims. Jacobson, a defendant in the lawsuit, did not respond to a request for comment Saturday afternoon. The University Conduct Board determined

that Roe had consented to oral sex, which contradicted her allegation that she had been forced to perform oral sex. The board was unable to determine that anal sex had occurred, though, according to the lawsuit. The board threw out those parts of Roe’s allegation against Doe, but found him guilty of violating the Code of Student Conduct by continuing vaginal intercourse after Doe withdrew consent. Doe appealed the board’s decision, according to the lawsuit. He requested a transcript of the University Conduct Board hearing, which did not include Roe’s testimony or questions asked to her by the board, according to the lawsuit. SU claimed that Roe’s testimony was not recorded because of “technical difficulties,” according to court documents. Students could appeal sanctions if they believed there was a “procedural error that can be shown to have had a detrimental impact on the outcome of the hearing,” according to the 2016-17 Student Conduct System Handbook. Doe claims in the lawsuit he couldn’t challenge procedural errors that may have occurred dur-

ing Roe’s testimony because a recording wasn’t made. Doe also claimed the Appeals Board couldn’t determine the credibility of Roe’s testimony because the recording didn’t exist. After the initial board decision, Doe claims Roe again changed her account of the September 2016 encounter by stating in response to Doe’s appeal that she had been “too drunk to consent to anything.” That statement was at odds with the initial investigation and conduct board’s findings, according to court documents. The Appeals Board did not consider the technical malfunction a procedural error, according to the lawsuit, and the university rejected Doe’s appeal. Doe is demanding a jury trial, according to court documents. Andrew Miltenberg, one of three lawyers representing Doe, was described by Newsweek as a go-to lawyer for male respondents in sexual assault cases.

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pril is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, and it’s time to capitalize on the popularity of the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements to call for substantial change. These movements have drawn much-needed attention to the pervasiveness of sexual harassment and abuse, and more people are recognizing sexual misconduct is a social justice issue affecting everyone — not just women. The National Sexual Violence Resource Center named this month’s theme “Embrace Your Voice!” This theme emphasizes the importance of listening to others and taking personal accountability, which requires diversifying the voices that are privileged in public debate of sexual assault. “For folks who aren’t constantly having the conversation or thinking about the issues, it’s becoming more apparent,” said Tiffany Brec, coordinator of Vera House’s Campus Project. “People are more interested and willing to engage in the conversation, so it’s prime opportunity to do some education and prevention work.” Sexaul assault cases involving local, low-income and otherwise marginalized individuals are often glossed over in favor of cases involving celebrities, politicians or other public figures. Yet, anywhere from 25 to 85 percent of women have experienced some form of sexual harassment in the workplace, according to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. And this number is even higher among service and low-wage industries. LGBTQ individuals also experience sexual assault at higher rates than their heterosexual and cisgender counterparts, according to the Center for Disease Control. LGBTQ college students are also more susceptible to sexual or domestic violence, while transgender people of color are 2.8 times more likely to experience some form of violence via phone or internet,

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according to a 2017 report by the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs. To combat these discrepancies, it’s vital to create inclusive campus programming. “We have to have a balance between acknowledging the reality of the issue and the data around how the majority of victims and perpetrators identify,” Brec said. “It’s extremely important to talk about populations of people that tend to be more vulnerable.” This is why it’s especially important that Sexual Assault Awareness Month events raise public awareness while highlighting the experiences of populations found to be more susceptible to sexual violence. Syracuse University is making strides to raise awareness for the campus community. In February, the university participated in the 24th Annual Vera House White Ribbon Campaign. The month-long campaign encourages supporters to wear a white ribbon or wristband to raise awareness for sexual assault and domestic violence. Similarly, SU community members came together to hear survivors’ stories and collectively speak out against sexual, domestic and interpersonal violence of any kind during the annual Take Back the Night event on Wednesday. Throughout April, SU and community partners have organized Sexual Assault Awareness Month events to raise awareness and engage in outreach for survivors. Organized by the Office of Health Promotion, these events include artistic performances, panel discussions and fundraisers for national campaigns like It’s On Us. Attending such events, listening to survivors’ stories and adding

your voice to the conversations surrounding sexual assault are meaningful ways to observe Sexual Assault Awareness Month. It’s also important that we address the challenges surrounding sexual assault culture by directly engaging with those who criticize or stand in opposition of it. “For the folks who don’t quite understand what the big deal is, or ask, ‘Does this mean men and women can never be alone in the workplace?,’ this allows us to turn those questions into teachable moments and explore the issues a bit deeper,” Brec said. Many critics of the #MeToo movement have equated a zero tolerance for sexual misconduct with intolerance or oversensitivity. In honoring survivors’ stories, we should strive to dismantle these arguments and others that attempt to discredit them or minimize the sexual assault epidemic. We should approach Sexual Assault Awareness Month with the same empathy and resistance that has driven the #MeToo movement and inspired victims and survivors to share their stories. We should also engage in inclusive and diverse conversations that address the personal and social effects of sexual assault. These are the conversations that have always characterized Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Yet this year, in the wake of increased awareness surrounding sexual assault and harassment across all industries and sectors of society, participation in Sexual Assault Awareness Month Calls for greater policy change and action. Time’s up for silencing survivors, regardless of their background.

Faculty respond to letter on facilitated communication Facilitated Communication, though widely discredited, is still being taught at Syracuse University. Rutgers University ethics professor Anna Stubblefield, found guilty of sexually assaulting a disabled, non-verbal man, learned FC at SU. She and others trusted FC because, for some three decades, it has been promoted by SU faculty. In a letter to The Daily Orange on March 26, 28 SU faculty accuse those questioning FC of not respecting the rights of vulnerable groups. This is deeply confused logic. Clinical interventions are tested using double-blind clinical trials. In every double-blind trial, FC failed to demonstrate that it allowed non-verbal autistic individuals to communicate accurately. The International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication concluded that FC shows “messages generated through FC are authored by the facilitators rather than the individuals with disabilities.” There have been over 50 allegations of child sexual abuse as a result of FC. In many of those cases, the child or children were removed from the home, the father was incarcerated and the family used enormous amounts of savings to hire legal defense. This was despite there being no evidence other than the FC accusations. One of the fathers, accused via FC of abusing his autis-

tic daughter, spent 80 days in jail. His two children were put in foster care during that time. There was no physical or other corroborating evidence; the charges were eventually dropped, after the family suffered months of terror. SU has and continues to benefit financially from FC. An internet search documented that SU has received more that $2 million related to FC. Our colleagues who support FC claim academic freedom to do so. Academic freedom was instituted to protect faculty from the negative repercussions of expressing controversial political opinions. The continuing promotion of FC at SU is best seen not a matter of academic freedom, but as the cynical manipulation of the hopes and emotions of families to whom this discredited intervention is promoted. SU’s support of FC represents a serious conflict of interest. It’s shameful that our university continues to benefit financially from a clinical intervention that completely lacks clinical trial evidence for its efficacy.

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IVMF, UU to host ‘12 Strong’ screening By Sandhya Iyer asst. copy editor

JUSTIN ROBBINS sits at his office desk. The two “Emperor’s New Groove” figurines on the shelf were gifts from his mother. Robbins, who was diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder in high school, is now a first-year grad student at SU. kai nugyen photo editor

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s a student at Tufts University, Justin Robbins remembers a girl speak on campus as a member of an autism awareness organization. Robbins found her description of autism to be patronizing and leaving out the perspective of autistic individuals. When he approached her and told her he was autistic, Robbins said she told him that she wasn’t referring to “your kind of autism” — as if she was speaking to a puppy, he said. “Her words are saying, ‘You’re not really autistic, I don’t think you’re autistic.’ But her tone is saying, ‘I definitely think you’re autistic,’” he recalled. Robbins, 23, was diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder during his junior year of high school. In March 2017, he gave a TED Talk on autism. Now, he is a first-

year graduate student in the biology department at Syracuse University. Autism is becoming increasingly prevalent in the United States, and students on the spectrum at SU are working to build community and spread awareness. Social media has helped people with ASD engage, and students not on the spectrum are working to educate themselves by organizing events, including an upcoming autism awareness 5K. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates one in 68 kids in the U.S. are on the spectrum as of March 2014 — the most recent statistic provided. That number is a 30 percent increase from 2012. But Robbins thinks the numbers are hovering around one in 40 today. “Now, there is a term (for when) people start noticing and can be officially diagnosed,” he said. “It’s new that we have words for it, and more people are realizing see awareness page 8

University Union and the Institute for Veterans and Military Families will host a movie screening event on April 13 as part of the D’Aniello Speaker Series. The movie, “12 Strong,” features Chris Hemsworth and is about an army commander who leads a team on a covert mission in Afghanistan following the 9/11 terrorist attacks. “12 Strong” is based on true events. Chris Hemsworth plays Green Beret Commander Mitch Nelson, based off Mark Nutsch, who led a 12-person United States Special Forces team on a covert mission in October 2001. They rode horses “side by side with their Muslim counterparts” to successfully capture the militarily strategic city of Mazar-i-Sharif and overthrow the Taliban in a matter of weeks, according to a UU press release. The mission is widely considered the most successful “unconventional warfare campaign in modern history” and changed the course of the U.S., according to the release. The story is also recounted in the New York Times bestselling book “Horse Soldiers” by Doug Stanton. The Institute for Veterans and Military Families at Syracuse University is co-sponsoring the screening. Through policy evaluation, research and education, IVMF works to improve the lives of veterans and their families. Since 2011, the institute has provided services for more than 90,000 individuals. As a result of the mission, Nutsch earned a Bronze Star. After the movie screening, Nutsch, who is currently a consultant to Special Operations Command, will speak about the experience, how it affected the world and his perspective on “guerrilla diplomats.” The speech will be followed by a Q&A session, per the release. The screening will take place in HBC Gifford Auditorium at 5:30 p.m., with doors opening at 5 p.m. Tickets are $5, and open captions will be provided. ssiyer@syr.edu

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Aside from fireworks and warmer weather, July will bring an indoor hydroponic garden and heirloom vegetables to Syracuse’s owldest commercial district. Originally slated to open this spring, Eden, a farm-to-table restaurant in Hanover Square, will open this summer. The delay is due to a few minor issues with architecture and meeting codes within the 120-year-old building on Genesee Street. Those involved with the res-

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Eden will serve locally-sourced, sustainably-produced cuisine in the old Flagship Securities Building. Partner and Chef Rich Strub said the restaurant will focus on “what the food is, what the ingredients are and how they’re sourced.” Eden has partnered with a number of local farms that share similar values, including Greyrock Farm and Kilcoyne Farm, to source its ingredients. Grey Barn Farm, located in Tully, will provide Eden with specialty heirloom vegetables. Owner Dan Button said his farm is “rooted in

local pride,” with minimal tillage and zero chemical use. Button is excited about Eden’s opening and said the farm is honored to be part of such a unique concept. “Chef Rich has used our products in the past. His restaurant will be an adventure,” he added. Strub’s passion for culinary arts is accompanied by a developing appreciation for sustainability and the processes by which ingredients are produced and procured. He plans to tap into that with Eden. “For me, it’s not just like planting a seed and letting it grow. There’s

a lot more to it than that,” Strub said. “I think that being a chef and being in the food industry, you have a responsibility to look at things ecologically too.” Sustainable agriculture will make its way to Eden in the form of a hydroponic garden, likely in a spot that affords customers the opportunity to learn about the vegetables they’re eating. Strub stressed the importance of knowing the story behind the food. Some of the produce grown in the garden will be harvested for use in see eden page 8

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awareness that word is appropriate for them or someone close to them.” The work of Hans Asperger, an Austrian medical theorist who studied mental disorders, wasn’t translated into English until 1991. In his work, Asperger defined ASD as a cognitive disability, mostly characterized by social difficulties and large interest in particular areas, Robbins said. Robbins added that when he was diagnosed with autism, having a word to describe how he had felt his whole life was affirming. “There’s this idea of protecting us from knowing, but knowing you’re autistic is empowering,” he said. “Not only is it a part of who you are, and you deserve to know, but it’s helpful just in so many ways.” Autism isn’t a new thing, Robbins said, and autistic adults have always been a part of society. Robbins said the biggest misconception about autism today is calling it a disease, because that implies it’s something that can — or should — be cured. “We don’t want autism to be ridden. We don’t want to be cured,” he said. Robbins said there is not a version of himself that could ever exist that was not autistic. He uses the word autistic as an adjective, from page 7

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nightly specials and garnishes, and the eatery will grow its own in-house herbs. Using a portion of Eden’s food waste, a vermicomposting system will produce the system’s fertilizer. The menu will feature “new American” cuisine, which Strub described as regional fare dependent on season. The menu will constantly rotate with a base structure of six to eight starters, six to eight entrees and four to six desserts. Eden will serve dinner five nights per week, Tuesday through Saturday. Strub noted that he’s drawing inspiration from famed Danish chef René Redzepi, who said “when you eat at a restaurant, you

and said having an understanding of his own strengths and weaknesses helps him to understand his body and process things like sensory overloads. When these overloads happen, he’s able to tell himself that it isn’t the end of the world and that it will be OK. Though there are obstacles in his everyday life, Robbins does his best to stay positive. “Autism is not a tragedy. It’s not a sad narrative,” he said. “There are plenty of challenges, I know, but there (are) lights at the end of the tunnel.” Technology has helped people with ASD communicate and socially engage, Robbins said. He used the example of social media, which he said is a huge advantage for people on the spectrum who are non-verbal because they can type. Robbins gave the example of Amy Sequenzia, a successful advocate who is non-verbal and uses technology to communicate. Cleo Hamilton, a second-year sport management major at SU, has used Facebook and Instagram to show his friends and family how well he’s doing at school. Hamilton’s work was published in the online magazine TASH Connections in January. His posts were published in the magazine, which is an international leader in disability advocacy, because they documented his freshman year at SU. “I want to prove that I am continuing (to

stay) focused on my classes so I can finish school here on campus and graduate,” Hamilton said. “Because I want to prove to myself how happy I am — a positive attitude, not a negative attitude.” Michael Scholtz, who is also a sophomore sport management major at SU, loves Syracuse sports more than anything. Scholtz said he enjoys spending time outside and aspires to be a coach for SU Athletics. Scholtz wants to increase autism awareness on the Hill and said he hopes to get more students involved in InclusiveU so the community can learn about autism and why it’s important to be aware. InclusiveU is an initiative at SU to help students with intellectual and developmental disabilities integrate into all aspects of college life. To help spread autism awareness, members of Brewster, Boland and Brockway Halls’ Residence Hall Association are organizing their first 5K walk for autism awareness on Sunday. All proceeds will go to Best Buddies, a global nonprofit fostering one-on-one friendships for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Matt Frisch, a freshman studying entrepreneurship and emerging enterprises and real estate in the Martin J. Whitman School of Management, is one of the organizers of the 5K. “(We’re) trying to make it as inclusive as possible, and it’s just a nice thing to do,” he

said. “It’s a widespread thing, and probably a lot of people know someone with ASD.” The 5K organizers are working to make the walk inclusive by limiting loud noises and not playing music at the run. The route also doesn’t include stairs in an effort to be conscious of accessibility. Robbins is building community through the autistic student group he founded earlier this year. The group, called On The Spectrum, is a confidential space for autistic people to come together. He founded a similar group at Tufts but said it took months to get moving because there was a lack of comparable groups there. At SU, though, since other groups exist for similar needs, he was able to gain traction fairly quickly with On The Spectrum. Robbins said he wants the space to be used as a judgment-free environment for talking about the experiences he and other people with ASD have “on our own terms.” About eight to 10 people are currently in the group, he said. For Robbins, community is important, as it lets him know he’s not alone. “We’re proud of who we are, and we always try to, like everyone, try to improve weaknesses and build on strengths,” Robbins said. “We don’t want to be cured, we don’t want to be fixed. This is who we are.”

should know what time of year it is and where you are.” He will be joined in this endeavor by partners Adam Anderson and Eve De Rosa, who own the building. Both Anderson and De Rosa are researchers and neuroscientists at Cornell University. Anderson studies the neuroscience of human smell and taste and how they relate to emotions, while De Rosa studies the neuroscience of learning and memory. Eden will serve as an opportunity to see their research come to life. “More than a restaurant, we are starting this venture as an experiment in sensory experience,” Anderson said in an email. Last summer, Strub experimented with a custom-made grill and a “fire cage” from Grill-

works, honing his skills with open-flame cooking. The three partners came to the conclusion that every meal at Eden will be cooked over a live flame. “We hope it will serve as an experimental food lab to continuously reinvent itself but around the oldest technology available — live fire,” Anderson said. “Fire leaves an indelible smell and taste, something our evolutionary ancestors would find familiar. In this way, live fire cooking (is timeless), and we wanted it to be central to the eating experience.” As for Eden’s atmosphere, Strub said it will not be “super stuffy” — he’d like it to be the type of restaurant his father would eat at. “My dad is a steak-and-potatoes guy, and I want him to be able to come in here and enjoy

it just as much as a foodie from New York City.” The restaurant’s renovation process can be followed on Eden’s Instagram account. In total, 12 tons of materials have been removed from the former bank vault, including four layers of wall that resurfaced the original brick. The eatery’s penchant for reclamation transcends its cooking. Strub said they are planning to build the bar out of the reclaimed flooring and a few four-by-four timbers that were under the original stage area. Overall, though, Anderson said he hopes Eden adds to the revival of downtown Syracuse. “More than just food, we hope to create emotional and memorable experiences,” he said.

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forth one student, but a student body. “I wasn’t Craig Forth the athlete,” Forth fondly said of his time there. “I was Craig Forth the student-teacher.” That was more than a decade ago, though. Now, with his college days even further behind, it remains the case. Craig Forth the athlete is gone. He graduated in 2005 and then spent a year playing pro ball in Europe learning what he already knew: He wanted to teach. He saw no reason in delaying that. Forth and his wife, Amanda, came home, and he began teaching first grade in his hometown of East Greenbush while also coaching the girls’ JV team at Columbia High School in town. Forth’s aspiration to teach was nothing new. His fourth grade teacher picked him to help out in a special needs class on a regular basis. He loved being able to influence the students’ growth. At home, his younger brother, Jeremy, lived with autism. Forth watched his mother, Maggie, dedicate herself to helping Jeremy when her son had to switch schools a handful of times. The fact that Jeremy struggled to find the proper fit troubled Forth. He wanted to help. That passion steered Forth to Syracuse when basketball presented a path to college. Syracuse became the right choice because there he could earn dual certification in elementary and special education in just four years. Boston College, another top choice, offered a similar program in five. He joined Jim Boeheim’s team and majored in inclusive education. “The core of who he is as an administrator and what he was as an educator, were formed (at SU),” Bull said. “He’s not afraid to be assertive. Never afraid to be a leader.” Those are the qualities Forth took with him when he moved on from first grade and assumed the role of assistant principal at Mechanicville High School in 2013. It was a culture shock, Forth said, to jump that wide of an age gap. The students don’t depend on him as much as first graders did. But it was worthwhile. “I wanted to be able to impact change on a

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grander scheme,” Forth said. “I could change anything I wanted to in my classroom, obviously, in terms of structure and pacing and all that type of stuff, but I wanted to be able to do it at a higher level.” For about four years, Forth worked under Mechanicville High’s principal, Kevin Kolakowski, until being named principal of the district’s junior high school in June 2016. Kolakowski praised Forth’s leadership style, citing a “detail-oriented” approach and an instillment of a “positive culture” that has maintained a productive climate within their 6-through-12 building. “If there’s an issue that arises or if a poor decision is made, it’s not ground and pound,” Kolakowski said. “It is, ‘let us work this out and let’s learn from our mistakes.’” Since starting as principal, Forth’s belief in inclusion has remained. He’s championed anti-bullying efforts and had Mechanicville qualified as a No Place for Hate school, an initiative kicked off by the Anti-Defamation League that now includes more than 1,600 schools nationwide. On a daily basis, Forth is usually sitting in on classes to evaluate teachers or handling student discipline. The latter is when basketball often creeps back into his life. Forth said he usually takes a sports angle with kids because it will help them relate. He recently had a conversation with a student who had lashed out at a bothersome classmate. The situation, Forth explained, was not unlike a low-post battle where a defender is constantly fouling with no whistles and the retaliator is the one who picks up a foul. Otherwise, Forth doesn’t do nearly as much with basketball as he did years ago. He’ll step on a court and play maybe once a year. Any time he does, five-on-five becomes everyoneagainst-Craig. He struggles to find competition that isn’t trying to knock off the former national champ. He attends most of Mechanicville’s games, but that’s more out of duty as principal. He’ll stop by practice here and there to offer help with post moves. But at 34, with three kids between the ages of 1 and 7, he doesn’t have the hours to coach full time anymore. He jokes that his job is where he gets to relax compared

FORTH started all 136 games he played in at SU and ranks 10th all-time for blocks in Syracuse record books with 205. daily orange file photo

to the stresses of being a dad at home. “I’d probably be divorced if I continued to try to coach,” Forth joked. Despite Forth’s dormant game, 15 years later, his basketball legacy remains. The 2003 banner is never coming down in the Carrier Dome. And back at Long Branch, where Forth balanced basketball and the foundation of the future he knew he wanted, another artifact of his former self survives. Even though Forth was there in the fall, he returned for the student-faculty basketball game in the spring, just before graduation. He played with the students. Having “Mr. Forth” make a surprise return

made the gym erupt. At one point, with a move usually reserved for teammates with a chemistry that takes time to form, a student hoisted the ball to the rim. Forth tracked it. He lept, corralled the orange sphere and crushed an allyoop slam dunk in an elementary school gym. “The place went freakin’ bananas,” Bull said. The rim was not made for such abuse. It bent, was removed and is still in possession of one Long Branch’s teachers to this day. “He didn’t have to do that,” Bull said. “He didn’t have to come back.” He wanted to. jtbloss@syr.edu | @jtbloss

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Tritou, Hegab secure doubles point to upset GT By Anthony Dabbundo staff writer

Even after Gabriela Knutson and partner Miranda Ramirez steamrolled the No. 1 doubles team in the nation, 6-2, Syracuse still needed one more win to earn the doubles point. All eyes turned to court one, where Dina Hegab and Masha Tritou trailed. The pair had squandered the 3-2 lead and now had to serve to keep themselves in the set. Tritou used her lanky 6-foot frame to control the net. The combination of Hegab’s aggressive baseline play and Tritou’s net control produced three volley winners for the Orange to level the set at 5-all. Moments later, the pair played yet another pressure filled point as the 11th game of the set went to a deciding deuce point. Hegab forced a missed volley, and SU went ahead for good. On an 18-ball rally, they clinched the doubles point as the ball floated beyond the baseline. After the heartbreak of two close 4-3 losses decided in the final match earlier this season, Knutson and SU closed out a programdefining victory. But Knutson would not have been in position to pull off the biggest upset in school history if not for Hegab and Tritou, who combined to deliver 2.5 points for SU. No. 34 Syracuse (14-3, 6-3 Atlantic Coast) had never defeated a top-10 team in school history prior to Sunday, when the Orange upset No. 3 Georgia Tech (14-4, 6-2) 4-3. “When we stepped on the court we knew it would be close,” Hegab said. “... we knew it could be a 4-3 match.” Like she has done so often this season, Hegab took care of business on court six. With all eyes on Knutson’s tight third set on one side of Drumlins, Hegab quietly took care of business in the opposite corner, winning 6-3, 6-3 at sixth singles. When Hegab clinched the match, she let out

a huge yell, and it took many of the fans a few moments to turn around and realize that SU had just grabbed its third point of the afternoon. Hegab has yet to lose in singles at Drumlins this season, and has played the majority of her home matches on court six. “I definitely feel like I own it,” Hegab said. “This is my court, even in practice.” After sitting out four of the last five matches in singles, head coach Younes Limam made the lineup decision to reinsert Tritou into the singles ladder. She jumped out to an early 5-2 lead, breaking serve twice in her opponents first three service games. She closed out the opening set 6-2 but faced much tougher resistance in the second. Tritou never trailed in the second set, but could not pull away until the final two games of the set. She battled back to hold serve at 4-all and then delivered a break of serve to close out her first singles victory since March 13. “It was a huge team effort by everyone,” Limam said. Even after Hegab’s day on the court was done, she could barely stand still. She looked on nervously, watching as Knutson tried to close out the biggest win in program history. Hegab let out a huge cheer as Knutson served an ace up the middle to clinch the victory for SU. Before Knutson could even shake hands with her opponent, her teammates mobbed her at mid-court. The two shared a moment together, hugging out all of their emotions as the entire team joined in for a celebration years in the making. “Watching someone else makes me even more nervous than playing,” Hegab said. Knutson’s clinching win may have ignited the celebrations for SU, but without Hegab and Tritou, the greatest in Syracuse history wouldn’t have been possible. amdabbun@syr.edu

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defense from the Orange cage. Still, he darted down the hashes. Seconds later, more than 60 yards down field, Simmons hustle turned into a trail check. As Phillips neared the SU cage, the ball popped out of his stick, and Notre Dame’s scoring chance was dead. Later in the game, it was Mellen who collapsed back to the hole. With Syracuse man-down for the second time in just more than two minutes, ball movement had sucked Syracuse’s defense up. Mellen had rotated up from his spot in the bottom right of the zone, leaving attack Brian Willetts from page 12

knutson was something special. “It makes everything I do worthwhile,” Knutson said, “Not sleeping, traveling, just waking up at 6 a.m. to go to practice. It makes everything worthwhile when you have that kind of support from your teammates to win the match.” No. 34 Syracuse (14-3, 6-3 Atlantic Coast), who failed to close two matches earlier this season against Virginia and then-No. 16 Wake Forest in the final moments, did the almost unthinkable on Sunday and beat No. 3 Georgia Tech (14-4, 6-2), 4-3. The Yellow Jackets are the highest-ranked opponent SU has ever beaten. While some players, like Hegab, knew GT was a top-five opponent, Knutson made it a point of emphasis to not know the rankings before Sunday’s match. On Sunday morning, assistant athletics director William Hicks shot Knutson a text. It said, “This is why you work so hard, kick ass.” Despite the tall task, the Orange started the match with strong doubles play in the first and third slot. No. 37 Knutson and Miranda Ramirez dominated No. 1 Hourigan and Kenya Jones from the jump, taking a 5-0 lead at one point, en route to a 6-2 victory. With GT winning sec-

alone on the crease. When the pass zipped down to Willetts, Mellen took off. The redshirt sophomore launched himself at Willets, forcing the attack inside the crease. Again, SU protected its house. “All year we’ve kind of been trying to work to prevent those big waves that other teams have on us,” Mellen said, “and we were kind of noticing throughout the game that a lot of the calls weren’t in our favor so we just kind of said look we have to bear down here.” Syracuse’s defense moved fluidly, sliding when necessary while staying compact in the middle and challenging passes. In the fourth quarter, UND trapped Brett Kennedy with a pick near the restrain-

ing box. Before UND midfielder Brendan Collins attacked the cage, Grant Murphy filled Kennedy’s spot. Collins settled for a shot from the 25-yard line which Madonna denied low. Still, Notre Dame held possession off the rebound, and Ryder Garnsey pressed inside from goal-line extended. Mellen denied access to the crease, pressed his stick down on Garnsey’s hands and forced a pass to go wide of attack Mikey Wynne. Repeatedly, Syracuse forced Notre Dame to send risky passes. One resulted in the first goal of the game, when a failed Notre Dame feed from the X trickled past midfield, leading to an SU fastbreak. Another came on the man-up when Garnsey threw to the

only place an SU defender wasn’t, roughly 20 yards from ball. The gutsy pass didn’t connect with Willetts, and another Notre Dame man-up opportunity fell short. “Fortunately, our man down did a good job of staying tight and knowing who they were,” Desko said. “Notre Dame does a really nice job of moving their people and getting some skip passes, and I think our defense understood that and took away the skip passes today.” By game’s end, it had become obvious. Notre Dame had little room to maneuver offensively. In Syracuse’s best defensive performance of the season, the Orange played by its defensive rules.

ond doubles, Hegab and Masha Tritou faced off late crowd pressure to clinch the doubles point, 7-5, for SU. After Sofya Golubovskaya dropped her singles match, Syracuse led 3-2 with Anna Shkudun on the way to a loss. Knutson, who was on the opposite side of the courts, looked over to Golubovskaya’s match in between points. “I kept looking at the scoreboard,” Knutson said, “so when I saw that (Golubovskaya) lost I was like ‘Oh no, please no.’ I knew it was up to me.” Knutson opened her match by taking two of the first three games with three aces but fell behind after that. After a 2-1 lead, Knutson dropped seven consecutive games en route to losing the first set, 2-6, but blamed the early struggles on her mindset. After falling behind 0-2 in the second set, something clicked for Knutson. She stopped taking soft shots and began to hit aggressive forehands, she said. Knutson opened the third game of the set with two aces and never looked back, she said. Up a break, Knutson hit a forehand slice to the endline and past the arms of Hourigan. Hourigan fell to the ground, visibly shaken up, and began to yell at herself. Behind six-straight games won, Knutson forced the match to a third set. Knutson could not capitalize early in

the third; she fell behind 0-3, down a break. Going into the fourth game in the third set, Golubovskaya’s match ended and everyone’s attention focused on the first singles match. “Sometimes it’s too much,” Knutson said. “Everyone rushed on (my) court and everyone was cheering. I’m like ‘I can’t think or breath.’” Down 1-3, associate head coach Shelley George began to shout in the direction of Knutson. “You got this, right here, right now,” George yelled. At 40-40, Hourigan’s backhand floated long and Knutson let out a holler and a fist pump. She ran to the bench and met with George. At 2-3, Knutson caught Hourigan off her feet to go up 40-15. After Hourigan shook off the slide, Knutson drilled an ace down the middle to level the set at 3-3. Hegab and the rest of SU’s players moved from their individual spots to cheer on Knutson. “Watching someone makes you even more nervous than actually playing,” Hegab said, “That’s how I felt today.” At 4-4 in the third, Knutson saw threeconsecutive forehand winners go up the line as Hourigan went up 40-0. Knutson looked in the direction of George, who motioned her hands up and down to calm her down. After the exchange, Knutson flashed a smile and forced three-straight errors to tie it at 40-40.

With the match’s most-important point pending, Knutson looked at George for assurance. Knutson fought off a strong serve from Hourigan and forced a fourth-straight error to take the game. She fist pumped as the crowd cheered her on. After the winner, Knutson had a feeling that she was going to win the match. “I knew this was my court,” Knutson said, “This is where I train every day, I was not about the lose the match (at 5-4 in the third set). It was mine.” Knutson then drilled four-straight winners to defeat Hourigan and clinch the match for SU. Head coach Younes Limam, who stood in his place after Knutson’s game-winning ace, said the end of the match commotion was more “relief” than joy for him. When the celebration ended, Knutson made it a point of emphasis to approach Hicks. He grabbed Knutson by the arm with a big smile on his face. “I knew you could do it,” Hicks said to Knutson a couple of minutes after the match, “I told you that you could do it earlier.” After the match, Knutson put the win into perspective: “It gives us the confidence to continue this season. I don’t think we’re underdogs anymore.”

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Dynamic duo Syracuse tennis upset Georgia Tech with a clinching doubles win by its No. 3 doubles team. See page 9

Jayhawk faithful What Kansas fans remember about SU’s win over KU in the 2003 national championship. See Tuesday’s paper

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On the move SU men’s and women’s lacrosse should move in Monday’s rankings updates. See Tuesday’s paper

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2018 where are they

NOW?

A BIGGER ROLE Former 7-foot SU center Craig Forth finds calling as school principal

Editor’s note: As the 15-year anniversary of Syracuse’s lone men’s basketball championship title approaches, The Daily Orange is profiling several players from SU’s 8-man rotation. By Joe Bloss

senior staff writer

CRAIG FORTH was the starting center for Syracuse’s 2003 national championship team. He started every game he played in for SU. daily orange file photo

s a hoard of third-graders journeyed down a hall in Liverpool’s Long Branch Elementary school, a two-party conversation far behind the end of the line gained life. One of its participants learned at a pre-K level despite his third-grade placement. His partner in chatter, a student teacher, was a few months away from earning a degree from Syracuse University. The student, like most kids that age, didn’t stand much taller than 4 feet. The student teacher towered at 7 feet tall. Yet there was Craig Forth, a little less than two years removed FORTH from a 2003 national championship season and still garnering celebrity treatment because of it, chatting it up with a child. Not because he had to. Because he wanted to. With ample differences — intellectually and physically — they connected. The conversation leveled them. “They were having a really engaging and honest and true and caring conversation,” said Tom Bull, Forth’s host teacher at Long Branch who now works in SU’s School of Education as the director of field relations. “That’s big-time.” That moment, just a small snippet out of the many weeks Forth spent during that fall 2004 semester at Long Branch, is how Forth — the starting center on SU’s only men’s basketball team to win it all — operates in a school setting. His nearly lifelong belief in inclusivity and desire to educate, which first sprouted in him as a child, are what took him to SU. They’re what drives him now, as he serves in his second year as the principal of Mechanicville Junior High School in the suburbs of Albany. They are what helped him fit in at Long Branch and connect with not only that see forth page 9

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tennis

SU ‘protects the house’ in win

Knutson clinches SU’s upset of No. 3 GT

By Josh Schafer

asst. sports editor

After two-straight losses in which Syracuse allowed a combined 32 goals, top defender Nick Mellen reflected on the rough patch. “We are kind of shying away from the fundamentals,” Mellen said on March 22. “I think we have to get back to executing the simple things we are taught, specifically defensively, just getting back in the hole.” At each practice over the twoweek stretch of losses, coaches asked players in the team huddle to state a basic rule of the defense. The SU defensemen highlighted tactics such as getting back in the hole, meaning

retreating toward their own goal, or fighting over picks. All little things adding up to the defense’s overall goal: “protecting the house,” a term SU uses to refer to the dangerous scoring area right outside the crease. On Saturday, No. 10 Syracuse (5-3, 3-0 Atlantic Coast) limited the No. 7 Notre Dame (5-3, 1-1) offense to its lowest goal output of the season (six) and denied all eight UND man-up opportunities. Syracuse goalkeeper Dom Madonna notched 13 saves while the defense caused nine turnovers. After not holding a team to fewer than 10 goals since its season opener against Binghamton, Syracuse’s defense protected its cage better than it has all season.

“Our guys did a great job,” Madonna said. “Especially inside, there was three or four times when they were trying to cram it inside and guys came down on sticks and didn’t allow them to even get a hand on it.” Syracuse had given up at least a four-goal run in every game against a ranked opponent prior to Saturday. When it looked like the Fighting Irish started a scoring spree, Syracuse didn’t allow it. In the second quarter, after a save by ND goalkeeper Matt Schmidt and outlet pass to midfielder Timmy Phillips, Syracuse’s Ryan Simmons started running. Standing behind the goal line at the time of the shot, Simmons was the furthest SU player see defense page 11

By KJ Edelman staff writer

No. 9 Gabriela Knutson stared at the ball knowing everyone was watching her. She scanned the scene before her final serve. Knutson was in charge of clinching the match for Syracuse — a position she had never been in during her tennis career at SU, she said. But this wasn’t any other match. It was against No. 3 Georgia Tech. Knutson raised her arm and threw the ball into the air. Up 40-0, she smashed the serve straight down the middle of the

court past the outstretched arms of No. 22 Paige Hourigan. Players from Syracuse jolted onto the court, jumping with their arms in the air. The crowd at Drumlins Country Club erupted. Dina Hegab was the first to embrace Knutson as the team followed and linked arms with elation. As the coaches walked over to the crowd of players celebrating, Knutson threw her hands into the air and started to tear up. At that moment, Knutson had not known what she had done for SU’s tennis program, she said, but she knew it see knutson page 11