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School of Information Studies officials discussed what constitutes “offensive” actions during a forum on Tuesday morning in the wake of the Theta Tau expulsion. Page 3

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Greek leaders discuss proposed fraternity, sorority audit and whether it would reveal

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‘What truly goes on’

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Several fraternities and sororities are located near Walnut Park, which is just north of Syracuse University’s Main Campus. SU has started a review of Greek life and policies on campus following the expulsion of Theta Tau. hieu nguyen asst. photo editor

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eaders of Greek organizations at Syracuse University have differing views over how effective a proposed audit of fraternity and sorority chapters will be following the permanent expulsion of Theta Tau. In the wake of campus-wide outrage after The Daily Orange published videos showing Theta Tau fraternity members using racial slurs and miming the sexual assault of a person with disabilities, the university has announced a “top to bottom” review of Greek life and policy. Student Association President James Franco has also called for an “audit” of Greek culture at SU. “It definitely was something that had been discussed before the Theta Tau incident. And it was supposed to hap-

pen from what we heard, and we’re not sure about this, but it was supposed to happen going into the fall,” said SA Vice President Angie Pati on Tuesday night. “I think Greek like can improve in a lot of ways.” In a statement on Tuesday, a university spokesperson said SU’s review has already started and will focus on “diversity and inclusion,” leadership development and hazing prevention, among other things. There are more than 50 officially recognized fraternities and sororities at SU. “We definitely know from all the forums that the video wasn’t a one-time thing. It just happened to have occured on video,” Franco said. “We know there are things that happen every day that may not be egregious as that, but definitely are harmful to a lot of students’ experience at Syracuse.” Experts said audits of Greek culture are not unusual in the United States and can identify issues of hazing and see audit page 4

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Whitman hosts forum after Theta Tau expulsion By Andrew Graham sports editor

Whitman Dean Eugene Anderson and students discussed diversity issues in Syracuse University’s business school and proposed the creation of an “assistant dean of institutional culture” during a forum in the Martin J. Whitman School of Management on Tuesday afternoon. Starting at 1:30 p.m., the forum was attended by roughly 50 people, about half of whom were faculty. It was the second forum Whitman

has hosted since the permanent expulsion of the Theta Tau professional engineering fraternity. Videos published by The Daily Orange last week showed Theta Tau fraternity members using racial slurs and miming the sexual assault of a person with disabilities. After the forum concluded about 45 minutes earlier than originally scheduled, Anderson outlined the job description of a possible assistant dean of institutional culture in an interview with The D.O. The new dean is “a person who is supposed to be really driving the

fostering of a culture of belonging in this school,” Anderson said. He said the new dean would be responsible for fixing faculty diversity issues; addressing diversity training for orientation leaders and incoming students; and examining how diversity topics are included in Whitman’s curriculum. “Those are some of the tactical, specific things we’re going to try and do to increase representation (of) faculty of color,” Anderson said. The proposal for that position was included in a strategic plan for Whitman presented to SU in

December, Anderson said, and also appropriated for in Whitman’s budget. The budget was submitted to the university last month, Anderson said. He also said that he plans to personally oversee the process of hiring each future Whitman faculty member to ensure that candidates from underrepresented groups are given a chance to hold a position. Anderson said the goal is to not only hire faculty that will represent the cwurrent students in Whitman, but faculty who can see forum page 4

An anti-Israel protest of about 20 people ended Tuesday afternoon with a protester being forcibly removed from Eggers Hall by a Syracuse University Department of Public Safety official. John Sardino, associate chief of the department’s law enforcement and community policing division, forcibly removed protester Ariel Gold from the building after she and others chanted in the main Eggers stairwell for several minutes. The group had initially gathered outside the building to protest a talk by Dani Dayan, Israel’s consul general in New York City. “I gave them an opportunity to clearly communicate their message, and after that I asked them to leave, they were cooperative and left the building without an incident,” Sardino said while walking away from Eggers. “I escorted one woman from the building, yeah, she

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Diversity concerns addressed By India Miraglia staff writer

Hundreds of Syracuse University students attended a forum hosted by the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications on Tuesday to discuss how the school can better improve its diversity requirements, in the wake of the Theta Tau fraternity videos published by The Daily Orange last week. The forum, held in the Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium, was led by Newhouse Dean Lorraine Branham. A total of about 300 campus community members attended the event. At the forum, Branham said “the fraternity incident has a silver lining. It has really forced all of us to look at ourselves.” She added that the Theta Tau videos have pushed people to talk about what they can do to change the campus’ environment. On Friday, Branham sent a listserv email condemning the actions see diversity page 4

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theta tau expulsion Since Syracuse University initially suspended the Theta Tau professional engineering fraternity on Wednesday, campus community members have taken to Twitter to share their perspectives on how SU has handled the situation. @MARIEHENLEY17

I’m a Student of Color at Syracuse. That Fraternity Video Proves Racism is Pervasive— Even at Progressive Schools (A) graduate student at Syracuse University says she thinks the school should expel the Theta Tau members involved in the video at the school. @JEFF13164

worst we did was yell “NERDS!” at freshmen going to some orientation and they happened to walk by the house we were drinking in. I mean, this stuff at Theta Tau (and others places) is nuts. @TENNISAL

National @thetatau excused the first vid of racism as satirist art. How will they they excuse this? #Reprehensible #syracuse #boyswillbeboysmentality Video Shows Syracuse Frat Boys Miming Sexual Assault On Disabled Person @ALVAHROW

Newhouse forum LORRAINE BRANHAM, dean of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, spoke with students, faculty and staff on Tuesday about how to improve diversity and inclusion at the school. About 300 campus community members attended the event in the Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium. The forum was organized following the initial Theta Tau suspension. colin davy staff photographer

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Dean promises iSchool diversity training By Jordan Muller and Kennedy Rose the daily orange

Between school resource availability and what constitutes “offensive” actions, about 50 people gathered at the School of Information Studies on Tuesday morning to discuss different issues in the wake of the permanent expulsion of Syracuse LIDDY Un i v e r s i t y ’s chapter of the Theta Tau fraternity. During the forum, which was held in iCafe at Hinds Hall, about 50 students, faculty and staff gave suggestions on how the school could better advertise complaint reporting resources.

We want everyone, every single person here to feel accepted and appreciated. Liz Liddy

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Taesha Callaghan, a senior in the iSchool, said she has been in

classes where an educator has made sexist or questionable comments, and she didn’t know there was a way for her to report it. The Office of Student and Career Services in the iSchool, which can allow students to file discrimination reports in the iSchool and to the university, was detailed by officials during the forum. Attendees were also told they can go to the Ombuds Office to address concerns they might have with other members of the SU community. The Ombuds Office is for faculty, staff and graduate students. “You can go to that office for complaints about anything. And they do dig into it and try to take care of it,” said Barbara Settel, executive director of alumni donations at the iSchool. One student said she wants the iSchool and the university to offer training on how to address offensive situations. The student said she has witnessed people making offensive comments disguised as jokes. Liz Liddy, the iSchool’s dean, said faculty diversity training hasn’t been mandatory, but it will be in the future. The school will work on how to measure the success of those training programs, she said. Callaghan said she has witnessed offensive language used in class-

rooms, but students have expected that sort of behavior from professors. A professor in the iSchool, though, said people need to go beyond identifying what they find offensive. “I don’t think it’s as simple as saying, ‘This is offensive. This isn’t offensive,’” said Professor Barbara Kwasnik. “It’s always in a context. When people get to know each other very well, the things they say could sound horrible from the outside.” Kwasnik gave the example of a person whose parent is an alcoholic who may be upset from movie

depictions of drunkenness. Another student, second year Ph.D student Sarah Bratt, said she felt that the iSchool created a culture of inclusion last fall, offering solidarity to international students when “political events were particularly threatening to students.” “We want everyone, every single person here to feel accepted and appreciated,” Liddy said. jmulle01@syr.edu @jordanmuller18 krose100@syr.edu @KennedyWrites

I am disgusted by the actions Syracuse U chapter of Theta Tau as an engineer, student of SU, and a POC. You’d think eng students would be smarter but I guess racism knows no bounds. In my experience many Eng students are foreign or POC, it’s a sad time. @EngineeringSU @CHELLIEHYLTON

“Anyone of color...who has seen this video has every right to be angry... with the despicable contents of that video,” [Theta Tau Syracuse] said. ANYONE who has seen this video should be repulsed. An “apology” as empty as your diploma envelopes will be, boys. #GoodRiddance @CXITIYN

as a brother of the kappa chapter of theta tau, i swear on my life the uiuc chapter of this organization does not share any of this. the uiuc branch is coed and multicultural and i support syracuse in the expulsion of this chapter. @ASHLEYMOMARA

It’s precisely this failure of transparency — and let’s be honest, accommodation of opacity — that got us the Theta Tau video. #RecognizeUsSU @J_BIGGS01

Yeah the Theta Tau chapter at Cornell is wonderful too. It makes me sad that those people worked so hard to get into our chapter only to be embarrassed by something like this. @JOHNPAVLOVITZ

Dozens of students attended a forum in the iSchool on Tuesday to discuss diversity concerns. dan lyon staff photographer

This is what made me sick this Tuesday am. Syracuse engineering frat attempting to say skits of mock rape and pldges of racism, misogyny, xenophobia, and homophobia are satire. Here;s one tape. Google Syrauce Theta Tay for other.

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audit sexual assault. Eduardo Gomez, president of the Lambda Upsilon Lambda fraternity, said he doesn’t think an audit would have any effects on the university’s Greek community. Gomez also said he doesn’t think an audit would reduce the amount of hazing at SU, in the long term. “I personally believe it’s a waste of time because the audit has been announced and people are expecting it, and obviously when people are being investigated they wouldn’t act up. Everyone’s going to be on their best behavior,” Gomez said. The Theta Tau videos were posted in a secret Facebook group called “Tau of Theta Tau” by a user named David Yankowy III, recordings obtained by The D.O. show. In one recording, a person, using antiSemitic language, yells at two other people. “You f*ckin’ k*kes, get in the f*ckin’ showers,” he says, and the two people run out of the room as others laugh. In another recording, a person sits down in a rolling chair and a different person yells, “He’s drooling out of his mouth, because he’s retarded in a wheelchair.” Lambda Upsilon Lambda is a Latino-based fraternity. Gomez said he thinks an audit is necessary “to a certain extent,” but knows the university “won’t see the reality of what truly goes on.” Abby Monahan, president of Phi Alpha Delta, a co-ed professional pre-law fraternity, said she doesn’t see a problem with the university auditing Greek life. “I think what happened with Theta Tau really sheds light on the frustrations of me as someone from a professional fraternity, from page 1

forum be representative of Whitman students in 10 years. “If you’ve left behind women, members from underrepresented groups, you’ve got to explain why you’re doing that,” Anderson said. Esther Shmagin, a senior marketing major, said she worries that all the work of addressing diversity and inclusion issues will be put on the shoulders of the new appointee, if hired. She wants there to be someone serving as a from page 1

protest was cooperative.” The protest started outside Eggers at about 11:30 a.m. The group entered the building roughly an hour later. Administrators of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs asked the protesters to leave before Sardino removed Gold, who on Twitter lists her place of residence as Ithaca. Gold led the protesters into Eggers, chanting, “Free, free Gaza! Free, free Palestine!” She is the national co-director of Code Pink: Women for Peace, an international organization that opposes United States “wars and militarism,” according to its website. Gold has been arrested multiple from page 1

diversity and words presented in the first Theta Tau video published by The Daily Orange on Wednesday night, writing, “Words have effects. And we at Newhouse take these offensive words very seriously.” Attendees of the forum focused on developing ideas that Newhouse can use to address issues of diversity and inclusion. At the start of the forum, Branham said she wanted to focus on what comes next, instead of what happened in the videos. Brad Gorham, communications department chair at Newhouse and chair of the Newhouse diversity committee, was one of the event’s speakers. “We’re asking you to help us do better,” Gorham said. Several students said they want to see more diversity in the faculty makeup of Newhouse and in the courses required by the communications school. The Daily Orange released a recording of the first Theta Tau video on Wednesday and

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because social fraternity is what I think people would expect that behavior to come out of,” Monahan said. “But for it to be a professional fraternity really shows that there’s a problem that students think that they’re allowed to joke around about race and homosexuality.” Rachel Mitchell, president of Lambda Alpha Theta, a Latinx sorority, said she thinks that placing “so much” of an emphasis on the audit takes away from systemic university issues that extend beyond Greek life. Mitchell said there’s evidence of those issues in Greek life, but that’s mostly attributed to “white, male-centric organizations, for the most part.” Mitchell said she thinks it’s counterproductive to audit all Greek organizations. There should be more of a focus on certain aspects of Greek life, she said, but added that she doesn’t know enough about the specifics of an audit to discuss what effects it might have. “I think there will be increased accountability when it comes to organizations that might be including systemic racism in their pledging process, like Theta Tau was,” she added, though. “I think that there is some sort of room for re-education definitely, for education for those who haven’t been educated on marginalized groups and these issues.” Eight other fraternity and sorority presidents on Tuesday did not respond to a request for comment. Andrew Fowler, president of the National Pan-Hellenic Council, did not respond to a request for comment. An external audit of fraternities and sororities is not uncommon in the U.S., experts said. Universities have been hiring private consultants to assess Greek culture more frequently since four fraternity pledges died in the U.S. last year, said Hank Nuwer, a journalist and author of “Hazing: Destroying Young Lives.”

“Most colleges usually opt to hire outside companies to conduct reviews, form task forces to analyze Greek culture or shut down Greek life on campus, entirely,” Nuwer said. In 2017, for example, the University of Missouri hired Dyad Strategies, a consulting firm based out of Pensacola, Florida, to provide a campus assessment on fraternity and sorority chapters and complete a review of the university’s Office of Greek Life. Dyad was paid $22,000 to conduct that review, according to the University of Missouri. That action followed another university report, a review of campus-wide services and programs conducted by Keeling & Associates LLC, a higher education consultant, which recommended a closer look at Greek life. According to an update published in early April, the University of Missouri has implemented a new Interfraternity Council judicial process and trained 20 staff members on how to help with hazing investigations. Both of those actions were recommended in the Dyad report. Other major colleges including Pennsylvania State University, Indiana University and Florida State University have conducted audits of Greek life, Nuwer said. “I think given all the deaths that have occured I would say that every major college at the size of Syracuse should be having one, but on occasion,” Nuwer said of an audit of Greek organizations. John Hechinger, the author of “True Gentlemen: The Broken Pledge of America’s Fraternities,” said Greek audits have often found problems of drinking and sexual assault. Ghufran Salih, president-elect of SA, said she knows little about Franco’s proposed audit. Salih is not a current member of SA and had no formal experience in the organization before she ran for president. “I hadn’t heard of the audit before all

this started. I didn’t know that this was going to be a thing,” Salih said on Tuesday afternoon. She said she plans to discuss the audit more with Franco, SU’s administration and Greek life leaders. Laura Williams-Sanders, director of the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Affairs, did not respond to a request for comment. Salih said sometimes it “takes an outsider’s perspective to see the flaws in the system that you’re a part of.” The incoming president also said that, as far as she knows, she will be working with the university’s FASA, and a private company, as the audit progresses. “Again, I’m not in Student Association so this is part of a conversation that I haven’t been part of,” Salih said. “And when James mentioned the audit I was like, ‘Oh, alright! We’re doing that!’ “I can see both positive and negative effects. I see us, by us I mean students, coming closer together and when this audit does happen, when they look at those traditions and those chapter meetings, (it) can make people grow a lot closer. But it can make people scared,” Salih said. Theta Tau is the fourth fraternity suspended from SU during the 2017-18 academic year. SU announced the Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity’s suspension this month after an investigation into hazing. SU suspended Alpha Epsilon Pi in February for conduct that threatened the safety of a student participating in the new member process. The SU chapter of Delta Tau Delta was suspended in fall 2017 for conduct violations that included hazing. — Asst. News Editor Kennedy Rose contributed reporting to this article.

liaison between students and faculty, she said, but so long as they have proper support. “It can’t just be the sole solution,” Shmagin said. “It can’t just be pinning it on the dean of institutional culture.” Aaliyah Roseman, a senior in Whitman, was the first to speak after Anderson’s opening remarks. She said she was upset by the event’s poor turnout, and how the forum was being run by white men. After the forum, Roseman said she hopes that the proposed new dean position will serve to offer students more information about the

school. Before the forum, she didn’t know that a new dean would potentially be hired. At present, Anderson holds bi-weekly office hours for students to talk with him. Roseman has visited them, she said, and hopes that if a new assistant dean is hired, they’ll expand that accessibility. During the forum, one student said they have only had one professor of color teaching a class in their three years studying at Whitman. Roseman, a senior, didn’t have a class with a professor of color until last semester, she said. “I’m so happy that I had this class and was

able to see that Whitman does employ people like that,” Roseman said. Shmagin said that because her major, marketing, is more diverse, she has a slightly different experience. Still, she knows that Whitman’s pool of professors is predominantly made up of white men. A more diverse pool of faculty enhances the experience of every student, Shmagin said. “When I learn from and I interact with diverse faculty and staff, that benefits me too, obviously,” Shmagin said.

times for protesting. She and other protesters took issue with Dayan’s involvement in the resettlement of Palestinians. “Stealing land is a crime! Dani should be doing time!” they chanted. Dayan was chairman of the Yesha Council, a collection of councils in the Jewish settlements in the West Bank, an area of land claimed by both Israel and the Palestinian Authority. The two governments also have disputed territory on the Gaza Strip. “The university should not be hosting talks by somebody who directly violates international law,” Gold said after Sardino removed her. Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention prohibits occupying powers from deporting residents of the land it’s occupying. This portion of the treaty makes Israel’s settlement

of the West Bank illegal, Gold said. At least 37 Palestinian protesters have been shot and killed by the Israeli military on the border of the Gaza Strip in recent months. A journalist wearing a vest marked as “PRESS” was also killed, resulting in international outcry. Ursula Rozum, a member of the Syracuse Peace Council, said the university has been deceptive in its marketing of Dayan’s talk. “They talk about his business accomplishments and create a platform for him to talk about his vision for the future of Palestine, which is a future that really is a Jewish-only state,” Rozum said. “We are here to bring attention to his real views.” The event listing mentioned Dayan’s “career as an entrepreneur and businessman.”

It also stated that he was chief foreign envoy of the Council of Jewish Communities in Judea and Samaria, an alternative name for the Yesha council. Senior Caroline Monsour, an international relations and marketing double major, also attended the protest. Monsour, who said she’s half-Syrian, criticized SU for hosting what she called “pro-Israel” events, such as Dayan’s talk and Israel Fest, which was hosted last Wednesday by the Winnick Hillel Center for Jewish Life to celebrate the 70th anniversary of Israel’s founding. “That man is a clear, clear example of apartheid, oppression, everything,” Monsour said.

a second video on Saturday night. The videos showed members of Theta Tau using racial slurs and miming the sexual assault of a person with disabilities. Theta Tau was initially suspended and then permanently expelled by Syracuse University. Protests and public forums were organized in the wake of the fraternity’s initial suspension. The forum on Tuesday consisted of a series of speakers. Audience members had a chance to ask questions and present suggestions near the end of the event. In the future, Newhouse will hold longer forums and conversations to continue discussions started on Tuesday, Branham said. Katherine Sotelo, a senior at Newhouse, suggested that students be required to take classes in a wide variety of subjects on campus, such as women’s and gender studies. Currently, Newhouse students are required to fulfill a diversity requirement to receive their degree by taking classes in Newhouse or certain courses in the College of Arts and Sciences. Branham said Newhouse is going to make an effort to address diversity topics with students at the start of their college careers.

“We also can’t make the assumptions of people’s knowledge of diversity coming in,” said Timi Komonibo, Newhouse’s director of requirement and diversity. Komonibo led the section of the forum that was open to audience questions. Hollie Perry, a graduate student at Newhouse, said a diversity requirement should be introduced into the graduate student program. Several students also said discussions surrounding diversity should be incorporated into all classes at Newhouse. Charisse L’Pree, an assistant professor of communication, who teaches COM 346: “Race, Gender and the Media,” said she finds teaching that class, “a privilege and an opportunity,” because she gets to interact with people who would not otherwise choose to take that class. L’Pree was responding to a student in the audience who said she was excited to see many people at forums held across campus. The student, though, also said she feels that students who are not people of color need to become more involved in conversations at SU.

L’Pree also discussed satire and jokes in the media. She said the material in the Theta Tau videos was labeled by some as a joke. The national fraternity organization’s grand regent, in a statement late last week, said the actions depicted in the videos were part of a “skit.” SU’s Theta Tau chapter, in a statement, said the videos depicted a “satirical sketch.” She said that excusing the videos as a joke, “belittles the pain that those words continue to instill.” Throughout the event, index cards were passed out for students who preferred to not speak at the forum, but still wanted their concerns noted. The forum ended with Hub Brown, dean for research, creativity, international initiatives and diversity, providing closing remarks. Brown said that during challenging times, he wants to hear from students. But he also wants students to approach him throughout the year, with ideas for change. “Let’s also take the opportunity to fix the roof when the sun is shining,” he said.

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Reader responds to ‘vile’ Theta Tau video Dean stresses importance of diversity, inclusion Upon reading about and subsequently listening to the racist, sexist and criminal comments of the members of the Theta Tau fraternity, I’m disgusted and sickened by their behavior. In my opinion, the involved students should be expelled from the university and also prosecuted for civil rights violations and hate crimes. There’s no place in a civil society for this type of reckless and vile rhetoric.

The university response should be quick, decisive and severe. The national charter of the fraternity should be revoked in order to send a stern message that this type of behavior will never be tolerated. It’s my hope that the parents of these students hold them accountable for their actions, rather than perpetuate these hateful stereotypes. To all the students who were affected by this incident, I have

this to say: Hold your heads up high and be proud of who you are. Don’t sink to the level of these bigots — you’re better than that. I truly believe in my heart of hearts that there are many more people on the side of decency than on the side of ignorance and hatred. Stay strong and stay the course — a new day is coming. Richard Meader Westfield, MA

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CHRIS FORSTER originally attended Worcester Polytechnic Institute to study computer science but left to pursue an English degree. Now, he’s an assistant professor of English and textual studies at SU. alexandra moreo senior staff photographer

Chris Forster ETS professor combines passions for literature and technology several years teaching literature at SU, Forster has established himself as a passionate academic who is constantly striving to learn new things — a quality his students said they value. Editor’s note: The “Who is Syracuse?” series runs in The Daily A self-professed nerd, Forster said he was captured by computers even Orange each spring to highlight individuals who embody the spirit before he became interested in literature. He attended Worcester Polyof Syracuse University. The D.O. selected eight individuals nomi- technic Institute — a school that doesn’t even offer an English major — for nated by the SU community. This series explores their stories. one year to study computer science, but spent all of his time in the library reading Oscar Wilde. he Carnegie Library Reading Room is where Chris Forster goes to When he left WPI, he left explicitly to become an English professor. But explore the world of literature. He loves the stacks, which are book Forster said he knew he had to fully commit in order to justify everything storage areas in Carnegie that weren’t open to students and faculty he was leaving behind. What clinched the idea was a book he had read early at Syracuse University until 1965. There’s a gap between the shelving and in high school: “Notes from Underground” by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. the walkway, and you can look down The fact that a work of literature over four floors. could be afforded the same impor“You sort of feel like you’re sustance also given to philosophers was pended in this world of books. It’s something Forster hadn’t realized really, really weird, I love it over before reading the book. It was the I was sold on this idea that literature there,” he said. first book he really fell in love with. was this deeply important thing. It With his round glasses, slightly “I was sold on this idea that literatousled hair and button-up sweater, ture was this deeply important thing. wasn’t just interesting or fun, it could say Forster is the textbook image of an It wasn’t just interesting or fun, it could something vital. English professor. Forster almost say something vital,” Forster said. “It dedicated his career to computer sciwas really that reading of Dostoyevsky ence, but his passion for literature that made literature seem worthy of all Chris Forster prevailed. Over his career and his last see forster page 9 By Sandhya Iyer asst copy editor

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RYAN PATEL can be seen giving campus tours for U100 wearing a bright orange jacket, a striped rugby, or both. The Los Angeles native has been a tour guide at SU since his freshman year. alexandra moreo senior staff photographer

Ryan Patel SU junior finds home away from home, welcomes prospective students By Divya Murthy staff writer

Editor’s note: The “Who is Syracuse?” series runs in The Daily Orange each spring to highlight individuals who embody the spirit of Syracuse University. The D.O. selected eight individuals nominated by the SU community. This series explores their stories.

ne early April morning, flecks of snow pelted everyone’s faces as a tour group walked out of Crouse-Hinds Hall for a campus tour. About 15 high school students and their parents, some of them seeing Syracuse for the first time, were heading out on an hour-long exploration of the campus. Leading them was Ryan Patel, bright as a traffic cone in his orange jacket. “Right here, as you can see, we have the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry,” he said, squinting at Crouse College through the snow and winning some appreciative chuckles from the shivering crowd. The cold might have been unforgiving, but Patel was effortlessly breaking the ice as he persuaded a new genera-

tion of students to go orange. Patel, a junior public health and biology double major on the pre-med track, has been a U100 tour guide since his freshman year. If he’s not wearing his Orange Forever Alumni Council jacket, he’s donning his orange-andblue striped U100 rugby shirt. He was wearing both on the day of the freezing tour.

Syracuse was also everything I was looking for...in terms of the warm and welcoming environment, not weatherwise but otherwise. Ryan Patel

Patel is also a peer educator for healthy relationships through the Office of Health Promotion and a peer mentor through the

Office of Learning Communities. He’s practically the face of what it means to be Orange — quite literally, if the two giant posters of his face on his dorm room window from U100 tours are any indication. Next to the posters, a collection of pens and a Syracuse flag poke out of a Spongebob Squarepants pen holder. Patel doesn’t spend too much time in his room. One of his favorite spots on campus is Dr. Fondy’s Leukemia Laboratory in the Life Sciences Complex, where he conducts sonograms on leukemia-affected cells. Between organic chemistry classes, his work in the Office of Admissions and extracurricular activities in the evening, Patel has little to no free time. He doesn’t want it anyway, and that’s the way it’s been since he set foot on campus. One of Patel’s favorite parts of being involved is being remembered — giving tours is so normal for Patel now that he doesn’t think twice about it. But now and then, a student comes along to remind him how significant his tour was in their choice to come to Syracuse. Rohith Pasula, a freshman information management and technology major, is one of those students. Pasula met Patel on his first tour of Syracuse. see patel page 9

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New York-style bagels are making their way to Syracuse By Leah Toney staff writer

Meg Dellas comes from a family of restaurant owners. Her great-grandfather opened Varsity, a Syracuse pizza staple. Her father opened Faegan’s Cafe & Pub, another hit on the Hill. And now, Dellas is embarking on her own edible endeavor. Dellas and business partner Luke Esposito will open Water Street Bagel Co. in Hanover Square. The bagel shop will feature wood-fired bagels and is set to get cooking in mid-June. “I’ve grown up around food and have worked in restaurants nearly all my life,” Dellas said. “One day while working in Faegan’s, I realized that I wanted to have something for myself.” So Dellas and Esposito spent months brainstorming what food was missing in Syracuse, and after traveling to New York City and Philadelphia, they realized: bagels. The duo found three different locations making woodfired bagels, which was something Dellas and Esposito had never seen before. They decided that was what Syracuse needed. “When I started to think about it, I realized that I’ve never been to a city without a local bagel shop where the bagels are handmade every day,” Dellas said. “Seeing that we didn’t have one up in Syracuse set me to making the decision.”

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forster the time that I was going to put into it.” Forster has a balance between analytical thinking, shaped by his experience with computer science and technology and his passion for literature. These attributes made him stand out to Michael Levenson, a William B. Christian professor of English at the University of Virginia as well as Forster’s former professor and dissertation adviser. “He not only is a great analytical intelligence, but he’s also a very powerful and sympathetic imagination,” Levenson said. “He can think very abstractly and rigorously but can also use sensitivity and responsibility.” Since he began teaching at SU in 2012, Forster has curated that balance in his curriculum as well. In addition to teaching 20th-century writing and literature, he tackles concepts like the influence of different media on how stories are told, like narratives in video games or short stories published on Twitter. “I think it’s important for people to feel empowered to talk about these issues even when they don’t have the technical expertise,” Forster said. He added that literature is so intertwined with history that to study literature is to also

Large and crispy bagels in a classic New York style will be the main attraction for the shop. Customers will get to see the bagels pushed and pulled through the fire on wooden planks. It creates an experience for everyone walking in the door, but cooking with a wood-fired oven requires constant attention, Esposito said. The oven is about eight and a half feet wide, making it a centerpiece of the shop. The owners said they hope to create workshop events where people can come in and learn how to make bagels. “We want to get the community and the university students involved,” Dellas said. “And it’s always cool to enjoy the food not just because it’s good but because you understand how it is made and you know what it is made with.” Esposito is a developer and the owner of a construction company, which has been setting up the restaurant since Dellas and Esposito first decided to make bagels. The bagel shop derives its name from its location at 239 E. Water St., and Dellas is excited to fit into Syracuse’s downtown revitalization. “I think the perception of what downtown is is changing,” Dellas said. “Downtown is more than Armory Square, the city is connecting Armory with Hanover and everything in between, so it will be an awesome position to be in.” Water Street Bagel Co.’s building has been there since the 1800s and the decor of the shop

study the past. The English department as a whole takes social justice issues, as well as questions of identity and power, very seriously in the way it thinks about literature, Forster said. For Guillar Kazemzadeh, a sophomore political science major, the most important thing Forster’s class taught her was the importance of inclusivity. “He made an effort to include various topics, specifically the roles of gender and race, in our society and how as a community, we need to make a better effort to help make people feel included in discussion,” she said in an email. Kazemzadeh added Forster opened her eyes to how diverse English and textual studies is, which is the reason she decided to declare an ETS minor. Forster is also the adviser for the Literature Society at Syracuse University. Some of the students on the organization’s executive board met through Forster’s classes, said Cait Córdova, the club’s president and a senior public relations and ETS dual major. Córdova has taken six classes with Forster. “He’s so engaging and genuinely cares about whether or not you’re learning,” Córdova said. She added that she would go to his office hours and stay an hour past the intended appointment time because Forster was so invested in the little things, making sure he was with students at

graphic illustration by sarah allam head illustrator will match the feel of the building. Dellas said she wants to bring back the building’s beauty and foundation, to give the location a “rustic and charmed feel.” Dellas and Esposito said they are excited to open and plan on having a presence in

CHRIS FORSTER began teaching at SU in 2012. He teaches about media’s influence on storytelling, among other topics. alexandra moreo senior staff photographer

every step of their learning process. Although he isn’t a computer scientist now, Forster still remains passionate about “computer-nerdy stuff.” He works with document conversion software and is teaching himself new programming languages. He’s also an “intense podcast aficionado” and will be

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patel “He was a really nice dude,” Pasula recalls. “He took the time to really explain things and definitely answered more of the personalized questions, especially because I had Indian parents and he’s Indian. So my parents were like, ‘Yeah, this guy seems pretty cool.’” Pasula was under the impression that Indians were “a super minority” in Syracuse, but meeting Patel and hearing about his experience changed his mind. Pasula had applied to Syracuse as an early decision candidate, and Patel’s tour cemented his choice. “Granted I have only spoken to him a few times, but I have heard of him multiple times,” he said. “People are like ‘Oh, I know Ryan Patel.’” Patel has made Syracuse his home so seamlessly that it’s easy to forget that his home is nowhere near the East Coast. The Los Angeles native ended up making his mother, Binny Patel, cry for days when he announced that he was headed all the way to Syracuse for college. Binny hated the idea at first, alarmed by the brutal winters. She thought Patel had no idea what he was getting himself into. But out of all the colleges he looked at, Syracuse was the one that checked off every box. “It was far away from home and I was able to grow and develop in my own way without any kind of assistance from my family,” he said. “Syracuse was also everything I was looking for, in terms of the sports culture, in

RYAN PATEL said the top-notch students and well-ranked programs led him to choose Syracuse University. alexandra moreo senior staff photographer

terms of the warm and welcoming environment — not weather-wise, but otherwise.” The top-notch students and the highly ranked programs brought Patel to the East Coast, and it’s these qualities he rattles off in ringing tones to students and parents sizing up Syracuse, including his own. Despite her hesitations, once Binny visited the campus with Patel, she realized it was the perfect fit. Binny hasn’t seen Patel’s passion — for school, college or culture — ebb since the time he was a boy. The family traveled a lot and

Syracuse University and the surrounding community, banking on the idea that a local, wood-fired bagel will bring in the crowds. “Everything is better in a wood-fired oven,” Dellas said. ltoney@syr.edu

Binny remembered one dinner in Australia when Patel, about six or seven years old, drew every waiter, waitress and the restaurant manager into conversation with him. “He’s just very a kind-hearted, sweet boy,” she said. “He’s a great role model for his younger brothers.” His brother Dylan is now running for treasurer at his high school, and Binny doubts that would have happened if Ryan hadn’t opened those doors for his brothers. Jenna Landsman, a junior international

teaching about podcasts in one of his classes for the first time this coming week. “He wants students to be as curious and willing to learn as he is,” Córdova said. “Professor Forster is probably one of the most interesting people I’ve ever met.” ssiyer@syr.edu

relations and Spanish double major, has been inspired by Patel – and his wardrobe choices. “Whenever I see him, he’s always so positive, no matter what,” she said. “He literally brightens my day because of his jacket.” The jacket is the first of the loud things about Patel. His five-minute long Snapchat stories that document his life to friends like Landsman are a close second. Despite his packed day, Patel remains in constant touch with his family and friends, Snapchatting them, asking them to come over or in his family’s case, FaceTiming at least six times a week and calling every day. “He legitimately cares about everyone else,” Landsman said. “He saw when he was a freshman that there needed to be a very uppy person to welcome people from LA and from the minority community. He knew he needed to be someone people looking at Syracuse could relate to.” On the morning of the tour, Patel made sure he heard every student’s name and what they wanted to do at Syracuse. From the ringing, cheery voice ensuing from the 5-foot-5-inch man — “5-foot-6 on a good day,” he chuckled — it wasn’t at all evident that he’d clocked only five hours of sleep the previous night. “I make giving back one of my top priorities,” he said. “The reason I got involved in that is because I cared so much about being able to provide a good experience for students. And so, by doing that, I can ensure that I’m leaving a footprint at SU.” dmurthy@syr.edu

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SU runners excel at steeplechase despite little training By Danny Emerman staff writer

Paige Stoner doesn’t mind getting her feet wet. “Surprisingly, it’s not that different,” Stoner said of running with wet shoes. In the steeplechase, a 3000-meter race where racers must hurdle steeples — a larger hurdle — into water pits, athletes have to clear 28 hurdles and jump into seven water pits. Stoner, Noah Affolder and Aidan Tooker have excelled in the event for SU this year. Fox said they might bring out the hurdles once or twice during May, but they generally don’t train specifically for steeplechase. Instead, they try to “find really good athletes,” Fox said, who will be able to thrive in the event. from page 12

knutson currently ranked above her. “I just wanted to compete in bigger situations for longer,” Knutson said, “and in the process I grew up and took on a new mindset.” In high-pressure moments, Knutson can sometimes get in her own head, she said. Her mother, Ilona, said her daughter has “choked matches away” since she was little. Despite immense potential at a young age, Knutson didn’t always have the right mindset going into close tennis matches, Ilona said. Knutson had all of the physical tools to be a top junior player in her country, Ilona said, but she would frustrate herself and ended up “blowing matches” occasionally. When she was 16, Knutson and her family drove 14 hours so she could compete against some of the best talent in Europe. Her family arrived in Switzerland the evening before the tournament. Upon arrival, Knutson trained for two hours in preparation. After it got dark, they slept in their four-door Volkswagen Passat instead of a hotel to save expenses. With only a few hours of rest, Knutson had a 9 a.m. match against a tennis prodigy from Australia. She stepped onto the court confidently and led early before falling apart. The match went into a third set tiebreak. In the deciding points, Knutson faltered and dropped the match. 28 hours of driving round trip led to a few hours of tennis and a first round singles defeat. from page 12

defense for him to be out, all of a sudden you get that lack of communication,” SU head coach John Desko said. “Guys are a little slower to make their slides or understand the situation whether it be an unsettled situation, a fast break or a man-down.” Bomberry has missed four games and defender Marcus Cunningham left the Cornell game early before missing the North Carolina conference matchup. Long-stick midfielder Andrew Helmer missed a few weeks after being a key link in SU’s run in the 2017 NCAA tournament. His replacement, Jared Fernandez, who both Army and Virginia’s head coaches raved about, suffered a season-ending injury on the second-to-last faceoff against UVA. Losing that many players who play consistent minutes disrupts chemistry, players said. While others have stepped up in big ways — like Brett Kennedy starting against Virginia in Bomberry’s place and picking up a pair of transition goals — there’s still a difference. Bomberry is second on the team with 11 caused turnovers, trailing fellow defender and preseason All-American Nick Mellen by four. Bomberry, who plays box lacrosse in Canada over the offseason, adds a threat in transition. He doesn’t have a goal — he assisted Stephen Rehfuss against Hobart — but he proved he could score with two goals last season. “He’s just an animal, he’s a freak,” Mellen said. “He’s like 225 (pounds), can somehow make his way up and down the field without the ball getting knocked out of his stick … He’s the last guy you want to run into full speed. He’s made of steel.” In Bomberry’s four-game absence, Kennedy stepped up at close defense. Kennedy had played long-stick midfielder the majority of his career before coming to Syracuse.

“We have guys right now who just ran a 1500-meter and they’re about to run a 10K later in the season,” said Stoner, who broke the school record for the 3000-meter steeplechase with a 9:57.20 time. “They train us to be strong and be able to cover any event.” Affolder, a freshman, started running the steeplechase in his junior year of high school. His coach set up sand pits to mimic water traps, and he didn’t jump in water until his first race. “Right after I got out (of the water), I was like, ‘This doesn’t really feel too good,’” Affolder said. “A lap or two in, you forget about it. It wasn’t really a big deal after the first time.” The most difficult part of the steeplechase

is timing up the hurdles to avoid “stutter stepping,” Affolder said. Launching off his nondominant leg can be “a little scary,” but he has gotten more comfortable with experience. Stoner first tried the event as a freshman at Lipscomb University before she transferred to SU her sophomore year. She said Lipscomb’s approach to training for the steeplechase contrasts SU’s. “We did hurdle drills (at Lipscomb),” Stoner said. “So we would kind of do the same workouts the rest of the team was doing, but we might be doing ‘thousand repeats’ out in lane two with some hurdles. Here, we don’t ever do workouts with hurdles. I guess they just have a different philosophy on training here.”

The same day Stoner broke the SU women’s record, Tooker set the fastest time among collegiate runners in the race at 8:45.79. Affolder crossed the finish line six seconds behind him. Fox said the three are all “natural” at the event. Last year at nationals, Tooker ran one of the fastest times ever recorded by a freshman (8:39.34). He hasn’t run the event yet this outdoor season, but Fox said the steeplechase is “his event.” “He’s kind of gravitated toward that,” Fox said. “You have to have really good hurdling skills, and it has to come naturally to you. It’s kind of a hard event to teach, and he’s picked it up right away.”

Knutson shrugged it off. Her mother showed the frustration her daughter wouldn’t. Ilona told Knutson to make up an injury and forfeit her doubles match that was scheduled for later that afternoon. They immediately left the country and Ilona ripped into her daughter. “I was saying things that maybe I shouldn’t have said looking back,” Ilona said, “and Gabby kept saying she was sorry that she lost. We were both quite upset.” Knutson called the drive home “one of the worst feelings” she’s ever felt. During the ride, she thought about the time, money and effort she threw away. “Thinking back, I’m so ashamed,” Knutson said, “I didn’t work hard enough and I should have won. I still think about it a lot. ” Once at SU, the people surrounding Knutson still sought more from her. SU assistant athletics director for athletic performance, Will Hicks, remembered Knutson being the one of the first tennis players to introduce herself to him. She wanted perfection, Hicks said, but she wasn’t fully committed. The two didn’t spend much time together in Knutson’s first two seasons, until she developed soreness in her knees. The injury limited her movement on the court, so she turned to Hicks, the former strength and conditioning coach of SU football. Knutson has an “inside linebacker mentality,” Hicks said, because she brings a lot of power, energy and aggression to the court. She just didn’t always love the process.

Knutson recalled being a “middle of the pack” tennis player on SU in terms of conditioning last spring. During one team run, Knutson struggled to keep up with other players. After the outing, Hicks pulled the then-sophomore aside. “You need to be the number one,” Hicks said to Knutson, “If somebody random came in Manley (Field House) and watched you train, they should be like ‘Her, she’s the number one player on this team.’” During that same season, Knutson regressed from 17 singles wins as a freshman to 11. She started to question her game. In the summer, Knutson met up with her mother in California and began a period of time she called the “intense athletic mode” part of her life. Instead of playing three straight hours on courts, Knutson diversified her workouts. Between June and December 2017, she emphasized running, biking, and schoolwork with limited tennis action. Every time Knutson ran, she thought about her interaction with Hicks and how she wanted to lead her team. Still, the work hadn’t been enough. Her trip in October to the ITA National Fall Championships led to another first round exit. The loss motivated Knutson to rely on Hicks more. Instead of Hicks coming to Knutson, the latter initiated more frequent workouts. It led to more sprints and an improved overall fitness for Knutson. When she returned to playing tennis in January, something had changed. “I was getting to balls I would never get before,” Knutson said, “The first two weeks, it

took me time to adjust. I was like ‘Why am I so quick on the court?’” Knutson opened this season with five consecutive wins, which led her to a No. 19 national ranking at the time. Against Brown on Feb. 24, Knutson hit a wall. Facing an unranked opponent, the junior dropped the first set, 2-6, and was down a break in the second. Down 4-5, Knutson faced match point twice. She won two deciding points and forced a second set tiebreaker. Despite being in a hole early, the SU junior won the tiebreak and forced a third set. While her opponent breathed heavily, Knutson remained calm and barely broke a sweat, she said. In past matches, the third set was always the hardest for her. This time, it was her best and led to the comeback victory. “A younger version of (Knutson) probably would have lost that match,” SU head coach Younes Limam said, “(That match) was when I saw that she did a lot of growing.” In just under seven months, Knutson has revamped her entire career. She’s now ranked 17 spots higher than Texas Tech’s Talaba. And her goals are starting to match the effort she exerts. “One part of me still fully doesn’t believe I’m top-five in the nation,” Knutson said, “and another part of me wonders why I’m not the (best).” Going into ACC and NCAA Championships, Knutson said she hasn’t hit her ceiling yet. She wants more. And now, she knows how to get there.

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It hasn’t mattered in either game for the Orange, since Romero has shut down its opponent after jumping out to a big lead. But SU is aware of and concerned over the lack of maintaining its momentum, something it makes sure to keep on its mind during the game. Bosch emphasizes coming out strong in the first inning but lately, the team has tried to keep up that focus in the later innings. Even after taking an early lead, Syracuse takes every inning as if it’s its own game, trying to outscore its opponent in the inning without taking account of what it’d done in previous ones. “We always say, four isn’t enough, or seven isn’t enough,” Holmgren said. “Because if you get too complacent, that’s when things sneak up on you. So we really try to take an inning by inning approach, like ‘win this inning.’”

After missing last year due to injury, he was awarded a medical redshirt. But this was the first real year he practiced at close defense. And there was something missing when he filled in for Bomberry. His voice wasn’t as loud. “(Communication) is just something (Bomberry’s) born with,” Mellen said. “So good at it. He knows the game so well. He’s a veteran, been there done that … He’s just such a huge part of our defense.” When Cunningham went down against Cornell, the following game featured similar chemistry problems. Nick DiPietro started in favor of the injured Cunningham against North Carolina. The Tar Heels, amid a sixgame losing streak, led 12-9 with just more than seven minutes left in the fourth quarter. A 4-0 Syracuse run propelled the Orange over UNC, but the defense struggled at times throughout the contest, multiple players said, in large part to Cunningham’s absence. “It’s weird because we’re in a middle- to late-season game,” Mellen said. “We’ve been playing with each other all year, and it’s a chemistry flow type thing. And when (Cunningham’s) not here, it screws up things a little bit.” As Syracuse gears up for the ACC tournament, which it will enter as the No. 1 seed for the second consecutive year, a healthy defense will be crucial. Cunningham returned to last week’s rotation against Navy, which leaves Fernandez as the lone Orange player who won’t be available against Virginia on Friday. And when Syracuse’s defense is healthy, especially since Bomberry’s return, it’s a deep and daunting rotation for opposing offenses. “We’ve met as a team and really started to figure out what we wanted to do,” Bomberry said. “… Our defense is pretty deep in long poles, all the guys step up and fill the role when someone goes down.” cdist@syr.edu | @CharlieDiSturco

first inning “I think that it’s most important for our pitchers,” Holmgren said. “It’s easier for them when we’re able to start strong … just for them to have more confidence and be a little more calm while they’re on the mound.” In both games, however, Syracuse was unable to hold onto the momentum it gathered in the first inning and carry it through the ensuing innings. On Tuesday, Binghamton used four of the five pitchers on its roster just a game after N.C. State used three. The pitching changes proved to be a stalwart for Syracuse until it eventually scored multiple runs in the fifth. “It’s tough when you’re trying to adjust on the fly a little bit,” head coach Mike Bosch said. “You have to get used to one and then all of a sudden they bring the other in there.”

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MIRANDA HEARN jogs on the base path after getting walked during her only time at the plate on Tuesday. jordan phelps staff photographer

I’ll be the steeple

Gotta have faith

Some SU runners participate in steeplechase, which requires leaping into water pits. See page 11

Syracuse softball’s Faith Cain hit a double and drove in two runs to help beat Binghamton. See dailyorange.com

S PORTS

Moving on up Syracuse tennis player Gabriela Knutson moved up to No. 4 in the country on Tuesday. See dailyorange.com

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softball

Syracuse rides big 1st inning to 8-1 win By Eric Black

asst. copy editor

On Sunday in the top of the first inning against North Carolina State, Alexa Romero struck out the Wolfpack side in order. In the bottom of the inning Syracuse scored four runs, giving itself a lead it would never relinquish. On Tuesday in the top of the first inning against Binghamton, Alexa Romero struck out the Bearcat side in the order. In the bottom of the inning Syracuse scored four runs, giving itself a lead it would never relinquish.

I think it’s great that we’re jumping on the game early on, getting hot early. Faith Cain

syracuse senior

GABRIELA KNUTSON regressed six wins from her freshman to sophomore seasons but has posted a 17-3 record as a junior. Two of her losses came to opponents currently ranked higher than her. kai nguyen photo editor

Feeling fit A focus on fitness has led Gabriela Knutson to No. 4 in the country

By KJ Edelman staff writer

n Oct. 3, 2017, SU’s Gabriela Knutson split the first eight games with Texas Tech’s then-No. 8 Gabriela Talaba. But in the deciding points of both sets, Knutson dropped serve and missed an opportunity to lead. Knutson had flown across the country to Palm Desert, California, only to lose in the first round of a national tournament. On her flight back to Syracuse, Knutson thought deeply about the loss. She had always

recognized fatigue sometimes set her back – those close to her had told her as much in the past. But this time, Knutson had let herself down. And she knew how to improve. So on that flight home, she set out to find out the missing link to her game: fitness. Starting in the fall, the Czech Republic native intensified her training regime. She shed pounds to be quicker, Knutson said, and the results soon followed. The junior has posted a 17-3 record this season and has peaked at No. 4 in the national rankings. Of her three loses, two of them came to opponents see knutson page 11

men’s lacrosse

SU defense near full health entering ACCs By Charlie DiSturco senior staff writer

For four games in a row, the normal voice that barked orders from the back of Syracuse’s defense wasn’t there. When broken plays or quick faceoff wins resulted in transition for an opposing team, it was quieter than normal. Players were slower with sliding and understanding the situations at hand. In that span, Syracuse was blown

out twice, needed triple overtime to beat a now-sub-.500 Army team and nearly blew a lead against Virginia — only to be bailed out by Tucker Dordevic’s game winner. The voice absent from the back line was that of Tyson Bomberry, the junior defender and captain of the No. 12 Orange (7-5, 4-0 Atlantic Coast). Since his return on March 24 against Duke, the defense has improved significantly, limiting opposing teams to three fewer goals

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Syracuse has allowed about three less goals per game since Tyson Bomberry returned from injury

per game than when he was gone. Both teammates and coaches have pointed to his ability to communicate as the reason for the increased success. Syracuse’s defense returned to nearly full health this past week, which will be crucial for the ACC tournament and eventual NCAA tournament runs. “He talks very well with the group. You can see it in practice, hear it in practice every day and

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Both games resulted in seven-run wins for the Orange (27-18, 8-11 Atlantic Coast), which took down Binghamton (11-21, 4-7 America East), 8-1, on Tuesday. Scoring early and often has proved to be a recipe for success for SU, which is now riding a seven-game winning streak with every victory coming at home. Being at home allows Syracuse to play the field first, meaning Romero, the reigning NCAA coplayer of the week, gets to set the tone for the Orange. “Anytime Alexa can strike out the side is always super helpful,” said Bryce Holmgren, who was hit by a pitch and scored in both first-inning rallies. “It’s a little bit of momentum leading into our at bats.” A groundout by Sammy Fernandez was an inauspicious start to the first inning for SU, but then Bearcats pitcher Rayn Gibson lost control in the circle. Alicia Hansen, the catalyst for Sunday’s big opening inning, walked on four pitches. Holmgren was hit in the elbow pad by a pitch. Then Gabby Teran walked too, also not seeing a strike. That brought up first baseman Faith Cain, who struck out in the middle of the rally against N.C. State. The junior didn’t waste her opportunity this time though, lining an opposite-field double off the right field wall to score two. “I think it’s great that we’re jumping on the game early on, getting hot early,” Cain said. Andrea Bombace, starting for the first time since March 31, was up next and continued the scoring. Her hard grounder to shortstop scored Teran and a batter later a Michala Maciolek single drove Cain home, giving the Orange a four-run lead before the Bearcats had even recorded two outs. Romero’s strong first was aided by strong hitting to follow. The players feed off each other, they said, and in turn perform well on both sides of the ball. see first

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