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Syverud said he was concerned the Saturday release of a second Theta Tau video would cause “further hurt and distress” to the SU community. Page 3

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SU students say Theta Tau videos are the latest example of a discriminatory campus. It’s a culture, they say, that’s

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TAYLA MYREE, an organizer of the Recognize Us movement, wipes away tears as Chancellor Kent Syverud addresses protesters on Friday morning during a sit-in at Schine Student Center. jes sheldon staff photographer

n a 350-word message to the Syracuse University community, Chancellor Kent Syverud acknowledged the university’s shortcomings and pledged to improve. That message came in November 2014 at the end of weeks of protests by THE General Body, a coalition of students and other SU community members upset with what they called a racist and generally discriminatory campus culture. Prompted in part by cuts to a scholarship program designed to improve

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campus diversity, the students organized an 18-day sit-in that fall — Syverud’s first full semester as chancellor — inside CrouseHinds Hall, home to SU’s upper-administrative offices. Syverud said in the message that he admired and respected the students’ passion. He apologized for the way the university had

communicated decisions. He said SU would work to bring “continued action and resolution” to address the students’ concerns. “We will do better,” he wrote to end the message. Three and a half years later, inside Schine Student Center on Friday, Syverud again faced student protesters. In the aftermath of the publication of videos that shows individuals in the house of SU’s Theta Tau chapter — which was expelled by the university Saturday — see campus

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SU will not release student names Recognize Us outlines goals of movement By Kennedy Rose and Daniel Strauss the daily orange

Dean of Students Robert Hradsky on Sunday night said Syracuse University will not publicly release names of the students who are suspended, expelled or acquitted of code of conduct charges in relation to the university’s investigation into the Theta Tau fraternity. During a forum in Hendricks see forum page 7

By the time I found out about the forum here, I had erroneously concluded that it was an opportunity, after the session earlier in the day … for students to be free of my presence. Kent Syverud

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By Sam Ogozalek news editor

The Daily Orange met with four participants of the Recognize Us movement on Sunday afternoon to discuss the group’s long-term goals to address systemic issues of racism and discrimination at Syracuse University. Recognize Us formed in

response to the initial suspension of Theta Tau, the professional engineering fraternity that has since been permanently expelled from SU. It organized a sit-in at Schine Student Center on Friday morning to protest the university’s handling of Theta Tau. On Wednesday night, The D.O. published a video showing see movement page 7

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Activism inspiration Multicultural Greek organizations react to the initial suspension of the Theta Tau fraternity. See dailyorange.com

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Theta Tau coverage Check out The Daily Orange’s continued coverage of the Theta Tau controversy on Tuesday. See Tuesday’s paper

Permanent expulsion The SU chapter of Theta Tau was permanently expelled from campus on Saturday. See dailyorange.com

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SU files complaints against 18 students By Jordan Muller asst. news editor

In attendance KENT SYVERUD, Syracuse University’s chancellor, speaks with a member of the university community at the Dean’s Convocation on Sunday night at Hendricks Chapel. During a forum after the convocation, Syverud only spoke when a student directly asked why he wasn’t at the Wednesday night forum at the chapel after the initial suspension of Theta Tau. paul schlesinger staff photographer

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Syverud responds to 2nd Theta Tau video By Sam Ogozalek and Kennedy Rose the daily orange

Chancellor Kent Syverud on Sunday morning responded to The Daily Orange’s publication of a video on Saturday showing people in Theta Tau’s house miming the sexual assault of a person with disabilities. Syverud, in a campus-wide email sent at about noon, said he was concerned that the continuing exposure to video content of “hateful videos” is causing “further hurt and distress” to the university’s community. The chancellor said the video published on Saturday is part of the evidence SU received that led to its decision to initially suspended the professional engineering fraternity on Wednesday. Theta Tau was permanently expelled from campus Saturday. The university “immediately” referred that evidence “for potential criminal investigation to local law enforcement and for student judicial proceedings.” The video published by The D.O.

We do not reveal evidence in an ongoing potential criminal and judicial investigation so as not to prejudice that investigation and so as not to enable those being investigated to escape responsibility for all of their actions. Kent Syverud

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on Saturday “is not the only evidence, and there are other videos as well,” Syverud said. “We do not reveal evidence in an ongoing potential criminal and judicial investigation so as not to prejudice that investigation and so as not to enable those being investigated to escape responsibility for all of their actions,” Syverud said. “For this reason, I have been constrained in what I could say to date about this incident. “I do not know what videos or other evidence the Daily Orange or other media may possess, and the media are not necessarily subject to the same constraints as I am in

releasing information.” Syverud said he will be “consistent” in his response to the second video. He asked that the SU community reject all that the video represents, and said there is no tolerance for the behavior the video depicts. In the recording, which was obtained by The D.O., a person sits in a rolling chair as three other people block him from view and appear to mimic a scene where they force him to perform oral sex. “He’s drooling out of his mouth, because he’s retarded in a wheelchair,” one person says. “So the hole is already very lubricated.”

In the email, Syverud said words and behaviors in the second video are “appalling and disgusting on many intersecting grounds.” A link to a statement from Diane Wiener, director of the university’s Disability Cultural Center, was also included in Syverud’s email. “In what is an anathema to all that disability activists have striven for at Syracuse and elsewhere, Theta Tau’s video is not only a representation that demeans, dehumanizes and objectifies disabled people, it does so by utilizing toxic masculinity, homophobia, racism and other forms of systemic oppression and violence to accomplish its strategy, hiding behind the false narrative of ‘humor,’ and ‘boys will be boys,’” Wiener said. Syverud also said that he and other high-ranking university officials, including Department of Public Safety Chief Bobbly Maldonado, would be on hand after the Hendricks Chapel Dean’s Convocation for the forum with the university’s community. sfogozal@syr.edu krose100@syr.edu

Syracuse University’s Department of Public Safety and Student Affairs office have investigated and filed complaints against 18 people present at a Theta Tau-sponsored event captured in videos published by The Daily Orange last week. DPS Chief Bobby Maldonado announced the filing of complaints in a campus-wide email on Sunday evening. “Our investigation is ongoing and others may be implicated in the coming days,” Maldonado said. Those 18 individuals have also been removed from academic participation out of an “abundance of caution” and concern for the university community, Maldonado said. Alternate class and study arrangements will be made for those students during the university’s judicial process, the chief said. Maldonado’s announcement comes a day after the university permanently expelled its chapter of the Theta Tau fraternity. Theta Tau was originally suspended on Wednesday after SU confirmed it was involved in the circulation of online videos showing fraternity members engaging in behaviors that Chancellor Kent Syverud in an email called, “extremely racist, anti-Semitic, homophobic, sexist, and hostile to people with disabilities.” Maldonado said the university has not and will not release the videos, but The D.O. obtained and published recordings of two videos on its website. The DPS chief said his office “will not be party” to the distribution of what he called “hateful and hurtful content.” jmulle01@syr.edu @jordanmuller18

theta tau expulsion After The D.O. published a second Theta Tau video showing people miming a sexual assault of a person with disabilities, community members took to Twitter to respond to behavior Chancellor Kent Syverud called “appalling and disgusting.” @MYEOWENS

I can honestly say I cried watching this second video that was released by the DO. As a journalist I am supposed to remain unbiased, but so can no longer hold it in. #ThetaTau @BRENDANP_HALL

I just watched the very sad videos taken at Syracuse’s (nowbanned) “Theta Tau.” Absolutely disgusting. There is no place at @ SyracuseU (or anywhere!) for that repugnant behavior.

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Former GSO leader supports Greek audit During my time as a graduate student at Syracuse University, I had the pleasure of teaching many students involved in Greek life, many of whom were great individuals. I agree with Benjamin Castaneda’s premise that there’s value in Greek life, and that many Greek organizations contribute positively to the SU campus. However, I agree far more with James Franco when he states that we need a wide audit of the Greek community on campus. As a leader

of graduate student government, I heard many stories of systemic issues with substance abuse, hateful and inappropriate speech and other conduct that’s unbecoming of the university. It has been made clear through the multiple suspensions and a multitude of other disciplinary issues that Greek life at SU has contributed to a campus environment that doesn’t reflect the culture we wish to see at SU. If there are good apples in the

Greek community, let them be the loudest in calling for systemic change to prevent these abuses. Allow a third-party audit, in the spirit of seeking change and reconciliation with the wider campus community. Be open to the idea that we can create a Greek system that’s more respectful, responsible and no longer suffers from systemic issues and abuses. The community can tolerate nothing less. Sam Leitermann-Long Former GSO vice president

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SU alumnus calls for Theta Tau members’ expulsions The students who participated in the extremely racist video can be identified for positive proof of guilt. All universities and colleges have a written code of conduct, addressing discriminatory hatred in all forms of spoken words, content and actions. Discrimination isn’t to be

misconstrued and intertwined with freedom of speech. The students identified in the video are guilty — exposing themselves steeped in positive proof of their actions. These students need to be expelled. Norman Schupack Class of 1975

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Readers welcome to offer input on coverage of Theta Tau, beyond Since Chancellor Kent Syverud announced the suspension of the Theta Tau fraternity on Wednesday morning, The Daily Orange has published 33 news stories, 16 letters to the editor, six videos, four editorials and three photo galleries related to the suspension, including two videos that were fuel for the initial suspension. As The D.O. continues to pursue coverage related to the videos and the fraternity’s expulsion, The Daily Orange Editorial Board encourages members of the Syracuse University community to contribute ideas, leads and tips for stories regarding the Theta Tau incident and the larger culture of individual and institutional discrimination on and near the SU campus. The D.O. Editorial Board recognizes the importance of community activism in combating bigotry, prejudice and racism at

the university. We also recognize that our majority-white staff has a limited perspective on stories to explore amid the wave of activism — especially that of the student coalition Recognize Us — that has emerged in the wake of the campus-wide email Syverud sent Wednesday announcing Theta Tau’s suspension. If you’re interested in sharing your thoughts on Theta Tau, oncampus discrimination, institutional racism or The D.O.’s coverage, please consider sharing a 400-wordor-less letter to the editor with our Opinion staff by emailing opinion@ dailyorange.com. The D.O.’s full letter to the editor policy can be found at dailyorange.com/about. If you have any tips or information related to the Theta Tau investigation, feel free to fill out The D.O.’s Typeform at dailyorange. com/about or email our News staff

at news@dailyorange.com. Please also reach out about stories regarding ableism, assault, discrimination, harassment, homophobia, racism, sexism, transphobia — stories that go beyond Theta Tau and demonstrate the extent of hateful acts and sentiments at SU. The D.O. partnered with ProPublica on its Documenting Hate project in November to show the community that we want to share these stories. You can also submit tips through the Documenting Hate form on dailyorange.com. In a campus-wide email Saturday, Syverud responded to the second Theta Tau video published by The D.O., which showed students inside the Theta Tau house miming the sexual assault of a person with disabilities. Syverud wrote that he was “deeply concerned about how the continuing exposure to hateful videos is

causing further hurt and distress to members of our campus community who are still dealing with the last public display of bigotry and hatred.” Department of Public Safety Chief Bobby Maldonado also sent a campus-wide email that evening providing an update on the investigation into Theta Tau, writing: “In addition, my office will not be party to the distribution of this hateful and hurtful content.” The D.O. Editorial Board believes SU community members and those affected by the Theta Tau videos have a right to know about the hateful behavior taking place in a house neighboring Syverud’s own home. We believe these videos are powerful indicators of the extent of the campus’ problem with harassment and discrimination, and we will continue to pursue coverage of that problem, which will be “hateful”

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SU should honor the rights of all students SU Delta Chi chapter condemns Theta Tau The Department of Women’s and Gender Studies joins with the voices of others to express our outrage at the violence and hatred of the Theta Tau fraternity. We want to assert that those of us who aren’t cisgendered, heterosexual, white, ablebody minded, rich and male experience sexist, racist, homophobic, transphobic, ableist, anti-Semitic, xenophobic and anti-Islamic beliefs, attitudes and assaults on a regular basis on this campus. We are in solidarity with the students in the Recognize US movement in saying the actions taken against this fraternity and the plans for diversity, inclusion and implicit bias trainings are insufficient and inadequate. In the wake of the general body’s occupation of the administration building in 2014, certain assurances were

made by the administration that haven’t materialized in ways that have changed the culture on campus. We can no longer wait for action to be promised but not taken. We call for the university to recognize and honor the rights of all students and take measures to acknowledge the costs of psychic, physical and structural violence and to promote social justice in every aspect of the university. We reaffirm our commitment as a department to create and sustain a radically multi-racial, multi-ethnic, multi-faith, antiableist, queer, feminist politics and community on our campus. We condemn all forms of violence, discriminations and any expression of hatred. To all our students, we want you to know we are

resolute in our love and support of you. We express our support — especially to those students who belong to historically marginalized communities, students of color, LBGTIQ+ students, disabled students, religious minority students, undocumented students and sexual assault survivors. We know you have been rendered even more vulnerable and hurt. We reassert our dedication and commitment to building a campus that validates your lives and experiences. You can count on our ongoing fight against all forms of oppression — in the classroom, on campus, and beyond. Our doors are open for all of you. Robin Riley Director, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies

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SU alumna calls for disciplinary action As a journalist, Newhouse School graduate and former Daily Orange writer, I’m proud of The Daily Orange for having the journalistic awareness and integrity to publish the Theta Tau video. That a university-approved fraternity would produce such filth and espouse such beliefs in an academic environment that embraces diversity is beyond imagination.

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Chancellor Kent Syverud took the first step by suspending Theta Tau, but the university’s response cannot stop there. It’s my understanding that the Department of Public Safety is pursuing identification of these young men for legal and disciplinary action. It’s my hope that each and every Theta Tau student involved in the

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creation of this video — and the others currently surfacing — will be expelled from Syracuse University and their parents formally notified of their children’s abhorrent behavior. As long as these youths are enrolled as members of the university’s student body, I’m ashamed to call myself an SU alumna. Ana Hotaling Class of 1990

As an organization focused on molding exemplary gentlemen and respecting the dignity and worth of all human beings, the Syracuse chapter of the Delta Chi fraternity deplores any racial intolerance or degradation of any group of people based on their gender, religious beliefs, race or sexuality. When we invite new members to join our fraternity, we teach them how to be gentlemen in social scenarios and respectful of all groups of people on the Syracuse University campus. By respecting the dignity and worth of all persons, we look for the best qualities of a gentleman who would like to join our brotherhood. We don’t believe a potential new member should be degraded for what he believes in or what he stands for. Diversity is an important factor that makes our brotherhood more unique and genuine, and the fact that there’s another fraternity on campus that openly disrespects many different groups of people is absolutely unacceptable. There’s no place on this campus for any sort of racial, religious or gender discrimination. People come to SU to acquire a world-class education and collaborate with peers of different backgrounds to acquire a worldly perspective on issues while becoming better citizens in the process. Students, faculty, staff and

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visitors shouldn’t have to go through SU with a dark cloud of intolerance and discrimination cast by a single organization, and our fraternity system should work to change this stereotype in order to emphasize how fraternities can positively affect our campus community. With that said, we vehemently detest the actions taken by the Syracuse chapter of Theta Tau, and we recommend that they be given the harshest punishment for their shameful behavior toward people of different religious beliefs, sexual orientations or racial identities. Delta Chi is welcoming of all gentlemen who want to make a positive difference to our fraternity and our campus community, and we won’t stand with another fraternity that holds backwards views on race, religions, genders and sexualities. Our Greek community is defined by the actions of all our members, and we will not be lumped together with an organization that looks to dismantle all the positive strides made by fraternities over the years. If you have any questions about our stand against discrimination or our plan to help create a campus of care and compassion for all groups, please contact our president, Peter Kelemen. The Syracuse chapter of the Delta Chi fraternity

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campus culture using racial slurs, the campus has again erupted in a series of student-led protests. Like those before them in 2014, the students, organized as Recognize Us, are demanding change on a campus they’ve described as hostile to marginalized communities. Inside Schine, Syverud told the students he admired that they’ve shown they care about the community. He apologized to them, this time for not attending a student forum inside Hendricks Chapel the night the video surfaced. He told the students he saw them, that he heard them and that he was “deeply concerned.” “We will do better,” he told the students. Seven semesters after Syverud first made that pledge, students say the problems THE General Body brought to the surface of campus dialogue are still present at SU. In the eyes of some students, the Theta Tau videos are the latest example of a widespread campus culture of discrimination that has not improved since THE General Body’s protests. Students said their concerns have not properly been addressed by Syverud and the rest of university leadership, which is made up of white men at disproportionate rates relative to the student body. “History tends to repeat itself in cycles, and because of that, you have the same things that were happening in fall 2014 in spring 2018 as we are getting ready to walk across the stage and graduate,” said Taryne Chatman, a senior African American Studies major who was a freshman during THE General Body movement. “It’s definitely the same ideology, the same feeling, the same anger.” To reverse the trends on campus, students said they need those in power at SU to engage with students and make sincere efforts to address their concerns, even if that means the university’s image suffers in the short term. “I want people to see us,” said Saumya Melwani, a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. “I want people to stop and listen to us and not disregard us because of our age or the color of our skin or whatever little part of intersectionality they don’t appreciate about us.” ••• he voting members of SU’s Board of Trustees are mostly white men. Eighty-nine percent of the voting trustees — 41 out of 46 — are white-passing. About 75 percent are men. Most are leaders in the for-profit sector who come from big banks, private equity firms, international law firms and other corporate jobs. The board, the university’s central governing body and highest authority, is not fully representative of the university’s student body. Fifty-seven percent of SU students are white and 46 percent are men, according to SU’s CollegeBoard page. Higher education and race experts said a lack of diversity among trustees is likely to result in a campus culture that isn’t welcoming to students who aren’t represented on the board. To SU student activists, the lack of diversity means the board is largely incapable of understanding or addressing the challenges that marginalized students face. “If we don’t have people in positions of power who are educated in these areas and also don’t have colleagues who look like us, the things that are spoken in that room can very much be discriminatory toward the student body,” said Tayla Myree, a sophomore political science and history major and an organizer of the Recognize Us movement. Experts said the number of corporate professionals on SU’s board is consistent with trends in higher education, where wealthy individuals are expected to fill trustee positions because universities need leaders who can provide financial resources. But drawing from wealthy, privileged populations often results in boards that are not sufficiently diverse, said Ronald Hall, a professor at Michigan State University with expertise in race relations. “This is not always a situation where the decision makers want to act out racism or sexism,” Hall said. “People may legitimately deny that they have racist intentions, but the outcome of their decision-making reflects the same, unfortunately.” When boards are diverse, the universities they lead are typically more successful in achieving their goals and preparing students for success, experts said. Boards that are homogeneous are less likely to have the diverse views experts said are necessary for creating a campus climate that is hospitable

During the fall 2014 semester, members of THE General Body staged an 18-day sit-in in Crouse-Hinds Hall to protest decisions made by the Syracuse University administration, including the closing of the Advocacy Center. daily orange file photo

for students of various backgrounds. “Diversity really matters, not just to have diversity, but because of the perspectives that people bring, the experiences that people bring, the questions that people ask, the insights that people have,” said Charlie Nelms, a consultant to the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges and former chancellor of North Carolina Central University. “It’s hard to make the point that we understand what you’re talking about if you don’t have some form of representational diversity on your board.” According to SU’s official mission, the university strives to foster “a richly diverse and inclusive community.” Lisa Dolak, SU’s secretary to the Board of Trustees, said in an interview in early April that enhancing the diversity of the trustees “is very much a priority of the board.” Syverud noted at last week’s University Senate meeting that SU strives to be an “inclusive, student-focused research university.” But some in the campus community see a disparity between that language and the realities on campus. “We talk about diversity. However, where are these voices? And I would argue that they’re crying out, and I would argue that they are visible and that they have always existed,” said Huntly Brown, an SU graduate student in the Pan African Studies program. “My question is, are we allowing these voices who are speaking the necessary visibility and representation? And one must ask these questions if we are indeed concerned about diversity.” ••• ome students have long raised concerns that parties hosted by students of color on South Campus are more likely to be broken up by SU’s Department of Public Safety than parties in the East Neighborhood near Main Campus. Students of color have said they perceive the phenomenon as evidence that they are targeted by DPS. During a Student Associationhosted forum inside Maxwell Auditorium last fall, DPS Chief Bobby Maldonado said the discrepancy comes from the differences between the neighborhoods surrounding South Campus and Main Campus. Maldonado said residents from neighborhoods near South Campus sometimes make noise complaints when South Campus parties continue late into the night, which prompts DPS to stop the parties. “And the demographic of it is that the students who live out there are either Latino or African American in the areas where the parties are taking place,” Maldonado said at the forum. “... I think that’s really one of the demographic issues that has come.” Whatever the genesis of the trend, students said it’s one example of an institutional reality in which students of color and other marginalized students face obstacles that privileged students do not. Students said the university’s environment is generally unfavorable to those groups and that institutional decisions and policies often reflect that culture. In 2015, Syracuse University commissioned a campus climate assessment that found several

groups were less comfortable with the campus environment than their peers. Men reported feeling more comfortable than women. White people reported being more comfortable than people of color. Heterosexual people reported being more comfortable than people identifying as LGBTQ. People without a disability reported being more comfortable than people with disabilities. Students of diverse backgrounds have said the hostility they face on campus isn’t always explicit. Instead, it comes in the form of microaggressions and other subtle types of discrimination. “It comes to the more invisible things,” Melwani said. “Bias you can feel.” In other cases, students said there are overt instances of discrimination, such as institutional funding decisions that some say disproportionately benefit white students and detract from the experiences of students of color. One of the university’s first moves under Syverud was to discontinue most of its Posse program, a scholarship program that recruits students from various urban areas. The national initiative is designed to improve the diversity of college campuses. Alanne Stroy, a senior in the College of Visual and Performing Arts and a Posse scholar, called SU’s decision to defund Posse “heartbreaking.” SU recently launched a campus-wide review of all its academic programs to assess the cost-effectiveness of each program. Some programs are likely to either be cut or merged. In a report presented to the University Senate last month, the Senate Committee on Diversity stated that its members are concerned about the potential consequences the review process will have on ethnic studies programs. Students have also said they believe SU’s cultural centers are understaffed, including the Office of Multicultural Affairs. At the SA forum in Maxwell Auditorium last fall, one student asked if the university planned to increase funding for that office through Invest Syracuse, a $100 million initiative meant to fund the goals of the university’s Academic Strategic Plan. Dolan Evanovich, SU’s senior vice president for enrollment and the student experience, was noncommittal. “We’re working with a donor, we’re working to get financing,” he said. “It’s not part of Invest Syracuse money.” Some community members said they believe the university’s fiscal decisions are reflective of their priorities. In recent years, SU has spent millions of dollars to beautify the campus. In 2016, SU constructed a $6 million promenade that runs along University Place in front of Schine, Bird Library and the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. Now, it’s making $50 million in renovations to Archbold Gymnasium, which will reopen in 2019 as a state-of-the-art wellness and recreation complex. “There’s definitely a sense that what this board wants to do is turn the campus into a kind of sheltered enclave for wealthy students from families where their biggest concern is whether ‘Johnny’ is going to get hit by a car crossing the street outside of Newhouse,” said Harriet Brown, a professor of magazine

journalism and former chair of the Senate’s diversity committee. ••• rom Syverud to the leaders of the Recognize Us movement, there has seemingly been uniform agreement in recent days: Change is needed on campus. At the Senate meeting last week, Syverud said the university needed to take steps to improve the campus culture and do so “fairly quickly.” Students said they have heard similar rhetoric from Syverud and other officials before, including during communications between THE General Body and the university’s administration. This time, students said, they want to see action from SU leadership that will result in permanent, tangible change. To start, students said, they want opportunities for substantial engagement with SU’s most powerful players. The Recognize Us group has demanded that the university organize a town hall discussion with Syverud and members of the Board of Trustees, an often inaccessible body for students. “All these emails are childish,” said Stroy, the Posse scholar, in reference to university leaders often making statements to the community via email. “Until your person of power speaks up, why are we speaking up?” Students have also called for specific policies and decisions to be implemented. Myree, the Recognize Us organizer, said she would like to see SU punish the individual students in the Theta Tau videos. If they aren’t expelled, she said they should at least be required to have bias training. Chatman, the senior African American Studies major, said he’d like to see similar training required for faculty members. Students have said some faculty members lack cultural competence and understanding of marginalized students’ experiences. SA President-elect Ghufran Salih has said she hopes to push SU to institute a universitywide diversity requirement that encourages students to take courses in African American Studies, LGBTQ studies or other identitycentered areas. “Something of that sort to broaden their mind and make them a little bit more sensitive to the people on campus,” Salih said. “If it was encouraged by the school to go out there and learn, it will definitely help, not only on campus but in the future. Because you’re going to run into people who don’t look like you, don’t think like you, don’t talk like you.” Students have also requested that SU make efforts to hire a more diverse faculty and make changes to the First Year Forum that students are required to take. Student activists said their goal is to evoke systematic transformations to the point that, in four years, students won’t have to again protest and make demands similar to the ones made first by THE General Body and now by the Recognize Us movement. Said Melwani: “If you brush this under the rug, every other kid who thinks like (the Theta Tau members) is going to be like, ‘I can get away with that.’”

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forum Chapel, Hradsky said: “The law prevents us from providing any individually identifying information, so we wouldn’t be able to say ‘Student X received this particular sanction,’ but perhaps we may be able to do something more broadly.” He said he would need to see if providing that information would be in violation of the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act, a law which protects personal information in student education records. About 100 community members attended the meeting in Hendricks Chapel. More than 400 people had previously packed into Hendricks Chapel on Wednesday night after SU’s initial suspension of Theta Tau. The professional engineering fraternity was permanently expelled from campus on Saturday. Complaints have been filed against 18 memfrom page 1

movement people in Theta Tau’s house using racial slurs, including anti-Semitic language. The D.O. published a second video Saturday night showing people in the house miming the sexual assault of a person with disabilities. Here are three takeaways from The D.O.’s interview with Recognize Us participants.

The movement isn’t just about Greek life

Liam McMonagle, a sophomore broadcast and digital journalism and political science dual major, said Recognize Us’ goals of campuswide change go beyond Greek life. “Although we do want to see Theta Tau be reprimanded and people in the video be reprimanded, we are trying to change the culture on campus that made them feel comfortable doing that on video,” said McMonagle, a movement participant. Danielle Lippman, a junior human devel-

bers of the fraternity, Department of Public Safety Chief Bobby Maldonado announced in a campus-wide email on Sunday afternoon. That investigation is still ongoing, Maldonado said at the forum, and no criminal charges have been filed against Theta Tau members. Priya Penner, a sophomore political science and citizenship and civic engagement double major, asked administrators at the forum about who makes up the University Conduct Board, the body that handles Student Code of Conduct violations at SU. Hradsky said the body is composed of students, faculty and staff who are chosen through an application process and are trained in areas such as sexual and relationship violence, as well as harassment. Audience members, upon learning they were able to apply to serve on the conduct board, said they hoped the university would make it public when applications for positions open because they were interested in applying.

Chancellor Kent Syverud, who also attended the forum, addressed his absence from a student forum last week and committed to meet with students on Wednesday during a town hall, following the expulsion of the university’s Theta Tau fraternity chapter. Syverud attended a forum last Wednesday afternoon following the suspension, but did not attend the second forum that evening, prompting the circulation of the hashtag #WheresKent. When asked directly by Vishwas Paul, a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences, on Sunday why he did not attend that Wednesday night meeting, Syverud said he should have attended the meeting and apologized. “By the time I found out about the forum here, I had erroneously concluded that it was an opportunity, after the session earlier in the day … for students to be free of my presence,” Syverud said. “It was a mistake and I apologize.”

Students staged a sit-in in the Schine Student Center on Friday morning to protest the university’s handling of Theta Tau’s suspension, disrupting an accepted students event. The chancellor briefly attended the sit-in and addressed students about his absence, apologizing but not explaining why he did not attend the forum. At the protest, students and community members demanded that Syverud, the Board of Trustees, administrators and deans host a town hall with the campus community by Wednesday at 11:59 p.m. Syverud, at the forum Sunday night, said he would attend a town hall on Wednesday at 7 p.m., but did not specify a location or if other university officials, including the Board of Trustees, will also be in attendance, at that time.

opment and family studies major, said the videos show that Theta Tau fraternity members didn’t think twice before using language such as n*gger or sp*c because they were comfortable doing those things at SU. “Now that there’s a video we have a chance to point to it and say ‘Look, there’s the culture in a nutshell,’” McMonagle said. He added that Recognize Us is not protesting Theta Tau, but “protesting the culture that allowed Theta Tau to do that.” “When we say this is everyone’s movement, we mean everybody,” said Isabella Leon, a freshman communication and rhetorical studies major, who stressed the group’s emphasis on inclusivity.

Lippman said. “His emails, he’s a lawyer, and you can tell that when he speaks, like he is very vague, very scripted. I want him as a person, to speak from the heart and to recognize that this is an issue,” Leon said. In an interview with The D.O. on Saturday, Syverud said he met with student leaders on Friday to discuss Theta Tau. McMonagle said as far as he knows, none of Recognize Us’ organizers were present for that meeting. “That was a meeting yesterday of student leaders from various organizations including Student Association, Hillel, Greek leaders, leaders from African American students, students among, students with disabilities, and so on,” Syverud said at the time. But Lippman said the chancellor has not mentioned Recognize Us by name once. “Like, he says things like ‘protesters’ or ‘marginalized students,’” McMonagle said.

Quincy Nolan, a junior communication and rhetorical studies major, said intersectionality is at the core of the group’s movement. Intersectionality is an overlapping of individuals’ identities, such as race, sexual orientation and socioeconomic status. Nolan said Recognize Us is focusing on all identities and marginalized groups. McMonagle said an example of the university’s lack of recognition, in regard to intersectionality, is the LGBT Resource Center’s inaccessibility. “What that says to us is … you cannot be queer and in a wheelchair, and that’s not correct, we have students that are,” McMonagle said. And, as a result, he said the group is seeking long-term, “generational” change. “Until someone can arrive on this campus as intersectional as you can possibly be, until someone is here that is every type of marginalized group wrapped into one and that person feels safe and secure, then we’re not done,” McMonagle said.

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Lippman said Recognize Us is not giving Chancellor Kent Syverud a round of applause. The movement is supportive of Syverud’s Saturday announcement that SU had permanently expelled Theta Tau from campus, she said. But the group’s work isn’t done,

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Accepted students walk by Recognize Us protesters outside the Carrier Dome, where they rallied against SU’s handling of Theta Tau. paul schlesinger staff photographer

CAROLINA SANCHEZ DE VARONA spoke during the Schine Student Center sit-in. She said she’s never truly felt at home at SU. paul schlesinger staff photographer

BRIAN KONKOL, dean of Hendricks Chapel, gave a speech about the meaning of sanctuary during his convocation on Sunday. paul schlesinger staff photographer

HAYLEY BERMEL (LEFT), PERRINE WASSER AND LINDSEY DIERIG carry a banner and march to the Carrier Dome on Friday. paul schlesinger staff photographer

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Lawrence Moten SU basketball legend returns to the court to mentor Syracuse youth weekday afternoon, where he shares insights to help the youth both on and off the court. He also volunteers as a mentor at Clary Middle School. urrounded by squeaking shoes, bouncing basAt the club, he leads a pre-snack prayer to teach the ketballs and laughing children, kids about gratitude. He checks their Lawrence Moten sat on a set progress reports, which track school of bleachers and surveyed the behavior and grades. At Clary Middle gym at the Boys & Girls Club earlier this School, he sits in an office and welmonth. About 15 children were in the comes students in for one-on-one and You always have to gym on East Fayette Street that Wednesgroup mentoring. He eats lunch with be prepared to try day afternoon. his “lunch bunch.” He talks with them He smiled as he scanned the court, to do the right thing, about basketball, school and respecting watching basketballs float toward baskets one another. try to stay positive. and children chase after rebounds. As he Moten spends his time volunteertook his eye off the court, a stray ball hit ing in part because of a promise he Every single day. Moten. He yelled across the gym that he made to his mother, Lorraine BurLawrence Moten was doing an interview for a paper, and he gess, who died five years ago. It’s a didn’t want a rogue basketball hitting him promise he intends to keep. in the head to throw him off track. “My mother always told me, when “This is my crew, man,” he said moments later. On the I got (to Syracuse University) as a student: ‘Just don’t court, he’s known as “Coach Mo.” stay up over on that hill. Look at the people in the Moten is a Syracuse University men’s basketball town,’” Moten said. “‘Get to know the people in the legend –– he’s the all-time leading scorer, and his jersey town.’” was retired in March in the Carrier Dome. He also A star player out of Washington, D.C., Moten arrived volunteers at the Boys & Girls Club for three hours every see moten page 11 By Matthew Gutierrez senior staff writer

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KRISTEN UNANGST has been part of the Otto mascot team since her freshman year. The senior was revealed as Otto during the last SU men’s basketball home game of the season in March and will work in Cleveland after graduation. alexandra moreo senior staff photographer

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he Carrier Dome echoed with Kristen Unangst’s laugh as Otto tossed her a football at 8 a.m. After a quick game of catch, Otto challenged Unangst to balance the ball on her nose — something Otto mastered. With some help from her orange friend, Unangst suspended the football on her nose for a few seconds. Unangst was one of six seniors revealed as Otto in the Dome during the final home men’s basketball game in March. Throughout her four years at Syracuse University, Unangst — a senior finance and supply chain management double major — has embedded herself in the community both in and out of the Otto suit. She’s vice president of Phi Sigma Pi honor fraternity and on the lead team for University 100, SU’s student ambassador organization. She’s also involved in

Traditions Commission and mentors seventh grade students once a week. After all, a student’s job at college is to learn and take advantage of every opportunity possible, Unangst said. “Syracuse pulls you in a million directions,” she said. “Everything I’ve done here, I’m representing Syracuse and (doing) it in a positive light.” If Unangst feels overwhelmed, it’s only for a moment, said Angie Pati, a senior neuroscience and psychology double major and Student Association vice president. “She loves everything she does so much. She knows it’s changing a lot of people’s lives, and she’s always working toward a good cause,” said Pati, who is Unangst’s roommate. Unangst took on her first Phi Sigma Pi leadership role sophomore year as the fellowship chair and found her voice by challenging things for the betterment of others, Pati said. As a member of the leadership team and a

tour guide for U100, Unangst looked to recruit “the most incredible” students to SU — not necessarily for who they were on paper but who they were at heart, Pati said. “She not only knows what it I’ve never felt means to be an so specifically Orange, she knows what it means to be connected, as myself, a citizen of a proas a person, to a place gressive, inclusive, ever-cha ng ing as I do in Syracuse. world,” Pati said. Kristen Unangst No matter the situation, Unangst makes sure to support her friends and community members with a smile, said Caitlin O’Hara, a senior accounting and finance double major in the Martin J. Whitman School of Management. O’Hara remembers a moment when she was see unangst page 11

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moten at Syracuse in 1991. He built a distinguished career for himself, scoring more points than anyone in Big East Conference history with 2,334. He played 11 seasons professionally, including three in the NBA. After working as a physical education teacher in the D.C. area, he returned to his so-called “second home” in Syracuse a few months ago. As a child, Moten spent time at Boys & Girls Club gyms in D.C. He used to spend hours at different schools and clubs, telling himself that he was on tour. He visualized himself developing into a basketball star. He grew up on 26 Q St. Northwest and was raised mostly by his now 91-year-old grandmother, Grace Ellison. His grandmother repeatedly told him to never think he was better or worse than someone else, regardless of his basketball capabilities. She told him to take care of his family, do what makes him happy and not forget where he came from. “You can be anything you want to be,” Ellison said. “Race doesn’t matter in life — just be the best person you can be.” Every day Moten calls Ellison to tell her how much fun he had with the kids. From his mother and grandmother, Moten learned “respect,” which is now a word he uses frequently with the Boys & Girls Club kids in everyday conversation. “I appreciate teaching and motivating these youths,” Moten said. “It’s important because I remember being in the Boys & Girls Clubs when I was ... a little kid in Washington, my grandmother supporting me. It made me question, ‘Do I really love this game? Basketball? What do I want to be in life?’ You have to see yourself doing well.” Freddy Jimenez, an assistant at the Boys & Girls Club, said Moten’s lessons at the club extend beyond the basketball court. Jimenez said that when Moten takes a break to grab a snack or say hello to a visitor, the children get antsy. They need Moten’s guidance, he said. “He’s been here in the kids’ shoes,” Jimenez said. “A lot of these guys may not

LAWRENCE MOTEN spent time at Boys and Girls Club gyms in D.C. when he was younger. He imagined becoming a basketball star, and has since scored the most points in Big East Conference history. alexandra moreo senior staff photographer

have that belief that they can get out of where they’re at. It’s a pretty rough area. Put it this way: We don’t see a lot of male figures in their families. Not all of them, but most of them, when they get picked up, it’s usually moms.” Moten stressed the importance of having the kids he works with broaden their perspectives, regardless of where they’re from or who they are. “Just don’t be stuck. Even with these youths, I love them, but they just know the Eastside,” he said. “They don’t know the Northside, South Side, Westside. They’re stuck in their own little borough. We try to have them understand that you can have

friends from all over.” From 2015-16, Moten served as assistant coach at Division III Gallaudet University, a college for deaf and hard-of-hearing students. He picked up some sign language there. Moten played in a wheelchair celebrity basketball game in Utica last Thursday. He said his future goals involve coaching or working for Syracuse Athletics in fundraising. At the club on Wednesday afternoon, a boy approached Moten and smiled while he showed him an improved progress report. Another girl’s T-shirt read, “Kindness is power.” The rest of the kids were playing pickup basketball.

“Pick and roll!” Moten yelled. “Go go! All the way!” “Great move!” “Head up! Head up!” Moten blew his whistle. “Always keep your head up, Miles.” “Good job today, man,” Moten said, the sound of laughter filling the gym as he jogged to the other side of the court. He reached out and gave another high-five to a boy. “Every day is an audition,” Moten told him. “Whether it be sports or whatever, you never know who’s watching. You always have to be prepared to try to do the right thing, try to stay positive. Every single day.” mguti100@syr.edu | @Matthewgut21

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unangst stressed about Whitman’s core curriculum, something her and Unangst took together. Instead of talking about her own frustrations, Unangst comforted O’Hara about a class that she too felt stressed about. It wasn’t until a week later, O’Hara learned, that Unangst was equally overwhelmed. “She could be going through anything but will put on the biggest smile even if she’s going through something herself,” O’Hara said. It brings Unangst joy when she does something for someone else, said mascot coach Julie Walas, who is also the director of student and alumni engagement in the School of Information Studies. Walas said Unangst had to make some tough decisions as Otto — a Division I athlete. For Unangst, it was important to balance relationships between teammates and her outside friends, who were in the dark. She hadn’t told anyone she was Otto until her reveal this spring. “Sometimes it’s easy to focus on the negative, but Kristen never takes that road,” said Walas. “I look to her to help me keep the team seeing the positive side of things.” Unangst was the most valuable player on the mascot team this year because she “drives everyone together,” Walas said. Even though Otto has traveled all over the country, Unangst’s favorite moment in suit wasn’t one in the sports spotlight. As a community figure, Otto attended a foster care adoption day celebration where the children hugged and jumped on Otto in excitement. “The suit is humbling,” Unangst said. “I do it for my team and the people that support Syracuse.” One of the most important moments in her college career was finding out she was going to be Otto. Since she’s an open book, it was hard for Unangst to keep this secret from her friends. When she got the call, Unangst went to a small patch of grass next to the Physics Building and Gate E of the Dome to call the only people she could share the news with — her parents. She then danced in place, told herself to breathe and walked back to the dorms like nothing happened.

KRISTEN UNANGST had to keep her role as Otto a secret from friends. When she was notified she’d be Otto, Unangst called her parents, who were the only people she could share the news with. alexandra moreo senior staff photographer

When it came time to tell the world she was Otto three and a half years later, the world was there to support her. Unangst’s family and friends, including Pati and O’Hara, held handmade signs and a giant head cutout of her. After Otto’s friends were revealed, everyone cried and cheered at the same time, said Kristen’s mom, Linda Unangst. “It was a proud moment,” Linda said. “Every moment you think is the proudest, and then there’s more.” After four years at SU, Unangst has no “shoulda-woulda-coulda” moments, Linda said. To make it all work, Unangst only takes on commitments she can fulfill and relies on her friends and family for support.

“I’ve been realizing lately that if you want to improve yourself, think about what you actually want to improve for yourself, not what other people are thinking you should improve,” she said. Unangst said she believes it’s important to be the best person you can be for yourself and to do what makes you happy — something she expresses through her wardrobe. Pati describes a classic Unangst outfit to include Birkenstocks, frilled sunflower socks, mom jeans, a Life is Good T-shirt and a sunflower choker with her hair in two mini buns. “She’s self less and hysterical and absolutely out of her mind, and there’s no better characteristics you want in a best friend and a roommate,” Pati said.

“There’s no bad day when Kristen Unangst is around.” After graduating, Unangst will work with Eaton, a power management company, for a rotational program that starts in Cleveland. Along with learning about finance, accounting and supply chain, Unangst is interested in children, the environment, homelessness and mental health and is looking forward to working at “a variety of places.” “I’m excited to see what (happens) with SU and to be involved as an alum,” Unangst said. “I’ve never felt so specifically connected, as myself, as a person, to a place as I do in Syracuse.” - 30 malansat@syr.edu | @myellelansat

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Syracuse comes back from early deficit, beats NCSU 4-3 By Anthony Dabbundo staff writer

No. 27 Syracuse (16-8, 8-6 Atlantic Coast) closed out its regular season with a comefrom-behind 4-3 win over No. 33 North Carolina State (16-13, 7-7 ACC) on Sunday afternoon in Raleigh. After the Wolfpack thrashed the Orange in doubles, and Miranda Ramirez lost, SU trailed 2-0. But the Orange picked up key points in close singles matches to finish the regular season on a high note ahead of the ACC Championships on Thursday. While doubles have been a strong point for from page 16

big run resume. Syracuse opens with two-seed North Carolina, a team it lost to 20-11 on April 14. But entering Sunday, SU was firmly on the NCAA tournament bubble. By RPI as of April 15, factoring in automatic bids, SU was one spot short of the 26-team tournament field. “(A loss) would’ve made Carolina an absolute must-win or your season is ended,” Gait said. Offensively, Syracuse seemed to get whatever it wanted in the first half. Even with Hawryschuk face guarded, SU got open looks. But misses allowed Louisville to stay in the game. With less than 10 minutes left in the first half, Alie Jimerson worked behind the net

the Orange all season, the Wolfpack grabbed an early 3-1 lead on each court. As SU’s top pair of Gabriela Knutson and Ramirez battled back to level the set at four, the other pairs lost quickly. Anna Shkudun and Sofya Golubovskaya lost 6-1 at second doubles, and just minutes later, Dina Hegab and Masha Tritou lost 6-1 at third. Ramirez entered this match fresh off her first singles win in a month. Sunday, she battled No. 94 Adriana Reami, and never managed to grab a foothold. Reami defeated Ramirez 6-0, 6-2 to give the Wolfpack a 2-0 lead. Once Reami closed out the match, SU trailed on three other courts. Two of those would have to flip for the Orange to pull out the victory.

Dina Hegab put the Orange on the board with a comfortable 6-0, 6-3 win at fifth singles. Libi Mesh trailed 3-5 in her opening set but rallied to win the final four games of the set. Mesh controlled the second set, grabbing the crucial break to win 6-3. Once Mesh won her match, the score was tied at two, with three matches close in final sets. Of Shkudun, Golubovskaya and Knutson, two needed to pull out victories for the Orange to win its first ACC road match outdoors this season. Golubovskaya wasted an early 2-0 lead in the opening set, losing 6-3. She rallied from a set down at third singles to deliver the third point for Syracuse. Gol-

ubovskaya overcame the ups and downs of the match to win 3-6, 6-3, 6-2. Like Golubovskaya, Knutson gave away an early lead in the opening set and had to come from behind. Knutson led 4-2 in the first and lost four consecutive games. She won a second set tiebreaker and remained on serve in the third until grabbing the break to close out the match, 6-3. For the second time this season, Knutson provided the clinching point in a win over a ranked opponent. Syracuse will remain in North Carolina in this week ahead of the ACC Championships, which begin on Thursday.

and Riley Donahue cut toward the goal. The seniors looked to set up a Senior Day assist and goal. But Jimerson’s dish wasn’t handled by Donahue, and the Orange was left wanting. To begin the second half, Syracuse scored first. SU’s lead was three. Then Louisville woke up, temporarily. Caroline Blalock scored, and Ally Hall followed suit for the Cardinals. Emily Howell rifled a free-position shot past Asa Goldstock. The game was tied at 8-all. “When the other team started putting a few goals right in the beginning of the second half,” Carter said, “we knew we had to put the game away.” And that’s when the Orange’s top goal-scorer spoke to Gait, SU men’s lacrosse all-time leading goal-scorer. When Hawryschuk broke

the 8-8 tie with her first goal of the game, SU’s offense found its groove. “The second we got the first goal that started the run, we knew we needed to get the run going,” Hawryschuk said. Donahue scored soon after to give her sole possession of seventh place on SU’s alltime goals list. Then Neena Merola scored for the second time. And Julie Cross, who spends almost all of her time on the field for Syracuse taking draws, ran a give-and-go with Vanessa Costantino, which culminated with Cross snapping her shot past Ball to make it four-in-a-row. In less than nine minutes, SU had gone from tied to 12-8. The Orange eventually scored the final 11 goals in a previously tied game.

Louisville had no response. The game turned into a blowout so quickly that, when Nicole Levy had an open look in front of the net, she didn’t just slot it past the goalie. Instead, she pivoted away from goal and shot backward between her legs. The shot, which Levy said was “just for fun,” summed up how easy the game had become for Syracuse. “Once (the run) started three or four goals,” Carter said, “we had a lot of fun.” Missing the NCAA tournament wouldn’t be as fun for the Orange. Last Tuesday, Gait said Syracuse just had to get in there to do damage, comparing his team to SU men’s basketball. A big second-half run on Sunday kept alive the Orange’s hope of doing just that.

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romero combined in Saturday’s doubleheader against the Wolfpack, SU’s offense came out scorching hot. Hansen led off the bottom of the first with a solo home run to right center field. With two outs and runners on first and second, Rachel Burkhardt singled to drive in Holmgren, and, after a throwing error by right fielder Angie Rizzi, Gabby Teran came home. A batter later, Michala Maciolek drove in Burkhardt to give the Orange a four-run lead. “We looked at a little bit of film last night, things we could do a little better, some counts we could be more aggressive in,” Bosch said about SU’s big day at the plate. “When you see a pitching staff a second or third day, you’re going to have some better swings. That’s what you saw.” The Orange’s strong hitting performance was equaled by Romero’s pitching. Coming off a career-high 16 strikeouts in the first game of Saturday’s doubleheader, Romero struck out five of her first six batters. The only hit the sophomore allowed came in the top of the third, when N.C. State’s Cheyenne Balzer drilled the ball into Romero’s thigh before it traveled into the outfield. After a brief stoppage, Romero continued. Her thigh “didn’t from page 16

blueprint targeting Nicole Levy — the Orange overcame it when it needed to, capturing its first conference win leading into ACC Tournament play. Louisville was determined in its game plan from the get-go. Starting from the opening whistle, Blalock identified Hawryschuk and never left her side. Even on the sideline, Blalock locked her eyes on a motionless Hawryschuk, who was away from the action having conversation with SU head coach Gary Gait. “You just get used to it,” Hawryschuk said. “You just know that she’s going to be there.” The Orange has had plenty of time to get used to it. The formula has been used against SU before, when opponents held Nicole Levy without a point in three of the last five games before Sunday. During a recent practice at Ensley Athletic Center, SU players went through the motions of a drill that mimicked those game situations. The Orange set up plays for Levy to receive the ball cutting across the net, giving her space to contribute despite having a defender locked at her hip. Levy cut across again and again, but in a drill that featured her, sometimes she struggled to get a hold of the ball. “We practiced that all week,” said Molly Carter, a freshman attack. “So we were prepared for anything they might do.” But then the Cardinals came with a game

ALEXA ROMERO struck out 11 batters on Sunday and allowed just one hit in six innings in the circle. jordan phelps staff photographer

hurt at all,” she said after the game. Immediately after the incident, Romero threw two wild pitches, allowing Balzer to advance to third with two outs. A batter later, she returned to her usual self with an inningplan that gave Levy what she sought for each of the last six games: space. Carter added that Hawryschuk’s absence from the offensive end for much of the game opened a lot of space for the Orange to work with. Levy, who scored for the first time since a six-goal game against Virginia Tech 15 days earlier, laughed when asked if she was relieved that finally, the focus wasn’t on her. It opened up opportunities for her to return to the finesse she’s displayed all season. With the Orange holding a nine-goal lead, the junior darted in a straight line from the left side of the net and spun in midair, firing a shot through her legs to push the Orange lead to double digits. “I don’t think much was really going through my head, we were up by a lot so we were just having fun,” Levy said. “And I figured, I don’t know, I want to have fun.” While the offense didn’t present itself often, Hawryschuk’s contributions still remained strong. In Syracuse’s season-long struggle with the draw, Gait has experimented with multiple players to give SU a boost. The lack of possessions have plagued the Orange on both offense and defense, but on Sunday, a handicapped Hawryschuk was able to anchor the unit, leading SU to an 18-11 victory at the faceoff X. “I think it’s just the mental preparation that you have to do beforehand,” Hawryschuk said. “You have to focus on the offensive game plan but at the same time you have to study the

ending strikeout. From innings four to six, Romero retired nine straight, including four strikeouts. She narrowly missed her third consecutive complete game, as Miranda Hearn relieved Romero in the seventh inning.

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“I struggled a little bit in the Notre Dame series, I had to turn myself around,” Romero said about her recent stretch of dominance. “This past week and weekend was a good turnaround for me. I feel better about everything mentally, emotionally and physically.” Sunday marked Romero’s third consecutive and 11th overall game with double-digit strikeouts, as well as her fifth start with no walks this season. Romero’s 246 strikeouts on the year are 63 more than any other ACC pitcher, while she sits a thousandth of a point behind Florida State’s Kylee Hanson for the conference’s lowest opponent batting average (.142). In the fifth, Andrea Bombace came off the bench and cranked a solo home run, Syracuse’s third of the game, to give the home team its seventh and final run of the game. After hitting just two home runs in its first 30 games this season, SU has exploded for 10 in its last 14 games. Much of the team’s recent power surge comes from playing at home, Bosch said. “Whether it was the catch in left field, Alexa striking people out or pinch-hit home runs, everybody did what they could,” Bosch said. “When you put those things together, you get team victories.” ddschnei@syr.edu

Syracuse’s offense caught fire in the second half. Nicole Levy scored three goals while Molly Carter dished out five assists overall. max freund staff photographer

draw and know what you have to do.” But for much of the game, the star sophomore stood still. But, in the play that started SU’s run, Hawryschuk decided it was best for her to move. Gait couldn’t remember at first, but the two exchanged laughs postgame as they discussed Gait’s defensive advice that Blalock inadvertently had listened upon, still eyeing the every motion of Hawryschuk. Instead of playing defense, the sophomore did was she’s

always done best. She faked right, she faked left and sent the ball into the net to break a tie that Syracuse never looked back from. Then she retreated back toward the outer edge of the SU offense, similar to the strategy SU has employed with Levy, but this time the absentee was not needed. “I took myself out of the game,” she said. And, finally, it worked. mmcclear@syr.edu | @MikeJMcCleary

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Finishing run

EMILY HAWRYSCHUK took over when Syracuse was tied at eight goals with Louisville in the second half. Her first goal started an 11-goal run that sparked the Orange’s needed win. After few touches in the first half, the sophomore scored twice in the second half. max freund staff photographer

arly in Sunday’s second half, SU head coach Gary Gait called attack Emily Hawryschuk over to the sideline. Louisville was working the ball around on offense, but Gait had a message for his leading goalscorer. “We were talking about defense,” Gait remembered, and then joked, “And she said I’ll just go score a goal instead, then I don’t have to play defense. Amazing how that works.” In a tie game and with Hawryschuk only having touched the ball a handful of times, the Orange needed a spark. So SU gave the ball to the sophomore on the next possession, and she wouldn’t be denied. A spin followed by a burst to the inside left her alone on goal with two defenders on her back. Hawryschuk scored,

Syracuse scores final 11 goals of game to blow out Louisville By Billy Heyen

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her 47th goal of the season, and SU never surrendered the lead again. For about 30 minutes of game time, No. 19 Syracuse (9-8, 1-6 Atlantic Coast) allowed the winless-in-conference Cardinals (6-10, 0-7 Atlantic Coast) to hang around. Eventually, though, an Orange team with three ranked wins proved itself superior to a Louisville team with none and won, 19-8. The win won’t boost SU’s postseason hopes much. But Syracuse, on the back of five Molly Carter assists and an 11-goal run, avoided a disastrous defeat on Sunday at the Carrier Dome. “It was the battle for an ACC win between the two schools that didn’t have one,” Gait said. The Orange still has the ACC tournament to pad its see big

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Romero shuts out NC State, 7-0 SU’s 19-goal explosion foils UofL’s game plan By David Schneidman staff writer

When Syracuse plays left-handed hitters with a tendency to hit to the opposite field, it rotates its outfielders to account for Bryce Holmgren’s lack of speed. The switch puts Alicia Hansen in left field, who is quicker and better suited ROMERO to run down balls down the line or in the gap, head coach Mike Bosch said last week.

In the top of the sixth inning on Sunday, Holmgren proved the swap may not be necessary. When North Carolina State’s Jade Caraway lined the ball down the left field line in foul territory, it looked as if Holmgren had no chance to reach it. Rather, the junior sprinted from her spot and past the foul line before laying out, her body parallel to the ground, to make an unbelievable diving catch. Hansen, who was in center, ran over to Holmgren as she got up to congratulate her. “I was smiling when the ball was hit,” Hansen said. “I knew it was foul, and no harm could come from it. I was

like ‘lay out! lay out!’ And she did.” Holmgren’s diving effort topped off an all-around day for the Orange, led by another dominant performance from Alexa Romero in the circle. Romero’s one-hit, 11-strikeout day helped Syracuse (26-18, 8-11 Atlantic Coast) complete the threegame sweep over North Carolina State (22-25, 5-15 ACC), 7-0, on Sunday afternoon at Skytop Softball Stadium. The win marks six-straight for SU, which officially clinched its spot in the ACC Tournament in Atlanta, Georgia, starting May 9. After scoring five runs see romero page 14

By Michael McCleary asst. digital editor

The fourth goal of SU’s eventual 11-goal run to end the game was the one that sent the Syracuse fans into a frenzy. Following a score by Julie Cross, the Orange’s usual drawspecialist, the SU sideline erupted. The midfielder skipped off the field with a smile and tapped the stick of a player who’d hardly found her name in the scorebook. It was

Emily Hawryschuk, who headed out on the next play to take the draw. That was the blueprint Syracuse (9-8, 1-6 Atlantic Coast) had to work within its 19-8 win over Louisville (6-10, 0-7). Hawryschuk, the Orange’s top goal scorer, was given little space to work with all game due to being face guarded all game by UofL’s Sarah Blalock. While the face guarding formula has worked against Syracuse in the past — specifically see blueprint page 14